not the kind you save;

+ashley | she/her | 23 | Canada You always did like the taste of blood a little too damn much

[w1nter-wolf-barnes1]

I will never let them go!! I will always ship them❤️

[yesornopolls]

have you been on tumblr for half your life or more? (ex. if you joined tumblr at 15 and are now 30 or older, you’ve been on tumblr for half your life)

Have you been on tumblr for half your life or more?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 12

[corneliaavenue]

i love being a fangirl. i was always meant to care too deeply about the media i consume

[thevalkyriecrash]

if i was 26 and had just woken up from a 70 year suicide-induced coma with no one in the present remembering who i am and instead conflating me with the ever changing image of the role i played in ww2 that now serves as american propaganda and 2 weeks ago i was watching guys get half of their faces blown off and a week after that the love of my life fell off of a moving train with me only being able to watch and then i had to like... deal with a billionaire nepo baby war profiteer calling me an old man and saying there's nothing special about me i would have started killing people. but unfortunately it happened to steve rogers. and he has, like, morals. so

[maxcore]

the venn diagram of max and bucky barnes enjoyers seems to be a circle and i will not psychoanalyse us but ..

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I know this sounds like the deranged ramblings of a senile old man but I swear it used to be possible to look up information on the internet

[rillils]

not me casually leafing through some screencaps and randomly realizing that the bartender in catfa also happens to be pre-serum steve’s body double, thus making this shot:

the perfect rendition of what steve’s before/after pics would have looked like side by side (and steve’s leaning over a little, so he’s actually slightly taller than that)

and it truly sinking in how fucking nuts it must have been for bucky to see THAT when steve found him lying on that table

[whirlybirbs]

honestly i’ve stopped caring if media is good. all that matters is that Me, The Most Important Person, is having a good time.

[furryprovocateur]

the problem with everyone becoming a reviewer and essayist now is that, plainly and gently, a lot of these people are not smart enough for the position

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

[sunfortune]

everybody say Happy Birthday LEGEND  

[sunfortune]

everybody hit this movie with rocks for what it did to me .

[yellowjavkets]

what was the first media that you can consciously remember scaring the piss out of you and giving you nightmares (examples listed are specific to me I was a cowardly ass child)

horror movie you should not have been watching aged fucking eleven (the shining)

horror show your uncle let you watch (buffy, x files)

legitimate children's horror (goosebumps, etc)

adult horror comedy (Beetlejuice, little shop of horrors, etc)

kid show parody horror episode (hash slinging slasher)

"scary" scene from an adventure movie (Jumanji, princess bride, Indiana jones)

I could see why a kid would be scared of that (monsters from sesame Street)

weird commercial that made you scared

not remotely scary comedy (look who's talking, osmosis Jones, etc)

your best friend's older brother's vague description of a horror movie he watche

other/show results

Voting ended onFeb 9, 2024

[moltencalf-deactivated20171029]

I sincerely apologize for spamming you all with the Hamilton fanfic controversy, but it’s really giving me so much strength. It’s been a while since we’ve had the kind of scandal that only Tumblr can provide (like the person who robbed graves; the person who mailed their toe to another person so they could make a necklace of it; etc). This scandal is just so fucking good, you know? White American college girl pretends to be a nonbinary Chinese-Pakistani Muslim human-trafficking survivor AND their American WOC wife and they live in India??? And they suffered a miscarriage? And they both have HIV? All so she can scam people out of money and amass kudos on Archive of Our Own for her Hamilton HIV fanfic? And she does this for YEARS? And the person who uncovered it is doing it for revenge because the fake-HIV-fanfic writer made them delete a fanfic about Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Jefferson as cannibal mermaids performing oral sex and unironically accused them of gentrifying cannibalism??? I mean, this shit is fucking gold.

[hoebutmadefashion]

me processing this tea 

[greentracksuitgohan-deactivated]

Wait wait wait can we rewind who the fuck sent someone their toe

[unfollowfriday]

Learn how to keep up hoe

[sockiesock]

how many books have you read in their entirety in 2023 (fanfiction dont count)

exactly 0

less than 5

5-10

11-20

21-40

41-74

75+

Voting ended onDec 31, 2023

[self-healing]

forgive yourself for the stagnancy that was produced from your depression

[khaleesi]

re: tumblr

hello! I work in tech and here are some important things to know about "tumblr is going into maintenance mode." please note I do not work at tumblr, I've just worked at tumblr-adjacent sort of companies for my entire adult life and i've gone through this before.

what does maintenance mode mean?

literally what it sounds like -- Automattic is not going to be hiring new staff, investing in new product features, or doing anything new on tumblr. the staff that remains working on tumblr will be maintaining the status quo. most of the staff will be allocated elsewhere (or possibly laid off, though it looks like from that memo that's not what they're planning to do). it does not mean tumblr is shutting down. you should still buy premium, get merch, etc, because this is definitely step one of the shutdown process, but a maintenance mode designation is basically to see if tumblr will generate a revenue without putting more money into it than strictly necessary.

why did this happen?

obviously I do not know directly. from my observation, it's in part because Yahoo had absolutely no idea what to do with this platform, and then when Automattic bought it they also... struggled... but it is also in part because the user base has been so viciously anti-monetization that most attempts were killed outright.

yes, the user base is part of the problem. the absolute feral anti-premium, anti-ads, anti-tipping, anti-everything tumblr tried to do to make money is part of the problem. it's not the only part of the problem by a long shot, but I would be remiss not to mention it.

what do I do now?

use the platform. just like, keep using tumblr. do not abandon ship. buy premium, get yourself some badges, get yourself some merch, but use the platform. ad revenue is based on impressions and clicks. if a ton of the user base gives up, that revenue disappears.

--

tumblr is extremely special. I've never seen anything like it in my 20-odd years of being Very Online, and I was a minor BNF in WolfStar during LiveJournal days. I don't know that it can be recreated elsewhere. I don't know where fandom will go. I know that something else will exist after tumblr and that nothing gold can stay, but i don't think the specific kind of joy found here can be recreated. i say this not to be a downer, but to be realistic. I guess I should find a Bluesky invite.

I've been here since 2008. I'm not going anywhere as long as this site exists. hope you'll stay here with me.

[aconfusedgoose]

AND DAN AND PHIL ARE BACK???

I started this year making a meme about John Green being back and I thought that would be the wildest thing to happen this year... Clearly I was wrong. I feel like the universe is just confused about what year it is... I'm in my mid 20s now and I don't need to be going through this again.