you’ll have no main quests left to do in ffxiv and you’ll be like haha suckers you can’t make me CRY now you can’t CATCH me anymore i’m a FREE entirely emotionally STABLE individual until the next PATCH and then you’ll stumble upon an innocent side or job quest or a speech bubble because you wandered too close to some npcs and you’re dropkicked straight into the stratosphere of 2009s emo culture all over again
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.
(For those going “how is this not obvious”, it’s about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)
3 years ago I got off work late & was in line at the grocery store and I accidentally made eye contact with a white boy in a SnapBack, he looked me up and down then in the sleaziest voice said “Salaaaa malaikum” to this day it echoes as I see him vividly during sleep paralysis
he was just greeting you lmao
When someone breaks into your home and whispers “h-hewwo…? uWu ” In your ear as you lie still in fear, I will be in the corner, grinning. You look at me, your eyes pleading, begging for help. But what do I say? “He was just greeting you lmao” it echoes in the suddenly cold room. You hear it again, somehow getting closer. “H-h-hewwo? Is anyone thewe? OwO” who will save you now?
i want to learn at least 6 languages and play the bass and electric guitar and piano and make sculptures and paint and write and have a little garden and a cosy home with a reading corner and a bedroom with a rooflight but mostly i just want to love and be loved love this world cherish my life and everyone around me
