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hotwaterandmilk · 1 year

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Changes to this blog

Just a quicks heads up, I didn't think I'd ever do this but I've come to the decision that I no longer wish to continue posting scans online as I have done in the past.

I have been sharing edited scans from my personal media collection online for free for over two decades now, with Tumblr being my home base since 2012-ish.

I didn't think anything could make me give up, but in recent months the combination of my ill health and the sheer amount of reposting-for-revenue people have perpetuated on other sites via "otaku art" accounts and the like has made something I used to love doing for free feel quite miserable, honestly.

I will continue posting about the things I like here, making gifs and answering questions if asked. I might even get around to working on some of my other projects, but for the moment I'm going to stop posting edited scans.

Thank you for supporting what I've been doing here. I just don't have it in my anymore for the scans to continue, sorry.

#personal #feel free to unfollow if you were just here for scans #that's ok i totally understand #i'll keep the archive around because there's not much removing it will do #but i'll keep this blog tumblr-only for a bit until i feel comfortable #thank you for your support #i'll still be around #this disillusionment might be what i needed to kick me in another direction #that and the heart issues i've been having this past week which have made me go “what am i doing?” a lot #i'll think a bit more about what i want to do and in the meantime i hope you enjoy 90s gifs!

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silverloke · 7 months

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*sobs* no but listen

1k notes is what gifmakers used to get as a standard minimum for an average gif post in a fandom of this size 😭 i mean, yeah i'm thrilled af to even have stuff reblogged anymore but it feels like a struggle, especially when seeing superfantastic gifsets by other more talented people struggling just as bad to get 1k notes

but the worst thing for me is the massive drop that's gonna follow 😂 lmao it really sucks the life out of you. which would make you post more gifs to get another high (quite literally on this little chart here) but considering that reblogging is so low compared to just liking you now have to put out things constantly instead of letting a post ride the waves instead of counting on being the first one make a certain gif and who even has the energy to do that when you also see a gorgeous gifset by a popular blog barely has 500 notes after 12+ hours after a show is out.

(fffff i still remember when my activity notes dropped to below a thousand every few day, it was like i felt actual agony lol)

anyways i miss old tumblr where everyone would reblog everything all the time 😂 add actual comments of their thoughts (not hide them in tags) which others would engage in and add to and sometimes improve the actual post itself with a better reply. i miss the thrill of seeing the note mountainpeaks instead of it making me feel drained. gifmaking is such a joy in itself and not available on other sites so i hate that it feels like this now 😂😂😂😅

but yeah, to everyone who has liked and/or reblogged any of my gifs, you rock!!! 👍 this is just me wishing tumblr 2023 gave me the same adrenaline rush as it did in 2012, 2017....

(also, that note activity is from my gif sideblog so yeah it's all dead because i haven't posting anything there for quite some time obviously lol)

#tumblr #random

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haxxy · 1 year

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just submitted a feedback thing to tumblr for the first time in my like... 10 years on this site, which feels crazy

it's wild to think that i've been here through so many changes, the yahoo acquisition, the porn ban, etc, but the shit that they've been doing lately was the final straw to get me to reach out directly

if you want to see my shitty text dump of a feedback submission, it's below the cut. I'm sure it'll probably just get ignored by staff, but I encourage everyone else who's pissed off about the stuff that's been happening to vocalize it in a way that's more direct than just pinging staff. They can't ignore all of us.

I'm generally not the type to send in feedback like this, but I've heard that this is the best way to reach out to staff, so I'm giving it a shot.

The changes being made on tumblr's mobile app are detrimental to the user experience. Altering the way photos and videos are formatted/viewed is unnecessary, and removing the ability to pinch to zoom will negatively impact accessibility.

Changing the mobile layout to have the tumblr mart icon replace the user icon is also a frustrating addition. It is fine to have tumblr mart and to make it accessible on mobile, but putting it in the bottom lineup and moving blog access into the upper corner comes across as an obnoxious advertising attempt. Tumblr mart should be displayed in the upper corner if it's displayed anywhere at all. In its current location, it just feels like an attempt to get people to misclick on it due to muscle memory. I have purchased things from tumblr mart before (blaze, crabs), but the more that it is pushed on users (first the "new" banner, then the sparkles, now the sparkling GIF and the icon being moved on mobile), the less I feel like I want to use it. I'm sure that others feel the same way.

Also, please either get rid of tumblr live or add a way to disable it permanently. I have not seen a single person talk about wanting this feature and it is a huge hassle to snooze it every week.

Tumblr is a website that people enjoy because of its differences. Trying to replicate the features of other social media sites comes across as an unoriginal cash grab at worst and a failure to listen to the userbase at best. Surely there's a way to implement interest checks on these features before rolling them out large scale, especially now that polls exist?

I've been on tumblr since 2012, so I've seen a lot of changes over the years, but the ones taking place recently have stood out as especially questionable. Generally, when major changes have occurred, there has at least been an effort to explain why they are taking place. Even if nothing is reversed from the current setup, could we at least get more announcements stating the reasoning for these decisions being made?

Thank you

#haxxy stop #it feels so stupid to get this worked up abt social media but idk #tumblr is pretty much THE ONLY social media site that I use. I am a tumblr monogamist #I like a lot of the changes they've made in recent history but it seems like they're on a bit of a downward spiral with this shit lately #i'm not sure if they're trying to be more marketable to people from other social media or what #but it really does feel like staff has just stopped listening whenever they were doing a pretty good job at it before #the shop thing is something that's really frustrating to me ngl #i don't care if they do stuff to make money. as said i've bought shit from the shop before and i'm sure i'll do it again #but i'm NOT a fan of having it shoved into my face + them taking advantage of muscle memory to make people click on it #which i'm sure was also the plan with tumblr live going where the fucking search bar was

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kwistowee · 1 year

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Hi dear. I just wanted you to know that this person reposted your gif without giving credit. It really bothers me when people do that so I wanted to let you know. Love what you do! 🧡

Thank you, I love giffing and sharing edits here! It’s incredibly sweet of you to let me know when you notice that kind of thing! That really bothers me, too. I reached out to them and they were gracious enough to remove the post and were very kind.

It can take a while to get used to how we do things here, and I remember being in those shoes back in 2012. I’m definitely willing to grant leeway if someone is unfamiliar with the ins and outs of this goofy site. 😊

But I’ve also had plenty of far less pleasant interactions with reposters, almost always users who were fully aware of Tumblr etiquette, but chose to ignore it anyway. I have zero patience for that kind of disrespect toward myself or other creators.

Reblogging is wonderful and is what makes this site functional. Reposting is theft. If someone asks you not to repost something they made, take it down without an argument. Telling someone they should expect other people to take their stuff if they post it online it’s like telling someone they should expect other people to steal their car if they park it outside of the garage. Of course it is a possibility, but we shouldn’t expect or tolerate that kind of behavior. It’s incredibly selfish to feel entitled to anything you like. We should try to be kind to each other.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#thank you anon #you're lovely #for anyone who is new around here or is rusty on Tumblr etiquette #reposting is theft #i will never stop speaking up about it #asks #replies

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calliecat93 · 2 years

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Ten Years of Tumblr

Holy crap… it’s been ten years. And I actually made a post about it on time.

I can’t believe I actially made it. I made this blog in March of 2012 for reasons I don’t even remember anymore, but I didn’t use it until September. It’s been a LOT of ups and downs. I wanted to abandon this site so, SO many times. I have a lot of posts and stuff that I regret writing. I have reblogs of people and media I no longer support. Fandoms I’ve dropped in and out of for various reasons.

Yet despite it all, I’m somehow still here. Maybe I’ve succumbed to the insanity, who knows? The fact that I’ve chronicled ten years worth of my life on here. From my 19 year old self to my current 29 year old self… damn. That’s crazy. I’ve certainly changed in both good and bad ways. I had a lot of tantrums and hypocritical behavior. I made rants. I got angry. I said a lot of stuff I’m embarassed about now. I was really naive about some things. There’s a lot I can say about past me. But at the same time I grew more awareness. I’m catching myself on those flaws more. I became more open to acknowledging things like ky sexuality and my love of animation without being scared. While I’m in a rut right now, I’ve been growing as a reviewer and analyst woth media. I’ve had my bad takes, but I feel overall I’ve been able to be fairly open minded.

Ive gad so many ups and downs the past few years. So many deaths, including my dad. It’s all chronicled on here. But life has continued on. I’ve continued on. Despite all the grievances about Tumblr I’ve had, it’s the one place I feel I can be myself. I can reblog GIFs of the cartoons I grew up on. I can write metas on characters and pairings I like. I can just do my own thing and not worry about being judged for it. Overall, Tumblr is a Hellsite. But hey, it’s the Hellsite I’ve stuck around for, and I don’t intend on leaving yet.

IDK what else to say tbh. But to thkse who ahve followed me, whether it be from the start or recently, thank you. Thank you for putting up with me and my insanity. Thank you for enjoying the stuff I put on here. Thank you for the follows, whether you have an account or just like to tune in once in a while. Mu fandoms have varied, so I know how frustrating it can be to keep up with haha. But thank you all for making me feel a little less like an outsider. I know I’m quiet and mostly stick to myself, but it really feels good to be in a place where I can be me and be accepted.

Will I make it another ten years? Who knows? That’s then, this is now. Thank you again, and happy blogging everyone~

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jung-koook · 2 years

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Hi Sky, I saw those weird hate messages and just...lol. How do people have nothing better to do. You're respectful and everything you post is public and you credit everyone properly, sometimes I worry about the general intelligence level of humanity. By their logic, if you're a saesang, I am too, because I rb everything you and other content creators post. I hope you're not too bothered by those comments, they're just useless people who are determined to hate everyone and everything instead of just enjoying something good and focusing on what brings them happiness.

This attitude is probably part of why Tumblr is slowly dying. I've also been on this site a little longer than you, and just like you, I took kind of a break for a few years and then came back properly during the pandemic and saw how different it was and how many people have left. 2012 Tumblr was so fun and it gave me so much joy and got me through a lot. Even now, fandom is the main thing that keeps me going, because it's the best way to distract myself from my life. I get genuinely overwhelmed and sad that this site is dying. I know it's a bit silly because it's just a website, but it kind of feels like.....home to me? Anyway, I'm glad there are still some gifmakers like you around, I love coming on here and seeing the stuff everyone made and that everyone is as excited as me.

Also, fun fact, my boyfriend is an architect too so I know how much work it is and how stressful it can be. Hope you're taking care of yourself. You don't need to reply to this (but if you do, please don't publish it lol) I just wanted to say that I relate to a lot of what you said in general and also that people on the internet are stupid. Have a great day, and keep loving Jungkook and BTS!

being called a saesang really shook me and upset me. even though I know I'm not one, theres no way it wont hurt me. :/ its true what you're saying. there are a lot of people who left here because of how tumblr has become. I dont think I know anyone here who has never received a hate message. and we need to learn to deal with them if we want to stay here. do you believe that??? people who have to learn to ignore them and not them who have to stop sending these messages. if I didnt like making gifs so much I would have left my blog a long time ago. sometimes its so tiring to deal with some things here :/

thank you so much. thank you for taking time of your day to send this sweet message. thank you and i hope you too please! lets focus on jeongguk and bangtan and forget about these negativities ♡

#reply #anonymous

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vetinarihavelock · 8 months

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For the sake of having more than just an ego trip, I will say: I was looking at my oldest, eight-year-old sets for the first time in a while while I was composing my previous tag-vomit, and oh boy the rookie mistakes that took place! Granted I can't be that tough on myself - not because I wanna be nice to newbie!me, but because it was 2015, and while we had at least advanced to the point of not having our size limits be locked within the couple-hundred kilobytes range (jfc 2012 and earlier gif editors were braver than US marines), two megabytes was still really fucking rough, so I can't judge us for straying too far from our modern standards like "no chopping every other frame" or "seriously no frame delays slower than .05 seconds or we'll choke you." (Yeah this was back when .06 pretty much had to be a much more tolerated option, particularly if you were an editor who prioritized vibrant lighting/coloring over having longer running gifs. Frame cuts were still a necessary evil a lot of the time.) But yeah, I might rag against bad coloring, but if you're trying to figure that shit out on your own and you're not even seeing the best editing this site has to offer, let alone studying them considerably, it can be rough figuring out what the fuck you gotta do. Hell, based on my own tag search, I didn't even know what the fucking point was for sharpening for most of the first month. You know - that thing that makes you look more HD than the original footage? Oof.

That all being said, though: Going further into my original editing tags, turns out I improved a lot faster than I remembered. Like, I'd barely been at it for a month, and yet by that span of time, my coloring stopped looking like it was painted on by a four-year-old and I actually learned what the preferred sharpening settings were. I am once again boggled by how quickly I got from "forgivable newbie bad" to "actually... kinda passable." And it was all just up from there.

...Holy shit, I completely forgot that I had actually made before-and-after gifs on that first year. Well okay not really; that's just how they coincidentally worked out for me: It didn't take long for me to want a cool sidebar gif of my own making once I got started, but I ended up improving so dramatically by the end of the year that I couldn't stand looking at my original bad shit anymore, so I had to replace it with something that was more on my more end-of-year level. And thanks to their sidebar status making them literally some of the only gifs that didn't have my original signature, for once in my life I can stop sounding like a weird braggart and safely show a small glimpse of my babby abilities!

Feb 2015 vs Dec 2015

So... Yeah, when you see me rave on somebody for their fantastic coloring/editing skills, I'd like to think I know what I'm talking about. :)

#personal #This post took an ungodly number of hours to compose for something that I'm vehemently never allowing reblogs for #...Anyway allow me a second to yell about how I fUCKING HATE THE NEW PHOTO EDITOR BITCH LET MY GIFS STAY THE SIZE THEY ACTUALLY ARE #YES I'M AWARE THEY WERE MADE BACK WHEN OUR POST SIZES COULD ONLY BE 500PX WIDE BUT I'M STILL ANNOYED

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sangdelune-archive2 · 10 months

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╰ ☾ ☆ * : ･ ⁞ — ˗ˏˋㅤㅤ𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍

NAME : Stella

PRONOUNS : She / Her

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION : I don't give out my discord much nowadays so actually, my preferred method is tumblr ims through my main !

MOST ACTIVE MUSE : Unfortunately NOT Misha because the V.NC RPC is always dead compared to my other RPC. But Misha is always very near and dear to me no matter what.

EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS : Goes to show my age I believe I started maybe when I was 9-10 before I even knew it was called roleplaying. I started in 2012, back in the days where no one knew how to cut posts and everyone had entire gifs as ' icons '. My muse was so minor of a character there wasn't any gifs so I HAD icons but they were all inconsistent sizes LOL.

BEST EXPERIENCE : Honestly as much as I hate to say it, I think the 2012-2013 days were the best despite the site being so messy and so unhinged since everyone was still learning and I had a lot of fun plots with that character. But more recently, I'd say it was meeting some of my very few besties here on this site !

RP PET PEEVE : If I had to name ONE ultimate pet peeve, it's that people on this site tend to take things too seriously. Boundaries are important yes but people tend to forget that the block / blacklist button exist. I've seen and experienced it all on this site and that's the root of all the hurt feelings, d/rama, friendships ending, etc. In the end, we're all here to write our silly little fictional characters and if some people don't mesh, that's okay ! Just don't start a witchhunt or start policing over it.

PLOTS OR MEMES : BOTH except I'm really bad at plotting so I tend to lean towards memes !

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES : It really depends on the day. Sometimes I have no muse and sometimes I can type 240238490324 paragraphs. GENERALLY though, I try to match my partner's length !

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSES : OH GOD I HOPE NOT okay, no I relate to them a bit, yes.

Tagged by: @jardinae

Tagging: Whoever !

#ੈ ✩ ‧₊ ˚ ☾ The blue moon. ✧ OOC.#ੈ ✩ ‧₊ ˚ ☾ Fumbling for you by moonlight‚ overlapping and entangling with you. ✧ GAMES.

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georgeromeros · 3 years

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Because absolutely no one is asking for 'em - Return to House on Haunted Hill gifs!

#my other useless posts #me giffing things like it's 2012 on this site

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mittensmorgul · 3 years

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For anyone interested in long-term residence in the supernatural fandom, please have some observations I’ve made over the decade I’ve been here. Take it or leave it as you will, but I’ve found all of this info useful over the years I’ve been here.

I wrote this yesterday, and it achieved its mission of identifying the sort of folks who would react negatively to it (i.e. a lot of block lists have been updated), so now that it’s been edited for content, it’s going under a cut (because that is how we do things on tumblr in general, unless we have a deliberate purpose for annoying readers with excessively long text posts) for the sake of people who actually do care about the fandom and its history. If that’s not you or your reason for being here, then keep on keeping on with your own thing, I guess. For those who are interested, there’s a lot of fandom resources some of us have been building for years that you might enjoy knowing about.

First off, I’ve been informed by a few friends who’ve read through this for coherency’s sake that it sort of reads like a *shakes cane from porch* fandom grandma complaint, but honestly... I earned this rocking chair and goshdangit imma rock now. So apologies for any “back in my day” vibes or faint aroma of tiger balm this post might give off. Then again, it’s loosely based on a similar post from 2012 so like... time is a flat circle anyway I guess.

1. There is no such thing as “tumblr famous,” unless you’re referring to the hilarious and delightful fic of the same name (please go read it, you will cackle). Posting Hot Takes for imaginary Clout™ on this site is kind of pointless in the long run. Sure you can post solely for the sake of stirring shit and getting notes, but the majority of the folks who do aren’t long term residents of the fandom. They’re just tourists moving through our little beach town for spring break. If you’re actually intent on moving to this corner of the fandom for an extended stay, please bother to really feel out the permanent residents and understand the culture and general mood of the neighborhood. It bears no resemblance to whatever’s going on across town where all the bars and beach parities are happening, and those loud, drunken revelers are, again, gonna disappear back to their regular lives or on to the next party eventually. That doesn’t mean the fandom is dying, it’s just evolving.

(funny how I had several comments implying that I’m just trying to keep the fandom from evolving with this post, because I sincerely do want the fandom to continue on for years to come, and that is impossible without evolution. We can evolve without self-immolating, though. mostly i included point 1 for an excuse to push ancient but hilarious fanfic on you.)

2. Once you post something here, it’s been unleashed to the fandom winds. You never know where it will end up, or who will comment on it or add to it. Remember that time Misha tweeted the link to the Epic Cockles Love Story post? No? It was wild. That was 2012. They all know we’re here, and how to find us if they want to. Please don’t take it to their doorsteps.

Obviously if someone is being a dick on your posts, please feel free to block them, but the whole entire point of this site is to engage people with your posts. Being big mad that someone reblogged your post with comments or supporting evidence, or happy headcanons or “HECK THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE (insert personal story about their experience or whatever else made them Feel Things about your post)” is frankly ridiculous. If your goal is to avoid any sort of engagement with your posts, then maybe try instagram instead. From what I understand, there is a SPN fandom presence there, and nobody can tarnish your original posts with unwanted commentary. But the ability to reblog with additional commentary is a FEATURE of tumblr that builds community through conversation. Otherwise we’re all just talking to ourselves in a vacuum, and that’s what actually kills fandoms.

(and for the folks who just want to blog how they want to blog and don’t want people to engage on their posts at all, please feel free to block anyone you want, as well... nobody wants to step on your toes, but most of us also don’t want to walk on eggshells wondering if this post is one of the “do not add comments for any reason” sorts of posts, either. This is a huge fandom and most people can’t even begin to keep track of every creator and their url du jour, and what their personal rules might be regarding interaction with their content. Including a “please don’t add comments” note at the bottom of your posts-- and not in your tags that won’t even show up on reblogs, but in the actual body of the post-- would sincerely help avoid any awkward or unwanted interactions, too. At the end of the day, you are in control of your own fandom experience and the block button exists.

For the record, I block zero fandom blogs (which is why I posted this, I wanted it to reach a wide scope... refer to the opening paragraphs as to why).

3. Since this post was partly inspired by a tag I left on that post going around about how “previous tags” mean fuckall on this site (which you can read here), just a reminder that if you like someone’s tags or feel they add value to the post, part of the Peer Review structure of tumblr encourages you to PASTE THEM INTO A REBLOG. If you do this, then at least credit the person who actually wrote the tags! Don’t just copy someone else’s tags into your tags on your reblog of the post without credit either. They were not YOUR tags. (I have had this happen to tag rambles I wrote and someone else got credited with them on a subsequent reblog and it is FRUSTRATING). Just... don’t even bother to write “previous tags” because WHAT PREVIOUS TAGS?! Nobody is gonna bother to chase back the chain of reblogs trying to find where the mystery tags came from, friendos. That way lies madness.

(for the record, since some folks seemed to focus on this point solely, writing “previous tags” on a post isn’t inherently a BAD thing, but for anyone who actually is here for more than one-off shitposting, then it’s sort of a pointless thing in the long run. This wasn’t intended to suggest people who ARE here for one-off shitposting are bad or “doing it wrong,” but for people who might actually want to preserve that hilarious joke or insightful comment. People delete posts and entire blogs all the time around here. Links break. I get that the upcoming generation just shrugs at that and moves on with their lives, but heck... you don’t have to accept that all entertainment is disposable if you don’t want to. There’s a bizarre sort of nihilism plaguing us all about the impermanence of pretty much everything that feels like something we should be fighting against rather than buying into wholesale, even in our escapist entertainment. I’m just exhausted by the complete loss of joy in community.

*shouts from the peanut gallery* IT AIN’T THAT DEEP, JUST GET SOME FRESH AIR AND LOOK AT A PUPPY OR SOMETHING

Yes... yes it isn’t really that deep, but bigger picture in the state of reality we’re all entirely disillusioned with, are we supposed to just give up on everything, including the things we cling to because they bring us a tiny spark of hope that we’re not all just trapped in this dystopian nightmare and things might actually be worth living for?

*peanut gallery clinging to burnt husks of peanuts in a barren peanut field* but this is how we have chosen to cope

Okay... you do you... I feel bad for you but if that’s the case then this post is NOT FOR YOU. AND THAT’S FINE. I honestly do not care if you don’t care! I mean, I’m sorry anyone has to live in a world that drives them to that mindset, but I understand. This post is for anyone who might look at their lives and their choices and think “no wait, I unironically enjoy this and want more from the experience of that enjoyment than I’m currently feeling.” Everyone else can continue with their lives as usual.)

4. CONTENT THEFT IS NEVER OKAY. PERIOD. Things like “credit to the artist” or tagging gifs or images you found on pinterest as “not mine” isn’t actually credit. If you can’t source an image or gif set, DO NOT POST IT! We don’t REPOST (i.e. save an image and then create a new post with it as if it was our own creation). We REBLOG (click the little square arrows and reblog from the actual creator). That goes for gif sets, fanvids, screencaps, meta, fic... everything.

(hopefully everyone here already understands this one, but I felt compelled to include some “these are stupidly obvious” reminders anyway, since this is ostensibly some sort of advice column. This is the equivalent of the warning label on your toaster reminding you not to use it in the bath. Like... duh...)

5. Close kin of item 4 is SOURCE YOUR SHIT.

(for 100% disclosure purposes, I specifically discussed this one in this specific way because of an influx of anon ask messages I received in the wake of the finale. Literally the inciting incident for creating this entire post was what I can only assume was a joking ask about a comment Misha made at a con years ago. Someone actually bothered to take the time to type out those sentences to me. I have no idea what they were expecting in reply, or what could possibly motivate them to send this comment about something so entirely random from, again, several years ago. Just a joke? No idea, but whatever... it got me thinking that there might actually be people who are new to the fandom who MIGHT actually care about the fandom history, and maybe they just don’t know where to go for that info, or how to even begin searching through 16 years of history for things they might actually find enjoyment in, rather than just hauling random out of context garbage out on main and pointing and laughing about it now. People are actually allowed to care about things. It’s not cringeworthy to actually care about things, and you are not alone in actually caring, and there’s this whole big room over here full of people who are thrilled to share in that with you. This post is intended FOR THOSE PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY, so if that is not you, please just continue walking by.)

Yes, I know lots of y’all are new around here right now, but dredging up stuff from years ago that fandom has completely debunked and presenting it as TRU FAX again is just exhausting. We’re not trying to be party poopers, but seriously, we have seen it all and are mostly done with extinguishing bags of flaming dog poop on our front porches for the umpteenth year in a row. I’ve seen a lot of posts that have the same tone as “I saw Goody Proctor dancing with the devil” or “I heard kylo ren has an eight pack” and just... the information is there for anyone who cares enough to find it.

This goes double for “why is nobody talking about this thing I just discovered while watching the show for the first time?!” And, oh hon, we have talked it all into the ground over the last fifteen years. We’re happy you’re discovering it again, but I promise we talked about it plenty when the episodes originally aired. We have such a rich meta history that lots of us have worked really hard to preserve. I encourage you to seek it out, if nothing else than as historical artifacts. The way we have discussed the show has been a 16-year evolution. People have written literal doctoral dissertations on this show. Your shitposts are fun! We love reliving our own experience through fresh eyes, and seeing your wonder at experiencing it all again for the first time! But y’all didn’t invent this fandom in the last six months, either.

Meta Sources and Minerals provided by our friendly neighborhood fandom archivist, @lets-steal-an-archive

Academic books and articles about SPN

A collection of Meta Essays going back to s1 and organized by topic (all of this has happened before, all of it will happen again)

SPN Heavy Meta Archive (s1-3)

Mel’s Dreamwidth archive of meta (s1-12)

Oranges8hands Dreamwidth archive of meta (s1-15, with many similar entries to Mel’s... though ymmv on viewpoint in a lot of these too)

Anyone remember Fandom Wank? Not the concept but the actual LJ... No? Okay have a link to SPN topics that ended up there. Through 2013. We have seen so much... including several fandom containment breaches.

for all your art sourcing needs, please see @theroadsofararchive, the repository for so much fandom art.

need to find a gif of something? canonspngifs is a vast repository of gifsets of the entire series. If the gif you want to use in your post happens to be the first gif in the gifset, in the tumblr gif finder thingy just paste the permalink to that post from canonspngifs (which is easily searchable by episode, character, location, situation, quotes, and sometimes even color and clothing items the actors are wearing... it’s really well organized, especially for tumblr >.>) and the first gif will be automatically linked with credit to the gif creator attached. It makes life easy that way. It’s also convenient when trying to remember something specific but can’t remember what episode it’s from. I’ve used the site to jog my memory before going to the superwiki armed with more specific search results to find episode quotes and references. Or sometimes I just scroll through all the nice gifs for fun, too.

Need a screencap of something and know exactly which episode it’s from? Try Home of the Nutty. You might not find the exact screencap you’re looking for, but they have a complete set of caps of every episode, and it’s an incredibly useful resource for quick reference checks and the like. Just give pages a chance to fully load before clicking on the next one. The site is easily overloaded, but it’s still free to use (and again, with credit... Pretty much every screencap on my entire blog is from HotN unless otherwise credited).

As you can see, this is a fandom built on preserving our history. You absolutely are not required to engage with any of this if that’s not of interest to you, but I can only assume that there are people who would be interested in it if only they knew it existed and how to find it. Well, now they do.

6. A few more notes on tags, and how they work on tumblr. The first 20 tags on your ORIGINAL posts are searchable sitewide, so if you want to be able to find something again, tag that thing first before going on general tag rambles. The only place tags on reblogs are searchable is on your own blog. So you don’t have to put 50 tags trying to get a post seen if it’s a reblog. You’re just spitting into the wind at that point. If you have a filing system for finding things again, then by all means add those tags (again, in the first 20, so they’re searchable), but you don’t need to tag a reblog “destiel” and “deancas” and “dean” and “cas” and “dean x cas” or whatever. Pick one for your personal blog’s filing system, that’s all you need.

(this was only added because tagging and searching on this site is so very broken... I get that a lot of folks don’t care about ever searching their own blogs again for anything, so this one only really applies if you do often find yourself trying to find old posts. If not, then it’s not really relevant. It took me years to work out a decent tagging system, and at the beginning of my time here I never thought I’d end up camping out here for a decade and falling this deep into the fandom, and I regretted my lack of consistent tags only years later when I realized I actually wanted to be able to go back and find specific old posts again. So... for anyone who wants to err on the side of caution, working out a sensible tagging system really helps if you’re here for the long term. I personally tag content by episode, because some of my other general tags are so large as to be practically useless as a search term. But whatever system you choose to file stuff on your own blog, it really only has to make sense to you. And again, if this is pointless advice for someone who has no intention of settling here for the long term. Please feel free to ignore it. I just wish someone had explained it this way to me ten years ago and saved me the hassle of retroactively tagging something like 30k posts... especially now that using the mass tag replacer is the fastest way to get your entire blog deleted... oops? so yeah, don’t use the mass tag replacer either >.>)

7. Tags on Tumblr DO NOT WORK LIKE TAGS ON TWITTER. If you @ someone in the body of the post, it will show up in their notifications (if they’re the sort of person who even checks their notifications... not all of us do. For the record, I generally don’t...), but putting actor or ship names in the tags on a tumblr post does absolutely nothing. It’s not the same as tagging the actor’s twitter account in a tweet. Nobody’s getting notifications about you tagging a post about Jensen here as “Jensen Ackles.” There is a difference. Please learn it. (and don’t take headcanons and ESPECIALLY RPF or otherwise explicit art or fic from tumblr to twitter and tag the actors in it. That’s just... not okay.)

(I have seen the pearl clutchers getting all in a huff about the mere existence of RPF or even explicit content of fictional characters if it doesn’t meet their purity standards, but tagging those things allows people who don’t want to see it to actively avoid that content here. Nobody has a right to tell people their fictional content shouldn’t exist at all, or that creators of that fictional content somehow deserve harassment or threats for having dared to create such “immoral” content, won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children... and no... you do not do that here. Don’t be the problematic behavior you wish to ban from the world. Learn to use tags to protect yourself from, as i have attempted to emphasize here, fictional content you are personally upset by. That’s a you problem, not a problem for the creators of potentially upsetting content that they tag appropriately for.)

8. General formatting stuff: If you’re writing long text posts, visually break them up so people aren’t faced with one long wall of text. The enter key is your friend. Also, if you put long text posts under a Read More break and send people to your blog to finish reading, please ensure that your blog is actually visually accessible (tiny text, or light grey text on a dark grey background, or a visually busy background might be aesthetically pleasing to you but nobody can actually read it. Loads of folks won’t even try. Which is great if you don’t actually care whether people are able to appreciate your content or not, but something to at least consider if you *do* actively want to encourage engagement with your work. Confirm how your blog looks on both mobile and desktop and make sure it’s actually functional in both, too).

And since I mentioned that most of my experience on fandom tumblr has been in the SPN fandom, here’s a bit of a reminder for folks who are new around here. With the reminder that I have been here more than a decade and still feel like a newbie myself sometimes...

This is an OLD FANDOM. There are many, many people who have been at this longer than some of you have been alive. The average age for creators in this fandom is older than you think (I think of my friends in their 30′s as young’ins okay? okay). With that understood, you are responsible for the content you consume and are exposed to. Curate your experience. Ship and let ship. YKINMKATOK. Don’t deliberately expose yourself to content you find upsetting for whatever reason. Tags and warnings are your friends, not targets for you to attack in some sort of purity war. People will ship things you do not like (or in specific ways you do not like), will say things you do not agree with, and will find their happiness in things you abhor. That is not your concern. Find what you do like, and support and engage with it, and ignore (or block, or unfollow) the rest. Tumblr has a feature that lets you blacklist tags so the content you’re trying to avoid won’t appear on your dash.

Remember the paradox of tolerance.

It is not your job in fandom to police how other people enjoy the fandom. It’s not *my* job to police how *you* enjoy the fandom, UNLESS your enjoyment is in actively harming other real human beings in the fandom. If you don’t like their take on the character or the show or the plotlines or their ships or anything else, you don’t need to engage with their posts at all! The necessary corollary to this is that clarifying misunderstandings or correcting factual misinformation is not “policing.”

(this is where the peanut gallery reminds me it ain’t that deep, and I plead with them to put down the social media and find just one (1) thing to actually believe in in this godforsaken life, find something other than disdain and cynicism and spite to live for. If those things motivate you to find a larger cause for yourself, then great, use them to your advantage, but use them to find something that makes you a better person or brings you a modicum of joy and connection to your fellow human beings despite living in a dystopian hellscape of a world)

I have seen a lot of posts lately that are founded on the sort of authority that comes with “I watched through tumblr for a few months and then watched the last three episodes of the series” and as such are just... missing the larger context of the entire show, and are unfounded entirely in canon. I 100% appreciate the new enthusiasm for the fandom that we’ve been living in here for years, and it’s wonderful to see new people enjoying the thing we love. Your headcanons are valid, you are valid, but recognize that your headcanons aren’t canon. All of us finale denialists have accepted this in some measure, so we feel you. We truly, truly feel you. But regarding actual canon, we have a resource for that: the Superwiki. Learn it, live it, love it, as Metatron would say.

(which you could discover he said in 10.17 Inside Man, thanks to the superwiki! accept no substitutes!)

(and again, there have been people who have been involved in fandom for years who haven’t engaged with canon in years, either! You can play in this universe however you choose, BUT FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT CANON AT ALL, WHICH I AM AGAIN POINTEDLY SAYING MIGHT NOT BE YOU, READER, AND I’M NOT SUGGESTING YOU ARE WRONG FOR NOT WANTING TO ACTUALLY ENGAGE WITH CANON, but if you DO want to engage with canon, please have some useful resources. Why do people feel personally attacked by being presented a list of helpful resources? Absolutely baffling.)

(also: words have definitions. “Canon” is a specific thing, meaning in this case “the finished media product that aired on television.” Anything beyond those limits is secondary canon (think: john’s journal, which is not canon but canon adjacent at best...), word of god (i.e stuff said by the writers and showrunners), or headcanon (which includes actor commentary-- they may have helped create the show with their acting choices and whatever, but they are not in control of the story overall). If there’s something you dislike about actual canon, you can reject it and supplement it with your own theories or preferred outcomes-- that’s basically what fanfic is-- but that doesn’t make your theories canon (much to all our dismay, that’s just not how any of this works. This is not to invalidate how anyone engages with the show or the fandom, just trying to clarify what seems to have been a source of unintentional misunderstandings. Your theories do not have to be “canon” to be legitimate interpretations.)

***I am setting this section apart, and did make a separate post of just this following information, because this is where we go from being relatively chill about different parts of fandom choosing to interact in different ways and you do you and blog however you want, to “hey can everybody please understand that the way you are interacting with this specific material might be harmful for specific legal reasons, and stating that you do not care about the consequences of your actions does actively make you the asshole here...” Okay, now that we have that understood:

The spnscripthunt collective has been steadily acquiring new scripts (which are posted in full on the superwiki for everyone to enjoy, for free). The language around how some folks are talking about these scripts is... concerning. For very real legal reasons, actually, and not because we’re feeling precious about the collection and don’t wike it when meanies use them in shitposts.

-First off, these scripts are not “leaks.” They are all verified and legally purchased (or gifted, in some cases, but still acquired entirely above board. we didn’t whack anyone over the head in a back alley for these scripts, or swipe them out of someone’s trailer on set).

(in case anyone was unaware, these scripts are the copywritten protected property of Warner Brothers. So yes, how we use them and share them with the fandom could have legal repercussions. We present them as a collected resource of fandom history which SHOULD fall under Fair Use doctrine, but this is untested legal water. Insinuating that the scripts are somehow not entirely legally obtained, or that posting them for public access involved less than 100% transparent and entirely legal transactions is incredibly concerning.

Once again for the peanut gallery, if you don’t care about any of that and are just having a good time with it, at least be mindful of the work and expense a large group of people have gone through to acquire and present the content you’re all too eager to exploit for cheap thrills. Some of us do actually care and are not exactly comfortable with the fact that others don’t seem to care about burning it all to the ground. We can’t force you to listen or behave as we’d hope you might, but at least be aware of the potential consequences of your actions. All we’re asking is for you to not be the douchebag who sets the whole neighborhood on fire with your illegal fireworks display. Is that too much to ask for? more on that in a second, first... a psa)

-If you see a script for sale and are unsure if it’s legit (or believe it might already be freely available in our collection), please feel free to ask us for advice. Our goal is to make as much of our fandom history available to the entire fandom, and we absolutely do not want anyone shelling out money for stuff you can already find for free.

(seriously, we’ve seen a bunch of resellers cropping up selling printed versions of the scripts we bought and uploaded for everyone to enjoy free of charge, or scripts that are otherwise of dubious origin. We’ve been at this for years now and know what’s actually out there. We don’t want anyone to fall for a scam if we can help it)

-Also, the usual reminder that the scripts we acquire ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE FINAL SHOOTING DRAFTS. In fact, the majority of scripts in our collection are NOT. Changes are made daily to scripts, even during filming. Comparing a Production Draft (white pages, effectively the first “final draft” of what usually becomes a series of drafts before filming wraps) to a much later revision (say... green or goldenrod revisions, several of which we DO have in our collection for comparison) and how those earlier drafts often differ wildly from the aired version versus how similar a much later green draft is to the aired version, for example, can teach you a lot about the television writing process. The link above to the superwiki scripts page has a nice little explainer about how this process works.

Differences between our posted scripts (many of which are white drafts, aka FIRST complete drafts, which will likely go through multiple rounds of revisions before filming even begins) and the aired version of the show are not all “acting choices” or a director or editor just cutting whole scenes on a whim. It’s insulting to everyone involved in production to suggest that’s the case.

(and yeah, fine... whatever, make any sort of posts you like regarding how those changes came about, but at the very least understand that it’s not actually the truth about how any of this works. Don’t care that that’s not the truth and want to make the posts anyway because shitposting is fun and that’s the extent of your sense of humor? FINE! You’re entitled to do that! But at least you DO know the truth now, and hopefully so do the people who engage with your posts. Deliberate ignorance isn’t cute, smooth lions notwithstanding)

There’s probably a whole other post to be made on fandom tagging etiquette, but again I don’t really use the tags enough to know what’s going on with that whole situation. I’ve also probably left a lot of stuff out, so please feel free to add things I’ve overlooked.

Thanks also to @trisscar368 and @thayerkerbasy for help compiling this, too. They were kind enough to escort me through the park to feed these pigeons. Now I need to take them out for ice cream. :’D

So I guess welcome to the neighborhood. Make yourself at home, but like... try not to trash the place while you’re here. Some of us live here by choice, lol.

#this blue hellsite (affectionate)#fandom problems #kinda wish i'd made this post six months ago but here we are i guess lol #long post #now edited for the people who are actually personally invested in the fandom #thanks for participating in this little experiment and I hope this version is actually informative to those who are interested #meaning there's a lot more links to stuff and explainers and whatnot...#and one last reminder that for folks just swinging through for laughs absolutely none of this applies to you #if you are legit interested in fandom history and preservation as we move to the post-canon world then hopefully this is useful to you

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baoshan-sanren · 3 years

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so the new post editor is an abomination and trying to answer asks feels like I’ve time traveled into the tumblr hell that was 2012

the funny thing is, right after the beta option came out, I tried it

multiple times

and then I sat down and I did exactly what the @staff asked us to do, which is to give them constructive feedback

I pointed out the difficulty in having the post/close buttons reversed for those of us who have been using xkit since its inception (something that is, in fact, not so difficult to fix) and how unbelievably frustrating it is to keep automatically clicking the “close” button by mistake

I pointed out the lack of quick tag bundles. again, something that content creators (you know, the people who keep tumblr running via providing content), need to have

also say goodbye to frequent tag memory. the new post editor doesn’t remember approximately 90% of tags you use daily

it also does not remember any tags that use columns, hyphens, exclamation marks, or asterisks; in other words, just fuck people who create content altogether I guess

there is no option to uncheck the full-size gifs box when adding gifs to text posts (each gif addition is automatically 540px in the new post editor, even gifs which are 268px, which makes the gif unsightly, and the text post itself large and cumbersome)

still no outbox, which xkit managed to keep through years of useless tumblr updates

NO AUTOMATED POST TAGGING so say goodbye to your queue tag at the very least, and for the rest of us, say goodbye to automated tags for answered asks, or basically any preset tagging you had in place to keep track of the TYPE of posts you have on your blog

god forbid you click on the video or audio buttons by mistake when trying to answer an ask, because exiting out of them means you don’t get the other options back. you need to close that ask, click on the answer button again, then start from the beginning

blocking anonymous asks was broken for hours today (the staff claims they fixed that problem but I haven’t had an opportunity to check)

In other words, instead of saying, hey guys, this FUCKING SUCKS please STOP making this website less functional by the day

I said hey, this stuff is really inconvenient/unnecessary/frustrating to use, and here is a list of things we’ve all been depending on since the dawn of time to make the website functional and ACCESSIBLE

and I got an answer back basically going “Thank you! We’re working on it! We’re constantly improving! We’re going to fix many, if not all of those things!” That was back in March

It is now nearly June, the “new inbox” has been basically forced on us, and it has all the issues they asked be reported ahead of time, and none of the improvements they said they were working on

and the thing is, I’ve lived through all the bullshit updates on this site. updates that have made me frustrated and angry, updates that gave me frequent migraines, updates that have fucked with my blacklist, and my blocked posts, and my list of blocked users, updates that have subjected me to every possible inconvenience, updates that have flagged every single fashion post on my 28k-follower fashion blog as fucking explicit (and forced me to appeal each one of them individually), updates that have both rearranged and erased my queue, updates that have subjected me to every type of content I had taken extensive steps to avoid via every tool and extension I could possibly find and I am so goddamn done

I’m not going to manually type in 12 tags for every fucking post

the day the new post editor goes in effect and we lose all the tagging options I’m just gonna stop making and reblogging things because I’m old, I’m tired, and I’m done

#tumblr #post editor #tumblr update #long post #i was gonna send out another 'feedback' ticket #but honestly what's the point

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ourimpavidheroine · 2 years

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What do you think of the Wuko fandom in general? Would you be willing to create a fic recommendation post for us?

So I've been sitting on this for nearly two weeks now. Nothing personal; I'm having a TIME of it right now in my real life and I just needed to be in the right headspace. (Sorry for the wait, Anon; it wasn't you, it was me.)

I'm going to drop a truth on you here:

I am not part of the Wuko fandom.

I mostly never was. Not even back in the day, back in 2012-2015 when the original The Legend of Korra fandom was in its heyday and active and getting a lot of posts/reblogs. There were absolutely Tumblr blogs at the time focusing on TLOK that were pretty popular, lots of meta being written, gifs being posted, memes being done, etc. etc. etc.

Those blogs weren't from people who were actually writing fanfic, though. Most of the time, fanfic writers are too busy, you know, writing fanfic to do much of anything else. (That goes for any fandom, really.) Sure there are exceptions, but for the most part, that's where it's at.

I followed a couple of blogs that were primarily Korra blogs back in the day, but I didn't come close to following all or even most of them. Seven years later, most of them are either dead in the water or are still going but have morphed into other fandoms. Such is the way of fandom, and especially on Tumblr, where the new rules a few years back really decimated the site. I don't do Twitter and I sure as fuck don't do TikTok and I don't have the time to keep up on Discord so if it ain't here then that's it for me, really.

My blog? Oh lord, I think the most followers I've had at any time was at about 350 people. The majority of those blogs are, again, dead in the water now; plenty of them inactive, most of them, again, not really following the fandom any longer. The few very loyal followers/readers that I have mostly follow me because they love my very extended AU, not because they are active in the once dead, then resurrected, and now mostly dead again TLOK fandom. I have never been a go-to blog in the TLOK or Wuko fandom and that's never going to change. It was never my goal, though, so it's fine. (No really. I am not salty about it, I know tone is often difficult in a post but I wanted to spend my time writing fanfic, not spend my time curating a successful blog. That's hard work!)

All of this is to say that I quite literally have no idea what is going on in the current Wuko fandom. At all. I'm not saying that to be coy or dismissive or anything like that. I really don't know, because for the most part it's shifted off of Tumblr and I'm not active anywhere else (except for Facebook, but I only keep that up because of friends and family in the States, I don't use it for fandom).

Moving on!

Do I read other Wuko fanfic? Over the past nearly seven years I've written over a million words set in an AU of the ATLA universe. Cool, yeah? The thing is, I am an adult in my 50's and a single widowed working mother who had to raise her kids alone to adulthood. Bless your heart, but I don't have time to read fanfic. That's not a slam on any of the other fanfic there. Again, it's about me, not it.

The only other Wuko fanfic I've really loved is Mako and the Terrible, Awful, No-Good, Very Bad Road Trip by DeerstalkerDeathFrisbee, which is a WIP. There have been others that were quite popular in the whole Wuko revival that happened a year ago but since my fanfic preference is not for smut and angst and tropes for tropes' sake they weren't going to check my boxes. That doesn't mean they aren't any good! Just that they aren't for me.

Can I recommend my own fanfic? Well you know, I wrote my fanfic to check all of my own boxes, so I happen to like it a lot. I’m a good writer; an accomplished writer, one that has published professionally. I do a lot of non-fiction essay writing elsewhere that does very well for itself. That doesn’t mean that everyone will like my fanfic, of course! But at the very least I can say that it’s well-written, even if it isn’t to everyone’s personal taste. If you like fanfic that doesn’t focus on angst or smut, that takes characterization of both canon and original characters very seriously, that takes a deep, deep dive into the actual canon universe and focuses mostly on day-to-day life (as opposed to constantly throwing the characters into danger or other improbable happenings) then give my fic a try! It might tick off some of your boxes as well.

I have had Please Excuse My Penmanship recc'd by a few people on their Best of Wuko lists (although one did have a caveat that people shouldn't bother to continue reading past the first few fics because then it turned into an AU and I was like, well how about you let other people make up their minds about it themselves, huh sport? but whatever) and I always appreciate that, it's nice to get a shout out for a fic that is, after all, coming up on being seven years old. So thanks to everyone that does rec my fanfic!

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globalmediajoey · 2 years

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Post #5: My takes on social media

I've been on the internet from a very young age, but I'm old enough where social media sites hadn't completely taken off yet. Back in the day I would've spent most of my time on YouTube, Newgrounds, OMGFacts, Wikipedia (and various fandom wikis), Club Penguin, and a few different webcomic sites. Of those websites, only Club Penguin really had a social aspect. Newgrounds would've had personal chat/DMs, I never used that very extensively though.

It would've been around 6th grade that I was first introduced to Facebook by my friends, and throughout middle school I spent so much time on Facebook, logging on as soon as I got home and chatting with friends (*cough* the girls I liked *cough*) through the night. I really liked this time period for Facebook but by my sophomore year of high school, Facebook had changed and there was a demographic shift of young people away from Facebook as older people came on-board. Suddenly, Instagram and Twitter seemingly became the social media of choice for my generation.

But for me, things were different. As I discussed in my video with Sophia, I discovered Tumblr and ended up making it my internet home for most intents and purposes. Tumblr was appealing to me for a variety of reasons: initially it was the memes and GIFs of my favorite shows, but eventually I started using more for the social aspect as I formed online friendships. I also began using it as a platform for my own content, posting anything from pixel art to Photoshop projects to jokes and my own memes. I even made it to the home page of the website when I was in my mid-teens with a simple ghost pixel art GIF (shown below this paragraph). This seems to have happened to other people during this same time period (~2012-2015), where they began to become content creators rather than just browsing and enjoying the existing content. I feel that the modern TikTok phenomenon has some roots in this as well.

Tumblr was also an important part of my political socialization. If you know anything about Tumblr then you probably know that it is known for its userbase's left-leaning political views. I had already developed into someone with left wing views on my own, but going on Tumblr solidified it even further. I saw a lot of what we would now call "takes", both takes that would hold up today as well as plenty of bad takes. Both helped me to become more interested in the discourse around social issues, which is an interest that continues to this day.

I even had a group of about 15 Tumblr friends that met up every night and video chatted into the early morning for a whole summer. They were true friends when I didn't have so many of those in real life.

Most people in that group had a gender identity and/or sexuality that differed from the "norm", with myself being one of the few exceptions. It always made me wonder why I seemed to fit in with this community so well. Later on I came to the realization that it was because Tumblr was also a safe haven for neurodivergent folks like myself.

Eventually, I started moving away from Tumblr, or rather from being on the internet as much as I was. This also coincided with the infamous ban of adult content on Tumblr following their acquisition by Yahoo! A big chunk of the userbase left and for years there was just not as much good content as there had been before. I started using Instagram a lot more starting around senior year, right as I was moving away from Tumblr. I got comfortable with engaging with people I already knew in real life on social media again. For a while I just used it casually because my friends wanted me to (just like with Facebook in middle school), but eventually I started getting really into it and now I use it extensively. I can even say that I made connections to my favorite band by engaging with some of the band members on Instagram and eventually I even I ended up being invited backstage at one of their concerts via an Instagram DM from one of the members, which was really cool.

I also use Instagram to find great content creators, especially artists and musicians. I follow well over 1,000 accounts and the vast majority of them are artists. I think Instagram is great for finding art but you have to be careful about art repost accounts. Uncredited art is bad enough, but when you follow one repost account, all of the sudden the algorithm starts pushing you more repost accounts until it's a viscous cycle.

I have also moved into the Twitter space, which fills the role of giving me the juicy social discourse I learned to love from Tumblr. I also use Tumblr a lot more again as it has had a resurgence, and is now again amongst my favorite social media sites. It's interesting to me how each social media has its own qualities that appeal to different sides of my personality. As a graphic designer, I've been hearing that Pinterest is a great place for us, so I might look there soon.

#global media in a digital age

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disney-prince-quinn-hughes · 3 years

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Thank you lovely @mattytkachuk19 for tagging me

Get to know me tag meme

Name: Jane

Gender: Female (she/her)

Star Sign : Cancer

Height: 5'4

Time : 1:01 pm

Birthday: July 15th

Favourite Bands : Queen , Duran Duran, Greenday , Fall out boy , and walkways

Favourite solo artist : selena gomez , selena , carrie underwood

Song stuck in my head : Towards the Light - Walkways

Last Movie : The Emperor's New Groove

Last Show : The Resident

When did I make this blog : 2012

What do I post: definitely a multi blog ( mainly hockey ) , Jewish Positivity things and things to consider that people miss about antisemitism and how to call it out

Last thing I googled : the site I use to make gifs

Other blogs : @disney-prince-jake-debrusk / bruins blog ( I can't remember how to log in on it )

@horvat-hoglander-hughes / canucks sideblog

@unapologetically-jewish / ✡ sideblog for calling out antisemitism hate and Jewish Positivity and pride

@a-view-to-a-kirill / minnesota wild sideblog

Do I get asks?: not often but when I do its the pass along kinda ones

Why did I choose this url: Quinn Hughes looks like a Disney Prince right ?

Following : not gonna lie I don't look

Followers : not gonna lie I don't look

Average hours of sleep : depending on if there's a hockey game I wanna watch ( due to timezones ) I'll say the range is 5-8 hours

Lucky number: 11

Instruments: ah nope

What I'm wearing : black jegings ( jeans/leggings) and a shirt that says "you had me at coffee "

Dream job : I really don't know

Dream trip : Canada ( beautiful country) or Israel ( its so rich in history and culture)

Favourite Food : falafel (can you tell 😋)

Nationality : New Zealander ( grew up there ) and British ( born and currently living in UK )

Favourite song : changes a lot but currently Death Valley by Fall Out Boy

Last book I read : currently Reading ' Blood Men' by Paul Cleave . He's a crime writer from New Zealand and influences my city ( when I was there ) in his stories

Top 3 fictional worlds to live in : those Disney Channel original movie from the 00's

Tagging @misharoux @martystlouis and anyone else that wanna have fun

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carltonlassie · 3 years

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Thanks for tagging me @cobraking <3

1. why did you choose your url?

My main — I was into The Who, and surprisingly Underture wasn’t taken like Quadrophenia. Never got around changing it, really.

For this blog, I’ve switched thru so many urls of my fixations at the moment lol and then I settled on twitoftheyear for a long while (which is from a Monty Python skit Upper Class Twit of the Year). And then Psych & Carlton Lassiter happened and I obviously I wanted to use carltonlassiter but it was taken, so I settled on this url.

2. any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

My other sideblog is @cueone because cueonego (which is my ao3 username) was taken. it’s all confusing. There’s just way too many blogs and urls. Why. There used to be a system where I post mostly film & tv on my main, aesthetic posts dumb memes on that blog and personal posts on this blog, but idk what I’m doing anymore. I kinda regret making separate blogs for every little thing, because it’s just way too scattered now.

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

On tumblr since late 2000s I’m guessing; I don’t really remember since I don’t go on my first account anymore. on this account since 2011?2012? Tumblr is Hotel California but where else would I engage in critical media analysis of shows that are not meant for it

4. do you have a queue tag?

Little did u know my main is mostly running on queue....! This blog, I reblog like 50 posts in a row and disappear and rinse & repeat

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

I was watching a lot of American shows, and a lot of the gifs and memes were from tumblr! So I had to join! But then i didn’t start using it properly until I joined my first fandom (person of interest)

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

Here—Hehe man silly and give me serotonin

Main—hehe twink small and give me serotonin

7. why did you choose your header?

Here—Hehe more man silly and give me serotonin. I think this set of icon & header is the first time in a LONG while I was dedicated enough to open up my photoshop dkjfhshf and now I’m back to fandom nonsense!

Main—I think I saved it to use as my wallpaper, I like art n it looked cool. I needed something for the blog after tumblr updated its app and I haven’t touched it since

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

Probably this gifset of doctor who on my main clocking at 77k(?!). It’s from 2013 back when people reblogged a lot haha. Oh god next up is a Sherlock gifset 😭 tumblr was very different back then.

on this blog? Idk. Probably the screenshots of Johnny & Miguel interaction about his softcore porn photo shoot? Or this one?

9. how many mutuals do you have?

No idea! There’s probably a lot that I don’t know that we’re mutuals lmao. Idk, as long as we all have fun reblogging the same 5 posts of man tits, adding increasingly incoherent comments in the tags. that’s really all there is to it on this webbed site

10. how many followers do you have?

I have not checked and do not want to check

11. how many people do you follow?

~350? But probably a lot of them are no longer active, since I’ve had them since 2012 and a lot of people have moved on

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

Why come on tungle.bungle if not to make a shit post without fearing the consequences

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

I check on this app like it’s my morning news. Whose man tiddies are we sexualizing today, besties?

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

I don’t think so lol. I usually just block if someone gets annoying enough, but I haven’t had to do that in a while other than for pornbots

15. how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

Ur not my mom! If u are, what are u doing here!

16. do you like tag games?

Yeah! I over think them a little too much, but I love subjecting myself to the mortifying ordeal of being known

17. do you like ask games?

I don’t reblog a lot of them because I don’t really get asks after it, but when I do it love it!

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

What does it mean to be famous on this App... literally the best part about tumblr is not knowing if this blog has 10k followers or none! we can act all silly on here like equal silly beings

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

Like as in I wanna be friends with them? Absolutely. I wanna be friends with every one of them but I’m so BAD at TALKING

20. tags?

Huh? Oh!

@ceruleangold @send-it-to-the-internet @justveeing @mimsyaf @bobakick

#I put the rest of the questions under the cut Bc it’s long #but for those who I tagged feel free to skip if it’s too long dhhshf #and for those who I didn’t tag but want to #pls do and tag me! I love reading these random tidbits #tagged

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