“hi, i’m an author and this is my american character, chair lightbulb. in american, ‘chair’ means to be in a position of leadership, while ‘lightbulb’ means intelligence. yeah it’s kind of an unusual name in american. she’s always been distant from her american heritage, but her parents wanted her name to honor the american language, while still being unique. don’t worry, she’s very embarrassed about her heritage and it will hardly ever come up.”
“she lives with her cousin, george washington backstreet boys oreo® dq blizzard® creme. he also doesn’t know a lot about his american culture. this is symbolic of how i also don’t know a lot about american culture.
i dont agree with a lot of the posturing against people who only watch kid’s cartoons because it feels mean-spirited. like if you want to do that it’s cool and i don’t think you’re committing some moral or intellectual sin–but it is very silly when people who do this forget that they’re watching cartoons for children, not in a ‘you can’t expect children’s media to be good’ way or even a 'the politics of children’s media aren’t worth analyzing way’ but in a 'you have to be realistic about genre expectations’ way. because that’s how you end up with arguments over whether steven universe should have killed people or not
Once twitter dies ima move to tumblr cuz y’all appreciate REAL art. This post has like. 30 times the interactions here than it does in the screenshot frankly that’s a sign of something bigger…
ok this is insane but like.. the new tumblrinas are more acclimated to the culture than some normal users. i mean it. like every single reddit refugee post has an INSANELY CLOSE like to reblog ratio and there all mutualing each other and sending each other asks and dms. like wtf. how are you better at this.
in all seriousness i think its because we welcomed them with such feral delight. like every single tumblr user individually saw the reddit refugees and were like “ok listen. we love you honey and hope you’re feeling good and here are the instructions” and they did SO MUCH MORE THAN WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD!!! AND NOW ALL OF THEM ARE LIKE HAVING SO MUCH FUN AND IM SO HAPPY FOR THEM!!!!
and also not to keep going but i adore how everyone is so so emotional about this. like every single reddit refugee is like “oh my god why are you so nicee i havent felt this happy in years holy fuckkk…” and were all like “its ok!!! im so glad you are having fun you are doing such a good job yknow? youre perfect at this!!” anyways if YOURE a reddit refugee lets be mutuals
We’ve been let loose after staring at r/Tumblr posts for several years, our time is nigh
With love and patience, I need folks to please set aside some time to get better at recognizing antisemitic dogwhistles.
I’m using the following as an example, but intentionally not singling out the person who put this on my dash, cause I’m talking about a broader issue, and I want everybody to self examine.
Okay. this ended up on my dash, a comment in a thread.
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“noticing” is a dogwhistle for an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
let’s look at the profile:
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^ “queen of white.” gonna say that’s a pretty big red flag for white supremacy.
we haven’t even started looking through the blog yet, this is just the post & blog title.
if you go looking on the blog, pretty quickly you find this user is also reblogging from other white supremacists
if you scroll for about ~2 minutes you start seeing her use extremely loaded incendiary and derogatory language about trans women
finally, if you search “white” you see blatant nazi posting.
if you spend a little time familiarizing yourself with antisemitic dogwhistles, you will save time because you won’t need to look through blogs to check, you will see “noticing” in that context and you will already know this is a nazi.
antisemitism is often one of the easiest ways for fascists to get their messaging to spread widely because very few people take the time to learn these dogwhistles, and a lot of people respond to Jewish people patiently pointing them out over and over again with some level of disbelief/resentment/hostility.
it is to everyone’s benefit, for everyone’s collective safety, for you to familiarize yourself with antisemitic dogwhistles.
i feel like we haven’t perfected making left turns. there are very rarely good options when you have to make a left turn. either you have to go in the scary lane or you have to hold up traffic but either way people will hunt you with hounds and crossbows and drones.
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