PSA: community labels do not flag your whole blog as explicit.

They're not to punish users. They're for people to be able to not get jumpscared by an entire ass if they open Tumblr at work. They only hide you from the search results of people who have the option toggled to hide the posts entirely. If you have it toggled off, nothing changes. You see everything.

If you get a label applied, it does not mean your blog is on its way to being banned. You can use the labels voluntarily. It would not make sense if this was the case.

I just see a lot of people mistaking explicit community labels as the same thing as the flagging that the 2018 porn ban did. It isn't. All of this information is verifiable through the Tumblr help center. It would be great if this misconception could be cleared up.

You know what really scares me about the Internet nowadays. How fucking comfortable some kids are to just display their names, ages and locations. Like I'm sorry but I don't want to be scrolling on Tiktok and see someone who's got their real name, their under 18 age in their bio and the town/city/state they live in just out there for everyone to know.

Like do we just not teach kids online safety anymore? I wasn't even hinting at my age online till I was at least over 18. Didn't show my face on here till even later.

Like I don't want to sound like that old person being all "Where's the parents" but eh... yeah Where's the Parents. Why am I seeing 14 year olds displaying their location to strangers on the Internet?

Anyways, keep supporting trans muns and muses, and keep talking about your trans muses. What I've learned from tumblr's shitty moderation fiasco, is that I got results from politely emailing staff every 5-6 hours, and my rp blogs didn't get terminated 15 times that one month and its first anon hate to take transphobic mass-reporting hysterics lying down.

The terminations happened when I was publishing detailed information and headcanons regarding my (self-insert, ftm) transition. I don't believe this was a coincidence. Research HRT. Research surgeries, including the recovery processes vs final results. Look at medical sources, look at trans peoples' stories, ask questions of your own, there are plenty of social media outlets to create a whole library of information, from multiple sources. Don't let transphobia scare you. Don't let trans people scare you.

Write trans muses if you want. Getting corrected or doing it 'wrong' for a while will not kill you. Support trans muns, and also support cis muns writing trans muses! We want the correct information out there, not the propaganda, not the assumptions. Think about all of the 'risks' of needing to remake, of getting shadowbanned, of getting harassed? We need to be better than that. We are worth coming back to, and we need to look like it. Know where, and how to spend your energy and frustrations.

Community will always be better than outright hate, even if the frustration of minorities might seem like hate. Know where it's coming from. Know what you need to know to tell exclusionists that they are wrong. To tell genuine ignorant people what's not quite right. And try to keep an eye out for dogwhistles, transphobic or otherwise. Because flowery language isn't enough, you have to practice actually being nice to other people. Keep practicing.

Be willing to teach what transphobia is, what transphobic actions coming from non-transphobes are, so that the people who refuse to listen, change, or be nice don't feel enabled to be vile.

Windows 98 theme! Can I keep it???

Feel like breaking out the HTML on my Geocities right now!

I saw someone argue 'people don't reblog stuff now because they just don't like what you're posting' and I feel like that doesn't explain everything. It might a little - but it's not everything. It's also not something, I think, that many people need to worry about anymore; I do think the platform has to change to suit newer interactive styles.

On the other hand, as opposed to looking at it from a perspective of a service, I think of reblogging as keeping things for myself. It's scrapbooking. I try not to be annoying on peoples' posts, but I'm not doing it for 'boosting' reasons; it's just another chain down in the interaction. That's more fun and less stressful.

I don't think 'u guise need to reblog my poastz or Im going to Combust' helps.

The new desktop update just hit me, and I have to say, I'm not a fan.

Perché non riesco a rispondere ai commenti che mi lasciate?🥺

the state of tumblr dot com. badjokesbyjeff has six (6) checkmarks, we’ve gaslit a society into meta analyzing the cast of goncharov (1973). to think that just last year we were only horse plinkoing and live slug reacting. to see that last month we were just tumblrifying the breaking bad phenomenon. we’ve traveled so far

writer's workshop

Can we normalize the fact that even though fandom writing is so popular, it as well as writing in general is not always an accepted career?

Writing I believe is hard to be successful in and I praise people that can do it. However, I also look down on myself for believing that I could never make a career out of it. That thought led me to choose other career paths where I felt like I could find the most success. Though I don't regret the major I have chosen, I still wonder why I thought I had to give up writing fanfiction considering many authors in the industry started out with writing about fandoms.

I gave up writing on Tumblr and writing fanfiction at all because I thought there'd be no point doing it when I went away to college. I wasn't majoring in anything English or writing-based, so I believed that it wasn't worth my time. So to focus on my science degree, I stopped writing and pushed this passion to the back of my mind after having been doing it for over five years. Mostly because of a preconceived idea that writing fanfiction and writing any sort of fiction at all could only be something that was accepted when I was a child and a teenager. (Which is not true, obviously)

Now two years after giving up this part of myself, I got more inspiration and decided to open a new tab again. Posting on here, was never for validation, but to share a part of me that I felt I couldn't share with the people in my life. I have realized that no matter how I choose to live my life, or what career path I take, I shouldn't feel that I have to give up things that make me happy -- neither should you.

I guess I am just wondering if other people experience this conflict the older they get while trying to balance it with a future lifestyle and/or that same preconceived idea that you have to give up writing fanfiction?

a/n: I encourage all writers or anyone who has thoughts to leave them below for a detailed discussion. If you would like to reach out personally through a direct message because it is more comfortable, that is totally fine too. I just would love to talk about this with anyone who might be interested or dealing with the same thing.

@forever--darling

I need people to internalize that these two things can be true simultaneously:

1) There is a moderation problem on Tumblr that is disproportionately harming trans people.

2) The harm against trans people on Tumblr is not because staff is comprised of secret terfs, but because there is an overall lack of resources to do the moderation as thoroughly as it needs to be, considering the sheer massive amount of posts that are added to Tumblr per day. There are not enough people to look at everything manually.

how tf are you gonna be an anti and ship RPF tho like

what the fuck is wrong with your brain buddy

This generation of Internet users heard the term "manplaining" and just ran with it without truly knowing what it means. I just seen someone say their University Professor mansplained their lecture topic to them. Bitch no he EXPLAINED the lecture topic to you, it's what he's paid to do and considering he's A University Professor and you're a student I do in fact believe he knows more than you on said topic.

Manplaining does not just mean any time a man explains something to you. That's not what it means. It doesn't even mean when a man who's clearly on the spectrum info dumps to you about his hyperfixation.

It means when a man patronises you, a woman most often although I guess it could be done to other men in theory, by explaining something to you that you already know but he very clearly does not think you know it. Like intent has to be involved, he needs to be actively patronising to you and assume he's smarter than you.

Your University Professor does not mansplain to you he's paid to EXPLAIN to you. The guy infodumping about Warhammer could be manplaining to you but more often then not he's just excited to talk about the thing he likes, he's not actively being patronising. Trust me you'll know if a nerd is being patronising towards you.

Words have meanings and while they can change overtime some words should stay for their intended purpose because this trend I'm seeing (it isn't just mansplain I've seen it with a few different words) is just overall not great.

....going to put out a small reminder, since I just noticed this; apparently, your follower count is cached now. be sure to hard-refresh (ctrl+f5) every so often, if something seems strange...

Come now, my friends! I know you're all super excited to see me streaming right here at Tumblr Live, aye?

(Super sarcastic post, but I had to do it! Below - close up of the Amon streamer overlay because it was fun to make.)

I am going to take a semi-optimistic stance and argue that the change of the For You page, in making it default, (from the Following tab) and the Based On Your Likes etc. are a consequence to the shift in Tumblr culture of just liking instead of reblogging. Otherwise it's very likely that the site is just going to bottleneck.

If you've lost what was effectively your 'algorithm' (people sharing posts, people following each other as a consequence), you need to replace it with something. As it so happens, an accessible model is already available on the most popular social media site currently used and the biggest video sharing platform which many new users are already familiar with.

I'm trying to think about this in a different way from 'naurrrrrrr Tumblr is becoming like other social media platforms' which it does have incentive to do, since people are familiar with those and the Tumblr 'identity' doesn't matter, and absolutely feeds into this nevertheless (as I already said). But if you think about the general shift into passive consumption, and how that transformed the website... well.

Obviously not all changes are made for the health of the userbase, but it is known that people say they don't know how to find stuff, and how you find stuff on Tumblr was you go through tags or other peoples' blogs where they've shared other peoples' stuff. Not rocket science.