I’m done with all the my exams and here is Lady Morgana enjoying a nice cup of wine? Tea? The blood of her enemies? Whatever helps her relax, cuz, lets be honest, she needs a break
Farfalle is honored to be today’s Fat Bear Friday Fat Bear Ambassador
While animal obesity is generally not good, bears and other animals that hibernate or live in cold water (like seals) are an exception because they need that fat to stay warm and/or survive the winter where they’ll go long periods without food. Chonky bears are a-ok!
"I would rather be me than be with you."
Merlin realized from Arthur's words that if Merlin could not be his truest self around Arthur, then he could no longer stay by his side.
A maybe strange AU where Merlin confesses, it doesn't go the way he expects, and he realizes that he wants to be with Arthur at his side, but wants to be himself more.
Now I'm curious about your original Blissful Ignorance AU vision. I'm assuming the heroes managed to take all Miraculouses away from Monarch. Did they let him get away and continue his life as Gabriel Agreste? Or maybe "Dad, why are you in jail?" / "Tax evasion." (and the trio are frantically hiding newspapers and such from Adrien)
My AU is very good and you are excellent for asking about it - Ladybug and Hawkmoth figure out each others identities, Ladybug wins, she takes the butterfly and lets Gabe go but he has to promise to be good or they'll tell Adrien his dad was a supervillain terrorist. Checkmate.
So then its like this:
Just found out my facebook birding group is public because my cousin (a lawyer who is not into birds) casually said to me “saw you couldn’t identify a willet the other day… pretty embarrassing”
Let me tell you, there's a queer club night in the UK called Gal Pals that caters exclusively to queer women and NBs and only plays music by women and when It's Raining Men came on last time you'd have thought the crowd was full of middle aged housewives. A banger is a banger is a banger, you just gotta let the music go innit
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
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 mean 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
This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:
"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"
Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.
No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.
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see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles
International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.
Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.
We don't talk about acid rain because there isn't any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.
We don't talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.
On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there's nothing to notice. But don't be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.
Now it's time to do that thing again and make sure that we don't kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.
it is insane how fucking tiny these buttons are did they not like. consider the concept of UI scaling like at all. did they not consider what theyd do if someone had a big monitor. what is this shit
why asre there two post buttons. why do i get little numbers next to 'home' and 'following' when btoh are giving me the exact same information. why is it that when you open the account view you have the exact same information on both sides of your screen. why is it that the activity popup obscuires the dashboard now instead of the 1000000 miles of empty space on my god damn desktop. did they not consider the concept of UI scaling at all?????
when i first saw people p[ostp about this i thought maybe they were overreacting because they hate twitter and change but like. whatever you think abotu the concept of 'putting all this shit on the left side of your screen' as a bold UI innovation or whatever in concept this shit is like. just straight up unfinished. like i legitimately dont understand how this was considered ready to roll out to users
why does the activity popup open on the ONE part of my screen i DONT want to be obscured when im using tumblr dot com!!
no seriously why is this information displayed twice one inch apart. im not being snarky when i say this genuinely just seems actually unfinished
dont talk to me or my three (3) 'activity' buttons that show up when you're already on the activity page ever again
I am very anti 'doctors note'.
Why should you have to pay money to beg someone you don't know to 'legitimize' what you already know?
If you are sick, injured, having a mental health issue, even if you're just tired, your word should be enough. You know your limits best.
Anyways fuck capitalism.
well we had a terrible run guys. just absolutely godawful. the worst anyones ever done it. i forgot where i was going with this
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What did they do to the dashboard?!??? Why are there things on the left of the dash now?? Can I make it stop?!?
im sure someone with an actual UI/UX degree can explain this better than me but:
a. idk what this logo is doing in the middle. given the majority of the left hand side column is left-aligned i think that's what you should've done with the logo too b. this menu needs bigger font and larger spacings. when you have this much blank space below it looks unnecessarily crowded c. at this point you have a middle-aligned logo, left-aligned menu and right-aligned new post button. sure you know that's bad... it's like they were designed by three different teams at three diff companies.... d. there's no reason to leave this big square of dead space to the left of the discovery menu esp since we're expected to scroll through the discovery menu that's already too big to fit into the same screen? e. the margins and paddings here look very odd. the "Manage..." on top right has a 0px margin between itself and the lil grey line. the new post menu on bottom right has about 15px, everything on the right hand side has about 8px. im pretty sure if your margins are consistent it'd look better f. also the "Following | For you | Your tags etc etc" received the biggest font in this whole layout but shouldn't the visual focus be put on the actual content itself?
literally why have you done this?! (ignore the pink, the pink was my choice, im talking about the layout)
