Wrath of the Storm.

Caduceus.

Dieudonné.

Divine Soul. Half-orc aasimar.

Here to save you.

"Tools of the (forbidden) Trade."

Yorick. Hobgoblin Necromancer.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

You have the choice to spend a peaceful afternoon with either Matt Walsh or Michael Knowles. Whoever you chose you are both required to politely learn from each other and both topics must be mutually agreed upon.

What is this shit?

Why on earth would I wanna spend time with assholes? And who are you to bother people with shitty questions like that?

Especially since you chose only right wing asshats as choices - thats not a choice at all, and theres no peace to be had with those.

There is nothing a healthy person can learn from either of them, except maybe through dissection.

What an insane question to throw at people.

An open letter to @staff

I already submitted this to Support under "Feedback," but I'm sharing it here too as I don't expect it to get a response, and I feel like putting in out in public may be more effective than sending it off into the void.

The recent post on the Staff blog about changing tumblr to an algorithmic feed features a large amount of misinformation that I feel staff needs to address, openly and honestly, with information on where this data was sourced at the very least.

Claim 1: Algorithms help small creators.

This is false, as algorithms are designed to push content that gets engagement in order to get it more engagement, thereby assuring that the popular remain popular and the small remain small except in instances of extreme luck.

This can already be seen on the tumblr radar, which is a combination of staff picks (usually the same half-dozen fandoms or niche special interests like Lego photography) which already have a ton of engagement, or posts that are getting enough engagement to hit the radar organically. Tumblr has an algorithm that runs like every other socmed algorithm on the planet, and it will decimate the reach of small creators just like every other platform before it.

Claim 2: Only a small portion of users utilize the chronological feed.

You can find a poll by user @darkwood-sleddog here that at the time of writing this, sits at over 40 THOUSAND responses showing that over 96 percent of them use the chronological feed. Claiming otherwise isn't just a misstatement, it's a lie. You are lying to your core userbase and expecting them to accept it as fact. It's not just unethical, it's insulting to people who have been supporting your platform for over a decade.

Claim 3: Tumblr is not easy to use.

This is also 100% false and you ABSOLUTELY know it. Tumblr is EXTREMELY easy to use, the issue is that the documentation, the explanations of features, and often even the stability of the service is subpar. All of this would be very easy for staff to fix, if they would invest in the creation of walkthroughs and clear explanations of how various site features work, as well as finally fixing the search function. Your inability to explain how your service works should not result in completely ignoring the needs and wants of your core long-term userbase. The fact that you're more willing to invest in the very systems that have made every other form of social media so horrifically toxic than in trying to make it easier for people to use the service AS IT WORKS NOW and fixing the parts that don't work as well speaks volumes toward what tumblr staff actually cares about.

You will not get a paycheck if your platform becomes defunct, and the thing that makes it special right now is that it is the ONLY large-scale socmed platform on THE ENTIRE INTERNET with a true chronological feed and no aggressive algorithmic content serving. The recent post from staff indicates that you are going to kill that, and are insisting that it's what we want. It is not. I'd hazard to guess that most of the dev team knows it isn't what we want, but I assume the money people don't care. The user base isn't relevant, just how much money they can bring in.

The CEO stated he wanted this to remain as sort of the last bastion of the Old Internet, and yet here we are, watching you declare you intend to burn it to the ground.

You can do so much better than this.

“Pied Piper.”

Stephen Rogers, Cleric of Protection.

To all you wonderful people who like my art enough to reblog it: I see you, and I love you, and I am grateful for you.

To a certain subgroup of those people, the ones not making their own tags, but instead simply re-use mine: life is hard enough - it's totally respectable to choose an easier path sometimes, i totally get you, you are fantastic, carry on.

But the subgroup of that subgroup, the ones who re-use an those tags of mine like "mine", and "my oc" and "my very own art created by me alone and nobody else"... you special cases DO make me wonder what the fuck is up with you.

Doesn't mean you're not valid. Just... I wonder whats up with y'all.

“Successful Raid.”

“Healer’s Kit.”

Qatar 2022.

How many died for your game?

Oh. Scrolling down, or switching to my own site or something doesnt stop it, too.

Only closing the app helps.

So thats what I'm gonna do everytime that sound starts.

I can't believe the incompetence!

Hey, @staff

why the fuck do you suddenly have ads with automatically playing audio? Audio that features moaning women, too? Audio that I cannot switch off, because I cannot tell from which of the uncountable ads on my feed it is coming?

Are you TRYING to drive people from your app, or is this just an added benefit?

Hey, @staff

why the fuck do you suddenly have ads with automatically playing audio? Audio that features moaning women, too? Audio that I cannot switch off, because I cannot tell from which of the uncountable ads on my feed it is coming?

Are you TRYING to drive people from your app, or is this just an added benefit?

“Say Goodbye, Paté.” - “Goodbye, Paté!”

Handsome Devil.