The Shipping News
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hot take:
Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.
Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.
Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards
& Bombur is the sexiest dwarf by hobbit standards
…Okay, yeah, I see it.
Just remember, folks, if humans don’t find you sexy, there may be an elf or a hobbit out there who thinks you are a real Snack.
Or, uh, an orc, I guess.
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A better, more positive Tumblr
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio
CEOR.I.P. tumblr. You were okay while you lasted. You are definitely not getting this right….
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Winston Churchill, age 7, in 1881. Some historians speculate that Churchill’s unhappy childhood – his parents clearly preferred his brother, he was sent away to a boarding school where he was bullied, and he was not able to interact with other children – may have fueled his relentless ambition later in life.
Welp, I guess I have two out of three of the ingredients that make for greatness then.
(via worldhistoryfacts)
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autism is widely underdiagnosed in girls because autistic women tend to present as quiet and reserved, which is just how women are supposed to be.
personality disorders are underdiagnosed in men because they tend to present more explosively and involve more narcissistic behaviours, which is just how men are supposed to be.
sexism isn’t good for anyone. don’t be fooled.
when ppl ask why gender roles are dangerous!!!!! peep this!!!!!!
(via myimaginationplain)
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Transgender ftm assigned female at birth is latest workplace shooter?
Snochia Moseley, who killed several people at Rite-Aid workplace before killing herself, was African-American, female, and transgender. I wonder how toxic masculinity theorists are going to spin this one?
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Rant about Reylo and Trauma
To be honest I don’t like Reylo as a ship at all, I’m simply not a fan and won’t be anytime soon. BUT I would rather have a dash full of unwanted Reylo ship art than have to see another anti post their constant complaining about it.
I am always seeing the same thing from you anti’s, it’s always that:
• You don’t like the ship and it’s 90% of your online life to hate the ship
• The ship is the most evil thing on the site all other “bad” ships should be compared to
• shipping reylo will make abuse happen in real life and/or only abusers ship reylo
• You mention how much you hate the ship even on posts with nothing to do with that ship.
• The ship reminds you of your personal past baggage and therefore everyone on this site is responsible for handling your trauma based on your own set of narrow rules, and anyone who breaks those rules is an abuse apologist.
Look anti’s i’m going to be real here, everyone has their own past baggage, everyone has varying levels of trauma, every shipper has ships they like and don’t like, and a lot of people have ships that they don’t like because it reminds them of past abuse. I’m a trauma victim myself and I have a ship I don’t like because it triggers me, it’s Harley/Joker. Because The Joker is a lot like my past abuser, not going deep into it, but my abuser was in a lot of ways the closest to a real world equivalent I will ever know, he treated women like how Joker treats Harley brainwashing and all. I will always see him in the fictional character even if the character is not real, and because of that I cannot get into the ship, it’s my bit of personal baggage I gotta carry.
But I know if I spent 90% of my time rumminenting on my baggage, creating anti Harley/Joker blog it would not solve anything. I’m not going to fix my trauma by being like “well I know x ship I like is bad but it’s not Harley/Joker” or “ x shippers are bad but they are not abuse apologists and perpetrators like harley/joker fans are.” “All Harley/Joker fans romanticise abuse” “Harley/Joker is the worst ship in the entire world” ect ect. Because that’s just projecting, it’s projecting my own trauma onto a stranger online to take the weight of my abuse off my shoulders. But it just does not work that way, I cannot GIVE the responsibility of my past to someone else who had nothing to do with it just because a character in a ship reminds me of my ex abuser, that would not be fair to do to anyone.
Wanna know who does like that ship? My sister. My sister who I am roomates with and I love very much. She LOVES that ship, she loves the mad love masochism tango “crazy” fun that is in the marketing appeal of the ship, she buys the merch, she watches the shows and plays the arkham games, she enjoys the dark fantasy the ship has to offer…and you know what? I know full well that my sister is not an abuse apologist, my sister is not an abuser, she is a normal functioning person who has her own emotional baggage and likes to enjoy a “problematic” piece of media. Most of all I don’t spend 90% of my time telling her how “bad” she is for liking the ship, I just tell her “I’m glad you like it, but it’s just not my thing” and we move on like adults.
Reylo and Harley/Joker have similar hatedoms, similar antis, and similar points of views on shipping and morality. But really guys, it’s okay to set the pain down for a bit, make use of that block button and move on.
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i can’t handle f*nnr*y anymore even though they were my main otp right after tfa, i start thinking about people using the ship’s ‘purity’ as a bludgeon to hurt other shippers whenever i see art or gifsets. it became so associated with toxic fandom behavior for me that it went from my otp to notp and it has nothing to do with the ship itself. i didn’t even ship reylo right away after tlj, i just started following reylo blogs bc they were the only fans who were decent about finnrose, my new otp.
Anonymous
f/rey could have been a glorious multishipper haven but its own fans turned it into a toxic wasteland. I swear I do my best not to let anti nastiness bleed on my perception of the ship itself, but I’m THIS close to have a pavlovian response anytime I see f/rey content, when a good 80% of it is either aggressively gatekept or made with the badly concealed intent of proving it the “better” ship. Not to mention the rabid reylo hate even the most innocuous f/rey gifsets tend to foster in tags and comments. And almost nobody in their ranks calls this shit out! How the hell is this helping F/nn? How am I supposed to support a ship if I’m forbidden to interact? What about the F/nn fans who appreciate his canon storyline and canon romantic arc like you? I honestly don’t have the time or energy to check if OP hates me every time I see cute f/rey art. So I’m basically at a point where I have f/rey blacklisted and I reblog f/rey content only from a few trusted sources (like this one), who I know are wank-free and multishipper friendly (and who deserve nothing but respect and support for going against the tide).
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finally had to unfollow the finnrey tag. every post that tumblr recced me from the tag was either tagged anti reylo (so I couldnt see it as I have the tag blacklisted) or something or like “Finnrey is better than thAT WH I T E H E T S H I P OF ABUS E” and like if I want to see that on my dash I’ll just follow some antis. -.-
(via galactic-kosher-ace)
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