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"If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have" -Shadow the Hedgehog, 2006 He/Him • pfp by Maddel_art on picrew • Neurodivergent • Disabled • Queer

[tittyblade]

tumblr etiquette 101

a list that is nowhere near exhaustive, from yours truly.

First off, welcome! Whether you’re a twitter veteran looking for anything but whatever twitter is, or a new user just done signing up, glad to see you in our ranks beloveds! Welcome home. Refer to this quick tour to make sure your fandom experience (or tumblr experience in general) is a positive one!

Disclaimer: I know it’s long, but please try to read or skim through til the end if you’re new here! This is by no means meant to be a rule book (for the most part lol), only a guide to help you get settled easier!

1) Your blog

This is where people will see and interact with you, so put some effort into it!

Try to choose a name (url) that’s simple. You can see it as your brand, it’s how people will perceive you and remember you. If you’d like to interact with other users here (and not use the site just for the content) it’s better to have something short and sweet, preferably without spaces. (Of course, these are only suggestions.) Rest assured, you can change it literally any time you want.

Have a theme. Utilize the tool that lets you edit your blog’s color or the font of your bio! You can make it match your profile picture, or your blog if it has a theme of its own. Make it feel homey :]

Fill in your bio. People will be checking out your profile probably more often than you think. Don’t leave it empty! Put in any information you’re comfortable with sharing and isn’t too personal (like your age if you’re a minor, or other TMI that can be found on other people’s carrds). It’s always better to add a name/nickname people can use to refer to you by, but feel free to use your blog description to shitpost still.

You can have an intro post. More often than not, you’ll see a blog have a pinned post, a post permanently appearing at the top of a blog until you pin another post or unpin it. You can make one of those, if you’d like to introduce yourself in more length, link any other socials or a carrd, and show others visiting your blog how you tag things so it’ll be easy for them to navigate. Not an obligation.

Keep your anonymity and your safety. It should go without saying, but there’s no harm in repeating it just in case. Your comfort, privacy and safety has the utmost importance. Don’t share any information you don’t want to. Don’t share your age if you’re a minor, or any other incredibly personal info. I’d encourage you to go by a nickname that’s not your real name, (blog name, your brand, remember?) since there’s safety in anonymity, and that’s lowkey one of the big deals of tumblr, but that’s up to you still.

Choose what you want to be visible. Your liked posts and who you follow are all things you can set to keep to yourself and hide from the publics eye, how handy! You should go through all the setting while you’re at it, set it to your comfort.

Side blogs are a thing. You can have multiple blogs that you can use for different things (see: different fandoms, art blog, etc) to keep them organized or away from your followers. Just remember that the replies and off-anon asks you send will be from your main blog, as well as where you follow other blogs from.

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[ojibwa]

every time i remember that photo of the little inuk girl with her puppy i engage in inconsolable hysterics

[ojibwa]

this is it. this is the photo of all time

[supreme-leader-stoat]

SNUG

[wrenchinator-central]

Comfy even

[cheap-slaw]

Learn to walk again

[adoelhome]

Hi

I love them

Bye

[habken]

old man

[notsotinyblob]

We don't need a coupon. We're the government.

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[ritahayworrth]

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[ritahayworrth]

link to article

[cassiterite-tenring]

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

[houseofglass]

happy june 12 to you

[ritahayworrth]

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[ritahayworrth]

link to article

[cassiterite-tenring]

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

[houseofglass]

happy june 12 to you

[kosmogrl]

[aropride]

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

[quorpiest]

no mi circo no mis feratus

[that-1-url]

some jokes really just transcend the language barrier and i think that’s beautiful

[wolfythewitch]

Doodles

[logy-kot]

more of Eva Stratt x Ava (Iron Lung) Meeting someone from another universe who understands you and your choices completely

Also headcanon that Stratt drinks ridiculous amounts of caffeine. Ava tries it once and immediately gets hit with ten times of the caffeine she consumed in her entire life

[moss-cosplay]

A) this art is amazing, as is this concept.

B) the concept of whatever brought Simon into PHM's universe just before death also bringing Ava, just before hers and especially since she died by the same reason is FASCINATING. Makes me wonder if we follow this concept, how many people that may have happened to prior. We know the eel is made up of those who came and died before but... what if not all of them died. What if others lived too? What happens if Ava and Simon ever find out about each other's existence? HOW did this happen?

C) people theorize Eva went to prison post launch but, what if she didn’t? (If it’s in the book, don’t tell me, I’m reading it rn, just walk with me)

What if the tattoo was something she got herself? If it means “life without parole” what if that’s something she feels like she’s sentenced herself to and got it as a reminder of the guilt she ought to carry with her for the rest of her life. Which begs the question: what did Eva do post launch? What were her responsibilities? What did the Petrova Task Force do beyond Project Hail Mary? And what role does Ava end up playing in it if she’s brought into the picture?

Someone explore this space with me

I be thinking (and would love to know anyone else's thoughts)

[cowardsexual]

stratt and grace and the rest of the phm science team running on 4 cumulative hours of sleep at an unscheduled conference. dimitri and lokken are trying to explain a new complication in the hail mary's fueling system and the resources necessary to iron it out but they keep getting interrupted by government officials butting in until grace (who doesn't even look up from his laptop and checked out of the conversation two days ago) snaps "we raise our hands to speak"

complete silence for like 3 seconds. the french prime minister sheepishly raises his hand and stratt smiles for the first time that week (grace buries his entire face behind his laptop screen for wont of a better option, like jumping straight into the sea)

[dotstronaut]

Read a new fic today that put Simon in the astronaut jumpsuit and it's my new favorite concept.

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

any thoughts on simon's tattoo scar?? do u think it's from when he was arrested or some time after??

Simon's Scar

Note: This is speculation.

Simon was in COI custody for a little while, it seems, judging from the way he talks about them like he's gotten much more acquainted with them than he ever wanted to.

His phrasing here is what trips me up. It's not, "they burned it off," it's "they made me burn it off." <- Note the word "BURN" as well.

This is a really freakin' bad hypertrophic or keloid scar resulting from a poorly-treated burn. A neck injury like this is incredibly dangerous, especially in a resource-scarce world. That is way too close to Simon's jugular. It's indicative of how reckless or forced the act was.

If the Consolidation of Iron (COI) had done it to him as torture or an official branding, it likely would have been much more uniform. The COI is nothing if not militantly-strict in the way they do things. This scar seems the opposite of that.

At some point between Filament Station and the expedition, they sat Simon down and had him take it off, most likely in some cruel version of "pledging" against Eden. If you consider the physical nature of the burns, they seem rushed, unsteady, and don't even cover the tattoo all the way; I can only assume self-inflicted and quick. Just enough to get by.

Note the angle. If you reach up to your own neck right now and lay your finger across the opposite side of it, it's at a slightly-upward, crooked angle. Looks like Simon reaching around in the same manner with something hot.

I initially assumed this scar was from perhaps a hot knife, but the way the lines curve make me think otherwise. The tool would need to get super-heated quickly, be easily accessible in an industrial/engineering environment, not a straight-edge, and also be handheld/small enough to jab under the jaw. My bet?

Soldering iron.

The COI is cruel.

P.S. I have an entire scene in Chapter 7 of Terminal Lucidity dedicated to watching Simon be forced to burn his tattoo off at gunpoint with a soldering iron, for people who love pain.

Thanks for the ask!