You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that’s happened gradually, and which I’ve seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I’m not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it’s due to the homogenization of social media sites? There’s a lot more of this divide between “content creator” and “consumer” instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. “Asks” aren’t really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an “ask” on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
tell me why this budgetless gay youtube series made for fun by a group of friends has the best editing and writing of anything i’ve watched in a year.
also tell me how this single scene can contain every single one of the top three most iconic lines in history.
THIS IS WHERE THAT FUCKING MEME COMES FROM?!!!!
The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo is HANDES DOWNES the best series of anything to have been made by anyone ever. You’ll laugh you’ll cry you’ll quote it forever and be silently disappointed that a person you thought would know it doesn’t know it & then you won’t know how to accurately convey HOW MUCH it means to you without sounding like you’re overselling something well anyway
I full understand that it is not appropriate as response to talking about the various roles of christianity in colonialism and Christofascism,
However as its own thing, I think its an interesting subject how the Bible is supposed to be the fundamental source of Christian doctrine, BUT most of the “traditional values” of christian conservatives and ideas that are powerfully associated with christianity…just Are Not In There, or are only mentioned as brief, isolated side notes amidst much longer and more detailed passages discussing something different
Whereas many ideas that are emphasized HUGELY in the Bible are just totally and completely ignored by these rightwing political folks 
Much of Christianity is not actually based on the Bible, but instead on a bunch of traditions and later writers, but protestants have problems with admitting that.
And as someone who was raised very “sola scriptura” i don’t even get why church tradition matters for anyone. Who cares what Augustine thought about abortion. He was literally just a guy
It’s not like I exactly AGREE with everything in the Bible or identify with any religion anymore, but at the same time it’s kinda rad that this ancient compendium of religious texts is rabidly anti-capitalist and describes the early believers forgoing private ownership of things and communally sharing all possessions according to the needs of each
evangelicals: see this one passage poetically referencing God knitting someone together in their mother’s womb clearly means abortion is murder
also evangelicals: i’m sure jesus didn’t mean it when he said you have to give away your possessions to the poor if you have more than you need, and that even if a rich person follows all the teachings to the letter they will not be part of the kingdom of heaven unless they sell all they have and give it to the poor, and that it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven, and that we’re supposed to hang out with the most marginalized members of society and visit people in prison and purposefully identify with the lowest social status. Homeless people are probably on drugs and don’t deserve handouts, and poor people should just work harder. Jesus would love capitalism and wants me to have 10 guns
To me, this has to be like a case study in how organizations can end up deviating horribly from the principles they are ostensibly based upon.
Like y'all how could you possibly fuck it up this bad
I’ve seen posts comparing christianity to other religions in the sense of having a robust scholarly tradition that debates and reinterprets things, and Christianity DOES have that but I think the trouble is, Christianity has a tendency to get rid of people that come up with politically inconvenient ideas
There were plenty of Christian communists in like the 50s and 60s. But in the USA at least the Evangelical Right rose to power and now you don’t hear about that very much.
And the Evangelicals are still eating their own and it’s brutal and fucking scary.
Like…y'all know VeggieTales? Yeah so the guy that created VeggieTales has a podcast these days where he talks about things like how evil and heretical nationalism is, and how the white American church needs to repent of racism because racism is deeply embedded in our history, and how American exceptionalism is wrong, and maybe gay and trans people having human rights isn’t an attack on our faith, and the Evangelical Right has basically dumped him and slandered him as a “groomer” and “pedophile”
What about folks who have therapy via Zoom? Court hearings? The list goes on. If you’ve got any Zoom alternatives, or maybe preference for one of the ones we listed with why, reblog please!
This cat is so, so friendly and stoked to be there, though! Look at all the leaning and rubbing on people and things, the upright question mark tail; this is a very cuddly cat who wants attention, lmao. 💜
Okay but I LOVE that they’re playing the William Tell Overture and that cat is STICKING IT OUT even through the loud bits.
Is Chris Evans Steve Rogers or is Steve Rogers Chris Evans?
good
“Fellas, is it gay to be a good father?”
Shout out to Harry Hill
I think Piers is somewhat of a national laughing stock by now
if I don’t reblog a good burn on piers morgan, assume I’m dead
The logic of “Brands will only hop on the train if they can prove it’s profitable” makes it so much funnier when they clown on this fool. “Yeah we crunched the numbers and we found it to be profitable to call this clown out in public. Jacob hit the post button.”
“That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial.”
–Timothy Snyder, PhD, Levin Professor of History, Yale University
