the funniest thing is that I’ve never directly seen a blazed post since this all started. it’s just been screenshots of the blazed posts or reblogs from mutuals. people are out here paying cold hard cash and y'all are spreading them completely indirectly completely free, like we’ve always done. net zero gain I love it
there’s so much pathologizing over why enemies to lovers is a popular trope (something something the normalization of abuse something something) when the simplest and less moronic answer is that narratives thrive on irony and reversals, and there’s no greater irony than characters going from hating each other’s guts to loving each other unconditionally. raw thesis-antithesis-synthesis.
destroy the idea that trans people need to pick new names close to their given names, but also don’t make fun of those who do pick names with similar sounds or letters. it’s a comfort thing for some.
Demolish the idea that trans people even have to change their given names if they don’t want to. If your pal John says that she’s a girl, then John is a girl name. Names do not have genders beyond the people who use them.
I have a headcannon that while Murderbot does not like logos on clothes, they learn to really love shirts with sassy sayings on them.
The first time one of their friends or one of Mensah’s kids gives them a sweatshirt that says “Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want To Come” Murderbot: *Visibly choked up* It’s fine I guess. I don’t hate it.
Shirts Murderbot needs part 1/?
A) This is fantastic and I love it. Headcanon accepted.
B) Murderbot needs a shirt with small (but not tiny) font that reads “If you can read this, you’re too close”
C) I saw this post earlier today and apparently it’s been percolating in the back of my head and then it was two am and I couldn’t sleep and my fingers slipped, so now there’s fic. It’s 2am fic and mostly unedited, but this is tumblr so whatever. It ended up just shy of 800 words, so it goes under a cut.
the best part is how accurately the dude predicted each dad dance move. how many white dads has this researcher been around. is he a caddyshack sociologist? does he work at a margaritaville??
if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this
ok i need to make this clearer: if you do not reblog posts and only like them you are contributing to this site actively getting worse and becoming like all the apps you hate. keep likes to things you just wanna keep off your blog. reblog everything else. ESPECIALLY fanart, which always needs a reblog.
and FYI: what i’m saying here is backed up by tumblr themselves. they admit this publicly.
if you want a good RECENT (as of the end of February 2022) overview of what is going on behind the scenes at tumblr, it is basically what i’ve been saying for years: the core staff is tiny, constantly not being listened to when they advocate for us, the community, and working there is a nightmare:
Reblogging to encourage people instead of only liking is really not that fucking hard if you dont want people to be discouraged cuz their stuff get zero interactions and 99% useless likes and be driven off the Platform.
The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.
-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base. Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.
The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is “Flying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.”
