swarnpert:

animentality:

natalieironside:

thesilvereyedwolf:

dovesndecay:

natalieironside:

This blog is continued on side B. To keep scrolling, please remove the blog, turn it over, re-insert it, and press “play”

Originally posted by juicebox-

Hey op, there are people on here who don’t know what a B-side is

That doesn’t seem like something I would have jurisdiction over

hardtimes:

glowing-and-confused:

So the CONTEXT is that Xbox is releasing Diablo IV and they changed their logo to match that, BUT I’m CACKLING over the idea that Xbox decided 4 days of pride was enough and that the gays should burn in hell now

catgirl-kaiju:

charlottan:

they will never attack my big and large towers

george w bush and sauron have both said this

tiamatrose:

eldritchhbagel:

pocket-deer-boy:

pocket-deer-boy:

No kink at pride is so funny cause what is and isn’t considered kink is inherently ambiguous and based on a power structure of who gets to be considered normal in society. And here you are enforcing it, siding with it.

Like how it’s considered a kink to be into fat people and fat bodies are considered fetishistic in any sexual context but toned, skinny bodies are just for normal people? Yeah.

Like how it’s considered a kink to have sex with disabled people? Yeah.

Like how my mother considers being stealth trans normal but being publicly trans a kink?

Yeah.

kiiraes:

haibane:

as much as i love seeing orcas launching what appears to be intentional coordinated attacks on human ships it also makes me very sad because if it starts to become a genuine problem or even an extremely minor disruption to business people are going to just start killing them and i don’t know that the orcas really understand the power differential they’re dealing with here. that is why i am starting an organization whose mission will be to establish communication with the orca populace and provide them with equipment and training in order to level the playing field and empower them to take control of the seas, with the potential to open up trade and diplomatic relations on their own terms

trekkiesagainstchastity:

teslafactory:

ALT

ALT

ALT

this is the most tumblrified man to have ever existed

I know a guy, but the guy is Google

soracities:

soracities:

i think as a society we should go back to designing furniture w little feet. it would heal us.

please look me in the eye and tell me this doesn’t spark joy

odair:

how is any of this considered blogging

bisexualbaker:

bisexualbaker:

lyridmeteorshower:

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

• Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.
• Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

• Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It’s hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.
• Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

• Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

• Reblogs drive the entire site. If you’d upvote something on Reddit, you’d reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you’re not required to.
• The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top
• You can send an ask to someone, and it’ll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don’t want.
• Tags aren’t actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can’t use quotation marks (“) or commas in them without fucking it up
• You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you’ll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

• You can make polls in posts. Here’s one now.

holy shit it’s a poll

cool!

ooh clicky clicky button!! i wanna press it!! lemme press it!

you can add up to 10 options btw

See Results

• Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don’t:

• Very old posts (I’m talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There’s no such thing as a post being "too old” to reblog
• Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.
• If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.
• You can screenshot someone’s tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called “peer review”
• Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not “creepy” like it is seen as on other sites.
• Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a “yes, and?” attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.
• We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.
• Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say “I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd” and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

• Don’t try to do epic clapbacks here, you’ll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.
• Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.
• Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it
• You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask “hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?” and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It’s generally polite to oblige, but “no” is still reasonable.
• Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don’t get involved in it. Ever.
• Don’t put fandom tags or jokes on someone’s posts about serious matters or personal shit
• You’re responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don’t like, that’s probably on you. Don’t be afraid to unfollow.
• Follower count doesn’t matter much here and you don’t have to make yours known if you don’t want to.
• Reblog, don’t repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn’t “steal” engagement like Twitter retweets.
• If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal
• Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There’s a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

• Get XKit Rewritten if you’re on desktop, it’s a really helpful extension
• In the little drop-down menu next to the ‘Post now’ button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It’s good for spreading stuff out over time.
• You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!
• Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs
• Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

[Image one: The Preference switches from Settings. Image two: The “Share likes and/or following” switches from Settings. Image three: An example of Filtered Tags. End ID.]

Another note on Tumblr Live: You have to manually flip the switch to “on” every single week before Tumblr will register you flipping it back to “off”. I’m certain this is annoying for everyone. There’s at least one blog you can follow with weekly reminders for you to turn it off, but it’s set for Tuesday, so you need to coordinate for that. (The good news there is that you can flip the switch again mid-week if you need to, and the timer will reset!)

Oh! One more very important thing!

Okay, under Settings again, scroll down to the bottom of the Settings options to where it says “Blogs”. Select your account. This will take you to the place where you can edit your userpic, basic info, etc.

There’s a toggle right under your username that says, “Enable custom theme”.

Turn on this toggle.

That’s it! That’s all you have to do! You don’t have to do anything else with your theme from there if you don’t want to.

The important thing is that this will enable your blog to do the thing where it can be [username] dot tumblr dot com, instead of doing the thing where it’s tumblr dot com slash [username], a thing which is much more annoying to navigate, I promise you. Your life will be better if you do this.