Hello if you’re like me and saw the lil search button replaced by something called “tumblr live” and went momentarily feral with rage, here’s how you can avoid it a little longer:

Hit the gear button on your blog’s page

Under the “Account” page, go to “General Settings”

Go to “Dashboard Preferences”

Scroll to the bottom and flip the switch that says “Snooze Tumblr Live”.

This will only buy us 7 days without it, unfortunately, but I’m willing to bet that they’ll be keeping track of whether people do or don’t like it/use it/snooze it, so if you hate it! It’s worth doing :)

@staff I am begging you to make this feature optional. I am BEGGING you to make it optional.

Editing this because I can see where it’ll be a nice feature for some folks! I don’t think it’s a bad idea! But I would love to be able to opt out please!

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but...posts that have tens of thousands of likes and retweets/reblogs can still be 100% wrong. A lot of people believe wrong things, don’t fact check shit, or completely miss the point of certain popular media. Make sure to keep a mind of your own and be careful

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my god. skinny people really just have like. No Idea huh just absolutely not a single clue lmao it's almost funny to watch fr but then id lie if i said i wouldn't fucking kill to be able to be that ignorant

i can’t sleep because i’m thinking too much about politics. i need to go on a long fucking rant about politics. people need to be SCARED about this upcoming US presidential election and by people i mean everyone in the US as well as people in every country that’s involved in NATO.

i don’t want to politicspost on here but oh my fucking god. i really REALLY REALLY hope people are aware of how dangerous politics are right now. keep your eyes WIDE open. everyone is being fed propaganda and it’s so so so so important that you stay aware.

be politically literate. if you have a phone/computer/library accessible to you, YOU CAN WATCH THE NEWS. you can read the news. you can listen to the news. please please please.

and vote. if you can, vote. tell people to vote. i can’t stress enough how important this is. we cannot let this happen again because this keeps getting more dangerous and i don’t think people are even aware of how dangerous it is. i’m not going to get into specifics right now because it’s late and i’m tired and i’m gonna start crying if i start thinking about it too hard, but this is so so important.

please stay informed.

xx

hello fob friends if anyone has a good video of i am my own muse from last night could you please send me the link?

hey! maybe don't say they should remove a song from the permanent setlist in the official fob discord server! maybe! that's kinda just rude! they're having fun! shut up!

Check for Alt Text!

While I'm glad there's a growing awareness for alt text/image descriptions on this site, please check - before you tag something as "undescribed" or add an image description in the caption - that there isn't actually alt text embedded in the image itself.

Tumblr's beta post editor now allows us to add a very generous 4k characters of alt text to images. This allows for more fluidly integrated image descriptions than putting a description in the caption, because they'll be read along with the rest of the post instead of summarised at the end. Also, people cannot delete alt text in a reblog the way they can delete reblogged captions.

I don't know how it goes for every browser, and I'm sure on mobile it's useless, but on Firefox, you can tell which images on Tumblr are using alt text from the little "ALT" infographic which appears in the bottom left corner of each described image. If you hover over this it will light up, and if you click on it, it will display the alt text in plain text. Twitter has also utilised a similar system which does work on mobile, but unfortunately Twitter only allows for 1000 characters of alt text per image, so on that front, Tumblr is much better - if you use it.

Here's a screencap of what the "ALT" infographic looks like on Tumblr, with the left being hovered over by my cursor. In fact since this image itself is also captioned with alt text you should be able to see if it's working on your browser in real time.

Anyway - again, glad we're all more aware of image descriptions now, but if you're tagging things as "undescribed" etc. in case anyone following you with a screen reader would like to filter out those posts, they may potentially be missing accessible posts if you're not checking for alt text. Likewise, if you write a whole new image description in the caption of a post that's already using alt text, a person with a screen reader has to sit through the same/similar descriptions twice.

Also, start using the alt text feature of the beta post editor lmao. As far as social media accessibility tools go this one is pretty good.

me joining twitter cancelled i just spent 30mins trying to find out whose sister ppl were saying otter commented heart eyes under and then when i found the post the sister turned out to be dating one of his lakeville high school teammates. who is also an nhler. and he was probably doing a generic ass "(heart eyes) love u guys!" type comment. bc it was literally a photo of them together. i cannot do shit like that regularly i will go insane.

Thinking about the post on media and film distribution I added to yesterday, what I forgot to add is simply that a lot of you now spend the hours that you would have once spent on cinema and television on Tiktok and Reels and (to a degree) YouTube. If you know you spend 1-3 hours on Tiktok each day, well, in the 90s, nothing like that existed. You only had books, cinema, television, radio. So people weren't hyping memes and random dances and Good Emu Person and Shitty Emu Person etc. and everything folks talked about - even on early internet - when it came to mass media, centred on those specific forms of mass media.

Cinema will never ever be the same again so long as people give 12+ hours of their week to Tiktok / Instagram and similar sites, instead of cinema and television. You can't cry out for a golden age that's gone when it's gone because the audiences moved on. The fact is, one of the most common media watching memes on places like Tumblr is a version of 'everyone is recommending shows or movies to me and I don't have the time / energy / inclination to watch them.'

I'm part of this, I spend a lot more time on Tiktok than I do watching television or cinema, and this obviously only applies to the folks who do spend huge chunks of time scrolling through short pieces on the internet. And there's also nothing wrong with that until you go 'omg why aren't we getting shows like we used to / why is fandom so different now / why aren't we having these experiences anymore.'

You took the time and investment away, and that's why. It's way easier to get rabidly hyped in a fandom if you don't have Tiktok, or YouTube, or Instagram**, because what's left over (film, television, etc.) is all you have. And that's a pretty huge and significant reason why a) the budgets for film and TV are smaller (overall, it's similarly extreme on the other end, re: Sandman and Marvel etc. But I'm including everything here) and b) fandoms aren't as huge or long-lasting as they used to be.

I'm still noodling on this, and obviously there are a lot of factors going on here (many of which I went into yesterday, it's so fucking opaque to say 'we don't have films like we used to' because like, we do, people just don't know where to find them anymore, what we don't have is indie films hitting the zeitgeist like they used to, which is a different issue and it's multifactorial, and some of it is that people are now screaming about Emmanuel the Emu instead of the latest indie movie that came out). But I do think where Tiktok is making billions off of people, those billions are not going to more 'classic' forms of mass media.

If you want it, you have to give it your time. It's that simple.

** (Obviously these things can also be used as tools for fandom, it's just so much of fandom has also now ported over to transformative works around real people (i.e. dueting / stitching / replying / remixing / meme-ing etc. are all a form of transformative work that take time and labour, they're just different to what we classically think of as transformative works) and/or Tiktok fandom moves really fast by the nature of the format).

hey can we slap people's magazine?

u think u have it bad going on twitter in public.....i opened tumblr for 0.02 seconds while i was waiting for my students to finish a practice question this morning and u guys were talking about cringefail governor cock. i almost passed away on the spot <3 /lh -mas

SORRY TEACH it wont happen again 😔 right class 👁️👁️

@staff please bring back anonymous asks without a tumblr account. At least give us the option to turn them on! :(

finding an artist on instagram that doesn’t have a tumblr i can follow is like seeing the kindest loveliest girl in the world date a mediocre man that doesn’t even remember her birthday. babygirl you could do so much better

I’m so glad to finally be back on tumblr after all these years and I’m ready to start posting pictures again for you all