Oh crap I still haven’t ordered my queue

The formatting screw-ups on tumblr mobile were mildly annoying until I noticed they were carrying over to desktop if I reblogged something on mobile.

Are you kidding me???

Sometimes I like to add posts to drafts to reblog later when on mobile and just ugh! Please tell me there’s a fix incoming? Surely they can’t leave it like this!

emospritelet:

Is it just me or is tumblr very quiet today?  Is everyone doing family stuff for Easter and it’s just me, the heathen, sitting here refreshing stuff?

I’m here *raises hand* but I have no new content to post and I try and resist rambling about what I’m doing in case it annoys people.

So maybe people are lurking 🙂

Ooops my queue is a bit unbalanced. I went on a search for some stuff and I’ve tried to mix it up but it’s a bit Once light. Also light on Agents of Shield as I’m trying to avoid spoilers (with mixed success). I’m not jumping ship, I’m just not very organised.

*rolls eyes at self*

I’m going to be 100% honest here and I apologise for the length of the reply. Although heh if you know anything about me, you’ll know I’m not very good at brevity *rolls eyes at self*

Why the name change?
This was my first tumblr, I’d never had anything like it before. I kinda missed the whole LJ thing or MySpace or whatever else people used before tumblr. I’d been out of fandom for years and the online ‘handle’ that I’d had back then I’d picked when I was 11 so it was kinda dumb heh.

So basically I didn’t have a clue what to call myself on here. I’ve had the domain still-searching since 2005 and 47 is my favourite number. It wasn’t linked to any particular fandom which suited me because I love many different things. I went with it and figured I would never change it. The URL was my identity and that was that.

BUT then I saw this aesthetic (which I should probably reblog again, I love it!) and space pirates started echoing around in my mind. Sci-fi is very close to my heart, Stargate will always be my first love and when I found out galactic-pirates was available I just couldn’t help myself.

If I’d had the brainwave back in May 2016 I would have been galactic-pirates from the beginning 🙂

Will I still remain in the Rumbelle fandom?
Absolutely!

Now I could leave it at that (and probably should, shut up Sam) but I feel like explaining a bit.

I used to be a lot more active than I am now. My relative inactivity isn’t because I’m moving away from the Rumbelle fandom, it’s because I’m trying to improve my life and change is hard.

I’ve gone back to uni, I’m experimenting with new creative things, I’ve joined a comic book club (hopefully our comic book will be published this Easter!) and not going to lie my mental health is kicking my arse – like I said change is hard. It’s kinda one step forward, two steps back.

I haven’t written in ages because writing is the most important thing in the world to me and is consequently utterly terrifying. Uni is also terrifying and comes first and it takes all my “do this scary thing” willpower and I got nothing left.

Basically the only writing deadlines/demands are self-imposed ones. I HAVE to do uni but writing I can let slide. I don’t want to! But I can only cope with so much, and I’m struggling to cope as it is. Fandom is way down at the bottom of the list and it has to be something I enjoy.

Don’t get me wrong I do love Rumbelle – like I said I’m not going anywhere – but I used to be pretty Rumbelle-centric and now I’m going to branch out. I’m going to do what I feel like because this is my place to relax. I just did a Fitzsimmons exchange, that was nice. It was also stressful because I didn’t think I was going to finish and then I had to rush and wasn’t happy with the result.

I don’t think I’ll do anymore exchanges BUT I’m working on something for the February AMR, it was supposed to be for Fluffapalooza as well but I didn’t finish it in time. So that’s for Rumbelle and will be the next thing I post. Also in the works I have a Star Wars art project which will probably be after that.

With fandom participation I have loaded my kindle up with rumbelle fic which I read on the bus when I can concentrate to do so. Every now and then (when I remember) I do a search for Rumbelleedits and add them to my queue. There’s a Rumbelle appreciation week going on so I expect my queue will be dominated by rumbelle again soon 🙂

So yeah I hope that makes sense. TLDR – not going anywhere.

theoneandonlylittlebird:

I was afraid I wouldn’t figure out who this person was… that I’d never find this post. I’d have been sad indeed if you’d disappeared and I never knew you were still here. PHEW!

I’m sorry

if it helps I’d be annoyed with me too hehe. I’m really a big hypocrite with this because I’m easily confused, I get utterly befuddled when people change their avatars, let alone the names. At christmas a couple of people I followed used the same avatar and my brain really didn’t like it. So I utterly sympathise!

Anyway I have a “formerly” in my blog description and I’m going to reblog this a few times over the next few days. Plus I’m still my weird self so there’s that 🙂

Ooops my queue ran out. I have erm … about 50 in drafts so I’ll sort that out tomorrow *whistles*

I just secured a new tumblr URL.

I know, I know, I said I would never change because URL’s are like an identity. When people change their avatars it confuses me enough, I’m definitely following some people and I suddenly look one day and I think “who are you?” as they have changed their URL and I didn’t notice at the time.

So I’m going to be a total hypocrite basically. I think the URL is too cool not to use and so yeah basically I’m going to do it 🙂

The second Fitzsimmons Secret Valentine is over I’m going to change. Sorry in advance for being annoying.

wizzygold replied to your post “I just secured a new tumblr URL. I know, I know, I said I would never…”

…let me know the new one so I don’t get confused ��☺️

Of course 🙂

I will do those post things with the >> to indicate change and I’ll put on my byline who I used to be and basically try and be as helpful as possible.

I have twice as many posts in my drafts waiting for me to tag and add to the queue, than I do in the queue /facepalm

I thought we weren’t doing this again self? #sam is lazy

Hello lovely anon *waves*

Thank you so much for taking the time to message me, that’s so sweet!

I know I can re-order my queue, oh man I used to do that all the time. I had a set system so I was sure that I was evenly posting everything. These days I just let the queue spit out what it wants pretty much.

I was saying about the shuffle thingy because I just wish there was an automatic button that would randomly shuffle everything that’s in the queue. A few days back I went through my like list and added 120+ posts to the queue. Then this morning I went through my favourite gifmakers tumblr and grabbed all their gifsets that I hadn’t reblogged. However, that means I’ve got like I don’t know a huge number in a row just from that gifmaker. I would rather it was randomized.

I could go through and do it manually but truthfully I’m too lazy these days to worry that much about it. Poor @rumple-belle will just have to deal with the spam for several days as I reblog everything.

The same will go for other gifmakers as I get round to stalking their archives. Honestly if I could queue as easily as I can like then it wouldn’t be so big a deal, but it’s tagging everything that takes so much time.