#IDK WHAT URL TO USE SO I TAGGED BOTH

[calumhoodgoss]

horror story of a teenage 5sos blogger

let me set the scene - its the mid 2010s, I'm 17, in the height of my 5sos fan career, im watching keek compilations all day and scrolling tumblr all night. Life is good.

Fast forward a few months and I start talking to this cute boy at school. we start going on dates, having first kisses - and first everything elses. we're falling madly in love. it's intense (and so cringy to look back at as an adult) but again, life is good! not a worry in the world!!

eventually.. it somehow comes up that my boyfriend and i both have tumblrs (of VERY different nature's mind you). we wanted to show eachother things we'd found online but we were both adamant we didn't want to see eachothers blogs (FOR OBVIOUS REASONS). instead of following each other, we would send each other screenshots of funny textposts, pictures, etc. - blacking out our respective blog names and url's to protect our online anonymity. life is good!

now by day, I'm spending all hours messaging my totally hot boyfriend but by night... by night, I'm reblogging hot gifs of calum hood, smut fanfics, imagines, general gifs of hot couples making out (ifykyk). it's the HEIGHT of tumblr fanfiction and imagine culture and I could not get enough. i was exploring things in real life with my boyfriend while also exploring online through fics. reblogging every single thing along the way. i was having my cake and eating it too and it was a fucking good time to be alive. life is so good!

of course, like any normal person, I was using my tags as a stream of consciousness. a way to get out my feelings about cal, about my boyfriend, about being a teenager, about LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Unfiltered, hormonal, teenage girl writing about the boys she likes. every. damn. night. life! is! good!

until.. all until.. my boyfriend and i were lying together in a park, under a tree, light filtering down on us as we talk and laugh and kiss - a perfect afternoon UNTIL he says there's something he has to tell me. 'what does *name of my blog* mean?'

TURNS OUT, the very first time I sent him a screenshot of something, I didn't black out my url properly and he had been SECRETLY STALKING MY BLOG FOR MONTHHHSSSS.

MONTHS

MONTHS!!!!!!

Literally just months worth of calum hood smut, so.much.smut, smut requests too!!!, soft porn gifs WITH TAGS LITERALLY EXPLICITLY ABOUT MY BOYFRIEND, countless text posts about our dates and whatever the fuck I was thinking or feeling that day, 5sos drama, EVERYTHING. EVERYTHINGGGGG. ABSOLUTELY EV ER Y THIN G

needless to say that blog was immediately scorched from the surface of the earth. and since then, I virtually haven't been on 5sos tumblr - until now. I was so mortified that I wasn't just throwing my thoughts into the void, I was literally scarred.

we're still together though lol I guess he some how liked me enough to look past the 5sos blog HAHA. he's a much stronger person than I because if the roles were reversed and he had some obsessed teenage fan blog, I think i would have gotten the ick straight away. Especially since I literally NEVER talked about 5sos with him because I was soooo embarrassed that I was obsessed with them (this was album one era guys HAHA and my boyfriend was way cooler than me in highschool). now I don't care, I play them in the shower all the time - he can deal with it hahaha

moral of the story is, idk don't tell your teenage boyfriend you have tumblr cause he will find your blog

#he showed me his blog to make me feel better #it wasnt even embarrassing #he would post his film photos on there #and some of them did really well #this was 10 years ago #before film really started having its hay day again in the main streem #he was way cooler than me #i just reblogged stories about calum hoods dick 😭 #5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #luke hemmings #michael clifford #ashton irwin #***almost 10 years ago

[rodolfoparras]

got any tips on how to start your own smut blog? I just had a prompt pop into my head today and I lowkey wanna make a blog for nsfw stuff but idk

- 🚁

These are the things I try to stick to when making blogs/ running them:

1. Have a short and sweet url by that I don’t mean that you have to have something unique as your url, I mean just look at mine, but have something that’s short and easy to rmr, try avoiding dashes and numbers.

2. The first thing I do on a new blog is change the default theme on both mobile and desktop. It prevents you from looking like a bot and it makes someone want to follow. Make an about me post that you keep pinned to your blog, include rules and guidelines in the post, even add a masterlist link when you start posting works

3. Before I posted my work I went to check the type of format that sells here.

This is one of the many writers stick to on here

As you can see it shows what pairing it is, the content you’ll come across in the fic and it’s even got a header to make it more eye catching

4. When posting your works make sure to properly tag them so you do reach an audience. Popular/ frequently used tags on here are top male reader, dom male reader, sub male character, bottom male character, sub male reader, bottom male reader, dom male character, top male character, do include them if your work touches upon these themes!

5. Avoid using the word nsfvv. Instead add 18+ in the content warning section or else Tumblr will hide your post from the general audience

6. And lastly post post post, don’t compare your work to anyone else’s as long as you like the fic idea and you throughly enjoyed writing it that’s all that matters

#alec answers #🚁 anon

[midnightstaresandwalks]

intorduction i guess idk

hi this is another oc blog by @redditplatinum but im going to be liking stuff from @/beebstagram

also special thanks to @/i-used-to-hear-a-symphony / @/argincel for the url :D

hopefully some of these things are coherent lol

Stuff about the character

Her name is nova and shes a little thing i made up thats a weird enderman shapeshifty thing

her pronouns are she/her :)

she really likes space :) (admin knows nothing about space but i think its interesting)

she loves crystals (not for spiritual reasons she just thinks they look cool)

also she loves hatsune miku (because thats the only vocaloid i know the name of LOL)

she has a pet named wiggle squiggle worm (who i will probably talk about later)

Im planning on making her character have somethung to do with boom boy @/boygoesboom but idk yet

i may ask mutuals about lore planning and stuff lol (for both the boom boy thing and probably other things)

shes like 7 feet and 11 inches tall because of the enderman shapeshifter thing

shes 13 years old please dont be weird :) (sending nsfw asks and/or just being creepy in general)

she loves ice skating but i probably wont talk about it much because idk the right terminology or whatever 👍

she has those fingers that are like black at her fingertips and it fades into her actual skin tone :] (but i couldnt do that in mgm2)

I did use monster girl maker 2 for her so she wont look exactly how i imagine her but yeag idk (the colours are a bit off because i took a picture of something on my tablet on my phone so please ignore that)

Tags

Original posts will be #voidposting

reblogs will be #tossing into oblivion

admin stuff will be #tiny raccoon parasite

uh um idk what else but send asks whenever you want

Just some extra pictures for the people who read all of this :3

#Voidposting #tossing into oblivion #Tiny raccoon parasite

[slaingelo]

extended bio below the cut as well as tags

FIRST OFF: I don't mind if you read my platonic art as romantic or romantic art as platonic.👍Enjoy and interpret my art however.

I read and appreciate all tags and additions <3

Ello. You can call me Angelo, or if you wanna use nicknames, Angie works. It/its, both fem and masc words, but no man/woman [ boy/girl is okay ]. absolutely no enby or they/them, you will be blocked. friends and mutuals can use he/she for me too, but if we're strangers, please don't. weird genderqueer thang, kinda multigender kinda genderfluid. star based words are okie too. If you're not sure about anything just ask.

My usual handle is "vamqiric" if it's available. However, I decided to use the url for my blog about running and updating my merch shop, @vamqiric. I still watermark my art here with that handle since it's easier for me.

I kinda post whatever art I want here. I like MCYT but I have a side blog for it, anything else is freegame for posting here. Mostly OCs or Nintendo shit.

Currently really into LoZ, especially the Four Swords manga and TP. I like Links Meet AUs. I will likely also post linkcest stuff at some point or another, frequency more or less depends on how much I draw [ especially vidow, if you consider that linkcest ] but it will be tagged accordingly.

Maybe sometimes suggestive stuff. Again, will be tagged.

Like what you like, I like what I like.

I have lots of struggles with interacting with fandom, so forgive me if I come across as aloof; I have lots of bad experiences. I'm trying here, okie? Still, don't hesitate to reach out if you want to talk about something! I promise I'm a good vampire that does not bite. I mean. Unless you want me too. Haha. Who said that.

My all time favourite game is Kid Icarus Uprising, my biggest bragging point is that I own a Dark Pit figma, all 3 kid icarus amiibos, and 2/3 of every kid icarus game [ uprising + of myths and monsters... trying to find the og! ]

oh also I stream sometimes ig idk. my twitch is vamqiricyt I have a vtuber model it's pretty cool.

I'm down for commissions and art trades, as well as situational requests [ like if it's for something I already actively draw ] so feel free to ask.

my personalised nightcore playlist

Tags for AUs and shit;

#four hoes au - small town farmers AU inspired by stardew valley. NAMED AFTER THE FARMING TOOL.....

#force gem of four au - magical girl au

#new pinned since i deleted the old one #my art

[jaded-of-mara]

LEGENDS CON RETROSPECTIVE

COSPLAY THOUGHTS

I suffer from specialist little boy syndrome. every local con i've gone to, i've been the only mara jade. HOWEVER. i knew that there would be multiple maras at legends con. and i was right

when i saw barbara hambly was going to speak at legends con, i knew i was going to have to cosplay callista. because i suffer from specialist little boy syndrome.

this is my own interpretation of callista, based on a combination of several official art pieces that i just didn't vibe with tbh. i do what i want

BUT in retrospect. if i ever decide to work with this type of vinyl again. please shoot me

anyway. a few people recognized me. i probably shouldve asked for a photo with barbara hambly but i chickened out.

i'm glad fandom is starting to reevaluate callista. because the misogyny present in some of those older fics? woof

also: new definition of hell unlocked: sitting trapped in a lightsaber sales pitch while your wig cap crawls up your head underneath your wig and you have to sit there nodding politely while trapped in a sensory nightmare

CONVENTION THOUGHTS

pretty tight. lotta good panels

got the unofficial guide book for dark horse star wars writers. some stuff thats applicable to fic some stuff not. vv funny to see how many of its rules the new canon violates tho

also some panels that were actually sales pitches

also some panels that couldve used some audience q&a rather than just prepared questions, but who knows what guests stipulate

i recognize that with every con there will always be some panel overlap, but the 15 minute overlap specifically felt a little harsh. day-of it wasn't as much of an issue bc of last-minute reschedulings

artist alley was a little bare, but it was a first con, things can only go up from here. shocking the places that supernatural merch can creep into tho

SOCIALIZATION THOUGHTS

i shouldve come out of my shell more. or cajoled a friend into making the thousand-mile drive with me.

i might have made more friends if i had gone to cantina night but i don't drink so idk what the vibe wouldve been

i did end up meeting a tumblr mutual for breakfast in burbank proper and that was fun

to make up for not making friends day of i have been following everyone whos posted in the legends con tag. from my main which has a cring url so who knows if they know i was there

HOTEL THOUGHTS

i wish i had checked out the hot tub but i didnt see the sign for where it was until i was checking out. i thought the only pool was outdoors and (see photos above) me and outdoor pools don't mix well

this is a very white trash and/or dean-coded thing to say but every hotel room should come with both continental breakfast AND a microwave

staff were vv nice but also i did feel silly walking around in my costume in the fancy lobby during an actual like. work convention

CONCLUSION

one of the organizers informally speculated that the next legends con might not be until spring/summer 2025. if thats the case, good, bc it means my body will have forgotten what it was like driving from green river utah to burbank in one day (do not recommend)

#legends con

[keerysquinn]

tag game dump!

so my very favorite @quinnkeerys tagged me in a whole mess of tag games, and I'm going to put them under a read more here so as not to spam the dash. I know @iero and @corrodedcoffn also tagged me in a couple of these, so a big thank you to them as well <3

if anyone wants to do any of these, you can just say that I tagged you

#1

Last Song: Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

Currently Watching: right this second, I'm watching nothing because I'm at work. but my lunch break tv show is currently Parks and Rec, and then I'm switching back and forth between Solar Opposites, Vanderpump Rules, and a Stranger Things rewatch when I'm at home. I'm also really obsessed with Claim to Fame right now

Currently Reading: rereading The Big Sad™️ as I try and write more of it, but I'm also reading Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

Current Obsession: not to copy RJ's answer, but have you seen my url?

#2

5 drinks to get to know me: hot coffee with a little sweet italian cream flavored creamer, hot chocolate spiked with whipped cream vodka and topped with mini marshmallows, ice cold water specifically out of my giant insulated purple water bottle, peanut butter and banana smoothie, a cocktail called a manhattan

#3

10 comfort movies: the princess bride, spree, enola holmes, little women (1994), beauty and the beast, edward scissorhands, the wedding singer, scream, cutthroat island, anastasia

#4

Name: Anna

Age: 31, to quote JCB "she's old, love"

Favorite season: Autumn because I am nothing if not a basic white girl

Movies or TV shows?: is it cool to say both? I love both forms of storytelling so much, but I will admit that I gravitate more towards tv shows. like, someone please explain to me why I won't be in the mood to focus on something for two hours to enjoy a movie, so I'll put on a tv show instead and the next thing I know I've watched an entire season in one sitting

Do you carry a bag/purse? What kind?: I am a mini backpack girlie. the current one is hellfire club patterned, and before I got that one, I was going back and forth between the loungefly that looked like steve's scoops ahoy uniform and a stranger things one that I found at target

What color is your water bottle?: lavender. I would put stickers on it, but I'm afraid that I'd ruin the stickers, so it's very plain

What color is your phone case?: teal, but it's super grody since I've been using it for so long. I should probably get a new one, but I'm due for a phone upgrade soon, so I don't want to spend money on a new case if I'm just going to have to get a new one when I get my new phone

Do you sleep in silence or do you need white noise/sounds/music?: I fall asleep to spree every single night. don't ask me why, but I find kurt kunkle drawing his life to be very soothing

Top sheets. Yes or no?: yes. when it's warm, the top sheet is the only blanket I use because all other blankets are too hot, and I can't sleep without a blanket of some sort

You're in the candy aisle at the corner store, what are you grabbing?: it depends on my mood. if I want fruity, I'm getting pull apart twizzlers or haribo happy cherry gummies, or the super cheap strawberry gummies from the dollar store. if I want chocolate, it's typically something with caramel. I gravitate towards milk duds, caramel m&ms, twix, and milky way midnights. also peanut butter m&ms

Preferred mode of travel (plane/train/car/bus/on foot/etc.): in my day to day life, my car is my lifeline. public transit isn't the best in my area (doesn't go anywhere near parents' house and idk if it goes anywhere near mine), so I've never really used it. when going on vacation, I prefer planes and trains though because I am not built to drive long distances

What's your phone background right now?: lockscreen is my photo op with joseph quinn from philly, home screen is a collage of eddie munson pics

Are you more of a miminalist or a maximalist?: the minimalist aesthetic is lovely, but it could never be me because I love little trinkets and art too much. maximalist all the way

It's time to paint your bedroom! What color are you choosing?: I have had the same pink and white striped wallpaper as nancy wheeler's bedroom in season one since I was seven years old, and I love it dearly. at my new place, my bedroom walls are this deep gray-ish purple, and I'm quite fond of that, so maybe I'd choose that color if it wasn't already what I already had. I'm also a big fan of blue, and that's supposed to be better for your sleep, so maybe a light blue

And finally, tell me something that brings you joy: stealing RJ's answer, but working on cheerscoops week graphics and stories (even The Big Sad™️) is what's keeping me going right now

#tag game

[goldenalbum]

Respectfully disagree you saying that Jimin is your ult. You and your anons must be sleeping during FACE era if you didn’t see how vile Jk solos were towards Jimin. Tagging spotify to split LC version, saying the most disgusting and vile things about Jimin because he had 2 remixes, making SA edits about him. Heck forget about 8 months back, it was just 2 days back Jk solos were tweeting that they hope Jimin’s plane crashes while he was returning back from Hungary. They were DMing people and saying horrible things about Jimin just because they praised Jimin after the Stuck With You dance reel. That poor person went private because of that.

That’s how disgusting and deranged JK solos are. And if you didn’t know all this then that it because you are diet solo yourself. At this point I am just going to assume all Jk biased people are akgaes themselves and definitely have an agenda against JM cause tell me why I didn’t see such posts defending Jimin against other solos especially JKs. You are a solo yourself if you are trying to rank which solo is the worst. Where is the post targeted to Jk solos to respect other 6 members since Jk is supposed to love them right? You guys are the precise reason Jk solos get away and have been getting away with their atrocious behaviour towards other members especially Jimin.

bestie you're really unwell if you think you can dictate who my biases are and if i'm a solo or not. that's not how any of this works. i have been a fan of bts since 2015, so how about you respectfully remove yourself from my inbox if youre going to come here trying to tell me about my own damn self.

oh yes look at me the clear jk solo who *checks notes* runs an ot7 blog, talks about how much i love jimin in my private conversations, has jm as my discord pfp, had the url jihopi for years before the temporary change to support jk's album, and plays jimin's songs more than anything else.

also idk why all of yall anons have reading comprehension problems. i never said jm akgaes were worse than jk ones. i never ranked them. for the third time now, i said jm akgaedom has some of the loudest ones, at least here on tumblr which is the only social media site i use. as a fellow jm lover, it really pisses me off. in fact here is me in another private convo almost 2 months ago talking to a non bts friend about how annoying both jm and jk solos are and one month ago mentioning the shit both of them get all the time.

maybe it's BECAUSE jimin is my ult and i am constantly in his tag that i tend to see those posts more, i will admit that much, but for the past few months i can't go one day without seeing someone shit on jk or a post claiming that the world is out to get jm which is just weirdly false. me defending jk, as i would any member, doesn't make me a solo and it's really sad that you think that way.

also where is the post calling out jk solos? literally right here. me calling out all malicious solos is LITERALLY what started the bullshit in my inbox.

but continue pretending like you know literally anything about me and my thoughts. i'm interested in seeing what you'll come up with next.

#ive had like 2 hours of sleep i dont have patience for this #jimin #jungkook #bts #anonymous #replies #discourse #can i get some normal anons lol

[nonsenseramble]

Heads-Up, Seven-Up

Tagged by @squarebracket-trick! Thank you for the tag!!!

The last few lines I wrote were for my Gods of Creation WIP. I spent far too long smash typing this out at 1:00-2:00AM, but I still am pretty in love with how it came out. (Okay these aren't the last seven lines per se, more so the last seven little...uh...breaks? Paragraphs? Idk man)

“What do you mean by ‘sustenance’?” Time ask quizzically. “Well…we are able to exist idly. We can create others like us, just like how you created me. However, I’m…different.” Life pauses a moment, reflecting on themself. “I’m not sure I can create beings like you two can. Not yet, anyway. The beings I can create cannot just idly exist without a source to keep them going. That’s what this is for.” Life uses their thumb and middle finger to flick the wet substance toward Light. Little bubbles waft through the empty space. As they approach Light, the circumference of the bubbles slowly diminishes to nothing. Time and Light both look at Life perplexed. “I’m not sure I’m following, dear,” Light says with a slight chuckle. “This is all very confusing, but I am curious.” “It’s a life force. A sort of fuel to replenish lifespan. As long as they have this, they shall continue on living.” Light points at the star. “And this one. It’s not for the beings, but for their home. It’s warm and bright. It reminds me of how I felt when I first saw Light. I felt protected. I felt safe. I want them to feel that emotion as well.” Light tilts their head, their heart swelling with pride. Life had obviously inherited their compassion and Time’s wisdom. “So, what are they called?” Light asks. Life hesitates, but only for for a moment. “In honor of Time, The Sage Deity, their life-force shall be called ‘water’. In honor of Light, The Antecedent Deity, their star will be named the Sun. These two creations shall harbor living beings in, around and among them. And so it is.” “And so it is,” Time and Light echo in unison. And so it was.

Tagging: @elizababie, @dyrewrites, @mthollowell-writes, @stanrendipity, @stesierra + Open Tag! (I'm still learning everyones blog url's so y'all gotta work with me here >.<)

#also I'm so sorry this took so long #the mention didn't push through to my notifs??? #i noticed you tagged me through a mutual #also #now that I'm sharing outside of Elizabeth's dm's I'm suddenly very shy #I plan to post the full wip I have currently #it's roughly 2-3 chapters depending on how i edit it down #wip: gods of creation #tag games #squarebracket trick

[fandom-data-scientist]

a few months ago, i installed a userscript that will automatically apply saved filters to whatever search you're making; however, because it was first made in 2014, the way it actually works is that it applies filters as if you were plugging something into the "search within results" box, which will not actually filter out tags, but rather, keywords present anywhere in a fic and its metadata.

this is not very useful on its own, considering the fact that most everyone likes ao3 so much for its robust tag filters. fortunately, there remains an old-fashioned search method from the time before native exclusion filters existed on the site, which allowed people to use "-filter_ids:[integer]" in the "search within results" box to exclude tags proper, as we expect them to work today.

there are, of course, other methods of having sticky/saved filters on ao3, such as bookmarking one's url after applying all the filters you desire to a particular search, but then that requires not only inputting all my filters again when i enter a new fandom tag (thereby necessitating maintaining a reference list), but also maintaining a bunch of bookmarks for everything i might want to regularly check, which. like. boooooo

anyway, another reason i like that userscript so much is bc a while back i learned that the ao3 advanced search box runs off apache lucene to parse its queries, meaning that you can actually get incredibly fine-grained with your requests. for example, to filter out both "slow burn that is complete and under 50k" and "slow burn that is in-progress and under 10k" while leaving all other slow burn fics in the same search:

-(filter_ids:103132 AND complete:false AND word_count:[* TO 10000]) -(filter_ids:103132 AND complete:true AND word_count:[* TO 50000])

or you could develop a whitelist for the tags you're filtering by using "!", like filtering out all ocs unless they're by a particular person:

-(filter_ids:2927 !user_ids:[integer])

point being, the ao3 advanced search box is very powerful, the possibilities are endless, and i am married to that saved filters script these days.

however, i am also a picky little bitch, and i have somewhere around a hundred tags i have automatically filtered out for my current fandom, and about forty additional tags that i have filtered out everywhere. the saved filters makes it a lot easier to maintain these filters, but also i'm lazy about appending new tags, and they can be hard to dig through if i want to take something out for whatever reason, so recently i've been putting together a spreadsheet that will automate the queries i want copy-pasted into the saved filters input box.

most of it has been simple, just maintaining a sheet with the name and filter_ids number of what i want filtered unconditionally, but for the more complex requests, uh.

(this one is supposed to say "22 !(176 || 110)")

(this one is supposed to say "((22 !(176 || 110 || 49838047)) AND expected_number_of_chapters:[5 TO 25]) || [further queries])"

........well, it's going!!!!

one of my friends says i should publish the spreadsheet when i perfect it, since even tho most people aren't as picky as me, it'd be nice to showcase ao3's fullest capabilities with it. for various reasons, it likely won't be much use to most people as a spreadsheet, but i've been Considering maybe figuring out how to make a userscript (or maybe even a firefox extension, if i can get permission from the people who made the relevant bookmarklets/userscripts to use their code And Also figure out enough js for that), so idk. stay tuned for that, maybe!

#long post #spreadsheet blogging #sorry this post is so long. if i don't provide an excruciating amt of context for everything i do i will die. #i make absolutely no promises regarding a userscript or extension but also i like doing console.log on everything but also js is suffering #i looked through ao3's source code like... i guess three days ago now? looking for all the different hidden search operators #i'd done so before bc i wanted to know why we had otp:true but can't filter based off the number of rlshps tagged in a fic #anyway there are quite a lot even tho most of them are not especially useful imo #did you know you can filter for works based off what workskin they're using? kind of wish we had more public site skins tbh #i also wish we could use more css in workskins bc rn they don't let us do @media queries #so it's hard to make nice or really cool skins that also look good on mobile... le sigh #my libreoffice crashed like at least three times today. when will i be free

[desudog]

for people who dont know.... mainly people coming here from a dif site,

using GIFs from the gif panel that adds the little credit link strip... shows up in the gifmakers notifications (ran into this a lot when i used to make gifs as a minor and had NSFW blogs using them for... some reason.) it directly tells the person what post their gif is used in. just be aware.

replying VIA someone else's reblog of a post notifies them that you are replying there. good tool when for example, theyre reblogging a post asking a question because both the poster and reblogger is confused. if youre gonna get in arguments though... do it on your own RB, spare the notifs of your poor mutual.

you can answer asks privately by the drop down menu where "save to drafts" etc is. this only works if the asker is off anon, but answers the ask back into their own inbox.

blocking someone deletes every ask they sent you. screenshot an ask if you want to keep it, you could lose proof of harassment. (ive been burned by it before)

posting a ton of tags that are not related to the posts contents is considered spam, and you CAN get banned for it.

reblogs cant be searched by the general search with tags... you dont need to tag reblogs of things with regular post tags. tagging # furry # sfw fur # artists on tumblr # sparklefur # support artsist etc on a reblog... doesnt do anything, unless youre using those tags to organize on your own blog. tags are really only useful for personal organization and talking, when it comes to reblogs.

spamming every post you make with something hardly related is really, really annoying to most people. theres no reason to tag a post that just says something like "i like bluey" with # freedom of fiction # proshipping # radqueer # trans artists or something. its just gonna make people block you, and once again, you can be reported for it. yes, you may be a trans person whos an artist who likes bluey, but the post doesnt really meantion that. best to simply tag it as the show, if you really, really think thats a post people would actively want to find.

tumblr clout is fake, huge follower counts dont mean anything here basically. it may look good from the outside but sucks bad to anyone whos ever had those numbers. trust me on this one. theres a reason i remake every time i hit around 70-200 followers.

while some peoples blogs may be aimed at helping others, discourse or discussion, the default is just a blog. meaning, a lot of peoples posts are just person things, and theyre not required by any means to be an educator or respond to arguing. in fact, most people will get kinda pissed if you set up shop to argue on their random 2 note posts.

dont screenshot other peoples posts and then repost them. idk why people do this so much. just reblog it. you can just reblog it. if you think its funny, helpful, just reblog them.

you cant send asks from sideblogs, but you can send anons and sign off the sideblogs @ . its pretty normal. in general, signing off anons is an old tradition on here. a little too afraid to say something super directly? sign off with an emoji or something! you can be someones secret admirer!

you can hide your blog from search results in your settings if you want.

url hoarding can and oftentimes does get you ban. many people get away with it, many people dont. make it clear if you have a url you wanna keep that youre using it or the blog is a WIP.

OPs of a post see every tag if the post isnt deleted. we do. be funny, talk about your ocs, do whatever. just dont be mean.

similarly, dont get mad when you act up on someone elses post and they get mad at you. we see the tags saying "holy fuck this person is stupid". yes we will probably respond to them. you look crazy for getting mad at someone for replying to you coming into their house and calling them dumb.

asks can be "eaten" and disappear for multiple reasons. sometimes its glitches, sometimes its having non-text contents, etc. if you dont have your ask answered and get a little antsy about it you can always ask the blogger if they received it, sometimes they just simply never come through

dms on tumblr SUCK. theyre BAD. asks are a good alternative if you cant stand them and dont have a seperate platform like discord

sending people gore on anon or dms on tumblr is laughable because you probably arent their mutual if youre doing that, and images sent from tumblrs you dont follow get blurred out. thanks for the red and orange gradiant i know what that is and you look stupid. (you shouldnt do it anyways, but if you do, i want you to know you especially look like an idiot doing it on tumblr)

its easy to get ban on tumblr when youre being harassed, even if youve had a perfect track record. getting your blog back can be confusing and frustrating but making alt accounts will only work against you. i made a guide on getting your blog back here. (the post is intended for transid people who got terminated via report spams so ignore the begining post intro, the steps are the same.)

[chacusha]

Why I don't tag dive on Tumblr anymore

This is something I haven't really talked about, but a while ago, someone liked some version of this post:

And it made me remember that I have unfortunately completely given up on going through the Quodo tag on Tumblr in order to find all the awesome posts that were made before I joined the fandom in ~2020ish. Not because I lost interest in that project but because Tumblr basically made it physically impossible for me to do...

Also for reasons peculiar to my own completionist psychology, I have ALSO basically given up on going through recent posts in the Quodo tag too (meaning all the posts that have been posted in that tag since my last reblogging spree, whenever that was).

Let me explain the reason for both of these things.

So the good news is that Tumblr does allow you to chronologically browse tags. This is not the default setting, unfortunately -- the default setting is "Popular" (which as far as I can tell seems to be some kind of weighted average of recency and number of notes, but IDK, it is a mystery), because Tumblr is an enemy of reason and all that is good in the world. But it IS possible! However, the bad news: for reasons I don't really understand, Tumblr will not paginate the chronological tag search.

If you take a look at a chronological tag search (e.g.: https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/quodo?sort=recent) and try hitting next a few times, you'll notice something: the URL doesn't change. It remains static even though the contents of the page change. What seems to be happening here is that, when you hit the "Next" button, Tumblr is (I'm guessing) using JavaScript in order to load a new set of posts and is changing the contents of the page on the fly. Therefore, what posts are currently showing are entirely dependent on how many times you've hit the "Next" button on your current browsing session.

You'll notice that this is NOT the way that dashboards or browsing through people's blogs works. For example, if you hit next a few times on your dashboard (I hope you have turned off infinite scroll!), you'll get URLs like these:

https://www.tumblr.com/?max_post_id=714110213039489024 (this for me shows posts from people I'm following that were posted recently, April 9, 2023)

https://www.tumblr.com/?max_post_id=71411021303948902 (deleted a digit; this now shows posts from Feb 2020)

Note that if you copy and paste these into your browser a day or two (or a week) later, you should see the exact same set of posts that you see now, as long as you have not followed/unfollowed anyone since you last loaded the page.

Or on blogs that have custom layouts turned on, you can easily jump back to older posts by doing things like this:

https://chacusha.tumblr.com/page/2 (this shows the 11th-20th most recent posts on my blog)

https://chacusha.tumblr.com/page/40 (this shows much older posts on my blog)

Here, the content of these particular pages WILL change as I post more posts to my blog, but there is at least some way to rapidly jump past many pages I know I've already seen. (There are also more powerful and quick ways of finding old posts using a user's archive e.g. https://chacusha.tumblr.com/archive)

As far as I can tell, nothing like this functionality exists for tag searches. Which is incredibly frustrating for trying to find older posts!! Given that I was at around 2018 or 2019 in my last tag search, the number of times I would need to manually hit the "Next" button just to find my previous place in the Quodo tag is ridiculous. And the more time that passes, the harder it gets!

Oh yeah, and to make this worse, anytime you reload the page (you restart your browser, you restart your computer, or you accidentally close the tab and recover it), your progress is reset! That's right: you have to click "Next" that many times again to find your old place in the tag again!

Let's make it even worse: Because of that way of loading and replacing content on a single page rather than just requesting a fresh new page from the server, you end up in a situation where your Tumblr tab is now using an insane amount of memory the more times you've hit the "Next" button. And unfortunately, one weird property of my laptop (my main computer) is that, if it is not connected to a power supply, it will sometimes do a random emergency shut down if it's running a program that is consuming too much memory and CPU. Which Firefox is now doing, thanks to that Tumblr tab!

So basically, after trying many, many times to find the furthest place I reached in the Quodo tag only for my computer to shut down, or for Firefox to start getting too sluggish for me to use anymore (thanks to Tumblr 😊), I just gave up: it is literally impossible for me to reach things posted in the Quodo tag prior to ~2019. Which sucks because I really would like to see things like people's older Quodo art (it's easier for me to find old Quodo fic as long as it has been posted to AO3 because... AO3 is actually designed to work as a functional archive and it sets up its search/browse functions in light of this fact...).

So that is the reason behind the first thing I mentioned -- it is physically impossible for me to reach older Quodo posts now. In some sense, I guess the fact that Tumblr naturally hides older posts from view is nice from a privacy point of view. But from the point of view of a content creator, I find this lack of functionality disturbing. I don't post things like art or fic or meta on Tumblr just for it to only be viewable within one or maybe two years from my posting it. My intent when posting it is for it to be accessible to people years later if they're interested. But Tumblr doesn't let me do this, unless people find my blog and use my blog's archive features to find the content they want (and I better HOPE I've tagged consistently and correctly, which it is hard to do 100% of the time). I really don't like this model of social media posts as ephemeral.

So what about the second point? Knowing that there is no way for me to go back months or years in the Quodo tag without manually clicking dozens of times through posts I've already seen and slowing my computer to a crawl and possibly triggering an unexpected restart has kind of made this activity unpleasant and demoralizing for me. Also, because of my long Tumblr hiatuses, I did and still do frequently fall significantly behind in the Quodo tag. And because I'm a completionist (yes, I am the kind of person who will browse through my dashboard until I hit the last post I saw the last time I logged into Tumblr), the idea of checking out the Quodo tag periodically but in a way I know is very spotty and incomplete kind of annoys me. Deciding not to use the Quodo tag at all and instead relying on other Quodo blogs I watch to reblog stuff from the tag and then reblogging THEM also doesn't work for me because, again, the fact that posts are chronologically out of order and now I've seen and reblogged SOME of the Quodo tag but not other posts is just confusing and one extra thing to keep track of. My brain does not like that at all.

So basically, that's my sob story about how I gave up on the project of deep diving into the Quodo tag and why I've largely given up on reblogging Quodo posts from the tag at all. Now that I've written this post up, I realize I am being a bit too neurotic and perfectionistic about this and maybe I should go back to casually reblogging posts whenever I decide to peruse the tag and just accept that there are great posts that exist out there but now are completely "unrecoverable" for me.

The summary is: Tumblr is great for a random stream of content detached from time, but is terrible for archiving content in a systematic, comprehensive sort of way. My brain and my blog is much more that of an archivist than a streamer, so this really doesn't work for me. This is one of the many reasons contributing to my frequent Tumblr hiatuses, which I haven't really talked about before.

#the more you know #tumblr #complaining about tumblr on tumblr #tech lamentations #basically writing this up so that I can easily link and reference it later

[definitely-not-iorveth]

I kneeeww you’d reblog them x3 gimme all

OKAY FINALLY THE TIME HAS COME

*rolls sleeves up*

who is/are your comfort character(s)? is anyone going to be surprised if i say iorveth

lighter or matches? matches. it is so fascinating to watch the flame slowly crawl up the stick ☺️🥰

do you leave the window open at night? i tend to, except during winter and mosquito season

which cryptyd being do you believe in? none sadly

what color are your eyes? brown

why did you do that? why did i do what

hair-ties or scrunchies? i think i'm partial to scrunchies

how many water bottles are in your room right now? probably zero? not sure tho. i'm not in my room right now. i'm not even in the country.

which do you prefer, hot coffee or cold coffee? BOTH ARE EQUALLY GROSS

would you slaughter the rich? with pleasure

favorite extracurricular activity? writing

what kind of day is it? rainy

when was the last time you ate? for actual food, about 7-8 hours ago. for a snack, like an hour

do you love the smell of earth after it rains? hmm... i'm going to say yes

are you a parent? (all answers qualify) yes i am the deadbeat father to a longcat plushie. his name is marian.

can you drive? kind of but not really

are you farsighted or nearsighted? painfully nearsighted

what hair products do you use? shampoo. that's it.

imagine we’re at a sleepover, would you paint my nails? hell yeah.

do you say soda or pop? soda

something you’ve kept since childhood? i don't think i have a thing like that

what type of person are you? what does that even mean. what are my options.

how do you feel about chilly weather? strong dislike

if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing? i mean that depends on the rooftop??? there are so many rooftops out there.

perfume/body spray or lotion? ew, neither

a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times? idk how to answer this question. scenario for what?

about how many hours of sleep did you get? 7-8

do you wear a mask? sometimes

how do you like your shower water? warm to boiling, depending on the time of year

is there dishes in your room? see the answer to bottles of water

what type of music keeps you grounded? various kinds

do you have a favorite towel? no

the last adventure you’ve been on? exploring the Court Gardens

is there a song you know every word to by heart? hmm, not anymore, i think

what’s your timezone? utc+2

how many times have you changed your url? on this blog or in general? on this blog, 4 times i think?

someone in your life, other than a relative, you’ve known for 10+ years? no

a soap bar that smells good? i don't use soap bars

do you use lip balm? yes my lips and the area around them cracks something awful

did you have any snacks today? yes

how do you take your coffee? i don't

an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site? spotify

what’s your take on spicy foods? good for the soul, bad for the stomach

you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it? there are SO many people. SO MANY PEOPLE. but i'd start with jarosław kaczyński.

can you remember what happened yesterday? yes

favorite holiday film? no

what was the last message you sent? iorveth fire emoji

when did you first try an alcohol beverage? at like 9? not quite sure

can you skip rocks? eh, not that well

can i tag you in random stuff? ALWAYS

whew

this was hard

BUT I FUCKING GOT THROUGH IT

thank you for the ask! 😘💚

#ask game

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

tagged by @ragnarokhound <3

name: kai (yes im a trans man named kai, its a good name, okay?)

pronouns: he/they

where do you call home: eh the general answer is west of england, midlands and up. theres a sentimental answer but its a pretty small area so im not gonna potentially dox myself in a tag game dhdjsjs

favourite animal: walrus all the way, baby! although my url is actually unrelated to my love of walruses. theyre just the best animals, theyre big old chunky boys with two big front teeth that can grow to over 3ft in length. when on land, they huddle together in cuddle piles. AND mama walruses can use their flippers to pick up their babies and cuddle them to their chest; tell me thats not the cutest thing youve heard today.

cereal of choice: im not really a cereal person or like a breakfast person at all, but if im having it, golden nuggets or nothin'

visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner: ...all of them? idk, it depends on what im learning. auditory probably less so than the others just because my auditory processing isnt just trash, its trash the binmen wont take.

first pet: my parents had four cats before they had me and my brother so i guess them? they were thomas, alfred, cally and misty. my uncle, who incidentally doesnt believe in seatbelts, named alfred.

favourite scent:

no but seriously i have a very strong scent of smell which is part of why im such a picky eater like im yet to meet a food that smelt bad and tasted good, but i just,,,, dont have a favourite scent?

my brother gave me a lynx body spray of his he didnt want pretty soon after i came out the third time, as trans this time, and its definitely a he got the spirit moment so i guess that.

do you believe in astrology: nah, its not my thing really. all the more to you if its yours as long as you dont try to ascribe my behaviour to me being a taurus, thats the mental illness or the autism or the adhd or the neurological disorder thats pushing my eyes out of my skull very slowly.

how many playlists on spotify/apple music: 28 which is more than i thought i had. right now, theres only like 3 im cycling through named dead reckoning, the old swan, and dutch angle / danish pastry.

sharpies or highlighters: yeah so like, we could never afford sharpies in my house so its highlighters my default. sharpies are like mega expensive in the uk and by mega expensive, i mean unaffordable for a child of a working class single parent.

songs that make you cry: hmm. thats kinda difficult because whether i cry depends almost entirely on my mood. if i had to name some, i guess id go with:

a little fall of rain, turning and empty chairs at empty tables from the london cast recording of les mis (its vital to specify this, okay?); george blagdens secret? recording of drink with me; breathe from in the heights; flowers, doubt comes in, promises, gone im gone, and we raise our cups from hadestown (are you sensing a theme yet?); unruly heart from the prom; here i go again specifically from the rock of ages musical (and NOT the tom cruise movie, i saw this musical live and i cried); i know where ive been by queen latifah, and also from pretty much any hairspray cast recording; if i met myself again, ugly in this ugly world and hes my boy from everybodys talking about jaime and i have sobbed at all three of these songs.

and finally: grandmas song, deep into the ground, he could be a star and once we were kids from billy elliot, and yes i cry at most of act 2, i was raised working class in a working class area that was once revered for its industry and has since been forgotten and left to drown in poverty, how am i meant to not cry at it?

songs that make you happy: hmm again. throw the entirety of the first mamma mia soundtrack onto the list. then welcome to paradise & coming clean by green day (when i was a very depressed teenager, listening to green day always made me feel better, both about the world and about myself); the irony of choking of a lifesaver by all time low because its moms favourite song of theirs and weve gone to see them live five times together; merry christmas maggie thatcher from billy elliot because fuck that bitch; legend of coco chanel from everybodys talking about jaime; sexy from the mean girls musical; do it for your lover by manel navarro; strangers & i dont want to talk about me by stereo jane (the strangers music video is so fucking bisexual yall); king of my heart by sub-radio; ghost ship of cannibal rats by billy talent; carpe diem by joker out; who the hell is edgar by teya and salena; let me entertain you by robbie williams because i sang it in karaoke as a 7 year old who did not know the words and then proceeded to get obsessed with robbie fucking williams for a while; slipping away by materia; and 68 guns by the alarm which is a funny little one because it reminds me of my dad but i still enjoy the song and ive made a conscious choice not to limit my music taste just because some asshole whos not even a good hobby ghost hunter likes it too, you know?

do you write/draw/create: all three! granted i havent done much of the first two in a while, but on my defense, losing 7-8 months worth of your memories kind of fucks you up and its oddly time consuming. also developing fainting attacks and spending a week in hospital while they fail to figure out whats wrong with you other than weirdly low blood pressure does not help. but i do have a drawing planned out to do and while i went a little too much detail on one small detail (i will justify it as soon as i actually finish it), im going to finish it. i also do origami pretty often as well as baking, and i am currently building a wooden replica of the titanic AND LISTEN, i started before the titan submersible stuff happened and i havent touched it yet because it just feels weird to, you know? also, i didnt even want to do the titanic, but like, good luck finding any starter kits that arent a) titanic and b) upwards of a £100. i would love to do a ss malolo or a mts stockholm but that aint happening and while i might be able to find an ss normandy or ss united states, im not gonna be able to afford. its titanic or bust which sucks.

tagging but no pressure: @bottlesandbarricades @vaellusvitutus @rad-roach

#tag games #ragnarokhound #big thank for tag <33

[kim-woonhak]

tagged by @njaems ily mel <3

name: siyuan sign: sagittarius height: 5'4" / 162 cm time: 02:48 am lol birthday: dec 19 favorite band/artist: right now it's kihyun!! my friend gifted me both of his solo albums for my bday bc i listened to voyager and youth so much hehe <3 last movie: glass onion last show: just finished ateez salary lupin today :] the new years episode made me cry when they surprised all the members with their mothers' cooking and handwritten letters 😭 when I created this blog: like probably 8 years ago idk but i became recently active on kpopblr at the end of 2020 :) before that i didnt really interact w anyone on here what I post: kpop drawings and gifs :] other blogs: my art insp blog @dreambivartence and my relatively inactive jacob + idols with flowers sideblog @jacob-bae mainly bc i love that url and the blog theme <3 do I get asks: yes but im so bad at answering them on time lol not me egotistically reblogging ask games so i can receive some attention and then not answering until 3-5 business days later 😔 followers: so many! too many (jkjk the more bots the merrier i guess!! lol) but @ humans how do yall put up w me 😂💕 average hours of sleep: 6-8 hours but i can easily sleep 12+ hours if i don't have morning plans LOL instruments: um... i can use drawing instruments. pencils. brushes. my tablet pen. i can play very shaky scales on the piano and some basic chords on the ukulele lol dream job: "no job hahaha" <- so real mel. tho also open to be an atz or skz makeup artist <3 dream trip: currently trying to recruit my friends to go on a korea trip next year and maybe japan or taiwan but we are famously very bad at deciding on plans favorite songs: youth by kihyun <3 i literally listen to almost nothing else these days i literally have a one track mind 😉😂

tagging (no obligation! sorry if u've already been tagged): @alrightyaphroditie @being-simba @brianbangs @dive-in-the-blue @jongseobie @joon-rkive @junjunies @lonelystreetlight @neoleeline @skzandnct

#tag game #i was deep cleaning my bathroom earlier and forgot to wear a mask while using bleach #and now i am still awake waiting for my nose to work again so that everything can stop smelling like chlorine 🤧

[keeeegs]

15 Questions for 15 Mutuals

Tagged by @ratt-teeth

Are you named after anyone? I was supposed to be named after a mermaid from my mom's favorite movie. That didn't happen, but then my dead-middle-name was stolen from one of my mom's classmates that she never spoke to and just thought the name was cool so uhh.... and I changed my middle name to Cyrus, and I absolutely was thinking of Cyrus from So You Think You Can Dance (<-- link,, slightly smaller dude on the right with a mohawk. The other guy is tWitch, RIP)

When was the last time you cried? DEADASS I DON'T REMEMBER, ANTIDEPRESSANTS MY BELOVED edit:: when I found out tWitch died

Do you have kids? "Absolutely not, could you imagine lmao" <-- prev answer, and same

Do you use sarcasm a lot? oh yeah, which in itself is not sarcasm

What sports do you play/have played? I used to play tennis when I was a little kid, but uhh lessons were expensive and my mom was a teenager when she had me so like,,, that didn't last long

What’s the first thing you notice about other people? That they are Existing within the same general space as me, I guess? I tend to ignore people when I'm out and about and don't register who anyone is or what they look like

What’s your eye color? Dark Brown, almost black

Scary movies or happy endings? uhhhh either/both?

Any special talents? I'm apparently really good at making people think I speak languages that I Don't actually speak, idk I guess my google translate game is on point

Where were you born? KCMO

What are your hobbies? Drawing, gaming, more recently I've added sewing to the list

Do you have any pets? Yeee two cats and two doggos

How tall are you? 5’5, which apparently throws people online off when they find out bc I guess I give off 6'+ energy

Favorite subject at school? Art, or English

Dream job? Stay at home Cat Dad sdvkbjnvdsjbkvds I'm currently trying to start up my own art business so we'll see how that goes 15 mutuals: bold of you to assume I have 15 @spiritmoon23 @kaz-doodles @smjoked-tuna @the0thewizard @tuna-cake @ill-add-dashes-to-urls-if-i-want @nuclear-uno @tmommy I'm too lazy to go through the rest of my followers list so if you see this and wanna do it, consider yourself tagged and have at it

[isabelguerra]

ok disclaimers: i was not personally involved in the parastucking this is mostly stuff i remember from lurking in both fandoms around 2012 and therefore the details or timelines may be inaccurate because it's 2023 and 2012 was 11 years ago what the sodding fuck

but basically im sure you know that there used to be homestuck references in paranatural (ex. GENUINE DISTRESS!), and that zack morrison did the first and last comics of paradox space as well as made some merch for hussie and also parts of [s] game over (i.e. they used to talk)

back when comments were open on pnat's site, it was clear from reading comments that there was a lot of overlap b/w hamsteak fans and paranatural fans

(And i guess earthbound fans too come to think of it, the overlap pipeline was like earthbound --> homestuck --> paranatural --> undertale coming later in 2015.)

i can confirm the above pipeline worked for me at least because that was the exact order i discovered all of these in

there were also percy jackson references here and there because i specifically remember someone saying "move over jason grace there's a new weatherboy in town" somewhere around isaac revealing he had lightning powers and there definitely was a paranatural percy jackson au but that's neither here nor theer)

so naturally if you look at really old blogs (think fyeahparanatural which mercifully is still up) you find a lot of little crossovers here and there but relevant to the purposes of ur au is that a lot of people drew characters in their god tiers (there was never like, a consensus on who got what god tier everyone seemed to have a diff take on it)

idk how many of these artists are still active in the community let alone tumblr itself but assuming the blogs aren't deactivated you could shoot them an ask or two and see if they respond

what sucks is that there used to be a paranatural tumblr that was specifically dedicated to crossovers and they for SURE had documented all homestuck crossovers but i can't remember the url and i have no guarantee that's even still up but if someone has that PLEASE GIVE US THE URL

there also might've been parastuck stuff on deviantart just going off the timeline of homestuck and paranatural being popular at the same time around like 2011-2013 but i'm not super familiar with that content if it exists (i'll look into it tho seeing as i've recently been trying to track down bobby pendragon content on deviantart for a completely diff fandom)

rn i'm just opening tabs like a madman trying to catalogue every piece of fanart or lore that i can find while woozy from loss of blood thanks 4 ur time

YES YESSSSSSSS I REMEMBER THE MORRISON PARADOX SPACE COMICS!!!!!!!!!!!!! i never played earthbound but watching everything springing from the bloated corpse of homestuck and into mainstream culture is fucking crazy. so many people dont even know. i talked with someone literally yesterday about radiation and they were like TOBY FOX WAS IN HOMESTUCK???? the look on her face when i showed her [S] Wake and megalovania turned on was priceless.

and yeah tbh its kinda sad seeing how many ‘staple’ pnat blogs just arent around anymore. thank god for fyeahparanatural keeping the blog up as an archive. i cant believe i never knew they had a homestuck tag. looking through it for the first time has some REALLY interesting results. i saw dunacht’s puppet x lil cal fanart. i saw a god tier max that turned his hat into the aspect color scheme. i saw spender in sock garters. i saw the jang as the midnight crew. i saw spender in sock garters. hey did you know what comic turns 13 this year

#paranatural #thank you for the essay im going to be thinking about it for the next several days. marinating. #okay redaction to my earlier post. are you guys ready for paranaturals 8th homestuck au #asks #pkflashfire