you can always find me in the drift.

ask and you shall receive.

ya gotta stop caring what people think and start being extremely weird. but never cruel. i think that might save you

Hi Tumblr Newbies,

The inevitable new influx of people means a roundup of folks talking about "we don't have an algorithm here," "you NEED to reblog things," etc. and I would just like to offer some actually helpful advice.

One of tumblr's best assets is that it offers you multiple algorithmic feeds, including not having one at all. If you are on mobile, you will notice a "following" tab, followed by a "for you" tab, which is algorithmically generated. "Following" only includes posts from people you follow, in reverse chronological order. That's it. The vast majority of tumblr users prefer it this way, as we predate algorithms.

If you are new and looking to expand what you're finding quickly, you can browse under the algorithmic feed and tweak it once you've followed a few blogs and liked a few things - under "settings," you can choose to have posts related to your likes, or the likes of people you follow.

However - again, most users on this website do not use the algorithm. It's for that reason that reblogging posts is of such importance here. Liking a post is an appreciated sign of goodwill, but for the majority of users, it will not boost the post. Many of use use likes just as a save folder.

So if you genuinely like something you see on here, I encourage you to reblog it, because that is the only way the post will continue to spread around. Almost everyone started their blog with a theme they were loathe to ruin with an unrelated reblog, but by now most of us are just streams of consciousness showing each other things we find funny or interesting, and if you view your blog the same way you will have a much more enjoyable experience.

Do I have to add anything to the post when I reblog it?

Good question!

No, that is totally up to you. We generally have a hierarchy of comments agreeing that if you add something to a reblog, it should add something meaningful to the post, so you don't mind other people spreading your comment around. More basic comments like "wow," "that's really cool," etc we tend to put into the tags instead. Tags are not just for categorizing; they also act as metatext. It's where we put personal commentary, asides, and jokes. If a joke is funny enough, someone else will copy or screenshot your tags back into the post, and this is considered to be your joke passing peer review. You can just put the joke in the body of the text but it will read as cocky to some people.

ARTHUR MORGAN in Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) ↳ 33/?

“everyone interprets characters differently” unfortunately so true! thankfully I was blessed with an intense preternatural insight into their core beings (watched and paid attention) and I don’t have to worry

this was a historical moment in television

Apparently the rights to do this set back the budget for the rest of the season to like $5 and a peanut butter sandwich but it was abso-fucking-lutely worth every red cent

🐍 North American herpetology: . Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.

It feels criminal not to include the third panel

"Ok, ma'am that'll be 226.03$."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.

In the right wintry conditions, an ice bridge forms between the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Theoretically, this is the only place where you can walk from Russia to the United States (and vice versa), however travel between one Diomede to the other is strictly forbidden.

On the West side sits Russia’s Big Diomede with a population of 0. The smaller Little Diomede to the East has a small population of 82 (as of 2021).

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A bridge between Today and Yesterday, you say? Only there at the right time of year, with a certain amount of luck?

That absolutely has the makings of a quest destination.

going through the new voice lines added for mahjong and graha's are the most unhinged by far

That is such an inspirational quote for such a dumbass thing to do