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sprinklecipher · 11 months

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A Case Study in Using Tumblr Blaze to Collect Survey Data

A little while ago, I ran a very niche survey about the vernacular names used for a specific type of North American bug, and I used Tumblr Blaze to try to get more survey responses. I figure that others who’d consider using Blaze to promote surveys might want to know how it went, so here's a graph of the number of survey submissions, with the “Blazed” periods highlighted in dotted orange:

Additional details below the cut.

Response Numbers: Between 4/17 (when I first posted the survey) and 4/30 (when I analyzed data for it), I received a total of 291 responses.

There were 14 responses in the first 24 hours after I posted the survey (before Blazing the post related to it). For all subsequent days that the post was not Blazed, I received between 0 and 2 additional responses. By contrast, I received 145 responses during the first Blaze period and 110 responses during the second Blaze period. It isn't possible to definitively know exactly how many responses can be attributed to Blazing the post, but from this data, I'm comfortable assuming that it's a large majority of the responses.

The Blazed post: I exclusively advertised the relevant survey on Tumblr, and with one, specific post. The post itself was nothing fancy—just a quick description of the survey and some emojis, basically. It looked like this:

I’ve left the survey running (although I don’t promise I’ll analyze new data for it), so if you would like to complete it, you may do so here (NOTE: the survey contains a photo of a bug). Current results for the survey are also available here (NOTE: the results post also contains a photo of a bug).

Blaze information: Both times that I Blazed the post, I purchased the second tier level (which provides 7,000 estimated impressions, although in both cases, the actual impressions ended up being ~10k, per the post-Blaze summary reports). I also opted to specifically target a US audience.

Data quality: One worry I had about Blazing my survey was that I’d get a bunch of joke responses or (worse) harassment, but that fortunately did not happen. I can't know for sure just how honest any individual respondent was, but the overall pattern of results was plausible and suggested there wasn't any widespread bad-faith responding. One respondent gave a clear joke answer, but that was it.

Conclusions: It’s hard to express this honestly without sounding like an ad, but I had a generally positive experience Blazing my survey. As someone with a very small blog, Tumblr Blaze helped me get enough survey responses to crunch some numbers on my (perhaps aggressively niche) project idea, which I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to do. I didn’t receive a staggering amount of data or anything, and the response rate I got might not be worth the cost for all projects, but it served its purpose for me. All in all, I'd say it's at least worth considering for anyone interested in running an informal survey without having a pre-existing audience to lean on.

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lapeaudelamemoire · 1 year

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I am at the point almost now where I am considering just... not following any people from the 'US' any more, unless I already know them and like them.

#i am tired.#us-ians have the worst takes and also the most takes. and also the Loudest takes. on g-d.#also can i just say re: mutual aid - i am noticing heavily that the maiority of mutual aid posts are from the 'us'#& also often other 'western' countries #& like. if we wanna comment on hierarchies and power dynamics #consider: why are the poorest people from 'third world' countries absent from such mutual aid sharings when arguably they need it the most #like. as someone from SEA whose currency is weaker than 'western' countries but whose dash is inundated with mutual aid posts from the 'US'#it's. sorry y'all but it literally costs a premium to mutual aid bc of currency exchange.#like i see folks mad about people buying tumblr checkmarks and not giving it to mutual aid & im like #on the other hand one could also very well say well why arent you giving to mutual aid in 'poorer' countries #when your currency is stronger and $1 USD would be worth idk 5x that in this other currency etc. etc.#u kno??

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notimeliketoday · 1 month

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Northern Crater Illusion (Tifa version)

I know people's been saying something about this part in like forever especially in the OG but I finally get the courage and spite to write my own take. That's what I get staying on twitter I guess.

(You best believe I will post this there but on concentrated amount - character limit is only the blue checkmark's friend on that island.)

Most specifically I want to have a closer look on how Sephiroth pulled his attack using this *truth* that he and Tifa share and how this translates to Tifa's own personal conflict with Sephiroth himself.

Yeah, got so tired in that Sephiroth hates Tifa because of her interference to his plans for Cloud and the only one who can fix him takes.

No, fam. That's what the Rebirth seem to imply to y'all but Sephiroth already hates Tifa in OG separate from Cloud. (Or does he?). Heck, him leaving his Masamune beside her father's corpse is a literal taunt daring her to go after him and use his weapon to inflict damage to his person. This is before Cloud made himself known by stabbing him due to his own grief by the way.

Even with all this, we see he doesn't really seem to care to remember the name of who killed him until Cloud had to point it out in Junon.

CLOUD had to point it out. His KILLER has to tell him his name just to make him remember.

Tifa though?

Getting talked to so intimately with faux kindness - the very same treatment he now shows Cloud in Rebirth, imagine that.

Now let's also remember that this is the OG and therefore any trappings of Rebirth's new plot doesn't exist here because this is the beginning of it all.

Anyway, I revisited this scene because of an itch urging me (it's the spite) and a thought suddenly occurred to me.

If we remove Cloud's side and trappings in that part of the illusion (basically all things Cloud) and look at this from Tifa's perspective as a standalone thing for her own character, it paints a very clear picture of Sephiroth attacking her.

People always miss this because Cloud once again overshadowed Tifa's own trauma and unresolved conflict with Sephiroth as the one more openly attacked in this scene.

Let's look at Sephiroth's lines:

The lie has been set. Obviously Tifa won't let this unanswered if she could help it. So this is her response:

With Sephiroth's response to this being the first images I posted above.

It's been made clear how extremely pressured Tifa was at this scene especially when Cloud reveals he hinges all his faith in her while suffering her own trauma again AND attacked by their enemy.

It wasn't just Cloud Sephiroth gaslighted in this scene.

That's what this part is trying to show us and regardless of who gets attacked here the outcome is the same: Cloud is just an illusion created by Jenova using memories of people, most especially Tifa.

Sephiroth doesn't hide his attacks to her at all and it astounds me how everyone who played this game back then believed only Cloud was dealt a great mental blow. (Most of y'all are kiddies I guess that also tracks.)

Tifa actually had it much worse!

She was so overwhelmed from it all she accidentally made the wrong move of answering Cloud in the negative:

When I said she's under tremendous pressure it isn't just because of reliving her trauma and carrying the burden of Cloud's mental state alongside her own increasingly damaged psych.

It is the fact that Cloud wasn't the only one relying on her affirmation - or lack thereof - to validate which one was speaking the "truth". Sephiroth was also using her to confirm his claims and he knew very well he's got the upper hand to the "truth" she has known, all the while gaslighting her that it IS the only truth. There's even a picture to prove it!

This is not the picture but this is also that picture.

Of course, Sephiroth made sure to include her into the story. She's not part of it simply because she was there but because according to his statement..... her memories are part of Jenova's knowledge used to make *Cloud* - the failed clone.

The Cloud who by Seph's own words is just a construct of Hojo after Nibelheim's burning. A clean slate born from collective memories thanks to Jenova.

The sheer implications behind these statements are our clue to the underlying conflict that exist between Tifa and Sephiroth outside of Cloud. That the hatred is not a one-sided thing, and just because it isn't readily understood why it exist doesn't mean it isn't present.

Sephiroth drives the knife further to twist the mental wounds even more. Tifa being the one to carry the most burden of all:

Now here's a pretty interesting thought: a girl who is just plain ordinary is important enough to have Jenova's effort in molding a clone after her own desires - her childhood friend. Sephiroth is basically admitting he's got one special clone just for her. (He even gave her one in Remake but that's a slightly different story).

Ignoring the fact that Cloud is not a construct it still makes you wonder: why use her for that lie? Why her in particular?

(We are using Tifa as our center focus for this so I'm going to exclude the "she's Cloud's childhood friend reasoning. This is not about him.)

Then it can be answered if you look at it as his own way of tormenting Tifa - using a clone imbued with her memories.

A mutual on twit said that maybe because she's the one who the group trusts the most, however more than half the party wasn't there yet when *Cloud* (who Sephiroth consistently claims is just his clone) appears in front of her on that bench.

AVALANCHE as it was at that point doesn't have anyone else with a connection to Cloud.

So it goes to show she is the target of said clone's manifestation.

That is, if we believe the lie Sephiroth weaved and take it as he said it at face value, which definitely is what his claim would be to Tifa who can't refute it, especially because apparently *Cloud* really did show signs of "clone behavior" when they first met but the tech limit back then doesn't show us how it should be like to its fullest extent.

(As someone points out here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/hartofhearts.tumblr.com/post/665525778591694848/the-implications-of-tifas-familiarity-with-marco/amp) My phone isn't cooperating 😭

How could she when his "truth" matches exactly everything she knew five years ago? How could she say he's wrong when Cloud's behavior was suspect when they met for the first time in years after Nibelheim (and for her part after he left for SOLDIER)?

She tried refuting but it's clear she has her own doubts about him as well, as she couldn't continuously defend Cloud from Sephiroth's persistent claim about his current identity.

By gaslighting Cloud he doesn't exist, he also gaslights Tifa into thinking her real childhood friend is gone and it's all just in her head now.

Sephiroth KNEW so well she wanted to see Cloud five years ago but didn't see him and use that to his own advantage. It's why this is so effective a gaslight to both.

As far as Tifa knew, the last time she saw Cloud was when he left to join Soldier. This Cloud's fate is unknown to her, maybe he died or maybe he forgot about her and all such insecurities Sephiroth could use with that solidify his claims that he was all " Aw, poor Tifa. Waiting for someone who never came. Here, Jenova's made you a clone with your memories of that boy to play with you."

That's what it looks like if we only see this scene through Tifa's eyes.

Again, taunting her in the same vein as when he first did leaving Masamune besides her father's body.

Why would he do so if Tifa didn't caught his attention in the first place?

Sephiroth is clearly playing around with her and toys with her emotions just as clearly as he attacked Cloud.

He just couldn't break her like he could him no matter how hard he tried because Tifa's mental fortitude is so strong.

#tifa lockhart #sephiroth #ff7 #cloud strife #writing this post made me realize something about sephiroth and how he views tifa in og #and it somehow pulled me even further into the ship #doesn't help that it fits so well with his actions to her in og #sephti

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cyle · 1 year

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hey, hope this is ok to ask, but relatively how much control do tumblr devs like yourself have over the overall site direction? my initial reaction to stuff like e.g. tumblr live is always wary but reading through some of your posts makes me more hopeful that new features aren't an attempt to just tiktokify or twitterify this site and that devs actually have an interest in cultivating something unique and meaningful here. but i also saw a tweet from the CEO of automattic where they were interested in former twitter devs bringing in twitter-style timeline, ranking, and ad stuff which... ew. that feels totally antithetical to what I as a user enjoy about the site. so to what extent is it under your control to say something like "no, we're not doing xyz algorithm stuff everyone else is doing, it's not right for the platform" and to what extent are y'all just at the whim of those kinds of top-level directives?

everyone working at tumblr has a say in what we build, and has some level of influence over what gets shipped and what we decide to not work on outright. we're talking internally every day about what makes sense and what doesn't, and a lot of that ongoing conversation is a reflection of what we see on the platform and what people say about tumblr. there have been plenty of times when we've all agreed that we should definitely NOT build something, because it betrays what we believe is essential about tumblr.

i wish we could make a lot of those conversations more public, because i think most long-time tumblr users would be surprised how much of what "makes sense" to them is literally the same as what we care about and talk about internally all the time. there's a very specific "tumblr weird" that i'm attuned to and we usually try to guide our projects to exemplify that somehow. "how do we make this more tumblr-y" is a common thread of discussion. it doesn't always work out, but sometimes it's pretty perfect. (the important blue checkmarks are a great recent example of this.)

but, one thing that has changed over the past ~2 years is that we're embracing the idea of experimentation a lot more, in terms of what we're willing to work on that may not have "made sense" for tumblr before. unfortunately, as Matt (the CEO) has said publicly, tumblr is not making enough money to pay for itself right now, so we need to be willing to try things to figure out how we can unlock growth and/or money. sometimes, that "tumblr weird" we love so much can get in the way and hurt us. trying to find the right balance is a big part of the job, and it's extremely difficult.

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crackinglamb · 5 months

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AO3 Year End Roundup, 2023

Normally, I'd do this in a couple days, but we're close enough for government work (and I'm on a deliberate break anyhow, so nothing new is being posted). Normally this would also be a tag game, but I haven't seen it floating around yet, so...

Hey, you wanna do your own roundup? Go for it. Yes, I mean you (looking at you, DAFF crew). Consider this an open invite. Tag me back so I can see what y'all have been up to.

Words posted: 241,283 . This total has had subtracted from it the amount that already existed for the fic that carried over from last year (which was WG, of course). So this is actually what I posted this year.

Additional Words Written: ~166K. I have several WIP's going on in the background. One of which is finished and will begin posting after New Year's. Another of which is about halfway done. The rest are...procrastination projects/getting the wiggles out. They may never see the light of day. But they count as writing, so they are included.

Grand total of words: 407, 283 (goodness gracious)

Fandoms: 2

Works: 12, 11 of which were new.

Highest Kudos: Into the Current, at 271 (just like last year, I'm not counting WG since it wasn't new). The Iron Bull/OFC, rated E, 79K words, complete.

Highest Hit Oneshot: The Mighty Fall, at 706. Sookie Stackhouse/Eric Northman. Rated T, 2900 words.

New Things I Tried: I wrote a trio of fics for True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries this year. The WIP that's finished and waiting for the new year is a continuation of this series.

I also posted a ficlet I'd originally posted here on tumblr for archiving purposes. Some Years Into the Future...

Fic I Spent the Most Time On: Driftwood, my Bullmance series. Writing ItC itself wasn't particularly long, about two months, but T3, the next fic, is still being written. At first it was all going to be one long fic, but then I decided I've had enough of epics (meaning any work significantly over 100K words), and split it into parts.

Fic I Spent the Least Time On: The Mighty Fall. I have finally gotten to use the tag 'I wrote this instead of sleeping'. 🤣

Favorite Thing I Wrote: Usually, I have trouble with this category. I'm poly, you know. But this year, I actually DO have a fave. Okay...I have two.

How Deep the Bullet Lies - a gift for @rosella-writes, for the Solas Lovers Exchange. Solas/Cassandra Pentaghast with a whumpy open ending. Rated M, 4200 words.

More Than Mere Stone - a gift for my beloved @ir0n-angel in the same exchange. Solas/F!Trevelyan, pure fluff. Rated G, 1500 words.

Favorite Thing I Read: In Twain, by CatC. It's everything I wanted in a 'background character gets caught up in events' fic. With a sizzlingly hot Bullmance and So Much Cole. I think I've read it three or four times already. At least. If you need something comforting and wonderful, I cannot recommend it enough. It's simply delightful, and so is the author. Rated E, 172K words, WIP.

Something I Finished: I did it, at long last. I finished What a Wicked Game to Play. It was the focus of NaNo (and took literally three days once I put my mind to it, hence much of the other writing I did that hasn't been published). It feels really good to have my beloved Behemoth marked with a green checkmark. The story itself isn't finished, and I'll eventually write more for Imogen and Co., but for now, it is Done.

Writing Goals for 2024 – Keep on keeping on. I want to finish T3, so I can start posting it. I want to finish a couple other things from the WIP list. There will of course be a new Fluffuary prompt list. Biggest goal, however, is simply not to burn myself out. I've started waiting to publish until a fic is finished, which has done wonders for my stress levels. No more posting gaps on an in-progress fic.

Allow me to Gush about some things I wrote this year.

(Otherwise known as: honorable mentions)

Out of the Dark - Lark Cadash was once going to have an epic fic to her name. But I'm Tired, and frankly, I'm bored with rewriting the events of DA:I over and over again. So I've turned her into a series, where I can just put up oneshots and short chaptered things in no particular order that add up to one big story. This is one of them. Post-canon, Lark goes into the Deep Roads to find the answer to a riddle that's bugged her for her entire life. She gets more than she asked for, with a side serving of sad Solas. I've had many of the headcannons included in it for a long time, with no home. Now, they're out there in the world. Rated G, 4800 words.

What Lies Beneath - my actual giftfic for the Solas Lovers Exchange. I had such fun writing this, and had ideas for it as soon as I received the assignment. I got to set something in the Hissing Waste, which is one of my favorite places in the game, as well as write a polyship for my two favorite romances. F!Cadash/Solas/Iron Bull, rated T, 3400 words.

Maker Damned Fools - back in 2020, I wrote a Varric/Hawke short little thing for the first Fluffuary. I always wanted to go back and expand it into a fuller story. Add it to the pile of Things I Finished This Year. From their meeting to post-canon. Rated E, 32K words.

What a Wicked Game to Play - *deep satisfied sigh* It took two years and ten months to complete, with near constant weekly updates. It's 411K words by itself (not counting the rest of the series). It contains about 350 embedded images of either screenshots or fanart. It is both the highest hit (over 90K) and highest kudo'd (1535) work on my archive. Affectionately known as 'the Behemoth', extensively written with my signature yeeting of canon. Imogen McLean, MGIT, Inquisitor, beloved of Fen'Harel. I am stupendously proud of this work, but I am also incredibly happy it's done. I set out to write an epic, and I damn well succeeded. Rated E.

See y'all on the flipside! 💕

#Lamb writes #ao3 #2023 year end roundup #dragon age #southern vampire mysteries #true blood

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hick4hire · 4 months

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@peppy-jester —

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[ cw g/ore ; b/lood ; d/eath ; v/iolence under read more ]

The world keeps going. Despite his failures, despite his losing streak, despite being set on fucking fire— he was back on his feet and back on the job. Locate. Execute. Locate. Execute. If he didn't relish in every kill, he might have been bored by now.

But as it were, the sight of blood, even at a distance, stimulated something in his brain juuust right. The same way some people found popping bubble wrap— everything about the instant the life was choked out of their miserable, pathetic bodies was endlessly fascinating to the hybrid. Stress relieving, even. A pleasant buzz that held him tightly and soaked him to the bones in sadistic bliss. He could breathe easier. As if he'd absorbed his victim's very life force in gruesome, vampiric fashion.

Everything about this job was a routine by now. A list, a formula, a smooth clean checkmark in a box. This target had been no different. A melee kill, bring back the target's watch, and a picture of the corpse. Simple enough. Nothing remarkable whatsoever.

So, when he's sliding the knife into the target's torso, roughly twisting it as the serrated blade parts skin and pierces meat... The last demon he expects to see when he lifted his head was that damned clown that Crimson had tried to sell back to the Prince of Lust.

A few things happen at once: he freezes, a cold jolt of fear ripping down his spine like an electric shock. His gaze darts to the area behind the doorway, past Fizz, eyes wide open, observing every flicker of movement.

His biology makes this a much easier process than it might be for a regular imp or regular loan shark: a special secondary eyelid dropped, made of a membrane sensitive to heat that allowed him to see a sort of overlay for heat signatures. In short, built in infrared.

From what he understood of regular hell beast snakes, this feature was some sort of convenient adaptation of a special organ that most vipers possessed: something called the pit organ that was usually beside a hellsnake's nostril on the snout. As a child, he'd asked his parents about it, but they knew as much about his particular mutation as he did.

He doesn't see any signs of Asmodeus' presence. Fizz was alone, from what he could tell. The fear completely fades from his face, a sneer replacing his brief stunned expression. "Well, howdy. Don't mind me, clown. I'm just finishing up in here."

The imp in Striker's claws has been pinned down to the floor, Striker's knife still embedded into them. They're squirming and struggling, but Striker doesn't pay it any attention. The desperate clawing at his arms was laughable. He twists the knife further in with a satisfying crunch, staring unblinkingly at Fizz.

"Well, What're you doin' this side 'a town? Didn't think your biddy'd let ya go free range just yet." Striker's grin is wide, something crazed and gleeful entering his eyes. He pulls the knife up out of the imp's chest and with a casual, graceful motion, cleanly slits their throat. He grabs their arm, ripping the watch off them. One checkmark. Two checkmarks. Two boxes ticked. Only one left. Better not take too long with the clown.

"...You ain't gonna do nothin' stupid, are ya, Fizz? You don't got that fight in ya." Striker doesn't even say it aggressively: he says it like he's making small talk about the weather. "I saw ya back in that warehouse, yack. Y'r a performer, not a fighter. Wanna do some shadow puppets for this poor fucker?"

A cruel snicker before he backhands the target, who's miserably choking on their own blood and flopping like a fish. "Better yet, you can feature in his final photo. Bet that'd sell to your freakish fanbase, huh?"

Striker stands up as the body beneath him finally goes limp. "Tch. You seein' this shit? This fucker didn't even properly scratch me. Can you believe that? Our kind was made by Wrath. Satan, for fuck's sake. But ohhh no. Y'all grandparent's left t' the other rings n' got right cushy, didn't ya? Livin' in those big cities, slavin' away for Overlords and royals. Pathetic." He spins the knife in his hand with such force the black blood is flicked off it. "You, though, you're the worst case I've ever seen." Striker takes several slow steps forward, eyes glowing brightly.

"Run." Striker leans forward slightly. His body language shifts to show just how prepared he is to burst into a sprint. Fizz wasn't get out of this without a little game of cat and mouse.

#🌵〔 my future's in a body bag→ ic 〕#🌵〔 annihilation for the thrill→ asks 〕#// so i may have gone a little crazy. whoops #// absolutely no need to match length. inspiration just struck ig

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pikipekarmy · 1 year

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special team events

so the special team mystic event, right. idk what it was supposed to be about because my app was broken so blanche didn't speak to me i just got assigned tasks. and it was like... ok evolve some dudes, yay got the checkmark on to the next thing which is.... evolve more dudes.... hm ok i did the easy ones but i guess if i dig deep i can find a few more, ok.... and then i had to evolve yet more dudes and it was getting ridiculous.

well now we have the team instinct event. spark needs me, for some reason, to spin ten pokestops or gyms.

uh i

well if i open campfire there's literally not even a gym on the screen, i have to scroll to see any. yes it's that bad.

i managed to swing an errand into a nearby city, and managed to get ten pokestops/gyms spun. and then i got the next task.

spin 20 more.

are you fucking kidding me.

well i'm stuck on 11/20 so far, i ran out of errand.

If the weather weren't so awful, I could drive a mile down the highway and park in the lot of a mini-mall and spin that pokestop every five minutes and be done with the task in....

mmm well 45 minutes of sitting in a parking lot... I could cut it down to 25ish if I got out of my car and ran back and forth between that pokestop and a gym that's in the next parking lot over (no you can't reach both from one spot yes i've tried) but since it's 45 degrees and intermittently hailing I'm not going to do that.

Anyway. I groused about it in one of my Discords and was like "so what's the Team Valor event gonna be like? What slightly annoying task are they going to ask you to do and then do again and then do again until it's actively painful?"

and one of the people in the discord blew me away by saying "you're assuming there's going to be a Team Valor event," which was a level of fuckery I hadn't even considered.

But, so I guess there's my question for y'all-- 1) do you think they'll actually manage to follow through on making a Team Valor event to complete the set, and

2) if they do, what fucking annoying task are they going to ask us to do until it's beyond any level of reasonable to do?

It won't matter for me because I'm going to be stuck trying to spin pokestops until I die at this point. I actually just don't think I'm going to open the app tomorrow, it's too depressing.

(Am I still stuck on the Meltan one because they want me to catch five Gulpin, which aren't spawning in this hemisphere? Why yes.)

#pokemon go #sorry this is so salty #but give me a fucking break

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monarch-boo · 6 months

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Didn't finish my predictions list before the trailer dropped because I thought they were gonna wait until after the Splatfest like usual.

But I made some afterward with the knowledge that the trailer gave and also got to check a few of my pre-trailer ones already!

A couple extra, moreso hopes than predictions but I'll throw them on my notes app real quick anyway after I post this: Please don't put Sprinkler on Stamper. Please make Reefslider better. Please have more gear in the shops.

And note about BigBalloon. My understanding is that we *thought* BigBalloon was Horrorboros, but Horrorboros apparently goes by a different internal name? So that'd mean BigBalloon is still unaccounted for as of right now.

I don't have the BigBalloon thing checked off just yet because I won't feel 100% certain that Megalodontia (Joe) is BigBalloon until the season comes out and dataminers confirm so. I'm confident that "Chimney" is Splattercolor Screen because it seems to match parameters and behaviors dataminers found a while back.

The internal names for stuff seem really tangential so Joe *could* be BigBalloon. The King that literally fills + throws giant Steelhead balloons is not BigBalloon??? But Joe could be, literally just because big + round.

Although I'm actually somewhat hoping Joe is *not* BigBalloon, because if BigBalloon is *still* unaccounted for in 6.0.0 then that might confirm at least one more King before EoL. He might not be, because I remember dataminers talking about BigBalloon using rails and I don't know how that'd work with Joe.

Unless of course Horrorboros *is* actually BigBalloon and whoever said he went by a different internal name lied and I'm stupid (I think it was literally a dataminer that said it though?). I'd be mad if so, because I've believed this ever since the Inkblot Big Run...

Anyway there's about 2 hours before SplatoonJP may post some other news but I'm going to bed now, just gonna throw my list in the readmore, just copypasted from my notes app with checkmark emojis added so y'all can see the currently checked off stuff easier.

[ ] New SR stage. [ ] ^ Ruins of Ark Polaris? [ ] ^ Lost Outpost? [ ] ^ New stage entirely? [ ] More SR suits. [ ] King Salmonid int name "BigBalloon" added. ✅ Special int name "Chimney" added. [ ] Special int name "Pogo" added. [ ] SR Underground mode added. [ ] Boss Salmonids int names "Balloon" "Ghost" "Wheel" added. [ ] ^ Underground exclusive bosses? [ ] ^ New Night Wave bosses? [ ] ^ Both? [ ] New kits for: Explosher ✅ ^ Splatana Stamper ✅ ^ REEF-LUX [ ] ^ Glooga Dualies [ ] ^ Hydra Splatling ✅ ^ Snipewriter [ ] ^ Bamboozler

(Trailer and snipewriter kit reveal already out before these next ones ⬇️) [ ] More surprise kits than just Snipewriter? [ ] At least 1 map rework [ ] Something gets Crab Tank finally [ ] ^ S Blast? [ ] ^ Stamper? [ ] ^ Painbrush? [ ] Something gets Booyah Bomb for 1st time in a year (literally the last ones were gold Aero and Forge Pro iirc) [ ] ^ Painbrush? [ ] ^ Splat Dualies? Weapons besides Undercover that get Splattercolor Screen: [ ] ^ REEF-LUX? [ ] ^ Painbrush? [ ] ^ Squeezer?

#post #splatoon 3 #long post #chill season 2023

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decolonize-the-left · 2 years

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People are hating on me for my tumblr-greed posts like I'm the actual grinch who's just here to steal your Great Mental Health or something so lemme clarify some things. Firstly, I wanna be very clear that good mental health is a human need.

I don't mean that in a "you need to be happy 24/7" kinda way either. I mean that in a "taking care of yourself is a need". Like yes you need to feed yourself to stay alive, but sometimes you'll also need to smell the roses or watch a movie with friends to stay alive.

Being generally content does wonders for your will stay alive and as such taking steps to keep yourself in good spirits is a Need. Buying things you like, having hobbies, going out, having friends, etc.

A lot of you who take my posts personally fall into the category of people who are generally content.

As in you are people that are defending their check marks like your lives depend on it but... It doesn't. You're not going to fall into a depression cuz you can't have a blue checkmark by your name. In 2 weeks none of you will even care about this anymore. And you aren't developing PTSD from people being judgy about it Tumblr dot com either.

Because you're content. Your needs are met. You're safe, sheltered, belly full, got some extra cash in your account, a secure income, and contently scrolling on Tumblr, maybe you even have plans this weekend that you're excited about.

So why are you acting like someone asking you for $8 would put your entire being at risk?

A lot of you seem to think "I must take care of my mental health" means "if you make me feel anything but good then you must be bad for my mental health" and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

No.

Sometimes you will feel bad. And that's okay. What matters is that you have enough good experiences, have enough of your needs met, and have a support circle that can help you cope and bounce back.

And a lot of you will be able to bounce back

Like I'm not hating on people for having fun or making themselves happy. I very much believe people deserve to be happy.

I am hating on y'all who have both money and decent lives that expect people at risk of homelessness to respect your mental health (again, a thing that's not even actually at risk) and not ask you for money at the cost of their lives meanwhile you're literally writing essays about how you shouldn't have to give them the change in your pocket because you'll have FOMO.

We owe it to each other take care of each other. You take care of me then I'll take care of you. And if you're not gonna give a shit about me then why should I give one about you? See how that line of thinking leads us nowhere and just ensures everyone is more miserable?

Yeah.

We all live in a society and none of us are here by choice, the least we can do is help one another when we can.

Some of y'all don't want to do that and that's fine, but you don't want to feel guilty for it either. I'm here to tell you that you cant have your cake and eat it too. Cake is meant to be divided & shared.

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katenepveu · 1 year

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using Tumblr and XKit Rewritten on Android

I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the Tumblr app, and I wanted to let y'all know that you can get the benefits of desktop Tumblr--including the XKit Rewritten add-on--on Android by using Firefox Beta (or Nightly). (I don't know if you can enable add-ons on iOS, sorry.)

I generally prefer desktop Tumblr over the app because:

I can turn off infinite scroll in my dashboard preferences; and

I can see new features as soon as they're introduced (like the checkmarks or the bells).

Bonus: blocking and reporting spambots takes only one step, not two.

(I pay for ad-free browsing because I can, but if you can't or won't, Firefox also does ad blocking.)

Why I use XKit Rewritten:

I can block individual posts, including reblogs thereof (I use this all the time);

Collapsed queue, which reduces my scrolling through my 200+ queued posts; and

Quick tags, which not only lets me add tags to my own drafts, queued posts, and posts without editing the post, but also lets me define tag bundles (e.g., I have a bundle for "whale weekly, moby-dick, moby dick," because I gotta tag the title both ways).

(There are a lot of other tweaks in XKit Rewritten; those are just my can't-live-without.)

I'm afraid that enabling add-ons in Firefox Beta or Nightly does take a little extra work--here's how--but even without that, running Tumblr in your mobile browser of choice works just fine, and may be a good choice over the app for you!

#tumblr #tumblr how to #mine-ish #xkit rewritten

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who-the-fuck-is-sennalye · 1 year

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They have the pikachu man in the gif but not manscaped? Lame. Also not a single blue checkmark?

I posted 153 times in 2022

That's 153 more posts than 2021! Again this blog is like seven months old it didn't exist in 2021

72 posts created (47%)

81 posts reblogged (53%)

Blogs I reblogged the most: I'm not fecken @ing people for this if you're on this list I'm sorry (not me being my top reblogged blog)

@/sennalye-the-boohbah

@/effervescent-fool

@/inky-the-artist

@/the-nymphvallien-universe

@/homunculus-argument

I tagged 147 of my posts in 2022

Only 4% of my posts had no tags

#text post - 52 posts

#rb - 51 posts

#will wood - 16 posts

#thread - 16 posts

#boohbah - 11 posts

#art - 8 posts

#boohbahs - 8 posts

#long post - 7 posts

#memes - 6 posts

#monster high - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#'i'm all stripped down naked for you but asking you to loosen up my buttons baby' like do you think i can sing that with a straight face?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

"Y'know, when I said 'may death do us part,' I really did it under the assumption that we would indeed die someday."

also

"Are you scared of your own mortality?"

"Not since I started begging God to give it back, no."

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#4

What I said: "yeah I listen to loads of music"

What I meant: "I've been listening to the same Will Wood songs on repeat for the past month "

15 notes - Posted May 16, 2022

#3

"The crimson moon sits full for us tonight on its throne in the black sky."

24 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

#2

I clipped it. y'all can play it on loop forever now.

33 notes - Posted September 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I've been really cryptic about this until now but now it's done I can finally show this off.

LOOK AT HER. ISN'T SHE SO PRETTY?!?!?! LOOK AT THOSE CLOTHES. I MADE THOSE! AREN'T THEY COOL!?

sorry sorry I'm chill I swear.

So earlier this month I went to a collector's market. Most of it's old stuff like jewellery and glassware and clothes, but some stalls sell toys. My friend has a Monster High doll collection, and I've made it my mission to get as many dolls into their hands as possible (so far 2/3 of the dolls come from me, so I'm doing pretty well). So when I went to this collector's market I kept my eye out for dolls.

See the full post

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #stch

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As an elriel shipper I find it really sad that the two sides can't just get along and make this "ship-war" more fun. Like why can't we make this fun and just laugh about how we all see these characters going in different directions and joke around I don't get it. Why can't we just be like "5 bucks on elriel!" "I'll raise you ten!". Why you gotta be so serious all the time it's literally a book about fake creatures fucking.

Honestly. Sorry but I'm using this as an opportunity to rant about this fandom because it's so embarrassing, I am so tired of it.

I used to have so many elriel mutuals. I didn't care that they posted about it for years because I had the tag blocked so I got to see their other content still and interact with them. Funny how a bunch of them unfollowed me after acosf though, when I started posting content they didn't like and they couldn't extend me the same courtesy of blocking the tags so we could still interact regardless. I think I still have some but they just might not be as active, idk.

People are way too invested in being right. And they are way too invested in the idea that canon = the only thing you can like.

That's the whole reason fandom exists! To play with canon! To change it in ways that we prefer! Yes fandom exists to get more content about our faves, but that content is inherently not canon. Literally, anything that any of us say about these books, unless it's a direct quote from something that sjm has published, is not canon. People need to get the fuck over it and start to have fun, maybe. Even fanfic that agrees with canon can be tagged on AO3 as "canon compliant". That should tell you something. It's not fucking canon, no matter how close to the books it is.

(Screw canon. Y'all all need to take a giant step back from canon because it's getting mangled in your desperate grasp at this point.)

This whole thing with the character/ship weeks is just another example of how this fandom cannot have nice things. We can't even appreciate the same characters without people making it into a dick measuring contest, what the fuck! And I get anons who get mad at me for pointing out when people say shady shit about Elain, like babes, mes amis, besties, we both like Elain and I am defending her by saying don't reduce her entire personality to bread and roses, why are you mad at me?!

I haven't participated in any events since acosf (except for one elucien hc post that I did last minute) because the events have been tainted. It wasn't just this last week, it was way before this. The events have felt like a contest rather than a genuine enthusiastic "yay, this thing!". And now not only that, but certain people are trying to make events into a contest for territory or "I'm better at liking this character than you are". Gross. And sorry but the timing of the event pages is fucking sus! The fact that people have saved a whole bunch of Elain week event blog titles that they will never use just so that Sue (and others) can't access them, is fucking ridiculous and childish. And the fact that people were being snide about Sue in the comments of the one announcement? And those comments were just treated like those people weren't making pointed, dickhead comments? So much for your neutral, drama-free event. LMAO

And people treat fan art/artists that way as well, like if someone draws elucien it's a checkmark in the elucien column? We can't just enjoy that art? Or if it's an artist who has drawn elriel/elucien/gwynriel, then people get pissed off that the artist they thought was on "their" side has betrayed them? It's so immature.

But I also wonder if the ship war ending will make it any better. Right now I'm seeing a lot of pro/anti Nesta content and I am sighing and pinching the bridge of my nose. If you don't like what someone says about Nesta, just block that person or the tags. It's not enough to have a ship war? We need to be pro/anti individual characters, too?

That frustrates me because how can we have conversations with one another? What's the point of being in the fandom if it's just "I think x" and then all we hear in return is a chorus of "so true bestie".

Fandom is supposed to be fun. People are sucking all the joy out of it.

#i don't care if those event runners see this #maybe do better #or just accept that you're okay with those types of comments on your post #and you aren't neutral #i would love to hear #some justification of that though #so curious how it can be defended #acotar fandom #ask #anon #fandom things #rant #i need a salt tag #fandom salt #okay I need to work now

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thatssomeana · 4 years

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written-rebellion · 6 years

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Perfect Distractions

A/N: @ all the people who were worried Jamie would be all aimless and depressed on campus, y'all know what’s up LOL

Jamie is feeling the weight of it all, Claire hasn’t called in weeks, and as always, all the facts of this fanfic are contrived specifically to make fluffy university/modern-day au scenarios. Please let me know what you think!

Part One: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] | Part Two: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] | Part Three: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] | Part Four: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] | Part Five: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] | Part Six: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] | Part Seven: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] | Part Eight: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] | Part Nine: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] | Part Ten: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] | Part Eleven: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] |

Part Twelve: Message Received | Chapter 1

Slim fingers were skimming down his bare arm as tuneless humming pulled him slowly out of sleep.

“Sassenach?”

He was answered by tiny butterfly kisses brushing against his nape and between his shoulder blades. He shivered pleasantly, turning to meet his favourite shade of whisky.

“Hi,” she said softly, nudging his nose with hers.

“Mo chridhe,” he whispered, cupping her cheek before pulling her lips to his.

He couldn’t place the feeling – not that he ever could with any great certainty – but something desperate inside had him pressing his fingers into her skin, lips recklessly insisting against hers.

“What's the matter, love?” She was giggling. “Have any big plans today?”

“Hmm?” He pulled away to look at her, finally taking in the space around them.

“This isn’t yer room…”

She narrowed her eyes at him.

“No, of course not.”

“This is—”

And just as the familiar scent of Lallybroch wafted past him, he woke up.

In his dorm room.

Alone.

“Go to class,” John ordered from somewhere nearby.

Well, nearly alone.

“Aye, ye dinna need to keep remindin’ me,” Jamie groaned, pushing his face into the pillow.

“Yes I do,” John called as he shut the door behind him.

Jamie stayed pressed into his bed a moment longer, trying to draw Dream-Claire back to him. But like John, she was gone for the day.

He reached for his phone on the nightstand, arm heavy and reluctant from sleep.

> Morning,

> Or, good night in yer case.

He waited for the small notification telling him the messages were delivered, but – like the last 20 or so he'd sent in the past few weeks – it never came.

She was in the thick of it now, he knew. She and Joe had spent a few days in Manila to acclimate themselves before driving to rural areas in a province called Cavite. Wherever they were, cell service was sparse or she was busy, but likely both. She’d spend most of the 6 weeks there and Jamie was feeling the weight of it all.

He hadn’t heard her voice or seen her face, save in pictures, for weeks.

But that didn’t stop him from texting her, a far cry from his attempt at not seeming too eager early in their courtship. Those blank little circles mocked him, telling him no – no matter how much he wished – she hadn’t seen any of his messages.

He knew her well enough to expect more exasperation than apology when all 28 messages finally reached her. She’d roll her eyes at him, tease him about the sheer neediness of it all, and he was certain some sort of dog metaphor would be used.

But it didn’t matter what she said.

He just needed to see her.

By evening time, 28 had turned to 31. But only because the diner they had their first date in finally updated their beer selection and Jamie was sure she would want to know that.

“James Fraser, ye truly are a mess.” He sighed, running a tired hand down his face as he walked back to the dorms.

His ringtone barely made it through two notes before it was squashed against his ear.

“Claire?!”

“Ah, so she hasn’t called then,” Jenny’s pointed voice said through the phone.

“Nay,” Jamie said, matching her tone.

“And neither have you, brother.”

“What?”

“Ye haven’t called in weeks either.”

“Well, ye can imagine I’d rather keep this line open, ye ken?”

“Ye’re actin’ like a child, Jamie.” Never a spoonful of sugar type of person, his sister. “What would Claire say if she saw ye moping about like ye are.”

“Ye dinna ken I’m moping about!”

“Oh aye, I do. Ye like to think ye can hide whatever ye’re feeling but I’m no’ Claire. I can hear yer heart in yer voice alone.”

He made a grunting noise and Jenny sighed.

“This is her job aye? This is what she’s wanted to do since before she met ye.”

“I know! I just mi—"

“Miss her, I ken. But ye love her, no?”

Jamie blinked.

“O-of course.”

“And ye plan on spending yer life wi’ her?”

His face burned. Always trust a Fraser not to pull punches.

“...aye.”

“Then what’s a few weeks ye wee fool?! The world kens she’s just as mad about ye as ye are for her. She’ll come back to ye so just suck it up and wait.”

He was silent long enough for any other person to think he’d hung up, but not Jenny.

Then he chuckled.

“Ye’re quite enjoying my plight, aren’t ye?”

“I dinna ken what ye mean, dear brother.” Her voice was laced with a smile.

“Verra well, Jenny,” he said. “But if I can wait on Claire to call, surely ye can wait on mine, no?”

“No,” she said before hanging up.

Jamie shook his head and – though he thought against it – opened up his and Claire’s message history.

> I expect ye’ll be overwhelmed by the messages when ye get them. Apologies, lass. But, if ye read any at all, I hope it's this one. I love ye, and I’m proud of ye. I miss ye, aye, but I’ll be waiting right here for ye when ye return.

He nodded, resolved, and was about to slide his phone into his pocket when—

One by one, the checkmarks in the corner of his messages lit up and turned blue.

“Claire...?”

She was reading them.

Then, below what had essentially been his diary for the past few weeks, three tiny dots bubbled up.

He held his breath, waiting – as he had been for weeks – on her reply.

Read Chapter 2

#outlander #outlander fanfiction #outlander fanfic #jamie x claire #perfect distractions au #wr writing #im iffy about where to end sunday's chapter #it's possible I'm getting a little too trigger happy with these cliffhangers #but that next part thoooo #tough one.

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decolonize-the-left · 1 year

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I'm so done with y'all over this fucking checkmark thing lol

Am I tired of my asks being full of anons going "but it's justified if I do mutual aid right??! right?????? I'm not bad. Am I?? I'm not. I donate, I can't be. Wait, idk. Pls tell me Im not bad?"

I am a little yeah. Because I don't care about the checkmark if it's just one or two. Have fun with your money, I've said it before but I'll say it again for the people who missed it: I think happiness is a human need. I understand that money can buy it. I'm all for that....within reason. Spend your silly little dollars on a silly little checkmark.

MY issue is that yall are spending upwards of $50+ on the stupid thing and keep insisting and implying that doing the Bare Fucking Minimum of activism somehow doubles as a pass to be free from critique. Or that it's a ticket that allows you to make harmful decisions sometimes.

And like?? Why are you even trying to justify that? What the fuck kind of argument are you even trying to make, like do you hear yourself "I need to spend $100 on this" okay clown, get a life instead maybe.

Like why are there people who've taken the time to write proofread ESSAYS that justify why they should be allowed to have 10+ checkmarks but haven't spent the same amount of time or money in an entire year to educate themselves on MMIW, ICWA, or any other issue marginalized folk have to deal with today? Why are y'all screaming at poor people to shut up instead of just being less fucking obnoxious about a joke? Why aren't you yelling with us at the people who are not helping then?

"hey! I donated at least I'm doing something 👺"

Good job you're better than *checks notes* a racist who donated to Ted Cruz's next campaign. Not a high bar if you ask me, but I can see how it might look that way to someone who doesn't actually fucking care about anything they pretend to stand for.

#rant

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