spam was already against tumblr’s rules, but they couldn’t build an algorithm to accurately and effectively combat spam, so i have zero confidence in their ability to build an algorithm to accurately and fairly identify “adult content,” a concept which is quite a bit blurrier to begin with
So how old were you when you realized Meowth of Team Rocket trying to steal Pikachu was just rehashing the age old tale of a cat trying to catch a mouse?
my favourite thing about tumblr is that they discontinued fan mail in 2015 but in 2018, three years later, they still haven’t edited two word out of this:
You know what bugs me about soulmate aus? So, I’m assuming that this whole “the first thing your soulmate says to you blahblahblah” is a worldwide thing. So many of the aus I’ve read have a quote at some point that addresses how tragic it is when people have soul words that say something like “hi” or “‘sup” which makes NO SENSE! In a world where the first thing you say to people is THAT important, WHY GOD WHY would the culture still use standard greetings? Who the fuck is still saying hello at this point? Everyone in these worlds would surely develop a personalized greeting different from everybody else’s to prevent confusion. Like how no 2 racehorses can have the same racing name? The best part is that every time people met someone new for the first time, they would try to say something that no one else had said. You’d have people meeting eachother at a job intetview, they’d shake hands, smile politely, then one of them would be like “Every Tuesday, I hard even grape purple farm house sunsets too” and this would be perfectly normal. Or you’d go up to the cash register at Starbucks and instead of saying “Hello, what can i get for you today?” She’d look you right in the eye and say “I don’t know what Space Jam is” THEN ask you what you want and she’d repeat that to every customer in the line for the rest of her career. And because they live in the AU, nobody would think it was weird.
^^In which AUs get interesting with their world building. I love it.
A world where everyone has their own, increasingly bad, pickup lines
Sounds like my kind of world
I actually read one singular fanfic that actually used this idea and it was great, but for the life of me I can’t even remember what fandom it was for
Imagine the ultimate insult though! Saying, Hi, or Hello when first meeting someone would imply “I don’t care if we are soulmates, I don’t want to even try with you.
A lot of times when ppl talk about a woman’s strength or the strength that women have collectively, they’re actually talking about women’s capacity to take a lot of shit. Which has actually been foisted on women relentlessly and continually for centuries.
So like. It sounds disingenuous to me. Essentially ppl are saying, Nice job absorbing the physical and emotional violence consistently hurled at you since birth. As if there were the option to escape it. As if the attempt to escape it weren’t met with even more violence.
“This woman is so strong. She forgave her husband’s infidelity. She sacrificed everything for her family.” The takeaway from that is that for a woman, societally accepted strength involves behaving as if your own needs and feelings and agenda are meaningless in comparison with everyone else around you.
It’s false, hollow praise. It’s more manipulation.
rip tumblr 