#urworstnightmare

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

A ton of posts are now being flagged as sensitive content thanks to Tumblr’s new idea to make it adult content free. However, you can request a review so they can fix it. I know it’s tiring, and I know it’s not our fault that Tumblr can’t do a simple thing right, but I refuse to have any of my SFW creations being taken down just because Tumblr doesn’t know how to write an algorithm.

So here’s what you can do, even if you aren’t the OP.

Any post that has been flagged will show something like the image below at the top of the post, even if it’s a reblog.

If you’re the OP, a REVIEW link will show up at the right margin of the red bar where it says “Your post was flagged”. Click on it, and then click REQUEST REVIEW, like the image below.

After you’ll get a message in an orange bar saying “Your post is in content appeal”, meaning they’re evaluating whether their algorithm screwed up or not. If it was wrongfully marked as sensitive (and it most likely was), you’ll get an email being alerted to that your post is now visible to everyone again.

Alternatively, if you aren’t the OP, but your reblogs are flagged as well, (which in this case, you’ll see something like the image below in your flagged reblog), you can message the OP about it so they can request a review.

I know it’s tempting to leave and migrate to Twitter or Deviantart or whatever place to put your content due to the new policies, but DON’T. Let me explain why:

when your space is invaded, do you leave and let them take it? or do you stay because it’s YOUR space.

Leaving Tumblr won’t solve anything. As nonchalant as the staff is, if we leave, the new policy will stay in tact and NOTHING will be fixed.

We have to stay right here and tell the staff to go fuck themselves (Not literally, don’t harass the staff with threats or something) and do whatever we can to let them know their rules ain’t shit. Fix it.

it could take awhile. Weeks, a month, but we HAVE to kill this new policy.

I briefly talked about this earlier focusing on why Lila hasn’t been caught lying yet, but I want to focus on the topic of the classmates and just give my thoughts and understandings so far.

Once again, the classmates aren’t “dumb” or being treated as “irrelevant background characters” by the creators and writers because they fell for Lila’s lies.

This is how things are in their perspective:

new girl shows up at school

this new girl travels a lot because of her mom’s job which is a really cool fact

new girl comes off as nice, talkative, willing to share all about her adventures, and is very “outgoing” in terms of vibes

after an Akuma attack that makes illusions that no one but Ladybug, Chat Noir and Adrien really saw who it was, new girl has to go traveling again for a while

suddenly new girl comes back, and it’s a mystery to them why their KINDEST classmate Marinette is suddenly alarmed by her when she’s been nothing but “nice”.

This is their point of view, guys. They most likely do NOT KNOW Lila was Volpina and her role in both the events of Volpina and Heroes Day. Let alone Lila had tricked the class into believing she was away visiting Prince Ali during one of those events.

So back to why they don’t question Lila’s claims, the simple answer is:

Why would they?

Lila has given them no reason to doubt her yet. Which is why that one scene in the cafeteria where Lila “saves” Max, no one but Marinette really catches on to the OBVIOUS lie she just said.

Marinette only actually knows she’s a liar because she herself is Ladybug and knows the truth about anything Ladybug is and does.

Now picture this: An AU where Marinette isn’t Ladybug, and Lila is still being the same old liar. In this version Marinette likely wouldn’t be trying her hardest to expose her, because she probably wouldn’t know she’s lying given that in this universe, Marinette doesn’t know “Ladybug” and she has no reason to doubt her.

Now onto Alya and the seats…

What probably happened regarding the initial seat change is that as a few people have said:

Lila got in touch with all of the classmates separately and convinced them to switch by first pitching her “tinnitus” sob story, and then offering the “But you could sit by your best friend/bf/gf if we all switch seats! Not only will I be closer to the front and be able to hear, you too can benefit!”

Alya, again, not knowing Lila’s scheme or really anything of what’s going on behind the scenes involving her, probably accepted Lila’s offer of “Besides you get to spend more time with Nino!”

But to that she probably replied with “You’re right! But what about Marinette? Where will she sit?”

To which Lila probably lies with something along the lies of “Oh don’t worry about her! I already talked to her and she agreed that since she can hear just fine, she’ll switch to the back. Isn’t she the sweetest?!”

Alya, fully knowing Marinette to be a selfless and kind person, accepts the lie as a fact and doesn’t question it. It wouldn’t be the first time Marinette puts others before herself, so why would this ring any alarm to Alya?

With a situation like this possibly happening before the start of the episode, then it begins to make sense why Alya looks confused that Marinette doesn’t know the seats have changed and including that she now sits in the back.

Notice the look.

That’s not the look of a friend that willingly offered her best friend’s seat.

Fast forward to the end of the episode when everyone is back from that break, she finally decided to move back with Marinette after probably realizing that:

Marinette never actually agreed to the seat change seeing as how she reacted.

She may not really know if Lila really is a liar, but given what Marinette said to her and Nino during lunch, Marinette tends to have valid reasons behind her actions.

Lila just claimed her “tinnitus has been cured”…

and the best part

Marinette is still her best friend.

Something I did find interesting too is that Max questions the tinnitus and let’s Lila answer wrongly.

Then in the class they all volunteer to switch back seats.

Interesting, hm?

It’s almost as if they all talked about it before returning to class…

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Lol I know it’s a stretch that they know Lila is lying this early in the season but it could be a possibility. What at least IS the case is that they all did agree the old seating was best.

So no, Alya most likely didn’t volunteer Marinette’s seat. And no, the class doesn’t hate nor is against Marinette.

The famous “everyone is against Marinette” scene of everyone turning to her in anger is probably them in shock that Lila implies Marinette would let a kid with a “disability” struggle, which is VERY out of character of her and they know it!

This episode if anything, just showed the audience just how manipulative Lila really can be, and that she isn’t willing to back down no matter what.

The girl is a lost cause and it’s both sad and terrifying.

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… Just Yikes.

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