this is bullshit

Reblog if you had a Tumblr for 5+ years

reblog this if you think the toggle for tumblr live should be permanent instead of a 7-day snooze

trying to prove something to @staff

User hostile UI design is why I left Instagram for tumblr, don’t let the UI become awful here too

There is no reason "don't show me this thing" should be temporary, for any aspect of the UI.

Tumblr Live should be no different. People who don't want it, should not have to keep saying so.

AND when the toggle switch says "snooze," it should be OFF. You shouldn't have to turn it ON and then BACK OFF to snooze it.

No “see results” options we choose sides like middle schoolers

Please reblog so this can break containment

OP where is motorcycle dad

current note count: 295

Pls rb so I can get a bigger sample size!!

about fucking time

this was literally the first post i saw when i entered Tumblr, now this is instant reward

Please reblog for sample size.

Pls reblog if u vote :)

48+2=50, 50+5=55

Much as I adore hippos, this is undeniably just. (via @persian-slipper)

Relatable

you guys who are saying that polls need to have the "all of the above" option are simply wrong.

the fun of tumblr polls is in forcing you to make a decision. in giving you the agony of choice. in trapping you between your two favorite answers and relentlessly mocking your weakness.

"all of the above" is cheating. it's lame. it lacks conviction.

you lack conviction. choose, weakling.

You guys understand.

"You win if you die on the hill with the most corpses" is going in my diary tonight

tired: "reblog for sample size

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

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…

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.)

“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.

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

Absolutely from the bang paths–saw people using them in early online fandom back in 1993 for referring to things.

I had been doing it for a very, very long time but never actually knew the actual name for it. This is exciting! I like learning things.

Can’t reblog this enough.

Not the way I figured it would turn out, but I learned something here.

This is called Trophic Cascade in ecology.

This was controversial when they released the wolves, as I recall. There were complaints about the wolves being dangerous to tourists, that they would actually damage the park and kill so much wildlife no one would want to go anymore. 

GRAVEYARD SHOWDOWN [spoilers]

ROUND 1 PART 1

I am asking this for an essay. Try to answer honestly.

Also i know everyone's always like "Reblog if you vote," but also i would like as wide a net as possible, so at the risk of being annoying, pls reblog if you vote <3

Also, this goes without saying, but answer honestly. This isn't a test of morals, this is a survey of habits.