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Helena, Sapphic, She/Her, Slovakia 🇸🇰, INFP, I don't tag (I'm sorry), I say 'Ciao' a lot

Imagine being the only person alive who can say this

buzz aldrin and neil armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon and when people were confused they’d go “guess you had to have been there”

Things that can put the fear of god into a tumblr user:

- commenting 'this post feels like it has 10k notes'

- telling OP you're investing in their posts

- tagging it as a heritage post or even tagging @hellsite-hall-of-fame

- writing the absolute worst take known to man in the comment section so OP can prepare for a week long argument taking place in their notes

- making OP realize that they made a penis typo and it's too late to correct it

@hellsite-hall-of-fame i’m investing OP, this has 10k notes to me :)

#heritagepost

i love nitpicking worldbuilding i think it’s one of the great pleasures of reading and it’s a great way to read with friends. me and my best friend read asoiaf together and then they would call me on the phone and say things like why does the ostensibly steppe-inspired nomadic culture not have women only spaces and social groups and id say i don’t know. how are these people growing peas without regular seasons and don’t get me started on the roses again. and do you expect me to believe that the maiden in the vale and the maiden in oldtown are interchangeable figures? and what about dialects???? and then we would just infodump on each other while implying that george should have thought to consult us

i do think i overall would agree with the redditors that george is good at worldbuilding, in that he makes a world that has a real FEEL to it, you can get your teeth into it is not a nothing-world and the blank spots and oversights do not in themselves necessarily make the world feel less real, just more frustrating. i think it’s effective in what needs to be accomplished but it is not rigorous and it does routinely make me want to bite him. it is simultaneously good world building and sloppy world building. the dialectic

i cant believe this

You can’t believe it because it’s not true. Tumblr puts a comma after the thousands place, so an unedited screenshot would read “2,406 notes” - that’s how you can tell that this screenshot has been altered.

The actual post only got 42 notes. Someone made this forgery to make it look like more people follow the staff.

I was looking at seagull stickers for my instagram story and I came across seagulls saying supportive things like "You matter! <3" and that's the first time I've gone "He would not fucking say that" over an animal. These birds are fueled by spite. They would yell slurs if they could. Not even the right ones. A seagull would call an old lady a faggot they don't care

The illusion of choice and all that

@staff this is truly a basis for me to never open tumblr desktop again so if that was you guy's aim congrats, you nailed it!!!! Now if you wanted to keep "what makes Tumblr unique" you have never failed better

Declutter Tumblr

The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I'm sure it'll give more options soon.

Vanilla Tumblr:

(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn't have any. I'm EU so no Live for me).

Xkit Rewritten Tumblr:

The settings I use: