Interviewer: I have to ask you the most important question now. Is it true, or not true, that you decided to this Rogue One prequel series because they’re gonna put Jabba The Hutt in it so you can touch it?
Really? It’d be a shame if everyone kept circulated this story and reminded people until he leaves.
Remember, this isn’t just a matter of a pen name. He invented a whole damn person, lied to colleagues and supervisors told them that he was receiving work from this person, and pointed to the nonexistent writer as an example of the diversity and inclusiveness at Marvel—while using the lie to write some of the most godawful stereotypical shit about Japanese characters, protecting himself by claiming it was a Japanese person writing it.
So this happened to me a few days ago, and I thought maybe sharing my experience could help someone if this happens to them in the future.
I was checking my Tumblr when suddenly I was logged out from it and given the usual Log In page. When I entered the details to access my blog, this appeared:
My heart skipped a bit. I tried to re-enter the details (maybe I got them wrong the first time), but no, the same message about Termination was shown. I typed my blog URL and got the
ominous
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Same thing with my sideblogs.
So obviously I was very worried. I contacted the Tumblr support but didn’t get an answer for 48 hours, only an automated reply. I already started mentally saying goodbye to my blogs, my posts and all my followers, when finally I recieved their answer:
(In case you can’t see the picture, it says:
Hello, We’ve restored your account. Thank you for bringing this problem to our attention. We’re sorry that it occurred, and we’ll do our best to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. You should now be able to log in just fine with your email address and password. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with.
My blog was restored and working normally. All my sideblogs were intact , and so were my posts and my followers. The only thing that was lost, is all the conversations by Messages. The people with whom you talked are still there, but all the history of the conversation is gone.
Alright so here is what you should do if this happens to you. Don’t panick like I did Click on the “contact support” link provided in the terminated window. Alternatively, go on Tumblr.com/support.
Politely explain your situation – give your blog URL, your mail, tell what happened exactly. I understand that the situation can be upsetting, but the person who will read the message and try to help you isn’t directly responsible for the termination of your blog. And sending an angry message with insults isn’t the best way to get your blog back either.
Wait for the reply of the team. If you feel like it takes too much time (more than few days for example), try to fill the Help/Support form again.
Once the team is in contact with you, keep the polite tone. Normally if your blog didn’t go againt the Tumblr rules and policies, you should getit back like I did.
on symbiote pronouns… i’ve settled on “it”, but that’s definitely not because i mean to say, like, no gender = no human. i only mean to say alien = no human, and it’s sort of… i don’t want to say reclamatory, but something i have a thing about… not holding the symbiote to human standards. “it” is also used by Big Time Monster Sympathiser Eddie Brock in canon, which i took as a sign that he sort of… sees it similarly to me… and the symbiote doesn’t disapprove.
like, when someone goes “you’re not human/like us, you’re worthless” you can either go “i actually am human/like you, therefore not worthless” or “i may not be human/like you, i’m still not worthless”. there’s a real trend where, for non-human characters, more human-like is equated with more sympathetic, and it just… annoys me.
(remember how rad legion from mass effect was? and then their big moment of pathos was going from referring to themselves as “we” to “i”? that was the big indicator of them having “a soul”, just straight-up lying about what they were or actually downgrading themselves to something more palatable? dumb.)
it’s kind of like how some people dislike the symbiote not having its own name, calling it “venom” or “v” or something because a name to be called by is kind of a basic, important marker of worth and identity for a human. and my instinctive reaction was always more like… it doesn’t have a name, it doesn’t conceptualise itself in any way humans understand, and that’s #valid. i’ll go with it.
but this is just an explanation. so if it’s upsetting people, i can switch to “they”.
Kind of an interesting idea, is they’re so Hive-oriented that they don’t even give themselves names? Like, maybe the group structure is so much more important than the individual, and then later in life their host-bond is so much important than the individual, that they don’t even bother.
I mostly use it or he because english is stupid (x) and because I have similar thought. It is the symbiote, he is Eddie Brock, they are Venom. Three pronounes so that it’s more easy to use them to refer to the one I want to talk about because someone doesn’t have a name.
I must admit I was too focus on Eddie’s naked ass (which is everywhere) to notice poor Peter’s situation. Have a Peter Parker being all seductive to the symbiote:
I have no idea why they draw Spider in a black suit at that time. Maybe he didn’t have time to make a red one? Since the reason he found the symbiote was because his red suit was trashed.
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 