Following The Darkness Down The Rabbit Hole

On a scale of one-ten how????????

[inadvertently-biblical]

Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton

TED LASSO - 3x03

[despazito]

[ltwilliammowett]

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

[dragon-in-a-fez]

not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool

[dubiousculturalartifact]

ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted

[netheritenugget]

Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

[netheritenugget]

This is the closest I've ever gotten to making up stories around a fire with friends btw.

[netheritenugget]

Me, in a hushed voice, dramatically, while roasting a marshmallow over the fire: And so... The Blorbo that was sad and alone... Was not alone anymore.

My friends, collectively, every single time (while also roasting marshmallows): Oh my god, The Blorbo wasn't alone anymore... 😭😭😭

[contac]

[an-act-of-fire]

what's my kink? hmm i don't know i guess i don't have any

are they gone? okay. you are a knight and i am your childhood friend but the key point is we've been in love for years and years and years and every time you come back from a quest i'm there.

and every time, i wipe the blood from your face and bandage your wounds, and you catch my hand and press it harder over the cloth, and it hurts you but it feels good, too, because it's my hand that's doing it, and because of this quiet unspoken thing between us that will never be because of the oaths you've made to others.

and then one day an enemy of yours tracks me down and i am your one weakness, and you came back to the quiet village and i am not there, and the houses are burning, and you raze every inch of ground between us

but it's a trap (obviously it's a trap) and you are caught and i am there, and your enemy vows to destroy your world as you have destroyed his (and this is how i find out that you are not the good person i thought you were) (and how i find out that i don't care, i'll have you anyway, if we survive this thing)

and then while you are restrained your enemy hurts me just to see you scream, and i won't beg even though nothing has ever hurt this bad, and you are raging against your chains, with this look in your eye that's fear, not rage, because for all your vows i am the only thing you love.

and then you get free and you kill him and you toss his body aside like it doesn't even matter (because it doesn't, only i matter, i am the only thing in the world) and you undo my bindings with shaking hands and you say damn my oaths, i will slay a thousand kings if you ask it of me, and i smile finally with blood on my teeth and you kiss me

send post

[sabertoothwalrus]

I DO think tumblr's dev team has been instructed to constantly implement new features and that's why they keep tweaking the UI in goofy ways. I imagine this is an upper management thing, so even if we say "well don't change anything and just maintain the status quo" they'll continue to make other changes anyway.

I will admit I REALLY like the recent improvements they've added to tumblr's search (you can exclude terms now!! you can search multiple tags!! and time frames!!) so it's not like they're incapable of adding useful features. it might be mutually beneficial for us as users if we were more vocal about things we want and don't want. Some features I'd like to see added:

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spoilerable images

the return of hover text!! remember when we had that?

ability to embed videos in reblogs

ANIMATED GIF ICONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ability to turn off other people's animated gif icons

the ability to filter original posts on a user's ENTIRE blog, not just a tag/search

more html support, like what if we could build tables

adding reactions to replies! I'm glad we can like them more but it'd be nice if we could take this further

embeddable tiktoks?? I don't even use tiktok but I remember trying to embed one in like 2020 and I'm surprised we still can't! even vines were able to be embedded

being able to search in your DMs. not being able to do this is why I tend to redirect mutuals to discord

MUTING USERS POSTS/COMMENTS WITHOUT BLOCKING THEM! just cause I don't want to see someone's posts doesn't mean I don't want us to never interact ever

a mutual-only dashboard feed

a feed for the blogs you're subscribed to

get rid of tumblr tv lmao I've literally never used it

"mark as read" button for communities without opening them

please dear god no AI shit unless it's a way for me to filter/block it easier

several of these I've submitted support tickets for under "feedback", and if there's anything you feel strongly about I suggest you do too!

[bunnyycocaine]

ill do a whole lot more than just bite the bullet ill fuck the gun too

[meanao3thoughts]

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

[elph13]

I’m reposting this not because I’ve experienced a lack of engagement but because I have experienced SO MUCH engagement and it has kept me going.

When I first starting posting fic in 2021 I was brand new. And I quickly developed a small core readership of folk who commented every day on chapters and gave me chat. For someone who was having a break down and could not leave the house, this new boost of community gave me life. Some of those people still read today (same fic ongoing five years later) and I recognise their little avatars and usernames and get a warm feeling.

Now I’m over a million words in and the comments that drop daily on ao3 keep me going. New people, discovering it, loving it. It’s impossible to answer every comment but I promise I do read every single one. And I would never have got to this point if those people, all those years ago, hadn’t dropped their comments saying “I love it, keep going!”

Makes all the difference.

[wyrddn]

Reblogging this because you also deserve to know you're one of my favorite living authors and I can't wait for witchlore 2, love reading the patreon and all the great sources you shared for getting into folklore. If this were the 1800s I'd still be sending you fan mail but with a fountain pen instead of a tumblr post.

[elph13]

Someone saying they’d send me fan mail in the 1800s is a top tier compliment I didn’t know I needed. As a writer who has read all of Tolkien’s letters to fans, this speaks to me deeply. If this is the 21st century equivalent of that then allow me to say: Gentle reader, your letter moved me greatly.

[almondcroissantsandink]

mood, little man

[elph13]

Okay, look, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

[skrankku]

Big fan of whatever the fuck they've got going on.

[elph13]

First time with this ship and I am hooked by this. Garak would absolutely fall over himself to bring Odo into technicolour. Odo would ruin Garak by being unable to understand nuance in bed. On board, here I go, off to Ao3 to find more of these broken, fatherless genderqueer drama queens. Yes please.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[elph13]

In a world of noise and ads where literally every website wants to sell you something, thank you ao3 for being a quiet space on the internet.

[bluebeetle]

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

[do-what-i-yoinky]

Being on tumblr for years like:

[weaselsblaugh]

this post is 2 years old and it’s only going to get funnier as it gets older

[bogleech]

This is how the entire internet was supposed to be. Before social media we made webpages and a webpage was supposed to be timeless, a permanent “shrine” to something we liked, intended to keep getting visitors and comments for as long as it stayed up. When “blogging” became a concept every blog post was supposed to be the same sort of long term fixture.

The idea that posts have some sort of freshness date comes solely from the poisonous garbage world of the engagement farming business.

[lovingrot]

viciously and fatally attacked by an unknown animal at Claire’s

[wherehipposdrome]

that was no animal, that was Claire herself

[regbian-moved-to-lezbianz]

the claire witch project

[candyredterezii]

[nando161mando]

[villainessbian]

[hellmurderisland]

[Fictional character who is worse than me in every way] save me

[hellmurderisland]

#me with gob #me with shmilk

[mint-swirl]

slogans for the upcoming orc election

[rosefinchie]

how it all feels lately

[rosefinchie]

yeah actually this was a very literal piece of vent art bc i got a notification about cheese recalls while making dinner :') might as well add the info since i didnt expect so many people to share my doodle

Nationwide Cheese Recall Carries Risk Of Death—Here's What To Know

A Class I upgrade means this one deserves your full attention.

[silvaurum]

Recall is for Ambriola Pecorino Romano grated cheese, due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria can be fatal to anyone infected if not treated, and its incubation time may last for months.

Affected brands are Ambriola, Boar's Head, Locatelli, Member's Mark, and Pinna. Expiration dates range from the end of Feb to May 2026. These were sold in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.