I s'pose I’ll be more active here now. This will be my new pinned until further notice.

Anyways, hi! I’m Michelle, or Seraph, or whatever you may wish to call me. She/her/hers. I’m 22, Jewish, and currently finishing up undergrad now officially have my bachelor’s degree in psychology! I write fic and draw sometimes.

Current MAIN fandoms are TWST and Obey Me!, with a side of Shining Nikki and FFXIV. GW2 is my baby though and I will never shut up about it.

This is a multiship and pro-selfshipping environment. I write reader inserts so it’d be hypocritical of me NOT to support those things. TERFs and SWERFs are not welcome here.

Original posts will be tagged with #seraph speaks

Writing will be tagged with #my writing

Art will be tagged with #my art

All NSFW will be tagged as such (with NSFT), and anything I believe skirts the line will be tagged with #nsfwish. Please block as needed.

I will have an updated character page…… eventually.

spookydazechaos:

gallifreyanfairy2000:

nayters:

I don’t get why this is horrifying other than it being a mass shooting?

Is it that they used up so much ink to make a point?

Read closer, each of those lines is a different incident

zetsubonna:

thankyoumskobayashi:

relaxxattack:

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

Good news! You can let Tumblr Staff know what you think about every version of Tumblr in a way that they might listen to! Here is a long survey from a blog associated with Staff and here is a short survey from the same blog. The blog, although full of surveys, does not allow reblogs. However, I took the long survey and later they improved one thing I complained about, so there is a chance more people complaining about changes could halt their enshittification. I cannot retake the surveys, so I must ask you all to send feedback where I cannot.

Pasting these links all at the end too for ease of access:

Long Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP

Short Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W

Staff’s 2x Secret Userbase Research Blog (with unrebloggable posts): https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite

i fuckin love a survey I tell you what

siliquasquama:

judacris:

calvinandhobbescomic:

… wait a minute.

nerianasims:

Studios Are Terrified That the Strikes Will Reveal the Truth About Streaming

We are now part of the Summer of Strike. After failed negotiations with the studios and corporations who run the entertainment industry, bot

Pajiba

“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”

viridianriver:

ladyshinga:

OceanGate tried to scrub the internet clean of traces that it ever existed, taking down its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages

OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration company that created the Titan submersible, has removed its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn a

Insider

poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the “reblog things forever” website

Oh yay it’s the “cover evidence before the court case” move

It’d be a bummer if there were hundreds of pages of their content archived on the internet archive

Or backups of their YouTube channels

contortionyx:

jaijabbers:

speakswords:

Just saw a Barbie ad here for the first time. It is starting, folks. They must already be desperate if they’re buying ad space on TUMBLR.

Do not reblog official marketing or ads from struck works

including (but not remotely limited to) Barbie. They are advertising here because their actors are on strike and will not promote their products.

Barbie is not a struck work. It is okay to reblog barbie content. It’s done and finished. Going to premiers for it is crossing the line. But going to the regular ass movie is not.

Read me and read me good: not seeing Barbie is a great way to show execs that we don’t care about writers and actors.

Let me say that again: going to see Barbie is GOOD for the strike. Many people who WORKED on barbie are striking. They probably have not been paid yet.

The unions HAVE NOT asked us to picket the movie. Just the premier.

The original post is disinformation.

I believe it to be coming from a good place but avoiding works that are NOT being struck is genuinely harmful to the cause.

Also, the Barbie movie has been advertised on tumblr for a while now…waaaaay before the SAG-AFTRA strike was even being talked about (at least publicly). Idk if I was seeing official ads for it or if it was fan content before the writers’ strike started too…

asmomyluv:

Cause this is such a cool idea! I know a lot of people hc that the pact marks are all over your body but it makes sm sense that for the brothers they’d be in some symbol. Imagine MC wearing a backless too just to show off their marks for all the brothers. Litterally being the only human in history to have a pact with all seven avatars.

metanarrates:

metanarrates:

genuinely think that most bad takes on fiction online stem from the fact that people don’t engage with fiction as a constructed art form and instead view it as somehow generated from the ether

a TONNNN of fandom people particularly begin and end their conversations with “[character] or [event] is problematic” or “[character]’s actions make no sense] or even "wow I love [character!!!]” without analyzing in the slightest what literary devices were employed and to what effect. this is kinda okay if you’re just talking about a character you like, but it can still lead to pitfalls in your understanding of the overall story, and that’s ESPECIALLY apparent with some “criticisms” i see of certain characters in stories.

bc guess what! characters are storytelling tools! they’re fun, sure, and if you know me you know i LOVE to rotate some little guys in my brain. but characters, just like everything else, are elements of a broader story. and it can sometimes be a very reductive criticism to be like “[character] is a bad person” if you don’t grasp that they were constructed by an author.

like okay, WHY are they a bad person? does the narrative condone their actions? are they presented uncritically as a good person? did the author intend for them to be seen as a bad person? are there biases, good or bad, in how the author presents this character, especially compared with other characters?

also: what role do they play in the broader narrative? do their actions have thematic weight? what about tone? is this work intended to be comedic or dramatic? does that make their actions have different weight due to that? why?

a story is not (usually) just a simple retelling of events that happened in an author’s dream. characters and events are intentionally written. and sometimes they can pack quite a lot of unintentional baggage with them! but you have to start at base 1 of understanding that characters often exist in conversation with a work’s themes before you can get to the real juicy criticisms

grimauxiliatrixofficial:

Oh Yeah, Tumblr Ads Are So Fucking Back

comicaurora:

my tumblr dashboard hasn’t gotten the updated UI yet so hearing more and more people I follow gradually post about the nightmare they’re currently living just feels like I’m in the first fifteen minutes of a horror series where Troubling News Stories are starting to crop up on the radio and on blurry background TV sets