#i've been on this damn site since 2011. i was there when you had to wrap photosets in video blocks

[hazuknagisa]

(tl;dr: sorry to add on to your post with my bitter ramblings; i know i’m preaching to the choir. i’m just genuinely infuriated that they regressed features with npf, and then turned around and blamed theme makers for all the problems it caused, rather than fixing them. especially when people have been giving feedback and complaining about the issues for years now!)

it is actually ridiculous how neue post format (npf—posts made using the beta editor) has been handled. i stopped making themes largely because of npf; it’s a huge pain in the ass to code around tumblr’s bullshit, and the sheer number of scripts and workarounds i have to incorporate into my themes just to do things like “display photosets properly” is absurd. i only very occasionally make themes for my own blogs nowadays, and even just keeping those few themes up to date so they work with whatever new garbage tumblr throws out is annoying and tedious.

and staff just throwing their hands up and blaming theme makers, like, “well, it’s not our fault your theme displays all posts as text posts, after we got rid of post types so that all posts are text posts! have you tried using a theme with no padding?” is insulting to everyone who still tries to do web design for this godforsaken platform.

they have also left theme makers to do all the work figuring out on our own how to incorporate npf and other new features into themes properly. i remember when people had to dissect optica to try to figure out how the new variables worked because they were not added to the theme documentation until years later. to this day there are still variables that are not explained, or are only poorly explained in the documentation (see: bychloethemes’s everlastingly-relevant undocumented documentation).

npf has just been persistently troublesome and user-unfriendly for years, now, and it’s unbelievable that staff have continued to ignore the concerns that everyone keeps voicing about it.

(on that note, shoutout to the users who have been putting forth effort to deal with these issues, such as felicitysmoak and her gifv-to-gif conversion script and glenthemes and their npf images fix. they’ve done more than tumblr ever has to fix npf’s problems!)

guys PLEASE keep sending feedback about how awful the beta editor is because now wip is blaming us for having blog themes that add padding to posts (they’re kinda throwing theme makers under the bus here lol) as if there aren’t a dozen other issues with the beta editor such as:

the terrible formatting

difficulty arranging photos in photosets

not remembering tags

not uploading gifs are that between 9.5mb and 10mb

not being able to edit posts in the drafts folder

gifs still looking bad on mobile dashboard (so not the blog theme)

the insanity of shoving every media type into text posts because reasons

we can’t let them get away with replacing the post editor we have with an obviously inferior version of it. please reblog for visibility.

[kariachi]

Okay, looking at the history of Alan's page on the wiki, look into age shit. Going to try to keep my "I was literally there" commentary to myself.

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First mention of his age comes on April 28 2010, claiming it was stated by McDuffie but with nothing backing the claim.

It then back and forths a bit between his age being listed as 10, being listed as in his teens, or not listed at all based essentially on 'you don't have proof he's that young' 'you don't have proof he's not' and presumably 'guys he's like an inch shorter than Ben and built like a teen' it seems, eventually being left on 'he's 10'.

On January 2 2011 McDuffie is asked if the wiki is accurate as far as Alan's age and answers with "No, he's 11". This claim isn't added to the wiki, it seems nobody was citing any sources at the time.

On January 15 2011 the wiki is altered to show Alan as being 14 in AF, though the same page also lists him as 11.

January 16 2011 sees the 11 removed and replaced with fifteen.

An January 20 2011 the page is again altered to list him as 10 in AF and remove the mention of his age from the main body of the page.

On June 20 2011 somebody alters the wiki to state that he's 12 during AF, again with no citation.

This is changed back on June 24 2011.

On October 8 2011 the page is again changed to state that Alan is 14 in AF.

The page stays this way, including through multiple edits by the seeming originator of the 'Alan is 10' concept, until July 6 2014, when his age is removed entirely from the page.

The next time we see his age listed is after a long stint of the page being partially broken, on November 23 2014, listing him as 14 in AF.

His age is then removed again on January 18 2015.

And it stays like that until February 13 2019, when his age in AF is listed as 10 again, this time at least with a damn citation. The first, by the way, up until that day nobody was citing shit.

And that's how shit remains to this day.

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Now, doing this for 2 reasons. One- to back up my claims that 'he's 10' is inaccurate, there's a reason it was changed in the first place after that first comment from McDuffie ended up staying up nearly three years. And these weren't inactive years either, there were plenty of people going in and editing shit. Two- to give me a time to start looking to see if I can find where McDuffie clarified his age- somewhere between Jan 2 and Jan 15, probably closer to the latter.

Probably I won't be able to find it, it's been ages since the forum was taken down, and surely if it hadn't been lost to time somebody would have tracked it down by now, but I have to try. It just, burns at me so damn much, I have to make as strong an attempt as I can.

So, here I am off to search...

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And back several hours later with nothing to show for my trawling of archives, and I did fucking trawl. I've got 80 tons of shellfish and not a sign of this damn post because there's a massive chunk gone between the thread page fuckers managed to find and the next one I could get my mitts on.

Also the fucking site this thread page can be found on. It has like 70-odd pages from the old McDuffie site saved, all of them random single pages. How did this happen? Who set this up? The Internet Archive has shit in small batches, but this shit is just individual pages with whole chunks unaccounted for between them. Fucking weird. If nothing else these fuckers need to get in touch with each other and share what they've got.

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In the end though, I think this is if nothing else a solid reminder to archive shit. And to cite your goddamn sources when you're editing a wiki! Seriously, how the fuck did it take over twenty years to get a single citation on Alan's page? If people had been doing that from the start we would have had far fewer problems because we could just go 'this is what was said'! But no, now we're here, with me having to submit to the fact everybody is going to take a sarcastic remark as gospel despite contradictory evidence on the fucking screen until all knowledge of this fandom fizzles away!

Sorry, sorry, was trying to stay off that soapbox.

But, as important if not more so than the citations on wikis thing is still, back shit up people. Archive crap if you can. The Internet Archive has a Firefox extension, you can literally set it to automatically archive pages you go to. Because if this whole situation brings anything into the spotlight, it should be the fact that it's real easy for information to be lost to time. One man died, and because so much wasn't backed up, hundreds of pages, we've lost entire huge chunks of WoG and worldbuilding that now exists only in the heads of the people who were there to read it.

'The internet is forever' only holds true if we put in the effort, because otherwise everything from fandom crap to news articles to instruction manuals can vanish in a poof of lost funds and lost attention. If we wanna know shit later, we've got to store it now.

[stravvberryhearts]

2. is it hard for you to write with characters you don’t know/don’t know well?

3. whose writing has impacted your writing style the most? (you can choose anyone! famous writer or not.)

4. which muse of yours is your all time favorite? if you stopped writing them: why?

5. is there a muse you really want to try? if yes: what’s stopping you?

6. is roleplaying the only writing-based hobby you have, or are there other things you like to write?

9. when you look at a new blog, what is it that makes you press the follow button? is it the muse, the aesthetics, the writing–?

12. what roleplay trends do you remember from the year you started tumblr rp? how did you feel about those trends?

13. what themes/motifs do you hope other people notice most about your character?

14. which roleplay community has been your favorite to write in?

2. is it hard for you to write with characters you don’t know/don’t know well?

Yep. Honestly, I'm not 100% familiar with the fandoms my muses are based in like I only do most of the basic research and all. I think it all depends like if I can access the about page of a certain muse or if a certain canon who has an existing wiki page, it'd be easier.

3. whose writing has impacted your writing style the most? (you can choose anyone! famous writer or not.)

Paulo Coelho is the first thing I came up in my mind because I love reading The Alchemist.

4. which muse of yours is your all time favorite? if you stopped writing them: why?

I can't pick one. I love all of my muses, whether they're canons or OCs. I think Puss in Boots from Shrek is the favourite canon muse I've written because he's the muse I played the longest until I decided to retire him because I sometimes don't like the toxicity of animated fandoms, as well as I've had bad experiences because people have disrespected my rules and boundaries.

5. is there a muse you really want to try? if yes: what’s stopping you?

I'm planning to write more OCs. I think what's stopping me is people might easily lose interest whenever I write OCs because the transition from writing animated canon characters to writing OCs of color have made a huge impact on my reputation as a roleplayer like it's a damn landslide because a lot of people have left me since I started writing OCs that only a few people have stayed through this transition. I'm still grateful I've had those people around, though.

6. is roleplaying the only writing-based hobby you have, or are there other things you like to write?

I do journaling and I try to make it a daily routine but at times it can be hard because I need to come up with something to write about. I mostly write personal things and I vent by journaling as well. It's very helpful to me.

9. when you look at a new blog, what is it that makes you press the follow button? is it the muse, the aesthetics, the writing–?

I always look through the rules first and see if the rules match up within my comfort zone or can abide to them before following, then the muse and the writing. I don't care about aesthetic that much.

12. what roleplay trends do you remember from the year you started tumblr rp? how did you feel about those trends?

I'm a veteran and started Tumblr rping since 2011 meaning I remember we use big pictures and GIFS, and having small fonts weren't a thing as long as we're having fun and get along. I like to think those times are more relaxed. People are more welcoming and friendly towards OCs, as well as very communicative. I really miss those days.

13. what themes/motifs do you hope other people notice most about your character?

I'm really drawn into writing supernatural fantasy/modern fantasy characters. I'm a sucker for those and I've got a pattern where I write more fantasy or supernatural muses than humans.

14. which roleplay community has been your favorite to write in?

Tumblr has been my site I've rped so far. I previously used Discord rp but I gave up so I suppose neither of them because Tumblr has becoming little less accessible.

[ellaintrigue]

Yesterday I came across some old pictures of my ex doing things around the yard. This was long before he deteriorated mentally and the light left his eyes.

His mugshots are pasty and sickly looking. And I know that psychiatric meds are not cure-alls, but when he was on them, HE WAS FINE. He was happy, no longer paranoid, and focused on his goals. But he stopped taking them, saying he didn't need them, and got worse and worse until he reached that point of no return.

I could complain about my ex all day but that's not why I'm writing this. The problem is that this is an ongoing theme I keep encountering. My dad was visiting and said this woman he knows called off her engagement because her long-term partner became depressive and couldn't get out of bed or function. I had another ex like that back in 2011. He would just lay still, not talking, and only cry during severe depressive episodes.

Last week I was talking to a dating site random who said his ex-girlfriend really fucked up his life. I asked what happened and he said he was depressed and not "opening up about it" so she left him after 5 years. He felt abandoned. But I saw another side. Maybe she was a bad girlfriend... or maybe she just got fed up and had to save herself.

Watching someone you love deteriorate and not help themselves is fucking AGONIZING. They can't see past their own shit but at the same time they won't do anything to help themselves! I know there are women the same way but I keep seeing a lot of male ego in all of this, where they view seeing a therapist as "weak" and not manly.

But you can go to a regular GP and get basic anti-depressants and whatnot. Then people will say, oh, but the cost... Most of the men I've dealt with, with these severe issues, had free insurance. My ex got all his healthcare for free because he had Medicaid.

Overall, with the mentally ill, there is a theme of "I don't need a doctor and I don't need meds" while they literally just sit there and rot. Denial comes with the territory here, and I have no idea why. There is no quality of life in being depressed, manic, or having panic attacks all the time. Again, medicine isn't a cure-all but I've seen it work and I damn sure know it would fix A LOT of problems in these people.

As I talked more with the guy whose girlfriend of 5 years left him, I found out he never went to doctors, EVER. "I haven't seen a doctor since I was 13!" he said proudly. Dude was 30. So I asked him, what about being screened for your sexual health? "I've been with a lot of women admittedly, but I know I don't have anything. That's why I like oral sex, I can smell their pussies first and see if they're clean or not."

Yoooooo! That level of ignorance is fucking astounding. There are VD-free women who have PH imbalances and got funky cooches and then there are women who are sparkling clean but have had or have transmittable conditions. You can't fucking tell and you sure as shit can't tell if YOU have anything without testing because most men are asymptomatic (can't even test for HPV unless they got warts).

That guy was a prime example of someone who doesn't take care of himself AT ALL and that is what I want to avoid like the plague. Being around depressive people takes a huge toll on my mental health and drags me down. I need optimal mental health because I don't have much health left at all and I protect myself from any bad energy.

You can wash your fucking hair and put on deodorant all you want but if you neglect your mental and physical health you're about as good as a shiny car with the entire fucking frame rusted out underneath and no engine.

[damnthatnoise]

Darko The Super | Of Dogs & Devils | An Interview

Hip Hop has long been about bravado, skill, and how your personality can capture and pull the listener in even further than just your skillset. There have been many an MC who’s personality sometimes outshined the lyrical prowess for better or worse, but when I sit back and think of some of my favorite MC’s growing up (Redman, Slick Rick, Kool Keith, E-40, and Del to name a few) the personality often was near cartoonish with no real effort from the MC to make it appear that way. Enter MC Darko The Super who since first coming across his music via Already Dead Tapes has oozed oddball personality, and ever evolving skills as an MC. Darko is no joke rapper though, instead he is adept at delivering some stark reality raps littered with glints of humor we often use to cope with the pain of existence. 

Fresh off delivering one of my personal favorites last year in the form of Card Tricks For Dogs, he returns with his friend Steel Tipped Dove to give us The Devil Defeated, and makes a claim as one of the indie hiphop scenes freshest, most colorful, and promising voices making music. 

You can order the digital, cassette and SUPER vinyl copies of The Devil Defeated here, as well as all Darko The Super Items. 

The Devil Defeated by Darko The Super & steel tipped dove

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Damn That Noise: Darko The Super. What’s the origin of that name and what’s it come to mean to you now? 

Darko: I think Darko The Super was my gamertag on Xbox Live before it was my official artist alias. I did two albums as Evan Darko after I seen Donnie Darko in high school. It had a big impact on adolescent me. The Super comes from another big influence on me at the time, MF Doom. My favorite song my senior year was "Dead Bent". I thought the ending of Operation Doomsday was really cool. The way it let you decide between hero or villain. I was big into vigilante justice at the time. I wanted to be like my favorite superheroes. So that's where the name came from. Nowadays it's just a name. More people know me as Darko than my real name these days, so it'd be silly to change it. Name's don't define you. It doesn't matter much to me. Though I like it. 

DTN: You’ve had a pretty prolific young career given that you’ve dropped 10+ projects since 2011, but when we were taking recently you said you’ve just now started to feel like you now know your voice. What’s changed in the last couple of years to get you to that place? 

Darko: Since 2011 I may have done nearly 100 albums. Most haven't lasted. I've deleted and erased most of my material pre 2014 from the face of the internet. (If anyone has a Loser CD, please destroy it.) I put out 10 albums in 2018 alone. All better than the previous. "Watered Down Demon Fuzz" from 2017 is the album I truly found my voice on. I listened back to "Oh, No! It's Darko" for nostalgic purposes and it seems more like a comedy album than anything, and not that good of a comedy album either. I was 18 when I made the first album I put on cd and gave to everyone at shows when I was starting to go out and perform. It was called Loser, inspired by Beck. Next cd I made was a compilation, also terrible, but somehow it's going for $75 on Discogs. I personally don't like anything prior to 2016. "Carve a Happy Face  on my Tombstone" had a few good songs. Those were transformative years. My perspective on life has changed severely. It's hard to be happy with things you create when you're not even happy with who you are. I think in finding myself, I found my voice too. Life will always be a mystery. But at least I'm more comfortable in my own skin at the moment. Therefore more comfortable in my art. 

DTN: Why erase the evidence of growth though? If anything that could show folks the rapid progression of Darko? 

Darko: I'd prefer to leave a better first impression. Maybe I'm too insecure to show people my progression. It's also just a matter of that not being the way I feel anymore as far as the way I wrote back then. 

DTN: Your style is a bit unorthodox in that you kind of dance all over the pocket of the beats, and your inflections seem to change at the drop of a hat. I know E-40 and DOOM are a couple favorites of yours but who else’s impressed a young Darko and helped give us the man we have now? Who made you say “I think this is something I want to do!!”?

Darko: Murdoc and MyGrane McNastee from Orlando, Florida were a couple of the first independent rappers I got into from watching the Wake Up Show freestyles on Youtube. They were big influences on me. From there I got into MF Doom, Madlib, and J Dilla. During the datpiff era, I got really into Charles Hamilton's mixtapes. I was a big fan of a web series around that time called Internet Celebrities. Through them I found out about Das Racist. I remember listening to them for the first time on MySpace. I saw Big Baby Gandhi in a video with them. Later on his Debut would become one of my favorite albums. I was really into going on hip hop blogs. I remember watching Open Mike Eagle rap "Qualifiers" in a laundromat and having my mind blown. He told me Serengeti was his favorite rapper which had me watching every Kenny Dennis video I could find. Dennehy became my favorite album. I got into Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire from seeing the Last Huzzah video with Das Racist, El-P, Despot, and Danny Brown. That's still my favorite posse cut. From checking out rap battles I got into Soul Khan who I remember posting about Homeboy Sandman's album The Good Sun. Blogs also got me listening to every Blu song. Her Favorite Color was something special to me. All those artists were huge in developing my approach. Nowadays my favorite rappers of all time are E-40, Serengeti, and Kool Keith

DTN: Card Tricks for Dogs feels like your most fully formed artistic statement yet and The Devil Defeated feels like the exclamation point showing folks you’re a real force. What helped bring those two records to life?

Darko: Both albums took a long time to come together, which usually isn't the case for me. I remember writing some of those Card Tricks for Dogs tracks while on vacation with my girlfriend and her family. I had tons of beats from my good friend and longtime collaborator Phil Ford aka BLKrKRT (Blacker Karat) loaded on my phone for those trips. I started it shortly after meeting Steel Tipped Dove for the first time. I released an album of his on my label and he offered to mix and master some tracks for me. So this was the first solo album of mine I let someone else do all the mixing for. I took my time with it and let it come together naturally. I believe everything happens at it's own time. As for The Devil Defeated, that album started out as a project called Contemplating Lonely Stuff, inspired by a Serengeti lyric. It was for the most part produced by Height Keech and Steel Tipped Dove. Eventually I decided to do albums with each of them separately. The album with Dove was pretty far along in the process and originally I wanted to call it "Playing Skee-Ball With Zev Love X" but we both agreed that was kinda corny and not many people would get what we were referencing. Then I heard the news of Daniel Johnston passing away, who is a hero of mine. I listened to nothing but Daniel for a few days straight and a few lyrics in particular stuck out to me. The one that landed was "The Devil Defeated" another possibility was My Yolk is Heavy. Me and Dove made over 20 songs for this album and eventually narrowed it down to the most cohesive project we could. We'll be doing a follow up of course. That's in the works now. I'm very proud of this album. My favorite track is a story I wrote based on a song called "Suzy's Face" by my favorite punk band, The Spits. I had to convince Dove on that one. There's another track I tried to convince him about too, but that will never see the light of day since I ended up agreeing with him. 

DTN: You’ve has a chance to work with a lot of interesting and well loved folks. How the hell did the tracks with Lil’B, Charles Hamilton, Denmark Vessey and others come about? 

Darko: I did an album called “Thank You BasedGod” dedicated to Lil B. I produced a track for him way back in 2014. He reached out to me after TYBG and offered to do a track together. So I sent him a couple  Steel Tipped Dove beats and he chose the one that ended up on the album. Later I saw Charles Hamilton posting about doing features. I sent him the Lil B track since that’s a dream collaboration of mine. Lil B is a big Charles Hamilton fan, and they’re both internet gurus of their eras. Charles conquered the blog era by releasing tons of free albums on his own blog, landing on all the mixtape sites. Lil B mastered social media and became a marketing genius, even transpiring music. I’m proud to say the first time they worked together was with me. As for getting Denmark Vessey on the album, he had already worked with Dove and toured with my good friends, The Difference Machine. I was the one who showed them his album Buy Muy Drugs while I was out in Atlanta for a week. That album’s my favorite of the decade. He had posted about doing features so I sent him an email and made it happen. 

DTN: You’ve released a lot of projects via Already Dead Tapes as well as starting UDDTBA. What is the connection with ADT and why start your own label? What have you learned from ADT and how has the played into how you run your label?

Darko: Already Dead Tapes taught me everything I need to know about running a record label. I met them in 2014 when I sent over my latest at the time “Oh, No! It’s Darko.” They were nice enough to release that on cassette. Soon after they invited me to play their weekend long festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I brought along ialive and we booked our first tour. Staying in Kalamazoo at the Knights Inn we recorded an album together and formed the now infamous duo The Hell Hole Store. From there we’ve played the Already Dead fest every year and I’ve released quite a few albums on Already Dead Tapes. U Don’t Deserve This Beautiful Art was grown out of wanting to support my friends and artists I admire. I brought on my best buds Steel Tipped Dove and Harvey Cliff to help me run things. Now the sky’s the limit. 

DTN: “Suzy” is life a very interesting record as is “lo-fi princess” off of The Devil Defeated. You mentioned the influence for “Suzy” came from another artists song...how’d this end up on your record and why? Also what’s the idea behind “Lo-Fi..”? 

Darko: During my commute one day I listened to The Spits first self titled album. I hadn’t played it in a while and instantly remembered why they’re the best. One song in particular stuck with me throughout that ride, “Suzy’s Face”. I decided to write a song building off of their track. Almost like taking a short story and creating a movie. I tried to describe in detail about why someone would shoot Suzy in the face at a high school dance. So that’s what I came up with. Lo-fi princess 2 is a sequel to the original from “Watered Down Demon Fuzz” both love songs to my girlfriend, Alora. I liked the phrase cos it reminded me of “Bow-tie Daddy” by Frank Zappa. Now that I think of it, an actual Lo-fi princess would be an anime babe trapped in the track art of a SoundCloud beat. We’d have to defeat the chill hop brigade to save her. 

DTN: You and iAlive have a really dope chemistry and have two very different styles but similar energies that work so well off of each other. What makes that partnership work and why’d you guys want to keep it going after the one hotel infused brainstorming session?

Card Tricks For Dogs by Darko The Super & BLKrKRT

Darko: We kept it going cos there were more hotel sessions to be had. On tour you’re on the highway with a lot of time on your hands. That’s where most of our songs and ideas come from. We set up shop where ever we’re staying and start to bring these ideas to life. The people seem to like us and we enjoy performing together. That’s what keeps the hell hole going. We survive off friendship and fun times. 

DTN: Okay sir Darko. You can only eat at two fast food places for the next year because you lost a bet. Where you going??

Darko: Obviously Taco Bell is numero uno, I’m a big Taco Bell enthusiast. Next would be Wendy’s, best fast food burgers by me, and they got those spicy nuggets. Plus I heard their salads are good too, which I would need a salad every now and then. I don’t think this is too far off from my normal diet. Worst thing that could happen is I have a heart attack. But I’m on that path anyway. Maybe I’ll start exercising. Maybe. 

DTN: What are you picking if you only have Thor and Spider-Man as costumes for Halloween?!

Darko: Spider-Man of course. I could pull off a husky Spider-Man. Family Guy made it look good. I’d need the fake muscles for Thor. Fake muscles never look good. I don’t have the luxurious hair either. 

DTN: What’s the writing process like for you?! Do you let the beat decide the direction? Do you have an idea or some lyrics written and you locate a beat that fits?

Darko: Either or. Writing always comes to me. It’s second nature. If it doesn’t come to me, I don’t write. That’s all there is to it. I only write when I’m inspired. That’s an easy way to go about it. My number one thing is creativity, I don’t wanna be complex or even an intellectual. I want my lyrics to be universally understood. 

DTN: So what’s next on the horizon for Darko The Super?

Darko: Next up I’m working on an album with skits from a comedian friend of mine. He does tons of great characters and videos as Hot Talent Buffet. I think he’s a comedic genius. I’m also working on an album sampling nothing but my favorite band 10cc, titled “Strawberry Studios Jam ‘72” and another album sampling one of my favorite songwriters, Dean Friedman. The Dean and I have a 7” record on the way with my remix of his classic “McDonald’s Girl” on the B side with the original on the A side. I have a couple other collaborative albums coming along. The artist they’re with wants me to hold off announcing it until they’re ready, but I will say it’s a dream collaboration and I’m very excited for it. 

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[nocompromise-noregrets]

Ooooh, thank you! :D

1. why did you choose your url?

It's a line from a song by Hanoi Rocks, my absolute favourite band in the world, and I've taken it as words to live by: 'make no compromise, have no regrets'.

2. any side blogs? if you have them name and them and why you have them.

Nope. I did have one for my photography, and another for a music blog I was trying to get off the ground, years ago, but that didn't last.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

Since 2011 oh my god. Ten years.

4. do you have a queue tag?

No...pretty much everything I post is queued so I don't really see the point.

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

All my friends came here from LJ around the time the fandom I knew them from was dying, and I wanted to keep in touch with them. I really miss LJ.

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

I had to have something, and this was kicking around in my folders. This is the only icon I've had on this site - I've never bothered to find something better.

7. why did you choose your header?

I had to go and check what it is, because I never see it, I'm always on my dash on my laptop XD It's the White Gems of Lasgalen, which appear in my longfic My Heart Is An Empty Vessel. And it's pretty.

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

I think it's an unfuck-your-habitat before and after post from a few years back, which has about 80 notes. I don't really post much original stuff, and when I do, no bugger reblogs it. XD

9. how many mutuals do you have?

I don't know. Quite a few? I don't know how to find out.

10. how many followers do you have?

272, apparently, although a lot are inactive blogs from years ago. I've gained about 110 over the last year since I became active in the LotR fandom again (I say again, last time I was active was 2004 so it certainly wasn't here XD ) and I have probably 10 or 20-odd active followers from before. Who are presumably either blocking the hell out of my lotr tag, or suffering my obsession with remarkable good grace :D :D :D

11. how many people do you follow?

218, although again, some of them are inactive blogs from years ago and I've never gone back and weeded them out.

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

No, I wouldn't know what to say. I do reblog the ones I find funny though.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

I'm here on and off all day if I'm working at home, and in the morning and evening if I'm working on site. I use it in the browser on my laptop - I don't have the app on my phone because it eats battery and data and last time I used it you couldn't block tags/words, and I rely very heavily on XKit's blacklist feature to make my dash bearable XD

14. did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

No, I stay out of all that stuff. I don't like confrontation and I don't see the point on here.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

Entirely unpressured. Me reblogging something isn't going to make a blind bit of difference, and I'm here for fandom escapism - I get my news and interact with the real world elsewhere.

16. do you like tag games?

Yes! :D

17. do you like ask games?

Yes - I'm always delighted to be asked stuff, and to have an opportunity to ramble about things.

18. which of your tumblr mutuals do you think is famous?

I'm not sure what this means - tumblr famous, or like, a real-life celeb? I follow precisely one tumblr famous person, who doesn't follow me back. And I'm pretty sure I'm not following any celebs on here. Luke Evans' instagram is far more than enough for me *eyedart*

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

'fraid not. too busy having an entirely inconvenient and infuriating crush on Luke Evans, damn him and the horse he rode in on

20. tags?

Oooh. No pressure, but @lemurious, @theresonlyzuul, @iactuallyshipeveryone, @potatoobsessed999, @writerman and @angelic-kisses13 if you feel like doing this, please feel free! :D

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check in tag ✅

1. why did you choose your url?

I morphed from gimmesherl/ock to gimmethehobbit because I was really looking forward to The Hobbit.

2. any side blogs? if you have them name and them and why you have them.

Here? Some defunct ones that were comics related but never really went anywhere.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

2012 

4. do you have a queue tag?

nope

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

I was really obsessed with bbchserlock 😭

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It’s my draw! Professor Chuckles thinks he’s the Great Eye!

7. why did you choose your header?

It matches~

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

I had to run it through one of those algo things. It’s this shoddily drawn ‘he tried’ klance comic. 

9. how many mutuals do you have?

I have no idea. Idk who’s on here anymore :’)

10. how many followers do you have?

1642, of which probably 90% are inactive/defunct.

11. how many people do you follow?

101, of which I think at least half are gone/deactivated :’)

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

That’s half my content!

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

I use it very sporadically these days. I’ll check my dash for like max 5 minutes if I remember. I’ve sort of migrated to twitter but under a different fandom which I’m too embarrassed to share :)

14. did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

Over what? I really don’t care what anyone on here thinks 😂

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

Again, I don’t care 😆

16. do you like tag games?

I do!

17. do you like ask games?

Sometimes?

18. which of your tumblr mutuals do you think is famous?

Idk who any of my tumblr mutuals are anymore.

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

See the above answer lol.

20. tags?

Tagged by @heyholmesletsgo ! Tagging just a few: @alasse-mm @saimafatimaali and whoever else wants to do this!