A little poll for my fellow queer people from a curious single lesbian with no relationship experience. Please reblog for a wider reach!

Please reblog for a wilder sample size.

For research purposes: please let me know how you feel about reading Fic in first person POV

For reference first person POV is just any fic where the narrator is a person in the story using “I” to tell the story

Please reblog for a wider reach!

in need of voluntary translators for urgent aid to earthquake survivors in turkey and syria

translators without borders has made a call for volunteers that speak the languages of the affected regions to help aid in humanitarian relief.

if you speak at least two of these languages:

please sign up to volunteer. we really need all the help we can get.

would just like to say that i have REACHED MY FINAL FORM

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Tumblr and the No Good, Very Bad Idea

So. You might have heard the news that, as of July 12, Tumblr is testing out converting GIFs into looping MP4 videos to help pages load faster:

This is bad. Tumblr is the only mainstream site left where you can post GIFs and they’ll continue to be GIFs - well, sort of, as Tumblr previously tested and implemented turning GIF into GIFV with the same purpose, and it decreases the quality of the original GIF file. Turning them into MP4 videos is even worse.

GIFs are GIFs. They’re not videos. Creators spend hours making a GIF that will look good as a GIF, not as a video.

I hope I don’t need to explain to anyone why continuing to screw over creators is bad for a site like Tumblr, whose continued existence depends on creators not giving up on it, and why gif-making is important to fandom existence.

I for one will not continue to make any more gifsets if I know they’ll just be turned into MP4 files. It’s disappointing to spend my time making something and watch it become ugly once it’s uploaded - and that’s what is already happening without the MP4 conversion.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

Don’t bother sending a support ticket! They will tell you to do what I’m about to tell you:

Send an ask or submission to @wip​ - the official “work in progress” blog of Tumblr where people can send in suggestions.

Their ask box is open every Monday from 6AM to 6PM EST.

The conversation isn’t over, guys, but it’s important to be a part of it. If you’re a creator or support creators (and you should), then set an alarm on Monday and go send them a message.

Happy Stranger Things 4 (Part 2) Eve everyone! On top of the next episodes being released in less than 48 hours, July 15 will mark the 6th birthday of this blog. We’ve experienced member hiatuses, three additional seasons (with one more on the way), changes in how content is posted to Tumblr, and. you know. a wholeass global pandemic. All since this blog was founded. Six years and 87,000 followers later, we’re still here and would love to celebrate this blog and the whole Stranger Things show with you all.

So, over the next month, we offer you these prompts to get your creative minds going - feel free to create whatever you want, be it gifs, edits, art, or graphics, posting as much or as little as you want.

We will of course be tracking our usual #dailystrangerthings tag, but to make sure we catch all event-specific posts, please use the tag #dstturnssix so we can reblog all of them!

If you have any questions at all, feel free to send us an ask or message @buckleyrobin​ directly.

Please reblog this post if you’re participating and to spread the word!

Hello, everyone! In honor of it being pride month I want to do a fun little celebration. And since I’m super lesbian I thought I would do a sapphic pride celebration. So I will be doing a series of edits of some of my favorite sapphic characters! And you guys get to help me decide which characters will be included!

Instructions:

Tagging a few mutuals below the cut! (If you would help me signal boost it would be greatly appreciated! If not, no worries <3)

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Closing today!!!!

Hello, everyone! In honor of it being pride month I want to do a fun little celebration. And since I’m super lesbian I thought I would do a sapphic pride celebration. So I will be doing a series of edits of some of my favorite sapphic characters! And you guys get to help me decide which characters will be included!

Instructions:

Tagging a few mutuals below the cut! (If you would help me signal boost it would be greatly appreciated! If not, no worries <3)

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some of you may've heard about that fancy "bionic reading" typefont thats supposed to be easier for neurodivergent people to read (if you're unfamiliar, it bolds the first few letters of each word to make it easier to follow)

well guess what, its locked behind a $500 a month API to write in because fuck you!

introducing, Not Bionic Reading! it is literally just the bionic reading typefont but for free. god bless neocities

anyone who can, pls reblog!

robinsonjudy ➵ anthonysharma

tagging some friends :)

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Trans and gender nonconforming friends: This is a smear campaign in disguise targeting trans people. There is a fraudulent organization disguising as pro-trans attempting to recruit trans folks in hopes of including them in an anti trans documentary to be. This documentary is being proxy-coordinated by Matt Walsh, his crew members, and members of PragerU. If you receive a message from anyone claiming to be from the Gender Unity Project, block them immediately. Warn your friends of this set-up as well. The more people know about this scheme, the more likely it is to fail. Full information to follow:

All of you stay safe and stay alert. I’ve got your back, always.

Here’s a link to Eli Elrick’s Twitter thread.

And here’s a couple of articles about what is going on: Daily Dot, Daily Beast.

Actually reblog this version if you find it the link I tried to put in gave me a picture instead lmao

zavens ➵ robinsonjudy

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KYOSHI ANIMATED SERIES PETITION!!!📢📢📢

I got kicked out for being trans, help please!

I’m not the one to ask others for help, but my situation has gotten really bad and I don’t know where else to turn to.

My parents found out I’m trans yesterday and I got kicked out. I was told to pack up and leave. I’m from Eastern Europe and a university student. They were paying everything for me, from school to depression meds to food. I’m at my friend’s place now but I can’t stay here forever and I need money for the next school year which starts next month, meds, food, utilities… until I can figure out a job. I honestly feel really desperate and miserable right now, I’m freaking out so bad :( I feel confused, betrayed, my head and chest are throbbing from crying and overthinking… I feel like I’m suddenly at rock bottom and things were already bad for me with depression and dysphoria. Things are so overwhelming. I don’t even know if what I’m writing makes sense. I just need help to stay on my feet right now, I can’t afford to stop attending university amongst everything else too as you really need a degree here not to live in absolute poverty until the rest of your life. One year is about 1143 american dollars or 970 euros, which is the least I’d need for now.

I know this is a lot to ask for but please, if you can spare even a dollar/euro/one unit of whatever currency, please help me out! And if you can’t, please please reblog. And thank you unbelievably much

https://ko-fi.com/martasfund 

@/brownblaze on Twitter

There are no new links from Ms. Yates, though I second giving directly to individuals and families (or those who can send that money to their families). General communications seem to still be down in the South (WhatsApp might be working for some), but they're working on it.

Fanm Djanm on IG has posted this:

And here are the Instagram links:

Ayiti Community Trust

Hope for Haiti

Grown In Haiti

Bati School

Two links suggested in the replies of the previous tweet :

This organization Little Footprints Big Steps was already accepting donations from the previous earthquake to help families in Les Cayes (where the recent earthquake hit nearby)

Haiti Air Ambulance is another that works sitting emergencies to help airlift victims to emergency medical care providers

There's a lot going on, but ever bit can count!

tracking #userels

hi everyone! i’ve been struggling with my tracked tag for a long time so I’m going to be using a new one! I will be tracking #userels from now on! I love seeing peoples edits so please tag me in stuff! I will check my tag regularly and reblog stuff from it!

Please only tag me if you follow me and if it’s from one of my fandoms which you can see here (mobile) or here (desktop)! Thanks, I look forward to seeing your edits!

i think it is quite telling that how the wildfires in australia was trending for months and everyone around the world was screaming about how terrifying it is that climate change affects us. turkey and greece had been burning for days because of the extreme heatwaves and there are so little information about it going around, let alone trending or whatsoever.

this above, is a great map example of how the extreme heat changes are causing wildfires, because the entire agean sea and east mediterranean is on fire as we speak. turkey is around 46°C, and greece 43°C, with the approximate ground being 53°C. these fires are not in only forests, but they are in the city centres too. antalya and almost every district of muğla had been burnt to ground, and it keeps spreading to new districts, with athens, the capital city of greece facing extreme difficulties because the fires had reached there at last. also many of the small islands in greece were affected and electricity went off in athens, the biggest city of greece. our animals are suffering, and more of them are dying each day.

these photos i am putting below, are from istanbul and izmir. none of those two cities had experienced any kind of fires in these last week, but the entirety of the cities skies had been painted with these colours and even at almost 40°C, the sun is almost invisable because of the waves coming from greece& south coast of turkey causing an "ash rain". this is just the beginning of the end because every year the heat keeps getting worse and worse, meaning that the wildfires become more and more dangerous each year. climate change isn't just something special for america or australia, but small countries are suffering too and it is way much harder for us to fight these, as both countries struggle with stopping the fires. if it keeps going this way, next year will be much, much harder for us to stop the fires and more lives will be gone. this is no joke.