One of the reasons I feel so comfortable using Tumblr over other social media is because this site is clearly too incompetent to be evil.
The basic business model of a social network is to harvest commercially valuable personal data and sell it, most famously via targeted ads. Anyone visiting my blog can clearly see that I am a queer furry who’s into video games and art. And yet I am only served ads for funeral homes, Bible story DVDs, and the current president’s reelection campaign (in 2018 for some reason)
Needless to say my click through rate has not been very good
Me: Runs a blog dedicated to dungeons and dragons and anime Tumblr: You know what, you strike me as a sporty type
I’m a social media manager for my day job and Tumblr is literally the only social media platform I can relax on anymore because it’s so incompetent when it comes to exploiting my personal data.
I’m feeling a lot of love for one Mason “Siris” Wu this November afternoon as I’m writing this fic rn
@ my mutuals: I know next to nothing about X thing you really like and post/reblog a lot of but I really love how much you love it so I’m going to be really confused but supportive bc if it makes you happy that’s what’s important
i’d like to point out that when i made this post, all of these comments were at the top, but now if you look at the thread they’ve been replaced by completely different comments
so please, for the love of god, look at the source link this thread is a neverending source of entertainment. people have added so much fucking shit since i made this
I was proctoring an exam for a student today while reading these, and I had to stop because I got to this one and almost fucking died
these are making my day
Okay, this one’s killing me:
These ones got me:
Ooohhh noo I can’t breathe and there are literal tears streaming down my face
Have a very, VERY good laugh people
Me: Character design is hard
Me: *proceeds to only join fandoms in which the majority of the characters have either no canon design at all, or only some details are given, and if I want to draw them I have to figure out designs for them myself*
Fanfiction author appreciation shoutout to every single writer producing fanfiction be it once a year or once every two weeks. A lot of people don’t understand fanfiction is a hyper-concentrated expression of how much you love something, and it takes a lot of bravery to share that with people who might judge you for simply wanting to give that happiness to others.
Always remember ‘you do you’ and to be proud of yourself. Fandom would be nothing without its fanfiction writers.
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