One thing I’m really looking forward to is Avatrice in the best-friends-in-love dynamic. Which is a very specific kind of relationship, I feel, it’s not just, “oh they’re girlfriends now”, they’re also still best friends, they just added a romantic layer to that relationship. They still joke around, get exasperated, yell at each other, tease and banter, they’re each other’s first person to go to when something happens. They know each other very well. They call each other out on their shit. They feel profoundly comfortable in each other’s presence. I want to see those interactions. They’re best friends and they’re in love. Doesn’t get any better than that.

we need to go back to hating tumblr. no more hellsite (affectionate). don't even think of giving these clowns your money. if i see you with a checkmark next to your name i'm opening fire

*sound of gun cocking* they can be disabled

tumblr's current business model isn't profitable and never will be and no amount of scolding from staff blogs or tumblr ad-free pay piggies is gonna fix that. don't let yourself be guilted into buying merch, badges or ad-free. you're throwing your money into a bottomless pit while the techbro ghouls running this website laugh about you at their next board meeting while applauding the shmucks coming up with new ideas on how to twitter- or tiktokify the website

''but tumblr needs to make money!!!''

if tumblr really wants its regular user onboard with keeping the website afloat then we should at least demand that they do the bare minimum in keeping the site functional. and right now, they're not even doing that. every change they've made lately has made the website/app worse. i should give my money to tumblr so what—they can make a more intrusive version of tumblr live? remove the chronical dashboard? come up with an even more transphobic way of doing content moderation? yeah, no thanks

Hello everyone.

DID YOU KNOW

tumblr currently has 4.1 stars on the App Store?

Did you know that it could be LOWER?

Protest the update! Leave a review today!

Hey guys what if we got tumblr deleted from the App Store?

If tumblr is getting rid of reblog chains and other tumblr specific stuff then how will people make funny conversational posts that get reposted to Twitter and get hundreds of thousands of likes?

Staff, you do realize that the weird uniqueness of tumblr is what draws outsiders to it in the first place, right? When I came here from Twitter a couple of months ago do you know how long it took me to get adjusted? One day. One day was all it took to figure out tags and reblog chains and whatever and appreciate it more than all of the other sites I use.

Nobody wants tumblr to be Twitter. Not even people who have literally only ever used Twitter.

here’s a little comparison for people who say engagement hasn’t gotten that bad and anyone who complains is ungrateful.

these are two posts from my first go round on tumblr circa 2014-2017, my most popular gifset of all time

& a text post

notice how the ratio is about even on likes to reblogs?

here’s from this go around, my most popular gifset

and my most popular fic

do you see how that’s discouraging?

i love being on this site. i love the little community i’ve found and the people who follow me and the mutuals i’ve made friendships with and the mutuals that i’m still getting to know. i love it. but at a certain point it’s hard to justify spending so much time on works that get bad engagement.

reblog, comment, send asks. without them, this site doesn’t work.

I saw a tweet that said: "having a comfort character is so weird cause you either want to be them or you want to date them"

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Wrong!!!! I want to open their head and analyse my comfort character's brain. AND I WOULD ALSO WANT TO BE THEIR PERSON THERAPIST, because i understand them better than they understand themselves.

Yes tara my fav little guy, i'm talking about you :3

the thing is this dashboard change isnt the end of the world ill get used to it whatever im just fucking dying of embarrassment that its supposed to look like twitter

twitter gets run over by a bus and the next day tumblr comes 2 school wearing her clothes like. oh my god come on

tumblr staff why the fuck would you change things on the autism website you know we wont like it

"this episode contains medical ableism"? You don't say! Babygirl, that is a key component of Jack " Dr. Mal Practice" Seward's character. Hope this helps.

Ronance, ft. Their daughter Max!!

I got the base from a prompt, and I sadly don’t remember their name, so I have the photo of the base instead

I love drawing cute scenes.

I know I don’t usually reblog things here but please more people look at this amazing thing.

ok!

gay surgeon taking out my organs: intestines, slay. Liver, slay. Spleen, slay. Appendix… FLOP!

me: can yuo turn the lady Gaga down it’s making the anesthetic wear off

One of the hard parts about being a writer with a vivid imagination is that there are So Many Ideas, and they fall into so many categories, such as

And, of course

"i'm able-bodied but i have asthma"

"i'm neurotypical but i have depression"

"i'm able-bodied but i have low vision"

"i'm neurotypical but i have cPTSD"

i have some news for you all

A quick, sloppy little comic about Magritte

i don't see enough appreciation for closeted lesbians. i'm thinking of lesbians who can't dress they way the want, or style their hair how they wish. i'm thinking about the lesbians who entertain coversations about relationships with men, or dodge questions about their dating life from family members. i'm thinking about the lesbians who have to keep their relationships secret. i'm thinking about lesbians who don't really understand lesbian terminology and have no one to ask. i'm thinking about the lesbians who are just coming to understand their sexuality and are scared, confused, and worried. i'm thinking about the lesbians who can't consume lgbt media and have very little positive representation, if any. i'm thinking about the lesbians who have never met anyone else like them before. i'm thinking about trans lesbians who are consistently misgendered. i'm thinking about the lesbians who are only out to a close circle of friends. i'm thinking of lesbians who are closeted because they're dependent on others for housing, food, medication, clothing, etc.

to ALL closeted lesbians, i see you and i hold a very special place for you in my heart. protecting your safety does not make you any less valid as a lesbian. your safety and your survival always come first.