#dear tumblr

[your-local-number-simp]

Hey does anybody know who's art this is?

I found it on Character Ai and I really like it but its low quality, does anyone have a link to the original art?

{Note: I know there's a watermark but its blurry so its hard to read and also I don't know which platform the art is from}

(Context: Angry Astro washes Twisted Dandy)

[jaxieshauna]

moodboards so good and they never get any attention does tumblr just hate me or am i just destined to flop in every universe

[bolontiku]

I just want to be loved.

Honestly, purely loved.

It's hard to know who to trust.

So, I push everyone away and keep them at arms length. Cause it's safer. I haven't felt safe since my ma passed away, and I'm so tired.

I want to go home. Not be here anymore.

[alaskan-wallflower]

whenever i see a nsfw oneshot/fanfic when im scrolling through the south park tags that has a picture of the canon characters it makes me so uncomfy like idk why?? its just smth about having a photo/gif of a canonically nine year old child right above a nsfw post that just makes me squeamish.

also fuck you tumblr because yall will block out any blogs that hace “dni nsfw” because it says nsfw but when i’m trying to find a nice wholesome fic i get bombarded with sexual shit. these block tags need to work better.

[apologeticallyfat]

C’mon now, Tumblr. 6$ for a badge!? I wouldn’t mind buying an irrelevant vanity badge for a few bucks. But 6!? I would never even consider buying such a thing in the first place on literally any other website, the audacity! But for better or worse I got a soft spot for the Tumblr Socialmatic Universe (TSU, if you will) but 6$, can’t do it; 0.99, easy, 1.99, sure, 2.99, you’re really pushing it. 3+, we’ve got a problem. 6!?

You know it wasn’t that long ago that the very suggestion of buying a useless nothing on a website would have people burning down the HQ. I mean, not literally, but still. Ya gotta figure out a better system, even Reddits is more ideal, and I fucking hate Reddit (admittedly, I still hate-use it). I’d love to give a badge here or there, not for 6$ a pop!

By the way, Blaze is a flop. Get rid of it. (But since they were (past tense because I fully expect you to abolish it) ment for original posts, why not give us a way to filter our feeds by original posts? Help me, help you

Your beloved,

ApologeticallyFat

[acingthistest]

Happy September 1st ya’ll, enjoy Heathers Day

Do whatever, just not what JD did

[zapreportsblog]

Dear Tumblr Family,

I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you. It fills my heart with joy to announce that our Tumblr community has grown to over 700 followers!

Your support, engagement, and enthusiasm have been the driving force behind this incredible milestone. I am truly honored to have you as a part of this creative journey. Each like, reblog, comment, and message has meant the world to me.

Your presence has transformed my Tumblr into a place of inspiration, connection, and positivity. I am constantly inspired by your content, your ideas, and your unique perspectives.

I promise to continue sharing my passion, creativity, and thoughts with you. Let's keep this amazing journey going, and together, we'll make our corner of Tumblr an even more vibrant and inspiring place.

Thank you, once again, for being a part of this wonderful community. Here's to many more milestones, shared experiences, and beautiful moments together.

With immense gratitude and warm wishes,

AI

[thebrandonross]

Find it hilarious that at some point @staff just fucking broke the on blog search feature in the app, and decided to leave it that way 😂

[beatheprincess]

Dear god these 50 year old men gotta stop following me :/ shouldn't yall be retired spending time with grandchildren? Instead u follow a 19yr old ??? Get a life pls- do not sexualize me, these ppl seriously need to be evaluated.

[mikeysswayyy]

tumblr, if you dont give me my fucking actual account back...

i will throw you in a fucking garbage disposal

im going to do some very bad things to you, tumblr

ive emailed you 7-10 times, answer or else i will and i promise i will

PUNCH MYSELF ON FACEBOOK LIVE

[adoras-jacket]

Why does someone this pretty (me) decided it was a good idea to make a 7 am to 5 pm, college schedule :/

[shadesofmauve]

2022 Writing Wrap Up

Total words published: 149, 266. All but 947 of them published three days ago.

Additional words written: Oh, hell, your guess is as good as mine. I've got Perpetual Soup documents simmering over here, I take bits from them and add to them all the time. Like, google is crashing rather than admit that the Epic Scrap Yard doc has been around and perpetually changing since 2011. I know I had 4000 words on the next chapter before the clock struck midnight on the 31st; I can't remember how much I added to @swaps55' fav upcoming arc (aka Kai Leng's Worst Mistake Ever) or the Vortex of Tears, but I know it was something.

Grand total of words: 149,266++! Only not, because I didn't write all those; many were first published years ago, and even the re-writes represent about three years of work. So who the hell knows.

Fandoms: Mass Effect, of course. I've also added small amounts to an original novel idea, but mostly world-building notes.

Highest everything (raw kudos, hits comments): Of all time? It's always A Star to Steer Her By for hits, kudos, and bookmarks. I'm pleased to see Sunset and Evening Star beats it for subscriptions, though!

Highest kudos-to-hits ratio: Okay, I don't think this is fair. People come re-read aStSHB, but they can only leave kudos once. Like, far and AWAY the biggest k:h ratio is for Copilots, which is a tear-jerker short fic I gave to @musanocturnis in a holiday exchange because I'm a horrible friend. It only has 45 hits total, but people who go "I know, I want to CRY!" and click on it are apparently getting what they signed up for.

New things I tried: Um. Hrm. @swaps55, what did I try that was new? :P I wanna say there's something in the Emotional Cascade Failure chapter, but it wasn't so much new as hard. There's a lot of emotional stuff in SaES that's very much putting myself in situations I have no experience with — which is always part of writing, and is new every time.

Fic I spent the most time on: Sunset and Evening Star, no question.

Fic I spent the least time on: Shipmates, my lil' exploration of how Joker and Kaidan met.

Favorite thing I wrote: I like a LOT of what I wrote this year, which is an awesome feeling! I get giggly-excited over some space combat sections that haven't seen the light of day yet, and about anything with Alejandro. I'm very pleased with coming up with the Poss'm acronym. And Joker and Kaidan's ridiculous N7 Craft Hour conversation cracks me up more than it should, for sure.

Favorite thing I read: I've done way, way more writing than reading of fic, but it's got to be one of the scenes with the Yang Gang from @swaps55' Cantata. I just love their whole dynamic. The needlepoint wall sends me, and I'm going to work a reference to it in somewhere. I also really liked Wish I May, Wish I Might by @spaced0lphin, who's out there single-handedly providing every possible form of content for the Shoker fandom including a frickin' game mod. (Which I haven't yet played for the same reason I haven't read the Tiger By My Side rewrite, @spaced0lphin — keeping my own story clear while I'm neck deep in it, and not having time :( — but the original TBMS was my fav Shoker long fic, back in the day, so...)

Writing Goals for 2023: PUBLISH NEW CHAPTERS! We're lookin' good, just gotta keep going.

New works: Just Shipmates, I think. Though my main fic is so damn long I sort of feel like the new chapters count. That'd be A Bunk on the Normandy, Emotional Cascade Failure, and Possum, most of Trust, then the new chapter Shipmates (which is different than the short fic, titles are just hard, okay). There's other new stuff through-out, but those are almost 100% new.

Tagging: @writes-in-space, @spaced0lphin, @virusq

[bolontiku]

I'm sad. I hate feeling this way. Even when things are good this sadness won't leave me. Things are hard and I'm so tired.

[theamphibianmen]

Call me radical but when someone unknowingly makes a mistake several years ago and apologizes for it, I kinda feel like maybe we should forgive them.

[diaprincess]

Dear tumblr, please add “switch to other accounts” on your features lol

[sapphiretanto]

What is this and how do I get rid of it??