If for whatever reason you don't feel comfortable reblogging yet, literally just make one single text post saying something like "hey I'm new to tumblr and still figuring out the culture! Not a bot, pls don't block me." An empty blog is an instant report spam.

This is 100% serious; we get so fucking many pornbots (and other spambots) here that we are very cynical towards any blog that matches the approximate format of a spam blog and will just report and block on sight, for our own protection.

FYI, new people, a spam blog typically:

• Has an icon/avatar/profile pic that is either a default one, or a photo of one or more women. (If your icon isn’t technically a default one, but it looks like one at first glance, still beware: a first glance is all many people will give it. It’s not a matter of principle, we’re just trigger-happy from dealing with all these fucking bots.)
• Blog title is “Untitled” or “Untitled” in another language, e.g. “Sin título”
• Has the default tumblr-assigned theme instead of a custom one
• Often has no blog description
• Either has no posts, or the posts are thirst traps or porn. (I’ve seen that some of them like to start with a few posts that are just suggestive-but-well-within-TOS selfies or something, before moving on to posting porn and suspicious links.)
• If they are posting and tagging things, they tag posts with a bunch of *unrelated* things and/or commentary tags copied from others. It’ll be like “#naruto #gay feelings #barbie #petblr #I love him??? #sunset #cryptidcore #balder’s gate iii”. If you try to post selfies and tag them with random stuff so more people see it you will have a bad time.

If tumblr isn’t letting you customize your blog before you follow people, then making a post is the way to go. It doesn’t have to be elaborate or funny or personal–just looking different from a spambot is enough.

Pinning as a warning: if you have an empty default blog, This Means You.

@argumate

And--this part is important--it would be great due to the fact that it would be extremely extremely frustrating and that's so funny to me. Person getting angrier and angrier they can't get the true end and going to Reddit about it only to learn it's because they've been surviving the time loops too good and need to get deader in like half of them.

Purple grabs and stashes the knife in chapter 3 because this is a Point And Click Adventure game at heart and the guidebook said to grab the knife in Loop 2.

You are not wrong about this

… especially when it comes from the federal government

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#7 billion fucking people on earth weren't enough but you'll die for the alien. sure. no yeah. sure.

Crested Caracara being allopreened by two Black Vultures! This is such an interesting behavior and one that's typically one-way (preening by vultures to caracara). Here you can see the caracara either attempting to reciprocate but getting rebuffed by both vultures, or telling them to stop for now.

[Video source]

Black Vulture couple locate Crested Caracara bisexual unicorn across the bar in a rare W for all parties