It always surprises me how many deactivated users there are here. And maybe most of them are the natural consequence of URL-hopping, but beyond those, the ones that intentionally deactivated–just the idea of actively deciding to terminate an account is so foreign to me.
I’m in the business of atrophy.
My Neopets exist, and persist, and are dying and continue to die for the last ten years my account has been dark. My penguin lived until the day Club Penguin died, immobile in its igloo, decoration among the puffles. My Webkinz stand in rooms which time refuses to allow even the dignity of gathering dust. My footprint stuffs the digital shelves of datacenters for sites and accounts I do not remember making.
I’ve made a horde of scattered exoskeletons, shells which I cannot even call ghosts because that implies a presence. They are husks. They are archives. They are records. I do not ever consider the mercy of allowing them to die.
i know we’ve been saying this about every new shitty update but i feel like removing reblog chains could really be the thing to kill this site. like that is literally the main thing that makes tumblr unique
truly the only reason you still see tumblr posts reposted constantly on other sites which claim tumblr to be “dead” is because of our unique form of collaborative posting. also you would not only be taking away what makes the site unique but also the main form of socialization between the users which yknow. some could say is the basis for your whole fucking social media website
why’d this get 100 notes in an hour on a wednesday morning damn 😭 we’re real fucking annoyed about this huh
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like “posts that a gnome would make” or like “are you a phone”
Is it just me or you don’t really realise how drunk you are until you are in a bathroom alone???
thanks to tumblr literally every time i go to the bathroom when i’m drunk i think about this post and sit there laughing to myself trying not to fall off the toilet
I honestly get so fucking mad when people act like Bruce’s no-killing rule and iron conviction that everybody can get better is something dumb. Like why does everybody hate kind characters so much?? What’s wrong with being a good person? It’s not stupid or childish or naïve, and in a cruel world, it takes one heck of a lot of courage to be kind.
