Radio silence comic fanart12/6/2023 No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit nobody would want to listen nobody would want to stay.It was all sinking in. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork. The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.Īs I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.īut since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. I'm not going anywhere as long as this site exists. i say this not to be a downer, but to be realistic. I know that something else will exist after tumblr and that nothing gold can stay, but i don't think the specific kind of joy found here can be recreated. I don't know that it can be recreated elsewhere. I've never seen anything like it in my 20-odd years of being Very Online, and I was a minor BNF in WolfStar during LiveJournal days. if a ton of the user base gives up, that revenue disappears. ad revenue is based on impressions and clicks. buy premium, get yourself some badges, get yourself some merch, but use the platform. it's not the only part of the problem by a long shot, but I would be remiss not to mention it. the absolute feral anti-premium, anti-ads, anti-tipping, anti-everything tumblr tried to do to make money is part of the problem. Yes, the user base is part of the problem. but it is also in part because the user base has been so viciously anti-monetization that most attempts were killed outright. from my observation, it's in part because Yahoo had absolutely no idea what to do with this platform, and then when Automattic bought it they also. you should still buy premium, get merch, etc, because this is definitely step one of the shutdown process, but a maintenance mode designation is basically to see if tumblr will generate a revenue without putting more money into it than strictly necessary. it does not mean tumblr is shutting down. most of the staff will be allocated elsewhere (or possibly laid off, though it looks like from that memo that's not what they're planning to do). the staff that remains working on tumblr will be maintaining the status quo. Literally what it sounds like - Automattic is not going to be hiring new staff, investing in new product features, or doing anything new on tumblr. Hello! I work in tech and here are some important things to know about "tumblr is going into maintenance mode." please note I do not work at tumblr, I've just worked at tumblr-adjacent sort of companies for my entire adult life and i've gone through this before.
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