STOP DROP AND ROLL MAN

animal rights activists need to learn that cows moo for other reasons than “missing their babies”

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

LGBT content that is non-explicit is getting flagged and banned, even if it’s educational or informative and yet the damn porn bots are running rampant.

Good fucking job @staff. Good job.

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keith’s Father/Krolia (Voltron), Keith & Krolia (Voltron), Keith/Shiro (Voltron) Characters: Krolia (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Keith’s Father (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron) Additional Tags: background Sheith - Freeform, Johnny Cash songs, Fluff, but a little sad, I’m not crying you’re crying Summary:

Sometimes he sang along, sometimes he just hummed. But that song- when it started to play, he turned those beautiful brown eyes to her and smiled, soft, sweet, but with an intensity that Krolia would never have otherwise known was there.

The taste of love is sweet When hearts like ours meet I fell for you like a child Oh, but the fire went wild

(Mother and son memories of the man they called husband and dad, set to the music of the man in black)

I am pissed. I am so so SO pissed. 

I am to the point where being nice about this isn’t going to work. BECAUSE I HAVE WATCHED THIS ALL BEFORE. 

And I know that my LGBTQ+ peeps are losing a HUGE RESOURCE.

I know that once this one bit of censorship has taken hold IT ALL FOLLOWS.

First goes the “image-based porn.”

Then the “questionable images”

AND IT KEEPS GOING.

The writing, the resources, the “how to check yourself for breast/testicle cancer”

The condom tutorial. 

The sex ed

Then it becomes a morality debate- WHO IS RIGHT? 

and it DOES NOT END WELL FOR THE COMMUNITY. 

It doesn’t end well for LGBTQ+, it doesn’t end well for fandom. 

Even body positivity posts showing that human bodies are beautiful no matter the shape, size or imperfections

And yet this goddamn site still allows white supremacists, homophobes, TERFs, Proud Boy misogynist types, Nazis and the like to continue spewing their hatred all over the place

It’s seriously disgusting

People HAVE been reporting the porn bots and child porn for a while and what have the staff done???? Fuckall

Now that they stand to lose $$$$ from advertising and Apple kicking the app from the app store they freak out and throw the baby out with the bath water while still letting all this other vile bullshit continue

Just disgusting

Laying on a human (as you see here) is literally cat cuddling. Thats it.

We have literal records of cats going out of their way to save the lives of children from various dangers, from fires, to dog attacks, to choking to death. Its very easy to look up.

The only cases of cats eating their humans, have always been when their human died and it has been several days without the body being found. Amazingly this tends to line up with the cat not being fed and therefore STARVING.

It’s also a common thing among most pet animals too? Like sorry, your dog will do it too. Hell, ever heard of the the Donner Party? Humans aren’t exempt. When faced with survival, you try and survive.

STOP DEMONIZING CATS FOR BEING ANIMALS.

(And I mean, all it takes is a quick google search to figure this out, but no lets spread misinformation about innocent animals?)

If you actually truly believe cats are out to get you, and are cold and not affectionate, or whatever else people use to justify demonizing cats… You need to actually look up cat behavior. Your cat who ‘ignores’ you? More often than not is just respecting your space. Your cat who lashes out? Probably not feeling safe in their environment. Your cat brings you gross things? Trying to look after you.

Cats aren’t dogs. They have a set way of communication, and while they can learn dofferent expressions of affection, it will always be less evident than with dogs (who are particularily malleable to human behavior.) This doesn’t mean they are any less loving or capable of bonds.