#hellsite -affectionately

[whentommymetalfie]

A wonderful day, another chapter posted to Handprint on the wall, one of my current favorite Tommy/Alfie fics that I can't recommend enough. If you haven't read it already, read it now, and if you have, read it again! ❤️

Edit: apparently Tumblr ate the link, but here it is

[ariadne-mouse]

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, logging into tumblr. You step onto your dash, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you'll be booped off to

[sleepy-cone]

Dear redditors, the majority of important world events and breaking news may look like this:

So don't immediately scroll past these posts.

I'm not even fucking joking. That's just how shit works on this hellsite (derogatory)

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

finally finally finally

[lunadensmidnightprowl]

Every other social media site in March: hey what's up I guess it's march now

Tumblr:

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

turtles all the way down (which comes out on thursday) might be the last hollywood film to prominently feature tumblr.

[you-need-not-apply]

THIS

THIS IS WHAT MAKES TUMBLR BEAUTIFUL

This is a 19K reblog post, thats less then 5K reblogs there

You can see where one person reblogged it and their mutuals then did too

The original post looks like a city, you could make maps from this

Lets add more:

YOU CAN'T ZOOM OUT ANYMORE

Only 6K here out of 19K, just the roads, the trails... you can see how people shared this post and the communities it found, wether small or large

My laptop couldn't take anymore, but here, here is 10K out of 19K...

the original post is in the bottom right hand corner

this is what makes tumblr beautiful

[redsixwing]

Who's up for crab day on the 24th?

[ironwoman359]

Guys this is it

This post, the one that you are reading right now, is my 69,420th post.

Post number 69,420.

I'll just go ahead and take that trophy for "best blogger ever" now, thank you very much.

[jiskblr]

Tumblr Rules for Redditors

Hello, fellow redditors! Many people are trying to tell you rules about how to Tumblr properly. Many of them are wrong, or assholes, or both. I am also an asshole but I’m going to not be one for a minute to give you some advice:

“Reblog this or you’re a bad person” and any variation on that is a violation of intergalactic law. Don’t do it. Also, refuse to comply if someone else does it.

Generally, people can see what you reblog, but cannot see what you ‘like’. A like may seem like an upvote, but it is much less significant than one, since it doesn’t affect visibility in the slightest. A like will be visible both to the OP of the thread, and to the person whose reblog you put the like on. Like promiscuously! It feels good to get likes and there’s no downside. (Unless you are a space alien AKA influencer.) There’s a setting for like visibility, but it’s still somewhat hard to find even if it’s turned on.

Tumblr nominally has the ability to browse global tags (e.g. seeing the entire site’s posts and reblogs tagged #superwholock or #reddit exodus) and to search the site for things. No one uses them and they don’t really work.

You are probably less surprised by this than denizens of literally any other website on the internet, but there’s mostly no algorithm here. Chronological order only. This now defaults to being on, but you can and should turn it off. (If you’re using the search or global tags, they might have an algorithm, but if they do, it doesn’t work. We don’t know because we don’t use them, because they mostly don’t work either.)

Anyone can have absolutely any conversation in the notes of your post that they like. This is how the website works. You are allowed to complain about it, but don’t expect anyone to humor you. I think it’s possible to make posts unrebloggable and disable replies, but this is essentially refusing to use Tumblr. If you want to do that... go ahead, I guess?

Many people have ‘DNI’ lists in their blog descriptions. This means ‘do not interact’ and indicates that they don’t want you to message them, reblog from them, reblog any posts they are OP of, or even, sometimes, ‘like’ their posts. It is good manners to respect these, if you know they exist, but in normal use you probably won’t look at blog descriptions very often so it is entirely okay to violate them by accident. (When the lists get very long, it becomes impractical to check whether you violate them. Generally, just skip it. You probably don’t want to interact with those people anyway.)

Notes on posts you start will go to you no matter how many intervening hops there are on the reblog chain. If you get a post with an enormous amount of notes, this can get overwhelming. Whatever the current incarnation of Xkit (basically RES for Tumblr except we’ve switched names and maintainers seven times) is, will have a setting to deal with this. If that’s insufficient, the suggested course of action is to reblog your OP to your own blog so that you have a copy for posterity’s sake, and then delete the OP. This silences the notes.

If you and another user both follow each other, you are ‘mutuals’. This makes it much easier to have conversations with each other, which is ordinarily sort of hard since everything is purely chronological. Frequently your mutuals are your friends; if not yet true, they may become your friends.

When you reblog things, you can write words both in the word part and in the tags, Modern tumblr norms are to write long rambling tags in full sentences rather than put words in the main body. Unlike some other norms, violating this one and putting your response in the body of the reblog is not particularly rude. The worst it does is make a reblog chain long. Probably don’t reblog things and just say “This.”, though.

Tags can be subjected to peer review, by which we mean someone copy-pastes your tags and/or screenshots them and adds them to the main body of their reblog. Generally this is a compliment. The alternative is to say “#prev tags”, and this makes everyone hate you because it’s hard to find which tags were ‘prev’. Please just peer review properly if they’re good.

If you want to search your blog, consider Siikr. Don’t overuse it, it’s one guy’s project.

Be verbose! This ain’t Twitter, no character limit. (Not even the really large character limit of a reddit comment.) Write a 3000-word story in a single reblog if you want, that sounds awesome. Use ‘read more’ if you do, though. Posts can be very long, one of our oldest memes is about this.

Infinite scroll is the default, but you can turn it off. Actually, check all the settings, many of them will improve your experience.

On queues: Go nuts. Some people put everything in the queue, some people almost nothing. Some queue specific aestheticposting (personally I do #too smol) and post other things normally. Most people who queue a lot add a queue-specific tag like #the mighty queue or #this queue shall pass, or at least I notice them more than poasters with untagged queues.

You know how Reddit lets you buy Gold and people go 'thanks for the gold kind stranger'? On tumblr we spend money on Tumblr Blaze, and it is considered the PvP section of Tumblr. Though sometimes people actually use it to spread posts they like, such as people attempting to evangelize Christianity (no, really, that happened a lot) or the, I hope, actually-kind stranger who blazed this OP. You can turn off PvP with one of the many settings.

Everybody be excellent to each other!

[anisaanisa]

Hellsite citizens! Tumblr is in the lurch, so to celebrate that, we're going to do what we do best – make a holiday out of it! Blast off in ten days! 🦀🦀🦀

When: July 29th. Or after – Crab Day is a state of mind. How: Buy your buddies or drive-by besties a crab invasion from the Tumblr shop! Why: to let @staff know we're still kicking it! Follow @crab-day-counter to mark your days!

ⓘ Tumblr Blue Hex: #35465C | Pose very much inspired Crab Champions, the game ever!

[ariadne-mouse]

He's selling Cutco knives. Will you help him make his commission this week?

[skykid-nadir]

...yeah

[bragginball-z]

Every time Dean says “I need you” to Cas gay people all around the world feel a stab of yearning in their hearts that echolocates them right back to tumblr

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

i wonder what the outside world thinks about tumblr

you see glimpses of it on pinterest (where i found this) but man imagine the dead bird site... facebook if that's still a thing... the REAL WORLD *gay gasp*

do they think we're as insane as we think they're useless

[rae-conteur]

I heard there was a secret code

That outed Tumblrites untold

But you don't really wear shoelaces, do ya

Our eyes are tired, but they're bright

For love is not this blue hellsite

It's the liked and it's the reblogged Hallelujah