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@morphimus / morphimus.tumblr.com

Call me Morph or Zora [she/her] (Age: adult) Artist, occasional musician, and frequent reblogger of shitposts. If you don't like Homestuck you probably won't like my blog.
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Two Adults, Four Cats, One Motel Room and No Choice
We are two adults with disabilities trying to survive a housing crisis while keeping our fuzzy family safe and sound. Things have been quite
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Some friends of mine are struggling to afford food and basic necessities. Any donation helps. Reblogs/signal boosts appreciated.

They don't use tumblr so I'm posting this on their behalf. And I know y'all are hypervigilant about scam donation posts on this website, but I can vouch for this one being real. I know these folks. (This is the fifth iteration of this post, since PayPal donation pools don't last forever.)

Special offer: anyone who donates $50 or more, I will draw something for you! Send me a tumblr message with a screencap or other confirmation of your donation, and tell me what you want me to draw.

I can draw:

  • furries
  • humans
  • funny little witches
  • creatures
  • homestucks
  • YOUR OCs
  • your favorite blorbo
  • SAUCY not-safe-for-work DRAWINGS (will not post publicly)
  • anything (if I put my mind to it! :D )

Here's a sample of my art so you know what you're getting:

#jmc#fundraiser#donations#donation post#signal boost#morphimus' art#please donate#artists on tumblr
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prokopetz

Whatever else one might think about indie game developers, ocasionally you've gotta admire the audacity. Like, hey, remember that piece of interactive fiction we made that was available exclusively via Xbox Arcade for a period of eight months in 2009, has never been re-released, and which has, according to our own sales data, been played by roughly 500 people on the entire planet? Yeah, we're putting out a game in the year 2023 where understanding the plot critically requires that you've played that thing.

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heightsofmadness

Not even just indie devs! The conclusion of Guilty Gear Strive hinges, at least partly, on the nature of a weapon that was assembled in a Japan-only pachinko game that happened to have visual novel elements.

#prokopetz#guilty gear#video games#guilty gear strive
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lyridmeteorshower

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

  • Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.
  • Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.
  • Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.
  • Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:
  • Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

  • Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.
  • The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top
  • You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.
  • Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up
  • You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff
  • You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.
  • Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

  • Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog
  • Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.
  • If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.
  • You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"
  • Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.
  • Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.
  • We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.
  • Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

  • Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.
  • Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.
  • Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it
  • You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.
  • Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.
  • Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit
  • You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.
  • Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.
  • Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.
  • If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal
  • Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

  • Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension
  • In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.
  • You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!
  • Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs
  • Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

#reddit#tumblr#social media
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Two Adults, Four Cats, One Motel Room and No Choice
We are two adults with disabilities trying to survive a housing crisis while keeping our fuzzy family safe and sound. Things have been quite
paypal.com

Some friends of mine are struggling to afford food and basic necessities. Any donation helps. Reblogs/signal boosts appreciated.

They don't use tumblr so I'm posting this on their behalf. And I know y'all are hypervigilant about scam donation posts on this website, but I can vouch for this one being real. I know these folks. (This is the fifth iteration of this post, since PayPal donation pools don't last forever.)

Special offer: anyone who donates $50 or more, I will draw something for you! Send me a tumblr message with a screencap or other confirmation of your donation, and tell me what you want me to draw.

I can draw:

  • furries
  • humans
  • funny little witches
  • creatures
  • homestucks
  • YOUR OCs
  • your favorite blorbo
  • SAUCY not-safe-for-work DRAWINGS (will not post publicly)
  • anything (if I put my mind to it! :D )

Here's a sample of my art so you know what you're getting:

#donations#fundraiser#signal boost#reblogging this again
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lyridmeteorshower

Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo

We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.

What's happening?

Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.

In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.

Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?

Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.

What do us Tumblr users do?

Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.

I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?

CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.

Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot

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saltyflump

This is one of the first posts I've seen after trying to look at Tumblr again, so I've decided to head their advice and reblog this. I don't even know what a reblog is but I'll find out in time. It's a learning process

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lyridmeteorshower

a reblog is what you just did! it's similar to a retweet on twitter and it's the main way things spread on tumblr

#reddit#tumblr#social media
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fatestayyuri

whenever you ask your friend who’s really into JRPGs “hey which one do i start with is the newest one fine” they always go “no, what you gotta do is head on over to ebay and look up the entry that completely bombed commercially. You’ll see that it goes for $800. Close ebay. Download an emulator for a console no younger than 17 years old. Download the ROM, and also this laundry list of various tweaks, retextures, and QoL tweaks. Pull up this exact spoiler-free guide put up a decade ago from GameFAQs, and you’ll experience the best game this series has to offer.” Like???

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starredforest

And they’re right

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prokopetz

Don’t forget that you specifically want the unlocalised Japanese ROM so that you can apply a fan-made English translation patch published in 1998 by a guy with a dick joke for a screen handle because the official localisation was delayed for 20 years due to licensing issues and totally butchers the script by removing all the late 1990s pop culture references.

#JRPG#video games#prokopetz