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For the twitter people coming over from the musk-pocalypse wondering how etiquette works here on tumblr or some shit
Rlly just be nice. That's it. Don't be an ass.
Also be openly cringe.
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My way of 'celebrating' the 5th anniversary of a certain Tumblr policy that came into effect on December 17th.
P.S. Thanks, I still hate it!
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What if dragon beams look like flashlights on purpose so that if they’re found there’s an easy explanation, and the lowest power setting is so harmless it can actually be used as a flashlight so it can be demonstrated if it ever comes up?
Yeah, I've said before that I really like the flashlight-looking dracon beams from AniTV, so much so that I kept them for my own Animorphs fics despite them not being canon for the book series. We don't know a ton about the dracon beams from the books, other than that a) Jake immediately recognizes one as "a gun" the first time he sees one in MM4, b) Tobias has to use get his talon around a trigger guard to shoot one in #3, and c) Rachel quickly figures out how to use a dial to get to the low-power "stun" setting on one in #17.
Near as I can tell, the only official art of that design is a tiny subset of the #34 cover insert, showing a few hork-bajir-controllers firing them.
Other than that we get a few drawings of them in the comics, which look cool (and at least more alien than the gun design) but again not that comfortable for a variety of hands.
Anyway, I like the flashlight-style dracon beams from the show much better than the ray-gun-style ones from the books, because they seem both more stealthy and also more broadly ergonomic. My personal headcanon is that they're like those big bulky old-school flashlights even more so than the slender little ones from the show; those would be easier for gedds than humans to hold, which in my mind fits the bill.
That pistol-like design is a little too well-fitted for human hands for my taste; I like how much easier a flashlight-like design would be for tiny taxxon hands and giant hork-bajir hands and clumsy gedd hands to wield. It's a recurring theme in the books that Bug fighters are just awkward for humans to use; they're set up to accommodate up to three taxxons or hork-bajir, and so some features (chairs, ten-finger keyboard setups) had to be sacrificed to that goal. If a dracon beam's a big clumsy tube with maybe two buttons for a trigger and a power setting, then it feels more alien than a laser pistol does.
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Tumblr's making a come back
First twitter being taken over by musk, now reddit preventing the use of bots, this year is turning out to be the the one where tumblr makes it's comeback as a popular social media site. I myself came from reddit and I'm currently waiting for my fellow redditors to migrate over here.
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tumblr is suddenly becoming big again because this is a war of attrition and all the competition is REALLY good at lighting themselves on fire.
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wish this hellsite would give people notifications when you unfollow them
i want to know when you've finally had enough
but really i want other people to know when i've had enough
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Be assured, Heartpurr welcomes all Redditors to our sweet Tumbleclan. Twittypets are no longer welcome.
[Please reblog my art if you like it 💔]
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SHE IS OPENING A PORTAL FROM REDDIT FOR OUR NEW RECRUITS ‼️
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Oh, Tumblr.
You may be broken as hell, but at least you're not falling apart.
P.S. Also, I can't help but love what they're doing with the blue checkmarks.
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Came to camp out the blackout but this tent is too comfortable so I’m not leaving
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