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[faendan]

That'll be 4.99.

Okay, first of all: it is not at all surprising that tumblr is into this beef. at least half of being in fandom is beefing constantly, and the levels of haterdom that Kendrick Lamar has achieved are...... truly impressive and a little bit scary.

this is gonna be messy and not comprehensive but i've been thinking about this for like a week and there's just so much....... context. there's layers to this shit.

so let's start at the beginning.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

DRAKE AKA THE BOY AKA THE 6 GOD AKA THE TEFLON DON AKA CHAMPAGNE PAPI AKA WHEELCHAIR JIMMY

Aubrey Drake Graham is a rapper and actor from Toronto, Canada who I first became acquainted with from the television show Degrassi, where he played Jimmy Brooks, a hot headed jock who was later targeted in a school shooting and was paralyzed from the waist down. Everyone was skeptical when he started rapping in the 2010s, but he was a talented enough musician and business man--especially in his ability to chase and hop on trends--that he has become a very powerful figure in the music industry. One of his earliest massive hits is YOLO, a song that was inescapable when I was in college.

Drake has long had a reputation for being soft, firstly because he used to make music that women really fucked with (Hold On, We're Going Home is a great example, as is the video for Nice For What), and also because, well, he is a rapper from Canada who got his start on fucking Degrassi. This has very obviously bothered him throughout his career.

KENDRICK LAMAR DUCKWORTH AKA KENNY AKA KDOT AKA THE SECOND MOST PETTY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

Kendrick is so different from Drake in almost every capacity. Kendrick is a rapper from Compton and from the start he was showered with critical acclaim for his technical skill but not necessarily the same kind of fame and success as Drake did. KDot has rapped a lot about his experiences as a gang member, and in many track reminds the listener that he has killed someone. His albums Good Kid M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp A Butterfly are considered modern day hip hop classics. They're really both incredible albums tbh but very very dense and emotionally effecting. Kendrick also won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music for his album DAMN. in 2018.

On top of that, Kendrick really holds it down for the culture--his song I and Alright became spontaneous protest chants during the George Floyd protests in 2020. I actually sort of can't listen to those songs anymore because I associate them with that movement so strongly!

PROLOGUE

It wasn't always beef between Drake and Kendrick. In fact, Drake had Kendrick open for him on tour in 2012 and Drake featured on the Kendrick single Poetic Justice. The only evidence of animosity between the two occurred after Kendrick's infamous verse on Big Sean's song Control, where Kendrick essentially named a bunch of rappers and said he was coming for them to be the greatest rapper of all time. Drake was one of the people he named.

Many people interpreted this as a diss, but Kendrick didn't respond to anyone iirc. At the 2013 BET Awards, Kendrick's verse in the cypher referenced Drake's album Nothing Was The Same, and talked about tucking a "sensitive rapper" back in his pajamas. Drake insisted there was no real issue. HM!!!!!!

SIDEBAR: THE STORY OF ADIDON

Kendrick is not the only person that fucking hates Drake. In 2018, the rapper feuded with one of his idols, Pusha T. If you don't know Pusha T, actually, yes you do: he is one half of Clipse, which had the smash hit Grindin'. If you have been in a public school where kids are slamming that beat out on the lunch tables you and I come from a shared heritage.

I don't want to get into the weeds here, but Drake and Pusha went back and forth until Pusha dropped The Story of Adidon, where Pusha revealed that Drake had secretly fathered a child with an a sex worker in France. At first Drake denied it but then like a year later he claimed his son as his own. He was shamed into caring for his son through rap beef. For years, I have maintained that the hardest bar in rap music is "You are hiding a child!"

This is important to note because this is the first time beef with Drake like, stuck. He has beefed with other people before, but usually he just pumped out a pop radio hit and dominated the airwaves, basically neutralizing whatever response he was gonna get. Drake would blame Kanye for this and then start beefing with Ye but that's a whole other thing.

LIKE THAT

This is where the current beef starts. In March, rapper Future, a former Drake collaborator, released an album produced by Metro Boomin called We Don't Trust You. Kendrick has a surprise feature on Like That where he says "motherfuck the big three, nigga it's just big me." This is a reference to the J. Cole and Drake song First Person Shooter, where the two refer to themselves and Kendrick as the big three of rap. Kendrick doesn't want Drake to speak his name even as a compliment.

J Cole dropped a response and then literally three days later apologized and removed it from streaming. What Did He Know??????

DRAKE RESPONDS

On April 13th, a leak of a song goes around Twitter and people think it might be Drake's Kendrick diss. IIRC a few days later it shows up on Spotify as a song called Push-Ups. He also releases a song called Taylor Made Freestyle, where he makes fun of Kendrick by using AI voices of two iconic California rappers, Tupac and Snoop Dogg. He also mentions Taylor Swift, saying that Kendrick is a bitch for moving his release dates around not to conflict with hers, and that his feature on Bad Blood was stupid.

Tupac's estate threatened Drake with a cease and desist and Drake took down the song.

EUPHORIA, 6:16 IN LA

On April 30th, Kendrick releases Euphoria, an extremely fucking mean song. He calls out Drake for being a culture vulture for black American culture, referencing the way that Drake will identify a music trend, go to that scene, and then package it and sell it under his own name. He really does go as far as to change his accent on some of his songs, it's super weird! At the end of the track, Kendrick disses Drake using the regional accent and slang from Toronto, Drake's hometown.

Three days later, Kendrick drops 6:16 In LA, which is much shorter and rougher than Euphoria, though just as nasty. Hilariously, the beat was produced by Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift's major collaborator and main producer. The song also samples an Al Green song where Drake's uncle played guitar. Check Jack's faves on Twitter--I would love to know what Drake did to piss Taylor off!

FAMILY MATTERS AND A QUICK NOTE

On May 3rd, Drake drops Family Matter. On this track mostly he calls Kendrick short a lot. He also implies, but does not outright say, that Kendrick beats his wife Whitney, who is shown on the cover of Kendrick's album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers.

Now, I want to mention this because it's a serious allegation but 1) rap beef is not journalism, sometimes these dudes just lie and 2) many of the things that Kendrick will go on to mention can be corroborated by outside sources, but this I haven't been able to. Also the way that Drake says it on the song does not really make me feel like Drake even means it, but is just searching around for something that will provoke and insult Kendrick. You may feel differently.

Not to say that Kendrick is perfect about women and abuse: Mr. Morale has some weird... stuff on it about women; Kendrick is just kind of a hotep; he threatened to take his music off Spotify if they took down R. Kelly's catalogue. No one in this conflict is perfect. I would argue Drake suffers from a much deeper level of sickness.

MEET THE GRAHAMS, NOT LIKE US

So, all this time, people had been wondering where the fuck Kendrick's response was. I thought he might not respond--it's not really his style. About an hour after Family Matters drops, Kendrick releases a song called Meet The Grahams. In previous songs, Kendrick alleged that Drake had a leak in his camp, and that the people around him dislike him so much they're feeding Kendrick dirt. Based on how quick this response came out, I would say that's probably true.

This song.... is fucking nasty. It's addressed to everyone in Drake's family, starting with his son Adonis. In the first verse, he apologizes to Adonis for having such a horrible father, and also says that he wishes Adonis's grandfather had worn a condom. By the time he's addressing Sandra, Drake's mother, he tells Sandra that he wishes men like Drake would die. He then insinuates that Drake is a pedophile.

Now, there have been many, many instances of Drake getting caught talking to underage Instagram models etc etc. The most famous example of this is when Millie Bobby Brown, then 14, said that she was friends with Drake and they text often. Drake at that time was 36. That's not fucking normal behavior.

Kendrick also says that Drake has a secret eleven year old daughter. Turns out the only bar harder than "you are hiding a child" is "you are hiding a second child."

That night--literally, I was brushing my fucking teeth and my husband was already asleep--Kendrick releases Not Like Us. On this track, he repeatedly calls Drake a pedophile over a fucking DJ Mustard beat.

It is a completely bonkers song. It made me feel like I was hallucinating. People have already started playing it in the club. Kendrick successfully used Drake's main tactic of releasing a club banger when there's beef against him. Like no shit, the Dodgers social media referenced the song in a recent tweet, this is a club banger about how Drake is a pedophile.

On this song Kendrick also has a bar that insinuates that there at least six more diss tracks in the chamber. I have no idea what's going to happen and I'm kind of fucking terrified. Anyway thanks for reading, sorry if I left anything out.

[faendan]

Critically, Kendrick did not threaten to take his music off Spotify if they took R. Kelly's music down, but rather because he felt that the policy that they were introducing that would have resulted in R. Kelly's music being removed unfairly targeted Black artists. (He was right, by the way, it was.)

Okay, first of all: it is not at all surprising that tumblr is into this beef. at least half of being in fandom is beefing constantly, and the levels of haterdom that Kendrick Lamar has achieved are...... truly impressive and a little bit scary.

this is gonna be messy and not comprehensive but i've been thinking about this for like a week and there's just so much....... context. there's layers to this shit.

so let's start at the beginning.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

DRAKE AKA THE BOY AKA THE 6 GOD AKA THE TEFLON DON AKA CHAMPAGNE PAPI AKA WHEELCHAIR JIMMY

Aubrey Drake Graham is a rapper and actor from Toronto, Canada who I first became acquainted with from the television show Degrassi, where he played Jimmy Brooks, a hot headed jock who was later targeted in a school shooting and was paralyzed from the waist down. Everyone was skeptical when he started rapping in the 2010s, but he was a talented enough musician and business man--especially in his ability to chase and hop on trends--that he has become a very powerful figure in the music industry. One of his earliest massive hits is YOLO, a song that was inescapable when I was in college.

Drake has long had a reputation for being soft, firstly because he used to make music that women really fucked with (Hold On, We're Going Home is a great example, as is the video for Nice For What), and also because, well, he is a rapper from Canada who got his start on fucking Degrassi. This has very obviously bothered him throughout his career.

KENDRICK LAMAR DUCKWORTH AKA KENNY AKA KDOT AKA THE SECOND MOST PETTY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER

Kendrick is so different from Drake in almost every capacity. Kendrick is a rapper from Compton and from the start he was showered with critical acclaim for his technical skill but not necessarily the same kind of fame and success as Drake did. KDot has rapped a lot about his experiences as a gang member, and in many track reminds the listener that he has killed someone. His albums Good Kid M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp A Butterfly are considered modern day hip hop classics. They're really both incredible albums tbh but very very dense and emotionally effecting. Kendrick also won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music for his album DAMN. in 2018.

On top of that, Kendrick really holds it down for the culture--his song I and Alright became spontaneous protest chants during the George Floyd protests in 2020. I actually sort of can't listen to those songs anymore because I associate them with that movement so strongly!

PROLOGUE

It wasn't always beef between Drake and Kendrick. In fact, Drake had Kendrick open for him on tour in 2012 and Drake featured on the Kendrick single Poetic Justice. The only evidence of animosity between the two occurred after Kendrick's infamous verse on Big Sean's song Control, where Kendrick essentially named a bunch of rappers and said he was coming for them to be the greatest rapper of all time. Drake was one of the people he named.

Many people interpreted this as a diss, but Kendrick didn't respond to anyone iirc. At the 2013 BET Awards, Kendrick's verse in the cypher referenced Drake's album Nothing Was The Same, and talked about tucking a "sensitive rapper" back in his pajamas. Drake insisted there was no real issue. HM!!!!!!

SIDEBAR: THE STORY OF ADIDON

Kendrick is not the only person that fucking hates Drake. In 2018, the rapper feuded with one of his idols, Pusha T. If you don't know Pusha T, actually, yes you do: he is one half of Clipse, which had the smash hit Grindin'. If you have been in a public school where kids are slamming that beat out on the lunch tables you and I come from a shared heritage.

I don't want to get into the weeds here, but Drake and Pusha went back and forth until Pusha dropped The Story of Adidon, where Pusha revealed that Drake had secretly fathered a child with an a sex worker in France. At first Drake denied it but then like a year later he claimed his son as his own. He was shamed into caring for his son through rap beef. For years, I have maintained that the hardest bar in rap music is "You are hiding a child!"

This is important to note because this is the first time beef with Drake like, stuck. He has beefed with other people before, but usually he just pumped out a pop radio hit and dominated the airwaves, basically neutralizing whatever response he was gonna get. Drake would blame Kanye for this and then start beefing with Ye but that's a whole other thing.

LIKE THAT

This is where the current beef starts. In March, rapper Future, a former Drake collaborator, released an album produced by Metro Boomin called We Don't Trust You. Kendrick has a surprise feature on Like That where he says "motherfuck the big three, nigga it's just big me." This is a reference to the J. Cole and Drake song First Person Shooter, where the two refer to themselves and Kendrick as the big three of rap. Kendrick doesn't want Drake to speak his name even as a compliment.

J Cole dropped a response and then literally three days later apologized and removed it from streaming. What Did He Know??????

DRAKE RESPONDS

On April 13th, a leak of a song goes around Twitter and people think it might be Drake's Kendrick diss. IIRC a few days later it shows up on Spotify as a song called Push-Ups. He also releases a song called Taylor Made Freestyle, where he makes fun of Kendrick by using AI voices of two iconic California rappers, Tupac and Snoop Dogg. He also mentions Taylor Swift, saying that Kendrick is a bitch for moving his release dates around not to conflict with hers, and that his feature on Bad Blood was stupid.

Tupac's estate threatened Drake with a cease and desist and Drake took down the song.

EUPHORIA, 6:16 IN LA

On April 30th, Kendrick releases Euphoria, an extremely fucking mean song. He calls out Drake for being a culture vulture for black American culture, referencing the way that Drake will identify a music trend, go to that scene, and then package it and sell it under his own name. He really does go as far as to change his accent on some of his songs, it's super weird! At the end of the track, Kendrick disses Drake using the regional accent and slang from Toronto, Drake's hometown.

Three days later, Kendrick drops 6:16 In LA, which is much shorter and rougher than Euphoria, though just as nasty. Hilariously, the beat was produced by Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift's major collaborator and main producer. The song also samples an Al Green song where Drake's uncle played guitar. Check Jack's faves on Twitter--I would love to know what Drake did to piss Taylor off!

FAMILY MATTERS AND A QUICK NOTE

On May 3rd, Drake drops Family Matter. On this track mostly he calls Kendrick short a lot. He also implies, but does not outright say, that Kendrick beats his wife Whitney, who is shown on the cover of Kendrick's album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers.

Now, I want to mention this because it's a serious allegation but 1) rap beef is not journalism, sometimes these dudes just lie and 2) many of the things that Kendrick will go on to mention can be corroborated by outside sources, but this I haven't been able to. Also the way that Drake says it on the song does not really make me feel like Drake even means it, but is just searching around for something that will provoke and insult Kendrick. You may feel differently.

Not to say that Kendrick is perfect about women and abuse: Mr. Morale has some weird... stuff on it about women; Kendrick is just kind of a hotep; he threatened to take his music off Spotify if they took down R. Kelly's catalogue. No one in this conflict is perfect. I would argue Drake suffers from a much deeper level of sickness.

MEET THE GRAHAMS, NOT LIKE US

So, all this time, people had been wondering where the fuck Kendrick's response was. I thought he might not respond--it's not really his style. About an hour after Family Matters drops, Kendrick releases a song called Meet The Grahams. In previous songs, Kendrick alleged that Drake had a leak in his camp, and that the people around him dislike him so much they're feeding Kendrick dirt. Based on how quick this response came out, I would say that's probably true.

This song.... is fucking nasty. It's addressed to everyone in Drake's family, starting with his son Adonis. In the first verse, he apologizes to Adonis for having such a horrible father, and also says that he wishes Adonis's grandfather had worn a condom. By the time he's addressing Sandra, Drake's mother, he tells Sandra that he wishes men like Drake would die. He then insinuates that Drake is a pedophile.

Now, there have been many, many instances of Drake getting caught talking to underage Instagram models etc etc. The most famous example of this is when Millie Bobby Brown, then 14, said that she was friends with Drake and they text often. Drake at that time was 36. That's not fucking normal behavior.

Kendrick also says that Drake has a secret eleven year old daughter. Turns out the only bar harder than "you are hiding a child" is "you are hiding a second child."

That night--literally, I was brushing my fucking teeth and my husband was already asleep--Kendrick releases Not Like Us. On this track, he repeatedly calls Drake a pedophile over a fucking DJ Mustard beat.

It is a completely bonkers song. It made me feel like I was hallucinating. People have already started playing it in the club. Kendrick successfully used Drake's main tactic of releasing a club banger when there's beef against him. Like no shit, the Dodgers social media referenced the song in a recent tweet, this is a club banger about how Drake is a pedophile.

On this song Kendrick also has a bar that insinuates that there at least six more diss tracks in the chamber. I have no idea what's going to happen and I'm kind of fucking terrified. Anyway thanks for reading, sorry if I left anything out.

[faendan]

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

[faendan]

That's the power of an unreliable (or at least biased) narrator.

I think Sanderson’s greatest strength when writing is being able to make you initially hate a character with your whole being and then, through expanding the world and the narrative, makes those same characters fan favorites.

Rereading TWoK’s I’m reminded of how the first time I read I fucking HATED Adolin. What a dick. What an asshole. Jock. Daddy’s money ass rich boy.

Now, after reading all of Stormlight I would probably pass away if anything bad happened to him. His whimsy? Unmatched. Style? Impeccable. Aptitude for revenge? Present. He is My Little Pony (power of friendship). He’s just a horse girl that likes clubbing and making new friends.

Same thing happened for me with Susebron, TenSoon, Marsh, etc etc etc.

[faendan]

A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

[faendan]

Her pollution is a problem, and her songs are the musical equivalent of dipping toast in milk.

[faendan]

An experiment, if you will --- I'm trying to summon haiku bot.

[faendan]

He looks like if Adam Conover sucked

[faendan]

I'm somewhere on there, I think.

Help me prove my family wrong!

I don't know if this post will break containment, but will you like/reblog if you are or know a man who is asexual? All of the people in my life seem convinced that being Ace is a 'girl thing' and that Ace men don't exist!

[faendan]

I'd love a compliment.

do you want a compliment?

reblog this!(no more asks or comments! I’ll ofc still compliment the people who commented and sent me asks but afterwards I will turn off commenting! Asks will be ignored if it’s for a compliment. I’m doing this because it’s way more clear that way) . You WILL get a compliment. A genuine one. I’ll tell you what I like about your page. 100% honest. I will compliment everyone who reblogs this SO YEAH!! I’ll give everyone a compliment, but because they’re genuine and it takes a bit of time writing them, you won’t get one immediately. Might take a month +. So sorry for that:( you will get one tho!!

I AM A MINOR NSFW BLOGS (DOESNT MATTER WHAT KIND) DNI! I MEAN IT YOU WILL BE BLOCKED!)

THIS AWESOME PERSON CALLED: @thezeepleglobe IS KIND ENOUGH TO HELP ME❤️ they will be complimenting you guys too, so if you get complimented by them, don’t worry:3

Click on this for an explanation as to why it might take literally months for you to get a compliment!

due to the high amount of notes this got(holy shit Tysm!!) it could take months until you get your compliment. I am so so so so sorry for that!!! There’s just a lot and it’s overwhelming me like A LOT!! Like I think I don’t even have 20 people done yet and there’s like 350!!!!!!x-x and it just gets more more and more

Looking at a blog, finding things I like about a person, thinking about it and then writing down the compliment is REALLY REALLY time consuming!!

And some blogs are like with almost no stuff at all so it’s super duper hard

I am really really really trying my best!!!

[faendan]

I hate this trope. "If YoU kIlL mE, yOu'lL bE aS bAd As I aM!"

There are only two logical responses to this argument, depending on the character in question. To demonstrate:

Case 1:

Jan wiped blood from his mouth. The moment's respite gave him the space he needed to draw his gun, cock it, and level it at Shena's head. "Last words?"

"You can't kill me." Shena spoke with a quick desperation, hand hovering at her belt. Jan blinked.

"What? I have a gun aimed straight at your forehead. What's stopping me?"

Shena licked her lips. "If you kill me, you'll be just as bad as me. You won't have the moral high ground you tout so much. Hell, if you kill me, you should be killed by logical process!"

Jan blinked again. "Are you fucking deranged?! You killed four children and their parents today! Your body count is numbered in the hundreds, and your explicit reasons for these unconscionable murders are as follows: 'I needed to let off some steam, and They were asking for it --- they should know not to walk around the city at night.' Hell, I killed three people trying to get to you; why would I stop now?!"

Case 2:

Jan wiped blood from his mouth. The moment's respite gave him the space he needed to draw his gun, cock it, and level it at Shena's head. "Last words?"

"You can't kill me." Shena spoke with a quick desperation, hand hovering at her belt. Jan blinked.

"What? I have a gun aimed straight at your forehead. What's stopping me?"

Shena licked her lips. "If you kill me, you'll be just as bad as me. You won't have the moral high ground you tout so much. Hell, if you kill me, you should be killed by logical process!"

Jan blinked again. "If I kill you, I'll be just as bad as you?"

Shena grinned a nervous grin. "Yes."

Jan shrugged. "Okay."

He pulled the trigger.

The idea of it is ridiculous. I don't know if it was born from the equation of mercy to justice, or the equation of the law and justice, but both are flawed.

Mercy is, in and of itself, a withholding of justice. It is the decision to refrain from meting out justice in favour of a second chance or something similar. The law's purpose in an idealistic world where the lawmakers stand to gain nothing by skewing it, is to make a set of rules that gets as close as possible to consistent justice. Life is too complicated for any law system to properly anticipate every case, but the law's purpose on paper is to get as close an approximation of justice as generally possible. Either way, the argument is stupid, and bugs me.

“if you kill me, you’ll be just as bad as me.” The villain says, not knowing that the “hero” is so, so much worse than them.

[faendan]

@hottakehoulihan

I'm pretty sure walruses are fey of a kind. They're fucking sabre-toothed seals --- that's gotta be a seelie experiment of some kind.

On the fairy-debate.

I ran to the door. The knock was light, nervous even.

Today was Wednesday --- date night. Michael had said he was going to surprise me, and I had been dressed since the clock struck 5. I reach the entranceway and undo the lock, turning the handle to allow Michael in.

No Michael. A being the size of a 10-year-old, green-skinned and shimmering, looked up at me. Beautiful and distinctly inhuman. Hello, it communicated.

"What the FUCK ARE YOU?!" I stumbled back a step, reaching to the side for my Mace can.

It twinkled. I am Faerie. Is this strange to you?

"Uh, mmm, yeah, I think so. You're not a child, are you? Do you need a ride somewhere?"

It was overwhelming. I couldn't think straight --- it existed with such force and fervor that thinking of anything but it was a difficult task. Michael. Michael might know what to do.

"Um. One second, please."

I shut the door, breathing hard. Real. Was it real? I braced myself to check, and swung the door open again.

Nothing but a shimmering puff of glitter.

##########

I ran to the door. The knock was loud, excited. That would be Michael. It was Wednesday --- date night. Michael had said he was going to surprise me. I had been dressed since 5.

I reached the entranceway and undid the lock, turning the doorknob and swinging the door open.

No Michael. In the place he should have been stood a walrus. A 2,200 kilogram walrus. It filled up my doorway, massive and stinking, its yellowed tusks scraping slightly against my door frame.

"What the FUUUUUUUUCK!"

I slammed the door shut, panting. I was losing breath control, going into a spiral. I sank down, back to the door.

Through the panic, I heard a car pull up. A door opened, and shut, and I heard Michael yell. "The FUCK is that? No, what the FUCK IS THAT FUCKING THING? IS THAT A WALRUS? A FUCKING WALRUS?"

##########

My take on the fairy-walrus debate.

[faendan]

I can't place full blame on others --- autism means this could very well be my fault.

Welcome to tumblr!!!

I don't know if anyone else has reached out to you, so forgive me if you have gotten this already. I'm pretty new to tumblr as well, but a lot of people who have been here for decades think this site is a lot more intuitive then it is

Reblogging your own post to add additional commentary is a stylistic choice that a lot of people employ. Both the initial blog (post A) and the reblog (post B(post A)) show up in reverse chronological order. It's normal, you get used to scrolling past posts that get shorter and shorter the further back you go.

Screenshotting a post is generally done when you want to be mean to the OP and don't want them to know about it. Reblogging a post normally gives the OP and all rebloggers a notification.

People can get pissy about people not following tumblr ettiqutte, but also no one can agree what tumblr etiquette is and they all frequently fight about it.

Generally people have friendly silly interactions with Mutuals (people who follow each other). You can still interact with posts from people that you aren't mutuals with ...but it's more likely to be taken the wrong way or out of context because you're a stranger.

I was joking about the fact that two versions of the same one showed up immediately after each other. I wasn't confused as to why two similar versions of the same post existed.

[faendan]

Welcome to tumblr!!!

I don't know if anyone else has reached out to you, so forgive me if you have gotten this already. I'm pretty new to tumblr as well, but a lot of people who have been here for decades think this site is a lot more intuitive then it is

Reblogging your own post to add additional commentary is a stylistic choice that a lot of people employ. Both the initial blog (post A) and the reblog (post B(post A)) show up in reverse chronological order. It's normal, you get used to scrolling past posts that get shorter and shorter the further back you go.

Screenshotting a post is generally done when you want to be mean to the OP and don't want them to know about it. Reblogging a post normally gives the OP and all rebloggers a notification.

People can get pissy about people not following tumblr ettiqutte, but also no one can agree what tumblr etiquette is and they all frequently fight about it.

Generally people have friendly silly interactions with Mutuals (people who follow each other). You can still interact with posts from people that you aren't mutuals with ...but it's more likely to be taken the wrong way or out of context because you're a stranger.

I was joking about the fact that two versions of the same one showed up immediately after each other. I wasn't confused as to why two similar versions of the same post existed.

[faendan]

I'm sorry, I suppose.

Am I being told something?

@what-even-is-thiss Explain yourself.

[faendan]

I understand that. I am confused as to the problem.

To clarify: I am joking about the fact that I got the first two consecutive versions of this post you made showing up immediately after one another (and also, I saw the later two versions before that, but did not screenshot them). I am not in actuality complaining. I am, again confused as to your confusion.

Am I being told something?

@what-even-is-thiss Explain yourself.

[faendan]

It's a screenshot of two separate versions one after the other. It's my way of showing proof.

Am I being told something?

@what-even-is-thiss Explain yourself.