Added Generation Alpha because maybe there are some 13 year olds on this site and added Silent Generation because maybe there are some 80 year olds on here too
another poll because I want to see just how much of an outlier I am:
+ pls only include burner free trial email addresses if you maintain access and/or use them repeatedly
Need to settle something.
If you could tag with the area you grew up, I would appreciate it. Having a West Coast vs East Coast discussion with my partner.
My mom loves Diet Coke floats.
going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise
YOUTUBE???!!???
I mean, I guess I believe it could happen? Christ.
(And I feel so ancient.)
(chuckle) 1973.
Bound paper Trek fanfics from underneath a dealer's table at (I think) Lunacon.
(pausing to check the date) Yeah, it was '73: Harlan was the GoH that year. :)
Please add which year and age you were when you joined in the tags!
So I just noticed some old comments on my fics, and now I’m overthinking replying since it’s been so long. So tumblr:
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
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
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
AO3 Savior And You: how to block out fics you don't want to see.
Maybe you have a lot of triggers and/or squicks. Maybe you don’t ever want to read a #problematic fic. Maybe (like me) you just have eclectic tastes and are polyfannish and like to go tag surfing, but are tired of wading through stuff you’re never going to want to read to get to the stuff that you find interesting. Never fear, there is a tool for you! AO3 Savior has your back! (Disclaimer: I’m not the dev, just someone who has been happily using AO3 Savior for years.) What it is: AO3 Savior is a script (or, rather, a pair of scripts) you can add to your browser so that any fic with an author, tag, summary element, or title that you have blacklisted will either be hidden behind a box that says “This work is hidden because ______!” (with an option to unhide it), or eliminated completely from the page. Unlike using the filters on AO3, this happens automatically on every AO3 page you visit. It does add a little bit more load to the AO3 servers, so if you’re loading a lot of works pages in quick succession with this script, it will eventually tell you to wait for a while before you can load more pages from AO3. Here’s how you do it. First, you install a userscript management addon such as tampermonkey to your browser.
hate what people did to the dead dove tag
mothers and fuckers of the jury. "Dead dove: do not eat" is a label on a bag in the fridge. It means "the content of this bag is exactly what is labeled". It does not mean "trigger warning uhhh something". In fact, it means the exact opposite of "trigger warning uhhh something", because tou use it with other tags. You write a fucked up fic with extreme violence and gore, you tag it as "extreme violence", "gore" and you tag it with "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with emotional abuse, gaslighting and manipulation, you tag it with "emotional abuse", "gaslighting" and "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with your extremely niche kink that appeals to like 3 other people and may skeeve out the rest of the fandom, you tag that with your kink and "dead dove: do not eat". It's so people know you're really mean the content warnings.
It's NOT a catch-all term for "uhhh this may be fucked idk". TAG YOUR SHIT GENEROUSLY.
For anyone who doesn't know the reference "dead dove: do not eat" is from, it's a scene from Arrested Development. A character finds a bag in the fridge labeled "Dead dove: do not eat." The character opens the bag, and lo! There's a dead dove inside. He then remarks, "I don't know what I expected." In gif form (dead dove not actually shown):
I do think explaining the reference is important for helping people understand what "dead dove: do not eat" means. If a fic is just tagged "violence and gore," it could mean that the gore happens offscreen or is only glazed over. By adding "dead dove: do not eat" to those tags you are saying, "This is exactly what I have tagged for. It will be described in-text. I will not do anything to soften the blow or use euphemisms to only imply what's happening. I will not hold your hand. Read at your own risk." But it's not useful to people if you're not tagging what the dead dove is.
It would be nice if you use dead dove, and there are multiple possible tags it could refer to, that you specify which dove is dead. For instance, say you tag "knife play" and also "humiliation" and then "dead dove: do not eat". I might be okay with the knife play at any time but need to be in the right headspace for humiliation. Knowing which dove is dead could decide if I'm reading your fic today, some other day, or never.
I am ebooks Georg, exactly because I _used_ to be paper-books Georg.
And then I got divorced and moved cross-country, and could not face the thought of packing up that fucking many book boxes _again_.
So I have ebooks of all my collected fiction, including ones I doubt I’ll ever read again (Zelazney, MZB, McCaffrey, etc.), AND I have my collected literary fiction from three degrees worth of being a lit major, AND I have my collected nonfiction including complete collections of Bakhtin, LeGuin, a fuckton of queer theory, and every extant volume of Science and Civilization in China, AND I have… erm, well, everything else off Project Gutenberg that looked even vaguely interesting, I mean since I was there and everything. Plus the fic, which I book up regularly lest it disappear, and the graphic novel collection which includes Sandman, Digger, Girl Genius, and, um, kind of a lot of CLAMP.
So, yeah. The next time I do a data entry push to get the currently downloaded fic booked up and into the library, I’ll be well over 2000.
I want this to be an actual poll, so I'm gonna need a REALLY big sample size, so do ANYTHING you can to get this around! Reblog it! Kung-pow-penis me, if you have to! Wreck my notifications! Just do ANYTHING!
A THOUSAND VOTES WITHIN THE HOUR
HOLY SHIT
94.2%
hate what people did to the dead dove tag
mothers and fuckers of the jury. "Dead dove: do not eat" is a label on a bag in the fridge. It means "the content of this bag is exactly what is labeled". It does not mean "trigger warning uhhh something". In fact, it means the exact opposite of "trigger warning uhhh something", because tou use it with other tags. You write a fucked up fic with extreme violence and gore, you tag it as "extreme violence", "gore" and you tag it with "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with emotional abuse, gaslighting and manipulation, you tag it with "emotional abuse", "gaslighting" and "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with your extremely niche kink that appeals to like 3 other people and may skeeve out the rest of the fandom, you tag that with your kink and "dead dove: do not eat". It's so people know you're really mean the content warnings.
It's NOT a catch-all term for "uhhh this may be fucked idk". TAG YOUR SHIT GENEROUSLY.
If you haven’t changed your url in years tell me why as someone in your same boat it’s for science
I spent all afternoon cooking today so here's another survey question
for the purposes of this poll, salt and black pepper aren't considered spice
Here's the full suit! It's in Japan ofc haha. And not a fursuit! This person is just costuming as a human-sized cat. Not anthro or related to the furry fandom. Kid me would have cried tears of joy if I saw this irl. Cat but big. Very Beatrice Potter.
Ugh, I keep seeing this post and it keeps rankling me every time.
It's an amazing fursuit.
Yes, it is a fursuit. Yes, "costuming as a human-sized cat" is fursuiting. Yes, the creator (Mikeneko Yamada) is a fursuit maker specializing in cat suits, but has also made a tanuki, a bear, a shiba inu, a frog, and several more that I've seen. Yes, the fursuit is both hyper-realistic and anthro (it's on two-legs, thus exhibiting human-like behavior and that's all anthropomorphic really means). No, fursuits don't have to be cartoony sparkledogs to be fursuits. Hyper-realistic fursuits (like this) and quadsuits exist. They are still fursuits. Yamada, the creator of this fursuit, blogs their exact process making fursuits with the EXACT same processes other fursuit makers use to make fursuits, down to the jawsets and head rigs and air fans absent from many non-furry mascot costume work. This is a fursuit.
And that's okay!
Idk why people feel the need to distance themselves from liking furry. It's such a wide genre. It's not all Disney's Robin Hood, Beatrix Potter's art is furry art too! People like to try and compartmentalize it into the tropes that make them cringe but for everyone out there participating in furry fandom some way you don't personally like, there's another person out there doing something like this you think is cute or fun or interesting. It's diverse, and people on the internet need to stop acting like they're allergic to furries every time they see a furry do something they actually like.
this doesn’t have a fake answer and i know earnest polls get reblogged less. but uh…… what if i ask nicely.