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MEAN PURPLE CHARACTER POLL!!

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Welcome welcome!! This is a poll for all your favorite purple characters that are just absolute assholes. Whether that means they're just a pain to be around or they burned down an entire city and is on the run from the government, they just need to be mean and purple to be here!

SUBMISSION INFO

I plan on doing either a 32 character bracket or a 64 character bracket. Submissions will likely run until July 10th, however the deadline may be expanded or shortened depending on the amount of submissions I receive. On that note, it may take me a while to sort through them (if there's a lot) as I am only one person. Apologies for any delay!

I've put the rest of the information + the submission document under the cut. ^_^

Keep reading

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Today I introduced my sister to “the problem of Susan” and I had to explain to her that Susan was left out of Narnia cuz she liked boys and lipstick now and without missing a beat she said but what about Peter? Does Peter not like girls? And I knew she was pointing out the inherent misogyny at the center of the “the problem of Susan” but the implications of that question are a source of much hilarity to meeee LMFAO like Does Peter not like girls? Does he like boys? Is he Gay? Is Narnia really just a homo-utopia where Lucy is also a lesbian and Edmund is a bisexual disaster and Susan was kicked out cuz she was too straight??? Can I make CS Lewis turn over in his grave with this new reading?

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…I mean they literally were in the closet…

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THEY WERE LITERALLY IN THE CLOSET!!!

yumearashi

Reblog to make C.S. Lewis turn over in his grave

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TBH, once the nuances were explained to him, I think he’d find it quite funny. 

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seventeendeer
seventeendeer

writers strike + disney continuing to be a deeply weird modern superpower reminded me of back when ducktales 2017 was still airing and the writers revealed that 1. they would never address who was the biological father of huey, dewey and louie because donald duck stepping up to raise them was more important thematically, and 2. the writers wanted to feature mickey mouse in the show as donald’s old buddy who made it as a famous actor and was kinda too successful and out of touch because of it, but disney execs wouldn’t let them because they were worried about tarnishing mickey’s image

with all these newer satiric depictions of mickey as commentary on disney as a company, I feel compelled to share my wildly cursed ducktales 2017 headcanon that the reason mickey wasn’t in the show was because he was the triplets’ deadbeat biological father donald cut off because he refused to pay child support

like, everyone knew, they just ignored him because he was so sucks

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transmascanine

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

  • reverse the recent image viewer update
  • scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting
  • let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
  • increase efforts against spam / porn bots
  • make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
  • let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time
  • commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
  • (suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

transmascanine

tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)

alliered

staff statements, politician answers, disconnect

i do have to premise, many staff-involved posts are going to be from cyle's blog or written by him. some have other staff contributing to the answer! but he appears to be a sort of main front-end developer, so he's quite literally the most visible staff member, to me at least.

thanks for your feedback! no.

make it accessible? nah, no thank you.

empty words and a cash grab

I have seniority, tough luck! 🤷‍♂️

your gif quality sucks now? here's a solution to a completely different problem :)

getting their disconnect called out

disappointment w disconnect and attitude w older users.

discussion on transparency

asking for forever? list plz :)

further disconnect


issues w reblog chains

thought it was a bug. it is not.

deep dive

feedback on functionality


layout issues:

unintuitive

changes are needed, not this one

insight on ui changes

inconsistencies and broken ui


issues w video/picture viewer

hurts the curating of feeds+

lack of functionality

doubles w accessibility issues


issues w other long standing features

custom domains

legacy editor (expands on gif link above)

fun this is long standing now


user frustrations and rage

one two three four five six


and personally my favorite post

we didn't forget :)

I haven't found the “pause queue” button but I have turned down the queue posting rate
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it is finally time...

WELCOME TO THE PATHETIC WOMAN SHOWDOWN!

Y'all already know how it is. By popular vote, the next poll is Pathetic Woman Showdown! Got a female character that is really pathetic and cringefail? Absolutely a loser amongst women? Well perfect!

I shouldn't have to say this but just in case there are some TERFs or other pieces of shit here:

TRANS WOMEN ARE ALLOWED BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN AND IF YOU SAY SOMETHING ELSE I'M GOING TO BASH YOUR HEAD INTO CONCRETE AND I WOULD VERY MUCH ENJOY IT!!

Anyways now that that's out of the way:

Rules!

  1. No Harry Potter/Vivziepop/DSMP/South Park characters!
  2. Only nominate a character once. You can submit as many characters as you want.
  3. No real people (unless it's really fucking funny)
  4. Propaganda is absolutely allowed and definitely encouraged!

DO NOT SUBMIT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS:

  • Higashiyama Kobeni (Chainsaw Man)
  • Mitaka Asa (Chainsaw Man)
  • Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb)
  • Britta Perry (Community)

These characters were already in the original poll so they're exempt from this one!

The submission form will close on July 7th at 12:00 PM!

Pathetic Woman Showdown!
DO NOT SUBMIT Mitaka Asa (Chainsaw Man) Higashiyama Kobeni (Chainsaw Man) Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) Britta Perry (Community)
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Here are some polls that you should check out!!

@obscurecharactershowdown @foundfamilyarena @top-fictional-unhinged-women @pinkhairswagtourney @tmnt-oc-comp @red-black-aesthetic-bout @redandbluegaycompetition @thepeakofsonicmusic

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USAmericans: This pride month, talk to the queer people who actually live in all those bad evil icky red states and find out what it's actually like, how we actually feel about it, and who here is actively fighting against it. No more telling us to "just leave" or reducing us to innocent victims who are "trapped" here. There are so many of us and we live here for so many reasons, none of which should be justified. We are resilient, we are powerful, and we are fighting against the fascist laws working to eradicate us or scare us away. Being trans in a red state right now is in and of itself an act of resistance. That being said, pay attention to the brave souls on the front lines, pushing against the laws, making good trouble, and refusing to be silenced.

I won't let myself be talked about like I'm stupid to live here.

I won't let myself be talked about like I'm a helpless victim who's trapped here.

If you can't join the fight by standing beside us, then the least you can do is empower us, amplify our voices, and pay more attention to the ones who are FIGHTING AGAINST THESE LAWS than you are to the chucklefucks trying to pass them.

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organizeworkers
organizeworkers

Unions Can Still Strike—Don't Let the Supreme Court Tell You Otherwise

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters Local 174 is outrageous—valuing property over workers’ rights. But it could have been much worse.

Unions still have the right to strike. Employers still can’t generally sue unions in state court for losses caused by strikes. But the decision does open the door to whittling away those rights more in the future. [Emphasis added.]

The practical impact of the Court’s decision is that employers will be suing unions more often for alleged property damage caused by strikes—and that therefore unions (and their attorneys) are likely to be more cautious.

But the Court did not do what many had feared it would do in this case: overrule longstanding precedent that employers generally cannot sue unions in state court over activities—like strikes—covered by the National Labor Relations Act.

Read more from the article:

Unions Can Still Strike—Don't Let the Supreme Court Tell You Otherwise
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters Local 174 is outrageous—valuing property over workers’ rights. But it co
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