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[athenasplan]

"You don't have to call me that" destroyed me.

I will try to put into words why in the next days, but for now I will just try not to break down crying everytime it crosses my mind again.

[amelia-yap]

Ayyyy i got a random question related to your Derg Weiss.. can she magically retract her dragon traits (like her horns, wings and tail) to hide it?

yeah! it's uncomfy for her though!

[goblindickhead]

This!! I wouldn't say I'm a Tumblr oldie but I've been here a few years, and man this would've helped me back then ;-;

Tumblr: A Beginners Guide

Hello and welcome to Tumblr!

If you're new here, this post is a little guide meant to help you understand how things work on Tumblr. I’m going to give you some guidelines and explain a little bit about Tumblr culture. Hopefully, this will help you settle in, avoid unnecessary pitfalls and enjoy your time here. I hope you’ll like it here on our hellsite (affectionate).

1. First and most importantly, please change your userpic and put something on your blog.

If you don’t, other users will think you're a bot and you'll be reported/blocked. It’s nothing personal but we are at war with the bot accounts. Most older users will automatically assume that a blank blog= bot.

You don’t need to do much. If you aren’t comfortable rebloging things or making your own posts yet, just change your userpic and add a short description to your blog.

Here’s an example of a description you can use.

‘Hi! I’m new here. I’m still working out how this place works but I promise I’m not a bot so please don’t block me.’

2. Go to your settings, then to your dashboard settings and change things to how you like them. I suggest-

Make Tumber show you posts in chronologically order, rather than pushing ‘best stuff first’

Pick a colour palate that doesn’t give you a headache

Make Tumblr show timestamps on posts and reblogs. While a post is never too old to reblog, you don’t want to accidentally signal boost something as ‘news’ when it's acutely years out of date and no longer relevant.

Choose not to shorten long posts

3. Go to the top of your dashboard, press on the toggle and arrange things how you like them.

I suggest pinning your ‘Following’ first. It means that when you go to your dashboard, the first thing you’ll see are the blogs that you’ve actively chosen to follow.

Some older users will tell you that the ‘For You’ page is useless and should be ignore. This is because for a long time it was either non-existent or terrible so most older users – myself included – just don’t bother with it.

However, nowadays it’s fine so use it if you want. ‘Following’ should still probably be pinned first though because you know what you like better than the algorithm.

4. Please don’t censor your words here. Tumblr doesn’t shadow ban you for saying random words.

Shadow banning does happen but it’s mostly at random or because you were targeted by trolls. If it happens to you, you’ll need to fight to get unshadow banned.

The point is that you won’t get shadow banned for saying ‘death,’ ‘murder’ or ‘rape.’ Don’t do things like saying ‘graped’ instead of ‘raped.’ If you do, you’re just going to piss people off and make it harder for people to avoid triggers.

5. Don’t spam the tags!

You can ramble in the tags all you want and nobody will mind. However, if you tag an unrelated post with a popular tag, you will be reported for spamming. It’s against the Tumblr terms and conditions, it’s annoying and it’s something the porn bots do.

When you are making your own post, the tags you use should be to help other people find your post. When you are rebloging other people’s posts, the tags you use should be so you can find that post again if you want.

The other thing that tags are for – both in your own posts and reblogs – is for adding things that don’t really fit in the post itself but you still wanted to say. You can add paragraphs in your tags and no one will bat an eye but if you tag a post with a trending but unrelated tag, that’s spamming.

6. Please, reblog things. It helps posts spread a lot more than liking them does. Think of your blog as a scrap book where you put stuff you like.

If you aren’t comfortable adding to a post, that’s fine. Just reblog it and share it with others.

7. That said, Tumblr posts are collaborative and we like it when you add to them. It doesn’t have to be much. You don’t have to add something every time you reblog a post but it is a part of the fun to do it sometimes.

If it’s an art or fanfic post comments like; ‘good post op,’ ‘I LOVE THIS!’ or even ‘OUCH my heart!!!’ will make an OP’s day.

If it’s another sort of post; you can add your thoughts or join in on committing to the bit. Try matching the energy the post is already giving.

If you aren’t comfortable commenting directly, you can always put it in the tags.

8. The follow and block buttons are your friend. You decide what you see here. If your dashboard doesn’t spark joy, you can always follow someone new and/or follow an interesting tag. If someone is making your time here unpleasant unfollow and/or block them.

9. Tumblr likes to commit to the bit. Sharks are smooth (they are not) and the 1973 Martin Scorsese movie ‘Goncharov’ is the greatest film ever made (it doesn’t exist).

10. A post is never too old to reblog. We like old posts here.

Every now and again, you will see a post that is over ten years old. The reblogs will probably be full of people expressing delight about seeing the original post again or seeing it for the first time.

11. You don’t want to be Tumblr famous.

There are niche blogs that are dedicated to one thing and are well liked e.g. @the-haiku-bot (the one bot we love), @writing-prompt-s and @cantheykillmacbeth. However, they are either side blogs or blogs run by multiple people.

Your main blog should just be somewhere you like to spend your time. There are no benefits to being Tumblr famous on your main blog.

12. Tumblr spreads news with this meme

13. Tumblr loves dates. Whether it’s the Ides of March (it sure would be a shame if certain world leaders got stabbed), Halloween (which we start celebrating in about July) or just a random day of the week e.g. ‘Out of Touch Thursday’ there is always something happening that you can celebrate.

14. The staff always pulls a silly and harmless prank on Apil Fools Day. Last year we got to boop each other.

15. We like a silly poll

Okay, I think that’s the basics covered. You’ll get the hang of everything else as you go along.

I hope you have fun here and that you manage to avoid Apollo’s dodgeball of prophecy (try not to joke about a specific way things could get worse or you might be hit).

Yours faithfully,

A Tumblr Cockroach

PS If you are a Tumblr oldie, please feel free to reblog this to help out newer users.

[foryoupeko]

I know nothing but I KNOW they take turns saying this to each other

[somerandomdudelmao]

Have you ever gotten this popular in another fandom before?

If you measure popularity in numbers, yes. I had a youtube channel with millions of views when I was in dsmp fandom. You could call that popularity.

But if you measure it not in numbers, but in love. This is a first time for me. The first time I do something and get so much love, kindness and support in return. This comic doesn't have the biggest numbers I've ever gotten in my life. But my heart is fuller than ever and it continues to amaze me

[gojosbf]

one thing about jujutsu kaisen is that if yuuji loves you it's most likely you'll die

[rayssion]

Reminder: don't let 12 years old drive your car.

[nixiecat]

So we're normal about Gods/Goddesses being submissive, right? well what if gods are shaped by the belief of their worshipers? what if there was a concerted effort to change how those worshipers perceived their god? convincing them to view their god as more and more submissive?

oh my gooodddddddd gsggggsgdbhwhgGvw fuck that's so fucking hot wow

[whywouldisayprinter]

When you first look at the Batfam, you might be tempted to see a good old Classic Family structure but like single dad edition.

But if you're enlightened (like me) you see that none of them have a normal, nuclear relationship to all the other members.

[secondbeatsongs]

it's so funny trying to talk to people about Speed Racer (2008), because it's like...what if there was a guy who drove a car so well that he defeated capitalism

[coleoffduty]

one of the funniest things that i've encountered when it comes to hotd discourse is when team black or green stans attempt comparing either alicent or rhaenrya to cersei (their worst ideal of a woman villain in asoiaf) when it's like... nobody comes close to being batshit in the way that woman is. nobody is touching her insane levels. she is poetically fucked in the head. it is solely her who can only embody her. i promise you, mrs and mrs 'i want to eat cakes with you and run away together' will never be on 'while he sleeps i eat his heirs''s plane of insanity.

[saltpepperbeard]

reason number 25845342324352422 of why we need our third season: i need to hear stede call ed "darling"

[ivystoryweaver]

Please play Steven again I beg you

[nombinary-snax]

Re: Dracula is ruining me for audiobooks. The background music adds such drama to the reading that just hearing a narrator on another book feels like it's missing something.

[koifsssh]

oh! he's a hopeless romantic i don't know what to tell you!

he is so! bah! he will play you love songs on the piano regardless if you know of them, and sing such! oh! i cant with him!

he daydreams, he writes poems, oh he draws little hearts over his "i"s instead of dots...