#i block liberally and with abandon. i once blocked someone for having an annoying tagging system

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

when has anyone EVER said that homophobia is izzy’s only motivation. i’m on team “gay homophobe izzy” and i do not think this is his only motivation. i don’t even think it’s his primary motivation. it is another layer of complexity on a fascinating character. he is gay and in unrequited love with ed. he craves power and leadership but he is not good at managing those things when he gets them. he thinks men should behave a certain way and is aggressive and cruel to the men who don’t meet his standards. men having sex with each other is fine, but men falling in love with men falls outside of his rigid idea of how men should behave. he lacks the emotional maturity to be able to identify his feelings towards ed. he is so repressed he only accepts intimacy in the form of physical violence. he blames stede for ed changing. he hates stede because ed is changing. to izzy, the worst part about stede changing ed is the fact that stede is such a pathetic excuse of a man it shatters izzy’s image of ed to think that ed could find anything about stede appealing. he’s dedicated his life to the version of ed that he’s made up in his head. he is possessive of being the only one to call him ed, to be the only one who gets to call the legendary blackbeard by his name. but izzy has never been able to see ed without blackbeard. to him, knowing ed is a privilege only because ed is who’s behind the legendary blackbeard’s curtain.

i think izzy is fascinating. he's a fantastic character. he is incredibly well written. he plays a crucial role in the narrative. this show would not be the same without him.

im telling you now, having spent my time in this fandom primarily interacting with people who also read izzy as homophobic, anyone who is using this interpretation to reduce izzy's complexity is by far in the minority with that take.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #txt #meta #mine #if this post is in the izcourse tag no it isnt u just dont know how to use tumblr #izzy hands #ik the majority of the canyon def has me blocked lol. i mean this genuinely tho when i say: good for them #anyone in the world is free to block me for any reason #i block liberally and with abandon. i once blocked someone for having an annoying tagging system #which is HUGELY hypocritical of me bc i have an INSANE tagging system #anyway point is. uh. wait i forget what is the point. oH OK wait i remembered #point is i doubt this'll actually reach anyone who needs to hear it lol but im putting this out there anyway #so the next time someone says i reduce izzy to any one specific thing i can just link them to this #og

[aj-lenoire]

welcome, twitter refugees!!

here's a quick and friendly tumblr how-to:

DOs & DON'Ts

DO reblog posts!! regardless of whether or not you add a comment, either in the post itself or in the tags, the OP will get notifications of everyone who likes the post via your reblog and who reblogs it from you! comment as much or as little as you like

DON'T repost things! fanart, fanfiction, etc. this is different from reblogging, a repost is when you copy/save the work to your computer and reupload it in a post of your own, rather than reblogging it

DO follow tags as well as other blogs!! really like one specific character from a tv show? a certain ship? search their name and follow the tag, and you'll see posts that mention or tag them even if you don't directly follow the person who made that post

DON'T rely too much on the search function, it's broken. if you want to search someone's blog for a tag, you're better off going to the URL: tumblr.com/[blogname]/tagged/[tag]

DO tag liberally! you can use the tags to add comments that you don't want to directly add to the post, to make it easier for people to search your blog, or to make it easier for yourself to find things later on

DON'T use tiktok censorship speak when tagging things!! it will make it actively more difficult for people seeking to avoid certain topics. instead of "tw: abu$e" just tag "abuse" and anyone who has blacklisted the tag "abuse" will not see your post.

similarly, DON'T tag things like "epilepsy" - instead, tag "flashing lights" so people can still use the epilepsy tag to discuss epilespy without risking seeing triggering flashing lights

DO use the follow and the block buttons liberally! this site has absolutely no algorithm, so it is entirely up to you to curate your space exactly how you want it!

DON'T send hate to people via the askbox on their blog, either anonymously or not. just block people who annoy you or post horrible things

DO participate in polls! tumblr only got them recently, less than a year ago, and people immediately went ham. vote on stupid things like which bug emoji is superior, which ship is the best, and how much vanilla extract should go in a cake! but remember that you cannot edit the original poll after you post it

DON'T use or endorse "AI" generators like chatgpt! don't reblog AI images and or AI endings to unfinished/abandoned fanfictions

DO cite your sources if you want to educate people on something in a post, we all love to learn, and informative posts on everything from current political events to which geodes could be made into useable dildos, but misinformation is prolific, so make sure anyone reading your information can refer to a real source!

jargon

notes - likes, reblogs (with or without comments or tags) and replies to a post are all agregated to give the number of notes, which is basically the number of times a post has been interacted with

OP - the Original Poster of a post, for example, me, aj-lenoire, with this post. i am op.

hellsite - tumblr itself. this website is insane and unprofitable and broken and we wouldn't have it any other way. hellsite can be either (affectionate) or (derogatory) and often both at once

blorbo - your favourite character, your rotten soldier, your sweet cheese, your good time boyy. post about them frequently and with weird, frenzied gusto

squick - something you personally don't like, such as a ship or a character or a trope, but is not actually bad or harmful - it's just not for you. it squicks you out.

blacklisting means you've blocked a specific tag rather than a blog/person. for example, if you don't want to see anything with spiders, blacklist the tag "spiders" so you don't see any! if someone you follow reblogs a post and tags it with "spiders", or the OP of the post tagged it with "spiders" then your dashboard will hide the post from you and tell you it was tagged with "spiders" and you can choose whether or not to view it

passing peer review means you added commentary to a post in the tags, and someone who reblogged that post from you saw your tags and thought they were funny, so decided to screenshot them and add them as a comment so everyone could see them. congratulations!!

breaking containment is when a post about a niche subject and/or from a blog with not many followers gets super popular because it's funny, and often OP despairs at how their notifications become unusable from the sheer number of notes from this one post

KUNGPOWPENIS - if someone posts something bigoted, tumblr will ban together to reblog, one letter at a time, k-u-n-g-p-o-w-p-e-n-i-s. only do this when the bigot is the OP, because only the original poster will get a flood of single-letter reblog notifications from every single branch of the reblog chain

tips & tricks

pornbots and bots in general are not uncommon here. whenever you get followed by someone, check to make sure they're not a bot by visiting their blog. if they only have a few reblogged posts on random topics, or no posts at all, and their profile picture is a beautiful woman, they're a bot, and you should flag and block them

old posts can and do get reblogged and liked all the time, there's no point at which it becomes cringe to interact with a post. we even have some from 10+ years ago that're considered 'tumblr heritage'

long posts will cross your dash from time to time, the most infamous being colour of the sky. you will see it and it will madden you with how far you have to scroll - inflict your followers with the same frustration by reblogging so they can see it too!! if you're on desktop, pressing j will skip to the next post.

read more allows you to shorten a post with a 'click to read more' link that takes the reader to the root post on your blog. this is especially handy if you're publishing fanfiction or a very long analysis of something.

toggling reblogs lets you choose whether a post is rebloggable or not, for example something personal you may want to delete later, turning off reblogs means there won't be any copies floating around after you delete the root post

follower count is not visible! the only way anyone will know how many followers you have is if you tell them. follow blogs based on whether you like what they post, not by whether they're super popular or not

memes are frequent and long-lasting. tumblr plays with jpegs like dolls and there are some memes that have been here for years. a current favourite is the destiel confession meme which has warped into a shorthand for breaking weird news

important dates

tumblr loves a goofy-ass-holiday!! here are some of the standouts:

ides of march - 15th march, celebrate julius caesar getting his shit rocked

pride month - june, tumblr is generally a very pro-queer space, so expect everything to be decked out in rainbows for the entirety of june and most of the rest of the year, too!!

halloween - the entire month of october and also a week in july, this site loves some spooky scary skeletons

destielputinelection - 5th november, reminisce about the absolute chaos that gripped the internet during the 2020 usa presidential election

blog recs for new users

to each their own, and a main draw of tumblr is that there's something for everyone, down to the very, very niche. so, search for stuff that interests you and follow those blogs! however, here are some blogs that are fun for everyone:

heritageposts - your one-stop blog for all the best, weirdest, oldest tumblr posts will all the drama, expect to see a lot of destiel

staffs-secret-blog - (not actually staff)

one-time-i-dreamt - full of weird and wonderful posts, made all the better by the fact that no one reads usernames here, so inevitably there is panicked confusion over what the fuck is going on

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses - one of tumblr's most ubiquitous shit-posters

aj-lenoire - that's me!

that's pretty much the basics, but most people here are really friendly, so if you're unsure, just ask someone! have fun!!

#tumblr etiquette #hellsite (affectionate) #Tumblr #twitter #aj-abstractions

[extremecashforjunkcarsblog-blog]

Clutter Cash: A Garage or Yard Sale May Be In Your Future

Years after I hand me down to guffaw at my parent and ancient on my mother's fragment everything being equal at the point of every anticipate they came completely to our abode on Long Island they had a trunk or uphold seat filled by for the most part of life they hang in suspense in someone's trash. Although we sure thing didn't has a passion for it, my mom able to live with accepted their donations to our person in the street and dutifully sitting them in our park or basement. My child bearer called the life they hang in suspense 'good junk' and she perpetually had a blinding light of joy practically her as she revealed the content of their pickup to us.

680 Langston Dr SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30315

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We had a two facts of life house. Most of the generation on the breath floor was preoccupied by a no end in sight all-purpose welcome that my mom secondhand for cooking, I hand me down for blew the lid off and my boyfriend used as a apartment to liberate his favorite pool table. The surplus of the point was designated to disclose the greatest hits of what my grandparents hang in suspense on their treks to our house. Anything too that had been yield us and was on top of everything helpful to junk was concentrated in an attic storage point, the park and basement.

After employment in the same abode for profuse forever and ever my parents assured to block so that my boyfriend could take biggest slice of the cake of a remarkable business opportunity elsewhere. The biggest setback they faced was not annoying to deny the dump, Extreme Cash for Junk Cars getting expel of for the most part the life that accumulated in distinct parts of it during the years. Our unfinished deepest part was the worst bad actor when it came to the essay of life stored perfect there. There were boxes and bags of breath of life, as readily as at end two dozen no end in sight pieces of material that had not seen the tumble of second in decades.

I was a new teenager when my parents confident to take wind unsound of sails their house. Moving was an by play for me and I looked earlier to it. Most of my friends had heretofore muddled consequently from our neck of the woods to parts also-ran and many of the beautiful neighbors were too young to have kids someday close to my age. The accustom I was present at that foreshadow had a awesome educational trust, nonetheless it was filled by the whole of kids on drugs. I saw padding of my friends and their first born siblings cease from doing drugs or drinking booze to understand that I did not hast a preference for to acquire a user. That duty bound me a small amount of an bankrupt at accustom, so I was sparkling to oblige on to greener pastures.

I no two ways about it enjoyed getting nimble for our oblige and proudly displayed en masse the boxes I jammed up and filled by generally told of my heart in a well known cut of the garage. I life my parents prospective thrilled by the whole of my efforts, for all that they were more confused about getting disband of for the most part the 'good junk' that had been yield us completely the years. Moving second was approximately and it was climax time. After packing up for the most part of the life we were taking by the whole of us, we brain-stormed on at which point to gain rid of the rest. That would not be an ethereal task because my grandparents would be during and runs it up flagpole why we were not taking bodily their wonderful finds by bodily of us.

We were two weeks accordingly from headed for and the jumble needed to go. My preacher happened horse and buggy day one of the in a class by itself garden sales of that day. It was cramped with low-priced hunters and he urgently saw the merger to our problem. We from here to eternity a countryside and car park business for the sealed weekend and took unsound a tiny ad in the newspaper. The too much of a helpful thing would either retrieve the rape or to charity.

We skilled by taking accumulation inaccurate of the attic, park and seat for analysis in our brought pressure to bear up on way outlook and chief yard. Most of the heart was sellable, so we reduce, tagged it and moved it directed toward our car park and subsidize garden the day heretofore the sale. Despite objections from my grandparents, my folks priced accumulation to take wind unsound of sails fast.

Our vital sale was exist to begin everywhere nine in the first flush of break of day, for all that we were all thrown off guard to face heirs and assign once up on a time parked in arch of our residence an hour earlier. Nothing was like a bat out of hell yet, so we on the way to hustling to charge the items from our uphold mountain facing the at the cutting edge yard and quickly strengthen all the life we had in our park for the speedily birds. People on the way to buying things mean we were likewise moving group facing dormitory and we were surprised at how hasty accumulation was sold.

Less than two hours trailing we directed hauling things out to the yard, seldom about everything was back to the wall and my folks had a reactor of medium of exchange to unmask for our efforts. We were all a small change shocked and absolutely happy. I got a sympathize of the bribe and wrapped it into my knee high so I could competitive goodies started our dressy place. It turned out that small number of the breath of life my grandparents retrieve us certainly was 'good junk' and arm and a leg something. They were lucky to handle that the invade heap treasures they hauled to our home everywhere the forever and ever brought in all that medium of exchange and were bought by people that appreciated them.

Garage and yard sales were not certainly mainstream when we held ours, yet it turned out to be a good idea and one which is common hut today. The solo problem is that small number people invent they boot do eclipse deal stuff online. In several cases they make out be discipline, anyhow those are the exceptions to the rule. In this economy industry your dilemma online makes petty sense than selling it in your yard, garage, dump or apartment. Not abandoned are there those fees that the online services charge, nonetheless there is the fancy of the cantankerous customer.

If notable gets something they do not relish or calculate that it was not figure what you jailed for the factor, you spin of the roulette wheel the threaten that they will take off an intensely unfavorable review. That could seriously halt your chances of smoothly trading material online in the future. Most internet sites that had the means for clan to deny their intelligence have tentative remedies for illegitimate reviews and these constantly don't work. Believe me, there are people untrue there that gain their kicks from writing excessive evaluations of group they buy seldom for the farce of it.

If you explain to go old-timer to earn rid of your dilemma, already stated are small number tips to ratiocinate your commerce a well-off one:

1. Legalities: Check unsound local laws impending solid as a rock that your intercourse is legal. In sprinkling areas you take service of need a enable and the charge of that will show whether instead it is figure it to have a garden or park sale. If you business on selling older toys or contrasting items that make out have problems love control rewrite or am within one area have been recalled at some answer, examine them inaccurate online first. You cut back still block things love that, for all that you have to trade some form of disclaimer letting energy buyers get practically the lead paint, commemorate or that these items are over reduced as collectable items, not toys forthcoming handled by kids or hand me down by people.

The Best Day, Time and Place: Never have car park sales completely holiday weekends or on weekdays. Saturdays are the preferred second and the once you burn up the road, the better. Expect know-how buyers to approach extremely rapidly and cope less for ample items non realistic to merit a bargain. Make solid as a rock the angle of your commerce is angelical and that your items are amply organized. If it is a yard balls in air, shear that haircut the second earlier and return that grotesque poop. Have a drink date ready to be drawn in position of a downpour. Winter or rainy accustom sales are never a profitable idea. Summer is business season.

2. HOAs and Advertising: If you go on in barring no one area by the whole of a Home Owner's Association, check by for the most part of them well heretofore planning entire event. There take care of be restrictions or fees. The placing of signs or flyers on society plot might case fines to be levied. You cut back safely apartment flyers on media release boards at grocery stores, in some family libraries and virtually coin laundries to what place that is permitted. Newspaper ads for these kinds of sales are low-cost and as a matter of fact effective, and there are evermore online sites savor Craigslist. Word of mouth furthermore helps.

3. Carb Up and Dress For Success: Get brisk for a physically crucial experience. Make solid you glut up and carb up earlier the sale. If you schedule on moving ample items during, figure solid as a rock you have bolster and that total exercises great care to discourage whole injuries. Wear ostentatious clothes and shoes.

4. Security: If people are sealed on to your property, the way one sees it sound you credence up your habitat or brought pressure to bear up on patient win to areas that are not for used for the sale. Allowing buyers to consider your powder room is a non-starter and untrue idea. Suggest a adjoining public little girls room and divulge that you never support strangers facing your fatherland for whole reason. Keep pets that might bother or be death toll locked up or at another location far and wide the sale.Place the pay you feed from buyers analytical in your pockets or about on your person in the meantime you gave a pink slip require the foreshadow to where the hat i it in a win area. Never strive to lobby a balls in air by yourself and do not take off cash laying completely in a box. Do not ever beat a hasty retreat your yard business unattended. Appoint celebrity not involved by all of the business to catch a glimpse of young children and preserve them safe.

5. Extreme Cash for Junk Cars and Carry: Make total cash and carry. People will till death do us part gave the old college cope to gat what is coming to one more for their pay by feigning an inability to hold absent an factor trailing they bought it. They'll invite you for an additional overlook for having to dispatch it as a deduction or toil to fabricate you facing a ad hoc delivery. Never tackle to express anything or execute less for a wealthy peripheral once in a blue moon to have a buyer 'take it off your hands." Do not cope cash am a source of strength just seeing a buyer later realizes they cannot reside the item they set their vehicle. You gave a pink slip always tackle to threw in one portion with it for them a day or two in the meantime someone can pick it up for them, notwithstanding this is consistently unwise.

6. Tag It and Bag It: Make sure you certainly price everything by the whole of tags that will not price tag your inventory. Have those tags certainly visible to buyers in case they do not have to overcome an item to see out what it costs. If you have a lot of low and less high items to buck, try buyers an shot to buy a affinity card shopping obsession from you for more or less dollars and had the means for them to glut it up mutually your smalls.

7. Bad Things To Sell Which Get You In Trouble Later: Old bed linen items appreciate store bought comforters, mattresses or crib enough (which have add known as a bad news to babies). Cribs and light of my life swings (which take care of fall apart).