2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
roma★
tumblr dot com
i don't do bad sauce passes
Product Placement
JVL
Keni
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
No title available
Cosimo Galluzzi
h
$LAYYYTER
we're not kids anymore.
KIROKAZE
Kaledo Art
One Nice Bug Per Day
Peter Solarz
YOU ARE THE REASON
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
No title available
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Sweden
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Vietnam
seen from United States
@theinfiniteofthought
so athena burst out fully born from zeus's skull, right?
where are u going with this..
so you could say athena was...
athena was a
*sighs* splitting headache
oh that's hilarious i was gonna say BRAIN CHILD
you'd think i'd be used to my followers being funnier than me on my own posts, and actually i am. i am completely used to this. please continue!
This whole thread is just so perfect
night sluts
they’re called vampires
moon whores
those are called werewolves
WHEAT SHARKS
2 years ago. This post was made 2 years ago.
His strength is that he is biscuits
This animal looks like someone poured dog into a polar bear mold
Whenever somebody writes about D&D wizards making improper use of their spells, it’s always boringly obvious stuff like Bigby’s hand or Evard’s black tentacles. I wanna hear the story of some enterprising wizard exploring the erotic potential of Tenser’s floating disk.
Tangentially related, but I was once making a bunch of Cursed spell scrolls that were one letter off from their original spells (eg Hog Cloud which summoned 1d20 + 30 feral hogs).
I specifically chose not to make one for Tenser’s floating disk because I am a coward.
Options for one-letter-off versions of Tenser’s floating disk other than the most obvious one:
Tenser’s bloating disk
Tenser’s floating dish
Tenser’s gloating disk
(The last one is my favourite – lots of ways you can go with that!)
birds are so privileged for being able to sit on top of street lamps and judge people. i wish i was up there
Let her in!!
Shout out to Steve Harrington for apparently being the only genre-aware person in the Hawkins group, grabbing something to defend the group as soon as they hear a weird noise, poking stuff around with an oar, not letting the cursed girl spend too long on her own… and when Dustin mocks him, he snaps back, “considering the people in this room have nearly died about half a dozen times, I don’t find it funny”. He’s so right and he should say it. Steve KNOWS he’s in a horror film and he’s built to be the final girl.
I find it hilarious how fucking DEVASTATED BoTw Link is about losing a Mario kart race.
Thousands of people died during the calamity including your best friends and it’s your job to fix what’s left.
You got 7th place in Mario Kart.
It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
people really need to remember this image
Also, I find it weird whenever black celebrities are mentioned they specifically bring up this suggestion or outright plan of violence against them for *checks notes* getting rich off of their talent.
Like, put away the Klan hood Mr. Leftist.
Really fun watching the real-time website culture shift from “Tumblr staff sucks and is incompetent and we hate them” -> Staff starts doing good things but everyone still reflexively hates and bullies them for everything they attempt because we’re all suspicious and hesitant to trust like wounded animals or divorcees who have been hurt before -> “Staff truly understands us finally someone who knows what we want bless thank you so much staff”
From what I’ve heard about the yahoo days, staff are unsung heroes and have fought multiple very terrible initiatives that would have probably killed the site. I can’t remember the details, but I think yahoo wanted to make tumblr require a yahoo account and staff basically dragged their feet on it as hard as they could until they were able to talk some sense into someone? Might have read a @sreegs post about it or something
Yeah it was about OneID.
I really can’t stress how much Tumblr/Staff’s appearance during the Yahoo/Verizon days has been misguided attempts at increasing DAUs (daily active users) at the behest of Tumblr’s owners while The Actual Staff, the fucking people actually doing the work, were screaming “PLEASE LET US JUST MAKE THE SITE BETTER”. I was on the iOS team. It took us years of negotiating and advocating to just set aside some time to literally bring down the crash rate and improve the app’s performance.
We had to twist the message of “the app takes more than 10 seconds to launch because it’s broken” into “more users will use the app if it launches faster 🙂” in order to achieve that. That was one of our greatest successes because it spread to Android and Web too (latency from the server). And it WORKED. We ended up with numbers to back it up. Crash rates plummeted as slowly but surely, the apps became faster and more performant. Plus the work we did specifically for that goal led to less crashes and better performance in other areas because it shed a light on spaghetti code that had needed fixing for years.
Sure it wasn’t something users noticed easily, because it was more easy to notice “the app is crashing all the time” vs “the app is not crashing”, but it was honest work that actually helped users. But that doesn’t lead to hockey stick revenue graphs so it wasn’t prioritized.
Automattic is finally on track with allowing the real Staff to implement the ideas they’ve had for years that Yahoo wouldn’t green-light (ad-free, tipping, blaze, Just Communicate More, etc). I hope they keep it up.
Cat ppl will be like "There's no love like a cat's love" and dog ppl will be like "there is no love like a dog's love" and they are both correct.
Every social animal you can have as a pet will have a unique way of bonding with a human, both as a species and as an individual. And i think that's great. For a lot of them this includes accompanying you to the bathroom. Delightful. Life is worth living
didn’t have any chopped carrots on hand, only whole, so i substituted 5 cups of sugar instead and it turned out revolting. my whole family said it was way too sweet. do NOT try this recipe. 1 star
We talk about how in Stranger Things each group is living a different story genre, right? The kids are in a constant mystery, monster, treasure hunting Goonies story. The teenagers are usually in a horror slasher film. The adults are dealing with governmental conspiracies, be it American or Russian.
But you know who code-switches like nobody’s business? Steve Harrington. That’s what makes him such a wonderful character.
In s1 he goes from Romantic Triangle Comedy to Slasher Film Monster Hunting in a single scene and fully dives into it. S2 sees him joining the Spielberg genre gang with the kids, taking the “reluctant teenager tagalong” role on stride, not once complaining or missing a beat. And then! And then!! He goes full Russian conspiracy in s3, as his group figures the mystery out, infiltrates their base, undergoes torture, etc. Steve keeps up with each genre like a chameleon.
Maybe it’s because his stakes in this are oddly external. They are a choice he makes.
Unlike Nancy and Jonathan, he is not directly related to anyone in the kid or adult group… but he was briefly related to Nancy through their relationship. Enter slasher film.
Unlike the Party, he hasn’t been life-long friends with anyone involved… but he gets adopted into the group, much like Max, in s2 and becomes one of them. Enter spielberg film.
Unlike the Adults, he isn’t the legal guardian of any of the kids or teenagers involved… but he becomes the designated adult figure they all turn to. Enter conspiracy film.
Other characters have joined certain genres as they are added to the series: Max (Spielberg), Robin (conspiracy), Murray (conspiracy), Erica (Spielberg), Eddie (Slasher). And you could argue that as the seasons and groups morph, they each dip into other genres. Nancy and Jonathan did conspiracy quite a bit, Hopper has had his fair deal of monster hunting, the Cali gang is going through conspiracy right now, the Hawkins kids are dealing with a slasher… but no one does so as seamlessly or consistently as Steve Harrington does.
Anyway, I am obsessed with how Steve, despite his apparent lack of obvious stakes on the main Upside Down plot, by virtue of caring for people and choosing to help, has become such a central piece to the Stranger Things narrative, touching so many threads and fitting into almost every corner of the plot. Just because he is, to his core, a nice dude.
This is the best take I have ever read on this godforsaken website.
Credits: @kapebeans
😻😻😻😻
