READ MORES ARE YOUR FRIENDS

I have noticed within the past few months a very large uptick in the number of fics that are posted without read mores. Which is not ideal or considerate of other users and, I believe, optimistically, that its due to the number of new users who have not learned what that is. Which is fine! It's always fun to learn how to do something new!

To start! It basically shoves everything under a cut so the post doesn't clog up the dash. Big long info dump? Read more! A 2k+ fic? Read more! The most complicated recipe known to man? Read more! Wanna april fools style prank someone? Read More!

So how do you do the thing?

The old school way was to start a new line, type : [the colon symbol] read more [no spaces] : [colon symbol], enter/new line. On the mobile app it looks like the below photo.

However! The updated app now has the fancy schmancy button in the style bar. Its second to last to the right, line squiggle line.

If you did it right, you'll get the below line break. And then you can type what ever you want after that! (Note: you can still type :readmore: to get the break)

On desktop, you could type it out however the button is back! Start a new line and you get the add on bar. Its the last option in the line, and the same image as the app, line squiggle line.

Which results in the following line break

And there you have it! I hope this helps someone and this info can be shared. Thank you for reading this post and I sincerely wish you a lovely day.

@ltwilliammowett have you seen this?

#the painting is Rembrandt's storm on the sea of galilee#which is part of what makes this so cool to me!#the original was stolen in the 90s and has never been recovered#so this is one of the only ways you can even experience seeing it (tags via @profmeowmers)

Actually I've decided that the single most important thing Tumblr has going for it over Tiktok/Youtube/Twitter/Reddit is that Tumblr posts do NOT have a comment section of peanut-gallery wannabe comedians trying to lick the runoff from a popular post.

"Top comment" is a disease plaguing other websites that make the audience try to endlessly out-funny OP, or argue, or talk about themselves, or detract from the content in any way that gets them the good-job-like-thumbs-up-numbers on their comment. The fact that the Tumblr platform awards no notes and no extra visibility to comments is a blessing we need to appreciate more.

Maybe there are downsides maybe it makes people feel less sure how to get started or what to say. But also if the comment sections on my Tumblr posts looked like Reddit or Youtube I'd be on my 12th felony by now.

Inevitable

"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview with Lois Lane" a fancomic about hope and connection. I've had this story in mind for so long and I'm very excited to be able to share it at last. Thank you for reading, and happy Lunar New Year!

Aah thanks for all the love guys ;_; in case anyone's interested in more historical context I recommend these New Naratif articles on the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia, and "My Name Is..." a short comic on the history behind Chinese-Indonesian names.

i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

Tumblr constantly has gems like this where someone says something seemingly inane but it’s actually a thought we’ve all had at some point in our lives

Did you eat? (I love you) I bought the bread you like (I love you) I noticed you were upset so I brought you tea (I love you) I made this for you (I love you) I know you have a lot of work and can't talk now so I will leave this thing you like around (I love you) I did your chores (I love you) I will sit by in case you need anything (I love you. I love you. I love you)

please only answer if you’re old enough to legally drink where you live

Water lore‼️‼️

what the fuck is going on in Kalos

Sooooo hello everyone I'm Juli and I don’t know how tumblr works (because I found the internet in 2016)

I needed a place to dump my DP art, sketches, doodles, warmups (you get it) without having it all between my business stuff on my insta and figured here would be the perfect spot. let’s see if that was a good idea

Bonus: 

This thing from 2014 is my legacy. It’s got an insane number of notes and it still gets reblogs and likes everyday. I see people tagging it as #aclassic and I’ve met people in real life showing it to me not knowing I did it.

I was looking at it and realised that today, after 10 years I’d have done it the other way round.

I haven’t been in the Tolkien fandom for literally all of these 10 years so I don’t know if it’s been done already but here’s my updated version.

It’s…much funnier to me now lmao

Yes, such a claim makes him look like a small-minded piece of shit. To us. But we still shouldn't help Musk create revisionist history.

Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around and found out. He wanted to fuck with Twitter's stock price by feigning interest in buying it. Since that's illegal, he was then cornered into actually buying it for an insanely inflated price.

He's a transphobe. He's a bad father. But he's also a fucking idiot.

This. Please remember that he committed blatant market manipulation by not disclosing that he owned shares of Twitter when he was fucking with the stock market. The SEC was watching him very closely already, and so when the cost became more than what the entire company was worth, he had no choice. Remember when he had his gaggle of lawyers try to get him out of it by saying Twitter didn't disclose all of the information? That wasn't Twitter, it was him trying desperately to get out of a purchase he didn't want in the first place.

danny fits , anyways take some doodles that turned into thier own pieces haha

“how dare you say we piss on the poor” is perhaps THEE best piece of vernacular to come out of tumblr dot com in the past decade. along with “what were you doing at the devils sacrament” (cheeky. inspired. relevant in every context) and “harold, they're lesbians” (timeless. funny as hell. gay)

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