A Peak In To My Mind

I’m too shy to say hi and engage in a conversation but I can hear your conversations and I am replying to your comments mentally especially anime, manga, and video games.

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[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Two animals who appreciate the Warm Lamp

[mikkeneko]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Biblically accurate greed

Source

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ok actually phrebrand badges canceled here's your hard launch badges.

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me currently.

[pseudophan]

so it turns out phan is real

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Happiness

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Forgot to post this one here

[flowersimp]

Z,,,, Zhongli????

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[enjolred]

Me, opening AO3: let’s see if I can find a fic will give me the very specific high I need to go on living for another day

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*googles "how to make it socially shameful and abhorrent to have 8 acres of treeless lawn"*

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Rich people houses have the most blatantly wasteful enormous lawns

I am doing so much on my one little acre...but then I see the McMansion with 10 acres that are just no trees no flowers nothing except grass and I feel such anger and despair...

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*googles "how to write an article that says personal choices cause ecological devastation but not if you're a regular person just if you have a giant house with 10 acres of grass*

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How to give a presentation and invite all the rich people to it and it shows them their giant houses on Google Earth next to the regular people houses and then it says "You have 16 normal sized yards and live right next to people whose kids can barely play outside without getting turned into roadkill. You are a feudal lord except you don't even allow the peasants access to your grain mill or blacksmith's forge."

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@piermanwalter hmm I think you're on to something

The fundamental American vice is believing everything of your wealth came from hard work, so to deal with the American McMansion problem, someone needs to write a thing in one of those, you know, landscape and design magazines about how flat grass lawns are trashy and lazy-looking, the choice of a man who wants to sit on his ass all day riding around on a dinky little machine.

Are you a Real American Man who Works Hard, or are you a Lazy Bum that settles for the Tasteless, Basic Monotony of Flat Grass

True Elegance and Sophistication is seen in yards that incorporate 22 Different Prairie Grasses and a Hundred Flowers, imitating the perfection of Nature as closely as possible, as only the most diligent, thoughtful, and sensitive individuals can do

[unbotheredmuse]

[chaosthedemon]

[agentsofoakenshiield]

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

So, how's everybody's executive function today?

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[valentinedagger]

nobody bitch about the tumblr checkmark this is the funniest shit staff has pulled in months and its absolutely contributing to the landlord-firing-gunshots-at-passing-cars vibe of the past week

[arle-cchino]

[the-final-sif]

Welcome twitter users fleeing the absolute cesspool that twitter is going to become as Musk gets his way with his awful ideas! Things are better here, and hey, if you're an old user coming back, they've actually improved shit!

Here's a list of important notes for tumblr usage:

Don't censor words, particularly trigger warnings. Tumblr has a very functional blacklist (found in your settings) that can filter by post content and/or tags. But the word needs to actually be present for the filter to work. Censoring words like r*pe is actively harmful to people attempting to avoid those topics.

Use tags liberally, you have as many as you want, but don't tag unrelated shit. You'll get reported for spam really fast if you do.

Set an avatar and reblog things, otherwise you look like a bot.

You are not obligated to have your real name anywhere in your blog/bio/etc. Most people here use handles.

You can turn your ask box & anons on or off if you are experiencing any kind of harassment. You can also turn off replies on your posts, and turn off reblogs if you need to.

Tumblr has keyboard shortcuts on desktop. You can find them listed under the blog/account menu. Go learn them, they make life so much easier.

Reblog things. Seriously. Also set your dash in chronological order. You can maintain several blogs if need be, but reblogging things is normal, expected, and how you pass along stuff you enjoy.

The majority of people aren't reading your card/dni/blog bio before they reblog stuff. Posts get passed around and the OP often isn't the focal point of the post. Learn to live with it.

Fic writers: you have unlimited words, do not post fics as images.

Reblogs with comments/tags are encouraged. It's not like twitter's QRTs. The OP will see everything there. Know that before you comment.

You have a queue. This means you can set posts up ahead of time to run while you're busy. You can also completely ignore this and just spam your follows whenever you're online. Both are very commonplace

It's not weird to go through someone's blog and reblog old posts. That's actually very normal. If you add /chrono to the end of a tumblr page then you can view all the posts in chronological order to make this easier.

"Spam" liking and reblogging isn't a thing that is a problem. This is invented by people I do not understand. If someone claims this is a problem, they can learn how to turn off or manage their notifications.

The only form of promotional posts that tumblr has is "blaze". There is no ad targeting or any kind of invasions of privacy with blaze. You just get subjected to w/e someone wants to show you. If you want to give tumblr some money to help the company keep going and providing an alternative to twitter, it's not a bad way to do it. You can make people look at cat photos.

Also, we have fun colors here. Plus actual formatting ability. Use it!

People lie on here for fun. Don't accept everything you see at face value, check the reblogs/replies or google something if you're skeptical! Critical thinking is good!

Above all else, be chill, use your block button if you need to, and have fun.

[luxlightly]

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.