#Absolutely no pornbots either

[masquenoire]

“You sons o’ bitches got polls?”

[posttexasstressdisorder]

To my tumblr homies...

...and y'all know who y'all are...

Let's hope the coming year isn't nearly as bad as we think it's gonna be.

Something tells me there may be something out of the ordinary happen in this shitshow that we can't see because reasons.

Reasons like doomscroll propaganda, like Yet Another Influx of Bots...pornbots, russian psyop bots. liking posts from 3 or 4 years ago, and following.

Case in point, one I blocked yesterday: seemed to be someone "on our side", with multiple posts generally supportive of the Good Guys, but in their one-page-blog, there was 1) an antimask post, and 2) an antivax post, and 3) a political post basically saying we're doomed.

I'd advise everyone to block all unfamiliar usernames, especially those with obvious pornbot names like "sweetemily98", etc. See unfamiliar usernames in your likes or follows? Nuke-em!

These past ten days away from posting have been odd and rough. One of our number, my brother-from-another-mother in eastern OR called me out of the blue two days after xmas to tell me his wife had passed away that morning. This one hit hard...wonderful lady, he and I have been bros for 25+ years now...the two of them were beyond kind when I went on my big road trip in '13. They loaned me their vanagon to camp in for a week...just wonderful folks. And she made a damn fine breakfast. Please send some love to my bro. He'll know.

As for my situation, I tried to just let myself collapse for a few days. Tried. Downstairs neighbor situation gone DefCon4. Banging/thumping long into the night, and all day. Noxious chemical smells, several different ones, wafting up through the floorboards. Sometimes I wake up with my bronchs completely closed, especially when she uses one particular one.

I am, essentially, being poisoned in my own bed. They refuse to change their behavior, except to maybe bang less loudly. Chemical fumes come up through the floor like they are IN MY BEDROOM.

I did some googlin', and I think I figured out what they're doing: the daughter is probably making fake braids and "weaves" out of synthetic hair. google the dangers of that shit. I'm at wits end. I've had the manager up here a couple times to listen and smell but they always stop what they're doing when he's here...they see him walk up the stairwell.

She came up and screamed lies at my front door, trying to make all the other neighbors think I was the bad guy. She says the noise I hear is "children next door running up and down their livingroom". Bullshit. Bitch responds when I say something loud enough for her to hear: either gets mad and slams it all harder, or takes whatever it is into the bathroom, which is just as bad, and makes worse smells.

A few times she tried to bang softer, but every thump hits me in the kidneys. My PTSD is off the hook. I could not sleep for four straight nights. She went until 3:30 am one night, regularly goes until after 1am. Absolutley unresponsive. Absolutely not taking responsibility for endangering my health. I have asthma. These fumes are literally killing me in my sleep.

She refuses to do this in another part of the apartment, like the living room, or the kitchen where there is a VENTILATION hood, no no no she HAS to do it right under my fucking bed.

I am a nervous fucking wreck. I just re-added up bills for January and now I am gonna be like $45 short. I put one fucking gallon of gas in my truck, afraid to put more. I will have to only partially pay the Electric bill, I guess.

Living in abject poverty, in what is essentially an un-safe place that costs $2800/mo. And the agency that is trying to find me a roommate said i needed to "lower my price" to $1300/mo, but that won't pay the fucking rent.

I got notified in October that I am on the "waiting list" for a really cool "seniors only" subsidized complex in Berkeley that is on a creek, next to a park, run by a nonprofit org, that will take 1/3 of my SSI as the rent. I might actually be able to...you know, LIVE.

But it may be literally YEARS before I can actually end up there. I went back to the listing, and they say "no previous evictions", so if I finally am evicted for being broke, I won't be able to get into that complex.

I have no idea where i am on the list, I have no idea how many old people would essentially have to die for me to finally get an apartment there. I've been doing my best to just keep repeating a little mantra of "my new address is..." all the way down to the zip code. Over and over. I don't know what the fuck else to do.

The stress of this shit, plus the incoming shitshow that we all know is gonna happen, feels fucking lethal. But I'm a PTSD-stricken, broken old autistic nearly 66 year old man who can't really keep up the energy to "mask" enough to leave the house and get groceries, so what do I know.

I know I woke up screaming from a nightmare this morning.

I feel like I'm being hyper-acutely "Spidey-Sensed" to death. And as I typed that, the thumping from downstairs started in again.

Drums. Drums in the deep. That never stop. I am living in the fucking Chamber of Mazarbul. Literally.

I am gonna wait until tomorrow to start posting "regularly" again. My energy levels are not gonna allow me to do the three radio show posts, I will have to cut it back to one a day. So that brings me to another point:

All the shows are on my archive page.

I made this a week-long poll, to get as many responses as possible before I make a firm decision.

To wrap this post up, thank you to all of y'all who have been so loving and supportive. Y'all are essentially all I got right now.

As we approach this symbolically "new" year, I hope we all wind up in better, safer, more humane circumstances.

Love y'all,

PTSD (aka Mr. Baggins)

[erika-xero]

tumblr owners seem to forget how absolutely everyone left the platform after the previous owners banned tiddies. these news will either turn tumblr into a dumpster fire or into a cemetery roamed with pornbots

пиздец

[a-very-tired-jew]

Absolutely wonderful to go through the replies on the GFM pornbot scam post and see people getting called out and/or revealing their absolute bigotry and antisemitism, but it's done by accounts that I've either blocked or have blocked me.

Yet I still haven't made it on a blocklist.

[phantomram-b00]

Okay so I’m joining solitary of the strike curtesy to Bisan from 21st to 28th for Palestine as they are actively in need of our help, i advice all to do the same. But I see an alerting thing that I need to address rn. To spread awareness and to make sure my mutuals/followers don’t fall victim into this.

So there even donation scams going around this app, such as:

I’ve saw two more of these, one of me was posing as a Palestinian Mother with two kids whilst the other claimed to need money for their lungs. Now I wish I had these screenshots to prove my claims but at the time I wasn’t sure if I was going crazy or was the only one having this gut feeling. But today, I realize this has been an alarming thing. This just happen to me, and I’m finding out, this is how they’ll get you:

Typically, they’re use your AMA to ask for donation, whether it on their animal, children, etc that require their donation usually by PayPal. Another is that, they’ll randomly follow you and immediately use the AMA to try to get you to either donate to them or signal boost their donation. Usually their story will be a copy paste as it more than just one. This situation is truly worse than p*rnbots. And frankly it absolutely disgusting.

If you want more proof other than the proof I just showed above, go search on Donation Scam and you’ll see many of these scammers. Here are one I can provide as there more than one incident where this happen:

Now to try to prevent this from happening I will link also a blog that goes in depth on how to prevent something like this from happen to you ghost pals or your mutuals or followers so they don’t fall victim into this:

What can I tell you, my mutuals and followers is that, please report them and block them is this does happen to you.

“But what if they’re being truthful”

I wish I can tell you, but the sad truth, it can be tricky because it the internet, as much as it a place to connect, it can also be a place to deceive you. So the best advice as I can tell you is be on your P’s and Q’s. Because years ago I was scammed and hacked for trusting a source I thought was factual. So I don’t want that to happen to you Ghostly Pals. And for my mutuals/friends, please be careful. 🩶 but I do have an advice, save their photo and run it by a photo finder I personally use TinEye and see if the image have been posted anyway, but if you have another you prefer even better:

Originally I was gonna make a post about boundary regarding the AMA but now that I see this have been a new scam running rampant on tumblr, I can’t keep my mouth shut about this and I need to let this be known. But I will still say, please only use my AMA for asking questions or telling me things whether it’s Good omens related or whatever. Please don’t use it to ask for donations like what these scammers are doing. I hope this doesn’t make me sound like an asshole but I just want to be safe. Until then please spread this around, make this known. Please.

I will like to thank the people whom I’ve linked as if it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have known that this was an ongoing problem so I advice you look at the links and listen to them as your speading awareness.

[jayjayartzz]

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🌄💜Welcome to my Blog💜🌄

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🌄 names Jay or JJ!

🌄 bisexual and non-binary(pronouns are She/Her or They/Them!)

🌄 furry artist

🌄 writer (personal writer just btw!)

Hello! Just a little something about me and along with what you’ll be seeing here on my lil blog! As stated above I am a furry artist, so you definitely see a lot of my art that contains my ocs that’s apart of a au I’m whipping up! I’m also apart of a lot of fandoms, so you’ll occasionally see me post about them here! And about the writing part I’m not a professional writer, but I’m still trying out new things when it comes to writing and I’m very excited to soon share some behind the scenes with you all later in the future! My art skills aren’t that amazing, but just like my writing skills I’m excited to try new things when it comes to me art skills!

I do of course apologize in advance, because there will be a lot of times when I can’t post any drawings due to me working or just unmotivated…which will happen a lot lol.

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BYI:

• I’m a slow artist, so please do keep in mind it will take me a while before I can post some art but just know you will get a drawing as soon as the drawing itself is complete!

• As mentioned I’m apart of a lot of fandoms, so this does mean you will see me either post, reblog, or even draw things apart of said fandoms…a lot SO BE PREPARED >:)

• I do get a bit nervous, so if you do dm me just know it might take me a while to respond due to my hands being sweaty lol but I’m a very…well…interesting person to get to know I don’t mind making new friends!

• ALSO ASLO !! You may see me post pictures I take of the sky from time to time this is something I personally LOVE to do from time to time and I’m excited to share those things with you all !!

DNI ‼️‼️:

• Anti-LGBTQ+ will be a IMMEDIATE block.

• I don’t mind NSFW, but again it’s something I’m not comfortable with sharing with others atm so for the time being it remains with close friends for the time being. So please don’t ask.

• Racism is an ABSOLUTE no. You will not only block, but reported if I see any of that. I do not take racism lightly.

• Pedo’s, proshippers, anti’s please stay far away from my page I don’t need to say what’ll happen if I see any of that.

• By the power of Christ and the holy grail of Cloud’s tears PLEASE TUMBLR NO PORNBOTS LEAVE ME BE😭

Also be sure to follow me on my alt acc!

💜 @greatestsincomic 💜

I will be posting my comic on there soon!

But anywhoooo~! That’s it for now!

Stay tuned~!

[cinamun]

Don't mind me if this isn't case anymore because I have anons turned off, but it used to be the case that if you blocked an anon and then went into your blog settings to edit your Blocked Tumblrs, you would see who the anon was and could unblock them if you chose to do so. It wouldn't bring back the message, but if it still works that way, you could at least (privately) know who to direct your questionless answer to.

If by chance you've been busy blocking anons left and right in the interim, you can test it out on this one.

But this is @greighish/@maxfaiden, so please unblock me after testing. Please.

Hey friend!! So I did that but its only showing me that the last person I blocked was a porn bot lol so unless a pornbot loves me I don't think that's it! I don't have you blocked either (because you're super dope) but I will absolutely double check!!

[purgatorychxsm]

Alright. I don't think it's realistic to say at any point I'll be coming back to tumblr in any capacity for writing. There's a lot of reasons why, but most of it kinda circles around to me just, not really having free time like I used to.

and the free time i do have? has really just been spent on gaming. Sure I like writing but with Tumblr now making it even more effort to write with people [and edit posts, etc], and just the constant stream of pornbots...

Idk man, I'm just over it.

I'll get back to RP on disco probably. After that I guess we can just call this an indefinite hiatus, tho i'll probably log in to reblog stuff to my personal since that's a sideblog.

To everyone that's been around, y'all are fuckin' cool. ♥ People who want my discord can either IM me for my username, find it on the blog somewhere, or just IM me your discord. whatever.

It's been an absolute blast. ♥

[transmascfrankiero]

all of mcr’s songs ranked out of ten based on whether or not you can strip to them:

romance: could work if you were going for a Super Melancholy smiths-esque vibe but overall too slow and pretty. 1/10

honey: headbanger soundtrack to showcase your revenge body to ur ex. bonus points for underlying ‘gonna murder shitty boyfriend’ context thanks to audition-inspired video. but slightly too angry to be seductive. 5/10

vampires: too goth, too many feelings. reminds me of pot dreads frank. would not work. 0/10

drowning lessons: this song is cursed and cannot be listened to in public unfortunately 0/10

sorrows: if u were going to do a strip routine while beating the shit out of someone for trying to stealing ur tip money this would be a gr8 choice 6/10

halos: it’s about blowing your own head off and taking too many pills to cope w/ wanting to die all the time. 0/10

turnstiles: please do not!!! strip!!! to a song!!! about 9/11!!!! what is wrong w/ you!!! -100000000/10

monroeville: if u were doing a private lil strip dance for your george a. romero-obsessed s.o. where u both cry over the idea of having to kill the other person b/c they turned into a zombie then sure??? but other than that no. .5/10

best day ever: ehhhhhh. too fast. kinda weird to get sexy to unless u have a hospital kink. 0/10

cubicles: wow the thought of doing a strip routine to a song about pining for ur coworker who doesn’t know u exist is too sad to even joke about -20/10

demolition lovers: it’s a long song but it’s got cool tempo changes for variety and if u got the stamina then go for it. 4/10

helena: so, like, i get it. it’s a bop. u could dance to this beat for sure. the costumes and color scheme from the video make for gr8 stage pictures and the dancing corpse lady is v pretty. i could understand why if u were doing an emo strip routine u would want to use helena. but please for the love of all that is holy do NOT strip to a song gerard way wrote about his dead grandmother okay i am BEGGING you -∞/10

give ‘em hell kid: FUCK YEAH YOU LOOK PRETTY WALKIN DOWN THE STREET IN THE BEST DAMN DRESS U OWN. 10/10

to the end: this would be a hilarious choice for a bachelor party ngl 7/10 for that alone

prison: absolutely you could strip to this song but u gotta COMMIT okay u gotta light something on fire onstage and challenge gender norms while screaming your head off 8/10 but only if ur not a coward

i’m not okay: it’s a bop, but can u strip to it? no. 0/10

ghost of you: mikey way did not die on a beach in fake normandy for u to strip to ghost of you. seek help -5/10

jetset life: dude this song like. actually works??? for a strip routine??? so long as you don’t actually listen to the words, from a musical perspective, u could totally strip to this 10/10

interlude: what kinda weird catholic shame kink do u need to have to strip to this song. also it’s too short and too pretty. -5/10 (unless ur into catholic shame idk)

venom: this would require such a high energy routine but if u can make being sweaty work then this is a gr8 choice 7/10

hang ‘em high: this is a BATSHIT INSANE choice for a strip routine but if u want to do it then PLEASE do. i like ur style. 8/10

deathwish: u can strip to this only if u introduce ur routine by dedicating it to everyone who ever said eyeliner on dudes was gay. 5/10

cemetery drive: i think not. 0/10

never told you: if u are a highly theatrical highly murderous stripper then yes definitely 7/10

desert song: this song is Way Too Beautiful to strip to sorry you can’t have it -300/10

the end.: the only sexy thing about this song is how good gerard’s voice sounds so no. 0/10

dead!: this is a bold fucking choice but u have to play your cards just right. high risk high reward but SO much to potentially get wrong 6/10

how i disappear: u could. but why. 2/10

sharpest lives: holy SHIT yes ABSOLUTELY u should strip to sharpest lives. the drama. the beat. the spy rock guitar that frank accidentally nailed. this is one of THE choicest options from their catalog. why aren’t u stripping to this right now 50000000/10

wttbp: cute idea but don’t actually 0/10

i don’t love you: again, a bold fucking choice. u could strip to this in an edgy, meta sort of way but it’s missing the trashy factor so it’d have to be part performance art and part strip routine. if ur into that then totally 5/10

house of wolves: i mean i would pay money to see someone strip to this song so 7/10

cancer: LMAO YIKES -2000000/10

mama: this would be GLORIOUS if u fully embraced the sheer insanity and went Bonkers in Fuckin Zonkers burlesque-show-in-hell w/ it. 100/10 but u gotta pound the floor wailing at some point

sleep: i’m conflicted on this one like on the one hand it’s a good tempo for stripping but on the other hand it’s a song about being cruel to ur loved ones in order to force distance between u and them b/c you’re terrified of them getting hurt and it being all your fault. so maybe don’t strip to this one actually 0/10

teenagers: a bop w/ a great beat and fun costume ideas from the video but two major drawbacks being 1. ur getting naked to a song about teenagers which is uhhhh sort of Inappropriate and 2. it’s kind of also about school shooters which is also Inappropriate to get naked to. 0/10

disenchanted: why would u want this. you sad fuck. idek what to say except if you want to strip to this song i’m crying on your behalf -100000000/10

famous last words: don’t????? don’t. Do Not. stop that. -12/10

blood: this is HILARIOUS omg please strip to blood 10/10

kill all your friends: sure?? no objections but it’s an odd choice. this goes for the demo too. 2/10

heaven help us: if u want to strip to this then you definitely just read unholyverse for the first time and while u are valid, Don’t 0/10

my way home is through you: not an especially sexy song but it’s fun!! you do you 3/10

astro zombies (cover): uhhhhhh it’s a no from me dawg. i’d be thinking about danzig, like, the whole time. 0/10

desolation row: sure but u gotta be willing to get punched in the face by the riot squad for maximum effect 4/10

common people (cover): just b/c gerard would strip to britpop doesn’t mean u can. 0/10

emily: NO!!!! -50000/10

party at the end of the world: nah. 0/10

not that kind of girl: literally please consider the subject matter of this song and rethink ur life choices. -10/10

all the angels: it’s a cool song but don’t strip to it that’s weird -2/10

jack the ripper: you and the person who wants to strip to astro zombies can go sit in the suicidegirls corner together how about that. 0/10

na na na: a banger!! strip away my friend 9/10

bulletproof heart: a good song but not a strip song 1/10

sing: sorry this song is [REDACTED] it gets no score

planetary (go!): you could try to strip to this but it’s such a classic four-on-the-floor that i think you’d end up just regular dancing to it and forget to be sexy so 4/10

the only hope for me is you: are you doing a strip tease for michael bay. stop. put ur shirt back on shia lebeouf 0/10

party poison: like this is a hilarious option and i support you but realistically it’s pretty fast for a strip song 3/10

save yourself, i’ll hold them back: this is a safe option. Too Safe. almost soulless. a person who’d strip to this would avoid eye contact the entire time and never smile and later when you went out for a smoke break you’d overhear them on the phone with their ex arguing over child support payments. 4/10

s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w: the more i think about it the more fun the idea of stripping to this becomes so i say go for it 6/10

summertime: i’m Certain that gerard would prefer if you didn’t -5/10

destroya: is this objectively the best mcr song to strip to? Absolutely. it’s got everything you could possibly want right down to built-in moans and fever dream drums. but the only person in the universe who Can Must and Should strip to this song is gerard. sorry them’s the breaks. ∞/10 but only if you’re gerard way

kids from yesterday: don’t. 0/10

vampire money: 100% yes you should strip to this. bonus points for stealth twilight references 1000000/10

we don’t need another song about california: do i like this song? yes. is it sexy? no. 0/10

black dragon fighting society: i can’t understand what the FUCK gerard is saying in this song AT ALL so i can’t recommend that u strip to it b/c i have no fucking idea what it’s ABOUT 0/10

f.t.w.w.w.: i mean. this song is about eating pussy. and robots that are built specifically to fuck. so yes you can strip to this but you gotta dress up like a pornbot 100/10

mastas of ravencroft: again i cannot understand most of the fucking words and the ones i do understand are something something RICKETY BONES RICKETY HANDS so like. probably not the one 0/10

boy division: i could go either way on this one like it’s really fast but it’s also about cocaine so??? 3/10

tomorrow’s money: while this song slaps overall violent nihilism does not a strip song make 1/10

ambulance: no. 0/10

gun.: antiwar messages are sexy but not the right kind for stripping 1/10

the world is ugly: PLEASE no. 0/10

the light behind your eyes: oh my god this is so DEPRESSING why would you want to strip to this who hurt you -2000000/10

kiss the ring: yes yes yes it’s got built-in audience participation conceit factor if u let ur audience kiss ur ring, totally works 10/10

make room!!!: again, slaps, but not a strip song 1/10

surrender the night: dude we talked about this!!! dying violently w/ ur loved ones is Not Sexy!!! 0/10

burn bright: i guess you could strip to this but again it’s Too Safe tread carefully 3/10

fake your death: i want frank iero to strip to this song so i can throw tomatoes at him for being a LYING SACK OF SHIT FOR TWO YEARS i’m not gonna rate this one but frank if ur out there i have a basket of slightly squishy heirloom tomatoes and i am COMING FOR YOU

[mittensmorgul]

The Tumblr Beta Version: an objective analysis

I was tempted to just type “it sucks.” And while that is an objective analysis, it’s not exactly helpful. I’ve sent several requests to @staff and @support to restore my account to the old tumblr dashboard format, and received the same automated reply twice now. I’ll copy/paste it here so everyone is on the same page:

(lol, I had to go back and edit this, because apparently the beta version doesn’t display block quotes on the dash. So I’ve also put the block quotes in italics... hopefully it’ll display properly... note after editing: nope, it doesn’t display italics either... how the heck am I supposed to differentiate quoted text? I’ll start each quoted bit with an asterisk, I guess...)

*Thanks for reaching out about the beta dashboard.

*We're currently testing it out, and your account seems to have been selected to take part in the test. Thanks for your patience while we work on it! At this time there is not a way to opt out of testing. You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.

WE CAN ONLY HOPE.

*In the meantime, check out some of the new features available only in the beta dashboard:

OKAY TUMBLR, IF YOU INSIST, though I would MUCH rather have back all the functionality I personally invested into this website through xkit... you know... making the site ACTUALLY FUNCTIONAL. Let’s see what this beta version has given me instead of functionality:

*Change Palettes: Go to the person icon, then click "Change Palette." You'll find the classic Tumblr blue, dark mode, and a few other color palettes for your dash.

So I tried out all the color palettes. In addition to the ones mentioned here, there’s one that’s trying to look like a green screen terminal that gives me flashbacks to the early 80′s. There’s a reason we stopped using green screen terminals... Another one is “canary yellow.” It’s very yellow. The “classic tumblr” isn’t actually classic tumblr... all the post boxes are dark blue with grey type, not white with black type. And all the other colors are the insanely bright fluorescent of the new Dark Blue standard tumblr scheme. Which means links are practically invisible unless I highlight them. It’s migraine inducing. The one theme with a light colored background is called “Concrete” or “Cement” or something like that and even that only works for about half an hour before the migraine aura really kicks in. I just want my Old Blue via xkit back. You know, what tumblr actually used to look like. I don’t want any of these horrible color palettes. None of them work for me.

*The new "meatballs" menu: This is where you can copy the post link, unfollow the Tumblr who made or reblogged the post, or report a violation to our Community Guidelines.

I could do all of this from the user menus with xkit, too. I don’t regularly report violations or have the urge to block people I have chosen to follow. Why on earth would I want to do any of this? And why would I want these features located directly beside the post link copy feature? 

You know what I do miss? I miss the xkit timestamps feature. I didn’t have to hover dangerously close to the KILL IT WITH FIRE meatballs menu in order to see when a post was made, and in this era of disinformation and misinformation spreading around this site faster than Covid-19, being able to see when a post was ORIGINALLY created is a far more useful feature than an easier way to block people. For reference: I currently have three blogs blocked. Two of them are pornbots. One is a nazi. If I don’t want someone’s content on my dash, I don’t follow them. This “feature” is entirely useless to me.

*A quick note: Pagination is not supported in this beta test, but we're collecting feedback to send to our engineers.

THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST. This beta test might actually be tolerable if I wasn’t trapped into endless scrolling. If I could page through my dash, refreshing it every ten posts or so. You know why? Because once I scroll about 30 posts down my dash, tumblr starts overheating my laptop under the load of ALL THOSE POSTS. Things start malfunctioning-- it takes longer and longer to load new posts the farther I scroll. And the keyboard navigation (both page down and hitting J to advance to the next post, and even just using the down arrow to scroll as I read a long post) freeze and stop functioning. One of my laptop fans has actually begun to malfunction.

You know why this wasn’t a problem on the old version? If the data load got to heavy, I could open a post in a new tab, click view on dash with xkit, and voila! Brand new tab! I could close the malfunctioning tab and everything would be refreshed to normal! But without pagination, THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Also, after reblogging a few posts, the beta version of this site breaks, and doesn’t open a post tab to add commentary or even tags. It just... reblogs the untagged post with no warning whatsoever. You know... that’s really really not cool. I tag EVERYTHING. Well, almost everything. The tags are the only way to keep track of the 40k+ posts on my blog. And warn people that I am posting potential spoilers, or other specific content. It’s REALLY inconvenient to have to either immediately go to my blog to edit the post and add tags, or even comments. The alternative is to scroll up to open individual posts I want to reblog in a new tab, and then reblog directly there. Ironically enough, THOSE pages actually open with xkit installed, and everything (surprise!) functions perfectly there.

It’s perfectly reasonable to understand why this specific issue has limited the number of posts I reblog. Reblogging content should not be this much of a hassle. Creators have been complaining for a while that reblogs have drastically slowed down, and I think making it even more annoying and difficult to reblog posts will not help this problem.

Also, with xkit enabled, there’s a function that auto-loads images as you scroll, so the images are always visible BEFORE they appear on screen. I don’t have to look at the colored boxes and wonder if this is a post I’ve already seen or something I should sit and wait for. Don’t even think about watching tumblr videos. Loading priority is given to the ads that you cannot pause or dismiss, so that video loads and plays in choppy two second bursts instead of being given priority. Since that’s the content I am actually here to consume, it kinda makes me want to do the opposite of patronizing anyone who advertises here with graphically intense ads. And then when you scroll away, with xkit, gifs and videos you’ve scrolled past STOP loading and playing, which I think might be contributing to the intensity of the resource hogging that’s literally melting down my laptop.

And for reference, I have a pretty decent little gaming laptop. A blogging platform shouldn’t be driving it to the brink of frying itself. I didn’t realize just how much xkit worked to streamline this and provide basic functionality to this site.

*And lastly, if you're an XKit user, know that the XKit team is working hard to update things on their end to make it compatible with the beta dashboard.

And this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what I’ve lost without xkit. And this is a really REALLY garbage response to user complaints. “Oh, yeah, sorry we made our site suck even worse, but those nice people who do our jobs for free will surely fix our garbage soon!”

Dear wonderful people at @new-xkit-extension, I love you, and I miss you, and while I wish xkit worked with this beta version I’ve been forced into living with, I truly feel for y’all who are trying to deal with this nonsense on behalf of all of us.

And to the folks at Tumblr... maybe try to just... make your site actually more like xkit. You know, actually functional. None of these special new features are useful or functional to me. I respectfully request for a fourth time to be removed from this inane beta test.

Give us OPTIONS. Let us display ALL THE TAGS without having to click a button. Let me have back my Activity+ that actually allowed me to interact with people from my dash! That showed me real-time inline notifications in a way that I could reply to with a single click! Bring me back to my column of open messaging conversation icons so I have easy access to the people I talk with throughout the day instead of closing them all every time I refresh the page. I already feel socially isolated in freaking quarantine, please stop shutting off all my avenues of communication!

Let us have pagination! I mean, maybe it wasn’t the best idea to force heavy users of this site into a beta version that doesn’t allow us to opt out until your engineers had actually figured out how to make it work in a very basic way.

*Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with!

YES. PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS BETA TEST NOW. I have let you know exactly what I want from this site. I just want it to ACTUALLY WORK. For someone who spends 12+ hours a day on this site, this beta test version is NONFUNCTIONAL. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO OPT OUT. I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU. I WILL ACTUALLY PAY YOU CASH MONEY TO ALLOW ME TO OPT OUT OF THIS AND GO BACK TO HAVING A FUNCTIONAL BLOG AGAIN. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!

PLEASE! 

I AM OFFICIALLY AT THE END OF MY PATIENCE FOR ENDURING THIS NIGHTMARE.

(one final quick note... I’ve only been back on my dash long enough to make the parenthetical edits-- i.e. adding italics that don’t display and then adding the asterisks at the beginning of each section of quoted text, and already my laptop is overheating again. For reference, I originally typed this entire post from within my tumblr inbox page-- which still functions normally with xkit-- and spent over an hour on it. My laptop was fine the entire time. Clearly the issue is this beta version of the website. I will never forgive tumblr if y’all fry my literal only portal to the outside world at this time. PUT ME BACK TO NORMAL NOW. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING AND ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE. Thanks)

(oops apparently i lied... when the asterisks and the previous final note failed to display, I thought that seemed suspicious, and realized that I literally needed to refresh my entire dash in order to see edited changes. Funny how xkit enabled me to do that in real time, which is just another bit of functionality I’ve lost with this beta program. Please guys, this is really, really not working for me at all, just put it back.)

[curious-kat]

rules: Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 bloggers (thanks @puzzleddragon02 for tagging me)

name: on here I’m Cat or Kat

nickname: my online name is already a nickname

zodiac sign: virgo, but technically I’m a leo because of the precession of the Earth’s axis tilt (the Earth’s axis of spin doesn’t always point in exactly the same direction – eventually Polaris won’t be the north star)

height: taller than my older sister, which is all that matters

languages: English, some Spanish and German, a few fragments of ASL

nationality: United States

favorite season: fall

favorite flowers: I’ve never really thought about it. It’s early spring now, so I’m all about crocuses, and pretty soon we’ll get daffodils!

favorite scent: lots of strong scents bother me, but I like the scent you get in pine forests

favorite color: blue

favorite animal: well, cats generally. But snow leopards are especially gorgeous.

favorite fictional character: uhhh don’t make me chose! I do still have a soft spot for Yuuri Katsuki from Yuri on Ice

coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: technically I am allergic to all of these :( I guess I would say a nice herbal tea, or hot chocolate if I’m having a good migraine day and can handle the caffeine.

average sleep hours: don’t ask

dog or cat person: definitely cats (if you follow this blog you probably could have guessed that lmao) I have befriended a few dogs in my life, but they’re the exception and not the rule.

number of blankets you sleep with: right now? we just got out of a serious cold snap, so besides the sheets I have two comforters, three blankets, and a quilt. I’ll shed layers as it gets warmer.  

dream trip: recently I have been consumed by the desire to take my family to see the Grand Canyon. I’d love to go back to Yellowstone, too.

blog established: July 4th, 2014. that’s... over five years ago. wow. can’t believe I’m still here tbh

followers: 117, which is a surprise! I hadn’t noticed crossing the 100 benchmark. Maybe I should go through and do another round of pornbot blocking

random fact: cat/kitten is also a nickname my family has for me irl, because when I was about 3 or 4 I would always meow instead of talking

I’ll just tag a couple people: @hschill5, @aggressively-awkward, @karliahs, @horriblehottakes. Anybody else who wants to do it, consider yourself tagged as well. absolutely no pressure either way. 

[sparktoafire]

i was tagged by @marjaisavarjo , thank you so much!

Rules : answer 20 questions and then tag 20 bloggers you want to get to know better <3

Name: Katja

nickname: Katjuliina (when i was like 2, used by my parents only)

zodiac: sag (sag moon, scorpio rising)

height: 171 cm

languages: finnish, swedish, english, absolute basics of german and japanese.

nationality: finnish

fav season: summer or autumn

fav flower: poppy

fav scent: same as Satu; the earth after rain

fav colour: blue

fav animal: dogs

fav fictional character: too hard, dunno. i feel like i don’t usually get very attached to fictional characters. sam winchester is up there, though.

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea

average sleep: 8 hours

dogs or cats: dogs

number of blankets: 1

dream trip: travel seems so impossible right now, i can’t even imagine it. would like to see more of Ireland and Britain, though.

blog establishment: this one? i think i started it in 2011.

number of followers: 296 (80% of those are either dead blogs or pornbots)

random fact abt urself: used to suffer from really bad OCD. like, truly debilitating.

tagging @magicalrocketships & @russiansappho & whoever else wants to do it (i feel like a lot of people have already, so i don’t know who else to tag)

[aelaer]

300

Tumblr’s algorithm picked up my last whumptober post and that unexpectedly rocketed me up to over 300 followers (welcome new folks, I haven’t had a chance to even look at y’all yet). But really it’s quite flattering. (I think at least 10% of them are pornbots, but beggars can’t be choosers.)

So I guess in uh, celebration/woohoo, I’m just gonna post snippets from my WIPs (outside of the whumptober ones as those are coming out in the next couple days) which… well, it’s something. :3 Yes it all has to do with Stephen, I’m going one-trick-pony mode right now and it’s a friggin blast.

This is long and has WIPs of art too, so cut cut cut bellllooww.

The farking Doctor Strange/Sherlock crossover that’s been at 80% complete since July and still has no title

However, before Sherlock got caught up into the cloak once again, he forced his eyes to the man’s hands. A lot could be discovered by someone’s hands.

And what hands they were. His eyes involuntarily widened at the sight of the ragged, and in some places hypertrophic scars on the back side of each finger. He quickly looked to the other hand; they were there, too. Clearly they were crushed in some sort of accident, but an accident that left him upright and without any hint of a limp. It was possible that they were caught in some sort of machinery, but both at the same time? Statistically speaking, a car accident was more likely. A car accident that damaged the bonnet of the car and crushed his fingers between the steering wheel and the dashboard, more than likely leaving permanent nerve damage. Unfortunate.

The age of the scars showed that they were healed over, but their nature made it difficult to determine how long ago they were received. With the overall lack of fading, however, it was likely that the damage occurred within the last few years. He could not see his palms and determine anything from there, but the callus upon his right middle finger determined which hand he wrote with. Or once wrote with, at any rate. His hands could certainly be worthy of further study, if only to attempt to determine their surgical history.

Upon his left wrist was, of all things, a wristwatch. He narrowed his eyes. It was a Jaeger-LeCoultre and it was not a counterfeit by any means, but it was not a model he recognized. It looked very similar to the Master Ultra Thin Moon only just released; was this an early prototype for a new model? Even as the question fluttered through his mind, he immediately chastised himself for his stupidity. There was clear wear on the band that spoke of it being worn for years, never mind the cracked face. 

Custom-made, he eventually concluded, though even that answer did not quite sit right with him. Regardless, it spoke of a man who had wealth— or used to, in any case. The wear and damage on the watch told a new picture now, but he seemed to still be connected to some form of influence. His clothing was of a very rich quality, and that was not including the unique cloak. Perhaps he was now connected with someone in the Greater Tibetan area, or someone of wealth in the Indian subcontinent. Or from there, at any rate. 

He let his eyes go up the length of the man’s sleeves. Cloth bands decorated the forearms of his otherwise seemingly-plain shirt, likely made of wool and hemp. He indulged himself and studied the embroidery on the edge of the cloak again. He received no further information concerning its origin and make beyond what he had already determined, but there was something about it that was absolutely enchanting.

But enough lingering; he finally turned his body to lay on his side and brought his eyes up to meet the bearer of this very odd ensemble of attire.

And he saw himself.

Within the Shadows (villain!AU) sequel that finalllyyy has a title, Inhibited Lodgings (I think this one is about at 85%! So soooonnnn)

When one of the nurses came in with dinner, Stephen hardly acknowledged him. The nurse set the tray on the overbed table and, after a quick, “Eat while it’s hot!” left the room.

Stephen ignored it. He continued his obsessive perusal of the tablet, shaky fingers managing to steady enough to click link after link after link.

Stark came in an hour later and the tray was still untouched. He quirked his brows up. “Y'know Doc, if you don’t eat, Doctor Cho is going to be very stern with you and you’ll feel terrible after that.”

He raised his head from the tablet at the sound of Stark’s voice, blinking. “What?” He then looked at the tray of food. “Oh… right. I forgot that was brought in.” He looked at the now stone-cold chicken and broccoli with a small grimace.

“I’ll have them make you another plate. Send that info up, FRI.” Stark sunk into one of the chairs beside the bed. “What has you so distracted, anyway?”

Stephen turned the tablet around to show him his screen, which had a list of all the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 for all genres in 2011. “I only considered yesterday that there might be differences in music between my reality and this one. A check to see if my favorite artists existed here turned into something of a full day project.”

Stark was clearly interested. “No kidding. Did you find any differences?”

“Dozens. In some ways it’s amazing that it’s only that many across hundreds of artists and songs, but I cannot imagine not having Rocky’s training montage paired with ‘Eye of the Tiger.’ ”

“I know I’ve seen a couple of those films, but I couldn’t tell you the name of any training song off the top of my head,” he said. “But I’d probably remember a song with that name.”

He nodded. “Exactly! I can live without the 'Macarena’ and 'Kung Fu Fighting’, but that song made that sequence legendary.”

Stark’s lips twitched in amusement. “I’ll take your word for it. Anything particularly good from your reality that you found missing?”

“I’m still debating if losing all of Journey’s discography is worth never having to hear 'Don’t Stop Believing’ again.”

Time Travel Pseudo!villain Stephen aka Freakin Carmen Sandiego (yes, this is gonna happen. But it’s not happening until those two above are completed, and it’ll be written concurrently with the rest of the villain!Stephen series, as I suspect it will be on the longer side. The outline’s 4 pages long…)

He walked over and crossed his arms as Bruce replayed the video; it was definitely a better quality than the pixelated mess of everything else he’d seen so far. Even with the high-definition, though, the man’s fully-black outfit made him difficult to see against the night sky, and his face was completely covered by what looked like both a mask and hood. He’d be all-but-invisible without the glowing lights all around him. A gasp suddenly ran through the crowd, and the camera swiveled to look at the Palace of Westminster, now bereft of the tower. A few shouts then broke through, and the camera footage swung back to the night sky, but the man was gone.

“Where’d he go?” Tony asked as he leaned over Bruce and pressed both the replay and mute button.

“Uh, according to witnesses, after Elizabeth Tower vanished, he darted under the bridge— probably at the end with the screaming there— and disappeared.”

“I thought that was Big Ben,” he muttered, pressing replay again.

Bruce shook his head. “No, Big Ben’s the bell in Elizabeth Tower. I knew someone in college— British— who got rather annoyed over that misnomer. Really annoyed, actually.” He made a face to himself.

Tony, however, was busy squinting at a bit of the footage he had paused. “Does it look like he has a sort of— something— on his chest?”

The physicist leaned in and squinted alongside him. “Yeah. I’d say it almost looks like one of your arc reactors, but I don’t think your arc reactors do this.”

“But it could still be a power source,” Tony answered. 

“Definitely,” Bruce answered. “It looks almost like he’s pulling from it.”

“That makes no sense, but a lot of this alien tech is nothing like anything that exists on Earth right now. I’d be interested in figuring out how it works.”

Bruce continued to peer at it. “So would I,” he said. “If you can keep it from S.H.I.E.L.D long enough to do so.”

Tony makes a face. “They have the scepter to play with. They can have it when I’m done.”

“You’re going to have to catch him first,” he pointed out.

“Pshh, after Loki, this’ll be easy-peasy. We’ll have him caught within two days.”

ARTS (just the two Stephens for now)

I didn’t have time last weekend to work on digital Stephen, but he’s still a lot farther ahead than when I last posted here sooooooo. (I won’t have time this weekend either, so… he’ll come sooner or later).

Annddd I figured out what my ugly yellow corner square is gonna be. I’m doing fan art for a fan fic like a real nerd. Bringing out the prismacolors again. Right now I’m still in the ‘messing around with line art’ phase. I plan to do this while I’m at tabletop gaming on Sundays.

And that’s that for WIPs. Now I need to go work on ficlets.

[gojira007]

Hey @kismeti​!  Sorry it took me so long to get to this but I’m finally responding to your tag!  You ready? 

Zodiac sign: Leo (August 18th)

Height: Last I checked?  Around 5′10″

Hogwarts House: I admit to never really having given it that much thought but my friends who have tend to think Hufflepuff so I trust to their judgment x3

Last thing I googled: Reference pictures of Entrapta from “She-Ra And The Princesses of Power” actually :3

Song stuck in my head:

Fav musicians: Akira Ifukube, The Beatles, Lizzo, Rebecca Sugar

Following: 158 though it usually feels more like twenty or so X3  But that’s fine with me; I’m MUCH more about Quality over Quantity y’know?

Followers: 926 though you could likely cut that in half easily if you remove Pornbots and cut it in half AGAIN if you remove inactive accounts or ones that don’t really ever seem to actually interact with me at all; I’ve been on this site for a LONG time now (holy shit i think we’re coming up on a solid decade in fact) so I’ve picked up a LOT of ‘em along the way X3

Do you get asks: On occasion? But not all that frequently and usually from the same two or three people lookin’ to get me to Do A Meme and honestly?  I’m pretty OK with that 

Amount of sleep: On nights when I’m NOT working the following day it’s usually around 7-8 hours; on days when I AM working the next day it’s around 4-5.  Which I realize is, uh, not all that healthy?  But I AM working to course-correct on that

Lucky number: According to Numerology it’s apparently 13

What are you wearing: My navy-blue hoodie, a navy-blue plaid sweater, navy-blue PJ pants, a Stan Lee tribute t-shirt, and white socks with gray on the toes and heel.  Oh and my glasses!

Dream job: I really REALLY want to do Comics profesionally either as a writer or penciller or both even as I increasingly think I really don’t have the discipline for it on a NUMBER of levels.

Dream trip: Japan ABSOLUTELY

Instruments you play: None; I very briefly did the Bugle in Elementary School and I used to noodle on the Piano now ‘n’ then but that’s really about it

Languages you speak: English Only; if I had the time ‘n’ resources I’d REALLY like to change that some day tho

Fav song: Of all time?  Fuck man there’s SO many I’d have to choose between!  But I do know THIS is the #1 most-played song on my iPod:

Random fact: I apparently inherited a proclivity toward Waxy Build-Up in my ears from my Dad’s side of the family; for a long time it really wasn’t a problem but especially since I spend a lot of time with head-phones in my ears in the last few years it’s become a bit more of an issue.  It doesn’t exactly leave me deaf or anything but I DO start finding it impossible to un-pop my ears after a while so when it gets to be sufficiently annoying I visit the local Minute clinic ‘n’ get ‘em cleaned out.  It’s usually only every few months or so.

Cats or dogs: Both; I own both and have for most of my life <3

As for who I tag?  As always know there is ZERO obligation to actually do it if you don’t wanna but:

@jammerlee @jllongwrites @boxlunches and @werewolf-t33th?  Feel free to give it a go if’n you want 8D

[headlesssamurai]

@staff : I just wanted to check and see, for reasons of clarity, are you insufferable mouthbreathing neanderthals capable of grasping the concept that people like me, from the moment we first joined this site, have never engaged in the trading of pornographic material of any kind? I’ve just reviewed three newly flagged posts of supposedly adult content pegged by your lobotomized detection algorithm. All three of them were either 3D art or art from comic books. I guess one of the comic book art pieces did feature female cleavage, but none of these things were pornographic. Meanwhile, I’ve had regularly, daily Follows from porn-bots, chats from chat-bots, and none of this has slowed down since your attempt at reforming your site. In fact, it’s now nigh impossible for me to search for anything through your onsite search function because your algorithm somehow prevents most relevant search data from appearing anymore. And this is to say basic things like keywords of “filmmaking” or “arcade”. I’ll get, like, fifteen results and nothing else. Most of the relevant artistic content which interests me seems to be locked behind some invisible wall of “Possibly Adult” even if the posts themselves are reblog-able and not flagged as adult. A sort of “shadow flagging” seems to be occurring, where certain blogs and posts aren’t flagged, just hidden by your algorithm especially in searches. And I know more posts exist. I’ve reverted to google searching, for instance, “arcade photo tumblr” which in the Images tab will bring up tons of content from tumblr blogs which does not appear in your ridiculously limited search function. I can then, from Google, visit these tumblr blogs and from there reblog the content I find interesting. Do you understand what I’m telling you? I’m using your site less, because its functions have been demented and diminished, so that I can keep using your site in the same--very non-pornographic--way I’ve always used it. The interesting thing is the press and media statements I’ve read from your official faces seem to claim some form of revamping your functionality, whereas I can affirm it’s been shorn down to nub of its former utility. In fact, this post I’m writing right now, my very blog may be “shadow flagged” from searches now just for using the word pornography. I’m certain the context matters little to your poorly coded algorithms. Please understand, with absolute certainty and no pretense, your clumsy attempt at cloistered oaths of sanctimonious virtue has done nothing to improve the experience of your loyal user base, and also done nothing to quell the storm of pornbots and spam accounts. I stayed when you decided to savagely kick a fourth of your user base into a well while bellowing “This is tumblr!” at the top of your lungs. I stayed because my blog and themes aren’t pornographic. I will continue to stay. I just wanted you to know, in the improbable case that this is read by one of the ten humans you still employ to maintain this site and not some algorithm they coded in a heroine snorting haze, that you’ve irritated me and I believe your recent remodeling decisions and ideological change to be in most egregious error. Pornbots still have free reign, yet you’re flagging my comic book cleavage. I don’t want to call you the prude Catholic grandma of the internet, but...

              侍    headless                                                

[elkian]

With the new sale of the site, I’ve come to realize that a lot of the social issues on tumblr are, if not caused, then at least exacerbated by the technical and irresponsible mismanagement of the site.

People posting hate speech, false callouts and doxxing, and other incitement become emboldened when the reporting feature doesn’t seem to have any impact. Further, those good at whipping impressionable followers into a frenzy then have apparently reported totally okay blogs until the sheer volume gets them banned.

The Block function is essentially useless.The only things it appears to do are 1) prevent blocked users from reblogging the blocker, 2) prevent blockees from sending messages to the blocker. I’m not actually sure of either of these, both because there’s no real feedback on blocking (I’ve found myself attempting to block someone but the only prompt is to unblock!) and because what I’ve collected piecemeal from other users is that the blocking function isn’t consistent in its application.

Then you’ve got the incessant ads, the flashy “no blog here”/login screens, the oft-flashy radar items - users who were featured multiple times in the radar trying and failing to get help from the staff when that very content is plagiarized. The bugs, the singular code, the fanmail page not even being removed, the scripts in the tumblr icon (that thing in the top left that I, at least, often forget exists) that can slow down or even break the page.

The pornbot epidemic and the various problems it uncovered. Verizon’s pathetic attempts to allay that and accidentally driving off the bulk of content creators is more of a singular problem rather than an ongoing on, but does contribute to how bad this site has become for content creators.

That post about how Tumblr had incredible potential that was absolutely squandered by owners who either didn’t understand it or didn’t care about it or both and simply wanted to make a quick buck was so on the nose. I still have, distant, distant memories of this site being, if not 100%, then at least good where it WAS good. Now I mostly log on out of habit, and uncertainty of better options, and dread of losing everything I’ve posted.