It seems that the staff is actually going to go forward with their decision to remove reblog chains, where reblogs will basically work like regular comments on other websites.
This doesn't just make the site completely unusable, it removes the soul of the community that has managed to build up here over the years, and that I'm so happy to have recently joined.
It makes impossible the creation of great posts where many people build up a single thing, until it is a gem of expressed human creativity.
There will be no more world heritage posts, no more messing around with your mutuals, no posts worth remembering.
There will be no more Tumblr, and the Tikblr or TumbTube or whatever monstrosity is born from its corpse will soon die, as is probably the best. And then there will never be another place like this on the internet, no place anymore to run to, no more fun, no more community.
I recommend a simple course of action. When these changes get imposed upon us, stop using Tumblr. Get your mutuals' discords, your favourite artists' websites, and leave. If the Tumblr we have once known returns, we well too. If not, better let it die quickly than suffer a long and painful decline.
I beg you to reblog this, for the more people see it, the higher chanses are for this to work.
And add something, so we can show them what Tumblr is really for.
We in Labor aren’t hurting our industry. We’re fighting to save it from predatory sociopaths who will gleefully watch people lose their homes and go hungry, rather than release 2% of their grotesque wealth to ensure a healthy industry for everyone.
In 1960, SAG and WGA struck to force management to adapt to the new technology of television. Without that strike and the agreement it birthed, residual use payments would not exist.
Wil Wheaton and Gates McFadden support SAG-AFTRA and WGA at Paramount Studios
My parents forced me to be a child actor, and stole nearly all of my salary from my entire childhood. My Star Trek residuals were not…
whats cool about being trans is my parents are totally right. i did kill their beautiful son. im the thing that animates his corpse in an ever more convincing parody of a happy girl. i devoured him from the inside out and now there is nothing left of him and he is dead dead dead and there is only me, with my hollow eyes and dark eyeliner and long hair, and my big smile. my limp, effeminate gestures belie the marionetting of the boy they loved. my fagginess is his death. already his body becomes a fitter home for my parasitism in full; the tits, the hips, the thighs. sorry about your kid. thanks for the biomass <3
Bleach is the same way. He had to leave out a lot of the last arc because of how much pain he was in from how much he did in the past. The only way he was able to fix the last arc and give people what they begged for, even though he was in pain. Was to ask an animation studio to add to his work and just make a new season.
I don’t think people realize how hard drawing is on the joints and back. I really don’t. I draw for just fun and sitting over my tablet hurts like fuck.
I am considering posting one of my fanfics here, since its on going and its actually what I’ve been working on. I hit 50 k yesterday and my brain sat there for a good minute and was like why was this so easy but sitting down to work on my actual works has been a nightmare.
The answer is the tism. And my hyperfixation and hyperfocus wants nothing to do with anything I started but oooh shiny DMC.
saw a post today that was like "oh my god people who ask to be on taglists are so selfish and entitled" and literally girl what
like how much attention are you getting that people being interested in your work is "labor" and "rude" to you
i wish i was getting enough notes for tagging people to be a chore
how is this "making authors and artists do free work for you" like there's a billion reasons someone might not want to actually follow my blog but like certain kinds of my content
"oh just follow or get post notifications" on this broken website? the known dysfunctional website? that sends me hundreds of notifications a day? most of which are nonsense?
like actually be so for real right now
anyway if you see this and you saw that other post don't let it discourage you i jump up and down with joy every time somebody asks to be on a taglist of mine
i don't consider it work to invite you to see my content cause i know posting it will bury it and i want you to see it! i want you to like and reblog it! i want to see your commentary and tags! please don't be afraid of interacting with me and other writeblrs because a couple of people got so popular they don't want to engage with others anymore