do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

believe it or not, we liked that more

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

To this day, XKit has an option to turn Tumblr’s background color back to the old one because of just how angry people got when they changed it. Genuine widespread rage at the color change.

The old color was also blue, just a slightly different shade.

This is a blessing!

GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

I've been laughing about this for 30 min

the fact that we are firmly in a time where conservatives are like "the actual founding fathers, who were slaveowners, were not racist enough for my taste" is wild

this little glamorized misogyny "joke" has run its course right. can we leave this corny demonic shit in 2023. it is done now. we've had enough.

I knew this was going to get worse but I didn't know how

thank god Cosmo has some common sense

This is why I feel like kink is so important as a framework, because it gives you a way to play with this radioactive stuff without any desire to make it real.

Like, my pal is SUPER into kidnap: Properly deep, multi-day, multi-participant scenes with loads of financial and time investment. Because he has the space to talk about it as a kink, there has never been any confusion- of course he doesn't REALLY want to be someone's prisoner, dependent on their whims, of course he doesn't really want to be dressed by them and forced to wait on them hand and foot, doesn't want to be unable to escape the whippings and etc, this is a game that he plays with his partner because it's fun to temporarily inhabit those characters - and it would be horrifying to really BE them!

It would be so sweet and healthy if Gender-ing like the ones above was a kink scene, and fully committing to 24-hour Gendering was seen as as much of an extreme, inadvisable, niche commitment as being a 24-hour rubberdog was.

"Yeah me and my partner do Gendering - So he's my Boyfriend and I'm his Girlfriend (don't worry, we won't expect you to use those titles for us!) - as part of our kink, he takes initiative: He chooses where we go on our dates, and when we have sex ,and if I want to do either of those things I can't ask directly, I have to do what's called 'hinting', so like I can't say 'god I'm horny, come home so I can fuck you', I have to wear special clothes that in our kink scene, let the Boyfriend know that I want him to initiate sex. Part of the kink is that Girlfriends are don't work or earn money, and Boyfriends don't do any upkeep of the house... Obviously that is really dangerous and difficult to really do, but we pretend that I don’t have a job, and when we're doing a Gendering Session, I will cook for us both and get really into the minutiae of my own appearance, and he will pretend that he can't look after himself.

One important part of Gender-ing Play is how you interact with other players who aren't your partner- It's a lot like Old Guard leather in that, it's really strict, so Girlfriends aren't ever supposed to talk to people who play the "Man" role, and likewise Boyfriends are supposed to never speak to anyone playing the "Woman" role - Not just sexually, but they aren't supposed to seek them out as friends, or to have any conversations with them beyond totally utilitarian ones- yeah, it is really difficult! But the difficulty adds spice to the scene! - So we have weekends where a load of Gender-ing players get together and try to live it full-time for a couple of days..."

But, lo, we don't have that, so people who want to do this try to do it as 24/7 lifestylers.

Obi-Wan is like I got the kids in the divorce. They aren't even my kids. Or my divorce

Context:

The original video, for anyone who hasn't seen it:

And the relevant album cover:

Sessler was a teenager when "We're Not Gonna Take It" it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.

No fuckin' idea how he thought it was in support of "traditional American values."

Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.

-fae

No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.

Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they'd get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.

DUDE THE VIDEOOO

For those unfamiliar with this ICON

This is why my working definition of queer is "queerness is that which accepts queerness."

It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from "the norm" and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.

Dee Snider is the embodiment of "Queer as in fuck you."

I love seeing this post make the rounds

dee snider is a fucking icon, man

Frank Herbert's Catholic Problems really permeate dune at every conceivable level but one of the clearest might be when he's like And then. The scariest old woman you've seen in your life Hurts you. So bad. Unimaginable pain. But if you don't tolerate it she'll kill you. Because suffering through pain without flinching away is what my scary space cult thinks makes them more human than other people. And it's intentional to be clear dune is a lot of very very intentional critique of various religious organizations but some of that makes you kinda pause and go Hey man? Are you good

I just get the sense that he had some bad experiences with nuns

@cryptotheism don't hide this in the tags

if you’ve never played a pokémon game you’re missing out on the insane things npcs will say to you unprompted. like you’ll be walking down a path and a total stranger will see you and immediately run up to you and trap you in place and say something like ‘the divorce is getting rough but me and my pokémon are getting tough!’ and then start a battle and after you beat their single rat they’ll be like ‘i wasn’t worthy of her…’ or something

I don't know. I just don't know

It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize that Phragmites was probably the genus name of the plants in the picture and not, like, an ancient Greek warrior waiting in the marshes to attack.

no matter what your most embarrassing moment in life is, at least it’s not having fucking chat gpt write fanfic for you bc you’re too lazy to do it yourself