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how is it December already, i mean what
Dec. 6th, 2018 11:28 pmIt's December already, and my brain is convinced it's way earlier than that. Like, some time in 2015. Or maybe 1997.
I dunno, I feel like this year has just galumphed past, and I know everyone says this every year but it's truuuuuue. On the up side, it does make for really easy small talk - for the next three weeks I can replace all instances of "so, any fun plans for the weekend?" with "OMG HOW IS IT DECEMBER ALREADY" and be guaranteed of mutual "I KNOW WTF". Also, being smug about being done with xmas gift-buying (thankyou online shopping) is a great way to get conversational reactions from others. ;) (Up to and including a death-glare from my boss that practically set me on fire.)
In other news: fuck Tumblr. This change squarely impacts how I use Tumblr, and I have zero interest in giving them any more of my effort.
And their smarmy "oh there's other sites for porn", oh my GOD. Why do people not get that it's not about OMGPORN, it's about sex being a normal, healthy part of life (for people who want it to be) and excising every thought or mention of it from allll of our spaces and cramming it into the one box that's allowed to hold it... is totally unhealthy and totally antithetical to how people actually live, and thus how they want to engage with the platforms that narrate their lives.
"There's other sites for porn" is like being told "enjoy your marriage for companionship and love, but if you want sex you've gotta go to an escort". That's *fine* for people who negotiate their lives to be that way, but for many (most?) people it's a totally unrealistic and unreasonable expectation to divorce something so intrinsic from the entire rest of their lives.
I hope tumblr crashes and burns, I really do.
I dunno, I feel like this year has just galumphed past, and I know everyone says this every year but it's truuuuuue. On the up side, it does make for really easy small talk - for the next three weeks I can replace all instances of "so, any fun plans for the weekend?" with "OMG HOW IS IT DECEMBER ALREADY" and be guaranteed of mutual "I KNOW WTF". Also, being smug about being done with xmas gift-buying (thankyou online shopping) is a great way to get conversational reactions from others. ;) (Up to and including a death-glare from my boss that practically set me on fire.)
In other news: fuck Tumblr. This change squarely impacts how I use Tumblr, and I have zero interest in giving them any more of my effort.
And their smarmy "oh there's other sites for porn", oh my GOD. Why do people not get that it's not about OMGPORN, it's about sex being a normal, healthy part of life (for people who want it to be) and excising every thought or mention of it from allll of our spaces and cramming it into the one box that's allowed to hold it... is totally unhealthy and totally antithetical to how people actually live, and thus how they want to engage with the platforms that narrate their lives.
"There's other sites for porn" is like being told "enjoy your marriage for companionship and love, but if you want sex you've gotta go to an escort". That's *fine* for people who negotiate their lives to be that way, but for many (most?) people it's a totally unrealistic and unreasonable expectation to divorce something so intrinsic from the entire rest of their lives.
I hope tumblr crashes and burns, I really do.
