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so i have a mildly popular “reblog and put in in the tags” post going around and its. very clear how many people don’t know how to interact with a tumblr post

so, first of all, tumblr’s culture has changed a lot in the past couple years. there’s a genuine community effort to not start any drama, and ironically a lot of the current hostility is an effort to keep things calm. there’s also a change in how people interact with posts, so if you haven’t been here in a while please skip down to the tags/replies/reblog with text section.

for newcomers: you should be reblogging posts about as liberally as you would like something on twitter. if you only like stuff, people will think you are rude/a bot. you’ve probably heard people talk about “cultivating your dash,” and thats because this platform is 100% centered around your dashboard. trending matters less, unfollowing and blocking in order to shape your dash into it’s best form is widely accepted, the majority of the content you’ll find and interact with will be because of your dash, and the only way to put things on your dash is to reblog them. tumblr users are deeply distrustful of algorithms and have largely turned off the “see posts your friends have liked” function (i recommend you also turn of the various algorithms in settings → general settings → dashboard preferences).

so, once you’ve reblogged a post, there’s three ways to add content to it. the tags, replies, and reblogging with text. all of them have different connotations

the tags: an inside voice. originally they were meant for organizing your blog (and they’re still used for this), but they’ve also morphed into a way to share thoughts that aren’t funny/insightful enough for non-followers to be interested in. when in doubt, put your comment in the tags

replies: basically talking to your friends in class. your followers have no way of finding your replies (they don’t pop up on the dash, nobody gets notified except for the original poster) so chances are, only the person who made the post is gonna see your comment. it’s for quick one-offs that you’re okay with other people overhearing, but really is only made for one person. they’re like a public dm

reblog with text: an outside voice. you’re getting up on a stage in town square and entertaining people. make sure it’s funny or insightful— bottom line, add something new to the conversation. you should use this the least

general rules of thumb: 

when in doubt, reblog. people will judge you if your blog is only personal posts and you only interact with other content by liking it.  

the only things people will judge you for reblogging are personal vent posts. leave a like to give a little virtual hug

if a post is asking about your personality/opinions (i.e: tell me what’s the last tv show you watched, that kind of thing) put it in the tags 

also if you see a nice edit, gifset, or art, reblog and say something nice in the tags! it’s that nice sweet spot of common enough that no one will notice but uncommon enough to make the artist’s day

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再生数ヤバッ

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Esto es malvado

Doing ao3 window shopping on the precure tag

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yes why would you

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i shan't say

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why would you do this

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???

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Doing ao3 window shopping on the precure tag

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kinpri 2

a piece of lore about myself is i actually watched the first movie in primary school before this one was even subbed in chinese. this one too i watched pre covid i think (i was NOT in the target audience lmao)

oh boy this one is longer

every time i see the avex logo i can only think 'kill'

jin's making That face on live tv and he thinks it helps his pr

WHAT IS THIS

oh we're in it again

seriously what's UP with the penguin baby

it's less than 10 minutes in and i've already lost count of the number of naked men they've shown on screen

they're making coo man the prism stone counters bc they can't bother making a new girl to be naru's successor

i saw a tag on ao3 once that's 'rich people as a plot device' and that's what this series is

WHAT IS THIS (2)

lowkey getting stressed out by the idea of hiro flying all the way to california from japan like omg the plane tickets the MONEY

(going on skyscanner and apparently it costs more to fly to eastern europe than to NORTH AMERICA (la in this case) from east asia. ik this is bc of demand and supply but also Why)

shit are they doing the bl murder suicide 20 minutes in?

*ignores what's going on* pretty backgrounds :)

why did they make any of these creative decisions

imagine telling someone who grew up with aurora dream aira's special tournament jump would be used for this

ok so june's just a plot device now. memories or no i call bullshit

the way they did all that and it hasn't even been 20 minutes yet

this is so.

miscommunication as a plot device (derogatory)

i will say it is an Interesting decision for a movie to pull out the all is lost moment 21 minutes in

the dmf mascots do not deserve to be dragged into this mess

oh wow they finally put a female character on screen who gets to speak

ITO CAMEO

can we please get an actual pretty rhythm movie with this production quality i beg

he eats curry and thinks about koji's bee ass

What lmao???

don't do love mix like this

this is so stupid and extra

this is. so Stupid.

THIS IS SO STUPID

I'm in hysterics what even is this

pausing the movie to stare out the window

isn't their catchphrase an aqours song

you can tell he's serious bc he's flashing glitter letters

WHAT IS THIS (3)

i'm in actual tears (no i'm not) what is any of this dsajfhasdkjfas

oh boy pole dancing time

what.

i love how ito's just sipping tea throughout this whole ordeal she does Not care

can you imagine trying to buy penlights in this world and having to figure out which ones can be manipulated with prism magic and which ones are normal

you know what i've given up on questioning what anything this series does

i can't believe they're reusing sonata's model for this ajksdfhkasjfasdkl

if this was dear my future someone would've dropped the death tarot on jin right here

title drop

no shin you should never try to be like hiro

don't use the rainbow live girls like this.

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I think the shou/aira relationship and kyoko/jun relationships are both symptoms of the same problem which anon #4 in this post identified as pretty rhythm being weird about marriage and single women. aira and kyoko both had to end the show in hetero relationships bc that's the correct path for adult women. someone working on the show thought that kyoko needed a happy ending where she's married. I have no clue why they made her marry the guy she thought was her brother her whole life but I'm thinking about it and I don't know if there were any other guys her age in the show. she was out of choices

anju/aira was definitely a better relationship but I have to admit I enjoyed the love triangle aspect of dmf a little bit bc of how dismissive and rude mia was to yun-su

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Genuinely I think I'd enjoy kinpri more if it wasn't set in the same universe as rainbow live and was another AU

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Kingpri 1 (?)

not screenshotting anything so just make do with the commentary ajdsfadskfh

The way I thought he was gonna crash his bike into Hijiri's back

idk what's up with the cgi. it's not bad but for some reason i keep finding it stiffer than the rainbow live cgi, not necessarily the movements but the models themselves

oh this kid is so chuuni

why are all the characters' names katakana

NO (Yamada and Penguin statue)

are all students required to live at the dorm? wouldn't they get more students if that wasn't a thing lmao

I don't buy this plot/lore/whatever I think they just did it to remove girls from the story

NUN JUNE

(also the idea there are churches dedicated to the prism goddess is killing me. what are the historical implications? the existance of the church itself breaks pretty rhythm (at least rainbow live) lore bc it suggests magic ice skating isn't the only difference between their world and ours. you can't add a whole new religion and expect none of human history to be different. how does argentina fit into this??)

did rainbow live ever give hijiri family lore or did kinpri make it up

seriously how did they make hiro look so bl uke core

I love this recycled flashback from rainbow live the art style is completely different

maybe I'm just a joyless zombie but how did they ever expect people who grew up with rainbow live to actually warm up to jin

ik this is meant to be an exposition dump but also they're all telling their lives stories to a guy they just met

all of hiros jumps make me want to [redacted]

i hate these uniforms

hiro's the only boy character i know who's the most sexualized character in a kids show for girls so uh #diversity ig

the art's gotten so much better now that the flashbacks are over but the glitter on the sea is sending me

shin is more content with life than me bc if i saw a guy in the city surrounded by mysterious lights i'd just beg him to bring me to whatever place he's from tbh

he's lowkey drawn like he's got bags under his eyes

ah the Bath Scenes

i'm fine with omitting honorifics in translations for the most part but in cases like this i feel like the -san is closer to just how someone calls another person. like even if they're in tameguchi they'd probably still keep the san as practically a nickname at that point so??? idk

is this the writers vaguing about how they didn't want to write so many nude scenes but the production team made them do it for... sex appeal i guess

having yu talk to koji on the rooftop instead of ito bc god forbid if there's a girl in this movie

clinging onto these rainbow live crumbs

i know this is the point but the sheer hubris of getting a SKYSCRAPER for your silly school/money laundering scheme

why does this suddenly feel like sci fi dystopia

oh they're calling kazuki out for giving into the mainstream (quote from eboby dark'ness dementia raven way)

the creative decision of having the first new character get a cgi performance being. oh well

i have so much but simultaneously nothing to say about the changes they made to prism shows as a concept

i don't think we're in buenos aires anymore :(

this is so.

does anyone remember when they put kazuki's sword in a museum in pripara

it's such a missed opportunity they never put prism unicorn destroy in kinpri

NO IT'S KOJI'S BEE ASS

"This is a true prism show?" no this is just kinpri

I wish they wouldn't make the character with the darkest skin tone like This but also he canonically ariana grande's his skin tone so

my friend just interrupted this asking me if he should fly to croatia lol (yes)

jin is giving heavy uhhhhh east asian capitalist overlord mixed with a certain type of characters in ao3 kink settings

the orange guy is the type that people would call to be beaten with hammers if he was straight

IS THAT THE PENGUIN BABY

not the greco-roman larping

I'm listening to other songs in the background and the song that just came on is so tonally dissonant from what's going on here

okay gotta turn down the speed for these frame rates

the way they did NOT want to animate the togas in cgi lmao

HIRO'S SO UKEFUL

the dissonance between his wet dog behavior and the cgi adfjkadsf

no joke tho i was helping someone with their translation of a bl manga where the bottom looked so much like hiro in this movie akjsdfhdkasfj

how did they change on stage those togas are not made for quick changing

ik they don't have an arcade game to promote anymore but prism shows without prism stones feel WRONG where are the magic dresses that brainwash people

how does he feel about having two big dogs as his backdancers for his debut performance

NOT THE NOSTALGIA BAIT THAT I AM FALLING FOR

this is... a lot

nothing to see here just an adult man staring at a naked teenager who's technically his employee or whatever in this dubious power structure

why did they make this so cultish lmao

i've been watching with sound off but THEY PUT CALLINGS' SONG FROM AD EP 1 IN THIS???

ah the reduction of june to just something to be fought over by two men. lovely.

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Kingpri does not scare me I have the power of an entire season of Ito/Koji on my side

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This is... so stupid

Got so bored I started watching Kingpri and "combine into a big boy and boys" is knocking me out

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Got so bored I started watching Kingpri and "combine into a big boy and boys" is knocking me out

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I love being a Japanese speaker who does Not like Japan <3

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Going to an anime convention for the first time next week because a group from Japan I like will be performing