Tag: honestly

official-lucifers-child:

sensicalabsurdities:

henshengs:

Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another

This is why I think “tag warning” culture is kinder and more constructive than cancel culture / “no problematic content” culture. One size does not fit all, but if we learn to be more aware of the fact that the same thing can be emotionally validating or cathartic to one person and upsetting to another, and pick up a general mindset of thinking before we post, “what might people need a heads up for in this content?”, we grow more compassionate, more thoughtful, and more understanding of the differences in people’s experiences.

this is how maybe for one person, reading a fic about someone escaping an abusive relationship can be liberating, and for another person it’s triggering. how headcanoning a person as binary trans may hurt people who believe them to be nonbinary. you will never be able to make a character so perfectly perfect that they satisfy everyone, and you literally cannot. all you can do is just… do what makes you happy, and use appropriate tags to keep viewers safe.

smartypants420:

ppl will always say im a boomer for this but imagine how relaxing it must have been pre cell phones and social media… like u literally just get in ur car and go places. no need to constantly be connected n checking in Like i cant imagine how sexy that would have felt

death2america:

being interested in economics when the most mainstream economic theory is dumb as fuck is literally painful. like, in my college econ class my professor unironically said canada is “half socialist” and then spiraled into the rightwing venezuela argument. not only that, he treated recessions under capitalism as something that must happen at some point in life, not a consequence of the workings of the system. oh, he also said you shouldn’t complain about poor wages and working conditions because one time he got the manager position at mcdonalds. you can imagine the fun discussion that created with a room full of broke college students.

look, i’m all for studying economic theory I don’t agree with, but at least present it in a realistic and not moronic way…then again a lot of economic theory surrounding capitalism IS based on the idea of capitalism as natural law, AKA inherent to humanity and thus the only acceptable system. but also fuck my econ professor. even my government professor who complained about “crazy commies” had surprisingly accurate critiques of capitalism (so close yet so far).

anyone else have/had the same issue?

firesidetextiles:

rosalarian:

I spent ten years building up a following on Tumblr. I had 30k+ followers, great engagement, it helped my career thrive like nothing else. I could quit my day job and live off the fan base I’d accrued.

Then, their policies changed. Half my work was no longer allowed. People left the site in droves. I left too, for awhile. I came back to a ghost town. I still have 25k followers, but I don’t think more than 10% are active anymore. I’m followed by ghosts. Same with DeviantArt, although I was never quite as big there, and I’ve been gone so much longer.

This disallowed half of my work was never allowed on Facebook in the first place, or Instagram, but their algorithms are such that my stuff rarely makes it to anyone’s feeds, and if I post a link to where people could actually pay me for my content, it’s hidden unless I pay for it. Patreon swept my work away to a dark corner where no one could see it unless I personally guided them there. Twitch is so strict you can’t even show bare feet. The death of Google Reader means nobody follows RSS feeds anymore, so I can’t direct people to my own site.

So there’s Twitter I guess, where I can post whatever I want, but again, algorithms. But more than that, I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim. The thought of spending time jumping around through hoops for attention just to have it taken away again has stripped any motivation I had to try.

The internet has been gentrified. All the small cute houses and mom & pop shops have been shut down and replaced by big corporations that control everything. I’ve been making webcomics for twenty years, and at the start, the internet was a beautiful wild place. Everyone had a home page. It was like having a house and people came to visit you and you would visit other people in their houses. Now, we don’t visit each other in personal spaces anymore. It’s like we have to visit each other in the aisles of a megamart. Everything is clean and sanitized and the weirdos who made the internet what it was are no longer welcome. No space for freaks anymore.

People still ask me for advice on how to break into comics, and I don’t have any wisdom because I don’t recognize the internet anymore. I don’t feel comfortable working within its boundaries which seems to be getting smaller and smaller and smaller. None of the tools I used when I started exist anymore. They’ve been replaced by things I don’t know how to use. I don’t think I could break into comics today. 2002 had so few barriers compared to now. You might have started on Keenspace, but you could reach a point where you could break away to your own site and people would go to it. Now, you start on Webtoon or Patreon and I guess you just stay there? It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business. I’m looking at my career trajectory and it all points to being a Wal-Mart greeter with uncontrolled arthritis.

I don’t want to make “content,” I want to make comics, I want to make art, and I want to do it in a space that is mine. I’m not sure there’s a place for that anymore.

I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim.

It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having
to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business.

This post hits SO hard.

zombiekaiba:

zombiekaiba:

I think the Evil Media Bias Against Platonic Relationships is one of those things tumblr loves to get worked up about despite, like. simply not being real.

“men in media are never allowed to have their closest, most meaningful relationship be a platonic friendship with another man!” I’m sorry but I am not convinced that you’ve ever consumed media

wombatking:

darkcomedies:

darkcomedies:

there are other aspects of how adults engage with children’s media that are far more concerning than this but the way grown people “engage critically” with children’s television and film is insane

sorry the 13-year-old in a bear hat and his shape shifting dog brother didn’t tackle mortality this week, matthew. doesn’t mean it lost thematic or artistic value. maybe you should watch breaking bad or something

The show about colorful rock people isn’t endorsing fascism because it’s half-rock boy hero believes you can fix villains through the power of magic pink love, Samantha.