How to Mute or Block Your NOTP on Tumblr
Alright! This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, and I finally found the time, so let’s get into it.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the ultimate tutorial on how to mute or block your NOTP from your feed (Tumblr Edition).
Step 1: Choosing our victims
First, we need some volunteers to use as an example. I picked several random ships from different tokusatsu series, copied from Tumblr, Shipping wiki, AO3, or Pixiv, and threw them into a roulette wheel.
Now… who will be my (in)voluntary participants for this tutorial?
You know… for a moment, I really thought this was going to be Godzilla and Mothra.
Anyway! Ace and Michinaga, thank you for your sacrifice.
Let’s say you are someone who absolutely hates AceMichi, and you want to remove any fanwork with romantic implications involving this ship from your dashboard.
What can you do to escape it?
Once you are there, scroll almost all the way down until you find a section called Content you see.
The two options we care about are:
Tumblr has a more detailed explanation here:
https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/tag-and-post-content-filtering/
But I will explain it anyway.
Here you can write the tags that users usually add at the end of their posts, the ones that come after the #.
This will hide posts that are properly tagged with those exact tags.
However, this will NOT hide posts where the ship is only mentioned in the text and not tagged.
This works in the opposite way.
Any word or phrase you write here will filter posts that:
Contain the exact phrase (for example, “Ace x Michinaga” will only block posts with those exact words in that exact order).
Contain the word itself (for example, “AceMichi” will also block things like “ILoveAceMichi”).
“Ace x Michinaga” will NOT block “Michinaga x Ace”.
It will also NOT block posts that only mention “Ukiyo Ace” or “Azuma Michinaga”.
It will still show posts that only have the tag #AceMichi.
If you want to make sure you hide absolutely everything related to AceMichi, you need to use both options.
You also need to write every variation you can think of:
Yes, it is a bit of work, but that is how you fully clean your dashboard.
This works for everything
And when I say everything, I really mean it.
You hate Ace and do not want to see the character anymore? Filter him.
You hate Kamen Rider Geats and want nothing related to the series? Filter it.
You do not like seeing certain fetishes, for example BDSM? Filter it.
You want to hide all TokuSmut Week content and avoid horny posts by accident? Filter the tag. That is exactly why there is a separate blog and an exclusive tag.
No matter what other tags, words, or phrases a post has, it will always be blocked as long as it contains something you filtered.
Why proper tagging matters
When I have been very strict about “please tag your fanworks properly”, this is what I meant.
I am NOT saying you need to tag like this:
You do not need to overdo it.
Something like this on your post is more than enough:
[Fanwork]
Ukiyo Ace x Azuma Michinaga (AceMichi)
Fandom: Kamen Rider Geats
Trigger warning: Blood
With this, anyone who has filtered:
Will not see your post on their dashboard. And even if they search for it on purpose, they will still have to click through the “View Post” warning.
At that point, if a user gets upset, uncomfortable, or triggered, that is their own responsibility for crossing their personal boundaries.
I hope that with this, we can have a good event. Something fun, enjoyable, and respectful for everyone. No fights, no discourse, no drama.
In the future, I will also open a Google Form so people can report issues such as ship hate, harassment, hostility, or deliberate mistagging. (Edit: The form has been created. Please check this post )
Thank you very much, and I cannot wait to see you all very soon.
