the thing is that tumblr really isn’t that hard to use. it’s actually quite nice to use once you figure it out and it works well. you see exactly what you want to see on your reverse chronological order dash. if you want to find more creators or people to follow you go to a tag of your choosing and either look at the top posts or latest posts. or you can find a blog you like and see who they’re reblogging from. that’s how i’ve found a lot of the blogs i’ve followed for a long time. art is not hidden by the algorithm because there is no algorithm that hides art by and of POC or queers or other minorities. art circulates for years. my old art still gets reblogged. you can reblog your posts over and over again if you want them to be seen by your followers, and this isn’t considered “annoying” (at least, not by the people i follow— it’s effective and encouraged). and this is all because tumblr really isn’t even a social media site, it’s a blogging site. you don’t see other people’s follower counts and your feed is reverse chronological. that’s why i use tumblr so much despite my hatred of social media. obviously tumblr has its issues, but in my experience it is a vastly superior site to use if you want to share your art or see others’ art or find a community for anything. once you find the community you want, it’s incredibly easy to stay in that community without your experience being encroached on by “suggested posts.” getting rid of the chronological feed entirely in favor of “suggested posts” that can’t be turned off will completely kill the way tumblr is used and the reasons it’s good. if tumblr staff ever do this, i am dead serious, i’m starting a mailing list and sending y’all my art and silly thoughts via email.
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The urge to read novels at the most inconvenient times of my life will for sure lead me to be an academic victim
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headphones aren't enough i need the song inside me i need it in my veins injected into my blood the oxygen i breathe the bones in my body the breath in my lungs i need it engraved with an iron into my skull i need it printed on my eardrums i need it in my very being in every cell in my body in the core of my existence the fibre of my reality the thread that holds everything i know together
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