#however that may be

[dudefrommywesterns]

the uptick in queer discourse in the community is really sad. that's not why we're here.

#this is self ship! #for loving fictional characters #however that may be #and i think all queer discourse is a ridiculous distraction from the real problems that face us #typewriter dings

[5ummit]

New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)

More fun community label "features"! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can't be avoided by just using a different tag.

Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that's been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I've come to realize it's not. It's a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here's what it looks like on my blog:

I don't know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that's not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not "mature" enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I'll be damned if tumblr's going to force me to have one on MY blog.

After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I'm not a theme coder, so apologies if there's a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I'm now sharing with anyone else who may want it:

.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}

Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!

If you're not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.

Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people's blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:

tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper

Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.

Some additional notes:

After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.

The warning overlay only seems to appear if a "mature" post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see "mature" content they weren't warned about?!

The warning also appears on direct links to "mature" posts.

This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual "mature" posts.

#I'm not letting my entire blog be penalized for a couple rare singular posts that may or may not even be 'mature' enough to warrant it #tumblr may force us to use community labels #and they may have full control over the new blogview #but MY custom blog layout has always been and always will be MINE to format and present however I want #that's the whole point #tumblr #psa #tutorial #my words #tumblr themes #wendy's help desk

[satellites-halo]

Sick of posts that say stuff like "all mobility aid users should weaponize their mobility aids"

hey man, I can't do that! I need to bring my mobility aids into places that would deny me entrance for things like spikes and barbed wire! not every cripplepunk is a white skinny cane user, and having something deemed as a 'weapon' on some of us can be genuinely life threatening, even if it's a mobility aid! I don't want to have my rollator taken away from me and have to be searched bc I put some spikes on a seat cover or something!!! let cripplepunks express their punkness however is safe and comfortable for them, don't expect us all to be able to do the same things you can, because we all cant

#cripplepunk #cpunk #c-punk #cripple punk #punk #cripple #disability #physical disability #mobility aids #for the record: #i am not claiming that i am not white #i am a white latino and i acknowledge that i have the privelage to do these things more than BIPOC #however its still important to remember that our BIPOC siblings may be racially profiled #and put in real #genuine harm #for having anything people may deem a weapon #able-bodied people can reblog #but do not derail

[pseudophan]

:3

#may i present to you this gif that is half low def and half hd. dan and phil i hate your facecam box #however. you are cute #daniel howell #amazingphil #dan and phil #phan #mine #my gif

[biblically-accurate-dca]

birthday !!!!!!

#my art #daycare attendant #sundrop #sunnydrop #moondrop #dca fandom #shittest photo ever taken award goes to me ♡ #i've just been having a lot of fun drawing them traditionally lately!! however i don't have a scanner so i just gotta take photos lol #and moon is excited because moon wants to violently stab the sun cake ♡ #im too shy to join any of the community events that may be going on for this so i wanted to celebrate in my own little way :]

[sollucets]

rowan's eclipse anniversary celebration

week ten: the thumb thing

#the eclipse the series #the eclipse #akkayan #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #rowan gifs #eclipse1year #tusersilence #tuserhidden #khaotunq #tostrangers #userjustafriend #<3? #this was supposed to be 'blending' as some of you may know #however. #i tried and tried and just could not fucking manage that #so instead i present a collection of one of my favorite akkaye things #the thumb <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for voting in the poll to decide who was going to be the leader of the band! It turned out to be such a close race!

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #madam lan #A-qing #Band AU #(Reminder that Madam Lan's design inspiration goes to Qourmet!) #Madam Lan may have been the winner per vote count but there were so many strong advocates for A-Qing! #I played around with a few versions of what the 'poll winner' art was going to be and ultimately decided I wanted them both. #As any good theater love knows though - The battle for leadership was a ruse. They *all* get a chance to be featured. #Cooperation was the real end goal! However I do think these two have the best frontman energy of the group. #Or at least 'crowd favourite' energy. I also really loved hearing what people thought their vocal styles would be like! #This was probably one of my favourite polls to do and I love drawing these characters a lot B*) #I'd love to spend a bit more time in this AU so count on me bringing it back. #One thing I keep feeling like I need to redeem myself on is Madam Lan's Translucent skirt. I have *not* done the concept justice yet. #It is such a crack-platonic ship but I want to think Madam Lan and A-Qing would enjoy each other's company. #Possibly also with JYL as well. They can be like mutually beneficial therapy dogs to each other. #Madam Lan never got to see her kids grow up into teenagers after all. She only had sons. Never daughters. #Even if she saw her kids once a month we do know she treated them with so much love and kindness. #She would bite the shit out of YZY for yelling at JYL. What a sight to see. A-Qing would also start biting (for fun).

[ba1laur]

last saturday that will be spent staring 20 minutes at a screen watching this guy go thru incomprehensible horrors. cant wait to have normal weekends from now on

#im a trimax truther sorry brothers there will be little stampy art in here. #however i feel like its my duty to draw this guy chilling after watching him get shoved in a meat grinder for Iike 10 episodes. #may the finale be nice to him #also he is fun to draw.. i do prefer the original due to how many creative liberties i can take (with the coat lol) #however this vashie is also very good he looks like a butch lesbian which he also happens to be btw trust me i work on the show #i wish we got more episodes of him having a good time ): #but sadly hes stuck in an anime with 12 episodes with a pacing that could kill a victorian boy #trigun stampede #vash #vash the stampede #fanart tag #trigun #art tag

[why-the-heck-not]

i love how eurovision is abt ”unity & music 🥰” and i am never more angry at the rest of the europe than during these

#tho not at the ppl; the ppl knew what’s good #the ’’’’professionals’’’’ however #eurovision #may 2023 #2023

[irisbaggins]

Spoilers ahead for the finale!

An aspect of the final battle that got lost after Viola's amazing attack, was the fact that Tula nearly killed her son. And that, I think, is something I would really like to delve my teeth into, to properly look at what happened.

The thing that struck me the most during Tula's attack on her son, was that Jaysohn did manage to snap her out of it. In the context of the story, Jaysohn grappled his mom to get her to stop, and even after getting viciously bit by her, he still managed to get her back to herself. He managed to get to his mom fast enough, and used himself to protect the others from the mindless being Tula had become. And, even when faced with near death, this little kid manages to get back up and attack the creature that did this to his mother. Not once did he blame her, having understood enough about the situation to realise his mom was not in control. He knows, he understood, that this was Phoebe, not Tula. And so, the moment he is able to free his mom, still wounded and near death's door, he goes after Phoebe so that his mom won't be taken again.

Tula, however, was aware of everything she did to Jaysohn. She was painfully aware of how badly she hurt her son, how she nearly killed him. And, as Brennan describes;

She is broken, in a way she has never been before. She nearly killed her baby, used as a puppet because she's alive when she should have been dead. The Blue that keeps her alive is what nearly caused her to kill her son. Tula nearly lost everything, yet, once more, it was hope and love that brought her back once more. Her son brought her back.

However, she was silent for the rest of the battle until Phoebe finally fell, and Jaysohn nearly died. She was quiet, too horrified with what she nearly did. Perhaps, had more time been afforded to that moment with Tula and Jaysohn before he decided to retaliate against Phoebe, there would have been...something...that went on. A focus on the fact that it was Tula who went for another member of their family, whilst Ava went for the ground and the reactor. What would that do to her, I cannot help but wonder. What did that do to her, in the immediate aftermath, when she could slow down and process what happened. She must live with the knowledge she nearly killed her own child, and that, had he been just a little weaker or just a little slower, she would've succeeded. She might have been able to bring him back, like she did with Sybil...but she would have to live with the knowledge that she took her son's life. And that thought is horrifying.

Yet, it makes her gentleness with Lukas later all the more significant. Even with the blood of her son on her hands, she still chooses to hope for a better tomorrow. She still chooses to give Lukas - and herself - another chance, another tomorrow. Bad things could have happened, but they didn't, and they all made it out. The "what ifs" will remain in the shadows, in the nightmares, but in the daylight, she will keep her head high. It doesn't lessen the impact of her deeds or her burdens, but it can make them bearable. And, with the addition of her son's refusal to blame her, it makes it just the little easier. She deserves a new tomorrow, too.

#text_loke #Burrow's End #Burrow's End Spoilers #Tula Burrow's End #Jaysohn Burrow's End #Brennan Lee Mulligan #Siobhan Thompson #I am EMOTIONAL about this!! #Screaming crying! #Aabria Iyengar #meta from loke #<- gonna use this tag for future metas! look out! #Just taking these photos made me tear up again! #I am DECEASED I tell you! #...I do however want to explore what Tula would be feeling after this. Her emotions and her fear #I find it kind of significant that Tula never participated further on in the battle #Brennan was quiet. TULA was quiet #I may write more about this. About the what ifs #Because WHO BOY I HAVE EMOTIONS AND I HAVE ENERGY FOR THEM #Also...the confirmation that Tula died on the same day as her husband...OOF #Dimension 20

[shouts-into-the-void]

I love Spirit Hunter: Death Mark's approach to the amnesia trope and the question of "If you can't remember who you were, are you even the same person?"

A lot of narratives play around with the weight of that, only to turn around and say "Of course you're the same, who else would you be?" The character gets their memories back and they're suddenly exactly as they were before, maybe with a life lesson along the way.

But Death Mark doesn't. Without all the knowledge and experiences of Masamune Kujou, Yashiki is fundamentally a kinder and less apathetic person, without any sort of prompting. Even when confronting dangerous spirits out to kill him, he takes the time to learn their stories and show them some small form of kindness. He listens to the recording of who he used to be, and he can't reconcile the callousness that Masamune had towards the deaths caused by his mistake with the way he feels about them, to the point where he doesn't even go back to using the identity that he's worked so hard to remember. Even when the game gives you the option to forgive Masamune, the options are still "It had to be done" and "I can't forgive him" because Kazuo Yashiki and Masamune Kujou are not the same.

And I think that's a way more interesting take than the protagonist just reverting back into the same person they were despite all the experiences we saw them go through.

#I also think its interesting that depsite being a gorey horror game involving some of the worst sides of humanity imaginable #its also at its core about kindness #however morally questionable it may seem #spirit hunter #spirit hunter: death mark #death mark #kazuo yashiki #amnesia trope

[alientoastt]

Tell me I'm a bad man, kick me like a stray

#the mechanisms #jonny d'ville #alientoastt #this has been rotting in my drafts for. months. i forgor #however Look At Him #image id in alt text #this pose and shadow may or may not be taken from a playboy spread. maybe.

[inkxolotl]

P3 fanart that i made for an assignment….

#this may not be lore accurate however i um um um i have no defense #persona 3 #makoto yuki #ryoji mochizuki #i had a realisation after i submitted this that makoto shouldn’t be in his uniform during this scene but like #i was a day away from the deadline so i didnt wanna redo his whole outfit soooooo aha ehe ehehe

[svnraez]

it’s been nearly 24 hours without my wife (the several tabs i had open on ao3 that automatically reloaded when i opened them to try read and salvage what remained). my heart is broken, my crops are shrivelling, but i stand tall with my hand over my heart in honour of those fighting this great war. my heart goes out to the soldiers (volunteers), may their work be quick and successful.

#ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 down #i hope they’re doing okay out there #i will wait Years for you #i will wait However Long It May Take

[scintillyyy]

also i am a notable court of owls disliker, but i am always wondering about the differences there would have been if snyder had done it as the dickbats story sequel to gates of gotham he had planned. because i think i remember hearing about him saying something about going into families like the drakes too, and this part in gates of gotham #1 sticks out to me

that's tim mentioning a grandfather in reference to the bridges being called the gates of gotham, as you can see:

tim mentions that the bridges were called the gates as a nickname at the turn of the century, but that his grandfather called them the gates too, which we learn is also a reference to the gates brothers who built the bridges. which to me, kind of seems like the seeds being planted for tim's family through his grandfather to have some kind of insider knowledge of the founding of gotham (i'm assuming the drakes would have been a court of owls family potentially). like this could just be a throwaway line, but giving tim a grandfather like this seems meaningful.

i just...i imagine the dick & tim of it all that we could have had. rolling in the deep here.

#now i am a drakes are new money truther #so on one hand i am kind of glad he didn't get retconned into being old money #however. this may have also been up my alley depending idk #i am picturing. a flashback to janet as a loving mother. #weirdness with tim's ancestors #but maybe this would have also canonized cold jack & janet in which case garbage #once again thank you chip for the best janet lore in the world

[soup--champ]

day 5 prompt: superheroes/blood

for @smallchaoscryptid’s spiderbit week

#soup’s art #qsmp #spiderbit #cellbit #roier #f!cell #c!roier #obsessedduo #idk if we have another name for them over here but this’ll do #adhd kicked my ass yesterday so i ended up skipping it #however i am back for blood day (of course) #the first spiderbit art i posted on here was cell and c!roier so this was a fun callback! #i may tap out after today but i’m fine leaving it off here #i’m really pleased with this one #tw: blood