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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
bluedangernoodle
serafaina

OK. OKAY. YOU GUYS.

I am LOVING the fucking chocolate guy’s netflix show! It’s FANTASTIC! Anf hold on to your fucking boots y’all cause it’s actually not what I was expecting at all!

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Do you miss the gentleness of the Great British Bake-Off? THIS SHOW IS SO KIND AND GENTLE! For fuck’s sake, NO ONE GETS KICKED OFF! No. No, Listen to this! When they lose the first challenge (a pastry one), the punishment is… They get private lessons with Amaury to help improve what brought their scores down instead of competing in the second chocolate challenge. 

When the one black lady contestant messed up the first challenge I was super bummed and like, OF COURSE. But NO. She got lessons! She struggled! she worked hard! and she won a later challenge! GROWTH MY DUDES! They are there TO LEARN and GROW and Maybe Win a Big Prize!

They ALL get to stay and keep doing their best! and at the end the one who did the best overall is the one who gets the money prize!

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Look at this lovely line up! they make COOL LOOKING FANCY THINGS! Amaury tells us how he does some of the fancy things he does! They OFFER TO HELP EACH OTHER WHEN THEY FINISH EARLY AND GET PROPS FOR THAT! (not taunted for not using their own time better). The set up even kinda makes the one who is like, I’m in it to win it, is the villain and doing bad. The rest who are like, I’m here to learn and grow and maybe make friends! AUGH YOU GUYS!

Amaury is soft spoken and kind, and has a pretty voice and a pretty smile and that’s nice to watch too. The chefs are talented and artistic and they actually give the THE TIME to make nice things! It’s not “Wham out some half-assed garbage in 2 hours so we can shotgun the production and laugh at your garbage” like most cooking shows nowadays. NO! 14 hour challenges! They’re still hard, but they get to actually make cool stuff! fancy stuff! Stuff I want to look at and cheer for them!

The episodes average 38 min and aren’t a huge time commitment, the first episode being the longest one, and there are only 8 total so it’s not like you have to really get in for the long haul. \

WATCH IT! Pump it! we need more cooking shows like this and less that are sad and mean!

netherworldpost
netherworldpost

Advanced Tumblr Things I Would Pay For as a Content Creator Fuck I Hate That Fucking Term But It's What We Use Now

  • A Google Cal etc. connection so I could manage an editorial calendar far easier. When things are in in queue they are COLOR A. When they have posted they are COLOR B. If I move them on Google Calendar, it updates in Tumblr's backed system... so I can manage it via Google Cal.
  • A Pinterest connection button where things would crosspost. This would be a button below "Post now" that would give me a drop down option of what board, if any, to post it to.
  • A Facebook/Instagram connection cross post button.
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Originally posted by welcometoyouredoom

I understand the feelings a lot of people have about Facebook and Instagram.

And.

I have a lot of folks who like my stuff that are on Facebook and Instagram.

Whenever I talk about Facebook on Tumblr I invariably get a comment or ask "pfft your'e still on Facebook?"

My fellow.
I am building a business.
If people like spooky things are on Facebook, I'm going to have a Facebook place for me to put spooky things here.

  • Allow me to specifically pin a post into a backend dashboard so I can see how a specific post is doing with likes, reblogs, what it is tagged with, etc.
  • A dashboard that brings up the tags people have added to my posts. A slider so I can say "show me every tag everywhere" vs. "show me the... 5 most popular tags."
  • A dashboard that would show me a heatmap of popular times and days of the week things of mine get posted. For me, personally, this is more a comfort in "it rarely matters because this is Tumblr" versus trying to pinpoint or optimize things. I am including this specifically because I LIKE DATA and this IS EXISTING METADATA so is an easy (...easy-ish... none of this is easy) win.
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Originally posted by mpanighetti

  • A second queue. Works exactly like the first -- CONNECTED AS ABOVE WITH CALENDAR -- that let's me build a specific queue for "Hey! We have a new greeting card for sale!" The benefit of a second queue being I can pop things into here without worrying about timing and have it set to "run this once a week." Sometimes a "Hey we have a widget for sale" post needs to be scheduled. Sometimes I just need to have it run once a week.
  • The ability to reply to MESSAGES and INBOX and all other things via email. You know how in most support systems you get "Reply to this email to continue thread?" I am an email person. I am not a Tumblr Inbox person. I am not a Tumblr Chat person. I am an email person. Let me use this as a hub.
  • Speaking of email: An alert I can set up that sends me a weekly report of how many items are in queue.
  • An email alert I can set up when my queue hits [a figure I set].
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Originally posted by howardhawkshollywoodannex

  • Facebook has surprisingly robust dashboards on how posts do. Their backend system is a fucking nightmare so don't do that, but the idea of being able to quickly understand "This post about mermaids did well" and "this post about vampires did better" is good.
  • As above, help me understand "Early July is a surprisingly good time for your posts about vampires. Cemeteries not so much -- that is great for August, though."
  • A Shopify plugin. Let me add "add to cart" on a post.
  • A MailChimp and other email plugin. Let me add "sign up for newsletter" on a post.

I don't want data on how other people are using this platform. I want data on how other people interact with my posts.

I will pay monthly for this. The immediate justification is easy: "this would help me sell a few more zines to people who already like my zines and have stated they wish to be informed when I have new zines."

I have my email settled in place but as a bonus option: You have domains, which make sense.

Start a "We are Tumblr, here is how to manage a domain" Tumblr where you regularly post articles about domain management.

Add an email system -- just fucking partner with Google or similar, don't build a goddamn email system.

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Originally posted by nnighttlovell

Tumblr's audience is full of weirdos making weird shit.

I can tell you from personal experience: "Hello fellow weirdo who wishes to Make Small Things for Sale. Let me help you figure out a small issue so you can take a step closer" is a viable business model.

Become the social media platform that lets folks say "I want to occasionally sell this thing I do as a hobby. And/or. I am literally just starting out. Help me do that."

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Originally posted by a-tmospher-e

@staff text me I'm cute and I have ideas.

Some of them even make sense.

netherworldpost

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IFTTT and Zapier are among the popular ones -- little robots that are triggered when something happens in Platform ABC, they then do Action DEF on Other Platform XYZ.

Very fun.

I used to use these to buzz client phones which was a totally professional thing to do and absolutely had no comedic repercussions given my exclusive dealing with non-tricksters

(stare into space, stir coffee with lollipop, Remember Things)

And --

The issue, and I cannot stress this enough, is that you have to give these things access to your accounts (stressing the plural: accounts).

  • You are creating a security loophole that can wipe you out should someone gain access to one side, or the other, or the service itself.
  • You are relying on the services (Tumblr -> Whatever You Connect it To Via This App) not marking you as an unfriendly bot and/or spam. You are creating a "we're going to block you" loophole.
  • You are creating another dependency on a third platform that may, or may not, continue to exist in a manner your business relies upon at a price you can afford. You're already dependent on Platform ABC and Other Platform XYZ. You're now adding 50% dependency via one of these services.

I like where you're going -- and for a fun side project that doesn't put food on tables and roofs overhead and pumpkins on porches and candy in trick-or-treat bags -- I'm 100% for it, in the sense of "the login credentials for everything touching everything is hooked into closed-loop burners so if the entire thing goes up in flames it doesn't matter."

(As in "I have a special email address for this, I use it exclusively for this, and exclusively to log into a special Tumblr I set up for this, that I sue to connect to a special Facebook page I use for this... etc)

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Originally posted by richdifeo

I like that those services exist, though the dangers they introduce are not talked about enough to my taste.

theshitpostcalligrapher
theshitpostcalligrapher

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req'd by @rainbowsandsunties

sweet, expansion pack!

text: Ah sweet! Manmade horrors beyond my comprehension!

theshitpostcalligrapher

#Mia I need you to know that I read this as Marmalade Horrors at first 😆

only the jammiest of abominations for you all

ghostchilismoothie

drinking a grimace shake and dying horribly but its orange marmalade

theshitpostcalligrapher

so are you gonna ms paint Man... in a family guy death pose surrounded in orange or am i

ghostchilismoothie

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yeah here u go

real sticky be careful where you put it

theshitpostcalligrapher

KSFHKSHFJSEKJFSEH thank u

seananmcguire
badsciencejokes

Dude has a death wish

vergess

Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.

Truly the family that just keeps giving.

haropla

I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.

It was taken by a biologist that studies birds so it seems like he knows what he’s doing. For the most part. Here’s his caption:

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krystal-prisms

You all know that he 100% licked his fingers after handling that bird

totally-original-artist

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openworldadventurer

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seananmcguire
bucksboobs

Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.

It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.

cir-c

the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have

bucksboobs

Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.

seananmcguire

Was Buffy the Vampire Slayer normalizing porn in mainstream media when Spike and Buffy literally fucked a house down on top of themselves?

Was Grey's Anatomy normalizing porn in mainstream media when Meredith and Derek had sex in a bar the night they met, and Derek woke up on her living room floor sans pants?

The OP did not say "we need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another and also I get to see dick and balls and it should be on the Disney Channel." If you're cool with het couples having network-TV-level exposed sex, then why are gay couples doing the same "normalizing porn"?

And if you want to see dick and balls, or bush and labia, that's cool too. But no one is saying that should be on CBS at eight.