For anyone annoyed by the Tumblr changes, if you're on desktop I would recommend using XKit Rewritten (and New XKit for any other odd changes you'd like to try out, including even older aspects of Tumblr). It's the older version of Rewritten but most of the extensions on it are still supported/do work). I can't guarantee they'll definitely make a fix for it/a direct fix for this particular UI change, but it's possible that they might since they usually make extensions that allow you to essentially revert changes made to the UI. Other various UI extensions (such as old ones from Tumblr's past UIs that the extensions basically just revert you to) may also help fix up your UI.
As you might expect these extensions need to be on to work/revert the appearance of the UI (so if you turn them off you'll revert to the current state of Tumblr), but while they are on you can curate your UI to look how you want it. This goes for both New XKit and XKit Rewritten. I use both and I couldn't live without them lol. You can get some big oldies of Tumblr's, like classic search on Rewritten or the Tweaks extension (full of various UI tweaks) on New XKit (including the old shade of blue Tumblr used a long time ago that I never stopped using!).
Unfortunately I don't know of any solution for mobile if it affects mobile at any point (or if it already has), but whenever you're on desktop, I would definitely recommend both these versions of XKit. I have so many extensions from them that I often don't even realize when there are UI changes (remember how Tumblr added themes for your dashboard? I didn't even notice for the longest time because I've had New XKit on the whole time) because Tumblr's default coding is overwritten by the extensions I have on.
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Omg you're an Ed fan! Did you ever watch that movie father figures he did with Owen, its really good
Hey there anon, an absolute yes to both and a fav comfort watch!! 😁
It's actually one of the exactly two Owen movies I'd ever seen before the Loki series sent life on a whole new trajectory, lol. Went opening weekend because while I've loved Ed forever a lot of his movies don't even screen locally so I specifically remember driving to the movie theater furthest from my house in December when it was an icy negative 2 degrees out (do not recommend 😅) and very ironically walked away captivated with how Owen's character wasn't at all like the stereotypical slacker brother who ruins everything?? Which I've now found out was all due to his usual improv/adjustment of each character he plays because ofc it was, haha. Super refreshing and their relationship was instantly natural plus as someone completely biased here their contrast in personality and style is unbelievably hot 👀
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idk, i’m having a genuinely problem trying to describe my STP annoyance bc It entails context for me, I think it’s fanfic-y (derogatory), but not in a way where i think anything bad about fic itself. I strongly support the rights of everybody to write good fic, bad fic, fucked up fic, ooc fic, fic with the tropes i hate the very most, weird fic, any kind of fic you could name (just don’t expect me to read it), but So much of that stuff Belongs in the world of fic and shouldn’t leave it.
While i’d roll my eyes at a fic including all these tired, overdone, and more than a lot sexist tropes, i’d just scroll and move on. Have fun with it, I guess! I don’t approve, but this isn’t about me and isn’t hurting anybody.
But this is like, the actual show. If the show was going to have a plot straight out of a fanfic it damn well better have been a Good fic. The kind that respects the women there and doesn’t revolve them around the men to help Them develop. The kind where the writer did a ton of research of what happened in the shows before. The kind where the plot is natural for the characters rather than a plot where most of the characters are bent into place to make it work despite how much of a mess that is.
Mostly, if i saw a fic where beverly and picard had a secret love child she hid from him for 20+ years whom she’d named Jack i’d be like ‘wow that is So fanfic’ and never remember it again for how cookie cutter and unimaginative that is. I literally have no issues over this guy’s fic. Aside from the fact that it’s not fic, it got shoehorned into canon despite it Not Fitting The Show It’s In. They had to ditch the show’s cast to make this work. That’s how much it doesn’t fit in this show. That stuff doesn’t matter in fic! That’s what fic is For. This isn’t fic.
This is just many negative things stacked up in a trench coat. It’s 2023, I expect Far better than this as the bare minimum from tv in general and i hold trek to a higher standard than that because the whole point of trek is that it holds itself to a higher standard, or i guess, that it is committed to Trying even when it doesn’t succeed. I don’t care that the plot is objectively shit, tbh, i didn’t much like the plot of s1 either and it didn’t bother me, it’s that they’ve Truly bought the 80s attitude from tng back when in the first two seasons this wasn’t the case. I may not agree with all the character choices in the first two seasons, but it was new, they were trying even when they weren’t succeeding, and it wasn’t This.
I don’t hold by ‘not real trek’ arguments bc it’s so subjective and kind of absurd imo, but i do not think this season of the show is trying to do much of anything at all. I can make a crack at a few themes, but when i start to get into it it falls apart because it Always ends up back at one thing. Nostalgia. A good story choice totally ignored because if they do ignore it they can have a dramatic shot of one of the tng crew with a tear in their eye. Trek imo, is about many things, but not looking backwards, never That. Not without them trying to make a really good point from it, anyway.
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