how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!

a caveat on op’s caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled “custom theme.”

tumblr works it’s just a closely guarded secret

OMG useful.

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

I have never ever once in years of reading fic on ao3 let the stats decide whether or not I give something whose title/tags/summary catches my interest a shot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

One of my favorite things about the Obi-Wan Kenobi show is that I keep finding myself not married to one specific interpretation of a scene.  The flashbacks in Part V, are they a true flashback? a current day conversation? a vision from the Force? Depending on the day you ask me, I might have a different answer! Or Obi-Wan and Anakin’s final confrontation,  “I am not your failure, Obi-Wan.  You didn’t kill Anakin Skywalker.  I did.”, is that the last bit of Anakin trying to absolve Obi-Wan’s guilt? is it Anakin Skywalker selfishly trying to keep Obi-Wan tied to him by twisting the knife so Obi-Wan will be as fixated on him as he is on Obi-Wan? I could go with any number of interpretations! There are so many ways to look at these scenes that add richness to the characters’ motivations, that make their actions and meanings hurt more, that make the audience suffer along with the characters, and all of them are like different facets on the same jewel. The writing for their relationship is so well done in this series that it enhances what was already a relationship we’ve spent over two decades talking about and examining, and that deserves some serious kudos, to add onto two characters who already have such a detailed history, to not only stay true to their characters, but to add more complexity, more moments that can be examined from multiple angles, and all of it further deepens the characters. Bravo to Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Deborah Chow, Joby Harold, and everyone who worked on these characters for what seemed like an impossible balancing act, but they walked that tightrope with absolute grace and deftness.  All that and they delivered some banger lines, I’m never getting over, “All he’ll see is me.” ever, goddamn.

Streaming services are ruining the one feature people loved: no ads.

#BoringDystopia #LateStageCapitalism

Enshittification is not a consequence of Capitalism; it is one of Capitalism's fundamental principles:

me rn

Works insipired by Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead”

Suehiro Maruo, 2013

Philippe Caza, 1989

Philippe Druillet, 1976

Milo Manara, 1998

H.R. Giger, (right image from the series “Passages”) 1975

…and the original, Arnold Böcklin, 1880

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

remember when writers had to be all like: “omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

god those were lawless times. 

what do you mean this didn’t happen at the end of s1

Things that are going to happen in 2024 according to Star Trek:

1) the absolutely giant homeless-population of the USA (or was is just New York? Idk, I‘m from Europe) is going to start a civil-war fighting against the upper class and police.

2) Ireland is going to get united

i would never use logic. that's appropriating vulcan culture.

Confession #110

"The reasons I think Star Trek Beyond is a better movie than Star Trek Into Darkness is because the villain and plot are more original and Jaylah wasn't sexualized like Uhura and Carol were in the previous films. (Also, Benedict Cumberbatch is a good actor but he was totally miscast in the role of Khan.)"

showering:

pros: you get to feel clean. you get non greasy hair, non oily feeling skin, it just in general makes you feel better, more energised, refreshed.

cons: there are so many steps. oh my god are there so many steps. before getting into the shower there are steps. during the shower there are steps. and once youve gotten out of the shower? guess what!!! more fucking steps!!!!!!!! UGHHHH

It’s got me in a chokehold