Cross the world together from this sinking ship.

The Short Explanation:

You posted one of the following things more than once (especially relevant if I talked to you about it):

• Anti-gay material
• Anti-gay slurs
• Triggers for self harm, eating disorders, and/or suicide (Confused? x / x)
• Jokes about self harm, EDs, and/or suicide
• Rape jokes
• Victim-blaming or “slut-shaming” content
• Extremely judgmental posts about others opinions
• Posts being generally derogatory or prejudiced, even as jokes

These are pretty much an immediate unfollow from me, unless I know you in person in real life, in which case I’ll probably talk to you about it first. A repeat offense, though, is pretty much a promise to unfollow. Also, sometimes I will refollow if you’ve been posting triggers during a tough time but stop doing so.

If you have questions about these things, ask me.

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The Long Explanation

So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the people I tend to surround myself with, and how, up until this point, I’ve tended to build my relationships with a certain degree of compromise and neutrality. I don’t ike to cause arguments or rock the boat or anything, I guess. 

But I’ve realized that constantly being bothered by things that people say or do and not feeling like I can or should speak out against those things, and then still considering that person a friend… that’s not good for me. It annoys me and upsets me and makes me angry and hurt and offended.

Thankfully, leaving for college has kind of automatically purged my real-life friend group of these sorts of love/hate relationships. Unfortunately, it hasn’t done the same for my online people.WHich brings me to Tumblr and some of the things I see frequently on my dash: slurs, bigotry, insensitivity, and general ignorance.

I do have Tumblr Saviour, and I DO use it, but I think it says something about the people I follow when I have to out in the words “fag/got,” “rape,” and “nigger” because I see them so frequently.

That being said, I’ll be unfollowing some people in the coming days. It’s not that I dislike you as a person; if I did, I never would have followed you in the first place. It’s that there’s a high enough frequency of things I find offensive or things I disagree with within your posts that I’m just tired of seeing. 

There comes a point where no amount of liking you have for someone makes their vulgarity or prejudice okay. And I’ve just generally reached that point.

Questions, comments, and concerns about this can go to my ask or submit.