Rosy Retrospection

roʊzi rɛtrəʊˈspɛkʃən(n.)refers to the perception of people finding a better and more colorful emotion towards an event than what had actually happened. Hey! I'm Crim, and this blog is basically a rosy retrospection of all my personal feels. Lady, 22,...

[jordanbolton]

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

[ashstfu]

kafka had his diaries, didion had her notebooks, plath wrote in journals, and i have my tumblr blog

[lolwtfmemes]

[qosic]

ghost trick!!

[dykecostanza-deactivated2024112]

posting this after a train carrying toxic chemicals de-railed in a residential area thanks to deteriorating safety conditions you forcibly prevented railroad workers from striking over is just beyond words to me

[pancakeke]

the scariest thing in the world is probably whatever's going on in the tiny gap between my kitchen counters and the oven

[depsidase]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[ilikeit-art]

[kronkk]

[capnsoapy]

I think if you want to call something a "———— heritage post" then it needs to be from like, a bygone era of [tumblr]. it can't be a heritage post if it's from a year ago

[capnsoapy]

@freshgarlicbread thank you for asking 👍

i think the eras of [tumblr] are fairly vague but can pretty much be defined as:

2007–2010 [tumblr]; a mostly unused site. boring.

2010–2014 [tumblr]; fourth biggest social media platform in the world. fandom vs hipster. denny's. mostly high school/college aged users. most like modern tiktok.

2014–2018 [tumblr]; yahoo acquisition and dashcon killed new user intake. everything became cringe, the vibe changed drastically. most like modern twitter.

2018–2022 [tumblr]; porn ban happened. roughly half the userbase vanished overnight. suddenly a much more insular community of late-20 somethings. most like modern... google plus?

2022–2026 [tumblr]; present day. wordpress started making rapid changes, the porn ban was relaxed, twitter migration started to some extent. life is happy.

2026–2030 [tumblr]; posts removed in favour of tumblr live, no real moderation (outlawing of machine learning), site becomes almost all pornography and shock videos. most like modern 4chan.

2030– [tumblr]; final act of president jess biden is to take the site offline after the string of assassinations it caused. users migrate to tin can on a string dot gov. most like an episode of seinfeld

[psych-is-the-name]

anybody hear a dodge-ball bouncing somewhere?

[only-tiktoks]

[catchymemes]

[homunculus-argument]

Seeing tumblr screenshots on reddit is wild because the people there really don't get how tumblr works. They'll be baffled like "why would you even admit to sleeping on a pile of laundry for 3 days straight, much less brag about it? That is not the flex you think it is."

My brother in christ that's not why anyone posts shit on tumblr. If you think anyone should be living like you, you wouldn't be on tumblr in the first place. Oversharing your shit on tumblr isn't to show off how great you're doing, it's about admitting that you're a fucked up little creature and willingly submitting yourself to be studied under a microscope. By other supremely weird little critters.

And people who screenshot tumblr shit to post it on reddit.

[crplpunkklavier]

had a shit day yesterday and ended up going bonkers insane on the wikipedia entry for soup. did you guys know that the original french word "restaurant" meant a type of soup!!!!! i know the word is difficult to pronounce for non-speakers (ppl here in germany have trouble with it too) but try to think of it as a form of "restore." and now youre eating a "restorant." something that's supposed to restore your energy. that's more or less how the word is pronounced, because that's the type of soup it was!!!!!! and then in 1765 a guy in paris opened up a shop where you could eat restaurant and other places started to copy it and call themselves restaurants!!! and now every time you eat anywhere youre AT SOUP!!!!!!! arent humans so fucking good i love it here. my body hurts so much but i am no longer crying about it because there will always be someone somewhere in the world who desperately wants to help me with soup

[aflo]

i hate when somebody posts some shit on here like "it's gay as fuck for a man to eat breakfast" because then im like well shit now i gotta start eating breakfast or i won't be gay anymore

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes

[helpmemysisterisafreak]

The fucking worst is that as I get older i completly understand the interest to catch up an unreasonable long time because turns out adults just dont get enough time to hang with friends, so catch up next to the Aldi cheese aisle it is

[ninth-order-simulacra]

you can see the increasing age of tumblr users, these posts are like tree rings.