I am shocked at how many people don’t have an actively hostile relationship with advertising
I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I’m skipping past your sponsor read. I’m muting the tv. I’m muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.
If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible
denim man rally
emma. 30+. ace as fuck. check out my stats. ao3: azurefirem | zure after dark
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Just in case you forget this exists.
With those “when you want to design a character but you don’t know color theory” posts flying around I thought this would be relevant again.
SLAMs THE REBLOG BUTTON
there’s also Coolors website that gives you randomized palettes!
Don’t forget ColourLovers, either! It’s a social media-esque site where you can browse tons of palettes and share your own.
You can browse the most popular ones or search for certain colors, themes, and even specific hex codes!
When you find one you like, you can download a wallpaper swatch of it and also select the specific colors it uses to look at more palettes that use those same ones.
ColourLovers is my go-to for when I’m having trouble coming up with a color scheme! It’s also been around for over a decade, so there’s plenty to browse through.
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Source: colorschemedesigner.com
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Sometimes I can still hear their voice
Breaking: TikTok is better bc it’s more hostile towards humanity
The lack of video content is what kept us here… I thought we all agree that the best feature of this hellhole was and always will be anonymity.
Tumblr’s not asking for my phone number. It’s not going through my contacts to try and connect me with my fucking colleagues. I can come here and talk about whatever I want without anyone ever seeing my face or hearing my voice. I don’t have to censor myself and hide my interests or enthusiasm out of fear of consequences it might have in my real life.
I think the biggest misunderstanding they have of Tumblr is that they think of it as a social media platform when in actuality it’s a blogging platform with social features.
I like the use of Metroman here because if there’s one thing Tumblr users collectively agree on it’s that we want everyone to think we’re dead
😔
wish we were still on Tumblr instead of the void
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$20 to rent a movie online for 48 hours i need yall to get so real right now bc that is insane. “that’s the average cost” which is a problem!! if im paying $20 i better get the film on dvd to have and watch forever
and before i get the “what about seeing ig at the movie theater” comments
i dont have a 60 foot screen and high tech surround sound audio and fancy seats at home. i will pay $20 to watch a movie once with friends for the experience in the theater. i will absolutely not pay $20 to watch a movie on my laptop lmfao
£15/$20 is the price of a fucking DVD. That you keep. I’m not paying that much to rent fuck all, you must be joking.
Are all of you really too young to remember how it used to be before corporations stopped selling you things that became yours in perpetuity after you paid for them and started charging you rent for everything?
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This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN
Reblogging for cultural enrichment
bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-
From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic
I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.
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Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like “I’m not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it.” Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won’t let you copy and paste:
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I fear a fresh wave of the plague
Update from twitter
i want to explain to people- the lower bit is accurate
you probably pay way more in taxes/rent then a medieval peasants well as have less time off of work(via logicallyillogical)
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see i just don’t think mlm ships work with good luck babe because i think that song operates on both the axes of being gay but ALSO being a woman. “when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night / with your head in your hands you’re nothing more than his wife” is such a harrowing line because women are socially only defined in their relations to men instead of as their own people especially after marriage (taking his last name, changing your prefix, the physical cost and emotional labor of having children…); women often become relegated to wives and mothers whereas men are afforded agency and personhood outside of their marriages. the line from the song doesn’t work for mlm couples because men are very rarely nothing more than a woman’s husband no matter how “suffocating” men make marriage seem
i see your point and i agree mostly (that it absolutely could not apply to cis men) but this could apply to closeted trans men forced into “women” roles by society, especially in the global south where in some areas arranged marriages are still a fairly common thing (my nanima and dadaji were arranged married. that’s only two generations before me)
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Do you recognize this TV theme song? #286
I know this and can name the series
I know this but can’t name the series
I might know this
I’ve never heard this
I don’t know it but it fucks severely. Need me a marching band using it in their show, cause holy shit.
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it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here
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ALT
Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. They’ve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.
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“men don’t need to be afraid walking around at night”
Unless they’re black
“men make more than women in jobs”
Black men make less than white women on average
“men don’t get followed around by people who mean them harm”
Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street
“no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body”
Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don’t have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one’s first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.
“no one judges a man’s worth based on his clothes”/“a man isn’t ever in danger no matter what he wears”
Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk ‘fitting the profile’ or 'matching the description’ and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.
“no man fears rape”
The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how “tranny” and “lesbian” is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.
Just say you don’t care as much about black people’s suffering and go, jesus.
I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn’t always so different.
I do think it’s really interesting that I have a lot of black butches and trans mascs on this post verifying in their tags that yes they’ve lived both as 'black woman’ and as 'black man’ and 'black man’ is really not the improvement it’s advertised to be and in the mean time I have also a bunch of nonblack people and especially white europeans saying this post is stupid and no one who agrees knows anything about what it’s like to be a black woman and I’m just wondering out of the two options who do you think is more knowledgeable about what black people go through? 🤔
My nephew was 6 years old when his mother sat him down and explained to him very plainly what happens to black boys and black men who are out at night.
Both of my parents worked in education. My white (passing) mother was a special ed teacher in a middle school. My father was her district’s administrator. She was paid more than him. Significantly. They both have Master’s Degrees.
My nephew was 13 when Trayvon Martin was killed. His mother asked him to please make sure he came home before the streetlights came on, and if he couldn’t make it to not wear a hoodie and certainly don’t wear it up. No matter how cold.
My nephew and my father were both pinned down and had their afros shaved/ruined by teachers, people they should have been able to trust. My nephew, my cousins, and more than one of my uncles have had the same happen to their locs. When my mother became pregnant very early in my parents’ marriage, no one believed that she actually *wanted* to marry my dad but that she’d accidentally become pregnant and married him to not be ashamed. When my parents adopted my sister who is much darker skinned than my other sister or myself, the assumption was that she was a child from one of dad’s previous marriages (he’s only ever been married to one woman: my mom) and that my sister was only there because of a custody battle. The first time my dad came to pick me up from school, the office refused to let him in the building and called the police on him for trying to abduct me, because everyone knew my mom was white and the logical conclusion of a black man picking up his black/mixed kid from school was that he was a kidnapper and not that he was my fucking father.
My father arrived home late one night after flying in from Japan and was understandably in comfortable clothes after being exclusively in suits in Japan in the middle of summer for 6 months. Our neighbor saw him pull into the driveway, let himself in the back door… and called the police saying a black man in a hoodie was breaking into our house. We’d lived there at that point for more than a decade. My nephew and I have been followed around in stores for wearing beaters and basketball shorts in the middle of summer. My cousin was harassed by cops while sitting at the bus stop because he had his hood up and was listening to music on his ipod. My uncle was cornered by airport security and ended up missing his flight because someone gave a 'tip’ that he 'looked suspicious’ in his jeans and a t-shirt.
Every single one of my older black relatives, male and female, have been raped. Every single one. Some of the younger ones too.
This is not a 'what if’ post. This is not a 'higher discussion of systemic violence’ post. This is a 'stop erasing the experiences of black men because you think there is no way on earth a black man can suffer outside of [just racism]’ post.
two years ago I posted this and two years later this still rings true, but I want to draw attention to something:
This is the post that netted me my “reputation” for saying that black women have it better than black men or that black women caused these problems.
This post was made in specifically because of radfem talking points, in direct response to a radfem post I saw and was mad about. Two years later I am seeing white radfems say the same about F1nn5ter. My response is still the same. A: trans women aren’t men, B: that’s not even true of cis men because marginalized cis men experience all of these things on a regular basis.
No where in this post does this blame black women for anything or say that black women don’t experience this- in fact I specifically mention black butches in multiple reblogs and in other posts discussing this exact topic. Black women are frequently forcibly degendered and masculinized, and God forbid a black woman actually be GNC and masculine or transgender because then her risk of violence to be enacted upon her is at an absurd height.
This is a critique of white, radical feminism and how it actively perpetuates racism. Don’t get it twisted.
Anyway when I bring up these points with this post, this is the sort of attitude I’m talking about. ALL of these are from a recent post where I am talking about my specific experience as a black trans man and ALL of these are nonblack people taking it upon themselves to give lip service to acknowledging black people are oppressed and then IMMEDIATELY following up with not including black men in their idea of what counts as oppressed.
When I say white radical feminism leaves racially marginalized men out of discussions of their own oppression, this is what I’m talking about.
This was from a post where I said people talk over me frequently and tell me my voice as a black person doesn’t matter and I was taught not to tolerate it as a girl and I’m certainly not going to start tolerating it as a man. That people have regarded my presence as a black person as a threat just existing in an area my entire life and I didn’t think it was a good thing when I was a black girl and I still don’t think it’s a good thing as a black man. This was a post about antiblack racism and how it affects me, an entire ass black trans man.
And nonblack people STILL sought to completely erase my perspective off my own post.
Does it hurt, when I point out your racism? Is it uncomfortable to realize that you’re not innocent in spreading and perpetuating the same racism that’s caused black people to die to violence at astronomical rates? Is it a hard pill to swallow?
Good. Choke.
Since I’m getting a collection of dumbass replies on this again by nonblack people I figured I should remind everyone: THIS IS A POST ABOUT WHITE RADICAL FEMINISM AND HOW IT LEAVES OUT THE EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. If you find yourself getting mad because I pointed out that this doesn’t work for anyone who isn’t white, maybe think about why you’re mad instead of putting some bullshit in my notes.
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“Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they’re 15” this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
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[ID: “Cold weather reminder. Do NOT plug space heaters into power strips or extension cords. Plug space heaters directly into the wall outlet. Power strips are not designed to handle the high current flow required by a space heater and can overheat causing a fire.”
A photo is attached of a power strip with an extremely charred end. Part of the power strip’s wire is also charred. End ID]
My husband, an electrician, told me I have to reblog this.
For clarification’s sake, is this true everywhere? I ask because I know that different countries have different quality home electricity provision; American home electricity Ain’t Great compared with most of Europe, for example. In Wales I have never heard of this being a Thing, but our electricity comes in 240V flavour, so possibly the higher current naturally avoids this issue?
My British husband (not an electrician but electrician-adjacent) says yes this is true in the UK as well - anything that uses a lot of power should be plugged directly into the wall rather than an extension lead
Good to know, thank you!
*gets up to replug space heater*
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