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The Tumblr App Sucks But Here’s How To Format Posts In It

All right, kiddos, gather ‘round for a little tutorial on the wonders of Markdown, you can access the whole documentation here, if you’re interested, this is only a small introduction on how to use it in the Tumblr App.

What’s Markdown?

Markdown is a language that makes it super easy to turn normal human-readable syntax into HTML. You know, HTML, the things websites are made of? Yeah. Cool as all hell, I know.

How can I use it in tumblr?

You can use Markdown whilst making a tumblr post by simply clicking on the litte settings wheel, and changing your text editor from Rich Text to Markdown, and just get writing! If you click Preview, you can see how what you’re writing will look on everyone’s dashes!

What about on mobile?

If you’ve ever used the Tumblr App to make a post, you’ll know formatting is nigh impossible, literally impossible if you use the default Rich Text editor. So if you want to do some formatting (and I’m talking almost everything tumblr allows you to put into a post) you’re gonna want to use our friend Markdown.

Just click on the settings wheel on the bottom-right corner of your screen to change the settings of your post (the same way you’d change a post to be Drafted, or Queued) and scroll until you find the option EDITOR, and just change that bad boy to Markdown. Click the back arrow, and just start writing! Once you’re done, just click post, and your Post will be fully formatted!

So how can I do cool stuff on Markdown for my dank ass posts?

All right, let’s go through the basics:

NEWLINES

One important thing about Markdown that might be hard to get used to, is that you need to press Enter twice for a newline to actually appear. If you only press it once, the text will show up on the same line!

BOLD

To make your text bold, put it between two asterisks, like this: **text**.

ITALIC

To make your text italic, put it between underscores like this: _text_

H TEXT AKA TITLES

To turn your text into a bigger text (the H option), put a hash and a space in front of it, like this: # text. The space between hash and text is important!

LINKS

Maybe the most annoying part of tumblr’s formatting ways, this is ridiculously easy in Markdown, if a bit hard to remember. The link’s syntax is this: [text](the_actual_link).

An example of this would be [this is a link to a cool blog](http://holomoriarty.tumblr.com/) which will show up like this: this is a link to a cool blog

STRIKETHROUGH

Sadly Markdown’s syntax doesn’t support strikethrough! This is a real bummer, but you can always use the traditional HTML tag strike, like this: < strike > text <\ strike >. Just without the spaces in between the angles and the word!

LISTS

List syntax is super organic in Markdown. In a new line, use - a space, and your text. To create another element in the list, just press enter, and repeat the process! You can think of the dashes as the bullets in your list, as with the hash, the space between the symbol and the text is important!

NUMBERED LISTS

Same as the latter, but instead of using a dash you need to use a number, and a period, like so 1. again, don’t forget the space!

BLOCKQUOTE

To put your text in a blockquote (or indentation) just put one > in front of the line you want in the blockquote! The blockquote will extend until you press Enter twice (meaning it’ll put the whole line in blockquote).

IMAGES

Yes, you can insert images on your posts with Markdown, if you have a link to them. Just use this syntax (it’s pretty similar to the link one!) .

An example of this would be  Which would show up like this:

HORIZONTAL LINES

This recently introduced feature of tumblr.com will put a divider between two lines of text, and in Markdown it’s as simple as using 3 or more dashes in a line like this - - -.

READ MORE

So Markdown DOES support Read Mores, which I didn’t knew when I first posted this, excuse me lol. Just put a [[ MORE ]] WITHOUT THE SPACES BETWEEN THE WORD AND THE [ SYMBOL on the new line where you want the Read More to go.

VIDEOS AND TUMBLR SEARCH FEATURE’S GIFS

Not implemented! A real shame, but there are some things you might just need the full Tumblr PC experience for!

So where do we go from here?

Now that you know how to write Tumblr Posts on Markdown, USE IT EVERYWHERE. Markdown is something I use literally every day of my life. To work with it you might need to download a special editor (Atom is SO recommended, it’s ridiculous) but usually these are also a hundred times better than writing on Microsoft Word. Markdown’s your friend, use it!

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So it turns out they recorded an extended version of the music from the farewell scene! They had to cut it from the movie, but it’s still on the soundtrack!

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So I’m reading The Making of Frankenstein by Daisy Hay (cause I’m a hoe for absolutely anything concerning my Geneva squad babies) and she’s talking about the manuscripts of Frankenstein allowing us to see how the book progressed as Mary wrote and Percy edited. AND THERE’S PICTURES. There’s one part where Percy added comments in pencil and Mary went over them in pen to make sure she’d remember to add them in and another part where she scribbled out his suggestions altogether. One part shows that Percy must have slammed the book shut because the ink from his pen left corresponding splashes and splotches on the opposite page and you can see where Mary switched from chunky pens to thin-nibbed ones. Percy used black ink and Mary used brown ink. I felt like I’d been transported to a candlelit room with Mary sitting at her desk hurriedly writing away as Percy looked on and honestly BOOKS ARE MAGIC!❤️❤️

him: you better not be too wordy when I get there

my helplessly verbose and over-articulate, endlessly expounding posterior:

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Hrrm, on the one hand versions of Dracula, Frankenstein etc that deviate from the source in egregious ways can bug the heck out of me (such as Dracula Untold, which while trying to create a superhero origin for Dracula somehow whitewashes the actions of the historical Vlad the Impaler to do so… Or Dracula 2000, which while having some good ideas kinda tripped over its own feet by saying that Dracula is literally Judas from the Bible, hence his adversion to Christian imagery and silver)…

…But on the other hand, using public domain stories as a source of material to take and remix in interesting ways is fun, and it’s interesting to come up with extended versions of stories from elements that were hinted or referenced in the original story but weren’t elaborated on because they weren’t the focus.

Such as…

- Mina’s journey across Europe to visit Jonathan in the nunnery he’s recovering from after escaping Dracula’s castle.

- Van Helsing’s dead son and his wife who is in a mental institution.

- What Elizabeth Lavenza and Justine Moritz were up to in the literal years Victor Frankenstein was away at university creating life.

- What reaction did Elizabeth, Henry etc. have to Victor’s actions if they ever actually found out about it, he’s explicitly an unreliable narrator, and a self-obsessed one at that, so we aren’t really aware of what he knows.

- What happened to those kids Lucy was eating after being turned into a vampire? What would a story be like from their perspective, dealing with the horrors of being a poor kid in Victorian London and then literal monsters start coming to get you?

- Dracula mentions being related to Attila the Hun, a historical figure who notably bled to death on his wedding night. While Dracua’s implictly plans of conquest certainly could be read as him trying to emulate his ancestor (just as Attila attacked Rome, Dracula attacks London), it could be interesting to tie things into Atilla’s wife (who IRL may have poisoned him) being a vampire maybe? Food for thought.

- What happened in between the death of Elizabeth and Victor’s pursuit of the Monster into the Arctic? Did they attempt to revive her using the techniques he knew worked (like in the Kenneth Branagh movie)? If so what was her reaction to it?

- In Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, it was implied that an unknown impurity in his chemicals enabled him to bring about the change in appearance. Was this the same chemical impurity responsible for the personality change in a character in the Arthur Machen story The Novel of the White Powder (although he ends up melting while transforming into something evil)?

- What did Dorian Gray do while travelling around the world being hedonistic for an several years long stretch in his book? Could you make a story about people interacting with his strange but unsettlingly hot British kid that seems to suck people into his orbit and promptly destroy them? What would happen if he were to meet Dr Polidori’s Lord Ruthven, a character who predates Dracula and notably exact in a similarly destructive manner to Dorian when it comes to folks that he takes an “interest” in.

- Ruthven doesn’t actually die at the end of his story, and he escapes to continue “ruining“ and eating people. He could conceivably show up in a story where he meets Dracula or Carmilla, with his more free-wheeling, hedonistic approach to vampirism constrasting with Dracula’s interests in sorcery and domination and Carmilla’s whole deal. …That actually could have legs, with a vampire from the 1700s interacting with vampires from the 1600s and 1400s respectively, with all three instantly loathing each other.

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When I say that Trump has no original play in his playbook this is what I fucking mean. This where America is back sliding into Nazi Germany.

With that said to the people who voted 3rd party fuck you, fuck maga, fuck republicans and fuck you to the people who didn’t vote.

Everyone who knows a tiny bit of history saw this coming.