Me: I Don’t Know If I Ever Want To Be Pregnant, I’d Rather Adopt A Kid Or Two That Are A Bit Older

what if we took the kid from this post …

AND GAVE HIM THE BACKGROUND/PERSONALITY OF THIS POST

AND MAYBE WE CALL HIM GREG OR SOMETHING.

I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.

this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

Clint’s been dead, he’s been a murderous spider, this probably wouldn’t even make the top five on his ‘oh Fuck no’ list.  Mostly I think he’d just be super totally 100% over it.

Happy Halloween, bros. :D

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Summer body wishlist: - six wings - a million eyes - constantly on fire - ability to scream forever

This is going to sound whiny, but this is an issue I really struggle with as an artist. I know you said before that artists should try to develop their own styles instead of copying the styles of artists they admire. But what if you can't figure out your style? How do you know what your style is, and how do you find it? I love to draw but sometimes I can't even tell if I like what I'm drawing. I always feel like I'm drawing the wrong stuff the wrong way you know?

I think you feel that way because you grew up in a world that believes the product is more important than the process. And this is the same world that allows only certain, elite people to dictate what counts as art. Or what counts as valuable.

Take the Mona Lisa as an example. It’s a very nice painting, but it’s still just a painting. It’s rotting. It will be gone someday. We think it’s priceless. But it’s not really valuable, and I know this because my mother, who is very important to me, doesn’t have the Mona Lisa on her wall. However, she does have a drawing I made of apples in fifth grade on her wall.

My point is, there’s no rule that says artists have to produce a body of cohesive, unique works to count as successful. In fact, there’s no rule that says you have to make anything at all if you don’t really feel like it. You can burn your drawings and leave this life weightless. You can draw donuts on coffee shop napkins if you want. You can keep your art a secret. You can make sandcastles and watch them melt in the high tide and never show them to anyone.

I mean if it’s practical advice you’re looking for, then I suggest you start throwing things away. Because when you say, “I can’t tell if I like what I’m drawing,” that tells me that you believe that anything you produce is more important than you are. And that’s just not true.

You will always have your skills. However you develop them, for as long as you’re alive, they’re yours. The rest is just stuff—almost all of which will rot and turn to dust or become obsolete. So draw something and throw it out. Draw ten things, throw them all out, and then draw them again. Give your drawings away. Delete the drawings with the most notes off your blog. Fill up a sketchbook and burn it. Finish a drawing and then tear it to pieces. Practice destroying your art so you aren’t afraid of it.

Art isn’t precious. YOU are precious. The skills and the passion come from you. Your style is you. Get into the habit of being in control of your skills to serve your happiness instead of letting the rest of the world turn you into a vending machine that produces only the “right” kind of art.

on monday’s staff announcement

[disclaimer: i no longer work at tumblr. the views expressed here are mine and don’t represent oath or tumblr.]

i love tumblr. i love seeing the endless creativity from this community and the sense of belonging that i and others like me find here every single day. i’ve been a tumblr user since high school, and i feel like i grew up on this website based on how much it helped me learn and develop my understanding of the world, society, and myself. it’s part of the reason i moved across the country to new york to work there in 2016.

as someone who loves this place so much and contributed to its development over the last 2 years, monday’s announcement by leadership to remove adult content from the site was deeply disappointing to me. it’s also part of why i left the company in september.

first, i want to establish that explicit content involving children, as well as the people who share and consume it, have absolutely no place on tumblr, anywhere else on the internet, or anywhere else in general. apple’s policies on the app store and other content are absolutely puritanical in many other senses, but i believe in this specific context their actions were fully justifiable. 

as a platform that prides itself on freedom of expression (this is one of tumblr’s core mission statement values), the move to censor such a large swath of legal and consensual adult content from it is a direct contradiction. the ability to share, explore and connect across the full spectrum of human expression is a core part of what made tumblr into the unique and nuanced website that it is today. it’s also something that david karp fought strongly to preserve.

this change will, without a doubt, also remove a critical platform from countless sex workers who already increasingly struggle to find a safe and secure way to make a living, connect with others, and simply be seen as human beings online. in the wake of SESTA/FOSTA and the subsequent closure of sites like backpage, tumblr has become a place that many sex workers rely on, and removing their presence on tumblr will likely have a highly negative impact on their livelihoods and wellbeing.

removing adult content from tumblr will also remove a safe space that so many LGBT users (including myself) call home. our community is fundamentally based on interactions that span the SFW/NSFW spectrum as an extension of self-discovery and identity (also core tumblr mission statement values), and in many cases for resources that LGBT folks don’t receive IRL, such as LGBT-specific augmentations of sexual health education. tumblr was many of these things for me. growing up in a small town without access to many LGBT peers my age, tumblr was a place i could go to find my community when it sometimes felt like i didn’t have one in the real world. it was a support network when i needed it, and the place where i met some of my best friends that i still remain in touch with today. removing adult content will remove this sense of community and will remove what so many rely on as a safe space for self-discovery and exploration.

to be clear, i understand the reality that it’s difficult to monetize on a network that contains such a mixed range of content, and how cutthroat this can be in the social media space. i still fully believe, though, that there are better, more balanced solutions to this problem that respect the needs of the community while also providing a stable source of revenue to build and grow the platform with.

additional hiring investment in human moderators to aid existing policy enforcement, for example, would be a great start. while they’re very promising, i believe the software tools and algorithms the industry uses to enforce policies like these instead of humans just aren’t ready yet. i’ve seen it in the countless false positives that have already been flagged here under this change, and i’ve seen it in the waves of spambots that wash over this and other similar sites on a regular basis. to be clear, others in this space also grapple with the same issues just as much – tools like machine learning are still new and rapidly developing. however, their relatively higher usage of human moderators as counterbalance is apparent in the relative lack of these problems that end up reaching users. a renewed investment in human moderation, along with anti-spam experts and the other human beings needed to fix these issues, in addition to addressing the growing epidemic of harassment seen across this and other networks, would be a more sensible alternative to relying so heavily on software to enforce such a far-reaching policy.

i love tumblr, and i love my staff family that i had the privilege to work with and get to know over the last 2 years. the people i worked with at tumblr continue to be some of the most passionate and empathetic human beings i know. the things i’ve written here aren’t intended to be an attack on them; i’m writing this because i love tumblr so much, and because i truly care about what happens to it in the future. tumblr played a fundamental part in shaping who i am today, as an LGBT individual, and as a citizen of the internet and the world. it’s important to me that those today who are finding themselves in the same place i was so many years ago when i found this community are able to make a home here the same way that i made mine.

-hunter

p.s. – in the wake of this announcement, please consider donating to the EFF, who work to defend privacy and free expression across the internet, and also to SWOP, who work to defend the rights of, and end stigma and violence against, sex workers. both of these causes will help those who find themselves displaced by this change.

WARNING!!!!

People, please be careful. There are also people tracking children and people and putting bids on them based on their profile pictures on whatsapp, tracking and kidnapping them. Especially young children, so please be cautious, especially parents who have their children as their profile pictures.

Please pass this on to everyone so that they are aware of the danger. I don’t how it is all around the world but I know it can’t just be here so please please spread the word. Thank you.