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derpinette · 4 months
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sometimes i will get bored & go through someone's entire blog since its creation
#& if they have their blog made unsearchable therefore no archive to pick posts from i take it as a challenge#& i really read every post not just skimming i gave up archives caus i find it hard to pay attention to individual posts#plus you never see the full tags & clearly from my postings they serve as the single most important part of a post#the actual post is more of like a title or a sort of epigraph#& i am interested in the Posters themselves like i feel compelled to absorb&gather as much information about them as possible#in an effort to understand them ( as well as myself Many epiphanies & revelations came to me from this activity i recommend it )#i just did this BTW not saying who but god if you never knew of her you totally missed out on the best Poaster tumblr has ever had to offer#her mind was unlike any other & her influence on me is so noticeable even today. wishing her well today & always#also (moving on from that) i even constantly have like 40 tumblr blog tabs open at all times#some that are even i think 3 years old now#i never close them they keep me company i will not really click on yhem either To be honest but those are like my friends My chums;#on my phone as well two year old tabs from when i was still in highschool of tumblr blogs i was reading#i just have so much Love in my heart for Posters real genuine love not interpersonal just as an Observer#well kind of interpersonal when it comes to some#so if you have a tracker & you see someone from north africa spending hours or even days or months on your blog#that would be me#i actually did spend months once back when blogs opened on the side i never shut my laptop off & my tabs are always saved#had to go back & scroll a little to keep the page active to not refresh & i got as far back as 2010 i think#because their blog did not have an archive but NOTHING will stop me OK if you got a Beautiful Mind or Gift Of Curation#i will do anything in my power to enjoy it. without disturbing you ( as much as i can anyway )
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5ummit · 1 year
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New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)
More fun community label "features"! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can't be avoided by just using a different tag.
Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that's been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I've come to realize it's not. It's a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here's what it looks like on my blog:
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I don't know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that's not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not "mature" enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I'll be damned if tumblr's going to force me to have one on MY blog.
After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I'm not a theme coder, so apologies if there's a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I'm now sharing with anyone else who may want it:
.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}
Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!
If you're not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.
Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people's blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:
tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper
Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.
Some additional notes:
After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.
The warning overlay only seems to appear if a "mature" post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see "mature" content they weren't warned about?!
The warning also appears on direct links to "mature" posts.
This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual "mature" posts.
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flock-talk · 1 year
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Allow me, for a moment, to have a little bit of emotion
I remember, 8 years ago, when I set up my first "bird room". I remember being so excited. I had seen pictures of other people's rooms (which were mostly cages and hanging boings at the time) and felt like I needed to be doing more, I wanted that so badly. I wasn't allowed to do anything permanent to the room and it was absolute hell to even get permission to make anything resembling a bird room. I had so many restrictions to stick by and god forbid a single fleck of bird poop be found somewhere.
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The first room was just their cages, which were the species' minimum size, and a stand I made out of wood dowels and PVC elbows. My first "veggie zone" was a cardboard box and a pillow case. To keep the mess contained I had pinned up a fitted sheet, if they made a mess I couldn't rapidly clean the room would be taken away from me and they would be back to just small cages and a single countertop play set.
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it wasn't cute but I was so happy with what I had accomplished given the restrictions I had and severe lack of finances. I was always upset with the way that it looked, it wasn't aesthetic, it didn't photograph well. The birds loved it and it was the start of my "bird room". I knew I wasn't done here.
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Eventually I had sorted out how I could hang up some ropes without damaging the walls, given some of them were pretty sketchy and I would absolutely not recommend doing it. The one up there is literally hanging on by a pear hook to the light fixture. The rest were desperately tied around furniture and one to the blinds if I recall correctly. Oh man was I stoked, Mia and Zeeb were too. They got a cage upgrade for Christmas one year when I'd finally saved enough to do it, it was taller than I was, I could curl up inside one of the cages. It was Wild.
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I remember being on Tumblr back then and I remember you all sending me messages, offering ideas, and being so invested in the making of the room. I was always blogging from that chair in the corner, it did give me serious back pain but it did the job. You were all so supportive and I refreshed my inbox 1000 times a day waiting for the next message, being a part of the community was such a big part of who I was. I still do that.
I also remember holding a lot of anger, I knew my room wasn't what I wanted it to be but there was nothing I could do to make it how I wanted. I didn't have any control over that. I also had a lot of doubt. There were some toys and things I made that weren't very pretty and even some made out of not-ideal materials (nothing toxic, think controversial like cotton rope) but at the time it's all I could provide. It was the best that I could do. Still made me anxious though, was it enough? was it right?
and I sit here in what will soon be my designated office looking over at Bird Room V2 and I just can't fathom how we got here.
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I've made a bird room even larger and better than teenage me could have ever even imagined. I have drilled holes in to walls and ceilings without a thought, I chopped branches off of trees and I've used power tools to turn those trees in to safe perches. I wall mounted a cage simply because I wanted to, my veggie corner is made of plastic that I designed and assembled, there's a splash-proof bathing zone complete with a fountain, and so so so many toys that I've collected over the years. (that ladder right in the middle, to the right of the yellow toy is the exact same one as the images above). I was able to make it look pretty good too!
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I suspended a huge tree branch from my ceiling purely because I thought the birds would like it and their foot health would benefit. I have been able to prioritize their health over all else, I have been able to act and make changes to better their care every step of the way, always improving, always changing, always thinking of them first and foremost. With the additional support of my wife who often comes up with new ideas to improve things before I do. Starting this room was her idea first!
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and I am so happy with where we are. I am so happy with the care that I am currently providing. We've gone from being alone in a bedroom desperately scrounging things together while dodging the scrutiny of the people who surrounded me to not only accomplishing our dreams with love and support from our new family but inspiring others to do the same.
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and that's incredible.
and I'm so happy that you were here with me along the way.
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mario-art · 11 days
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HELLO, you made such an interesting point in the tags of my post:
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You know what’s funny? Is that Thrawn is really being turned into a “Machiavellian” type of villain, but what’s even funnier is that Machiavelli himself received this type of treatment. Now idk how much familiar you are with the 16th century author, but just know this: Machiavelli and “Machiavellian”, and whatever people can take from him, is heavily misunderstood (I actually really hate the use of the adjective, but perhaps that’s a story for another type). Now I know that Zahn wrote Thrawn based on a certain extent on the Machiavelli archetype (I remember reading it somewhere, pardon if I have no proofs), but I’m actually laughing hard thinking that as characters they are having the same treatment by popular media. Lemme explain: Machiavelli wrote the Principe not because “oh he cynic!1!🥶He mad!1🤬”. No. Machiavelli wrote what he wrote because he wanted to save Italy dalla Ruina, from its ruin. Machiavelli dreamed of a more compact and unified Italy. He had a vision and just as much as Thrawn, he wished to serve his people, Florence (in Thrawn’s case, the ascendancy) and Italy (which didn’t existed at the time).
And now, with Thrawn being reduced as you said in a villan without complex motifs, I can’t help but think how poetic is to be doomed to the same narrative as the figure who inspired your existence. Maybe this was planned all along, I don’t think so personally, but Thrawn is being oversimplified by Filoni the same way Machiavelli gets reduced as just a “pragmatic person” and “the ends justify the means” by everyone (don’t let me start on how wrong the quote is).
To sum up: Thrawn and Machiavellian are rhyming in the same direction in popular mainstream media.
This was my Ted talk, sorry in advance for possible writing mistakes, I just woke up✌️
Hiii! Thank you so much for the spontaneous Ted talk 😄😄 Your parallel between the Ascendancy and Florence+Italy is sooo on point, it blew my mind for a second. Now I have to delve deeper into it
Actually there was a period of time when I was really invested in this topic, I read his 10 letters, history of Florence +the Prince obviously and almost fell from a chair when they put him into Assassins Creed game, but now there're just small bits that I remember. Maybe it's time to refresh things
I didn't know that Zahn was actually inspired by Machiavelli. I'm new to this part of the fandom, so I haven't read anything about him or his working process, but after you mentioned it I'll take a note for the future. I must confess I learned who Thrawn was only during the Ahsoka show and due to the fandom. Like there were so many memes about him here on Tumblr, there's no way fans will hype some basic dude so much. And then my friend recommended the new trilogy
So yeah, it's such a pity that not 1, but 6 books of new material got completely ignored and the character simplified to what we've already seen so many times literally everywhere. You phrased it beautifully
I haven't read the old trilogy yet, heir to the empire, only know the plot in general, but I'm curious what exactly motivates Thrawn to rebuild the empire. And how the characterization of him differs between these trilogies. Is he mostly the same or did Zahn change the character after so many years like Terry Pratchett's Vetinari evolved from the very first version of the Patrician to his later works (I can't help comparing them after yesterday, though I hadn't done it before idk)
So yeaah... At least I'm happy that there're so many talented fans here and we can happily ignore whatever happens on the screen 🙃
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rpschtuff · 1 year
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FIXES FOR THE TRIM REBLOGS "ORIGINAL POST MADE IN LEGACY EDITOR" GLITCH
If you are using the beta editor to cut a post that was originally made in the legacy editor, you will get a warning telling you that trim reblogs may not work correctly. Using trim reblogs on the post will appear to work as intended, but refreshing your drafts or posting the thread will show that your latest reply has been bizarrely duplicated.
Before, I thought the only reliable method of fixing this was to move the thread to a fresh post. But through experimentation, I've since learned that there are not one but two easy fixes for this!
Option 1 — use trim reblogs in your drafts before writing any of your reply
Option 2 — use trim reblogs in your drafts, refresh your drafts, and remove the duplicate using Tumblr's built-in delete reblogs feature
I personally think it's best to just get into the habit of using trim reblogs before writing anything, but both options are pretty easy to manage. I will go over both under the cut.
Disclaimer! Both of these fixes worked for me in my testing, but since this a fairly new problem, I may not be aware of every situation. Please let me know if these don't work for you so I can look into it and update this post accordingly.
Option 1
The first option (which I find much easier) is to simply trim before writing your reply. Save the post to your drafts without adding anything to it.
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Use trim reblogs as intended. You'll still get the warning -- continue past it and select only the first trail item (the oldest reply) to remove.
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You'll be left with just your partner's previous reply, like this.
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Now you can edit the post to add your reply.
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Refreshing the page or posting the draft will not bring back the duplicated reply.
Option 2
The second option, which requires a little more work, is to use trim reblogs, then use Tumblr's built in feature to remove additional reblogs. This was actually suggested to me by an anon a while back, but I didn't get around to testing it until now -- I can confirm it works!
This option is for when your reply has already been written and the post is saved in your drafts.
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Use trim reblogs as usual -- again, you'll get the warning. Just continue past it and remove the oldest reblog trail.
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The post will look normal in your drafts.
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But if you refresh your drafts, or post the reply, you'll see that your reply has been duplicated.
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At this point, click to edit the post. Hovering over the first of your duplicated replies will bring up a red X -- this is Tumblr's built-in feature to remove reblogs from a post.
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Click that red X to get rid of the first duplicated reply. You'll know it worked if it says "put reblogs back."
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And save your draft again.
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The duplicated reply will be gone, and posting shouldn't cause any problems.
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the-rainbow-lesbian · 2 months
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I just wanted to thank you as a left leaning Israeli radfem. It's rly refreshing to see support from a fellow MENA woman (my grandparents on one side immigrated from Morocco and Libya :) ) and on Tumblr especially. I truly believe it's important to find balance, i don't particularly care when ppl are against the idf or specific actions and I think it's important to have empathy for Palestinians AND Israelis. I hope things look up in both our countries:)
hi there 👋 I think what bothers me is when people hyper-focus on this issue and then neglect other ones, like people have turned from your average fandom or aesthetic blogs to sharing blood libels and antisemitic content. I also don't like posts that are inflammatory or emotionally manipulative because it makes people share without thinking about the content they are reading or who benefits from it. I obviously think it's fine to criticize the IDF and the Israeli government, Israelis do it on a regular basis I am sure you know that, but the way people talk about both shows that they haven't done any kind of research or have any understanding of how they work, and that's fine, not everyone needs to have a strong opinion over things that don't concern them but if they want to post they should be responsible about it.
unconditional release of the hostages and hamas surrendering is not only going to save Israeli lives but Palestinians as well, the war needs to end and Hamas started it. The Palestinians are either being used by Hamas and other terrorist groups or by western idiots who want them to die for their decolonization fantasies or something while being comfortably away from it, sad situation all around. thank you for your message.
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cursedhaglette · 11 days
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Ooooh fun!!
Hm, #7 Raphael X Mix (he/him ranger elf, can read more on my Tumblr or just improvise) 🤭 or reader! If you wanna do some Raphael of course 🤭
i'm gonna do raphael x reader just so it's a little more approachable, hope that's okay! writing for raphael was actually so refreshing, i'm actually so curious about writing for other characters after this exercise. thank you for requesting him!!
raphael x g/n reader; 1100 words content: blowjob (lol)
You don’t know how long you’ve been on your knees, but an ache has set in before you see him again. The devil, dressed in finery and backlit by the glowing sunset of Avernus like he’d been wrapped in a cape of red and orange light. 
He warned you, the last time he caught you snooping through his personal effects, that if he caught you again, there’d be hell to pay. You’d snorted a laugh at the flimsy joke and ran for the portal, magic you’ve grown proficient with since saving the world. What else did you have to do, between rebuilding a city and accepting praises for heroics you had no choice but to partake in? 
And the hells offered something the mortal plane didn’t - Raphael. 
Raphael in all his glory, horns and wings and talons. Red skinned, enormous, and perpetually smirking. Theatrical and wrathful. 
You were desperate for him now, so much so that you let yourself get caught this time, just to see how this might play out. What his punishments might include, how long he might hold you captive in this house of debauchery and pain and pleasure. 
The devil doesn’t speak as he approaches you, stopping a breath away and dragging one clawed finger under your chin, tilting your face until your eyes meet his. The smirk on his face is different, but still exquisite, and your breath catches in your throat as you await his punishment. 
Arousal builds in your core as you wait in silence, his expression unmoving. The wait is tantalizing, the kind of drama you know Raphael delights in and has subsequently left you aching for more. You want to see his wicked grins and hear the purr of his voice as he scolds you. 
“How, little mouse, should I punish you this time? It seems you haven’t yet learned the valuable lesson of leaving me alone,” he tuts once, clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth,  before continuing, “so I can only assume you’ve become rather fond of our games.”
You swallow but stay quiet, aware he can sense the beat of your heart racing with anticipation, and don’t look away. 
“I can smell the arousal in your blood, the need coursing through your veins each time you set foot in my house,” the devil continues, “and I have to admit, I am quite curious to see if you can live up to the might expectations that come with being the Hero of Baldur’s Gate.”
He says “hero” with a scoff, though you know he respects your victory more than he’d ever let on. Hells, without it, he wouldn’t have been crowned King of the Hells. He aided you along your journey, watching every step you made with your companions. How deep does his curiosity actually go?
“Please,” you whisper, the scrape of the talon still holding your chin sending a jolt of delicious pain straight to your core. You don’t say anything else, frankly you’re a bit unsure what else to say without begging him to rake those talons down your spine as he takes you from behind, thrust after punishing thrust. 
“You forget, hero, that should I allow you that which you desire, I very well may decide to bind you as mine,” Raphael finally smiles, but it’s the kind of grin you’ve seen too many times to count - one that spells trouble and ought to evoke a feeling of mistrust. Instead, it stokes the fires in you, and you can’t help but squirm at the sight, desperate for some relief of the aching need you’re quickly losing control of. “I am not fond of letting go of those I enjoy.”
“Why else do you think I’ve been coming here?” You ask. “You know what I want, devil, so let me have it or let me go.”
“Let you have it,” he repeats, musing at the demand you dared utter in his home. But his hand falls from you, reaching to the button of his trousers. You finally look away from his face and notice a hardness there, caged behind the finest fabric in all the realms, that he releases with a single, deft hand. 
Your mouth waters at the sight, the red, ridged length and the beautiful head that already has a bead of wetness, gathering at the tip. Absentmindedly, you run your hands up the length of his thighs, and bite your lip as you look up.
“Go on then, let’s see how well you do and perhaps that will earn you a less devastating punishment, hmm?”
He slaps his cock against your cheek before you take it between your lips, licking at the bead of the devil’s arousal and moaning at the taste. You’ve longed for this moment, waited for months, and you intend to take your time now. You intend to impress. 
Your head bobs along his length, and you run your tongue along the infernal ridges, desperate to know how it might feel inside you. How each might feel as he pummels into you, and you moan at the image your conjure, the sound muffled by your desperate licking and sucking. 
“I must admit, my dear hero,” Raphael grunts from above you, one hand moving to tangle in your hair, "You are so pretty with my cock in your mouth."
His talons dig into your scalp, just enough to send a jolt of pain through you, mixing with the pleasure building within you. You ignore the tears that spring at the corners of your eyes as he hits the back of your throat - it’s worth it for the sound of his moan. 
You can’t help reaching between your legs now, your body begging to be touched by him but you know for now, your own hand will do the trick. He grinds into your mouth with increasing speed and the taste of him, the sound, floods your senses. You moan again, bucking your hips into your hand in tandem with Raphael’s, and you feel him tense briefly before a deep, drawn out moan escapes him. 
He floods your mouth, salty-sweet cum hitting the back of your eager throat in thick spurts, and he continues to buck his hips as he rides out his orgasm. You swallow once, then again, as he finishes, and then bob your head up and down his length one last time before moving to lick him clean. 
“Well, little mouse, it seems you have a talented mouth in more ways than I realized,” Raphael pants softly, the hand at the top of your head moving to caress your cheek for a brief moment. “Now, go to the bed and undress. The real punishments begin in the bedroom.”
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daraemory · 4 months
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tl;dr I’m really struggling to find my place in the pro-wrestling fandom.
(disclaimer: I’ve been taking a break from twitter and tumblr for the past couple of months so I don’t know anything about any recent iwc drama, what’s been going on in the dirt sheets or even the more legitimate wrestling news sources. i’ve been on tiktok some but unless it’s a ship or thirst edit, i hardly watch any posts on wrestle-tok.)
i feel like all i ever see in the wrestling fandom is people talking about how everything sucks. how terrible the product is. don’t get me wrong, people should be free to criticize pop-culture no matter the genre or medium. there is absolutely a LOT of problematic things in the industry that should be called out publicly.
it’s just, that seems to be all there is. wrestling makes me happy. i want to be in a community with other fans who are made happy by it too.
maybe it’s because i’m too used to the typical tv/movie/book fandoms. while i will jump at the chance to tell anyone who will listen how there is no greater performance art than wrestling, that is more “real” than marvel or star wars (which i both love) or any other popular franchise, that no “method actor” in hollywood comes close to what pro wrestlers do year round… but at it’s core it’s still about stories and characters and that’s the way i tend to approach it.
i want to have thoughtful discussions about current storylines like how luchasaurus is showing signs that he is breaking free from christian’s influence, theorize the possible motivations he had for choosing christian over jungleboy to begin with. i want to talk about how dalton castle is spiraling under the weight he’s put on his own shoulders to save ring of honor. i want to talk about the new version of warhorse and what led him to feel he had to change everything about who he was. my shipper heart wants to explore why jay white mentioned his “destino” only days before naito finally main evented wrestle kingdom. i want to read pages of meta about past arcs like the corruption of brandon cutler from his time with peter avalon where he refused to cheat to his becoming the “stooge” for the young bucks.
i am tired of “booking” and “pushes” and “ratings.” yes, i am aware that that is just as much a part of wrestling as the characters and the storylines. it’s just, for right now at least, i want wrestling to be a place where i can escape and lose myself in kayfabe just like i would in any other fictional world.
there’s just so much real life awfulness going on in both the world at large and in my own personal life, i want to be able to stay away from negativity in the things that bring me joy. and while it has been refreshing to just watch wrestling on tv without knowing about any of the back stage bullshit, i am longing for a community to discuss the things i love about it. i have a handful of wonderful non-wrestling friends who are always happy to let me word-vomit about what’s happening in kayfabe, but it isn’t the same as being able to have conversations with people who have the same knowledge and enthusiasm for the stories and characters as i do.
i just wonder if there is such a place in this fandom for me. or if that’s just not how wrestling fandom works. or if that’s how all fandoms are these days. admittedly, i’m a fandom old. i started out in fandom reading fics from yahoo mailing lists i accessed on dial-up internet.
anyways, i just needed to get this out. if anyone has any advice or thoughts about this, i welcome them, but please be patient if i don’t reply right away as i’m still not ready to be back on tumblr regularly.
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afniel · 5 months
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Didn't sleep last night and so far I have
Wrote a helpful list of all the cats' belongings that went to boarding with them, then left it on the table like a brain genius
Got donuts, that's just a solid plus and there's no gotcha here. Just donuts
Washed a rock in the laundry, whoops
Took the rock out, much better now
Stood around booty ass naked because I just put my current clothes in the washer without considering the consequences and I have no pants now
Packed to go see my family but didn't register that the things I was packing were clothes that I could have worn so the situation has not improved
In my defense none of the clothes were pants
Realized my phone will now autosuggest 'in Minecraft' because I keep making that joke and wondered what the hell I'm doing with my life and choices
...in Minecraft
Thought about actually playing Minecraft but didn't because I'll get bored in 10 minutes and then open and close it repeatedly like something new is really going to happen this time guys I can feel it (it won't)
Can't go get my final shirt I want from downstairs because the neighbors would see me (still booty ass naked) (still haven't figured out what to do about that)
(it's a Mega Man shirt because literally half of my clothes at this point are just Mega Man shirts and the other half are evenly split between Metroid, Zelda, Final Fantasy, and miscellaneous other games)
(why am I like this. Nobody answer that)
Got 'jump in the caac' stuck in my head like super glue, save me
Considered painting my nails about 25 times and then never followed through because it sounds like work but what if I had cool blue nails that matched my hair. What about that. I could do that. Sounds like work though
Make that about 26 times
Run my phone's entire battery out refreshing Tumblr for no reason I can discern, it's just what's happening to me now. I surrender
Somehow hyperfocused anyway for hours and finished some art with all this going on?
I don't know how that works, ADHD is a horrible mystery
Convinced myself that what I need to do is just stay awake and pack then go to bed really early. Like 1am maybe. Which is not early, try again, me. Maybe try like 11pm
Decided to shower and then not done that or anything remotely like it
I TOOK MY MEDS I SWEAR but they don't fix sleep deprivation. That's just not fixable. Except by the obvious means, but I'm not sleepy, I'm just *gestures vaguely* firing on exactly one cylinder and it's very grumpy and has a bad spark plug or something, I don't know where the metaphor is going.
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the-story-keeper · 1 year
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Hello and welcome to my shop
It is a pleasure for any and all of you who come here, be you seeking or simply browsing
I am the beast and you may call me what you will
It is a pleasure all the same
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Who’s running this thing?
another blog by me, bunny, the person who came out of nowhere swinging SEMI-LUKEWARM
the beast will randomly blip out of existence with my motivation and energy levels!
ill be sure to tag “gif” for all gifs and the queue tag will be “supes cute” because i am far too lazy to change it at this point, we all suffer together now
since mobile is a fuck, heres the ooc page info put here
my name is bunny, im 25+, i do not want to be addressed
you may know me from honey @jujulebee!
id like to avoid the tumblr chat “function” as much as possible, especially ic, i do not receive any kind of notification that i have a new message and it will not update with new messages unless i manually refresh the page. it leads to miscommunication and me missing things frequently and i dont like that.
additionally, i am no longer given activity notifications, so communicating through replies on a post is a good way to have me not see it! please reblog whenever possible if you want to have a conversation
if you interact regularly and we are mutuals you can talk to me ooc/ask for my discord,, if i draw you things i am trying to be friends, but i am not very good at it and do not have much to offer
im not Extremely picky with who i follow, but i have people whos judgement i trust and will block freely and without hesitation. im here to curate my ideal experience, not save the feelings of a stranger. 
while i understand that ic=/=ooc if your character spews blatant bigotry of any kind please dont interact, actually
this page tentatively accepts magic anons
no godmodding, you are powerless in it’s domain
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------ The Beast ------
my beast stands at 8 feet and has soft, light grey fur
it has no mouth, but you can hear its voice in your head when it speaks to you
it has a soft voice
my beast has a shop
its a very small shop, very long and narrow
with shelves very high and rolling ladders along the sides
my beast takes and gives memories
do you have a memory you want to get rid of? they will take it
they offer you a memory in turn
all memories become little trinkets
so all the shelves in their shop 
look like
ispy books
they will take whatever memories you do not want to have anymore
they will offer you a trade for something else
the beast does not have a name or a gender and accepts any pronouns or titles
titles so far: Larry, Dreamkeeper, Beast, Simply A Beast, Chronicler, Minstrel, Storykeep, Story Keeper, Story
----- The Shop -----
you can simply Arrive at the shop,
it exists just outside of reality
but no matter where you Try to arive In shop
it will not work
you will only arrive just outside the door
the world outside is Nice, but its hard to focus on
like a dream that keeps changing
going in its a very warmly colored place
like the i spy books in its ecclectic nature
its a very long, narrow shop with shelves as high as the very high ceiling
and the beast stands stooped in textiles not too disimilar to what the withers family owns
theres a feeling of overwhelming Nostalgia
the kind that makes you feel Happy but Ache
and most importantly
while in the shop
you have no powers
you are just a person
------ The World(?) ------
there exists a place just outside of reality
between Life and what lies beyond death (known as the Vast Nothing)
it goes by many names: the Unknown, Traverse, Ephemeral, Expanse, Penumbra
this space can be visited in the Dreaming and is what awaits after Life
the landscape of the Expanse is different for the Visiting (Dreaming) versus the Resting (Leaving)
the Dreaming experience a landscape that is ever changing and dreamlike
the Leaving experience a softer, grey landscape, liminal in feeling
it is a place for the Resting to mourn their lives and find solace and peace before moving on to the Vast Nothing
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unladielike · 1 month
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So since it has been brought to my attention some rumours have been circulating about me, I just wanna make a few things clear.
First off, I did not supposedly stalk anyone's blog for years.
If need be, I can even provide my IP address (aka self-dox myself) to prove any screencaps to be false, but I'm nowhere near obsessive enough to check somebody's blog everyday. Like, sure, I might visit blogs of ex-mutuals every once in a blue moon out of curiosity, but contrary to popular belief, tumblr doesn't take up 90% of my time and at best, I would maybe lurk on COAR to read new confessions or refresh my dash once per day just in case non-active partners of mine have returned.
If anything, my time has been mostly comprised of going to work and grinding mobile gachas; in fact, should I notice I have replies to write, I will log in, throw my replies into the queue/save written replies in my drafts folder to queue later, and then fuck off to do other stuff. Honestly, provided someone has beef with me, it's unlikely I would know why unless my encounter with them on tumblr had been rather recent.
To my knowledge, I haven't harassed anyone off of tumblr.
Now, did I have spats with my own fair share of people over the eight or nine years I have been on this hellsite? Yes. Have I made vague posts about ex-mutuals, unintentionally ghosted others, privately vented to friends about people from the RPC I personally can't stand, and commented on COAR confessions? Also, yes.
But that being said, the only one I've ever sent anon hate to was myself and if I played a part in somebody deactivating their blog or quitting tumblr roleplay altogether, then that's certainly news to me, because I don't like participating in public smear campaigns, to the point where I even avoid name dropping certain users in my rules or PSAs I've made. Heck, the way I see it, I can only ever recall myself being relentlessly harassed/bullied, because when it comes to me for some reason, people on this site sadly don't know how to block and move on like normal people.
I also have never encouraged anyone to delete their blogs or chase them out of the RPC and have only ever reported one person due to the fact they would not stop posting about me/attempt to provoke me into engaging in drama on a site that we both frequent despite having me blocked; therefore, I have no idea where the narrative of me harassing people off of tumblr even comes from. Besides, I'm nowhere near popular enough to influence whatever following I have to dog pile on whoever I have grievances with, let alone have many people who would go to bat for me each time I'm being unfairly criticized. Honestly, the one time someone did call out my harasser, it was something I had no control over and they did so without my permission, to the point where I did privately tell them to stop url-dropping me and engaging with this person on my behalf... because again, I just wanted to be left alone.
Furthermore, I make it very clear to mutuals I've vented to that they don't have to unfollow/block roleplayers I've had bad experiences with... so I'm not sure if this is merely a case of the Mandela Effect rearing it's ugly head, individuals making up bad faith reasons to dislike me, or an issue of mistaken identity (especially since I'm likely not the only one who goes by the mun handle, 'Livi', and it has happened before where somebody had wrongly assumed a blog belonged to another person).
Of course, it's possible I could have forgotten stuff, as I have had more than three blogs over the years, so naturally, I won't remember all the OOC posts I have ever shared, let alone every instance before 2022 where I have been involved in drama... but regardless, I refuse to take accountability for things I have never done unless you personally come to me off anon with screenshots that provide evidence.
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tank-and-tiny · 1 year
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Heya! Nice to be here and meet folks. Been told by a couple'a people that this is a good place for supernaturals to get to know each other.
Name's Rory Walsh and here in my picture is my lovely itty bitty named Stella!
((OOC info under the cut, pinned post))
another blog by me, bunny, the person who came out of nowhere swinging SEMI-LUKEWARM
rory will randomly blip out of existence with my motivation and energy levels!
i tag the following:
blood // gif needles anatomical hearts bats deep ocean
since mobile is a fuck, heres the ooc page info put here
my name is bunny, im 25+, i do not want to be addressed
im also over on crow, honey, the beast, who else do i have uhhh null? and julia’s blogs
id like to avoid the tumblr chat “function” as much as possible, especially ic, i do not receive any kind of notification that i have a new message and it will not update with new messages unless i manually refresh the page. it leads to miscommunication and me missing things frequently and i dont like that. 
additionally, i am no longer given activity notifications, so communicating through replies on a post is a good way to have me not see it! please reblog whenever possible if you want to have a conversation
if you talk regularly with honey or null and we are mutuals you can talk to me ooc/ask for my discord,, if i draw you things i am trying to be friends, but i am not very good at being friends and do not have much to offer
im not Extremely picky with who i follow, but i have people whos judgement i trust and will block freely and without hesitation. im here to curate my ideal experience, not save the feelings of a stranger. 
while i understand that ic=/=ooc if your character spews blatant bigotry of any kind please dont interact, actually
this page does not accept magic anons
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Rory Walsh was born in Ireland and moved to Texas at the age of 13
he is 37 years old, 6'2”, approx 265 lbs
he is a werewolf and i will not read pretty much anything about wod garou actually, you cannot make me read, that being said osmosis works and so does polite conversation
age 13 rory moves to america age 20 rory meets saffron juniper age 22 rory and sj start dating age 32 rory and sj get married age 33 sj becomes pregante/stella is born age 34 sj is diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer age 35 sj passes away
rory is a football coach for tykes and teaches PE at an elementary school
stella is 4 years old and does not speak! she will make sounds, like barking and awoooing, but she does speak very well with American and Irish sign language which rory is also fluent in
her favourite bedtime story is goodnight moon
will add more if i can think of anything
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herefortarlos · 8 months
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Hello!
I love seeing your excitement around the fandom and a special thanks for all the support you give me in the tags! I was what made you start watching lone star? What made you keep watching lone star? What’s your favorite part of fandom?
Awwww, hello, Jen!! Haha, I am very happy to know that you enjoy my fangirling and hopefully don't find it annoying 😆.
So what clued me into 911 Lone Star, was seeing random clips from the show when I would be bored and scroll through FB and Instragram's videos section. The scenes that I remember the best are of course the racist neighbor and "Sure ma'am but I am a homosexual." And Paul's, "but I am trans, though." And then the corn silo scene and Marjan popping up and having lost her hijab, and everyone gathering around to protect her modesty. I loved knowing there was a show out there that had, from the brief bits I saw, canon gay, trans and Muslim characters!! Then I bought Hulu in late 2022, specifically to watch the movie Julie and Julia, then I watched all of Modern Family. And then I was like, well, I still have this service for the end of the month, and I saw Lone Star was on it and I have not looked back 😂 I wish Hulu kept track of it, because I don't know how I consumed 3 seasons of Lone Star so quickly while also working.
Tarlos and TK, then later Carlos, when we finally got more of him in season 2, were big reasons I kept watching. I also genuinely like all of the characters! I did not think I would love Judd as much as I did, big, stereotypical Texas man, but is not like you thought at all! Owen and TK's relationship is one of my favorite things too, such a loving father-son relationship, without the toxic masculinity is so refreshing! Getting Tommy in season 2 was such a big improvement too!!
I could go on and on about the characters, but another huge reason I fell in love with the show was because it actually had a trans black man, played by a trans male actor, a gay Latino man, played by a gay actor, and of course the fandom didn't find out about Ronen until 2021, but I learned watching in 2022, was a gay man, played by a bisexual actor!! Representation matters and as a queer person, I was so happy to see a show actually put in the effort to try and cast accordingly!! Even now, when I try to get friends to watch the show, I always start by gushing about tarlos, of course, and then secondly talk about the casting!
Finally, my FAVORITE part of the fandom has to be all of our amazingly talented writers and the stories they provide to keep Tarlos alive, interesting and relevant, especially during longer than expected hiatuses. I have been reading fanfic for various fandoms since 2012? And I appreciate all the work and effort writers put in to provide us fans with more content, without expecting anything in return, so the least I can do is comment on fics and reblog works here with my unhinged tags 😂
Also, I really appreciate how active the fandom is on Tumblr and I loveee saving and liking posts, specifically based on different people's tags 😆 As my name suggests, I made a new Tumblr for Tarlos in January 2023 I believe, so very recent. The last time I was on Tumblr was 2019, after it quickly declined in popularity, and all the previous artists and writers I followed left for Twitter. The fact that I fell in love with a show and couple enough to seek out a community for it definitely says a lot about it! When I fall in love with characters or a couple, I will hyper fixate on them for a minimum of 2 years, and hopefully this obsession lasts longer because of this active fandom and the fact that Lone Star is still ongoing and providing new material, as soon as these dumb companies decide to actually pay their workers a decent living wage anyway.
Phew, time to go find some lunch 😂 Thank you for the ask, Jen, and if you ever need a beta I'm your girl ❤️ But regardless, you can definitely expect me to reblog and express my love for the next fic you tease! I am not going to survive when Meet you After Dark drops!
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stevetown · 10 months
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On The New Tumblr Desktop Dash
I've been using the new Tumblr desktop dashboard for a few days now and I have some Thoughts that I thought would be useful to put out in to the wild. Most of the reaction I've seen has been...abnormally harsh about this UI update, so I think it would be interesting to actually go through the changes and point out what I like, what I don't, what I think could use some improvement, and maybe break down a little about why those Twitter comparisons are way off the mark.
More below the fold, but the tldr for me is - I think it's great! At the end of the day, I feel like I use the desktop version of Tumblr more and more since the change. Whereas before I used to just pick up my phone and refresh the app, now I get a hit of dopamine flipping over to the Tumblr tab when I need a work break.
The change is clean and logical, and as someone who came to Tumblr a year ago and still never quite grokked what all the icons at the top meant, having them spelled out is much nicer than guessing what they mean, even for someone who has become more familiar with the site. And to be clear, from what I can tell that's the goal of this change - to make it easier for newer people to use Tumblr and find their way around. Despite all the hate this change is getting, that is an unabashedly good thing.
The Left Nav
It's really, really clean. The old dash had a lot of unused space on the left, it makes sense to carve some of that out to have a menu that actually lays out what each icon means. The font size and style is comfortable without overcrowding. It just feels more...confident? Like these are the features Tumblr has. Use them! It's also just a more familiar web browser experience for anyone who has been using web apps since the dawn of email.
The badges also fit much nicer with the left nav. They don't float above an unclear icon, they're right next to what it says on the tin. You got 20 new posts to read, buddy. 5 new notifications. 1 anon ask. It's just better on my eyes.
I do understand the gut reaction that things are "too" cluttered. One of the first things I did was snooze Tumblr live and that helped me out a lot. Just removing all of the noise of live tags and loading-in thumbnails of people I'm not interested in watching went very far. It brought the post content further up on the screen.
A little before and after snoozing Live:
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Explore
I didn't even know what Explore was used for before. It was a compass icon. I think I thought it was some kind of search? I can't remember if I ever clicked on it before. Explore is much more interesting to me. It makes me curious. For a site that struggles with getting new users to find new content, it's a beacon that says "Find some cool new stuff!"
My problem with Explore is that clicking on it...doesn't get me much. The landing page just takes me to a feed from @todayontumblr that almost never has any content that I'm interested in. The "For You" tab on my regular dash is where I go mining for new blogs, along with "Your Tags." If Staff finds this change leads to more Explore click-throughs, I'd love if the tab itself get some love and made it a hub for finding new content easier. Maybe mixing up a feed of any tags you're following, trending posts, and other algorithmically sorted goodies that I'll want to take off the shelf and put in my chronological dash. I want it to be a place with the goal of encouraging me to follow new blogs.
Live
The transition to the Live page doesn't feel good to me. You're taken to a totally different kind of page, and the UI jumps all the way to the left. It feels like you're going to a separate site. At least when you snooze Live it also removes the menu item. That's really nice! But I'll save Live thoughts for another day.
Activity/Messages/Inbox
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I never knew how much I suspected these things were a bit redundant, but I'm glad now that they're separated and labeled correctly. I don't have to remember what the face icon/mail/lightning bolt all mean or why they're different. Things are much cleaner in that regard.
I don't really care for the popups when you click on them. Those do feel cluttered to me, like I'm going to lose sight of my dash, or the notifications. I don't have much UX advice here, other than to say I think I prefer how the Inbox is handled, where you're just taken to a full page view of the page. However maybe another solution would be how the Account and Settings icons are conducted...
Account/Settings
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This is the section that sold me on the new dash. On the old dash, I found navigating the Account and Settings options...ephemeral. I was afraid I was going to lose my place if I didn't find the menu I needed. Here, having them slide out as a drawer, keeps me in place and lets me orient myself easier. It's made exploring settings overall frictionless. I've changed dash palettes like ten different times just because I could and it was easy to find. Maybe something similar for inbox/messages/activity would make the UI feel more consistent and less overcluttered-feeling?
I do notice that the Account dropdown adds a new scrollbar which makes things like the t logo and badges jump to the left. That can be a bit disorienting.
TumblrMart/Get a Domain
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The Get a Domain menu item is fine, but TumblrMart feels like it needs some love. On a new refresh, clicking the icon loads for a total six seconds before the mart pops up. By this point, if I wasn't intentionally testing, I would have just moved on. Again, I also just don't like pop-ups like this. Feels loosey. Much prefer the full-spread domain page you get.
Create
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This is maybe my least favorite change. Every time I switch to my Tumblr tab, I see it in the bottom left and think it's the "Where were we?" button. When I do want to create a post, it feels like I have to travel far to get to the button, and then I have to travel again when the dots come up to select what type of post I'm making.
I wonder if just tucking it at the bottom of the menu under "Get a domain" would be better? Or at the top of the menu? Not sure. I feel in my jellies there's a better spot for this one.
On Twitter
If I can address the most frequent criticism I see on this site, which is that @staff are trying hard to "ruin" Tumblr by "turning it into Twitter," I understand that gut reaction.
But I'd encourage folks to think about that for a minute. UIs change, and a left-aligned nav is extremely common for a reason. Since the dawn of email, menu navigation has been relegated to a left sidebar. Twitter is not "burning to the ground" because their nav bar was on the left. Having a left sidebar means literally nothing in the grand scheme of what makes a website what it is.
What, truly, has this nav update changed? It does not change the functionality of the site at its core at all. It doesn't change what you can post, how you can post, what content you find, reblogs, or tags. For a site that struggles with new users "getting" the site and finding their way around, this nav change makes it much easier to settle in with something a bit more ubiquitous to the modern browser-viewing experience.
Thus leading me to believe the only reason people hate on this change so vehemently is they don't want to see new users or any effort at all to attract them at all, and I think that's exclusionary crap. Knock it off.
Change is Scary!
That said, the change is scary! Having your muscle memory interrupted isn't fun and can take a while to get used to. Every change has a growing period. I get that. For me, I got over that period fairly fast, but I recognize this process is different for everyone, especially those who have been around here for a lot longer than I have.
The change is also open for valid criticism. There are usability and likely accessibility concerns for sure. Staff needs time to iterate, and they need to know what problems are actually worth fixing and addressing. "I hate it turn it back" doesn't help anyone - it doesn't help Staff, and it doesn't help new users who are trying find a new place on the internet to call home after *shakes fist at the rest of the internet.*
I really like this change as a starting point, and I can't wait to see it iterated on further.
And on a small end note, if you also have thoughts and opinions that you want to tell Staff, please, please, please remember there are other human beings on the other end of line.
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worldsofzzt · 1 year
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Worlds of ZZT on tumblr!
After a few years of not bothering to keep the bot going here, I’ve decided to get it up and running again. Let me give a refresher after a multi-year hiatus and post a little about what this account is all about:
My name is Dr. Dos, and I’ve now been running the Museum of ZZT archive for 7 years. I'm the curator, if you will. The Museum of ZZT is the largest archive of ZZT worlds online, hosting more than 3000 games created for ZZT since its 1991 release. Over the years I have written articles on nearly 100 ZZT worlds to take a closer look at what they're all about. I've done livestreams playing through hundreds of ZZT worlds. In 2021 my work was featured on Preserving Worlds a Means TV produced video series covering the preservation and history of user-created virtual worlds. Preserving ZZT worlds and documenting them is my full time job, funded entirely by donations on Patreon.
ZZT is an MS-DOS text mode game made by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games. Players control a white on dark blue smiley face that runs around collecting items, shooting creatures, and solving puzzles. Though dated even at the time of its release, ZZT gained a dedicated following with user created worlds still being made to this day. The longevity of ZZT comes courtesy of the program’s built in editor which allows anyone to create and share their own ZZT worlds, even when working with an unregistered copy of the game. Over the past 30+ years, ZZTers have learned the intricacies of the game’s engine, taking full advantage of its capabilities, and in many instances its quirks. (It’s the only game I’m aware of where debug cheats are sometimes repurposed as gameplay functions at least.)
Due to ZZT’s simplicity, it had a significant audience of adolescents who were given the ability to create games and express themselves in unique ways without having to learn a dedicated programming language. Children as young as nine years old have used the program to create their own games, for many, especially in the past, that's an opportunity they may not have had otherwise. ZZTers often got their first foray into programming and game design with ZZT. The program has been responsible for a love of game development with many ZZTers growing up and working on video games professionally whether for independent projects, or for larger studios. These include names like Edmund McMillen (The Binding of Isaac), Jim Crawford (Frog Fractions), clysm (seiklus), Matt Dabrowski (Streets of Rogue), and many more. (To say nothing of the folks that wound up in other non-game oriented creative roles)
Despite so many ZZTers having had continued success with game development, ZZT remains sadly obscure! Often for those who were never a part of the ZZT community, ZZT is unknown to them. While the screenshots posted are randomly selected, my hope is that those who see them will be curious and start seeing just what it is about ZZT that keeps the medium going decades later and learning what great games they've been missing on, sharing them with others, and perhaps trying to create something themselves.
This account exists as a mirror of the Twitter bot that can be found at https://twitter.com/worldsofzzt. Every three hours a random ZZT world is selected, a board is chosen, and its content is rendered to a screenshot. At least for the time being, this tumblr account will remain inactive save for these automatic posts. Originally the bot would select boards at the time of generation. These days a queue system is used to allow to manual vetting, so this account will be kept PG-13 and avoid showcasing any content best not shared openly with the world. Also just for fun, on Tuesdays only title screens are posted.
There have also been some pretty substantial changes over the past 5 or so years. While ZZT itself is a program for MS-DOS that requires emulation on modern systems, the dedicated ZZT emulator Zeta makes playing ZZT worlds as easy as double clicking the executable as one would with ZZT. Zeta even has a web build allowing ZZT worlds to be played directly on the Museum of ZZT (you'll find links when applicable on all future bot posts to play the worlds being shown). This functionality also means that many modern ZZT worlds are able exist in the greater sphere of independent game development, rather than just being seen by those already aware of ZZT. Many modern releases have been published on Itch.io as well.
Today, many active ZZTers are those returning from the 90s and 2000s, though brand new faces have also shown up and been welcomed. The modern ZZT community is older, wiser, and much nicer than before. If you find these screenshots of ZZT worlds strange, unique, silly, or appealing in some other way, consider yourself invited to join us. We're always happy to have new faces! You can find us over on Discord via https://museumofzzt.com/discord/.
Right now, the plan is to continue using the Twitter as the main source of information. For reasons you can probably guess, I am beginning to look into alternatives. If you are using both sites, the Twitter account linked above also gets additional posts by me to announce newly published worlds on the Museum of ZZT, games being livestreamed at https://twitch.tv/worldsofzzt, new articles published to the Museum of ZZT, and the occasional bit of whatever else in ZZT passes my way (dumb memes and "hey why did that glitch happen" mostly).
Worlds of ZZT Links
Museum of ZZT
Worlds of ZZT on Twitter
Worlds of ZZT Discord
Worlds of ZZT on Twitch
Worlds of ZZT on YouTube
Worlds of ZZT on Patreon
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broken-glowsticks · 3 months
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I JUST REFRESHED MY TUMBLR FEED WITHOUT SAVING/LIKING/REBLONGING A FIC
FUCK
I was in the middle of reading it when I got a phone call. Then I got distracted and just did it and now I wanna die
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