while i’m panicking and doing my covid test in the dining room my dad’s having the time of his life watching guardians of the galaxy in the living room
It’s come to my attention that a good portion of the younger generation has not been made aware of one of the greatest and most hated PILLARS of millennial society.
So I apologize, but I must take on this task. A new hand must touch the beacon. The knowledge must be passed on. The chain can not be broken.
So.
The Game.
The following are the rules of The Game:
there is no winning The Game
once you know of The Game, you are always playing the game
the point of The Game is to not think about The Game
if you think about The Game, you have lost The Game, and must announce this to those around you - causing them to also lose The Game
A “reset period” of roughly an hour or two before loss announcements is common in colloquial rules to allow yourself and those around you to properly temporarily “forget” about The Game, however that is not an official rule.
There’s over 6,000 of you now. How many are pornbots, I don’t know, but I know a bunch are real actual people.
I’ve been running this place since 2012. I’m glad my inane commentary on socks and dumb hats and terrible wallpaper has brought joy to you. This blog has been with me through college, grad school, the demise of a 7 year relationship, and the start of a new one (hi sweetie!). It has brought me friends and kept me company.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to TNV. I would like to think that because this is a collection of historical interest providing commentary, analysis, and education to the adult public, that we would escape the purge buuuut…well. In my real life I’m a librarian and I know too much about how corporations use algorithms to have any real hope.
As a librarian I am also incandescent with rage about this act of censorship. Despite its iffy usability, the artistic, fandom, and sex work communities on tumblr managed to flourish. The fact they are just going to shut down anything perceived by an algorithm to be adult content despite being an app explicitly for adults is frankly an injustice. But corporations have never cared about justice or people, so…I’m angry as hell, but I’m not surprised.
Anyway. Due to the nature of this content, I can’t move it to instagram, facebook, or twitter. I’m most likely going to back it up to a Wordpress. I’ll let you all know when it’s up.
I will be here as long as they let me. My personal tumblr (and my Archive Of Our Own handle) is @elzebrook, so follow me there for updates if this one gets axed. It’s largely fan content and animal pictures.
I try to keep my other social media streams separate from this one, but I do have a twitter and an insta and if you want them, feel free to message me–with the understanding that I may not give them to you because I am a capricious kind of elf.
UPDATE:
Wordpress is tightening its surveillance of tumblr imports because of the massive influx of NSFW content from this hellsite, so TNV cannot find a home there. Still working on options. Maybe Pillowfort?
Twitter doesn’t work because this website is literally pornographic and Twitter doesn’t allow porn. Also Twitter is a trashfire.
Does anyone have a Pillowfort and can tell me about it? Thanks y’all!
MeWe ain’t gonna work, gang.
Their terms of service explicitly do not allow pornography.
don’t forget- It is literally Hillary Clinton’s fault that Donald Trump, specifically, was president.
Remember how stunned speechless they were that trump got support anyway? They had seriously no idea how radical and how ignorant much of the country is, or how disillusioned they themselves helped make people on all sides. Completely detached from the reality they think they’re governing.
