five guinea hens in trench coat

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

believe it or not, we liked that more

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

You know what, if this whole twitter blue thing manages to make insulin affordable, then it would all be worth it.

I knew about the tweets but I didn’t know about the stocks. yay

To be clear because it confused me national disability awareness month happens in March. National diabetes awareness month happens in November. It's arguably even more important to have this conversation during diabetes awareness month because part of awareness for diabetes should be awareness that the prognosis changes with socioecenomic status because of pharmaceutical companies making a buck at the expense of peoples' lives.

i wish the period blood came out all at once like a shotgun blast

i think 'spending money on a tumblr verification badge is corny' is completely fair but the people going on about how anyone who has bought one is a terrible person because they could have donated it to charity etc etc etc come off as soooo performative. unless you are yelling at people about every single nonessential purchase they make, and make none yourself ever (video games, little snacks, cute accessories, etc) you're just performing outrage for internet points and it's incredibly 2014-esque.

You know I gotta learn shitpost brevity. Most of my successful posts are like 3 paragraph essays, minimum. Fucking dissertations. Terrible note-to-word ratio. Inefficient. In this economy? In this economy? Unsustainable. Everyone else posting "blowing my balls up at the bomb factory" and getting 50,000 notes. Amazing ROI. They're the future and I'm on dial-up. The market's gonna out-compete me.

question

i find it frustrating when a character makes a decision (especially an emotional one) that makes sense for them as a person to make in a given situation, but because the decision has unforeseen ill effects of some kind, fandoms attribute this choice to the character’s stupidity. because it’s like. no!! they aren’t stupid, they are just trapped within their story and cannot see further forward in it than where and when they are!! they are not looking at this with the omniscient god’s eye view that you, the viewer who has already read this book or seen this movie, are where you know what happens after this and the consequences of every move on the narrative chess board!! they cannot make the decisions that you think you would, knowing what you know, because they don’t have all that insight!!

i can’t wait for my bluetooth and wifi enabled fridge to make me pay $59.99 a year for my Ice Pro Max™️ subscription or else it will stop producing ice cubes

See, this is exactly what those "paranoid" IT guys are talking about