#16 years!!!

[mr-merlin]

yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return —you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars

Happy 16th anniversary, Merlin! (timelapse available here ✨)

[onigiri-dorkk]

Wait, this is so fun to think back on. I joined Tumblr all the way back in 2007/2008 around when it first launched. I have no clue where I first heard about it, but I was a xanga user way back when and I do remember being excited with others about this new blog system with better interface and features. I used it for journaling, mainly. And then 2009 was when it got into the ‘tumblr photos’ era with the hipster content 😂 The aesthetic photos with the book quotes. The cryptic poems and song lyrics I’d reblog that captured my angsty feelings. All those things.

16 years later and I’m still here actively using tumblr! I think only around 2019-2021 did I kinda break from using it, but fandom has brought me back into it in full swing and it’s so cool to see tumblr has not left! We fuckin love tumblr!!!!!

How did you find tumblr?

I really enjoy talking with tumblr users so I thought I'd try posting more prompts to get some conversations started.

I was in a nostalgic mood this week and was trying to remember how I first came to tumblr. It got me thinking that it would be cool to learn other's origin stories. I'll go first.

Even though I'm a big nerd who loves Star Trek (DS9 4 life) and Anime (Fairy Tail forever) it was WordPress that brought me to tumblr. Back in 2010 while in college I worked part time for a WordPress theme shop called Obox Themes. They were looking for new markets and decided that tumblr themes would be a good area to get into. I fell in love with how easy it was to modify my digital home and how there was a whole community of people hacking and releasing themes. Creating a WordPress theme from scratch would have been impossible with my skillset then but with tumblr I could do anything with my handy CSS guide and a few energy drinks.

Over the years what kept bringing me back was the themes. They were funky, weird and sometimes a little broken but who cares. It seemed like the entire web was trying to be grown up but tumblr was Toys R Us, they said it’s ok to be a kid. I loved that. Whenever I felt like I didn’t belong anywhere else I’d come back to tumblr and make a new theme (https://www.tumblr.com/themes/by/nick). I use to love clicking on the installs and seeing what kind of fun folks were using my stuff. What kind of people liked the weird stuff I did. It's your turn. What brought you to tumblr?

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[nemkero]

atla au but nothing changes except sokka is taller and zuko is shorter

[hinamie]

surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024

[3rdsday]

Anyone ever remember when a 16 year old untrained/amateur actor delivered such a convincing portrayal of trauma and severe depression that people were asking if he was doing okay in his real life and he had to clarify that things were going great for him. Or just me

[mcyt-cats]

I can only imagine the sheer chaos in this house right now

[froody]

Look. I’m going to be honest with you. Adopting that hard anti-plastic surgery stance while trans people’s lives and right to transition is at stake is absolutely horrendous timing. Knock it off.

[crimeronan]

once when i was ten, so seventeen years ago, i was on one of the neopets forums that was in 2006 frequented mostly by edgy teenagers with pete wentz urls who wanted to get around the ban on romance and gay talk to discuss mcr members making out. and it was well past midnight and i was secretly on an extremely clunky laptop the size of a modern desktop, sitting on my top bunk in the tiny room i shared with my sister. and i do not remember the forum topic at all but at some point one of the participants politely asked me, "hey, how old are you, anyway? twelve?" and when i honestly replied "ten," he responded:

"WOAH. Kid, you'd better get off the boards. Wandering the Neoboards at 2 AM is like walking nekkid through the Bronx with your wallet dangling from your nipplz."

and this frightened me so much i slammed the computer shut and went to bed immediately. seventeen years later i still remember this message word for word. including the filter-avoidance misspellings. i need everyone to know about this formative childhood memory. bronx wallet nipplz guy if you're out there hmu and tell me what ur deal was

[pixiel]

This does not include obligatory 18+/16+ warnings on websites or online shopping - this is purely how others perceive you. Feel free to leave your age in the tags and how many apply to you!

[junotter]

Part 2 of my modern avatar au, The Gaang (part 1)

[cas-poisoning]

destiel fans genuinely we are so lucky that Misha is our guy because nothing drives that man more than a need for attention and a lack of ability to feel shame

[shblackwoodart]

i was sad because my laptop cant run veilguard so i painted foolish in inquisition tarot style welcome back to 2014 i guess

[slavhew]

hm

[zorangezest]

you guys are never gonna guess what i watched recently

IVE ACCUMULATED SO MANY