Snow in Takarazuka

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

this is the '10 year mutuals you've never spoken to once' site

People actually check who is following them aside from doing the occasional bot-sweep??

Weird! Follow who you want to follow!

hang on guys I need to prove a point to a lesbian

if this wasn't within the context of "i need to prove a point to a lesbian" i would have voted differently but literally lesbians will have an exclusive quasi-romantic relationship with a "good friend" for 4+ years and spoon each other and whisper sweet nothings into each other's ears as they drift off to sleep in each other's arms and still wonder if the other girl likes them back

Do you guys not love your friends??

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (1995–2001) Season 6, Episode 3, 'Heart of Darkness'

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

Takarazuka Yukigumi Fersen Hen Chirashi 🌹

Have you ever asked yourself: “What does the skunk say?” unmute to find out

what a good and respectful wildlife interaction, from both sides!

sometimes i think tumblr is trying to help me by being a busted shoestring website, like that bitter nail polish parents put on their kindergartners to deter them from biting their nails. “what if we don’t load any images for half an hour, maybe then you’d like to log off and do something else instead?” nah thanks i’ll just scroll past an endless stream of gradients and imagine based on the tags what might be there. maybe keep opening and closing the app every few posts to encourage them to load, that seems like a good use of time. like at this point it’s entirely on me.

>looking for an early modern republic >ask Poland-Lithuania if they're a republic or a monarchy >they don't understand >pull out a diagram explaining the principle of monarchy vs the res publica >they laugh and say "it's a good rzeczpospolita" >go to warsaw >they have a king

but how many of these follow with

>ask about king's job description

>he's the secretary of defense

Don't forget the wedding invite his in-laws put out for his wedding.

He's in Big Trouble in Little China and he KICKS ASS

this wedding invite kicks ass too

[id: tweet from user @/rifflexielian. "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being"]

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