On unnecessary negativity in the tags (or comments):
This weekend I had someone write something really toxic in the tags on one of my posts. (I already inflicted the specifics on one kind soul (sorry/thank you! 💛), so I won’t make anyone else look at that.) It wasn’t anyone who follows me (plus I’ll be blocking them), and I’ve never gotten negative tags from anyone I recognize as following me (you’re all lovely! 💛), but I’d still like to throw this reminder out for Tumblr at large:
Don’t do that. Please.
The people who make GIFs are pretty much the only people guaranteed to read your tags. If you leave us nice comments about our creations, it delights (and—bonus—motivates) us. But when you say negative stuff—even if it’s about the underlying subject matter and not our edits—it’s a real bummer. We’re just other people who like whatever the subject matter is enough to make stuff about it. We don’t want to know that you don’t like the movie/TV show/ship/character/actor/artist/etc. (Most of the time, we *really* like them.) You wouldn’t go into the AO3 comments and start talking about how you don’t like whatever the author chose to write about (you wouldn’t, right?!), so don’t do it here.
I’ll refer you to this post and this post for some others’ more in-depth thoughts on the subject.
