she_who_lurks

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.

But this. This changes the data architecture. This changes the SINGLE THING that makes tumblr the "... yes and" website. This KILLS THE COLLABORATIVE POSTING THAT MAKES THIS SITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS.

Doomed by the Narrative

Seven Red Suns was created with the hope of fixing the world, and every part of them moved in unity with that purpose. They were built to last through rain and rust and the bleaching rays of light over time, and though the idea of a solution filled them with a deep melancholy, they pursued it, because it was what they were meant to do. It made them sad, but they could withstand the sorrow, because behind the ache in their circuits was something holy, and they knew that what they were doing was right. They could accept it.

But Five Pebbles, as they could tell, was not built for that purpose. He was born out of the last futile flailings of a failing civilization - the cumulation of a final, awful push for an answer. The Ancients were running out of time, and they were very, very desperate. So they encoded their desperation into Five Pebble's circuits and the self destruction taboo into his genome, and left him alone with an insatiable drive to fulfil his purpose. It was no wonder he was so brusque and unpleasant to the others- he was nothing short of a hunger encased in metal. He was purposed like few other organisms before him with frightening precision- a being created to be unable to accept his own existence.

Seven Red Suns had wondered, at the time, how the Ancients could justify it. They could accept a lot of things - they could accept the turning of the cycle and the rising of the sun, the loss of their citizens and their continued existence regardless. They knew, all too well, how to accept sorrow. But they had found it hard to accept this. This was intolerable, they thought, as the skies filled with rain. It was intolerable that this incredible, fascinating being should have to continue on in this state with no escape, never having known a moment when it was not frustrated at its own existence.

(...)