the way tumblr is trying to distance itself from being a blogging platform is fucking. infuriating!!
like do you not know this is your strength!!! I want to be able to visit other people’s pages that have been CUSTOM MADE for their purpose!!! ARTISTS HAVE LINKS AND TAGS FOR THEIR ART!!! COMMUNITIES AND HELP/TUTORIAL BLOGS HAVE TAGS FOR SPECIFIC QUIERIES!!! WRITERS CAN LINK ME TO THEIR STORIES!!! IT HELPS BOTH THE POSTERS AND THE CONSUMERS TO MODERATE THE EXPERIENCE TO THEIR LIKING!!!!
SENDING PEOPLE TO THAT UNSLIGHTLY “BOARD” OF A “BLOG” THAT APPEARS NOW WHEN YOU CLICK THE NAME OF THE BLOG INSTEAD OF SENDING YOU TO THE ACTUAL BLOG IS SUCH A DUMBASS MOVE? IT DOESNT EVEN ALLOW LINKS!!! I CANT DO SHIT ON THERE!!! I CANT FIND WHAT IM THERE FOR!!!! IT MAKES ME NOT WANT TO USE IT!!!!
TUMBLR IS/USED TO BE THE MOST FLEXIBLE AND THAT WAS ITS BIGGEST MERIT!!! YOU HAVE ONE OF THE BEST TAGGING SYSTEMS AND YOU WONT LET ME USE IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL!!!
YOU CAN FOSTER COMMUNITIES, YOU LET PEOPLE KEEP MULTIPLE SIDE BLOGS WITHOUT HAVING TO SIGN IN WITH A DIFFERENT EMAIL, YOU ALLOW VIDEOS AND AUDIO AND +4 PHOTOS PER POST!!!! TWITTER CANT HAVE THAT!! TIKTOK CANT HAVE THAT!! REDDIT CANT HAVE THAT!!! FACEBOOK CANT HAVE THAT!!!
IM SO SICK OF THIS TWITTERIFICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I don't like the Jack Harkness test because it means it's okay to fuck Scooby Doo"
yes that's the entire damn point of the Harkness test. The Harkness Test doesn't exist to say you have to fuck Scooby Doo. The Harkness Test exists to say that it is morally/ethically fine for someone to want to fuck Scooby Doo, because Scooby Doo can give informed consent and communicate as such.
the reason you don't like it is because none of you are self-aware enough to realize how incredibly fucking puritan all of you are when it comes to fucking
You are fundamentally incorrect, it is intended for fictional scenarios which could not happen in real life. It is the kink equivalent of The Bechdel Test. It is proposing the absolute minimum of what is needed to ensure that the kink is #nonproblematic: Is it old enough to grant informed consent, and does it have the capability to communicate that informed consent clearly to its partners? If it fits both of these criteria, it passes the JHT and is ethically fine, though thinking it's gross or not liking it is still totally fine--it isn't saying "It's ethical so therefore you're a bad person if you dislike it. It is saying It's ethical and so therefore you should not base your disliking it in the framework of morality and ethics.
Basing your disgust of sexual fetishes and kinks in morality is fundamentally a Puritan concept: It creates the idea of wrongsex, and it justifies a framework of punishment due to perceived moral high ground. It says "You are a better person than someone who wants to fuck Scooby Doo for whatever reason, because that person is inherently morally disgusting for wanting that".
Basing your disgust of sexual fetishes and kinks in a personal dislike is fundamentally the correct ethical response: "I am not a better person for not wanting to fuck Scooby Doo for whatever reason, and someone else would not be a bad person if they wanted to fuck Scooby Doo for whatever reason".
You say that it isn't for "sapient animals", and I fully agree! Regular degular nonhuman animals cannot give an informed consent to us, be it through body language or power dynamics baked into the species difference! There's also the fundamental question of "Is this body language clear because of informed consent or because of biological nature", which is always "No, if it cannot not want to consent, it is your responsibility to ensure that its boundaries are not crossed while it holds impaired judgement".
But Scooby Doo isn't a sapient animal. Scooby Doo is a fully grown Great Dane, yes, but he speaks fluent-if-accented conversational English. He's also clearly intelligent enough to use that ability to solve criminal investigations, which gives him the ability to offer that consent in a clearly communicated way, ie human language.
That's it. I don't wanna fuck Scooby Doo. I think the concept itself is innately hilarious, because of all the things you think are sexy, you landed on the cartoon mystery-solver dog. And I chose him for this example of what passing the Harkness Test can look like explicitly because he was the most incendiary take I could think of. He is an emblem of "Just because you hate it doesn't make it immoral" in this context. It forces you to confront the possibility that you hate certain kinks because you think you have a moral high ground, and why that morality-based justification is completely false and ethically unsound. But it lets you keep your own personal boundaries--something passing the Harkness test doesn't require your approval or even your neutrality. You can totally loathe it. But you have to loathe it the same way you loathe a type of food: There is no good or bad involved. It's just not for you.
Hi! This was a lie invented by my ex to distract from their necrophilia! They openly admitted they had absolutely no proof to offer beyond a single cherrypicked screenshot where I was reacting to their paraphilia!
While I could offer more context about why exactly I felt like I was in a situation where I needed to respond positively to necrophilia, I simply do not feel like it's necessary when they also have tried to claim that I'm lying about being trans and that I'm only transitioning for online clout and to avoid blame!
for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?
for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?
if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason
the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter
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