Very Brief Guide To [tumblr], For Reddit Refugees

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Very Brief Guide To [tumblr], For Reddit Refugees

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Very Brief Guide To [tumblr], For Reddit Refugees

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

Very Brief Guide To [tumblr], For Reddit Refugees

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

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2 years ago
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3 years ago
Context -

Context -

This incarnation of (Y/n) comes from the Age of Calamity after Wild “failed” and died, she was sent off to travel with the Chain as Wild was still in the Shrine of Resurrection. This technically makes Wild the only one of the chain to have not met her, as he had lost all of his memories when he woke up. But, due to this, Hylia never completely rid of (Y/n) in his memories, believing that he would never recall her on his own. Ironically enough, this actually led Wild to being the first of the Chain to remember (Y/n).

She was Zelda’s personal sorceress that worked alongside him when he was the princess’s guard; the two of them were close friends, with (Y/n) often comforting Wild after the moments of when he got yelled at by Zelda. On the other hand, the princess was a bit envious of the sorceress. Zelda wished to have the freedom that the other girl had, visually given the fact that (Y/n) was able to wear pants for convenience sakes, unlike Zelda who had to wear those dresses she despised so much, among other things. Zelda at first tried to befriend her, but (Y/n) simply shied from her and her attempts. (Y/n) mostly wanted to avoid the princess due to her connection to Hylia, but it was also because she was so rude to Link (Wild).

Even though Link (Wild) had lost to Ganon and died, she held no malice towards him (not that she ever would), she actually relates to him because of this failure. In her first life, Link (First) and her had lost the battle against Demise and died after Hylia sent the people of Hyrule into the sky. To her, Wild’s failure somewhat endears him to her, as it lets her see that they—the rest of the Links—are still mortal, still human, and that they make flaws and mistakes. However, looking at this in another light, (Y/n) deeply regrets not being able to save Wild and nor help him. She was doing what she could to help everyone get ready when Ganon had awoken, so she couldn’t find Link (Wild) and Zelda until he was already gone. She ran into the two Sheikah men who were on there way to find Zelda, and joined them in there search.

Despite them being the incarnations of Link (First), (Y/n) knows very well that they are their own people. She may miss First dearly, and may see some similarities between him and the rest of the Links, she knows that they are different people and that they deserve to be treated at proper individuals with their own personalities.

(Of course, with her treating them as proper individuals, this also means that she treats them as Link (each one of them respectively), and not the Hero. And I’m sure you can imagine just how grateful the Chain are about this)

———

@yandere-linked-universe @ice-cream-writes-stuff @shoobirino


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3 years ago

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[Your url but  you change it with the following criterion:

Every “i” is replaced by “iii”  Every “e” is replaced by “c” Every “o” & “a” is replaced by “x” Add “isms” to the end of it

Person A: “Well that was a mistake.”

Person B: “Shut up! I’m not gonna take life advice from some criminal who takes the law into their own hands! You’d probably just try to ruin everything for your own sick enjoyment!”

Person A: “Oh you don’t need my help to ruin your life, you seem to be doing that quite well on your own. Honestly, I’m surprised you have any allies left if that’s the way you treat them.”

Person B: “That wasn’t an ally, that was my wife.”

Person A: “…Oh that poor thing.”

2 years ago

some au sanses x y/n anyone?

Some Au Sanses X Y/n Anyone?
Some Au Sanses X Y/n Anyone?
Some Au Sanses X Y/n Anyone?

gays.

2 years ago

Can someone post a link to the fic? I can’t find it 😕

Peaceverse (by Dandelion_weed On Ao3) Fanart

peaceverse (by dandelion_weed on ao3) fanart

2 years ago

It took you a shockingly long time, to notice the changes.

At first they had been so little that they’d been all too easy to miss, and even once the changes started to slowly become bigger and bigger, many of them remained rather simple to gloss over or explain away.

In all honesty, a large part of you had simply assumed it was because of the company you kept, and in a way… you were right. Though it hadn’t quite been in the manner you had thought it was.

Many people around here, thought you were strange for choosing to remain in your isolated little house out in the woods, especially when it was so much safer in town, where there was the silent comfort of being in numbers. Had they known that the very reason they feared living where you did, was the same reason you loved it there, there was no doubt in your mind that their worry would have quickly turned to hostility and suspicion.

As it was, you doubted they were going to be fooled for much longer. 

And it wasn’t like you’d ever particularly cared anyway. 

In all honesty, you’d never felt like you belonged there in the first place, and staring into your bedroom mirror, you knew there was no way you could even pretend to fit in there anymore, even if you had wanted to. Though you weren’t entirely sure when it was that the changes to your self, had become so drastic.

Over the years you’d spent living out here, you’d befriended many of the denizens of the forest, and had steadily gained the trust and favour of the vast majority of them, almost entirely without trying. As a byproduct, you had been gifted many blessings, all of which had steadily built up over time, until eventually…. there was barely anything left of your humanity at all, a fact made all the more obvious by what was reflected in your mirror.

Thanks to the influence of your many non human friends, you had become something….Other… 

Something that had yet to be given a name.

Something that you had just found out, was no longer even mortal.

2 years ago

👀 harpy nonzoo AU with MC with kid? How would that go down? Not sure if/how MC would take their kid to the mountain tho

Sans: She'd be much more cautious going through Sans' forest if she had a child with her- she wouldn't go through at night at first. No way she's taking that risk, she'll just spend the night in town. Which means they probably meet when her kid runs off in his woods and gets totally lost.

... He looks after her child. Keeps them from getting too upset, or panicking... being lost can be very scary, he plays with them to keep them distracted, and acts lazy to calm the nerves. If he's acting lazy and sleepy, there must be nothing to fear, right? If Mc stumbles across them, she finds her kid playing with a completely harmless and happy owl- and if she doesn't find them Sans puts her baby on his back and makes a game out of finding mom again. As much as he's a little shit, and he'd like to play keep-away with her kid... he knows he's got to gain both their trusts before he does something like that.

Sans visits their home at night. He feels protective. Mc has grown accustomed to looking out of the windows at night and seeing his terrifying eyelights in the pitch-black near distance.

Red: Well that's even MORE of a reason for him to move in, isn't it? He wants a mate, and a child. Right there? A perfect mate with a beautiful child. He wants to protect, he wants to provide... someone needs to go in and make sure they're protected. Lucky for them, his schedule is free.

She's, obviously, very defensive of her child when a massive harpy moves into her house. He loves it- as we know, there's few things more attractive to Red than someone with fire. This time it's extra easy to prove his worth as a mate and a father, because her child immediately takes a shine to him... who wouldn't? He's a cool eagle with a gold tooth, and he proves to be a great playmate. Mc tries her best to distrust him but it's difficult when he cleans the messes she can't manage, respects her personal space, and plays with her child so much they happily settle down for their nap.

Skull: It's not unheard of for parents to take their child hiking. And if Mc is a single mother, maybe her kid really likes hiking and camping, and she just wanted to do something nice for them. She never could've foreseen herself being stalked and getting injured.

As for Skull... well, he's a big bird, there's more than enough space in his warm feathers for a mother and her kid to cuddle up and survive a harsh winter night. Especially if he takes them back to his den, where he can be certain the icy winds won't reach them, and snuggles them in real close. Skull is in heaven, mate and baby in his arms... the two of them tucked against him so close he can feel their heartbeats. He doesn't sleep; he can't, he's too happy. He coos all night.

His den doesn't feel so empty anymore. Neither does his Soul.

3 years ago

Malleus... 🥺

No twst stop bullying him...! 😭

Look How They Treat My Poor Dragon
Look How They Treat My Poor Dragon
Look How They Treat My Poor Dragon

Look how they treat my poor dragon


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6 months ago

Oh

Oh

I got LOL in given

didn't even know I could do that!


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