tumblr friendships are hard to maintain like im sorry i know i havent talked to you in 5 months but you’re still super rad and i still consider us friends im just dumb
1) xkit. if you don’t have this i honestly don’t know how you’re surviving on tumblr. there’s so many add-ons that they have that make everything about rping so so so much easier. you can find them under new xkit. don’t forget, the old xkit is no longer working so make sure you use the new one!
2) threadtracker. if you’re like me, once you draft something to reply about it, you forget it’s even there. so threadtracker is a lifesaver honestly. and now they even had a quickadd browser extension that makes everything even easier. you just pull up your thread, click the little button on your browser and it pulls it right up for you to type in your name of choice and voila all done. you can even stick on starters that you owe, or even replies that you need to do for starters made for you. easy peasy!
3) sessionbox. this is mostly for people with multiple blogs. this little fancy extension allows you to be logged into multiple blogs all in one window. so no more having 500 chrome profiles to be on all your blogs at once. this lets you have them in one window with multiple tabs to make things so much easier. you can name them, give them different colors, and all that good stuff to separate them. it’s honestly a definitely lifesaver too.
4)the email trick. so a lot of people probably know this one. but it’s a quick little trick for making new blogs. instead of having to worry about making a million different email addresses and remembering them all for every single blog you have, you can do a nice little shortcut. all you have to do is take whatever email address you want and add +whatever to it. so, example: blahblah@gmail.com being your base email and say you’re making a blog for a character named fred, you would make it blahblah+fred@gmail.com or something along those lines. then you can definitely keep up with the email. and yes, it does still work with the yahoo junk too.
5) stylish. this is a nifty little ad-on that is somewhat similar to xkit, in that you can change the way your dash looks. i have a few things added to it to make my eyestrain less than it normally is with brighter colors tumblr has set up on here. they have a ton of things for tumblr too that you can do to change it. just do a tumblr search and see what they have that you can use.
6) rph blogs and musings blogs. honestly there’s a ton of them. dear-indies is one of my go to blogs for a lot of things. you can find icons, manips, tutorials, and masterlists all over their blog. (masterlists are a great way to get started in a new fandom as well, fyi.) doing a few searches on here will bring up plenty of them if you just take a few moments to look. there’s a ton of resources out there for rpers.
7) f.lux. if you have any eye problems like me then sometimes screens are way too bright no matter how low you have the brightness set. so f.lux is this nifty little thing that dims your screen and gives it a bit of a yellow tint based on the time. it helps make whites not so bright and glaring in your face, especially at night. you can set it up however you want it, to lessen the tint or make it darker. if you’re prone to migraines from screen brightness this thing is amazing. and you can always just switch it off when you’re working on something color sensitive like icons or things like that!
8) mycopper. if you make your own icons and such, but don’t have the time or means to cap your own episodes, this thing is pretty great (i’m actually using it right now). it downloads entire photo galleries in a few minutes. all you do is download it (safe download), go to the gallery you want to download (make sure you’re actually inside the gallery and not in the gallery list), copy and paste the link into my copper (usually has the word thumbnail inside it), choose where you want to save it, and download! it’s really great and definitely easier than going through and saving one by one (which i used to do).
everything above has a link to something that’s either a download or the website for more information except the email trick. that’s all i can think of right now. i’ve been around for awhile and definitely have my dash and rp blogs set up in ways that are easy to navigate and work with thanks to all these awesome resources. ♥
Technically Luna was supposed to officially deny that Moon was still around. But it seemed dishonest and wrong to lie like that to someone who was coming to her personally like this.
“Just between you and I, Sunset…” Luna told her in a whisper. “Not hear her, per say. But she is still there. It is more like a revolving door. I know she is watching what I watch and I know what she is thinking sometimes and she knows I am watching and what I am thinking sometimes. We…share the same stage.”
“…The mad-doctor says it is no fault of the person whom this happens to. That it develops to help deal with pain.”
“… But what if the pain won’t go away?” Sunset said, looking up at the lunar princess with a pained look. “I know Mom told you about what’s been going on with me, and my life in the human world. But…”
She looked down at the floor, ears folding back timidly. “Ever since my old friends there did what they did, and left me… I can hear her. My own Demon. She’s just… there… whispering things… eeking her way into the blackest parts of my brain…”
She let out a small sniffle and said, “You’re the only one I’ve told this too. I didn’t want mom and Twilight to worry…”
Luna considered this for a moment. The danger of an inner demon– a literal demon was something that needed addressing. But first came Sunset’s mental health.
“Sunset,” Luna told her “I will have to tell you something now about pain and the demons we form to handle it. And I need you to listen closely.”
She lifted her this niece-like mare’s chin.
“She will never go away. Neither will the pain. It only becomes more bearable with time. And we become stronger. Eventually, we become so strong that the pain itself takes a backseat. And the demon, it often is trying to help. It is up to us to keep her on a leash. We cannot allow her to let us make the same mistakes we did in the past. You are strong, Sunset Shimmer. You have come further than you think. Returning here and facing my sister again. That is not the actions of a coward.”
Sunset gave a small sniffle before wrapping her hooves around the princess, whispering “Thank you…”
Letting go, she wiped her eyes with a hoof, saying “You’re right. I shouldn’t let her make me who I am from here on out. My past doesn’t define who I am today.” She gave a small smile, but it soon gave way into a frown as she said, “But… what do I do about her? I know she’s in there. She’s… she’s my own Mr. Hyde. And I don’t know how much long I keep her in. I just wanna be Jekyll, but I’m always fighting Hyde.”
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