#statement for followers

[jakeperalta]

letting celebrities think they can and should "use their platform" to speak on all current events and political issues regardless of how educated they are on them was a grave mistake

#i honestly think that's why half of these celebrities are just sharing around these same few wishy washy unhelpful statements #at this point it's a relief when i open an instagram story and it's just a celebrity posting about their regular stuff #like good thank you feel free to just be quiet #or just share some fundraising links if you feel a need to be helpful #but like ultimately if you have a platform of many thousands/millions #then frankly it is your responsibility to make sure what you are sharing is accurate and useful #and not just posting for the sake of posting #but instead somehow we're at the point where the more followers you have the more you are expected to just post something anything #talking

[shmaroace]

don't get me wrong, i love all the positivity around being aro, like "be proud of being aro!! love who you are!!", but we never talk about how hard it is to reach that spot. so here's to the aros who are still trying to understand themselves, who aren't proud of who they are yet, who are still coming to terms with their new identity.

#i was in serious denial about being aro for a long time like i knew the label and knew it fit but i refused to use it for several months #even after that point it took a while for me to be comfortable with the label or saying it #and this is not a bad thing!! being aro basically requires you to undo all the societal brainwashing you grew up with #and there is so much arophobia that it's hard to find positivity #i got lucky w/ this blog and the people i follow but i know i had a hard time being as proud of myself and my queerness as i am now #this doesn't even really have to be an aro statement like i think it could fit most queer experiences #sorry for the long tags haha #aro #aromantic #arospec #aromanticism #aro pride #aro positivity #aroace #aspec #1k #5k #6k #7k

[elitadream]

Getting ready for a special event~ 😉🕺

#In this case: New Year's Eve! ^o^🎉 #Who else wants to see Luigi and Toadsworth play matchmakers? 😏 #I feel like these two would get along really well honestly 🤭 #Often chatting about Mario and Peach... Subtly trying to move things along at the castle lol #Not to mock our lovebirds but- #they do need all the help they can get xD #I had imagined that Peach would once tell Luigi about her secret wish to attend a fancy party with Mario #And this wouldn't fall on deaf ears ;D 💕 #Cue Mario being dragged into a dressing room and wondering why he's having his measurements taken all of a sudden #Feeling very clueless about it all but confusedly following royal fashion protocol regardless 😂 #He doesn't know it's done with the sole purpose of him matching with the princess for the occasion #Although Toadsworth's statement assuredly gave him a clue; and one can only assume he blushed very noticeably at that! 😆 #Mario #Luigi #Toadsworth #Princess Peach #Mareach (implied) #Mario x Peach #romance #shenanigans #conspiring wingmen #party #Super Mario bros #fanart

[boomdeyadah]

[ID: a digital illustration in the shape of a scratchy oval. Within the oval, Martin is facing away from the viewer, looking down at something he’s holding close to his chest. He is a large chubby man in a cardigan, with short hair and glasses. Surrounding him is a dark, ghostlike figure, which is probably Jon. It has no facial features except very big eyes that are staring directly at Martin’s face. It is only inches away from Martin and has several thin arms that are clutching Martin tightly on his upper arm, around his hands, and around the back of his head. The figure’s torso and head appear solid, but dissolves into the background at its waist and from where its hair extends upwards and outside of the illustration. There are words at the top that say, “Oh, hello… are you still listening?” End ID]

#thanks for all the positive feedback on the last art i posted! #it was really heartening #i drew this during october while i was following a magnus art prompt list for the month #i know it’s a little late for the magnus protocol hype but i still like it and wanted to share #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jmart #statement remains #the magnus protocol #sorry the id is so long it makes me a feel a little pretentious #my art #illustration

[gertritude-art]

Embarassingly, I haven't mentioned it on this blog, so I figured I would officially state that I stand against the ongoing ethnic cleansing/genocide of Palestine by Israel. I genuinely don't know what to say other than that I hope every politician - especially those in my country, the US - who has signed off on the murder of what is now twenty thousand civilians suffers forever.

#i saw someone like a post of mine that was very vocal in the opposite direction and realized with horror that most people dont follow #my other accounts #notart #anyway normally i dont make statements about this stuff on my tumblr art blog specifically #but being as the US is complicit i feel it is irresponsible not to at least make my stance known #should have mentioned it sooner on here but i forgot that this account has like. 10 thousand more than any of my other ones

[toskarin]

in a few years, you're going to hear people say "we didn't know!" about the carnage in palestine, and when you hear that, you have to understand it to mean "the created consensus had not yet shifted" and know that they will leave you, too, if the tide of opinion tells them to. these are not your bedfellows

every piece of material evidence was screaming at them and they chose to ignore it in favour of public messaging

at absolute most generous, they were useful idiots lacking principles to guide them and they would let it happen all over again if given the chance. at worst, they're lying

it's horrifying. it's disgusting. I hope they find hearts so that they can break when they realise the abyssal fucking depths of what they've done.

#reblogs disabled because this isn't really meant as a broad statement #this is just a reminder to followers of my blog about where I stand on all this so there's no mistake

[arohuacheng]

listen hi yeah it's me. i know nobody else is sitting around thinking about the significance of shi wudu trusting pei ming to take care of shi qingxuan after he was gone. but i'm thinking about it.

#screenshots to follow. i need to cry maybe #<— SCREENSHOTS FOLLOWED. GO LOOK IN THE REBLOGS. I NEED PEOPLE TO SEE MY THESIS STATEMENT #YOU CAN REBLOG THIS POST BY ITSELF! THAT'S FINE! #BUT IT WAS NOT ORIGINALLY INTENDED AS A PEISHUI THING. I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO SEE MY OTHER POINT #ABOUT PEI MING BEING AN OLDER BROTHER FIGURE TO SHI QINGXUAN. #JUST GO LOOK AT MY SCREENSHOTS... PLEASE... #kissing u have a good day everybody #talking #pei ming #shi wudu #shi qingxuan #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #tgcf spoilers #i guess? i mean like. if people are fr just watching the show and not reading the book.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

everyone STOP going insane. you should be going to BED

#it is ONE AM or later or slightly earlier in the US. GO SLEEB GUYS #Lu rambles #... #fall out boy #so much for (tour) dust #this is a general statement but it was inspired by the fact that the few fob accounts I follow are currently still going insane #which is valid! I have things saved for the morning to reblog. but still. go to bed y'all get some sleep #we can all be insane together in the morning <3

[threefuckencrowsinatrenchcoat]

Whenever I do a TMA s1 relisten I love love love finding things that ended up changing over the next few seasons as the show became more fully fleshed out. Tim being serious and Sasha being the joker? Iconic. Whatever the fuck entity was leaving bags of doll heads and prayers on some random doorstep? Who even are you. How could you do that. What’s your number.

Anyway I need more of these to keep going thanks

#ikik that entity is supposed to be the flesh but I literally can’t see how idk why #Kieran’s statement being Extinction foreshadowing is my fave theory (even tho it’s def not true) #the Tim thing is only mentioned once in the Antonio Blake/Oliver Banks ep #but John says that he asked Tim to do the follow up because he wasn’t sure if one of the others had done it as a ‘bit of hazing’ #and I love that #bc not only is Sasha a joker in that world #so is Martin #maybe plotholes are the real parallel universe ngl #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jarchivist #martin blackwood #sasha james #tim stoker #the magnus institute #Elias Bouchard

[kingofattolia]

Hondo: One of my best friends was a Jedi!

Bo-Katan: I knew quite a few Jedi. There was a time we actually got along quite well.

The Jedi:

#grace for ts #star wars #WHY U LYYYYINGGNG #bo katan #the mandalorian #in all fairness im interpreting bo katan's statement followed with 'we fought side by side' #as indicating that she thinks fighting side by side IS THE MEASURE of getting along lol #the extent to which it was obi wan in both cases is funny too

[y-rhywbeth2]

Gale: "Still though, I won't leave. There's a good person in there somewhere."

Karlach: "And I stand beside you now. I know you. You're more than this. More than Bhaal. You're my friend, and I won't leave you."

Lae'zel: "I tried to save you from the Lord of Murder - and still you gave in. Damn you. I cannot turn my back. I will not."

Shadowheart: "I tried to wrest you from Bhaal's grip once already. Seems I failed. But I won't give up on you - not just yet. I'm my own worst enemy in that regard."

*points* You people grow standards and stop trying to fix the villain!

Astarion: "I really hoped we could avoid being pawns for a dark god, but here we are, I suppose. I'm with you, my dear. Wherever this leads."

*points at Astarion* You be less ride or die!

Wyll: "I thought I'd saved you from Bhaal's clutches. Seems I failed, damn it all. I will mourn the person you were. But I will not accept the one you've become."

Thank you for having standards and limits to your ability to support people at your own expense, Mr Ravenguard! Now apply that to the rest of your life!

Love all the different flavours of tragedy here, though. "I can fix them" vs "I'll follow you into hell" vs "having to put down the monster you love"

#Astarion following you - out of love - into what he flat out calls slavery in another conversation is fucking me up #Although I do wonder if he thought this through #<-(Rhetorical statement) #babbling #/durge

[everchased]

god i love making art. i love drawing the little guys in my head and then staring at the drawing of those guys i made with my own eyes. it's like. there's my guy. holy shit he's real. idk. but it is such a fffffffucking bummer i have to wake up and go to work instead of making all the art i want forever

#statement ; #the joy of creation vs the melancholy of being unable to follow my own creative whims immediately when they strike #ugh #maybe if i hit 10k followers this year i'll set up a p*treon

[spacecowboycunt]

yall gotta start qualifying your thoughts with some sort of admission of subjectivity, i feel like every post i see is some declaration of subjective opinion stated like its a fact and its making me deranged

#maybe its just my education #but teachers often told us not to say I Feel or I Think #but you know what? its totally okay to say that cos its a quick way to qualify that the following statement is opinion not Universal Truth #personalig #girlies hit 2k on here or youtube and present their OPeds like investigative journalism or peer reviewed research

[dentist-brainsurgeon]

With the Chuggaconroy situation I suggest everyone unfollow/unsubscribe from him bc if the Lady Emily allegations weren't enough evidence against him, people who were previously long time friends with him also no longer wish to be associated with him, for his constant boundary pushing and not following through with past apologies. I hope Chugga seeks help, not just for himself but for everyone else around him, past, present and future.

#Its so disappointing as a long time fan but a sex pest is a sex pest no matter what #I don't want to mention her name for privacy sake but she just posted her statement and why she hasn't been friends #with chugga for years and any semi recent cameos were not posted with consent #its such a fuckin shame man. I really really hope he follows through with his apolothis time but I won't count on it #at least until there's tangible proof he's actually improving himself. but I doubt that considering he's flaked on his apologies before #chuggaaconroy

[glorious-blackout]

"Y'know, I have a little Scottish in me... and if things go my way tonight, I might have a little more in me later."

Josh Homme, being very heterosexual in Glasgow 😂

#he followed this statement up with an indulgent pat on his arse just in case we didn't catch his meaning #this statement also came after a solid five minutes of flirting with his bandmates #he was in a good mood tonight and I love that for him 😉 #Josh Homme #queens of the stone age #qotsa

[rabbiteclair]

I cannot physically express the fuckery I just had to deal with at work

so instead, let's metaphorically say that I am a mechanic instead, and somebody calls me up and complains that their car always says that they're speeding

so I spend hours trying to help them through this, trying to rule out basic stuff. Except their responses to a lot of my questions and instructions are kinda hard to parse, until finally, they start letting very strange things slip

like when I ask their speed, they say it's "six". when I ask what units that's in, they don't know what a 'unit' is

and after much questioning they're like "oh yeah haha my car didn't come with one of those 'speedometer' thingamajigs" like that's a completely normal thing to say, and it comes out that they are gauging the speed by leaning out the window and eyeballing the tires now and then

but also they aren't sure how the math works, so they approximate the tires as squares.

and to simplify the math more they drop a brick on the accelerator and try not to touch the brake too often

#programming stuff #'we handle our cookies manually because our web app framework doesn't have anything for that' is an unsettling statement to start with #but it definitely shouldn't be followed by questions like #'so how many Cookie headers can we have?' #and 'but it's fine that we're sending expired cookies right? that wouldn't cause the bug we're dealing with now?' #and 'ohhh wait so you mean we shouldn't send all that Max-Age stuff back in our Cookie header?' #and 'to make it easier can you just give us a list of what cookies we should submit to this one endpoint?'