sigmachad:

cute-catts:

Every few steps she looks back to check on her little kitty cat 🐈🥺

You still there?

yeah

You still there?

yeah

You still there?

yeah

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catgirldragon:

winduppup:

parallel play (liking and reblogging your mutual’s posts but not talking to them)

Reblog this post to parallel play with prev

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gauntletqueen:

homoquartz:

my dumb? founded. my flabbers? gasted. my gob??? smacked

my ass???? tonished

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teaboot:

thememedaddy:

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

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thecrowfinder:

your-nonbinary-pal:

thecrowfinder:

biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning

time for people to do the funniest thing ever

Do not.

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butchlinkle:

plaidos:

jv:

jv:

jv:

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

To be clear, I don’t have any news about any impending doom. But I’ve heard a bit more about what’s going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don’t think even the current staff know what’s going to happen, but honestly, I don’t see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform 🤷

for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.

In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.

Fair warning though, if you’ve been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr’s built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you’ve added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

1. download and install python 2.7
2. download tumblr-utils
3. create an application on tumblr to get an api key
4. extract the tumblr-utils zip and open the tumblr_backup.py file in notepad
5. search for “API” and paste in your OAuth consumer key
6. then go back to the folder where you extracted tumblr-utils and choose open folder in terminal / command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar while inside the folder

now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type “py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]” and hit enter. Example:

Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I’m currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you’d even want to do this if you don’t already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i’ll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I’ll also be sharing an update via my personal site’s RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down

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helloneels17:

kallistoi:

nyaa:

via

[video description: a video of a baby fox playing in a graveyard. end description.]

its okay babe i know things are pretty bad but one day a baby fox will frolick over our bones. the rubble, the decay, the decline….it will all be beautiful again

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pixelprofligate:

pixelprofligate:

“youd do numbers on tumblr” girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

babes i said 4 my lads 4 this isnt 4 i said 4 this isnt that you didnt give me 4 i wanted 4

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athingofvikings:

mikkeneko:

naryrising:

hyperions-light:

Abt that unsolicited ‘concrit’ on fanfic thing

My personal opinion is that you should never offer unsolicited critical feedback to people, and you should only offer it publicly at all under specific circumstances. Why?

- Very few people actually know how to give ‘concrit’. They think it just means saying there were surface errors, or they didn’t like how someone was characterized. That’s not concrit. That’s not useful, at all. That’s an amateur review from someone with little to no relevant expertise.

- Especially where it regards fanfiction, you can’t know who you’re speaking to. You can’t moderate tone or intensity of criticism based on their experience and relative skill level. It’s possible that harsh or even moderate critique could make them stop writing forever. Why? What is the point of taking away someone’s joy in that manner? So that the commenter can feel satisfied that they corrected them? That’s cruel and childish.

- Usually fanfiction is published in only one place— maybe three or four, at most. Why should authors be expected to put up with negative criticism in the ONLY place their work is available? Are published authors expected to attach one star Goodreads reviews to their bookjackets?

- If you genuinely wish to help someone improve their writing, you can do so by speaking personally with them and offering your help. The assertion that criticism from a stranger whose opinion they don’t value and whose qualifications are unknown is going to make them better is disingenuous. If someone is sincere in their desire to assist an author in progressing on their writing journey, they should demonstrate that through investing appropriate time and effort. Otherwise, there are many places to complain away from the author’s sight. The only thing accomplished by doing so in front of them is making them feel bad— and if that is someone’s intent, that’s reprehensible.

Anyway. I’ve never gotten useful concrit in my comments or my bookmarks, and I expect I never will.

For something to truly be constructive criticism, you have to know what the creator’s intentions were with the piece (were they trying to have it be romantic? comedic? angsty in-depth character exploration?) and you have to know what their writing goals are (to eventually publish professionally? to get into a zine for the character they love? to just have fun and enjoy themselves?) and you have to know something about their background/experience with writing, as well as having a relationship where the person trusts you to give feedback to them that might be difficult for them to hear. Reading a stranger’s fanfic on the internet, you aren’t likely to know what their goals/background are, and you certainly don’t have a relationship of trust with them where they’re likely to listen to your feedback and internalize it and not find it rude or demoralizing.

I feel like we keep going round on this topic, and we never get anywhere, because the pro-leaving-concrit camp ultimately boils down to one argument that you can’t really fix with logic: “I believe I should be able to punish people who write in ways I don’t like.”

Exactly that. I’ve gotten stalkers, impersonators, hate-blogs, bash-fics, and literal threats against my physical health for refusing to write specifically for the tastes and wants of the “critiquer”. In a lot of ways, it boils down to “But I want you to write it for meeeeeee!”

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spongebobheritageposts:

grvstnaya-svka:

grvstnaya-svka:

unpretty:

unpretty:

when i was in middle school nickelodeon on directv broke and it froze on the same frame for five hours. which would not have been so bad, except it was during the episode of spongebob where he goes to live with the jellyfish. specifically the scene where he’s naked and covered in sea urchins and flopping all over the place trying to get them off. and it froze on the frame where spongebob was facedown on the ground, naked. so he was laying there like that in complete silence for five hours. we would change the channel back every so often to see if he’d gotten up, but he was still like that when we went to bed. none of my friends had directv so when i asked them the next day they hadn’t seen it, but my brother and i were pretty convinced that spongebob was dead.

date of origin: December 20th, 2015

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