#tumblr is my safe space

[whatsernamernl]

i used to care but I take pills for that now.

[cowgirlp1xie]

WHEN IS TUMBLR GONNA MAKE A FEATURE WHERE I CAN SAVE POSTS INTO DIFFERENT FOLDERS⁉️⁉️⁉️

[agendergenderqueermasculenbyguy]

Welp, it happened.

I have posted before about how blocking content on tumblr has no stigma attached

You – yes, you, person reading this – are allowed to block whatever tags/ content you want

You don’t need to have a “reason”, you are allowed to block and filter content “just because” or “because I don’t want to see it”

Content does not need to trigger or squick you for you to be allowed to filter it

This post is officially your personal permission to filter out whatever content you would rather not see

And this includes filtering/ blocking “#current events” “#current news” “#global news”

You are allowed to exclude/ block out current world events from your tumblr experience

This does not mean you don’t care!

Yes, you are allowed to filter content “just because” or “because I don’t care”

But filtering exhausting and upsetting content does not imply you do not care!

Compassion fatigue is a real thing!

Especially if you (like me) follow several, multiple, a bunch of activist bloggers

There are global crises everywhere, I just read of 6 genocides happening which is precisely why I decided to finally block/ filter out those “current events” tags

How to filter in the tumblr app:

Go to your own blog >

click the little gear in the top corner >

General Settings >

scroll down >

just above “Color Palette” there it is >

Filtering

Type in whatever tags or words you want to not see in the future

This works for filtering out user-URLs too, if you have specific people you’d like not to see posts by

The “full text” filter will, however, 1) also look at the URL of the prev to who put it on your dash 2) ignores spaces in the post

Example 1: You follow “microplasdick” and you filtered “orange”; if the OP is called “orange-fishburne” your filter will hide that post; if the person microplasdick reblogged is “orange-cucumber” your filter will hide the post. Doesn’t matter if the word “orange” is not within the post itself

Example 2: You have filtered “orange” and a post goes “I also ran getting to my bus” – that post would get filtered because it contains “o ran ge” in that sequence

So “#tumblr is my safe space” and for that to stay true, you’re most definitely allowed to block out current events/ world news

Please take care <2

[gothamismylifesource]

Spider noir study cause h e

[threedaycharter]

waiting for my husband (fic writers sharkneto & mysterycyclone) to return from the war (update their fics that ive become extremely emotionally attached to)

[eanfee]

Yes, I have daddy issues

Not just because my father was a scoundrel who cheated on my mother, divorced her when I was 4, tried to make my sister and I hate her, and did horrible things like burning photos of her in front of us, neglecting my younger sister and saying that he would only give me basic items, like sandals, in case my mother reported him.

But also due to the fact that the other male figure in my life was my grandfather, a disgusting old man who had always sexually harassed me, who traumatized me so much that I hated my own body, took showers wearing underwear and always watched the door, I developed an addiction severe porn addiction that I'm only now able to deal with, and has basically made it impossible for me to have any real trust in men and be able to start a relationship, while also making me completely dependent on their validation. I already wanted to kill myself for this.

And of course my family always knew everything, they themselves witnessed many of the things my grandfather did, but they never cared. Especially now that he's dead, he's seen as some sort of angel. My mother even told me that I was killing him, and that I should be ashamed of treating him badly, because he never did anything wrong.

That's why I unconditionally love Snape, that's why I unconditionally love Severitus.

Please Snape, be my father. Fill this void in my soul.

[sarahowritesostucky]

💖Just a gentle reminder to all:

You can add certain tags to be filtered from your feed, if you need a safe place that's free of political posts. I've got anything with #Trump, #Kamala, #Harris, or #Elections filtered out, because I really just needed Tumblr to remain my happy escape from the world.

[chr13sakop]

I get on twt and am immediately hit in the face with Sanji slander and then I leave and open up tumblr instead

[meimeiherokitten]

Hey, Tumblr! I just realized something!

None of my family is on this particular social media platform (including my unfortunately otherwise-amazing unsupportive partner).

So I get to say it here and nowhere else!

Hi! I'm genderfluid. I'm in my 40s and I just figured it out. They didn't have a term for it when I was younger (well, not one fit for civilized conversation anyway), so I didn't know. There were times I was super awesome at being a girl...and times I was REALLY bad at it. I swing like a pendulum...occasionally day to day. I've been called a tomboy all my life but it never felt like it was entirely the right term. Androgynous was closer but not really... I had a non-binary friend who suggested i might be but even that didn't feel exactly right. While I didn't always feel comfortable as a girl, I also knew I wasn't trans. I like being a girl. Occasionally I feel better as a guy. Then back again. I just thought I was weird.

I am a big Good Omens fan and when everyone began describing Crowley as genderfluid, I checked out what it meant and it was like *dramatic music plays* huge revelation. I COULD be one gender, then the other, or stick as a bit of both, as extremely as I wanted and I wasn't alone in that.

I have friends who are supportive, but unfortunately my family is not. My parents are...ah...quite vocally conservative. My siblings probably don't have any idea such things exist. My current partner is wonderful in literally every other aspect... except they are very unaccepting of this. Emphatically and angrily unaccepting. So I hide it from them. I have stickers with genderfluid colors on them, but never anything that looks like a flag. I wear what clothes I can get away with. I cut my hair short last year and I love it (gave aforementioned partner a stroke tho).

But here I can talk about it.

I was masc at an event and someone called mt handsome and I could have died. I had someone call me 'young man' and nearly did a back-flip. Alternately I wore a very low-cut corset dress a few weeks ago and nearly made someone fall out of their chair. I've gone by many nicknames, stage-names, and pen-names through the years. The one I like best is Lo or Lau.

Hyperfixating on Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death and Sandman helped. Because, if nothing else, the fanfic community can be one heck of a place of self-discovery.

Now that I have it figured out, I simply feel better. I feel seen. I know genderfluidity is pretty variable, and I will probably get at least one person telling me i got it wrong, but it is what works for me. This is where I feel at home in my own skin. Finally!

(Oh yeah, did I mention I'm a filthy genderfluid pirate on the weekends? No? Well I am!)

[bratdotcom]

I'm back everyone I tried posting on a03 and idk how to feel

[sleepyphobzz]

Save me gang😭 im at a bday party n i kno no1 n its really loud n AHHHH

[someones-sexy-babymomma]

Rlly cute when I take a couple days and then start posting again and ya’ll are in my notifs 😉 I missed you too

[i-cry-over-fanfics]

The difference between ao3 users on tiktok (whom are usually new to the fanfiction community) and the ao3 users on tumblr (mainly the veteran users) is that tiktok readers are receiving their news about ao3 from Twitter, posting about it on tiktok and panicking without any idea on how to possibly deal with their new sudden loss. Tumblr readers, on the other hand have been through these situations (basically wars at this point), and report the information they find straight to tumblr to share the news, and while they mourn they also make light of the situation, finding new mutuals and looking for the cause of the maintenance or ways they can help.

[godsg111rl]

I just don’t feel like I have to broadcast every detail of my life on social media (well, tumblr being the only exception) for people to know that I’m living.

Bc the older I become, the more off putting and cringe I find social media.

[nodssalementriche]

Sorry I post so much it’s not going to stop

[alienwithobsessions]

A fandom appreciation post.

I'm grateful that I can escape into my imagination through the writing and images that you fine people post on this Hellsite. Especially when my day-to-day life feels very SSDD (or SSDY), and both my mental and physical health feel like a cosmic joke.

I love you all 💕