i tried to be cool but its not working out

Sophie | she/her | 24

[2colde]

how having to do work at your job feels

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

the power of a bowl of rice mixed with some fucking bullshit cannot be overstated

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Watching any movie before 2000 reminds you that people in movies used to be hot but like in a normal way

[dogpuppy]

[lakevida]

the menstrual cup and menstrual scepter

[lakevida]

your majesty what is upppp

[dogpuppy]

[gingik]

[phantomrose96]

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

[pendragyn]

it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

[triflesandparsnips]

Reblog if your ask box is open.

[persephonaae]

Another thing is that I believe now you can only send a blog about 5 asks per hour, which I’m not ever sure something like this was stated as ever changed, but it severely limits the amount of asks one person can send to another. Ask culture isn’t what it was because you also literally cannot keep sending someone asks until the hour has passed

[kosmogrl]

can things stop happening for a while? in general

[prairiedeath]

[fairycosmos]

sources are saying ohhhhhhhhh brother

[venusswasaboy]

I quote this and laugh to myself very, very often.

[mircalla]

you've been summoned for july duty

[gh0stienj0yer]

i need to get off tumblr i’m at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes “posts that make you want to get in the water” what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.

[smalllfieldmouse]

i dont care if Monday's lit. Tuesday Wednesday touch my clit. Thursday i don't give a shit. it's Friday I'm in love

[dogpuppy]