This Potato is Bogged

Two limits! You can have a maximum of 4,096,000 characters in 1 [one] tumblr post. I would work out how many combinations this is, but 26^6,000 is already considered to be "Infinity" by most calculators, and a program I wrote threw an error code.

26^95,000 is already over 134,000 characters long - which would take 33 different text blocks to convey via tumblr. Whenever somebody says we're running out of posts, don't forget that tumblr is needlessly designed for MASSIVE amounts of information [no matter how detrimental it may be for mobile phones].

Though I'm not certain if that character count includes spaces, unfortunately, as I got that figure by googling "how many letters are in lord of the rings" and came upon a TikTok that counted the number of letter characters in LotR in order to figure out how many Spaghettios cans would be needed to re-write the entire thing, if one were to cut and paste each individual letter from the cans blackmail-letter style.

For those curious, the numbers are 2,261,081 letters in LotR, which calculates out to 8,795 cans of Spaghettios needed, which would cost about $12,225.

So, those are the theoretical limits, yeah. But in practice, the editor is not even close to be optimized to handle these kinds of huge posts: there is a point, far far away from the size of the lord of the rings, that your browser would just crash.

So if you are planning to post long fanfiction, or anything, you better work on something that's optimized for long form (locally, or some alternative to Google docs) and then post in chunks.

For the first post (first book only) there was no issue. Edit loaded, I could add the tag, press Save and done. Note: this was on a PC using Chrome

For the second post (all three books) it worked the same way as the API. I could load up the page and edit it, but when pressing save I'd get an error message. However the edit did go through actually and the tag is now there.

Haven't tried to edit the text itself, but don't think it would make a difference - if your browser can load it'd just work.

(On mobile on a low/mid-range Android the App could open up the post without problems, but haven't tried editing. Using a mobile browser - Firefox in my case - the page could load but it was super slow, and buggy, and it also did crash once)

Also as a public service announcement: if you want to filter the post out from your dash the tag is #full-lotr-test

because i think kingdom's take on war is quite nuanced and i hate it when i see people saying ‘oh, kingdom is so hype’ because i feel like that’s missing half the picture. like, yes, the battles in kingdom are made to be exciting to follow, but it’s written for readers to see multiple sides. 

i think kingdom does a really good job at depicting how fighting to protect something you care about or for the hope of a better future can be empowering while simultaneously showcasing the atrocities that go hand in hand with that. 

with protagonists who believe the only way to eventually achieve peace after centuries of war is by winning the war paired with the effort hara yasuhisa puts into keeping the battles interesting with the large scale, high stakes, and creative strategies, i can almost see how people get caught up the excitement of the battles and label it as ‘hype’. however, i say ‘almost’ because literally every step of the way, we are shown the moral dilemmas and repercussions of these battles and that they are not something that should be glorified. 

the coalition invasion arc, specifically the battle at sai, shows this duality very well. sei’s propaganda speech to convince the residents of sai to fight ri boku’s army instead of surrendering is done to invoke a sense of ardor that comes from fighting to protect something. however, it is blatantly propaganda. ri boku promised not to kill anyone of they were to surrender, but because of sei, they didn’t surrender, and half the city lost their lives. even though they do win the battle in the end, the excitement of victory is undermined by how tragic it is that so many people had to die. and we see sei after the battle is over feeling bad about what he did, despite being the one who incited them to fight in the first place. even a character who sees war as necessary means to an end cannot overlook the repercussions, which is why it baffles me when i see readers/watchers doing just that and only focusing on the excitement they get reading/watching the battle scenes. 

The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.