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to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

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YEAH

They call it January because Frances Janvier shaped the universe

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Last night I had my heart completely WRENCHED after watching Close, so I'm about to make it everyone's problem as I say: Leo and Remi are Melchior and Moritz in another universe.

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I used to imagine the Radio like this

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just realized if hanahaki was real I'd be fucking dead

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This is the best dsmp related sequence I've seen for the past days

i’ve never watched the dream smp, but that ghost man giving the british kid the compass that points to the other british kid made me cry

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If Radio Silence had a theme song I’m convinced it would be this:

@aliceoseman ♡

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Frances and Aled

I love Frances and how she approaches everything with Aled in the end. It's not a 'let me fix you' savior complex, it's a 'hey, I'm here and you don't have to suffer alone anymore. I know I can't "fix you" bc he isn't broken, but if you erm want someone to be there, than I can be that person and maybe you will suffer just a little less," you can totally tell how genuine Frances is about everything.

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Because I couldn’t have just one version of Aled Last’s shoes 💜💚💜💚

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Having friends that are actually nice to you after years of shitty friendships is so weird like wdym you're literally brainrotting with me instead of being silent while I talk about it for me to feel embarassed and stop talking???? What do I from now on???? I never got to this part?????

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EXCERPT #65:

Hello. I hope somebody is listening.

[...]

I think that’s all of the updates I have for you, old sport…! As I said before, the City has slowed down for now.

As a consequence, Solus keeps talking my ear off about how bored they are. They seem to be desperate for me.

Personally, I’m happiest when the City is as quiet as it is right now.

Unfortunately for me, it’s only a matter of time before it gets loud again.

I suppose that’s what Solus is wishing for.

I suppose that’s what I’m dreading.

I understand the excitement. The streets of the City are finally filled with crowds again… The lecture halls will once again be filled with the dread and tiredness of its students… And best of all, to Solus, I suppose, there’s work to do…!

Lots of it. Sure, keeps you busy. Keeps you away from your setup. Gets you out and about.

As much as I can appreciate that - and I do, it’s just… It’s just not what I want to be doing. Ever, really.

All of those tasks that come with the busy season. Fighting cyborgs. Ensuring the safety of these mindless citizens. All without a single thank you.

How am I supposed to have any motivation to do all of that? Without a single piece of validation?

I understand my morals more than anyone else, old sport… I’ll do it because I know I’ll feel bad if I don’t. If I am aware of a situation, that is, a citizen being in danger, if I knowingly do nothing to help… It doesn’t sit right with me. Simple Kantian philosophical thought, is it not?

But despite that… it’s becoming really hard to do any of this stuff at all. Even if it means they get to stay alive. Would I be so wrong to think they’d be better off dead?

I apologise, old sport. I’m letting my emotions get the best of me.

When I say I only wish to leave the City, I truly mean it. Helping these people gets me nowhere.

But I suppose it keeps me busy while I try to find an escape plan. Perhaps I understand Solus more than I imagined. More than I ever could have wanted to, really.

Now, Solus- Don’t even think about sending a letter under my door right now! I don’t want to read any kind of “I told you so”.

[SOLUS]: (muffled, from outside) Told you so…

[...]

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Me and @hwntinguuu after going through a full spring awakening brainrot and building a whole modern universe in less than 12 hours

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We as a society should stop asking people what their personality type is and start asking them if they are a little butterfly, a summer wind or a laundry line

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EXCERPT #64:

Hello. I hope somebody is listening.

[…]

When I leave Universe City, old sport, alive or dead - hypothetically, what will remain of me in my memory?

I’ve been thinking about that question a lot recently, I must admit.

Many times have I spoken on this radio and ranted endlessly about my struggle to make other residents understand. Understand where they are, why they are here and why they also cannot get out.

And many times have I said that it does not work. It never works.

I always knew the City was like this. I suppose the same goes for others - K, Thaila, Solus… No one I’ve met like me was ‘converted’, in some way or another.

I know it’s not a learned awakening. I know I can’t change them.

But is that why I keep trying? All this time, I’ve known I couldn’t, but I keep trying because when I leave the City if no one speaks of my name it would be as if I was never here. It would be as if all my work was for nothing.

I suppose I have you, old sport, right?

I wonder if the City would feel the weight of my absence. Despite their irregard, before I leave, I know that I will be sending formal apologies to the residents. Just in case… Just in case it evokes them. Just in case they realise then what the City is doing. Even if it may break their hearts.

[…]

When I leave Universe City, if I am remembered, old sport, that is the version of me they will remember. Radio who left the City. What about who am I after that…?

They will never know what will become of me. They will never know who I grew into. Are they concerned?

It’s all I ever think about with February.

You’ve grown since I last saw you. What does this mean? Do you own a car? Do you drive- Can you drive? Do you have a place to yourself?

Do you even consider yourself to be the same person as the one I last saw?

Perhaps that is why I am scared. I need people to know who I am but… How do I know that this version of me is who I am?

I suppose we never truly know, do we? 

I hope that - when I do leave - I can look at myself in the mirror and know, deep down, that I am, and always have been, Radio.

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the autism urge to. make yt channel and yap about rollercoaster musical

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forget your mbti are you a Don't Do Sadness person or a Blue Wind person

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merry christmas @chiphavefun !!

aled and frances working on universe city 🌃