Dear video games with a dating system in them: please let me be a lesbian. Don’t make me pick between being a cute girl and dating a cute girl.
Heath Ledger would have been 38 today.
This extraordinary talent’s triumphant and tragically abbreviated life comes to this year’s festival with the new documentary I Am Heath Ledger.
(Source: tribecafilm.com)
Thank you, Voltron fandom!
As the last day before s8 drops I just want to say a big thank you to the Voltron fandom.
To all the writers, who put so much love and work into everything from AUs to fixing and adding to the existing story, from all the character exploration to extra world building, you’ve made me fall in love with the series and characters even more. This is such a creative and skilled fandom, and I’ve read some of the best fics in my life from this fandom.
To all the artists, who created such gorgeous works, creative AUs, designs, scenarios; so many of you I look up to and am inspired by, and I wish I could have a wall full of all your amazing creations!
To all the cosplayers, who brought characters and scenes and AUs to life, you’re so skilled and resourceful (from being skilled in makeup to clothing and prop design to photography and editing, so many things!) you’re also some of the loveliest people I’ve been lucky to meet in person!
To all the theorists, your predictions are so interesting to read, your attention to detail, discussions I love to read, you painted the series in different lights and it always made me so much more excited for the next season to see what was coming!
To every reader, commenter, donator, and supporter, so many of us would not be here or continue without all of you, and I’m so grateful to everyone who has been there with me for the time ive been here!
Everyone together built a really lovely community, there’s a lot of good in it; I’ve made so many wonderful friends and amazing people, and hopefully we will stay in touch long after the series ends.
We are a big family now!
For everyone’s information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
- Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
- Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
- Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
- Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
- Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
- Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
- Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
- Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
- Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
“An individual with different personalities can change their body chemistry with their thoughts.”
- ‘Split’ (2017) dir. M Night Shyamalan
