I’m rereading Les mis and I can’t believe the enjoltaire fandom latched onto “no one loves the light like a blind man” instead of the objectively superior romantic line that follows it: “the toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven”

Idk Im just saying the “toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven” would be the Perfect caption for one of those gif sets of Grantaire looking longingly at Enjolras. He is just a little toad

guys don’t ask me about cc, i literally haven’t played sims since december

politicalprof:

In 2002, when the first edition of Rage on the Right came out, I noted that while the militia had declined, the conditions that supported it (and its right wing relatives) persisted in American culture, so it wasn’t going away. But I never imagined the horrors we see these days

lonelyrroses:

i love that stellar firma’s opening has you all set up for some kind of epic space odyssey shit and then you actually listen to it and its 20 minutes of two brothers saying the absolute worst things that should never have come out of a human mouth

purgeyouanimos:

i keep seeing myself like an actor and it is not even my play.

i feel this ache to remember my friend´s smiles, their laughs, their flaws, their steps.

slowly drifting from my old self and uncomfortably stepping in my purgatory.

i know i decide but why do i not want to.

what if i have always been purgating and i love it here.

okay but the amount I want to run my hands through Obi-Wan’s hair and push it away from his face is obscene.Then I want to stroke his beard and the crinkle lines by his eyes…oh my. 

inthetags:

reblog and put in the tags what accent you have.

pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird:

Watching the new @staffand@changes on tumblr who actually listen and respond to their userbase is so bizarre to see, because I feel like I’ve come full circle on the site.

I joined 10ish years ago (shortly post-Reichenbach, if that dates me) and that time was still solidly in the era of David Karp. Staff communicated but were overall seen as lovingly incompetent. Everyone used Missing E to fix all the problems, and then Xkit when Missing E stopped working, but nobody thought twice about it. We mostly just joked about how often they fiddled with the shade of background blue.

I remember the sale to Yahoo, and how it took a while to notice, but the site kind of just got worse. We got ads, which everyone hated. Changes were passed down from above with little to no fanfare. But staff was still there and making some effort to reach out to users; we got some of the best April Fools jokes in that era, like Coppy and Decision 2016 that showed that someone in there knew what users liked. Features like direct messaging and rebloggable asks and stacked posts were still coming through, even if the communication with users was opaque. Bots invaded every inch of the site. And then we got the porn ban, which snapped the site like a twig.

After Verizon bought tumblr, there were a few years where staff almost seemed to vanish, or did their best to hide what they were doing. I can’t even remember the last few years of April Fools jokes, if they happened at all. Ads got bigger. Changes just happened and there was no way to tell if it was intentional or glitches. If they were intentional, they seemed almost malicious. Users started talking about shadowbans and tags getting wiped out and some posts not showing up in tags or searches and user deletions happening behind the scenes. Bots got worse and worse and less was done about them. If anything went wrong, there was no confidence that reaching out to support would do a thing. Staff was spoken about in posts with the same tone as Bezos or Google, just another tech giant slowly making our lives worse for the sake of squeezing another buck out of us and then selling us to the highest bidder. If nothing else, we could be proud of squeezing the resale value out of the site for them.

I don’t know exactly what happened over the last year, if it was because of the sale to Automattic or other internal changes. But all of a sudden, staff started talking to us again. And we didn’t fuckin trust em an inch, and rightly so. Changes got rolled out again, and we started complaining again, because we may have no power to make any web experience better so the least we can do is go down complaining.

But the things they started changing were… stuff we wanted? We got tag viewers, timestamps, dash customization, filtering that actually worked. Most new features get toggles so you can turn it off if you don’t want it. Huh, we thought, that doesn’t seem right. Ideas flopped like Post+, and god did we complain. But after we did… the features… changed? Staff started testing out the ideas that the users endorsed? Like tipping posts on a per-post basis to avoid copyright issues with fanworks and an ad-free subscription model? Huh, we said.

And the final nail in the coffin was that new iOS tag-copying “feature” that we all complained about to no end… that was actually a glitch. Not some coder’s whim that got passed down and we just had to deal with it forever. Sorry, staff said, we’ll get that fixed right away.

Huh, we said. Huh.

Aside from being an unexpected change for tumblr, it’s making me realize how weird it feels in the internet as a whole to have some transparency and communication between site developers and the userbase. When I joined tumblr, forum culture and the heyday of the early creator-run internet were fresh memories. Staff who posted like users were common, and popular demand was the actual goal of web design. But now there is no social media where the developers speak directly to the users and incorporate real feedback into the changes they make. Algorithms drive everything, moderation happens silently, and it’s impossible to tell what a human has laid eyes on. Decisions are made based on what can get the most eyes on sponsored ads and drive clicks. Social media is now Big Tech, driven by Big Money Decisions and ad space.

Having a staff who talks and listens to the userbase is a direct return to tumblr’s roots and also the most jarring and noticeable jump back to Classic Internet that the rest of social media has long since abandoned.

lupinatic:

rhodanum:

alarajrogers:

intersex-ionality:

So I’m going to be bitter and old here for a minute.

The absolute refusal to allow anyone to use queer as an umbrella is both novel and regressive (I know, I know). For decades, queer was an accepted and neutral way to concisely refer to a coalition of loosely connected communities and identities. Queer theory, queer film, queer spaces, queer history.

This use came after another few decades of committed work in reclaiming the word from oppressors who flat out stole it from us.

It took a lot of effort to wrestle it back out of their hands, and now I’m expected to just give it over to them because decades of unity and collective action and shared experience don’t matter because a handful of (usually white, almost exclusively american) kids on this godawful website have deicded it’s illegal for me to “force it on others” and that I should instead just let them for LGBT or gay or whatever else on me.

Like, fuck off?

Fuck off.

I am going to refer to my community in the way that I have been doing for an entire lifetime. Not just my specific identity, which is queer as fuck, but the whole fucking shebang.

And I will not hand the word back over to straight people with a nice little ribbon and a coat of polish and say “here, some kids decided it was cool if I let you stab them with this word so here you go” like

Fucking, why would I ever.

Frankly, and I know how people are going to react to this but, frankly?

I damned well willuse queer to refer to my community as well as myself, and anyone who wants to take it away from me can take it over my COLD DEAD QUEER LITTLE FINGERS.

I will not sit by and let antsy, nervous kids who don’t know a damn thing about our history talk down to me about how “well, actually” when they can’t even recognize the fact that trans people were still being policed out of here literally three fucking years ago.

The presumption and the ignorance are staggering.

So yeah.

Queer as in fuck you people in particular.

And, to my followers who are made uncomfortable by this, well. I will regret losing you on some level, but not enough to stop.

I fully intend to use queer as the umbrella term it has been for my entire life. LGBT never did my intersex, pansexual ass any favours anyway.

My point is, I’m not going to be referring to the “LGBT” community at all, anymore. It’s going to be 100% queer here, in a more conscious and consistent way than it has been before. Because, you see, even people who do use queer as an identity unashamedly have gotten into this pattern of being apologetic or conditional about it, with a constant, overbearing tone that even when we do use queer as a community term with have to hedge it and gentle it because it’s so dangerous.

but it’s fuckign not.

We spent decades pulling the danger out of it.

And ‘m not going to let it sneak back in.

Every time someone says “queer is a slur, you shouldn’t use it” I feel like they’re trying to fucking gaslight me. Like, I was there when it got reclaimed. I read “Queer Science”, I saw the “Queer Studies Departments” in college and the majors in Queer Theory. Kids do not get to invalidate my life out of ignorance. And I can’t help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with, because how would the kids who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about know to invalidate that word?

You go. Reclaim that reclamation. I’ll probably use LGBT+ and queer interchangeably, like I always have, and if some kid tries to lecture my 47-year-old ass on the matter I’m just going to have to look at them over my imaginary librarian glasses and tell them “no. you’re wrong. Go back to school, kid, you need to remember you’re sharing the world with adults and there is a consensual reality you have entered into. You don’t get to make it up from scratch any more than I did.”

@alarajrogers hit the nail on the head with this: 

And I can’t help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with

Because it’s absolutely surrealto see someone who is fifteen years old speak as if queer’s been used to constantlyattack and smear and belittle and insult them, when they’re about twenty years too late, at the very least, to have gone through that as a teenager. I’ve seen it happen so many times, with so many teenagers on here, that it reads honestly like a script – like a Discourse Point someone’s taught them that they need to trot out as an argument, always and forever, amen. I made this connection over a year ago, when the screaming against ‘queer’ started in earnest on here and thought about it more in-depth when a number of very young activists both here and on Twitter told me unironically and with a straight face that they took all of their discourse points from the likes of leftbiansand other exclusionists, starting with your garden-variety aphobes and biphobes and ending with outright radfems / TWERFs / SWERFs. 

Thatwas the lightbulb moment for me. Question: 

• what group has managed to spread their posts and their ideas far and wide on Tumblr, because people reblog without checking the source or reading between the lines? 
  
• and what group has had a vicious ideological axe to grind against ‘queer’as both a self-descriptor and an umbrella-term for decadesnow?
  

The answer to both is radfems. I was there ten years ago when they were absolutely driving themselves into a frothing lather over the fact that a very large number of LGBTQIAP+ youth were describing ourselves and our communities as queer uncontroversially– seriously, this was so common on the English-speaking queer youth forums I used to frequent back then that no one batted an eyelash, specifically because the work of reclamation had already been done for decades and if, asked, the vast majority of people answered that they preferred queer because it was INCLUSIVE(which is and has always been the kryptonite for groups of people whose ideas revolved around gatekeeping the community and their precious selves being the arbiters of who gets in and who stays out), Radfems quickly realized that they weren’t going to be able to demonize the word in the eyes of Gen Xers or people at the older end of the Gen Y generation in the community, because we’d either contributed to the work of reclamation or spent our whole fucking lives in communities where queer was a badge of pride. 

So, in what is honestly an absolutely brilliantmove and which I’d be almost tempted to admire, if I didn’t want to spit everyone involved right between the eyes, radfems and other exclusionists targeted much younger LGBTQIAP+ people, leapfrogging a generation. Tumblr, in this sense, has been absolutely vital, both in giving them access to very young people who were just discovering themselves and whose knowledge of community history was nonexistent andin being built in such a way that radfems could make their posts go viral and attract tens of thousands of reblogs, if not more, if they knew to word them in just the right way (I’ve lost count of the number of what, at a shallow glance, seem like very decent PSAs on consent, but that at a closer reading were actually anti-BDSM screeds, easy to see for anyone who knows the dogwhistles). 

If radfems have managed to mire this place in their ideas intensely enough that they’ve turned their anti-kink crusade into an omnipresent thing in certain progressive communities on Tumblr, it’s not impossible to make the logical leap that they’ve managed to do so with their decades-long anti-queer crusade as well.   

I’d laugh and clap at the ingeniousness of it all, if it didn’t involve obliterating decades of community history, solidarity and reclamation efforts. 

#oh ABSOLUTELY#queer things#the SUDDEN BACKLASH against queer again is 100% from terfs#even back in like 2014 people were using queer on here without anybody batting an eyelash#and then one day all of a sudden in 2015 if you called yourself queer#suddenly you were getting a fucking 15 year old calling you ‘violently lgbtphobic’ like. lol what the fuck#(real thing that happened)#and yeah 100% on the ‘I feel like I’m being gaslit’#I TOOK QUEER THEORY COURSES IN COLLEGE#THEY DON’T FUCKING PUT SLURS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#THEY PUT ACCEPTABLE COMMUNITY TERMS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#like#oh my god#the rise of 'q slur’ is honestly gaslighting that originated in the terf/radfem corners and spread until people thought it was the norm#it’s not 

Please note this. Regardless of how you personally feel about the word, this backlash against it happened much more recently than many people seem to think. And it’s worth pointing out who benefits from the backlash, and it sure as hell isn’t the people who gave decades of their lives to make the word a sign of inclusivity and acceptance.

kkujo:

genuine question for those of you who are comfortable answering: how old were you when you started using the internet & do you regret using it that young

fingons-rad-harp:

Silmarillion Characters | Thindrim|The House of Elmo

Galathil was the eldest son of Galadhon and Celeblas, He did not follow his younger brother Celeborn over the mountains after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and perished in the Sacking of Doriath.

kellkyy:

Its from that meme

faketwinbrother:

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

I think what’s wrong with me is that my dad loved making boiled peanuts but when you say “boiled peanuts” in a thick Mississippi Delta accent it sounds like “bald penis” and we were forbidden from acknowledging that

My dad, internally: “The children must be fed nutriment. I have in my possession a very large pot and a propane burner; I shall make a sojourn to the grocer’s and procure peanuts.”

My dad, aloud: “‘Ey, y'all wansum bald penis?”

All of us, internally: “Ah yes, such a delectable summertime treat that will be.”

All of us, aloud: “'Ey, shitchea. Daddy boutta bal up some bald penis!”

#who the fuck eats peanuts boiled.

They take on a delightful texture similar to water chestnuts and get infused with whatever seasonings you put in the water. It is literally so fucking delicious and if you don’t know about bald penis then you are Deprived. The food of the gods.

#as a european#what the fuck

Honey, darling, listen to me. Would I lie to you? No, I wouldn’t. If you ever find yourself driving around in the rural southern US, you simply must keep an eye out for one of these gentlemen:

For a very reasonable price you’ll be provided a cup of absolutely delectable provincial delicacies that will surely equal any hors d'ouvers you might find on the continent. I promise, darling, it is the most délicieuse dining experience you’re likely to find, and it will surely–as my dear departed grandmama used to say–“make yer tongue slap yer brains out”

This gentleman has spelled peanuts three different ways on his stall.

I bought two new cleasing products for my face and it’s so soft right now and worth the money

I’ve had Let’s Talk About Your Hair by Have Mercy stuck in my head all day

My best friend finally recorded one of her songs and I’m highkey proud because I’ve been listening to them as she writes them.

If I’m flirting and I don’t feel like coming up with an actual response, I just bite my lip and say, “Babe,” and it works. Why does it work?

Btw, I finally talked to my roommate and was like “You make me uncomfortable and you feel it too, but you go home every day so you can escape. I’m stuck here.” I also may have mentioned that it’s absurd for her to not only clean my room but to fold my laundry. Oh, and I might have mentioned that everything i own is here in this tiny ass room. And I threw in something along the lines of, “You shouldn’t be embarrassed. My side is a representation of me, not you. And they’re your friends and quite frankly I don’t give a shit what they think. They aren’t my friends.”

Every time Josh does a flip, I’m like, “Fuck yeah!” But at the same time, I’m absolutely terrified that he’s going to hurt himself.

Yo so Catfish and the Bottlemen are playing again at the same shit venue in September and I am going. I don’t care if I’ll be going alone. I will be going.

I own the entire Alex Rider series and I want to reread them, but I’m going to be reading them on a flight and it’s like 10 books and I already have to pack for like 2 weeks and yeah. Someone help me out.

I just bought a stunning black dress

Fun fact! I can play with virtually any set of long numbers and memorize the number in order by how I manipulated the numbers to begin with.
I looked at the number 1217640 today for less than 5 seconds and had already figured out a pattern and recited it back perfectly for the next several hours any time it was needes.

I keep trying to respond to various band members on social media like they’re my friends because some of them I just see post all the time and I’m so used to them I kinda forget that I don’t actually know them

moveslikekeithrichards:

fun game: if u listen to a weird variety of things reblog this with 3 bands u like that are completely different from each other and probably shouldnt even be in the same library

squishsquashsmosh:

the smosh fandom is coming apart at the seams but at least we can all agree on one thing - we’d die for boze

It’s 1:00am and baby is stuck at work for gourd knows how long and I can’t sleep because my back is killing me,so keep me company pretty please?

I couldn’t draw much for soriku week sadly but I made a redraw of my first kh royalty au art :)))

satansleftasscheekcouldnever:

What I think the first companion you romanced says about you

(This has probably been done before but here’s what I think…)

Maccready

• You have a hate, hate relationship with authority

• Family means a lot (Whether it be biological or chosen)

• Your attracted to people who are awkard in an endearing way.

• This is a stretch, but did you maybe at some point/still find han solo attractive?

• Your love language is definitely quality time. Doesn’t have to even be some elaborate thing even just staying home and watching TV with your significant other works.

Hancock

• You love language is most likely words of endearment so you offend find yourself attracted to charismatic people

• or maybe acts of service… being shown off to people by your significant other, might help reinstat the feeling that they are grateful to have you and appreciate you as person and a romantic partner.

• You totally are attracted to the bad boy with a heart of gold type aren’t you? honestly same

• The idea of being able to love someone literally forever is simultaneously the most terrifying and beautiful thing you could imagine.

Cait

• You think being yelled at is attractive… Need I say more?… or in your case yell more?

• You might have a thing for rebels/hotheads… Or even better a moody rebel…

• Your love language is probably physical touch. no explanation I just think it is.

• This might be a bit to far… but um… does the word “choking” mean anything to you?

Danse

• Your a sucker for sad eyed boys. The more they look like a kicked puppy the better

• Your probably extremely empathetic and want to help romantic partners learn to love themselves the way you love them…. might not always end well for you.

• Please rember you are also deserving of love and fulfillment, and don’t skip out on your needs for another person’s. YOU are worthy of love. ❤❤❤

• Your love language is either acts of service or quality time. Honestly I see you as being a bit of both in a weird way that totally works.

Curie

• Your attracted to the soft innocent type.

• Your probably protective of your partners… not in a possessive way, but more because you don’t want to see the world ruin them.

• Your love language is either words of affirmation or quality time

Piper

• You wholeheartedly belive in standing up for the underdog

• Idk why, but I feel like your a total book nerd….

• Are attracted to loud disruptive women in the best way possible.

• Your love language is DEFINITELY words of affirmation. Why else would you be with Piper? Okay the hat might be a factor….

Preston

• Much like curie you wanna make sure the world doesn’t fuck with your partner

• same love languages apply as well. Idk I think Curie and Preston lovers would be alot alike for some reason. it just makes sense to me

• Your definitely an empath. like 100%… okay like 95% but still

• Have a huge heart and want to help as many people as possible