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I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...
...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)
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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.
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Communities closed beta is here
Hello again! We’re back with an update on Communities, a big idea we had last year that we’ve been working on steadily since then. We’re abnormally jazzed to announce that we’re beginning a “closed beta” phase of this new feature, which means many of you will get to play with it soon!
We want to build this whole thing together, with as much input from all of you as possible. We’ve read and re-read the feedback from our previous post, and we’ve been surveying and interviewing people about this idea for a few months now. But it’s time to open this up even more for hands-on testing.
We’ve already begun reaching out to most of you who interacted with our previous post, as promised, with a survey asking whether you’d be interested in helping (check your email!). Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be using the results of that survey to narrow down who we’d like to help test Communities in these initial batches.
The process is looking a bit like this:
- If you received a Communities survey email to your registered Tumblr email address, fill it out! If you’re interested in helping us in this beta test period, that’s your way of potentially getting early access. If you did not receive an email with the Communities survey, don’t fret! Communities will be rolling out to more people as we expand our testing.
- We’ll go through the results and choose a diverse range of community ideas to gather a wide array of feedback.
- Selected testers will receive a second survey with more detailed questions about their proposed community. Very practical stuff, like the name, title, and description, whether it should be public or private, the About page contents, its own community guidelines, and more.
- We will create the new Tumblr community on your behalf using the information supplied. We’re building the tools that will let people create and edit communities themselves, so eventually you’ll be able to change them without needing our help. But for now, we’re creating and editing them for you, as needed.
- After we’ve created the community, you’ll be made its first admin. Everything from here on out is up to you – Tumblr staff won’t be in your community (unless you invite us, of course). You’ll be able to invite anyone on Tumblr to your community. However, your community will have a population cap to start, limiting how many people can be in it and invited, as a way of keeping this beta test somewhat contained and manageable for us. We’ll be able to raise that population cap for communities that are growing and if we want to test further in that direction.
- And throughout, we’ll be asking for feedback, both in some special communities for everyone in the closed beta, and via more surveys and the Support tickets we receive.
This closed beta version of Communities is far from finished, and that’s part of the reason we want to start opening it up to more of you for feedback. There are a lot of rough edges and known issues, but we think it’s far enough along that it’s usable enough for testing. We need feedback in order to feel like we’re building the right thing.
The very first public community is called “Communities Feedback” for this reason! We want everyone helping us test out communities to tell us about it, so people in this closed beta will be in there by default. We want to use that space to be more public and real-time about new pieces we’re building, bugs we’re fixing, things we know are broken, and answers to common questions. There is an additional, private community for community admins, to help shape how administrating and moderating these spaces will work. And if you don’t want to use those spaces, you can always use the “Feedback” category in our Support form.
Stay tuned for more, and keep an eye on that Communities Feedback space if you’d like to see how things are changing over time.
Someone in the MMX tag: -mentions project moon and MMX in the same sentence-
My Brain, forgetting it's already got a WIP list 18 fics deep: WHAT IF LOBCORP AU /X IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE/
Me, staring longingly at a hammer and praying for sweet release from plotbunnies: you are a merciless creature and god will not smile upon your grave you bastard
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//Some redraws!
//I almost never draw X or Zero so like,, enjoy some heaving outta suit boys I guess. Also some RedX for brainrot (Also done with the same effort that I put into the original for funzies)
//Obligatory old under cut!
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play potions with your followers, but watch out..
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it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that
- you're gonna get tired very quickly
- tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—
- you're not gonna be as composed as you expect
- humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)
- DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)
- DO GET A SPEAR
- knights are faster than you think
Other favorites from history:
- Humans are very good at *pretending* to fight each other in hopes that the generals way in the back are buying it so nobody has to get stabbed.
- Most of the dying only happened after a side broke and tried to run, because then the rich assholes on horseback got to start running them down.
- When you do get a bloodthirtsy force, it gets bad real quick (see the battle of Adrianople, 378 CE, and the battle of Cannae, 216 BCE)
- SUPPLY LINES FFS
- Uuuuuuuh wow professionalization matters a lot actually
- There's a lot of dust actually
- Horses Will Not run through opposing infantry, but they will run at other horses
- Elephants are not worth it, tbh
- Shields matter a lot if you want to not die but good luck finding a balance between being too heavy and not protective enough
- Anything is a projectile if you throw it hard enough
- Always have a knife
- Do Not Fall Down - you will be trampled
- The guy with the biggest hat/plume is the leader
- Release The Hounds
- Valleys are BAD NEWS
- Uphill is much nicer than downhill
- A retreat route to boats on the sea is only helpful when you're already ready to sail
- Forests are torches waiting to be lit
- A professional soldier does a surprising amount of sitting around and day labour on massive projects
- The army has always been a good place to become an engineer, it seems
- Ffs, pleasr listen when the sergeant tells you something. He's always right
- If you've got a shit general, make sure you've got a good tactician/strategist
- That rich guy really doesn't know what he's doing, huh
- Drowning is awful and being in the navy is certainly A Choice, but your wife will not be happy with you
- Damn, all this shit is heavy :(((
- Attack the baggage train >:)))
- Uhhhh, sarge? The battle line broke. I'm going home
- Why aren't the enemy running and screaming back at us? They're just ... walking towards us. I will not be sticking around to figure out whatever fuckery they're up to.
- Blood is actually really slippery :(
- I did not clean my blade and now the blood has dried and glued the sword and scabbard together :(((
- Tf you mean we're gonna fight during harvest season. I think tf not.
- I Hate This. All Of This.
- Fuck me, battle is LOUD despite the fact I can't hear shit in this helmet
- You're better to be down an arm than down a leg, tbh
- Desertion rates are not as high as you'd think, but if you let the troops starve and get sick, they will abandon you en masse
- WHAT MADE YOU THINK CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
- The fewer pieces to armour the better is usually is (with the exception of chain and scale)
- Skirts and loose-ish clothes actually help conceal the lines of your body in combat
- Don't wear too much armour in a hot place because you will be sweating until you pass out and die
- CHARIOTS ARE SO COOL
- Falling off a chariot is Less Cool
- You're less likely to get stabbed than you are crushed or run over
- Leather resists slashing damage, silk/linen resists piercing damage and wood/ceramic disperses blunt damage
- Ceramic armour is actually so effective at defending its wearer that we still use it in bulletproof vests and tank armour (though once its broken it needs to be replaced)
- A blade lodged in bone can actually be really hard to get back out
- If your belly is cut open, you're already dead to an infection
- Unless they hit a major artery, bleeding out takes a long time
(a) Supply lines. Supply lines. LOGISTICS. Never take your eye off the logistics.
(b) The best battle is the one that doesn't happen. The night before, meet up with the other side's quartermasters and buy up their mercenaries' contracts. (And don't try to get cheap about it. Odds are the other guys know within 10-20% how much cash you're carrying. Get pissy about the terms of the buy-out, and they may decide it makes more sense just to go ahead with the battle and take it all off you for disrespecting them.)
(c) Don't be tempted onto bad terrain. (And [c1]: All terrain is bad in at least one way. Maybe more.)
(d) Maslow is a better guide to the responsible management of armed forces than Kubler-Ross.
(e) LOGISTICS.
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The only qte in this game that I actually like
🖍️🛠️🦈❤️
❤️Not a question, just a second kudos to send. ^ Thank you for the second kudos 🥺
🦈Tell us the name of your/ one of your WIP(s) ^ by any other name. X & Four Guardians centric, with some dad feels because I am a very weak motherfucker.
🛠Is there a scene or anything in the WIP you are struggling with right now? ^ I have 18 of them and the fact I can't seem to start skygazer (which is X & Iris friendship-centric) is the demon keeping me from them. :D
🖍Post Any sentence from your wip ^ From by any other name: He tried not to be bitter about the fact even humans had the right to name their children, and tried even harder not to be bitter that these were his children in even less than name only.
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An ask game for writers to procrastinate working on you WIP(s)
I am also procrastinating actually writing. If you’ve multiple works in progress you can give a different answer every time!
- 🦈Tell us the name of your/ one of your WIP(s)
- 🍄Decriscribe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___ =___”
- 🌍What tags or warnings will your / one of your wip(s) need if you intend to share it?
- 🧭An alternative title to your/ one of your WIP(s)?
- ⚠️Which wip your most likely to finish or update next?
- 💾What is your document of your wip/ a wip called? (not the stories actual title but what you’ve saved it as)
- 🖍Post Any sentence from your wip
- ♻️A scrapped idea for your current WIP
- 🤔What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?
- 🤡How many Wips are you actively working on?
- 🛠Is there a scene or anything in the WIP you are struggling with right now?
- ❤️Not a question, just a second kudos to send.
Enjoy!
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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)
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I'm curious let's go
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in honor of me finally acquiring the best video game i need to share the greatest ever tweet
2024 Easter Update: Billy Hatcher was officially acknowledged and given new art by SEGA.
I think once you play enough games you eventually get to the point where you get oddly obsessed with a weird Sega game, and you just never leave that state. It's always a Sega game specifically.
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Sorry for being such a slow writer, it's because I [remembers that self-deprecating jokes are harmful to my mental health and make everyone else uncomfortable] was attacked by dark spirits and washed up on the shore of a mysterious island with no recollection of who I was