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  • Collective name is Charlie! 

    We use they/them overall, but use system members pronouns when speaking about them individually.

  • you know what would be one of the greatest things Tumblr could implement right now?

    there are currently community labels based on nsfw content but i believe adding a label for flashing lights would be incredible

    i personally don't have epilepsy, but my father does and i would not like to find out i've inherited it scrolling through my dash.

    this is a matter of safety and accessibility. our community is already conscious about these matters, but adding a uniform system would help everyone

    (please reblog this post, spread the idea)

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  • Okay but legit, if you're not in a Buy Nothing group, seek out your closest one. We literally got a free washer and dryer once. We've gotten groceries, craft supplies, pet supplies, clothes, and all sorts of shit. It's awesome.

    On top of that, Instead of donating our old unwanted stuff to places like Goodwill, which wildly mistreat their workers, Buy Nothing lets me donate things directly to my community, without the risk that the sorters at the thrift shop will just throw things in the trash. I've passed along open things of hair care products that I didn't wind up liking but that had nothing wrong with them. I've passed along snacks we didn't like, pet food we didn't wind up using, and all sorts of perishables that would have otherwise gone right in the garbage.

    My local group even has regular meetups where people bring all their stuff at once, and it's like a giant garage sale where everything is free.

    They have a damn near global presence, so check out the website if you're looking for a local group!

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    fizzy propaganda. its messy because i dont have many screenshots (and graphic design is my passion /s) but! vote fizzy!

    @old-mcyt-sillymen

  • mpreg

  • since no one seems to be happy with lgbt, mogai, or any other acronym or umbrella term, i came up with a new one that i think is gonna cover all our bases:

    mpreg = marginalized people of romantic, erotic and gender

  • this post came into my house and killed my family in front of me

  • imagine your ocs

    wasn't that nice :)

  • By the way, now that I’ve aired out my persecutor laundry… 

    Let’s actually talk about that word.

    The reason I’m weary about it is the connotation.  It’s part of a set of words used to describe (and I’ll use common terms here, just for convenience, not because I particularly enjoy them) system “roles.”  

    There are other roles and labels for them.  I don’t disagree that these behavioral patterns could exist in many systems, because the terms are so broad (protector is another big one).  They are generally used to refer to selves in DID systems, although to me personally that’s irrelevant, because plurality is plurality.

    Anyways, these words take some very normal human experiences and label them as “special” for systems.

    Is that not strange to you?  Why do systems need special terms for normal experiences?


    Because we still see ourselves as not normal.


    You hear me?


    It’s normal to call someone a “protective” person.

    It’s normal to say someone is a “persecutor” because of an action they take.


    It is NOT normal to label an ENTIRE person AS “protector” or “persecutor” just because they sometimes embody these attributes.


    I’m glad if it helps you personally to see something about yourselves.  However, straight up labelling yourselves like this and leaving it that way…  It’s like a recipe for disaster.  It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.  You just are the way you are.  You don’t need to be pigeon-holed into a box because one of you is a little more protective than another.  You should all be protectors when you can be.  You feel me?  


    You’re people, not roles.

    Don’t turn temporary descriptors into absolutes.

    …(Unless you want to.  I mean you don’t have to listen to me, for real.  Just move on lol.)

  • tiny rant about this, although i understand the rest of it… but

    It is NOT normal to label an ENTIRE person AS “protector” or “persecutor” just because they sometimes embody these attributes.

    i mean, in some ways it is normal. like, let’s say you have a friend group, and there’s one person who is protective towards that friend group. when referring to that person, the group may say ‘oh, that’s joe, our protector".

    obviously, persecutor isn’t common outside of system spaces, but also most people who are hurting others in a friend group are either called “the abuser” and they try to leave, or other labels like “the depressed / mentally ill one” or something and offered help.

    of course, the friend group is often aware that there is likely MUCH more to that person than just being the protector, similar with systems (hopefully), but it is not weird to have “role” labels in groups.

    think of the tropes regarding cartoon characters, or tiktok/youtube videos showcasing the different group roles a friend group may have. similarly, we have made up names for different tropes/roles for system members. i may be the “elator/optimist” of the system, but im not 100% always optimistic. similarly, a persecutor might not always be aggressive or hurtful / harmful to the system. plus, it’s a varied role too like the one user said. like how there are MANY different kinds of, like. jocks or nerds or whatever.

    tldr the ending is correct and i agree with it, but it’s not bad at ALL to identify with a trope, as long as people don’t treat you like a 1-d concept of a person (which is their problem more than ours, but you know.)

    • nobody wants or uses tumblr live
    • nobody wants the shop icon where the account icon used to be 
    • nobody wants the new video player / image viewer (let us pause ! let us zoom !) 
    • the only good feature recently has been polls and even that took way too long to properly roll out 
    • we are STILL fighting in the trenches against spam bots 

    @staff pls take notes 

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  • 100% TRUE

  • Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said “no free articles” into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.

  • also if u press the “esc” (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it won’t load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)

  • If the site is particularly badly designed, you might just be able to delete the overlay itself. Right click > Inspect element and delete the line of HTML (it’ll be highlighted automatically)

  • hey kids there is a website called outline.com that will let you read from pretty much any news site with a paywall for free

  • outline.com is amazing - it hasn’t failed yet on any site that I’ve tried it on.

    There’s a chrome extension and firefox extension.

  • The point isnt that there are workarounds for non-free news sites, the point being that if you have to jump through hoops to get the news, people are going to where they dont have to jump through hoops.

  • Repeating this because it’s ridiculously important:

    The point isnt that there are workarounds for non-free news sites, the point being that if you have to jump through hoops to get the news, people are going to where they dont have to jump through hoops.

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