Lion King (1994) explaining the importance of stylized 2D animation: Lion King (2019) and Cats (2019):
Kimba The White Lion (1965) explaining the importance of an original idea:
Lion King (1994) Lion King (2019) Cats (2019)
Shakespeare (1564) explaining the importance of an original idea:
Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):
Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1160 – c. 1220) explaining the importance of understanding that all creative work is inherently derivative once you study the oral tradition of storytelling and history and that’s okay because generations have always reformatted tropes and themes to make them relatable to their current audiences
Shakespeare (1564), Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):
Tyrannosaurus rex (Late Cretaceous) explaining nothing because he’s a don’t give a fuck
I was trying to explain tumblr to someone who had never used it before and she said “So what do people post there? Videos, like on tiktok?” and it took all my self control not to say “Mostly we just post bullshit.”
Wild, I too explained tumblr to someone today, and I did not refrain from saying we posted and reblogged fandom bullshit
She literally had NO frame of reference for ANY of it and I was just like “how do I even describe this site”
You can describe Tumblr as “a blogging platform housing thriving fandoms, underappreciated artists, and tons of shitposts” but that doesn’t even come close to the EXPERIENCE of using Tumblr.
You are on Tumblr. You scroll past a thread spouting hot takes about a fandom you’re not in. You see signal boosts for people you will never meet. An ad tells you to put butter on your pillows. Your mutual spams about infinity train for a full hour and you don’t hear from them for days. “Everyone at the farmers market wishes to know me carnally.” The inherent terror and joy of seeing the color of the sky.
You are on Tumblr. You post two videos. The first gets uploaded after five minutes. The second video never uploads. You reupload the second video. Nothing happens. You check your activity. You don’t know if someone just liked the same post eight times or if Tumblr is broken. Two people follow you. You’re not sure if they’re porn bots or empty blogs. Someone messages you about ray bans official charity event. Two days later the second video is uploaded twice. You close Tumblr. You open it again. There’s a thread about how to hide a dead body. Someone tells you to touch grass. You try to search for a post on your blog. The search function does not work. There is a screenshot of a tweet of a Tumblr post. The reblogs are incomprehensible. The tags are worse.
You are on Tumblr.
This reads like a welcome to nightvale traffic report
this is the highest honor you could give. thank you
You can try to explain Tumblr but you can’t make them feel Tumblr
Help I don’t know how to log out of my blog on the computer. I’m eternally trapped in hell and I can’t even move to a slightly different hell (my other account)
i am out here blocking and reporting porn spam bots literally SECONDS after they interact with any of my posts but somehow tumblr can’t get rid of them. ok
okay but seriously why are the formatting buttons in the new post modal still obnoxiously vivid when i SPECIFICALLY changed all the tumblr color styles using stylus to make them less saturated and stop them from giving me a fucking migraine. they are fucking painful. people using the LOW CONTRAST theme probably don’t want to see BRIGHT VIVID NEON COLORS anywhere on our dashboards, TUMBLR
MOTHERFUCKER
THEY HARD-CODED THE FUCKING SVG COLOR HEX CODES DESPITE ALREADY SETTING THEM TO USE A MODIFIABLE COLOR VARIABLE.
in case y'all wanted to see the colors i want to be seeing vs the ones i amseeing…
bad, migraine fodder:
good, i can look at these (these are the colors i set using stylus and they use the same variables so they shouldbe the same):
@wiphi!don’t hard-code hex value colors. leave them variable. not only is it then easier for y'all to push changes if you ever need to, but it allows people who need additional accessibility tweaks to use stylus and other custom css addons in order to, y'know, NOT BE MADE COMPLETELY MISERABLE BY YOUR PAINFUL COLOR CHOICES.
once again: i use the LOW CONTRAST theme. this is because i need tumblr to be LOW CONTRAST. that includes ALL OF THE FUCKING BUTTONS
anyway casual reminder that i don’t use the tumblr app (because fuck website apps in general lmao) so currently BOTH desktop and mobile, for me, have this profoundly fucked up post editor going on where nothing fucking works properly and i can’t even select a chunk of text to backspace it within the SAME PARAGRAPH let alone multiple paragraphs. sometimes on mobile it spontaneously deletes entire paragraphs or even the whole post FOR me. and there is no undo button on mobile firefox mind you!!
i would not even be using the new post editor, except that the old one no longer remembers the tags i have previously used. at all. which is even WORSE for me given my memory issues and (yes i know you can’t see this right now) the number of fucking typos i make all the time. i’m always super careful to proofread and correct errors as best i can, but fixing my mistakes in the tags is SUCH a pain.
okay but seriously why are the formatting buttons in the new post modal still obnoxiously vivid when i SPECIFICALLY changed all the tumblr color styles using stylus to make them less saturated and stop them from giving me a fucking migraine. they are fucking painful. people using the LOW CONTRAST theme probably don’t want to see BRIGHT VIVID NEON COLORS anywhere on our dashboards, TUMBLR
MOTHERFUCKER
THEY HARD-CODED THE FUCKING SVG COLOR HEX CODES DESPITE ALREADY SETTING THEM TO USE A MODIFIABLE COLOR VARIABLE.
in case y'all wanted to see the colors i want to be seeing vs the ones i amseeing…
bad, migraine fodder:
good, i can look at these (these are the colors i set using stylus and they use the same variables so they shouldbe the same):
okay but seriously why are the formatting buttons in the new post modal still obnoxiously vivid when i SPECIFICALLY changed all the tumblr color styles using stylus to make them less saturated and stop them from giving me a fucking migraine. they are fucking painful. people using the LOW CONTRAST theme probably don’t want to see BRIGHT VIVID NEON COLORS anywhere on our dashboards, TUMBLR
MOTHERFUCKER
THEY HARD-CODED THE FUCKING SVG COLOR HEX CODES DESPITE ALREADY SETTING THEM TO USE A MODIFIABLE COLOR VARIABLE.
okay but seriously why are the formatting buttons in the new post modal still obnoxiously vivid when i SPECIFICALLY changed all the tumblr color styles using stylus to make them less saturated and stop them from giving me a fucking migraine. they are fucking painful. people using the LOW CONTRAST theme probably don’t want to see BRIGHT VIVID NEON COLORS anywhere on our dashboards, TUMBLR
[ID: the new tumblr post creation modal, using the low-contrast theme. there are 12 separate copies of the “Go ahead, put anything” text that appears when a user clicks to create a new paragraph, the last of which has the user cursor on it and neon-bright, rainbow-colored formatting buttons off to the right side. there are no tags, no title, and no actual post content displayed. end ID]
a picture of the tumblr icon in the app store. next to it it says ‘Tumblr — Culture, Art, Chaos’ and underneath it says ‘Hellsite (affectionate)’. 268k people have reviewed the app.
guy who does unboxing videos but he only talks about the boxes
“Hey, everyone, welcome back. Our first box today is a Uline nine by five by four. Single piece of clear shipping tape over the top, two inch, and the UPS label nicely centered. No edge tape, and you know, that’s fine. This box is pretty light, I’d say under a pound, and taped edges don’t really add much stability here. Let’s open it up and see what we’ve got for dunnage…okay, half-inch bubble wrap, that’s unusual in a box of this size.”
Sometimes a post throws into perspective just how much niche knowledge you possess.
I read this, and I can tell from the “review” that the package was NOT shipped by a professional.
One: two inch tape. Professional establishments use three inch. It’s MUCH easier to seal boxes with, especially around the edges. Two inch is what you can buy from office depot or lowe’s. It’s fine for moving house, but it’s definitely not professional grade.
Two: no edge tape. Just seal your edges, people. UPS basically plays soccer with your packages. Even the light ones, just on principal, give them the structural support you can offer.
Three: centered label. Looks pretty on a package, sure, but it makes it very likely that the label will be covered up when the box is sitting in a stack or a pile, and that increases the chance that it will be manhandled to get to that label or even potentially mis-scanned or missed altogether in a stack. Label the SIDE of the box if at all possible! And put it to the side if you can’t! Visibility!
Also, the reviewer may be accustomed to getting a lot of boxes, but I don’t think they were a professional shipper, either. Someone who has shipped too many boxes would comment on whether the box was new or reused, whether there was any special hazmat (mostly lithium-ion battery) labeling, the condition of the package post shipping, and whether or not the weight of the package matched the stated weight on the label. AND they’d have commented on the two-inch packing tape.
I don’t know what to say other than “your experiences are not universal,” because I do shipping and receiving at a machine shop for a living, I see packages sent by professional shippers all the time, and I disagree with you on just about every point.
One: two inch tape. Professional establishments use three inch.
Nope. For packages I see, two inch packing tape is the norm. Today I had one package with three-inch water-activated reinforced paper tape and one (from Uline) with 2.75" packing tape. Everything else used 2" packing tape. Yes, it’s exactly the same kind of stuff that you can get at Office Depot or Lowe’s, and people use it because it gets the job done.
Two: no edge tape.
Not uncommon for small, light packages. I just don’t see box failures on packages under a pound where more tape would have helped. Where I do see failures is overloaded boxes, thirty pounds and up, where the corrugate simply ripped, and no amount of tape would have saved the package.
PSA: please don’t fill an 8x8x6 single-wall box with machine screws and expect it to arrive intact. Fastenal, I’m looking at you.
Three: centered label.
Label on top is standard. I had only one box today with the label on the side, and all the rest on top.
Looks pretty on a package, sure, but it makes it very likely that the label will be covered up when the box is sitting in a stack or a pile, and that increases the chance that it will be manhandled
Your package will get manhandled, regardless of where you put the label. Plan on it.
to get to that label or even potentially mis-scanned or missed altogether in a stack. Label the SIDE of the box if at all possible!
Heck no! I expect labels to be on top and that’s the first place I look for them. If it’s on the side, that’s potentially four other places I have to look, which is a pain in the ass when I’m busy. And I’m always busy.
UPS, incidentally, says you should put the label on the largest surface. For the packages I get, that’s usually the top.
Someone who has shipped too many boxes would comment on whether the box was new or reused,
Okay, that’s legit. I do see a fair number of reused boxes.
whether there was any special hazmat (mostly lithium-ion battery) labeling
Hazmats aren’t common enough to mention it every time when there isn’t one present. (My hazmats are usually solvents or paint, and that’s not something I get every day.)
the condition of the package post shipping
Not usually noteworthy. My internal monolog (which is what the above fanciful review is based on) doesn’t bother to mention it unless something unusual happened to the box.
whether or not the weight of the package matched the stated weight on the label
Although I ship just as many packages as I receive, if not more, it never would have occurred to me to check. And I don’t have a scale in the receiving department, so it would be guesswork anyway.
AND they’d have commented on the two-inch packing tape.
Which everyone uses. There’s not much need to comment when it’s far and away the most common type of tape.
Perhaps things have been different for you, but this is how it is in the manufacturing industry.
