Hey guys, so recently in our inbox, we got a submission about anon hate and tracking IP addresses of anon asks. Sadly, I’ve been doing some research and with the new tumblr asks, I cannot find any way to track the IP address but you can block the IP address from sending any more anon messages to your inbox. So if you are getting anon hate or say someone is taking advantage of your triggers, this is how you block an anon’s IP address, it’s simple and actually a tumblr feature:
1. Go to the message in the inbox and press the three grey dots in the corner of the message.
2. Press the block button
3. Click the blue ‘Block’ and this will block and anonymous messages from that IP address from getting sent to your inbox. You can still get sent messages from the actual account but not anonymous.
Voila! You have now blocked that IP address from sending you anon messages. It’s not a perfect fix but it’s something.
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise.
First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.
We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.
In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that, including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.
you may be thinking that some of the reactions to the tumblr update are unfounded or panicky. but i meant what i said: this will fucking destroy any artist on this site.
for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:
and here is what it looks like now:
holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.
maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.
but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.
do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.
it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.
the tumblr feedback form is currently crashed for me, but when it's up, everyone please go (politely! calmly! like you're walking in a burning building!) tell them what you think. in the meantime: @staff @changes like... i am begging you. literally just set up a suggestion box for ideas on how to monetize tumblr, surely one of us can help you.
A role player's guide to complaining about Tumblr's latest update
Well, well, well, here we are again with a tumblr update no one asked for that makes our lives harder and this website less user friendly for creatives to use. Anyone who is surprised by this raise your hand. No one?
I know a lot of people are like "oh the RPC isn't really effected", but personally I don't think that's true. I don't know about you guys but I used the reblog notes on a thread not only to track the thread, but to keep track of the plot, or just to back read for funsies.
Now all of that is going to be so much harder... And for what reason? None that I can understand.
Anyways, let's talk about what you're here for: trying to get things turned back.
With that said please remember first and foremost that when submitting your complaint we all need to be polite. It is actually possible to be both frustrated, firm, and not a dick. As mad as we may be there is still another person on the other end of the screen reading these messages.
First and foremost is our good ole pal the support inbox. We can, and should, send our Feedback here to be filed and ignored. If you have multiple blogs, submit your feedback tickets from each one of them. Next is the post on the changes blog, supposedly staff will be replying to things posted here.
When you go to make your case remember to let them know why this is a bad idea, how it interferes with the way you use this website, how it completely changes something we adore and specifically come here for. Let them know this does restrict creativity and whatever else they're saying they don't mean to quash or restrict by changing a kind of fundamental tumblr thing. Let them know that you've looked at the new feature, tried the new feature, and despise the new feature. Also if you have any idea on what they could do instead of this god awful update let them know. Be specific, as specific as possible so that they know EXACTLY what is wrong.
Also, if you think their reply to us via the Changes blog is corporate BS then tell them. Let them know we don't feel heard, and we don't feel listened to. Point out that their own post doesn't seem to follow the new update, because last i looked i could see the reblogged comments.
We're writers guys, we've got the words to use so we might as well use them. But again, let them know this politely; Don't be a dick.
“Oh no, you’re quite right. I’m ahead of myself aren’t I? That comes later.”
“How about it, lad? Would you like to be my squire?”
“If I have to kill everyone who smells your cooking, lad, we’re in for a long road.”
“You’ve faery blood in you. I’d swear to it. There’s something in your eyes.”
“Faeries are wicked, aren’t they?”
“A knightship at Arthur’s court is is a greater honor than any princedom. Knighthood has to be earned.”
“Any clodpole can own armor, and any number of good fighters have to do without it.”
“You saw all that and you’re not even a knight yet! I’m reaching for the moon.”
“I could have been dead twice over today, and I never even knew I was in danger.”
“If you want to know a king, see how he treats his defeated foes. All are gracious to their equals; one in a thousand is gracious to an enemy he has conquered.”
“We wish to rule our people, not to ruin them.”
“Come stand by me, ( NAME ), I shall need your council.”
“He tried to kill milord, like I said, but he couldn’t because milord kept hitting him with the stew pot.”
“Be ever true to your God; protect always your neighbor; honor always your king.”
“No one should go to war without a weapon. This is yours.”
“Did you really hit Sir Whoever with a stew pot?”
“I’ve suggested to ( NAME ) that we should have a stew pot event at the next tournament. Better than bashing your friends off horses with lances.”
“Ay, but it would look silly. No knight can endure looking silly.”
“Rabbit-brained thing to do.”
“Right from under their noses, no less. I like a good thief, I do.”
“Ow! No biting!”
“For your part in this adventure, I also thank you. Will you do me the honor of accepting a small gift?”
“This bow cannot be broken, nor can it’s string rot. ( NAME ) says you still have to aim it, though.”
“I’m glad you’ve come to court, but I don’t choose to tell you why.”
“A battle I call an adventure, a dragon in the woods is an adventure. But how is a hart and a hound, even oddly colored ones, an adventure?”
“Those who avoid danger make it a point not to see adventures, I believe.”
“The first thing an enchantress learns is how to make herself beautiful. I’ve never known one who wouldn’t take your breath away to look at her.”
“Take this, thou varlet!”
“Art thou craven?”
“Heaven preserve us from the witless.”
“I am ( NAME ), guardian of this river.”
“Guardian from what? Do you think I’ll spit in it?”
“Oh sir! You are the flower of chivalry, the fairest of knights, knowing well that no virtue becomes a knight so well as mercy, I honor you and your noble parents--”
“Ah, that a fair lady should be so abused.”
“I’m still enough of a beauty to make pompous knights babble of their victories to impress me.”
“Then it wouldn’t be very knightly of me to boast, would it? A knight should be modest.”
“But if you don’t tell anyone about your great deeds, people might think you haven’t done any at all.”
“Make ready for battle, recreant knight!”
“I’m not a recreant knight, and I won’t make ready for battle!”
“Yes, well, my own French is a touch rusty, but I don’t think you should call your lady’s nose a musique. It means snout.”
“At last you’ve said something worth saying.”
“Sometimes, Sir ( NAME ), the goal of a quest is to understand the goal of the quest.”
“And to think I almost had ( NAME ) as a squire.”
“( NAME ), you will come to understand that the greatest boons given in our world are burdens. In your world men fight for glory; it is not so here.”
“I say do you always misplace ladies the day you pick them up?”
“I’ve either had a very strange dream, or you’ve got some explaining to do.”
“What if some courtier comes by and sees you drinking with me?”
“What if some faery comes by and sees you drinking with me?”
Change pronouns and locations as needed, under a cut for length.
Prologue
"It makes you wish when you fall asleep you will dream about the view.”
“Bizarre and improbable and pretty, as a page from the fairy-tale books. It makes you wish that the world could be as lovely as it looks.”
“It makes you wish that the world could be as lovely as it looks...”
Me, Who Am I?
"Who am I? A far-from-perfect guy...”
“A guy who dreams like a lion but wakes up like a lamb.”
“A bum who wants to do what’s right but often does what’s wrong.”
“A kid who’s voice is way off key but loves to sing a song.”
“His Royal Highness ( name ) slayer of dragons, pitiless to ogres, destroyer of griffins and giants, no friend to gargoyles, nice to the needy, sportsman and poet!”
“He's our hero! Such perfection!”
“He’s a plain and simple complicated fascinating guy!”
In My Own Little Corner/Reprise
“I know of a spot in my house where no one can stand in my way.”
“I can be whatever I want to be.”
“On the wing of my fancy I can fly anywhere, and the world will open its arms to me.”
“I’m a young Norwegian princess or a milkmaid!”
“I’m the greatest prima donna in Milan!”
“I’m an heiress who has always had her silk made, by her own flock of silkworms in Japan!”
“I’m a girl men go mad for, love’s a game I can play with a cool and confident kind of air!”
“I’m a thief in Calcutta.”
“I’m a queen in Peru!”
“I’m a mermaid dancing upon the sea!”
“It’s a dangerous kind of sport and yet it’s fun.”
“Then I’m glad to be back in my own little corner! All alone in my own little chair...”
“I am in the royal palace, of all places!”
“And the color on my two stepsister's faces is a queer sort of sour apple green!”
“So what if I do have a dream to see the prince again?”
“And then to have him fall in love with you?”
“Then be foolish with me! What would you dream of?”
“No one will fall in love with me.”
“Are you really my fairy godmother?”
Transformations
“And now ( name ), I must tell you, all of this magic is very powerful, but it will end at midnight tonight.”
“ Now go, to the ball. In the name of every girl who has ever wished to go to a ball in a beautiful dress. In the name of every girl who has ever wanted to change the world she lived in!”
“Go! With the promise of possibility!“
It’s Possible
"It’s possible for a plain country bumpkin, and a prince to join in marriage.”
“For the world is full of zanies and fools who won’t believe in sensible rules, and won’t believe what sensible people say!”
“Impossible things are happening every day!“
“It’s possible!”
Ten Minutes Ago/Reprise
“I saw you I looked up when you came through the door, my head started reeling you gave me the feeling the room had no ceiling or floor.”
“I have found her, she's an angel, with the dust of the stars in her eyes.”
“And I like it so well that for all I can tell I may never come down again!”
“I may never come down to earth again.”
“I wanted to ring out the bells and fling out my arms and to sing out the news!”
“I have found her!”
“I have found him! He's the light of the stars in my eyes!”
“I may never come down to earth again.”
Stepsister’s Lament
“Why would a fellow want a girl like her, a frail and fluffy beauty?”
“She’s a frothy little bubble, with a flimsy kind of charm, and with very little trouble, I could break her little arm!”
“Why can’t a fellow ever once prefer a usual girl like me?“
“She’s only as graceful as a bird so why is the fellow going crazy?“
“Yes, he’s witty, so disarming, and I like the way he really holds a room. Clever cunning, ever charming, how do I make him see I’m special?”
“It’s a pity.”
“I’ve got the patience of a perfect saint. So I’m waiting always waiting nevertheless, I’m in a mess.”
“She’s the matter let me at her!!!“
The Pursuit
“Lord ( name ), where is she?”
“Your Majesty, we saw the carriage! And, this I cannot explain – it simply flew into the mist!”
“I just know I will find you! you’re the girl of my dreams...”
“Impossible? Then we shall do the impossible!”
“Ten minutes ago we were dancing in the palace of all places!”
He Was Tall
“He was tall, very tall, and his eyes were clear and blue...”
“When he walked across the ballroom floor he was like a thing divine, and all the ladies turned their heads... and naturally I turned mine.”
A Lovely Night/Reprise
“You meet your prince, a charming prince, as charming as a prince will ever be!”
“The stars in a hazy heaven tremble above you while he is whispering,“Darling, I love you!”
“All of your life you’ll dream of this.“
“Darling, I love you.”
“Are you sure you can keep my secret?“
“May we both find our loves.”
“All my life I’ll dream of this...”
Loneliness of Evening
“And start to pray, as I pray each day, that I’ll hear some word from you...”
“I lie in the loneliness of evening, looking out on a silver-flaked sea, and ask the moon; Oh how soon, how soon, will my love come home to me?”
“I have found her. She’s my angel.”
“I have found my angel, with the dust of the stars in your eyes.”
Announcing the Banquet
“The Prince is looking dreamy-eyed.”
“So spread the word throughout the land; The Prince is throwing a banquet!”
“His Royal Highness ( name ), dopey and dreamy-eyed can’t find his lady!”
There’s Music in You
“Beyond the voice that keeps insisting “no” there is something more than doubting breaking through the darkness.”
“Someone wants you, you know who.”
“Now there’s nothing you won’t try!”
“Move a mountain, light the sky, make a wish come true –!”
“Now you can go wherever you want to go!″
Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?
“Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
“Am I making believe I see in you a girl too lovely to be really true?”
“Am I making believe I see in you a man too perfect to be really true?”
“Do I want you because you’re wonderful? Or are you wonderful because I want you?”
“Are you the sweet invention of a lover’s dream? Or are you really as wonderful as you seem?”
The Shoe Fits
“The Prince intends to search until he finds the girl who fits the bill. But not 'the bill', the shoe I mean, a shoe to fit a queen!”
“The shoe does not fit!”
“Here goes nothin’.”
“Me again.”
“Is that the last eligible lady in the kingdom?”
“She appears to be, yes.”
“I haven’t tried on the slipper...”
The Proposal
“( Name ), I love you so much, I don’t know what to do.”
“Oh. Well. Is marriage still on the table?”
“Yes. YES. OH MY – YES!! You have to marry me. I mean, will you marry me?“
❝This is not your… not your fault. Promise me… you’ll escape from this place.❞
❝There’re better places to take a nap that on the ground, you know. Give me your hand.❞
❝You’ve escaped fate this time, rogue, but remember—justice always prevails!❞
❝Struggle all you want! You cannot unwrite what is already written!❞
❝Who wants to try my lance on for size first? I know where it belongs, shoved right up your…❞
❝Snuck in some practice, if you know what I mean…What? No, FIGHTING practice.❞
❝How can you be so blind to [NAME]’s incredible charms?! How dare you not be attracted to him/her!❞
❝You dare take such a tone… with your own father?!❞
❝Do you think I’d be out here if I were ONLY after girls!?❞
❝If you believe in any gods, you’d better pray to them now!❞
❝You know, prices aren’t the only thing I can cut in two.❞
❝You can’t kill a dead man, sweetheart.❞
❝You realized your mistake quickly enough. It could have been much more awkward.❞
❝I could break their ranks as easily as I break wind!❞
❝Do you have any more of those?!❞
❝Turn my back one minute and you’re married. The next minute? A baby!❞
❝Glory be! You’re salvageable after all!❞
❝Oh gods. I raised a philanderer.❞
❝Look, I know I’m unbelievably sexy, but you don’t have to stare so hard.❞
❝…Well, it looks… edible? At least?❞
❝I’m asking you to marry me, idiot!❞
❝Let our extremely protracted duel to the death begin!❞
❝What manner of madman would allow you a turn at cooking for the camp?❞
❝Allies?“ You expect me to rely on you in combat?❞
❝Your only expertise is in flirting, and you still fail spectacularly! I’ll take my chances alone!❞
❝I honestly cannot tell sometimes if you’re a genius or a complete dimwit.❞
❝You see, sometimes when two people… Things happen. Stuff… *mumbles* Okay, I like you.❞
❝My body is ready! The next sample, if you please!❞
❝What is this? Is it edible? I haven’t eaten in minutes…❞
❝This exercise is great for building stomach muscles. Come on, just 300! 299… 298…❞
❝My arm. You’re touching my arm…Please stop touching my arm.❞
❝I am SO sorry about earlier! I had no idea you were in the bath…❞
❝Strap yourself in and get ready to ride the flavor stallion!❞
❝Hold still! You’re making this harder than it has to be.❞
❝It should prove quite elucidating to dissect you piece by piece…❞
❝Not another step, potato molester! Stealing food is wrong!❞
❝Now you’re a piece of work. Got a lot to gain by picking on the weak, is that it?❞
❝We have the rest of our lives! And YOU, my dear, are a catch worth waiting for.❞
❝I’ll be your hero, you’ll be mine, and together we’ll be everyone else’s!❞
❝What kind of fool strategist puts himself at the fore of the battle?❞
❝I love you. And no matter what the future holds, I’m going to cherish every moment.❞
❝Am I not a thing of beauty~?❞
❝Anyone else hungry? Because I’m starving!❞
❝Where I’m from, strength is the only law that matters.❞
❝You’ll risk your life for us if I give you…a bag of candy?❞
❝I said “sweeten the deal”, didn’t I?❞
❝I’m not some fancywaist who needs to strut about like a peacock.❞
❝This day has been nothing but insults and punches to the groin…❞
❝It’s just that…your eyes are…so very shiny and pretty… Like two pools…of…something…❞
❝Surrender? Sorry, I’m not familiar with the word!❞
❝I am a warrior of the sword. Nothing fazes me. Nothing!❞
❝Gah, just p-please stop…hugging too tight… C-can’t…breathe…❞
❝Turns out the business end of my sword is me!❞
❝I…I love you, you bastard. There, I said it! Now don’t ask me again!❞
❝Look at all that you can accomplish if you try.❞
❝I don’t make threats. I make promises.❞
❝Everyone’s staring! How embarassing…❞
“What do I roll to steal the delicious subway sandwich?”
“If you can’t create your own arcane fire, store bought is fine.”
“They’re my radishes now.”
“It’s been a really bad day so far. I'ma stab ‘em.”
“Do I have proficiency in motherfuckers?”
“Were these pirate skeletons pirates first or skeletons first??”
“I punch things with bullets.”
“The important thing is…I’m not a cop.”
“I didn’t care about stopping their human sacrifices, I just wanted to get my commemorative photo”
“I am too high to reanimate the dead.”
“Well, you’d better figure it out, ‘cause once that bird’s here I’m not going to care. I’m just going to charge in and kill the bird, and they’re going to be like, ‘Why are you in our house, killing this bird?’ and I’m going to be like, 'Bye!’”
“We’re violent because we care.”
“I wanna see some action man, you’re like a dead log’s dead body!”
“What are arms but really smart legs?”
“I can’t breathe fire, but soon I’ll be shitting it.”
“Success through failure: our party’s motto.”
“When you say ‘containment’ do you mean 'murderize’?”
“What are the odds of us eating food today?”
“I’ll do the planning, you’ll do the fighting, and he’ll bring the humorous pig.”
“There’s bread nailed to his door, and cheese scattered across his bed.… We’re being haunted by a chef.”
“You said you were ready for the skeleton war.”
“How are you letting a panther beat you at poker?”
“They might be zombies, but they’re making soup so who cares?”
“Don’t eat strange bread, it might make you trip balls and die”
“Do fish people have the concept of nudity?”
“I don’t know what this is, but it’s unnatural, and if it wasn’t already dead, I would probably kill it.”
“For someone who cares so much about morals, you’re sort of… despicable.”
“We’ve been assholes all night, why break the streak?”
“Can I take a rain-check on Valhalla? I’ve got a date at six”
“No, we are not turning the castle into a commune.”
“I had everything planned! Except for soap. I never accounted for soap.”
“Sure, I could knock but I don’t want to, because I’m a criminal.”
“Heterosexuality *is* a cult. Let’s move on.”
“I feel like we’re two sides of the same stupid coin.”
“I’m not drunk, I’m just charismatic.”
“No, passing out from being drowned does NOT count as a short rest.”
“We could attach his upper half to the car! Like a centaur! A cencar!”
“I’ll let it slide on the technicality that your crossbow fires exploding cabbages.”
“That was the scariest rock I’ve ever hidden behind.”
“Why is this backpack bleeding?”
“Is the frozen pigeon still on fire?”
“The line between incompetence and treachery is blurrier than you’d think, huh?”
