#searching for a post

[ghostsvignettes]

wheres that one post that's like something something dissociating at school and there's rain in the background and the muffled sounds of two kids having a ridiculous argument. i could be wrong about either the rain or the argument but i swear it was a whole thing but what would you even search for to find this

[cardaminegreen]

Edit: Found the post thanks to @fannishcodex 🙌

Searching for a post: just read a longer post on Astarion and Durge and how their two plotlines are so good together, recommending them and then going in-depth into spoiler territory, analysing details. If anyone can help me find the post, would be really grateful - I accidentally clicked away from it and now cannot find it again 😝

[snarky-synesthete]

I am LOOKING for a POST

It’s a Supernatural post and my Google-Fu is failing me, and this

Hellsite

does not have any actually-useful search functions.

It’s a text post, sort of a meta or AU ficlet. I don’t remember if it’s one single post or a lovely thread that a few people built onto. It’s about Castiel and his overwhelming, huge, powerful, obsessive, *hungry* love…for Creation.

In this post, the AU conceit is that the plane of Hell is actually *built* on Castiel as it’s very foundation. I’m pretty sure Meg featured in this thing, as a demon who had gone down Too Deep. It went something like this, I think I can hum a few bars:

You go down deep enough and you’ll feel it, pulling you in, pulling you *closer*. There’s *something* - unfathomably huge, ancient, powerful, down in the furthest depths. It will consume you, if you get too close - it will gobble you right up. Because it *loves* you, whatever it is…it loves you *so much*.

Now. Did I HALLUCINATE this? Can ANYONE help me find this thing?? I’m tagging a couple of the SPN folks for help…

@chapeldean @spnpoetryrenaissance @supernaturaldaily @supernaturalwiki @deanhisnippleisout @deanstits @heritageposts

[sucrecube9]

Hey guys i need help finding a post cus i wanna redraw it for a funny and also bc i think about it all the time

I think it's on twitter, and it's some kind of ms paint drawing something sort of like this and the caption says something to the effect of, "me giving my period cramps to [male fictional character, i cant remember which one]"

[vanillabeenflower]

I need help finding a post

It’s a post about a fake movie scenario about this Soviet Russia soldier going to the very southern parts of the U.S. and having to compete in some type of sack race or something, I remember the post ending in one of the characters saying something along the lines of despite being so different “we have room for a little more red” and then they say the credits scene would play a Soviet song but on a banjo

I’ve seen it around a few times, I know it exists. I forgot where I first saw it, but I remember it was a funny reply to another post that was more snarky

[discordiaa]

A little help please

Aaaages ago I saw a post that explained that men should stop making fun of young women and their interests, as girls are the force that drives the economy or something along the lines. Can someone help me find it?

[shirosanshi]

Can you please help me find an old tumblr(?) post?

It was detailing a scenario when a person is driving home and they hear the name of their teenagehood icon in the radio, they announce, that the star died. The person who's driving breaks down crying and is flooded with memories of that time of their life. About fandom, about fun and all the joy being a fan brought to them.

I spent a whole day now, trying various search engines to find this, to no avail. I know it's a long shot, but please reblog, maybe someone knows the post I'm seeking!

[scaehime]

I want to show my bf that "Here's a Danny, There's a Danny/Danny Danny Tuck" post, but I'm having trouble finding it. Anyone able to help?

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

[the-real-google]

To celebrate pride month I've decided to make a part 2 of the killing transphobes post since it was given a community warning. (🚗🔨⚒️💥)

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

For every note this gets I will kill one (1) acephobe AND one (1) arophobe with my bare hands.

[bunnytown-central]

Idk if this tag works, but I’m looking for a relatively recent post that I saw in September and October

The post was a screenshot of the trending page with 4 things trending on it, and while I don't remember two of them, two of the tags were “gravity falls” and “tadc”, so I assume the rest must be similar to those. The caption said something like “man this sucks can we get some pussy trending or something” and because of the nature of the post’s wording I can't find anything in the google search function or the site itself. It was most likely made this month since I remember it being reposted by someone else whose name escapes me. If anyone has seen it or knows where to find it, that would be a huge help!

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[goatsandgangsters]

how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[computerexploder]

im just someones weird sister

[emerald-hills2]

for the people who say that shadow never smiles...i have to say,you have living in a BIG lie all this time and actually its something that he does to much and i really love see shadows simling :D