they tell me i am alive

🎶whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there🎶

[coffee-and-cusswords]

[guy who has been holding an insane amount of tension in his body for a week straight] bro why do I feel so awful

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

[lifeisablackhole9]

you fuckers thought i forgot about elf practice didn’t you?

[drinksomefuckingwater]

drink some fucking water

[katestewartt]

"Try our new AI tool", "Use ChatGPT", "Our AI assistant can help"

[samreich]

season 1 vs. season 7

[transfaguette]

hey kinda messed up that 1st degree burn is the mildest burn but 1st degree murder is the worst murder. they should have collaborated more on that one.

[subversivegrrl]

[applejuicewerewolf]

[anxietyproblem]

[timelyreminder]

Rest if you need to! Stay aware of what time it is. If you’re staying up late, it might be time to head to bed! A good night’s sleep is important to your mental and physical health. :)

Art by 1-newstart

[Image description] Summary: a campfire under a moonlit night sky. A painting of a grassy night-time landscape. There is a big, inviting, orange-red camp fire in the center of the image. The flames reach high up into the sky. Next to the fire there is a tree log, conveniently placed like a bench to sit on by the fire. There is also a tree stump, which a metal knight’s helmet rests atop. Behind it, a sword has been stabbed into the ground. The area around the fire is brightly lit; the grass is a lush green and looks soft. Outside the cone of light, it is dark but not scarily so. There are some trees, but the landscape is very open. The night sky is indigo, with grey-blue clouds. A big white full moon is visible between the clouds, in the top center of the painting. [End image description]

[loveridden1999]

whatever needs to be said was said in iris by the goo goo dolls

[drinksomefuckingwater]

drink some fucking water

[stonerparty]

[catboybiologist]

you’re a weird little freak. i wonder if i could hunt you for sport

now THIS is proper flirting

[anxietyproblem]

[schuylerpeck]

resonated too hard with Matilda (1996) as a child, so what I'm saying is I have built a home for myself at the cross-streets of depression and whimsy

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

(in tears) next year i will have so much fun!

[michaelmilkers]

tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows

[michaelmilkers]

for those of you who werent here in 2016 on april fools that year the entire fucking website was transformed and there was an election for a position that wasnt even ever specified and the candidates were four lizards (or three lizards and a salamander as a scandal would later prove) and it was called decision2016

each lizard had their own 3d models and tumblr blog and campaign and there was also a tumblr blog dedicated to reporting on the election and they made like whole ass news broadcasts with a guy in front of a green screen

you could vote for your favorite candidate and there was a built-in function that let you make and post a campaign poster

in case anyone was wondering the winner of the election was mop. relatable and reliable. #Mop Could

[chantrymouse]

lest we forget

[sreegs]

This was absolutely the biggest April Fools effort I ever witnessed while on staff. I already posted about this in an ask but here’s more of the shit that went down behind the scenes.

- Like all April Fools, this was done entirely through volunteer work on Staff. No one was forced to work on April Fools, it’s always employee-initiated and driven, even if it needs approval from leadership.

- The prank almost didn’t go through because leadership felt that the lizards weren’t relatable enough, so the compromise was to give them hats.

- The video updates on the Decision 2016 blog were greenscreen Fiverr actors that were all recorded months? Weeks? in advance? I wasn’t on creative so I don’t know all the deets about how those were made.

- As mentioned in my post, the victory speech by Mop was one of our designers screaming as loud as she could in a closet near the end of the day. The full audio was never posted but staff kept passing around the scream on slack and laughing about it for months afterwards

- There was a “war room” dedicated to advancing the election narrative as votes came in, posting updates in real time and also pushing changes to code as necessary (for bug fixes and what not)

- The votes were real and the “election” was decided by real users, even if the graphics and whatnot were exaggerated for comical effect. Mop won because Mop won. Democracy at work

- Someone brought in their own lizard to celebrate the proceedings. It was a bearded dragon

- This was the culmination of what was probably the most cohesive and imaginative (and largest) creative team Tumblr ever had. Unfortunately almost all of them are now long gone, and Tumblr Creative is now just a skeleton crew compared to their peak

- Wretched Tooth Doesn’t Like To Talk About Himself

- People drew porn of the lizards and posted it on Tumblr. Staff saw it and were sending it to each other on the company Slack. We thought it was great. I mean, terrifying, but great

- This picture of David Karp is my favorite photo of David Karp I have on my phone