“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.
A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.
I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,
Just a friendly reminder that on this godforsaken website you can and should do the following few things that involve going into your settings:
1: Under Dashboard, disable Best Stuff First, Include Stuff In Your Orbit and Based On Your Likes. The former ruins the how the timeline works here, the middle violates the sanctity of anonymity if people you follow don’t want you to see their likes, the latter is a crapshoot and annoying and inaccurate because the likes algorithm is fucked.
2: Under Account, turn off letting people finding your blog through your email address, your email should not be just out there like that.
3: Under Notifications, turn off news because nobody knows what the hell is popular or gaining traction at any given moment. Posts from 6 years ago will randomly gain a resurgence of popularity for no good reason. Also just turn off the stuff that gives you immediate info about notes or updates or notices it’s just so fucking annoying and useless.
Under Appearance, you can choose to make who you follow private and what you’ve Liked private. I recommend doing both of those things. The old days of dumbass slapfights and following discourse are long gone but not yet over. Defend your mental health by just not letting folks know what you’re following or what you like, do what the Bird Site never ever let you do. From here you can also choose to turn anonymous asks off and that’s a good way to learn who you need to block if they’re being a shit to you, which to that I say block early and block often.
This website is different than the Bird Site in that 1: it will not tell you who to follow and 2: Likes do nothing, Reblogs are what matters. Likes are nice but Reblogs keep the blood pumping and posts/works by artists circulating. You can even choose to reblog your own stuff. This site is a massive sea of islands that have boats parked around them and bridges between them. There are, regrettably, Nazis and TERFs and tradcaths on this site. I have never seen them except for when they decide to pick fights with people I follow. You should also make it abundantly clear those people are not welcome to interact with you. You can threaten them with death here. It tends to work. Tell the fascists to die, recirculate the blood of content, treat this site well and keep it healthy and it will keep your mind healthy in turn.
This site allows a shocking amount of anonymity in the modern age. You don’t have to share personal information if you don’t want to. I don’t recommend you do. People can and have used DNI criteria and trigger/content warnings to dunk on people or upset them. Keep yourself and your data safe, you don’t have to have a carrd in your header or a list of kinks or a laundry list of things you believe in. Keep strangers at an arm’s length and moderate what you tell other people about yourself. I know this used to be the internet’s #1 naked picture dump and so many people courted parasocial relationships with folks here. Those times have changed. Don’t be weird and don’t let people be weird to you based on what they know about you.
By many standards on this website, I am an old-timer, even though I’ve been here steadily since 2015 with an initial reg date of 2013. I know the old stories, of the Oncelor, of Dashcon, the Kickstarter scams, the doxxing. I only qualify as an old-timer due to the fact that I stayed through the porn ban of 2018 and kept circulating content. This site…it’s not good, but it iswhat you make of it. Curate your content, even though the tagging system doesn’t work. Find what you like, even though the search function sucks ass. If you’re here for popularity you generally won’t find it because the algorithm straight up does not work, but also if you were forged in the fires of the Bird Site you likely knew this would not be the case. My advice is to find a handful of people who provide a feed like I do and if any specific names you see a lot interest you, skim their own blogs, follow them if you like, let your network spread, never be afraid to prune who you follow. Also your follower count doesn’t mean shit, it doesn’t really dictate who can see what you’re putting out there, your marketing and self-promotion is more or less tied 1:1 to using the tag system and your own hustle.
My other advice is to be as queer as you want, support queer people, and most importantly to tell the fascists to die as creatively as you’d like.
A LOT of good stuff here no matter how long you’ve been on tumblr
God… I felt like such a latecomer to Tumblr. It’s bizarre to think of how fast things turn over.
Install new xkit and force real time stamps onto all posts. That’s my biggest piece of advice.
Hey guys! I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted any new designs on Redbubble, but this one just went up today! Check it out!
(Also I haven’t been keeping up with tumblr lately, but I’ve OFFICIALLY started rough animation on W2H2! I’ll be posting .GIFS and other goodies as monthly updates on my Patreon!)
Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week! We loved reading all of them ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)
Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs and gather some inspiration for the new prompt dropping at 12 pm CET!
Or from whereever tumblr blogs go when they get terminated… Which means it’s time to write! Get ready!!
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Write between 100-1000 words. It can be any genre, in any text format and 18+ is fine by us, just please tag accordingly.
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✨ And now, the new prompt!
[#FFF153 Welcome to Hell]
This fresh prompt has been brought to you by @a-weeb-0139, thank you very much! Maybe you got special entry-tickets or you got there by accident, but this is hell and you’re now in it! Whether voluntarily or not, this is a promise of horrors and fires! Or is it? Perhaps this hell is just named this way but has nothing to do with it? We won’t know if you won’t write it! So go!
Hey! I’ve recently gotten some writing inspiration, but need a bit of a push. I’ll write a few short fics for anyone who needs an outline or really wants to read something like this!
Fandoms I will write for(I will do certain ships and most AUs, for ships ask me if it isn’t on the list and I might be fine with it!) South Park (Style, K2, Bunny, Dip, Creek, Bendy, Michael x Pete) Short Films (In a Heartbeat, Welcome to Hell, Butter Lover, etc) (ask me about ships for those, I love Jonathon x Sock, and the ship from butter lover) Steven Universe(Pearlmethyst, Rupphire, Lapidot, Stevonnie, Pearlrose, Mysterypearl, KEVAMIE) Gravity Falls (Billdip, Mabifica, Dipifica) She Ra (Almost fucking anything) SVTFOE (Starco, Tomco, Star x Jackie) Marvel (Stony, Spideypool) Into the Spiderverse Venom My Hero Academia (I love Villain Deku btw) (Tododeku, Kiribaku, Kamisero, Erasermic) Tokyo Ghoul (Hidekane) Voltron (Klance, Shadam) Camp Camp Be More Chill (Boyfs) Adventure Time (Bubbline, MarshallGum) Saiki K Death Note(LxLight) The Devils Boy Terror Man
