This is the Dog of Protection.

Okay, staff, I am super freaking pissed about the update and here’s why. 

I cannot read your new format. 

I’m not trying to be whiny or nitpicky or over-dramatic. I can appreciate that you were attempting to make things look more organised/less confusing/whatever. I also expect the new format is a great improvement for people who have screen readers. That’s great. That’s fine. 

I just cannot freaking read this. I have dyslexia, and my dyslexia is set off by pictures, bold, italics, anything that is more “interesting” to my brain than plain, unadorned text.

Like this monstrosity:

Look at it. Just look at it. The pictures get in between the lines of text, there’s distracting colors and pictures everywhere. The names are bolded when they’re really not the most important thing. Looking at this, I see everything except what I’m supposed to see, that cheesy series of puns. (No pun intended.)

You literally couldn’t have made a worse format for me if you’d tried.

The thing is, your format was what made me really like Tumblr in the first place. It was super clear who was writing something new, because look, there was a freaking line pointing right to it. Unless someone started writing in all caps or bold or whatever, all the text in a post had the same amount of emphasis. Finally, SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET I COULD READ.

And now, now I can’t read any of it at all. 

So yeah, I’m pissed. 

Like, I know that you’re not going to change it back, because you never seem to listen when anyone on your site complains about anything. I’m not sure why I bothered writing this to you guys, given your track record. 

But now’s your chance to prove me wrong. Seriously, the least you could do is give us an option here. You’ve still got the old code. Just stick a button somewhere to revert to the old format so I can enjoy my text posts in peace. 

Sincerely, 

it doesn’t matter bout the car i drive or what i wear around my neck. all that matter is that YOU recognize that it’s just about respect

it doesn’t matter about the clothes i wear and where i go and why. all that matter is that you get hyped and we’ll do it to you every time, come on now 

do you ever wonder why this music gets you high? it takes you on a ride. feel it when your body starts to rock, baby you can’t stop and the music’s all you got come on now this must be pop

Let’s all try and include these in our writing…

1. A bit of crumpet 2. A bit of “How’s yer father?” 3. A bit of the old in-out, in-out 4. Accommodation 5. Act of darkness 6. Adult naptime 7. Afternoon delight 8. Aggressive cuddling 9. Agreeing on stuff 10. Amorous congress 11. Assault with a friendly weapon 12. Attacking the pink fortress 13. Baking the potato 14. Balling 15. Bam-bam in the ham 16. Banana in a fruit salad 17. Bandicooting 18. Banging 19. Barneymugging 20. Basket-making

Getting your end away