#since this’ll probably show up in the tma tag:

[sparky-is-spiders]

Normally meh about soulmate aus but I think a Jonsasha au where they aren’t originally each other’s soulmates until they both start becoming the Archivist. They make themselves the other’s soulmate without even meaning to. There is no one else who could understand them. Soulmates because they are two halves of one monster. The Archivist is only complete when they work together. When they become one mind in two bodies. By the time the world ends their soulmate marks have already been warped beyond anything that could be understood as a soulmate mark by most.

#although honestly you don’t even need a soulmate au for most of this #just the marks I think #watching your mark change and knowing that what’s happening to you isn’t the machinations of fate #or a predestined occurrence #but a CHOICE #if you were meant for each other then maybe becoming a monster was just what was meant for you #but that’s not what happened. the marks changed. you chose to become this and you chose each other #normally I’m not super big on soulmate aus? #like I’ll read them if I like the ship or the premise catches my eye #but I don’t often think about them or seek them out unless I can find something to chew on #and I like the idea of jonsasha as eldritch soulmates #warping each other’s fates with the weight of their choices #I’m not even hyper fixated that much on tma anymore but I still love this ship so much #so much potential I love to chew on Them #jonsasha #since this’ll probably show up in the tma tag: #please no j//mart or martin #I don’t like the ship and I don’t like him #I’m not sure how many people will read this far into the tags #but I always feel like I’m throwing a fit over nothing putting my ‘no martin’ request in the actual post itself #tma enjoyed unfamiliar with my martinhate I am going to trust you to either read the tags or to not see any reason to bring martin into #*enjoyers #my nice wholesome eldritch soul-warping jonsasha au #do not let me down #jonshipping #<- tag for putting jon into relationships so that I can rotate him like the pretzel #also also not mentioned in this post but jonsasha are t4t #ok that’s all thank you #goodnight tristate area

[gammija]

Tags and Searching on Tumblr

”yalltookmyurlideas asked: can I ask what you mean by tumblr refusing to put that comic in the proper tags? I don’t quite know how tags work and it would probably be helpful if I did.”

@yalltookmyurlideas​​ It’s been 3 months since you asked this, so I have no idea if it’s still relevant, but I’m in a good mood rn and want to ramble about how dumb Tumblr is! So!

Tags and Searching on Tumblr

Now, to be fair to tumblr, most of this can be found under Help. To be fair to everyone else though, it’s still a confusing mess, because: There are two ways to find posts on tumblr: the Search system, and the Tag system. and neither of them work as they should

Searching

When you use the “Search” field in the top-left of your dash, you’re using the Search system. How this works is, it simply returns any post that uses your search term in any text on the post, including if it’s used in one of the tags.

For example, I searched for the term “Tagviewer”, and this was the result:

You can see several posts here (including my own) which show up despite not literally putting ‘#tagviewer’ in the tags, cause thats not how searching works. Some of these have the word ‘tagviewer’ in the text - some of them do mention the word in the tags, but like ‘#boy tagviewer sure is a handy tool to have’, not as its own Tag. And then some of them do literally have the tag “#tagviewer” in there. 

Searches are ordered based on algorythmic magic, so the stuff with a lot of notes and momentum gets pushed to the top, while new posts get buried - it favors people who already have plenty of followers. It can also be pretty buggy in my experience. And, more fun stuff, if you want to search for a term existing from two words, it’ll look for those two words anywhere in the post, even if they’re not next to each other. 

Tagging

Whenever you make an original post on Tumblr, you can give it tags, and the post will show up if you look in the tag for the first 20 of those. Posts in a tag are shown in sweet, sweet chronological order, no matter how popular or unpopular they are, and only strictly return what you searched for. So if, for example, you want to look at the posts tagged “#the magnus archives”, it’ll only return posts tagged EXACTLY that, not “#themagnusarchives”, or “#archives”, or posts simply mentioning a Magnus.

How do you look in a tag, you ask? On tumblr Mobile, it’s easy: Just Search for whatever term you want, and then go to the ‘Tagged’ tab.

On not-mobile, it’s a tad harder. Tumblr would like you to believe you can just fill in “#[searchterm]” in the search bar. Don’t believe their lies - this is just a Search for the term “#[searchterm]”, but still ordered like a Search, not like a Tag. To look at a Tag on not-mobile, you have to manually type “https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/[searchterm]” as the URL. And then it’ll show you the same thing as it would on mobile. 

For example, now I’m only looking at the tag “#tagviewer”: 

Ironically, Tumblr hides the actual tag you looked for from the posts that show up - but trust me, these posts all have the actual tag “#tagviewer” and are being shown chronologically.

(Spaces are represented by a ‘+’, so you could for example go to /tagged/the+magnus+archives for the tag ‘#the magnus archives’. Tags are not case sensitive)

Both tags and searches only show original posts.  If you reblog a post and tag it, it won’t show up in the main tag or search anymore, but it will show up if someone looks in the tag or searches on your blog alone. 

To search or look in a tag on someone’s blog, just use the same URL as on Tumblr as a whole, but add the blogname in the front, like so: “[blogname].tumblr.com/tagged/[term]”. Or click the little magnifying glass in the top right corner, if it’s there.

The bugs

The thing I said which this ask was a response to, where ‘Tumblr refused to put my post in the proper tags’, is one of the annoying problems in either of these systems, cause tumblr’s code is stitched together with tape and paperclips. 

Sometimes, Tumblr doesn’t show your post if you to the tagged page, even if you just posted it and tagged it correctly and it should by all accounts be right at the top. Why? Could be anything! Maybe you had a few tags that were too long. Maybe you have a hyperlink in your post, and today Tumblr decided not to like that. Maybe, your post hasn’t got enough notes yet, and Tumblr will put it back in the tag as soon as you cross a certain threshhold. As far as I can tell, it’s not consistent, and I can never prepare for it. I just tag my stuff and send it out into the ether, and if it doesn’t show up, I take the post down and try again.

The Search system is buggy as all heck, especially if you’re searching on someone’s blog on mobile. There are posts where I SWEAR I used a certain word, but searching that word returns nothing. In this instance, tags are actually a lot more robust - that’s why I tag everything I reblog, so I can find it back again.

Speaking of Tumblr Mobile, sometimes, even when the URL Iinked is “.../tagged/[term]”, mobile will show you “.../search/[term]”. It’s. so annoying. cause when I link people to “#tma s1″, I don’t want them to also see posts where someone is discussing the comparisons between “tma s1 and s4″!

There are probably more details that I’m forgetting right now, but there, those are the basics of the mess that is looking for posts on Tumblr! Hopefully this’ll be helpful to at least one of y’all :’D  If you have any questions, feel free to send an ask or reply to this post, and ill do my best to answer (if i know the answer, that is)

#wtf tumblr #text post #long post #tumblr explained