Anonymously Tell Me How You Feel About Me. I Can't Reply, I Just Have To Read It And Post It.

Hey it’s ace week and you’re local ace has something to say! I’ve been out as ace for 3 years now and it’s still a big part of my identity that I’m proud of so here’s a lil something for those who need it!

A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:

When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.  

If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.  

This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.  

Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.  

This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.  

Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.  

This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.  

Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.  

However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.  

Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.  

Tags are a divine mystery.

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thank you twitter, this is the only recommended topic post I’ll accept

REBLOG IF YOU ARE HELLA BORED AND WOULDN’T MIND SOME CURIOUS ANONS.

Obey Me! Shall We Date?

(Updated on 12/31/21)

Tears of Themis

(Updated on 12/31/21)

Twisted Wonderland

(Updated on 12/31/21)

I’ve been recently redoing the entirety of my blog so it actually looks more and IS more organized. I even decided to change the look of the masterlist! You can see that I got rid of a few past fandoms, I got rid of them because I wanted to focus on the ones I am most active in currently! Of course, if you want, you are always welcome to send in an ask for a different fandom and if I'm willing to, I'd write it!

(Created on 12/25/21)

(Edited on 12/31/21)

I FINALLY GOT ALL OF THE URS

(I got all of Asmo’s shard cards together and I didn’t even notice till I looked for them-)

working memory bad 💚

ha?

every single person who reblogs this

every

single

person

will get “doot doot” in their ask box