#like tumblr needs it's notifs to function

[mariacallous]

You seem wise. Any advice for avoiding doom scrolling and terrible coping mechanisms?

Yes - avoid most social media, first of all. I keep my accounts on places like facebook, twitter, instagram, bluesky but don't post hardly anything and at this point I only use the dm function for some people, and even then it's mostly memes and occasional updates. I don't read or repost anything on them from people I follow anymore, and I unfollowed a lot of accounts. I use tumblr primarily for a number of reasons, one of which is that I can do other fun stuff on here and see other fun stuff.

Disable push notifications for most of your apps, particularly news apps - choose a few that you really trust or rely on if you feel you need to, but otherwise limit the onslaught coming towards you.

Remember the stuff you do like and enjoy and re-embrace them. You like playing pokemon? Get back in and catch 'em all again. You're a fan of the Inspector Alleyn mysteries by Dame Nagio Marsh? Remember your favorites and re-read them, or see if there's new stories or series similar. Walking with children in nature? Go back out there and breathe the outdoors air, selecting your favorite walks or finding new paths.

Don't neglect yourself - make sure you eat enough as you're able to, sleep enough as you can, brush your teeth and shower regularly enough, listen to your favorite music. Spend time with your favorite people, and rebuild those connections if you need to.

Focus on what you can do - there are always some level of practical contribution anyone and everyone can make, and you can always level up to the next one if you're able and confident enough.

Don't think of yourself as being alone in this - don't isolate and separate.

[fyrewalks]

ready to snooze and a little stressed out by the dash melting down over a glitch i'm not sure actually exists so i'll be around tomorrow!

[xcziel]

i am SO IRRITATED with @support @staff right now

like this detaching a post from its link to each individual reblog in a chain is a NIGHTMARE

-> new hyperfixation, and i'm trying to backread some of the associated blogs that have been around a while, yeah?

and i'm on mobile, which is relevant because hey fuck app users is i guess the motto?

so used to, if you wanted to read a few months/years back on a blog you could: find a tag of theirs, click on a post that was around the time you were interested in, be ported to the blog's dash AS OF THAT TIME IN THE PAST, and just scroll along

but now, because tumblr, for whatever moronic reason, has isolated posts so that

clicking takes you to an individual pane for *only* that post, not where it is on the blog timeline

AND NOW you CANNOT reach a previous reblog from clicking on the username in the reblog (only the og post)

the ONLY way to get back to older posts is to SCROLL MANUALLY FOR LITERAL HOURS

if i want to see posts from 2017, finding an old post and clicking on it does NOTHING to help me - it has been snipped out of its native environment and shown to me, but the other posts available as links at the bottom pane are just whatever tumblr algorithm thinks are 'relevant', not access to the rest of the blog timeline

this is true EVEN ON MY OWN BLOG and

I HATE IT

either make the Archive function work on mobile or GIVE BACK THE FUNCTIONALITY THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD

[roddymusprime]

feeling insane i have 100+ pages of rodimus stuff reblogged on my main blog just by searching up his name alone (god knows theres definitely more) i've been insane about this bitch since age 13/14

tempted to reblog them all but i'd be blowing my own notifs up

[actual-changeling]

A small 'this is how you use tumblr' for the people that haven't been here very long. These are in no particular order, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them!

Since I probably did not mention a lot of things, you are welcome to add to this post with your own advice.

a) Reblog posts. if you like it, reblog it. even if you have zero followers and ESPECIALLY if it's art or writing of any kind. We will see the reblog in our notifications and that alone brings joy. One reblog can start a chain and push the post onto many people's dashes.

b) Tumblr is not a very functional website, if you want to survive without losing your mind, there are two things you need: xkit rewritten and dashboard unfucker. Play around with the settings until it is to your liking. Additionally, change to firefox if you haven't already and install ublock origin to get rid of ads, tracking etc.

c) If you go to your settings (account! not blog) you can find this under dashboard at the bottom. Turn off at the very least 'best stuff first' since that will fuck up your dash and not give you posts in chronological order.

The rest are a perfonal preference but it will keep your dash tidy and easy to control if you turn them off, too.

d) Apropos settings—get a profile picture, a header, write something human in your bio, anything. Otherwise people will assume you are a bot and block you on sight.

e) Blocking! Do it generously and whenever you want, this is how you keep whatever remains of your sanity. It's not a lethal offense, it is (usually) not even seen as rude or anything along those lines. You block people and they block you and everyone is happy.

f) Under account settings you will find this:

Just like with blocking, use both options to your heart's content.

g) Tumblr is not like other social media platforms, spam liking & reblogging and going three years deep into someone's account is NORMAL and encouraged. You can search a blog by post type, tags, or even go to the archive and scroll through the posts there.

h) Lastly—interaction. We already went over reblogging (I mean it, REBLOG), but there are also replies and asks. If you add something to someone else's post please behave like a kind human being and don't be an asshole; based on my experience, that's easier said than done. On top of that, the tags are ALSO used for communication, go unhinged, ramble, leave your thoughts, or simply use them for organisational purposes. Everyone loves a good insane tag wall.

An open inbox (either anonymously or with your blog attached) is to be used! Please send people asks if they have them active, use it like DMs or a comment section, use it to recommend something, ask questions, participate in an ask or prompt game—we love asks here.

(We do not like harassment in our inboxes, same rules as above.)

[earlycuntsets]

those on tumblr that fwm in anyway!

I have not checked my notifications in a week. so sorry to anyone I haven't gotten back to.

EDIT: i'm not gonna be as active. I'm not leaving altogether just putting some space between me and tumblr. happy 1000 followers to me!!! lol but I might come back in some capacity but not rn. just until personal stuff has been handled. maybe once a week. i've got a lot of post ideas so i'll come on here if I find anything really good. but I have a bad history with social media consuming my brain.

this tumblr has been fully added to earlycuntsets.org and posts will continue from there, but I am not gonna be on here very much.

i've gone through some mental stuff interacting on here. I have a substance issue rn that i've been trying to get ahold on since september. I complain more on earlycuntsets.org

I felt so broken up really. this thing mcr that we all love so intensely.

I don't want to see that get ruined for me. the negative connotations with my account because I flipped out on mcr archive people. talking about that will get me nowhere because no one understands my side. about 4 people on here understand my side.

and for the first time yesterday, I considered apologizing. just to ease my own pain around this. you want to know the truth?

I wanted to work with them obviously. I wanted to do what they do is that clear enough?

it was hard for me not to be aggressive when people I don't know think they can scold me. from the start they just wouldn't respond to me. I would find cool stuff and send it to them. I just thought they'd be more accessible to fans.

and then the only time I have heard from them was for them to judge my website when I spend every extra moment i'm not at work on this one thing. this one thing that is my only expression of love to mcr.

having to go against them took a lot out of me but it was bound to happen. AND SO I gotta get out of the social aspect. it's making me overthink my every move.

I am going to be spending less time on here and more time on my website.

I have moved this whole blog to my website and just updated 840 posts to have links/tags/titles that function. I need to figure out a few things but I won't rest until it's easy to navigate. and perfect. lol there are dead pics and video on the blog section. there are pages of posts that don't have preview images. the site overall is undercuntstruction.

I was actually looking at hulus set up with the "carousel" things for each category. I am having fun and i'll probably make an mcr netflix idk. big grandiose bipolar dreams. that I hope to see through.

my website will be like this (2002 is the only one done rn) so the layout now is:

the google drive part

the 2002 blog part (everything from here)

the sources and links

[tenpintsof-sundrop]

Did you know that you can reblog fics with tags in order to bookmark them?

Okay the replies on this post are kind of sending me to space, so I figured I needed to make a new post.

I know a lot of people are new to tumblr and might not know how to use tumblr properly, and it does just make me go ??? whenever I look on someone's account and they have 0 reblogs and just have a giant wall of fanfiction in their likes. Because I cannot imagine scrolling through endless fanfiction posts in my likes looking for one fic when organizing things with tags is so much better.

First of all, for new people - reposting and reblogging are two very different things. If a writer has "do not repost" as a disclaimer, they are not talking about reblogging.

Reposting is when you copy and paste someone's entire work, make a brand new post, and then post their work under the implication that it is your own.

Reblogging is a function that is built into the website (and app) that comes up in a creator's notifications, showing that you appreciate their work because you interacted with it. Reblogs always have links back to the original poster so people can find them and follow them.

So - when you hit the reblog button (the one next to the like button that is shaped like a recycling symbol) - you are giving the author credit and encouraging them.

Also, you can use tags on your reblog to organize fanfiction for your own use later!

You can tag by genre -> #smut #angst #hurt and comfort

You can tag by a character's name -> #Spencer Reid #Emily Prentiss #Jennifer Jareau

You can tag by a pairing -> #Spencer Reid x Reader #Emily Prentiss x Reader

If you read fanfic from a lot of different fandoms, you can even structure your tags to include multiple elements -> #Spencer Reid x Reader Smut

A lot of people even reblog fanfics and tag them as #TBR or #to be read - in order to bookmark a fic that they are interested in and want to come back to later.

And you can edit the tags on posts you have reblogged at any time, so if you want to edit something that you have already read and update the tags, you can do that.

I think it's a shame that people aren't taking advantage of this websites very useful features (while supporting fanfic writers at the same time). You don't need to keep links to Tumblr fanfiction somewhere else in order to organize them - if you use Tumblr right, you can keep everything organized within Tumblr and it works perfectly.

[jojo-oliver]

How to tumblr for artists… my own version

A collection of things that have been working for me, but may not work for everyone

~~~ your posts ~~~

!!!reblog your own stuff!!! you need to reblog your own stuff, there is nothing morally wrong with reblogging your own stuff regularly. in fact, it is morally right to allow the chance for more people to see your artwork.

~~~ queue it!! ~~~ my queue is 500 posts strong. maybe don't try to make your queue hundreds of posts strong in the same day omg but like… once every month or two i'll go through my whole blog and just scroll and "add to drafts" to every one of my own posts i have. then i'll use the "mass post editor" to add content warning tags. and add to queue, and shuffle. and then I write down what the date was for when I last added my posts to be reblogged on queue. this is helped by turning on timestamps for posts in tumblr "dashboard preferences" settings.

queueing is necessary and life saving for me. It takes out so much work with decision fatigue and the anxiety around posting. It also guarantees that even if I suddenly need time off or away from my phone, I don't just disappear and lose all traction. It also breaks the instant-gratification cycle that you expect when you finish an artwork. It's hard to keep creating when you post something and, when you're expecting to get that gratification, you get none... If you queue your new artwork to come out at a later time, you've separated that expectation - with time. It hurts less and contributes to a more consistent gratification thing instead of peaks and troughs.

~~~ tag ya stuff ~~~ when you're making a new post, the first 20 tags are what gets put into the searchable tags. do not feel shame for using lots of tags. shame is the mind-killer. tags are hard. hard to know what to tag a post with. hard to remember the tags. so I found some ways to help myself. maybe they'll help you too. dedicate some time towards just figuring out what tags you want to use. i have a list in my phone notes that i add tags to and reference whenever i'm making a new post. i have the phone right beside the laptop while i'm tagging so that i can just look at it and scroll. tags are the only way for people to find your artwork, other than people manually coming to your blog because they saw you somewhere. there is no algorithm. posting without tags, until you have an established fanbase, is throwing something into the void.

When I'm doing tag research, I look at what people seem to use - when you put something in the search bar, tumblr recommends you some that have a higher following, typically. Looks like this on desktop:

if you like one tag, look at what other people who use that tag also tag their posts with. Observe and learn how this tag is used. search through a bunch of them and write them down.

here's what i got in my notes, for the specific kind of art I post and look for:

these tags are sort of specific to me and the kind of art I make. You'll want to research your own tags, but this is an example of how I keep them organized to make posting more effective. I generally only write down a tag when it's got more than 2k followers. You might be tempted to use the tags with millions of followers, but I've actually found those a lot less functional for small artists. If your stuff doesn't immediately get a bunch of notifications, you're drowned out and pushed to the bottom much faster. But the bigger tags are better than no tags, so I keep them if I can't think of anything else to tag something with.

~~~ post at the right times….? ~~~

fridays and saturdays is when I post fresh new things... usually. every website has it's own peak hours, and you can find those hours in many different online articles that try to sell you social media growth services. tumblr is unique in having later hours.

here's some random graph from google images:

please don't over think this. please don't let this consume the idea of when to post, preventing you from posting at all. it doesn't mean too much - if you post during very active hours, maybe your art would just be pushed down the feed faster. if you post at the end of hours, maybe everyone's going to sleep… if you post at inactive hours, maybe there's less 'competition'… if you post at the beginning of active hours, maybe that's just more time for your post to circulate for the day, if you have enough people reblogging it once it drops....

this also is in EST. So fuck the other time zones, I guess. I'm over here in europe knowing that the "best" time to post would be like 2-3am or something. It's like this for most english-speaking majority sites - higher traffic in north american time zones.

it's also worth mentioning that this is scattered as heck, compared to other social media sites. and it's not like, the activity times of your followers. it's not the best time to post for your niche. this is just tumblr, broadly. all of tumblr.

~~~ Plan ahead for annual dates ~~~

Your artwork will get more circulation if it's posted on a celebratory day. You could just put them on your calendar and if you're wondering what to make, look on the calendar for what's coming soon. For example, asexual awareness day, trans day of visibility, location-specific holidays, etc. Here's my phone notes thing with my own recorded annuals:

I got these dates from googling and reading different articles, but I find that I still miss dates, and then I add them for next year. If you know of some I missed, tell me and I'll add them please <3

~~~ reblog other people's stuff ~~~

tumblr is sorta about ecosystems. things get passed around within groups of people that are all following eachother. to enter this ecosystem, you must engage and reblog other people's stuff too.

if you reblog other artists' stuff, sometimes they'll come over and reblog your stuff too. sometimes they'll follow you back. this is called becoming a mutual. I'll search specific tags for the kinds of people I want to follow and the kind of art I like - those are listed in the screenshot of my tag note under "Tags for finding new people".

I see a lot of blogs out there that are very clean, posts are tagless, and are only for the artists' content. like scrolling through a portfolio. I imagine this is good for people who are migrating to tumblr but already have their own established fanbase from elsewhere.

you don't need to do reblog other people's stuff on your art blog, you can do this on a separate blog. but if the two don't look very closely correlated, it's hard to tell who you are when you're interacting. and hard to make sure people know that you are the same person as your art blog. and you gotta remember to promote yourself on your personal blog.

~~~ have an art tag ~~~

make your blog easy to search!

if i go to your blog, and you've written 'artist' or 'sometimes art' in your bio, i wanna see it… it make me so sad when i don't get to see it. i want to reblog it. please let me reblog it :(

to make a tag on your own blog searchable, you don't need to repost it to add a tag. you don't even need to reblog it. you can actually just go back to the original post and edit it to add your tag. I've seen post people just have their art tag be something like #(blogname)art . you can see my own in my tags image above. if it's very unique, then it'll work tumblr-wide. I think that's good, since the tumblr search function is really weird. Otherwise it should still work if it's not entirely unique, people just have to make sure they're searching specifically your blog to see only your stuff.

I like to have a link in my pinned post where people can click to have immediately searched for my art tag. Convenience is king. Keep in mind that most people are on mobile, and if something isn't immediately clickable, they often won't find it.

~~~ be consistent and be patient ~~~

!!!this time will pass anyway!!! how many notes you have is not correlated with how good you are as an artist. wanting to earn something from your art means you essentially have two jobs. two potentially full time jobs. this shit's difficult. most of the job is promoting yourself. don't undersell how hard it is to do… don't feel bad for not immediately succeeding. I would write about how hard it's been to promote myself, but it would just be long and sad I think.

This isn't a full guide, please feel free to add more!!

I'm sure in another year I'll disagree with a lot of this, it will become irrelevant with time, and I'll have a lot of different opinions. Chip in and share what you've been doing? Teach me? This is very overwhelming. Don't do it all at once, just like, try one thing at a time, and see how it works for you. Your niche might be different. One size does not fit all. If you're confused about some of the things I talk about in here, you might be on mobile. I do most of my queueing and posting from the desktop browser version.

I will update this with more as things change, but I think you'll have to click through to see the updated post

[sarasa-cat]

The best tumblr feature most people do not know about: BLOG SUBSCRIPTIONS

This is a tumblr labs feature that I have used for years and it makes tumblr So Much More Useful because:

0. It creates an additional dash for me that has my tumblr besties and a handful of blogs I want to regularly see.

1. It allows me to easily filter out things I don’t want to see during daily “quick chill-out” sessions on tumblr.

2. It allows me to temporarily remove a blog from my subscriptions without unfollowing the blog. This is great for managing spoilers and discourse.

What does it require?

If you are setting this up via your phone, you need to go into your phone’s setting for notifications and turn on notifications for tumblr. This is required for tumblr’s blog subs feature.

Now, if you are like me, you don’t want tumblr making your phone beep at you and give you endless alerts. You can turn those things off in your phone’s general settings while still making this work.

SET UP INSTRUCTIONS BEHIND THE READ MORE

Here it is on my iPhone. Android will be similar:

A. Open settings and search for notifications:

B. Scroll all the way down until you find tumblr.

C. Tap on it and turn on notifications otherwise you cannot set up this tumblr feature on your phone!

(This feature will still function on your phone if you set it up via a browser on your computer/laptop, but you won’t be able to add more blogs to your notifications via your phone)

Setting it up in tumblr :

You first need to turn on tumblr labs and then you need to turn on the blog subscriptions feature.

Click on the gear icon on your blog if on your phone. If on a laptop/computer, just navigate to general settings.

Next, Navigate into general settings:

Scroll down to tumblr labs:

If you don’t have labs turned on, turn it on!!! Lots of good stuff in there!

Turn on the BLOG SUBSCRIPTIONS TAB option.

Now you are set up!

Time to add blogs to that tab by subscribing to them in addition to following them.

How to subscribe to a blog :

Here is a blog I already follow and I want to add this blog to my subscriptions.

Look for this person icon in the upper corner:

Tap on it and you will see this if you are already following the blog:

This isn’t entirely intuitive but GET NOTIFICATIONS will put that blog on your BLOG SUBS tab.

Notice how i now see a lightning icon next to the little person icon. That means I am subscribed for notifications.

And now, when I go to my blog subs tab I will see this blog.

Obviously I can also unsubscribe if I want to by tapping on that person icon and then unsubscribing from notifications without UNFOLLOWING.

———

How is this useful?

When I trust certain blogs (often various mutuals) to not post spoilers and I just want to see them on my dash, rather than unfollow lots of blogs, I just add these trusted blogs to my subscriptions and only use the Blog Subs tab as my dash.

Same for avoiding discourse.

It is also good for making sure I don’t miss posts from selected blogs because my main dash is too busy.

It is also good for curating a very specific aesthetic or vibe on my blog subs tab without needing multiple tumblr accounts.

[pedrostories]

Dear Fanfic Lovers,

We're fully aware that tumblr's searching system is far from ideal, even though we try our best to create an extensive fanfiction library for you where you can always find anything you fancy, however niche it may be, but we're continuously looking for ways to make your experience as smooth as possible. 🖤

Here are a few tricks to help you navigate through the blog (you can also find this in our Navigation post, under ����𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗦) and a few miscellaneous tips for writers as well.

If you have any needs these functions don't offer a solution to, or you know another useful hack that could enhance the experience on this blog, let us know!

FOR WRITERS

✦ some tricks and tips on how to reach your audience

If you feel like you can't quite reach readers with your story, please don't blame yourself! Tumblr is sometimes the creators' enemy, you just need to know a few things you can use to your advantage! Apart from the tips there's also a heartfelt message from the lovely @undercoverpena as well! 🖤 Pedrostories is here for you!

✦ how to add a gif to your work crediting the gifmaker

If you're a fanfic writer and you would like to insert a gif in your work while properly crediting the gifmaker, here's an easy to follow guide to use tumblr's image insert feature. Important: If you reupload a gif, even though you credit them in your post, someone else might find that gif later, using the image insert feature and it might credit you as the gifmaker instead of the original creator.

This is how it looks like in the notifications when someone uses a gif you uploaded:

And this is how it gives credit to the person who uploaded the gif:

FOR READERS

And now here are a few tips about how to find any work that caters to your needs on our blog:

✦ tags: here you can find our most used tags based on the length, rating, main characters of the stories, and some other important tags, like tropes as well

✦ writers' masterlist: here you can find all the writers in the pedro fandom. The list is continuously updated, please let us know if someone is missing!

✦ blacklisting tags: curate your own experience! We tag every story based on the author's notes and warnings, and if we have the capacity to read the piece, with our own tags. If there’s a character/trope/dynamic/etc. you would like to avoid, you can easily blacklist tags on tumblr.

✦ tag finder: this is the best way to search tumblr’s tag system - it actually accurately looks through the tags without omitting results. (source)

✦ blog searching tricks and tips: if you’re on desktop/browser and you're looking for an exact word, here are some easy ways to find the post you're looking for!

✦ all the tags we've ever used: This is a super simple and incredibly useful script by Benjamin Horn which you can use to find Every. Single. Tag. we've ever used on the blog, and if you click on the results it will take you back to the blog, listing all the posts with that tag! Here's how to use it:

Open the link (duh), type in the blog's name on the top left corner, and click on Load tags.

2. It might take a few minutes for the results to load, so be patient 🧘‍♀️

3. Voilá! You can click on any of the tags and it will take you back to the blog, listing all the posts with that tag!

That's it for now! Again, if you have any needs these functions don't offer a solution to, or you know another useful hack that could enhance the experience on this blog, let us know!

Happy reading! 🖤

[nearsbday]

NEAR'S WISHLIST GENERAL INFORMATION PARTY RULES HOW TO PARTICIPATE

once the day of the party arrives and you have your gift, there are a few different ways to make your submission to the event. options 1 and 2 are the standard ways for partygoers to share their gifts; option 3 details how an attendee can share their gift anonymously, if they so wish! all attendees who plan to post their gifts on AO3 are encouraged to put their gift in the Near's Birthday Gifts collection on AO3 in addition to submitting via one of the methods below.

OPTION 1: ship your gift to near

share your gift on your own blog and mention @nearsbday in the post, or tag it #nearsbday, and we will reblog it!

OPTION 2: bring your gift to the party

submit your gift directly to the @nearsbday blog using the submission page!

OPTION 3: bring your gift to the party (in disguise)

for partygoers who would prefer to remain anonymous, there are a few options available! 3A: create a sideblog to share your gift, then proceed with OPTION 1 by mentioning @nearsbday in your post or tagging it with #nearsbday for us to reblog! if your gift hasn't been shared in 24 hours, please submit an anonymous ask with the username of your sideblog so we can find your post -- sometimes tumblr causes problems with notifications from brand-new blogs because of their anti-spam measures. 3B: submit your gift through the “anonymous” function in our inbox. this option is quite a bit trickier, because tumblr does not allow the sharing of links in anonymous asks. even if you edit your URL to remove the https:// portion and put spaces between all the .’s and /’s in the URL, we still may not receive it. while putting this guide together, we tested what was necessary to get an ask with a link to go through, and though tumblr showed the ask as having been sent when we changed the URL to look like the image below, the ask in question never arrived in our inbox.

if you do not want to create a sideblog to submit your gift and want to send it to our inbox, we ask that you host your submission on AO3 and share your work with us in the following format:

AO3 can be used to host your gift even if it isn’t a fanfiction, and it’s simple to make a work anonymous, so if you have an account, you don’t need to create a throwaway just to post for the event. you can find a guide on how to imbed images on AO3 here if you’d like to post a piece of fanart, an edit, or a cosplay photo anonymously. after we’ve received your anonymous submission and have made sure that it complies with the rules, we’ll make a post on the nearsbday blog for your gift. in order to make sure your gift gets shared in a timely manner, make sure to “gift wrap” appropriately (i.e. let us know if it contains graphic violence or explicit content). if you haven’t seen your gift shared within 24 hours of sending it, feel free to send a follow-up ask to ensure nothing went wrong in the process of submission.

[eightmakesonebraincell]

Hi Loren. How are you feeling lately? I hope you are feeling nice and cozy and warm and happy 💕

I just noticed your reblog about some "etiquette" around fics and reblogs, and how so many writers are leaving. I have always been a "silent" reader, in the way that I don't reblog everything I read. I am quite... Picky with the content I read and interact. If I like something, I reblog, and if I really like something, I reblog with a ton of tags. I don't send asks, but I sure as hell clog the tags with my rumbling lol

But reading the post... Is this an acceptable way of interacting? Is it preferable to send asks instead of using the tags?

I understand your opinion may not reflect what other writers think, but you are one of the few I actively check time from time. I have always leaned towards being a "silent" reader, not reblogging as much as I should because, as I said, I am picky. I already refrain from reading a lot of fics because I don't like them, and I don't reblog the ones I don't, which I understand may not be the best. After all, I do want to support the people who have the courage to post their works here.

A long time ago I was a writer here on Tumblr, but for another fandom. In the end I dropped it bc I ventured in writing smut, but my bf got a little bit annoyed at it, and I chose to respect his feelings instead of keep posting. Now I keep my works in private (super private), but I have always admired those who venture themselves in posting. I know how hard it is.

So, I want to do more. Especially now that we are getting in a war against ai. Just not sure how to do more.

Anyway, sorry for the rambling. I was rereading some of your works, I love all of them so much!!! If anything, always be sure that you are an amazing writer. I wish you a wonderful new year, and days filled with happiness 💕

firstly, thank you so much for sending in an ask and sharing your thoughts. i know what it's like being a silent reader because i started as one myself, and i always thought 'what difference does my one interaction make?'

being a 'picky' reader is definitely okay. everyone has certain genres or criteria they lean towards when reading, and that goes the same for literally anything in life where we have a choice-we usually stick with our preferences and what we know we will like. i myself am also choosy with what i read. also, wanting your blog to be a carefully-curated reflection of the absolute gems you find is also okay. that is your blog and nobody can tell you otherwise

but i think one of the root problems (and this is in no way pointing fingers at you specifically) with the whole 'interaction etiquette' is how the like and reblog features are viewed, and how the fandom itself is running

the whole point of atinyblr is to interact with one another, form connections and curate a community. we are lucky to have content creators (eg. fic writers, gif makers, fan artists) making and sharing with the community for free in their own time. relationships are formed through interacting with one another-by giving feedback, leaving comments, reblogging and sending asks. as a writer, i love when i see a notification come through with a username or an anon tag that i recognise, because that is the connection i have formed with them. i know they love to talk about my fic and they know i love to talk about their feedback. that is the love that we show one another as a community

the likes and reblogs are not meant to be viewed as 'awards' or 'grades' that are being handed out to writers. we're not uploading our homework to be marked or to earn a prize. the 'like' function was never even meant to exist, and the reblogs should not be used as an indicator of whether a fic deserves feedback in the tags or not. writers are writing for fun and readers are reading for fun-we're not here to try and impress a panel of judges who are comparing our fics against a scoring criteria

also, we don't need to pit asks against reblogs. the 'to a dying? atinyblr' post raises awareness of how much effort, time and hard work is put into each and every single fic that has been posted. it highlights (amongst several other points) how important feedback is, whether it be asks, comments or reblogs with tags, and is encouraging readers to show more love to fics, even if just to the fic genres they do not venture from

sure, as i said before, maybe you want to keep your blog solely limited to the really good content you love. but there are plenty of other ways to still show your support to writers whilst keeping that space for yourself:

create a side blog! it doesn't need to have any affiliation to your main blog, so you can easily reblog anything and everything that you come across

start using tags to organise the content on your own blog. lots of people reblog with tags like 'faves, ultimate faves, recs, etc' and not only does it help you sift through your reblogs easier, but it means you can reblog something you liked but is not necessarily a fave

if you really do not want to reblog for some reason, even just leaving a comment or sending in an ask is appreciated because you are still letting the writer know that you like their work. all in all though, reblogs with tags are what help writers because it increases exposure and reach

again, thank you for taking the time and the courage to send in this ask, and for enjoying my works. i appreciate that you are wanting to do more for the writers of this community, so i am hoping that you can consider the points above <3

[fedoraspooky]

In light of tumblr shooting itself in the foot, I've been thinking about what I should do with my art from now on. Obviously, deleting my old posts off here isn't gonna do shit, it's essentially locking my door after my house got emptied out by burglars. Especially with my old rp account I no longer can log into, they're just gonna steal and sell my old art that I posted there and I can't even flip a questionably-affective toggle about it.

Thing is, I dunno how many people are gonna actually leave. I'm not even sure I will, since I have a lot of friends here... And after so many shitty updates a lot of people are just hanging on out of spite at this point.

That said, I'm considering that for art posts and stuff, maybe I'll post them elsewhere and just link to them here so they're not on tumblr's servers? Idk... Tumblr tends to kill the visibility of links but I'm not really sure what else I can do.

Also, there's the question of where to actually post new stuff. Bluesky seems the most active but I dont know if old posts cut off after a certain amount of posts like twitter does, in which case that would not be a good archive in the long run. xnx

Cohost is functionally pretty close to tumblr, but ngl it seems super isolated on there bc of its commitment to not showing any likes on your posts. I get that its to combat the social media numbers game, but the downside is that it looks like nobody's even seen your work. If people like something of yours there's no way outside of notifs to see it, so scrolling down on your page and seeing only zeros after zeros of comments on stuff (comments are the only visible number), it's easy to feel like you're just posting into a void.

Pillowfort is pretty good, and they just added tag blocking and the ability to queue/schedule posts. Still kinda quiet and invite only, but if you sign up for the invite queue you can get one pretty fast. Also i probaby have a ton of invites sitting around if anyone wants one. I wish it had an app, but mobile web version works well enough I guess, and I'm already used to doing that with sheezy and newgrounds, so I just have those open in mobile tabs together.

Speaking of, Newgrounds has been pretty good, but due to the nature of the portal system and stuff you're more encouraged to post only your better-looking stuff there. You CAN post doodles if you want, but only outside of the portal, which limits their visibility. Kinda like dA's scraps system I guess.

Sheezy looks super promising customization-wise so I'm thinking of posting there more when it opens up to more peeps.

Toyhouse also looks really good for OC and story things too, and also has a good degree of customization.

There's probs options I haven't even thought about, but its good to know there ARE options. I may post in several of those places for now and see how it goes. Test the waters a bit.

If you're thinking of moving your art elsewhere lemme know where, I'm curious to see where people are going :o

Especially you moots, i need to refind my pals in these other places!

[redactedshapes]

Personal Art Blog + Sharing Policy

I've updated my self-hosted blog with all of my art (there're very few missing posts that I will be uploading in the coming months)

Since it's a static site, I've yet to look into implementing a search function that will not be mercilessly spammed by bots.

In the meantime, I'm using a Tag system. You can find them all here:

https://www.valentinapaz.com/blog/tags/

I've made some specific tags for certain niche categories, for example:

The system is not as robust as Tumblr's archive.

But it is a central, personal archive that I have zero intention on deleting, changing urls or placing behind a login wall.

Therefore, no link rot and no account needed to access it. Just, a bit clunkier to browse. AND! NO NOISE! NO NOTIFICATION, NO STATISTICS, NO ENGAGEMENT TRAPS FUCK THAT NOISE.

And most importantly:

From now on, please feel free to share my artwork to Discord or with your friend, just remember to include a link to my website.

Yes, that goes for Remedy's official servers.

(I'm in the main server myself but I have very little energy to post or interact there >_>;)

Either link the blog post with the specific art or share the art file as long as my watermarked url is visible + a link to my homepage (www.valentinapaz.com)

Please DO NOT REUPLOAD my art files to social media, like twitter, reddit, instagram, pinterest, etc. For public or social media sites, I'll be grateful if you just share a link instead.

If you're going to link to my art elsewhere, please make sure it's my website and not one of my social media profiles. We have all seen the volatility of these sites these last few years, and how fucked we are regarding discoverability.

There's very little a regular person in the internet can do help artists when social media sites fuck up, but contributing to my site's SEO and discoverability by pointing to it instead of to a myriad of profiles, is a small gesture but a super helpful gesture in the long run. My commission info is always one click away, and boy does that business takes a hit with each migration. I don't like to advertise often, so this a less annoying way to have that info easily accessible.

Thank you ❤️

[copperbadge]

Have we found a tumblr replacement yet? Apparently the latest “live” shenanigans were the thing that it took to break me. I’m not trying to stir shit, I’m just mostly here for you and a couple other blogs, so I’m going wherever you go.

I wish, but unfortunately not so far. I mean, I've talked a little about how I'd like to find one but there aren't really any viable ones right now, and there may not be a fandom mass-migration for years still. I'm more likely to follow the crowd than blaze a trail in this case, so it may be some time. For now my only real tactic is to simply not engage with staff or support at Tumblr in any way, and accept the changes as gradual steps towards the site's demise with as much serenity as I can muster.

I've already accidentally opened Tumblr Live twice while trying to navigate the app, which I'm sure is intentional, given I've now suddenly opened Tumblr Live twice since its inception instead of Zero. Relatedly, I would love to see them redirect that passion into making the "Mute Notifications" button actually work, but mine is not to reason why.

Anyway. There are options available, like obviously there are other social media platforms, but none have quite the combination of "easy to use" and "has a lot of people on it" and "Offers the same functionality" (photo and video hosting, an app, etc) even with an "ease of use" and "functionality" that are as crap as Tumblr's.

For example, Dreamwidth is great, but it's a Livejournal code fork so it's a very different format from Tumblr, more labor-intensive to make and share posts (no reblog function, image embedding can get a bit complicated, etc). CoHost is new and very promising but a bit of a ghost town right now -- I'm there and I've had a bunch of people find me there but still exponentially less than are on Tumblr. Pillowfort I still need to re-investigate; I'm there as well but it's been a while since I looked in, and I was struggling with the functionality previously. I had a look at Mastodon, but as positive as decentralized servers could be for the future of social media, I actively dislike the idea, and it also seems difficult to set up and complex to maintain. Discord is....there, and a lot of fandom stuff has shifted there, but its structure is very different and it's also decentralized, and also I hate it passionately and refuse to use it, so that's a no-go for me, though I suspect it's where fandom might end up.

If you're struggling with accessing tumblr directly, you might consider feeding the blogs you follow to an RSS reader -- I know people who do that and find it pretty functional, because then if they want to comment they can just pop open the specific post and deal with it directly. I don't know how much you know about RSS and I don't have the energy to fully explain it right now, but NetVibes is a pretty decent free RSS reader and it's what I use for certain blogs outside of Tumblr.

In any case, if I do find a place, or if I see the migration beginning, I'll sound the alarm :) In the meantime I'm still reading through my tumblr, stashing away posts to save off when I leave, even if that'll be a while.

[orchidbreezefc]

some notes on tumblr tagging for tiktok refugees (i know the ban was short lived but we hope you consider staying here instead!!)

tags are different from terms. tags are the things at the bottom of a post with a #hashtag, terms are just... words anywhere in a post. tags are the thing you deliberately put on a post to categorize it.

like on tiktok, tumblr tags are used for optimizing searchability on a post--you can look up a tag on tumblr and see every post someone has made with it.

tags are also organization tools on one's own blog--i tag all my cheerful/positive posts with '#smiles' so i can go through the tag if i have a bad day, or see every post ive tagged with '#cats'.

tag trigger warnings and do not censor them. using "glitter" as a stand-in trigger, you NEED to tag as "#glitter", not '#gl1tt3r'. you dont have to worry about an algorithm blocking your triggering glitterposts, but individual people will blacklist "#glitter", and that won't work if you spell it differently!

when setting up a blacklist you can use asterisks before and/or after a term to broaden it. blocking "#*glitter*" should (if tumblr does its job) cover tags like '#glitter cw' and '#cw glitter', which someone might use so that their post doesnt get categorized in the '#glitter' tag for others to look up.

there's also a field for blacklisting terms rather than tags, which will block every post with "glitter" anywhere in the text, including usernames!

when you use the tumblr search function the 'search' tab will show you every post that contains that term somewhere--the 'tagged' tab shows you posts deliberately tagged with that term!

both types of searches are pretty busted tbh--desktop url searches are a bit more reliable but not perfect. you can search individual blogs with tumblr.com/[blogname]/tagged/glitter to look through a tag. adding /chrono sorts them oldest to newest.

the original post is the only one that shows up in the main tumblr tag. you can tag "#glitter" on your reblog of a post not originally tagged as such, and that post won't show up in the "#glitter" tag.

blacklists will pick up the tags on the original post even if a reblog doesn't have them! this is useful for blocking e.g. stuff with terfy origins that the person reblogging it didn't know about. if you blacklist "#radfems please interact" and OP tagged the post with that, you won't see it even if the person you saw reblog it tagged it with nothing at all.

it's considered rude to tag an original post with something the post speaks of negatively. that's why one might tag an original post as "#glitter cw" rather than just "#glitter"--if the post shit-talks glitter, don't put it in the "#glitter" tag where glitter fans go to see glitter content!

fandoms at least will usually have a "#[fandom] negative", '#[fandom] neg', or "#[fandom] critical" tag for this. put it there instead.

tags are also used for plain ol' yapping. tag chatter is the low intensity version of a comment or reply. it doesn't prompt a response, it's mostly just for you and your followers. only the OP and the person you reblogged from will see your tags in their notifications.

HOWEVER people can find your tags by looking through the notes, and it's not uncommon to drag tags into the main post by quoting or screenshotting them. they might say "how dare you leave this in the tags" or 'these tags passed peer review' if they really liked them and wanted to share what you said. or they may properly respond!

if you go for a screenshot please put the text in the alt or as an ID below for screenreaders!

it's also nice to link to the person whose tags you're showing off or addressing, but if you reblog from them directly you can indicate this by calling them "prev".

tags can be edited on desktop but on mobile you have to delete them and start again.

there's a 280 character limit per tag and a limit of i think 20 tags per post?

the most important rule of tagging is to have fun and be yourself! <3 and also to provide trigger warnings, because seriously.