#// beta editor

[rpschtuff]

I've been hearing from multiple people that their older blogs are being forced into the beta editor with no access to legacy -- it seems like Tumblr is beginning to actively phase it out. So this is another reminder to the RPC to please go ahead and familiarize yourself with the beta editor and the trim reblogs extension. You are going to be forced into it sooner rather than later, and many of your partners are going to be stuck on the new system -- continuing to use the legacy editor exclusively will actively create issues for them. Switching now will make the transition easier on everyone.

This is not the end of the world. The beta editor is not nearly as bad as you've heard (most people I know who've made the switch have come to prefer it), and there will only be a brief learning curve. You can find my guide posts about the beta editor and trim reblogs here, and I'm happy to answer any questions about it that you may have.

[mysterioussinkhole]

UPS FUCKED MY SHIT UP SO NOW I EDIT

Hi. UPS fucked up my PC and I have to buy a new one, but I have just moved to a new city to escape anti-trans legislation and my job does not start paying me for another month. SO:

Have a WIP you need beta-read? A class paper that you’ve looked at for so long that it no longer makes sense? A first draft novel in need of a review before being sent out?

Hi! I’m Lee/mysterioussinkhole and I can help. I’m an honors English/Creative Writing graduate and an experienced editor who can help unfuck your shit. For just $0.005 per word, I can copy edit, leave detailed editorial comments, and provide suggestions for changes.

DM for further info

[wip]

I am just wondering when tumblr will phase out / say goodbye to the legacy editor and fully change over to beta?

Answer: Hello, @blue-beast!

Right now, we are still working through feedback. But, as things stand, we plan on removing the legacy editor sometime later this year. You’ll hear about it on @changes when we start that removal process.

We would love to give you a more definitive answer, but that is as good as we can say right now. Thanks for your question, and have a good day!

Love,

—Cyle

[devilsmenu]

@rainbowmuses cont. from here because beta editor

"No, it's not, especially when you live in a chaotic home and don't even know what to do you in your life because of it and mislead your way" Heiya replied with a sigh. "Sorry, I don't usually rant with strangers" she added.

[ineffableobikin]

Bestie fic writers, it’s time for another edition of Helpful Homophone Hint from your friendly neighborhood beta!

If you’re pulling on/straining something — a string, tension, a Force bond, etc. — you’re pulling it taut.

If you once learned something from a teacher, you were taught.

I naturally have an eye for these kinds of homonym mixups, so it’s okay if you don’t! Let me beta read your fic and I’ll catch all these for you. 😃 It’s my way of giving back, for all the hours of enjoyment fanfic has given me!

(As always, fic writers, thank you for sharing your work with the world!! I appreciate you!)

[kayoticmusings]

open to: 21+ f/nb preference, but m if willing to do a slowburn! muse: joshua walsh (w.ill p.oulter fc) - 30 - former chef/reformed bad boy, current security detail background: josh and your muse have been flirty/playful for a while, but josh finally opens up and lets them know how it's making him feel. as always, take a look at my rules first, pls!

"listen, if you keep up acting like that, one day i won't be able to be held responsible for the way i respond. it's not my fault you're this fucking adorable and that it really turns me on."

[rcsegld]

open to: f/nb plot: i asked you to wait for me but now i'm back and you're with someone else

perhaps it hadn't been fair of him to ask her to wait. actually, there was no perhaps about it, he had known when he'd asked that it was the most selfish thing he could have done. he should have told her to move on, to find some one who could give her all the time and attention she needed, someone who could treat her the way she deserved. that would have been the selfless thing to do.

alex knew it hadn't been fair of him to ask, and yet that didn't stop the jealous rage that threatened to engulf him when he realised that she was with someone else. she had been his beacon of hope, the only thing that had kept him going, and yet she had left him behind. showing up to her house wasn't fair either, but he needed the closure. there was no hesitation in him when he lifted his fist and rapped sharply on the front door.

[dcbutinamrev]

If anyone is interested, can someone beta read my fic My Dear Kelly? Especially for historical accuracy? In a way? World history is not my strongest suit. That will be a great help

[fettfleisch]

legacy editor - bring it back

@staff​ please bring back the legacy editor. Please make it possible for us to choose between the new and the goooooood old editor. The new one is messing up so many photo and video based blogs. It’s not working out with templates, layouts and aesthetics. This concerns almost every blog here, with only the newest ones being not affected. So please BRING BACK LEGACY EDITOR (THE OLD NORMAL EDITOR)!!!

share this please, if you feel the same

[mvsicinthedvrk]

@tragcdysewn said : “I’ll spend forever wondering if you knew.” wangxian you said go feral 🥰

"If I knew... what? You don't have to waste your time wondering, just ask," Wei Wuxian laughs.

[mxnaluv]

BOOK UPDATE #2

Just an update!

Anne is the name of the book, and I'm planning on finishing it by summer 2025!

(To be clear, I'm only doing this to keep me motivated and track my progress. I also appreciate everyone who encourages me and has been supportive of me throughout my book-writing process!)

Summary:

It's about a girl named Anneliese who comes from the kingdom of Rosemore and marries a Prince named Julius. When Anneliese comes to the castle, she notices that the staff, especially her husband, acts a little weird around her. Anneliese wants to get closer to her husband and find out why he keeps pushing her away.

Reblogs, notes, and comments are greatly appreciated!! And My Requests are always open!

Writing Update: I've started to go ahead and edit the first five chapters since it would give me motivation to keep writing! Also, I kinda ditched the idea of a journal and I'm going to just keep the planning I have now! Also since I'm editing the first five chapters myself, I really want others to read my book for feedback so stay tuned! I might just upload the first five chapters for you guys to read!

[rpschtuff]

Trim Reblogs Tutorial

There are quite a few of these already, and I sort of have one buried inside my super long editors guide, but most I've seen are a bit outdated so I wanted to make my own separate guide to the extension.

Installation & Set-Up

You will need XKit Rewritten, a browser extension which you can install here.

Once XKit Rewritten is installed, you'll need to open up its options wherever the extensions are in your browser. For my Firefox, it's up in the top right. Find Trim Reblogs and turn it on. (You can go ahead and turn on anything else you like, too. There's some cool options in there.)

Trimming

Now that it's installed, let's go to a thread. I'm going to add a third response to this sample thread here.

I'm going to start by puting it in my drafts. (If you've never drafted a post before -- click to reblog as normal, then use the drop down arrow next to the reblog button and click Save as draft. You can access your drafts by clicking the user icon in the top right of Tumblr, then click Drafts under your username.)

Now that the post is in my drafts, it looks like this.

You'll see that there's a new icon along the bottom that looks like a pair of scissors. This is the Trim Reblogs button.

You can use Trim Reblogs either before or after you've written your reply. Here's what if looks like if you trim the post before adding your reply.

I'm going to click the trim button, which brings up this menu.

This lets you select which of the previous reblogs you would like to delete. You can see the username of each reblog as well the beginning of the post. Selecting the first item and leaving the second, as shown, is what you'll want to do most of the time.

Click Trim and the selected reblog(s) will be removed. The post now looks like this in my drafts.

I can now click the pencil icon to edit the post and add my reply in the editable space.

Then save back to my drafts until it's ready to go, or just post it!

Now let's do the other way. Here's what it looks like if you trim the post after adding your reply.

I'm going to go back to the same post in my drafts.

I'm going to edit it as is and add my reply, so it now looks like this.

Now I'll click to trim and see the same menu as before, but now with three options since I've already added my response.

You'll notice that you don't have the option to select the most recent reblog -- that's because it's the one you just wrote. Again, you will almost always want to trim the first post while leaving the second.

After trimming, the post looks like this in my drafts.

And I'm free to post it.

(Previously, you could only use Trim Reblogs after your response had been added, so older guides may still tell you to do this. The extension has since been updated.)

Glitches & Troubleshooting

There are a few issues you run into while using trim reblogs. Most of these I go over in my long post, but I'll restate some of them here.

First, trim reblogs works best if everyone involved is on the beta editor. The legacy editor will cause some weirdness, especially if the very first post in a thread was made using it. The most common is a glitch where your response will weirdly duplicate after posting. I've gone over fixes for it in this post. TL;DR - the easiest way to avoid it is to always trim the post before adding your reply, but you can also correct it by using Tumblr's built in remove reblogs feature.

Second, if your partner uses editable reblogs, you will have a hard time cutting their posts using trim reblogs. This is because editable reblogs breaks Tumblr's formatting and causes two posts to be "combined" -- trim reblogs can no longer recognize the previous responses as two separate posts. That incompatibility is covered extensively in my long post. You can sort of get around it by copying your partner's reply, formatting it in a blockquote (or whatever separation you like), then adding your own underneath. It's unwieldy, but it works.

If you want to transfer a thread cut with editable reblogs to being cut with trim reblogs, you'll need at least one post that isn't cut correctly in order to facilitate that. I've gone over that in this post.

[maiwritesbooks]

beta reader needed!

hello,

I'm looking for a beta reader to look at the second draft of my recent story.

Big thank you to @liv-is, @th3interlud3 & @macabremoons for helping with the first draft (@ing in case you wanna help again :3)

Same as before:

would someone be able to read my short story and give me some honest & constructive feedback? It's soft sci-fi vibes(along the lines of Margaret Atwood and Ursula Le Guin) and only about 1,700 words long. i want to submit to a writing comp but need another pair of eyes on it for developmental reasons.

Pls feedback on:

is there anything you don't understand?

any problems with tenses?

any paragraph/aspect you think could be developed?

spelling mistakes?

Any other pointers?

Triggers: threat, implied violence

Please message me if you think you can help. I'm willing to feedback on a chapter/short piece (inc. poetry, fanfic etc) of your writing in return. Thank you.

[curestardust]

tumblr really thinks this is improvement. im dying. the new editor is so fcking ugly

[empathiie]

@mischiefxmuses | Louis & Fleur.

"Mère," He'd made a habit of breaking and entering, at least with his parents' home, and he was almost shocked that his mother seemed to be waiting for him. He was usually at the bar or his own apartment, he didn't see his parents as often as he would have liked -- it was the same way with his sisters, but he was trying. That was all that mattered, he thought. "I'm just visiting. Pourquoi as-tu l'air suspect?"

[ineffableobikin]

PSA for fic writers! The word you want is almost always “tenet,” not “tenant,” as in: the tenets of the Jedi code, as opposed to say, say, the tenants of the Jedi temple (since they live there). My brain works this way — pleeeeease let me read your fic before you post it!! Even if it’s a quick grammar/spelling check! Let me help you!!

Also: it’s almost always “discreet” you want, not “discrete.”