#the op of the original turned off reblogs

[edgar-allan-possum]

Oh how could you say such a thang Thursday

#the op of the original turned off reblogs #which is understandable

[kaiasky]

🍓 daughter-of-sapph0 Follow

op link the fucking article

⚪ fxckhaus Follow

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football enjoy reading about football :)

🍓 daughter-of-sapph0 Follow

thanks. what the fuck

[x], desc in alt. If you're reading this, reblogs are back on! Go reblog the original post not my pale imitation. also stop using the for you page. u are in platos allegory of the cave. come out into the light of the following tab with me

#17776 #20020 #unreality #this post was created when op turned off the reblogs on the original post. But now they're back on! go reblog the original

[jeekoftheweek]

#jeekoftheweek original #reposting because op turned off reblogs #just delete the post idiot

[heresmyfiddlestick]

Friends, mutuals, countrymen, do not scroll past;

I come to cancel Caesar, not to stan him.

The cringe posts that men make live after them;

The nuance oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was problematic:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men--

Come I to comment on Caesar’s call-out post.

He was my mutual, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was problematic;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many hot takes to my dash

Whose notifs did the general discourse fill:

Did this in Caesar seem problematic?

When that anons have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Toxicity should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was problematic;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Tumblr Blaze

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this problematic?

Yet Brutus says he was problematic;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to start discourse with Brutus,

But just to provide some context on his call-out post.

You all did stan him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to follow him?

#julius caesar #op turned off reblogs from the original post where i had had this reblog #so i guess i'll just make a separate post

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Webbed site.

#can't add it to the original post because OP turned off reblogs somehow (good for her tbh) #people really saw someone use the word 'sustainable' and went 'hmmmmm yeah only possible explanation is that OP is fash' #'no other possible takeaways from this'

[crypteddy]

the ancients left their

handprints

on walls

to teach us that we always have been human.

children bring home

pictures

made with those same

handprints,

their own writing

in their own kind of cave.

and yet,

these non-humans,

these robots who profess to know

art,

cannot even make sense

of the one thing

that makes us

truly

human.

they will never know the

joy

of a handprint

on the wall.

what a tragedy for them.

sometimes i come to tumblr for the memes and sometimes i come to write random poetry based on an anti-AI art post

[ID: screenshot of a tumblr post from mag200 saying “there really is something in how AI art cant get human hands right vs. some of the oldest art we have is our handprints on a wall. im not gonna write the poem you get it. the themes.” end ID]

#i wrote a thing #poetry #original poem #poets on tumblr #anti ai art #yes it is a repost op turned off reblogs but said i could use it #just a silly lil 3 minute poem i wrote during naptime the other day

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

Some of my Favourite Christmas Stories

Please feel free to add on with your's!

One Wintry Night ~ Ruth Bell Graham

Letters from Father Christmas ~ J R R Tolkien

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ~ Unknown (I reccomend the Tolkien Translation tho)

Joy to the World ~ Tomie De Paola, an anthology containing: The Night of Las Posadas, The Story of the Three Wise Kings, and The Legend of the Poinsettia.

Angela and the Baby Jesus ~ Frank McCourt

The Family Read-Aloud Christmas Treasury ~ Alice Low and Marc Brown

The Last Straw ~ Frederick H Thury

Too Many Tamales ~ Gary Soto and Ed Martinez

Room for a Little One ~ Martin Waddell and Jason Cockcroft

This is the Star ~ Joyce Dunbar and Gary Blythe

Who is Coming to Our House ~ Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolf

The Christmas Day Kitten ~ James Harriot

#reposting this (sorta) cause i originally added this to another post about christmas stories that OP has since turned off reblogs for #but since i put like a good 30 min into making this i want people to be able to share it #and i wanna reblog it to my other blog cause i was going to last night but then i forgot #anyways #book recs #christmas stories #my stuff

[dyggot]

⬜ some guy idk Follow

i had a gay dream about you so can you kill yourself please

#the original op turned off reblogs so I put matters into my own hands

[pa-pa-plasma]

scrolling through ship takes in this fandom is hellish is no one here normal

#reposting this because OP had a big freakout in the tags & turned off reblogs #i'm no coward. i won't turn off reblogs #because i literally don't give a shit #& blocking is a thing #for context this was originally a warrior cats post but it can be about fucking anything tbh #some people have the weirdest ship takes ever & as someone uninterested in romance it just seems extra weird to me

[water-in-the-wind]

(original)

#op turned off reblogs and comments #maybe because of notifs or maybe ppl were rude idk #anyways i linked the original post

[r0semultiverse]

????????????????

#so they're sort of like vampires??? someone should pierce & suck me #I need a cicada furry girl to come HMU 🥴 #original poster turned off reblogs because of too many notes so im making a rebloggable version #obviously I wouldn't do this with vent posts or personal ones or whatever obviously #mine #OP #tw bugs #tw insects #bug #insect #insects #cicada #cicadas

[hexiva]

Roleplay Is Not Dead Nor Doth It Sleep

There's a post going around about how text-based, freeform roleplay is dead, and I was typing up a huge response to this, with an accompanying guide on how to find roleplayer in 2024, when I realized it might have a bigger reach if I made it its own post. So here's that guide.

I hesitate to say that there isn't a problem with the new format of social media making roleplay more difficult to find, but in the desire to make that point, the OP of the original post has left people with the idea that there's no way for them to get into freeform text roleplay in 2024. Which just isn't true! Here, look at all the ways.

Forums

The link to RPG-Directory to find roleplaying forums is a good start. Once you've found a forum RPG, even if you don't join, there's usually an 'advertising' section on that forum where other forum RPGs post their ads - this may help you to find forums that don't advertise on RPG-D.

Another really good forum to find roleplay on is Barbermonger. Barbermonger is focused on connecting people for one-on-one roleplays.

This last one's going to be weird, but it turns out that there are still people seeking roleplay on the Gaia Online forums after all these years. I think this is delightfully retro and then crowd there seems a little older than average. No pre-existing knowledge of Gaia required.

Tumblr

You can also find forum roleplay groups (as well as tumblr and Discord groups) right here on Tumblr. Usually, the thing to do is to use the search function - search for "[genre] rp" or "[fandom] rp" and sort by "latest." (If you sort by Top, you are likely to find dead RPs.) For example, here's fantasy rp, historical rp, and marvel rp. You can also try jcink rp, as most roleplay forums are hosted on Jcink these days, or discord rp, depending on your favored platform.

There are also tumblr blogs specifically dedicated to advertising roleplays. I'm not super familiar with these nowadays, but just in the process of searching those tags above, I found these:

Jcink Tinder

RPG Adverts

RPings

There are more, I just don't know them off the top of my head.

Reddit

Listen, don't run away, I swear it's good now - I swear Reddit is good now -

Reddit is a good place to find Discord roleplays. It's a little heavier on smut-only roleplays than other platforms mentioned here, but it's not impossible to find sexless, plot-based roleplay here either. Most ads are for one on one RP, but you can find groups mixed in here too. The big subreddits for text-based freeform RP seem to be:

r/DiscordRP

r/RoleplayPartnerSearch

r/roleplaying

r/Roleplay

Some of these have weird rules about what you can put in your ad, and I don't remember which ones, so read carefully and don't get discouraged if your ad is initially removed.

Discord

In 2024, Discord is by far the biggest and most popular platform for roleplay, and it has its own native roleplay advertising hubs. Here are a bunch:

roleplay partner hub

Rockin Roleplay

The Roleplay Garden

roleplay help

the roleplay connection

RP Central

Roleplay Central

Roleplay Hub

Barbermonger also has a Discord server

Roleplay Meets: Reborn

RP Hub

The Scribes Guild

DM Rp Village

cherry blossom! roleplay hub

DM-RP

Roleplay Round Table (21+)

The Historical Syndicate (specifically for historical roleplay)

The Roleplayer's Directory

If you can't find the Discord roleplay you want on here, you can also try Discord hub websites, like Disboard. These work similar to tumblr tags - search for [genre] rp or [fandom] rp.

Other

The original post specifically mentions that 'all the old "omegle but for role play" type websites died out ages ago'. This is mostly true, but not quite! There's still Rolechat. It's a little janky, but what it needs more than anything is a bigger user base. Their Discord server is also a good place to find one on one discord roleplay. It is, of course, free, but if you want to support its development, they have a patreon.

Please reblog this post, and add your own tips on how to find roleplay!

#roleplay #rp #fandom rp #discord rp #jcink rp

[hellohowyme]

#Screenshot because op turned off reblogs #To be fair it sounds like this isnt a replacement for trees but for air quality since algae is more efficient at that #So the original tweet is misrepresenting it #Still they could gave made it look a little better

[5ummit]

So there's this post with a troubling number of notes going around insisting that "dead dove" is not a genre, it doesn't inherently have anything to do with darkfic, and that the tag could be applied to fics that are "100% fluffy where everyone's having a good time" if they happen to contain some abnormal (though entirely non-problematic) content like an unusual kink. The claim is that "dead dove: do not eat" is simply a "courtesy tag" that means "this is a very specific niche, mind the tags." And that's just... wrong.

I wrote up a whole rebuttal to this post since I can't stand misinformation and frankly OP was being kinda rude and judgey on top of their wrongness. But right after I posted my reply, OP turned off reblogs because, and I quote, “some fuckwad added some dumb shit onto this post and it is no longer educational” (the “fuckwad” being me and the “dumb shit” being proof that they were wrong). A couple people have asked me to make a rebloggable version of my response, which I've decided to do because this isn't the first time I've heard similar claims and I want to help set the record straight. However, I'm not linking the original post on the off chance this gains traction because OP did the right thing by turning off reblogs, preventing it from circulating further, and I don't want them to get hate for being unfortunately misinformed.

For those who don't know the history, "dead dove: do not eat" was originally proposed as a catchall "hydra trash party" alternative label for any fandom to warn that the content of a fic may be considered problematic or potentially upsetting and to read the tags carefully so you know what you're getting into and won't complain later. Specifically, DD:DNE was intended to convey that the Bad Things in the fic would likely be reveled in and not explicitly condemned by the narrative, which some people tend to get up in arms about, hence the need for the extra warning in addition to the tags. Don't believe me? Here's the original proposal (note DD:DNE can be found on a handful of fics dated before 2015 but this is when it really took off and became a Thing).

There are currently around 50,000 fics tagged as "dead dove: do not eat" on AO3 and close to 50% of those also include the rape/noncon warning (which of course is not the only type of "dead dove" but is one of the most popular and most consistently tagged). The normal percentage of noncon fics in any given fandom? Around 1-3%. That's a HUGE disparity. So don't tell me that dead dove is just a general "courtesy tag" and doesn't or shouldn't have dark connotations. Even the context of the original joke on Arrested Development has a dark undertone. Micheal Bluth casually finds an animal carcass in a bag in his refrigerator with the label "do not eat", as if eating it would be any sane person's first thought. The whole situation is kinda fucked up. And this fucked up vibe very much carries over into fandom usage too, as was intended.

The claim that dead dove has nothing to do with the content's genre and could just as easily be used to describe a 100% fluffy fic in which everyone's having a good time is straight up Wrong, or at the very least, severely warping the original meaning. Also, when someone these days says that they like/dislike "dead dove" most people in fandom automatically understand what that means because of the consistency of its usage over the years and the way language evolves. Whether you like it or not, "dead dove" IS a genre now and the term does carry a specific connotation. I do agree that DD:DNE should definitely still be used in conjunction with other tags, when applicable, to be explicit about the exact type of fucked up content you may find, but to say that the term is meaningless on its own is patently false and I'm tired of people who don't know what they're talking about pushing this narrative and causing even more confusion.

You want a generic term that also means "mind the tags" and doesn't have any inherently dark connotations? Just use good ol' "what it says on the tin" instead of trying to force dead dove to be something it's not.

#fyi I've tweaked my response slightly to remove specific references to OP and make it read better on its own #I hope I don't regret making this post and inviting The Discourse #but dead dove is a topic that is very near and dear to me #I feel like someone has got to say something and put a stop to all of the misinformation around it these days #fandom #long post #my words #psa #wendy's help desk

[djsadbean]

If I were to give any advice to a former twitter user (aka new tumblr user) it’d be:

Stay anonymous. Use a nickname or something ESPECIALLY if you’re a youngin’

Turn off public likes/following in settings.

Say nice things in the tags when u reblog art/writing/edits/gifs/etc. because every op (original poster) reads those and it makes their day

Block any corporate account you come across (this excludes small business, please support them if you like their work!)

Also block celebrities! You wanna follow what they’re doing? Go to their Instagram. This platform is one of the last places where we can be ourselves and not monetize our interests. We like it that way.

You can organize your blog! Use [#tags like this,] without the brackets to keep track of aesthetics you like or funny posts! It’s also nice if you wanna have a well kept blog for people to enjoy and look through your organized blog.

There are tumblr holidays and you’ll learn to love them <3 they’re silly and tbh it’s this community made culture that really makes this place special

There are a lot of millennials on here that are so sweet and amazing and they post about their interests and skills in their fields like history, cooking, art, science, etc. They’re a lot more friendly than the tiktok millennials that tried to start beef with teenagers. Be nice to them.

Follow @neil-gaiman he’s the coolest one here!!

Tumblr isn’t really what it used to be, like what it’s unflatteringly famous for… it’s pretty calm and fun here on most days. A lot of us are grown and know better than to start fights. (It’s not perfect obvi but it’s alright)

If you see an amazing resource that it’s best to not share, DON’T TALK ABOUT IT ON TIKTOK. That’s how we lost the library website. Appreciate these treasures. Don’t use them for an hour of internet clout on the worlds worst app.

Reblog stuff!! That’s how posts stay alive a decade after the op posted it. It’s still good and we love a chuckle and the nostalgia if you’re old enough to remember it

#djsadbean rambles #twitter #you don’t have to add tags but it helps! #also follow Linda carter LOL she joined after this was posted

[viscericorde]

if any of you see posts floating around that feature art credited to "Emile Corsi" and dated during the late 1800s, that artist does not exist and none of those dates are real. all of them are AI-generated images that for some reason the OP of those posts is trying to pass off as historical paintings.

none of this is made clear in their captions and you would only know by checking the tags of the original post, which of course vanish when anyone else reblogs the posts. the replies of the posts are also turned off and on most of them the majority of replies are hidden/deleted.

regardless of how you feel abt AI images, i just think it's weird as hell to invent a fake 19th century painter and be so obfuscatory about the fact that they Do Not Exist that you have people rbing your posts assuming that they were in fact done by a real guy in 1884

#textphelia #like literally why