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daughter-of-sapph0 · 1 year

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quick question, what's an era 2 tumblr user? we have eras??

it's sorta something I made up myself. tumblr has gone through various shifts in presentation and tone that dramatically affected how people use the website. honestly idk if anyone besides me actually uses this system, but I'm gonna use it anyway because it's funny

so Era 1 is from the start of tumblr until dashcon. this is where the dashboard had those weird lines on the side of reblogs, was the hight of superwholock, allows editing other people's posts, and was filled the overwhelming prevalence of fandom. back then, tumblr wasn't very mainstream and most people who used it were big nerds (affectionate). so there was a strong sense of community between people who had shared interests.

Era 2 starts after dashcon in summer of 2014. this was a disaster of an event that sorta boosted tumblr's popularity for better or for worse. this is also when I first joined in late 2015 as an undertale blogger originally (my first blog has since been deleted though). this is what I'd call the meme era of tumblr. it's when most of the most popular jokes are from. it's when massive inside jokes and tumblr references started. and it's the time where the most people were active. and it lasted until about late 2018 with the porn ban

Era 3 was kicked off with many users deciding to leave tumblr near the end of 2018 beginning of 2019. tumblr's policy on porn up until then had been "go nuts. show nuts" until it was bought by virison who tried their best to make it "family friendly". the whole thing was handled very poorly ("female presenting nipples") and didn't even get rid of all porn, just porn from sex workers and artists who sold nsfw content to make a living. most of those people left for sites like twitter, and many other sfw artists (and also people who just used tumblr for free porn) left with them. for a while, tumblr was pretty empty. but not entirely. there were still very close knit communities, arguably even closer than Era 1 even. and honestly, this is when tumblr was at its most usable. it was quiet. the only thing that you had to worry about was the occasional porn bot (and staff's growing authoritarianism, but we'll get to that). it's hard to argue when exactly Era 3 ends. I like to say it's when elon musk bought twitter, but I also think it might have started a bit before then. it's more of a slow transition that happened sometime between early and late 2022

Era 4 is the return era. when everyone who went to twitter came crawling back. this was sorta kicked off with staff starting to be more lax with their porn restrictions. but don't think that staff was having a change of heart and suddenly nice. for the longest time, they had been overstepping boundaries and abusing their authority, such as banning mainly Black and leftist users calling them "Russian psyops". it was also around this time that people discovered that there were several terfs on the development team, and that was likely the reason they didn't ban nazis and terfs despite both being in clear violation of the tos. tumblr staff tried to distract from this controversy by adding a bunch of gimmicks. the crabs for April fools, blazing posts, checkmarks, tumblr live. this for some reason actually worked, and a lot of people just forgot or didn't care about staff any more, and it actually brought in a lot of new users. I have no idea how long Era 4 will last. all the Eras have been kicked off with a massive change in how social media operates that becomes more dramic and impactful each time. so short of the us government completely banning tiktok for good, I doubt Era 4 will end any time soon.

sorry this turned mostly into a rant against staff near the end. as you can obviously tell, I'm sorta biased towards Era 2 and 3, as that's when I had the best experiences with tumblr. and a lot of the problems I have with the site today can be traced back to staffs stupid decisions and abuse of power and authority.

but yeah. I hope that makes sense.

#dostxt #asks #tumblr eras #tumblr era

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chuckyray · 2 years

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if anyone else wants to go through my archives youre gonna find the following because I've had this blog since 2014, since I was 11 years old:

superwholock, hp, LOTR, marvel, DC, aot, ignorant posts about trans issues like truscum values from the 2017-2019 era, youtubers, undertale, etc etc and i literally dngaf cause this blog is over a decade old and ive grown up and changed so much since I was 11. obviously. and if im not sifting through 20k posts just to delete dumb shit from when i was 14 you shouldn't be dedicating your time to looking at my beauty and the beast ship phase from 2017 ✌️🤡

#now if you'll excuse me im gonna play mario kart tour and eat toffee popcorn

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agentmika · 3 years

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@alwaysanoriginal thank u sm for the tag Char!!! And it’s technically after midnight so Ik it’s not ur bday anymore but happy bday again <3 sorry I took like 2 weeks to get to this lmao

RULES: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better.

(^ clearly I do not follow the rules because oh my God I am not tagging 20 people but I copy and pasted the rules anyway)

^^keeping what Char said however I have no shame and absolutely will tag 20 people. Don’t feel like you have to do it tho!

Name/Nickname: Cherish, I generally don’t go by nicknames but I have had friends call me Cheroosh, Cherie, and once upon a time this douchebag in middle school tried to be way too chummy and said “cherbear.” Unfortunately I actually think this is cute but he was annoying so if anyone wants to reclaim that for me be my guest <3

Gender: female, she/her

Star sign: Taurus (I don’t follow astrology stuff but I am happy w/ this in a vague sense)

Height: 5′8″ / 172.72 cm

Time: right now?? 12:18 AM baybeee

Birthday: April 26th! It is fast approaching and I shall be 21

Favorite bands: this will be hard and far from a comprehensive list. Muse. Saint Motel. FOB. AJR. Florence and the Machine. Green Day. The Hot Sardines. Queen. The Regrettes. Uhh, this feels like a unique thing to mention here so I also still like and listen to some songs by Chameleon Circuit, a band that made music inspired by Doctor Who.

Favorite solo artists: seconding what I said before but here we go: MIKA, Lizzo, Mitski, Hozier, Janelle Monáe, Watsky, uh Daft Punk is technically a duo but they’re not a band and I gotta mention them

Song stuck in my head: I’ll give you two. At the time of being tagged it was "Runs in the Family” by Amanda Palmer because of this amv and currently it is “What the Hell,” by Avril Lavigne because of this one

Last movie: Space Sweepers with my friend Cindy :))) It’s space found family and has a really cool universal translator thing b/c sci-fi that has sooo many languages in the film including Nigerian Pidgin!!!

Last show: in full? Wandavision. in part? I watched the first episode of the new pacrim anime :/

When did I create this blog: 2014...yes I’ll admit it I was once superwholock.

What I post: whatever I want catered to an audience of me 😌 currently that consists of predominantly SPN renaissance posting, some more recent occasional personal sharing, the old guard, writing and poetry I like, memes, etc

Last thing googled: not counting the cm thing so “was this song used in a movie” (trying to find if there was a site for that sort of thing)

Other blogs: I have some saved URLs but honestly I don’t have the energy to maintain multiple blogs. it’s all on main baybee!

Do I get asks: rarely but sometimes! ty to those who sent me desticule asks yesterday <3 Ily

Why I chose my url: as I admitted before I joined in superwholock era (tho admittedly I began spn after starting my blog im pretty sure) and I couldn’t decide upon a URL that mashed together all the things I cared about so that-one-fandom-chick was born because it was an umbrella thing

Following: uhhhhh...1695....I’ve been meaning to go through and clear this out b/c some are def defunct and I followed a bunch of new ones in the aforementioned spn renaissance

Followers: 788. I’m a relatively small blog in my corner of the internet I think? Plus tbh like 200 of these have been since Nov 5th lmao when I turned full spn blog

Average hours of sleep: according to my Fitbit, currently 7h 8min. would prefer 8+

Lucky number: big fan of the first few multiples of 7, in particular 7, 14, and 21. I like 64 quite a bit, and thanks to my sister, also 11

Instruments: :/// I wish. I have a keyboard and took like a month of lessons as a child and have tried and failed to teach myself at least 3x. It taunts me. I will try again one day. For now I can kinda play Charlie Brown theme one hand at a time, still memorized from early childhood.

What am I wearing: My comfy pair of pants that look like a bowling alley floor, fuzzy socks, a periodic table pun t-shirt, and a purple Comfy aka this thing for the uninitiated

Dream trip: keeping the diff versions from Char: 1. also a road trip with friends across America (preferably with a playlist including Fragments of Time - Daft Punk) 2. One of my childhood history obsessions was Pompeii. I would like to see it. 3. Literally almost anywhere outside of the US. I have not left it except for a few trips to Canada since I’m right at the border.

Favorite food: I have very simple tastes. I love my mom’s holiday baked mac & chz w/ bacon <3

Nationality: American

Favorite song: no ♥️ (also keeping this from Char lmao) One that I always love the vibe of tho is So it Goes by Hi-Lo Jack

Last book read: :(((( this makes me sad b/c I read a lot but I’m actually in a reading drought rn b/c I got stuck on a book and I’m a completionist. Technically still reading The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, but soon to begin a book club with Neuromancer by William Gibson

Top three fictional universes I’d like to live in: Star Trek PLEASE. One where magic is real, maybe the Graceling universe? Gimme a special ability and heterochromia. Tbh I haven’t thought about this much but I want space and magic so whatever gives me that. Since I’m very into superheroes and the prior statement I will also say maybe Marvel.

Favorite color: Yellow 💛

If you actually read this all, hi ily <3 say hi :) this was an excellent way to stay up much later than I should’ve!

andddddd taglist at the end: @fan-art-ic, @hirschco, @davidfosterwallaceandgromit, @autisticandroids, @princesshamlet, @shitun0t, @crisp-breeze, @hotgirlcastiel, @omniscientoranges, @cor-aeterna, @actually-a-hobbit, @galaxybrian, @char-arts-occasionally, @sobsicles, @spriteofwinter, @ohsweetflips, @stevebeyonce, @casthyelle, @internetcrimes, @tinyneverthelessfierce

again: this is voluntaryyyyy <3

#tbh I am also approaching the tags as I am making u learn more abt me in a loving earnest way. let me share <3 #also this did not actually take me an hour I stopped in the middle to brush my teeth and do some other stuff #tag games #that chick speaks #cher.txt #long post

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rachywritessomething · 4 years

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A Writer’s Decade in Review

2010

I literally started this decade writing about werewolves and I’m not even ashamed. I had to throw the story away because the main character’s name was Paul and people thought it was a dedication to the kid in the grade under us who murdered his stepdad. (It wasn’t)

2011

I finished the Inheritance Cycle and went through this ugly lull where I didn’t want to read. It was the beginning of the end of my voracious reading era and I just didn’t know it. I also got an iPod touch for Christmas and I downloaded all five ASOIAF books onto it. I was fifteen...

2012

I started the year by reading all five ASOIAF books in one month. I burned out so badly from it that I couldn’t bring myself to read like that for years. I began writing a story called The End on my iPod touch and lost the whole thing when I dropped it off the roof of the house.

2013

I wrote the very first draft of The Assassin in an old Spanish notebook with “Spainish” scribbled out on the cover. I also finished writing The End and The Thief by hand and started on The Rogues. I purchased the first volume of Spiderman Comics at the comic shop three blocks from my house and read them all in less than three hours. I swore my allegiance to Spiderman.

2014

I finished writing The Rogues in my notebook. All notebooks are currently in a banker box in my attic, waiting to be burned. In addition, I discovered Supernatural -I watched eight seasons in one month- and by extension, SuperWhoLock and Tumblr. (This comes back in, trust me) I managed to write the second draft of The Assassin on my school iPad.

2015

I let my friend read printed chapters of The Assassin as I completed them in draft three. This was the year I paid to copyright my story. I graduated High School and... I began to dabble in fanfiction. Such masterworks included Supercatural -where they were all cats- a very in-depth Supernatural/Grimm crossover, an OC insert story for a friend of mine, and a vaguely Destiel fic called New Americana. I also did NaNo for the first time with my story The Vampry King.

2016

In an attempt to get back into “serious” writing again, I deleted my Wattpad and eventually my Tumblr. I wrote out my fourth draft of The Assassin and started my second draft of The End. For NaNo, I wrote The Giant War; it was from this bout with NaNo that I discovered I could write 7k words in a day, and during the climax of The Assassin that I hit a new marathon writing record with 2k words in an hour for three hours.

2017

I started the year by being hired for my first wiring internship for an art company. It was during this year-long adventure that I cultivated my writing skills and discovered the art of editing. I met Christopher Paolini at a book signing tour for his coloring book. I finished the second draft of The End and a second draft of The Thief. I also did a short excursion on YouTube that was... entertaining. Sometime that year, I made a new Tumblr for myself and here I am.

2018

I moved to Madrid at the beginning of the year and used my five months in Europe to focus on adventure as opposed to my grades. (It all worked out in the end) In this time, I managed to write a fifth draft of The Assassin and in November, I wrote Nui’yoktak for NaNo, beating my day record with over 7.5k words and overall word count record. Aside from The Assassin, it is the only story I have available to read.

That was the year my grandfather, my favorite storyteller, died. On the day of his death, I wrote five words. You bastards also made one of my posts go viral the week of his funeral and honestly, it gave me and my family a lot of entertainment. Viva La Keybard!

2019

This year, I have done a light revision of Nui’yoktak, a heavy revision of The Assassin, and have gotten through most of the third draft of The End. (Oh, and I graduated college with a BS in Economics, went for a cruise on an aircraft carrier for three days, rode a train from Norfolk VA to Boston MA during which someone died, and became an aunt.) For NaNo this year, I worked on The End and I beat my day record by writing 8k words. I hit 70k for that month, and 20k of those words went in the document in the last four days.

So what of it?

I’m going to look fondly on the 10s not as the decade that I became a storyteller or writer because my stores have been in my head for a very long time. No, this was just a... productive decade. I discovered what stories I’ve prioritized and looking back just makes me curious to know how far I’ll go in the Roaring 20s!

#a year in review #the 10s #am writing #am writing fantasy #writblr #2020 #a decade in review

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