creasing (idk who made this but creds to them)

The loml (Evan Rosier)

Tumblr ate the quality click for better :(

tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows

for those of you who werent here in 2016 on april fools that year the entire fucking website was transformed and there was an election for a position that wasnt even ever specified and the candidates were four lizards (or three lizards and a salamander as a scandal would later prove) and it was called decision2016

each lizard had their own 3d models and tumblr blog and campaign and there was also a tumblr blog dedicated to reporting on the election and they made like whole ass news broadcasts with a guy in front of a green screen

you could vote for your favorite candidate and there was a built-in function that let you make and post a campaign poster

in case anyone was wondering the winner of the election was mop. relatable and reliable. #Mop Could

lest we forget

This was absolutely the biggest April Fools effort I ever witnessed while on staff. I already posted about this in an ask but here’s more of the shit that went down behind the scenes.

- Like all April Fools, this was done entirely through volunteer work on Staff. No one was forced to work on April Fools, it’s always employee-initiated and driven, even if it needs approval from leadership.

- The prank almost didn’t go through because leadership felt that the lizards weren’t relatable enough, so the compromise was to give them hats.

- The video updates on the Decision 2016 blog were greenscreen Fiverr actors that were all recorded months? Weeks? in advance? I wasn’t on creative so I don’t know all the deets about how those were made.

- As mentioned in my post, the victory speech by Mop was one of our designers screaming as loud as she could in a closet near the end of the day. The full audio was never posted but staff kept passing around the scream on slack and laughing about it for months afterwards

- There was a “war room” dedicated to advancing the election narrative as votes came in, posting updates in real time and also pushing changes to code as necessary (for bug fixes and what not)

- The votes were real and the “election” was decided by real users, even if the graphics and whatnot were exaggerated for comical effect. Mop won because Mop won. Democracy at work

- Someone brought in their own lizard to celebrate the proceedings. It was a bearded dragon

- This was the culmination of what was probably the most cohesive and imaginative (and largest) creative team Tumblr ever had. Unfortunately almost all of them are now long gone, and Tumblr Creative is now just a skeleton crew compared to their peak

- Wretched Tooth Doesn’t Like To Talk About Himself

- People drew porn of the lizards and posted it on Tumblr. Staff saw it and were sending it to each other on the company Slack. We thought it was great. I mean, terrifying, but great

- This picture of David Karp is my favorite photo of David Karp I have on my phone

Barty through the bars of his cell to Sirius: We all know you ain’t do it

Sirius: that’s what I’m sayin like

How i look when I see a loud noise

if I saw a loud noise I'd look at it just like this

can we all just collectively agree to go crazy over Lockwood & Co. again. i can't tell you how much i miss when we were all crazy over Lockwood & Co.

consider. rosekillerstarchaser high school au. except i write it like they're real teenagers. no war. no adult themes. just kids being kids. it's a romcom btw.

singer!james releases "When I Was Your Man" about regulus a few years after I was written and everyone's trying to figure out who the song is about, including dorcas and pandora who are fans of his/the marauders. Dora tells Cas that she has insider info, reg has a blocked contact in his phone called "J❤️" and they piece the evidence together is anyone listening...

"socmed au" we all plead in unison

sigh

Reading fanfiction isn't enough I need to make out with Lily Evans

lily is strawberries, mary is blueberries, marlene is cherries, pandora is peaches and dorcas is grapes. fight me

“Danger days sucks” okay sometimes opinions are wrong

Reblog to give jk rowling nightmares for a week

just had to reblog a few times to make sure she meets a terrible fate.

Fair enough

Just reblogging again

Same

Reblogging again

Same

pardon my swedish, but fuck jk rowling

Yeah fuck her

yeah! fuck her, the bastard!

Light her on fire

this is why i like you.

Thanks

pardon my australian but jkr is a fucking cunt and should explode in a car hammer explosion with a certian ceo

Pardon my American but I agree

I sure hope jk Rowling buys a cybertruck and it happens to explode into 1000 hammers that are on a collision course to every transphobe and cybertruck owning cunt across the globe

@walmart-the-official

I hope England gets destroyed

Them

All I want is James potter who suffers with his mental health AND is a nasty bully

Why can I not have both :( it's the way god intended it to be

Give him intense moral ocd AND let him hurt people, which reinforces the ocd cycle bc it's classed as evidence. Have him try to reassurance seek but people struggle to fulfil the compulsion bc he IS a bad person. Mentally ill people aren't automatically perfect angels, we fuck up and we hurt people we love and I want to see that. I want to watch him bully people and be an arrogant prick who acts like he's better than everyone else but then goes home and scrubs himself clean until his skin is raw because he feels like the weight of his actions weigh on his body and if he can scrub off the evilness he'll be a better person (me core) Have him border so close to psychosis that his family start to fear for his life. But he's still mean. He physically hurt someone and his mind uses that to convince him that he's a mass murderer. You can sympathise with his struggle but STILL think he's a dick.

Anyway happy birthday baby, I love you and your violent ego