who can say what dreams are?

I'm Katie. I'm 34. I love a lot of things, and I reblog a lot.

[jonasiegenthaler]

Powerful Connections: Frost and Farabee

[teex]

Hey. Hey! Why am I going every fucking time? Fuck you! | PHI vs WSH 01.14.23

[gabelandeskog]

bruins @ flyers | 04.09.23

[yabagofmilfs]

hey don’t cry, two fewer homophobes on the cup okay?

[hudsonfaschinglovebot]

when i said that after the finals it would come out that matty t had done something crazy like play thru a broken collarbone or a spinal injury I WAS JUST KIDDING!!!!!! I DIDNT THINK HE ACTUALLY HAD A BROKEN STERNUM!!!!!!!

[hudsonfaschinglovebot]

streets (twitter) are saying four fractured ribs and a cracked sternum … brady had to get him out of bed before game 4 …. thats so fucked up

[barzyhughes]

in honor of pride month starting today i’m bringing this video back 🌈

[barzyhughes]

i’m crying the way he started smiling once the crowd started booing

[officialgritty]

Love is Beautiful

Pride Night, 2021

[officialgritty]

[reddwoods]

“so tell us, guys: how can we make hockey more fun? did somebody say puppies?”

[bombsights]

america’s favourite orange, furry sweetheart | ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

[morgansyorkie]

TK & Frosty having a football catch at todays practice | 2.08.23

[3416]

Summary of Mitch Marner at the 2023 All Star Weekend 

Bonus: reunited with some old buds

[beardedmrbean]

[disgustedorite]

that’s the attitude of a quitter

[candyredterezii]

[clockworkcrow]

tetsuya nomura did not bully disney into making a game many internal execs considered “an abomination” for you to give up like this

[90sto2000s]

Only 90s kids understand

[totaltrashmammall]

Finally, an only 90's kid post with things actually limited to the 90's and not things I was experiencing in 2012.

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

This is so funny I don’t even care for baseball but this is great

[doctorsawbones]

Yep! And what ended up happening is what we baseball fans call a FARTSLAM, which stands for Fielder Allows Runner To Score Like A Moron.

Plays like this are why I love Baseball

[prokopetz]

A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:

When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.  

If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.  

This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.  

Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.  

This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.  

Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.  

This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.  

Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.  

However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.  

Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.  

Tags are a divine mystery.

[prokopetz]

(For those going “how is this not obvious”, it’s about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)

[eregyrn-falls]

It’s really good for stuff like this to go around every once in a while!  Strange as it may seem, people may in fact migrate here from Twitter or Instagram, where this stuff works differently and where there are different expectations of engagement.

DON’T FORGET - *most* Tumblr users DO NOT MIND if you engage with their OLD posts!  (Apparently on Instagram they do? this baffles me.) 

Many also don’t mind if you “spam” their notifications with a bunch of likes or reblogs in a row.  

Tumblr has a rich culture of Very Old Posts continuing to make the reblog rounds, and people become fond of them.

Also, unlike Twitter, you can reblog the same post multiple times.  Heck, you can reblog the same post every hour on the hour for days. (Please don’t.)  But you do see a lot of “oh this came across my dash again, must reblog” with posts users are fond of.  This is fine.

Tags ARE a divine mystery.  People use the tags both for organization (inasmuch as this works, sometimes), and for added commentary.  Commentary added to the tags will generally be seen by those who follow that person and see their reblog on their dash; but the OP and whoever they reblogged it from can also see the tags in the notifications. 

So again – you can use the tags for commentary, and many people do. But people WILL see it.  It just won’t “stick” with the post… necessarily.  Tumblr also has a culture of people seeing some tags they think are relevant or clever, and reblogging a post with someone else’s tags included.  So bear that in mind as well – something you put in the tags could get “pulled up” into a reblog chain by someone else, and this is generally seen as fine.