#I don't give a shit about tumblr premium

[feather-and-roses]

Dear advertisers: If I see an ad for your product, my likelihood of purchasing it goes down by 12 percent

[the-timewatcher]

A disgruntled Tumblrina (gender-neutral) made a website and why you should too.

Or "reject social media, return to personal websites".

PART 1: THE PART WHERE I CONVINCE YOU TO MOVE TO PERSONAL WEBSITES

So, the Web 2.0 social media infested landscape seems to be crumbling before our very eyes. Reddit's leadership is increasingly greedy, Twitter is sinking under the weight of Elon's massive, yet increasingly fragile ego, Tumblr is slowly turning into another lifeless corpo-fest, complete with the layout, Instagram continues to be vapid and soulless and Facebook seems to be going the way of MySpace.

(feel free to check the alt text on these, btw)

In these troubling times, where everything looks the same and you're expected to be milked for every dollar you're worth, what is a disgruntled Internet surfer such as yourself to do? Move to an untested alternative that's bound to get overrun by fascists thanks to poor moderation? Stay the course on the sinking ships you're used to?

Well, what if I told you that we've solved this problem way back in the 90's and early 2000's and were merely duped by the Big Zuck into forgetting our legacy? What if there was a cure for the sanitized, dull social media hellscape?

It takes a bit of work, when compared to just using a social media site, but even if your particular use case makes switching difficult (ex. an artist looking to promote their work), it's still a good secondary option to consider.

The core appeal is the ability to customize and individualize, make a corner of cyberspace unabashedly yours,

It can also be an exciting avenue of creative expression, giving whatever you want to say a unique coat of paint,

Most website hosting services are a bit more lax about what you can do on them, due to changes in the profit structure (rather than depending on advertisers and investors, they either have a premium option to give supporters perks, have another product, or, in the case of paid services, you renting that space IS the product),

If you want your website to be more accomodating and accessible, you don't have to file tons of feedback - do it yourself,

If you'd like to connect with other webmasters and promote each other's websites, we have webrings - sets of circular links that connect websites with something in common, be it a topic, aesthetic or friend group,

You're less likely to have your stuff purged by an ill-advised change in policy (especially if you have a backup of your files somewhere),

The more people do it, the less power those massive social media corpos have over the internet,

It can be a load of fun!

If I have you convinced, keep reading into part 2. If you just wanna see what I did, skip to part 3. If neither, feel free to continue scrolling. I won't hold it against you. You'll be missing out, that's all.

PART 2: SO, YOU WANNA MAKE A WEBSITE!

Good choice, here's some resources!

sadgrl's absolute beginner's guide to Neocities - what it says on the tin!

W3Schools - a more in-depth tutorial site, a learning resource so excellent it substituted for what I was supposed to learn in technical highschool (because our teacher just told us to go on W3Schools instead of teaching us shit)

A list of free layouts for your website - whether to use as a base to learn from or to simply take for yourself,

Neocities - the posterchild for free website hosting for personal websites. Doesn't allow video or audio, but you can get around that by linking those files from elsewhere. Beginner-friendly to a fault - once you have an account just drag and drop your files in,

Gitlab (& Gitlab Pages) - a more advanced option, but it has a few advantages of its own. Gitlab is a website hoster second and a version control service first - which is programmer speak for "keeps track of changes in your code and stores a backup of it online". it helps a lot when working on multiple devices or co-writing with a friend. And secondly, you can use Gitlab Actions to automate putting your website up (even on Neocities, like I do!)

My askbox - I am not joking, if you have any questions about any of this, I'd love nothing more than to help you out!

But with most of my indie web propaganda out of the way, it's time.

PART 3: Welcome to Timewatcher OS.

Of course, because I couldn't be normal when it comes to making a website, I had to turn it into a fake operating system. Each subpage is an "app", opened in a separate embed window. It has unlockable wallpapers (no pay2win, prommy). There's bideo games on it! I even made a music player for it so I can share my incongruent music tastes!

Like I said in my Tumblr bio, if I ever go radio silent for more than a month, it means I've gotten fed up with this hellsite and moved to my own homepage permamently. And I highly advise you make an option like this for yourself too! Lastly, if any of y'all would like to start a webring, do let me know in the askbox - I'm down to manage it if I'm not alone in there.

Anyways, I hope I convinced you to make a website, or at least check out some of the cool sites you've been missing out on! Hope to see you on the Old Web!

[catgirlanarchist]

tumblr i do not give a shit about your premium subscription. you're tripping if u think i'm gonna give y'all money with the way you keep terminating trans women's accounts while terfs, nazis, and bullies don't even get addressed. do better before you ask people to pay you, dipshits!

[serafaina]

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS! My Dudes! My internet paaaals! I am GoING FERAL, ABSOLUTELY FERAL for a new cooking show!

Can you imagine for me please, a show with as much dignity and integrity as the GBBO, right? RIGHT?!? But then, THEN, Give it to a bunch theater nerds and ask them to just go OFF with some fucking EXTRA BULLSHIT set design, lighting, stage design, and music. LIKE, the MOST EXTRA. Like the BUDGETING for their NONSENSE they GOT! This shit feels like a concert, like fucking hype! Please Introduce These Chefs like the fucking Rock Stars they ARE! and Give US the DRAMA! but without a villain or jerks!

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO: Culinary Class Wars

(on Netflix)

IT IS FUCKING BANGING YOU GUYS! OMG PREMIUM SHIT RIGHT HERE

So first of all the premise: Two leagues of chefs, the already super famous [white] and up-and-coming rising stars [black] and they compete against each other to win the competition. Okay, seems simple enough? Like a mixed Masterchef then? NO!

NO! Look at this fucking artistic white and black set designs! Look at the stripes, the contrast, the antagonism built into the premise it self! We bring you an entire class of underdogs to root for and then let the conflict be the struggle and dignity itself and no one has to be weird or an ass for the DRAMA WE CRAVE about yummy ass shit I want to eat!

And let me tell you, the contestants stand around in the fucking balcony as spectators and commentators and they fucking ROOT for each other! They clap and cheer and talk about how impressive the others are and NO SHIT TALKING! NO slag or meanness or weirdness or antagonism! Just woo! Go my guy and woo! That lady is so good at what she does! WOOOHOO!! There is enough fucking negativity I am so excited this awesome dramatic bitch of a show didn't have that!

AND THEN!

What kinky porno is this setting up you wonder? FOOD PORN OMG there is a REASON it is super hard to find official shots of them SPOON FEEDING THE BLINDFOLDED JUDGES IN THE TASTING CAVE FOR THE SECOND CHALLENGE this isn't even a hear me out dear Tumblr, I saw it and I know you too will be like, OHHHH MMYYYYYYYYYY I need a fan maybe. And a snack FUCK do NOT watch this on an empty STOMACH you WILL SUFFER! And yet beyond the weird sexual overtones in the judging cave (bless you yet again art department), it was so neat of a challenge! I was on the fucking edge of my seat!

And they actually use lighting design! They use a neat trick where they change the judging cave lighting from warm to cool when the moment of truth arrives and it's such a neat and subtle change that feels like it chills the atmosphere like, HELL YES THANK YOU FOR PAYING SOMEONE WHO KNOWS I LOVE YOU SET DESIGNERS FOR USING REAL LIGHTING AND NOT JUST POST BS! They use LED panels behind a wall of anon judges to annouce votes IT WAS SO NEAT GREAT USE OF LIGHT! They make a RUNWAY out of LIGHTS for dramatic dish wheeling! Perfection!

<3 <3 Okay, okay OKAAAAAY, I won't say more because I COULD OMG I LOVE YOU LUNCH LADY but no I don't want to give it all away. But ya'll should give it a shot there are GREAT REASONS it is the number one non-english show on Netflix right now and THEY ARE GOOD ONES <3 <3

[dragongirldeity]

i paid for ad free cus like 40 bucks a year to not see any ads on my phone is like. fine. exact upper limit i would pay for no ads. i don't give a shit about literally anything else included in Tumblr Premium. you can take my $40 for no ads or you can get $0 and i'll just go back to only browsing on desktop, with an adblocker.

the "16% discount" for annual tumblr premium is the same discount you get from a year of ad-free. deceptive marketing shit to only put the "(16% discount!)" on the New Shit when it's the same as it was with the Old Shit.

(16% off is two months free, e.g. annual cost is just 10 months instead of 12 months - adfree was 3.99 => 39.99 (x10), new shit is 6.99 => 69.99 (x10))

literally why can i not just keep paying for adfree for $40. do you not want the $40 i've been giving to opt out of seeing ads? if you want to make me pay more than that to not see ads, i will do the work to pay $0 to not see ads instead.

[ecofmaster]

Making actually good updates to Clash Royale every day until Supercell fixes their stupid game

I'm an avid Clash Royale player. I wouldn't say I'm that good, I'm only in Boot Camp arena wise and I don't play competitive that much, but I have been playing this game for more than five years now, so I know my stuff. With that being said, this game is a fucking shit hole, and it's time we fix it.

I'm gonna start making a post like this every day until Supercell releases at least three semi-decent updates in a row, or if they add one of my suggestions. I might miss some days, but I'll let you guys know if I can't post. With that being said,

Day 1. Masteries

Card masteries might be one of the best good features in the game right now, but they're also dogshit.

Masteries are like milestones for specific cards. You do some amount of something with one card, you get a cool animation, and you get a small reward for getting it. And masteries are actually amazing ways to progress in the game. Or, they would be, if they did anything.

Masteries give you nothing. The rewards are so insignificant that they don't even matter for progression. Sure, you can get a few fireball cards for using it a lot, but it barely helps. That's why masteries need more rewards. The card amounts should be larger, MUCH larger. And so should the gold. The gems can stay the same, as gems are supposed to be a premium currency, but we can talk about them in a later post.

So, you get more stuff for card masteries, we done now?

No.

Levels should be locked behind card masteries. Card levels are a big problem in Clash. Like, a VERY big problem. Over leveling cards can give spenders an INSANE advantage over f2p players like myself. I cannot tell you how many times I got owned by a full level 15 deck solely because a card has slightly more health than before. This problem also causes low skill players to rocket up to higher trophy counts, and then start losing because mega knight can't counter everything. Then what do they do? They start complaining on Twitter or Tumblr!

...wait

Masteries locking levels to a certain point would solve this. Now to get over leveled cards, you need to be good, and players can't rise to the top just because they have a maxed deck.

I will say, this would completely destroy top latter and comp, so for Legendary Arena and Path of Legends All cards are forced into certain levels, based on where you're playing (so someone in challenger one will be playing with a full lvl 11 deck, no matter the real level of those cards, but someone in Legendary Arena or Ultimate Champ would play with all level 15 cards).

In my opinion, if all these changes are put in place, masteries will be fixed. Not the game though, the game would still be in deep shit.

Until tomorrow, where I'll discuss the shit hole that is arenas

[silvermaplealder]

Modern Day Head Cannons

I like to imagine the lost boys characters having modern day quirks since I like to write in the present time. So I compiled a list of random head cannons for each of the characters from the vamps to gramps, on random quirks they would have in the modern day.

David:

Is quite awful with technology. Like he has a phone but cannot change the wallpaper for it. So the other vamps are constantly changing his wallpaper to stupid little things

Though, he would be great with slang. He would know all the up-to-date slang just from reading people's minds and listening to them talk. The vamps would see some new slang or abbreviation and David would know exactly what it meant

His only social media would be a facebook profile he made in like 2010 that has 0 updates since the day he made it. Also it has his real birthdate on it.

He'd also be opposed to his face being on the internet. Like, he doesn't mind pictures as long as they're not posted. He's paranoid like a parent in 2008 who's children are getting a test of the world wide web. But since he doesn't have social media nor can really work a phone, the others will still post stuff of him without him knowing

Dwayne:

Dwayne would have his own Etsy shop for oddities. He'd find and clean bones and sell them online and make a surprising amount of money. Like it started as a little fun thing back when Etsy first began, and then next thing he knew he became very popular.

He treats his little shop without a care, and never responds to messages or actively tells people to fuck off, but people keep on buying. He's a star seller (somehow without responding to messages) and has 5 star reviews.

I also feel that he would LOVE fanfiction. He would read a book and then immediately have a ship and look up fanfiction for it. Sometimes he would write fanfiction, but he never feels like his work is good enough so he doesn't post it.

Since they don't have power at the cave, he'd be the one who would bring all the electronics to a cafe to get them charged. He would love his little cafe trips and it gives him a chance to have a break from the others

Marko:

I feel like he would be experimenting with different pronouns, and the other vampires would be super supportive of him and do their best to ensure they use the proper ones.

Marko would have ALL of the social media. Everything. He'd have facebook, instagram, tiktok, tumblr, twitter, everything. You know he had a MySpace and was in the aol chatrooms. He'd have a shit ton of email addresses as well so he could have multiple accounts.

He knows every vine reference

He posts at least a couple times an hour for whatever pops in his head. He's been temporarily banned on most of his accounts for posting gore-y stuff that was flagged

He has a surprising amount of followers and he jokes about being a vampire all of the time

Paul:

Paul would love pictures on his phone. He would have so many pictures of the other vampires and anything that he sees.

He would also have all of the music apps, and the paid versions specifically. Youtube Red. Spotify Premium. He's got apps to create music, though he's really bad at it.

He and Marko definitely tried to make a youtube channel and it did not work out very well

He also loves to make memes. He and Marko have thousands of saved memes on their phones of things that happen in their day to day life

Star:

Star accidentally became very popular on tiktok for a stupid little video she never expected to get any views. She ends up as a mini influencer with little videos that she spends twenty seconds making

She's also slightly jealous about Dwayne's Etsy shop doing well as she tried jewelry making but nothing was selling. And yet she was always adamant about good customer service and Dwayne ignores most of his messages.

She also has her own bike at this point and somehow she's more scary on it than the other boys

Michael:

He loves cars. He's the kind of guy that would go to car shows and he'd drag the other vampires with him. Paul would take pictures of his favorite cars and print them out for him.

Michael would also have a part-time overnight job to be able to afford getting a nice car of his own

He's also not a fan of memes and tries very hard not to end up in one of Paul or Marko's memes, though it happens so frequently he just has no idea

Sam:

Sam would have amazing fashion. With access to the internet he'd be copying a lot of famous people's styles

He'd be obsessed with pinterest. So many ideas saved, fashion styles, etc.

He'd also have some self image issues that he'd need to work through

He really, really wants to go to a convention but with his family struggling with money he's never been able to

Laddie:

He'd want a cell phone so bad. Star and Dwayne refuse to buy him one because they're afraid of internet safety. But Marko and Paul are happy to led over their phones for Laddie to play games on

David definitely leaves his phone "unattended" for Laddie to take and use

Sometimes David leaves his phone with Laddie so Laddie can text the other vampires when they're out

Edgar:

OBSESSED with Fortnite. Like so obsessed. He's certain Donald Mustard is some sort of undead being and hypnotizing children with the video game. But yet Edgar plays it every moment of free time he has

He also is on top of every conspiracy theory. He believes anything that he reads on the internet, even if it sounds a little far fetched

He also most definitely follows Marko's social media and has zero idea that Marko's a vampire

Alan:

Alan likes Fortnite too, but is not as obsessed about it as Edgar is. He's not as quick to jump onto conspiracy theories as Edgar is, but if Edgar gives him a good reason he'll believe it.

He and Edgar most definitely send each other memes/videos of toxic family relationships and they both will give a brief laugh and look at their deadbeat parents

He's the one that makes friends and brings them to Edgar so that Edgar can have a friend. They don't have many friends, but all their friends are ride-or-die types

Max:

His video store he would have switched to be a tech store so he can still continue to get the personal information of people in the area. People come to buy big ticket items and he can collect their addresses for deliveries, or payment plans, etc.

He'd be very informational about technology in general, but you'd find that he still has a flip phone and does not own any sort of modern piece of technology

He constantly warns the younger vampires about the dangers of the internet

Lucy:

She'd be on a lot of mom blogs, trying to relate with other mothers who have sons

I feel like she'd also be the kind of mother who would have lots of pictures of her children growing up and she'd look at them a lot, or share them online.

She's also definitely a facebook mom who doesn't post updates much, but she's always looking at other people's posts and commenting. She'd also low-key try to stalk her children's new friends all the time. She'd find David's facebook and she'd be like why does it say he was born in the 1800's. And we all just hope she doesn't find any of Marko's accounts

Gramps:

Gramps would LOVE the modern day taxidermy community. He'd be on a very niche online taxidermy forum (not to name names, but taxidermy. net).

He'd love the new forms for taxidermy that he could order online that make his life a lot easier and no asbestos.

He'd still know about all the different vampires in the area

[florashyxd]

I Don't Give A Shit About Tumblr Premium

not like i'm gonna care about getting 1000 ads on this site anyway

[stellardeer]

this is not about tumblr because fuck these people, but it does genuinely boggle my mind that people get mad about websites trying to generate revenue. Like I get that the internet used to be free and wild and anyone could just host a website like it was nothing, but even back then there were still costs involved. Even if you were able to run servers entirely out of your home, there's power costs to that, there's a cost to DNS hosting your URL, which you can technically go without but it'll be a lot harder for people to find your site. And if you consider programming and graphics to be a form of labor then yeah you're also spending time and labor building and maintaining a website and maybe some people can afford to do that out of the goodness of their own hearts but if you want a site to have 24/7 support it's gonna require someone to have 24/7 compensation for doing that.

In the olden days all of this was paid for by advertisements. But now everyone uses adblockers and also ads fucking suck in general so it's not a viable way to sustain a site anymore. So yeah, some sites are gonna start rolling out premium plans or selling stupid little cosmetics or just straight up begging for donations every other week just to stay afloat. Or worse, selling user data to advertisers to keep the site free and you have no way to opt out or even know that they are doing this.

Again, fuck tumblr staff, but I was genuinely surprised and happy to see people actually get on board with the idea of buying ad-free or the little badges and shit when they first came out and spreading the word that if we enjoy a service and want to keep using it then we need to financially compensate the people running that service. It was great to see people actually starting to realize like 'hey yeah it sucks that things can't be free forever but the team of people running this place that i love so much need to afford to eat so they can have $5 from me sure' (Granted that didn't last fucking long because they won't stop banning trans women and POC and Palestinians, but it was good to at least see people getting the idea)

But I still see sooo much hatred on other sites towards staff for like.. adding more paid features or trying to increase the price of certain cosmetics or bringing in ads, and I get it, I truly truly do, I use uBlock just like everyone else and I'm not turning it off no matter how fucking much I love a website, I would rather give them $40/year than look at a single fucking ad, but some people act like certain websites existence and continued service/maintenance is just.. a given??? Like?? I wish just as much as the next fucking guy that the internet could idk be subsidized or something, like I don't even know what the alternative is, that's the thing. It's very much a have your cake and eat it to type situation, like if you enjoy using something that is not a necessity, like I'm not talking about having to use the internet to apply for jobs or do taxes or whatever else that damn well should be fucking free, but like games or hobby sites, whether it's run by 1 person in a studio apartment or a whole corporation, it's like paying dues to a club. And maybe you get lucky and even though you can't afford it, the dues that someone else pays are more than enough to compensate both of you sharing the space, but the space needs to be paid for either way.

And I know that it's really an issue with capitalism as a whole, like ideally not only should the internet be free I think that everything else should be free too! But I don't think that you're going to solve that by letting your favorite browser game die because you refused to compensate them for the work they were doing. Especially if you continue to show up and use their services without paying, you're just draining them even faster using up their resources. You're not sending a message to the company that they need to get funding from elsewhere all you're doing is showing investors that this type of thing is not profitable and thus no more of it will be funded. Most of these website also don't want to be doing what they're doing to try to stay afloat, and you're not going to stop microtransactions from existing by "boycotting" the services that start implementing them, you're just going to push every fun or interesting platform out until we'll be left with nothing but the data-selling websites. If you want things to be different you need to look to your politicians, not blame everything that's wrong with the world on the 25 people running a horse website, idk.

Also don't even get me started on how nobody seems to mind that the systems that maintain the internet are built on the backs of the impoverished and enslaved around the world and the amount of energy it takes to run all of it is killing the fucking planet, but like god forbid Wikipedia asks you for $3!!!!

[beach-illustrations]

Hi, I'm here to ask about ArtFol again, since it's been a few months and, well, you know how tumblr is doing right now

Have you been using the site since? What's your opinion of it now? Would you recommend it as a place to jump ship to from having an art blog on here?

I have been! Artfol is nice all things considered, they have a strict anti-AI policy which is a breath of fresh air right now. That being said I'm not entirely sure what precautions they have set up to deter AI scraping in the first place.

Ultimately, yes I would consider Artfol a good art blog alternative as long as you don't mind having a smaller audience than what you'd normally get on Tumblr. This especially goes both for posting original content, or fan art (which usually gets a lot more eyes on your stuff on Tumblr fast but for Artfol, it doesn't really do much to draw attention.)

There's still some discrepancies between the web version and phone app version- specifically features like the featured gallery tab and commissions sheet for your profile are still app exclusive. A little bit ago they finally integrated the groups feature to the app and opened up group creation to all users, not just premium subscribers. Best user experience you can get if you want access to all the free features is to have the app downloaded on a phone if you can and switch between using that and the web version on a laptop. It's deeply annoying to have features split like that but Artfol hasn't been around for too long, so I'm willing to give it a free pass for now.

I will admit, Artfol hasn't really been keeping my attention recently. Part of that is due to my new job, the other part of that is that I don't have any of my old mutuals on it. A huge reason why I've stayed on Tumblr for so long is because of the other people and especially the other artists I follow and everyone is more or less scattering to the four winds, rather than all jumping to the same exact platform.

With that being said, Artfol still has a relatively active and thriving art focused community! I haven't interacted with other users too much but the few times I have, everyone has been friendly and polite. If you're worried about missing the community aspect Tumblr provides (which I personally very much was!), Artfol is pretty great in picking up that slack. Community groups have been a personal favorite! Just pick a group you feel like you fit into, join it and now you're able to shoot the shit with others in that group, as well as make posts exclusive to that group! I'm in a furry group and a clip studio paint group right now.

And, of course, Artfol's main feature of serving as a gallery for folks to post and show off their art is pretty damn good. I really like the gallery set up, the featured artwork section is fun (you can put up to three pieces you've posted in a separate section above your main gallery! so everyone sees those pieces first, regardless of when you posted them!) and the collections feature in general is a HUGE favorite of mine. Beyond using tags, you can organize your art in separate folders for both yourself and for people visiting your page to peruse!

Artfol is still relatively small, especially in comparison to Tumblr and hasn't really gotten the same level of immediate traction such as BlueSky. It seems to be doing well right now, so if you're looking for a stable platform as well to host your art, Artfol could be a good choice.

[chussyracing]

F1 teams as social media

(by popular demand*)

FERRARI as Tumblr. Has been there since the beginning. Cool brand that isn't for everyone and only the bravest soldiers survive here. People keep trying to copy its je ne sais quoi and keep failing. We're called clowns by others. Usually willingly. Got worse with porn ban (red nomex covering tiddies) but slightly better with community labels (tiktok thirst traps). We all fear one thing and that's twitter users (leastappies) flocking here after the app dies. It would be much better if we got rid of the terfs.

RED BULL as TikTok. Can never be the former and should just give up. Trying to copy success of others. Might and will call u slurs. Causes addiction in youngsters. Horrible working conditions (team orders) but catering might be spectacular. The longest tiktoks last 10 minutes (Checo after Monaco).

ASTON MARTIN as Pinterest. Aesthetical livery u wanna crop out and add to the pretty collage on ur wall. Good team (app)...... in theory. If u wanna look for something specific u still choose Google images over it so what's the purpose? It's just for girlies (gn) unbothered by the real word (Lance never using his mirrors to see what's happening around him).

MERCEDES as Instagram. Everyone knows who they are, she's that bitch. The new logo (w13) can never give us what the previous (rainbow logo) gave us. Bring back the black livery and make her fast again u cowards, Lew's back is hurting this year.

MCLAREN as Snapchat. It was funny once - for making the dog filter (gulf liverly). Trying to be sooo cool and failing miserably to bring back what once was. The bright yellow icon (only orange car on the grid) hurts to see. Real safety concern for it's users nowadays (daniel).

ALPINE as BeReal. I don't know what their aim is but I know they're not getting there. I understand nothing about them nor am I interested in learning it. Whatever the concept is, it's only fitting for the french freaks.

WILLIAMS as Twitter. The blue icon (livery) is kinda nice. And that's it. It used to be hugely popular and successfull, then a man with too much money to care came in and it went to shit (sorry Nicky rip). Everyone's just waiting for the moment it falls apart. The come back of the unpopular american (Trump for Twitter AND Trump supporter for Williams) might finally do it.

HAAS as Facebook. If it still exists nowadays. Nobody in their right mind will support them but somehow they're still there. Dangerous place for rookies, meant for more experienced people. U will laugh at the grandmas there but wonder.... what are they doing there in the first place (Guenther).

ALPHA TAURI as YouTube. Some content is nice but it's not what it used to be in 2010 (Torro Rosso). Will try to get money from u somehow (YouTube premium) because the nasty app (Red Bull) is taking their viewers (using their budget money).

ALFA ROMEO as WhatsApp. The alfa definitely doesn't mean they will be first. But look. It's there. And functional and sfw. We all have a family groupchat that makes us a bit embarrassed (Val and his coffee) but also groupchat with friends that makes us feel cool (Guanyu wearing Prada).

*@balaclavacharles asked for it 🤭

[postplus-protest]

Sorry to bother and sorry if this sounds like in venting, idk if this has any relation to post+ but it seems to go along with tumblr's plans of monetization. I saw in my settings a tab for tumblr premium. You can pay $3 a month or $33 a year for...?? It gives me an error when clicking on them.

It's gone now after the app updated but I'm so worried about this & how Tumblr will function if they do ending up doing it. I also don't know how long this accident was live for because no one is talking about since post+ went live around the same time.

So, I’m reluctant to put this out here because I didn’t see the ‘leak’ myself which was mentioned on the Friday change log but I’ve seen a few others mentioning it as well as screenshots.

I would not be surprised to see such a feature in the near future. With the new more invasive ads I can see them pushing Premium as an ad free version of tumblr. Which, to be fair, was a last resort option I myself bandied about as an alternative to Post+.

Personally, I’m concerned about how this all came out. Was it an oopsie daisy? Is it a way to draw attention away from other stupid shit tumblr is doing?

The writing on the wall is this, folks;

Based on some of my own digging around, Post+ isn’t doing so hot. Its reputation is already shot (if you even know about it) and it isn’t gaining traction with the people who are using it.

More monetized features/subscriptions/etc are coming. We’re slipping ever closer to either being a dead site or a shittier version of Reddit.

[vostokovasmelina]

hi réka! may i get a 🔮 for pb, mcu, & got? i'm a straight girl (she/her), enfp, libra. people think i'm smart cause i can do math, speak several languages and know random shit about astronomy and history but i'm lowkey a himbo. in my free time i love playing the piano, writing, reading, stargazing, playing videogames, and annoying the hell out of my cat (i'm actually a dog person but don't tell him that). i'm enthusiastic and optimistic, always cracking jokes and ready for adventure and a good party! I can't cook to save my life but I'll try my hardest :') because i'm so hyper and bubbly all the time, it's pretty difficult to see me in my vulnerable state. (I mean in real life, because oversharing on tumblr doesn't count) as a result i'm kind of awkward with physical touch or like deep, personal words. i typically display my love through heartfelt written words, quality time, or gifts. i write poems about the boys i fall in love with like some kind of nerd <3 also i'm not half bad at archery and would love to get my pilot's license someday! anyway thank you so much if you write it! have an amazing day 💜

a/n: you, too, have an amazing day, clara. and here you go xx

peaky blinders

bonnie gold

fucking my bonnie lies over the ocean keeps playing in my head every time i see this dude’s name help me

come for me if you want but you and bonnie would absolutely subscribe to cottagecore™ premium

just living your best life in the countryside raising dozens of chickens

at least a dozen kids

making aberama the proud grandpa he deserves to be

idk idk

but really, you two would be immensely adorable together

such a soft couple uwu

bonnie would a thousand percent cook for you

and try to teach you

and he’d have all the patience in the world

and guess what! you’re both awkward when it comes to feelings!

but that’s fine, you’d find your own little ways of making each other well-aware of your love

and it would be incredibly sweet and bonnie would want to take you as his wife immediately and run away with you and never come back

and yeah, he might just do that

mcu

thor

omg two himbos against the world?? sign me uppp

thor would be so proud of you

for no reason whatsoever

he just would :)

would want to be close to you at all times because

1) he’s a puppy

2) you’re his (tiny) queen who needs protection

and as annoying as that could get, you’d probably secretly love it? idk i’ll let you decide for yourself, just saying that no one here would blame you

also, weekend trips to asgard where thor would take you to his favourite places and make you very messy flower crowns and give you piggyback rides all around the castle

and then when you come back home you teach him about earth and most importantly about memes and selfies and oh lord would that be a mistake cos he’d just go around your house or the avengers compound filling your phone with pictures of himself

but it’s fine cos he’s thor and he’s your boyfriend and now you have stuff to look at when he’s away and you can’t fall asleep :’)

game of thrones

robb stark

another himbo! we love to see it

robb would not only make you his queen the second he had the chance to, he’d also raise you to his level, making you equals and telling anyone who’d have a problem with it to piss off

he would involve you in almost all matters of the north and would tell you about practically everything even if you yourself didn’t want to participate in council meetings

partly because he’d need to vent and partly because he’d hate to have you only as an accessory

overall, he would be a really caring and patient boyfriend

would always make sure you’re okay and listen to your problems or just sit and share the silence with you

he would give the best cuddles :(

and couldn’t wait to return into your arms after battles

you would be robb stark’s safe place, ma’am. what else could you possibly need in life?

spare me an ask for my 700 followers celebration?

[brain-ded-bookworm]

Tips for the Nomadic Scholar

Part I: Taking Advantage of Technology

(screenshot of my actual phone with the actual apps that actually help me but are actually very few because this phone is an actual piece of shit and has no actual fucking storage space)

Let's get started with the basics:

Actually having a phone~

If you've been broke/independent for awhile, you should probably already know about getting and activating a cheap phone. If that's still some foreign shit to you, I'll give you the quick rundown:

Go to a Dollar General or Walmart. Depending on where you are, the phones they sell there should be fairly cheap (got mine for 45$ in MA).

If you don't have a phone plan, buy one (they have cards on display). You can getta decent plan with Verizon for 50$ a month. The service will be linked to the SIM card you set it up with, so if you getta new phone just swap SIM cards.

Boom, you gotta phone.

Set up a cloud~

If you don't have at least one account with Google, make one.

Google Drive is a free to use and easy to access cloud. It already came pre-installed on my phone.

Use Drive to BACK YOUR SHIT UP. You are not gonna have a lotta space on these phones, but you're gonna wanna be able to hold onto photos of notes or PDFs. Not to mention, phones get broken a lot easier when you live outside.

Everything you download that you intend to make use of, add to Drive.

Online Note Taking and Writing~

I jot down random notes a lot, so I personally use Quotev's journal for that cause it's online (so I can access on any device with internet connection) and convenient.

Or just save a draft on Tumblr or email, etc.. OR use Google Docs.

Google Docs is like Microsoft Word, but a lot more accessible, files automatically save to your Drive, and you can even collaborate with others on a document.

Learning on the Go~

I. Love. Podcasts.

They really make learning (whether it's active or passive) so much more convenient.

I personally use the Stitcher app (cause, you guessed it, it's free [well it has a premium option, but idk what it does cause I can already get everything I want on it for free]).

Languages, STEM, storytelling, life skills, and more. There are so many topics for you to learn with podcasts. They really are a lifesaver when you really wanna study but really don't have the energy (or it's not a convenient time to pull out notes).

Extra~

YouTube is obviously gonna be super useful, and any other app that'll help with your studies.

But of course, be wary of data usage. If your data is limited, try going to a Taco Bell, McDonald's, Starbucks (and get a big ass cheap drink at any of these places and slowly drink that shit), or (my favourite) Library and connecting to their public Wi-Fi.

Keep your chargers and phone in a sandwich bag to protect from moisture, and try to getta battery pack (sometimes they're on clearance at Walmart for 5$. They suck but it's better than nothing).

But don't get extravagant, cause remember: Everything you travel with will either be lost, stolen or destroyed

[c2048]

This shit sucks so hard. It's everywhere, too. I had to put an adblocker on my entire home network, because there's flashing ads all over the internet but like especially on tumblr lately. I have like six adblockers and script removers just so I can use the internet safely, and even then I can't catch everything.

I have to use a friend's Youtube Premium family plan, because I straight up would not be able to use Youtube for longer than about an hour without it. The ads for horror movies opening with lightning flashes should be a crime imo.

I can't watch a lot of movies and I can never tell which are safe, since there's no flashing lights warning. The same goes for music videos, which almost all have flashing lights or flash the entire screen repeatedly. I can count on one hand the number of music videos I've sought out over the last year that didn't give me a severe headache and probably a seizure.

Video games are a gamble, so I generally have to stick to franchises I know or retro games that are well-documented. I'm looking at you, Cyberpunk. So aside from my favorite MMO, my games library has stagnated and I don't have a lot of fun stuff to talk about with friends.

Like fuck, even roadside billboards have flashing lights and strobing ads. I already have enough problems when cops drive by using their rapidly flashing LED light bars. I don't need corporations fucking me over on the road too.

I feel like a lot of this used to be a lot more accessible, or at least had warnings more often. But if that's right, then media, the internet, the world just isn't *for* me. I don't *get* to experience things other people do, and it's alienating and exhausting. I want to participate in the world that y'all out there are allowed to exist in.

I'm not epileptic, but between the Cyberpunk2077 and Avatar 2 stuff, is anyone else getting the feeling that studios are getting a bit more...lax with making sure their shit doesn't cause seizures in photosensitive people?

[my3amletterstoher]

Omg that post did it again 😭 what the heck, Tumblr is tweaking , erased all that I said

I

But yo we are on top of things , this wasn't happening yesterday, we have to put our foot down more , like I know you want to do anyways and I got your back baby , everything in regards to us is okay , great actually, reach out me , clear the worries from your mind , is it the other thing I said ? When I said about the nap ? When I said that you weren't looking? I didn't mean that you didn't want to look or that you were ignoring me , I didn't mean it like that, I said that I said all that the wrong way , you posted ed that song to reach out to me, I know you did, you don't want those MFers bothering you, now they're smiling in your face and shit , thinking that you're taking their shit and I know you don't want that , you made that clear

Reach out to me please

Arw you having anxiety ? Please reach out to me , we were having a peaceful/relaxing day we are NOT with the bullshit , we are against the bullshit

reach out to me PLZ

WE ARE NOT WITH THE BULLSHIT

I am sick , I don't have a lot of energy

We are not with the bullshit , reach out to me

Damn you took it back lol throwback like a MFer lol crank that Soulja Boy ayeeeeee lol you gonna crank that all the way out of school huh baby? I dig thattttt 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 final year BIG gonna be a breeezeeeee , then you'll be here 😍😍😍😍😍😍 ahhhhh 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 we YAHHHH'in all the way 😍😍😍😍😍gets up on the table YAHHHs and acts real silly , you join me on the table 😝😍😍😍😍🖤🖤🖤🖤YAHHHHHHHHHHH (Tumblr messing up) , I can actually picture us on a table acting silly 😭😍 BIG MOOD 😍😍😍big lituation 😍😍😍😍😍paradise 😍😍😍😍 YAHHHHHH (tumblr messing up) big tings a gwaan 😍😍😍😍, sidenote is that Spotify premium? Cause you know I told you how to do it baby if it isn't (Tumblr messing up)

Using tweakbox you can get the tweaked version of Spotify (Tumblr messing up) YouTube, and SoundCloud :

https://www.tweakboxapp.com

In the tweaked apps section , it removes ads, makes it premium..etc I think it supports offline mode too

Tumblr messing up

^ my account is premium

Gives you a big kiss 😘😘😘🖤🖤🖤, I forgot that other site I gave you cause I downloaded it from both (different times of course) , YouTube++ has no ads , SoundCloud++ I forgot what that is , but yeah I'm yahhhh'ing with you baby 😍😍😍😍😍😍, as we continue dancing up on the table , being silly and having a good time 😍😍🖤I can't wait until we FaceTime 😍😍😍😍(Tumblr messing up) twirls you arounddddddd 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤takes a bite out of your face nom nom nom 😘😘😘😘😘💋💋💋💋💋💋🖤🖤🖤🖤oooh we gonna have jam sessions 😍😍😍you ever played an instrument baby? I wanna get a guitar , we gon rock out plays air guitarrrrr (Tumblr messing up) and flings my hair around like I got some hair lol wouldn't that be fun baby? Playing guitar, rocking out 😍😍😍😍that will be lovely 😍😍😍😍 (Tumblr messing up) you still got your flute? I remember you were teaching your sister how to play , that was precious 🖤(Tumblr messing up) oooh what gaming system is guiltar hero on? All of them? (Tumblr messing up) we gonna get a gaming system and have it in the basement /the Rec room , if you have any ideas for it let me know bc I want your input baby 😍you have amazing ideas 😍 we can lounge down in the basement all the time 😍 you were talking about a creative room right? 😍 so we can have the basement like that 😍(Tumblr messing up) it can be a rec/creative space (Tumblr messing up ) , that's gonna be so cool 😍my basement is big enough to have both , may be I can get some beanbag chairs that would be cute what you think? 😍🖤(Tumblr messing up) or some of those egg chairs ? But the beanbag chairs seem more "fun" (Tumblr messing up) we can look up design ideas together 😍😍😍😍winding us down for the nighttttt , every sec with you is amazinggggg 😍, black floor our feet planted (Tumblr messing up) , our door with our symbol on it , it opens to our beach and forest and we walk through hand in hand to our log cabin , we gather up some things for our bonfire 😍 , and we head outside , light breeze in the air , makes the rushing water sound louderrrrrrrr (Tumblr messing up) , we lay out our blanket , and our backpack , we start the fire , and throw in the lavender (Tumblr messing up) , got the boomboxxxxxxx boomingggggg, we dancing around , eating our fruit , we look at the water flowing , we got blue lights around it , oh yeah isn't 1030 the time you go to sleep during the school year? 10-1130ish and sometimes earlier ? That means that we gotta get ready a little earlier 🖤🤗,kissing you on the lips 😍😍😍😍😘😘😘😘😘😘(Tumblr messing up) kissing your neck 😘😘😘😘😘, caressing your back 😍😍😘😘😘😍😘🖤, caressing your cheeks 😍😍😘😘😘🐱💦💦💦(tumblr messing up) about to get ready to get in the shower

Deep breathing in and out , kissing your lips 😘😘😘😘😘(Tumblr messing up) , caressing your thighs , cumming together 🐱💦💦💦💦, kissing your breasts 😘😍😍😍😍🐱💦💦, 🐱💦💦, 🐱💦💦(Tumblr messing up) , caressing your hips 🐱💦💦💦💦, caressing your thighs 😘😘😘💦💦, sucking on your breasts 😍😍😍😍😘😘😘😘🐱💦, 🐱💦💦💦💦💦💦, rubbing on your thighs 😍😘😘😘😘🐱💦💦💦💦, caressing your back 😍😍😍🐱💦💦💦(Tumblr messing up) squeezing your cheeks 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😍���😍😍😍🖤🖤🐱💦💦💦💦💦, 🐱💦💦💦💦💦(Tumblr messing up) , caressing your thighs 😍😍😍😍🐱💦💦💦💦, spreading your cheeks 😍😍😍😘😘😘🐱💦💦💦💦, as your back arches 😍😍😍😘😘🐱💦💦💦💦, caressing your back 😍😍😍😘😘🐱💦💦💦💦💦💦(tumblr messing up) , rimming you 😍😍😍😘😘🐱💦💦💦💦, 🐱😍💦💦💦💦😍(tumblr messing up) kissing down the middle 🐱💦💦💦💦💦, caressing your back 😍😍😍🐱💦💦💦, caressing your hips 😘😍😍😍🐱💦💦, sucking yiur thighs 🐱💦💦💦💦, 🐱💦💦💦💦, caressing your booty 😍😍😍🐱💦💦💦💦💦, 👅💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦🐱💦💦💦💦, licking you 😍😍😘🐱😍💦😍😍, 👅😍💦💦💦💦💦, caressing your thighs 😍😍😘😘🐱💦💦😍(Tumblr messing up) , 🐱💦💦💦💦, slobbing on your booty 😍😘🐱💦💦💦(Tumblr messing up)getting out the shower , drifting off into eternal sleep together 😘🤗🖤

Hell nah why you delete that stuff? It's YAHHHH to the MFers and you reach out to me , telling them MFers to get out your face , cause you don't want them in ever face EVER in no kind of way , and you gonna keep saying stuff like that , and where's your other pictures at? I'll wait , I guess I gotta wake up at the regular time (joking ) , so that you will have the pictures and stuff there/reach out to me like you did yesterday , is that what it is? Making way to post more? Cause other than that there's no reason for that stuff to be deleted , yesterday was amazing , and ppl tried to infest and shit and we wasn't having it , you got out the raid 😆and Yahhhhh'ed the tricks awayyyy 😍🖤, was doing that all day even when I was sleep , when I woke up we had a great time together 😍😍😍😍 (Tumblr messing up) , we be doing the damn thing 😍, we make a great team on every level , you toll in what I said the before too about reaching out to me /continuing to do, me wanting to see you and everything 😍and the loveeeee ahhh 😍😍😍😍 lifts your chin up 😘😘😘😘😘💋💋💋MUAH 😘you are so wonderful 😍(Tumblr messing up) , PERFECT AF 😍😍😍😍😍🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤you are the best gf/sub/muse/slave/trophy ever Tf YOU MEAN 😍😍😍🖤🖤🖤 good morning btw baby 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💋💋💋💋💋💋💋, did my princess have a good nights sleep? 🖤💋 (tumblr messing up) you draw anything yet in your drawing class? Matter of fact what am I talking about , yesterday was the first day, your classes are mostly the teacher talking right now huh? Haven't gotten to the nitty gritty yet , I love seeing the things you created 😍(Tumblr messing up) , your stuff is the bombbbbbb , you are talented af 😍😍😍😍and I like to see your doodles, oooh we can make some slappers(graffiti stickers) , I gotta go to the post office and get some mailing labels or send away for them since they're free , we can make some pins too 😍, let's start wearing pins, let's bring that back , pins are dope , you can put em on your backpackkkk , on your clothessss, I showed you my little pin I got right? (Phone cut off😭)

I want more pins, maybe colllect them (Tumblr messing up) , but yeah the graffiti , your handstyle is probably bananassssss 😍(Tumblr messing up) like a wildstyle hand style ��I used to take up calligraphy , had a book and everything , then ***somehow that got me interested in graffiti , and I started getting books on that and teaching myself different things , then I stopped for a sec then got back into it , I wanna get into the characters , you know the little chibi characters? I used to make those , and the graffiti characters , but I was more into the chibi characters at the time, this is when I was getting into the graffiti characters :

Tumblr messing up , awww I found what I drew for you yrs ago 😭

And this is a zentangle/doodle:

Have you ever created a zentangle before? I love em, they're cool and "zen" (Tumblr messing up) , I can't wait to create a comic with you 😍(Tumblr messing up) it can be a digital one and semi animated

Tumblr messing up , with moving graphics , like during the action scenes , a little screen shake animation , objects moving ..etc just to spice it up , have some sound affects in there too