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Tumblr's markdown formatting mode somewhat secretly supports footnotes. But, it seems like my settings or my theme or something makes footnote links with the target="_blank" attribute set, which is pretty odd. Who wants a footnote to pop them to a new tab ? And furthermore, the return links in the footer also have the same target="_blank". Basically, the footnotes on this blog have been nigh unusable, since they keep spawning new tabs all over the place.

So, some quick javascript to get things sorted:

Array.prototype.slice.call(
    document.querySelectorAll( 'a[rel=footnote], a[rev=footnote]' )
).forEach( function (node) { node.target = ''; } );

• find the impacted nodes with document.querySelectorAll
• convert that NodeList to an Array
• clear the target on each node

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why this happens on this blog - other people don't seem to have the issue. In case anyone else is seeing this behavior on their tumblr footnotes, just add the code above to a <script></script> tag at the bottom of the HTML for the page :)