all blogs must pass

hey all, the time has arrived. after many years, it’s time to sunset good ol’ dangermousse. it’ll be staying up as an archive for the foreseeable future, so no worries there! but from now on, my main personal blog will be over at owltypical. and of course, my art and webcomic blogs will remain where they are.

thanks for all the many years of following, those of y’all who’ve stuck it out, and hopefully i’ll see you over at the new one too!

@rivalanemone on twitter

i know ive said this before but everything automattic has been doing for the past year-ish.... it's fucking surreal seeing this website run by competent management

and honestly i think ppl need to stop outrage posting about "how DARE tumblr demand money from us" or "tumblr devs are stupid if they don't realize we're all using ad blockers" is like. they do know that. that isn't the point

the point is that these are ways of monetizing the website that don't involve selling your data. i PROMISE it is better this way than for them to go down the facebook route and treat us like products they can sell to third parties

if you disagree with various tumblr policies that's fine! you don't have to pay for tumblr blaze, or tip fellow users, or pay for ad-free. but do notice that all three of those monetization options treat us like clients, and in one case, allow us to give money to other tumblr users! something many of us already do!

These are great points. Whether we realize it or not, most of us like tumblr because it’s not monetized the way other platforms are. For example, one of the main reasons I’m still here is because the site allows me to view posts chronologically instead of algorithmically (which of course goes hand-in-hand with targetted advertising).

It bears mentioning again that tumblr is very different from other social media sites today. As you say, it has (relatively) minimal advertising and data collection. It doesn’t use an alogrithm to manipulate you into spending more time here. It doesn’t force you to download an app (the tumblr mobile site sucks, but at least it exists at all). You have a lot more control over your experience of tumblr than your experience of Instagram.

In my opinion, they’re asking us to help make this style of platform financially solvent.

splushie my beloved

it’s cool to see the nimona movie come back from the dead via netflix and all the various other neat animated movies and series and specials that streaming services have been taking a chance on in recent times (or reviving after abandonment by other corporations)

but also it’s been several years since netflix’s animated series adaptation of jeff smith’s bone was announced and the last vague update on it was last summer, i am absolutely dying for even the vaguest of teaser images, jeff pls

welp, just found out that netflix’s animation department got super fucked and one of the casualties was the bone animated series which is now no more, guess that answers that

(via 🔥 Young condor 🔥)

He eat

what sort of fucking demon is that

Just a little boy.

Old dudes never fall for dogs, right?

forget the rooftop concert the apex of get back is when ringo announces he’s farted and paul literally yeets his coffee cup out of there

I am a Gen Xer, and I've been having some conversations about photography and selfies lately, and I want to share a little bit, because I think younger queer people don't quite understand what things used to be like.

I have no snapshots of the era of my life in which I was smootching girls behind the tilt-a-whirl at a shitty traveling carnival in a dusty empty lot. In fact, I have no pictures of any of my friends from that era aside from yearbook pictures of the friends who were in my school. I was a little goth teenager and many of my friends were also punk queers. We could not take pictures of each other.

Why? Because pictures were taken on film. And film needed to go somewhere to be developed. And if there were pictures of people "being gay" then sometimes your whole roll would disappear at the photo processor. Or your 36 exposure roll would return only 32 pictures to you. Because the processor would censor it. And aside from that, you had to be cautious about whether a photograph would somehow be seen by parents, who could kick your friend out of their house. Just because someone was holding hands in the background of a photo.

Snapshots were for kids who did sports and wholesome activities.

A little later, I had a friend who took photography and had access to the school photo lab (the art teacher didn't care as long as no one was developing nudity), and there were some photographers who hung out with the skater kids. But prior to that, there was a whole era of my life, people who were super important to me for a time, that I just don't have pictures of. At all. Because it wasn't safe.

I found myself recently explaining this to a younger coworker and another colleague in the meeting, a gay man about my age, was nodding along. This was an important facet of life if you were a queer teen in the 80s. You didn't have pictures of your people until you knew someone with use of a darkroom.

Related!

part of what got me into photography in high school 98-02 was this. parents can't touch or know about what you develop at school and store in your locker. i was also lucky to have a very supportive photography teacher.