Hi! I’m a queer freelance writer just chugging along slowly, trying to get by. I’m struggling to cover my bills and also eat, so if you have a few bucks to spare, consider buying me a cuppa over here on my ko-fi
for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?
for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?
if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason
They are doing surveys that are really hard to find because their survey blog has reblogs disabled for some reason.
ANYONE IN THE WEST MICHIGAN AREA IN NEED OF A SWEET LITTLE BOY?
i have to rehome my cat of 10 years, Panda, and really want him to go to a home where i will be able to keep in contact. ive run out of people to ask, though, so ill be calling a shelter on monday.
if you or anyone you know within a few hours of west michigan would be interested in taking in a special needs cat, please message me asap. he is a sweet boy that wants to lay on your lap and purr more than anything else.
please rb!
UPDATE: I AM HAVING TROUBLE FINDING A NO-KILL SHELTER IN MY AREA THAT TAKES OWNER SURRENDERS. PLEASE KEEP REBLOGGING! 🙏♥️
one of my favorite scenes in all of word of honor is episode 14 at exactly the 2min mark where ye baiyi shows up and is like “you’re my idiot students idiot stupid idiocity is generational anyway strip my Immortal Daddy sense tells me you ill as fuck” and zhou zishu is like “you want me to STRIP in the middle of the HOTEL LOBBY???” and YBY is like, “god millennials these days” and then they fight and YBY rips a piece of ZZS’s undershirt off and the camera pans to it gently fluttering in the wind like it’s the last love letter of a jane austen char got from their beloved with news they died in the war as they gaze over the cliffside over the stormy ocean and then BAM Wen KeXing shows up like a jerry springer guest from the side door and is like “UNHAND MY BELOVED THE REASON MY HEART BEATS EACH MORNING WHEN THE SUN RISES” and catches ZZS by his tiny waist to dramatic spin for extra fruit flavor and YBY is like “who the fuck invited this twink?” and then they fight and it explodes a river and shit and ZZS is like “omg you’re gonna wake up the whole neighborhood!!” and YBY is like “I’m literally to Daddy to be dealing with this shit just strip so I can diagnose your martial arts cancer” and WKX is like “MY BABY HAS CANCER???” and tries to strip ZZS himself and ZZS is like “what in the fucking 90s shojo manga by Yu Watase Fushigi Yugi shit is this we’re in a CLAMP manga stop pulling at my clothes!!!!” and then just to be extra dramatic and Gay ™ ZZS rips open his own shirt to reveal *gasp* three nipples nails of martial arts cancer and YBY is just like “damn bae you fucked” and WKX has a complete Gay Breakdown
nie mingjue shows up at the hospital for the 1565153th time that
month… the people working there all know him, lan xichen instantly
gets notified because their crushes are so obvious and they all just
want it to happen. a big part of why they’re all working so hard to make
it happen is because at this point they think nie mingjue is getting
hurt on purpose to see lan xichen, but no, he’s actually this much of a disaster…
#nhs: are you saying you DIDN’T dislocate an already bruised shoulder #just to be able to talk to the cute doctor again #nmj: NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD GO THROUGH THAT MUCH PAIN ON PURPOSE #nhs: well excuse me for basing this observation on a lifetime of evidence #this is delightful op #nielan (tags by @perkynurples)
Go buy takeout without a bra on. Go pick up your prescription without having shaved your PCOS facial hair. Go get groceries while wearing a raggedy shirt because all of the other shirts are in the washer. Go to a friend’s house without makeup on. Go buy gas while wearing fuzzy slippers. Go sit outside with your hair a mess. Go throw out the garbage while wearing clothes that don’t match.
You are allowed to exist, and all of this stuff is especially okay while working on recovery when you can’t even function. You’re allowed to do this while fat too, and I say this as a fat person myself. If someone judges you? You’re not harming anyone. You’re paying for whatever you’re buying. You don’t owe anybody a specific appearance while doing stuff like errands. You will never see those people again. They can kiss my fat ass.
If you’re in a state where you can barely take care of yourself, you are allowed to do errands and leave your house without looking “proper.” You’re already struggling. Fuck anyone who would judge your pajamas while you throw away your trash. They don’t fucking know you and how hard it is for you to even get out of bed.
You deserve to take care of yourself however you need to.
