#i don't know who the target audience is for this

[theminecraftbee]

for anyone wondering where i've been: i got... distracted... by a potential huge project. I was considering running a mcrp project/smp project, inspired by stuff like fan life series servers, with the rest of the sexyman team! but... a different one. a very specific one, even.

now, I'm aware there are probably outstanding questions, so if you're uncertain, please read more event/server details below the cut and see if it interests you!

I don't know anything about Survivor–what would this show even be like?

so if you know nothing about survivor, it's easy to think it's a show about surviving on a deserted island. it is that, but it's not mainly that. survivor, at its heart, is a social deception game, about making close alliances, betraying people, and social dynamics under pressure–hence why i suspect it would be a great fit for mcrp.

the way the show would be structured is this: a certain number of contestants would be placed on a (slightly modified) survival server, set up to be difficult to survive on. they are placed into two "tribes", the teams for the first half of the show. every episode, they would spend time with their tribes bonding, surviving, searching for secrets, and base building. then, they would compete in challenges. the tribe that loses the immunity challenge must go to tribal council, where they vote on which member to send home. this continues with the tribes eventually merging together into one tribe and immunity becoming individual before there are only two contestants left. at that time, they go in front a jury of their former fellow contestants, who will determine who the sole survivor is.

while challenge performance is one key to winning (as it prevents you from being a target in the first place), the other, bigger key, as you can likely see, is forming alliances and voting blocks strategically to get your opponents voted out and yourself kept in. this makes a great vehicle for social emergent storytelling, where narratives emerge about who is honest, who is a liar, who is good at the social game, who is bad at it, and what people will do in order to become sole survivor.

in other words: it's kind of like what current-day mcrp is ALREADY about. except its a gameshow also, and the very construction of the thing is designed to cause tensions by its very nature.

it's great! and you wouldn't be required to know anything about survivor–our host would explain to the audience all of the mechanics as they came up, as would production staff to the players.

You keep calling it "a show"–what do you mean by that?

the result of this project would be an edited youtube series, like survivor, of likely around twelve episodes. each episode would show footage from the game, as well as a lot of "confessionals" shots of the players explaining their opinions, before ending in tribal council! unlike most mcrp series, this would not be a multiple pov affair. it would be one tightly edited project. (this editing, for the record, is the largest overhead; we expect the amount of footage to go through to end up being in the hundreds of hours combined between all the players.)

it's possible that after the show's finale releases we'll release the players to make their own highlights from any footage they take. but the product we're hoping to make is just a single TV show's worth!

what exactly does applying to be a contestant require?

if we get enough interest, once we have enough of the required plugins and builds created and have a better sense of gameplay, we will put out a casting call form. while this will ask a number of questions to help us get to know you as a potential player, you're going to be REQUIRED to have the following things: a tumblr blog that you can link us to, the ability to record an audition tape in minecraft to send to us (so that we can get an idea of what audio we'd be working with, mostly), enough free time for us to be able to schedule recording sessions into, and a willingness to agree to some rules about keeping things secret until the finale airs and about rp etiquette. that's it! there are no other requirements–you don't have to know survivor, you don't have to already do mcyt or stream, you don't have to have friends, none of it, and while we'll ask you for those details, we're going to be looking for a large blend of people from across mcyt! anyone (who can send us mostly clean audio) can be considered!

EDIT: we would ALSO REQUIRE YOU BE AT LEAST 18. sorry i forgot this before! this is for a number of reasons i don't want to get into, but will be prominent on the actual applications.

what exactly would being a production staff member entail?

we're mainly looking for two things in production staff: a willingness to run replaymod for us and act as cameramen by following contestants around getting footage on the actual recording days, and a willingness to work with us on what's likely to be a fairly intense editing and "scripting" period during and after recording, during which we're going to have to scrub through massive amounts of footage and form it into a coherent narrative. we may, depending on how bad we realize we've bitten off more than we can chew, also end up looking for build team members for the production crew. if these things sound fun to you (they sound fun to me god help me), then go ahead and select this option! just know it's mutually exclusive with playing; no one in the production staff will be considered for the contestants. this includes my friends and myself who've already agreed to help me.

these applications would come out before the casting call, since even before casting call we're going to need to do playtests and dry runs and have things mostly ready. so keep an eye out!

will this be run on your blog?

nope we're going to make a new blog (and youtube channel) (and branding!) for this eventually, just want to interest check before we go through all the branding steps. (also, i've even gotten us a specific gmail for this that we will likely end up using for certain communications.)

for now that's all the FAQ i think that is required. let me know if you have more! and i hope you all are interested in this baby of a project that's taken over my mind for the past few weeks!

#mcyt #mcytblr #dsmp #hermitcraft #qsmp #lifesteal #trafficblr #to list some fandoms i think may be interested! #also please reblog this i want a reasonable sample of who is and isn't interested #and FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS EVEN WITHOUT VOTING #i have put way too much thought into this and would LOVE to answer #listen i am SO HYPED FOR THIS i just want to make sure we'd have enough people to pull it off before investing more energy lol

[sebastian-ciel-mutual-bullying]

Black butler AU where everything is the same but Sebastian has chronic acid reflux.

#i don't know who the target audience is for this #i just hope one soul sees my vision #His human larp-ing went so far that he gave himself GERD #kuroshit #kuroshitsuji meme #kuroshitpost #black butler meme #this is stupid. *uploads* #imagine during the jack the ripper arc all this emotional shit was going on and he couldnt enjoy himself #because of said acid reflux #it would haunt him but he'd be too devoted #i don't think he'd tell anyone either. he would just do it for the aesthetic #this is so stupid i don't know why i'm laughing so hard #just picture it

[canisalbus]

is there a reason you usually answer asks with a . and talk in the tags? i got confused when i first saw that bc usually when people do that its a 'presented without commentary' thing but you do have commentary haha it feels like you're answering just in whispers like a ghost

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#who's to say I'm not just a whispery ghost #no it's just an old habit #talking in the tags feels more casual and pressureless it's a pretty common tumblr thing #if I do that my (sometimes dumb and rambly or very personal) ask posts are less likely to be reblogged #and leave their target audience which is people who follow this blog and know these characters and their context #I don't want to turn reblogs off completely either because sometimes people reblog so they can write their response in their tags #the dot is there because you can't publish the ask if you leave the main text field empty #it's not that sensible but I just like doing it that way #answered #anonymous

[baezdylan]

🌟AMY🌟 🛸POND🛸 💋ALIENKISSER💋

5x02 | 5x09 | 5x10 | 5x13

#amy pond #doctor who #amy pond 🌻 #dw the most show ever #no i am not tagging 11 this is about me and amy <3 #target audience i'm the target audience #SHE'S JUST LIKE ME FR!!!! #amy pond alienkisser <333333 #mine 🧫 #you don't get her like i do (delusional) #clarasamelia 🤝 fox mulder 🤝 amy pond #she's a bowiegirl i just know it #dwedit #dwgif

[gayweedanimal]

If you're strapped for cash and are really looking for a decent non-chromebook computer that you can use to improve your computer literacy and do cool things like pirate media, you don't have to shell out for an expensive gaming PC.

If you live near a decent sized college or university, oftentimes they will have a surplus store or surplus auctions where they get rid of their old stuff, including old computers. You can get all kinds of things at these places (books, furniture, bikes) and they're often higher quality than you'd find at most thrift stores. A good place to scope around is an auction site like publicsurplus.com, but many places have walk-in locations that you can go to and browse.

You might have similar luck with government surplus but often times they're not as high quality and much more seasonal.

Once you get your hands on one, I'd recommend installing Ubuntu as it's a very newbie friendly version of Linux that runs much better than Windows on old devices. Also, if you still have cash left over I'd recommend getting an SSD (you can get a good 500 gig SSD for about 50 bucks), which will also majorly improve things like startup time and loading speeds.

#i know this is basic information to the majority of people who follow me but the target audience here is the non-nerds #people who don't have computer access obviously

[solarpunkani]

Oh yeah speaking of going to chill with The Ladies, I hope to go tomorrow (and my mom wants to come too lmfao) and it will be the first Official Test of the sunflower bag of legend

First official test meaning first time I'm gonna carry it with stuff in it outside of the house.

All I really plan to put in there is some balls of yarn, some hooks, maybe some scissors, and my little flat tray of safety pins and yarn needles, so nothing too too heavy (well except for my 1 pound yarn balls but yknow) but I'm still both excited and nervous. If I really wanna test it out, I might put my ipad in there for good measure.

I'll report back with my results.

#listen I KNOW I should probably make a liner #but full honesty. I don't know how. and I'm too nervous to fuck up the bag somehow trying to do it #it might be more of a decorative outing backpack purse kinda deal #something to wear to craft meet ups or maybe to hold my stuff when I go to garden sales/festivals who knows #honestly like while im not planning to monetize this hobby by selling sunflower bags. if i really wanted to. like. #garden sales would probably be a half decent place to find the target audience #anyways i need to go bed its 12:30 gnight

[front-facing-pokemon]

#mega altaria #thank you to anon for the reminder about this one. i had absolutely forgotten it #this one's a bit more low-poly than the others but that's okay. it's a mega i don't think anyone remembered this existed except anon #unless you like competitive pokémon. i imagine this thing is good in comp just bc it's a dragon-type and also has a mega #i like how it just gets Even More Clouds when it mega evolves. and uhh apparently mysthalery will enjoy this too #since they seemed to enjoy swablu. big shoutouts to you‚ mysthalery. icon checks out indeed #now it's time co move this up to the beginning of the queue ahead of zangoose. y'all don't get zangoose until tomorrow #can i be honest for a second. i thought that person's URL was altaria-propaganda and i was a thousand percent convinced of this #the altaria icon and the “post reached target audience” thing i was just entirely convinced that was an altaria blog. i didnt bother to look #so i hope i got their actual URL right. mysthalery? i think so. you know who you are‚ you altaria fan. get altaria'd. have more altaria

[helpimstuckinafandom]

Minor detail that lowkey devestates me is how in Burning Maze you find out about the jiper breakup from Mellie and Hedge, and the way Mellie refers to Jason as "that boy" and says his name with distaste (Apollo's words) implies that we're mad at Jason for the break up, meaning that people think Jason broke up with Piper/broke her heart, when it was HIM that got broken up with, and we just.... let them believe that

#jason's the ''villain'' of the breakup and for what? #((just to be clear! i don't think piper is bad for breaking up with him or anything)) #((i just think it's so upsetting that jason is blamed in-canon by those who don't know what actually went down - #- when he was broken up with)) #jason grace #toa #pjo #hoo #tbm #trials of apollo #the burning maze #valgrace #< target audience

[the-golden-ghost]

Last night I was getting sad cause of the rustiness of my writing after a year's break and how I feel like I lost my touch and all that; but then I remembered that it ultimately doesn't matter. I don't write fics for an audience anymore. None of my fics from this year have done "well" in terms of number; they're the 3 least popular fics I have up, and yet I enjoy them. I think they're fun and I'm happy with how they sound.

This one I honestly expect to do even worse, if numbers are what counts, but I also remembered a few months ago when I was in the middle of the process and I was thinking this was the most fun I'd had writing in about 3 years, and rereading for myself only reminds me to just go back to that :D

#in my Gonna Be A Shit Writer Forever And No Longer Care era!!! #but yeah it's like... if you have a target audience then you can 'fail' as it were if it doesn't reach them or if they don't enjoy it #and that creates misery #but if you just write for a target audience of 1 (yourself) then it feels good no matter who sees! #I know everyone else figured this out years ago and have been saying this for years this is nothing new #I just never could figure out what it meant #but I get it now! it's really that way

[strangerwheelerthings]

People might not agree with me here, so Im curious:

(Do note that I am asking about his official job, and saying teacher or something does not exclude the possibility of other stuff on the side such as things dealing with monsters.)

#Idk I think he could be a really good teacher who wants to be what mr clarke was to him #someone who helps kids who are struggling #with school or family or trauma #I don't think he'll learn about therapy early enough #plus he loves science #also he 100% helps with Nancy’s supernatural investigations on the side #but maybe someone who's more invested in him knows something better #mike wheeler #stranger things #byler #<-target audience #plus gay teacher helping all the lgbt youth? (mr hauser coded) #st

[birdmenmanga]

@raventhekittycat

hi okay so I've been mulling this one over for the past day or two and I think I have the answer. not to be using hamburger to explain anything to an american but you're my detco mutual so I'm going to try and explain it in detco terms

There's a post going around recently about how if you've read detco and only detco, the first time hakuba shows up you're going to be totally flummoxed, because damn this guy is clearly important, he gets to be even cooler than Shinichi, he's got a half-page shot of him (in such a panel-dense series such as Detective Conan, no less!!) and he's got a fucking hawk. he's CLEARLY important. everything about the narrative is indicating that you need to PAY ATTENTION to hakuba and that he's the coolest guy and he's important!!!! and then he dies in the case lol (not for real. but still.)!! and you're like huh??? what was that. why did aoyama do that.

But with the context of magic kaito this totally makes sense. He's a beloved character that people have been waiting decades to see again. Of course Aoyama is going to hype him up!! It's his big moment after years of being locked in the backrooms!!!

Anyways reading birdmen for me was kind of like that. The author's previous series, Kekkaishi, was pretty one-dimensional at the beginning, and even after the main plot started picking up at around volume 6, it still felt quite understandable. I knew what she was trying to get at, and the spectacular job she did with the anthropocene and climate change metaphor towards the end of that series really made me interested in the rest of her works. That and the way she writes familial relationships is absolutely DEVASTATING. (I mean this with the highest of praise)

But when I read BIRDMEN for the first time, I was probably in... middle school, maybe? And I read it, sure, but I didn't get it. I could see what was literally happening on the page but the narrative choices were absolutely baffling at times. Why skip over the entire part of the plot where they figure out who the birdman that saved them was? She blatantly doesn't care about that. What does she care about then?? I knew I didn't get it, I knew there were parts of it that were important and I couldn't figure out why and THAT'S how it dug its pretty little claws into me. Even after I finished catching up it nagged at me a little bit, not often at all, but enough that every once in a while I go, huh, right, that was a thing, let me go read it again.

For the record this type of story haunting has happened to me twice. First time was the Heart of Thomas, second time was BIRDMEN. I think the thing is that these are both stories which are not what other people say they are and I think I came into both of these stories with a misconception, trying to look too hard for things that weren't important and therefore missing the things that were.

Because sure, BIRDMEN is about mental illness. Yeah, it's about an evil scientific organization growing mutants in a lab. Yeah, it's about what it means to leave your humanity behind. That's all technically correct, on a surface level, and the fandom at large likely agrees with these takes for the most part, but in my opinion none of that really delves into what the thematic messaging of the story is about.

There are cryptic conversations about authority and human extinction and peculiar outfit and ability choices. You can tell these choices weren't made to serve the purpose of "writing exciting shonen manga" because that was what she did for the most part in Kekkaishi and you can tell she wasn't putting her whole pussy into doing that here. So what was she doing? What's like. All of this. Waves my hands at this.

The short answer is that it's really about the interplay between capitalism (represented by humanity) and communism (represented by birdmen), and explores the role institutional white supremacy (EDEN) plays in enforcing capitalism. It is ALSO about queer liberation and the importance of community, but hey, that double-stacks conveniently with the communism metaphor.

But also take this opinion of mine with a grain of salt. As far as I know I'm the only one who really truly deeply believes that it is not only AN interpretation of the work, but one that was fully intended by the author.

So basically, I like it, because I think it says something true and beautiful that I also believe in, even if I didn't have the words for it the first time I read it. But I don't really think that's what people really look for in a media recommendation.

Do I like it? Yes, I love it. Will I recommend it to others? Yeah, sure. But do I think it's deeply flawed? Yeah, absolutely. It's flawed in the same ways as The Witch from Mercury— a rushed ending, too many threads that were opened and never tied together. The pacing and characterization is perfect in the beginning, and too rushed at the end. There are prerequisites you basically HAVE to read in order to understand the story (tempest for G-Witch and the communist manifesto for birdmen). I think a truly good story wouldn't have any of these things so if people don't like it I never blame them.

It's my personal experiences that make birdmen so profound to me. If you are not queer I just don't think Eishi coming out as a birdman to his mom will hit the same, just as an example. Sorry that I wasn't the kid you wanted me to be. I know you love me and you just want the best for me and that's why you're so controlling, because you think I can be saved by conforming to societal expectations. But I can't live like that. I can't be like that. And that's why I must go. etc.

Aesthetically I do love birdmen a lot. If I had to describe it in a few words it would probably be "chilling", "beautiful", and "powerful", which nicely coincides with the type of things I personally like to draw. It's also silly to a small degree but it's so serious and I know Tanabe can be way way way funnier (read kekkaishi for this. kekkaishi and hanazakari no kimitachi he were foundational to my sense of sequential art humor) so that's not really the standout trait of this series.

I can't let it go because I'm chewing this series like a bone. And it's taking me years but I am getting that sweet sweet marrow. By god. We are on year 3 of this shit and I am GOING to understand this series. and I'm going to make 3 video essays about it

#just thinking thoughts... #stray bird thoughts #so it's like... I don't like it because birdmen is good #I think I like it because I am a certain type of person and the author was trying to say something specifically to the type of person I am #OH #I'M THE TARGETED AUDIENCE THATS WHY I LIKE IT. #YEAH THATS REALLY IT!!! #A long time ago I said that birdmen wasn't written for the people who read it at the time it serialized. #it was written for the people they would become. #and I stand by that 100% #if it really stays with you there is going to be a reason even if you can't articulate it yet #and it may APPEAR sloppy to someone who doesn't see the queer or communist metaphor #like 'what is she doing what is she saying here she's not saying anything meaningful and emphasizing the wrong things' #but that sort of presumes she is gunning to make 'the best shonen manga ever' #which she clearly isn't. #I remember when I was reading fma with a bunch of my classmates and I'd lend them a volume or two every day #and a piece of feedback I received that has stuck with me was 'volume 15 was so boring' #(that was the volume recounting the ishval civil war. it was boring because we were middle schoolers and didn't REALLY get it.) #and like. I think to people who are looking for something like kks. the whole thing is going to feel like fma volume 15 #like WHAT is she going on about? ? ? #like witch hat and dunmesh I think are similar types of stories but I think these two are just executed way better than bm #but because of that it is just not as compelling to me you know. #like yeah yeah it's well constructed. we all see it's well constructed. #the metaphor is so well constructed that I don't feel the need to point it out. everyone is saying it already you know #but bm is cryptic enough and just slightly missed that execution enough that I feel like I'm pulling the analysis out of a smoking wreckage #recently I've been watching mentourpilot videos about airplane accidents and like. that's exactly it. #there's nothing to say about a perfectly executed flight. #it's the ones that failed. and in particular the ones that just barely failed by a little bit. that compels people the most. #cue my de communism is failure post. bc that bm sure did fail.

[hychlorions]

apollo could never have a public twitter account while he's dating klavier bc he'd probably tweet something like "i'm just saying if you know they're VERY PUBLICLY dating somebody WHY would you still agree to sleep with them" and then the news will be all "klavier gavin cheated? klavier gavin cheating scandal?!" then later that day apollo has to clarify that "no he isn't cheating on me. we're catching up on celebrity news" and i think this would happen regularly

#.docx #i think they're both little gossips. like they are Nosy nosy when it comes to people they don't personally know #may be the most ooc thing l i'll ever post bc i think everyone gets a little ooc on the internet #me included. i'm a little insane on here but i'm better irl i swear o7 #yes i think apollo would vaguetweet. because he's tweeting to his little audience of people who already knows what he means #but sometimes he forgets klavier is/was famous and he is famous by association too #classic 'left my target audience' mishap #also apollo would never use twitter except to check for weather reports probably #but in the event that he DOES use twitter for entertainment #yeah i think this would happen #with that said i'm gonna pass out. goodnight

[heartrender6]

soc spinoff leak!!!!

#manifesting 🙏 🙏 #i dont know what came over me #not the other ones being there too 😭 #this meme has a very specific target audience #most people on tumblr are white asf and don't know who the tfboys are oh well #bishangzoy #six of crows #shadow and bone #kuwei yul bo #six of crows spinoff #tfboys

[nonuggetshere]

I might post FaaF AU next gen / oc content actually, because the reason I am taking a break from posting is because I started doing it for validation and compliments instead of for myself like I used to, but my oc content has the target audience of One (me) ((and maybe my friends))

It's a maybe though

#thylacines can talk #bUT. I MIGHT POST CONTENT OF MY NON FANDOM OCS THAT SOUNDS MORE APPEALING #then it truly becomes the target audience of Two (me and my bestie who knows every single detail about my ocs) #i am thinking about my original stories now aND WHY THE FUCK ARE MOST OF THEM HORROR???? #I CAN NAME. TWO THAT DON'T FALL INTO THAT GENERE #even though one of them wasnt meant to be horror 'jurrassic park but theyre putting the consciousness of humans into dinosaurs and #experimenting on them to create fucked up soldiers and the journalists and researchers who tresspass into the island to uncover what this #corporation been doing get brutally slaughtered in guresome ways all except one' sure SOUNDS like fucking horror #AND THE FACT THAT IT HAD A CUTE LINELESS ARTSTYLE 😭

[notonlymice]

Ally Craig x Nicholas Rush || CHANCES

#not only a student/professor romance of questionable ethics #but also (more importantly) a relationship between people who have experienced loss (and therefore there's no need to get rid of anyone🙃) #one day I'll admit I'm terrible at edits but not today and not tomorrow #(I've been trying to find this song for so long and only recently realised I heard it in doctor who #but it more or less fits my purposes + it's not “teacher's pet” lol so it's fine) #there wasn't supposed to be a plot but for some reason there kinda is? #movie violence edited out because wtf was that #probably should've added some dialogues but unfortunately I don't know any words #whoever decided to make the most Rush-centered episode so grainy was very wrong #if you see robert pattinson somewhere no you don't #ally craig x nicholas rush #ally craig #nicholas rush #anyem #delusions my delusions it's so nice to think about you #target audience for this is me and me only

[give-soup-please]

(me, preparing an important presentation on queer issues): ah, yes, doing this will make my favorite fictional characters so proud of me >:)

Me, cont: yes, they will indeed be proud of me for standing in front of an audience and talking, despite the fact that they do not exist, cannot see me, and do not know of my existence. making fictional characters proud of me is something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve...

(does anyone else do this?)

#personal #like... i'm doing something difficult #and pretending that they're going to be proud of me if i pull it off helps #if i manage to pull off what i'm trying to pull off it will be huge #even if the audience is limited #i'm half debating advertising it to get some extra publicity #sending the zoom link by which people would be able to watch me #but... hmm... #my topic is a little controversial #it's about the intersection of the queer and christian community #and how christians should learn to be more chill with LGBT+ folk #and... how christians and LGBT+ people shouldn't be enemies #but instead focus on the real villains of the world- white supremacists and nazis #this will be incredibly difficult to handle with sensitivity and grace #and i'm really scared of doing it for a lot of reasons #putting a few different kinds of potential targets on my back to deliver an important message #but if i do it..... and do it well... #i'm sure the fictional characters i adore would be so proud of me despite the fact that they don't exist #and cannot see me or know who i am