#vintage tumblr

[multidimensional-trashcan]

I made an Hall of the mountain king edit in honor of this batshit insane post (for which i may or may not be partially responsible, too) by @one-time-i-dreamt, enjoy :)

[lem0nlighters]

so i’ve been on this website for a horrifically long time and my partner has only had tumblr for the three years we’ve been dating lmao

so anyway the reason i say this is bc i was explaining how when i was a young teenager in 2014 who spent entirely too much time on tumblr i picked up a lot of knowledge about superwholock basically by osmosis (i didn’t rlly enjoy any of the shows but i had enough mutuals/irl friends who did so i absorbed bits and pieces thru them)

and so now it’s 2024 and i say that to my boyfriend and he goes wait. what did you just say??

and i said …superwholock???

and he goes so ur just gonna say that and act like i know what it means ?

so i then had to explain superwholock to my partner who had basically no social media until i forced him to get a tumblr account when we started dating 3 years ago lmfao

[games2girlsdotcom]

At our Halloween party where everyone was 25-28 except for one 19 year old, homestuck got brought up and she didn't know what it was so she looked it up and started reading it.

[bistec-37]

I love it when I see vintage tumblr posts that say things like “it’s 2017 we should know better” like you know jack shit

[claratyler]

Oh the johnlockers really are sick rn :/

[icarus-suraki]

[serotoninswitch]

[theladyship]

Me re-blogging beautiful art from yet another deactivated account…

[kreepykulture]

absolutely fucking devastated you can’t have custom tumblr pages anymore, my page used to be decked the FUCK out. I loved going to someone’s page and hearing their music autoplay (it was usually bad)

[kreature-ofthenight]

Sorry to tell you but if you´ve been on this hellsite in 2014 it has hardwired itself into your young developing brain, and you can pretend all you want to us and yourself that you left your old Tumblr girlie days behind, but it takes one button up shirt in one particular shade of purple and it comes all floding back

[ratsinmamouf]

Hi Tumblr I have a question. Does anyone know of some good websites to get pictures of vintage fashion. Googleing stuff has been a total bust, and I want to find new things. Anyhelp would be appreciated!!

[lettingtimepass]

Look at this ancient screenshot from 2012!! The old mac operating system and pages. The tumblr post in the background!! You can kinda see how the post layout used to be! With the title, post body (you can even see I inserted a GIF), and the tags box on the side. And the shirtless Darren Criss wallpaper, of course. I love finding little artifacts like this of how the internet and technology used to be 🥲

[riothamus1]

[maddi3holmes]

Driving by NYC 🏙️📸

[johnfkennedaddy]

Feel free to reblog with reasoning and lore

[fangsimblr]

my thoughts on the target pride collection are its own anticapitalist, anti backboneless rainbow washing, anti malicious pandering can of worms; but my boyfriend’s mom bought us both

transgender pride flag shoelaces,

and who am i to say no to a gift, let alone one as cute as that. so i put the shoe laces on a pair of shoes that i already owned, and i wore them to an anti capitalist pride celebration, which was essentially a small group of queer artists showing off their art and selling it, along with a food truck and some music. the group of people there was almost exclusively really cool, cute, punk queers, and one of them complimented me on my shoelaces.

it was as if a small part of my brain had been awoken that had been sleeping since 2014, like a sleeping dragon protecting its hoard waiting for the day the prophecy foretold when the hero would come to steal it.

the girls who know, know,

and i had two options.

the first: unquestionably cringe, betraying the growth that i had experienced since that dreaded time, possibly making a fool of myself in front of this really hot person

but at the same time, healing my inner child? finally experiencing something they had been waiting for, baited breath? and who am i to shy away from being cringe, one of my favorite activities in this dog eat dog world?

and perhaps they would know, they would get it, and we��d laugh as we remembered a time long gone, a simpler time, maybe not one that we wish to return but one we look back upon with rose colored glasses. we could see our growth, our emotional and physical maturity, with one sentence that could take us back and have us remember what it was like to be in our old shoes.

the second, easier choice: i decline to take this route. i simply say “thank you,” and go on with this conversation in the average small talk way that i have been throughout this whole event. sure it feels safer in the moment, but have i betrayed the expectations of my youth? have i squandered this opportunity? will i ever see it again, and if i do wont the time be just passed ripe for recollection? too late?

it is with dissatisfaction that i relay the information which is i took the second choice. i remained normal for seconds seemingly, and a month later i am sat here wondering what could have been. maybe we would have even kissed on the mouth and been cringe together. maybe everyone would have clapped like the playwrights said in times of old.

my inner child is dead, and i killed them.

be cringe on purpose and make your inner depressed teenager happy once in a while for the hell of it life is more fun that way xoxo