#mutuals !!

[everythingseasoning]

@e-skyylite @theragethatisdesire @plutowrites @averysmolbear @raenacreates @notafightr @oxygenbefore1775 @/many others —I’ve been thinking about y’all recently!! You made my first time on tumblr just so fun and warm :))) and I sincerely hope you all are doing okay. Take care of yourselves and ugh, AOT era was possibly the best!! The love I had for those characters was truly something. In case you don’t recognize my blog (I changed my username a while back), I used to be m-writes :)

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[shepscapades]

20. Shark Week — Everything Everything

[candieduranium]

rb to stare at a mutual like this:

[rosees3ray]

reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions

[thestrangelyalwaysconfused]

lol, another reason why Tumblr is my to go when I went to find SCRUMPTIOUS content of my fav fandoms✨

Because you VERY RARELY meet toxic people!

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[chocolate-mallowmelt]

i love you guys

[lightasthesun]

2023 is coming to an end so this is my annual I love my online friends so fucking much you wouldn't believe me if I told you post.

[4denthusiast]

Obviously "comutuals" just means mutual mutuals, but what if we deliberately misinterpret "co" as being in the category theory sense of the prefix? Mutuality is already a symmetric relationship so we can't get anything new with just the reverse relationship. Let's instead do as the category theorists do and make a new more complicated definition where it's a morphism and reverse that instead. A mutual is a morphism from the complete directed graph of 2 nodes to the follower graph, so a comutual is a graph morphism in the opposite direction, which can be interpreted as a partition of Tumblr's users into 2 sets such that at least one member of each set follows at least one member of the other. This definition of comutuals may not be useful but it's surprisingly fitting.

To fit this back into the theme of bad ideas for Tumblr features, how about Tumblr lists a selection of comutuals and where you fit into them somewhere in the UI. Not all of them, because there are far too many. Trying to compile a complete list thereby crashing the website as it runs out of memory would be another way to make it worse at least. Probably.

Feature ideas I have to make tumblr worse

Unfollow notifications. When someone unfollows you, you receive a notification about it. The notification includes the last post of yours that the unfollower saw so you know what the final straw was.

If the unfollower was a mutual then this notification comes with stats about how long you were mutuals and a list of comutuals who have to pick sides in the divorce. The comutuals receive this notification too

Ability to edit other people's replies.

Ability to edit other people's blog themes.

The ability to gift debuffs like those cooking competition shows. Pay $15 to make someone you hate only be allowed to post 20 times a day. Pay $30 and they can only make posts out of the set of pre-approved family-friendly message options like the Webkinz chatroom.

De-blaze. Halt someone else's post right in its tracks by removing all impressions. The more a post is circulating the more expensive this is.

30 Day Trial Follows. When you follow someone you can't unfollow them for at least 30 days because c'mon, don't you wanna at least give them a chance?

Obligatory "Tumblr houses". You have to act really really excited for the yearly sportsball tournament or risk being shadowbanned. Your blog is forcibly themed after your Tumblr house.

Obligatory name, face, and address when you sign up. This isn't for verification or anything this is explicitly for doxxing. Hopefully you'll think twice about posting your rancid My Little Pony take now that you know the whole fandom can be at your doorstep in an hour.

[boushty]

"can mutuals DM you?" Is this a joke, I'd rub up on some of them like a cat.

[a-pickle-jar]

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[marte-14]

If you want you can ask

questions I think would be fun to be asked

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

show us a picture of your handwriting?

3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

what made you start your blog?

what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

what scares you the most and why?

any reacquiring dreams?

tell a story about your childhood

would you say you’re an emotional person?

what do you consider to be romance?

what’s some good advice you want to share?

what are you doing right now?

what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

what do you think of when you hear the word “home”?

if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

name 3 things that make you happy

do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

favourite thing about the day?

favourite things about the night?

are you a spiritual person?

say 3 things about someone you love

say 3 things about someone you hate

what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

fave season and why?

fave colour and why?

any nicknames?

do you collect anything?

what do you do when you’re sad?

what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier?

are you messy or organised?

how many tabs do you have open right now?

any hobbies?

any pet peeves?

do you trust easily?

are you an open book or do you have walls up?

share a secret

fave song at the moment?

youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

any bad habits?

(this post was stolen from @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak, since it couldn't be reblogged anymore)

[cottagecore-raccoon]

I saw a post talking about how some of your mutuals will always be their url to you (even once you know their name), soooo

[lost-in-derry]

Reblog if it’s ok for your mutuals to tag you in posts they think you’ll like even if you don’t talk often.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]