Estinien: "What? I don't have feelings for the Warrior of Light. Why would I?"
Aymeric & Haurchefant: "Why WOULDN'T you????"
my autopsy results came back inconclusive
theyre not even sure what i am
Binderary week 3! This is the magical Flower King by @landwriter <3 Gorgeous art by @fishfingersandscarves (thank you for letting me include it!)
This fic is the epitome of fairy tale Dreamling! It plays with the traditional fairy tale structure in delightful ways and has just the most beautiful winter atmosphere. Gloam's prose is so musical and haunting--truly the best kind of story to tell around a fire, or tucked up warm in bed!
Details and more pics under the cut <3
love david and goliath being like one of the main bible stories for kids. like yeah you might be small but with god on your side you can kill someone with a rock
Oh so when golden boy David does it, he’s heroic and a man after God’s own heart, but when I, CAIN-
Sleeping isnt enough for me. they need to invent sleeping 2
Here you go. The Good Omens S2 Episode 1 title sequence, by Peter Anderson Studios, music by David Arnold. We warned you it was madder than the S1 titles, and it is. I think it's really good.
this doesn’t have a fake answer and i know earnest polls get reblogged less. but uh…… what if i ask nicely.
My fragile body and overzealous mind cannot handle the amount of Content I wish to produce.
Removing the ability to go directly to a specific reblog is a disastrously bad change! I can no longer engage with it when someone reblogs a post referencing the previous reblog's tags, which is, if you somehow missed it, a very common way people interact with each other on tumblr. I also often end up following new people because my mutuals regularly reblogged from them and they have interesting tag commentary; if I can't click through and look at their tags anymore, I'm not going to naturally find new people to interact with, which seems like the kind of thing that tumblr should want to incentivize rather than actively prevent?
I'm aware that this was not your decision personally, in the sense that you were apparently unaware of it at first, but it's a very bad decision, it makes my user experience of the site much worse, and I am going to use multiple avenues available to me to register a complaint about it in order to emphasize this badness!
Whatever this change is supposed to achieve, do something else to achieve it that doesn't remove the ability to actually look at specific posts.
a lot of changes we make won’t be well received by people who have survived the kinda insane ways this site works as-is. that’s the price we have to pay to help make tumblr a growing platform.
i’m sorry, it sucks, i don’t like it either, i’m also someone who’s been using this site for over 10 years and i’m used to the way it’s been working for most of that time. it’s a challenge for me to accept that tumblr isn’t actually working right now for the vast majority of people, who aren’t as vocal as we are.
please do send in feedback, but try to understand that most of what you’re describing is behavior you learned the hard way, and we can’t keep tumblr around if “the way to effectively use tumblr” is learned the hard way.
Just to clarify here, what changed on Web (not the apps yet) is that tapping the blog name in the reblog chain is going to take you to the blog now, not the post.
I get it too, that’s not how Tumblr works, but if you look at everywhere else, that’s how it works over there.
It’s tough to lose this piece of Tumblr’s DNA, but it’s even worse to know that some parts of that DNA don’t make sense to new users. We lose those new users, we lose any funding they would have brought in, and some day, because of that, we’ll lose Tumblr.
But, all is not lost. Tapping the blog name in the reblog chain will now take you to the blog, but tapping any of the white space in the header of the reblog post will still take you to the post.
Can that be clearer? I believe so, and fortunately it’s being worked on.
One step at a time, to a more sustainable Tumblr, where maybe a few more things are less confusing to new users.
Hey @macmanx, thanks for this response. I understand this is still part of a larger change, but I feel like you're still failing to understand what the actual usecase is here. Tapping on the white space in the header of the reblog post absolutely does not do the same thing that people are talking about.
We're talking about the ability to see, on our dashboard, the post that the person we're following reblogged *from*. this post almost certainly did not contain any reblog comments, but it still exists. there is now no way to access it.
This is especially problematic because when users reblog posts, they often add sotto voce comments in the tags and respond to other comments the person they're reblogging from has added. with no way to see the post someone is reblogging from, there's no way to understand what those tags are responding to.
Here's an example at random from my dashboard, literally 5 posts above this one:
Where do I click to see the post by toastling that my friend Estufar is referring to?
In this case, the post was made recently, and it "only" has 237 notes, so I could maybe open up the full notes view and try to piece together which post by toastling she might have reblogged (not a guarantee! maybe toastling reblogged the post three different times, and now I need to figure out specifically which one of those reblogs estufar was looking at—the old link would have made this possible, the new link makes it impossible)
This change isn't just harder to find, the actual information provided has been removed from the UI entirely and is now accessible only through direct API inspection.
Does that make sense? Do you see how "tapping any of the white space in the post header" isn't actually solving the problem of being able to go to the *previous* post in the chain? There's a critical user need that's been erased with this update, and that's what's causing the pain.
Hey all! I’m the lead artist on a new high-fantasy mecha-pilot ttrpg called Aether Nexus! It launched on Kickstarter yesterday, and just hit its initial funding goal. Check it out if this sort of thing sounds like your jam.
I’m hoping we can hit some of those stretch goals, so I can draw things like A Very Edgelord Mecha and A Mushroom with a Gun.
all messed up with nowhere to go by girlbookwrm, binding by DCB Bindery (dontcallmebree)
Summary: “You make me promise to try, every time before we say goodbye. “Whatever happens, you always stand up, Steve.” And I will. I'll try, Buck. I'll try to pick up where you left off." After the Snap, Steve starts writing in Bucky’s journal.
Specs: Full leather binding, false shoulders, oxford hollow, gold made endpapers, white endbands, 117 pages, A6.
A heartbreaking and incredibly grounded take on life after the Snap that puts in the work of seeing everything through. Thanks @girlbookwrm for letting me bind your gorgeous work!
On the process: An attempt at a full leather binding to close out Binderary! So many things went wrong with this one, before I even got to the torture that was dealing with leather. Learned that I really like the oxford hollow and really hate working with this leather specifically.
The typeset was probably my favorite part, because I knew I wanted it to look like the journal they’re writing in. Bringing that to life was really fun and I’m quite happy with how it turned out!
this weed tastes like the lake I nearly drowned in as a kid
I've been staring at these tags for a while @persnicketypansy.
I think it's also worth mentioning that the strain was called Skittles. Which was my favorite candy growing up
Four years ago today, Good Omens Season 1 dropped. Back then we were so young and innocent we just called it Good Omens.
