Behold! My stuff 🥥🌴

(Technically, Behold My Reblogs of Stuff I Like)

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[leggywormy]

It's end of May, yall know what that means

[left-reminders]

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is the best one

[thehummingbirdsmatter]

I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was

[taraljc]

I only know this reference because of memes. I've never even heard the song all the way through. I've only ever heard the chorus.

[cuteautumn]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[vxpo]

Tomorrow is March 28th

[yeahishipitbitch]

[robertmitchum]

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly 

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[tyrannuspitch]

enough "loki lives in avengers tower because he's been redeemed offscreen". i want to see "loki lives in avengers tower while still actively antagonising the avengers because they just can't get him to leave"

[tyrannuspitch]

loki lives in avengers tower. so what? what exactly do you intend to do about it?

[mikkeneko]

[niennanir]

Look, if it's involving Loki and the Avengers all living in Avengers tower, it's all only going to go down one way: Loki's off screen redemption arc leads to constantly antagonizing the Avengers.

Thor shows up on a Saturday morning in Pokemon pajamas and says: My brother has returned from the dead and wishes to make amends for the wrongs he has committed against your people! He points at Loki who is wearing full on battle armor. No one questions this. Tony takes a long sip of his coffee and just sort of nods because he's seen weirder: What do you think Legolas?

And Clint just shrugs because he's been weirder and Loki has the look on his face that says he's trying to figure out how not to be horribly murdered and no one that nervous is planing world domination: Okay by me.

Steve, meanwhile has the mother of all murder faces on because Loki crushed half of New York and Steve Loves New York even if it is Manhattan. And Natasha has started doing weird tricks with the knife from the butter dish that imply she going to stab Loki's eye out the second he twitches wrong.

Bruce just looks at them all and says: Are we serious here? Have I finally had a psychotic break?

Tony shrugs: Probably, but this is unrelated. JARVIS, lock him down, if he so much as looks at anything more dangerous than wildlife documentaries I want to know about it. And then Tony takes a bracelet out of his pocket, throws it through the air and it locks around Loki's wrist.

You just keep those in your pocket all the time? Steve asks, appalled.

You crushed a bus with your bare hands last week Tony replies. So yes.

You want Cheerios? Clint asks, holding out the box to Loki.

And literally the only person Loki doesn't fight with on the regular is Clint

[supervillainny]

[photomatt]

Tumblr Advisor Board

I think it could be cool to put together a board of the top Tumblristas in the world, that could see previews of what's coming up and advise on strategic direction. Who should be on it?

[prismatic-bell]

Okay, look. We're gonna do it like this, Matt. I used to work in market research. This one is free, next time I expect a month of free premium and if there's a third time I expect a job.

TO EVERYONE ELSE:

A series of ten reblogs is about to follow, since you can only have one poll per reblog. Please answer all ten polls. If you don't see them all, check the notes (this shouldn't take me long so if it's more than like, fifteen minutes since I posted this one they should all be there.)

1) What is the PRIMARY thing you do on Tumblr?

I mostly reblog others' posts

I write original posts

I make/post memes

I make/post images or gifs

I make/post videos

I run a poll blog

I run a gimmick blog

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

2) how long have you been here?

Under twelve months

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7-8 years

9-10 years

More than ten years

I don't remember

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

3) how old are you?

Under 18

19-28

29-38

39-48

49-58

59-68

I'm one of the Tumblr grandparents

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

4) thinking about the recent Tumblr feature release/rollback, what did you find most frustrating?

There was no communication before the fact

I felt like the feature didn't take Tumblr users' wants and needs into account

I felt like the feature showed a lack of understanding of Tumblr culture

I felt the feature would hurt Tumblr culture

I felt the feature would hurt Tumblr artists and small makers specifically

I wasn't bothered by the change

It happened so fast I didn't even know until it was all over

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

5) thinking about the recent Tumblr feature release/rollback, what satisfied you most about the response?

Tumblr staff responded quickly

I felt like we were heard and listened to

It was nice to see our concerns were understood

I wasn't bothered by the change

It happened so fast I didn't even know until it was all over

Other

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

6) thinking about features you use on Tumblr, what would you like to see improved?

The recent UI changes to reblogging are too confusing

I'd like tagging to be easier

I'd like to see the tagging system overhauled

I'd like to see the reporting/adult tagging system improved

I'd like a separate page for my communities

I'd like to be able to mark posts as for my followers only

I'd like to see the blocking system improved

I'm happy with Tumblr as it is

Other

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

7) with the understanding that Tumblr needs to attract new users or convert more current free users to paying users in order to stay online, what do you think of Matt's "top tumblrista" idea?

Absolutely not--this is very famously the influencer-hating site

Absolutely not--this site is too diverse for that to work

Absolutely not, for other reasons

I'm actually liking this poll method

The poll method is clunky but something similar would be great

I think the panel of "top users" would be great

I have no opinion on this

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

8) if you don't currently pay for use of a Tumblr feature, why not?

I have paid Tumblr features

The price point is too high for my wallet

The price point is too high for what's offered

There's nothing offered that I want

I wouldn't pay even if something I wanted was offered

Other

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

In the following question, "pre-social media" refers to platforms like LiveJournal, forums, alt.net boards, early MySpace, and similar spaces.

9) thinking about the given definition of "pre-social media," how much do you agree with the statement "I think most tumblr users I know would prefer pre-social media to modern platforms like Facebook and X"?

"Strongly agree" is not strong enough

Strongly agree

Agree

Kind of maybe agree?

Neutral/I don't know enough about pre-social media to say

Kind of maybe disagree?

Disagree

Strongly disagree

"Strongly disagree" is not strong enough

Voting ended onMar 27

[prismatic-bell]

10) do you think Matt should just hire me to do this so I don't have to squeeze it around my break at work?

Yes, this was awesome

Sure, you're not perfect but this was way better than what they've done til now

No, but someone should do this

Honestly I'm just sad you didn't give us nuance/bald/vanilla extract/tickybox

Voting ended onMar 27

[rowark]

I love the irony that if that new reblog change had actually happened, @prismatic-bell would have been getting all the notes for this post, making it completely useless for @photomatt for any sort of research purposes, because he happened to get reblogged by a more popular blog and would have not gotten all the notifications when people added comments

Like, I hope this clears up why we all hated that idea

[prismatic-bell]

This is an excellent point. I genuinely hope @photomatt looks at the answers here and finds them informative even though I definitely could have done better if I wasn't cranking it out in an hour while waiting for my machine at work to come back online.

I especially love that as of right now, almost 70% of respondents agree he should hire me. I'm being wasted in this 90-degree factory, Matt, I have no degree but I do have a good grasp on Tumblr culture and how to generate useful data. Listen to the people 😎

[rowark]

I think the fact that you made these polls in the first place, on your own time, really highlights what sets Tumblr apart from any other social media platform, which is that Tumblr users actually LIKE Tumblr

We don't see this platform as a means to an end, like how influencers use other platforms to make money off their followers and don't actually care what platform they're on, as long as it pays them... we see it as a community we are all part of, and that we want to see improve without losing the community aspect

Every other social media is just using algorithms to feed us non-stop ads, pumping out the most far-right Nazi content, and being completely overtaken by bots and AI. There's no "social" aspect left to most of them.

Tumblr also has a Nazi problem, and dealing with that would be a great change to implement, but aside from that, Tumblr is pretty much the only place you can go and interact with real people, without being sold to non-stop.

Influencer culture is dying out everywhere... this is NOT the time for Tumblr to hop on that bandwagon. It would literally kill this website... no one is going to join Tumblr because it become more like the other platforms that everyone's already sick of, and the more it becomes like Twitter or Tik Tok or whatever, the more current Tumblr users will abandon it, just like they did with every other platform.

Actually, that would make a good additional poll, I think:

What social media platform do you use DAILY, excluding Tumblr:

Facebook

Twitter (yes I will keep deadnaming Twitter til the day I die idc)

Tik Tok

Instagram

Reddit

LinkedIn????

Other????? (are there more??? I don't even know)

More than one of the above

None of the above, and I never have used any of them

None of the above BUT I used to, and have since deleted my accounts

I have accounts for one or more of the above, but RARELY use them

I have accounts for one or more of the above, but NEVER use them

Voting ended onMar 27

... for the purpose of this poll. rarely means more than never, but less than daily, I guess

I am not a market researcher, but I do love polls lol

[prismatic-bell]

I actually meant to have this as a question and then forgot it because I was doing it off the cuff rather than actually writing out and tweaking it ahead of time, because it's a deeply important one. So thank you for adding it.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[samshine-and-lollipops-deactiva]

Wait, it got better.

[libertineangel]

He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:

For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.

[horizon-penblade]

It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[ananasbiscuit]

Bucky

[beholdmystuffandstuff]

😻🖤

[jayjay-thejet-plane]

Winterhawk commission for @drgrlfriend of a scene from their absolutely wonderful fic, Forevermore (its a medieval au!!!! yall should seriously go read it, it is so lovely💜)

Colour // half body // + background

[beholdmystuffandstuff]

😍

[benbamboozled]

Reminding everyone again of Batman’s Aff His Nut by Robert Florence—the most poem ever.

[cakeisnotpie]

The axe fell today.

My university will no longer have an English major. Students currently in the program will be allowed to finish but no new ones can enter.

We were told one of the faculty had to go at the end of next year.

As I was already planning to retire, I made it official so no one else would lose their job.

I was …. Stunned. Numb.

Strangely relieved.

Then I went into class and taught William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”

That is no country for old men, the young in one another’s arms…

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick… therefore I have sailed the seas and come to the holy city of Byzantium..

Got choked up. Had to stop for a minute.

I’m that tattered coat on a stick in a country no longer made for people who believe in the humanities, the liberal arts, the beauty of the written word.

I’m setting sail; I no longer belong there.

Wednesday I teach T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”

I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled…

I have measured my life in coffee spoons…

… in a room where women come and go, speaking of Michelangelo.

It’s time.

[talisidekick]

If you want to stand up for transgender Canadians, then there's a petition to ask the federal government to repeal the acts signed into law that restrict transgender medical care for transgender youth:

You need only be a resident of Canada, not a citizen to sign. Please help us give transgender youth a fighting chance. Their medical care decisions should be between the handling physician and family only. This isn't a matter for politicians to decide.

[quasi-normalcy]

hey, so I would he grateful if people living in Canada could sign this and if non-Canadians could signal boost, please.

[gehayi]

The petition will be closed for signatures on February 16, 2026.

[voiceboss]

This is incredibly important.