#my icon and sidebar pic

[kangpingyu]

aurora that you gave me | Kanghyun | AuRoRa MV

[noodledesk]

Hi! I'm just beginning to customize my Obsidian set-up, and yours is so neat and organized! May I ask how you formatted your folders/left sidebar menu? Like if the spacing, text style, colors, etc. are part of a theme or just CSS if that makes sense T_T

hello :) thank you so much for the patience! i really have a lot of fun thinking about how to logically but also creatively organize my folders for the most amount of fun & spontaneity. here's a pic of my sidebar:

i use the mado miniflow theme, and that's pretty much it - for details, i think i did go to the css settings to make the headings (h1-h6) my preferred colour & boldness though. and i use the plugin 'icon folders' to add emojis to each of my folders to make them more fun

[js337]

changed the sidebar image on my blog to a sleepy will graham bc 1. mood 2. he is my newest Baby Boy and 3. i love levi but he's been my icon, header, sidebar image, and main about page pic for literally ten years, time to give someone else a turn with at least one of those lol

[dragonbleps]

To-Dos for making your blogging experience more pleasant for you (and others)

Note: these are the directions on desktop view from the dashboard. The options are available on mobile, too, I just couldn't include them without this getting ultra long and potentially convoluted.

Person Icon > Gear Icon/Settings (Account section) -> Enable two factor authentication. I know, I know, kind of a pain. But trust me. It helps. Less worrying about being hacked.

Person Icon > Gear Icon/Settings (Dashboard section) -> Enable timestamps on posts. Protect yourself from accidentally spreading outdated information.

Person Icon > Gear Icon/Settings > Go town to the Blogs section in the sidebar and do the rest of these steps for your main blog and any/all sideblog/s -> Enable Custom Theme. This makes it easier for both yourself and others to navigate your blog on desktop, plus you can make it look neat with free themes!

Person Icon > Gear Icon/Settings > Blogs -> DISable "Share Posts You Like" AND disable "Share Tumblrs You're Following". Allow yourself to keep things private. Prevent harassment from weirdos who think Liking certain posts makes you Satan himself.

Person Icon > Gear Icon/Settings > Blogs -> DISable "Allow asks with media". Spam bots will try to shove malicious porn videos in your askbox. Sometimes disabling this is not enough to stop them, but it greatly reduces the chances of it happening. I disable "Allow people to submit posts" as well; sometimes malicious links get sent through that, too.

Person Icon > Gear Icon/Settings > Blogs -> ENable "Only Allow Messages from Tumblrs You Follow". Spam bots will try to contact you directly at times, as well as actual people attempting to scam you in some way.

Warning signs that your new follower may be a bot/scam (not foolproof):

Profile pic hasn't been changed from a default one

Profile pic is a "sexy selfie", usually a large-breasted woman

Blog has zero reblogs

Blog has zero reblogs AND only a few likes (they always have their Likes visible because that's the default)

Blog has posts but they're ONLY links

Username is some combination of an actual name and numbers (john-smith897345)

Username is complete nonsense, a mash of letters that mean nothing

Blog description reads like a bare-bones quirky dating profile and it's one big hyperlink

Blog has commented on your post asking you to check out their profile, or says they're seeking a sugar baby, sometimes in that weird "corrupted text" font, presumably to get around spam filters.

Blog has sent an ask to you, asking for you to reblog their pinned post (usually under the guise of helping their sick dog).

What to do if you find a blog you're 99.9% sure is a bot:

Report them for spam. (Look for a three dots icon or a person-shaped icon to click and get a menu.) This sends them to staff to review. Staff is aware of the problem and working to solve it. By reporting blogs, you can help staff pinpoint bots to delete.

Block them. Prevent them from gaining any connection to your blog, through which more bots might find you

Clicking on the blog itself cannot do you any harm (that I know of), but it's important that you do not click any hyperlinks on the blog.

On desktop, reporting and blocking can be done in one step. On mobile, you must report and then block in separate steps.

If you're worried you'll get flagged as a bot, follow any of these simple tricks:

Change your profile pic to literally anything else aside from a default tumblr icon or a "sexy selfie". You can go into MSPaint and put googly eyes on the default icon. You can use a crop of a meme. A picture of a pet. You can search for free icons on tumblr (just be careful because while looking to make sure it's still a viable option, I got two porn bots in my face. And make sure the icon creator actually gives permission for people to use them without credit.)

Put something in your blog description that isn't a hyperlink to a sketchy website.

Reblog things. Reblog art. Reblog writing. Reblog memes. Reblog the post you got your free icon from.

Make your own posts. Use tumblr to ramble about things that interest you. Don't give out personal information, but if you recently read a book you liked or something, talk about it.

Ramble in tags. Bots don't use tags, or if they do it's chaotic at best. Ramble and put your own personal thoughts in the tags of things you reblog. (Just know that everyone can see those tags if they go into the notes of the post. So, you know, don't be an ass.)

This got incredibly long. Hopefully I explained this well enough. Most other settings are up to your personal preference, rather than having to do with privacy/safety. If anyone has anything to add, or correct me on, feel free.

[supershytheme]

*     features:

sidebar png pic: 50x480px icons pic: 40x40

font size options (8px, 9px, 10px, 11px, 12px, 13px) 4 font title variants 9 font family variants

various phoset gutter options (0px to 5px) visible source link optional extra link optional tags optional rounded borders optional black and white effect on images optional circular/flower decorations

*     terms of use and info:

don’t use it as a code base or steal it, do’t edit the credits or remove them and please don’t take parts of the theme and paste them into another’s.  please read my rules!

the appearance may change depending on the size of your computer screen.

get the code on payhip or patreon.

[vampiretheme]

*     features:

top bar icon pic: 50x50px header png pic: 640x600px sidebar png pic: 240x350px admins icons pics: 70x70px

font size options (8px, 9px, 10px, 11px, 12px, 13px) 4 font title header variants 7 font title variants 9 font family variants

various phoset gutter options (0px to 5px) visible source link optional extra link optional tags optional rounded borders optional black and white effect on images optional header title stroke optional grid background in header optional circular header decorations optional visible/invisible tumblr controls optional

*     terms of use and info:

don’t use it as a code base or steal it, do’t edit the credits or remove them and please don’t take parts of the theme and paste them into another’s.  please read my rules!

the appearance may change depending on the size of your computer screen.

the png's i used for the previews were made by @starcolors13 on deviantart.

get the code on payhip or patreon.

[telltalebatman]

obligatory pinned about v3

my name’s ivan or iv

born in ‘95

a pole from warsaw

agender (they/them/their) and bi

depressed, anxious, fat, neurodiv

multiple sclerosis

antizionist. free Palestine.

please note that asks tend to get lost on here. additionally i do my best to avoid reblogging unvetted campaigns; i do not have the knowledge nor skill to vet anything myself.

oc/canon ships 4 life babeeee

oz cobblepot from telltale batman is my blorbo #1

writing sideblog

i like a plethora of things and dislike another plethora of 'em

hyperfixations: batman the telltale series, franz ferdinand (the band), jason spisak (a voice actor), oswald cobblepot, mac gargan, genshin impact lore

icon art by iseutz / mobile header & desktop sidebar pic by yours truly

yes i write fanfiction, no i will not give any of my money to ao3, and neither should u, and yes i do think you’re a bad person if you donate to them routinely!

[area51-escapee]

I did find a Reddit posts explaining why it may have gotten shut down (there’s two options, either one is a valid reason, could be both tbh) I just think about this site often since I really did spend. So much time on it. Just some stuff I recall from hanging out there

It was on a dress up game site but the draw for me was the fucking library function. That is what I stayed for babyyyy I produced. So much garbage through the years. Just a little corner of the site where users could post their writings. Ngl. Glad this is gone. I don’t need to go through my day to day life knowing the shit I posted as an 11 year old is still up there

The blog feature. It would show up in a sidebar you could see in other parts of the site, users could make little blog posts about. Anything. Again. I was so fucking annoying. Sorry to everybody who had to read the ramblings of a 6th grader emotionally destroyed by a vocaloid video.

The item economy was fuckin crazy. You had an avatar and you could dress them up and style them and over the years there were really some cool fucking item packs and shit, in my memory the art could be really nice. I still recall the desperately sought after hair item, the beloved, the iconic. Side swept bangs. It came in a few colors I think I had the pink and yellow color. This was a HIGHLY coveted item. There were items you could buy with in game currency, you could trade items, and you could use real money to buy special item packs. Understandably, my parents would not spend real life money on virtual clothes. As you can imagine, I thought I had the hardest life ever because of this.

Your profile could be customized in lots of fun ways, from the background to adding all your likes and dislikes and adding little quotes and what not. It was really fun to mess with. There was also a gallery option on your profile where you could upload photos. Uploaded a lot of bad mspaint art there. VIVIDLY remember uploading a picture of myself wearing some Halloween costume jewelry with a decorative ornate cross, I captioned it saying I thought I looked pretty cool. If you wanted anybody to see these photos when you posted them you needed to make a blog post announcing you posted pics (usually also asking for a “pic comment4pic comment”). Somebody then commented on the photo that I did not in fact look cool and I was being really rude and disrespectful to them because they were Christian and I was wearing a cross as an accessory (I was 12 and did not know how to handle this so I simply did not respond and continued to wear crosses as an accessory to this day)

Speaking of religion and this site. Which sounds fucking crazy when we recall I’m talking about a defunct section of a dress up game website. The site was for kids so it did have a censoring system in place for swear words or even just like. Graphic words? I distinctly remember trying my hand at being a horror author (at 10 years old) but it would always change the word “bloody” to “greedy”. There are other examples I just can’t remember the specifics. Except for the controversial. Gray. If you used the word Gay in a library post or blog post. It would be changed to Gray. Which when you’re 10 and have only heard the word used in a derogatory context you don’t think a lot about. But not all of the users were 10. And some of us who were 10 when we started out started to get older. And more mature. And go. Hey. What the fuck is that about.

That bullet point was getting long but anyway. Tying that back to the religion point. The staff members also had profiles just like the rest of us plebs but they were like the all holy staff members. And one of them was known to be super Christian like it was all over her profile. I don’t know if it was ever true but I do at least recall rumors that she REFUSED to change this censorship even as more users were calling it out as blatantly homophobic and allegedly she was defending her decision because it went against her religion to allow us to say gay on this Christian dress up doll website (bestie we were on a dress up doll website I guarantee most of us were not Cis and or het after a few years)

I don’t know how big the community of us really was, but I do recall there were familiar names you’d see pop up in the various corners of the site often. I remember there was one user (it might’ve been two who were sisters but I only remember one for sure) and then. There was the user’s mom. Who also had an account and interacted with the community and made it clear that as a mother she was going to be familiar with what her kids did online which like. Fair to an extent I guess. Maybe not to the extent that you’re getting into arguments with other 11 year olds on behalf of your 11 year old daughter though-

The thing is I always hope that one of these beloved channels that covers internet history and relics and the like will one day upload a 30-45 minute long video about my beloved childhood website. Not girlsgogames.com. But another website I found through there that was basically my tumblr before I found tumblr. On the surface, cartoon doll emporium was just another dress up game site, and may still exist today as a shell of its former self, but it had that funky little “my CDE” function and THAT’S where I spent literal years of my life. And then I stopped using it as much over time. And one day I get online and decide to check on it since it had been a while. The site still existed. The option to log in did not.

[pocketgalaxies]

icon change

it's kiki time.

[iristial]

Guess we’re going back to V-Cinema exclusive girlfriends...at least the latest in the line-up has Rin Asuka as her actress, my love for Wakana Sonozaki has no bounds <3

[vixsims]

took some of the current PVWT teens to test out a new lot and try some fun new activities like skydiving.....did not realize the sim i chose to skydive had the unlucky trait....now she’s dead ! this fun, casual outing sure took a turn ! 

[dontwanderoff]

got a new theme AND an about page which is fun <3

[sluttyspiderkinnie]

The hilarity of using an old rick and morty url i've had hoarded for 5 years for a solar opposites blog with absolutely no rick and morty content on it at all thus far is not lost on me

[talasims]

I changed my theme and I really like it 🙈

[drmzone]

ur new theme is cute!

ty!! ☺️💕💕💕

[lildailyheroics]

Just the sketch, so hopefully I’ll finish this one. >:T but it came out pretty okay so I’m posting it anyway.

I miss DirkJake and getting up to Shenanigans.