The inherent tension between "no one post can capture every facet of the human experience, and you need to learn to ignore stuff that doesn't apply to you," on the one hand, and "some people's existence is forgotten or disregarded constantly, and it's legit to be mad when you see a statement claiming universality that does not and cannot apply to you, especially when this happens many times per day every single day," on the other hand.
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Lady Sybil Ramkin sat off to one side, wearing a few acres of black velvet. The Ramkin family jewels glittered in her fingers, neck and in the black curls of today's wig. The total effect was striking, like a globe of the heavens.
One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.
A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?
For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.
So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.
TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.
you're missing out on all the crazy euphoric moments where you execute an idea flawlessly, sending it to your friends and feeling the genuine happiness at their reactions to something you made authentically. you're robbing yourself of something beautiful.
and I get it, writers block, artists block, depression can really be terrible, but once you break out of it (and you will) it will feel like climbing Mount Everest.
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why is it so hard for people to grasp that disabilities disable and chronic illnesses are chronic. yes even when it inconveniences you. yes even when your patience runs out
so sorry but no, fanfics don't count (even if they're novel length). you can define "read" however you'd like -- physcial book, ebook, audiobook, etc. and it's up to you whether you count dnfs!
I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.
"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not youâit's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!
The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.
Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than mostâentirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup
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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore
Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that donât use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%â in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people
Iâm literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history
You might say âoh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we donât need those things in our food suppliesâ and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But hereâs the thing: no, people donât all have easy access to those things. Thatâs privilege talking yet again
systemic solutions are consistently preferable to individual solutions! If there's fluoride in tapwater, iodide in standard table salt, folate in grain products, vitamin enrichment in breakfast cereals, then I don't have to remember to buy and take a bunch of individual supplements. It helps those in poverty, it helps those with executive function disabilities and those with chronic fatigue. Collective action is great! Public health infrastructure is great! Making things that everybody needs readily available and built in to a regular diet or schedule is great! I will take as many pills as I have to for my own health but I'll take all the nutritional fortification I can get, please and thank you!
Merry Christmas to all the families whose spitefully convoluted holiday parenting time schedules I had to help draft as part of divorce settlements back when I was a legal assistant. May your McDonaldâs parking lot child handoffsâfour of them total in the space of 24 hours, because just alternating who gets Caidynn and Brantleigh for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day every year wouldâve meant giving an inch to your heinous bitch of an exâbe merry and bright
This cuffing season I am begging you all, if you remember nothing else I ever tell you, remember this: Do not get married without a prenup. Especially if thereâs even an inkling of a possibility that you might have kids.
âBut Iâm worried my betrothed will get mad if I ask for one!â If even a hypothetical discussion of how the two of you would handle splitting up makes your would-be spouse get angry with you, imagine how maturely theyâd handle an actual divorce! Donât marry that person. Donât have children with that person. Donât share finances with that person. Donât even adopt a pet with that person.
âBut bringing all that paperwork into a relationship isnât sexy or romantic!â Hard disagree + marriage isnât always gonna be sexy or romantic either + youâre already bringing paperwork into your relationship by getting a marriage license. You can stay together and keep sexily filing your very romantic income taxes single.
âBut prenups are only for rich people! I canât afford that!â The median U.S. wedding cost in 2024 was $13,195. Approach a normal, run-of-the-mill family law attorney in your area at least sort of in agreement already about how youâd handle splitting up assets/debts/children/spousal support/etc and you should be able to get a prenup for under $1000. Either factor it into your wedding budget or start saving up for a divorce, because hooooooo boy, you donât even wanna know how much pricier that is! (Fun fact: Even before everyone hires their own lawyers and things get messy and drawn out, just *filing* for divorce costs a few hundred dollars in court fees!)
âBut this is true love! Me and my spouse-to-be are soulmates! We have the same cutie mark! Weâll never get divorced!â Oh, sweet summer child.
"Well, some of us CAN'T get married because of [societal injustice]!" You're right, that sucks. Iâm not talking about that though. "But it bums me out too much to think about my relationship ending!" Okay. Sounds like a great thing to seek support about and bond over with your betrothed. âSo you're saying love isn't real?" No. But I am saying it's been 5 years since | last worked for a family law attorney and I can still feel the papercuts on my fingertips from folding and mailing out all the invoices on monthly bill day to people who once earnestly believed they were the exception
comments under a post about autistic hyper empathy. like you canât really believe that 80% of people donât wonder or care or think about anything can you
You may have heard me talk about (or read the fics I wrote for) Battleship in the past - it's not running this year, but instead a very similar event called Taggle is running.
The way this event works is that ANYONE can leave prompts, and then the players write fics (or make art or podfics) for those prompts in order to strategically hit tags on a gameboard. Every fanwork has to be a gift in response to a prompt.
Unfortunately, because it's not official Battleship-branded Battleship, Taggle has way fewer participants and has gotten way fewer prompts, which means that right now there are ZERO PROMPTS (other than those I've left) in many of my fandoms! Which will make it hard for me to write anything!
In particular, Supernatural, Check Please, Baby-Sitter's Club, and For All Mankind currently have no prompts from anyone but me (I haven't even gotten around to writing prompts for some of them yet) - last year I wrote fics for all of these, but I can't without prompts!
But even if you and I don't share any fandoms, I encourage you to create prompts for the fandoms you are in, so that people can create things in those fandoms.
How do I leave prompts?
Go to the Taggle 2026 prompt collection and click "Sign Up" - don't worry, you're not actually signing up to play. Signups are closed, so you can ignore anything in the instructions about signing up. You're just here to leave prompts.
A few things to note:
Do NOT click that you want the prompt to be semi-anonymous. If you don't want your AO3 name listed on the prompt, you'll have to make a sockpuppet account.
Do NOT put any tags other than the ones in the collection's tagset in any of the fields!
DO make sure your account can receive gifts! (Preferences -> Collections, Challenges, and Gifts -> make sure "allow anyone to gift me works" is checked)
DO write something in the Optional Details section, even if it's just "I don't have any DNWs" (are you sure you don't have any DNWs?)
If the fandom and/or relationship you want isn't in the tagset yet, you have to nominate them first - read the nomination rules first, they'll be rejected if you don't follow them. You'll probably have to wait a few hours for a mod to approve them before you can prompt with them.
For each prompt you'll need to specify:
A fandom that is in the tagset (gifter will have to work within this fandom)
1-20 characters or pairings that are in the tagset (gifter will have to include at least one of these)
1-3 mediums (fic, art, podfic) that you're willing to receive (these are listed as characters, ignore that)
1 or more Freeform tags from the tagset (gifter will have to include at least one - see notes under cut for more details on these)
A list of things you Do Not Want (if you've never made a DNW list, see details under the cut) (your gifter is NOT allowed to include any of these)
A list of things you do want, whether specific prompts or just vibes (you're not required to provide this but it's recommended; your gifter is not required to include these, but most will try their best)
Let me know if you have any questions! If I don't know the answer, I'll ask around for you.
A few other notes to keep in mind under the cut:
There are 400+ Freeform tags to choose from (the first 20 can go in Additional Tags, the rest in Optional Tags, these fields are treated as the same). You have to choose at least one, but can put as many as you want. Much like warnings, even if you donât list a tag, you might get it unless you DNW it, so itâs a good idea to go through the list and compile a "Tags I DNW" list.
Luckily there is a spreadsheet here to make all this easier - just check off tags and it will create a magic list for you to copy and paste, whether into the tag fields or for a DNW list!
Your gifter will be required to use at least one relationship and one freeform that youâve selected - but be aware that they can choose ANY relationship + ANY freeform, so if there are, for example, some kinks you like with ship A but not ship B, youâll want to make separate prompts so you can choose different freeforms for the two ships.
All DNWs (whether freeform tags, or just other things you Do Not Want) must be listed in the Optional Details box for every prompt. Many times your gifter will not even see your other prompts, so donât expect them to read whatâs on another prompt. Just copy and paste that shit. Be as specific as possible - just saying âno kinksâ will leave potential gifters wondering what you think is kinky. Donât worry about your list being too long, as long as you donât DNW anything that you chose in your tags (like a brother/sister pairing + DNW incest).
Do NOT explain why you donât want your DNWs - thatâs your business, and sometimes it can sound judgmental even if you donât mean to be (hopefully I donât have to tell you not to intentionally write anything judgmental, but: donât). Just list what you donât want, and gifters will avoid it without questioning why you donât want it, whether itâs scat/watersports or Modern AUs or a specific character.
Note that if you choose an individual character, gifters are allowed to put that character in a pairing, so DNW any pairings you donât want them in (or you can just say âDNW Mr X in any romantic/sexual pairingâ)
You can (and should) also put things you like, either generally or for that fandom/ship, as well as specific prompts, in the Optional Details box, but these are optional, both for you and the gifter. The gifter only has to hit one relationship and one freeform (though most will do their best to make a gift youâll like).
You can submit up to 25 prompts per AO3 account.
Prompting will stay open throughout the event (which started today and will probably go for about 2 weeks), so donât feel like you have to submit all your prompts at once!
If you do get a gift, be sure to leave a nice comment! âĽď¸
ok one way i comment on fics is by saving my favorite quotes as i read a chapter & then putting them in a comment. is that normal / good yes or no. pls help me am i annoying the authors ?????
commenting your favorite quotes from a fic â good move?
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tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:
DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.
report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.
hey @staff @support this is the kind of thing YOU should be making a big ole banner about. Especially if youâre rolling out ID verification in any regions right now. Get on it.
Adding alt text for the images because this is very serious information everyone should have access to since their accounts could be at risk if they follow these fake instructions:
[Image description: a screenshot of a Tumblr account impersonating Staff with the username "support61871", the blog name "Tumblr staff" and the Tumblr logo as their icon. Their bio links to the real Staff account and profile.
Under the bio there is a post that reads as follows:
"Account Verification Under New Terms of Service
Dear Tumblr Community,
We're writing to inform you about an important change to our security procedures.
Effective immediately, following the updated Tumblr Terms of Service and Community Guidelines (version 2.5.1.), all users will be required to complete identity and account verification.
Why we're doing this:
Recently, we've seen an increase in policy violations â including bot activity, automated content scraping, and unauthorized data access. To protect our community and maintain a safe environment for everyone, we are introducing mandatory verification for all active accounts.
What you need to do:
Please click the official verification link below and follow the intructions provided:
[link to a fake verification page posing as real]
We kindly ask that you complete the verification process within 72 hours of receiving this notice. Accounts that are not verified by the deadline may be subject to temporary restrictions until verification is completed.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding as we work to keep Tumblr safe.
Best regards, The Tumblr Support Team."
End description.]
Needless to say, this isn't how Tumblr verification works. For starters, it only applies to users from countries with governments that unfortunately require it (because otherwise Tumblr wouldn't be able to operate in those countries; it sucks but they're not the ones calling the shots here). Also, it's done via a third party, k-ID.
This is the real link with instructions and information on how to verify your age. Anything else is a scam or bots trying to steal your account:
As OP said, Tumblr will only contact you via e-mail or official accounts, which don't have a bunch of random numbers in their usernames. Please stay alert and report them!
I feel like to really get this circulating as it should, we need it superimposed over the picture of the turkey going in the fridge. (I can't do it I'm on my phone.)
