worlds apart

It will leave you happier and more at peace if you stop trying to monitor and control other people's behaviour online. In an indefinitely large open space like Tumblr, it is simply not possible to have community standards, because you are, in fact, not in a real community with almost any of the people you encounter on this website. There are potentially upwards of a million people on Tumblr alone, and it is a completely porous space, the idea that we are any kind of coherent group is nonsense. On the same point, the idea that any random selection of people who happen to share an interest, fandom, or hobby in a large open space like this make up any kind of real community is also nonsense. The more you can focus on the actual, individual people you interact with online, the people it is possible for you to know and care about, and not trouble yourself with the behaviour of strangers, the more mentally free you'll be (by all means study other people like bugs, though.)

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

there’s a funny dichotomy in how people talk about art online, about its unique capacity to be revolutionary + change the minds of whole societies, and also how it is uniquely vulnerable to the evils of technology and will be wiped off the face of the earth by pre-mixed paints photography photoshop AI. In either case it expresses a hilarious view of artists as the centre of the universe, a higher class of human being who have a special connection to the capital-H Human Spirit. art is somehow both impossibly durable and impossibly brittle, depending on the argument, and sometimes you can watch people argue for both positions simultaneously within the same sentence

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

its crazy how many people but more specifically mostly men out there are so solipsistic that they can't imagine that beauty actually is subjective. like they just assume that features they find appealing are by default just innately more beautiful on an objective quantifiable metric.

I have GOT to stop spending $30

once you watch twin peaks you carry laura with you everywhere

at some point yall just gotta join a religious group and preach bc im tired of yall acting like sex/porn/poly/etc is bad every fucking month. we are one discourse cycle away from ‘sex before marriage is bad’ like go be a mormon and gtfo

madoka isnt a pink thing because if you called her that homura would appear in your house one night and place the barrel pf her gun on your head and tell you that madoka is not a thing but a person who's kindness you dont deserve. and madoka will be like ^_^ im a pink thang the next day which homura will just not acknowledge that she broke into your house and implied a threat to your life