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Happiness Will Come To You.

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

Mii Channel Theme Splash Screen Music Default

Yeah, that’s what the title says, it’s a splash screen music default, with this classic tune in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9s1ltPGQOo Instructions:

There are two ways to install this:

1 - rename the splash file to "Splash" and copy it to your SOUND folder of your latest EP/SP. For Ultimate Collection users: Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun WIth Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Sound or

2 - if using LOADING RANDOMISER place all or desired files in custom_splash_music folder

Credits: knowledgeaspiration and falkii for their amazing Studio Ghibli loading screens and splash music, which I used as a base for this. fireflowersims for the squirrel ;) Download: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/1991441/

PS: This is for Sims 2, don’t use it in other sims games

happy trans day of visibility to green puppy specifically

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

truly

i'm trying to prove a point to my mom

reblog if you love killing and eating innocent civilians

the accidental unfollow followed by the refollow of shame is so fucked

can someone recommend some beginner normal behaviors for someone looking to become normal

man if I gotta make bad art, it should at least be easy! But it’s not! It is also hard to make this bad art

ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

Oh man you guys weren't kidding about the Twitter refugees with empty blogs. Spooky

yoooo theyre playing my fucking leitmotif in here this party rules (hearing it change to minor key) Oh Shit. Oh Fuck

nothing wrong with wanting to dance with somebody... wanting to feel the heat with somebody...

I think it'd be fun if one of these days when the evil overlord type is like "I Need A Queen. To Rule With" one of the little henchmen is just like "um 😳 if I may, sir, I would like to volunteer 👉👈" and overlord is just like. Okay sure you're cute aha

I’m sorry, what??? Really google?

new tumblr game: google ur username, go to the images tab, and see what comes up

“Nowhere Man” is what I associate with your name first, then I think of your Star Trek fics.

let’s do this 👀

for someone who doesn't give a fuck, i sure do give a lot of fucks

Hey I got this squishy stress ball, do u wanna feel it? (Autistic flirting)

I feel like the best way to describe my brain fog(?) is like this

So imagine you're at a computer, working on a project that has a really short deadline. You're a bit stressed as it is, and suddenly your computer blue-screens. You get even more stressed, as the deadline is only getting closer, but there's NOTHING you can do.

This is my brain randomly when I'm having a conversation

The way humans will hear "there's a shortage of x" and think "yeah I think it's a good idea to make it disappear faster for everyone. I'll take 1500" is kinda funny tbh

Listening to music while stoned is likely the closest a human can get to ascending to godhood

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW