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Shall We Play A Game?

@koalas-cave

Sometimes I'll post something I think is alright • Koala • she/he/they • pansexual • resident fashionable nerd

my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

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i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it's great. two dashboards for life

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wow! i was really hoping someone would organically reverse-engineer this and find that dash.

here are a few other "secret" dashboards:

these are all just taking existing feeds of content and putting them in a dashboard-like format... the "Stuff for you" tab/feed is the same idea.

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Just added “Likes”: an easy way to let people know that you like their posts.

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dogelectorate

This is going to change the game

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You don't remember my old url....? O-oh.. no its fine. I said its fine! Don't... don't touch me.

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*trips while I'm running away and you get a panty shot*

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Huh

Can you believe they tried to monetize this shit

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Ok I'll go fuck myself

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@staff I absolutely fucking hate snoozing tumblrlive every 7 days and it negatively impacts my user experience and pisses me off every time.

the last two times i snoozed it it didn't actually go away either

It really adds insult to injury that every time the damn thing pops back up I go into my dashboard settings and "snooze tumblr live" is still toggled on. Like a little testament to my futile wishes and how this isn't how display preferences are meant to work. So I have to turn it OFF, which refreshes the page, then scroll all the way back down and turn it on AGAIN.

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Just added “Likes”: an easy way to let people know that you like their posts.

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dogelectorate

This is going to change the game

how to train your dragon can be classified as a horse girl movie. misunderstood child is a misfit and is disliked by peers, doesn’t do well in school. child finds solace in company of a four legged animal which child then trains secretly in a secluded environment. there’s an edgy love interest and comic relief friends. parent disapproves of this animal due to past experiences, but animal/child prove themselves to family and receive affection/heartfelt confession. 

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hey what's up with the "!" in fandoms? i.e. "fat!" just curious thaxxx

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I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

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woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

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I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

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Maybe it’s something mathematical?

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

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“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang"when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang"s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

Word for today: bang path

The use of exclamation points to distinguish between variations of a character or name

Anonymous asked:

TIL that hormone replacement therapy is used by older women when going through the menopause to ease symptoms. i learnt this from my mother who is a retired nurse who is now a medical advocate for older women and she's big mad about how hrt has been demonised the scary "trans treatment" when in her mind its a marvellous bit of modern medicine that can improve the lives of so many for whatever reasons they need it. more estrogen (or testosterone) for all!

Yup cis men and cis women are prescribed testosterone, estrogen, etc for a variety of reasons.

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just a reminder that cis people who are receiving hormones to feel more like themselves are receiving GENDER AFFIRMING CARE. in fact, most of the people who receive gender affirming care are CIS PEOPLE.

joe rogan talks about taking testosterone all the time to feel more like a man = gender affirming care

old men taking boner pills cause they can’t get it up = gender affirming care

cis women taking spironalactone for their pcos = gender affirming care

women who reached menopause taking hormones = gender affirming care

gender affirming care is actually SO INCREDIBLY NORMAL and trans people are the ones getting demonized for it.

when you set out on the path of revenge, dig two graves. you never know when the other guy might’ve cloned himself

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i feel like ur speaking from experience

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weird coincidence, i also feel like ur speaking from experience

<|⟩:^(

File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

[ID. A tweet from @ GianmarcoSoresi. "Ran into someone from my high school who told me they had recently transitioned and I was over the moon bc I had forgotten their name." End ID.]