HEY NINJA!

discord, AO3, DreamWidth: heyninja - find a way to connect with me off tumblr I'm leaving soon.

[heyninja]

Exit Music for Stages of Grief

So between actually seeing the CEO's best El*n impression as his tumblr persona, the changes, and just all the general weirdness - yeah, it's incredibly negative but Tumblr as we knew it and loved it isn't coming back: it's going away.

I'm still working through my grieving process, which is why I'm even here right now. But I'm pretty close to done. I'm unsure when the last thread is going to snap, but that's sooner than later at this point.

I'm going to make it a point to put my whereabouts in my about so it's easy to find me, but uh. Just get ready for the fact that I'm not going to be on Tumblr anymore. Instead of happy, memeing community I am actively finding it a negative experience just to load my dashboard (I cannot stress enough, not because of any of you, but because of the site, usability, TOS enforcement changes, and a million little straws of weird policy problems) and it's causing me anxiety pretty much any time I open it.

Discord, AO3, and DreamWidth - my user is heyninja (in the order of highest to lowest probability of finding me). I haven't reopened my DW completely yet but I probably will soon, and it'll likely be half-private unless I'm posting fic or something along those lines.

Sometime later, when I have the $$ for it I'm going to go back to my self-hosted blogging roots, which I'll probably make an update for so it can be found.

If anybody's got any better migratory ideas I'm all ears, but the options I'm seeing so far are pretty scattershot except for Discord.

I am tired, grieving, and getting whiplash from either being angry or being anxious. Truthfully, I don't want to sit here and watch Tumblr complete becoming the socmed Frankenstein trying to be everything to everyone, no longer actually what Tumblr used to be, while the CEO gleefully picks on individual users as if punching down makes him look cool.

Mutuals: I love you. If you have discord handles or servers you wanna throw my way, just go ahead and add me, say hey so I know it's you, toss me a join link, I will be over the moon. If you're nervous about it, throw it in my ask box or message me, I won't publish things you don't specifically say to. My gradual evaporation hasn't been because I don't care about you, or because I don't want to see your posts. But I am going away, a little bit at a time. I hope we can find a way to still grab each others' hands, but I can't stay here forever, not anymore.

[roebeanstalk]

reblog to manifest gender euphoria for the person you reblogged this from

[mahgck]

would you just fucking look at him.

[the-spectre-draws-near]

Bot accounts and Real people with accounts.

I’m pretty sure the tumblr community is well aware of this problem and probably loads of other people have already made posts about this, so I’ll keep it brief.

So recently blogs like this keep appearing in my followers list (these are recent ones)

Now when you get a spam blogs or p*rn bots you’re supposed to blog them. But some these blogs are actual people who are new on tumblr and have the default icon, so you’re supposed to check before who block them. But here’s the problem…

some of these blogs don’t have anything. No posts, No description, No title. So you’re gonna automatically assume that these are spam and block them.

Now I hate fact that some of these blogs belong to actual people and I’ve been blocking and reporting on blogs like these for the past few days, and that they’re probably wondering why there being blocked or reported. ( sorry to the people who own blogs like these that I blocked you)

So a couple of tips for new blogs on this site,

1.You could change the title (a catchphrase, a favorite quote, a random sentence etc.) or type small description, or whatever random stuff you like!

2. You could change the your avator or icon (it be a picture of you, a cartoon, again it’s your choice do whatever)

3.If you’re not planning to frequently post stuff and just sign in to check out other people’s stuff, just put a put a post something like this just to show you’re new here.(again u can write down anything)

if you’re reading this and new to this website I hope you found these suggestions useful and should stop you from getting blocked immediately. Happy posting.

[the-spectre-draws-near]

I’m rebloging this because I’ve been getting more empty, default looking accounts following me again. And this me again telling you to change it.

[lunar-wandering]

fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the "potential bots" many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[beansterpie]

OK, SO!

Just to confirm for myself that this was true, I went and made a new account and took some screenshots.

After the usual inputting of email, username and birthday (which, I don't remember if tumblr used to require you to enter your birthday? I feel like it didn't??) it takes you to this page:

it requires you to follow five tags from a selection of categories (I didn't count the exact number of categories, but there's a lot. The right section of the screen scrolls down). I followed some very neutral tags:

The "Next" button doesn't become click-able until you pick all five.

After that, it took me to this page:

it suggests 10 different users for each tag that you selected in the previous page (the right side of the page scrolls down to all five tags). As far as I could tell, there wasn't a way to ask for more users in each tag.

Again, the "Next" button doesn't become clickable until you follow three people.

And finally after that it took me to the dashboard:

There wasn't any way to change my icon before this point. So long story short, seems like the og post is true y'all :/

That being said, this only applies to blogs that still have the standard tumblr-generated icons, which is pretty easy to distinguish from the pretty-lady-icon porn bots 🤷🏻

[titkoks]

[silveryinkystar]

[Video description: A person in a blue checked shirt talks at the camera.

"A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, 'You come in here an awful lot. I think you might be an alcoholic.' To which the horse says, 'I don't think I am,' and promptly vanishes."

There are appropriate voices and hand gestures made when the bartender and the horse speak, and then at the vanishing. OP then drops the joke-y tone and begins to explain,

"You see, this was based off of Descartes' famous philosophy line, 'I think, therefore I am.' But I couldn't explain that before the rest of the joke because that would've been putting Descartes before the horse."

A beat, before the scene cuts to jaunty music and a zoom-ed in shot of OP's satisfied, gleeful smile. Cut to them making silly faces, positions, and dances and clearly reveling in their, frankly, fantastic pun. End VD]

[ohshitthisbloghasothercolors]

It's a het ship to YOU. To ME, they are both incredibly bisexual.

[catchymemes]

[blackshvck]

Kung Pow Penising is now illegal

[official-penis-posts]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

[meihouwangslittlecumslut]

K

[theaviskullguy]

U

[that-one-scared-gay]

N

[deancodedinthewater]

G

[chiffchaffinch]

P

[omsocks]

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[cxsmicvega]

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[sharkpunks]

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[evilweasel]

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[silly-jellyghoty]

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[rain-after-thunder]

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[wertley]

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[jv]

Matt, this is extremely

LAME

[jv]

To be clear: hate and dogpiling are not ok. Kung Pow Penis is neither of those things: while I understand it may be annoying, it's a pretty tame way for a bunch of people to show fhey don't like something you posted. It's the equivalent of 12 people posting "bad take, op" with a humorous touch.

And honestly, it's light-years away from things that are actually within the ToS (like posting TERF content into popular tags), so the fact that it's being acted upon looks like a tantrum.

[the-pudding-is-a-lie]

Posting this page extra because I love it so much. This is part of a whole mini comic in which teenage Nie Mingjue gets to bond with Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng via fishing with bare hands in a Nie bros age swap au. You can find the whole thing here!

[image ID: a digital sketch of Nie Mingjue from MDZS/The Untamed standing in a pond and proudly holding up a fish by it's tail which he caught with his bare hands. He is only wearing a pair of pants, his strong physique and chubby belly on display. Freckles are scattered across his torso. His hair is falling down his back in wavy curls, some strands sticking to his forehead and chest. In the background are rocks and a few lines indicating a bamboo forest. End ID.]

[shenzhiheng]

“I don’t want him to be alive in my heart. I want him to be alive in this world.”

Nirvana In Fire 瑯琊榜 | Episode 40

[the-pudding-is-a-lie]

So I have been talking to some friends about a Nie bros age swap au and the idea of Nie Mingjue bonding with Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng via fishing with bare hands came to mind. I couldn't draw all my thoughts about it in just a single picture so have a bunch of sketches for a short comic instead, hehe!

(Writing this image ID took forever, I hope it makes sense!)

[image ID: sketches of 12 pages of a short comic featuring Nie Mingjue, Nie Huaisang, Lan Xichen, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng from MDZS/The Untamed. The first 3 pages show Lan Xichen and Nie Huaisang talking to each other.

Lan Xichen: Sect Leader Nie, Jue-didi is violating the rules by fishing with other students... But don't worry. Since it's Jue-didi, I will keep it to myself, Sang-dage."

Nie Huaisang: Erge... you let him get away with too much.

Lan Xichen: Jue-didi is building bonds with the Jiang Sect, that's a good thing! And he is still growing, I understand he struggles to adapt to a diet free of meat-

Nie Huaisang, tapping the back of Lan Xichen's head with his fan: Erge! Stop finding excuses for him. He needs to learn restraint or he'll always be a brute who only has his sabre in mind.

Lan Xichen, rubbing the back of his head: One could almost think it isn't you who keeps sending him snacks and told him where to hide them best...

Nie Huaisang, snapping his fan open again: I don't know what you are talking about, I really don't know!

Lan Xichen: But truly, it's good for him to make some friends-

There conversation gets interrupted by a loud laugh coming from Wei Wuxian who is standing in a pond and throwing a fish at Jiang Cheng. Both are only wearing pants. Jiang Cheng is yelling at Wei Wuxian to stop: You will chase all the fish away before Nie-xiong made his first catch!

The next panel shows Nie Mingjue's hands carefully reaching for a fish in the water and successfully getting a hold of it. The following page is just a single panel of him holding up the fish proudly. He is also only wearing pants, showing his strong physique and chubby belly.

On the next page Wei Wuxian is yelling in joy. Jiang Cheng says: "Stop that or all the fish will be gone! SHUT UP!" He hits Wei Wuxian with a fish, making Nie Mingjue laugh: "Hahaha! Thank you for teaching me!"

Wei Wuxian: We didn't do much, Nie-xiong is a talented student!

Nie Mingjue: if you say so...

The next page shows Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen again.

Nie Huaisang: Tsk. Just look at him...

Lan Xichen with a dreamy expression: I am looking.

Nie Huaisang: Hm? (He looks at Xichen and notices him blushing.) Oh. I understand now.

Lan Xichen: What?

Nie Huaisang, turning around, patting Xichen's shoulder with one hand: Don't worry about it. I will leave now. Don't tell him I was here or he will be embarassed. Just know that you have dage's blessings.

The next page shows Xichen watching a smiling Nie Mingjue trying to fend of Wei Wuxian who is reaching for his catch. Jiang Cheng is standing in the background with an angry expression saying: Catch your own!

Xichen smiles: Thank you, Sang-dage.

The last page shows two fish swimming around each other, forming a circle. The End. End ID.]

[chandra-telescope]

hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

[chandra-telescope]

favourite additions

[chandra-telescope]

[surfeit-of-stoats]

ID: a series of screenshots of tags and replies to this post:

YES. you can get better at it

hope is a discipline. hope is not something you have it’s something you create for yourself

it really is dude. it’s fuckin hard

hope is heavy; you will drop it, but you must pick it up again. #hope #something hard to get and harder to maintain nowadays

Sometimes, hope is spite, rebranded. And that’s fine.

optimism is also a skill. with the right reinforcement you can learn just about anything. also a lot of time. some times a lot of lot of time.

as well as faith. not necessarily in god but in the good in the world. life sucks and then you die. but life is also everything in between. it’s cake sunsets snow plants fresh air birds singing a nap.

hope is a plant you care for

end ID

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

[neopolitanfox]

This is especially funny because they aren’t even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.

[trojanhorse8-2]

No they aren’t.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

yes they are. because they are fluffye.

[trojanhorse8-2]

OK yes they are.

[mr-deep-downer]

Dog

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

Dog

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

Different family, but same order as @pictures-of-dogs

[zarabithia12365-deactivated2022]

No, they are the same family. They are the same kingdom, phylum, order and family. They separate at the genus.

They’re a dog.

[birdsareblooming]

yeah they’re fluffye

[dacavendishtime]

theyre literally not dogs theyre not even fluffy. can we get science tumblr over hear or what!?

[birdsareblooming]

checkmate athiests

[ajarofpickledtears]

fluffye

[pa-pa-plasma]

okay but they literally are dogs, for those who are confused

[stele3]

If foxes are dogs, then so are wolves, coyotes, dingoes, jackals, and several other extant and extinct species.

Behold! A dog.

[lemon-badgeress]

of course it’s a dog you buffoon. it’s fluffye.

[findingfeather]

Why on earth would someone think “BUT IF THEY’RE DOGS SO AR -”

Like yes of course wolves are dogs, where have you been. Jackals are excellent doggies! So are coyotes. Why is this confusing.

[theknightlywolfe]

I love that this is literally two completely different arguments running simultaneously.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That guy up there who said they’re not even fluffy was thinking of sharks

[thebelovedlion]

sharks are also dogs. ravenous water dogs, but still dogs

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sharks can NOT be dogs they are SMOOTH

[porcupine-girl]

Tags via @jenroses

[biochemjess]

I give you the (somewhat) domesticated fox. I read the book about these breeding experiments and it’s fascinating stuff, especially how certain phenotypes (curly takes, spotted fur) track with domestication.

Why domesticated foxes are genetically fascinating (and terrible pets)

Foxes were considered untamable, until a biology experiment was started in Siberia almost 60 years ago and proved otherwise.

[badolmen]

Come watch Galavant we have:

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss (Evil)

Toxic Masculinity

Would-Be Allies in the Class War

Sid

Mansplain, Manwhore, Malewife

Jester who Cucks the King and Lives

This Guy

The One True King To Rule Them All

Tad Cooper

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"How do I stop being scared of-" You do it scared. The courage arrives WITH the action, not before it. Don't wait to feel confident before you act because the key to confidence is usually doing the thing while still scared as fuck

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me