The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.
Optica is a clean and simple theme with tons of customizations. It sounds impossible, but it’s true. Layouts, colors, fonts: Everything is up for grabs. Optica can transform into anything you want—as long as what you want is a blog.
Overview
Clean, versatile theme for any kind of media
Grid or column layout
Customizable colors, fonts, links, and all that other good stuff
Documentation
Header Image
If your avatar is a picture of your face, your header image is what you see when you close your eyes. It should say, “yeah, this is who I am.” Or at least what your blog’s about. If you don’t like the way the header image looks on your blog, you can play with the “sliding header” and “stretch header image” settings or turn it off altogether.
Avatar
Since your avatar is the most familiar part of your Tumblr appearance, we thought it’d be nice to include it on your blog. But if you don’t like it, that’s cool too. You can hide it from your blog settings and it’ll only be used on the Dashboard.
Blog title design
There’s something like 12 trillion different combinations of fonts and colors. Play around until you land on one that’s all yours.
Background and accent colors
There are no wrong colors.
Disqus shortname
Built in. Easy and fun!
Google Analytics
No code tweaks. Just plug in your Analytics ID and you’re off to the races.