#[[I hope u don't mind]]

[9hels-a]

the stubborn one.

of course he won't , they never do... at first. raphael can work with that. he likes the stubborn ones ; the one who defiantly say no. it makes it much more sweeter when they finally say yes to him. his brow raised as brown eyes darted between his. his expression didn't reveal , doing his best to maintain his cunning guise but he was taken back by the flattery that was tied to the insult.

he did however chuckle, unexpectedly. @dekaryos had enticed it out of him. unmatched for the insatiable wit of the elegant wizard. even with all his trickery and deceit, he couldn't conceal the amusement that formed at his words. his vanity savouring the words ; ethereal beauty. but being compared to that pompous diva had left him with a slight undesirable distaste. ❛ i could never do what mystra has done. ❜  he wanted to paint the obvious differences in the devil and his god. perhaps gale will reconsider his stance. ❛ turn her back on those who worship her? ❜  and he scoffs at that. ❛ please. i like to keep mine close. i would never turn my back on my clients.... even if they begged me to. ❜  and they have but being the devil he is ever so persistent on keeping them caught in his claws. mystra likes to throw them away like used up toys, raphael on the other hand likes to keep playing with them.

[sunlit-mess]

*in spoiled British kid voice*

PAPA ME WANT MORE HUMAN VOX

PAPA ME WANT MORE HUMAN VOX

Pls (ily)

punch your lights out, hit the pavement

[prawnfriedrice]

various creatures

[izzymalec]

You're still here. I forgot about you.

[kiisaes]

simp kacchan

(dialogue taken straight from @incorrect-bkdk-quotes's textpost here)

[kimdokjas]

wait wait, what’s the change tumblr did to the reblog chains ? 🥲🥲🥲 I’m so lost

okay so basically, let's say you see a post on your dash

before the update, if you clicked on a url, you could do 3 things:

view that specific reblog on the blog you follow (A)

view the previous reblog on the blog A reblogged it from (B)

view the original post on op's blog (C)

however, staff recently implemented an update where clicking on a url no longer takes you to that specific post. now, clicking on a url just takes you to the blog itself.

this means that you now get 5 things:

view ONLY that specific reblog on the blog you follow (A) -> changed location near header. also, you will now ONLY see that post and nothing else

view ONLY the original post on op's blog (C) -> changed location near header. you will only see that post and nothing else. and ONLY if the op hasn't deleted it, otherwise it just shows an error

view the blog of the person you follow (D)

view the blog of the person D reblogged it from (F) -> option B no longer exists

view the blog of the op (E)

you might be thinking: "cool! i get more options so that's good, right?" well, no.

there are SEVERAL things wrong with this and it goes beyond the prev tags issue

1) first of all, it's counterintuitive that A and C changed locations to the area near the header, especially if your userbase was already used to the previous functions. it just seems like horrible UX design to me but let's put that aside for now.

2) as you can see, option B which allowed you to see the previous reblog of a post no longer exists.

now, if you click on the previous url, you will just be taken to their entire blog. you can no longer view the post itself.

someone asked staff about this, and they replied in this post that the change was INTENTIONAL and if you want to view the previous reblog you would have to "go through the notes view".

to borrow what someone else said:

basically, this update just killed the prev tags culture in one fell swoop.

(sure, you can still use it to reply directly to the person you're reblogging from, but it's now literally useless to use "prev tags" for everyone else involved. sure, you can choose to copy tags or peer review them, but again, if people will have to copy them then the less people are likely to use them, and not every prev lends itself to peer-reviewing imo)

now, listen. i know not everyone likes the prev tags culture, but it just seems like such a poorly-thought decision to kill a culture that like... half of your entire userbase uses (see this poll as a quick reference) and that's UNIQUE to your site and sets you apart from other social media.

but it's also not even just prev tags. let's say you want to remove an annoying addition on a post's reblog chain? you can no longer do that.

however, i feel like this is the most important point:

regardless of how you may feel about the prev tags culture, the pure UI aspect of it should remain

what i mean by this is: even if you don't like prev tags, simply 1) being able to access the reblog chain, and 2) clicking on a post and actually have it take you to their BLOG (and not just a page with that one single post) is literally essential navigation.

this update threatens to drive down user engagement (which is already critically low) by making it harder to navigate. which is actually another point:

3) even if you click on A and C now to view those specific posts, it's NOT the same as it used to be.

before, you could view the reblog directly on the blog. so you could just scroll down and see the other posts leading up to it. now, you will be taken to a page where you will ONLY see that post and nothing else.

but also, you can no longer easily navigate other people's blogs.

you know how sometimes you would see like 50 notifications of someone going through an entire tag on your blog? that's going to happen a lot less, i'm afraid.

let's suppose you want to go to op's blog because they're an artist and you want to see more of their art. so you click on C and see that the tag they use for posts with their art is "#my art"

cool! before, you could just click on that tag and immediately view ALL of their art as long as the posts have that tag.

but now, if you click on that tag, it will take you to the ENTIRE tumblr tag with literally all the posts that everyone in the history of time has tagged with that specific tag.

now, to do the same thing that just took 2 clicks before, you would have to: click on C to view the post -> look for the tag you want to navigate -> click E to view their whole blog -> scroll and look for a post that just so happens to have that tag (the search function is literally useless) and hope to god that there's a recent one or you'll have to scroll for ages or simply give up -> if you happen to find it, click on that tag to navigate their posts.

you see how this is counterproductive, right? you see how this can literally drive down engagement with content creators, right?

if you make people's blogs harder to navigate, you will literally drive down the number of likes and reblogs on their posts, which have already been steadily declining for years now.

4) options D and E to view the blogs and not the posts are literally useless because you could already access other people's blogs before. you just had to click on their url to view their blogs starting from that specific post AND you could choose to just refresh it to view their newest posts.

either way, the change just seems completely unnecessary. and again, it's not just about the prev tags culture but about basic UI.

so what can we do about it?

i normally don't advocate for flooding staff with messages but i do feel like this is one of the worst updates staff has ever done (and that's saying something) and something needs to change.

even if they don't retcon the entire update, that's fine, but staff could at least add the option to view the reblog chain as a different feature (maybe even opt-in) for example. there are better ways to go about this than just axing an entire existing feature.

also, this same issue that makes it harder to navigate blogs needs to change. i feel like content creators will be especially affected by this unless this changes because you can no longer easily navigate their tags, so it will inevitably drive down engagement.

so please, contact staff and let them know we want a change.

you can contact support here!

here's a template for a possible message you could send, but feel free to edit it. (under category you can choose "Feedback")

Hi, I would like to politely request a change to the recent update that affects the reblog chain of posts. Regardless of the "prev tags" culture itself, the UI aspect of being able to view the reblog chain of a post is essential for navigation on this website. Even adding it as a separate, opt-in feature would be a huge help. Additionally, clicking on a post and then on one of the tags now takes you to the entire tumblr tag instead of the tag on that blog, which makes it harder to navigate blogs. Both of these issues have the potential to drive down user engagement by actively making it harder to navigate Tumblr, but especially for content creators. I hope you can do something to address these issues as soon as possible. Thanks in advance and have a nice day.

also, if you can and/or want, reblogs are appreciated to help spread the word!

that's pretty much the gist of the issue from what i've seen, but if anyone else has anything to add or a different way we could contact staff to make ourselves heard, please feel free to let me know!

TLDR: it's not just about prev tags, this update affects basic functionality and content creators as well

Update Sept 07, 2024: this issue was "fixed" a few months back, although with some caveats / downgrades. You can check out this post for how to view the reblog chain, but all the other issues addressed in this post still remain.

[cyclorose]

happy trans day of visibility <3 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[jesncin]

Quick question. What are the batfamily individual interactions with J’onn? cheers!

I couldn't think of an interaction with every batfam member (and there's so many of them) so here's some!

J'onn enjoys Cassandra's quiet company. He's empathetic with people who communicate differently than what's considered the norm since he grew up with a non-telepath brother. Eventually Cass opens up and asks to learn sign with J'onn.

Damian can't stand J'onn initially. But J'onn is really patient with him, getting Damian to soften up. He ends up really liking J'onn as a comforting parental figure, but he's not going to admit that!

He can talk to animals so that makes him pretty cool, I guess!!

Jason's also cold to J'onn at first because he doesn't care for another guy with angsty family baggage. J'onn respects this! He gives him space, which Jason quietly appreciates. As time passes, Jason learns it's a little too easy to open up to J'onn :y

Alfred gets J'onn into tea! Whenever J'onn visits Wayne Manor he likes to take a moment to talk to Alfred because he finds the life Alfred lives fascinating.

J'onn is pretty familiar with Barbara because he asks for her help as Oracle sometimes! They get along well. I like to think J'onn knows what her fav coffee place is and always grabs her a cup when he visits.

I didn't draw this but I like to think both J'onn and Ma'alefa'ak bump into Kate Kane sometimes and they both think she's really cool.

[sendhook]

another one for the "orange cassidy hot and sexy" books

[AEW Dark 7/28/20]

[jenneferofjengaberg]

MARY & GEORGE - 1.01 'The Second Son' ↳ I know everything...

[kandicon]

I love the "he asked for no pickles" meme with doorkeay bc I've only ever seen it with Gerry being the one talking and u just KNOW it's not bc Michael doesn't want to correct the food staff, but that it wants to correct them a little too much. Gerry has to step in otherwise they'll be there for at least another hour of Michael spinning some philosophical bullshit and scaring some poor fast food worker, and while Gerry doesn't necessarily mind Michael doing that in and of itself (he knows the thing he's in love with), as the only one of the two of them who actually needs material food he would like to eat that food before it gets cold tyvm.

[transredguy]

also @sherbetyy poured water all over him and hes so soggy and wet and hes gonna mold and get it everywhere i think we have to put him down

[kamiart]

Elchen -> Cercitus

[inahochi]

SATORU GOJOU dedicated to @gojosattoru ✧ happy birthday ana ♡ ✧

[starheirxero]

I am wholly enraptured by @o-i-w-u's Lord Bloodmoon design and I had to get some drawings out or else I'd die VERY dramatically. This beast was So fun 2 draw <3<3<3

[iceclew]

I'm cracking up so much right now like....I really did it, wtf XD

First I wanted to go like "this is not my fault, this is @mechazushi's idea", but to be honest.. I had so much fcking fun with this.. ( ‾́ ◡ ‾́ )

The idea is just *glorious* and so fcking stupid, it's perfect again.. https://www.tumblr.com/mechazushi/754110618707066880/so-this-isnt-so-much-an-incorrect-quotes

So this was her original post, the idea sprouting, so to say :D

Credit on your brain rot, it's hilarious @mechazushi :D

The less I get done in RL - the more creative I get, it's such a horrible curse..

Should I do a split up version of this as well, I wonder..? Like..all of them in seperate pics? (¯―¯ ٥)