TUMBLR JUST KILLED LINKS

karalora:

ironwoman359:

silence-burns:

Yes, you read it right.

As of today, November 17, 2018, any post with links, any links, even to other tumblr posts, just don’t show up anymore in tumblr’s search engine.

I just found out about it, after I posted a fic with a link to my masterlist and it got little to no notes (it shuldn’t). I was right – the moment I deleted the links, my post magically appeared in the search again. Wow.

Please spread the word to warn the others.

This affects artists who want to cross promote their work, writers who want to link to previous chapters or to a masterlist, and editors who want to link to their YouTube channels, among just a few. This new policy will kill content creators’ ability to spread their work, and for what? A poor attempt to use the algorithm to crack down on porn bots and scammers? Sad.

In the meantime, here’s what I suggest: post your work with no added links, and tell people to check the notes for your masterlist, story navigation, links to ko-fi, patreon, and other social media sites. Make sure you have all those things ready, then paste it into a reblog and have people access them that way. It’s stupid, but it’s a work around we’ll have to use until tumblr gets their act together.

Reblogging again because I need advice on creating masterpost links.

pepsirosie:

doomedavocado:

doomedavocado:

Man full metal alchemist really uh really did everything attack on titan tried to do but ten times better like uhhhhh ten years earlier. I’m talking the uhh theme of a singular city constantly at war, an oppressive monarchy enforced by military police, daddy issues, dead mothers, powerful kids, the constant air of mystery surrounding the monstrous beings and the implications of a huge conspiracy. It goes without saying it helps that fma isn’t uhhhhhhh written by a hardline nationalist

More importantly: full metal alchemist is actually fun and enjoyable to watch and can have dramatic and emotional impact without resorting to

he lost his whole squad

His whole squad

#fma is written by a woman who wrote about racial relations specifically because of her observations of the mistreatment of the ainu people  #And the fact that she has both ainu and imperialist ancestors  #it’s literally so much better