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reasons.

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People keep telling newcomers that they must reblog posts here because that's the only way to boost a post. And while that isn't not true, it also wildly misrepresents the reblogging culture that Tumblr actually has.

The posts like that keep talking about things as if the OP ("content creator") is someone who needs eyeballs on their work and the rest of us peons ("consumers") owe them the number-go-up an algorithm handles on other sites.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Tumblr isn't a popularity contest (note how you can't see follower count), and it's not structured with creators at the top and audience at the bottom. It's egalitarian, we're all in the same crowd, and yes, some of us have 2 followers and some have twenty bazillion, but no one actually knows which is which.

You reblog a post not as a favour to the glorious yet suffering content mill, but because you want people who look at your blog (all two of them now, all twenty of them once more people look at the notes on the posts you reblog) to see that post in the context of your blog.

Your blog is your space, and you're meant fill it with things that you want seen there. That can be your original posts, reblogs with commentary, or just a collection of things you think are neat.

Reblogs chains are often how people find other people to follow, too. So reblog to show off a post that you like and to attract more people who like the things you like to show off. It's that simple. And it's about you.

And because everyone does this, reblogs posts they want to be seen on their own blog, when people make posts that a lot of other people enjoy, that post blows up and is seen by even more people.

Tumblr's reblog system is a network of people picking something up and going "look at this cool thing I found!". It is not a service to content creators.

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Happy 10th anniversary, Destiny.

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Yes, I know I only remember to check it like once every two years, but still.

Tumblr looks different and I’m not sure I like it.

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Tumblr looks different and I’m not sure I like it.

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My brain has become unexpectedly obsessed with the tankapult in P10S.

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scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.

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‘Postcards from the Desert’

(AKA. An incredibly late collection of follow-up screenshots because a recent conversation with a non-Tyrian friend reminded me that I never got around to posting the rest of the snaps I took in Elona literally years ago)

Album navigation: -- Part 1  (Path of Fire demo) -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4  [you are here]

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‘Postcards from the Desert’

(AKA. An incredibly late collection of follow-up screenshots because a recent conversation with a non-Tyrian friend reminded me that I never got around to posting the rest of the snaps I took in Elona literally years ago)

Album navigation: -- Part 1  (Path of Fire demo) -- Part 2 -- Part 3  [you are here] -- Part 4

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‘Postcards from the Desert’

(AKA. An incredibly late follow-up to Part 1 because a recent conversation with a non-Tyrian friend reminded me that I never got around to posting the rest of the snapshots I took in Elona literally years ago)

Album navigation: -- Part 1  (Path of Fire demo) -- Part 2  [you are here] -- Part 3 -- Part 4

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Been holding off on posting about this because as the weeks go on the story still seems to be developing, but this was probably the most Secret World mission I’ve played in Destiny 2 so far.

Feel like I’ve unexpectedly stumbled back into the aftermath of yet another Orochi fuck-up.

“Geary? Yeah, don’t ask where I’m calling from, my Ghost has limited connectivity at this range so I’ll make it quick. Listen, you’re not gonna fucking believe this but I think the Dreaming Prison has just sprung a really BIG leak...”

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Our fireteam’s first 24-hour Day 1 raid clear

I’ll need about 12 hours of sleep in the aftermath, but I couldn’t be happier and I’m so fucking proud of these nerds.

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Everyone stop what you’re doing, I have discovered the most important thing about the Beyond Light expansion: THE ROOMBAS ACTUALLY CLEAN PIECES OF ICY DETRITUS OFF THE FLOOR.

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Beyond Light marks the beginning of the next era of Destiny. Bungie developers take time to explain.

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#WaitingForEuropa