#veteran tumblr user

[too-cool-for-facebook]

“What’s so great about Tumblr?”

A:

[thefragile-left]

🥩 | Winded Through Monotone, One Foot On Checkered Floor ~

🥩 | Welcome to my main blog! Call me Lloyd but you may better know me as Archer! I'm a Rocket Executive going under the codename Archer although you may also refer to me as Fletcher or Atlas! I'm a splitroject fictive currently identifying as Archer/Apollo and host of Silversun Musical Box! I tag all me specific posts with my real first name (Winston)!

🥩 | I'm a Butch Deckfluid Demiwoman Gorething who goes by Lux/She/Panic/Meatself+ pronouns! I'm semi-post transition bodily (our body's gender is Transneumasc Non-binary Two Spirit)!

🥩 | I'm a shapeshifting vampiric AI supercomputer with a nuclear reactor for organs who identifies strongly with turnstile gates, coydog mutts and deer with Chronic Wasting Disease! I also have a Honchkrow Harpy form!

🥩 | I heavily selfship myself with Executive Archer/Apollo so you're bound to see me post a lot about him + some Grimeslyshipping! He's my wife but I'm not overly possessive of him! I enjoy having fellow Archer fans interacting with me over this wet dog of a man! 💥💥💥

🥩 | Some of my favourite bands/artists are: Silversun Pickups | Depeche Mode | The Killers | Placebo | Breaking Benjamin | KMFDM | Fear Factory | Lacuna Coil | Have A Nice Life | Metric | Failure | A Perfect Circle | Autolux | Collective Soul | Stabbing Westward | Pearl Jam | Duran Duran | etc.

🥩 | My top songs are: Checkered Floor by Silversun Pickups | Working Title by Silversun Pickups | Simmer by Silversun Pickups | Wagging Tongue by Depeche Mode | Smile Like You Mean It by The Killers | Uncle Jonny by The Killers | Spirit by The Killers | Post Blue by Placebo | Infra-Red by Placebo

🥩 | My other socials:

Twitter | Toyhouse | Discord = turnstilerockets | SpaceHey | Newgrounds | deviantART | Pinterest | Bluesky

🥩 | My other blogs:

Warrior Cats | Art | Specific aesthetics | Decor

🥩 | Headmate blogs:

Emory | Proton | Lance | Andrew

[phynali]

Tumblr tip sheet for twitter refugees

i’ve seen a lot of different advice posts but none that had what i consider all the key advice in one spot, so here we are. long post ahead.

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1. your dash can be put into reverse chronological order and it is a BETTER experience if you do that

Go to your settings -> Dashboard -> Preference

Turn “Best Stuff First” OFF

2. you can (and likely should!) turn off algorithmic content

Under the same menu. Settings -> Dashboard -> Preferences

There are two algorithms on tumblr.

One is “In your orbit” and I fucking hate it. i want to see the content that I like, not that some random person i follow likes. if i wanted to see that content on my dash, i’d follow the people who put it there.

The other is “based on your likes” and it is hilariously bad because if you like a post for something you don’t normally like or follow (e.g., when I watched a new movie and liked one post about it), you’ll suddenly get a dozen posts about that thing and only that thing.

I keep it on because it’s hilariously bad, but i honestly recommend turning it off. it routinely recommends shit to me that i hate and i have to keep telling it that i am “not interested in this post” for things tagged with my nOTP, but until / unless i filter that ship tag out entirely, i will keep being serviced those

3. filtering / blacklisting is your friend

this is true on every platform, not just tumblr. i’m sure veteran twitter users are well-versed in it, but just as a reminder. you will be expected to filter your own content/dash here on tumblr, and if you complain about seeing something that was properly tagged, you will be rightly mocked as a clown.

Settings -> Account -> Content You See

you can filter both tags and post content. There’s a completely innocuous post i absolutely hate that does rounds and is never tagged, and i almost unfollowed a mutual for how much i hate that post and them reblogging it so much. but i typed a specific sentence from that post into the “filtered post content” options and BOOM - haven’t seen it since. glorious.

4. content controls are your friend

under the same “Content You See” menu. You are automatically opted OUT of seeing this stuff, so you MUST opt in to see mature content.

you’ll want to determine your own preferences, but i prefer to see all of the mature content types that may be hit with a community label.

5. long posts are (probably) your friend

tumblr cuts posts over a few lines if you have this turned off, and it’s really annoying and really truncates your experience of the website. THIS is itself a long post!

part of the quintessential tumblr experience is being annoyed by the “do you love the color of the sky” post.

seriously, this isn’t twitter. we aren’t here for 280 character bite-sized posts. i 10/10 recommend keeping long posts on.

Settings -> Dashboard -> Interface

6. blog-specific settings

there is also a menu for additional settings (including updating the appearance etc) for each blog you have (your main, and any sideblogs).

this is near the end of your options under Settings -> Blog Settings (click the individual blog to update)

under your blog settings you can...

- enable your custom theme (which you should! this is turned off for new users but personalizing your page is part of the experience)

- decide if you want people to know what posts you’re liking and who you’re following. i do NOT, so these are off. internet privacy is allowed on tumblr, and don’t let anyone bully you into thinking you need to make everything public for their supervision. consume all the problematic content your little gremlin content desires and tell people to fuck off if they take issue with that.

- determine if and how others can interact with your blog!! there some settings about asks, messaging, tipping (if you’re here to make $$), whether people can even SEE your blog, if it’s searchable, etc. tumblr gives power and control back to the users! use that power!

here, you can specifically set your “Ask” preferences to on or off, and to accept or NOT accept asks from anonymous users / logged out users.

if you’re here to interact with friends or just vibe, or don’t reblog a lot of asks games or encourage anon inbox messages, and/or especially if you’re getting harasment and don’t want to deal with shitty users, it is okay to turn off anons, and i ENCOURAGE you to do so.

i keep it on for my fandom sideblogs and off for my main and this makes me happy. do what makes you happy.

7. etiquette and interface

- change your icon so no one thinks you’re a bot

- reblog posts so your account isn’t empty. also, with  algorithmic content turned off by most users, YOU are the algorithm, and interaction on this website is strongly encouraged. making or reblogging posts part of the experience and sort of the whole point

- reblog tagging: individual preferences apply. instead of adding a comment on a reblog, users will often add their thoughts in a tag, if they aren’t specifically looking to engage in a dialogue or add on to the post itself. other users can then decide to copy their tags (often with “prev” for “previous” appended) or even copy/paste them into a comment on their reblog, which is your tags “passing peer review”. people also tag to index posts so their blog is more searchable, and to include trigger warnings and content warnings related to a post. you can also choose to not tag anything. it’s your blog, do what you want.

- tags are how people find new content. if you make a new post and want people to find it, they will be searching the tag related to that content, so tag it accordingly. people can also follow tags and get notifications when new posts are made into that tag.

- do not censor words! this isn’t tiktok or twitter. we say ‘fuck’ and ‘kill’ here. if you write “unalive” or censor swears or triggers, people’s content filters do not work, and you will have undermined their ability to curate their content, moderate their experience, and avoid triggers. don’t do that. just spell out the whole goddamn word, please.

- you can make sideblogs under a single account! this means you have your main, which you interact (like, reply, and follow) from, but which can be used to have a space for all your posts and reblogs on a given topic (fandom, hobby, fixation, whatever). you can also direct message to/from a sideblog and accept asks etc.

- if you use tumblr in your browser, there is an add-on called XKIT. this used to be a tumblr user staple and allowed for a lot of functionality that tumblr didn’t used to have. tumblr has since very much upped their game, but it can still be worth using XKIT if you’re regularly in a browser and not on the app. for example, it includes some ad-blocking capabilities. I use “New Xkit” and have a few personalized settings with it.

- posts go around forever on this site and new memes crop up every day, retreat, and then resurge out of the blue randomly. this makes for tumblr-wide in-jokes that circulate for years, like “do you love the color of the sky” and the “color theory children’s hospital” post. if you don’t get these, you can ask and i’m sure tumblr will deliver, but you can also wait around and follow more people and these will turn up eventually.

- your dash is what you make it. your interaction is what you make it. you have control, you are not at the mercy of algorithms and advertisers if you don’t want to be. paying for ad-free browsing is an option. they even give you the option to toggled your ad settings within ad-free browsing. seriously - you. have. the. control.

this is something that we love about tumblr and one of the things that makes it our hellsite (affectionate) instead of our hellsite (derogatory). if you’re finding your experience to be negative but still want to stick around, i encourage you to block accounts or content that makes you unhappy or anxious, to follow the accounts that bring you joy, and to adjust your settings into whatever makes you happiest and least stressed out.

[shepherds-of-haven]

Hi!! The dashboard unfucker is honestly a godsend. It's like the update never happened. You need tampermonkey to use it but it's so easy to get the dashboard unfucker to work.

GASP. YOU ARE RIGHT! I just tried it and it was like magic 😭 Bless you for confirming this for me!!!

[transgenderboobs]

hello. making a proper post about this because i love attention

anyway. many years ago i wrote a fic called "shooting for the stars, desperately reaching for something in the dark" it was my first ever fanned fiction. it sucked so badly and i loved it so much <3 u may also recall i deleted it from ao3 ages ago with intentions to rewrite

well. good news! the rewrite is underway right here. unsure when it will be done, but it's coming ! this version sucks a lot less :)

[rddyatbat]

@oofuri2003 hi *.☆⸜(⑉˙ᗜ˙⑉)⸝♡.*

[rosenfieids]

holy shit.

alright, everybody dig up their funny soundalike names for benedict cumberbatch. we need them now more than ever.

[milkbreadtoast]

ive been seeing ppl rb my twsb art recently... but they dont leave any tags... *whines*...

[knightsofsomethingorother]

People wouldn't just lie on the internet, right?

(Guys you can just put your new ideas in your own art it's fine. You don't need to pretend it's an Established Thing from the before-times. The whole point of folklore is that it changes with each retelling.)

[eboni-napalm]

how it feels being older than 24 and still actively having a tumblr

[polarfarina]

"Seeing usernames/profile pics and being able to access previous reblogs of a post were distracting new users from reading posts" is the strangest logic you could have toward the complete removal of these features

If someone can't see past a username attached to a post.... I can't imagine anybody who goes online and says that's distracting. Literally every social media out there today tells you the username and profile pic of who is posting. Where is the indication that it would've worked better to remove that? What person is scrolling twitter only reading screen names??

[too-cool-for-facebook]

“Where’s the follower count?”

[sydmarch]

I miss tumblr repo fandom

[oldxenomorph]

top 5 fictional races/ancestries/species

top 5/top 10 anything.

xenomorphs (alien) MY BELOVEDS. MY SWEEITIES. MY DARLINGS. tries to hold them all in my arms. 😭 really a no-brainer considering my url lmao. i first watched alien and aliens when i was around 8. the formative impact h.r. giger's artwork and the xenomorph design had on little me was truly life changing. they will always be my favorites. i just think they're so beautiful, i was really glad when covenant got back to their original design. but i also love different variations like the queens, the deacon in prometheus, the neomorph in covenant, even the red ones i've seen from the comics. i give them each a lil kiss on their heads.

the reapers (mass effect) wouldn't be here without our favorite sentient starships that harvest organic life in the galaxy every 50,000 years. i love the design of the ships, of reaper technology itself, and their sound design. i think they are one of the best things about the mass effect series. some of my favorite moments are the ones involving the reapers: talking to soveriegn in me1, the reaper iff mission in me2, the opening of me3, menae/tuchanka/rannoch/thessia priority missions in me3. the leviathan dlc was my favorites because of that delicious reaper lore. i'm also a control ending apologist.

the outer ones/great old ones (cthulhu mythos) on one hand, you know how ol' howard phillips lovecraft was. but on the other, without him we wouldn't get the reapers, or the great ones in bloodborne, or even cosmic horror as a genre. that's why the outer ones/gread old ones are free real estate for everyone to use and as they see fit. it's been nearly a century since they were first written, i'm more interested in seeing how other folks (especially those of us who are othered in some way) interpret them. also they're an important part of the emperor's story (they're her literal family), so they deserve a place in this list.

tsimisce (vampire: the masquerade) me? liking creepy, inhuman, eldritch vampires? shocking. every time i've played v:tm with friends, i've always created a tsimisce. i love them, i think they are delightfully strange and creepy and lend themselves to the creativity of the player in just how weird they can get. i know the lore surrounding them in a mess at the moment (i mostly adhere to v20 rules and i haven't been paying attention to any of the new stuff but i hear things), but i also do love the history and internal politics of the clan from previous versions. everyone and everything's a mess, i love it. also thee dracula is canonically a tsimisce in v:tm and dracula is one of my favorite genders.

elvhen (dragon age) the dragon age lore is a mess and sometimes the writing is really clunky in typical bioware fashion, but i do really enjoy the elvhen. especially all the ancient elvhen that we've met that survived the collapse of the veil. (i've based my inquisitor on this with a little more eldritch seasoning and i've grown quite fond of her. i'm gonna miss playing her in da4, whenever that happens.... if that happens.) also inquisitor ameridan, i wish we had more time with him, but alas.

[captn-lovelace]

in like 4 days i’m going to be completely responsible for *teaching a whole ass college class* of 30 (mostly 1st year) students and their introduction to the subject of gender studies. that’s so intimidating! who am i to have that kind of power?! i’m so scared but excited

[morganaspendragonss]

tumblr should introduce a mandatory video game style tutorial because ohhhh my god some of you do not know how to use this website