Thanks for joining me! << That’s what Word Press decided to start with? Okay.
Note: The above is a really nice picture. Well done, WP staff.
So now that I’ve sufficiently commented on the WP default First Post, let’s get down to business. Let’s do the thing. The Introduction Thing.
Hello! My name’s Kat, but Kitty is also a valid nick name. I created my personal Tumblr blog in 2014, when I was about 13 years old. I just looked at the very early days of my blog for fun, and my first post was Homestuck-related. R.I.P.
It is the 16th of December, 2018. Tomorrow, the new Tumblr guidelines will be going into effect. I don’t want to risk losing everything I’ve posted over the course of four years, so I’m backing up all of my stuff to WP. I have made 430 atm on my personal blog alone; I think I have, like, five side blogs? Yeah. No. I am not letting Tumblr’s terrible flagging algorithm destroy all of that.
And that’s why I’m here.
In case you’re just reading this to see what I plan to post on my shiny new WP blog, it’s mainly going to be miscellaneous word vomits. I have organized my content into three main blogs: my personal blog, my art blog, and my writing blog. If you want to see my actually Quality content, check out @bookofthedead-km and @sketchbookofthedead-km on Tumblr (while they’re still up). They’re the next blogs I’m backing up, so I’ll probably make a page linking them on this site once I do so.
I think that’s about everything I wanted to say with this post. Stay tuned for more?
i’m sorry you don’t like females liking porn, sorry you don’t like sex workers just doin’ their job, sorry you don’t like queers, sorry you don’t like colored people, but last i fuckin’ checked.
We’re here.
We’re Queer and/or Colored.
And this was our year.
Tumblr went out with the greatest of fuckin’ ships. Symbrock shippers, we were the last ship of tumblr! Remember that, no matter where we fuckin’ go.
EDIT:
Aight, so I’m leaving the main portion of this, but guess what, my fellow tumblr peeps.
There’s a high fuckin’ chance tumblr didn’t even really want to do this big porn ban. You wanna know why they’re doing it?
NEW UNITED STATES LAWS.
Now, the reason I’d editing this post instead of making a new one is because: it’s currently my most popular. So, makes it easier to get out to a wider audience.
Alright, kids, let’s go over these laws, why they’re fucked up, why they even got signed, and what you need to do to have these
Let’s go into the first one. The Music Moderation Act. This is ok. This one basically means that song writers get more compenstation for their music, and that it’s more protected. Overall, perfectly fine. It’ll also give more money to artists on songs that were made before 1972 (if they’re still alive). Not much to say, other than, “ok.”
Now, what about the one that’s making sites, like tumblr, ban all the porn? And female presenting nipples, we can’t forget those!
So… the original idea behind this is perfectly fine. It’s trying to get more rights for women/females in the sex work industry.
Ho-ow-ow-owever, this is not what’s actually being put into place. What’s being put into place is a full ban against any NSFW, not fully because, “Think of the children!”, but because, “all porn is bad and against women.” (Even though, a majority of drawn and written porn is by, you guessed it, women/females.)
The thing is, this anti-porn law was being paraded as “for women”, when really, it’s not for modern women. Lemme explain.
You know how the Obama administration was p good about keeping stuff neutral (even if they fucked up a few things)? Think about, how old’s Obama? He’s 57. He’s on that weird, beginning of GenX, end of the Yuppies (the kinda mid gen between Boomers and X). He’s half black, grew up on an island, and is overall a decent dude who just, deep down, truly wanted/wants what’s best for his country. He’d get a lotta issues people are facing. He can also take a fuckin’ joke.
Now, what about our current Commander Cheeto? 7-fuckin’-2. This boomer ass motherfucker has maybe 10 years left in him. Maybe. He, and many others currently in high positions of power in the States, sadly remember the 50s and 60s and the Cold War (where Russia and the States basically were like, “who has the bigger nukes??? dunno, spies and trying to up the other it is!”) as the “Glory Days”. We all know that, while the aesthetics of these time periods are ok (lemme rephrase, the romanticized version, with the poodle skirts and milkshakes), these were honestly horrible times to be anything but a White Cis Man. Woman had barely any rights, colored people were fighting their asses off to get more rights, and the queer community was finally growing louder and louder (at least, in public eye).
What we are seeing, ladies and gents and those that fall elsewhere, are the last, dying breaths of a generation that glorified xenophobia, anti-queer perceptions (mainly due to ignorance and teachings), oppression of women/females, and racism.
I’m hopeful that once he gets outta office, we’ll have a perfectly fine, and mostly normal president come in and go, “tf is this shit? out with you, T H O T.”
Also, Joe Biden can still run for president. And have Obama be his vice. Legally. So, yanno…
You could always go yell at them on Twitter to do it. (Do it respectfully, and don’t spam them!!)
Just keep strong, and remember: We have Pornhub and Newgrounds until this law’s gone.
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of November 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
listen… i’m a lesbian and i know full well what oppression based on love is like… but i wish white gay folks wouldn’t act like sexuality is the only reason anyone’s ever felt that
there are people in my family who’ve been disowned because they married someone of a different colour to them… i’m mixed race and the very concept of my existence would’ve been illegal in the us when my parents were born. the supreme court only ruled against discrimination of mixed-race marriages in 1967! that’s barely 50 years ago. homophobia is an awful thing to experience and i know that from first hand experience but i’m begging you to remember that gay people aren’t the only ones being killed for who they love. please remember the struggles faced by Black and brown people when you talk about oppression. please have some solidarity with your nonwhite friends (especially your nonwhite gay friends!) when you talk about dismantling the systems that keep us alone and isolated. please remember the horrible history that is anti-miscegenation laws when you talk about equal marriage rights, because they aren’t just for white gay people.
this is okay for white people to reblog
Mixed-race marriages were still being denied in 2009. This is not ancient history. Just because it’s law, doesn’t mean bigots give up their preferences. In communities that shelter and protect bigotry, it takes a long, long time for oppressed people to get the same rights everyone else has.
The tea is that “Cishet” aces only Make up only almost 10-15% of the total asexual population because the chances of being cis AS WELL AS het AS WELL AS asexual in an already small number of asexualpopulation are statically quite small and really arent worth dedicating ENTIRE discourse blogs,masterposts and posts on a daily basis and act like their inclusion and homophobia displayed by SOME of that already small population are some burning issues of the lgbt+ community which need to be dealt with ASAP and addressed daily.Yet so many aphobes hide behind the “excuse” of “cishet” aces to be blatantly aphobic as well as racist,abelist and sexually inappropriate towards aces who ARENT EVEN “cishet” and get away with it coz “its only about the cishet aces i support lgbt aces uwu” and yall really gotta see these assholes for who they are and stop supporting/reblogging from them because their intentions really arent for the “greater good” as they seem to push.
This Man Did Something That’s Already Expected Of Women But He Gets Extra Praise Cause He’s A Man
No. A lot of women don’t go to cosmetology classes to learn how to do hair, they have the experience from growing up-their mom doing their hair, Then experimenting which what they can do themselves. This guy probably had short hair his entire life with no clue on what to do. He didn’t just look up how to do a ponytail, he paid for actual classes so that he could do his little daughters hair in cool and creative ways so that SHE gets the learning experience and learns how to do it her own and then can go to school with fabulous. This is A+ daddy right here, he went above and beyond because he knows that he lack in certain areas where a mom would pick this up. Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.
Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.
Dr Seuss: ‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!’
Illumination:
Then they got an idea! An awful idea!
THE BRANDS GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! All the marketers thought, “Why should tickets suffice? With the Grinch selling knick-knacks, why, we’ll be paid twice!”
Forget all the morals! There’s cash to be made. From frosting to forklifts to Grinch Gatorade! Just slap his face on there and tint it with green And prepare for profits, yes, profits obscene!
From a seasonal, festival holiday grump, The Grinch had been played for a capital chump. “No more! Won’t you forget these trinkets?” he pleads. “Christmas isn’t junk! It’s your bonds and your deeds.”
For a moment, they paused. Was there more to this day Than products and placements and big bonus pay? The PR men sniffed and they shrugged and they sighed. Then they threw him some cash and they went back inside.
I have had this on my mind for days, someone please help:
Why are dogs dogs?
I mean, how do we see a pug and then a husky and understand that both are dogs? I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a picture of a breed of dog I hadn’t seen before and wondered what animal it was.
Do you want the Big Answer or the Small Answers cos I have a feeling this is about to get Intense
Oooh okay are YOU gonna answer this, hang on I need to get some snacks and make sure the phone is off.
The short answer is “because they’re statistically unlikely to be anything else.”
The long question is “given the extreme diversity of morphology in dogs, with many subsets of ‘dogs’ bearing no visual resemblance to each other, how am I able to intuit that they belong to the ‘dog’ set just by looking?”
The reason that this is a Good Big Question is because we are broadly used to categorising Things as related based on resemblances. Then everyone realized about genes and evolution and so on, and so now we have Fun Facts like “elephants are ACTUALLY closely related to rock hyraxes!! Even though they look nothing alike!!”
These Fun Facts are appealing because they’re not intuitive. So why is dog-sorting intuitive?
Well, because if you eliminate all the other possibilities, most dogs are dogs.
To process Things – whether animals, words, situations or experiences – our brains categorise the most important things about them, and then compare these to our memory banks. If we’ve experienced the same thing before – whether first-hand or through a story – then we know what’s happening, and we proceed accordingly.
If the New Thing is completely New, then the brain pings up a bunch of question marks, shunts into a different track, counts up all the Similar Traits, and assigns it a provisional category based on its similarity to other Things. We then experience the Thing, exploring it further, and gaining new knowledge. Our brain then categorises the New Thing based on the knowledge and traits. That is how humans experience the universe. We do our best, and we generally do it well.
This is the basis of stereotyping. It underlies some of our worst behaviours (racism), some of our most challenging problems (trauma), helps us survive (stories) and sharing the ability with things that don’t have it leads to some of our most whimsical creations (artificial intelligence.)
In fact, one reason that humans are so wonderfully successful is that we can effectively gain knowledge from experiences without having experienced them personally! You don’t have to eat all the berries to find the poisonous ones. You can just remember stories and descriptions of berries, and compare those to the ones you’ve just discovered. You can benefit from memories that aren’t your own!
On the other hand, if you had a terribly traumatic experience involving, say, an eagle, then your brain will try to protect you in every way possible from a similar experience. If you collect too many traumatic experiences with eagles, then your brain will not enjoy eagle-shaped New Things. In fact, if New Things match up to too many eagle-like categories, such as
* pointy * Specific!! Squawking noise!! * The hot Glare of the Yellow Eye * Patriotism?!? * CLAWS VERY BAD VERY BAD
Then the brain may shunt the train of thought back into trauma, and the person will actually experience the New Thing as trauma. Even if the New Thing was something apparently unrelated, like being generally pointy, or having a hot glare. (This is an overly simplistic explanation of how triggers work, but it’s the one most accessible to people.)
So the answer rests in how we categorise dogs, and what “dog” means to humans. Human brains associate dogs with universal categories, such as
* four legs * Meat Eater * Soft friend * Doggo-ness???? * Walkies * An Snout, * BORK BORK
Anything we have previously experienced and learned as A Dog gets added to the memory bank. Sometimes it brings new categories along with it. So a lifetime’s experience results in excellent dog-intuition.
And anything we experience with, say, a 90% match is officially a Dog.
Brains are super-good at eliminating things, too. So while the concept of physical doggo-ness is pretty nebulous, and has to include greyhounds and Pekingese and mastiffs, we know that even if an animal LOOKS like a bear, if the other categories don’t match up in context (bears are not usually soft friends, they don’t Bork Bork, they don’t have long tails to wag) then it is statistically more likely to be a Doggo. If it occupies a dog-shaped space then it is usually a dog.
So if you see someone dragging a fluffy whatnot along on a string, you will go,
* Mop?? (Unlikely – seems to be self-propelled.) * Alien? (Unlikely – no real alien ever experienced.) * Threat? (Vastly unlikely in context.) * Rabbit? (No. Rabbits hop, and this appears to scurry.) (Brains are very keen on categorising movement patterns. This is why lurching zombies and bad CGI are so uncomfortable to experience, brains just go “INCORRECT!! That is WRONG!” Without consciously knowing why. Anyway, very few animals move like domestic dogs!) * Very fluffy cat? (Maybe – but not quite. Shares many characteristics, though!) * Eldritch horror? (No, it is obviously a soft friend of unknown type) * Robotic toy? (Unlikely – too complex and convincing.) * alert: amusing animal detected!!! This is a good animal!! This is pleasing!! It may be appropriate to laugh at this animal, because we have just realized that it is probably a … * DOG!!!! Soft friend, alive, walks on leash. It had a low doggo-ness quotient! and a confusing Snout, but it is NOT those other Known Things, and it occupies a dog-shaped space! * Hahahaha!!! It is extra funny and appealing, because it made us guess!!!! We love playing that game. * Best doggo. * PING! NEW CATEGORIES ADDED TO “Doggo” set: mopness, floof, confusing Snout.
And that’s why most dogs are dogs. You’re so good at identifying dog-shaped spaces that they can’t be anything else!
this post made my day and has many wholesome quotable phrases.
Discount Deity of Death 