Notes from Cacaphony

things caught from the noise and the furry. I'm 42 and very random. She/they, queer as no fucks. (Header by phantom-thieves-official)

[roughentumble]

my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

[nightpool]

i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it's great. two dashboards for life

[cyle]

wow! i was really hoping someone would organically reverse-engineer this and find that dash.

here are a few other "secret" dashboards:

Posts from your "crushes"

"What you missed" (will be empty if you already visit Tumblr every day)

"Trending"

these are all just taking existing feeds of content and putting them in a dashboard-like format... the "Stuff for you" tab/feed is the same idea.

[d3rlord3-kisser]

I think trans men who still present femininely are awesome

I think trans men who still look like girls are awesome

I think trans men who don't have the time or money to look more masculine are awesome

I think trans men who want to transition but are scared of what their family would think are awesome

I think trans men are awesome

trans women version

[syn4k]

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

[syn4k]

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

[microsff]

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

[nullen-void]

The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.

It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Secondary poll based on the comments so far:

You two should reconsider your relationship if you're not able to compromise

You're perfect for each other, never involve anyone else in this situation

Voting ended onJun 23, 2023

Original post

[the-tzimisce]

propose to him with the worst fucking ring you can possibly get your hands on. like not a half-assed, "oh you won't like anything I get anyway," passive-aggression ring, that is not the play, you need to do your research and take some interest in the things that matter to your enemy future husband and really learn about like, the gemstone cuts or whatever, and then you need to get him the most eye-catching ring you can find that would also be completely offensive to his overdeveloped sensibilities. He's putting in all this effort to bribe the cat to bite you, it's the least you could do to step it up in response.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

So that anon came back with an adorable proposal story, but I fucking love this idea and need it to make it into someone's fanfic or something

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[volfoss]

[ID: A section of the Tumblr settings, where under the replies heading, there is a toggle that is turned on that reads "Share your comments" with the description "Make comments created by this blog visible in the blog page, and to the followers, in their feeds". /end ID]

[theartofbeingblack]

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Still from the animated Persepolis; the author is seated inside, smoking a cigarette, her head bowed and eyes closed as the smoke trails out the window. Captioned text reads, "Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying."]

[othersharkss]

I did this for mermay but I forgot to post here!

[star-trekster]

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]

[mamawasatesttube]

also to be completely honest, i do think the underlying reason as to why superboy 1994 gets such a bad rep on here despite frankly containing no more bigotry than many of its contemporary comics is that it contains a (very flawed, yes!) depiction of grooming and child predation. this makes people uncomfortable, and they do not want to grapple with that discomfort, so instead they find reasons to dismiss the entire run as being uniquely bad, bigoted, and not worth reading.

like, i don't see nearly as many people complaining about how racist young justice (1998) gets at times, and it is EGREGIOUS. there's like two characters of color that play any significant role at all in impulse (1995) and neither of them is a major character, but most people have nothing but glowing reviews of the run. i've been reading a lot of silver age superman lately, and it is incredibly misogynistic about lois and lana while also containing no characters of color (unless they're japanese characters who get referred to with slurs and colored bright yellow in issues about the aftermath of ww2), but the most i've seen people say about silver age comics is that they're silly and they have gorillas in them. and i'm not saying any of these comics are inherently evil or not enjoyable at all or anything - but i have to ask, why do none of their flaws merit as many constant disclaimers and dismissals as superboy (1994)?

the only other run i've seen merit this kind of constant "it's bad and evil and bad and no one needs to read it" is devin grayson's nightwing, which... i mean when the common thread between both narratives here is sexual violence it's kind of evident.

so i really do think it's the predatory relationships. i think people are uncomfortable with the way you Can't ignore knockout and tana in this book, and because thinking about grooming and sexual abuse and such "icky" topics in a story makes them uncomfortable, they find reasons to shut down discussion of the book and dismiss it outright in ways they don't feel the need to do with its contemporaries. even by the same authors - i haven't seen nearly as many people saying "it's all extremely misogynistic and racist and no one should have to read it" about karl kesel's run on adventures of superman (1987) or marz's green lantern (1990). why is that?

of course it's partly that bc of the popularity of yj98, kon gets more visibility in these circles, but. i really do think it's also that people don't want to think about or talk about abuse. i think people (consciously or not) have this discomfort and jump to find reasons to validate it ("it's misogynistic to portray women as predatory" seems to be a prevailing attitude about kon's relationships as written, which... i have strong opinions about as well but that's a different post). which is like... a really shitty attitude to have when grooming and sex abuse are real problems that also happen to real people, including real teenagers. i do think if you're very quick to shit on sb94 but have no real issues with, say, yj98, that's a problem.

[choppedllamasublime]

Mount Saint Helens, May 1980

[foggygloves]

mingling version of that twitter trend going around rn

[nebulations]

[ID: A Scum Villain redraw of a pulp lesbian novel. Sha Hualing is wearing a gauzy red and black outfit as she lounges in bed, and she twists to look up with a smile at Liu Mingyan, who she places a hand on. Liu Mingyan is veiled and wearing a purple outfit, and she looks down coolly. A block letter title says, "I Prefer Girls" End ID]

[twiggy-boy]

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

[strawbebbynya]

all yall make jokes about couples and their nonromantic third wheel having fun together, but im the one getting treated to food tonight by the couple im nonromantically third wheeling. you wish you were me

[whitachi]

I'm sorry I read this as "necromantic third wheel" and went on a very rapid powerful imagination adventure. hello lovebirds I'm the skeleton here for breadsticks

[sharpestrose]

[viaalterego]

[trishacollins]

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

[erelierraceala]

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

[vmures]

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[confuzing]

Oh? Really?? Scammy Scammer who scams? You think my fanfic could "go much further"? Tell me what the title of my fic is. What is it about? Be specific.