Wandering Warden

Part 3 in my weekly poster series for 2026. Prints available here, all profits in March will be donated to the Phoenix Legal Action Network in an effort to support immigration defense

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.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

@changes @staff Listen to your community. Nobody likes this. This is a horrible update that actively harms artists. It's literally "that one annoying person who repeats your joke louder and gets all the attention for it". Roll this back.

There are multiple recordings of what happened to Nerevar and the battle, and they in a way all make sense, and it makes sense that there can’t be one true retelling.

This is a battle that was fought thousands of years ago by tons of people, so the basic facts can line up will certain details can vary through the retelling, especially as it passes by word of mouth for so long. On top of that, the important parts of the event that are so debated are told by unreliable narrators, people who have been told the events over hundreds of years and may have/did change them to match the teachings of the tribunal, and the god kings themselves

They have a vested interest in keeping themselves as the heroes, but in the end I think they could have forgotten parts of the truth themselves, or told themselves their own lies so many times that they are starting to believe it too. The may be man-made gods, but they first were mortal, with mortal minds and memories which are easily distorted and easy to trick, even if done by just themselves.

On top of all THAT there’s even the fact that certain aspect of the story, mainly the fate of the Dwemer, are still a mystery because everyone there just admits, “yeah, we have no idea what all that was, they just disappeared and we can only guess what happened and why”