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Love Wins!

happy 2sday everyone. it is the 2nd day of the 2nd month of the 22nd year and it is tuesday

Birthdaaaayy todaaay :D Guess who's one whole year older! It's meeee!!

apple completely censoring tumblr to the point where you can't even say words that aren't even sexual like soap or pipe is the beginning of the end for tumblr’s usability and user experience. the process already started with the Dec 17 ban and recently with the overexposure of ads. but pretty soon, apple is gonna make tumblr unusable. it's not like virizon cared about making the site functional when they owned it, and automatic/wordpress (current owners) definitely don't give a shit about tumblr now.

everywhere else on the internet, content is heavily monitored and censored. you'll get banned if you say anything that's against tos. sometimes that's good, as it gets rid of all the nazis. other times it's terrible, when people abuse the reporting ai to ban normal people. the whole banning system is unpredictable, so to be safe, people need to censor themselves on twitter and tiktok and facebook and ig and youtube. they can't say "kill", they have to say "unalive". they can't talk about violence, so they have to sugarcoat real world events. they can't swear, talk about racism or sex or history, or even acknowledge that the world is a fucked up place, because "kids use this app". tumblr was one of the last safe places on the internet where you could threaten to kill the president without having the fbi show up to your house.

but with this new apple shit, tumblr is becoming more like every other site online. any post that contains a word on a constantly expanding list is hidden from ios users. any blogs marked as "explicit" (which is also a huge issue btw) are unaccessible by apple users. not straight up banning people, but still preventing access to the real tumblr for those users. now over a third of tumblr’s userbase is either stuck on a completely sanitized version of tumblr, has to use the web browser version on their phone, or just cut off from tumblr entirely.

the internet used to be a place of togetherness and inclusiveness and content sharing and entertainment and fun. now it's mostly corporate garbage and ads. companies love ads. and to run ads effectively, they need as many people as possible to see them. and to do that, the places they advertise have to be family friendly so everyone can use them. that's what all of these sites are doing. banning creativity and expressiveness so they can force you to watch more ads. I understand that there's server costs. I understand that the employees need to eat. but there are so many bugs that haven't been fixed in years that it seems like @staff is getting paid to do fuck all, and instead wasting their time making stupid design decisions to distract us from them selling out.

what does this current situation say about the future of tumblr and the internet as a whole? I don't really know. if things continue as they are, more people will leave tumblr for newer sites, or twitter once tumblr becomes just as unusable as it (might as well use the more popular shitty site if they're both equally shit). eventually, within 5 or 6 years, tumblr will shut down after server costs are too high, and unless users take the time to archive everything, nearly two decades of internet history will be erased forever. I'd give it until 2035 before the internet (and by extention the vr world / metaverse / matrix) becomes so riddled with ads that it becomes completely unusable. unless, of course, something changes with how advertisements work. whether that be a new law that makes it so ads have to be less distracting or optional, or even just some sites refusing to run advertisements at the cost of user membership fees. one of those seems extremely unlikely, and the other sounds equally shit.

the internet sucks ass. I just want to return to 2010 playing club penguin and browsing early tumblr and early watching minecraft youtube videos and playing flash games on newgrounds.

the world would be a better place if literally every single ceo and billionaire immediately died right now.

Well well well, guess who finally got these refs out! Just in time for pride and everything!

These two are ocs from my ask blog, @askjoshuafreeman and will be appearing shortly as permanent members of the main cast! They're also dating so all the more reason to celebrate, eh?

So yeah! Here they are! Tiff Pepper and Clera Belle! Here's to hoping we get to see a lot more of our Goth Punk and Pastel Princess very soon!!

Visiting a rock shop is a bad idea but look at all these pretties I found!

Labradorite (my favorite), moss agate, banded iron formation, magnetic "hematite," and a really really pretty opalized ammonite.

Planned to post actual art, but you all get a meme instead.

You can probably tell the exact moment I stopped trying with this thing. Still put in more effort than I should've. This is pretty much just an inside joke for my ask blog that I couldn't get out of my head so enjoy.

Red Letter Day (5,867 words) by FieldofRoses2992

Marceline Redacre's various misadventures during her employ at the SCP Foundation, where she attempts to establish a new and improved Ethics Committee.

Chapter 1: The Flippant Red Meeting

Following the news that her mentor, Dr. King, will not be present for a rather important meeting, Marceline Redacre sees to it that she is able to go in his place. Along with establishing herself among her higher levelled peers, the opportunity will also allow for Marcy to bring up a project she has been working on for quite a while.

Ohohooo, what is thiiiis? I got a new story out! A part of a series that I'll be working on as much as I can! It involves my scp oc Dr. Redacre and is just gonna be another goofy fanfiction filled with silly jokes for scp fans :)

Here is the first chapter in a series of a few hopefully soon that I hope you all enjoy as much as you can! Be sure to give feedback on what you may have thought! Have a lovely day!

PSA for Across the Spiderverse:

Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors.

I will not be spoiling the plot or anything happening in it, but it is important that people know, because ohhh my god the AMOUNT of flashing lights and rapidly changing colors from beginning to end was so rampant that even I, a non-epileptic autistic person, got a severe headache and wild overstimulation. They do not give a warning in theaters at all that this movie is NOT epileptic friendly from the literal beginning with the beginning credits - which is so, so sad!

This is a beautifully made film, it's wonderful, it's amazing, but unfortunately, it's not a good time for anyone super affected by bright flashing lights in rapid succession, especially those seizure prone.

I wanted to put this out there BECAUSE there are no theater warnings. Idk if anyone else has put it out there, but it is SUPER IMPORTANT!!!

I wish you all a lovely day and hope they eventually have a remaster that will be much more friendly to epileptic and other people affected by bright, flashing lights.