Oh Hail Rat King

Aggressive and fearful, he escaped from an unsafe breeder alongside Thundercracker and Skywarp.

During his early days as a stray, he met a friendly human who would leave out food for him. However, the human disappeared, leaving him behind.

happy wavesday! today's soundkitty and shockbun are from earthspark… they are so ears 💙💜

Tell me who's the next I'm drawing like that

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.

Hello, staff.

I’m writing to strongly urge you to reconsider the just-announced change to how notes are attributed to posts. The notes on a post all being shared makes tumblr feel so much more like an interconnected community than isolated batches of notes per reblog would. As someone who has had many posts accumulate large numbers of notes, my favorite aspect of a post becoming popular is looking at the notes and seeing what new circles it is being shared in, and what other people have added. Opening the notes on a popular post created by someone else, and perusing the various reblog additions and reactions, is also great fun, especially on older posts that have continued to accumulate notes for years. Being able to easily see a post’s entire journey through the tumblr ecosystem is the main thing that makes posting here fun for me— more fun than on any other social media site, even.

Splitting up a post’s notes in the way the recent announcement suggests would break that feeling of community for me, ruin the sense of a big joyful group conversation, and ruin the main reason why I continue to post to tumblr rather than exclusively on other platforms. Furthermore, as an artist who loves seeing how others engage with my work, and the convenience of seeing all those reactions in a post’s notes and on my activity page, it would break my heart to not be able to see comments and tags people might add to an art post of mine because they’re split off into a separate reblog chain. I strongly urge staff to reconsider this decision.

posting a version here as well before I strike alongside other users for several days. I highly encourage you to submit your own support ticket and select "feedback."

-- Dear Tumblr Staff,

I have a blog I've been running since 2018. I encourage all of my readers on Archive of Our Own to come find me and interact here, on Tumblr. I post here daily and have consistently interacted with followers and non-followers alike. Some of these posts receive tens or even hundreds of thousands of likes, reblogs, and comments. I am sincerely proud of this accomplishment.

This process, this achievement, works because we can interact with reblogs, comments, and tags. With each other. Without it, what truly is the point of Tumblr? Siloing us into age appropriate categories? Disconnected communities and fostering a culture of indifference or worse, animosity to others?

The porn ban was one thing, and I understand the legal mess without agreeing with the outcome(s) But I do not understand this. At all.

No one asked for this. No one WANTS this. I don't say that to threaten, only to express my extreme displeasure with the new reblog chains, and to convey the reality of what is about to occur -- you will lose thousands of active users. Thousands.

For a site meant to build collaboration and foster interaction, this is a grave mistake. It is absolutely insane to launch this on people who have consistently valued those above items, keeping this site alive while a mass exodus occurred years ago. Those blogs and people have persisted, and this is the ONE thing that keeps them on here. Interaction with other people. Connection. A feeling of community stretching across blogs that may never be directly connected to each other.

I know you may or may not reply, and that an eventual reply would indicate that my feedback will be taken into mind. But it won't. Because this decision was forced on a userbase that had no input on the impact and did not want this. A decision that, in all likelihood, was never made with users in mind.