#censoring so it doesn't show up in tags / search

[1pcii]

oh, you like the idea of zolu or find the fancontent cute but can't bring yourself to ship it because you HC Luffy to be aroace? (ignoring that asexuality and aromantisism exist on a spectrum. and that QPR's/relationship anarachy are a thing). should we tell everyone??? should we throw a fucking party???

[tobestik]

i am being so brave by not posting entire essays about why d*v*d chr*st*ph*r f*l*n* and j*hn f*vr** have absolutely ruined st*r w*rs

[atomatowriter]

So I watched Bridgerton season 2, because even though I think Julia Quinn is a kind of terrible person and everything I heard about the first season made me go 😬, a lot of people I trust raved about season 2. And like. There's parts of it that I like. I don't think this show is for me, but the romance was compelling and the family relationships were super compelling.

But my ace ass is also grumpy because Anthony's whole thing is like "I had to take care of my family at a young age because my mother was inconsolable with grief when my father died and therefore I will never fall in love so that I am never inconsolable with grief." And in the same breath he talks about how much he loves his family and how much he's sacrificed for his family and it's like...you don't think you're gonna grieve your mom? Or your brothers and sisters if anything happens to them? Is it built into this show that you ONLY grieve like that if you lose someone that you ROMANTICALLY love? It kinda seems like it is!

And okay there's nuance to it. Like Anthony's "I'm never going to fall in love" commitment clearly came about when he was a teenager and he was super traumatized by his father's death. And part of the inconsolable grief on Violet's part was that it was so SUDDEN (and also she was pregnant at the time with one of the two kids whose name I don't think I've ever learned). But I am a little grumpy that it's like "only romantic love holds this incredible power" even though idk what I expected from a literal regency romance show.

[sage-nebula]

It's been years since The H*dden World but I still can't look at HTT*YD content for too long without getting upset.

[sneak-a-cat]

the tragedy of a fan favourite character being mischaracterised to hell and back until they are practically unrecognisable when compared to the original canon

[thev01dd]

tag vent post

[castielsprostate]

please just say kill. please just say suicide. please just say porn. please just say epilepsy. please just say sex. please just say abuse. please just say the fucking words instead of k1// or tw sp1d€rs or ended time of being alive. stop letting algorithms rule your life.

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[the-four-humors]

I so envy your blocked user and blocked tags list rn

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Did you send this to the wrong person? I've never publicly posted my blocked users and blocked tags.

[jellyfitzjelly]

crying over stressing out about my fic bc i don't want to be torn to shreds for not getting j*son right ✌️

[mochi-colors]

So, no one is bothered by the fact that Wal////ter befriended the younger sister of the witch who cursed his brother? OKAY. What the fuck ever. The ship is disgusting to me and I will always hate the ship just like how I will always hate Sa////de for cursing a CHILD in the first place. Yes, I've read the manga.

[coolsnake]

I don't wanna be too mean bc it's like still in development and also people seem to like it a lot but this is like... ripoff: the game 💀💀💀

[withswords]

does anyone know how to get ahold of an original chain of memories emul/tion for virtual boy dm me

[little-eye-guy]

been seeing lots of posts regarding cecil and the sexyman polls (i have yet to see any actual polls) and even though i was around back in the day i don't think i ever came across anything regarding him. which is true for most of the characters considered tumblr sexymen but i'm just thinking of this one because of all the posts going around and how much people are going to bat for the guy

[dragonheart2497]

things twitter migrants may find useful that dont often get included in "how to tumblr" posts

1- queueing!

instead of feeling bad for spam-reblogging and clogging up other people's feeds, you can click the dropdown and add it to your queue instead!

you can edit how many times a day your queue posts, and between what hours. You can easily re-order or completely shuffle your queue as well!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG STUFF. Tumblr doesn't run on an algorithm!! YOU are responsible for putting cool stuff onto your followers feeds!

"but if i reblog too much people can't see my posts!" i have just the thing for you

2- personal tags

You can have different tags you use on your blog to help people navigate! for example, i use "dh rb art" when I reblog art and "dh rb" for most other reblogs- that's so that people can filter my reblogs out of their feeds if they dont wanna see that, and only want my original posts to show up.

On the other hand, my art is tagged "dh2497" so they can easily search my account for it!

If you open a person's blog and click the search button, a list of Featured Tags will show up. By default this is just the blogger's most used tags, but you can customize what shows up on yours in your blog settings

You can follow entire hashtags too! if you wanna see hermitcraft fanart without following every hermitcraft artist, follow the tag :D

3- Filtering

Tumblr actually hides things you don't wanna see, very nicely!

In your account settings, you can filter specific tags, and even specific words that show up in the post.

sometimes different bloggers warning tag differently (i do [trigger] tw or [content] cw) so you can try to input every variant, but if its something you really want to avoid just put it in the post content as well. Blocklists aren't really a tumblr thing, so if you wanna avoid an entire community you can block their tag as well

NEVER. CENSOR. YOUR WARNINGS. PLEASE. On twitter or tiktok or wherever, you may have to do that or else the algorithm suppresses it- THERES NO ALGORITHM HERE!!! if someone reblogs your post, it will show up for others, don't worry!!! you're just bypassing filters placed for people's safety, if you censor words.

Also! don't worry too much if a word you wanna filter is commonly used in unrelated contexts- tumblr doesn't remove it entirely, but rather adds a 'spoiler' so that you have to click on it to view it. So just in case it is what you want to avoid, you have time to prepare to see it.

4- effective tagging

[read more in detail here] Only the first 5 tags will show up for people who follow the hashtag. That makes them the most important! Then, the first 20 tags will make the post show up when searching that tag. The rest of them do not give your post any visibility.

I see a lot of people reblogging art with fanart tags- that can be useful for searching back the tag in the reblogger's blog specifically, but doesn't actually give the OP more visibility in that tag.

You'll learn what tags to use by checking the content you come across! most communities are "[word]blr", and most fanart goes "#[character/show] fanart". tumblr tags can have spaces!

Lastly, a few notes

you will only have 1 PRIMARY blog. this will appear when you like a post, comment on a post, or follow a blog. your sideblogs will not link back to your primary blog, but you cannot do those interactions as those sideblogs.

artists love receiving compliments when you reblog!! commenting does NOT boost the post. most people put their compliments in the TAGS of their reblog, so that it doesn't become a long post/thread, and if people reblog the reblog of your reblog you won't keep gettings notifications about it. The artist will still see and very much appreciate it

read up on tumblr etiquette, do not treat this place like twitter or you'll be disliked lol. there are some 'big blogs' but follower counts aren't public, popularity isn't a contest here. make friends, or just block/ignore people you don't get along with. no one cares about your petty arguments

if you noticed the lil cat in my screenshots, that's from a very useful browser extension called XKit!! it enables 1-click queue reblogs (automatically adding your tags), mass-post editing, and lots of other great tweaks vanilla tumblr doesn't have! and the cat is a silly cute thing you can enable in it as well

[mistywhiskerz]

That Engel moonscorched design is fucked up, I love it. I couldn't find more info on her if I search up "Engel" on ur acc (I'm sorry if there is and I just haven't seen it ;v;), so I'm curious about her and what aspects of her you had in mind when designing her moonscorched form

Oh I’ll totally start tagging her ! Im sorry because this is gonna be LONG!! I also apologise if it doesn’t make sense, I haven’t slept 💔

She’s originally my signalis oc! So most of it translates over, so if you see her as a robot that’s why :3

(Warning because idk how to censor stuff on tumblr; for self harm, gore, nudity!!)

She’s a pilot ! I’m still making lore stuff with her but she’s originally from Rondon.

When designing her Moonscorched form, I wanted to really dig into her fears. She's terrified of the fact that she's been treated differently since childhood because she's afab, that the misogyny she's faced shaped her into being afraid to fully embrace femininity. In one piece of art, she draws a mustache on herself to appear more masculine (I’ll put a bunch of photos at the end!). I will say she doesn't identify as a man, she is comfortable with her gender identity as a woman. She just wish she could freely express herself without fears. I also just adore how she looks with a drawn on moustache jsjsjs

She's also struggles with PMDD (Pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder), which is something that I personally experience and have incorporated into the character's design. The week leading up to her period is usually painful and difficult to get through. so when her period begins it's a huge relief, knowing that the awful week she just experienced was due to PMDD and not her usual self.

Another reason periods are important to her is that she has a phobia of childbirth. So she takes comfort in the knowledge that she is safe when her period comes around. This is why in her moonscorched design her chest and stomach are a vagina, her uterus is bleeding to show period imagery and her fimbriae are holding her stomach open- the reason she has dove wings on her head might seem unrelated but it’s because in her signalis version she’s a dove ! (A type of replika) so it’s a reference to that ! (I also imagine her moonscorched name would be ‘Fallen Engel’ )

I will say, (warning for sh) the reason her stomach is opened up is due to a past injury she caused herself, she has a large scar down her stomach that she did to herself, she wanted to make herself infertile and did it to an extreme during PMDD. So in her moonscorch design her uterus actually has a hole in it, it’s just hard to see !

Basically Engel is a character that I project my gender, period issues and pmdd onto heavily, so her moonscorched design really does have a lot of meaning!

[sophieinwonderland]

how do you feel about the divide between the tulpamancy and the wider endo community? i keep seeing posts that wish for "more systems that piss people off" and list off obscure origins like firpergenic and pseudogenic, but not a mention of tulpas, even though we bear half of all the hate coming from sysmeds.

I see "pro-endo" posts that censor us as t*lpagenic, i see posts insisting that we have to leave our communities and start calling ourselves willogenic or other terms they came up with, otherwise we deserve to be the endos' scapegoats. i see posts from transplurals rejecting any mention of tulpamancy techniques that could help them and separating themselves from tulpamancy, even though i and i'm sure many others have had similar experiences of hating being a singlet and changing that with tulpamancy

Is this it? Is this all the discourse is ever going to be? I wish the kids would realise that they'll never win if they don't stick with their most controversial, and i wish we didn't have to defend both our own existence and theirs at the same time

I think the divide is overstated. There's a small handful of pro endos who are against the term tulpa. And they do tend to be rather vocal about it.

I mean, you do a search for "#pro endo #anti tulpa" in the tags and you'll see most are just people intentionally crosstagging to reach the other side. Tags are obviously not the only things that matter since not everyone tags their stuff as anti tulpa. But still, I just don't see this mentality that much outside of a very few pro endo blogs.

And at that, many of these anti-tulpa pro-endo blogs are people who have been in sysmed circles and picking up their talking points from them. Either "originally pro endo but fell into anti endo circles later" or "reformed anti endo who absorbed anti endo talking point before making the change but still doesn't accept tulpas."

You look into a lot of these so-called pro-endo anti-tulpas who make anti-tulpa posts, and it's not long until you find them arguing that endogenic and pro endo systems aren't oppressed and should shut up about it.

Or calling the pro-endo community nasty because we're not polite enough to people fakeclaiming our existences and harassing us for being plural for non-trauma reasons.

I would hardly call the "endogenic systems exist but I hate their community and think they should shut up about being oppressed" camp pro endo.

To the extent that actual anti-tulpa pro-endos do exist, I do find it's pretty stupid. I think it shoots yourself in the foot on multiple fronts. As you mention, it separates them from valuable resources that can help their systems.

It also plays into sysmed misinformation meant to divide the community. It's the same exact thing that happened when transphobes spread the talking point that "Faegender" was appropriative to sew division in the trans community, and demonize people for using neo pronouns.

The other thing is... tulpamancy is being researched right now more than other sorts of plurality, in a scientific way. When the Stanford Tulpa Study is published, it's going to be super important to spread that as much as possible.

And I expect we'll also see future studies on tulpas that will be into the actual creation process, which will be amazing. Imagine if we had a longitudinal study demonstrating that singlets can create headmates from scratch! This would completely and utterly destroy all remaining sysmed talking points.

Any pro-endo systems not sharing studies like this because they don't like a word would, frankly, be harming all endogenic systems with their silence.

But like I said, these tend to be a very vocal minority. I don't worry about them or concern myself with them.

I also think as tulpa studies come out and are the main evidence showing that plurality can be induced at any age into singlets, many of the stragglers will end up falling in line. 🤷‍♀️