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[itscolossal]

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[klanceficatalogue]

Hey, I wanted to tell everyone that tumblr added a feature to filter tags out. If you go to your account settings, and then go to filtering (both on desktop and on mobile), you can add tags. This will act like the safe mode feature, but only for any posts tagged with whichever you put, or if you do want to see the post, you are able to see it if you click on the "view post" button which is covering the post. This should be a helpful feature for anyone who feels uncomfortable with any ship/posts.

NICE! thank you so much for telling us!! - Vallie

[klanceficatalogue]

hello! sorry for being nosy but i saw the asks you got about the gross ships and i was gonna make a massive post about how to block all the gross ships from the ao3 vld feed but unfortunately there is way too many and i couldn't find them all but i did make this post about how to block the l/tor ships from the feed here: sakuragimichi(.)tumblr(.)com/post/167593404118/i-just-saw-your-ask-to-baeyards-and-i-was just remove the brackets, and and this is how you block crosstagged (1/2)

(continued): shk//ance, sh//th and sh//ce from the kl//ce feed. when in the kl/ance ship tag/just voltron tag on ao3, go to sort and filter, go to ‘search within the results’ and paste this in the box below: -relationship_ids:“10430659”, -relationship_ids:“10209319”, -relationship_ids:“10353289” ((to remove all three of them. i hope this helps? I can do more if your followers want to hmu. thanks :) i hope you’re all having a great day!! and sorry you got that gross ask :/ (2/2)

You aren’t being nosy at all, we really appreciate the advice dude!!! -Maggie

[klanceficatalogue]

Wait why is it called ao3...i feel dumb but i wanna know

it stands for Archive Of Our Own! it’s got 3 O’s, so if you compress those, it makes AO3 c;- Vallie

[klanceficatalogue]

I know this is kind of an odd question for you guys to get- but recently I’ve been seeing a lot of other ships on my feed (and I’m not exactly an anti- idk what I am, I just get uncomfortable seeing them) and I’m wondering if you guys know how to hide them, or if there’s any way at all to hide them?

Not at all! I made a post a little while back about blacklisting certain tags so they won’t show up on your feed and you can read my explanation on how to do that here -Maggie

[klanceficatalogue]

Hey do you know how to filter certain ships out of the main lance tag? Bc like I don’t want to read Keith/lance/shiro or any shaladin and people keep putting it in the main klance tag :/

Yes!! This is called blacklisting and it’s super helpful. There are two ways I know of that you can use to blacklist so I will go over both :)

XKit

XKit is basically a program that allows a lot of different extensions on Tumblr. I HIGHLY recommend it if you don’t already have it, I would probs die without XKit (if you have any questions about XKit in general just shoot me another ask and I’ll explain in more detail)

One of the extensions on XKit is called Blacklist. When you go to install it, it looks like this:

You just click install and go to the My XKit tab and click on the Blacklist extension tab to open it, which looks like this:

The 1 is what the Blacklist tab looks like. If you click on the button that says ‘add new’ (labeled 2 in the photo) a smaller window will pop and you can then add words to your blacklist or whitelist (blacklist hides posts, unless they contain a whitelisted word)

Tumblr Savior

The other way you can blacklist words is with a program called Tumblr Savior. This is the program I use because heard about it before I knew what XKit was and I like the format of it. Once you have Tumblr Savior installed, the icon should appear in the top right hand corner of your browser. When you click it, you should get a drop down menu that looks like this:

Once you have this menu, just type in the words you want blacklist or whitelist

IN CONCLUSION

These are both excellent programs for blacklisting and posts that contain blacklisted words should now look something like this:

You can choose to view them anyway if you want, but they will always ask for permission before displaying the post. Both programs I found just by googling them. 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This ONLY works on computers because mobile is terrible and staff wants us to die

Please let me know if you have any other questions about blacklisting, whitelisting, XKit, etc. I hope this helped! -Maggie

[klanceficatalogue]

(not a fic request) what is the difference between blacklisting and whitelisting?

Blacklisting hides all posts containing a certain phrase. Whitelisting basically just is exceptions to blacklisted posts, so basically if there is a post that has a blacklisted word, the post would be hidden UNLESS it contains a whitelisted word. For example, if I blacklisted the word oranges and whitelisted the word cats, any post with the word oranges would be hidden unless it also has the word cats. I hope this clears up any confusion! -Maggie

[klanceficatalogue]

Excuse me but whats 5+1??

its a type of fic where they have 5 situations in which something happens (or doesnt happen) and then 1 situation in which it doesnt (or does) - Karri