Hello! A friend of mine is currently homeless and trying to raise money for basic needs while trying to secure a job and more stable housing. It would mean a lot to help her reach her goal, if you are able to share or pitch in.
me, my mom, and my sister have been living in hotels for the past 2+ months after getting kicked out by my mom’s abusive ex
i’m a trans man, my mom is a senior, and all three of us are disabled and mentally ill. we also have a small dog and a senior cat with us
we had to put most of our belongings in storage and we’re currently 4 hours away from where we used to live. my mom will be starting a job soon, but she won’t be making enough for us to get an apartment yet
we could really use some help paying for hotels and storage. we have no other options right now
anything you could spare would be greatly appreciated, and if you have nothing to offer, spreading this post still helps
please don’t tag this post as d*nation, m*tual a!d, or anything else that could get it hidden by tumblr
Hi guys ! if youre following me you might have seen my lovely little kitty cat gelato, shes where my username comes from. Gelato’s had teeth issues for years but in april during dental cleaning they discovered 6 teeth facing resorption, which have been causing her pain and need to be extracted before they get worse and cause more complications.
I initially thought I could cover the procedure on my own but I’ve been overwhelmed with expenses and need to ask for help ;__;
There are more details in the link!
Please consider sharing or donating if you can! thank you so much <3
but really what is… UP with tumblr live. have any of you ever actually watched a tumblr live stream? the 7 days you’re allowed to turn off the weird obtrusive feature stuck to the top of the page ran out for me again & i decided to actually look at a few of the streams and. maybe I’ve just picked a weird time of night to tune in but it’s… mostly just people sitting in their rooms staring at the screen to read mostly-empty chat rooms and either barely talking or just kinda chatting about their relationships and occasionally giving people in chat lukewarm personal advice. & all of their blogs seem kinda like fake placeholder pages?
do people make money from tumblr doing this? are Any of you avid tumblr live viewers??? are there tumblr live streamer personalities?? do any of you stream on tumblr live??? i know tumblr isn’t Just for people into niche interests/fandom nd there are people who use it more like social media than a blog but it still feels so weird and out of place to me to try to do instagram live but with twitch currency here of all places, i’m genuinely curious about it. it seems odd they’re pushing the feature so hard while also not bothering to really advertise what it’s for or what goes on in there
are some of the people newer to tumblr aware of the joys of theme customization on desktop? I know some ppl are just on mobile so they can’t really change things but like SO many blogs nowadays have 0 theme customization and just use the default theme and I’m beginning to wonder if they even know about the option. It’s one of the main reasons why I still use tumblr
this post is not to be mean to people for not knowing btw. i just think its good for people to know bc page customization is one of the things that is slowly disappearing from the internet and i suspect that many ppl don’t even realize its something they can do on here bc they’re so used to their only customization options being like a pfp and maybe a header image. The option to do so here is something I desperately want to preserve since its a fantastic middle ground between the bare bones profile customization of twitter and like. coding an entire webpage from scratch.
like for people who don’t know, this is what my blog looks like if you visit it on desktop, outside of the dashboard popups
desktop users who have no theme this is the life you could be living
ppl in the tags asking how to do this, or who did not even know it was an option, here’s a very quick how to:
1. choose a theme. this is the easy part, search “blog themes” or “html themes” in the tumblr search bar, there are MANY blogs out there dedicated to curating lists of free tumblr themes. Find one you like and save the code in a seperate tab. I would probably check to make sure the theme was not created too long ago, as tumblr website changes over the years have broken some older codes/themes. I would also try to find a theme with lots of customization options, as this makes it easier to make your blog totally unique looking, even if you are unfamiliar with html.
2. either go to your blog’s actual page [YOUR-URL.tumblr.com] and click on the little paint palette icon that shows up in the top right corner, OR you go to your blog’s appearance settings, there should be a button that says “edit themes”
3. once you open the blog theme editor, there should be an option to edit html in the top left corner. Select and delete ALL of the present code. Then, paste in the code of your preferred tumblr theme and hit save. You may have to exit and reenter the customization page for the full effects to take place.
4. From this point on, customize to your heart’s content! Just make sure if you are using a theme made by someone else, that you don’t accidentally remove their credits. This can’t really happen unless you are editing the html directly though, so you likely don’t have to worry.
Keep in mind, messing around with tumblr themes still takes time, even if you’re not doing it all from scratch. Think of it like decorating an empty room. It will take time and effort, and it’s not at all necessary, but it’s worth it to make your space feel more like yours.
I always wanted to customize my page but like…any time i see “html” and it has to deal with customizing a page I cry and run away like a scared puppy. So FOR NOW, I’m going to be boring to avoid the utter anguish and despair I’d feel—
i promise you, if you find a theme with customization built in, the only time you will be touching the html is to copypaste it into the theme editor
tumblr has this great function that allows theme creators - the people doing all the html work for you - to put options like colors, changing the size of images and posts on your blog, the text font, etc, into user-friendly buttons and selection screens. Most html themes nowadays have at least a few of these built in! Mine looks like this
you see? no html knowledge required, very simple to use, and still beautiful and unique!
also, if you are still worried, tumblr has the option to revert everything back to the default state, or even restore previous themes. Your blog won’t be bunked up forever if you mess up some html editing if you DO decide to explore. Go ham!
Also some of the most annoying Tumblr behaviors go away once you’re using a custom theme.
For bonus cred, try to keep things accessible, at the very least high-contrast, legible font. Check WCAG standards for good contrast ratios.
