#tumblrverse

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

xkcd 1043 (April 16, 2012)

Actual (August 1, 2023)

Tumblr overtook blog in November 2012, and got re-overtaken in January 2019 (the month after the porn ban)

#tumblr #blog #xkcd #blogosphere #tumblrverse

[darklydeliciousdesires]

NEW FOLLOWERS PLEASE READ!

GUYS!

Please, please, PLEASE, if you are a new blog, to avoid me lumping you in as spam and blocking you, put something on your blog. A few pictures, a few reblogs and post shares, a bit of a vague description about yourself so that I and many others can differentiate you from the porn bot blogs, which are RIFE at the moment. I blocked about eight of those blogs only yesterday, so I need to see that my follower traffic coming through is legit, or you’ll sadly be culled. 

I know a lot of people only have blogs just to read fics, but really, tumblr isn’t about that. It should be an interactive experience, a place you can reach out to others, communicate, even if only minimally, and there’s literally nothing stopping you from doing this and still remaining under somewhat of a veil of anonymity, if that’s what your reason for keeping your blog empty is. 

More and more of us are blocking blank blogs, meaning you’ll loose out in the end. 

#blank blogs #tumblrverse #fanfiction #fanfiction writer #ddd speaks

[krsonmar]

Oh uh huh sure, some "big news" just broke in"""The Real World"""?

Destiel memes or it didn't happen

#tumblr #tumblrverse #i am very online #memes #destiel

[toa-ahkmou]

OOC: I think we're actually done this time.

Hello, everyone. I am @toaarcan, the writer behind both this blog, and @ghost-of-destiny. If you were a reader of either of these blogs, then you've probably noticed that everything has been very quiet for a while now.

I know some people are still enjoying what we did, because every day I get likes on some of the threads we did. And, unfortunately, I doubt there will be any more.

There's been a general decline in interest from all parties, in fact, I was one of the last ones consistently posting, as most other people just weren't around anymore. For some, Life Stuff just became too much of an obstacle. For others, the overall story was shifting in a different direction to what they'd been interested in. For some, it was just the sheer difficulty of being caught up on a story spread across a dozen blogs on a website that's actively hostile to searches.

That last one's pretty ironic considering that we were writing fanfic for a series that died because its story got too convoluted and hard to follow.

There's also another thing.

There was a D&D game. It went badly.

Actually, that's an oversimplification, but what happened was that a bunch of the most active and plot-critical players in what we referred to as "Tumblrverse" banded together to play D&D. We mostly used D&D-ified versions of our Bionicle characters and played by post on Discord. I will not be naming any names here besides my own, because I don't want this to feel like I'm airing other people's dirty laundry... but given that I have to make this disclaimer, you can probably tell that things went sideways.

At first, it worked really well! But we made one mistake right from the off: The chat was always running. It was always online. 24/7 D&D. If the DM wasn't around to make the bad guys do things, we were still active in there, chatting, shooting the breeze, and arguing. And for most of us, it took pretty much all of our creative juices.

The game, Ruins and Rahi, ran for about two years, of constant play, and things fell apart majorly toward the end, and a lot of those cracks first formed early on.

Fitting for a D&D game played by Tumblr people, there was a very "Yes, and" approach to things, and that translated to "Any player can introduce lore and suggest plot twists for their character, and everyone else just has to roll with it." We also made the critical mistake of not having a Session 0, and not establishing safety tools, so if one of these elements was an issue for someone else in the group... well, I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

Very early on, I basically introduced voluntary PvP into the game, as one of my characters had a freak-out and turned into a villain. I wanted to redeem this character, and I wanted it to be a slow, painful thing where she had to come to turns with her own morality and maybe backslide a few times. This did not work out. It mainly didn't work out because... well, I did kill another player character.

Now, this death was something the player chose to do, and was approved by the DM, and only then was it actually pitched to me. In terms of the chain of responsibility for that one, I was a solid third place of three people. Buuuut that didn't mean that it didn't become basically My Fault for the rest of the game.

This resulted in a lot of arguments, that ran for hours on end, and that's a problem in D&D because of character bleed.

In any D&D game, the player's personality and morality will bleed into their character. You've got to be real damn good to avoid it. This is why almost none of my evil characters stay evil. I just can't do it for long periods of time. And this means that, if you start having arguments in-character about the actions those characters took, eventually... you're just yelling at your friends. Often for things that either weren't entirely their fault, or weren't their fault at all.

By the time the game staggered to a close, everyone was kinda mad at each other, and there was no way to save it. The bad choices we'd all made without really talking to each other about it in advance finally became too heavy to ignore. Three of us dipped in quick succession and it collapsed in on itself.

And when you've spent several months wallowing in bitterness and half-sniping at each other, another collaborative writing project is somewhat hard to jump back into. Especially when you then make the collective decision to partake in a dedicated Discord channel for... oversharing and it immediately devolves into more sniping, this time without any veneer of roleplaying as someone else.

This is, in part, an open apology for the things I said and did during those few months, because I don't like the version of myself I became during that time. We were having fun with it until suddenly we weren't and it went too far. And it's left a bunch of us with irreconcilable differences and a few scars that mean that some of us just can't or won't talk to each other anymore. Like there are those among our number that literally can't be in the same space as each other anymore, and I've had to talk about R&R with my therapist, because as much as I'm still attached to some of the characters and some of the narrative, the way things fell apart is something that I dread a repeat of, both on my end, and on others'.

We made a few more attempts to get things rolling again on here after that. In fact, the False Flag megathread was entirely post-R&R, if I'm remembering right. But the life had gone out of it. False Flag was basically the only thread happening, and it slowed and slowed and slowed until it wasn't updating anymore either. I suggested maybe retooling the ending to turn it into more of a conclusion, but nothing more was done.

The Discord channel we used to use to plan stuff has been dead since May. We weren't talking about new threads, but about why the whole thing fell apart and what we could do to replace it. No suggestions for the latter stuck.

I think we're done. Not just me, but everyone else too.

ToaArcan, player of Ahkmou and Matoro, signing off.

#Bionicle RP #Tumblrverse #Bionicle Tumblrverse #Bionicle #Bonkles

[caixadeexcertos]

Um desafio? A vida.

Um refúgio? O Tumblr.

Will.Ams

#souwill #diario #tumblr #vida #notas #mentesexpostas #tumblrverse

[antvnger]

((Scott trying to keep all his multiversal connections straight in his mind.

Could also be read as Ant-Mun trying to do the same 😂😂))

#ant mun's thoughts #scott lang #ant-man #ant mun #multiverse #tumblrverse #multiverse shenanigans #ant man #antman

[ch4rmsing]

Only on tumblr is where I every so often say to myself “Amazing, chocolate guy is at it again.” I don’t follow a chocolate man blog or anything. He just never fails to show up in videos of making chocolate things.

#random thought #tumblrverse

[lucifer-hot-as-hell]

Is Tumblr dead?

Do I need to change my handle? Probably yes, because this is not a fandom blog anymore.

How should I call myself?

too-old-for-tumblr-infp

🙈

#infp #personal #tumblrverse #22-08-21

[secondlifep]

Are we a tumblrnet or a tumblrverse?

#burning questions #tumblrnet #tumblrverse #hmmmmm

[redonkulons5th]

How come some posts will have 10k or 10.4k notes, but others have 14,376?

#redonkulon writes randomly #notes #how come #what gives #tumblr mystery #tumblrverse

[parmalamb]

Help me out here:

I used to follow a Canadian gay adult "influencer" on Tumblr before influencers were a thing.

Sexy guy, moustache, slightly bigger body and had a thing for public and sleaze, but in a kinda nice, open and approachable way. His profile pic was quite yellow if I remember correctly.

He had loads of absolutely awesome content.

Who was he!? And where is he now??

#helpmefindhim #whowashe #Tumblrverse #famous tumblrs #canadian #malebeauty

[deaverypriest]

We Need Poetry

#the herder's tome #poetry #priest #the herder #Minneapolis #poetryisnotdead #poetry is alive #poetryislife #poetry on tumblr #tumblr poetry #tumblr poems #tumblr poet society #WeNeedPoetry #blackpoet #black poetry #tumblrverse #poetrycommunity #writers on tumblr #poetryporn #poems and poetry

[art-vs-apocalypse]

it's a weird thing being intrinsically motivated.

people really don't seem to understand it.

#thoughts #blog #blogging #tumblr #tumblrverse #so it goes #journal #thinking #life #tags #tags are meaningless

[krsonmar]

I kind of hope the world still exists in 2081 only because I want people to make this GIF go viral about how long it'll have been since Titanic (1997) was released. It'll be meta.

#titanic #titanic 1997 #90s #90s kids #90s aesthetic #tumblrverse #90s kid #90s movies

[figsteel]

hi guys im the one who made this image (@/sunora on twitter)

#vriska universe #vriska tumblrverse #idk what the fuck to tag i dont use tumblr #steven universe #homestuck #vriska serket

[antvnger]

Hi Ant-Mun! I really want to interact with you but I'm not sure how any of my muses would interact with Scott tbh 😅 but I want you to know I love your blog and you're doing an awesome job 🥰🩷

((Hi Anon! Thanks for stopping by and thank you so much for your kind words! I appreciate that a lot.

And as far as muses go, I’ve seen Scott interact with loads of people beyond the MCU thanks to tumblr magic. Ahsoka, Maleficent, Captain Hook, Lilo and Stitch, Harvey Specter, various OCs, I mean the list is crazy. So if you really want to see if Scott can interact with a muse of yours, let’s discuss in the DMs if you’d like.

If all else fails, you are always welcome to leave asks for me or for Scott on Anon. Either way, we hope to see you around! Unless you’re on Anon, then we wouldn’t know it was you specifically unless you were a named anon, you get what I mean. ))

#for the ant mun #ant mun #anon asks #scott lang #ant-man #tumblr magic #tumblrverse