I am very much a dumbass

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

Make a dump sideblog titled some variation on “flashing tag” or “retagging”

Go into any epilepsy tag

Go over posts and reblog flashing ones to side blog with correct tags

Assuming you’re not the only one doing that, it’s most efficient to go for Newest. You can also temporarily block flashing tags so you don’t see ones that someone already tagged correctly

You can actually prepare whole block of text with commas and add umpteen tags with one copy-paste. Like so:

“#flashing” is for light patterns causing seizures. “#epilepsy” is for epileptics talking epilepsy, flashing, tw flashing, flashing tw, NOT #tw epilepsy

(In activity notifs, not-bundled tags-only reblogs show beginning of the tags. If you want to relay some message to your prevs, put these tags on the very beginning.)

Edit:

Apparently Tumblr system is dogshit inconsistent enough that with having #flashing, #tw flashing, #flashing tw – all blocked, I still go into #tw epilepsy tag and see posts that I myself personally reblogged with these blocked tags.

So. Sweet. Very helpful. Makes me wonder why there’s shitton of money being put on societal levels in flagging and hiding so-called “mature” content, but we cannot put a fraction of that cash into flagging eyestrain and stroboscopes that way. But I digress

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

everyone knows about this meme, right?

but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!

This is “Mother Mary”, the owner of Blackberry’s mother.

She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:

He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Look how happy she was to hear that!!!

Will it work for someone who has Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder? No idea.