#I'm gonna get so many screenshots for now text post memes

[guqin-and-flute]

Just got a new screen shot program that makes it SO MUCH fuckin easier than how I used to do it. Oh man, it's so over for you punks 😈🩶

[anomyn]

[ID by @wellthatschaotic: a posting on r/offmychest titled "I'm in love with my gym bro". the post reads, "I (Male 22) fell in love with my gym bro (Male 24). Problem being, I thought I was straight.

This all started a few months ago, I noticed this guy at the gym and I knew something was immediately off. I was like nervous to even look at him, but I decided to get rid of that nervousness and just talk to him. He was actually really nice and funny and we quickly became buddies. Then about two weeks later my girlfriend broke up with me. I told him that and we had a heart to heart where he casually came out as gay. But that initial offness that I felt when I first saw him didn't go away, and I quickly started to piece together that it was the same feeling I get when I look at a really pretty girl.

And over the months it's been increasingly hard to be near him because he's just so...gorgeous I guess. Whenever I go to sleep, I just imagine him there snuggled up to me. I just wanna text him all the time...and I just wanna kiss him so bad. I guess this is me coming out as bi...I met a beautiful guy at the gym and we became best friends, i love his personality, he makes me laugh nonstop, and ngl he's mad thick. I wanna ask him out so bad".

the next image is a continuation of the same post, reading, "Update: at the gym rn, we're gonna do our sets and when we leave ima walk him to his car and tell him. Thanks for the courage everyone! update 2: I'm fucking crying in my car rn holy shit. He said yes. So I walked him to his car and I told him. And bruh...the way I couldn't speak lmao I was so nervous. But basically, he said he kinda thought I was into him cause "I can only catch you respectfully staring at my butt so many times before it's a little sus". But I told him that I'm bi...and we're going on a date Friday. But like bruh...he looked so flustered and cute when I told him...he had the prettiest smile lmao. And for the people saying stuff about my vocab and texting...I'm a history major, not smart...my vocab consists of "I guess", "like", "idk", "bruh", and "fucking". But anyways...I guess we're a little more than just gym bros now...I seriously couldn't have done this if this didn't get so much random ass support lmao. Anyways...I'm fucking shaking...I actually did it...bruh I love him so much...so so so fucking much. Thank you for the support!"

the third image is a tweet by a user called Gym Bro, reading "I have been getting railed since 8:50 bruh (safely ofc). Sorry ladies, but I'm never touching a woman again lmao". End of their ID

user @stormesandshowers added the "good for her" meme but edited to say "him/them" instead of "her." after that @zackisontumblr added a screenshot of a tweet by user Gym Bro that says: "Haven't updated y'all in a while, but just know, things are going well. We moved in together." end ID]

crying rn 🥹

[syrupyy]

Cookie Comic Creator is getting an upgrade!

Hello, everyone! I'm syrupyy, the developer of Cookie Comic Creator. Thanks to your support, I've been able to make this silly little meme maker site my main focus, and with that time I've been working on a little something for the past few months in secret. I dropped a few teasers for it here and there, even accidentally leaking the URL on the site a couple months back (oops, LOL) but I think it's finally time I show it off to the public. I present to you all, the sequel to Cookie Comic Creator...

Cookie Run Comic Studio!

That's right baby, I'm making a second one!! It won't just be a visual redesign, however. New features abound: • Resize your panels and backgrounds to create more dynamic and realistic comics! • Format your text, use all kinds of textboxes, and try out other fonts • Post your comics to the website and use custom sprites made by the community

Now, I know what you're thinking. "syrupyy, that's all well and good, but why the name change? Isn't Cookie Comic Creator a fine name already?" Well, if you saw the April Fool's comic I made, I think you can guess where this is going.

It's not just gonna be Cookie Run anymore

I figured that since my site has brought so much happiness to the Cookie Run community, why not spread the love to everyone else? So, I'm changing the name to something more universal. Comic Studio is a brand that will someday extend to every fandom with enough character art to make comics, and anyone will be able to make their own comic creator using my tools, without needing to know any code. Here are just two of the studios I've made while testing that will be available at launch:

(As a note: Comic Studio is still under development, and a lot of things are expected to change and get better before launch. So take these comics as more of a sample than the final product!)

I would like to end this post by thanking all of you for the warm reception to the original Cookie Comic Creator. Honestly, I expected it to fail, and was originally just going to release it for my friends to use and then leave the fandom... But, the site became the most successful thing I've ever made, and seeing how many people have enjoyed my creation has made me a happier person. I promise I won't let any of you down during the move to the new site!!

That's all for now, ehe. Follow me either here or on Twitter, where I'll be posting screenshots and information about Comic Studio up until its planned release date, which should be in early-to-mid May! There will also be a closed beta soon, but I won't be giving out keys just yet. Keep an eye out for me though ^^

[elizabethrobertajones]

Hey I'm new to tumblr but I've seen screenshots of it. How do you find the things that you want to look at?

Oh I’m either a great person to ask or the worst because I have absolutely no extensions and will give you advice tailored around using this hell site exactly as I found it, which I suppose is useful when you’re new and before someone shows you some extensions that I hear make things easier :P

When I first joined tumblr I just searched “supernatural” and skimmed that search for posts I wanted to see. (Actually about 6 months previously I was doing this exact thing for The Hobbit movies but I didn’t see the appeal of joining a fandom so I never got involved past laughing at memes on tumblr and not even reblogging anything) 

With SPN fandom, I realised the posts I liked were tagged certain ways that got results of more posts I wanted to see and filtered out all the general tag shitposting, and I started searching those things instead, after a while of which I had a list of tags I visited all the time. 

Of course the entire time I was hitting the follow button on every blog that seemed to post a lot of what I was interested in seeing, so that’s an assumed piece of advice for you :P 

For example I went in the SPN meta tag and hit follow on every blog posting in it when I first joined tumblr. After a while you start to see social patterns and find blogs you agree with more or violently disagree with, so you start to be more selective or have to use the right to unfollow someone you agree with who seems like an asshole and hope their posts reach you via reblogs, etc. And you can’t follow everyone. I follow too many blogs and despite being a housebound headache lump under a blanket who’s on my laptop on and off all day and I don’t stay caught up. Find like… 100 people you like and try and keep it around there while constantly exercising the right to unfollow and follow different blogs. 

These days you can get posts from the tags you like onto your dash as well as having them stored to visit whenever. 

Type into tumblr’s search bar and find things you want to follow, so this is what mine looks like:

having a glance there I just noticed I don’t actually follow ANY Destiel edit tags because I guess I’m extremely well-served by what I see on my dash with my followers, but for the sake of showing you -

wait a minute this “destiel edit” tag looks too general - full of shitposts and chat posts and really quickly made meme-y edits! Maybe you want to follow that while you’re new, maybe you know you’ll see as much of that as you need on your dash because silly people will always reblog silly things so it’s not urgent to follow it (I’m not saying don’t, I’m just making snobby judgements about what I want on my dash and also I know this is the kind of quality shitposting I already followed a bunch of people for and the meta writers and fancy edit makers and artists are all going to be silly people who will ALSO make trashy chat posts, quickly cobbled together edits, and memes without me seeking that out :P)

So I looked at the one fancy destiel gifset in the first bunch of results and looked at the tags and - 

https://www.tumblr.com/search/destieledit

There we go, that’s what all the gifmakers are using and I see BNF (big name fan) giffers in the suggested blogs at the top, many of whom I already recognise and will always reblog their gifs (because I follow too many blogs so stuff like this is how i see what they’re up to). So now I’m viewing that page instead of “destiel edit” having made the point about the importance of difference in spacing to fandom - 

Click the blue follow button in the top bar because this is what I want on my dash :D

this will now be in the dropdown under the search bar I showed at the start and you can visit it whenever by clicking on that. It will ALSO now put random posts on your dash like this:

the blue “Follow” suggests I don’t follow this blog, unlike the other posts on my dash around it which are just a chronological list of things people I follow have posted. There’s also an X button that will give you a snarky comment as you get rid of the post. Generally this removes it never to be seen again, so if you wanted to reblog it and pressed X good luck hunting it down with what your remember or your best guess what tag it was in :P

This is how it shows you what tag it is in, with the little green text and magnifying glass:

As you can see a lot of creators put a whole bunch of tags on a post to cover a lot of bases. Since I follow SPN edit and spnedit I’m gonna have to take this post off my dash twice at some point, though it’s not exactly hard seeing it over and over because I like Abaddon’s face :P I’ll probably stick this post in my queue before I press the X button. Once I’ve pressed that, it will disappear and the next page of my dash will have a new suggested post.

Oh thinking of pages you’ll want to turn off endless scrolling so you get 10 posts per page on your dash if you’re on a computer:

https://www.tumblr.com/settings/dashboard

Since I’m 100 miles behind on my dash looking at stuff from a week ago, I generally get all the new edits after an episode from this method, combined with selective blog stalking of my favourite people. :P

Anyway once you’re following a bunch of blogs for content, you’ll start to see a more nuanced version of tumblr on your dash - lots of discussion and posts in types you never thought you were looking for. I found MOST people I wanted to follow by seeing discussions or reblogs on my dash of things I was also interested in, using the original people I followed as like a style guide for what I wanted to see. 

People fairly regularly get asked or post lists of people THEY follow, or “follow forever” posts with up to like 100 people they follow on it; if you’re feeling lazy about populating your dash and stumble on one of those, you can indiscriminately follow all those lot and see what happens borrowing someone else’s dash (while knowing you can unfollow at any time). I’ve seen people in a ton of different fandoms doing it so if you go on a fandom blog you like and search “follow forever” on their page, you’ll either find them reblogging one they’re in with thanks, or making their own. It’s always the phrase “follow forever” which is handy for searching.

Aside from that, explore blogs! Follow posts to their sources if you like what someone said. I don’t follow any tags for fic and art because I see that most on my dash and can rely on everyone I follow to find and reblog it in the first place - I follow relatively few people JUST for fic or art, as they’re the things I rely on getting second hand a lot of the time and come with a sort of implicit recommendation that someone else already reblogged them onto my dash. (TBH you might have noticed I also said I don’t follow a lot of the BNF gif and edit people - meta blogs are the only things I follow MOSTLY to get their content direct from the source and this is advice I read when I was new to tumblr. Stuff like edits, art and fic from well-established fandom people will reach you whether you follow them or not, so concentrate on making friends and enjoying their content when you might be the first or only person to do so initially if they’re not very well known either) 

When you see a post you like on your dash, you follow the source, at the bottom of a reblogged post - just hover over their name:

That blue “follow” next to it, btw, it suggesting I follow the blog the person below this post reblogged something from. The pink “Unfollow” button on euclase’s pop-up bio would be a follow button if you weren’t following her (which you should probably go do right now, I’ll wait :P) Basically Tumblr is always giving you a ton of ways to follow more people while you’re on your dash.

You can also explore people’s blogs directly. For example, Shirley has a tag for all the fics she reblogs from other people:

http://destieldrabblesdaily.tumblr.com/tagged/drabbles%3A-others

If you browse tags like that on blogs that reblog a ton of content from others, you can follow people who make what you like best. So a blog that reblogs a ton of art will have way more choice about what artists to follow than seeking out individual artists one by one.

I think that’s all the advice I have to get you started >.> It’s way more nuanced with meta considering all the different interpretations going around and even the people I follow who I agree with enough to follow, definitely have massive schisms between how they all think as a whole of the meta bloggers I follow, so if you asked me this specifically because I’m a meta blog I’ll have to do a pt.2 on that when I’m a bit more awake. :P

[notitlemp3]

- the block button is your friend. use it liberally. someone's vibes are rancid? simply off? said something that you can't say anything is wrong with but rubs you the wrong way and raises your hackles? remove them from your internet experience

- customize your blog a little. at least a profile picture so people don't block you thinking you're a bot. add a header, change your background, accent and text colors, add a title and description if you want to do more. there's a whole world of blog customization out there i can't tell you about bc i am a mobile user, but if you're interested in that check it out, there are templates ready for use

- reblog reblog reblog. the only way more people will see a post is if it's reblogged. if you like a post, put it on your blog so more people can see it. don't worry about having nothing to add or what op might think of you reblogging. subject everyone to content you like. most people don't mind if you spree reblog their posts (once i found a blog and immediately reblogged 120 posts from them). you can reblog multiple times! if you really agree with something, put it on your blog 5 or 20 or 100 times and force everyone to scroll past it as much as you've reblogged!

- as someone put it, this is the bothering people site. all the tools are in place for people who actually don't want to be bothered to not be

- you can add a read more on mobile by typing :readmore: on a new line and hitting enter. make sure it has no spaces

- someone getting their tags screenshot and added in a reblog is like passing a form of peer review process

- it's true people these days tend to prefer talking in the tags (well, people on tumblr have always talked in the tags) but feel free to just add onto the post. we have an informal peer review process for tags but imagine how many great comments have been lost in there. definitely a personal opinion but i think people should try adding onto posts more (i'm bad at it myself tho)

- having your post get popular is something of a curse bc you will never stop seeing notifications for it. people will tell you the same opinion a thousand times. but if someone expresses dismay at the number of notes their post has, don't worry you're not crossing any boundaries by reblogging it anyway. i reblog posts i like every time i see them. again, this is the bothering people site. if they really want to stop they can turn off reblogs or delete the post and stop getting notifs

- tumblr has a lot of inside jokes. some memes are more than a decade old. there are even holidays. take your time learning them, they're gonna be confusing. if you ask someone is usually happy to explain

- so much more i cannot think of right now

- you can queue posts, schedule posts, filter tags...

- i should not have been allowed to write tumblr tips for twitter users. i'm incapable of writing anything without being wordy, i had to add bold text to this bc of that. in fact my addition has gotten too long i'm adding a read more

I got a few new followers last night without any posts blowing up so I assume y’all are here from Twitter, there’s a few of these posts around but just as a reminder on how tumblr is:

- you can swear here

-there is not a shadow ban feature

- likes really don’t do anything for engagement, they’re more of a bookmark feature

- most people prefer to talk in the tags over commenting, it’s like commenting but quieter

- tags are also great for adding trigger warnings or organizing so you can find stuff later, if you’re going to add a tw to a post, don’t censor it or it won’t work

Ex: #bl00d ⬅️ don’t do that, #blood ⬅️ do that

- tumblr is a personally curated dashboard, find your people and follow them, if you don’t like them, unfollow them. unlike Twitter it is actually 100% achievable to never see discourse if you don’t want to see it. Have fun!