Rescue professional here:
If you need rescuing or help, DON’T FUCKING MOVE. You are so much easier to find when you stay put.
Goddamn preach this
"Your most important survival skill is asking for help."
THIS, it makes me so damn pissed off when parents try and normalize that asking for help is a taboo thing!
Gandalf throwing his staff at gollum is what really makes this
Thank you for commenting because I was going to scroll past this.
an internal memo leaked from ceo steve huffman saying the "noise" of the blackout will die out and they just need to weather it until we give up. fuck you spez.
first of all it's OVER EIGHT THOUSAND subreddits that went dark.
second of all he clearly doesn't give one single shit about the users or the UNPAID army of mods who slog through a million miles of shit every day to keep illegal and offensive content off the site (i'm a mod in a small fandom subreddit and even the shit i've seen is beyond the pale) and therefore make it appealing to the advertizers.
you have no fucking business without us. and you don't care one single bit about it.
he clearly did not mean for this memo to leak, but someone at reddit thought it was important enough to send it out anyway. please spread it (spreddit?) especially because so much of reddit is still in blackout.
This feels very similar to the uproar they LITERALLY JUST HAD in the D&D community over changes that would have negatively impacted third party creators. People started canceling their subscriptions to the paid service and Wizards of the Coast really thought they could get away with it by issuing a weak apology and waiting it out.
The community got angrier, so WotC thought they could get away with it by backing down to a half measure.
The community got even ANGRIER.
WotC ended up backing down to such an extent that they not only canceled all of the planned changes but released their core material under a creative commons license to boot, putting them BEHIND their starting position.
This is what we should be aiming for. I've used reddit daily for like fifteen years, but sometimes the only thing you can do to save a community you love is to genuinely be willing to walk away until the corporate bigwigs in charge get it through their heads that they actually NEED users. I want to make this the year of companies fucking around and finding out that unhappy users can cause them problems. Starve the bastards out and make them realize they need us more.
The Spamton Sweepstakes were truly a fucking phenomenal event
Imagine hearing that Toby Fox is doing a merch raffle for charity and going Oh Neat! :) and then finding out that the raffle was all spamton themed, and all the items being raffled are bogus spamton merch like a single fake banana in a glass case, or a bath mat in the shape of an egg. Imagine clicking on the fake ads and realizing they all lead to Secret Pages with Deep Lore Implications. Imagine tuning in to the stream where they announce the winners, expecting to see three guys and a dog plush doing it like last time, only to watch Wayneradiotv get killed on livestream while fleeing from the FBI. Toby Fox is truly a master at his craft.
Berdly put his entire phone number in his username. Spamton said on twitter that you could pay to milk him. And confirmed that he and Jevil were divorced. This all happened shortly after Sans won the sexyman poll and the queen died. This was a major timeline event
That stream was my only experience of what the hell Deltarune is, and by god I want to preserve that innocence in amber
If I drove a bulldozer through an apple store and the cops just shoved me in a closet and pumped me full of DMT for 8 hours id literally just do it again the second they let me out
This is like the best admission I've ever heard that prison sentences are about fucked up torture rather than keeping dangerous people out of society.
There's literally an entire Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode about how effed up this concept is.
why is this more expressive than the entire lion king cgi movie
h-how did you have the exact gif…….who are you
New toh au!
This au is where Luz enters the boiling isles at a younger age and is found by Belos. Because she is human, he took her in, so that the witches couldnt "corrupt" her. She grows up with Hunter, and isnt allowed out of the Palace walls. One day she sneaks out and thats when she meets Eda, King, Willow, Gus and Amity.
This au is not Lunter, theyre siblings, the au is actually Lumity cuz i love the dynamic it gives them💕
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Quick reminder since apparently it bears reminding in both directions: if bigoted people, closed-minded people overall, or your own internalized insecurities misinterpret a queer person’s message in a way that hurts/endangers you, yeah, it sucks, but it’s not the fault of the queer person in question, nor should it be a reason for them to silence themselves. They’re probably as hurt/pissed as you are that someone misinterpreted and misused their message to do harm.
Of course sadly there’ll still be queer people that actually DO mean harm and dismissal to other queer people – I ain’t speaking for those and it’s not the best way to ensure their and others’ wellbeing imo. I’m just saying – not all people will be like that. That’s what I want to believe. So hopefully let’s not put everyone in the same bag, keep supporting each other, WHILE allowing each other to advocate for our own visibility, without having to self-erase or self-censor to accomodate to what haters might say.
It’ll be tougher this way, maybe, because humans seem to like to draw extreme conclusions very quick, but I don’t believe there’s any better way for us all to be alright and stay alright on the long run.
