I’m so excited that it’s P4A weekend! I’m going to be in the discord with my online friends as we watch and anticipate and donate and laugh and play bingo and decrease world suck.
I had wind in my sails. I was excited. I was enjoying the class. Then you find out the professor grades like each point is a one carat diamond that they are responsible for purchasing. Ugh… Is a direct quote. Thanks for ruining my enjoyment of the class. One less excited student for you to worry about
You’re just going to have to keep buying socks for your entire life. And it will not be a chore that you enjoy, and while it will provide you with a service (I don’t know about you but for me putting my feet into my shoes without socks is like licking sandpaper) it’s probably not going to be a particularly lovely part of your life.
What if, instead, you got a pair of socks delivered to your door every month. What if each pair was designed by a different independent artist. What if shipping was free to anywhere in the world. What if a small group of people had been working for years to make sure they’re just really good socks?
And what if 100% of the profit was donated to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone?
So yeah, that’s what the Awesome Socks Club is.
The idea is just to make a thing that people like but, instead of the profit going to some stranger somewhere, it goes to make the world a better place?
Like, why not? It just seemed very 1980 to still be doing socks in a way where some already rich person gets richer because people want their feet to be not gross. So we work really hard to help artists bring their designs to life on wonderful socks (you can subscribe to either ankle socks or mid-calf crews) and then we send them around the world. And then, after we pay our taxes we send whatever’s left over to make life better in an area of the world where one in twenty women currently die in childbirth.
It’s one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world, and it just seems a lot more interesting to sell socks for that than for money.
I like the idea a lot, and it seems like other people agree, since there are now forty thousand members of the club. And maybe you are one of them! Or maybe you are not and you will be soon!
We also have a weird way of minimizing waste. We don’t want to make more socks than we have members. So, most of the time, the club isn’t open to new members, but every year, we open the club up to new members for two weeks. Those people will then get their first pair of socks in January. And, of course, you can cancel any time. (Seriously I’ve made sure that it’s super easy to cancel because I ALSO HATE THAT SO MUCH).
If you want to join, here’s a link. I think it’ll give you five dollars off your first month if you click it.
Welcome twitter users fleeing the absolute cesspool that twitter is going to become as Musk gets his way with his awful ideas! Things are better here, and hey, if you’re an old user coming back, they’ve actually improved shit!
Here’s a list of important notes for tumblr usage:
Don’t censor words, particularly trigger warnings. Tumblr has a very functional blacklist (found in your settings) that can filter by post content and/or tags. But the word needs to actually be present for the filter to work. Censoring words like r*pe is actively harmful to people attempting to avoid those topics.
Use tags liberally, you have as many as you want, but don’t tag unrelated shit. You’ll get reported for spam really fast if you do.
Set an avatar and reblog things, otherwise you look like a bot.
You are not obligated to have your real name anywhere in your blog/bio/etc. Most people here use handles.
You can turn your ask box & anons on or off if you are experiencing any kind of harassment. You can also turn off replies on your posts, and turn off reblogs if you need to.
Tumblr has keyboard shortcuts on desktop. You can find them listed under the blog/account menu. Go learn them, they make life so much easier.
Reblog things. Seriously. Also set your dash in chronological order. You can maintain several blogs if need be, but reblogging things is normal, expected, and how you pass along stuff you enjoy.
The majority of people aren’t reading your card/dni/blog bio before they reblog stuff. Posts get passed around and the OP often isn’t the focal point of the post. Learn to live with it.
Fic writers: you have unlimited words, do not post fics as images.
Reblogs with comments/tags are encouraged. It’s not like twitter’s QRTs. The OP will see everything there. Know that before you comment.
You have a queue. This means you can set posts up ahead of time to run while you’re busy. You can also completely ignore this and just spam your follows whenever you’re online. Both are very commonplace
It’s not weird to go through someone’s blog and reblog old posts. That’s actually very normal. If you add /chrono to the end of a tumblr page then you can view all the posts in chronological order to make this easier.
“Spam” liking and reblogging isn’t a thing that is a problem. This is invented by people I do not understand. If someone claims this is a problem, they can learn how to turn off or manage their notifications.
The only form of promotional posts that tumblr has is “blaze”. There is no ad targeting or any kind of invasions of privacy with blaze. You just get subjected to w/e someone wants to show you. If you want to give tumblr some money to help the company keep going and providing an alternative to twitter, it’s not a bad way to do it. You can make people look at cat photos.
Also, we have fun colors here. Plus actual formatting ability. Use it!
People lie on here for fun. Don’t accept everything you see at face value, check the reblogs/replies or google something if you’re skeptical! Critical thinking is good!
Above all else, be chill, use your block button if you need to, and have fun.
As someone who is returning after many a year, this is incredibly helpful!
