Tomfoolery

[Tomfoolery]

[viralthings]

The more you look at this picture, the more anxious it becomes.

[chandra-nalaar]

this is just a normal waffle house

[kayas-wife]

there is a bloody handprint on the door

[commandtower-solring-go]

There is somethung under the counter with the cups

[ezurad]

Blind man reading news paper
Skull in the coffee

[hiringdreamers]

Milk is $15

[captaindeadpoet]

Lady’s hand is a tentacle

[bluesey-182]

the bleeding pie, the eyeball and fingers on the blind man’s plate…

[iamsapphirecrimsonclaw]

I was trying to find something nobody else had seen yet, when I realized…

Look right above the tentacle arm. The second man at the buffet, what the hell is he doing? He’s either throwing up or eating an octopus.

[asymbina]

I think his face is just tentacles.

[kakaphoe]

The blind man has gills.

[of-another-broken-heart]

Scariest detail: this image was ripped from the creator’s site and vandalized (edited to remove the watermark), then reuploaded for viral fame without so much as a mention of the artist’s name.
SOURCE: http://jeffleejohnson.deviantart.com/art/Blue-Plate-Special-661961724

That said, the earlier observation about milk being $15 is off - artist confirms this is based on a 1920’s diner, so the price would be in cents.
(http://comments.deviantart.com/1/661961724/4375070065)

The table under the journal is lacquered with ants.

The person holding the skull-creamed coffee paints the underside of their nails. Either that or their natural nails grow red.

The journal’s writing, intentionally made hard to read and partially obscured, is somewhat of a cheat to all the things amiss in the scene. (http://comments.deviantart.com/1/661961724/4372574544) I can make out: “… and eyeball … have to think he is less strange than the horrifying creature that seems to have inhabited the cabinet behind him … all tentacles and teeth … (obscured by cup) … Where in the world can be found such nightmares?!”

[kakaphoe]

Reblogging for the correct source (I didn’t even notice the OP wasn’t the artist oops).

[a-small-bowl-of-noodles]

There’s a second one, and there’s even more in this

[schi-walker-locked]

AAAHH, cool, but AAAAAHHHH

[starafterdeath]

Just a regular morning in Innsmouth.

[mrevaunit42]

Passing your perception checks isn’t always a great idea

[Tomfoolery]

[logorrhea5mip]

Tumblr reblog chains are in danger.

It seems that the staff is actually going to go forward with their decision to remove reblog chains, where reblogs will basically work like regular comments on other websites.

This doesn't just make the site completely unusable, it removes the soul of the community that has managed to build up here over the years, and that I'm so happy to have recently joined.

It makes impossible the creation of great posts where many people build up a single thing, until it is a gem of expressed human creativity.

There will be no more world heritage posts, no more messing around with your mutuals, no posts worth remembering.

There will be no more Tumblr, and the Tikblr or TumbTube or whatever monstrosity is born from its corpse will soon die, as is probably the best. And then there will never be another place like this on the internet, no place anymore to run to, no more fun, no more community.

I recommend a simple course of action. When these changes get imposed upon us, stop using Tumblr. Get your mutuals' discords, your favourite artists' websites, and leave. If the Tumblr we have once known returns, we well too. If not, better let it die quickly than suffer a long and painful decline.

I beg you to reblog this, for the more people see it, the higher chanses are for this to work.

And add something, so we can show them what Tumblr is really for.

[smalltall]

@staff this won't be like the porn ban boycott we will actually leave

[naranjapetrificada]

@staff @wip I'm really not sure why this seems worth committing to. The only possibility I can conceive of is that this is one of those situations where an executive has fallen in love with an idea For Reasons and there's no way for everyone under them to escape it. As a working person, I get it. You sometimes (often) get stuck putting orders in motion that make no sense for how your products are used or what your users have expressed a desire for and you just have to make it happen.

If that's what's up non-exec staff, I see you, and it sucks. I just...if you have it in you, please ask your bosses one more time and let them know that we're not bluffing. I only came back to tumblr a couple months ago for fandom reasons, looking around out of curiosity. What made me come back was everything other fans were posting in easily accessible replies to each other's in their reblogs. It's what's kept me coming back. Without it I have no reason to stay, which will be a bummer, but it won't be worth the tradeoffs anymore.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I love you reblog chains I love you chronological feed I love you KUNG POW PENIS I love you long posts I love you being able to have long conversations in reblogs. I love you being able to go to a specific reblog in the reblog chain so I can reblog all the stuff I want and leave the rest of that bullshit behind I love you making one snappy nonspecific and then reblogging it with clarification for dramatic effect. I love you being able to reblog the clarification I love you tumblr as it is @staff do not change it do not change it I'm begging you please please please I'll fucking buy a check mark or whatever just leave the reblog chains alone.

[neon-slime]

im trying to gather up artist and writers and mutuals info rn because i will leave if tumblr stops being tumblr. I hate most social media so tumblr turning into a new twitter Does Not appeal to me @staff

[friend-crow]

@staff @humans

If you really do have to go forward with this change, could you at least make it another optional feature that the vast majority of us will toggle off because it's a bad idea?

[coinandcandle]

ayo @staff what the fuck, don't get rid of reblog chains

[Tomfoolery]

[shilohtx]

pitter patter putter patter *you look down and see this*

[great-and-small]

I would do anything for the terra cotta corn puppy

[Tomfoolery]

[twobrokenwyngs]

I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.

[twobrokenwyngs]

it’s just like. this broadcasts loud and clear that the people behind the curtain have no pride or faith in this site at all. that tumblr, as a whole, has no worth or merit unless it’s somehow tricking the larger internet community into thinking it’s actually another site. and the users are supposed to celebrate this? where’s the dignity? where’s the self-respect? where’s the joy? it’s disheartening and embarrassing to be forced to conform. smh.

[Tomfoolery]

[existential-celestial]

“Everything rough becomes delicate when you love it. More roses, more roses, more roses.”

— Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from “Parsley Crown,” wr. c. 1916

[Tomfoolery]

[relaxxattack]

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

[astraltrickster]

Let me stress: Collapsing reblogs would turn tumblr into a completely different site.

A massive chunk of our site culture - arguably our entire site culture itself - is based on the collaborative nature of posts. The fact that many posts are chains of relevant additions or Bits done by multiple people is the appeal. This is not an “outdated format” or an inconvenience, it is a core function.

Also I can’t help but suspect that this partial walkback is misleading. Okay, so we still get to have a chronological dashboard, but are we going to be allowed to keep it as our default tab? Because new accounts sure fucking can’t set as such.

[headspace-hotel]

Reblog chains are literally what makes tumblr posts tumblr posts

[Tomfoolery]

[witheverybeautifulheelpointed]

Yesterday we got to bask in the fun and excitement of new school Tori, today we’re kicking it old school with some pics from ‘92, courtesy of Lori!

[Tomfoolery]

[louisegluckpdf]

they should invent a profound love between two people that doesnt involve the power and chance of doing profound hurt

[louisegluckpdf]

btw

[Tomfoolery]

[amygdalae]

I'd use a tumblr badge if they gave me one that was evil bleeding skull flaming skull dark blood skull vampire demon wings horned skull oozing fangs sinister skull. For free

[Tomfoolery]

[tendernaiad]

when charles schulz said "all you need is love. but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt" and anthony bourdain said "your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. enjoy the ride" and mark twain said "part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like." when erma bombeck said "i am not a glutton- i'm an explorer of food," voltaire said "ice-cream is exquisite. what a pity it isn't illegal" and when kurt vonnegut said "you can't just eat good food. you've got to talk about it too. and you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."