2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, unnumbered page:
Add the words you want to avoid to your black list (anything from your NOTP pairing to seriously triggering topics), and posts containing them will never again show up on your dash.
2015, Louise Ellen Stein, Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age, page 156:
Two of the embedded comments in the “reblog if you're a wizard or a witch” post read “instant reblog” and “I REBLOG THIS EVERY TIME IT'S ON MY DASH."
2016, Swati Agarwal & Ashish Sureka, "A Collision of Beliefs: Investigating Linguistic Features for Religious Conflicts Identification on Tumblr", in Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (eds. Laxmi Parida, P. Radha Krishna, & Padmanabhan Krishnan), page 50:
Hi there! Recently your post about how atheists can be Christian normative appeared on my dash.
Sinking back down on my bed, I open my laptop and begin to scroll through Tumblr. Tonight, Roman Holiday covers my dash.
2018, Anna Blackwell, Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age: Fan Cultures and Remediation, page 75:
Nearly two years after posting their revision notes on the 21 February 2017, pineapple-in-me reblogged the images again with the following comment: 'I released you into the wild 2 years ago and you've finally made to [sic] back to my dash T.T #proudmama'.
2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392:
-i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.
2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page:
i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.
It's almost too much, so I open Tumblr, but I'm too jittery to actually look at my dash, so I open my email, but there's nothing new, so I open Facebook, but I hate Facebook, so I reopen Tumblr.
2018, Zizi Papacharissi, A Networked Self and Love, unnumbered page:
One Tumblr user I follow reblogged an image of multiple Tumblr text posts compiled from different black Tumblr users: I'm honestly getting so emotional going through my dash.
2018, Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page:
“You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend."
2019, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter, unnumbered page:
She notes that the LJ interface is 'confusing' and, like Oli, finds Tumblr's 'scrolling dash familiar to most people from Facebook and Twitter easier to grasp as a new user'.
2020, anonymous, quoted in Paul Byron, Digital Media, Friendship and Cultures of Care, unnumbered page:
I often see mental health info and handy sites and organisations on my dash[board] ... .
2020, Chelsea M. Gibbs, "'It's real, you're real, and you deserve a full, happy life': Supergirl's 'Sanvers' as an Affirmation to Queer Tumblr Fangirls Everywhere", Girl of Steel: Essays on Television's Supergirl and Fourth-Wave Feminism (eds. Melissa Wehler & Tim Rayborn), page 143:
It is impossible to follow as many queer women on there as I do and not learn about a mainstream show or movie that delves into maintext or subtext exploration of lesbians, and “Sanvers” (the portmanteau ship name of Maggie Sawyer and Alex Danvers) immediately started showing up on my dash.
2020, Johanna Hedva, "Sick Woman Theory", in Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century (eds. Charlotte Hogg & Shari Stenberg), unnumbered page:
There was a Tumblr post that came across my dash during these weeks of protest, that said something to the effect of: “Shout out to all the disabled people, sick people, people with PTSD, anxiety, etc., who can't protest in the streets with us tonight. Your voices are heard and valued, and with us."
2020, Jessica Pruett, "Lesbian One Direction Fans Take Over Tumblr", in A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures (eds. Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, & Louisa Stein), page 196:
As a platform, Tumblr was uniquely suited to accommodate this chaos; its multimedia interface could allow fans to use a single platform to circulate videos, gifs, photos, and text-based posts about the band, and its infinite scrolling dash acted as a constant content generator for a worldwide fandom that was active 24/7.
2020, anonymous, quoted in Kevin Veale, Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harassment, page 94:
This has the effect of C) stressing you out from seeing all the bad posts on your dash (especially in those long unpredictable chains).
2021, Katrin Tiidenberg, Natalie Ann Hendry, & Crystal Abidin, Tumblr, unnumbered page:
A subset of tumblr folklore fandom is what we call meta-dash magic, another genre of highly tumblr-specific humor, wherein the sequential organization of posts on one's dash coincidentally dialogue with each other by way of a sharp juxtaposition/contradiction of content or unexpectedly smooth continuity.
