the other day one of my coworkers halfway referenced the spiders georg post but stopped before he actually reached the spiders georg part. like. I can’t be sure that that’s what he was doing but one coworker said “yknow. people swallow several spiders every year” and my other coworker said “well that’s just- it’s not true. it’s a- no, you’d wake up” and just. there was a look in his eyes. I just know
waging psychological warfare against one of my team leads starting tomorrow
“everyone knows about spiders georg” factoid actualy just statistical error. average perbson does not know spiders georg. tunglr uswrs, who have given spiders georg post 369k notes since 2013, are outliers adn should not be counted
Seeing more and more blogs without a [username].tumblr.com site which means you can only view their blogs in tumblr.com/[username] mode, and I realized just the other day that nowadays you have to manually go to your blog settings and toggle the “enable custom theme” switch to have a browser site activated.
I REALLY recommend activating this! Especially if you’re an artist or if you have a themed blog, like if you reblog fanart for a specific fandom or ship. First and foremostly you can change the whole theme if you want to, you can really just go wild with building your personal aesthetic for your page.
But what I think is even more important, is that you NEED to “enable custom theme” to enable access to your archive! The link [username].tumblr.com/archive doesn’t work if you don’t have this enabled!
If you post art or archive fanart or fandom content of any kind, letting people access your archive makes it so much easier for people (and yourself) to find older art on your blog or to look for something you drew a while ago that they remember loving and want to look at again.
We talk lots about how on Tumblr old art gets to circulate, and the archive is part of how that works. It’s a really useful tool in finding good content that isn’t brand new. And especially if you are good at tagging, it’s very easy to filter the archive to find ship content or meta or fics, whatever you want to find.
My favorite thing about early Internet forum culture was the default understanding that people live in different time zones and work off shifts or what have you and that some or most of the people engaged in an ongoing conversation were probably AFK while you’re online. You got mercilessly mocked for making a stink about someone not replying fast enough.
Read receipts are literally of the devil. If you send me a message and it takes me a few hours or days to reply to it, I’m probably asleep (from 8-9 am to 5 pm US Eastern) or spending time with my family or experiencing symptoms of mental illness or otherwise doing hot girl shit, and if I don’t reply fast enough for your tastes then sweetie that’s a you problem.
