...I know people in this day and age think any collaborative effort can fix things, often despite reality (ex. the MULTIPLE tumblr blackout protests over the last like 10 years across different owners of tumblr that didn’t change shit),
but I think going out of your way to buy things from tumblr en masse as a “well then they’ll be profitable and won’t have to change things to resemble profitable sites!” as if the CEO/higher ups are personally going to see this and not AT MOST just go “oh we made money, sick, Anyway.” is just. the most naive and frankly 5-year-old level of problem solving unrealistic idea if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. People are just so blinded by naive optimism it’s painful.
Staff isn’t going to see your purchases and go on a full redemption arc and restore porn in spite of payment systems’ massive stigma against it or Apple’s restrictions and never ever try to mimic Twitter or TikTok again, or whatever the fuck you’re expecting, they’ll keep focusing on shit tweaks that resemble other sites because those are what keep investors who think they know tech and user wants hooked and they think new people from other sites will come over for that instead of the fact these people are typically escaping those kinds of features.
Staff isn’t your friend, their vying for support like they’re your buddy who is hitting hard times and has been here holding your hand all these years is deliberate corporate marketing, they’re an arm of a corporation that spits in the face of LGBTQ+ people and especially black people for daring to post about themselves while touting themselves as The Queer Site! A diverse site! Look at this AMA we’re doing with someone about Black History Month! and you’re doing nobody a service when you’re unintentionally rewarding a service for getting worse because they will not know nor care about your motives, they just care that they got money and will continue making it worse regardless of you. They’re a corporation, not a small business ran by 10 people who are trying their best. People throwing money at Staff already encourages them, let alone when you buy into the weird parasocial shit they try with us which will continue as they see success with that method.
Like the mere idea of everyone buying the crabs to gift to make the site profitable is just unrealistic (especially in this economy with such terrible inflation and in NA there are issues with the weather and fires, on a site that mostly consists of groups of people who are typically low income or unable to work???), it feels very much like the gofundme pages people set up to raise money for celebrities who have debts who will be fine regardless and definitely don’t need your help. Corporations and CEOs are not your friends, they never will be. They do not care about you and they’re not some poor uwu victim of circumstance.
TL;DR half-assed blackouts aimed at companies that don’t care (that I have seen over and over) and “cr*b day” type efforts are incredibly dumb and will change nothing, and they will not change anything, just encourage them since they see they’re making money during their current marketing schemes, if they notice at all. You pitying them like they’re a poor innocent person is exactly what the corporation wants.
If you want to make a difference give that money to an artist or lgbtq+ people who basically get flagged as mature for Existing, or people who get their posts flagged for criticizing the site, or something, someone who gets screwed over by this site on the regular. It will do far more good than that whackadoo type pipe dream and sit down and think for a second, please.
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I cANNOT believe this thought has escaped me for so long.
Okay so, you know my phoenix Vlad au I created, where he's the Duke of the Black Flame and by extension, one of or THE Duke of the Ghost Zone? (Honestly haven't decided yet heha)
Yea, ok so.
I don't know how it escaped me for so long, but y'know how Phoenixes are immortal right? By how they get reborn anew from ashes, yes?
(Idea territory btw)
So, I'm just gonna say that Vlad experiences that, because unlike Danny, he didn't stop aging at the ripe age of (really can be anything, but for the sake of this specific idea I'mma go with with) 40. He's envious of this, because he didn't like the brittleness and fragility of the human body when it's reaching its last legs.
Not even his ghost form was safe from the effects of aging, which baffled him, truly, it did. Probably had to do with his status as a halfa, which he disliked but what could he do about it, really.
So when he was finally on his last legs age wise, he practically welcome full death with open arms, ready to fully die and not be impeded by his human body.
No longer would his bones be break so easily! No longer would he need to use a cane as a walking aid in human form! No longer would his back scream at him from the slightest of inconveniences!
He would miss the ability to spawn candy from out of nowhere, however. That was nice.
So when he died, he was fully at peace with it and was ready to embrace full ghostly hood.
Then fate just decided to do a "FUCK YOU" with all caps to him in particular, because when he reopened his eyes, he was not met with the being a full ghost, no.
He was met with short limbs, a high-pitched voice, and the appearance of a 5-year-old.
You have got to be kidding.
He did NOT outlive Jack Fenton (out of spite, really) and Maddie Fenton just to have to relive his child years all over again.
He was a Duke for Observants sake, he couldn't be seen like this. The reputation he worked so hard to build, the respect he clawed into his talons and the awe he stole would go down the drain if this got out!
So he discreetly made his way over to the Master of Time and demanded he age him up to a respectable degree!
.
Perhaps he should reword that.
He politely requested the Master of Time to age him up back to adulthood, it didn't even have to be him in his forties! He would take even a goddamn 20 for Ancients sake!
Clockwork said no.
Breath Vlad. You cannot burn away the literal manifestation of time itself. You cannot burn away the literal manifestation of time itself. You cannot burn away the literal manifestation of time itself.
Then he noticed Clockwork's cheeky grin.
.
The more logical, sensible side of himself told him that no, do not try and fight the literal Master of Time, he would lose, and he still needs something from him.
But the more irrational, noticeably more feral part of his brain demanded that time burn for its insolence.
And, well.
The irrational side won out.
So of course, of course as soon as he acts undignified.
One Danny Fenton has to appear at the exact moment.
This was not a good day for him.
And of course, being the worst brat on the planet and the entire Ghost Zone, he had to make fun of him. Now, normally he would not react as strongly as he did, because of logical thinking and how he was just better than the brat, but was he feeling as logical then?
No, not really.
For the last time, he did not throw a goddamn tantrum, he's above that.
So of course, what two braincells he currently had access to came up with a solution to this current problem he was facing. The solution?
The Observants.
Appearances be damned he was not going to be taking jokes related to his current age any day of the week. So he flew over to them, dragging both the Master of Time and the Ghost King (yes, shocker I know coming from me.)- both of which, much to his charging seemed to be humoring him like one did a child- and demanded they do something to fix this.
And their solution was that he, now as a young child, would have to be taken care of due his current situation.
Vlad bluescreened.
Then calmly rebooted, and when he finally did so. Well, he very not so subtly decided to burn the Observants to the ground.
Unfortunately, Danny- who was practically his total opposite in nature due to his ice- put a quick stop to his attempts to burn those floating eyeballs to the ground. Then they had the absolute gall to act as if what he did wasn't at all reasonable and proceeded to use it in evidence for why he needs a guardian of all things.
He didn't need such a thing, he was perfectly capable of making logical, rational decisions as he was before his... 'rebirth'. Unfortunately, his statement apparently wasn't enough for them, because they very obviously, and very physically showed their doubt for such a thing.
And then, and then they did the absolute worst, most utterly reckless decision they could have possibly made in his decision.
The Ghost King (who was very smoothly made king after the previous one stepped down to live on a farm) was made to be his 'guardian'.
He's doomed.
The man wasn't even able to take proper care of himself on a good day, what do you mean he's going to be the one to (forcibly) take care of him!?
Ok, breath Vlad. He is the smartest (now that Maddie's dead), most logical and persuasive person he knows, surely, surely, he could find a way to get himself out of this predicament like any adult would.
Some small, tiny part of his brain, one not run by logical and getting increasingly bigger, whispered that he could always just. Run away.
The thought was getting more and more tempting the longer this went on with him not getting away, so you know what?
He did just that.
And now he's wandering the streets of some random world where goddamn heroes roamed about, living the life of an orphan and wondering how the hell he managed to fuck himself over so bad.
...He blames fate. It's always fates fault.
Also, what the hell is a meta and what does his wings have anything to do with being one???
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No thoughts, just emotionally distant (yet surprising fragile) men realizing they're in love with you:
Dainsleif lies to himself when he pushes a stray hair away from your sleeping face. The slight tremble in his fingers betrays him - how could you sleep so soundly, so peacefully, with a man (or what remains of a man; he's much more a living curse than a man in his own eyes) as dangerous as him next to you? How could you allow yourself to be so vulnerable and free? He doesn't know and frankly, he can't bring himself to care too much. Not when the steady lull of your breathing and the calming warmth of your body near his has him feeling a semblance of peace so close its nearly tangible. Will he admit he's in love with you? Absolutely not - how could he face the possibility that you don't feel the same?
Kaeya supports you as you babble on about the holidays. Had he known you couldn't handle your liquor, he would have drank a little less and stayed a little more self aware. But here he was: inches away from you, only a few days after he made the startling realization that he, perhaps, may have feelings for you. Feelings that he, as the Calvary Captain, should not have for you. You're as adorable in your drunken state as he is hopelessly enamored with your joy at the snowflakes beginning to fall from the night sky and he can only hope and pray that you do not remember the kiss he foolishly took from you in the alley only a few feet from Angel's Share.
To say Xiao ignores your frantic fretting over him whenever he returns to Wangshu Inn is to say that a mountain ignores the river rushing through it. He acknowledges everything you say in his own way; greeting each new worry with a brief nod and abrupt reassurance. On the outside, he's nearly motionless as you work to patch up another set of injuries he's sustained. On the inside however, his heart thrums faster than it ever has in battle. How is it that someone so gentle and fragile (an opinion you've debated Xiao on frequently and addressed your Vision each time he brings up his karmic debt) could weather an adeptus as far removed from humanity as himself? He does not know, but he will not question it. After all, the mountain will eventually give in to the power of the river's flow.
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I think sometimes people HAVE to work with abusers because the industry is just so filled with them that you can't boycott them all or it's actually you who are being boycotted or jobless. But date? That too when she is already on this level. This was SOOOO avoidable and yet she willing chose him. Willing looked past all of his racism and what not and for what prize? Ratt Mealy?
yup, exactly
many up and coming female (and even some male) actors and artists find themselves with no other choice but to work with horrible men
recent examples i can think of is chloe bailey - a lot of people gave her so much shit for working with chris brown without thinking that she simply may not have had a say in who her record label wants her to collab with
as well as with the women who end up working with sam levinson, i doubt either sydney sweeney, alexa demie, barbie ferreira, hunter schafer or lily-rose depp enjoy having to be canvases that sam can paint his p*rn fantasies upon
but that being said taylor, the biggest pop star in the world, is definitely not being forced to do anything especially not date an absolute and utter shithead
this whole thing reeks of when taylor dated john mayer, a very obvious racist and misogynist but back then she was a child who just seemed to be so hopelessly infatuated with him who just couldn't see what was wrong with him
but now she's a grown thirty three year old woman and she's once again dating an obvious racist and misogynist only this time it's very obvious that she knows about the things he's done and she knows what her fans (and even just the general public) are saying about her - about them and she's just choosing to ignore it
and that isn't it, especially when she's choosing to stay quite about politics and social issues while working with people have done incredibly shitty things, traveling all around the world in her private jet whilst there's a climate crisis going on, and performing in states like florida and texas whose governments are doing everything in their power to the strip rights of women and the lgbt community
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