#GOD THOSE WERE THE DAYS

[kalisbaby]

The way I miss being able to afford groceries.

[lastoneout]

With all of the posts for new tumblr users explaining how the site works and all the unspoken “cultural” rules I’ve been thinking about relics of tumblr’s past like queue tags that are puns and such, and you know what's something that's a habit from the old days of tumblr that it only recently occurred to me must seem odd to anyone who joined after they changed how replies work? Making a new post/screencapping a reply and tacking it on in a reblog along with your response.

Like I just do that without thinking about it because I remember back when the main way to reply to replies was to make a whole new post. And not in like people did that just for shits and giggles, that was legit what tumblr did when you clicked to reply to someone, it made it a new post. It would have a link back to the original post and usually the repliers blog but it would be a whole new post like "[user] replied and said [response]" and then you could add a comment under it and that was just how replies worked!

But now I’m like, is there an assumption that replies should stay in there unless they’re especially noteworthy or you’re going to make a super-long specific response? Because ngl I hardly ever reply in the replies, to me it actually feels rude? Like I’m kinda ignoring someone, or deeming their reply unimportant(or worse like I don’t want to publicly associate with them or something)?? That it’s more respectful to treat it as I would a reblogged comment?? Because it’s like...part of the post or something?? But the more I think about that the more that seems weird??

And then I wonder, do new people think it’s rude when I do that for every response? Because like, if they wanted their comment added to the main body of the post surely they would just add it on as a reblog. If they leave it in the replies are they saying they DON’T want it added on? And if I add it on myself am I then being rude?? Or is it more like how people will screencap tags and add them on if they are funny enough, and thus the person replying is like “you can add this on if you want, but I’m leaving the choice up to you”??

Idk it’s interesting to think about how the culture of tumblr has changed in the last ten years, especially things that I considered normal/polite/expected that might now seem strange or rude. (And if y’all see me screencapping your replies and adding them on to my post in a reblog to reply please don’t think I’m trying to be rude, I’m apparently just a tumblr boomer too set in her old ways to change.)

[airris-fr]

remember when I actually knew all the apparel in the game by name

[darlingstarbby]

I miss Mibba

[isjasz]

📸📸📸 (screenshot redraws :D)

[brunetterightsactivist]

Telling myself to stop getting so antsy and excited and wait the full year that I’ve been back on the pill for it to fully take effect and regulate itself and then my body and appetite and brain are going to go back to normal lol

[smoreal]

Currently feeling transported to the days I’d watch old amvs on YouTube and the song would be smth like dont trust a hoe or that one song by skillet

[foxstens]

kevin grew up without a microwave

[drieddpetals]

i just want to remind everyone that, since the grishaverse is kinda sorta based on the victorian era, and since wealthy victorian families dressed their toddlers (girls or boys) in dresses, and wylan was very wealthy growing up, there are definitely family portraits in existence of baby wylan wearing one of those goofy ass victorian baby dresses

[tea-cat-arts]

You know what, I've read enough fanfic. I'm confiscating Madame Yu from you guys

Free my girl- she did the things she's being accused of, but not as frequently or severely as the fandom pretends, her actions are being taken out of context, and her depth is being reduced to that of a Colleen Hoover antagonist

[ruporas]

studies from the finale

[polarized-here]

A Moth.

[sluckythewizard]

THEY could give me the surgurey i need (inspired alot by evojellys designs for em. GREAT STUFF)

[ratatatastic]

the things ekky has done or said that i cant stop thinking about. the 4 minute cut.

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

his drippiest majesty