Posts tagged tumblr
onemagpie:
sunflowerinanoldshoe:
onemagpie:
Au where Goncharov and Andrey survive everything, grow old together and sit on a street all day somewhere in the south of Europe
This is my favorite Goncharov post so far because:
1. The concept of an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE for a movie that DOESN’T EXIST is sending me into another dimension.
2. Despite appearing nonsensical, we of course are living in a world where the established Canon of Goncharov is that they do not survive everything and grow old together.
3. Of fucking course Tumblr would imagine a movie with two characters with intense homoerotic subtext, kill them violently with their love unfulfilled, and THEN create AU FAN ART WHERE THE LOVE IS FULFILLED.
And all of it fucking slaps I love this so much
Thank you for the great addition! I’m so glad that people get my joke hehe
bigbigtruck:
A big reason I can prob never truly quit Tumblr is this is the only website where I can read
[goof joke post about, say, Scandanavian geese]
[witty rejoinder]
followed by “Actually? I’m an ornithologist specializing in the migratory patterns of three specific species of geese over the Scandanavian peninsula, here’s a genuinely fascinating short essay about a highly specific field of work and study, I took quite a lot of time out of my day to write this just because I wanted to share my passion, you’re welcome”
it rules
5ummit:
According to the official tumblr @changes blog:
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Staff is currently reviewing the list of banned tags (which of course should have been done BEFORE releasing the update) thanks to everyone who contacted support and made posts about it. However, they also say “we expect the review process to really pick up in January,” aka don’t expect any changes overnight.
- More importantly though, the longterm solution to the Apple Censorship Issue has finally been confirmed: “
a web-based toggle that would allow folks to opt into allowing sensitive content in the iOS app.” This seems to be the same solution that Discord recently employed to allow access to NSFW servers that Apple originally banned on their app entirely earlier this year. This means that, to view posts with banned tags or blogs that have been flagged as explicit on the iOS app, you will have to access tumblr through a browser first and opt-in. This should be something you only have to do once though.
While not ideal, since people using the app will have to be made aware that this option even exists somehow, if tumblr wants to keep functioning as it has been in the past and still provide an app for iOS users this is probably the best outcome. And look, I don’t want to get my hopes up too much, but with this solution in place they might even be able to (at least partially) walk back the
Original Purge and allow us to see… [gasp] female-presenting nipples again.
“The point of the exercise wasn’t really to end up with a t-shirt, rather it was a race to see how quickly I could take something off the internet, through the physical world and back onto the internet again, re-contextualised as a tumblr post.”
“If I’d been in London I probably could have popped in to pick it up Wednesday, a 3 day turn-around. If SubLab had Google’s Neural Network and a shop front you could probably walk in, say “bee hives” or “honeybadger” and walk out with a custom computer AI generated one-off t-shirt within a couple of hours. This probably already happens somewhere.”
–The Google AI Neural Network T-Shirt
But we should not delude ourselves for a moment into bestowing any special significance on this, because when we do this thing that so many of us like to call “curation” we’re not providing any sort of ontology or semantic continuity beyond that of our own whimsy or taste or desire. “Interesting things” or “smart things” are not rubrics that make the collection and dissemination of data that happens on the internet anything closer to a curatorial act; these categories are ultimately still reducible to “things I find appealing,” and regardless of how special one might feel about the highly cultivated state of his or her tastes there is no threshold of how many other people are eager to be on the receiving end of whatever it is we’re sharing that somehow magically transforms this act into curation—that is, at least, unless we’re also comfortable with arguing that “curation” is the act in which Buzzfeed is engaged.
http://blog.mattlanger.com/post/19184734567
