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tainbocuailnge:

staff is too incompetent to properly moderate their site but also too incompetent to properly kill it off so I think in the end very little will change, but just in case it all goes to shit after all you will be able to find me carving my posts into the walls of a nearby cavern

graynard:

thinking about when my brother got chatbanned from overwatch and the email they sent him after he tried to appeal it said “we dont normally bring up the incriminating messages, but in this case we feel its necessary to show you what got you banned” and it was all shit like “ i will kidnap you in the desert and make you forget how to eat”

hearthstoneblitz:

if my tumblr gets deleted you can also follow me on my other forms of social media:

– digging a grave and whispering my name to the worms

– finding a bear in the forest and challenging it to a game of chess

– launching yourself into the stratosphere and vividly hallucinating my content

– the helpless feeling in your chest when you think of death

the-tricksters-neophyte:

annabellsr:

tuiliel:

twilight-blossom:

autistic-zuko:

bisexualmorgana:

So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

holy fuck

I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:

  • Akkadian
  • Arabic
  • Aramaic
  • Church Slavonic
  • Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)
  • Elamite
  • Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
  • Etruscan
  • Gaulish
  • Georgian
  • Gothic
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hittite
  • Latin
  • Mayan (various related languages/dialects)
  • Old Chinese
  • Old English
  • Old French
  • Old Frisian
  • Old High German
  • Old Irish
  • Old Norse
  • Old Persian
  • Old Turkic
  • Sanskrit
  • Sumerian
  • Syriac
  • Ugaritic

For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.

Likely helpful for various recon-oriented polytheists.

@poesjumpsuit

Old Norse is on there????

thebibliosphere:

vaspider:

vaspider:

goddamnshinyrock:

goddamnshinyrock:

oh god what is going on now

guys calm down, you can still draw fictional people naked

#just not fucking.#I can live with that.#honestly this is slightly irritating but not ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’

Yyyyyeah except they’ve already:

  1. purged the ‘chronic pain’ tag
  2. purged the ‘top surgery’ tag
  3. made ‘trans’ tag inaccessible to non-functional
  4. deleted a bunch of chronic illness blogs
  5. deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)

This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects. 

The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.

ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers. 

Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)

This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.

I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.

Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.

(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)

Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.

And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.

So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.