daily knowledge: tumblr's main headquarters are located on 770 broadway in new york city, which is honestly not shocking in the slightest
androidmaeosauridae
- they/them
tabletop rpg obsessed, particularly lancer, icon, cain, the treacherous turn, eclipse phase, and pathfinder 2e. also a fan of the elder scrolls and star wars, an avid gamer and reader of webcomics, and when my brain cooperates, a hobbyist writer.
the urge to share my creations versus the horrifying ordeal of being perceived. fight of the millennium. anyway posts about my ocs are tagged with "mal's ocs" (minus the quotes). posts about or containing my writing are tagged with "mal's writing" (again, sans quotes). posts about my sci-fi setting specifically are tagged "the eating of names". i'd pin the latter two if they were actually among my top 15 most used tags lol. fair warning, my writing tends to be quite dark and deal with some heavy themes.
avatar is a much more humanoid depiction of my OC Arwen Tachht than is strictly accurate, made in this Picrew. (I have humanoidsonas for my non-humanoid OCs because I cannot draw them myself and must rely on dollmakers and such, hooray chronic pain)
pillowfort
www.pillowfort.social/siliconereptilianI keep finding myself doing it, because that's a time-honored tradition on Tumblr, and then thinking "what if this bothers/inconveniences Cohost users in some way I'm unaware of" because I don't want to be one of those people who expects Unfamiliar Site to work exactly the same way Familiar Site did. That kind of shit has annoyed me every time Tumblr got a new wave of social media refugees from TikTok or Twitter or wherever (though Reddit refugees seem to have avoided this), and now that I'm picking up Cohost as another social media I am currently browsing about as much as I browse Tumblr these days (and now that Tumblr is positioning itself to get Much Worse™️), I would like to avoid falling into the same trap.
Twitter is made out of brain poison. Elon owning it is a problem, but not the problem. I will never join bluesky because it's made of the same brain poison. I made that same mistake years ago when I first left twitter, people had fooled me into thinking the problem with twitter was that it was owned by a company. Again, a problem but not the problem. And mastodon turned out to still be made of that brain poison, and being owned by one million different hobbyists didn't turn out to be an improvement over being owned by a company.
I'm glad I didn't jump ship from anything for cohost. I'm still on tumblr and I'm having fun there. Tumblr is also made of brain poison, but it's the kind of brain poison you can have recreationally like weed or alcohol, not the kind that will make me miserable unless I overdo it. I have fun on tumblr if I'm careful, whereas if I click on a link to a tweet there's an 80% chance I'll spend the next 5 to 60 minutes making myself miserable. I have fun on cohost too, I think it's a tumblr-type brain poison. Or maybe its own type of brain poison. Haven't yet had any really bad experiences by which to evaluate the nuances there.
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