#I really hope Tumblr doesn't block this for having links or something. Someone mentioned that being a possibility and now I'm worried.

[maypop-the-dragon]

PSA: Free Software

Reading this may really save your time, privacy, and money! Reblog or share to spread awareness!

Folks often use software that’s expensive and sometimes even inferior because they don’t know there are alternatives. So to those unfamiliar: basically, free and open-source (FOSS) or "libre" software is free to use and anyone can access the original code to make their own version or work on fixing problems.

That does not mean anyone can randomly add a virus and give it to everyone—any respectable libre project has checks in place to make sure changes to the official version are good! Libre software is typically developed by communities who really care about the quality of the software as a goal in itself.

There are libre alternatives to many well-known programs that do everything an average user needs (find out more under the cut!) for free with no DRM, license keys, or subscriptions.

Using libre software when possible is an easy way to fight against and free yourself from corporate greed while actually being more convenient in many cases! If you need an app to do something, perhaps try searching online for things like:

foss [whatever it is]

libre [whatever it is]

open source [whatever it is]

Feel free to recommend more libre software in the tags, replies, comments, or whatever you freaks like to do!

Some Libre Software I Personally Enjoy…

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an office suite, much like Microsoft Office. It includes equivalents for apps like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, which can view and edit files created for those apps.

I can't say I've used it much myself yet. I do not personally like using office software except when I have to for school.

OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is, as the name suggests, a video editing program. It has industry-standard features like splicing, layering, transitions, and greenscreen.

I've only made one video with it so far, but I'm already very happy with it. I had already paid for a video editor (Cyberlink PowerDirector Pro), but I needed to reinstall it and I didn't remember how. Out of desperation, I searched up "FOSS video editor" and I'm so glad I did. There's no launcher, there's no promotion of other apps and asset packs—it's just a video editor with a normal installer.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editor, much like Photoshop. Originally created for Linux but also available for Windows and MacOS, it provides plenty of functionality for editing images. It is a bit unintuitive to learn at first, though.

I've used it to create and modify images for years, including logos, really bad traceover art, and Minecraft textures. It doesn't have certain advanced tech like AI paint-in, but it has served my purposes well and it might just work for yours!

(Be sure to go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Colors. I have no idea why that's not enabled by default.)

Audacity

Audacity is an audio editing program. It can record, load, splice, and layer audio files and apply effects to them.

Audacity is another program I've used for a long time. It is not designed to compose music, but it is great for podcasts, simple edits, and loading legacy MS Paint to hear cool noises.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file manager and archive tool. It supports many archive types including ZIP, RAR, TAR, and its own format, 7Z. It can view and modify the contents of archives, encrypt and decrypt archives, and all that good stuff.

Personally, I use 7-Zip to look inside JAR files for Minecraft reasons. I must admit that its UI is ugly.

Firefox

Firefox is an internet browser, much like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari. While browsers are free, many of them include tracking or other anti-consumer practices. For example, Google plans to release an update to Chromium (the base that most browsers are built from these days) that makes ad blockers less effective by removing the APIs they currently rely on.

Aside from fighting monopolies, benefits include: support for animated themes (the one in the picture is Purple Night Theme), good ad blockers forever, an (albeit hidden) compact UI option (available on about:config), and a cute fox icon.

uBlock Origin

As far as I know, uBlock Origin is one of the best ad blockers there is.

I was on a sketchy website with my brother, and he was using Opera GX's ad blocker. Much of the time when he clicked on anything, it would take us to a random sponsored page. I suggested that he try uBlock Origin, and with uBlock Origin, that didn't happen anymore.

Linux

Linux is a kernel, but the term is often used to refer to operating systems (much like Windows or MacOS) built on it. There are many different Linux-based operating systems (or "distros") to choose from, but apps made for Linux usually work on most popular distros. You can also use many normally Windows-only apps on Linux through compatibility layers like WINE.

I don't have all four of these, so the images are from Wikipedia. I tried to show a variety of Linux distros made for different kinds of users.

If you want to replace your operating system, I recommend being very careful because you can end up breaking things. Many computer manufacturers don't care about supporting Linux, meaning that things may not work (Nvidia graphic cards notoriously have issues on Linux, for example).

Personally, I tried installing Pop!_OS on a laptop, and the sound output mysteriously doesn't work. I may try switching to Arch Linux, since it is extremely customizable and I might be able to experiment until I find a configuration where the audio works.

Many Linux distros offer "Live USB" functionality, which works as both a demo and an installer. You should thoroughly test your distro on a Live USB session before you actually install it to be absolutely sure that everything works. Even if it seems fine, you should probably look into dual-booting with your existing operating system, just in case you need it for some reason.

Happy computering!

[neechees]

Hi! Do you have any information about how to vet PayPal-based donation blogs based in Gaza? I got an ask from this user (screenshot below) and on their blog it seems that the only donation source is PayPal, but my understanding was that PayPal didn’t work there. I really don’t want to not help people because I misidentified their blog as suspicious but I don’t want to lead anyone to a false link or donation. Any help super appreciated.

First of, this user is a scammer. They're already on the scam list, and their pinned post is directly copying this genuine gfm (buy we know this can't be the person from the gfm, because the gfm doesn't link to this tumblr or offer that paypal the tumblr blog uses as a form of accepting donations)

Regarding vetting, I'll say, and this is important, that 1. I myself don't do the vetting, I call out the scams that are definitely scams and that I have proof of, and 2. The people who are doing the vetting are multiple Palestinian users on here (such as 90-ghost, nabulsi, el-shab-hussein-, & others) who have been on tumblr for quite some time, and who can confirm what Palestinian fundraisers are real because they either know them, know someone who knows them, or have talked to various Palestinians who have made new blogs and determined them to be genuine due to a number of factors. Most scammers are either not trying to talk to real Palestinians doing the vetting because they know they'll get caught lying (and many will block the users doing the vetting), OR the ones that DO are quickly found out anyway for various reasons (such as for obviously using something like Google translate).

But if you want tips on how to suss out who you think might be a scammer on your own, try these:

If a suspected blog claims to be "vetted and verified!" In their donation post or ask, go and look at their posts and blog: most genuine fundraisers who claim to be vetted will @ the users that vetted them, sometimes might even provide a link to a post of the vetter confirming them to be genuine, and/or you'll see a Palestinian user verbally confirming them to be genuine in the notes in one of their posts, OR you can go to a vetter's blog & look for their url. If they're actually vetted you'll find them there. Additionally, the person confirming them to be genuine MUST be a popular Palestinian user who is currently volunteering to be a vetter, it CANNOT be the suspected blog in question "verifying" themselves or any other rando. But many scammers are lying by starting off their post by saying they are "vetted" & sometimes even name dropping random users hoping nobody will double check to see if they're lying. Double check. You won't find any vetter in their notes confirming them to be real. If you're still unsure, don't interact with the blog or reblog their donation posts until you find evidence theyre vetted.

Go to the blog @kyra45 and have a look at our resources where Kyra helpfully gives tips on how to spot scams, and lists the really popular scammers & the stories they like to reuse. Also keep tabs on the "users pretending to be Palestinian" post there, where Kyra & others give daily updates on which users are scammers pretending to be Palestinian on the same post & give proof for why.

Connected to our resources post, but look at the tips posts, anc give the blog a scan to see if it fits any of the common red flags that of a scammer (and remember, these things have to be taken in context together, it can't just be one thing). Does the blog fit the description of any of the scammers we listed (such as one who constantly reuses the fake story of being a diabetic Palestinian & mentions humalog)? Does their paypal location match where they claim to be (such as, they say they're in the U.S but the paypal link says they're located in the Philippines)? Are they using a knockoff site instead of the more popular one (such as gogetfunding instead of gofundme)? Do they ONLY link to a paypal set to USD instead of a gofundme? Does their profile photo show up in another place but they're claiming its a photo of themselves (such as one I found where the photo belonged to a woman in Pakistan, & the scammer pretending to be Palestinian claimed the photo was of them)? Copy & paste the ask or parts of the ask they sent you: do other asks with the exact same or similar wording show up on lots of other answered asks in the tumblr search from now deactivated blogs? Does their donation post seem to have multiple replies, but the replies section shows nothing except a notification that says "some replies may be hidden or deleted", and/or replies are turned off? (<- this usually is an indication that this blog is a scammer, and people were calling them out, & so they hid those replies so no one could see the evidence). Does their url show up in the scam list? Things like that.

But if you're still unsure and want some help, and think a blog might be a scam, bring it to one of us scam busters (& there's about 8 of us currently active) & we'll have a look at it. If you think a blog might be real, visit a Palestinian vetter's blog and see if that url shows up. In the meantime when you still aren't sure, don't interact with blogs claiming to be Palestinian that you can't be sure are genuine.

[lookingfts]

Hi, I'll preface this by saying that I'm a fan of your writing and this is not a rant at you specifically. It's something that I'm growing more and more frustrated with when navigating content/creations in the fandom (and other fandoms on here too tbh). Your posts just happened to be the ones I came across today and they provide a convenient case study into the matter.

I politely appeal for you to insert gif credit and sources in posts like these: https://www.tumblr.com/lookingfts/752534640842211328?source=share and https://www.tumblr.com/lookingfts/752585046132752384/this-ridiculous-little-man-with-his-stupid-little?source=share

From what I can tell (unsure about the s3e1 bedroom one) but the other two come from: https://www.tumblr.com/chenfordsbee/752307297817165824/kanthony-hands?source=share and https://www.tumblr.com/bakerolivia/750875519674892289/anthony-bridgerton-and-benedict?source=share

I think we all know that the inbuilt tumblr feature to embed existing gifs in posts is very broken (where it automatically credits, and links you back to the full set when you click the text/username under it), and it can be very frustrating to find the exact one you want.

But reposting them yourselves without credit is seen as very bad etiquette amongst creators, and a lot of creators will block people for this reason (to avoid said person collecting and reposting their future content), and warn their fellow creator mutuals to do so too.

Also, it makes the user experience quite annoying for some users. i.e. You see a post with a really cool gif; you swore you've seen that exact one before, you may even recognise the very specific style/coloring, OR you've not seen that scene giffed before but you've wanted to, you now really want to like/reblog the full set if you could find it. Either way; you wish you could see the whole thing from the original post. But there's no link or even an indication as to the original creator/blog it came from, so... yeah this sucks.

From your other posts you seem like a reasonable and well intentioned person, so I don't think you're setting out to be deceptive in any way (some will actually fully repost a mish mash of different sets, and caption and tag it as if it's their own creation), you just want to scream about your faves, as you should. And I'm sorry this got so so long but I think I need to make it really clear, because I assume that some of these reasons/povs/repercussions must be unknown for it to keep happening. I could go into how it affects creators in fandoms in more detail but I'm sure you can imagine and I don't want to extend the lecture (just imagine someone copying and pasting excerpts from your fan fiction, and posting it, without any citation of said fan fiction or even mention of the author).

TLDR - Please link back to the original post if you're sharing stand alone gifs, made by someone else, in your own posts. Or better yet, reblog the original post that you're downloading the images from, with your added commentary (we would actually LOVE to see it, but I do also get if you just want to pluck out one specific moment from the set).

An example:

[THAT ONE GIF FROM THAT MOMENT YOU REALLY WANT TO POST ABOUT]

GIF by @tumblrusername

Blue font to illustrate that this is a hyperlink to the original set. I just based this on the way the aforementioned broken inbuilt one is formatted, but as long as you @ the user (this pops a mention into our activity just like the inbuilt feature does so we can come scream along with you) and link the applicable post in some clear way it's all dandy and helps everyone out.

I really hope that this doesn't come across as hostile, and that you answer so it can be shared to make others more aware too.

Thank you for asking this. You're totally right - I have not been thinking about crediting gif creators, and that's something I need to learn!

I'm still very new to Tumblr and learning the ropes. I didn't really intend to post S3 gifs at all - I was keeping Kanthony photos/gifs I liked on my phone to share with friends, and eventually I realized how many I had saved, so I decided to start making posts with them, and I was simply uploading them from my phone at that point.

You see so many gifs floating around here - I didn't think closely about the time and effort that people are going through to create these gifs, and I will do better in giving them the recognition and attention they deserve. (If one of the gifs I've used is yours, please let me know and I will tag you.)

Thank you to everyone in the fandom for contributing their art, and thank you for standing up for creators.

[sucrows]

https://www.tumblr.com/sucrows/718019701660434432/ough-the-new-crazyb-summer-collab-things-visuals

PLEASE DO IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY

(link to previous post)

alright. doing this hc style because that'd be fun. Also committing a cardinal sin in writing directly into tumblr drafts instead of a second document so lets see how this goes.

uhm "let's see how it goes" it's been almost 5 months since i typed that. writing into drafts is the easiest way to forget about something it seems! Whatever I'll answer this now

and now its been 1 full year since i received this ask and i am only now finishing it up.... not doing graphics or putting this in my masterlist or anything so have fun finding it later on.

Under cut due to length! Primarily sfw with mentions of hooking up

RINNE:

Opens up a dating app profile for the fuck of it while he's really bored, it's not really his style, he'd much rather go out and physically meet someone tbh but why not

Matches with a good amount of people but tends to get bored of conversation with his matches realllly quickly. If he is vibing with someone though he's also really quick to invite them out to a bar or something

If you manage to catch his attention. and you accept his invitation, expect to be dragged around for a whole night of shenanigans

His ideal date is getting lunch, walking around until dark, getting tipsy, then bar hopping. He gets his duties done earlier on in the day so that he can spend the rest of the day with you.

If he ends up not liking you of course, he's not going to spend any more time with you than he has to. He comes up with some random excuse that you both know is bullshit and if you question him, he's not afraid to just tell you with no sugar coating that he's not into you

He'll be flirty and suggestive but he'll probably hold off on actually initiating anything until you either ask him to or make the first move yourself. He doesn't have something against some casual fun. He doesn't really have anywhere to take you back to thought so unless you have your own place, then an alleyway it is

He might actually treat you to a meal as thanks afterwards and just chill with you. After you get up to any kind of fun he's actually pretty calm afterwards.

He won't block you afterwards even if he wasn't really a fan of you. He'll still might hit you up again when he's bored as long as you weren't an explicitly bad lay. There's definitely potential to go from fwbs to lovers with him

Spend enough time with him and then one day he'll just show up and announce you're dating and from then on you'd be stuck with him lol

HIMERU:

So this either goes one of two ways. Either someone else signs him up for a dating app and secures him a date and he gets guilted into now leaving the person hanging OR when out of town he posts a profile with no images of his face just his body to get laid.

In the first scenario, he does his best to seem polite but ultimately disinterested. If you somehow manage to charm him and he has a good time, he'll be pretty conflicted.

He knows it's a really bad idea, but he won't be able to stop thinking about you. He might try to ghost you for a bit in hopes it'll smother whatever interest he had, but it probably doesn't work.

Either he caves when you message him after a good few days or he caves after a week and comes up with some excuse for not responding. From there it's complicated. He's very secretive and honestly it's a red flag but hey if you ignore it that's on you.

If it seems like you can't handle the way he keeps you at an arms-length for a while or that you might be a threat somehow, he will leave you. Most likely via sending a breakup text and then immediately blocking your number.

If we're talking about the second scenario though? His profile is just a pure thirst trap and he swipes on any person who seems like they'd be down for a no strings attached fuck. He's super quick to unmatch or block people if they give him the wrong vibes.

If you fit his criteria and seem like a good fit? He'll invite you to a hotel and spend a few hours with you. After it's all over he'll probably order some food for you both and stay with you until you fall asleep, then he runs off before you wake up.

Depending on how much he liked you and how trustworthy you seemed, he might thank you and promise to text you the next time he's in town orrrr he might also send a goodbye text then block you.

potential for FWB to lovers? would have to really be a slowburn but the potential is there.

NIKI

Ok so Niki is quite busy with his day-to-day life and I can't really see him going out of his way to set up a dating app account. He's another one who probably gets into this from someone else either making him an account or someone else convinces him to do so.

He's pretty liberal with his swiping. He doesn't exactly have a specific goal in mind while he's doing it so he kinda just goes for the ones whose bio makes it seem like they'd get along with him

He's pretty down to go out for a meal with most people relatively quickly but it might take him a bit longer for him to invite somebody out. When he does decide he likes someone enough to invite them out, he's honestly pretty likely to invite them to cafe cinnamon for a treat.

Niki's genuinely a friendly guy and seeks to know someone as a person and a friend before he makes any romantic or sexual moves on anyone. This doesn't mean he wouldn't reciprocate if someone else made the first move though.

If you make a pass at him, he's generally speaking down pretty quickly. Maybe not first date level quickly, but still pretty quickly. He's not really easily embarrassed or a prude by any means so if he likes someone as a person well enough, he doesn't see why not to enjoy himself.

He'll take you back to his place or go with you to yours without much fuss. After you guys have fun, he'll probably try to make some food or raid your kitchen for snacks. He has to feed himself first because of his condition, but he'll always feed you too.

I imagine he's probably bad at reaching out to people first to make plans and often loses track of how long it's been since he last talked to someone, but don't mistake that for disinterest! he's pretty non judgemental and as long as you weren't explicitly an ass, he's very likely to give you a second date.

[doomed-era]

so like some of these are gonna be nitpicks. most of them really. i'm not a sensitivity reader i'm just some guy with opinions. some of these are just fandom trends I see and aren't me vaguing about someone I blocked and some of them are uh. really bad.

I will also include some dumb stuff I did for funsies even though it's not gonna be a comprehensive list of all of my personal goofs I'm not into self-flagellating. also im not gonna let this go anywhere </3 theres nuance to these yadda yadda i may have gotten the context wrong

anywayyyy if you'd like to send me your own horrible awful gerudo and ganondorf stories i'd like to learn. i collect these things as a hobby it seems. bleeehh

i've been in this fandom for I think six years now, god. most of my exposure to this shit has been on tumblr and discord. little deviantart and twitter in the mix there of course. some of them are secondhand but most of them are not

-calling the gerudo vai outfit "gender" and pretty much completely ignoring the context in which the outfit is acquired. boy oh boy I love intersectionality

-"botw gerudo are empowered and feminist"

-"botw gerudo respect link's gender" oh yes they do say stuff like "I know you're a man" if that's what you mean

- i find it weird when "gerudo links" always look like they came straight outta The Sheik or something. ah yes the strong and handsome prince from the east....so maybe stop doing this? I swear I've seen it multiple times.

-"actually nothing happened to the gerudo in twilight princess. they're completely fine they just. moved. for some reason." gets close to the mic wow i wonder why

-"hylians arent racist against the gerudo in OoT!" please stop.

-"ooh I want urbosa to step on meeeee" look I get she was absolutely designed with that thought in mind but calm your tits

- nother urbosa nitpick but why is everyone so invested in making sonia's kids when urbosa has been around for seven years longer

- i've talked about this but the whole "zelda never had good parental figures until totk" urbosa is right there asshole. so much for found family. obviously urbosa being nothing but zelda's mom figure in the text itself is bad, but just. erasing her adds insult to injury

- "here's my GOOD gerudo oc. they HATE ganondorf" riveting. the good guy doesn't like the bad guy. who woulda thunk.

- tbh it's worse when they make hating ganondorf the gerudo's entire collective personality. why would every gerudo have an opinion about a long dead evil ruler or have to constantly explain that they're not like other girls cause they hate the evil arab man. that's not normal.

-not knowing how to draw gerudo noses. drawing them too long or too short. refusing to learn.

this is something i've done. don't look at my old ganondorf art.

-consistently drawing ganondorf as green for no reason. insisting that he is green in games that aren't totk. he is not. he has an olive tone but he is not green (I have also done this)

-making "good ganondorf" harmless and stupid/"himbo" ganondorf. reverse stereotypes are still one-dimensional guys :) I did something similar to this once upon a time....do not speak to me about older ALT Ganon....

-enforcing the "gerudo girls age faster" bit in creating a champion in headcanons

- someone makes two gerudo ocs. one is extremely pale skinned and the other is darker in tone. paler skinned gerudo is depicted as graceful and refined, the other is depicted as brash and picks fights with the protagonist of the fic. suspicious

next few things are gonna be nasty so putting under a cut. abandon hope all ye who enter here (abuse/sexual assault mentions)

-it's just weird how evil ganondorf is often depicted in fanon as monstrous, abusive, and sexually predatory and then good ganondorf is like. there to support another couple or some shit...passive sweet and sexless...like some sorta gay best friend... I don't dig it, there has to be some kind of middle ground here. something other than himbo and complete monster

-tbh portraying ganondorf as abusive is a major turnoff for me. ganon does a lot of bad stuff, and he hurts a lot of people, but physically or sexually abusive he is not. he would not care enough to abuse someone.

- on that note. "my (gerudo) oc is based on wind waker ganondorf because he is a child abuser" 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

-that being said I have seen au versions of ganondorf where his whole schtick is just raping people. like that was all he did. rape and kill people

-ive mentioned this. but "the gerudo are more open about their sexuality kind of like latino people"

-my favorite partially secondhand one from tumblr: "the gerudo naturally have huge boobs to fight the heat of the desert. also ganondorf and telma need to get married????"

-some dickhead reblogging a post I did complaining about creating a champion and putting in the tags "gee if canon is like this nothing I do matters!" I later learned from someone else that this person writes the gerudo like. having sex with animals or something. idr

-"the idea that the gerudo feel bad about ganondorf because of some outside force is stupid. don't the germans feel bad about hitler?" HITLER!?!?!?!?!?

anyway thats my list. if I think of more I might add em on. idk

okay I guess I will make a list...............................................

[hexyourheartablaze]

i saw this post and thought you could read and spread it :O i was unaware of how offensive the term really is, and you and a couple of your mutuals seem to be using it a lot (not mad, just wanted to spread awareness! especially that aave is so heavily misused in internet spaces) theerealcowboy (.) tumblr (.) com/post/647477577550872576/white-fans-are-exhausting-every-time-a-white-fan

Yeah! I'll link the post right here for my mutuals/anyone else to read, it's a bit long and I want to keep this blog as KNY themed as possible. I also want to link this too, the aave carrd.

I didn't realize that it was an offensive term either... I'll be honest, when I first made this account I just thought it was e-girl/tiktok slang until I heard it was AAVE, which was a new term for me. I also didn't realize that non blacks and whites were being asked to not use AAVE completely, when I first learned the term I assumed it was to spread more as far as the history of where these terms are coming from to avoid abusing the terms. Hopefully that makes sense? Like telling people to be more aware of the pop culture terms they throw around. I know these words (as well as other cultural aspects from poc culture in general) have a history of being stolen/distorted by non black communities while continuing to demonize poc (looking hard at some gay white men, but if I start on that I'll rant all day because that topic gets my blood boiling). That's my fault, I should have read more about AAVE, I'm really sorry. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm defending myself or anything too by the way!

After reading more about it, I'm leaning towards changing my blog name and nickname.

Off topic, sort of: ((I was sort of thinking about changing it anyways. I might go with the name I use on my main, but the reason why I'm hesitant on that is because I want to keep my main blog and this blog as far away from each other as possible. I had a fall out with someone I knew IRL in the middle of this year because they said me some extremely homoph*bic and r*cist things to me, not to mention some suspected transph*bia from what another friend told me. They used to follow my main blog, but I blocked them. It's a very long story, but basically they also used to brag about how good they were at making sock puppet accounts to stalk people on the internet who they are exfriends with so they could "keep track of where they are." (makes me sick just thinking about it, everyone they knew told them to get help including me).

I'm not super afraid of them (mostly creeped out to the max) but it's one reason why I haven't been open about my main. Sorry to get off topic, but it's something I was going to bring up soon.))

Sorry this became a bit long! 😖 It's a tough subject, but something that I think people should read about. I think either later on today after work or tomorrow I'll start moving things around on my blog though, for now I won't use the usual personal post tags though.

[scarletteflamerald]

There isn't really a standard for those, no. Most people just put "[thing] tw" or "tw [thing]" as one of the tags. The format doesn't matter too much because tumblr should hide anything with the name of the thing you've blocked in the tags. Cw is less common as far as I've seen but I'm assuming you already know the difference between the two from twitter? And sometimes in longer posts, particularly if the potentially triggering content is in a particular section, people will add a trigger warning in the text of the post as well, something like:

tw for: gore, blood, sexual assault

Or

WARNING: THIS SECTION CONTAINS MENTIONS OF BLOOD, GORE, AND SEXUAL ASSAULT

I'll add these sometimes when I post my writing in case someone doesn't have a particular tag blocked but isn't in the mood to engage with that type of content, and so they don't have to scroll past potentially triggering content to check the tags. (and this is hardly something I invented, other writers do it too, I just wanted to explain my reasoning as to why it's important)

As far as tagging systems, you're certainly not required to have one, but they can be somewhat useful. The idea is to have a standard tag for certain genres of posts so you can find things more easily. Some people include links to certain tags in their bio or pinned post. The problem is that tumblr's search feature is Oh So Very Functional (/s) and so usually if you search your blog for a tag you only get a limited amount of things that were posted fairly recently. I mostly use tumblr on my phone, because I am foolish and set in my ways, but if you're on desktop and trying to find a particular post in your archive, using "find in page" to search for the tag is a handy trick, particularly if you don't remember the text of the post word-for-word.

Hope this is helpful!! :)

Hi ro!! I see you're new here so welcome to tumblr! :)

Need help with anything?

hello! thank you!

i have spent today doing a bit of googling and a lot of scrolling and i think i have most things figured out :]

one thing i haven’t found an answer for though - is there a standard format for cws/tws? (they go in the tags right?)

also ive seen a lot of people doing like. tagging systems for their posts. whats the general consensus on those. how useful/important are they?

thank you again for the welcome :]

[cyanidefilledcandy]

Geez! I hate to see this happening with this fandom. But, I mostly agree with @doot-meister.

I don't think anyone's intentionally being left out and ostracized. And I think a HUGE part of this doesn't come down to being clique-y, but simply visibility. As mentioned above, time of day is a factor (I've noticed this personally), as well as the dashboard being literally just FLOODED constantly. As popular as eene-fangirl is, I still rarely see her on my dashboard, and it's because other blogs are posting more at a faster pace. Most of the time, I won't see anything from EEnE related blogs unless I go directly to the specific blog. And even accounting for searching for the show directly, even that gets messy. Searching only gives you the most popular posts (again, it's a matter of visibility), and searching for recent posts only gives you a finite number (for me, it's usually less than 10). So.... it's tricky.

Trust me, I completely understand. There have been loads of time when I've posted something I've worked EXTREMELY hard on only for it to basically get no notes. It hurts, and for someone like me who's a perfectionist and already hard on myself about my art, it's like confirmation that I really am worthless. But, at the same time, just looking at my own dashboard, I know that my posts could just be buried in a sea of other posts.

And I may not be the best person to talk about this because at one point I was a lot more visible in the fandom, but I have been gone for a while and where I used to get maybe 10 notes on a post about the show, I'm now lucky if I get 2. But....at the same time, I posted more back then, so it makes sense. For the person who said you don't post much, the truth is, if you don't post content, there's no way for people to know you're there.

And I also get it about social anxiety as well. I have it (and I'm talking if I'm in a virtual world with virtual avatars, like Second Life, I will literally panic in real life if I come across someone else's avatar). I'm not very social at all, but...and this may seem hard, don't let that stop you. Half of the friends I made in this fandom was not from approaching them. It was from simply commenting on any post I found interesting and giving my opinion on it. I didn't directly interact with people through PMs and whatnot. We simply discussed the show, and that would eventually lead to private conversations, which lead to friendships (in some cases). Simply put, if you don't put yourself out there, how CAN people know that you're there?

And as far as no-one being there for you in times of great need, that's also not something I think was intentional; again, it's just an issue of visibility. One of my closest friends here on Tumblr has posted that they're going through a rough time, and I've missed it completely. But, it wasn't because I was actively avoiding them and didn't care. It was because I just didn't see the post.

I'm not trying to lecture anyone or tell anyone that they have no right to feel the way they do, because you absolutely do. I'm just trying to offer a different perspective and try to see if we can come to a consensus.

I do agree that maybe a masterpost linking to all of the fandom's blogs would be nice. But again, it has to be a two way street. You have to put yourself out there a little bit so people can see you. It's hard to get over, but start small. If you see a post you have an opinion on, just give it. The fandom as a whole tends to be very chill, and even if you come across a few haters, block them. Brush them off and move on. You'll eventually find people you click with.

I really hope this works out for everyone. Truly. :)

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Let’s get one thing straight before I really get into things: I am not angry. The only thing that will make me angry is insisting I am. I am very nervous, though, but I’m always nervous lol

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