tiktok is such an awful app, it’s almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse
I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.
have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.
Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.
Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.
Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.
It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.
This for real. Alllllllll of this. All of these sounds are the way different people speak based on their emotions. A snarl is not going GRAWR like a dog. It’s so furious their teeth are bared, every syllable sharp and cutting and loud. A growl is lower, the words dangerously rough and hot, a warning.
It’s the same with softer sounds. A purr is that low, gravelly mmmmm noise of pleasure, or words warm and smooth as melted chocolate. When someone chirps, it’s bright and happy and quick, the syllables a little clipped in excitement. Panting is not tongue lolling like a dog; it’s a heaving chest and words that are half-breath.
This is what language, what storytelling IS. It’s symbolic, it’s imagination, it’s metaphor and analogy and simile. Strip that away and all you have is textbook descriptions, which are of course useful when reading actual textbooks, but far less entertaining when reading a goddamn fictional story.
so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie
fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the “potential bots” many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!
I see this spreading today a lot, rumour that apparently “new users can’t add icon, blog description, post or anything without following people first”, and that we might have been blocking/reporting new user instead of bots.
THIS IS NOT TRUE!
I don’t know why people repost this without testing or checking themselves first. I just signed up for completely new account with new email today (September 15th 2023), and can normally add my icon, banner, description, posts.. or edit blog in any way I want.
This is the new blog I just created and all functions work normally despite my not following anyone @sweetchild5250
I will delete it in few days just wanted the proof. don’t believe everything you read without testing folks :) Keep blocking those pesky empty bot accounts :)
I was curious so I actually tested this myself three times. Whether they make you follow people or not is entirely dependent on the sign up method.
If you sign up using email and create a password directly or use an apple account, it does not require you to follow multiple people before setting up your account. You can just go directly to your dashboard, set up your theme, header, icon, etc. without any interference. Then you can follow people.
However, if you sign up using a gmail account, it requires you to follow at least five tags and at least three people. There’s not a skip option. After you’ve finished following people, then you can edit your theme, header, icon, etc. You cannot change or customize your blog in any way until you follow people unless you close the tab and reopen tumblr altogether.
This is a case where both OP and this addition are true but, as I said, it depends on how users are signing up. I’m not really sure why there’s entirely different sign up methods like this.
hey y’all don’t forget to migrate your mojang account if you haven’t cause if you don’t Microsoft is gonna revoke ownership of your Minecraft copy for literally no fucking reason except to try to trap you into buying it again!
CUTOFF IS IN THREE DAYS (9/19/23).
Even if you don’t play anymore, don’t let these fools rob you.
sorry to add on to the post but if you use firefox as your browser and you are getting this error while trying to migrate
try to use another browser just for move. it worked for me when i quickly used chrome!
[image description: screenshot of a minecraft.net error page that says “Ohhh no…. Something went wrong… Please try again or contact support if the problem persists.” followed by an image of a minecraft creeper and a button that says “go back to profile.” end ID]
i’m just. very frustrated as an adult on a 17+ app being treated like i’m a little baby who can’t handle adult content or curate my own experience. it’s fucking stupid
