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Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

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This is horrible I can't see the number of notes on my posts at all without adding up everything in the chain

Cursed cursed cursed evil evil evil

This is a terrible idea. Horrible.

EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.

This would kill the entire point of the reblog chain. Staff, please, don't do this. It will transform the reblog chain in just plain twitter quotes.

Seriously, this is a tumblr-killer feature. This breaks the most fundamental way tumblr is different from any other social network. This makes tumblr just another blueskytwitterthreads. Or worse: An unfederated mastodon clone.

Please, stop this. Please, don't roll this out.

Please, mutuals, post about this, comment and reblog the original post (while you still can without making it your own quote-post). I don't know if staff is looking or if the feedback would matter, but seriously, this is a terrible change that would kill tumblr as we know it. Please, don't roll it out.

look, I can endure any kind of UI changes that are supposed to help tumblr-rookies to understand how this works. They may be a nuisance, but that's ok, we have x-kit or we can get used to buttons being here or there.

But this. This changes the data architecture. This changes the SINGLE THING that makes tumblr the "... yes and" website. This KILLS THE COLLABORATIVE POSTING THAT MAKES THIS SITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS.

Please, don't do this. Please, don't ship this.

Tumblr has explicitly said in the past that they do not look at comments on their updates posts. You have to PUT IN A SUPPORT TICKET AND SELECT FEEDBACK FROM THE DROPDOWN

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Mituna getting interrogated by the BAU

For the upcoming chapter (19) of my Criminal Minds + Homestuck Crossover fic.

Link to the Fic here if you're interested.

Chapters: 18/? Fandom: Homestuck, Criminal Minds (US TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Derek Morgan & Dave Strider, Spencer Reid & Dave Strider, Dave’s Bro | Beta Dirk Strider & Dave Strider, The BAU Team & The BAU Team (Criminal Minds), Derek Morgan/Spencer Reid, Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas, Eridan Ampora/Feferi Peixes, Mituna Captor/Latula Pyrope Characters: Dave Strider, Dave’s Bro | Beta Dirk Strider, Aaron Hotchner, Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds), Penelope Garcia, Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, Emily Prentiss, Spencer Reid, David Rossi, Rose Lalonde, John Egbert, Jade Harley, Feferi Peixes, Eridan Ampora, Mituna Captor, Sollux Captor, Latula Pyrope, Porrim Maryam, Kankri Vantas, Nepeta Leijon, Meulin Leijon, Kurloz Makara, Karkat Vantas, Cronus Ampora Additional Tags: Abusive Dave’s Bro | Beta Dirk Strider, touches on the topic of csa but the actual abuse happens offscreen, bro strider is the unsub, Bro Strider is Dave’s father and his mother is dead, This fic starts in december of 2008, Humanstuck, Criminal Minds (US TV)-Typical Violence, Illustrated, Not Ship focused, if I tag every character that appears id run out of tags, assume most homestuck characters will eventually make an appearance or a mention, knowledge of Criminal Minds not necessary, mituna starts off pre incident but he will have his incident eventually, Internalized Homophobia, Period Typical Bigotry Summary:

While investigating Dirk Strider in a serial murder case, the BAU discovers the child he raised as a younger brother. After Derek Morgan adopts him, thirteen year old Dave Strider’s life is turned upside down. Dave clings to his sanity as the BAU unravels the web of lies that made up Dave’s life until now.

Meanwhile, Mituna Captor kidnaps Karkat Vantas and joins the BAU to save the kid from the mob life of the Midnight Crew.

I made a stupid fake cover

Anyway here's the link to chapter 18

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68159181/chapters/210874856

More doodles for my Criminal Minds + Homestuck crossover fic

The pictures have to be posted somewhere first in order for me to insert them into an Ao3 work, so the art is always a little ahead of the fic.

Link Here If You’d Like To Read It

The chapter the art appears in is finally here!

In case you needed more reasons to read the fic.

In case you need even more reasons to read the fic.

There's pesterlogs.

More doodles for my Criminal Minds + Homestuck crossover fic

The pictures have to be posted somewhere first in order for me to insert them into an Ao3 work, so the art is always a little ahead of the fic.

Link Here If You’d Like To Read It

The chapter the art appears in is finally here!

In case you needed more reasons to read the fic.

In case you need even more reasons to read the fic.

There's pesterlogs.

More doodles for my Criminal Minds + Homestuck crossover fic

The pictures have to be posted somewhere first in order for me to insert them into an Ao3 work, so the art is always a little ahead of the fic.

Link Here If You’d Like To Read It

The chapter the art appears in is finally here!

Algorithms killed our ability to self curate our media intake and online experience. The longer algorithmic feeds are considered the norm the more people expect content to be catered to them. This has the side effect of many people's interests, while genuine, not being discovered organically through social circles and exploration but promoted to them by a company with financial incentives to promote specific trends.

The belief that the content on someone's for you page on TikTok says something about them as a person as if it were a wall of magazine articles they cut out and glued to the plaster themselves. People have lost the will to seek out new things which leads to a small group of hyper specific homogeneous subcultures made up of already mainstream marketable advertiser friendly franchises and hobbies.

Many social medias have a search bar but when was the last time you actually used it? When was the last time a friend recommended you something without an already massive Fandom? We used to build these communities from scratch and the most recent fandom I can think of that had to put in the work to create its community was Class of The Titans, a Canadian animated Y7 TV show from the 2000s that aired almost exclusively at 5 in the morning or at noon on a school day.

Tumblr is the last true social media in a lot of ways. Even when staff decided to add a for you page or best stuff first the user base went out of their way to fix their settings to get rid of it. I can't think of a single other place on the internet where everything on your dashboard got there because someone you follow decided to put it there. The content stream is not endless by virtue of proliferation being a manual endeavor motivated by the very human desire to collect and share things that they like. On Instagram I hardly get to see posts originating from the people I follow as most of the feed is populated by Instagrams algorithm. Much less posts the people I follow didn't make themselves but tried to share with their audience because the mechanism for that doesn't even put the post on people's feed.

What makes me sad is that other platforms have changed the way we interact with Tumblr. Likes are up, reblogs are down and likes have literally never done anything on this website! It's the read recipt of Tumblr!

I long for this friendly but distant social interaction of people sharing the things they made and the clippings of things they loved and wanted to keep.

I think part of the problem of modern storytelling is there has been a shift from character focus to message focus.

It's Doctor Who saying "look the evil alt right podcaster has trapped everyone in a weird heteronormative wish world that's baaaaaad uhb we don't know how to resolve it satisfyingly" vs "Rose dragged along a guy she thought cute and he turned out to be a jerk and used time travel to gain access to future secrets and we see her and the Doctor react to that in a way thar shows us more about their character." It's "the Beatles are here kind of as a backdrop to our drag queen villain isn't that fun woo musical number" vs "let's tell a touching story about Vincent van Gogh's depression and relate that to what our characters are currently going through."

And its not just Doctor Who--it's pervasive. It's "let's tell a character focused story of Anakin Skywalker's fall to the darkness and the love around him that wasn't enough" vs "Star Wars is GAY and look at her BLEED her LIGHTSABER." It's "Here's a 19 year old who lost her parents and has to raise her difficult sister, let's see her motivations and love for her sister" vs "Nani is doing the Right Thing for Herself because going to College is Girlboss!"

And this isn't the first time the focus of storytelling has shifted--before it was character focused, we had concept focus. Doctor Who exploring Roman times or a realm made of stories, where characters carry the plot, but aren't the focus of episodes. Episode IV of star wars was certainly a conceptual idea more than character focused, exploring the world and building it as you go. Old Disney like Snow White explored the concept of retelling a fairytale in animation.

I just think that unfortunately the focus of mainstream stories is not to explore a concept, or interesting characters, but to push a message.

#i get where this post is coming from kinds#but so many conservative dog whistles here

"I get where this post is coming from, but it's using real-world examples of media being obnoxiously pushy with messaging that make me think the author is one of those evil conservatives the media says are always wrong and you should always hate, and that's pretty problematic."

Congratulations, you don't get where this post is coming from.

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When conservatives make stories stories like this, everyone rightfully calls out how cringe it is and how it hurts the story (there's a reason "Christian movies" and "Christian rock" have the reputation they do). When liberals do this to stories (in pretty much every major franchise, so there's a lot of examples), you're evil if you point it out... because the messages being shoved into the media tell you so.

I understand the issue this post is describing but let's not look at media of the past with this lense. There have always been message focused works of fiction and many have been influential and widely popular. A Handmaids Tale, To Kill A Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, Mice and Men, Lord Of The Flies, Tuck Everlasting, The Scarlett Letter, 1984, were all message based works of fiction, not characters driven. Some of them are preachier than others but still, at the time they were published many of them probably came off a lot like how you described new Dr. Who episodes.

It's always going to be more obvious and preachy when a story decides to focus it's message on a current political topic. The focus on message isn't new or even inherently a problem, it's rushed writing, cringe worthy presentation and on occasion an outdated or insincere core message that makes the given examples feel off.

There's actually a trope name for this kind of non religious preachiness in TV specifically: "A Very Special Episode"

This was originally used in sitcoms aimed at younger audiences to describe episodes that introduce a character representing a minority or a conflict regarding a characters ignorance for a minority. These are typically very preachy, poorly handled episodes about race, girl power, gay marriage, poor people, disability, written by a writers room in which everyone thinks they're progressive and well read on the issue at hand, but none of the writers are members of the minority in question. Judging by the final product it's very obvious that the writers didn't even have a black friend to look over the script. In cases where the writers don't get the message completely wrong, it still winds up sounding very moralistic and cringe because the story itself didn't do anything interesting or compelling.

I think this term can be used more broadly to describe more than just sitcoms and episodes about racism being rude, and can be used to encapsulate the lack of sincerity behind a lot of "woke" messages in media.

I can and do often point out when procedural crime shows I watch decide to comment on police corruption and fail because it's a procedural crime show, our main character who must remain morally correct work for the police or are cops themselves. This absolutely gets the derogatory description from me that goes as follows: "Uh oh it's A Very Special Episode(tm) about ACAB"

And that's the format best used to complain.

"A Very Special Episode(tm) about (blank)"

We have great examples of modern message focused films and TV that are sincere and tackle these issues without making a bland story. While you could argue some of these are technically character driven these characters are often not fleshed out and have personal motivations that are little more than a vehicle to convey the core message.

Examples include:

Promising Young Woman (Rape Culture)

Parasite (Class Struggle)

Snowpeircer (Class Struggle)

Squid Games (Class Struggle)

Get Out (Race)

Mad Max Fury Road (Opression, Exploitation & Revolution)

And these last two are based on true stories but they're still solid examples of how to have a message without being preachy.

12 Years Of Slave (Slavery)

Freedom Writers (Youth Gang Violence)

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*plays assassins creed to study for my ap history exam*

This is actually really funny. In high school my humanities teacher told us a story about one of the Europe trips he had gone on with the school a few summers past. So him and the group of kids were in the middle of Rome and the tour guide had gotten lost. They could figure out how to get to some church they were going to see. All of a sudden one of the students like call attention to himself. He says he knows where to go and just start walking around the streets, taking back roads and side streets and within 20 mins they’re at the church they needed to get to. My teacher asks the kid if he has every been to Italy before. He says no, he just knew where to go because he played Assassins Creed Brotherhood.

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My kid identified a birch at my dads house because the birch trees in Minecraft have realistically colored bark.

My dad got so excited about having a nature lover in the family until “oh, video games.”

Like dude you bought me a game called Sim Park that was literally about building a wildlife preserve and the only way to get money in the game was to either let humans show up and rent the place out or take quizzes about identifying plants. We got so good at leaf identification, and you took us camping exactly zero times.

Yeah my daughter’s school did a project on Ancient Egypt during lockdown. We fired up Assassins Creed Origins in educational mode and let her explore.

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