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Yeah i’m not   concerned about ball lightning. Or really any unexplained atmospheric phenomena. Anyway goodnight man

(I put my phone down and fall asleep. Shortly afterwards a sphere of electricity floats into my room through my open window, and explodes)

Quiet please, the Lemon Raspberry Loaf is sleeping.

RIP Carrie Fisher you would’ve loved sticking it to the man during the actors’ strike

some ppl on here honestly need a refresher on the us govt's current and historical imperialist bomb apologia. these positions have included, in various combinations and permutations:

-it was a tragedy, but a necessary and gravely chosen one

-it was a few scientists gone rogue, disobeying the noble orders of the us govt

-it was the us govt gone rogue, deviating from the noble aims of the good scientists

-it ended the war

-japan brought it upon their own civilians by being a belligerent and warlike nation

-the scientists felt really bad about it

-the scientists later got unfairly scapegoated for having been leftists (yes this is a real thing people still say about physicists who explicitly deliberately worked for the us govt)

-it was still a scientific achievement, though the knowledge gained was used immorally

-it was a horrible mistake and everyone learned an important lesson

-they underestimated how many japanese would be murdered, disabled, or injured, and wouldn't have dropped bombs if they'd known

-it saved lives 'in the long run'

if you are repeating any of these things in regards to a christopher nolan film based on a revisionist history explicitly aimed to 'redeem' j robert oppenheimer's legacy, then congrats! you are not immune to propaganda!

According to Dal, energy shields have a smell.

Debate time: what do energy shields smell like?

[person 500 years ago knitting a sock] O Sister Margaret, regale me again with the tale of Vicar Wesley's scandalous elopement with the baker's daughter!

[me today knitting a sock] O Youtuber Hbomberguy, regale me again with the tale of SHERLOCK IS GARBAGE, AND HERE'S WHY

The Jedi are just like "I'm going to induct SO many children into my Janissary cult"

Some of my favorite ways to say I'm mentally ill without saying what it is:

See also:

Now wtf is going on with Warner Brothers this week?

Hey I heard Andorians have an exoskeleton so do they... Molt. Like crabs

Archer, finding the empty husk of his bestie: SHRAN........

Shran, slightly taller, drinking a smoothie: oh hey lol

So bachelor in Finnish is just “boyman” (poikamies)? That’s hilarious. So you can say “Sä oot niin poikamies”. (“You’re such a boyman.”)

The apartment in which a single man lives is a poikamiesboksi, a boy man box.

Ah, but let’s not forget bachelorette: rather than being the logical tyttönainen (girl woman), it is poikamiestyttö (boy man girl).

Nearing 30K - Let's keep it up!

There he is

The bear in area

His arrival was foretold in ancient murals

I'm not giving context for this because it's funnier that way.

Joining Ted Cruz's war on Barbie on the side of Barbie.

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

Something I see mentioned often is "I don't have many followers, my reblog won't matter" which is untrue.

First of all, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could go in the long run.

For instance, let's say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!

You see, it does not matter if you don't have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.

As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it'll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don't have many followers and so it doesn't matter if you don't reblog is UNTRUE.

Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it's beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn't know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!

So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you're not 'big' or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!

P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :'D <3

TL;DR

Reblogging is absolutely the only thing that helps the site function. Unlike all other social media, likes are nothing here. They are meaningless. Reblogs are the only way to truly say you like something. The only way to make the site work as intended. I know it feels weird, that likes are soooo important on other sites like Instagram and TikTok. This is the anti Instagram. The anti TikTok. Tumblr needs reblogs to thrive. It's like water to a thirsty critter in the desert. Please 🥺 help the thirsty critters!

Okay, but this data shows nothing. Like...I can't find statistics, but I think it's generally understood that Tumblr had vastly more active users in 2014 than it does in 2023. And we don't know whether the posts that OP are showing from 2014 and 2023 are even remotely comparable in subject or user interest, or whether they're made by blogs with similar numbers of followers, or indeed, when most of the reblogs occurred (bear in mind that the one from 2014 has had nine extra years to accrue reblogs, and yeah, mostly they occur within a few days, but I've absolutely had 'dead' posts randomly catch fire on me in the past). As it is, we're just looking at pretty pictures whilst someone shouts "SEE!?!"

“It's taboo to admit that you're lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven't left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you're not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are. A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn't transition well to adult life, that you'd fall right through the cracks. And look at you now, it's happening.”

Heres a link to Ryan O'Connell's original piece

For context hes a writer and actor who's gay and has cerebral palsy.

I can't believe all this time, we have been walking over a piece of history.