#This account functions as a gallery for me so I can't reblog much but I lose my mind over the things you guys put out on the regular

[koilarist]

So over the spooky season I well and truly missed my opportunity to make a BOO joke Boo. 800. are you picking up what I'm putting down here I wanted to do a little something to celebrate but I'm currently neck deep in WIP art as it stands, so maybe I'll do something different and celebrate the new year since this one seems to be ending on a high note.

For all the issues this year had (My main social media site falling apart by the seams just as I'd hit my big milestone goal, the double whammy OC lore scalping bonanza, my health taking another fun nosedive) I have so much to be pleased about by the end and honestly, that's all I'm looking for at this point.

To make what I love and have a blast doing it. :)

It's turned out to be an incredibly lovely bonus that other people have turned out to be enthusiastic about my art/OCs too. There's not really a way to reply to tags on tumblr but rest assured I read them and experience Feelings every single goddamn time.

This has turned into a whole thing. Oops. Getting carried away here when this was only meant to be a 'yay' post. POINT IS. Thanks for hopping aboard. Here's to another year of serving art to the masses!

[tartrazeen]

I'm trying to puzzle out what I like and don't like about Tumblr's interface. 🤔 As much as I enjoy what it is, there are certain itches it doesn't scratch.

What I Like About Tumblr's Functionality:

- Blocking is excellent and encouraged and easy

- Moves fast

- Refreshing the dash is a satisfying wave of new posts that were made as I was reading everything else

- Get to sneak and snoop around the tags and comments on people's posts

- Get to start completely new chains of conversation by picking up from a particular part of the reblog chain

- Get to preserve the original message by reblogging it for posterity

- Melting pot of all of my interests on a single dash

- Filtering lets me keep my mutuals' interests from overwhelming me 😝

- I like that I'm interacting with people I've actively chosen to follow, because it puts a virtual face to a name rather than having me wander faceless crowds of users

- Blocking someone instantly gets that current post off my dash, too

- Can sorta prune back to certain parts of a chain to cut out parts that I don't like

- I like the video player 🤷🏽‍♀️

- I like getting an activity feed that shows me when someone replies to me, so I can reply to them too

What I Don't Like About Tumblr's Functionality:

- Blocking someone doesn't keep every single mention of them out of my sight. If someone reblogs them, or from them, I see their name again.

- Doesn't encourage long-form reading into a single topic (kinda why I want to bring forums back)

- Some folks can pick up from a particular part of the reblog chain and run wild with it, even if there are corrections made later

- Can't correct an old post that someone else has reblogged (I wouldn't mind a way to have a "This post has been changed since it was part of this chain" setting that I could flip on, which would that let you go to that particular post and see the new version of it)

- If someone doesn't tag something, I can't filter it (I'd love a way to suggest tags for OP, so the community can collectively tag it for filtering purposes thereafter)

- Can't hide a post I hate without blocking the OP :/

- Can't block an OP if the account was already deactivated :/

- Can't prune back to certain parts of a reblog chain if the part that I want to prune back to has its account deactivated

- Video player and galleries are on a fuckin' hair trigger of swiping down to the next 'related' video that I did not want to see, which restarts me at the beginning of the video or gallery

- Video player sucks at pausing

- The only way to see what other people are saying about posts I've reblogged and added on to are to stalk them like a stalker :(