this isn’t cursed its precious and i think i speak for everyone when i say we appreciate that fact

My intention isn’t to BOSS people around. But people who don’t create on tumblr really have to understand that if creators stop posting here, you won’t have anything else to like but maybe memes. If you want content to circle around to your dashboard… you have to pay it forward and reblog. That is why this website is dying. The Ban is not the only reason.

And its like…. people dont even fucking realize how special tumblr is

Tumblr doesn’t have verified checkmarks. Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm to you show ❝The Best Stuff❞. Tumblr doesn’t display how many followers you have. Tumblr isn’t obsessed with subscriptions. 

Tumblr is an even playing field compared to websites like Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Which means its up to us, the users, to spread the word of people we enjoy– the way the internet should be.

I’m not asking you to reblog shit you don’t like. I’m not asking you to reblog everything out of pity. But when you see a post you genuinely like, reblog it.

I think so many people mistake the ‘you should reblog’ message with ‘I’m greedy and all I want is notes’ when it’s really not at all like that.

When creators say they’re discouraged from creating because their posts get no notes, they don’t mean they will refuse to create unless their last edit reaches at least 1k notes. What they mean is that the effort they’re putting into creating something purely out of inspiration and the need to share their passion and creativity with the world is being consumed and forgotten, just like it is on Instagram. Tumblr has changed from having an even reblog-like ratio, or even twice as many reblogs as likes, to being another social media where users consume content instead of sharing it.

We’re not trying to force you to reblog everything or want you to fill your blog with things you don’t like. But Tumblr is built on reblogs and likes. This is not a fast-food company where you can order something, consume it, and then throw it away. The very base of this website is sharing, as opposed to Instagram. Here, likes don’t give our posts exposure, reblogs do.

Notes are not the problem, the fact that you want new content without supporting creators is. So yeah, don’t be surprised if creators stop creating because nobody wants to share their creations.

One more text post and I'm done, I promise.

A few people seemed to like my Talladega Nights fan art. I want to do more… but I have no ideas. If there’s anyone in this crazy world who actually enjoyed that little drawing I did and has other ideas/requests I would be happy to draw them.

It helps if the idea includes Jean Girard because if you can’t tell I’m completely in love with Sacha Baron Cohen….

Please! This movie received so little love for the ground it broke, both serious and comedy-wise. I’d love to see more, and since you’re offering, I’ll just have to take you up on it

If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”

Freeloader Comin’ through!

We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).

And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.

Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.

Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker. 

Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:

Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature

Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu

And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”

And then just refreshed the page

Reblogging to save my life

saving a life

Reblog if you’re not afraid to have a picture of our lord and savior in your blog

your secrets are safe with me because i will forget all of them immediately

You know a twist I want to see and that I think would be cool?

You take the typical formula of ‘protagonist and friends are tasked powerful/ancient being/person to find the MacGuffins and keep them from the antagonists because bad things will happen if they get them’ and flip it on its head.

Spend the time building up the antagonists as such(throw in a legend of how the two ancient forces clashed over the MacGuffins until good triumphed over evil and sealed them, just for good measure to drive the point home), give the protagonists no reason to distrust who or whatever is sending them on the quests. Make it seem clear who the good guys and bad guys are.

And then throw the twist at us.

It was a lie. The protagonists, who thought they were doing good, were tricked.

The one who wants to use the MacGuffins for Nefarious Purposes™ isn’t the antagonists/who the antagonists were working for, but who the protagonists were working for. And they unknowingly helped them do it. That legend they were told was true and did happen, but the roles were swapped.

Protagonists always seem to just, automatically trust the character that swoops in and goes ‘hey, they want these for bad things, help me stop them’. So what would happen if that initial meeting was all a lie?

I think it would be something neat to see, especially if pulled off properly.

Can I write this for you author-san

Go right ahead ^.^

Why thank you ouo

something like this happens in Okami, albeit on a smaller scale. Rao, the priestess in Sei-An, wants to recover the Fox Rods, a mystical artifact, because the Arc Villain wants to use them to do evil things. she gives us a story about their insane magical powers and how they were used to rid the world of evil. when you actually get the fox rods in game, Rao shows up to take them and obviously, you give them to her, because she’s the arc protagonist who’s going to save the city with the power of colored tubes strapped together. then you receive a vision of Rao being attacked, so you go to help her out, thinking, hey, Arc Villain is trying to take the fox rods, go stop bad guy! you go to save rao and go on a short-ish sequence of well crawling to enter the palace, where you find the queen’s been murdered. rao’s there, hi rao, are you okay sweetie? you don’t like rao anymore so you attack her, and rao reveals that she was actually Not-Rao, aka the Arc Villain, the whole time, and the vision you saw of Rao getting attacked was when actual Rao got killed and bodysnatched by Arc Villain, who then uses the fox rods to regain their true powers of dark evil spooky things and reveals that the fox rods were Very Bad. it’s an interesting twist and nobody cares about this game anymore but i just thought i’d say it even though nobody will ever see this

Katsuya Suou. Reblog if you agree.

The whole self love thing is good and all but some people can’t fathom being loved. They can’t imagine there being anything good about them. So they can’t simply just stop doing unhealthy things, there’s a process.

Before self love you have to invoke self tolerance and self neutrality.

If you can’t say “I love my body!” say “my body gets me from place to place.”

If you can’t say “I’m beautiful,” begin by shutting down the “I’m ugly” thoughts and saying “I’m a person.”

If you can’t say “I’m valuable” begun by shutting down the “I’m worthless” thoughts and say “all people deserve basic respect, and I’m a person.”

If you can’t say “I’m important,” or “I’m kind” say “I am the one who waters my plant every week” or “I am the one who tips the kind barista down the street” or “I am the one who makes sure my dog does not eat plastic” or “I am the one who leaves long comments on people’s fan fictions.”

This is so important. I’m still in the middle section but gosh it’s so much better than where I was before

ive seen people add “real” guns to splatoon shitposts, so why dont we add splatoon guns to normal shitposts

somethin like this

I won’t hesitate, fish

WHY IS THIS ON MY DASH

@icyanz

where’s the one with bugs bunny leaning against a rail

this is the most underrated part of rockin’ and rollin’ yoda

Luke’s face is what makes this.

*sips tea* Let this spread all over Tumblr.

I fully and wholeheartedly endorse this. MAKE. IT. PRIVATE. It’s not that hard.

this fandom still out here falling over all these military mcu heroes but still acting like Rhodey don’t outrank most if not all of them outside of Nick Fury. 

I honestly forgot what his rank was so I just looked it up and FUCKing lieutenant colonel. He’s nearly a god damned fullbird. In what universe would he take orders from a fake captain holy shit

Don’t quote me on this but I’m pretty sure that rhodey DOESN’T outrank Steve cause Steve’s army and rhodey’s air force

No, that is incorrect. USAF Colonel (pay grade O-6) outranks an Army Captain (pay grade O-3) by 3 ranks. You might be thinking of a US Navy Captain (pay grade O-6), which has a rank equivalent to an Army, Marine, or USAF Colonel. (A captain in the US Army, Marines, or Air Force has the rank equivalent of a US Navy lieutenant. Both are pay grade O-3.)

Steve, Sam, and Bucky aren’t US military any more. I won’t talk about Carol or Maria to avoid spoilers. Again, Rhodey (active or retired) and Fury (retired) are the only characters entitled to be addressed by their ranks.

Apologies to OP for hijacking, but to reiterate their original point about the total lack of respect Rhodey gets from fandom: 

(1) Rhodey is a goddamn full bird Colonel.

(2) Rhodey was promoted from Lt. Colonel to Colonel at the end of IM3. He’s been a full bird Colonel for nearly 6 years, but fandom still gets his rank wrong. (Props failure in Age of Ultron is partly to blame. But this is the same fandom that tried to figure out every ribbon on Steve’s WWII uniform, so props failure as an excuse doesn’t really fly, imho.)

(3) Rhodey outranks everybody except Fury, who is also a full bird Colonel, Retired (and so goddamn tired).

Okay, but also? Fandom doesn’t understand the POWER Rhodey wields.

Colonels are the highest ranking field officers.

Next stop are the General Officer ranks, at which point Rhodey is fast tracked to running the damn Air Force in a couple more years, or become the Chief of Staff. Or, he could aim low and preside over a treaty organization.

Like NATO.

But that’s if he gets promoted. The US only allows a low percentage of the Air Force to hit General, so they stop a soldier at Colonel and groom them for taking over those massive positions.

They placed him over the Avengers, a now international special-ops pseudo-military organization with the heaviest hitters in Earth. Rhodey has to negotiate with heads of state, heads of various militaries and government agencies, and treaty organizations. Rhodey wields more power than any other US colonel, and has more functional authority than a freaking CHIEF OF STAFF in case of metahuman/extraterrestrial emergency.

You can damn well bet that James Rhodes, Warmachine, Iron Patriot, and legendary military fucking rockstar, is getting custom tailored to take over NATO–or primed to track to a Chief of Staff. Running the fucking entire Air Force and a chunk of the combined US military will be a cakewalk to what he already does.

Might even be a step down. Afterall?

He Can Pull Rank On Anybody In Any Military.

Any.

Military.

Even ignoring that, Colonels oversee battalions, with about 4 to 5 THOUSAND people reporting to him.

Rhodey commands a mini-fucking-army all on his lonesome as a regular Colonel in the USAF.

Tony is filthy rich and has economic might, but he doesn’t have the raw extent of power Rhodey does.

Steve and Sam would be his minions, and too far down the chain to even directly report to him.

None of the other Avengers rank Steve, who is so far down the chain he’d be “Sir”-ing Rhodey or addressing him by rank every damn sentence, so I won’t even waste my words on them.

It’s like this: James Rhodes runs house, even over his superiors.

He is the embodiment of the Colonel Badass trope.

Boom.

Dropped a tank at your feet.

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!

IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

now we enter the testing phase

yup. looks good.

Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

*roar sound effect*

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

There’s more!

as someone who works at Toys R Us (CANADA) it delights me to see these girls get adopted