• also i think it's funny how tumblr was like "you can pay to see someone's posts" and we were all like FUCK you and they were like "... pay to... inflict your own posts... on others?" and we were like

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    Originally posted by ashendemon

  • yknow, people talk about the tumblr userbase being reclusive and stubborn (and we are), but its worth noting that we’re also aggressively social.

    we dont NEED algorithms, because thats OUR job, and we take pride in it. we WANT to do the work ourselves! we WANT to tell people ourselves!

    we dont NEED our blogs to look the same, because we wanna make our OWN themes, and share them with each other, and experiment!

    our most successful april fools days are the ones that just gave us new avenues to SCREAM REALLY LOUDLY in (promoting candidates in the 2016 election, turning our dashboards into semi-randomized rube goldberg machines of text and emojis in 2022).

    we’re always constantly ramping things up to eleven, so the best enrichment toy for us is just. see this ball? feel free to throw it as hard as you want.

  • > we're also aggressively social

    oh. I just realised.

    this is what actual social media is. instead of the other websites, which are advertising media that pretend they're social media.

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    oh rome as heterotopia (a physical site in which diverse, discontinuous, and ambiguous slices of time and space can be accommodated) we’re really in it now

  • I think Anakin and Padme deserve to Stay Besties in any AU that isn't Anidala specifically because their love languages are absolutely buckwild and insane to almost anyone else, but match up to each other pretty perfectly, which means that if they aren't dating each other, they are the exact right person to have egging the other on and enabling whatever unhinged bullshit they're planning on doing in the name of romance.

    Anakin thinks he needs to serenade his partner? Padme hires him an orchestra.

    Padme wants to meet daringly under the cover of night with her new secret lover because that's the only right way to do it? Anakin is staging a kidnapping for her, zero questions.

    Anakin is swooning over how his love interest was kissing him! but it was actually lips-to-leg attempts to suck out the venom of a bad bite (something you're not even actually supposed to do, but hey, the Force slowed his heart down enough that maybe it helped! and he survived anyway, it's fine)? Padme is over the moon for him, that's so romantic!

    Their brain cells are so, so allergic to each other. Put them in a room and all common sense flees in the face of "okay, but if I challenge her to a sword fight--"
    "Padme you can't challenge a Sith to a sword fight."
    "No no, but if I challenge her and then you swoop in for me as my substitute, and I promise a kiss to the winner and you throw the match--"
    "Okay I don't want to lose to Ventress but oh my god, I love it."

    Move aside, Idiots to Lovers, there's a new ballgame in town!

    Friends to Lovers to Idiots

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