Your familiar friend for talking about posts is rolling out over the next few days, and it’s learned a ton since it’s been away. Now replies let you:
Reply multiple times to a post.
Reply to your own posts.
See all of a post’s replies in one place.
Decide who can and can’t reply to you. (It’s in your blog settings.)
All that adds up to being able to talk about a post, right inside of a post, even as it travels from Tumblr to Tumblr. So, starting with posts created today, you’ll see a new notes view to help you follow that conversation. Looook:
If you’ve been waiting for this, thanks for your patience. If you’re new to replies, come discover their unique flavor. Spicier than a like, sweeter than a reblog, served on a big family-style platter. All part of a balanced diet. Have fun replying, Tumblr.
Want more details? You can get the nitty-gritty on replies and notes over in our help docs.
Replies are back in town
It’s all happening! Replies (and a nice new notes view) are rolling out even as I type this, so get ready to get back to it. Be sure to check our help docs for more on these features.
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #the more you know
some squares inspired by STV fandom humor, with special thanks to personal space tracker @galinaredreznikov and to @pixiedane for careful monitering of all space cloud activity
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#Star Trek #Voyager #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”Crash” Chakotay) #(honestly I hadn’t even noticed any particular tendency for him to crash shuttles) #(but it seems plausible and it’s funny regardless) #bingo
The best dialogue exchange in Cordyceps (without spoiling it).
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#cordyceps tcftog #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I’m getting the distinct impression that this book is going to become a subcultural touchstone a la The Northern Caves #(though admittedly I haven’t read The Northern Caves myself) #(mostly because it seems too horror-y for my tastes) #(arguably I shouldn’t have read Cordyceps either for the same reason) #(too late now)
(oh god, how do I even word this, it is too exciting for words)
Let’s go with this:
I am now the proud owner of the second-rarest familiar in the game.
(I am no longer the owner of a Red-Footed Akirbeak, Earth Sprite, Plague Sprite, Arcane Sprite, Ice Sprite, or Golden Bantam Fangar, but those are all easy to replace in comparison.)
(I also no longer own a Boneyard Tatters, Archivists Spellscroll, Sunguard Chest, four Frigid Sashes, or a pile of 110k gems, but owning those was always instrumental, a path toward the goal of this.)
(oh my god, it’s finally here, it’s mine, today’s the day)
(eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)
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#JT might be my only follower who speaks Flight Rising jargon well enough to understand what’s going on here #the rest of you will have to take my word for it that this is a very big deal #also I left the currency part of the page intact so you can see how much I have left afterward #the only reason I have that many gems is because two unhatched eggs sold right after I bought the Cog Frog #so I guess I’ve already taken the first step towards getting those other familiars back #(completely worth it) #Flight Rising #oh look an original post
“Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled “211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull.” We have gien this specimen a careful and detailed examination and regret to inform you that we disagree with you theory that it represents ‘conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two million years ago.’ Rather, it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie doll, of the variety one of our staff, who has small children, believes to be the ‘Malibu Barbie’. It is evident that you have given a great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen, and you may be quite certain that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings. However, we do feel that there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen which might have tipped you off to it’s modern origin:
The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are typically fossilized bone.
The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic centimeters, well below the threshold of even the earliest identified proto-hominids.
The dentition patters evident on the ‘skull’ is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ‘ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams’ you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time.This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses you have submitted in your history with this institution, but the evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much detail, let us say that:
A) The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog has chewed on.
Clams don’t have teeth.
It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your request to have the specimen carbon dated. This is partially due to the heavy load our lab must bear in it’s normal operation, and partly due to carbon dating’s notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic record. To the best of our knowledge, no Barbie dolls were produced prior to 1956 AD, and carbon dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate results. Sadly , we must also deny your request that we approach the National Science Foundation’s Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning your specimen the scientific name ‘Australopithecus spiff-arino.’ Speaking personally, I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.
However, we gladly accept your generous donation of this fascinating specimen to the museum. While it is undoubtedly not a hominid fossil, it is, nonetheless, yet another riveting example of the great body of work you seem to accumulate here so effortlessly. You should know that our Director has reserved a special shelf in his own office for the display of the specimens you have previously submitted to the Institution, and the entire staff speculates daily on what you will happen upon next in your digs at the site you have discovered in your back yard. We eagerly anticipate your trip to or nation’s capital that you proposed in you last letter, and several of us are pressing the Director to pay for it. We are particularly interested in hearing you expand on your theories surrounding the ‘trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix’ that makes the excellent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex femur you recently discovered take on the deceptive appearance of a rusty 9-mm Sears Craftsman automotive crescent wrench.
Yours in Science,
Harvey Rowe
Curator, Antiquities”
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(sorry if there are misspellings or wrong wordings. this was long and i was reading it off my phone)
“I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.“
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #you’ve probably seen this before #(I know I have seen this one several times over the years) #(but it’s still funny)
DS9 season 3 episode 15, “Destiny”, moral: always absolutely believe ancient bajoran prophecies because they will totally come true and ruin your day (esp if your name is benjamin sisko)
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#Star Trek #DS9 #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Did anyone else have trouble finding the face in this picture? It’s called an optical illusion, but that’s a lie and it took me nearly 10 years to finally find the darn thing. It’s in the bottom centre, btw.
5 – 10 seconds? That was after reading “Did anyone else have trouble finding the face in this picture?“ and before reading “It’s in the bottom centre, btw“, so I knew more or less what I was supposed to be looking for but not where. It didn’t really jump out at me, but nor was it especially difficult to track down when I was deliberately searching for it. I don’t know how much harder it would have been if I’d just been told “there is a hidden thingy in this picture” and not what it was.
MEMO FROM: The Desk of Regional Commander (South-West) Cesar Majano, AB-DENs TO: Field Captain John Walk SUBJECT: Field Training the New Recruits
Captain:
Please see the attached report from the agents at the DSO. Apparently some of your recruits, out on a training mission, were spotted by Muggles on a desert walk-about. Please have words with the recruits: while we are extremely impressed with the detail of their transformations, we would ask they remember that it is not enough to simply look like a cactus. Proper cactus behavior is expected. Luckily DSO agents got wind of this issue through the Meme-Divination wing of those clever bastards over in the MRD and were able to quash the story before it broke. Now we only have this rather funny picture circulating and which I feel will be an excellent learning tool for your recruits both present and future.
Brinens and Things 