#I simply understand

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Anyway since I'm hobbit posting on this blessed day.

They're T4T.

#kili x tauriel #kili's baby ass beard? please they haven't invented synthetic testosterone yet #He's folically challenged for a dwarf and I will be using peter jackson's annoying stylistic decisions against him #disclaimer female dwarves can and do have big full beards and I'll fight a bitch about that #but I estimate that testosterone does make you grow more hair unless you're an elf and therefore our baby boy is trans #I don't have any evidence for Tauriel #I just know #I simply understand #the hobbit

[filmnoirsbian]

#i didn't grow up w pokemon spongebob or hsm so i simply never understand those memes #tcp #made unrebloggable bc too many people on this site are incapable of being normal on other peoples posts

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY. #you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love. #If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes. #If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content? #And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like. #However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value. #tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

[bananonbinary]

jfc i just saw a "morally grey girlboss" poll and mabel pines was one of the contenders. she's not morally grey she's not a girlboss she's 12 and never makes a single moral decision that's worse than "you have stuff going on but i'm focused on my own problems" what are you fucking talking about

#fan wank / #she's up against characters who have done actual murders #and she's getting a nontrivial amount of votes!!! #yall have brainrot i am sorry #i saw the poll because she was up against one of the MECHANISMS #you know. the band of immortal space pirates that think killing is fun? #i understand that more people watch gf but HOW WAS SHE GETTING ANY VOTES #honestly if i saw her matched against someone i didnt know i'd vote for the person i didnt know. she simply does not meet the requirements

[chloesimaginationthings]

Is it weird that I find scooped Mike kinda cool? Maybe a bit cute.

Scooped Michael is just the guy ever

#ask reply #I understand wym don’t worry #I THINK HES really cool #cool monster man #but he’s also just silly core #simply Michael Afton is just the guy ever

[lucyllawless]

#supergirl #lena luthor #supergirledit #lenaluthoredit #katiemcgrathedit #tvgifs #tvedit #dctvgifs #my gifs #*sggif #i have missed her face soooo much #that 9 minutes of cumulative screen time in the continental was no where close to enought #i understand how ppl get stuck in cults bc i would simply do anything she asked me to

[tomcriuse]

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013, dir. Francis Lawrence

#fuck this was SO funny #also excuse the colouring i simply dont understand how to colour 2160p i guess i dont fucking know #the hunger games #thgedit #filmedit #cinematicsource #userrobin #usersugar #userdiana #userteri #arthurpendragonns #usersameera #userkpfun #filmgifs #userbbelcher #underbetelgeuse #*mine

[softhairedhotch]

whenever i've imagined the upcoming bucktommy kiss (which is a lot) where buck initiates the kiss at the wedding once tommy saves chim, i imagine buck runs up to tommy and immediately kisses him in front of everyone. which is great and all, but now i think it'd be great if it starts with a simple hug first. like there's a slowmo scene of tommy getting off the plane, looking around for someone he knows, and then buck yells his name and sprints over, we hear tommy let out a soft "evan" before he's stumbling at the force of buck's body colliding with his as he hugs him so tightly. and as buck holds him, there's a few reaction shots. bobby has a slightly raised eyebrow, wondering when they got so close, athena looks a lil confused but happy nonetheless, hen and karen share a look, maybe we see buck's parents share one too (but less knowing/sweet and more worried), and eddie smiles a lil. let's out a sigh of relief because tommy is his friend too and he's glad he's safe. and THEN buck kisses tommy. and oh my god we get to see everyone's face switch immediately. the shock and the confusion and the pride. oh it'd just be so beautiful.

#i didn't mention maddie and chim bc i assume they're wrapped up in each other at this moment too #so it's like all these people just watching the buckley siblings have a sweet moment with their significant others AHHHHH #i need this scene so badly you don't understand #if something similar to this scene somehow doesn't happen in the episode i'll simply explode #bucktommy #tevan #911 abc #evan buckley #tommy kinard #bobby nash #athena grant #hen wilson #karen wilson

[zuzuzuko]

Felt like drawing Damian but I don’t think I have the energy to finish this so I’m just gonna go ahead and post it 🤷‍♀️ maybe one day I’ll clean it up and finish it

#Damian Wayne #Robin #my art #I simply don’t have the brain power for hands and pants right now you understand #wonder what he’s listening to… #he’s got a lolly pop or possibly pocky

[saintarmand]

iwtv is insanity inducing bc every time you google some reference in it you find out theyre doing some 4d chess with the symbolism… like okay playing roosevelt's speech about the us joining ww2 in the background as claudia tells louis shes gonna kill lestat is pretty straightforward, and of course the chess game theyre playing foreshadows how she beats him in the next episode but doesn't "finish the game" ie burn him. and bc claudia later compares lestat to the nazis/hitler, that obviously makes lestat germany and thus claudia is poland and louis is the us/roosevelt in the speech we hear: "I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany" etc. BUT THEN you get nerdy and google some of the chess terms lestat uses like the dutch defense and stonewalling which is pretty interesting and then you vaguely remember one of the writers said the scene was based on some famous chess game, and you realize it must be glücksberg vs miguel najdorf which turns out to be literally called the POLISH IMMORTAL. najdorf was polish and glücksberg is some unknown but based on the name likely german. this was najdorf's first famous game, at the beginning of his career when he was only like 19 or something although we dont know the exact details of the game (and ofc you watch a few videos on the polish immortal and they all heavily criticize glücksberg's moves which makes lestat's arrogance even funnier) and ALSO, in 1939 (literally at the same time as the chess scene takes place) najdorf was participating in a chess tournament in buenos aires and since he was not only polish but also jewish, he stayed there rather than return home. his whole family was killed in the holocaust but he lived a long life in argentina. why is this relevant? because BUENOS AIRES which btw lestat also calls "la reina del plata" so you google that and find the 1930 song by carlos gardel and the lyrics are literally— anyway so buenos aires is where lestat planned for them to move to in ep7. perhaps if they had indeed gone to argentina instead of europe… well… perhaps… perhaps…

#spark in the dark #iwtv #interview with the vampire #i wonder if there will be more najdorf parallels in s2... theres a shot in the trailer where claudia is blindfolded #and najdorf set the world record for simultaneous blindfold chess in 1947 (!!!) which stood until 2011 #although simultaneous blindfold chess also does kinda sound like what claudia was doing in ep7 already #theres also the najdorf variation of the sicilian defense which was named after him but he stopped using it bc #(if i understand correctly) some amateur who simply memorized the moves from chess theory books managed to beat him at it. HMM #to be clear i know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about chess im simply reading this shit off wikipedia and chess.com and some youtube videos #i could absolutely be getting this all wrong i have no idea what any of this shit actually means #s #claudia #vampterview #vampyyrit

[parvuls]

no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.

#omgcp #omgcheckplease #zimbits #watch me write this post as the into to my three part essay series: #Enough Talking About Bad Bob; Let's Talk About Growing Up As A Conventionally Unattractive Child Of A Model/Actress #I genuinely don't understand how ugly baby jack and fat teen jack aren't talked about more #do NOT tell me fatphobia did not affect jack's childhood. I simply do not believe it for a second #anyway zimbits are the true love blueprint they invented healthy relationships etc. etc. #meta #text

[hypogryffin]

this bit too. why is cut content akechi like thsi all the time

#joker is so strong if my 5'11 toxic doomed yaoi situationship put his hand on my shoulder to wish me good luck #while slipping cards in my sleeve in a silent display of trust and care to imply that however underhanded our tactics need to be #he trusts me to win above all else. and also trusts me to understand his meaning without words. #i would simply crumple up and die #persona 5 #p5 #goro akechi #ren amamiya #akira kusuru #shuake #akeshu

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

finally colored that Eddie scribble <3 rough day p.2!

#am i happy with this? no! but im tired of messing with it so this is what we get #i mean its not Bad but. sigh #i gotta get better at coloring stuff its my Art Weakness #no matter how much i try i cannot understand color theory #my brain simply says No <3 #i have perfect color vision and yet. and fucking yet. cant use it for shit! yeehaw! #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #eddie dear #i hope he enjoys that ice cold soda - sold exclusively at howdys for a stellar deal only one hundred percen- *gunshot* #i would like everyone to know that i unironically initially wrong 'seld' instead of 'sold' #and genuinely didnt know why there was a little red squiggle friend underneath it for a solid minute #the brain is rotting <3 i go outside and the ravens start divebombing <3 #i am living up to my url of 'carrion' #dead meat walkin babeyyyyyy #i think the chronic migraines are actually frying my neurons!!! yee! haw!

[v1-kisser]

Proship dni for my comfort thanks.

I feel like everyone portrays F/Os as these romantic, perfect all around lovers, and while that's all well and good! I prefer F/Os who are flawed, who don't always say the right things. Who can sometimes be petty or selfish. F/Os who have a habit of seeing conflict as a contest on who can talk the loudest, instead of a conversation. F/Os who run out of patience sometimes and have to go cool off mid-conversation, even if they're right. F/Os who struggle to communicate their emotions.

I find comfort in the idea of a relationship where mistakes like that are allowed and given room to breathe. A relationship where, no matter what the conflict is, the walls eventually come down. Maybe it takes hours, maybe days until you're both calm enough to work it out. Maybe it takes several conversations to solve it, but each end in Hey. I love you. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

You're not perfect, and neither is your F/O. That's okay. That can be beautiful, too. There's not a hug that's more comforting than the firm, tearful one after reaching mutual understanding. Knowing that you didn't mess it up too much, you didn't break things permanently. You couldn't if you tried. They missed you... and you've got some serious affection to catch up on.

#.thoughts #selfship #selfship imagines #selfshipping #f/o imagines #LeV1 #Yes this is about V1 and I... #We're really different- personality wise- with starkly different views on lots of things- violence for example #It can be kind and understanding with me but I often forget that I'm the exception and not the rule #And get upset when we meet others and it immediately threatens them and treats them like they're pests #I think its original purpose as a war machine should NOT be a ''get out of jail free'' card for being an asshole #And V1 uh... Disagrees. To put it simply 🙃 <- Palpable frustration #Anyway I'll quit rambling now #I still love my machine #proship dni #comship dni #safeship #safeshipping #.banger posts

[cabin-3-counselor]

I will not be responsible for any reaction I have after this episode, are you kidding me???? Poseidon and Percy, their entire interaction was insane and I need more

#pjo #pjo fandom #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy pjo #poseidon pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show #rick riordan #pjo show #you could see how much poseidon loves percy #not only because of the glory percy can bring to him but for simply being his son #how quickly he showed up when zeus threatened him AND how quickly he surrendered FOR Percy #insane man #sally i understand you #posally

[appeypie]

Demise and ghirahim remind me of rose quartz and pearl from Steven universe

DO IT FOR HIM…..

#I cannot disagree anon #there are a couple.. themes that rose/pearl gets into that I don’t think fit them and I would not like to explore with ghirademi but #the vibes are simply immaculate #I don’t know if I could explain what I mean. my brain is fried. but I hope you all understand #the legend of zelda #skyward sword #ghirahim #ghirademi #demise #crossover #Steven universe #also I’m so sorry to the su tag for putting this bullshit on your feed but hi #I must tag appropriately #ask #anon