Everyone's Saying It But Yeah The New Tumblr Desktop Layout Is Complete Garbage Lmao

everyone's saying it but yeah the new tumblr desktop layout is complete garbage lmao

yknow what i really can't fucking stand. how every social media now feels like it's designed for mobile first but then subsequently there is NO design for desktop and they just kinda slap a mobile interface onto a widescreen canvas and fill it with a solid color. like why is what feels like 60% of my dashboard just negative space on a 16:9 monitor. the entire thing is so fucking claustrophobic and just bunched together. use the space!!!! why are the timeline switcher tabs at the top of the screen getting cut off!!! you could fit all of them!!!

i'm so sorry but i love great expectations. like, when you read it from the perspective that pip and herbert are in love?? oh my god?? everyone i talk to hates it but. ugh. estella and her mother issues w/ miss havisham?? the way she's turned cold, been used as an instrument?? the way pip thinks he's entitled to her?? sees her as a goal instead of a person?? (imo) the way she's bent and broken??? into better shape??? how miss h expects her to still love her after she's literally crafted her to be an unloving woman??! oh god. herbert challenging pip to a fight?? and immediately losing when pip punches him??? them being rich bachelors together? living together? how when pip first meets mr pocket, the first thing he thinks is how he has his son's smile?? how they stare into each other's eyes by the firelight?? HANDEL?? nicknames, oh how romantic. the absolute tragedy of joe and pip??? how joe is out of place in london? how he was so kind and sweet and looked after pip and pip was a total shit to him later on??? ohhhh i love that book

TLDR; Beyoncé’s “Break my Soul” lyrics video was dangerous to photosensitive viewers and this is a scary step in what seems to be a trend of less and less accessibility for photosensitivity.

This has been bothering me for a few days since I first saw warnings for Beyoncé’s “Break my Soul” lyric video. Apparently there is a warning on the video itself now, but this is due to charities such as Epilepsy Action reaching out and asking for the video to be taken down due to the dangers it posed. There was not a warning when the video was first posted.

We are running out of media that photosensitive people can assume are safe or are at the very least only mildly dangerous, and this is part of a trend of increasingly dangerous strobe usage in media. I first noticed this trend with Incredibles 2, and a few months later with Spiderverse. Cartoons used to be something I could count on to be relatively, if not completely, safe, as a lot of lighting effects can be demonstrated differently and in less dangerous ways in cartoons vs live action. Then I started trying to watch Netflix shows like Stranger Things and The Umbrella Academy, which granted, I expected to be a little more dangerous due to their genres, but still wasn’t necessarily prepared for just how intense most of the effects would be. Then came Cyberpunk 2077, which again, I expected to be dangerous because of the genre, but I don’t think anyone could have expected that they would actively choose to simulate the strobes used during an EEG for the “brain dance” sequence (and if the fact that they called it “brain dance” doesn’t clue you in to the fact that they knew exactly what they were doing, I don’t know what will). The Weeknd was proud of his videos being pulled from before screenings of Suicide Squad for being so egregiously dangerous to photosensitive viewers (which I’ve never seen happen before. Incredibles 2 got barely a slap on the wrist and a warning was issued after opening weekend, and Spiderverse to my knowledge still has no warning from Sony to this day, for comparison). And now Beyoncé makes a lyrics video, the one genre of visual media I still felt I could trust, as they’re mostly just plain text on a plain background, and she not only used strobes, but she used red strobes, which are particularly dangerous. Most of the other examples had “artistic vision” to hide behind, which is still not an excuse or acceptable, but it was at least something where I could vaguely understand why the shitty decisions were made. In a lyrics video, there is no such excuse to hide behind, and I have to wonder, have these previous examples shown people it’s ok to endanger the lives of photosensitive people to the point where they feel comfortable putting in dangerous effects for literally no reason at all? What else will become more dangerous?

And while some of these pieces of media I’ve mentioned above have had warnings, usually after release, I think it’s important to note that they made conscious decisions that led to the media needing a warning and that the warnings really shouldn’t have been necessary in the first place, at the very least not to the degree they were.

Please remember to include photosensitivity in your opinions of the quality and inclusivity of media. Because right now, media is becoming less and less accessible to photosensitive viewers and without people outside the photosensitivity and epilepsy communities taking these things into consideration, I can only see things getting worse in that respect, and the “Break my Soul” lyric video is already a scarily low point in that.

Okay here’s some more serious stuff!!!!

I was thinking about pre murder death kill of the dancestors, and how Mituna wasn’t all brain screwed. I DO need to catch up on my lore so this could totes be stupid (like the Heir of Doom and Knight of Mind outfits) and if Latula even believed in his doom prophecy thangs IDFK consider this a headcanon if its wayyy crazy off butttt…. I thought it was sad and sad and ouchie to the heart but also sweet. I made mituna way too handsome and mature but thatz how it is folks!!!!!!

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Thank you Latula and Mituna for being the gamer girl x gamer boy pairing of all time