Goddess of Rainbows

ohlittledemon

official-spiderman-noir

Due to personal reasons, I’m going to love and support trans people

ruby-white-rabbit

soft-yellow-sky

y’all ever have those lines in songs where, when they finally sing it, ur heart just goes !!!!! and you become very happy because that one line in particular is just so wonderfully and artfully crafted?? like sometimes it’s the tune, sometimes it’s the lyrics, sometimes it’s a key change, sometimes it’s a long note, sometimes it’s something hard to explain!! i live for these lines tbh, sometimes i’ll listen to particular songs just to hear a specific line lmao

odd-oood

zoromance

when hozier said “if i was born as a blackthorn tree, i’d want to be felled by you, held by you, fuel the pyre of your enemies” have you EVER heard something so intensely romantic bro, like he really channeled some dying victorian poet shit there huh

oksanaastankova

1moneychaserworld-deactivated20

you’re only in your 20’s. relax.

theryanproject

missmamibee

unpretty

andrew came downstairs from the office to give me a hug and seemed really worried about me and it turned out that i had reblogged a picture of a jellyfish with the tag “sometimes i wish i could be this” and while i had meant “beautiful, ethereal, and full of light” he had interpreted it as meaning “brainless and totally free of the burden of consciousness”

unpretty

this was the jellyfish

both

chubby-bunnies

Dividing up eras of tumblr

tearlessrain

It just occurred to me that I kind of arbitrarily started referring to “first age” “second age” and “third age” tumblr one day because I realized during a discord conversation that it really can be divided up very effectively between a couple major events that changed the fabric of the site’s culture almost overnight, but nobody but me ever refers to them that way, so by way of explanation:

First Age: everything before Dashcon. Art communities were still largely thriving on the internet and social media still mostly existed out from under corporate monopolies, and people were just wildly guessing about how to use it. We were in the last hurrah of the internet wild west and lolcats were still a thing. Tumblr was just a fun and quirky place, we were blissfully writing unironic posts about tumblr university and fandom vs hipster and the “I like your shoelaces” thing, Hank Green wrote a goddamn song about tumblr, we were all like Adam and Eve dwelling in Eden unaware of their sin. Potterheads grab your wands.
Second Age: post-Dashcon, but pre-Purge. We have all eaten the fruit of knowledge and there is no going back. There are no more secret code or tumblr university posts because everyone knows firsthand how badly that would go. Fandom culture is forever changed. We are now aware that we live in a hellish cringetopia but have absolutely no plans to leave, because by now a combination of monopolies and a sneaky rise in purity culture has the internet by the throat (but not in a kinky way, that would scare off advertisers) so there aren’t a lot of better options, and at least our relatives can’t find us here. A lot of artists now have their primary presence on tumblr. The lax policies regarding nsfw and controversial content mean it’s a good space for queer creators and sex workers despite the many shortcomings we’re now aware of. The porn bot plague really kicks into full gear to the point that every time our follower counts go up we’re ready with the block/spam button like the uncles from Secondhand Lions picking off traveling salesmen. The drama starts to get really fucking weird, with classics such as the human pet guy and the bone-stealing witch.
Third Age: post-Purge. After changing corporate hands a few times, the drive to make the internet safe for our Good Christian Advertisers and hypothetical children has finally reached us, and brings with it TERFs, purity culture, and the Porn Ban, which was allegedly a solution to the porn bots except that it clearly wasn’t at all. The large community of sex workers and artists that was keeping tumblr afloat as anything resembling a viable social media site have made a mass exodus and a lot of the rest of the userbase followed them, mostly to twitter or a few doomed attempts at tumblr copycats. Tumblr is now a mad max clown car full of people too stubborn to pack up and leave for a functional website. It’s a post-apocalyptic wasteland whose only remaining merit is that even without the ability to post porn we’ve managed to make ourselves such a complete anathema to advertisers that we’re mostly just left alone. We’re all just tired. Some people still run art blogs but nobody outside of tumblr ever sees them. Literally all we have going for us is that we’re not twitter and we have +5 resistance to capitalism. And Xkit.

pineaberry

Tag yourself. At which era did you enter this hellsite?

weeaboo-god

Second age

a-peculiar-potoo

Third Age

second age this is accurate

fatalityzing

firstgrave

Pete buttigieg, Krystan sinema, and Jenny durkan are prime examples of “being lgbt doesn’t mean you’re progressive and representation in political spheres should not be treated like representation in media/entertainment.”

firstgrave

i don’t care if someone had to “work twice as hard” just to get into a position of power where they utilize their newfound resources to make life worse for everyone else and uphold shitty, bigoted policies.

sure, plenty of ppl hate these politicians solely for their sexual orientation. but dealing with homophobia doesn’t give someone a free pass, especially when they hold privilege in many other ways (like the fact that wow look they’re all white).

Pete being gay doesn’t mean he isn’t an imperialist. krystan being bisexual doesn’t mean she didn’t condemn an entire class of people to poverty during a global pandemic (with a fun little dance to commemorate the ultimate fuck you towards the minimum wage essential workers who have risked their lives over the past year for a wage that isn’t even livable). Jenny being a lesbian doesn’t mean she isn’t a racist who defends police brutality and upholds a system of injustice.

stop using sexual orientation as a get out of jail free card and recognize that being lgbt doesn’t mean you can’t be an asshole.