That purple squirrel

Only a little further down the street; Angel slowed to a brisk trot as she drew closer. Wonderful smells were wafting from Tony’s, across the street; but that was a haunt Angel had yet to work up the courage to visit. A restaurant was a lot harder to steal from than a butcher’s or a baker’s, and she didn’t trust the owner to want to feed a dirty stray like her.

Speaking of baker’s…

She padded to a stop outside Francois Pastries. A rather fancy baker’s, it was; and one Angel had never paid much mind to for herself. But for a non-meat-eater, it was probably the best place in town to snatch something decent.

She glanced at Risu.

“Can you steal something from there for yourself, or do you need me to make a distraction for you?”

Alright, so here goes! What you want to do is pull up the reply the other person made and copy that person’s reply like so:

Then you paste your reply into the text box provided below. For the image, what you have to do is right-click on the image and select “copy image”:

Paste the image into the reply and adjust position as needed according to where the icon was when your partner replied.

Then you go about replying as usual (since I already responded to this thread I just made a random thing tbfh). As a personal preference nowadays, I like separating my partner’s reply from mine with one of those dividing lines on the Tumblr sidebar, like so:

and then go about formatting how you normally would and also delete the reblogs. If you want to add your partner’s URL at the top feel free, though it’s rather tedious and would involve going into HTML to bring things back to normal, and for those who aren’t experienced with html… it’ll be tough. At this point I wouldn’t worry about blockquoting because I have absolutely no idea how it would turn out if I did happen to blockquote, but until Tumblr either fixes this or X-kit finds a way to create an extension to have the option of going back to the old way, this is what I can provide to help you guys with.

//okay, I just queued a reply. Here’s what you need to do to fix things and make it look relatively normal, it just takes a few extra steps-

first, before you even click on the draft, copy what your partner has written. Then go into the draft, and delete all the previous reblogs. Then paste your partners reply into the text box below. Use the block quote feature. If you want to you can add back your partners’ url or some sort of title/header. 

then beneath the block quote, do your reply. It will look pretty normal. The only drawback is that tumblr won’t let you copy/paste photos, so if your partner has used icons, you won’t be able to put them back into the reply. You can still use your own icons, but their’s won’t be there anymore.