#tags above copied from OP

[dont-leafmealone]

some etiquette tips for quotev migrants

If you enjoy a post (piece of art, text post, writing, gifset, etc) interact however you would have on quotev!

Reblogging is like reposting an activity, but with a permanent link to op, and you can add your own thoughts in the tags or on the post itself. Very nifty. It's that little 🔄 symbol at the bottom.

Likes are a good short-form validation, and also a way to save posts so you can find them again later.

Comments are good for sharing your thoughts without having the post on your account for whatever reason.

Tags are optional, but useful for both organization and extra commentary that will stay on your blog (unless someone likes your tags. Then they may copy/screenshot and add to the post, or copy them in their own tags.)

if you trigger tag something, don't censor the trigger. That will only make it harder for people who have that tag blocked to avoid it.

"Copying is ok" rules for tags don't apply to art; art is to be reblogged, not copy-pasted, unless given permission from the artist. It's also polite to credit an artist if you use their art for a header/pfp, and/or ask beforehand!

That said, gifs are free game pretty much, since they have built-in credit to whoever uploaded them.

When posting images it's helpful to use the alt text feature to add a description, or add one in the body of the post below or above the picture, since A; it's helpful for those who use screen readers, and B; sometimes pictures don't load and the description is sometimes vital to tell what the heck's going on, screenreader or no.

Ask boxes are for things you don't mind being publicly viewed; messages are for private discussions.

Anonymous asks are optional, meaning some people may have them turned off. Anon hate is unfortunately common and many people opt to avoid it.

Block and report bots on sight. Report for spam/bot violations; even if they're an nsfw bot, reporting for sexual content won't do anything to get rid of them. Bots are pretty recognizable when you know what to look for, as their blog will either be blank/have a insta model pfp and generic URL, or...be full of untagged porn.

Bots come in waves; there'll be a lot at once, then they'll die off to a handful, then eventually come back. It's a neverending battle!

You can block tags to avoid seeing content you don't like. To do this you go into "account" in the settings menu, and type whatever you wanna block in the content filters section.

Turn on timestamps! That way you can know if info is outdated, or just in general have a time frame for when something was made.

Block rather than argue. You'll be happier in the long run. Hell, even if someone just kinda gets on your nerves or yucks your yum, but especially if it's serious, since reporting does next to nothing and arguing just won't change someone who's stuck in their ways, and it's not your job to fix everyone who's wrong. Block their account and if you want, block their name on the filtered content. Chances are they won't even know or care so don't worry that it's rude.

Most of all, have fun!

That's all I can think of for now. My askbox is open if there are any questions!

[abbyshands]

Hi kit, do you know how to tell if a person sending asks saying they need donations for their family in gaza, is fake?

Cuz someone sent me an ask and I’ve reblogged it but I was going through the comments and there a several blocked and one of them says that the op is scamming people.

I know there are ppl like this that are that horrible, but I wonder if you know how tell them apart ? Or if anyone knows for that matter. Cuz I don’t want to mislead people and give them the wrong information or anything.

hi, honey! this is gonna be all over the place but. i've had this very thing happen to me before as well, maybe three or so asks just like the one you received. i did fall for the first one, but once you see them over and over again, i think it can get easier to tell when it's a scam. one thing to note is when the actual account began to post. i notice a lot of these accounts began to post in recent days or weeks. at the time that i donated to the first person who sent me an ask like this, it was february, and they began to post around mid january. the next tell is one i see a lot, where they'll reblog a bunch of things about palestine, but they will all be in a matter of hours, days, etc. usually never weeks (and also, you'll see that they randomly begin to reblog in very recent days. ex. all their reblogs are from three days ago and onward). one more thing: look at their posts (not their reblogs. their actual posts), and check if it says "some replies may have been blocked, deleted, removed, etc). absolutely, 100% not a good sign. chances are, replies are being removed by the op because they're getting called out for scamming.

the structure of the actual ask is also a dead giveaway. if it ends in "my goal is x amount of money," usually somewhere in the hundreds or thousands, not a good sign. if they are asking you to respond to their ask PRIVATELY, not a good sign. if you copy part of their ask and paste it into tumblr or do an internet search, and you see it elsewhere, not a good sign! these blogs will go around copying the same message into people's inboxes. chances are, someone else on tumblr has posted about the very person who sent you the ask, OR, you will find it somewhere else on the internet, etc a gofundme (which, by the way, is where most of these scammers obtain their story or pictures. they'll find it in gofundmes as i said, articles, etc). before you engage, copy the username of the person who sent you the ask, and paste it into the tumblr search bar. this is how i found out that the first person who sent an ask like this to me was a scammer.

this post here (which i absolutely implore you to read, as it captures what i want to say here much better than i'm doing so right now) explains why there is an abundance of people on tumblr sending asks like this in people's inboxes. for one thing, they target popular tags (ex. literally, the "palestine" or "gaza" tags, or any tag that may be trending at the time), or, they go for blogs who are consistently reblogging and/or uploading content related to the genocide. why? because they're taking advantage of the fact that you want to make a change in regards to what's going on. and if that's the case, what would stop you from donating to someone "in need," right?

if you want my honest opinion, if someone is sending you an ask about this on tumblr at all, it's likely not real. to put it into perspective: people who are really in gaza and want to escape, raise money, etc, will go to big network places such as gofundme, because there are better chances of them raising actual money in general, but in a short period of time. as opposed to asking people individually, their cause will be more widespread, and more people will see it. not only that: places like gofundme are pros at figuring out what's a scam and what's not. op in the above post noted this, and how places like gofundme will remove causes that are clearly scams. that's why scammers avoid places like this at all, and go to places like tumblr, where it isn't so easy for the actual site to remove their post. it's only when people on the app pick up on it, that scammers' facades fall. does that make sense?

i feel like this sort of jumped around, but i hope i was able to clarify what you were asking anyway. if someone feels the need to add onto this, please do, and if i need to clarify any point i made, etc, please let me know! ♡

[sparktober]

Sparktober Bingo 2023!

So excited to bring you this year’s collection of bingo prompts! As in previous years, we have collected a bunch of 2023 -tober prompt lists (found on this google sheet in the tober 2023 tab, with relevant links and hashtags. Check out the originals!). This year, we have also included generic tropes and additional rp/ask post prompts.

Add in a list of Atlantis episodes, crank up the soft-serve machine, and…

How to Play:

Choose all prompts or a mix of “flavors” from the prompt sets below the cut, then paste it into this fandom bingo card generator.

Adjust your browser size til it looks right and take a screenshot!

On mobile? Can’t generate your own? Generally sounds annoying? Check out this post for some pre-generated randomized bingo cards that you can take!

Sparktober Bingo Rules: (there are no rules)

Complete a row/column, corners, or a blackout of your card by November 1, or not! Update as you go. Spontaneously declare victory whenever you feel accomplished.

Tag #sparktober so people can see your bingo cards and creations!

All fan-works are encouraged: art, edits, fic, meta…

You are allowed to pull multiple cards until you get one that inspires you (hit “refresh” on the generated bingo card page).

You can also edit the prompt list as much as you want in advance to suit your likes and dislikes. Each “flavor” list is alphabetized.

There were tons of dialogue prompts this year in all categories, so those have been collected together in their own category.

Use the prompts liberally! “The Long Goodbye” could be an episode-related fic or a fic about saying goodbye or inspiration for a Raymond Chandler-esque Noir Detective AU. Go wild!

Flavor descriptions:

The prompt lists are below, in the following text blocks. Copy any or all of them into the bingo card generator!

VANILLA: Gen prompt lists from Fictober, Inktober, Flufftober, Trektober’s Gen and Trek lists, general tropes, and some prompts from various ask/rp prompt lists (additional lists and links are in the google doc).

CHOCOLATE: Smut themed prompt lists from Trektober NSFW and the #fawktober2023 kinktober list, and a few bonus tropes.

ROCKY ROAD: Whump prompts from the ever-fabulous whumptober! The multiple-choice-prompts-per-day have been broken into individual prompts.

COOKIE DOUGH: Dialogue prompts sourced from gen, whump, and rp prompt lists.

SEA SALT: Atlantis episode list (in order, in case you only want to copy certain seasons), along with Atlantis and SG-1 characters and some franchise-specific prompts.

THE WORKS: All of the above! For this flavor, copy and paste everything below the readmore. :)

Mod note: If you’re editing the list, make sure there’s a semi-colon (;) between your prompts. If you have semi-colons without prompts, you might end up with blank spaces. If you get a server error when using the bingo card generator, have some ice cream and try again!

Vanilla;

[…] At First Sight; A Very Long Hug; About-To-Die Confession; Academy; Accidental Kiss; Accidental Marriage; Adventure; Advertising; Age Difference; Amnesia; Angel; Angst With A Happy Ending; Animals / Pets; Anniversary; Another Character Ships It; Assassin; Assumed Unrequited Love; Back From the Dead; Bathhouse / Sauna; Beast; Bed Hair; Bed or Tent Sharing; Black Ops; Blind Date; Body Swap; Bounce; Candles / Lanterns / Fairy Lights; Canon Compliant; Canon Divergent; Castle; Celestial; Chains; Champagne; Character Survives; Chess; Childhood Sweethearts; Cinderella Moment; Coffee in Bed; Coffee Shop; College; Comfort / Care; Common Interests; Confession; Corn Maze; Counting Freckles; Court Martial; Coworkers to Friends to Lovers; Crew as Family; Crossover; Cuddling for Warmth; Cyberpunk; Dagger; Damsel in Distress; Dangerous; Decontamination; Demon; Dessert; Dinner Reservations; Diplomacy; Discovering One's Sexuality; Dodge; Domesticity; Dream; Dreams Do Come True; Dress Uniform; Drip; Drunken Confessions; Emergency; Encouragement; Enemies to Lovers; Evacuation; Everyone Knows But Them; Everyone Thinks We're Doing It; Eye Contact; Fairytale Retelling; Fake / Secret Identity; Fake Dating / Fake Marriage; Family; Fantasy; Fire; Fire & Ice; Fireplace; First Kiss; First Responder; Firsts; Fix-it; Fixing Each Other’s Clothes; Fluff; Forced Marriage; Forced Proximity; Forehead Kiss; Forehead Touch; Fortune; Found Family; Fraternization; Friends to Lovers; Friends With Benefits; Frost; Fuzzy Morning After; Genderswap; Giggling During Sex; Glossary; Golden; Hand Kiss; Hand-Holding; Handcuffed Together; Hiding Injuries; Historical; Hot Chocolate; Huddling for Warmth; Humming / Singing; Hurt / Comfort; Imprisoned Together; Injury Revealed; Insomnia; Ion Storm / Sci-Fi Weather; Island; Jealousy; Keeping Someone Safe; Kid Fic; Kidnapped / Rescued; Last Table at a Café; Late Nights; Linguistics; Lockdown; Long Shower; Lost Sense(s); Love Confession; Love of my Life; Loved Ones; Lovers to Friends; Lovesick; Mafia; Magic; Map; Marginalia; Markets; Massive; Matchmaker; Meet Cute; Meet Ugly; Melting; Mentor; Mirrorverse; Misunderstandings; Movie Night; Multifandom Crossover; Multiple Universes; Musical; Mutation; Mutual Pining; Neck Kiss; New Occupation; Nightmares; No Trespassing; Nobody Knows; Nook; Observation Deck; Obsession; Only One Bed; Original Character; Out of Uniform; Outdoor Event; Pajamas; Partners in Crime; Path; PhD; Phone Calls; Pining; Plump; Plural; Poisoned; Polyamory; Porch Swing; Post-Apocalyptic; Pregnancy; Present Day; Protection; Pumpkin; Rainy Day; Reading Each Other's Minds; Reassignment; Rec Room; Recovery; Recruitment; Red Alert; Regency; Remove; Rescue Mission; Retirement; Reunion Hug; Rise; Rivals to Lovers; Road Trip; Role Reversal; Roommates; Rush; Saddle; Scratchy; Secret Relationship; Self-Worth / Self-Love; Sex / Love Pollen; Shaken, Not Stirred; Shallow; Shared Dreams; Shared Injuries or Pain; Shore Leave; Sick Fic; Singing to Sleep; Sleeping in; Slow Burn; Slow Dancing; Snowed In; Soft Character Snaps; Soothing Touch; Soul Bond; Soulmates; Space Horror; Spacewalk; Sparkle; Spicy; Spiders; Spin the Bottle / Truth or Dare; Spooky; Spy; Superhero; Supernatural; Survival Training; Sweater Weather; Sweet Tooth; Sync; Take-Out; Taken Hostage; Target Practice; Tattoos; Telepathy; Tending to Injuries; Terminology; Things Have Changed; Time Loop; Time Travel; Toad; Trinket; Under a Spell; Undercover as Lovers / Married; Waking Up; Walking Home; Wander; Warning; Watching A Movie Together; Wearing Each Other’s Clothes; Wing Fic; Wrong […]; X + 1;

Chocolate;

69; A/B/O; About-To-Die Sex; Against a Wall; Alien Anatomy; Aliens Made Us Do It; Anal; Anonymous Sex; Aphrodisiacs; Bath / Shower; BDSM; Begging; Biting; Blowjobs; Body Worship; Bondage; Breath Play; Breeding; Caught Masturbating; Choking; Cock Rings; Cockwarming; Comfort Sex; Consensual Non-Consent; Corruption; Costumes; Cream Pie; Crying; Cunnilingus; Dacryphilia; Deep Throating; Degradation; Dirty Talk; Double Penetration; Edging; Exhibitionism; Face Sitting; Fingering; First Time; Fisting; Food Play; Forced Orgasm; Formal Wear; Frottage; Fuck or Die; Gagging; Glove Kink; Gun Play; Hand Job; Hate Sex; Heat / Rut; Hunter / Prey; Impact Play; In a Vehicle; Intercrural Sex; Knife Play; Lap Dance; Lazy Morning; Leather / Latex; Lingerie; Love Bites; Masturbation; Mirror Sex; Monster; Object Insertion; Oral; Orgasm Denial; Orgy / Group; Overstimulation; Partner Swap; Pegging; Period Sex; Pet Play; Piercings; Possessiveness; Praise Kink; Public; Rebound Sex; Rimming; Ritualistic; Role Play; Romantic Sex; Rough Sex; Seduction; Sensory Deprivation; Sex Toys; Sexting / Phone Sex; Shower Sex; Size Kink; Slow and Soft; Somnophilia; Spanking; Squirting; Stripping; Table Sex; Temperature Play; Tentacles; Thigh Riding; Threesome; Tit / Nipple Play; Undercover as a Sex Worker; Virginity; Voice Kink; Voyeurism; Wall Sex; Wax Play; We-Didn't-Die Sex; Whipping;

Rocky Road;

Aftermath of Failure; Alleyway; Animal Trap; Betrayal; Blanket; Blindfold; Bloody Knife; Body Modification; Borrowed Clothing; Brass Knuckles; Bridal Carry; Broken; Broken Phone / Radio; Buried Alive; Captivity; Cattle Prod; Cold Compress; Collar; Debris; Decoy; Delirium; Drugging; Emptiness; Examination; Flare; Flatline; Floral Bouquet; Glass Shard; Goodbye Note; Gurney; Hunting; Journal; Lab Rat; Made to Watch; Makeshift Bandages; Matches; Miscommunication; Mistaken Identity; Neglect; Outnumbered; Overcrowded ER; Panic; Pinned Down; Playing Cards; Polaroid; Psychological; Radio Silence; Recording; Red; Reluctant Whumper; Restraints; Sacrifice; Safety Net; Scars; Scented Candle; Seeing Double; Setbacks; Shadows; Shaking; Shock; Solitary Confinement; Stalking; Stranded; Suppressed Suffering; Swooning; Thermometer; Tortured for Information; Touch Aversion; Trapped Together; Troubled Past Resurfacing; Vehicular Accident; Vows; Water Inhalation; Working to Exhaustion;

Cookie Dough;

“Absolutely not.”; “Are you with me?”; “Be honest.”; “Be still.”; “Can I ask you something?”; “Can you hear me?”; “Come with me, hurry.”; “Did you miss me?”; “Did you plan for this to happen?”; “Do I look like I knew that?”; “Do you even know what this means?”; “Do you ever regret it?”; “Do you know a way out of here?”; “Do you know how long you were gone?”; “Do you know what you’re doing?”; “Do you recognize this?”; “Don’t do this again.”; “Don’t move.”; “Don’t shoot.”; “Don’t stop.”; “Don’t worry, I got you.”; “Everyone leaves.”; “Everything hurts.”; “Everything will be okay now.”; “Fine, explain it to me.”; “Fuck off.”; “Fuck you.”; “Go away.”; “Hey, wake up!”; “Hit them harder.”; “Honestly, why would I care?”; “How come?”; “How could you just show up after all this time?”; “How many fingers am I holding up?”; “I can’t wait for you.”; “I couldn’t tell you before.”; “I disagree.”; “I don’t feel so good.”; “I don’t know if they will accept this.”; “I don’t need anyone else but you.”; “I knew.”; “I know.”; “I love you.”; “I may not get another chance to say this.”; “I missed you.”; “I need you by my side.”; “I never said it would be easy.”; “I thought [X] was with you.”; “I thought we were past this.”; “I thought you were dead.”; “I told you I would come back.”; “I was worried.”; “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”; “I’ll never leave you again.”; “I’ll take care of it.”; “I’m done.”; “I’m fine.”; “I’m glad to have you through all of this.”; “I’m just getting comfortable.”; “I’m lost.”; “I’m not saying I didn’t like it.”; “I’m seeing this through to the end. With you.”; “I’m sick.”; “I’m sorry for leaving.”; “I’m sure.”; “I’m up, I’m up!”; “I’ve got you.”; “If you don’t stop now —”; “Is it really over?”; “Is that a challenge?”; “Is that you?”; “Is this okay?”; “It made me think of you.”; “It should have been me.”; “It stopped.”; “It wasn’t my choice.”; “It’s all for nothing.”; “It’s been a while.”; “It’s broken.”; “It’s good to see you.”; “It’s not too late, let’s go.”; “It’s not your fault.”; “It’s okay, I’m here now.”; “It’s raining.”; “It’s you.”; “Just hold on.”; “Just in case this doesn’t work.”; “Keep quiet.”; “Kiss me.”; “Leave me alone.”; “Let me see.”; “Let’s go.”; “Let’s talk.”; “Long time, no see.”; “Make it stop.”; “Maybe you should stay away from me.”; “My mother adores you.”; “Never mind.”; “Nice outfit.”; “No one knows us here.”; “No one will find you.”; “No way.”; “No, you won’t understand.”; “Not here.”; “Not much longer…”; “Now what?”; “Oh no, you’re a morning person!”; “Okay, show me.”; “Please listen.”; “Please stop.”; “Since when?”; “Slow down.”; “So… what’s new?”; “Stay here.”; “Stay low.”; “Stop distracting me.”; “Stop that.”; “Stop yelling!”; “Take it easy.”; “Take me with you next time.”; “That’s all? Easy.”; “That’s impossible.”; “They don’t care about you.”; “They’re not breathing!”; “Things were better before you left.”; “This better be good.”; “This sucks.”; “Try me.”; “Wait, you love me?” “I always have.”; “Watch out!”; “Watch yourself.”; “We agree?”; “We can’t do this on our own.”; “We can’t.”; “We only have each other.”; “We shouldn’t be doing this. Not here.”; “We’re fucked.”; “What happened to me?”; “What if we’re wrong?”; “What now?”; “Where have you been?”; “Where to?”; “Who takes care of you?”; “Who’s that?”; “Who’s there?”; “Why are you here?”; “Why did you come back?”; “Why did you leave?”; “You ass.”; “You coming?”; “You could have said goodbye.”; “You could say I’m fond of you.”; “You didn’t even try to look for me.”; “You don’t have to pretend.”; “You have me, always.”; “You in there?”; “You knew?”; “You left me to die.”; “You look awful.”; “You look like hell.”; “You need me.”; “You owe me an explanation.”; “You said you’d never leave.”; “You shouldn’t have left.”; “You told your family?”; “You will regret touching them.”; “You’ll have to go through me.”; “You’re a liar.”; “You’re here and that’s all that matters.”; “You’re joking.”; “You’re miserable.”; “You’re right.”; “You’re serious.”; “You’re the reason I came back.”; “You’re wrong.”; “You’ve changed.”;

Sea Salt;

Rising; Hide and Seek; Thirty-Eight Minutes; Suspicion; Childhood’s End; Poisoning the Well; Underground; Home; The Storm; The Eye; The Defiant One; Hot Zone; Sanctuary; Before I Sleep; The Brotherhood; Letters from Pegasus; The Gift; The Siege; The Intruder; Runner; Duet; Condemned; Trinity; Instinct; Conversion; Aurora; The Lost Boys; The Hive; Epiphany; Critical Mass; Grace Under Pressure; The Tower; The Long Goodbye; Coup d'Etat; Michael; Inferno; Allies; No Man’s Land; Misbegotten; Irresistible; Sateda; Progeny; The Real World; Common Ground; McKay and Mrs. Miller; Phantoms; The Return; Echoes; Irresponsible; Tao of Rodney; The Game; The Ark; Sunday; Submersion; Vengeance; First Strike; Adrift; Lifeline; Reunion; Doppelganger; Travelers; Tabula Rasa; Missing; The Seer; Miller’s Crossing; This Mortal Coil; Be All My Sins Remember’d; Spoils of War; Quarantine; Harmony; Outcast; Trio; Midway; The Kindred; The Last Man; Search and Rescue; The Seed; Broken Ties; The Daedalus Variations; Ghost in the Machine; The Shrine; Whispers; The Queen; Tracker; First Contact; The Lost Tribe; Outsiders; Inquisition; The Prodigal; Remnants; Brain Storm; Infection; Identity; Vegas; Enemy at the Gate; Ronon Dex; Teyla Emmagan; John Sheppard; Carson Beckett; Elizabeth Weir; Rodney McKay; Jennifer Keller; Aiden Ford; Radek Zelenka; Kate Heightmeyer; Evan Lorne; Laura Cadman; Kolya; Chuck; Peter Grodin; Steven Caldwell; Richard Woolsey; Samantha Carter; Jack O’Neill; Teal’c; Daniel Jackson; Janet Fraiser; George Hammond; Hank Landry; Carolyn Lam; Vala; Cameron Mitchell; Jonas Quinn; Alien Technology; Ancient Technology; Ancient(s); Antarctica; Ascension; Asgard; Asurans; ATA Gene; Athosians; Atlantis; Balcony; Control Chair; Control Room; Daedalus; DHD; Earth; Genii; Goa’uld; Infirmary; IOA; Lantea; Mainland; Mission Fic; Nanites; New Lantea; Ocean; Ori; Pegasus Galaxy; Puddle Jumper; Sentience; SGC; Stargate; Stasis Chamber; Storage Closet; Wraith

[eternallyqiqi]

"Oh, hello Traveller...are you hurt...? Qiqi...will help you..."

Qiqi is a small child from Bubu Pharnacy who helps out Baizhu. Her memory isn't that great, but she carries around a notebook with her to help with that.

Rules

-NO nsfw. Not even suggestive themes. Not a minor personally but qiqi (in my eyes) is a child. Get a grip on yourself.

-Don't be an asshole. We get it, you lost your 50/50 to qiqi, no need to find a random qiqi rp account to complain about it.

-LGBTphobic, Radfems, or otherwise (hateful of any protected group)will be blocked. OP is a trans man and gets misgendered enough and is tired of it.

-Give me at most 48 hours to respond to your ask, if I dont reply by then you can resend it. If your unsure then just ask me. I'm very busy xd

-Dont DM me unless we're mutuals on @barbatoskisser or @thewindstale. No offense, I just dont like being dmed by randos. Yes i will be checking if I dont remember.

-List your pronouns on your bio or in your first ask as an anon! This helps me, and any other potiential others, refer to you correctly. Wouldnt want any misgendering. Eh? XD

-^ above rule does not apply to you if your a character anon. (Ex: venti, i will refer to you with the pronouns your character has. If you headcannon otherwise or just dont like those pronouns, lmk! <3

-I can do descriptive roleplay AND simplified. I will automatically copy your roleplay style sent in your ask. If you want me to rp a specific way, lmk.("Hi my name is jeffrey." Jeffrey smiled politely. / I'm John, Jeffrey's brother *grumbles*)

-Will use american slang. Sorry, i dont know other slang. Any responses in a language are likely a bit scuffed because of google translate.

-Qiqi can be referred to with she/her, dw. XD if you refer to me, op, use he/him or they/them please~ ♡

Stuff about OP

Names Adin/River, a pleasure! I use he/him and they/them pronouns. I'm 18 and a senior in highschool. I also play the viola and have to keep my grades up, so I'm quite the busy human. If you wanna reach me, just go to @barbatoskisser! I'm (usually) active there from 2:00pm to 9:00pm EST on weekdays and 10am to 11pm on weekends. However sometimes you can catch me during classes chatting away with mutuals if I've finished early (which often happens.)

Anon List

-💬Mint - she/her

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Tag List

#bubu pharmacy - stuff about bubu pharmacy

#[your name here...] - stuff about you, or its an ask you sent in! Yay! Thia also includea me reblogginf and continuing a roleplay with another rp account.

#patients - asks (but generalized)

#ooc - something ooc happened, oh no :(

#intro - this post right here! Or add-ons to whats been posted here will be under this tag.

[userpeggycarter]

Hey there, the sick cat post (t3seal) is a scam. This person has been remaking their blog with a different spin on the same “sick pet” story numerous times and this new blog is only a few days old.

Scammer’s blogs usually:

- Are very young (you can scroll to the bottom within a few minutes; on PC you can easily access their Archive which summarizes all their posts)

- Reblog most posts from the source/op (they just go through common tags and don’t genuinely follow anyone)

- Will request that users answer their asks privately (hiding their tracks)

- Request that PayPal payments go through Friends & Family (bypasses most of PP’s anti-scam protocols)

The blog kyra45 posts a lot of good tips and alerts for identifying scam blogs

(if you delete the post please remember to report op for spam as well)

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(I copy/pasted the above from a message someone sent me when I fell for the same scam a few months ago. Wanted to inform you as well.)

oh thanks! i will delete it!

[absolutezerobraincell]

Pinned?

Slightly more accessible /about copy because modern tumblr is a hellscape.

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Sideblog for mihoyo cringe, being kept at arm’s length from main. (I cannot stress enough I'm already doing the shinji chair pose just posting at all)

Zero (for the purposes of this blog), he/they. if you know any of my other monikers feel free.

The Statsheet:

Actual Adult - I have been in fandom way too long.

Tired - I’m not here for discourse. I’m well aware the games are Not Very Good.

Terminal Brainrot - I am weak to every mid anime bishie that mihoyo want to throw at me. (The kids still say ‘bishie’, right?)

Minors please do not interact. This isn’t an 18+ blog I just want to eat the slop in peace.

I block a.) on sight, and b). with gusto. I do not background check blogs, reblogs =/= endorsement of whatever else OP thinks.

L*lis and Sh*tas please refer to the above statement on blocking. It is on sight, do not come into my house.

I do not otherwise have a stance on shipping other than “haha, neat”.

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Ever-evolving list of Tags:

#the icebox - rambling / things that live in my brain rent-free

[notemily]

actual guide for new tumblr users, from Twitter or otherwise

yeah so I decided to do one of these. I'm just someone who has been here since 2007 and wants to help people who are new to the site and have no idea what's happening. Twitter seems to be in its death throes as I write this, and while the posts about driving down the property values are funny, I'd like to actually try and help out.

many people have made posts that are like "get an icon and post something or else people will think you're a bot" so I'll just assume you've seen one of those already. I want to focus more on the things you need to know to acclimate to tumblr culture. so:

general tips:

like things if you want to like things. people will tell you liking doesn't do anything, that only reblogs do stuff, but that's not quite true. only reblogs will get the people who follow you to see it on their dashboard (circulating the post further through the tumblr ecosystem), but likes will let the OP know you liked it, let the person who reblogged it onto your dash know you liked it, and probably do something complicated involving the "based on your likes" algorithm but I really don't know how that works. also, the like will stick around, so if you see the post reblogged from someone else much later, your little heart will still be highlighted in red.

you can control a lot about what you see on your dashboard from the settings page! on desktop, go into settings - account and settings - dashboard to change things. most people turn off "best stuff first" and just use the chronological feed, but you do you, new user. I personally hate endless scroll, so I turned that off, but I love timestamps, so I turned those on. for bonus fun, go into settings - labs and there are extra tabs you can add to your dash.

but what about turning off anonymous asks? on desktop, this setting, weirdly, is in the "Edit appearance" page for your blog. you can also turn replies off there, allow only people you follow to message you, and hide your blog from search results. there are a lot of random settings in there, so make sure to take a look. (app results may vary.)

you might notice that one of the settings is for filtered tags and filtered post content. this is why it's important not to censor things here that might be triggering for some folks - because someone out there has "rape" filtered, and if you go around saying "r*pe," that's not going to be caught in their filter. also, at this time there are no word police who will come after you for saying "kill" or "die," so you don't need to use euphemisms like "unalive" on tumblr. you can also swear as much as you want.

blaze: tumblr blaze is a relatively new feature where you can pay actual money to have your post forced onto random people's dashboards. beware, if you use this for something people don't want to see, you will get mocked. if you use it to show everyone your cat, you're probably fine.

there are two basic uses for #tags: organizational (putting your post into a category, like tagging it with the name of the fandom it's relevant to) and editorial (adding extra commentary that you don't want to add in the post itself). a lot of people will use both, a lot of people will use neither. when people like your editorial tags enough, they'll copy or screenshot them and add them to the body of the post. this is known as "passing peer review" and is a compliment.

memes and inside jokes You Should Know:

do you love the colour of the sky? is an extremely long image post (showing all the colors a sky could possibly be) that takes a long time to scroll past, and back in the olden days (2012) it was ubiquitous on tumblr. these days you can shorten long posts automatically using your dashboard settings (see above), or use the "j" keyboard shortcut to go directly to the next post if you're on desktop, but we still remember it fondly and refer to it constantly because nothing dies here, especially not memes.

the color theory children's hospital post is another one of those things you'll see a million references to if you're on here for any length of time.

you cannot kill me in a way that matters is a post that you might have seen in screenshots elsewhere online, but it started here! other memes that originated on tumblr: spiders georg, me an intellectual, graphic design is my passion, etc.

blorbo from my shows is a phrase used to refer to your latest favorite character. it started as a joke, but tumblr has a way of taking jokes and making them a thing, so now it's a thing. see also poor little meow meow.

tumblr holidays: anything people on tumblr can make into a holiday or anniversary, we will. most of them you'll see as they happen, and they're often self-explanatory, but you should probably read up on November 5 2020 if you don't know about it already.

horse plinko: tumblr loves this one for some reason.

I like your shoelaces / thanks, I stole them from the president: this was supposedly the "secret code" to identify a tumblr user in real life. (you can buy shoelaces directly from tumblr now, but that's a recent development.)

then perish: speaking of the president, if you see Obama's eyes with a very orange tint, this is the meme it's referencing.

ball-shaving ads: ads from the personal grooming company Manscaped were/are(?) ubiquitous on tumblr, to the point that some have theorized that tumblr was deliberately saturating people's dash with the ads so that they'd be more likely to pay for ad-free browsing. and one of the ads for ad-free reads "shave off ads from your dashboard," so like, they might be onto something.

world heritage posts: there are various tumblrs that compile the best of tumblr, anything that's particularly iconic or has become a meme. there are even heritage post blogs for specific fandoms.

tumblr history:

there are three basic eras of tumblr history:

classic tumblr era 2007-2013: David Karp started tumblr in 2007, and it grew in popularity and weirdness for many years. porn was allowed: the original tumblr adult content policy read "sure, go nuts, show nuts, whatever."

Yahoo/Verizon era 2013-2019: Yahoo famously bought tumblr in 2013 for $1 billion. ads started showing up on tumblr in 2012, so this is also around when tumblr started to monetize. Yahoo was eventually bought by Verizon, and in December 2018, they announced they were banning porn, which sucked. everyone predicted the death of tumblr, but it limped on, with about a 30% decrease in traffic. (source for that statistic)

Automattic era 2019-present: in 2019, Automattic bought tumblr from Yahoo for like $3 million or something. Automattic owns WordPress, and they seem to understand tumblr's userbase better than the Yahoo folks did. they've recently instituted a more nuanced adult content policy, but because of Apple's strict policy for what gets included in the App Store, credit card processors refusing to process payments for porn, and other restrictions, tumblr can't go back to being the porn-allowed free-for-all it once was. see this post for a full explanation of why.

various April Fool's jokes have included Coppy (2015), Mishapocalypse (2013), and most recently, the button that makes crabs. expect April 1st to be extra chaotic on tumblr.

Tumbeasts - the tumblr version of the Twitter Fail Whale, designed by Matthew Inman of the Oatmeal. not sure if they're extinct now, or if the site just doesn't go down like it used to.

Dashcon - tumblr tried to have a convention once. it didn't go well. the photo with the sad ball pit is used as shorthand to reference the disaster that was Dashcon.

SuperWhoLock is a name for the fandom crossover between Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock, which were all juggernauts on tumblr at one time. the fandom supposedly "died off" after 2014, but see above re: nothing dies here.

female presenting nipples - when tumblr introduced the Porn Ban in 2018, they used this phrase in the community guidelines. they've since updated their nudity policy, but the phrase will live forever, because come on, tumblr is a website full of queer and/or trans folks. if you think you're getting away with a weasel phrase like "female presenting nipples" without being mocked all over the website, you're extremely wrong.

John Green: an author who used to be on tumblr, back when you could edit someone else's tumblr post when you reblogged it. his text posts were regularly edited to make it look like he had said things he didn't. someone edited one of his posts to be about how much he loves a certain sex act, which was probably not THE reason they removed the ability to edit others' posts, but like, it didn't help. John Green was eventually harassed so much he left tumblr. opinions are divided on whether this was hilarious or sad. (something I discovered while researching for this post: the author of the Your Fave Is Problematic tumblr [which was part of the wave of anti-John Green content] wrote a confessional New York Times article in 2021. pull quote: "I just wanted to see someone face consequences; no one who'd hurt me ever had.")

XKit: used to be THE browser extension for tumblr. it was made by "the xkit guy," who seems to have been harassed off the site in 2015. the extension was replaced by New XKit, which worked for a while. these days a lot of XKit's features have been either rendered obsolete by tumblr adding them to its settings, or broken by tumblr interface updates, and the new hotness is XKit Rewritten. want to block a specific post from ever appearing on your dash, see who your mutuals are, stop seeing notifications on one specific post (great feature for if you accidentally go viral)? install it and play around with the settings. there are accessibility features too!

...and now I've made it look like people regularly get harassed off tumblr. WELCOME, NEW USER, TO THE HELLSITE! but for real, part of why I put this post together was so if someone starts in on tumblr Discourse and mentions people who have been harassed off the site, you can nod wisely and go "ah, yes, I have heard tell of this." just to give you some kind of context for things.

anyway, I'm always happy to Explain The Joke, provided it's a joke that I get, so if you see something that looks like a tumblr in-joke and want context, my ask box is open. just don't ask me about Homestuck. I know nothing about Homestuck and at this point I'm not sure I want to.

in conclusion, new user: go forth, be weird, become a part of the culture. I hope this guide has helped!

[jeremyknox]

Blanket Permissions: what they are and why should you should add one

I am stealing from this very helpful twitter thread by my favorite podficcer @flowerparrish and joining the crusade.

The website in the last tweet is truly incredible. https://www.fpslist.org/ is a database that, as stated above, links to permission statements of various fan creators. If you're someone interested in creating podfics or fan art of written works, knowing who allows these transformative works ahead of time gives you a leg up.

But what exactly is a blanket statement?

Blanket or policy statements about a creator's fanworks are often found in the user profile of their ao3 page/social media account, at an "about" or FAQ page of their website or in a pinned post on twitter/tumblr/journal/etc.

Okay, but why should I include them on my ao3/tumblr/twitter/fanfic.net/etc.? you might ask.

Well, for one, if you're open to receiving these lovely little gifts (pod fics, fan arts)... It makes it so much easier for you to receive them! Instead of folks having to constantly ask for the permission, they can make something to show their appreciation for you and your work!

Okay but I want more information.

Great! Here's a few resources for you!

This lovely resource on Fanlore covers what blanket statements are, the various types of works you might like to specifically allow, and more!

This resource on Fanlore specifically dives into blanket permissions for podfics

@spiritthatdenies made a helpful post here about this already, but I am just continuing the crusade because I know I've never seen it on my dash!

What I like about that last resource is that the OP delves into some reasons that it's easier to include these statements. It takes away some of the anxiety and is more time-effective.

And remember! You don't have to say yes to everything. I have seen a whole range of blanket permissions since starting my (so far) brief journey into podficcing. I have seen statements that:

Specifically state that locked fics cannot be used

Specifically state that locked fics must be requested

Ask to always be given a link to the work after it is done

Specifically state that certain fandoms cannot be used/must be requested

Specifically ask that you do not re-pod anything already podded

So, seriously, your blanket statement can be anything!

Okay, so I added the blanket statement. But how will people know?

Well the best way is by submitting to the FPS archive I linked! Here is the page that has details on just how to do that. You can insert a link into the Google Sheet above, or register on the site and use the My Authors page.

Plus, there's a super wonderful extension I have downloaded that allows you to specifically view who has blanket permissions on ao3! It highlights those authors for you.

I will often check a creator's profile just to see if maybe they have a blanket permission but just aren't on the archive yet. It is rarely the case but I am hopeful nonetheless!

A final little resource, this one specifically for folks creating podfics, but that I think might ease the minds of folks worried about their works not being properly linked to: This browser extension is a podfic posting helper. Basically, it does all of the heavy lifting for you. It adds all the tags, content warnings, ships, you name it. It makes sure you have filled out the transformative works section correctly. It ensures that everything is exactly the way you need to it be (and you can customize it as well).

So... hopefully that covers it! I'm personally tagging just... a lot of fandoms here in hopes this reaches enough corners of the internet and gets reblogged enough that folks begin to add more blanket permission statements!

If you'd like a simple statement to post, feel free to copy this one down:

I give blanket permission for anyone to podfic, remix, or otherwise create derivative works of my fics! All I ask is that you link back to my work as the inspiration. If you would like to additionally link me to the finished work, especially if it is not posted to ao3, please send it along.

That one is the one I have on my ao3!

[windandwater]

Started to write a tag essay but preservation of files and media is an inherited generational passion project for me so I had too much to say in addition to this entirely correct take. apologies to OP.

Anyway photos are a fantastic example of this as well, because physical negatives & prints will decay just due to the nature of existing. If you have historical photos, one of the best things you can do to preserve them is to acquire a negative scanner, high-quality print scanner, or a scanner that can do slides (if that's what you're working with) and digitize them as quickly as possible. Digital decay is real but you will not be losing paper and physical material to the elements of existence in the same way.

What you then have to do, of course, with all media, photos and video/audio files as discussed above included, is keep up with your backups. This is where the digital decay component comes in. Digital copies are also stored on physical media even when they're on the cloud; everywhere, somewhere, is physical material storing your data.

So whether you burn your files to discs or put them on a backup drive, you should be robust about updating your storage method. These methods will evolve over time and you should expect them to. We went from zip and floppy drives to CDs to external hard drives and flash drives (note: flash drives are terrible for backup storage). All of these physical media types decay in their own way and it is wise to use multiples if you can but also continuously update them as the landscape changes.

Except the cloud. I don't say this because I'm an old man shaking fist at cloud (literally), but because in my mind it's on par with streaming; it means a company all but owns and manages your data, not you, and, equally concerning, you typically have to pay a subscription fee. That is its own form of decay. For long-term storage, what happens when the account is lost, the credit card expires, the person running the account suddenly passes away and you don't have access to it?

To re-iterate: keep and manage your digital files, but manage them on physical media. And keep multiple copies.

(One more followup: I personally recommend making multiple copies of anything you can't replace and keeping at least one set of copies in a safe deposit box to protect from things like fire, flooding, other property damage, etc. You should remember the backups are there and don't forget to monitor them for physical decay but the point is you can really never be too careful about preserving the kinds of documents that in my mind are priceless.)

Keep seeing the (extremely correct) posts about keeping your stuff on physical media - CDs, DVDs, blu-rays, books, etc.

And yes, 100%, do not get rid of your physical media in favor of streaming. I did some of that about a decade or so ago before I learned better and there are books and CDs I now need to find again.

But something that I see a lot of people dismiss is that the digital versions are more convenient. Taking ebooks to travel is so much better than taking up half your backpack, having digital music is genuinely better than swapping out discs

The thing is, it's not mutually exclusive. Rip your CDs and DVDs but keep the discs - you can toss the cases in favor of more condensed storage and leave them in your closet until you need them again. Strip the DRM from your ebooks - you paid for them the same way you'd have paid for physical paper tree-based versions - and burn them to CDs as well for safekeeping.

You can play MP3s just as easily as Spotify in cars and in much the same way, and you can stream movie files from your computer to your TV just as easily. Tech can be both convenient and for personal preservation - you can do both.

Keep your physical stuff because streamers can just get rid of anything at any time, but you absolutely can keep the convenience of the modern digital era at the same time.

I spent several months last year digitizing the roughly 1200 discs that we've accumulated for the past thirtyish years - music, movies, TV - and it was not only the most fun project I took on, it's been the most rewarding because we have movies that aren't available to stream. But I can stream it to my TV with director's commentary any time I want.

[darlinglittle]

pls read me!! ♡

{last update: Mar 6th, 2022}

pls follow my backup acct! ♡ @darlingxlittle

u can tip me on cashapp! ♡ $poilxme

the tags on this post are for my main oc categories! (I currently have a tag masterpost in progress)

☆~♡~☆~♡~☆

rules for interaction

do not interact w this blog at all:

◦if u have no 21+ age indicator in ur bio or pinned post

◦if u are under 21 years old (yes i'm reiterating this)

◦if u have unsourced/reposted porn on ur blog (whether it's posted, reblogged, or in ur likes)

◦if u are a bigot or exclusionist of any kind

◦if u have a hogwartz house, "gender critical", "traditional gender roles", "patriarchy/misogyny kink", etc. in ur bio or rb that type of content

◦if ur a boot or a bastard

◦if u have "sfw" anywhere on ur blog

◦if u are part of any reg communities (yes even on sideblogs)

◦if u are a feeder/feedee/chubby chaser/any other sort of weight fetishizer

◦if u are a sissy/misgendering/detrans blog

◦if u have any raceplay/race fetishization on ur blog

◦if u post abt eating disorders/goal weights or self harm

◦if u post things like "r4pebait/p3d0bait" or sexualize real trauma/abuse

if u follow me, please:

✧always copy my "21+ only" tag on my original posts (even if ur not rbing from my blog directly)

✧be respectful of other ppl's dnis! (u should always be checking every unfamiliar blog for age & dnis when running a nsfw acct!!)

✧do not add commentary in ur reblogs!! (adding stuff in the tags is perfectly fine!)

breaking any of the rules above will get u blocked without warning!!

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about me

✧i go by darling on here ♡

✧i'm 27, i'm married to my mommy, & my daddy now lives with us ♡♡

✧i'm disabled (legally blind, colorblind, neurodivergent, & mentally ill)

✧my little age range is 2-6, my middle age range is 12-14, my fave pet to be in general is a puppy, & my fave pet to be for my mommy is a cow

✧my main kinks & limits are listed at the bottom of this post :)

✧u can call me pet names, but pls do not imply that i belong to u! -> "hi princess!"✔️ "hi my princess"❌

✧i'm genderfluid, but i (usually) prefer fem terms/names

✧my mommy is pre-hrt/pre-op transfem & goes by they/them pronouns online. respect that!

✧my mommy doms me to a degree, but they are much more of a subby switch at heart. i also have a daddy i met thru this blog who is my main dom.

✧i am not looking for more partners! pls do not ask to be my dom or playmate!

✧i am open to making kinky friends, either dommy or subby!

✧i follow back blogs that intrigue me. if i unfollow soon after pls don't take offense! it just means i didn't align w ur blog like i thought i would at first glance.

✧i am much softer irl than some (most?) of my reblogs and even original posts may imply. there are things i only like/crave at certain times. the things i always like are on the softer, calmer side of bdsm.

messaging me

✧my dms are currently only for ppl i follow/mutuals. if i decide to open them again i'll make a post abt it & update this point here.

✧my asks are always open, including anons! i love receiving asks, but do not just send me sexts or i will block u!

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kinks & limits

fave kinks include:

✧ageplay, cgl, littlespace, innocence & corruption, teacher/student type dynamics

✧pet play (puppy, cow, kitten), collars & leashes

✧praise, adoration, obsession, being spoiled/rewarded

✧softer cnc, coercion, drugging, sweet manipulation, conditioning

✧bimboification, dumbification, being treated like a toy

✧sweet humiliation, sweet degradation

✧pee (either peeing for/on someone or being peed on)

✧light s&m, spanking, being groped

kinks i have interest in but never practiced irl:

✧breath play, choking, being gagged

✧bondage, rope play, captivity, kenneling

✧group sex, public sex (w ppl who consent obvs), free use for multiple partners

✧bukkake, creampies

✧s&m using tools (floggers, canes, clamps, etc.)

soft limits:

◦abdl (specifically diapers)

◦rougher cnc

◦harsher humiliation, harsher degradation

hard limits:

◦sibling dynamics

◦leather, rubber, other restricting clothes

◦hardcore s&m, violence, knives, guns, blood, harsh bruising, biting, hickeys

◦body affecting fetishes (plastic surgery, feeding, scarring, etc.)

◦breeding, impregnation, lactation

◦scat, vomit, ass to mouth (etc.)

☆~♡~☆~♡~☆

[anemptyvoidforall]

Cause op mentioned they maybe wanted ideas to be included in a fic with this premise (and cause im great at generating ideas but really bad at plot):

Someone has a list of very concerning things Danny has very casually mentioned while rating. (Joker loses points bc he doesn't get my pity vote. Last time clowns went after me at least i felt bad for them bc of the whole mind control thing).

There is a second list of things that do not make sense and Need Reaserching. (Fear toxins is nowhere near as bad as Frighty's sword)

Robin is a GhostlingTM. He finds Danny recording, recognizes the subject of several open investigations, and heads over to interrogate them. They brawl. The camera is filming the whole time. It is not cut out of the final video. Or cut at all. The Robin Brawl video is twice as long and thrice as popular as usual.

Tim looked into the trending hashtag (what did he do that ppl liked, and can it be replicated) and discovers the true reason fairly quickly. (Yes, he does have notifications for when he is trending on social media. Yes, both personas. No, he hasn't slept today. Its only 2 why do you ask?) I've decided that both of the above lists are his. He is not sharing this investigation. They have the same initials. His mystery. There is a second copy of the lists that tim has added a handful of things to (gotta keep up appearances to throw them off) in the Official Bat Files.

Despite the fact that Tim is well aware that the tag is not about him, Every Single Member of his family teases him over it. He's this close to pulling a Damian and stabbing someone. (No, he's not irrational due to lack of sleep). Jason is last (bc they don't interact often outside of bat stuff) and brings it up during patrol. Tim threatens to take one of his guns and shoot him with it. The reaction only makes his mood worse.

Idk if you like any of them. I found it kinda fun! I'm getting a "Danny is several mysteries in a trench coat and the bats are like cats with catnip" vibe from it. Especially if Danny straight up doesn't get why the bats are interested. You might not even be going that way.

Rogue Rater AU

He's sick of this shit. Might as well put the experience to use.

When the videos first come out, they're more rage rants cause this is happening so often and he's only been there for like 2-3 days. The only thing is part of his first video that Cass ans Steph put on the screen for the others to see. I have written out is that he got nabbed 6 times within the weekend he got here and if he got nabbed a 7th time then this would be his project.

Danny is in Gotham for 3 days and is already sick of the rogues and criminals. He's kidnapped, drugged, and mugged, you name it! So he takes the time to rate his experiences. To make up his semester grades, Mr. Lancer gave him a summer assignment to do while he’s at the WE Summer Scholar program to record his experiences. So he goes a little above and makes it a YouTube channel after the third incident on his first day here. Speaking about the rogues from an outsider's perspective behind a ghost image. After the SEVENTH TIME on his THIRD. DAY. HERE. He finally uses a camera, full-on (Silly-ass) rage ranting in a full black motorcyclist gear with a black tint visor that barely shows the green light coming from his eyes if you look super closely. Straight from the riddler's kidnapping today! If it's a more serious video, he'll be in a full gas mask, single colored shirt, a black hoodie over top, and white gloves. Either way, he never shows an inch of skin. Yet, no rogue has made it past 4.5/5 stars cause this kid has ALWAYS somehow experienced worse. A Gothamite calls him on it, so he shares a droplet of his experiences with his rogues, and everyone is getting increasingly concerned for RR. No one has any idea what they look like (aside from Sam and Tucker, who joined the program with him). So everyone is looking out for their midwestern accent. Tim is delighted and confused when #RRSolidarity goes viral. 

[thesixthstar]

Ok sorry about this but i've seen so many posts about 'tumblr etiquette for twitter users jumping ship' that haven't covered this but y'all. If you want to add to/say something about a post when you're reblogging it, there's 3 ways to go about it:

Actually adding your text to the reblog - this will mean that if anyone who follows you reblogs that version of the post, they're spreading your addition as well. This is how we get those big posts that are a chain of many people's additions. Because of that, its generally expected that you'll only do this kind of addition when you really have something to add other than "lol" or "this^^^" (though this wasn't true in like 2012 when people would just add enthusiastic gifs of agreement in long annoying chains).

Not adding anything to the post itself - this doesn't mean "keep your mouth shut" but if you have a joke you think OP (or the person you're reblogging from) would enjoy, but don't want to share it, leave it in the Replies. these are basically just a comment section. Its not the best UI and is just one long thread so its not a great place to carry on long conversations (usually you want to move those to DMs) but for a quick comment or two it works!

Talking in the tags. This is a grand old tradition on tumblr - the tags are great for organization (e.g. tagging something with '#aesthetic' or '#craft' so you can find it on your blog later), but since tags are not automatically copied onto reblogs, its a way to make commentary that you feel you'd like to say to the people following you, but that wouldn't necessarily be something to spread on every reblog after that (e.g. '#omg this cat looks exactly like my cat!'). It used to be the case that OP of the post couldn't easily see a collection of all the tags people had added to their post, so it used to be a way to politely avoid spamming OP with comments that wouldn't be relevant to them. This is no longer the case, and anyone can now easily view all the tags that have been added to a post, so be aware of that. This is

Essentially, imagine tumblr like a conversation in a crowded restaurant - adding to the reblog is like speaking clearly to the crowd, commenting is like privately texting OP about something they just said out loud, and talking in the tags is like whispering to the 3 friends right next to your about what just got said.

Some notes about these:

if you see a post that you want to share that someone has added something annoying to in a reblog - click the username of the person above them in the post - that will bring you to a version of the post from before that comment so you can reblog that one

Sometimes someone will say something funny in the tag that you might want to share - you can either just copy that tag into your tag, or you can copypaste/screenshot to add it to the body of the post. In terms of giving credit, its polite when adding it to the body of the post to put in parentheses (tags via @username) or something along those lines. If you're copying it into your own tags, you can just say something like "#stealing these tags ->" or something similar. Not many people care deeply about credit if you're still just copying into the tags section but its still polite to do so.

For any addition, whether it be comments, tags, or adding to the reblog, up to 2 people will get notified: OP will get notified, and the "note" number on their post will go up. Whoever reblogged the post onto your dashboard will also be notified.

[thebigoblin]

An anon left me an ask regarding a 13 year child making a post ( @two-frogs-in-two-trenchcoats ) and scoot mccall defense squad descending on her like hyenas. You can see her post linked above. Or see it here:

Stiles: Trying to figure out how to make sure Derek doesn’t d i e

Scott: dik go b o i n g

I mean, this is pretty much canon. SM has favored Allison over Stiles and his wolfy problems. It’s clear that OP is either anti SM or just stating one of her observations, it’s nothing too serious. It’s literally just her observation and her conclusion. But then there are people like Prince (yup the infamous one) and Brydes (idk if this person is as infamous or not, but i will link to both their reblogs. i’ll also copy/paste what they’ve said if you have them blocked).

1. Brydes

OP, I would like to speak to you about two things.

The first is rock slides. There’s a site not far from my hometown where a rock slide buried an entire town.

You see pictures of where this town used to be, and you’d never know it was there. It just looks like a pile of rocks, tiny pebbles, and huge boulders. And underneath, bodies and houses and pain and death.

The second is how former US president Donald Trump became president. The fact is that the man pretty much campaigned on a rhetoric of anti-Black and anti-Latino racism, appealing to the white supremacist lurking in the American soul. He is now widely regarded as, well, not good. He was a not good president.

I want you to think of Trump’s entire presidency and his campaign as a rock slide. It came down and it buried people under several tons of rhetorical rocks and many of them did not survive.

Now I want you to look at this joke and understand that it is a small rock. It seems insignificant and meaningless, until you understand that it, too, is part of this slide, and it, too, is burying people. A small rock in a big slide is as deadly as any bullet, or more.

You’re old enough to make these jokes. You’re also old enough to understand and face the consequences of making jokes like this. I would hope that would mean you also have enough maturity to take responsibility for making these jokes and act accordingly.

And I don’t just mean this particular joke. I also mean jokes like this you may have made elsewhere, at home or school or with friends.

Don’t be part of the rockslide.

This is just straight up ??? What the fuck ??? There’s talk about rockslides and Trump and as you finish reading what they’ve written you’re like “oh, this person had their feelings hurt”. Which, honestly, ok. People can get upset at the weirdest things, this checks out. But also you don’t have to go ahead and say this. You could also have just not responded. But this is still relatively chill, except the part where Brydes assumes OP’s character and then bashes it all because of this one post. 

2. Prince

Hey OP – This is a racist joke.

It’s racist because it relies on the stereotype of Latinos being sexually obsessed to the point where nothing else matters.

It didn’t happen in canon, and you know that. You know that Scott risked his life to save Derek not once but several times, while Stiles did things like attempt to force Derek to get out his Jeep so he could “leave you for dead” and beg Scott to “couldn’t you consider letting him die for me?”

And if you turn around and say that you don’t care about canon, that makes it doubly racist because if it doesn’t depend on misinterpreting canon, it solely depends on applying negative stereotypes.

Get your racist shit out of the Scott tag, if you don’t mind. But I will gladly preserve your racist bullshit for as long as tumblr lives.

This is what prince first wrote to response to OP’s post before again reblogging with:

So apparently, I’m being told that the OP might be 13 years old. This makes what I did even more important to do, in my opinion. Kids are not inherently racist. They are taught to be, and the only way to stop that is to teach them not to be racist.

And this one has been apparently taught to see whatever white characters do in the best possible light and to see whatever minority characters do in the worst possible light. Does anyone think that doesn’t translate into how they see the real world? I don’t.

And I just - WTF. This is in no way a racist joke??? Where the fuck did you get that impression from?  It’s racist because it relies on the stereotype of Latinos being sexually obsessed to the point where nothing else matters.- has anyone heard this about Latino people? I have not. And like, how do you even. Think that OP’s post assumes the worst of Latinos. Like what. What I infer from OP’s post is how *I* infer SM’s character in the show - that he’s obsessed with his personal desires first and foremost. And that he definitely doesn’t care for Derek. Does anyone agree with prince? Do you? I’m just. super bewildered. 

And about Stiles wanting Derek to die. You know who has canonically saved Derek again and again? You guessed it. Stiles. He’s ready to cut off Derek’s arms if it means Derek will live. He could have left Derek to die in the swimming pool - because if he does want Derek dead, this would have been the perfect opportunity - but no, Stiles kept him afloat for around 2 hours and then dived back in for Derek when SM hung up on him. Stiles is the only one who keeps going back for Derek - the elevator scene, for instance. 

SM tho? He told Derek his family deserved to die. He saw Derek in pain and in chains in a literal basement and basically went “i’ll only save you if you promise to save allison”. He made Derek trust him and then broke that trust by joining forces with Gerard, made Derek bite his enemy who is a fucking Hunter and his family’s murderer’s father. He didn’t tell Allison why her mom was bit; he let her believe Derek bit Victoria on purpose because basically “i want allison to like me still and letting her know the truth so that Derek can be off her hook is not my priority”. 

I get that teens make stupid choices. That they learn and grow as a person. But SM? He’s told to be this compassionate, good guy who just wants to save everyone, and then he’s shown to treat Derek like this. Not to mention the fact that he never suffers the consequences of his actions. And no, the “No Stiles!” moment between Melissa and SM and doesn’t count. 

There’s just so much wrong with Prince’s rb and addition - and seriously? You think you are “teaching” a kid to not be racist? No, what you are doing is silencing her from speaking what she feels because oh no, the great True Alpha was badmouthed! Oh no. 

Seriously the fuck. 

And with that I end this rant. 

[rene-of-the-blackouts]

Extremely important for communities as well! Some extra things I pay attention to when choosing to accept/not accept a request to join:

1. Just one point from above may not be enough (talking about a community here, I have to be stricter, being responsible for more people's comfort that just that of myself only). I've seen suspicious people with a caption, one post that seems to be copied from somewhere and that's it...

2. Do not use AI generated posts and/or pfps. I'm not even talking about the ethical side, it's just suspicious, especially if there's nothing else.

3. Likes/following. Most real people have them closed for public, so that's not a red flag. If you don't want to close them, it's fine! Just make sure you follow more than tumblrstuff. Nothing wrong with doing that, and one may think that following tags is enough, but those are not visible (which is great), so if you don't follow any blog, that's gonna look suspicious.

4. Real selfies in the intro post. Similar to the points OP made. It's rare for people to do that, so will seem kinda sus, at least IMHO.

How to avoid accidentally looking like a bot on tumblr

As somebody who trawls my follower list every now and then to clear it of bots (especially porn bots) I often have to double check a few people because it’s not immediately clear. I’m sure nobody wants to accidentally get blocked or worse, reported, for being mistaken for a bot.

So, for tumblr newcomers or younger people just learning the ways on the site, here’s a list of very basic things just to show you ARE a person and not something else using tumblr’s follow mechanic to artificially inflate interaction with your off-tumblr website to increase its chances of showing up in Google searches;

Have an avatar. This is an easy one. Most bots have avatars but not having an avatar just makes you seem like a complete unknown, and many people will decide its a risk worth taking in just blocking you in case you ARE a bot.

Do NOT make your avatar a selfie. DO NOT DO THIS. Ignoring basic internet safety, on tumblr especially this is a terrible idea. THE MOST popular thing porn bots on tumblr like doing is having their avatars of attractive women or men posing for a selfie. Pulling a face vastly lessens this, but using a photo of yourself when you felt you were having a good face day? NOT ADVISED. You immediately look suspicious on tumblr. (this is for all genders and not specifically women, as the porn bots on tumblr cover a vast array of preferences and in some cases kinks. Although the majority of the pron bots use photos of women).

If you have no idea what to make your avatar, Picrew is pretty popular at the moment and a very easy way to make a cute avatar people will immediately know means you are not a bot. https://picrew.me/search?s=1

In relation to the one above DO NOT USE A PHOTO OF YOURSELF IN EXERCISE GEAR. Almost every avatar I’ve seen on my followers who have this turns out to be a porn bot.

Title your blog. No seriously. I don’t care if you title it “What do I title this?”. ANYTHING IS GOOD. Because every time I see a blog called “Untitled” in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korean etc etc I am IMMEDIATELY suspicious, and have blocked blogs just in case.

You can make your username anything you like, but I highly discourage calling yourself something like “Human name” followed by a bunch of numbers without any dashes. Something like Lucy9228. Do not do this. Most tumblr bots who do not steal deactivated usernames will have usernames along these lines. Even choosing something like xXLucyXx is better.

reblog at least ONE thing to your blog. Something fandom related, or a recipe, or a photo you like. I do NOT recommend reblogging any posts that are links to out of site news articles or petitions or anything along those lines, because that will look suspicious like you’re posting a link that will lead to a virus or something. But legit, anything that bots simply would not be interested in, to show other people you ARE actually a person

Alternatively, make at least ONE post. a text post is fine. Make a text post saying “lol promise I’m not a bot”. That’s all you gotta do. so many blogs that follow me are completely blank, no avatar, no title, no header and don’t seem to have reblogged or made a single post of their own. It is infuriating because how am I to ever know if my blog is being used to inflate an off-site’s views that I don’t want to be affiliated with? Even if you use your tumblr for nothing but likes and sending asks, have at least ONE post of some kind that is obviously not a bot reblogging posts made by other people.

That’s about it tbh. Of course there are a lot of other ways to make it easy to notice you’re not a bot, but I feel these are the lowest effort minimums you can do to avoid looking like one. You don’t have to do ALL of these. Literally just doing ONE of them is enough and will have people recognise you as a human user.

[loracarol]

White Trans Woman: People keep stealing packages off of my porch so I made a zine as a package trap asking why the thief keeps stealing and including an email where the thief can email me anonymously if they want to open a dialogue. Then after I posted it on twitter, people asked if they could buy a copy so I put it up for sale.

People on Twitter being Totally Normal: This has big "can I speak to your manager" energy, actually it's about ethics in zine making, you need to think about how race/class lines tend to fall w stealing, just talk to your neighbors, the fact that you won't talk to your neighbors means that you're probably gentrifying, OP should have included their cashapp in the zine and/or just put money in the package

tag yourself, I'm the person claiming to be anti-racist while simultaneously assuming that the package thief is a POC...

More rambling + image descriptions under the cut.

Image descriptions:

all images are of twitter conversations, and all have had the names blocked out

Image One:

Purple: idk this rubs me the wrong way ! like why do you think people are taking packages in the midst of mass death, unemployment, evictions... im sry your packages were stolen but this has big can i speak to your manager energy and now they are selling this zine ! ugh feels gross to be clear, i am not saying that people cannot be upset about getting packages stolen. also i'm not sure why my tweets are being read as personal attack on the OP? just naming my discomfort + how we should all strive to think about race+class and how our indiv actions fit in

Image two:

this is what happens when you lose sight of zine ethics and the radical socialist traditions from which zines emerge

Image Three:

Blue: i feel like that would depend on where you live and what you're ordering through the mail. I took this as an attempt to start a dialogue with someone who might be taking things this person really needs.

Purple (again): i guess that my first thought was that usually stealing packages is not personal + thinking about who might feel the need to steal, how race/class lines tend to fall w stealing. staring dialogue makes sense but to me this reads as scornful + insensitive, esp bc she's selling the zine

Image four:

Teal: peak passive aggressiveness lol, this seems like way more effort that just talking to your neighbor but idk reminds me of this roommate i had in college that printed off notes and taped them to my door instead of just talking to me lmfao

Lilac: yeah but you roommate actually knew you lmao it wasn't a stranger you can't even contact, projecting much?

Teal: huh?

Purple (different): Your room mate knew who you were. Eve doesn't know who the thief is, which is why contact them by leaving a note where they're likely to find it. Can't you read?

Teal: i'm unsure why she can't just talk to her neighbor, i guess, if someone in my building was stealing my packages, i'd just ask someone about it?

Image five:

it's almost as if the only people who think this is a good idea are w h i t e When white trans women think that they're above critique for being racist and will get their followers to harass POC and call them transmisogynist... You already told on yourself bc you won't just talk to your fucking neighbors in a city that you're probably gentrifying but okay.

Image six:

Pink: I am not assuming the race of the thief, I'm acknowledging that the OP went about packing stealing in a way that my comrades and I do not agree with. Their approach is lacking intention and does not consider mass death/disabling and scarcity. Zine as a gotcha? Give them money???

Purple (different): If the person wants money then they can contact the email op put in the zine. It's a harmless little project, It's not malicious, its ASKING for an anonymous conversation with the thief. Putting money directly in the box would further incentivize them to continue to steal from the op

Pink: She could've made a zine about resources, put her cashapp and asked that person to request $$ if they need some, not encourage more white people (esp. in cities) to engage in things that don't change material conditions of their marginalized neighbors.

Purple: IDK we just don't know enough about the situation to assume the thief is even impoverished or something. There's no use in making a fuss over it.

Rambling

In all seriousness, going through the retweets on the original thread, I found it fascinating how so many people concocted this story in their heads about how the package thief is definitely impoverished/probably POC and thus the OP has privilege over the package thief they created in their heads.

On top of that there was the way that the OP shouldn't be worried about getting their packages stolen (in a way that kind of came off as victim blamey ngl) + this idea of Schrodinger's package; the package is simultaneously something someone needs to steal while being something that the OP can afford to have stolen. (As someone who has my meds delivered to me, I had a raised eyebrow at this.)

Lastly, and IDK if I can phrase this correctly, there was this weird idea I saw floating around that the OP's whiteness canceled out the fact that she is a trans woman. Like, okay, I'm not trying to argue that being white doesn't give you privilege because it does, and being LGBTQA+ doesn't cancel that out, but there was this weird vibe to a lot of the comments that the fact that she was white meant that she didn't have to worry about transphobia. For example, the number of people saying that she should just go talk to her neighbors. I want to call it transphobia, but a lot of it was coming from people who ID'd as trans themselves (them used bc multiple people not meant to degender people). IDK, it was just weird. Like, the flip side of "white trans people still have white privilege" isn't "being white means you never face transphobia" but so many people were treating it like a "get out of transphobia free" card

(Also I'm personally not comfortable with the idea that if someone steals from me it's because (1) they need it more so (2) per socialist (??? if that's what it was supposed to be???) praxis I need to just suck it up, do nothing and give them more money. I mean, the OP made a zine and included her email so that the package thief could contact her if the thief wanted. She didn't put up cameras and then put the pics of the thief all over the internet, she didn't call the cops, she didn't booby-trap the package, she just made a zine with the option for the thief to open a dialogue, and somehow that was still not good enough.)

(And no, the people aren't trolls; I tracked down a couple before posting and they're all either really good at playing the long game at trolling or they're all very sincere.)

[bravo-four-seal-team]

Rubble and Ghosts

Tagging:  @disasterfandoms @theysayitscrazy @rebelwrites @chibsytelford @donovanrocker @thelovelyleo23 @galaxysanduniversesinmymind @innerpaperexpertcloud​ @mrsmarvelous1995 @softi92 @abby-splace @pinkrockstar19 @itsonautopilot @jayhalsteadfan-2417 @jasonbabymama @hails-halstead Summary: Boys get a little help from an old friend 

WARNING: SPOILERS IF YOU HAVENT SEEN THE END OF SEASON 4

The small bits of rubble crumbling from above woke him, coughing. He looked around, groaning as he tried to sit up, tried to move, he saw the bravo patch of another brother, no...that wasn’t a bravo patch… It was Alpha, he blinked and saw the man sitting on the rubble watching him “Gonna lay there, or are you gonna get up and fight?” he asks. 

That wasn’t right...He shouldn’t be here

“Hayes, you are not getting out of this life that easy” Metal states, looking at him “Get off your ass and work the problem” he states. 

Jason is staring “You’re dead” 

“Yeah, sure, your point?” Metal responds “You give up now? Leave two kids without a parent? Get off your ass, work the damn problem!” he snaps.

Jason let his head drop to the floor as he stares at the rubble above him “What did I do to deserve your ugly mug haunting my ass?” he grumbled

The man rolled his eyes, moving and kneeling beside Jason's head “use that thick skull of yours Hayes and figure the way out” 

“Wakey wakey” 

“Fuck off Met--Wait” Trent grumbled, slowly opening his eyes registering the pain, well that wasn’t good, assessing his injuries he concluded he was ok, just a few broken ribs...boots where in front of him as he looked up, there was his best friend, he looked healthy, didn’t look like anything had happened to him “Trent, you need to get out of here man” 

“...How”

“Go Trent, get moving, it ain't safe here” Metal states looking at Trent “You aint dying yet” he huffed, hearing the radio crackle to life.

“TOC to All call signs come in can anyone read me” Blackburn’s voice comes over the radio 

“Alpha One to TOC, read you loud and clear, Hayes and Sawyer are alive, still searching for the others,” Metals voice crackles through, it's almost distant, they were not expecting to hear that voice. 

Everyone freezes. 

Soto looks to Blackburn, he was annoyed that Blackburn took over his Op, but it had been almost 4 months since Metals death...why were they hearing him? 

“Say again your last” Blackburn states, the voice comes back stronger “Alpha One, I read you loud and clear, gonna need CASEVAC, for Hayes and Sawyer, continuing the search for the others standby” 

Metal climbed over the building collapse finding Brock helping Sonny out “Let me help” he says, grabbing Sonny’s upper body and dragging him to safety, both Sonny and Brock were staring, how the hell was he there? 

He then checked Ray's unconscious form, and Clays. Before radioing back to base. 

“Alpha One to HAVOC, Bravo Two and Six are injured and unconscious, currently looking for a way out” 

“Good Copy Alpha One” Blackburn’s voice came back over. 

When Alpha team returned with the injured Bravo team, Metal was not with them, the boys kept asking questions but Alpha 3 spoke up “Full Metal was never there...but when we got to you guys, someone had already got you to safety and patched up”  Alpha six snorted “What think Metal is now the guardian of the battlefield?”  “Mean come on, its so stupid, ghosts? Angels? Demons? Just bed time stories to keep kids in line”  If they had looked closely to the window behind them, they would have seen the form of their fallen friend watching them with a smirk before vanishing.