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[echoesofdusk]

tumblr I am fucking begging you, please let me disable specific notifications bc I am TIRED of coming to a bunch of notifications thinking it's for my art only for those notifications to be for this blog on shitposts that aren't even mine! I am a struggling artist and I'm tired of being constantly let down!

[something-about-sunflowers]

I had to turn off reblogs for the post about the anon asks. . . I am just a lil guy. . . I cannot handle 18k notes. . . My notifs/activity tab are in shambles. . . H-how do big accounts do this all the time?

[jessiarts]

[Shut off last version of this post to avoid possible continual spread of misinformation that was corrected by staff. Reposting clean with corrected info]

So I'm sure almost everyone knows about the porn bot problem by now, so here's a post detailing why it's a problem, and what we need to do about it.

First off, yes, always block the porn bots. Don't be mislead into thinking they're ok to keep around because they 'inflate your follower count.'

Firstly, no one cares about, nor can anyone even see, your follower count. Be free from the shackles that are the bullshit other socials told you was important. Don't let your ego be tied to a number. Having a lot of followers won't earn you any clout here.

Secondly, bots only follow blogs to try and legitimize their malware (and other dodgy) links. This post goes into more detail about that.

Now that that's out of the way, you'll need to know how to recognize a porn bot. This round the template seems to be:

A profile photo of a pretty lady or guy, usually in their underwear, with a similar header photo.

A bio with some combination of: [Age] // [Name] // [Location] // [Emoji] // [Top Bullshit% OnlyFans]

URL consisting of a name followed by a number (i.e: firstlast999)

Typically an empty blog, or if there is content, it's all dodgy links. Visible, but empty, Likes Tab, & occasionally a visible Following Tab.

You likely recognize the pattern.

So, what you want to do is, first, report the blog as spam On mobile it'll look like this:

On mobile you'll need to report spam first, and then go back to the menu again to block.

On desktop it will look like this, and unlike mobile, you'll be able to report spam and block in the same motion:

If I remember correctly,* be sure to "Report Spam", not "Report sexually explicit material" to feed the bots to the proper channels. Because the blog is empty, they haven't posted anything explicit that would violate TOS. However, staff can recognize a bot, and if you report the blog for spam (the actual problem) they'll take a look, more than likely find that the blog is posting or DMing dodgy links, and dispose of it.

And I think that's it. Here's wishing you all a happy and safe blogging experience!

[UPDATE: It was suggested on another post that the bots track your IP if you click on them to send more your way. However, someone from staff corrected and said this is incorrect. They also corrected the 'guilt by association' myth that bots following you can get your blog flagged by tumblr.

That said, that trail all led to another, easier, way to report/block the bots all from your Follower Tab instead of visiting each blog separately, unfortunately it only works on desktop:

(For newbies, click on the little person icon at the top right of your screen and scroll to find the Followers tab under the blog/sideblog you need to block a pornbot from.)

*I remember this information from a blog that used to be all about taking down the pornbots. Unfortunately I do not know if that blog is still active, nor can I remember the URL. If anyone knows what blog I'm referring to, and/or if they're still active, please feel free to tag them so others can follow them for more tips!

[jojo-schmo]

Click here to directly send feedback to Tumblr Support about the new feature of training AI generators with OUR creations.

@staff turned off replies on their post about AI implementation. They’re dropping this on us, plugging their ears, and looking the other way and we can’t even tell them how we feel. That’s unacceptable.

This is a suggestion box that the Tumblr Staff themselves have set up. Let’s use it.

Tell them exactly how you feel about this new AI generation- its effects on the artist and writer communities, the blatant theft of our hard work and opportunities, the saturation of online feeds with these soulless, misshapen images and unintelligible writing. Express that disappointment, sadness, fear, and anger. They need to know.

And!! I haven’t see anything about using just art and images to train their AI generators. Writing is probably also fair game!! Everyone who posts on this site is affected by this!

Select the category “Feedback” and “New Features” and let the people in charge here know exactly how we feel about being automatically opted in to train AI generators with our creations.

Yes, you are opted into this by default!! If you still need to turn off third party sharing for your blog, Here is a quick guide on how to opt out of training AI with your blog’s creations. It’s just a hidden switch to flip in your Settings menu.

Together, our voices will be loud and clear.

[jenchan-writingmultis]

Twisted Wonderland Boys x Fem Reader in their respective Fairytales (Series)

─────❅───── This was an ask by @cartoonykat I couldn't compile it in the inbox, m sorryyy (╥﹏╥) "Hi, I was wondering if you could do a Twisted Wonderland Boys (Except ortho) x Reader, Where they are in their respective Disney tale, or a fairytale that fits their character?" A/n: This is a pretty broad idea that makes me want to do a whole series about it! Maybe I’ll do everyone… but first I’ll put housewardens and their vice housewardens first! Thank you for requesting this! I was a bit lost how I can do this one but hopefully I hit the right point! It’ll be split into a series, cause when I was writing I realized, it got long. Hope you like it! About the Gender, I put fem, but the gender wasn't that specific in each part, it's very vague. Masterlist

─────❅───── Content Warning: This Fic will be tagged as 16+ since it is a bit suggestive along with mentions of Gorey themes (Azul), it’s very vague. I haven’t finished Book 6 and Book 7 because I’m stuck in Tartarus, but they’re not done here yet. Riddle (Suggestive Themes), Leona (Cussing, Blood mention), Azul (Obsession, Manipulation, Cussing once, Potential Cannibalism? (He eats merpeople who are turned into Polyps). The reason for potential OOC was cause I mixed both the classic Villains with the personality of our beloved boys Due to the Tumblr Limit, Each one will be divided unfortunately, hopefully it's an easy navigation for all of you! ─────❅─────

First Batch would be: Riddle, Leona, Azul Second Batch would be: Kalim, Idia, Malleus

List of Villains interconnecting with each character:

Riddle = Queen of Hearts

Leona = Scar

Azul = Ursula

─────❅───── Sypnosis: After an experiment gone wrong, you and Grim along with Deuce concocted a potion that exploded in your face, you fell into deep slumber, and due to the effects of the potion, it caused you to dream about your boyfriend/s reigning as their… villain counterparts?! And why are you in the outfit of the main character? What’s going on? ─────❅───── Riddle:

When you woke up as Alice, you didn’t expect to see Riddle in his housewarden outfit. This time, however, he was acting a bit strange. By strange, he was hostile with you, reminding you of the time when he was still in his strict, crazy, unjust ruler phase.

You thought that you were probably dreaming because there’s no way Riddle would ever be rough with you like this. Even before, he was often gentle with you, especially knowing that you were magicless. He was harsh with his words, sure, but he never laid a finger on you. The only time he did was during his overblot, but after that, he was the softest man you’d ever encountered.

“State your name,” he glanced at your figure sprawled down Infront of him, voice amplified with authority as he gripped a staff adorned with a heart symbol. He was the true image of a king—or rather, a queen. His authoritative presence reminded you of the true Queen of Hearts, whom he admired and aspired to emulate.

“Riddle don’t be ridiculous” You were hurt that he didn’t remember you since you two were practically dating in the real world, a vein throbbed on his head, patience running thin. He slammed his staff on the ground, the force sending shockwaves through the air and producing a loud clang. "I said, state. your. name.” he glared down at you, looking at you as if you were a feeble flea in front of him. "You're quite bold talking back to me"

Getting intimidated, you immediately stated your name as well as the reason why you were here truthfully, at first, he wanted to laugh at your face, transported to another world? Don’t be stupid, as if he’d believe you.

You managed to convince him that you truly were not from here by pointing out the fact that he didn’t know who you were despite ruling Wonderland. He, as the ruler, should have data on every citizen of his region, right?

That made him pause. He should have beheaded you for disrespecting him in front of his people, but you did have a point; Despite his anger issues and his pride taller than himself, he listened to what you said. “I see” tracing his fingers along the side of his staff. Narrowing his eyes at you, he continued, "If what you say is true, then you will have to stay here until I figure out how to send you back to your world."

“You’re helping me?” You finally lifted your head to look at his expression, wondering if he was lying or not, then again this was Riddle we’re talking about, he doesn’t do empty promises. Scoffing, he turned around to leave, the crimson mantle that draped on his shoulders fluttered prettily, he really was pretty.

“I rather have you gone than stay here for a while longer, so please, do appreciate that I tolerate you” he walked away, soldiers bowing in sync as he left the throne, “Trey, escort them to the guest room” he added, voice fading, Trey walks towards you, offering his hand to help you stand. “Well, this is a surprise, he spared you” he chuckles a bit while you look at him incredulously, unlike Riddle who had a housewarden outfit but a bit more exaggerated; Trey looked like a completely different person with his knightly outfit, and hair still the same, albeit neater than his usual.

“Trey?” you asked, he looked confused as you are, “Yeah? My name’s Trey Clover, you heard your royal highness, you get special treatment” Straight to the point as always, he ushers you to the guest room.

Sitting down on the soft bed, you didn’t know what to do next, will Riddle find a way to get you back home? Wake you up? You didn’t know, but you felt comforted by the fact that some familiar faces were around, despite them not knowing you.

Riddle didn’t understand himself; he kept a close eye on you while you were free to roam his territory. Truthfully, he was going to punish you, when he heard the news about a rat skewering and destroying some of his lands; however the moment he saw you, he felt an odd feeling as if he knew you, keeping his stoic façade as you were pushed inside and in front of him, he was going to be rough as usual with criminals, but for some reason, he really couldn’t with you.

You also acted as if you knew him with the way you looked at him and the way you got hurt with his harsh tone. Seeing you wither infront of him made his heart feel unpleasant and he didn’t want to see that expression you again, so he decided to stop talking to you; It was unlike him to not only halt your punishment but also offer you a bed to sleep in and have his servants feed you.

Should he be worried that you have that kind of effect on him? He could guillotine you any time, but the way you unconsciously trusted him, thinking about having you executed made him feel bad.

Part 2 (Riddle)

[gayestcowboy]

the thing is that tumblr really isn’t that hard to use. it’s actually quite nice to use once you figure it out and it works well. you see exactly what you want to see on your reverse chronological order dash. if you want to find more creators or people to follow you go to a tag of your choosing and either look at the top posts or latest posts. or you can find a blog you like and see who they’re reblogging from. that’s how i’ve found a lot of the blogs i’ve followed for a long time. art is not hidden by the algorithm because there is no algorithm that hides art by and of POC or queers or other minorities. art circulates for years. my old art still gets reblogged. you can reblog your posts over and over again if you want them to be seen by your followers, and this isn’t considered “annoying” (at least, not by the people i follow— it’s effective and encouraged). and this is all because tumblr really isn’t even a social media site, it’s a blogging site. you don’t see other people’s follower counts and your feed is reverse chronological. that’s why i use tumblr so much despite my hatred of social media. obviously tumblr has its issues, but in my experience it is a vastly superior site to use if you want to share your art or see others’ art or find a community for anything. once you find the community you want, it’s incredibly easy to stay in that community without your experience being encroached on by “suggested posts.” getting rid of the chronological feed entirely in favor of “suggested posts” that can’t be turned off will completely kill the way tumblr is used and the reasons it’s good. if tumblr staff ever do this, i am dead serious, i’m starting a mailing list and sending y’all my art and silly thoughts via email.

[copperbadge]

Well, Still Salty.

I was cranky yesterday and I thought a good night's sleep would provide some adjustment in perspective, but unfortunately "spending yesterday not on tumblr" also offered perspective and got there first.

Up front: feel free to comment or reblog on this post (replies may be heavily delayed) but if you feel the urge to Like, I'm going to ask you to take one more step and go to https://www.tumblr.com/support, select "feedback" as the category, and enter a line or two about the new dash. It can be as simple as "Your new dash design is difficult to use and is driving people off the site". I'm not asking everyone to do it, but if you're going to Like this post, that would be a helpful action in addition. You can delete any response they send; no reason to expose yourself to the unique combination of incompetence and condescension with which they handle feedback generally.

Also up front: yeah, if I find somewhere else to go and go there, I will certainly let you guys know beforehand, I'm not going to just evaporate. I'll be broadcasting about Tumblr's replacement on Tumblr very heavily. But I can't deny that it is now an active goal of mine to find a viable replacement for this site. (More on this in a moment.) You will always be able to find me on AO3 as copperbadge, or via copperbadge@gmail.com. (More on this in a moment also.)

This kind of thing is why I refuse to fuck with staff now or ever; I don't trust them and I never will. Watching @wip respond to almost every complaint or suggestion with "but that would be really hard" is telling. Whoever is pushing blocks around at Tumblr wants a lucrative site that's easy to code, but lucrative is hostile to community and code is difficult by nature, and when the architecture of the meeting hall is hostile and cheap, people don't stick around.

I've been watching the site as every change made it incrementally worse, from a buggy post window that doesn't allow ease of editing to the new dash (which is the reason I'm writing this in a text window off Tumblr). I genuinely do not think I can use desktop Tumblr like this unless I can install something that will put it back the way it was, and roughly 40% of the content you guys get HAS to come through desktop. It's impossible to do on a phone or so time-consuming it's not worth it. I cannot code Radio Free Monday on a phone; it's a struggle to code it on a single-monitor laptop (I usually write it on my work computer, where I have two monitors). Even writing image IDs on the phone is difficult and something I rarely do. Tumblr is becoming an actively difficult place for me to make content, introducing friction left and right.

But where does one go? I've tried other platforms and they're either worse to use or they don't have the constituency. The problem with a lot of discourse around internet addiction is that it often points out how glued people are to their phones without asking what it is they're doing on those phones. I'm not addicted to social media; I don't doomscroll, I don't care what celebrities have to say, I don't find 140 characters useful or interesting, I don’t find most “funny” videos very interesting. I create a lot of original content for public consumption, significantly more than many social media users, and if that becomes difficult, then the site suffers more than I do. But it's undeniable that social media, and this social media in specific, is where my people are, and yeah, I like seeing you all every day. It makes it difficult to leave even when Tumblr is the best of a bad set of options.

It seems like a lot of the internet, lately, is the best of a bad set of options.

All that said, Tumblr forced a sudden, unwanted, and unchangeable reskin on me a day after I listened to a two-hour podcast about addiction while working on building a newsletter system for my author site. I spent the evening before this happened in contemplation of my relationship to social media and to my readership and how I might alter it to my benefit regardless of whether that's also to Tumblr's detriment. Their poor timing, I suppose. A lot of the theories advanced on the podcast were, to put it kindly, bunk, but one of the suggestions for people questioning their relationship to an activity was a dopamine fast -- removing something in your life that gives you quick but unsustained dopamine hits, so that you can take some time to level out and examine your behaviors. On the one hand, that's not at all how dopamine works; from the jump it's a bad theory. But on the other, pulling back from something you think may be causing you difficulty is generally speaking a good tactic.

Removing myself from Tumblr yesterday was an active process: because I have ADHD and often will forget something exists if I don't systematize my engagement with it, Tumblr is normally pinned to my browser, with the app on my phone's top screen. Removing the app and closing the window meant that while I occasionally reached for Tumblr, it was less frequently than I expected, and the lack of access reminded me why I wasn't there. I missed you guys, but I didn't miss getting distracted from work by my dash, or the pressure to respond to the volume of communication I receive through the site daily. I don't think my use of tumblr as my sole social media has been unhealthy, per se, but certainly yesterday felt both quieter and calmer after I walked away.

But that's a temporary relief, because you are my community, and not only do I not want to leave my community, it's a resource for me. One of the reasons I do things like Radio Free Monday and the weekly Hug on Saturdays is that I try to make sure that resource is reciprocal. Leadership involves service. Leaving would be easy in the short term, but in the long term, leaving my community without having another place to meet it, or another community to go to, would be harmful to both of us. I'm already someone who isolates, and while I have a strong brickspace circle of friends, they fulfill sometimes different needs.

Though I do appreciate the wild vote of confidence from the comments to my last post telling me people would come with me where I went. That means a lot to me. I will attempt to make it either unnecessary or as painless as possible. Just know, I see your faith and friendship and I appreciate it.

Sometimes at my old job I'd be in very tumultuous meetings where a lot was discussed and not much agreed on, and the most useful thing to me was always to say, "What are our next steps? What would you like me to do because of this meeting?" So what are next steps, all this being the case?

First, I'm going to be off Tumblr, mostly, for another couple of days, because clearly I need the break and a few days won't matter too much. Again, I will be back either to continue on the site or to let you guys know, at length and volume, where I'm headed. The former is much more likely.

Second, I'm going to be actively looking for both a widget I can install to reset the dash (recommendations welcome, I currently don't even use xkit) and a wholly new platform that's a realistically viable alternative. Even if the dash gets reset, the shitty post editor is here for good. Attempts to source alternative platforms in the past have taught me that it needs to have a mobile-friendly site or an app, a similar structure to tumblr, and a reasonable chance of actually attracting users. That's a heavy venn diagram unlikely to be fulfilled anytime soon, but I'm now invested in finding it, instead of just passively waiting for it to happen to me (as Tumblr did when it pulled me off LJ).

Third, I do have an email newsletter in the works! I'm just wrestling currently with setting up how people sign up for it. This wasn't meant to be "my main broadcast platform"; it's meant to be a once-monthly email to share book news, targeted at people who aren't on socials or who just really love content from me, I guess. :D The plan was for me to assure Tumblr users that it was not extra content, just select content repackaged into a digest. But it will be one way to ensure that if I'm moving around outside of Tumblr, you'll know about it. I hope to have a link to a signup page soon. (I'm....dealing with some code issues.)

Fourth, I'm going to be combing through the last ten years I've spent here and pulling anything I think is of value into an archive. For now everything will remain here as well, and I'll let you guys know if I think that's going to change, but it's clear that this space is moving only one direction, towards a place I can't exist, and when/if it crumbles I want to have already evacuated what's important.

So there you go. I'll possibly be posting sporadically (the Saturday Hugs are queued six months in advance so that'll happen) but if nothing else and if not sooner, I'll be back full-time next week starting with Radio Free Monday. I appreciate your patience and your kindness in the meantime!

[qqueenofhades]

JSYK the OP of the Crab Day post is a self-identified conservative Christian. Can't speak to anything she may have done or said, but I do know that Crab Day wouldn't actually fix Tumblr - the site is running a 30mil *deficit,* which is different from debt. All Crab Day would do would be telling staff that their current policies get users to send them more money, which doesn't actually change anything. Corporations change only when their business strategy is losing the shareholders money.

Gotta be honest, my friend, I'm... not sure what you're trying to do here? Warn me that the original post was made by a Problematic Person (tm) and therefore that must mean it's all wrong, or.... what?

We know that Tumblr badly needs money, because they have told us that and openly admitted that the unpopular new changes were spurred by a need for increasing revenue. I logged on just now on desktop and got a suggestion that I could purchase an ad-free browsing subscription to help support the hellsite (which is the word they used, because they have very much embraced the joke). I have in fact already bought an ad-free subscription, both because I like the product Tumblr provides and want to keep using it in its current form, and because it makes my mobile experience immeasurably nicer. I am well aware that especially in this era of social media sites dropping like flies, the continued existence of a platform that is 30-million-dollars underwater (however you want to split hairs about exactly how) is not a guarantee. And we all complain about Tumblr, but we have all been here a long time (me, uh, over 10 years), we have a solid community, there's no other alternative that's really ever come up or gotten the same kind of uptake, and if it went under, we would be uh, screwed.

Tumblr is kind of a mess, it's the antithesis of every social media site, and it doesn't (for now) have the crap that makes The Artist Formerly Known As Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram so utterly unusable, or if it does, you can (mostly) turn it off. That's why we all like it and why, even if we are resolutely anti-capitalist gremlins who resist being marketed to with every fiber of our being, it doesn't change the fact that servers, staff, and all the rest cost real human-people money which the site, by their own frank admission, is struggling to raise. Even if staff does often make crappy updates, they generally at least TRY to listen to us and include a feature to make it optional or roll it back, unlike certain unnamed idiot billionaires. Their mockery of other social media sites can sometimes be a little much, but for now, Tumblr is pretty much the last place on the internet that does what it does, and I like it that way. If it went under and took my blog of 10+ years and all my friends with it, I would be incredibly sad.

That being the case, and basic financial realities being what they are, encouraging people to toss a few bucks at a TOTALLY OPTIONAL and fun gimmick that increases functionality for a product we like is actually not a bad thing. TumblrMart has crabs, checkmarks, Ea-Nasir merchandise (seriously), ad-free browsing, etc., and if our choice is voluntarily supporting the site through fun (and again, OPTIONAL) purchases versus having us all be involuntarily subject to some horrible data-scraping mechanism or forced off altogether because they couldn't keep the lights on, that is fine with me. Nobody is making anybody do or buy anything. But if you like the product Tumblr provides and want a fun material way to show your appreciation, then I don't think it's some Great Transgression to participate in that.

[mr-ribbit]

@staff @support what are you going to do about this? are tumblr and its shareholders okay with its employees targeting and harassing tumblr users? does your CEOs behavior reflect the training all of your staff has in regards to professional boundaries? do your executives expect me to have to personally block their CEO in fear of getting stalked and harassed here and on other websites? or are they going to do something to prevent it?

if tumblrs official position is pro-harassment and stalking, then i still have questions: what is @staff going to do about its CEO abusing his access to users' personal account info, including alternate accounts, ban reports, correspondence with staff, private messages, and photos?? is it your official stance @support that your employees should be allowed to take my user data that they have access to, and post it on their public social media accounts for all to see?

is matt allowed to share my passwords on his blog if he thinks I deserve it? what about my search history or my deleted posts? if I make my blog private, can users like photomatt still get my data from tumblrs servers and post it wherever he wants? can he send my suggested-posts algorithm to my parents or my spouse? i assume you're saying it's also fine if he posts my information on twitter, where i have no power to report this abuse through your own moderation systems?

if your company condones this, what else are you okay with your employees doing to us and with our data? how many of your employees already abuse their access like this?

does tumblr @staff have *any* safety, training, or protocols in place to prevent a high level employee like Matt from being able to access and publicly post a users' data? do you intentionally train the rest of your staff to handle user-conflict in a public forum? if not, why should we believe you based on what your CEO is currently doing? it seems like he is representing your company's policies or violating them, one way or another.

is tumblr going to do anything about this or is its position that it is ok?

[jadeleechsupportgroup]

[ko-fi here]

ask taiga

ask romeo

ask tohma

attempt at a pinned post??

hi i'm rexii. welcome to my used car dealership. we got:

-memes (primarily twst and tokyo debunker)

-writing (i am slowly crossposting from ao3 to here but the majority of my work is over there)

-now with requests accepted!! please god give me something to write it's the only way to keep my brain in the right zip code

twst fics on tumblr (xposted on ao3)

Oneshots

Desert Rain - post-overblot jamil and azul (friendship) for @basuralindo

Closet Prison - malleus/reader - you get trapped in Malleus’s closet

An Acquired Taste - twstxblack butler - sebastian and lilia reminisce about the past

Laundry Day - tweels learn how to use a washing machine, kind of

Miniseries

Envenomate - mafia!azul/reader with octopus facts and casual homicide. for @boundlessentity

Rhapsody in Teal - jade/reader featuring awkward school dance and memory loss. it's funny tho

Collections

✨️mental unwellness✨️

🐉🎂 Bittersweet - malleus/reader platonic friendship as therapy

🐉🗡 How Not to Fall - malleus/reader platonic friendship as therapy with extra trauma and content warnings

🦇🍫 chocolate - lilia-friendship as therapy but with more of a dad spin to it

Tokyo Debunker

Oneshots

Claws - taiga/romeo - taiga wants headpats. imminently. (suggestive, not explicit)

Maestro - romeo and yuri: besties through violence and the scientific method.

Requests!! I'll gladly write you some twst and/or tokyo debunker. i have far less experience with/knowledge of black butler but I'll give it my best shot.

twst:

-favorites are JADE, azul, floyd, vil, trey, lilia, cater, malleus, jamil, riddle, leona, silver

-least favorites are rook, sebek, sebek, and sebek

-i most enjoy/am best at student x reader or shipping jade like fedex with azul, vil, or trey

-or vampire vil/damn near anyone

-jamil/fish mafia

-malleus/reader

-anything that lets me send sebek falling down a flight of stairs (I don't like that guy)

tokyo debunker

-favorites are taiga, romeo, rui, tohma, leo, jin, and ed

-least favorites are kaito and ritsu

-idk since this hasn't been out v long, send me your thoughts and we can talk

in general:

-i do a lot of AUs and messing with ages/characterizations/circumstances

-i will gladly write anything addressing mental health issues to include self harm, suicide, psychosis, etc. this is some shit i deal with too.

-love me some toxic romance

-planning to keep most of the [redacted] content on ao3 so if you want anything that I decide is too graphic I'll put it there but I can also message it to you privately.

stuff i personally don't like to write

-staff/reader

-shroudcest

-stuff with them in maid dresses

-if your request includes something not listed here (that I've forgotten) I'll let you know ♡

[nateezfics]

So, Hongjoong has done his Balmain shoot and I can only imagine for a partner, he would keep it under wraps that he'd be shirtless, keeping it from you, and getting his hair cut in a way you suggested that you like, not allowing you to watch any of the content and not letting you see his hair, which you'll obviously see at the mawazine concert. But when you go backstage, you're actually escorted back to the hotel by the staff, unable to actually see the boys and congratulate them then.

Obviously, you're confused, and escorted to a staff members room no less. The only thing you've got to entertain you is your phone until one of the staff members comes to get you after an hour or so, and you're taken back to Hongjoong's floor. But you notice that aside from one or two members, who are giggling on their way down stairs after looking at you, no one is on the floor. It's empty of people, and the staff member who led you up here quietly retreats into the elevator once you've made it to the door. You find yourself in almost complete silence, with butterflies in your stomach.

Sliding the card key in the door, you step into the room, shutting the door behind you. Soft music is playing in the background, ambient lighting, a table lined with delicious looking food and wine. You should've known he was up to something. Before you can call out for him, you see him. Standing in the outfit gifted from Balmain, but with the undercut as well, and all you can do is stare at him because he looks like he walked out of a dream or magazine. And he just laughs, (yk which laugh), at the expression on your face before making his way over to make tonight a night you won't ever forget.

(I'm sorry it took so long, I've had to do a lot of chores today and I forgot some stuff about this thought, but here's a good amount to start with I think).

it’s an absolute tragedy tumblr hid the notification for this ☹️ i didn’t even see it until i checked my inbox just a minute ago😭

but anyway. let me get to this 😮‍💨

where…where to start?? this seems like a dream. and i’m assuming the balmain fit you’re talking about is the one he wore for the cosmopolitan shoot, right? the one where he was very much shirtless underneath 😀 ugh god,, imagining him standing in that outfit with an undercut and with that laugh coming from his lips?? 😵‍💫💦 he most certainly is a sight out of a dream, a wet dream to be more specific. the way i’d run to him immediately���that food and wine would be of no concern when there’s a full course meal in the form of kim hongjoong standing right before me. i’d devour him whole; him in balmain, shirtless, and with an undercut?? i’d be insatiable.

he would make a whole special ordeal out of it. the secrecy, the planning, the food, the wine, the music, all of it. he’d definitely make it an unforgettable night; certainly every night with him would be unforgettable. 😩

thank you baby for sending this. 🥹🫶🏻 you don’t have to apologize for anything. i thoroughly enjoyed this; now i’ll be thinking about this all day 😮‍💨

[abby118]

List of improvements I'd like to see on Tumblr (in no particular order):

disclaimer: I really enjoy using Tumblr, I've been here for over a decade, and these are just my personal suggestions. For being a free website, we've got plenty of options available already. Staff, please don't shoot me, thank you.

Applying to both the browser and the app version:

a working tag search

restrictions that would allow gifs above 10Mb, more than 100 links and 1+ video per post

an archive for the like section

the option to like replies

improved refreshing rate of messages in dms

the ability to reply to specific messages in dms

decreased upload time and increased resolution of videos

being able to remove a portion of a thread without having to remove all of the rebloged additions (this comes in handy when deactivated blogs are involved and you can't reblog from them to remove reblogs connected to their reblog)

older posts displaying people's tags in the notes (I believe this is a bug rather than a missing option, they only show as plain reblogs now)

the option to edit share-created posts' tags in the same way as ones created directly in Tumblr (applying to videos)

being able to message from a password-protected side-blog

the option to choose who sees your likes and following in addition to the already available display and hide options

being able to add an admin/member to a main blog, not just the sides (for example, when you want to have access from two accounts)

being able to search by more than a single tag (x)

being able to reposition your pfp

the where were we? feature for the like section

being able to click on a post under a tag in the trending list preview and actually seeing the post

searching a tag on your blog and seeing how many posts are under said tag (kind of like in the archive)

sending asks from side blogs

App-specific:

an archive (for both posts and likes)

the option to choose from the full range of browser-available colour palettes

the ability to edit tags without having to delete and rewrite them

being able to search by post type (in a blog's refine search option) rather than having to type a tag first

refine search adding an ask option

the image limit per post (10) being closer to the browser one (30)

the option to add image description before posting

the linked source of a picture showing

being able to edit a blog's description containing HTML without losing the code

being able to block people from side blogs

shuffle working in the app

a text editor (I'll add a photo because I know some of you don't know we've got this option)

Browser-specific:

the option to crop a picture before posting

the trending list displaying all 9 categories instead of 8

the ability to view the tags of a post in the mass post editor before clicking on it to edit said tags (preferrably by hovering your cursor over said post)

being able to change the order of featured tags

I am certain I forgot a good few but these were the ones I could think of off the top of my head. If you want to add to this, feel free.

[the-seelie-court-official]

the collapsed threads thing, on top of being a fucking stupid idea for this site because it breaks the flow of literally all the content on the site, is also a very stupid idea because you know it's gonna be broken as shit. you're gonna click 'show thread' and tumblr's gonna go 'whoopsie poopsie we cant find the droids you're looking for :(' and the site's gonna reload and send you back to the top of your dash

then we're gonna find out it doesn't work if any of the people in the thread have, like, a dash in their url or something, bringing back 'dashless superiority' like in 2013 and tumblr will steadfastly refuse to get rid of the shitty 'feature' (we need a negative word for feature. i suggest fearture) because the CEO is addicted to buzzwords that might make the shareholders hold on for one more quarter and to remove the fearture would be like admitting he was wrong to try and monetize the 'starving artists passing around the same $20' website in the ways that he's decided to. all while staff continues stealing our words to use for promotional material and posting unavoidable flashing gifs

FOR THE TUMBLR CEO (who is obviously too busy for anything but the most direct of statements and too stupid to follow a thread of logic more than a couple simple statements long): collapsed threads bad and make the product break. if you make me click a button individually to view every single post i am moving entirely to discord and twitch

[msnihilist]

pls pls more of that au!! maybe put it under a read more so it doesn't get too long??

Tag for this AU.

No one's gonna read all of that, anon 😭 I'm putting it into small, easy to read chunks for a reason. The average Tumblr user's attention span is so short that I couldn't even be bothered to think of a good metaphor for this sentence.

Anyway.

You know how in Disney's BATB, Belle is assisted by the household staff that was turned into objects? Instead of something silly like that, Kevin is helped by the "spirits" of all of Gwen's frozen friends and family.

They're not dead, so they're not ghosts. Gwen has been trying to find spells to release them, and this was the side effect of one of her attempts. Think of it more like they're displaced from their bodies. So, physically, they all look the same as when they were frozen, but mentally, they have aged.

The spirits can interact in little ways with the world around them. Things like fabric are easier to move, and furniture is out of the question. As Gwen leaves Kevin in the castle foyer, losing interest in him, the first spirit that greets Kevin is — you guessed it — Ben. He's even weaker than the others, because of his poor physical state when he was frozen, but his personality is as lively as ever!

Gwen and Ben's parents take on a parental role with Kevin — Carl and Sandra pretty much immediately adopt him, whereas Frank and Natalie take longer to come around. Ben shows Kevin to the guest room, talking pretty much the whole time. Kevin asks him questions about "the witch" (and Ben's aura flares and the temperature in the room drops as he snaps, "her name is Gwen") while they walk, but Ben avoids direct answers. Partly because he doesn't really want to talk about it, and partly because he doesn't feel that it's his place to.

Anyway, the first dinner in the castle is awkward as fuck. Gwen doesn't eat, and neither do any of the spirits. They still pretend to cook and eat to have some semblance of a routine, but now that Kevin is here to stay, there's an actual need for real food.

Gwen ends up trying to summon Kevin some food to eat, and she's not good at it. She's never needed to practice that spell before! The only sign that she's flustered is a slightly brighter glow and the tense press of her mouth as she summons plate after plate of inedible majick gunk. Ben laughs at her and teases her, which is the closest that Kevin has gotten to seeing Gwen smile.

Finally, she manages a dish that's not entirely horrible to taste and won't kill Kevin if he swallows it. As he grimaces through the meal, it's hard to tell, but he thinks that Gwen seems almost proud of herself. Meanwhile, Sandra happily suggests getting the greenhouse up and running the next day so that Kevin won't have to try tilling the frozen dirt outside just to be able to eat.

Back with Argit, it's several days of travel on foot before he stumbles out of the woods and into the village, frantic and exhausted. He immediately goes to Michael and explains what happened to Kevin. Michael doesn't necessarily believe him, but the idea of there being a witch in the castle is interesting to him. After all, the only thing better than money is power.

Michael decides to send a scout of his own to investigate, in the form of a crow familiar. He also throws Argit into a cell so that he can't try to run. It is rather convenient for Michael that someone with Kevin's unique abilities would get captured by a witch — and one walking around in her true form, no less. It's giving him a truly wicked idea...

[kyra45]

How to ask for donations safely

A simple guide to asking for support by someone who busts scam accounts on a daily basis. Feel free to share with your own tips!

- Don’t mass send asks to share your pinned aid post. If you want to send asks, keep in mind not all users are comfortable getting them. This can get you banned by accident if you spam them multiple times. Read the bio of the blogs or their own pinned post to see if they are alright with it.

- Don’t mass send DMs asking people to share your pinned aid post. This is the fastest way to get ‘shadowbanned’ which is when you can’t be found by anyone and you are hidden in the notes. This happens when you spam multiple users too much. I think contacting staff should get this fixed. Don’t multi-account to get around this and just spam again.

- If your needed amount is over $1k, it’s suggested to set up a gofundme if your able to. Not everyone on tumblr has that amount accessible and it’s not going to be quick that you reach the goal. There are other places that can help you if it’s necessary.

- Keep your askbox/messages open so if people ask questions you can answer them. It’s preferred you address any concerns publicly as in private no one else would see it. Be willing to provide anything asked for by redacting person information but leaving anything relevant.

- Do not steal someone else’s photographs. Do not steal someone else’s fundraiser. Don’t use stock photos. Use only the information that belongs to you. And don’t pretend to be someone else.

[salty-cs]

Lilithsdoll isn't even boo, they're an impersonator just trying to make me look worse. I don't know how to prove that to yall, I didn't even care about this thread until someone showed me the posts and comments from lilith. I've reported them on here and notified staff of the impersonation.

A lot of my opinions are public knowledge anyway, I said I was going to leave kals but I literally changed my mind within a week. I was going through a lot of stress and pain last month. Since then I have offered suggestions to red to try and solve the issues I have with the species, constructive criticism.

The screenshot is edited or they got into my account, I've since changed my password on CS just in case.

I know people just suck and won't believe me anyway, I can't do anything about that. I don't know how to prove they aren't me and that I'm telling the truth. For a second I thought I wouldn't say anything and just take responsibility for their actions anyway, but I don't want to lose everything I have on CS because one person decided they hate me so much.

That's why that post was meant to be anon, because they didn't want to associate their account with me, but they apparently just said screw it and ran off with it, deciding to make me look horrible.

I've messaged Python on the salty-cs thread directly to try and explain, so if there's a way for me to prove who I am, I'll send it there in DMs. I don't even use tumblr, while I made an account I just looked at it every so often. I'm scared and don't really know what to do, I feel sick to my stomach and I'm not the type of person to come here and talk about people behind their backs.

Again, I know I won't be believed, but this is all I can do aside from what I've already tried. I'm sorry for their actions, I'm sorry for my actions, I truly am embarrassed about what happened in the kals server. I was pushed to the end and that little bit was all it took for me to snap. I want to stay in kalons because I love the community, but I kinda want to transfer designs I truly care about out of the species since I don't like things about their designs and can't afford edits right now.

I'm very easy to read, so it can't be hard to make things up about me. To pretend and act the way I do. I'm honestly scared right now. Please leave me alone, I'm just a kid on the internet. I cant even buy alcohol yet and still so many people hate my guts for things I haven't done.

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