The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
PLEASE PARTICIPATE THIS NEEDS TO BE BIG SO WE NEED TO FOLLOW THROUGH!
There is a particular take on the destruction of Tumblr that I keep waiting for someone to write, but no one has yet. Which means I apparently need to do it myself.
The take is, essentially, that not only should adults have access to adult content – in itself, valid and true – but also it is important to cultivate SOME social spaces where the overtly/explicitly sexual overlap with the non-sexual. (Not all spaces; I still think it should be illegal to have sex on the sidewalk. But SOME spaces that enable the sexual and the non-sexual to exist side-by-side)
Part of what I think leads to the dehumanization of sex (and subsequently allows the stigma and shame to cling so heavily to it) is the complete bifurcation of life into SEX and EVERYTHING ELSE and never the twain shall meet. When we – at every turn – put all aspects of human life into one sphere, and sex into another, we dehumanize it. We remove the full subjectivity of people from it, which is a problem.
I think we need to actively cultivate spaces LIKE before-time!Tumblr where we can be people, and talk about what happened at work today, and the funny thing our dog did, and how our parents make us crazy during the holidays, and how dare they do X thing on Supernatural, and here’s a great version of that distracted boyfriend meme, and ALSO be able to talk about being horny on main, as the saying goes, and find the right porn clip to fap to. Or post nude selfies. Or hunt down that sweet, sweet NSFW Symbrock fanart.
Having spaces where the explicitly sexual and the non-sexual overlap is important to humanizing sex and, subsequently, de-stigmatizing it (which, it should go without saying, is particularly salient for marginalized people who often suffer way more heavily from sexual stigma)
tbh i don’t even think it was “risk” at that point… it was “die a good man or become a monster”. Will fought so hard and for so long to do good, to fight the thing in him that does delight in violence and blood and to fight his love for someone for whom violence and blood are all there is
He’s been trying to be a good man, he’s spent years trying to be Molly’s Husband™, someone who is kind and soft and loving, who went through some bad shit with a bad guy but put that behind him and is trying to rebuild his life into something normal and hopeful and good.
And when he comes back to see Hannibal in prison, he still wants to be able to be that man. He worked hard to build himself that Good Thing and he wants to keep it. Wants that to be someone he could really, stably be.
But he spends all this time with Hannibal and he realizes… that isn’t him. That’s a character he’s been playing, and maybe could’ve kept playing, but it’s not him the way the man he is in Hannibal’s presence is. He still wants to be able to go back (that life is so much softer and easier and he has fought this so hard and for so long that giving up feels like rendering every sacrifice made along the way worthless) but he knows that he probably can’t
And after they kill Dolarhyde, he knows he can’t. There’s nothing for him there that could possibly compare to the way it felt to kill at Hannibal’s side. To the way it feels to lean his head against Hannibal’s chest, blood soaking the both of them, and just be held. Now that he knows what this really feels like, how utterly incomparably beautiful it is, there’s nothing else for him
He’s in love, and he is loved in turn, and he can’t hide that from himself any longer.
He’s in love with a monster and he wants to be with that monster. He wants to kill with that monster. He wants the horrible blood soaked life that monster is offering him, and that’s the only life he can see himself wanting now at all—but he still, desperately, wants to be good.
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