#the carrd appears to be fine on desktop but when it's on mobile it just becomes a mess ;;

[throughpatchesofviolet]

hey, you came across my feed from ur promo, do you have a more accessible card? i cant really read yours like at all 😭

Hi, Anon! I'm going to guess that you're on mobile, since my carrd doesn't work too well, there (I promise it looks much better on desktop)--I'm afraid I can't get around that (even for me, the colors look way worse on mobile, for some reason, but appear fine on PC) ;;

BUT. I can offer you a solution: I can copy/paste my BYF/DNF here, on this ask! It is fairly long, but this is the best work around I can think of, if you're fine with that!

For my BYF section:

First and foremost, this is my main blog, so all interaction will come from here, @throughpatchesofviolet. That said, I also have a sideblog, @throughpatchesofreblogs, where I reblog anything that isn't related to my main interests, described above.

I don't tag blood, gore, smoking, or fire UNLESS it is realistic or someone specifically requests for them to be tagged. I do, however, tag body horror and other serious topics. Furthermore, my blog is NOT spoiler free—I do have media tags that you can filter if you wish to avoid potential spoilers, however, and I always post my reactions to story updates under a cut, with warnings.I have become increasingly selective when it comes to following people back. This applies doubly to self shippers, and—lest you think you can bypass my boundaries—I have taken to carefully scrutinizing f/o lists. This is for my own comfort, and I mean no offense. Additionally, I have adopted a system of blocking and filtering anyone I don't wish to see to curate my space.

Should you ever have any concerns involving me, please do not hesitate to reach out, preferably via DMs rather than asks, so we can have a conversation. I do not post drama on my blog—I prefer to resolve things privately, through direct messages, and avoid vaguing people, as well. Furthermore, since this has been a point raised in the past, I do not consider issues such as racism, transphobia, homophobia or lesbophobia, or any serious topic "drama." Rather, I use this term to define any issue that should be discussed and resolved privately between parties.In connection with the above, I will always reach out privately should I have any concerns. My sole request is that you hold respectful conversation with me, rather than lashing out or vaguing me over what should be private matters. Basically, I expect you to behave as an adult.

I have a very sporadic work schedule, so please be aware that my interaction and posting may be somewhat sparse, at times. I promise I'm not ignoring anyone—I'm simply busy irl.If you want to tag me in art of my faves, you're welcome to! Just please respect my desire to avoid spoilers of any new IDs or E.G.O, and I'd appreciate whatever you tag me in!

Kindly refrain from referring to my faves as "blorbos," "poor little meow meow(s)," or with any other kind of language that may be considering infantilizing when talking to me.Please do not message or send asks about Catherine Earnshaw (Limbus Company) or Cathycliff. I have my reasons for disliking the character and ship, and wish to leave it at that.

I am not a fan of Faust (Limbus Company), either, and if you're a fan of hers and wish to follow, I highly suggest filtering my tag for her. Otherwise, you may see my dislike for her on display.I kin both Makuth and Hod from Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina, as well as Ishmael from Limbus Company. I relate to these three a lot, but don't take kinning seriously.

Mutuals may ask for my Discord, if they wish! I'm not comfortable sharing it publicly.Lastly, if we're mutuals, please tag any and all Limbus Company spoilers for me. This includes any teased IDs or E.G.O, fanart of said teased IDs or E.G.O, Refraction Railway stages, and teased event or story scenes. I prefer experiencing each update blind, and greatly appreciate tags I can filter.

For my DNF:

Should it come to light that you are an aro/ace exclusionist, LGBTQ+ phobic, a MAP, a racist (including racebending of self inserts and/or giving said inserts Asian names), a radical feminist, I will immediately block you—there will be no exceptions to this rule.If you ship in or support any of the following media—Attack on Titan, Harry Potter, Hetalia, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, or The Last of Us—you will be blocked. The creators of these works hold views that violate the first section of my "Do Not Follow," and, in some cases, their creations contain their bigotry. Thus, I would prefer not to see them on my dash—again, no exceptions.

If you're a self shipper, I would prefer anyone who ships with canonical abusers*, racists, or pedophiles to not interact with me whatsoever. If you need examples, specific characters that make me uncomfortable include Bojack Horseman (attempted to sleep with a teenager), Springtrap/William Afton (child serial killer), and most of the final antagonists in the Cantos of Limbus Company (many of them are abusive) If, however, you label these characters as "enemy f/os," you're fine—I just dislike seeing them romanticized.

*I feel that the definition of "abuser" can be a bit blurred when it comes to villains, and can make some exceptions, here. If you're worried your f/o may fall into this category, please don't hesitate to reach out so we can discuss it!If you play or ship in either Arknights or a Hoyoverse game, and ARE NOT critical of the companies behind them, kindly do not follow. I don't tolerate hypocrisy.

If you're under the age of 18, please don't follow. You're free to interact, since I know some minors share my interests, but for my own comfort, I'd prefer my followers be adults.If you consume or create RPF (real people fiction), whether writing, reading, or drawing it, kindly do not follow. If you do, and I find out you shall be blocked.

If you're Proship/Comship OR knowingly support anyone who is (i.e., you're "neutral"). This includes anyone who ships with abusers, rapists, or pedophiles, adults who ship with minors (including by aging down/aging up a character), and those who ship any incestuous pairings.

And, for my Blacklist:

General: Clowns, Diseases, Injuries, NSFW, Satanic Imagery, Self-Harm, and Spiders.

Media:Arknights,Danganronpa, Lucifer, Teen Wolf, and horror ARGs.

Ships: All Canon × Canon and OC × Canon ships with Heathcliff; Faustmael; Rolsed.

The last thing is that if you read all of this, I like having the phrase "A melancholy sweeter than common joy" sent in as a way to signify that!

[rphosphor]

mcyt/dsmp tumblr guide!

I saw that a lot of people from Twitter are moving here to Tumblr. First of all, welcome! Second of all, I know how hard it is to get adjusted here so I made this guide for y’all to have an easier time!

Click on the read more because this is a really long post. If you know how to use Tumblr and only want info on the etiquette, here’s a post with only the etiquette.

Edit 04/27/2022 10:24 AM EST

Hi again everyone! This post is currently outdated with the recommendations though it’s still okay for the most part. Feel free to reblog, as anything under the read more will always remain updated even after edits! This’ll be fixed eventually

(Points and important information are in bold)

Before I get into it, I’d like to say that Tumblr doesn’t get any personal information from you besides your email. Whatever you put out is what people see. It’s very anonymous, take advantage of it. We don’t dox people here at all.

Contents: Starting your blog, Interacting with others, Posting, Tagging & Tagging Etiquette, Other, Blogs I recommend

Starting your blog

-Pick a username for yourself. This will also be your blog’s URL. You can change your blog’s name as much as you’d like, so don’t worry too much about it. Just don’t use your real name because only the porn bots on here have “real” names. (Ignore/block them)

-Customise your blog’s appearance. When you go to your blog’s page, there is a painting palette icon on the top right. From there, you can edit the appearance of your blog. On Desktop, you can utilise themes to personalise your blog even more.

-Put something in your bio. You can meme and put anything you want. I recommend not making it too long, though. People usually put their names & pronouns. Remember, give out the information you want to give out.

-Pinning posts. You can pin a post and it’ll remain at the top of your blog until you either remove it, or pin something else. This is where you’d put an intro post if you’d like to tell more about yourself, link your socials/carrd or how you tag things on your blog. 

-Customise what’s visible. By default, people can see your likes and follows. On Mobile, you can click on the likes/following tab and then click “change”. From there, you can disable people viewing them. On Desktop, you need to go to settings, click on your blog and then you can disable it. Hardly anyone but new users and big blogs show either of these so feel free to private them.

-How to disable the archive. On Desktop, every blog comes with an archive which can be used to look at all the posts a person’s made and sort by date. There’s no setting to disable it so if you want it removed, go to your blog and press the palette button. Click ‘Edit HTML’ and locate the line of code that says this or something similar: ‘{lang:Archive}’. After that, you want to insert a new line before that line and type ‘’. The line you located should turn gray. Update the preview and double check that everything looks fine before saving. To add the archive back, just delete the ‘’ you added.

-Asks and submissions. By default, no one can send you asks and submissions. You can toggle this by going to settings on both desktop (settings > blog) and mobile. Asks can either be anonymous or not (this is also toggleable) and people can use it to send questions, sh*tpost, have discussions, etc. while submissions are (to my knowledge) not anonymous but it’s basically like being able to send a person a whole post with links, tags, etc.

-Filter out tags for things you don’t want to see. On desktop, you just need to click on settings while on mobile it’s settings > general settings > filtering. Make sure to include [xyz] tw, tw [xyz], cw [xyz], [xyz] cw, [xyz], and [xyz] mention when filtering.

Interacting with others

-Customise your dashboard. When you start, your dashboard is very empty. Tumblr’s algorithm is almost nonexistent and you customise what you see. Follow blogs and tags as much as you like, because this is what is going to fill up your dashboard.

-Sending in asks. A lot of blogs have their asks open and you can send them on or off anon (if they enabled it). On Desktop, you can include photos, gifs, etc. This is one way to get mutuals. You can also sign off an anon ask with a nickname so that people know it’s the same person. Ex: -🥄 or -Party anon. If you’re not sure if a person already has a ___ anon, feel free to ask!

-Replying to posts. If someone didn’t disable replies, you can reply to their posts. You can use this if you want to say something about the post but don’t want it to appear on your blog. Make sure to @ the person you’re replying to if it wasn’t their post, otherwise they won’t see that you replied to them.

-Reblog posts. As said earlier, people fill up their own dashboards, there isn’t much of an algorithm here. Likes are just a number, reblogs are the primary way posts circulate. It’s not an obligation, but it is highly encouraged to reblog artists’ and writers’ works.

-It is okay to block people. If they’re doing something bad, you find them annoying, etc. just block the person. Do not make call out posts and public blocklists. If you want, you can message your mutuals (they have a green star in your follower tab) and tell them not to interact with the person. No one is notified when you block them, you will stop appearing in their dashboard and they will stop appearing in yours. If they try to visit your blog, it'll display as if the page isn't working & give an error if they try to reblog your posts.

-It’s okay to ask someone to use a trigger warning tag. If you follow someone whose posts can have something that triggers you/makes you uncomfortable. you can ask them to tag it so you can filter. They’re not obligated to use it, but there’s no harm in asking! You can always unfollow them in case it bothers you too much.

Posting

-Format your text. Tumblr has a bunch of options for formatting text and it’s very useful. You can bold, italic, strikethrough, or even COLOUR your text! :D

-Queue/Schedule your posts. Optional, but they allow you to keep your blog active and avoid spam reblogging. The difference between the two is that scheduling posts allows you to choose the exact time a post goes out.

-When reblogging, you can either type what you want to say in the post itself or in the tags. Tags disappear when someone else reblogs your post and they don’t appear in the replies. Only the person you reblogged the post from gets a notif about the tags. It’s down to what you prefer.

-Tag properly. Tags are part of the only way to categorise, search, and find posts, so tagging a lot of things incorrectly can cause a lot of problems for other people. This brings us to the next segment, tagging:

Tagging & Tagging Etiquette

-Use tags to organise posts. Tags are useful for people searching for stuff on your blog + it helps you post get discovered. I recommend also tagging people that sent you an ask for organisation (ex: #cat anon)

-Using tone indicators. They work exactly the same as on Twitter, but are more commonly located in the tags, asks, or replies.

-Put trigger warnings in the tags. This allows people to filter the posts they don’t want to see. Keep them consistent and simple. Most people use [xyz] tw or tw [xyz].

-Tag critical/discourse, etc. when applicable. Don’t put discourse on the main tag so that it won’t be shown to people that don’t want to see it. This is not optional. Use #[xyz] critical or #c![xyz] negative, not #[xyz].

-Use spoiler tags when posting about recent events. Usually you’d need to tag events for 2-7 days after they happen, depending on the fandom. (Ex: #dsmp spoilers, #3rd life spoilers)

-If your post is long, tag it with #long post. You don’t really need to do it if it’s short with a read more. Some people aren’t okay with scrolling past long posts. On desktop, you just need to go to an empty line and click the three dots on the side to add a read more. On mobile, you need to type :readmore: in a new paragraph.

-Do not crosstag. It doesn’t get your post more exposure, it just annoys people and clogs up tags with unrelated things.

-Do not use #mine/craft, #mine/blr or #mine/craft youtubers (without the slash) unless you are talking about the actual game. There are people that don’t want to see things about mcyt, dsmp, etc. and we don’t want to clog up the tags. The tagging system will include the last one because it still contains #mine/craft.

-Don’t use #hermitcraft for 3rd Life content. 3rd life is a completely different series and deserves its own tag. Yes, a bunch of hermits are on the server, but by using the Hermitcraft tag, you flood the tag with non-Hermitcraft posts.

-Don’t use #hermitcraft for crossovers with the Dream SMP. Use #hc x dsmp so that the Hermitcraft tag isn’t flooded.

-(Hermitblr exclusive) Don’t put posts with ships on the main tags. Separate the content so that it’s not shown to people who don’t want to see it. Instead, use the tags: #hermitship, #hermitshipblr, #hermitshipping. Avoid using the main character tags as well ex: #grian, #impulsesv. Use the ship name tags instead ex: #jleo, #grumbo, #scardubs.

-If you see someone using the wrong tags/tags they shouldn’t use, politely tell them. Ex: Someone used #mine/craft on a Dream SMP post, so you tell them in their asks/replies that the Mine/craft tag is exclusive to the actual game.

-Search it up if you don’t know what to tag your post.  Go to Tumblr’s search and see how other people are tagging things similar to your post. There’s many alternative tags here (ex: #dream smp vs #dsmp) so don’t worry too much about it. I also have a list of tags you can use:

(#[ign] is usually used for the CC and character. If the character’s from the Dream SMP, you can tag #c![ign])

Mcyt: #mcyt, #mcytblr

3rd Life: #3rd life, #3rd life smp, #3rdlife, #3rdlifesmp

Dream SMP: #dream smp, #dreamsmp, #dsmp, #dsmpblr

Dream Team: #dream team, #dreamteam, #dteam, #dteamblr

Empires SMP: #empires smp, #empiressmp, #empiresmp, #empiresblr

Hermitcraft: #hermitcraft, #hcraft, #hermitblr

Origins SMP: #osmp, #origins smp, #hybrid smp, #powers smp

Sleepybois inc: #sleepy bois inc, #sleepy boys inc, #sleepyblr, #sbiblr

Tales from the SMP: #tftsmp, #tales from the smp, #talesfromthesmp

Other

-Don’t use ‘<’ in asks because it’ll delete everything that appears after it in the ask.

-Block anyone who calls themself an anti-anti or pro-ship. Just don’t deal with it.

-If a post seems really personal or the op said they’re gonna delete it later, either don’t reblog, or ask if you can.

-It’s not required, but much appreciated if you add image/video descriptions for the people who use screenreaders. Guide on it here.

-Follower counts are always private. We don’t do follow for follow here, Tumblr clout doesn’t matter.

-Edits on posts do not appear on reblogs that happened before the edit. Edits are still seen on the original post + if it was under a read more.

-Tumblr is very hungry and may accidentally eat your asks. If someone doesn’t answer, you can always ask if it went through.

-Your blog is for yourself, so don’t feel pressured to post about one thing only or feel bad about spam reblogging. Your blog is what you like, and if other people go: “hey! I also like this!” then that’s great!

-Reblogs alone don’t automatically give a post more exposure. You need to tag reblogs so that they show up and get recommended to people. Unless you have a large following, there’s a minuscule chance an untagged reblog would get any attention at all. This is incredibly important if you’re reblogging to share an artist’s work or something similar.

Blogs I recommend (aka me exposing who I follow on my other blog):

Tumblr History: heritageposts, hellsite-hall-of-fame

Mcytblr History: mcytblr-hall-of-fame, penis-smp-archive, mcytblr

Community (mostly artists) : timedeo, poorlydrawndsmp, cyani07, wooteena, beacon-lamp, ups1gbt3f7op3dr, kazuallyy, chiyahowo, taytei, linktoo-doodles, moncuries, bansq, sunlit-mess, kateis-cakeis, geoguessbur, metfell, craftiebo, lucylee158, qarameiio, wolfythewitch, cloudzaminecraft, jazetallo-art , wembly-art,  hermitcraftheadcanons, pomodoko

(Didn’t want to notify them so I didn’t @ them, edit: added more blogs, rip to people who rbed this before the addition of penis-smp-archive, a blog that contains the history of the fake SMP dsmpblr made in response to an anti. Despite being called Penis SMP, the most nsfw thing about it are the character names.)

I hope this was helpful, welcome to Tumblr!