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I still don't understand Tumblr. Sorry.

[justpastryvideos]

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[konoko]

[starryfictionalgirl]

It writes…the pencil fucking WRITES!!!

[thedragonemperess]

I thought this was plastic at first so I was super confused as to why OP was freaking out over the fact that it writes

But then I realized

Oh

It's the chocolate guy

[whitmerule]

the chocolate guy has attained too much power

[headspace-hotel]

I actually think the real advantage tumblr has over other websites is the ability of "reblogging" to create posts with contributions from multiple users. This allows people to build on others' posts, whether that's derailing them with a terrible joke, drawing the scenario proposed as a comic, answering the question posed originally in lively essay format, or rewriting the previous interaction as a scene in Shakespearean iambic pentameter.

[headspace-hotel]

This is also why Tumblr is hard to make profitable. Individual users have relatively little power to create good content. It's interactions between users that actually creates the good content, and therefore, no one involved in the good stuff on Tumblr can really claim to "own" it or be the "creator."

Posts have to navigate through Tumblr to pick up the people that can add to them in a constructive way, and then when users interact, the whole interaction can spread across the website as a new evolution of the content. There's no way to simplify this process.

Theres a whole ecosystem running here. It's not as simple as Creators and Consumers, and you can't simplify it to that. That's not how ART works, let alone posts. There's symbiosis. The users that do the nitrogen fixation aren't the ones photosynthesizing. The detritivores can't also be the predators. The "rappers doing normal shit blog" has a different niche than the person that asks why Lil Wayne has socks on in the jacuzzi, who has a different niche than the person who says "those are his hooves, you bitch!"

It's like bioavailability, you see. The user that responds "Those are his hooves, you bitch" is like a predator on a high trophic level, unable to directly feed on producers, needing primary consumers to convert the post into a form that makes a punch line possible.

[kajsaschubeler]

This is what I love about Tumblr. It feels more like discussing a common matter with the people you meet while out for a walk than trying to hold a conversation with twenty people at once in a crowded room

I have seen a lot of these "how Tumblr works"-posts going around lately, and I think this one says it really well. I'm not necessarily here for the original post but for the snowball effect of a reblog chain that hopefully follows

[brightlotusmoon]

College dorms in the late 90s early 2000s had poster boards everywhere and everyone stuck random notes on, some that continued a conversation. Tumblr makes me think of college posterboards.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

one of my favorite things about fanfiction is how many writers don't necessarily consider themselves fans of the original work. lots of writers just saw the movie or read the book and were like "that was unsatisfying but now I have yet another canon to fuck around with"

[highlady-fireheart]

[gantzllat]

Some times fanfiction is a love letter to canon. Some times fanfiction is just a friendly banter with the canon. And sometimes, fanfiction is “11 things the canon did wrong”  nailed on the church’s doors. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#fix it fics are no more than an itemized list of grievances

[somagramme]

[historymeming]

Neko Atsume x Poets and philosophers through history

[zahroreadsthings]

"It's probably using it to encode data for the company. It can't be watching it, not in that volume; we'd notice."

I snorted. He underestimated me.

Ratthi said, "The one where the colony's solicitor killed the terraforming supervisor who was the secondary donor for her implanted baby?"

Again, I couldn't help it. I said, "She didn't kill him, that's a fucking lie."

Ratthi turned to Mensah. "It's watching it."

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾✊🏽😔

[zagreus]

this will be my go-to excuse from now on

[lilacspy]

Harrow, is that you?

[glumshoe]

if a werewolf dies but they were an organ donor does someone get a new kidney that turns into a wolf kidney once a month

[causual-unknown-hideout]

imagine having a feeling of pure bloodlust radiate from one side of your mid-back approximately every 28 days

[glumshoe]

I don’t need to imagine

[sixpenceee]

A deep sea monster scene inside a block of epoxy | source

[lilacspy]

Holy cow that's incredible!

[sandandglass]

[itscalledfashionlookitup]

When people compare the greatness that is The Simpsons to other animated shows like Family Guy it makes me want to set myself on fire

[macabrekawaii]

I went on a date last year and jokingly said “Don’t ask me I’m just a girl” and giggled at a 35 year old man thinking he’d get the reference and instead he said “that’s what I like to hear.”

[returningjedi]

#that is when you start shoving breadsticks in your purse

[aphony-cree]

This episode aired in 1994 and was a direct response to Mattel issuing their first talking Barbie which said phrases like “Will we ever have enough clothes?” and “Math class is tough”

A group that dubbed itself the Barbie Liberation Organization tried to create awareness of gender stereotypes by switching the voice boxes of a few hundred Barbies with those of G.I. Joe dolls, which made G.I. Joes that said things like “What kind of wedding will you have?” and Barbies that said “Vengeance is mine”

[unilady99]

I want a barbie that craves vengeance.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if your Barbie craves vengeance

[skin-slave]

Exclamation marks, but instead of a huge line of them, we do like Roman numerals of them.

You know. To save space.

[respirelejasmin]

Here’s why cotton handkerchiefs are better than tissues and we should bring them back:

- you can embroider them - you can wave them from the plaftorm as your lover departs in a train for a long journey - reusable, zero waste - you can dramatically dab your eyes with them to signify that you’re upset - you can pass them on to your grandchildren

[ampervadasz]

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

Lazy heffer

[theblogofaveryoddfellow]

[petcareawareness]

The cows are not being mistreated in this video. They are huge lumbering stubborn animals and sometimes they do need a firm push to get them to…stop doing things lime hoarding space in the trough

—mod Nick

[sun-of-the-skys]

This happens daily

[j0jin-deactivated20210309]

[amberandonyx]

I legit cackled out loud scarring the cat with this video.

[lilacspy]

Bwahahaha I love it 🤣

[dappermouth]

Hi, I’ve made a new set of hi-res phone wallpapers from my recent illustrations! They’re free for personal use, as always ♡

[lilacspy]

I love all the artwork, but mostly the neon themed ones and the black panther.