#tumblr truly is a functioning app

[fitzselfships]

WHY did I just now get a notification for a message I got last friday

[hailthedragonmaster]

ok does this shit happen to anyone else

like videos at some point just randomly stop loading. all i get is this fucking thing. like?? what is the reason

[ot3]

the fact that tumblrs app version does not have access to pages and chronological tags, what I think are two of it's best features that help to put it's functionality leagues above other social media websites makes me feel insane. I'm better off linking to a third party site like carrd to host information permanently and instead of linking to tags in order I have to make a chronological list of hyperlinks in their own post because tumblr does not support its own native features for massive chunks of its userbase which is just truly something I can't wrap my brain around

[thebibliosphere]

Tumblr is definitely a Fully Functioning App™. 🙄 I can see a notification that you replied to my comment on your book promo post where you reference positive humiliation. But, some-fricking-how, that post no longer exists for me. So, I cant read it or reply. But I adore you and hope your weekend is fantastic!

Ah, a functional website indeed. My reply was that I loved that you have a screenshot of it, and it was able to help you figure out what you wanted. There's not a lot of soft dom content out there that's truly soft dom, so I write what I wanna read!

[cupcakeshakesnake]

hey you still got that post about the bank website page that got badly mistranslated as "cock bank" a bunch of times or something, i can't seem to find it

Here:

Had to use Google to find a post on my own blog, Tumblr's search function is truly busted

[yichens]

tag game ✨

thanks for tagging me zey @thasorns ♥ i teared up at your addition about me, that is so sweet :( i miss our dff talks too! idk what you're into these days but would love to talk about some show with you again :')

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1. why did you choose your url?

bc am obsessed with one (1) man who belongs to another amazing guy ♥ (been thinking about an url change lately tho bc i'd like to put last twilight and the hurt it caused behind me but haven't found something else to tie myself to yet. maybe we are and phumpeem if the ending delivers?)

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

not really. the only side blog i have is my og url vishcount saved for nostalgia purposes but there's nothing on that blog

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

started on this hellsite (affectionate) on the lord's year 2013 and it shows

4. do you have a queue tag?

i don't use the queue much so no. you will only catch me reblogging like ten posts in a row when am online/in the mood and then going back to lurking again

5. why did you start your blog in the first place? 

i was into a bunch of animes and tumblr was filled with amazing fanart. i wanted to be able to look at them in peace

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

to show who my url is about ♥ mork my beloved

7. why did you choose your header?

wanted it to fit the theme. also i adore the last twilight rooftop kiss, it's one of the brightest spots of the show

8. what’s your post with the most notes? 

most likely this the untamed edit from 2020. i was truly living my peak back then :'D tbh i feel like the whole of tumblr was living its peak when the untamed was airing and when we all lost it together for the longest time after

9. how many mutuals do you have?

way too many and i adore all of them, tho i probably forget or cannot recognize most of them. especially if you've changed your url/main fandom OR i have, we might not even know each other anymore haha

10. how many followers do you have?

more than i deserve and idk what all of you are even doing here but i like feeling like i'm part of some type of crowd ♥

11. how many people do you follow?

quite recently i unfollowed some inactive blogs and blogs about things i don't really care for anymore so my follow count is a nice number of 205

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

uh. i don't really know? do some posts from my finnish tumblr (suomitumppu) era count? :'D

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

am chronically online and i open this app like a fridge

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

no, not really. am not really one to share strong opinions, especially negative opinions, publicly online which i think is the cause of most arguments ppl have here. i'd rather just keep my peace and be nice

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts 

mostly i don't like doing things when am told to do them

16. do you like tag games?

yes! it always makes me happy to know that someone is thinking about me and i do find these a lot of fun to do ^^

17. do you like ask games?

also yes. i just don't often reblog those bc i don't really have a lot of interactions on this site. if i find an ask game with very interesting questions, i might forward it to kiddo @i-am-just-a-kiddo and we do it together privately to enjoy it like that ♥

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

the first one that comes to mind is hanyi @ruanbaijie who i think deserves all the recognition for her absolutely amazing giffing skills ♥ she's also the sweetest so idk what's not to follow, make her even more famous if you can!

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

nope. idk if i function like that tbh. i have some huge friend crushes tho and want to be closer with some ppl a lot! not mentioning names bc am shy haha

but i want to say that monica @stormyoceans is very important to me these days. she brightens up my days and makes my whole fandom experience so much better by simply being her enthusiastic and authentic self ♥ never change!

and also jessi @oswlld who i still cannot believe is someone i can call my friend and bestie on this site. i am so happy we've gotten to share bad buddy, vice versa, and last twilight together! also happy to hear about your life at times and to just share silly things with you ♥

third one i want to mention is shannen @icouldhyperfixatehim who always manages to stand out in a positive way. we don't interact much but i cannot help but feel very giddy about their presence on my dash. they leave the best tags and every time they reblog any of my edits with their tags, they manage to make me feel like i've made it and my edit was worth the effort :'D so thank you!

20. tags?

want to tag at least @psychic-waffles @foxofninetales @hils79 @sherrymagic @srnileforme and @thitiponqs ♥ also the ones i mentioned before are free to join and anyone else who wants to do this!

[writtenbygracewilliams]

What a year…

I didn’t post a single bit of writing in 2023, though I did write, and so in 2024 I set out to post one thing every single week. I kept it up until mid March when my phone (which I write, edit and post on) shat itself real bad and I was stuck on a very old missing lots of functions phone for five long weeks. I digress.

Though, in the month of little to no phone I watched a lot of tv and in that was Bridgerton. I then found a meme on Google images, scrolled their tumblr acc on the browser until it made me make an account and—as they say—the rest is history.

Yes, Bridgerton is the reason I’m on this app, but I’ve truly found such a beautiful sense and array of community. I’ve never been able to connect with other readers and writers like I have here.

I’ve posted 15 new works, all now complete, onto Ao3 this year, across 7 different fandoms. Four of them were new fandoms I’d never posted/written before! This doesn’t even include the five chapters of repose (she still exists I promise), the drabbles on tumblr, and my beautiful darling smau Obligated.

I still have plans for a 12 days of ficmas and starting the week after that (around the 11th of Jan) I hope to start posting weekly again. Though maybe ficmas will clear out the drafts/vaults lmao.

Truly, thank you to all my mutuals, readers, fellow writers and anyone I’ve ever chatted to on here for bringing me such joy and igniting my love of writing in a way it hadn’t burned for a while. I’ve had a big year in my personal life, but I have valued and appreciated this safe space of joy more than you could know.

Love you all, and here’s to more writing and perfectly silly fandom joy in 2025. To my first real haters I got this year, thanks for letting me know I’ve ’made it’ as a writer lmao.

–GW xo

[theygotlost]

idk how much longer i can keep up using tumblr in my mobile browser it truly is a miserable experience... i really REALLY dont want to update my app but if they dont restore functionality to the older versions then i will have no choice. which is exactly what theyre trying to do and i dont want to let them win

[bisquid]

A copy of the feedback I sent to Tumblr support:

I would like to know why I am being forcibly opted in to the pointless and obtrusive advert that is the 'Luffy' tab. I have not engaged with the 'one piece' fandom - I had to do some investigation to even figure out what fandom it *was* - and had no particular opinon of it, with zero interest in engaging with it in the future. I now have been *made* to engage with it and thus now have extremely negative associations with it. It is, effectively, an *anti*-ad. Congratulations! Nobody's happy.

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I would also like to know why the Tumblr development team consistently rolls out a change to a small number of people without warning or explanation and no option to opt out, despite repeated requests from the userbase.

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I would like to know why the Tumblr development team consistently pushes changes to the app or platform that clearly and demonstrably reduce accessibility, convenience and intuitiveness, offer responses to the resulting outrage that are not only often blatantly false but also so incredibly patronising as to be downright offensive, and then have the unmitigated temerity to insist they're doing it all to "help content creators" and "improve usability" and generally prioritize hypothetical future 'new users' over the existing userbase while simultaneously making it clear that they consider these mythical new users to be too stupid to learn the basics of a new platform.

I truly cannot properly articulate how utterly, cynically disingenuous it is to explain that they can't implement more settings options because that would be *confusing* - as though navigating clearly labelled toggles and drop down options are some hyper advanced technical skill the average user doesn't have and can't achieve - so the absence of those options actually makes the app *more accessible* than implementing any actual accessibility options.

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I have been on Tumblr for more than a decade, and I love it and the community I have found. It is heartbreaking to watch it steadily disintegrate into a less functional carbon copy of all the social media sites I have hated and avoided just because the handful of people making the decisions don't understand the point and value of Tumblr.

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Please. Please. If we wanted twitter we would be *on Twitter*, if we wanted Instagram, that's where we'd be. Tumblr is precious and vibrant *because* of it's difference, not *despite* it.

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Ostensibly many of these changes have been made because Tumblr needs more money, and clearly the management team believes that the way to gain more money is to increase ad revenue, which is presumably why they seem so focused on pushing algorithmic content at the cost of an increasingly hostile user experience. Unfortunately that is incorrect.

Right now, Tumblr is attractive to advertisers because it has a vibrant community and is an established platform. If this trend of increasing hostility continues, more and more of the long term established users - who generate a hugely disproportionate quantity of the 'content' that makes Tumblr so unique and interesting - will leave. They will be left without the online community they have been a part of for years, something deeply distressing for them and for the community they have left, which in turn will be slowly dissolving as more and more members reach their limit and delete their accounts.

Tumblr will be left a spiralling mess of algorithm driven advertisements and porn and spam bots and a handful of bitter users, and sooner or later someone will pull the plug when it becomes apparent just how lucrative it *isn't* to advertise to non existent people.

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Or you could listen to your userbsse.

[angelstrawbabie420]

truly love the feature of the tumblr app in which you cannot use some of the functions (reblog/comment/editing buttons on posts) bc notifications are constantly popping up over them. wonderful and functional

[bennidraws]

To Euthanize Your Heart - Rosio & Lucis backstory, part 1 (ao3 link)

hello darlings, may i interest you in my ocs,, yet again 🤲

i'm so sure this thing is completely unreadable on the phone app 😭 i love how functioning tumblr is haha, so bless ao3

anyway, would they truly be ocs if they didn't go through childhood trauma. and this is only the Beginning✨

it's important to point out that this story doesn't really have a good ending. and in the same breath, all the parts that will follow will touch on pretty serious topics (rape attempt, domestic abuse), so please be safe 🙏

[loderlied]

so uhhh this is an old post of mine that i for some reason cannot edit or reblog to add something to it without the app crashing so. doing this i guess. tumblr is a functioning website. anyways. rambles about zeke’s understanding of gortash. (under a cut + cw for really gross period stuff. truly mind this warning i’m not joking gortash is a horrible freak)

cannot read his face or predict his actions at all. total enigma. maybe because of his foreign core as the machine total antithesis to the wild-> it is simply unknown. a bright, indecipherable light. the inherent ‘god’ in the unknown. people like karlach can give way more accurate insights of gortash’s psyche than zeke, someone who has seen and experienced gortash (often even without any masks) so much over a time period of almost 15 years compared to karlach’s definitely shorter time with him

(this unknown, this light piercing through all his pores into him makes gortash’s conquest of his mind, the way he understands zeke better than zeke could ever understand himself, even more horrifying to zeke than it already is)

(zeke is generally a person who makes way too much eye contact. literally stares at you, not blinking for way too long, endlessly directly into your eyes. with gortash though? exact opposite. zeke struggles immensely with just looking at his face, and his eyes are at least 10 times worse. this is why you’ll often see gortash moving zeke’s head to face him when they’re in a room together.)

while there is no concious recognition, there is an instinctual reaction to behavior over time to specific ways his face twists, his hands move, etc etc which mean future danger to zeke. (these reactions are still very inaccurate and paranoid, because again, gortash is even more indecipherable to zeke than regular people)

what he needs to achieve the hunt/kill only. still has an insanely hard time with it. (contrast to gortash who knows every single little atom of zeke. a digestion of his mind. like. just to demonstrate how bad it gets. literally tracks his cycles like an absolute lunatic and huffs his period rags when he gets his hands on them to be able to differentiate what day he is on by smell and scent. just because he needs to know every aspect of zeke. clinical need. scientist dissecting a prime specimen)

[suntreehq]

Graceful Degradation

In tech “Graceful Degradation” means that even if a system (eg website or app) has some features that don’t work, it will still provide a basic level of functionality so you can get the important stuff done.

It’s all about ensuring that you don’t hit a wall when things don’t go as planned.

Today I was planning on doing a leg day workout and making sure I hit my calorie and protein targets.

But... I am super tired.

I got very little sleep last night, and am feeling tired and fatigued today. The weather is also miserable (not that that should be a factor in anything really, but it is).

My tumblr friends, this system is well and truly operating in a degraded fashion...

I've already gone off plan and had a cookie at the coffee shop.

In the past I know I would have just written this day off and used my tiredness to excuse going totally off plan. But today I try something different! Today I will try and bring some gracefulness to this degradation...

I'm not feeling like cooking tonight...

...so I'm going to get a take away (a masala dosa and NOTHING else).

I'll also eat a load of fruit (strawberries and pineapple) and have my protein dessert as my last meal (memo to self: post photos of this).

I'm aiming to stay within my calorie limit...

...but wont hit my protein goal.

I'll probably not do much of a workout

maybe 30 mins on the indoor bike and some mobility work.

If I can find the energy...

...maybe I will do some Squats (at a lower weight than usual), and perhaps some Romanian Dead Lifts.

Today I have developed the awareness and restraint to be able to degrade my performance gracefully, limit the damage of going off plan, and salvaging what I can.

Something > Nothing

Embracing constraints and adapting > Throwing in the towel

Progress > Perfection

[black-cat-aoife]

Great so if I click "this post contains a blocked tag show anyway" it doesn't just show the post in the app ... It opens the link to the post in the webversion of Tumblr in the App Tumblr. Truly a Functioning App™

[shiirojasmine]

OH MY GOD i’m so sorry to pop in here with so much energy but i had to stop by because ive been looking for your art for literal Years. i used to be very into yugioh, and i was on tumblr for a good bit of it, and i remember falling in love with the way you drew the boys. You were my favorite artist in the fandom and it inspired quite a bit of my art at the time (even now when i look at my preferences for soft texture brushes shdkfjdk)

anyways, i lost my old account a couple years ago and along with it, many reblogs and likes from that time in my life. and i didn’t quite know to miss it (i hadn’t been in the fandom for a while by that point), but i remember thinking about a mer au for a different fandom, and remembering the most awe inspiring piece i had seen who Knows how long ago. i only remembered the fact that it was for yugioh, yami was part octopus, it had some Gorgeous ocean hues, i loved the hair, and the poses of the two characters. and once it got in my head i started looking for it. tumblr’s search functions are awful, and i couldn’t find it, but i kept trying every couple months, trying to remember tags i could go through or going thru yugioh art blogs on the chance that i would see the artist that inspired me so long ago. I looked up sao (i thought i remembered a comic? related to it on the same blog but it was a long shot at Best) i tried looking through yugioh daily updated blogs until those stopped being as common, scrolling through every yugioh tag imaginable. it was frankly borderline impossible given my memory of the actual image was shaky at best, and i had no doubt that after years your artstyle would have evolved through practice, and i was afraid that i wouldn’t recognize any new works even if i happened across them.

I know it’s out of the blue and most likely just a long ass anon msg to you but i just had to come by and say that i finally found where it came from (you)!! and im so happy to have found it, ive actually been looking for Years, my memory isn’t the greatest but there’s no way it hasn’t been 4 or 5 years at Least by now. and its just as beautiful as i remember. (if you happen to have read this: if you ever have prints i would cry to be able to actually buy a copy)

i rlly just wanted to let you know that your art is beautiful (it’s not even scratching the Surface of it really), and it really did have such an effect on me as a growing artist. it most likely doesn’t mean much being just words shdkfjkd but thank you so much. i’m so so so happy to be able to look at the art and remember and really appreciate how lovely your works are with more experienced eyes.

that’s enough out of me, i hope you have a lovely week, and truly from the bottom of my heart: thank you

thank you very much for the kind message, i'm sorry i didn't see it sooner! i'm not on tumblr very often these days, but i appreciated reading this very much.

my time in the ygo fandom was definitely one of my favorite and most exciting times for me art-wise! i really enjoyed experimenting a lot with my favorite ships. i think i know the piece you're talking about, i remember being extra excited to paint it because krita was finally working semi-properly on my old macbook at the time. (i never liked photoshop, and while clip studio paint was fantastic, there's something extra delicious about a free but excellent painting app you know?)

i unfortunately don't have any art prints to sell, but i'm more than okay with people printing to keep at home haha

[xx-red-bull-my-tummy-hurtz-xx]

i recently got absolutely fed up™️ with instagram and snapchat which then led to me deleting them, well not actually deleting but removing the apps because i cant bare to part with my accts because memories yk? since then i have been spending ungodly amounts of time on tumblr, pinterest and facebook of all things and it feels like im 13 again and my parents still havent let me get onto the platforms my friends are on and so naturally im missing out on critical stages of growing up only 7 years later and im realizing how bad those platforms were for me not just the corruption with the zucc and whoever has snapchat. i practically raised myself on the internet during critical developmental years and i dont think ill truly recover because of how deeply ingrained into my brain the percieved importance of being active on such sites even though i barely posted it still feels like i lost toxic and abusive family members and i have to relearn how to function without them and i know i can never go back to them in my own best interest and my lovely boyfriend congraduated me on the newfound freedom accept it might send me downhill because i dont know what else to do with my time since now i can no longer doom scroll and compare myself to everything i see. i hate having grown up with the internet. i wish i knew who i wouldve been if i had stayed away from it all. maybe i wouldnt be a messed up as i am. yet at the same time everything is becoming so much brighter.