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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Alright, there are still people posting this shit so I guess I’ll do a PSA
First off, when you see someone post this, don’t click on anything in the post, or you’ll start spamming the same shit. Not the URL. Not the video. Not the pictures. Nothing.
Control your curiosity.
If you find you can’t and click on it anyway, close the browser. Open up task manager if you have to.
Now, I’m not sure exactly how they’re doing this, so just scan your computer then relaunch your browser and change your account pass.
Also probably change your blog email.
Not your account email (the one you use to log on with), your blog email.
Go to settings, your blog, and scroll down to “Post by Email” and click “reset”
Finally, delete all the posts so more people don’t go clicking on shit and fucking up their blogs.
Have fun.
Already seen this horrible virus post in my feed several times so here’s what to do if your blog gets taken over.
This is all good advice, but might I also suggest performing an exorcism, because this post looks like the nearest thing to demonic possession I have ever seen on the internet.
for real tho, i had to scroll through roughly 140 of these posts. i really recommend tumblr savior-ing one of the phrases in the post since they’re pretty darn specific (again, don’t click on it!!) so that way you don’t even accidentally interact with it or have your dash flooded
Totally Tumblr savioring.
The Gay Nigger Association of America: a PSA
The GNAA is a trolling organisation who are well known for their harsh criticism of Tumblr, its users, and that of other blogging sites. This current attack is known as aclick-jack, and what it is doing is forcing your blog to reblog the offending post en masse. Whatever you do, DO NOT CLICK THE VIDEO.If you do mistakenly click the video, IGNORE THE LINE WHERE IT SAYS THAT YOUR BLOG(S) WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DELETE THE POSTS. DELETE THEM USING THE MASS POST EDITOR AND CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Please signal boost this!
(Source: hammer-and-sicklekind)
My poster design has a sibling! Derogatory use of the term “retarded” is every bit as harmful as that of “gay”, and it deserves just as much to be replaced with more accurate, less harmful vocabulary. Plus, y’know, they look cute side by side.
They’re both now available here!
Do me a favor and spread these like wildfire.
All Credit goes to the Ohio University STARS (Students Teaching About Racism in Society) group
Okay so I wasn’t going to go into this but like I really love the entire photoset but here’s why the top left image is problematic in its placement with the rest of the images.
What we have with the banjo strumming hillbilly stereotype is classism. It’s the defining of a certain group of people based on monetary income and geographic location. While classism is something that is extraordinarily important and a vital part of understanding cultures, it doesn’t really belong with the other images because it isn’t a representation of a race as a stereotype. Where the other images represent stereotypes in the form of racial slurs and mockeries of culture, the “redneck” image represents a stereotype that references classism, not racism.
Important stuff, just not quite fitting with the rest of the images here.
Carry on.
If anyone was curious, here’s the bit about the facebook page with regards to the upper left image:
Students Teaching About Racism in Society (STARS) Hey there! So I love your feedback! Wa tried to do a native american female this year, but could not find any models that could accurately portray native americans, and we did not want to misrepresent that culture in any way. And the “white guy” is actually representative of Appalaichaia, which Ohio Univeristy is smack dab in the middle of. The people in our surrounding area are constantly misrepresented, mocked, and visually hyperbolized, and as STARS, we felt that it was only right to give them a voice as well. Especially since it hits home right here in Athens.
(Source: theuppitynegras)
On tagging for epileptics/people with similar visual sensitivities and triggers:
There’s always so much confusion about this, so here are some tips.
Don’t tag something triggery with just epilepsy or seizure; epileptics and others who get seizures tend to, you know, spend time on those tags talking about those things. Occasionally someone will troll the tag with trigger posts—should you see a warning about that, repost, leaving out all the potentially saviored tags/phrases so we’ll see the warning!
For basic Tumblr usage, I rely on Tumblr Savior for a certain level of safety. Because these triggers are not phrases in the body of the post, the tags are really crucial. So: if it moves, tag it. Obviously, there’s a whole slew of different tags available; I focus on the stuff I see most people using on both the warning and avoiding fronts.
There are different levels of movement, and some are infinitely more triggery than others.
- Blingees? Tag ‘em, they’re basically flickering lights. I have blingee and blingees saviored.
- Anything that moves very fast, very repetitively, flashing lights—think of that old gif of the dj-ing and dancing club cats—that needs either epilepsy or seizure combined with either warning or trigger. Anything that seems strobe-like should get tagged this way.
- Simpler gifs, like reaction shots, won’t cause problems for most people, largely because gifs are the lifeblood of Tumblr; if you can’t handle slight giffage, you’re not nearly as likely to be on the site. In my case, for instance, when those sort of gifs get to me I need to be off the computer altogether. Nonetheless, I use either gif or moving gif with those.
- A single moving gif is processed differently from two distinct sources of independent movement. I personally like having gifset or gif set tagged, as sometimes I can handle a single gif just fine, but a set will hurt.
- A big one: TAG YOUR GIF DUMPS. I have both gif party and gif dump saviored. These are kind of a big deal, because you have tons and tons of distinct movement that can take a while to scroll through, which can be almost as triggering as a strobe-style gif.
I’m very sensitive to visual stimulation, but not so much that I can’t be on the computer—which is, of course, a set of minutely moving lights. My savior constants in terms of epilepsy crap are:
- gif dump
- gif party
- blingee
- blingees
- epilepsy warning
- epilepsy trigger
- seizure warning
- seizure trigger
[Occasionally I see strobe warning or strobe trigger, but that’s far less common. It’s useful—just not standard.]
When I’ve got a bit of a headache but not enough to log off, my savior also includes:
- gifset
- gif set
I know other people who sometimes need to Savior:
- moving gif
- gif
When in doubt, go a level higher—I dislike missing neat posts, but I hate seizures a whoooole lot more.
Thanks so much for providing this. I’m trying to get better at tagging my gifs and will be learning this tiered system for future posts.
(Source: aka14kgold)
THAT GUY WAS MY BEST FRIEND FROM THE FIFTH TO TENTH GRADES
LISTEN
LADIES
IF YOU EVER HAVE A GUY FRIEND WHO CONSTANTLY REASSURES YOU THAT YOU’RE GREAT BECAUSE YOU’RE “NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS”, IT’S NOT A COMPLIMENT
IT’S A DIRECT FUCKING INSULT TO THE FACT THAT YOU ARE FEMALE
HE IS TELLING YOU THAT YOU ARE ONLY VALUABLE TO HIM IN SPITE OF YOUR GENDER AND WARNING YOU THAT IF YOU ARE TO BECOME “LIKE OTHER GIRLS” YOU WILL NO LONGER HAVE WORTH TO HIM
THAT DUDE IS TRASH
PUNCH HIM IN THE DICK
LadyAtheist's list of tumblrs to avoid
“This is a list of people on Tumblr who have done racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise triggering things with little to no remorse. If you want your tumblr experience to be a pleasant one I strongly suggest you block and/or otherwise avoid these people.”
Useful info for everyone.
Due to recent events, we all need to know who the fuck to stay away from if we want to keep our sanity. It’s now up to 76 people. I strongly suggest you do not engage anyone on this list unless you are mentally prepared for it.
(Source: aka14kgold)
On tagging for epileptics/people with similar visual sensitivities and triggers:
There’s always so much confusion about this, so here are some tips.
Don’t tag something triggery with just epilepsy or seizure; epileptics and others who get seizures tend to, you know, spend time on those tags talking about those things. Occasionally someone will troll the tag with trigger posts—should you see a warning about that, repost, leaving out all the potentially saviored tags/phrases so we’ll see the warning!
For basic tumblr usage, I rely on tumblr savior for a certain level of safety. Because these triggers are not phrases in the body of the post, the tags are really crucial. So: if it moves, tag it. Obviously, there’s a whole slew of different tags available; I focus on the stuff I see most people using on both the warning and avoiding fronts.
There are different levels of movement, and some are infinitely more triggery than others.
- Blingees? Tag ‘em, they’re basically flickering lights. I have blingee and blingees saviored.
- Anything that moves very fast, very repetitively, flashing lights—think of that old gif of the dj-ing and dancing club cats—that needs either epilepsy or seizure combined with either warning or trigger. Anything that seems strobe-like should get tagged this way.
- Simpler gifs, like reaction shots, won’t cause problems for most people, largely because gifs are the lifeblood of tumblr; if you can’t handle slight giffage, you’re not nearly as likely to be on the site. In my case, for instance, when those sort of gifs get to me I need to be off the computer altogether. Nonetheless, I use either gif or moving gif with those.
- A single moving gif is processed differently from two distinct sources of independent movement. I personally like having gifset or gif set tagged, as sometimes I can handle a single gif just fine, but a set will hurt.
- A big one: TAG YOUR GIF DUMPS. I have both gif party and gif dump saviored. These are kind of a big deal, because you have tons and tons of distinct movement that can take a while to scroll through, which can be almost as triggering as a strobe-style gif.
I’m very sensitive to visual stimulation, but not so much that I can’t be on the computer—which is, of course, a set of minutely moving lights. My savior constants in terms of epilepsy crap are
- gif dump
- gif party
- blingee
- blingees
- epilepsy warning
- epilepsy trigger
- seizure warning
- seizure trigger
[Occasionally I see strobe warning or strobe trigger, but that’s far less common. It’s useful—just not standard.]
When I’ve got a bit of a headache but not enough to log off, my savior also includes
- gifset
- gif set
I know other people who sometimes need to savior
- moving gif
- gif
When in doubt, go a level higher—I dislike missing neat posts, but I hate seizures a whoooole lot more.
(Source: aka14kgold)
