I Have Been To Mordor

Reposting: when you screenshot, download, or otherwise save someone else's work and then make a post on your own blog about it (uploading it like it's your own) and don't give the creator (artist, author, gif maker, etc.) any credit. not only is this generally considered bad manners and poor fandom ettiquette, but it's also a fast track to showing creators their work isn't valued and leading to a decline of fanworks. boo! we don't want this in our fan spaces!

Reblogging: sharing op's work with the reblog button on tumblr so they get the acknowledgement for their work. 10/10 behavior! gold stars for you!! this also works if you add to the op (original post) with a (positive) comment or anecdote underneath it.

and if you're sharing a work from outside tumblr (so you can't just reblog) you can link to it easily on mobile and desktop:

Mobile: highlight the text where you want the link to go and long hold on it and choose the chain link icon

Desktop: highlight the text where you want the link to go and all the formatting options will pop up including the chain link icon

Content source: if adding a hyperlink to the text won't work you can also add a source to a post. on mobile choose the hamburger icon or on desktop the gear icon (both top right corner on tumblr) and look for the Content source box and then you can copy+paste the link from your clipboard

Easy! now you've shared where you've gotten the post from and helped to make our fan communities a better place!

This also applies to yt videos and episodes of shows btw! not only does it inform people who might find the post years from now and want to know context, but it's also helpful for fandom historians and archivists to know when/where a blorbo did something for those meta and comparisions posts that y'all love so much!

note: make sure you delete everything including and after the ? in links from places like ig and yt - that's their web trackers and we don't like those

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