Tag: tumblring

tempest-caller:

Someone saying, “Personally, I’ve had more problems with x group than y group” is not the same thing as saying, “x group is literally a million times worse than y group,” and unless they try to paint their personal experiences as universal or ignore any potential power differences that make the two things nowhere close to equivalent, it seems foolish to be angry with them or to demand an apology for saying that x is worse than y.

If someone is saying, “I have experienced more bigotry from x type of people than y type of people in my own life,” they aren’t saying y people aren’t bigoted or that y people don’t exist. “I haven’t run into y people in these spaces, but I run into x people a lot” is also not saying y people aren’t bad or don’t exist.

So a black person saying, “I have experienced more racism from white women in fandom spaces than from far right men” or whatever else isn’t saying the far right isn’t racist. They’re saying that the racism of white women in fandom spaces has personally been a bigger part of their life.

And it might surprise you, but literally any white person is capable of being racist. Even women. Even in fandom spaces. And people of color are allowed to speak up about that.

We as white people should not be taking these critiques personally or be demanding to know why someone would imply we are worse than some other group. That’s not what is being said.

And it isn’t misogynistic to call out racism that is committed by women.

Fandom spaces are not perfect. Women are not perfect. White people are not perfect.

Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

❄💙 Bella 💙❄

curlicuecal:

kurloz38:

jumpingjacktrash:

knitchick1979:

atleastfivepigeons:

lady-feral:

bonesbuckleup:

captainevans:

some people’s blogs are being incorrectly flagged as explicit so if you would like to check your status, you can look it up on postlimit.com.

if you have been incorrectly marked as nsfw, you can appeal before tumblr permanently filters you as such and your blog is set back to default settings prior to december 18th here.

Everyone: this is how I found out I was flagged and marked explicit.  Check your stuff out and make sure you’re good to go.

Apparently I’m safe

I just checked myself and a bunch of blogs I follow or who follow me – while I appear to be fine, about half of y’all I checked are incorrectly flagged as explicit. Those of you flagged as explicit aren’t showing up on my dash, so you may want to look into that.

I’m okay, I don’t really pay attention to NSFW stuff, but sharing this for others to be able to check.
(and geez I’ve had this Tumblr since 2012?)

huh. turns out i was flagged. i sent a report. it’s kinda classic how you need a third party site to find out whether your blog’s been marked explicit.

Before you send a report, go into your settings, scroll down the right-hand side and click on your icon. Near the bottom is an option that says “yourblog is explicit” uncheck that little box and THEN go to postlimit.com and it will say you are okay! When I  first checked it had a red  “yes” on the explicit box, after I changed my settings it was all good. If I remember right, a lot of us specified our blogs were ADULT in an attempt to keep the damn kids off our lawns!

Reblog ro save a life!

Oh hey, postlimit will also link you to your full res icon (and header)

That’s helpful if you’re like me and constantly misplace those

bai-xue-lives:

diversehighfantasy:

Seriously tho, don’t use “but the racists are getting a pass!” while complaining that shipping communities are losing a safe and empowering place to share porn.

The most dominant shipping communities uphold racist aesthetic ideals, methodically erase people of color from their narratives and uphold white men as superior to all – and they continue to congratulate themselves for their own enlightenment while doing it.

Instead of glorifying shipping communities as empowering spaces for women, this is an opportunity to talk about what’s really lurking under that so-called subversive feminism.

After all the ugliness they’ve injected into Tumblr fan spaces, we can do better than letting them go down as martyrs. (Again.)

Just say you’re happy the purge happened and be done with it lmao

#Why are antis like this#Antis just love censorship and will pull out any fake woke takes they can find to defend it#Y’all are seriously accusing shippers of trying to fake martyrdom#And implicitly comparing shippers to literal white supremacists#Please for the love of God go outside

Imagine taking a fan objecting to the sanitization of fandom racism and twisting her words into advocating censorship.

sandersstudies:

waywardsignns:

ruptorune:

Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

This is blatantly untrue

Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.

Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)

Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,

DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.

Please reblog this version of the post to stop the spread of misinformation.