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howdy 🤠

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henlo,,

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boop! boop, I say!

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I have to be honest, the major reason I’m not comfortable writing on tumblr anymore is bc the rp community here is so lost to the culture they’ve created. if I know you and I follow you I certainly want to write with you (again, hmu for my discord!) but I just can’t do it anymore, man

I’ll put this under a read more bc it got way longer than I meant for it to, but I also want to be very clear: don’t read this if you’ll get upset. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU’LL GET UPSET. I need to vent about this but I don’t want anybody to stress themselves out over it. this isn’t about anyone specifically, it’s about… honestly, almost everyone I’ve interacted with on here.

there is an outstanding a mount of purity culture here, even more than mainstream tumblr, which is wild.

people should’ve have to share personal info in order to write on here. you shouldn’t have to share your age, your name, your pronouns, your time spent rping, in order to be considered ‘legitimate.’ if someone has never rped before and they want to get into, they should be just as welcome as someone who’s been here for years. discriminating against teenagers because you feel guilty talking to teens is weird. it’s one thing to not want to write smut with somebody under eighteen, it’s another thing to block anybody under 21 that tries to interact with you in any way. that’s weird! why are you doing that! they’re just interested in your writing!

I mean, how did you guys start rping? all of the people that say they’ve been doing it for years? did you pop up suddenly with all the experience, or did you follow blogs you liked? did you make cringey threads and bad writing choices? did you daydream about your characters when you were in class? I’d be willing to bet you did. and acting like they can’t handle the violence or the deep subjects in the content you write is insulting.

again, putting your smut threads under a read more or asking them not to follow if you mostly write smut is one thing, but I have ABSOLUTELY seen rules pages talking about not feeling comfortable writing with anyone under 21 about suicide, violence, drug abuse, etc. do you think the movies they watch don’t have all that in it? (do you think they suddenly pop up at 21 with all the knowledge of the world?)

and don’t get me started on the ‘they’re just so much younger than me it feels uncomfortable’ thing, which is MUCH more valid and I understand it, but teens aren’t going to learn anything if they don’t have older friends to teach them.

most of all, over anything else, what really prevents me from returning is the blocking culture here. it’s horrible. blocking somebody you don’t like or feel weird about is totally understandable! what’s Not understandable is doing that to a FRIEND. if you’ve been talking to somebody ooc, talking to them daily about unrelated things, if you’ve been hanging out for weeks, why the fuck would you block them without saying anything? just hit the button and leave? why is it acceptable to just… not do any communication whatsoever? if they made you angry, hurt your feelings, broke a rule, whatever, fucking TALK to them. don’t block somebody because they annoyed you one time, what the fuck.

and it all makes me so sad because like… this is where I’ve made so many of my friends. I have friends I’ve had for a decade that I met through rp. I wouldn’t have those friends if these rules had been in place. the reason these things upset me so much is because they didn’t used to be here! people used to rp with non-mutuals, even! nobody ever formatted anything, aesthetics didn’t matter, it was just about having fun. and now it’s more about making sure you’re performing all the right little rituals so you don’t get pushed to the side.

anyway, if you feel like blocking me or making a callout or whatever you’re welcome to do so, I truly cannot think of returning to tumblr rp anymore

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hi 👀

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popping in to say ily guys 💕 today is always a really rough day for me but I welcome distraction so hmu on discord if you want to chat or write or anything!

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as a reminder I’m still writing, but only on discord 💕 PLEASE lmk if you wanna write something!! if we’re mutuals i wanna write with you!!! you just gotta tell me!!!

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it’s Clara's birthday today. I know this because I literally set an alarm for it like eight months ago

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hi 💕

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so, automattic hasn’t made a public announcement yet, but current and former employees have leaked a screenshot saying tumblr is going to be a legacy project.

the basic gist of it is, tumblr is going to be on life support. they’re keeping the site, they have a skeleton crew, but updates will slow or stop. things like bugs, spam, outages, etc, will take much longer to be fixed. in all likelihood, this means the site will run for a while longer on momentum, unless somebody trips on a wire in the server room or something, but it does mean an eventual arc downwards.

of course, they’ll have to pry this site from my cold dead hands, so I will be here until the walls finally collapse around us and I am unable to use the site at all, but it’s still a good idea to prepare by backing up blogs and saving people’s contact information so you have other ways to talk to them. better safe than sorry! in the past, fandom spaces have disappeared overnight with no warning, so it’s wonderful that we have time.

all of this of course comes with the caveat that, again, this is on the word of employees, not automattic itself. it’s entirely possible that there’s a group of employees faking a newsletter for some reason. I’m just prepping for the worst.

@crowshoots

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okay so :( any big/popular ideas yet on where people will migrate to to keep the rp community going now that tumblr’s officially dying?

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I HAVE RETURNED FROM WAR (Disney)

hello my beloveds!!! I’ve missed you all so much 😭 give me a few days to settle back in and remember how to be human again and then I’ll be active here!

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the halloween costume is so good tbh I’m pleased about it

Disney looks so far! the sleeping beauty dress changes blue in the sun

I am constantly thinking of you all still 💕 after vacation expect me back and brighter than ever!! right now I’m pulling 18 hour days though so not a lot of time or energy for writing

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Disney looks so far! the sleeping beauty dress changes blue in the sun

I am constantly thinking of you all still 💕 after vacation expect me back and brighter than ever!! right now I’m pulling 18 hour days though so not a lot of time or energy for writing

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I AM OFFICIALLY ON VACATION

I MADE IT. I LIVED!!!

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givin you kisses. mwah

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hey this is a mary sue safe blog btw I think ppl should write whatever they want