“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”

Yeah, no.

credit to @tidalgardener for swan + giant swan idea, its brilliant and my official vote

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

• reverse the recent image viewer update
• scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting
• let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
• increase efforts against spam / porn bots
• make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
• let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time
• commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
• (suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)

@one-time-i-dreamt @i-am-a-fish @lizluvscupcakes tagging some larger blogs to hopefully get the word out more

Reminder: this starts tomorrow EST for anyone interested in participating

(I will be participating. See you July 1)

Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess

What’s the comic sans trick?

#i feel like someone just asked me to eat dirt for my health

wingdings' true purpose as a font

Wingdings holy shit some of y'all are on a whole different level of galaxy wizard brain batshittery and I am in awe.

one of my favorite writing decisions in danny phantom is when they didn’t have anything for sam and tucker to do in d-stabilized so when the action began to rise they just left and got fast food

I wanted to share how I usually talk as a semi verbal person for those that maybe dont know what that can look like!

It basically for me means I will only say a few words instead of whole sentences. For example:

"Can we go grocery shopping?" Turns into simply "grocery shopping?". "Its too loud" turns into "loud". "I dont want to go there" turns into "dont want (to)". Sometimes my mouth just wont cooperate with all of the words, but sometimes I also cant figure out the correct order of words and such, so I stick to the few words that make up the core of the sentence without bothering with all the "filler".

This is what I sound like maybe 80% of the day by the way, as theres times where I can speak more full sentences (often when talking about a special interest) and times where I lose speech completely.

It means those communicating with me need to fill in the gaps for themselves quite frequently.

GET FRIED, IDIOT

Season 2, Episode 1 - Memory Blank

I won't breathe until they animate this panel.