#tumblr why can't i stalk people without an account

[notmacaulayculkin]

omg tumblr haiii :3

[daughter-of-sapph0]

one thing about tumblr that I don't see anyone talk about even with all the discussion about horrible changes is what happens when someone blocks you.

how it used to be is that you could still go to their profile, and would be able to report them or block them back. but you couldn't see any of their posts. and if one of their posts did happen to show up on your dash through reblogs, you couldn't like or reblog it. of course, it wouldn't tell you any of this. it would just give an error message or load indefinitely pretending like something was happening, rather than just saying "hey this person has you blocked, so you can't interact with them"

now it's a lot worse. idk when it was, but some change made it so now you can't even click on their blog at all.

now you might say "what's the big deal? why would anyone even want to go to a blog that had you blocked if you already couldn't see any of their posts in the first place?" and while true, there was at least something you could do on that blank blog. blocking them back and reporting them.

here's how it worked in the past. if someone sent me a rude message or tagged me in a dumb post and then blocked me, I could simply go to their blog (which would be blank for me) and block and report them.

now, if somone does that, I cannot click on their blog. in fact, because I can't block or report them, they can keep sending me horrible things, or even do the same to others without any fear of consequences. in order to actually be free of them, I'd have to go onto the desktop dashboard which a lot of people don't use, go to blog settings, scroll all the way down to blocked accounts, and manually type in their url exactly and add them to my list of blocked accounts.

and also, there is no way to report them. if someone is being racist or antisemitic or homophobic, and they have you blocked, you cannot report them at all.

I'm not going to say that this change was made by the sympathizers on staff specifically to protect terfs and white supremacists who spend all their time harassing and stalking and abusing people online while making it harder for their victims to protect themselves or even make those people face any consequences for their actions at all...

but the fact that this change happened around the same time as the whole "scorched earth / partyjockers" situation where staff entirely disintegrated a post and all it's reblogs because op said that one of the people on staff was a hairy potty fan, it's a bit too suspicious for me to call it a coincidental change.

[imaginespazzi]

Honestly everyone should probably mind their business a bit more! Agree about the UConn students seems crazy they're on sites like tumblr spilling tea. Wouldn't you want to protect them from all us nosy snoops?? Have some school spirit, damn.

Everyone complains they don't share anything and all of this is why. Put yourselves in their shoes, they can't do anything without someone popping up out of the woodwork reporting on it, stalking younger siblings and family member accounts, jumping into mentions of random people who share something because they're excited to have met them, etc. And let's not pretend Tumblr is some safe haven anymore, I see lots of stuff pulled directly from here on TT and other sites.

Let them do their thing for their last years in college and have fun. We can all see the stuff they want us to see, they deserve that after everything they've been through the last few years, and especially recent. Not shading you at all, just feels like things can get out of hand at times, so I'm glad you've been one of the people who've said everyone should relax a little bit.

Have some school spirit is killing me 😭

But yeah no notes, all of this! Like I love the crumbs we get but it's definitely a little much to me to go interrogating people who meet or see them. It's unfair to those people too who were probably just excited to share meeting people they admire. And of course, please, please, please keep children out of this.

And yeah unfortunately tumblr isn't quite so safe anymore, which is part of why I don't use tags so my delulu's a little harder to find unless you follow me.

I've said this a couple of times, but everybody just have fun and vibe and enjoy what we get. There's no need to go that extra little bit to make things weird or stress yourself out about something that really don't affect your life. We pretty much never lose anyways so keep it cute, keep it fun and keep it cordial<3

[trickscourse]

Why is it so hard for you to hold calloutrebuttal accountable? They always reblog from you, you message them on discord, etc. Just stop. They're transphobic for how often they deadname and misgender people they don't like and I think their blog is why you're being harassed.

The reason why I'm being harassed is because every couple of months my stalker brings up the same smear campaign that was made for me as a child in high school, she has no interest in seeing me move on from that so she keeps regurgitating it. Her ex friends have told me this, a few current mutuals have told me those.

I've explained this to someone else a handful of times but the issue with cutting all contact with the few mods I do talk to is that I work with them, we all work at similar jobs together or they live fairly close to me and I see them in my day to day life. Even after moving, one of them is my consistent ride to and from work because they're one of the two people I have contact with who own a van that can transport my mobility aid.

Something is important is that I do care about all the people involved, I don't support their shit at all and I'm very upset with it you've seen me yell at them from time to time including me dropping everything to go defend Miles in person on more than one occasion.

When I hold them accountable, which trust me I do very much, I see no need to make every single interaction I make available for someone who can't stand me to see on Tumblr and screenshot without my consent, I frequently call them out of their bullshit cuz I feel like "calling out" rebuttal publicly does nothing to actually help anything.

One thing I try very, very hard to do that certain people want to interfere with is keeping my online and personal life separate because of her a little bit I could go online and escape being abused in one situation which is turned into me hopping from one abusive situation to another.

The transphobia is inexcusable, when I sat down with them and talked about the blog being made I said something very vague about holding both sides accountable and letting the other side lead the way.

It's not fair that any side is misgendering the other, if I have the energy to go through my Discord and go through hundreds of logs of me debating on suing certain people, looking for ways to get a cease and desist for certain people and grieving the loss of my old apartment, I can find the basic rules I came up with.

One of my mottos is to not hit below the belt or insult things others can't change, people who enjoy the drama of stalking and harassing me don't seem to understand this for one reason or another. The last thing I wanted in all of this was for a sequel to my groomer's callout to land on another person.

[darklinaforever]

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenager#:~:text=A%20teenager%2C%20or%20teen%2C%20is,may%20do%20vary%20between%20countries

The law is separate from the general definition of a teenager. It's from thirteen to nineteen and are generally classed as adolescent. The term minor is a legal phase and in terms of classification as an adult, it varies from country to country depending on age. Some countries it's 16, others it's 18 or 21 even. But the general definition in the English language is a teenager from 13 - 19. The fact you can't grasp this is mindboggling. That's why I'm not arguing with you because your other arguments are bs in their concept. If you are calling a nineteen year old is not a teenager then there's no point in engaging with you. There's all these concrete facts on things out there that you seem to be in absolute denial about it and have to pointlessly confront all the time. Nothing you say makes sense and if anything does, it's because you stole it from someone else. It's like the only thing you see and hear is yourself and you are trying desperately to make us all see it too. Tbh you probably need mental help. When you say a teacher accused you of plagarism but somehow it didn't happen then what did happen? You're always twisting the narrative to suit yourself. You seem incredibly naive as well blindly believing people over this weird Grace thing, leading to other users on here being harassed because you didn't have the sense or judgement to question what is being sent on anon. You need to log off and seek help. Stop stalking the tags and sending asks/replies to people to fuel conflict or cause trouble. Stop sending links to yourself on anon so you can post vitriol on it. Stop spreading false information. Stop plagiarising. I have been told by several people you are unhinged and I have given you the benefit of the doubt. But now I see you need mental help.

I think it's you who needs mental help.

I'm not the one who makes the law. In my country, the legal age of majority / adulthood is 18, as in many others. It's that simple. Legally for many places, 19 is an adult. Do you want to complain about that ? Fill the system. I'm not saying that someone aged 19 is necessarily an adult mentally, I'm just saying that they are legally one. But I'm sick and I need help to just say this reality of our world ? I believe once again that it is you who needs help.

So, in fact, Rhaenyra is legally, by globally our modern standards, an adult in episode 4, in addition to being one for Westeros as well. At this point, what you're doing is nitpicking to piss off...

Again, I don't steal anything from people. I didn't plagiarize anyone. You love to repeat this when there is literally no proof !

And I didn't let any tumblr users be harassed, it's bullshit sent for defamation :

I don't bother stalking any tags either. Where does this accusation come from this time ?

I then rarely send requests to other accounts, and it is not fundamentally different from other requests they may receive. How does this disrupt tumblr ? Those to whom I sent requests never complained. Where does this other bullshit come from ?!

And I don't send any anonymous requests to myself. Again, WTF ?

And what false information have I spread ? You really accuse me of things, each crazier than the last... If it's in relation to Grace, there's no way to verify this story and I always take it with a grain of salt. So how am I spreading false things ?!

Besides, you say that I am naive and blind to believe people about Grace, even if in reality I always took this story with a grain of salt, without affirming that it was true, whereas you believe without problem baseless bullshit about me in addition to saying new ones...

And once again, I didn't plagiarize ANYONE. Leave me alone with this.

Again :

I'm someone who generally stays in my corner, I don't understand the passion you all have for coming to annoy me like that.

You are the one who should get mental help at this point.

[unladielike]

So since it has been brought to my attention some rumours have been circulating about me, I just wanna make a few things clear.

First off, I did not supposedly stalk anyone's blog for years.

If need be, I can even provide my IP address (aka self-dox myself) to prove any screencaps to be false, but I'm nowhere near obsessive enough to check somebody's blog everyday. Like, sure, I might visit blogs of ex-mutuals every once in a blue moon out of curiosity, but contrary to popular belief, tumblr doesn't take up 90% of my time and at best, I would maybe lurk on COAR to read new confessions or refresh my dash once per day just in case non-active partners of mine have returned.

If anything, my time has been mostly comprised of going to work and grinding mobile gachas; in fact, should I notice I have replies to write, I will log in, throw my replies into the queue/save written replies in my drafts folder to queue later, and then fuck off to do other stuff. Honestly, provided someone has beef with me, it's unlikely I would know why unless my encounter with them on tumblr had been rather recent.

To my knowledge, I haven't harassed anyone off of tumblr.

Now, did I have spats with my own fair share of people over the eight or nine years I have been on this hellsite? Yes. Have I made vague posts about ex-mutuals, unintentionally ghosted others, privately vented to friends about people from the RPC I personally can't stand, and commented on COAR confessions? Also, yes.

But that being said, the only one I've ever sent anon hate to was myself and if I played a part in somebody deactivating their blog or quitting tumblr roleplay altogether, then that's certainly news to me, because I don't like participating in public smear campaigns, to the point where I even avoid name dropping certain users in my rules or PSAs I've made. Heck, the way I see it, I can only ever recall myself being relentlessly harassed/bullied, because when it comes to me for some reason, people on this site sadly don't know how to block and move on like normal people.

I also have never encouraged anyone to delete their blogs or chase them out of the RPC and have only ever reported one person due to the fact they would not stop posting about me/attempt to provoke me into engaging in drama on a site that we both frequent despite having me blocked; therefore, I have no idea where the narrative of me harassing people off of tumblr even comes from. Besides, I'm nowhere near popular enough to influence whatever following I have to dog pile on whoever I have grievances with, let alone have many people who would go to bat for me each time I'm being unfairly criticized. Honestly, the one time someone did call out my harasser, it was something I had no control over and they did so without my permission, to the point where I did privately tell them to stop url-dropping me and engaging with this person on my behalf... because again, I just wanted to be left alone.

Furthermore, I make it very clear to mutuals I've vented to that they don't have to unfollow/block roleplayers I've had bad experiences with... so I'm not sure if this is merely a case of the Mandela Effect rearing it's ugly head, individuals making up bad faith reasons to dislike me, or an issue of mistaken identity (especially since I'm likely not the only one who goes by the mun handle, 'Livi', and it has happened before where somebody had wrongly assumed a blog belonged to another person).

Of course, it's possible I could have forgotten stuff, as I have had more than three blogs over the years, so naturally, I won't remember all the OOC posts I have ever shared, let alone every instance before 2022 where I have been involved in drama... but regardless, I refuse to take accountability for things I have never done unless you personally come to me off anon with screenshots that provide evidence.

[forcenexus-archived]

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ GETTING TO KNOW YOU

respond to the following prompts out of character. then, tag nine others that you would like to get to know a little bit better.

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ ROLEPLAYER NAME :⠀⠀ Emrys ⤷⠀:⠀⠀ ROLEPLAYER PRONOUNS :⠀⠀ They / Them ⤷⠀:⠀⠀ MUSE NAME :⠀⠀ Anakin Skywalker

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ PREFERRED COMMUNICATIONS / discord or tumblr messages for out of character chat? :⠀⠀ I'm fine with either or. Discord I'm better about asking since Tumblr doesn't like to give me notifications. Also its better for when I can't get on the computer during the weekends and such. It's always logged in on my phone.

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ EXPERIENCE / how long you’ve roleplayed:⠀⠀ Okay, I'm going to sound very old. I started in the days of AOL and yahoo chat rooms. Message boards and Forums. I don't remember how I came across it, only that once I did - I was hooked. I've taken long breaks before. My longest about five years. Tumblr probably is my favorite platform to rp in and the most welcoming one I have come across.

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ PREFERRED ROLEPLAY TYPE / fluff, smut, or angst? :⠀⠀ I like all of them but I am a sucker for angst. You can ask Belle or anyone that knows me. I tend to throw it in after a while to liven things up and the themes I place are for a mature rper. Why I only rp with 21+

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ PET PEEVES AND DEALBREAKERS :

Mixing up muse with mun is a major one. I've had muns say they fallen in love with me before thinking I am the muse and try to force a irl relationship on me because of it. I am weary about new writing partners because its happened more times than I care to admit.

Force Shipping. It's a major no for me and I've had plenty of ex partners try to do this to me. Alot of these people get obsessive or jealous of my other partners and have tried to isolate me away from my circle. I've gotten alot better at being vocal about boundaries since. Force Shipping or pressuring of any sort will have me running to the block button.

Stalking. I've had ex partners stalk me before and try to avoid the block by making new accounts. It's happened for months or years before and it doesn't make me want to interact with them. Unfollowing just to refollow is another one I will run from too. Please just move on, there's no sense in hounding or harassing muns.

Toxic RPers in general. They're the obsessive, guilt tripping gaslighting, love bombing, narcissist people I tend to stay away from. By no means I am perfect and have my bad days too. I run far away from anyone that shows any warning signs now. I have no energy for those that wish to control me in any way.

People that godmod / extreme mary sues. I don't know how hard it is for others to just control your own muse and not control mine, but its a no for me. When I mean extreme mary sues, I mean the ones that say they are the strongest without flaws, can kill my muses without thought and threaten too. They are the ones who refuse to flesh out their muses and always wish to be the most powerful and the ones who wish to control the narrative. (Bleeds into godmodding) I do read bios, rules and such and also look at past threads with others. So if I see that kind of rp, I'm not likely to engage.

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ PLOTS OR MEMES? :⠀Memes. I am better at making memes into threads and will continue them if the other person wants too. Plotting, I love when there is a general idea of what both people want. I can't stand when someone hits a plotting call to only say they have no clue what they want to do. (I've been guilty of this but alot of times will send memes in the place if I can't think of anything.)

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ LONG REPLIES OR SHORT REPLIES? :⠀Depends on the thread and who I am interacting with. I don't do one liners unless its banter. Alot of my replies range from one para to three. Longer ones or novella take me longer to reply to unless its a strong muse.

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ BEST TIME TO WRITE? :⠀⠀Anywhere from 7ish - 8pm to about 11pm my time. It's when the kids are the quietest and I get the most writing done. weekends i have noticed, I don't do replies as much because that's family time and I need a break away from Tumblr.

⤷⠀:⠀⠀ ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE? :⠀⠀I try to put a little of myself in each muse so I connect to them. Anakin and me are nerds. As a little kid I too use to take things apart to put them back together. It drove my mom completely crazy.

TAGGED BY : @prodijedi TAGGING : @legeandary, @jundlcndwastes, @immortalmuses, @petitsdieu, @theresastargirl,

[tartrazeen]

I'm trying to puzzle out what I like and don't like about Tumblr's interface. 🤔 As much as I enjoy what it is, there are certain itches it doesn't scratch.

What I Like About Tumblr's Functionality:

- Blocking is excellent and encouraged and easy

- Moves fast

- Refreshing the dash is a satisfying wave of new posts that were made as I was reading everything else

- Get to sneak and snoop around the tags and comments on people's posts

- Get to start completely new chains of conversation by picking up from a particular part of the reblog chain

- Get to preserve the original message by reblogging it for posterity

- Melting pot of all of my interests on a single dash

- Filtering lets me keep my mutuals' interests from overwhelming me 😝

- I like that I'm interacting with people I've actively chosen to follow, because it puts a virtual face to a name rather than having me wander faceless crowds of users

- Blocking someone instantly gets that current post off my dash, too

- Can sorta prune back to certain parts of a chain to cut out parts that I don't like

- I like the video player 🤷🏽‍♀️

- I like getting an activity feed that shows me when someone replies to me, so I can reply to them too

What I Don't Like About Tumblr's Functionality:

- Blocking someone doesn't keep every single mention of them out of my sight. If someone reblogs them, or from them, I see their name again.

- Doesn't encourage long-form reading into a single topic (kinda why I want to bring forums back)

- Some folks can pick up from a particular part of the reblog chain and run wild with it, even if there are corrections made later

- Can't correct an old post that someone else has reblogged (I wouldn't mind a way to have a "This post has been changed since it was part of this chain" setting that I could flip on, which would that let you go to that particular post and see the new version of it)

- If someone doesn't tag something, I can't filter it (I'd love a way to suggest tags for OP, so the community can collectively tag it for filtering purposes thereafter)

- Can't hide a post I hate without blocking the OP :/

- Can't block an OP if the account was already deactivated :/

- Can't prune back to certain parts of a reblog chain if the part that I want to prune back to has its account deactivated

- Video player and galleries are on a fuckin' hair trigger of swiping down to the next 'related' video that I did not want to see, which restarts me at the beginning of the video or gallery

- Video player sucks at pausing

- The only way to see what other people are saying about posts I've reblogged and added on to are to stalk them like a stalker :(

[nangbaby]

You are probably going to take this as concern trolling but I'm being genuine. Turn off your anon asks, they aren't helping you. You are wrong, but that's no reason for people to be mean and shitty towards you. I relate a lot to what you're saying, what has helped me is taking time away from online and seeing what physically affects me. My living situation, my body, my in person friends, etc. Focusing on helping myself through that instead of online, no one on Tumblr is in a position to truly help you. You seem like you don't have an accurate understanding of what you're talking about, and online folks are using this against you. Your feelings are real, but that doesn't mean they're correct about the situation. You have the power to control whether or not you receive these messages. Consider it.

I can and have turned off anonymous asks in the past and if the queue gets too high, I will.

As I've mentioned in the past, one reason why I keep anonymous asks on is because I want people to reply. Communication requires back and forth, and a Tumblr blog is designed to be interacted with. Without interaction, words are meaningless. As much as I do not like hate, I'd rather receive hate than nothing at all. After all, no one sends love in my mailbox so all I have is hate. I might reconsider if I were to receive positive messages en masse from named users, but people don't do that, so an hate is what you get.

Also, Tumblr no longer allows people to send anonymous asks unless they have a Tumblr account. That I am getting even more anonymous asks than I did in the past ever is proof that these aren't random trolls, but specific Tumblr users who want to snipe at the shadows. Since I can't see them (between anonymizing themselves and blocking me) and yet they're following me, they're actually doing the very stalking they accuse me of. Stalking is to pursue "stealthily," and despite the movie depictions of stalkers as noisy harassers, real stalkers generally try to approach their targets unannounced and without warning. Announcing your attacks like an anime character is the opposite of that.

I do not see how despite linking to the dictionary definition of words, sometimes in multiple dictionaries, that means I am "wrong." If it's something subjective, we disagree and each is wrong in the other's eyes. If there's a factual error I made, then point it out and then if I see it, then I'll agree I was wrong. I'm pretty sure I have written "I was wrong" a lot on the blog.

That said, people on Tumblr could help me the way they help others, but they choose not to help. I don't mind not being helped; no one is obligated to help and I don't take charity. I just don't think any Tumblr user should be helped.

[trickscourse]

No, this isn't me or any of my headmates.

Those screenshots are mine, I have posted pictures of my Google Drive before showing that I've called out other freaks then Ezra. I keep an archive of my abusive situation in case I need to get a restraining order or Worse against the woman who raised me, I'm an actual abuse of victim as much as people like to forget about that or downplay it.

One way I know for a fact that blog isn't mine is because I don't have borderline personality disorder and I don't like posting about any disorders that I have online, I've learned my lesson from when I was a kid that having a vent blog on here just creates ammo for people to use against me.

I do have a private Discord server that several of my friends irl and online with a few mutual are in along with a few online people called "2019 Kinblr Outpatient Reunion" where I've made a couple of vents with those exact screenshots in them.

Honestly I didn't know that someone who used to be my mutual would be enough of a fucking creep to copy things I've said during breakdowns word for word and make a RP blog for me.

People have made roleplay blogs for me, my parents, my headmates and my fucking dog in the past. This is literally nothing new and while I'm not thrilled with it, Tumblr won't do anything.

Here's proof:

A lot of these are the stupid parody blogs or whatever or people pretending they're me or some other third thing. I don't want forgiveness in the situation, I want to be left alone I think a pretty big indicator of that is that these blogs have been around for a pretty long time and I'm not posting the one where someone was roleplaying as my mother and talking about how it was fun sexually assaulting me.

I don't like any of the names I used to go buy that begin with 'T', they're my deadnames and people know this. I don't like being called by either of them even though that stops literally no one and I honestly don't expect it to but I don't respond to them and haven't liked them for a long time.

There are a couple of other blogs I couldn't find a proper archive of on here like @/atuasdesiple or @/lilulthomeroom or the ones roleplaying as my dog since when I asked them to take things down, they did.

I guess I was way too trusting with this because when I went to go confront them, I just got this. My guess is that this is a fucking dummy account or something or they were just lurking.

I understand a lot of people on Tumblr like to deny my disorders are literally anything about me but ever since Sunny continued to stalk me before the pandemic was in full swing, my entire system has an aversion to Sanrio and Hello Kitty.

She used to be a huge part of my life and I have a tattoo of Keroppi on my arm but right now I can't look at her without feeling this really uncomfortable, which sucks when my singletsona likes her.

I mentioned in the past that shit like trauma core makes me super duper uncomfortable and I don't like sharing information online unless I have to for something like a donation post, I don't like talking about my disorders and I wouldn't lie about having any of them.

Oh, before I forget. Rebuttal is 100% right about the queue thing.

Hi-C's blog is our "main" but it's queue as usually always filled so it can have something to look at when it's bored.

The queue is usually shuffled a couple of times a week and backlogged months in advance or I throw posts from the drafts into the queue. This is why sometimes it looks like I'm following a creep when I'm not because I queue things before knowing they're awful or before they got called out.

Sunny is being obsessive, again.

Sunny block evades to see a lot of information she got in this post, be weary of that going forward.

After speaking to Station and looking through screenshots of its old URLs we realized the URL @bensblog1 was another person roleplaying as it. This is NOT Station and never was, Station has no desire to take Sunny specifically to court.

Ben's full name isn't Bennieth, either nor does the TV Station expect Sunny to guess who's fronting.

Ever since the stalking began our entire friend group had a joke about Arty and the concept of her, almost all the mods and Station have joked about kinning her, dating her and other things like that. Sunny and her friends have made jokes about Station having an altar from Hazbin in the past, this is the same thing since nobody would want to love someone like Arty.

Station (or Ketchup who was tweeting) doesn't selfship, and wouldn't with a thing like Arty.

Arty's host is someone who Sunny used to be mutuals with, and her groomer friend @thalassomania knows only by her deadname, as she came out as transfem halfway through the pandemic. Her deadname is in several callouts before and she's featured on one of them.

That your world is not belong to anyone who's on the mod team nor do we know who runs it and while Sunny's angry about Station in this blog having each other mutually blocked, she forgets that the queue function exists.

Hi-C's queue is usually at around 1000, this person could easily just have it filled a similar way from months ago.

Sunny's not showing any proof of the block evasion which is no surprise along with her assuming that every single person from Massachusetts HAS to be Station, or that Station had the URL of a series that with a slur in the name that involves CP for more than five minutes.

The current owner of the URL couldn't be contacted because DMs are off.

We did a deep dive into this blog because it looks like something Station would post but it doesn't have an active sent blog on Tumblr because it knows Sunny would just use its information against it.

We had a third party message the blog since we were blocked and it was a worse case than we thought. Some of the screenshots do belong to Station, some that I posted in a private Discord server that someone managed to infiltrate or an ex friend never left.

We should have noticed this one that you're not interact better with something someone else in the server made as a joke on a photo editing app.

This is one of many people who enjoy role playing as are for one reason or another, Station has a vent account, but it's not on any "regular" social media.

Sunny, leave your victim alone and let it heal away from you. Stop block evading and obsessing over it.

[columboscreens]

Been loving the Twitter account and realized I'd love the Tumblr too.

Anyway, I've always wondered something... my mom and I began to realize that maybe one of the reasons classic Columbo's formula made such a splash and continues to be unique is that he's basically presented as the story's "villain".

Not in a "he was the real killer" kind of way, I mean structure-wise for most episodes the killer is the main character with the majority of screen time. It occurred to us that all the best episodes really seem to present the murderer as the protagonist, with us seeing them plan and carry out their scheme, even sometimes be privy to their inner thoughts. Then after they've done their killing, this... monster starts stalking them. It seemed to us the best episodes were the ones where WE are put in the killer's shoes the most, and maybe the character and show formula has endured so well because its thrill feels so similar to watching your favorite movie monster pursue dumb teenagers in a haunted house.

We noticed it kinda felt like it had that same weirdly sadistic glee. Like sure the movie might be "about" the campers or family or whatever, but the monster creeping around "getting" everyone is who you really came to see.

I wondered if anyone else had felt this fun "relentless antagonist" vibe from Columbo? Maybe the formula continues to feel unique even today because it isn't set up quite like a detective show. It's a rich arrogant murderer show, we just can't wait for our favorite monster to show up and chase them (with insidious, relentless politeness).

thank you!

not to needlessly intellectualize my own favorite show (i say, maintaining this blog), but there's a real sophistication to columbo, a literary quality that i think appeals to people. though the production appears facile at first, those choices in formula and perspective you mention are indeed very deliberate and part of what made columbo so fresh and special both when it aired and today. it was a very novel approach to the mystery format to have us start off with the murderer and maybe even root for them sometimes against columbo. as i always say, the show evokes dostoyevsky and doyle, not bruckheimer; it's born from old-fashioned drawing room murder mysteries, not CSI.

the mysteries are usually sharp--between columbo and murder she wrote alone, levinson and link were two of the most prolific mysterysmiths of the 20th century. but ultimately, for both the viewer and for columbo, it's all about the chase, the game, the banter. it's about a mangy little guy tussling with someone with more dollars than he has hairs on his body, and winning to boot. the legwork is important, but it does ultimately come second.

steven moffat got torn to shreds for calling columbo a sadist, but he was absolutely right and needn't have apologized. if you get up in arms about that, do you really understand columbo?

the man is a benevolent sadist. that's why he appears borderline villainous. he is a sadist with a level head and good moral compass, but still a sadist. he goes well out of his way to fuck over people who deserve to get fucked over, and he clearly enjoys every minute of it. it's how he's able to remain so relentless without getting burned out. is that so wrong?

just look at the smirk on this man's face. you cannot deny that.

like a fine wine, his power grows with time...

peter falk himself often likened being chased by columbo to "getting nibbled to death by a duck". nobody can stand there and tell me ducks aren't the cutest and also pettiest most sadistic little bastards in the animal kingdom...

sir!!!! SIR!!!!! i don't mean to bother you, i've just got this one little thing on my mind, i thought maybe you could help me...

[trickscourse]

Sunny is stalking you. Without a doubt.

I know she is, she's never going to admit it and will probably only frame it as protecting others when there's people in this situation who aren't me that definitely need protecting.

I can't control other people's perspective on a mania, what they think or what lies they choose to believe because in the end I know my truth and there's not really much I can do to convince others.

But, she completely fails to realize that despite her not liking it I'm still very much working on the Ezra situation and her friend is the one who got kicked off and nobody has contact with, and for good reason.

I haven't been talking about my progress on Tumblr specifically or any social media because I don't want to make things as worse or for anyone off or have anyone else stalk me and despite several members of the document and people involved asking her to remove the posts temporarily.

She's too stupid to realize that when she tries to out someone who's trying to call out a predator, said predators friend will try to go after them. Of course, this doesn't matter to her based on the fact that one of her friends had an account on said website and possibly continues to use it but that's fine in her book because they don't like someone who bothered her a while back.

A lot of people in the situation have a victim complex, I have been told I have one but I don't personally see it because it's hard to see it as a complex when I didn't have a front door for three and a half days had to go stay with my co-workers or with my abusive parents.

I lost a lot of sympathy for Ambrose since he dragged me into a call with him where he ate regressed, called people slurs, admitted his really weird transphobia and just generally threw a tantrum.

I don't remember much of it because I was previously snickering at the crap he had to say and realizing how stupid I must have sounded I was younger, but he was crying about how we "ruined Hau for him" and "(Hau) was his boy who was brown" and apparently all we know about is Pokemon and manipulating people.

It was pretty funny to see him flat out admit he has no friends in real life or online and blames the only reason why The Gash chose to call him out was because of us, and not him being a fucking freak.

Hands down I will admit I was not very nice during the call and was acting very petty because I was exhausted but I lost sympathy after he told me to kill myself my "lying on the ground and not getting back up".

[newtonsheffield]

Hi!! I just wanted to tell you how much I do love your stories and how much I am really into them! I even have pop-up notifications in here and Ao3 to know when you share with us more about Bridgerton and Sons - which seems kinda a stalker, now I think of it... but it's not like that! 😅🤦‍♀️

The thing is, I'm a very musical person; whenever I read or do some computer-required work, or basically anything in my life tbh, music is always present. For instance, I'm re-reading again (can't they just, magically, give us Season 2 already? 🤣) TVWLM and for Anthony and Kate's Wedding night, I cannot help but "listen to" 'Experience', by Ludovico Einaudi; and when reading/imagining the wedding in the Bridgerton and Sons Universe, Anthony and Kate are dancing to 'You & I', by Crystal Fighters (which is so refreshing, good vibes and just PERFECT).

If it's not too much to ask, which kind of music do Kate and Anthony listen to? Which is their favourite genre; would it surprise us all? I don't know why I picture Anthony completely flabbergasted to Kate's musical tastes. 🤣

Thank you in advance and thank YOU for giving us content and such a beautiful story when we're waiting for the season to come. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

PD.: thank you for not making Penelope be Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton and Sons. Despite I liked that plot in the books, I just cannot imagine in here Penelope saying nasty things about people we know she loves a lot.

Hi! 

(This got a little longer so I’ve put a cut in)

I’m so glad you’re enjoying Bridgerton and sons!  And perhaps it’s ridiculous, but I’m terribly flattered you have notifications turned on for both Ao3 AND this black hole of a tumblr account (makes me very curious how many other’s also have notifications turned on!) Anyway, no, I don’t think you’re stalking me, that’s why the notification system exists! 

I will own to also being a slightly musically inclined person: Fun fact about me, I’m a classically trained saxophonist! And (and this is really going to tell you all JUST how cool a person I truly am) Guys, I was the captain of my High School Jazz band  😂😂I can play guitar, ukulele and Piano to varying degrees of proficiency but I would never in a million years play any of those three instruments in front of another human being! That being said my own taste in music is cripplingly basic as anyone who has dared look at the Bridgerton and Sons playlist on spotify can attest too. It has often been joked by my friends that I cannot start a playlist without putting Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors album on and Shania Twain’s Come on Over album.  But! I love Ludovico Einaudi! His work is always so beautiful and tbh whenever I listen to it I get a little choked up!  and I hadn’t heard You & I before but I can definitely see them dancing to it at their wedding, just being sickeningly in love and happy. We love to see it. 

Also, when I first started writing Insufferable Penelope probably was going to be the writer but... the longer it went on and the crueler the things said got, I decided it just wasn’t right. This isn’t a Gossip Girl situation fam. 

Okay! Kate and Anthony’s favourite Music! 

Kate was a young girl in the mid-late 90′s so unfortunately I think we know what this means: Kate knows the entirety of the Spiceworld album by heart. She could probably do it backwards. She would never admit it to Anthony but she had a Justin Timberlake poster on her wall for a very long time. Anthony does not have the heart to tell her that he knows she love NSYNC because Edwina has showed him a video of their perfectly choreographed routine to Bye Bye Bye. She’s also quite partial to the 80′s rock that played heavily in her house growing up. And Anthony is very surprised to find a Def Leppard shirt amongst her laundry one day. While Anthony may not be partial to Kate’s music, he does think it’s very adorable when she sings along in her endearingly tone deaf way, and so more often than not when they’re cooking together in the kitchen, they’re playing her music.  

Anthony is a soft rock/indy kind of guy. He’s constantly bringing up bands that Kate has never even heard of. She gets tugged along to concert after concert of music that all sounds exactly the same to her but she really doesn’t care because Anthony is there, his arms wrapped tightly around her waist, singing softly in her ear, a huge smile on his face. And he looks so happy, and young, and carefree that her heart nearly bursts for him. 

There is one time when Kate finally recognises a song on Anthony’s playlist about 4 months into their relationship and she squeals a little with delight and amusement when it starts. “Hyacinth is getting awfully good at sneaking songs onto your playlist.” She says, smirking as she starts to hum along, but she can’t help but notice that Anthony hasn’t done anything, didn’t make a disgusted noise, his hand hasn’t even moved from hers to try and change the song, and then she notices his ears going a little red.  “Oh my god!” she says laughing brightly “You, Mr. Music is artistry Katie put this song on here didn’t you?!” And Anthony tuts and puffs his chest a little which only makes her heart burst more for him when he says, more than a little primly  “It reminds me of you.”  And god help her, as soon as they get home Kate takes it upon herself to show him that yes God is a woman      

[aprilacksoriginality]

Oh my sweet jesus Mytho blocked me. I just noticed I hadn't seen them in a bit and I can't @ them. What's next Otsu blocking me.

I didn't even notice cause I've gotten back most if not all of my followers

Okay so. Im going to try to say this as nicely as i possibly can.

You made many mistakes and people are starting to have enough of that. And yes , while humans make mistakes we're supposed to learn from that.

And before you said "why are they blocking me now and not back when i faked death?" Because they thought you were going to not do something of sorts again. And while i didnt block you or unfollow you back then , i dont agree with the "systems without trauma" nor "stalk ppl who blocked me" things.

About the systems; i have friends , with really bad experiences with systems , and i KNOW how bad it can get so no; i didnt support that , i just didnt block you 'cause i enjoy talking to you.

And about the alt account making... Please. If someone blocks you respect their goddamn choice. They dont undertand nor want to understand your ideals and feel comfortable around you , wich is why they blocked you.

I will not block you but. Please take some time off tumblr to think seriously about this.

[goth-bunny]

I hate to say this, but I no longer feel at home or safe using Tumblr.

Within the past 3 years, it's caused me a lot of anxiety and caught the unwanted attention of bigots, even to the point that I constantly had asks flood my inbox and my personal posts reblogged and mocked.

In 2018, I was targeted by T_RFs, in 2019 I was dogpiled by wh_te supremacists, and in 2020 I was stalked, harassed, sent death threats/suicide baits, and nearly doxxed by a transphobic anon who couldn't take accountability for a simple mistake, to the point that they had to target my main Twitter account.

All these events have made me more anxious and apprehensive when it comes to socializing with others on this website and the lonliness is overbearing.

I've been on this website for 10 years (this blog for almost 7) and I've learned so much about myself and other people through this platform. I've made long-term friends and acquaintances. It's safe to say this has been my home and safe space when it comes to sharing content and being out and accepting about my own identity as a nonbinary bisexual on the spectrum, but in recent years...I feel like I can't even vent about small things on here without anons coming into my Inbox and tell me that I complain too much on my own blog.

I don't want to be on Twitter all the time because of its notorious userbase. Facebook isn't exactly the best place for it and I've also had some negative experiences there last year, what with some self-absorbed member of our pagan group insulting me when I told them I was trapped in a family that doesn't always seem to understand me, and an artist around my age who was exposed for defending child abuse materials and harassing minors.

I feel sad coming to think of having to leave this website since it helped me form my own thoughts and grow into my own person instead of having to rely on my own parents and their weekly Sunday church visits all the time.

Even though I started off ignorant and naive when I joined, I laughed at the nonsensical humor posts, I listened to personal anecdotes, I learned more about the world around me and beyond, all without having to leave my country.

I soon learned that the relationship I got into when I was 18 wasn't exactly how I pictured it, and I never had the chance to explore my identity fully until I was 21 and I had to break up with my ex for being stubborn and lacking compassion for marginalized sectors at the time, as well as being transphobic when I came out nonbinary.

I've learned that a lot of the tics and habits I had is commonly found in others on the autism spectrum and it gave me a new understanding of why I act and think the way I do.

I know I haven't exactly been the kindest last year, and I haven't been as open as I hoped. My poor mental and emotional health impaired my judgment and critical thinking, costing me a long-term friendship and the trust of some others. However, I did repay the people who commissioned me when I said I couldn't be able to do them due to my mental health. That is a reason, but not an excuse for how I acted. know I've done something wrong and I would like to apologize. I know it may seem like I haven't changed much, but it's hard to be open and honest when your words and actions can be twisted online and that ill-willed folks might be watching my every move.

What's next for me?

Well...I'm not sure.

I'm currently thinking that I might take an indefinite break from this website, even if it breaks my heart. Or start anew on a new blog and live quietly, even if it means giving my comfort space.

If you reached the end of this post, thank you for taking the time to read it. I know I don't seem like it, but I appreciate the mutuals and followers I have, even if I don't know you very well. You make my life less lonesome and I hope you have wonderful days ahead of you.

And I'm sorry if I've ever been petty or unbearable at times. Even if it was about little things like preferences, maybe I shouldn't have been too much of an ass and actually just said what I meant. I'm still learning how to accept my shortcomings and bad mental health days without having to resort to memes. Wisecracking can only get you so far and some things are not worth poking fun at, especially if they're treading on more sensitive issues.

P.S. I don't think I will be turning on anons for a long time. If you want to say something to me, whether good or bad, please be open and honest with me. I appreciate it.

[the-mad-hattie]

Just because I like shit from you now I get blocked. I get it I did a bad thing but you don't have to keep rubbing it in my face! I'm trying so hard to change dammit. Why can't you just ACTUALLY listen to other's side of the story? I'm done being treated like this. IM ACTUALLY TRYING TO CHANGE BUT YOU'RE JUST SEEING THE AWFUL THINGS I DID LIKE I WANTED TO DO THEM! I NEVER WANTED TO! ITS NOT FAIR DAMMIT!

Wow, okay. Yeah, I blocked the accounts, because Twitter is a dumb website that feels the need to notify you of each person that likes your stuff. It’s hard to put distance between people when Twitter will notify you each time the other person does something.

I also barely use Twitter, that account is purely to follow artists not using Tumblr. You’re better off stalking me with alt accounts here, where I actually post original works. I would have never given out my Twitter if I knew I’d have been fine on Tumblr still.

Onto the other matter. I’ve seen and heard both sides of the story, it was hard not to with you spamming it to me, which is why I blocked your Discord and Tumblr accounts. And your side of the story is not pretty, so I’m not sure what you’re expecting me to unpack from that claim.

As for changing, I’ve yet to see it. You’ve yet to do anything different from when this all started on December 19th, you’re still going around spreading the drama instead of sitting down and examining your life and how to change. It’s hard not to still see the awful things you did because you’re still doing them. I haven’t been able to go 4 days without a mutual coming to me saying you’ve been talking to them about it. At this point I’m scared to interact with my mutuals publicly because I know you’ll start spamming their accounts to spread your side of the story.

And don’t give me the never wanted to do this crap, because all of those are conscious actions. No one if forcing you to stalk me, make accounts to send your main account hate so I’ll give you sympathy thinking you have haters, to go on anon as a hater of Deathly so I tell off the anon about sending hate, to stalk my mutuals in hope one of them buys your side of the story, and to keep sending crap like this to my inbox. All of these are things you did on purpose.

tl;dr to my followers, more drama, block the moon rambles tag to not see this.