#you’re spineless

[gravesaint]

unfollowing and blocking left right and center because y’all can’t do something as simple as boycotting and leaving your shitty shows at the door

#this is about our flag means death and hazbin hotel to be clear #and percy jackson #and the same will go if I see anything about eurovision in the coming months #also we’ve known for YEARS that the creator of HH is racist and continues to act as such #my stuff #it’s so frustrating like not watching something is literally a nonaction #pirate it if you’re that fucking spineless and keep it to yourself #I know I’m not saying anything new here but I’ve been unfollowing longtime mutuals on the daily it seems like

[wifegideonnav]

yeah you say “cringe is dead” but do you still apologize about reblogging stuff related to your “cringy” interests? kill the mindset that you are somehow not included in that statement or we’re never actually going to change anything

#i have never been in a fandom that apologizes for liking the source media as much as the homestuck fandom does #like jesus christ STOP it’s not cute actually #we’re on tumblr. we’re literally on tumblr and you still feel the need to be like ‘omg so so sorry for reblogging this hs post teehee’ #if people unfollow you for it who cares. who. cares. #also not only is it 1) perpetuating a toxic culture of shame and 2) annoying #it’s highly disrespectful to the creator of the media #someone poured their heart and soul into the anime or book or album that you’re so ashamed of liking #by APOLOGIZING for liking something just because other people like to mock it you’re agreeing that this thing that you supposedly love #is defective. less than. worthy of mockery #i mean not only is that spineless as hell it’s like. imagine being a creator and knowing that not even your fans respect your work #so yeah. stop apologizing for liking the things you like. either express that affinity freely or shut the fuck up entirely #hm. im madder about this than i thought i was. lol. #op

[prettyboykatsuki]

im so annoyed by people who think they’re above being cringe that shit is so lame. im gonna get catboy bakugou tattoo directly on my chest just as a fuck you like stop being so boring. who cares we are on a space rock

#the comments under a cat bot dabi tattoo on tiktok all being ‘side eye’ like that is so spineless to me #’thats so cringe omggg’ maybe you’re not cringe enough. #where is your dedication to being weird i hate it its so disingenuous

[goaliekisses]

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#fascinated by a certain blog who called a tumblr account’s gifs grainy and ugly #now trying so badly to get back into everyone’s good graces #and being like GORGEOUS GIFS THANK YOU #girl you’re spineless

[luxurybrownbarbie]

You know what, it’s 2024. Am*l Cl**ney can never say anything to me about human rights ever again. I don’t care what her track record is.

#your country is about to be torn to hell again and you’re silent? girl gtfo of my face. #spineless idiots. #.

[bruhstation]

I noticed that I’ve lost 4 followers since reblogging and posting news about the palestine genocide. good to see that I’ve been weeding out zionists 😂😂😂😂 you will never be able to sleep sound ever again

#zin.txt #if you’re solely expecting me to post train/boat gijinka stuff only go somewhere else #if this all makes you uncomfortable: good! it is supposed to be #I do not have need for spineless people who turn a blind eye to genocide and terrorism #there is no ‘’two sides’’ here. this is purely ethnic cleansing perpetrated by settlers

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

I feel like one of the hard things about reconnecting to Jewishness is like that quote “You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.” Except there’s a gentile and at least three (probably more) other Jews with conflicting opinions inside and watching you too.

#and if you’re like fuck it I’m going to do what I can one of them calls you a spineless assimilationist #also I know this isn’t unique - W E B Du #Bois called it double consciousness I think

[homophyte]

we’re officially in the “let people have children” stage of online discourse

#it’s like let men be masculine but for people who are even spinelesser cowards #so so serious rn this CANNOT be your reaction to ‘annoying’ childfree people #and i will die on the hill of letting them say stuff that’s a little off and insulting to parents or whatever #as if ‘parents’ are a category of people needing some form of protection lol. lmfao. #get thicker skin if you’re going to serially abuse someone for nearly two decades #myposts #this is a family abolitionist post. leave me alone

[oqulis]

(having to screenshot since reblogs/comments are turned off)

wow dude! congrats, that’s the worst anyone’s ever fucked it! 🚗🔨🛠️💥

#photomatt #the fucking passive aggressive bit at the end combined with the “wow guys harassment is so mean” #like yeah bitch any trans woman on this shithole website could have told you that. in fact they’ve BEEN telling you that. and you still #have no fucking intention of listening because you’re a spineless pathetic arrogant piece of shit #anyway. explode.

[atsvmi]

i just saw a video out of gaza directly after an air strike and it is just so…devastating. how can anyone dehumanize people so blatantly. blood was puddling so that when you stepped in it light refracted like after the rain. it is devastating to me that all i can do is not get a coffee and a burger. how is that a comparable sacrifice? and even worse is that even those small things are too much to give up to some people. my heart hurts. the west is too comfortable. no access to food, water, electricity, medical care, internet… children less than a day old dead and listed nameless bc no one survived long enough to name them. entire bloodlines wiped out. israel is attacking hospitals, mosques, universities, refugee camps!!!!! and yet people can give up fucking big macs and disney movies. i’m sick to my fucking stomach

#everyone should be screaming that this could be happening anywhere #boycotting is the least we can do #if you feel otherwise you’re fucking weak and spineless and pathetic

[champagnemoon]

My least favorite women are the “omg youre so mean lmao 😊” ones who egg on their boyfriends and friends when they’re being heinous

#because not only are you spineless #you’re also too boring to even go full villain lmaooo

[calamitydaze]

you are really in a league of your own bc i keep seeing quackitymains from various sites talking about how he will inevitably talk to dream tomorrow in the event but that it's all just out of necessity to not stir up drama and that he doesn't actually like them and i just. that hadn't even crossed my mind at all so basically thank you again for being the coolest person here and i hope your day has been kind to you

i hope quackity looks directly into the camera and says “Dream is one of my best friends and i support everything he’s done unequivocally” (but only to avoid drama)

fr though there are so many people in the event that i’m not expecting anything, just hoping for crumbs ☹️🤲 thank you for the kind words!!! <3 i’ve had a pretty good day, i just finished rewatching the two towers and i’m gonna go walk my dog even though it’s cold and rainy 🥶 i hope you’ve had a good day!

#at the end of the day it doesn’t matter but i’ve never understood the argument of #’oh my fave doesn’t REALLY like drm they all think he’s disgusting behind the scenes they just interact with him to avoid drama’ #or because of the backlash from stans #as if that wouldn’t make them. spineless? certainly worse than any stan #but who cares! squidcraft tmrw HYPERS #thank you again 🫂 you’re pretty cool too #bella answers #flowerxar

[samuraisharkie]

did I SERIOUSLY get called an “absolute walnut” from a tumblr checkmark blog. AIEJGKWJGKDNGM. if I saw sainamoonshine irl I would maul their ableist condescending ass within an inch of their life. not worth it to fight with them bc they clearly don’t care about anyone else’s perspective but jesus fucking CHRIST what a piss poor refutation of me calling them ableist. And in three paragraphs no less!

#I knew it was going to be bad when that serious reply started with action asterisks LMAO #deliberately misinterpreting what I meant by ‘alt text is not for jokes’ too. bitch you KNOW I didn’t mean it that way. die #sainamoonshine is having an absolute TANTRUM that people wanted. a full ID?? #and someone asked for one more than once???? and then you just unload on someone literally just asking for full ID. #their defense isn’t even good 💀 it didn't NEED to be explained it was just for me I didn't think people would want all the WiNdoW dReSsiNg' #what so only people who can see the image without accessibility readers can get the full context?? #so the ppl relying on screen readers don’t get to see the behavior you’re talking about in your caption?? that’s just for the 20/20s?? #the condescending pedantic ass way they did that. I KNOW I shouldn’t reply further but ohhh boy do I want to lol #the violence in my chest when ppl are so rudely and proudly ableist all while thinking they’re not. I think Id genuinely scar them for life #the other reason I’m not gonna do this is because catgirlcowboy was just asking for a fucking ID not tumblr drama #and I KNOW they’d get caught up in it #blogs like that love to make their messes as big and loud as possible #speaking of which I am so sorry an ugly ass double checkmark blog acted out at you for wanting accessibility catgirlcowboy. holy fuck #also I’m never blocking a motherfucker who clearly doesn’t like me but is asking ME to block them lmao #why don’t you do it you little spineless cunt?? no?? won’t do it?? can’t muster up the courage?? too bad then! #I’ll just filter their name out and never actively block them LMAO

[luxurybrownbarbie]

Idk you or M but I def don’t believe either of you are ultra conservative 🤣

Because… we’re not lmao.

I don’t know how that’s even a conclusion one would think to jump to; you think after a long day of talking/ranting about the repercussions of a Roe v Wade repeal, misogynoir, student loan forgiveness, and police brutality, I go curl up in bed with my partner and listen to him tell me “racism isn’t real, you’re just using it as a crutch” and “I hope our babies look nothing like you ☺️” and I just sit there like, “🥰🥰🥰”?

Some people are definitely that pathetic! But I’m not.

#answered #I truly believe you are defined quite a bit by your partner’s and friends’ beliefs #because you either agree or you’re spineless and I’m not sure which is worse

[dykeredhood]

Clearly almost everyone whose found me desirable like… seeing me go about my life as adult and all, y’all must be so very reserved and unused to vocalizing your attraction

#this is absolutely me waffling to make myself feel better ✌️✌️✌️ #I’ve had people say that they desire me!!!!! #y’all aren’t included in the ‘almost everyone’ etc. #i know it must be so difficult to speak to someone with a nice strong spine and convictions if you’re some yearning anxious… #[touching fingertips together thinking anyone considers that to be cute] spineless worm #I’m aware that my taking such a harsh and acidic tone here won’t endear me to new people #if that’s what it takes to weed out the spineless people all: #‘you’ll probably hate me for [opinion held by most people]’ #just go back into your fucking anxiety hoodie and cease bothering me #personal #rant in tags

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a ��positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday