Can I just say… the way that Tumblr forces community to center around ask blogs is incredibly destructive.

There is no way to communicate on an equal level. It's basically all a very public game of "can I get this mod to not yell at me if I disagree, and how much do I have to water my opinion down if I want to get reblogged so anyone except the mods and my handful of own followers ever see that I had input on that".