#you repost it for what???? clout??? on tumblr???????????? of all places?????????????????????

[loguetowns]

what is even the point of reposting fanart without credit and consent

#like idk why some people are incapable of protecting artists #can't we just keep one place on the internet safe for artists to share their art without people tryna repost without credit or consent #esp when said artists HAVE A TUMBLR #if you like the art sm then just rb it??? directly from the creator?? #you repost it for what???? clout??? on tumblr???????????? of all places????????????????????? #i call out enough people on instagram for it #tumblr is just nerds nerding out together #this also goes for people who use fanart as fic banners without consent #you would not like people using excerpts of your writing to promote their own work so like ?? ? ? ??? #so let's be kind ya? #¡! ❞ [ chat ]

[sergle]

I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question. and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost. Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half." All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon

#there is actually nothing morally wrong with running an account that just reuploads ppl's artwork or their jokes or their cosplays #if you just put a VISIBLE LINK in the description of your post with proper credit then it would be beneficial for everyone #because you can get your little clout or whatever it is you want by putting a bunch of same-category content on a page #but nobody's getting fucked over because if your post blows up then people just get FUNNELED to the source #because it's placed so plainly where everyone can see it #and yeah it's better to retweet or reblog but #on the rare occasion that I see my shit reuploaded on tumblr WHICH IS WEIRD BC I MAKE MY OWN POSTS HERE but anyway #someone making their own post where they upload my stuff. and it's always the floral self portraits so let's say it's a post with all those #if I scroll to the bottom and it says like. Artwork by Serglesinner on Twitter <-- clickable link [Sergle's Prints] <-- clickable link #to my etsy #I'm like oh okay and all the anger leaves my body and I'm like ah I see. and I toss the rock aside #like oh okay so you actually care that a person made these pieces. Instead of posting the caption ''women <3'' or smth #like you've GOTTA die if you do that. but if you just link back #or if you go to the effort of writing like a description with a BLURB? like it's a damn museum. like a light paragraph of info #about what the art is and who made it and their links #I am literally sucking you in a strange and peculiar manner. that is extremely helpful #and maybe other artists don't want this AT ALL and they'd rather people not reupload even if it is credited #but I feeeeeeeeel. like 99% of the time this would solve the issue #reposters could genuinely be helping ppl. sometimes the repost gets more traction than the real thing #as long as it credits the creator then that's an okay thing to happen! #that can land somebody a sale! a commission order! a new fan! A JOB #A JOB!!!!!!!!!! #sergle.txt #I didn't write this eloquently AT ALL what the fuck ever barkbarkbarkbark

[messrsbyler]

I'm new to Tumblr and while I try to repost every post I see, can you please explain me why it's better? Asking genuinely because it's my first time on this app

hi! as someone who is also new-ish to tumblr (i have less than a year on this platform) i'm gonna try to explain this how i best understand it. if there's any other older blogs who can add something or correct me please feel free to do so!

basically, the main reason to reblog posts and not just like them is because of the way tumblr works. unlike other platforms (instagram, tiktok, twt, etc) tumblr doesn't relay on an algorithm that will give recommendation of content based on your likes. in tumblr, basically every user is responsible to take the content they interact with to other blogs. reblogging helps to keep post circulating so they can reach new blogs and keep on being "alive". when you only like a post, that like does nothing for that post, it doesn't help to reach other people and keep the content of a tag alive and updated.

reblogging is especially important for fanarts/writing, but i would say all type of content in general. if you like a ficlet or a fanart or your fav author published on ao3 and made an annoucement post here on tumblr, or a blog made an analysis of a character you like, if you enjoy any of that content then the best you can do is to reblog it. when that content reaches more people, it doesn't just help to keep the post circulating like i said before, but it also motivates the original creator to keep posting because they can see the engagement there. and no, this isn't about clout. one of the best things (imo) about tumblr is that it doesn't revolve around big numbers like other social media do. here you don't see who has more or less followers. the point of this is to create communities, create conversations, meet new people, etc, and that can only happen if what you post reaches places in this platform helped by other blogs that enjoyed what you had to offer.

rbing helps that to keep happening. a like literally does nothing. it's useless.

i hope i explained this in a way that can be understood!

#asks #rbing #tumblr ettiquette

[tessavillaverde]

VTuber Re-Starter Kit (2023)

Who knows wtf Twitter is gonna look like by the end of the year? Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Tumblr, and all the other cesspits? I’ve got it all covered! Social media is changing and we must change with it. I’m so tired god please weh

Twitter is in free fall. Panic ensues. Valid. Many of us need that hellsite. Badly. It’s imperfect trash, but its *our* trash, understand? Fuck these “alternatives”. They are all noise right now. Cohost doesn’t allow commercial activity in its TOS, Mastodon has low engagement right now. Twitter Blue is here to stay. As VTubers, we all benefit from having it, actually. For $8/mo, you will be prioritized and boosted with mentions and replies. This means that threads and replies to you bump you up on the TL. Even if you pay for it, Lists and Twitter Circles are still a good idea. Heck, rotate people out of Twitter Circles to make sure you’re able to talk to more people. Continue to use Twitter to network by providing value to others and help others in their journey. Be chill and don’t use people for clout--it’s disingenuous. Treat people like people.

I can’t guarantee that things will be the same here on Twitter and neither can anyone else. The current data sets I see from clients and others may show that not much is changing, but this site is changing every day. We need to play it day by day and not worry too much about it.

Twitter has shops, utilize tf out of the business features. Given how much of a mess the site is with its daily tweaks and the loss of valuable engineers at Twitter, things could be topsy-turvy. Who knows? Be active!

This being said, you shouldn’t rely on Twitter alone. It’s not good for your business nor is it good for growing your brand recognition. So I’ll list where to go and the use cases. Don’t use this list to go to literally every place. There’s just not enough time in a day to maintain it all.

Instagram

Don’t make Insta your mainstay. Please, for the love of God don’t. Everything wrong with FB is still wrong with Insta with the added bonus of it being Diet Tik Tok. That being said, it still is a good networking tool and can help your sales with its shop features (for businesses/brands/media that don’t want to use Twitter). So what to do with Insta? Repost your Tik Toks and hit it n quit it. Post your schedule (3:2 format, crop down with 1:1 squares and schedule out posts to upload your schedule). Update your stories with important things (they’re pinned tweets basically). Have a link in your profile and reply to people when you can. Use relevant hashtags and hashtags that aren’t super saturated. GL;HF

Tik Tok

Hit it n Quit it

Post in prime times

Turn brain off

Be unhinged with your originals

Remix and hf with trends

Repost best shorts elsewhere

Tumblr

It’s 2012 again and we have no character limits and post gif memes

Relax, hf, life moves slower with an older audience

Not a Twitter replacement

SEO can be a benefit (technical jargon I’ll save you from), but you must remain authentic. What works on Twitter doesn’t fly on Tumblr. You will not get traction from doing what you do here.

Pay attention to etiquette. You can have assholes, but many are willing to joke as if nothing had happened. Be consistent by liking and reblogging things. Turn off your brain and follow blogs and tags that are up your alley and QUEUE up things to keep posting throughout the day. Tumblr humor is ironic, but not irony-poisoned. It’s punny and quirky and you must kill the chains that bind your inner cringe. Truly be yourself, share your personal thoughts more (it's a blogging site ffs), share your fandom of things, and things’ll be okay.

Also important on the ettiquite as a first tip: dont act like you do on Twitter. Its a different audience and the normal ways of crossposting wont work here. This is not Twitter. Tumblr is a blogging site where blogs share each other and it is fandom-heavy (meaning sharing who your favorite oshii is for example and hyping up others). It comes naturally. Be yourself and focus on building up a presence on your blog to give people a good idea of who tf you are. Nobody is really a celebrity here and you can't act like you are here. USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TA--

YouTube

I made another mega thread for this, read it later. YouTube should be one of your mainstays as a VTUBER. It’s more work, yes, but they also have Community Posting for everyone now. Scaling up your brand and having better brand recognition is crucial here. As you post more videos, ALWAYS improve your pacing, thumbnails, and titles.

Twitch

We know it. We love it. Consistency is key. Start with Rule of 3s: 3 days/week, 3 hours/day, 3 social media outlets. This is a general rule for a reason, but it's a good minimum to start with because I’ve seen too many clients in deep need. If you need to start half an hour later to catch your regular audience, then do so. Starting out, you need consistent numbers, engagement, and retention. I’ll explain later, but you want to do what you can to increase production value and give more interactables for chat to use.

Advice for partners, you need to continue to carry the momentum to scale. By this point, you likely know what it is you need to do, but perhaps there’s a discrepancy with engagement or retention, or god knows what that holds your audience back. Collabs help, but not as much as you’d like. This comes with raids being a nice networking tool funnily enough. Raid people with similar content and vibe as you to continue to network with people. Switching audiences and using adjacent categories to find that audience may be what you need.

This is all hard to determine for partners so plainly on social media without analyzing data, audience, content, branding/design, and personality. There’s a lot that goes into your churn (how many folks you lose in your audience on average). Fixing that can either require optimization and turning your personality up to 11 more consistently and differently, but also can mean taking a leap into faith with a “big risk, big reward mentality”. One thing I know works would be the optimization tweaks here and there by looking at data (or not looking at all and just gathering feedback from your audience and friends and staying objective and factual), and diversification on different platforms so more can know who you are.

Try tools like Streambee to simplify the VOD review process Streamloots to increase engagement and have better monetization TITS, VRChat, and curation to invite viewers with “planned exclusivity” rather than total exclusivity (how you do this is up to you).

Discord Not really a social media site

Great for talking and engaging your community and breeding loyalty. VTubers need fewer “groups”, fewer individual servers, and more community servers where you can pool your resources and hype each other up. Effectively make use of what Stream Teams are good for and raise each other up.

Monetization

Use Kofi for tips, a shop, comms

Use Gumroad for another shop that has more discoverability

Use Patreon for memberships to slowly phase out Twitch subs. Be creative and have fun with Patreon rewards

Use Streamloots and have fun with it

There’s more I want to discuss, but for now, you can follow me on Twitter and here on Tumblr for this data-backed advice, the nitty gritty nerdy jargon for social media with data and whatnot, and my personal thoughts with my positive experiences managing and consulting folks.

If you yourself are terrified still even with all of this, I have restructured my business with Build-Your-Own Bundle type of consultations and management. Services are 50% off. 69% off after your first purchase (nice)

#vtuber #virtual youtuber #vtuberuprising #social media #marketing #tumblr culture #twitter #youtube #tiktok #elon musk twitter #anime community #anime and manga #im so fucking tired please end me weh

[dojae-huh]

Do fans of visuals are all like this? Thinking they’re above the others and stuff. What about in dreams? Is the subfandom really bad against the members? What about other fandoms? I really wanna know cause smh i wanna unstan j and ty because of this subfandom. I don’t find it enjoyable at all on twitter. Even thi this is a jaedo acc i find it easier to communicate here instead of my own subfandom lol.

It would be wrong of me to aswer without doing a research, heh. We, people, tend to "trust out intuition" too much, we get biased easily.

Taeil is not considered a visual (although he is objectively handsome, all NCT members are visuals in comparison to many groups, it's SM afterall), he is a very nice and melllow fellow, and yet some of his stans can be very nasty. I think it's more about an easily identifiable "super trait" that everyone can recognise. Looks, strong voice. Notice how fans like labels like "ace", how even a few words in a song gives them "bragging rights" to say their bias is a songwriter (which is nowadays a cool trait as well). Fans who use idols for clout, for self-validation, as proxies, they are attracted to idols with these easy markers of "being first class".

It's like with brands. Brands produce subpar in quality items, but everyone knows the logo, everyone can recognise a thing is expensive and its owner is rich.

Leave X, look for life in other places. It's not the only platform on Earth afterall. People make communities even around yt-bers (k-pop reviewers).

Or follow my example. I made my own corner, heh. I don't repost or reply to other fans' blogs, but there are plenty of k-pop blogs here. You can organically grow a circle of similar minded moots on tumblr. I've seen nice Jae and Tae's fans on X as well, so they exist.

[semanticity]

Unbundling Twitter

People in the tech industry like to point to Craigslist as one of the first examples of bundling and unbundling, and how it predicted the creation of basically every tech company that came to be in the decades after year 2000. (The post is called Unbundling Craigslist.)

Like Craiglist, these days, something similar is happening to Twitter, where every account is starting to look like it came from a different type of guy from a different kind of website.

LinkedIn: Ever since the algorithm was updated to prioritize the For You feed, posts from people like "The AI Guy", "The Sales Guy", "The Self-Storage Guy" have been everywhere. These are LinkedIn-esque influencers who mainly talk about their entrepreneurial hustles.

4chan: The rise of "schizoposting" means there are several corners of X that have adopted schizo culture wholesale. They throw raves, grift NFT collections, and generally banter around with a bunch of racist-lite bad words.

Substack: Several parts of X are just people active in internetworked cultural scenes on Substack. (This happens less on X now that Substack created features to capture these conversations and stop them from ever happening on X).

DeviantArt / Instagram: One of the largest subcultures on X is and has always been digital artists who use it to share their work. Many of them seem to just ignore all the other subcultures around them - fortunately they usually have a lot of followers.

Tumblr: Swifties, kpop fans, and other individuals who use Twitter as a microblog to anonymously journal about their life.

Reddit / 9GAG. It's a constant meme how X is becoming "more like Reddit" all the time; this manifests in all sorts of ways but particularly as accounts like "White People Taking Ls" and "Cartoons Hate Her" using Twitter like a content farm.

HN / Tech YouTube. Dev Twitter has always existed, but it used to be much more dynamic, with accounts from influential builders or young technologists mixing dev work with personal life. Now it's mostly made of tech influencers with YouTube channels, but there are just so many of them.

An obvious question to ask might be: hasn't Twitter always been like this, made up of different subcultures? And maybe, except that the most important subcultures were never siloed off cultures, but individuals in a larger conversation who would redirect their attention towards global events instead of just ignoring the outside world and "posting through it".

It was hard to make your identity being a Substack Guy or AI Guy back then, when anyone worth following would refuse to take you seriously for that. But under today's algorithm, posts that fit a "type of guy" actually do better, and it's authentic posts that don't get seen by as many people - most content creators I know have made some kind of remark about how much they get punished for breaking character.

Today, maybe once you've made it to a few thousand followers, you can start posting with something that resembles a personal voice. But usually even that personal voice gets entangled with the complications of being a big celebrity online. You said something and other people are mad at you; wouldn't you use tens of thousands of followers to ratio them into oblivion? And this is actually what "clouted" accounts do, to the point that most friends I know with any sort of real-world influence are highly skeptical of Twitter once again, and regard it as a place to sell things to other people.

Even the path to getting to a few thousand followers today is hard, and usually involves being some kind of sensationalist content farming, like Ate-a-Pi did with fictionalized superconductor research, and others have done by pretending to be OpenAI insiders (there's a whole genre of accounts that have gotten to thousands of followers by teasing inside knowledge of GPT-5). Maybe you can get by with friends who are already deep in a subculture retweeting and reposting you, but even then, it's not good content that goes far, it's content that becomes the center of discourse.

Concurrent with this has been some kind of loss of legitimacy of Twitter that everyone is both resigned to, and yet does their best to avoid talking about all the time. I check the timeline, and people are throwing around debunkings of the grandfathers of AI, proclaiming they know how to fix the blockchain, shouting that they're the next Kanye or Virgil Abloh.

The people I know joining the public web today are not as talented, not as multidisciplinary, and nowhere near as good writers as the people ten years ago. Even if they were good, they wouldn't be rewarded for it. Every subculture today is looking at all the other ones and saying internally, how ridiculous. I'm thinking about the rise and fall of websites in the early internet: when Digg or Metafilter started to decline, their total collapse was inevitable. Maybe it just happens slower today.

[yesterdayiwrote]

Absolutely nobody thinks AO3 is a private space. Nothing on the internet is entirely private. What AO3 is, is a niche platform for people to post specific content for the enjoyment of like minded people. It is a safe space for people to feel they can express themselves without fear of judgement. All works are tagged, rated & summarised with content warnings to ensure people know what they’re getting. No one is going in blind. You don’t accidentally end up on AO3 and become accidentally subjected to fanfic. AO3 is not social media. It is not there to be reposted on other platforms or amplified to the audiences it’s not intended for, especially not without the permission of the authors.

This is not fanfic writers offering up their stories for drivers to read. This is not them flagging people’s attention to it or posting it in spaces that drivers frequent, that’s all entirely on the people that chose to take it onto Twitter. If a driver reads explicit fanfiction about themselves because of this, that’s not going to be because of the writer’s actions.

People write fanfiction for a variety of reasons. It’s a creative outlet for many. An escape from a difficult place or time. A coping mechanism. You don’t have to like it, you don’t have to want to read it, but if you don’t the very least you can do is stay out of the places that do. That’s basic respect.

To invade a community that consumes fandom in a different way than you do, to force your way into someone else’s safe space and harass, mock and belittle the people that are there is unacceptable in the extreme. To do it for clout and your own entertainment is absolutely vile. To claim that isn’t what was going on doesn’t explain why so many people reported having abusive comments left on their work. Of course people are upset. Their work is being repurposed on a platform it was never meant to be featured on, and they’re being told to suck it up because other people can’t mind their own business.

Fanfiction is very often a space filled with queer people and women, people who don’t always feel comfortable or accepted in the primary fandom spaces. Over 100 fics got deleted last night. That’s a lot of people who now don’t feel safe or comfortable in the little corner of the internet they’d carved out for themselves and that’s heartbreaking. You don’t get to decide who should and shouldn’t feel safe in fandom, you definitely don’t get to force them out.

A lot of people are falsely conflating Tumblr into this. None of the works last night were from Tumblr, it only got dragged into it because there’s a lot of overlap between the communities and people saw it as a further chance to harass people. ‘We’ve made you feel uncomfortable on one platform, so we’re going to chase you onto another and make you feel uncomfortable there too’. What was the actual point? What on earth does that even gain?

People can kid themselves that they were respectful last night. They can kid themselves they were defending their fave’s honour, but redistributing content on a platform that makes it more likely for them to come across it, doesn’t feel like the height of respect. You wouldn’t trawl pornhub for content and repost it on Twitter to laugh at and then act scandalised that there’s porn out there (or maybe you would, who knows). The fanfiction was in the place it was supposed to be. The people seeking it out for purposes of mockery weren’t.

#f1 #I’ve been biting my tongue over this because what’s the point #but I’m seeing far too many ‘you’ve only got yourself to blame’ takes which entirely miss the point #it’s all be kind and have respect until it’s something you don’t personally understand or subscribe to #and then suddenly it’s okay to treat people as less than? #I’m still so angry #like livid about it #it’s absolutely not okay to harass people online when they’re minding their own business #might delete this later idk #feel nervous even posting on tumblr rn tbh because it’s being weaponised against people #it’s like being at school again

[petite-madame]

Hi I've seen your art on tiktok I'm not sure what your rules for this stuff is but I'd assume you don't want your art reposted at all. The account I saw it on is @ itzzz.marvel it's in the first few videos and I think I saw another but I don't remember the name I'm sorry. If I find it I will tell you. Your art is beautiful and I can imagine how much hard work went into it ❤ 💙 💜

Hi anon ^^

Thank you so much for your message and for taking the time to let me know, it's very kind of you 💜

I'm going to be honest, I hate edits and I don't want my art to be used for edits but on the other hand...what do you want me to do (because there's not much I can do)? 😅 😭 I'm not on TikTok, I refuse to open an account there (Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr is enough) and when you don't have an account, you can't read the comments (just watch the vid on your browser) or even leave a comment.

What drives me mad though is that people don't give me credit most of the time (I’m speaking in general, not itzzz.marvel who apparently gave me credit). I spent two months working on The Order of The Avengers (Part 1 & Part 2), one month on my baseball cards (Part 1 & Part 2) so the least that these people could do is giving me credit. It's basic politeness. But hey, apparently writing somewhere "Art by petite-madame on Tumblr" or "Art by petite_madame on Instagram" seems to be too much to ask and is going to cause eczema to Tiktoker's delicate fingers, which proves that they don't care about the art, they don't care about the artist, they just care about the views and the clout as apparently, the videos featuring my art are getting a lot of views and are generating tons of comments. I mean, I'm happy that people seems to enjoy the drawings but giving the artist some love/credit shouldn't be optional.

But I shouldn't be surprised: TikTok is "repost central", nobody gives a flying fuck about credit and when the reposters are called out, they block you (that's what happened to people who contacted me and asked politely to reposters to give me credit. Once again: too much to ask)

I'm sorry if I sound bitter but I'm fed up. I wasn't born yesterday, I know you can't avoid reposting all over the place on the Internet but people not understanding WHY they should credit artists in the year of the lord 2021 is getting old.

Anyway, it's ok, I see TikTok as some kind of parallel universe in the multiverse, I'm trying to pretend it doesn't exist.

Thanks again for your message and your kindness. Have a great weekend.

#pmasks

[k3lynn]

Haikyuu Boys As Songs ||

oikawa, suna, tendou

cw: FUCKBOY OIKAWA AND SUNA, swearing, mention of sex, drugs, etc, the good stuff, also sort of angsty for some pieces

a/n: I’ve seen lot’s of people do this so I figured it was sort of a trend, seemed really fun so I wanted to hop on board- if you know who did it first please pm me so I can credit and tag them <3 oh yeah! I finally finished working on my masterlist- please check it out if you like <3

this is all non-canon, and I ABSOLUTELY do not actually think actual oikawa, suna, and tendou do some these things/believe some of these things, just fun and gives me their overall vibes, I’m just writing a story with it lmao- I really should have titled this “fuckboy oikawa and Suna ft. baby Tendou” because DAMNN lol- NOT PROOF READ this is more of a f! reader type of thing but I could always do a male, non-binary, gender fluid, etc. reader with no problem if requested!

OIKAWA- (fuckboy- /hj)

Don’t Tell Em- Jeremih

my reasoning for this is the fact that oikawa’s ex girlfriend was only ever mentioned once, and just by his nephew (when they had just broken up)

there could have been conversations off screen/panel or something- but I have a really big hunch oikawa just barely talked/interacted with her in public

MAYBE people knew he had a girlfriend (although obviously by the sheer amount of people in his fan base they don’t care)

or MAYBE he kept her a secret- reasoning with himself that it was to “protect their image” and that’s why he said he didn’t know what he did wrong

ANYWAYS HEADCANON OIKAWA FUCKBOY STARTS HERE- will probably make this into a full fic

would probably want to keep your relationship a secret for 2 reasons

1) his fanbase and image

2) he’s not looking for anything other than someone he can go to when he’s “bored” iykyk

type who will promise you things and try and convince you to not leave him because it’s “what’s the best” for you two

“Why would you? Just keep the rythym” would be him asking why your relationship even has to be public in the first place- when he thinks you guys are perfectly ok how you are right now

The Hills- The Weeknd

do I even have to say anything

oikawa may use you as a crutch to fall back on when he’s so broken from volleyball

“When I’m fucked up, that’s the real me”

He keeps this image of the most ideal guy in front of almost everyone every day, he must get tired

he knows you know he doesn’t actually want you-

that’s why he doesn’t feel bad when he breaks your heart

he never promised you anything

“I only love it when you touch me, not feel me”

self explanatory- sex not feelings please

I Was All Over Her- Salvia Palth

lyric by lyric LETS GO!

“We didn’t make out, or do anything. I just remembered, I was lonely.”

Oikawa gets all over people- not sexually or romantically, but in a way to distract himself from the fact that they may not like him for who he truly is

he’s lonely

“It’s not a problem”

it doesn’t bother him- he’s so used to the perfect setter boy image, he refuses to show the same part of him that is actually breaking

“Every stranger makes me feel safer, and every person seems more beautiful”

Iwa mentioned Oikawa rarely ever smiles with actual joy behind it

The strangers (fanbase) around him make him smile all the time, not because he’s happy, but because it won’t hurt to disappoint the people he doesn’t try and know

He doesn’t want to care what you think

SUNA- (fuckboy- /hj)

Swang- Rae Sremmurd

sis stop it right now he’s going to make you cry

There’s not some deep hidden meaning behind it, he just doesn’t seem like the person to care if you hate him or not

Canonly more expressive with his thoughts-

I quote “wishing he could find a reason to poke fun at Kita or make snarky remarks against Tsukishima and Tanaka.”

so when he has the chance to make fun of you- COUNT HIM IN

secretly thinks you hang out with all of them because you want to get in all their pants

“she want the whole crew, shawty brave”

Fast- Sueco The Child

again- he thinks you’re dumb girl that just wants his dick and his clout

(Ik damn well he uses the word clout)

he doesn’t think his personally is all that special (nor does he care) so you’re obviously just wanting to fuck around

THOT!- Tokyo’s Revenge

“You’ll probably fuck the team if someone slide you a lil’ bean hoe.

BYEEEE BAHAHA WONT EVEN EXPLAIN

“She gon' suck the skin off the dick, love me not”

He’ll keep you around in case he wants to fwy a little BAHA-

TENDOU-

Faucet Failure-Ski Mask The Slump God

Take a listen and tell me it isn’t Tendou

it’s because it’s not- ITS THE FACT HE WOULD BE YELLING OUT THE SONG IN THE HALLWAYS BYE-

chaotic energy that is perfect for him

watch him just point at himself during a game and belt out “WHO’S THIS HE SHOULD BE IN COCKPIT”

Walking On A Dream- Empire of The Sun

He cares about Ushi so much- they’re complete opposites and yet fit eachother so well

Tendou understands Ushijima’s stoicness, just like Ushi understands Tendou’s “oddness”

He’s odd. He knows that- and has come to love it (as he should)

“Don't stop, just keep going on. I'm your shoulder, lean upon”

*Timeskip Spoiler* they still keep in touch all the time 🥺 Tendou is so proud to be able to watch him on TV and say “that’s my best friend”

So when Ushi needed someone to talk to, he was there

The song itself is about the writers strong friendship with his bandmate-

And just like that, it’s perfect in describing Tendou and Ushi

Tendou appreciates him so much, he has filled a huge, special, and emotional role in his life

“Two people become one.”

Peaches- Milk and Bone

“Don’t give a fuck about what they say, I turn around and ask ‘Hey is my hair okay?’”

No matter how much we work on our confidence, there will be moments where we all slip and get a feeling of insecurity again.

It’s perfectly normal. Don’t beat yourself over it.

“We paint our faces like you've never seen- Yeah I know, it's not even Halloween”

I find this representing of the fact that Tendou does not care if people see him as creepy or a monster anymore

You’ve never seen someone like him before

It’s fun, it’s crazy, it’s like you’re going 80 mph and hit a speed bump

It’s perfectly Tendou

BACK TO HAIKYUU MASTERLIST

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[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

Read the notes on Moonpaw's Archive post with the “But Ao3 has fics with–”, and the responses made me shake my head so dang hard. I'm sure you as a writer who publishes their content on Archive as well you've also gotten the "It's a bad site" asks?

This is way longer than I meant it to be so I apologize in advance.

I got like one comment like a year ago when I said I wouldn’t cross post any of my stuff to wattpad, which for the record i think is a way worse site it terms of design and culture.  It’s completely reasonable to be uncomfortable with underaged RPF.  I’ve got a whole fic in the works exploring how fucked up it can be.  But that doesn’t then mean other authors should leave the site, or readers trying to pressure them into doing so.  The fact of the matter is that AO3 is the best fanfiction site available right now.  The design is straightforward and easy to navigate; it’s a nonprofit so there’s no adds, no data collection, and it takes optional donations instead of being a payed service.  Not to mention the god-tier tagging and filtering system.  I get to live almost exclusively in the Dad Might tag and block out all a/b/o stuff and just generally have a great time in the only corner of the fandom I actually care about.  That shit didn’t win a Hugo award for nothing.

Like I said before, wattpad is terribly designed with basically no filters and has a clout-based culture of trend chasing and tag scumming, both of which fold in on one another and make it difficult to find any fic not in the top 10.  Also, it’s a payed service where several features are locked behind a paywall.

Fanfiction.net has more search and filter options, but is incredibly restrictive, bad at enforcing its own rules, and not transparent about its running in the slightest.  I’m not sure if this is still going on, but fics would just randomly disappear without explanation to the readers or author, sometimes to fics that didn’t even violate the rules but just got a lot of negative attention.  And back when the site first started doing major purges of questionable content, it was the people being most responsible and leaving clear, explicit warnings about their content who got hit the most.  Leaving the assholes who didn’t care about content warnings to kept doing whatever.

I’ve been doing some personal research about fanfiction in the from AO3 era, and I really do not want to go back to that.  Every fandom had dozens of individual fanfic hosting forums, all of which had petty beefs with one another and drama was everywhere.  Infighting was constant.  Reposting was rampant.    Different forums had different requirements for being allowed to even see what was on them.  Just getting your fic seen was a challenge if you weren’t licking some moderator’s boot.  I joined fandom only just after this era came to a close, but there was just enough scorched earth left to make me know this wasn’t the better alternative.

It’s okay to not like some content on AO3.  Heck it’s okay to find that content morally reprehensible.  I know I do.  But I have it blocked.  People can’t expect authors to jump ship to an alternative that isn’t there because questionable content exists in the same place.  AO3 is a platform, and it’s the best one we have.  And I don’t see the people who complain about it leaving twitter and tumblr, even though that exact same content they complain about is there too.

#ao3

[kaninchen-reblogs]

I don’t know if I can properly articulate this but does anyone else feel like tumblr feels … different? Like it’s been slow but over the past few years it seems like these changes have been happening, especially in regards to the top/funniest/most viral stuff.

Like I remember when “tumblr funnymen” were a thing. When we had this uncool kids club of people making dumb posts that would always make the rounds. And corporations would make their own blogs to try to advertise and we’d ridicule them constantly.

But as always there’d be drama ranging from the petty to the downright serious, and the funnymen got canceled for various reasons. And even the ones that didn’t get canceled just became less popular because a lot of the userbase decided that they were cringe and just doing things for clout (and also for, y’know, legitimate reasons — like how parasocial relationships with random people online is unhealthy). And so we all basically decided “we don’t want tumblr funnymen anymore”.

And then the finger curled on the monkey’s paw.

Not all of the funnymen are gone — some are still here on tumblr! But again, they’ve seem to have lost their original popularity. I’ve noticed most barely make their own posts anymore, and they rarely pick up any reblogs. And they most certainly never cross my dash anymore (and yes, I know that could be because folks have been curating who they follow, but still). Other popular blogs either moved to Twitter entirely, or mainly post on Twitter and occasionally come to tumblr to reblog a handful of things now and again.

But again, the monkey’s paw. We lost the funnymen (perhaps for the better?), but something had to take their place.

And now it seems that the “funny” is back, but without the “man” behind it. The majority of the posts being recommended to me are from blogs that just crop pictures from Twitter. A good portion of my dash is Twitter. Blogs with ‘safe’ names like “funnytumblrtweets” or “folksontwitter” or whatever — I made those names up, but they sound real, right? And that’s all they do: no soul, no presence, no personality. Just cropping screencaps of Twitter, posting them here, and they get passed around by nearly everyone.

It feels like how I watched YouTube go from a “Wild West” of content — unpolished … and often “cringe”, for sure! — to absolute soullessness. Videos are made for the algorithm. The trending page on YouTube is almost disgustingly boring in how much each video tries to grab your attention. Over-the-top thumbnails, video titles that are like, fifteen words long, half of which are in all caps and with several exclamation points, all clickbait. Always at least 10 minutes long with at least one sponsorship, and five ad breaks slapped on throughout. It doesn’t help that YouTube’s ad policies have gotten less and less in favor of the user, and more in favor for the companies.

And it feels that way here on tumblr now. Were things better back during the “funnymen” era? Probably not. But now ads are actual ads, breaking up your dash to show you something completely unrelated to what you ever like, rather than back when companies had to stoop to our level and make a blog and create posts that we could reblog and ridicule. So many of the posts I see are from Twitter! Sure, some are genuinely good, interesting, and/or funny — I’m not saying Twitter doesn’t have some good content on there. But … the funnymen have been replaced with screencap blogs. Just reposting content, endlessly.

And yes, I know this is affected by how you curate your dash. I’m well aware that I can follow and unfollow at will (and believe me, I do!). But it also doesn’t help that there was a mass exodus of creators on here. So many artists I follow that rarely post, if ever, because of things ranging from the infamous “female-presenting nipples” ban to the horrendously skewed ratio of likes to reblogs.

I know I’m not the first person to realize this. Plenty of other people (and smarter people) have made posts on how originality is dead and how social media has become more predictable and corporatized. And I don’t really have any answers, either. The sheer drama and discourse surrounding funnymen was awful (and, again, toxic parasocial relationships). But now it feels … safe. Cold. Rigid. Am I just jaded now? I don’t know. Maybe.

I just needed to ramble, I guess.

#kanny says things #sorry about the long post I just needed to say stuff

[neverheardnothing]

thanks for the tag @willroland :)

why did you choose your url?

well i grew up on the internet in the early 2010s so i was obsessed with starkid which lead to musical theater in general which lead to dear evan hansen which lead to will roland which lead to be more chill which lead to joe iconis and that hasn’t lead anywhere else because i’m so far up this man’s ass he could tell me to jump and i’d give him 5 million dollars for a bloodsong of love revival. anyway. funny enough it was because i was so up will roland’s ass that i gave joe iconis’ music outside of bmc a chance (back when he tweeted out a thread of joe iconis songs the night before the tonys). and he was right. he has taste even if all i see from him nowadays is globe twitter. anyway. never heard nothing (along with the bar song, try again, and last on land) is the quintessential joe iconis song in my humble opinion. but also my opinion is backed up by joe so. i’ll just let him say it.

here’s a link to the song. listen to it if you have any interest in joe iconis and his work.

any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

yeah this is actually a sideblog. my main is @cockbiteproductions which is personal + rooster teeth. every day i want to throw rocks at mcyt fans but i myself am a rooster teeth fan and so my house is very glass and breakable. and then there’s marvel @sebastianskywalker (can you guess who was excited by the idea of sebastain stan playing young luke? lol). star trek @jimtiberivskirk. star wars @fulcrumahsoka. anime @kvchiki. and that’s the important ones. i use this one and my main the most though. which is already almost not at all these days.

how long have you been on tumblr?

hahahahahaha. 2012. fuck.

do you have a queue tag?

yeah it’s “swiss fucking queue” which is from when michael jones says “swiss fucking cheese goddammit” in his impossible game rage quit. everyone on my main gets it but i hope anyone who sees it on my sideblogs gets confused because it’s the same queue tag across all my blogs.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

i was about to say “well my first blog was fandom” and then i realized that applies to literally all of them. so yeah. fandom. i generally make a sideblog when i want to make new fandom friends because none of my current friends are into the thing i am into. it works well.

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

will roland. because will roland. when my bio said “joe iconis and will roland” it wasn’t lying. but anyway i like projecting on characters wrol plays.

why did you choose your header?

it’s off this set lol. same photoshoot as the one from my icon.

what’s your post with the most notes?

lol it’s this shit gifset i made of nik dodani as jared in the deh movie trailer. he actually reposted a video of him scrolling through it on his insta story. which is unfortunate because it looks like shit. i usually have flux on while using any device and i turned it off while making this but i guess my brain is just fucked about it now because it’s 1. way not bright enough 2. way too yellow. ugly as shit.

how many followers do you have?

on this blog? uh i think getting close to 400 idk tho. idc. i just come here to scream about musical theater i rarely care about clout.

how many people do you follow?

idk around 750. a girls gotta sustain like 5 different blogs. that + never using tumblr anymore means i never see what anyone posts ever unless i go to their blog directly lol.

have you made a shitpost?

this blog is 1/3 shitpost 1/3 rando reblogs 1/3 ranting about joe iconis shit no one else cares about

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ post?

im spiteful so it’s an immediate no reblog from me. but i also dont really blog about social justice or anything much anymore. so unless a post has drastically altered how i think about a topic for the better i dont reblog it.

do you like tag games?

yeah! they’re fun. i’ll take any opportunity to talk about myself. + i generally learn something about the person who tagged me.

do you like ask games?

yeah! i get too anxious about reblogging them though lol i dont want people to think i want attention even though im an evil little attention whore.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

famous? on this sideblog? no one lol. not necessarily famous but @nothingunrealistic is probably one of the people that has the most longevity in the deh fandom on here so they have a decent amount of followers from that i assume. @unproduciblesmackdown and @kkamikazed also draw good fucking art so they get clout like that lol. i think @annabelle--cane is also like. decently large? idk. no one in this tiny niche subsection of musical theater tumblr is really tumblr famous though. that’d be a nightmare lol. wait there might be one person i think that’s a sideblog but i can’t remember who lol.

do you have a crush on a mutual?

thank fucking god no. could you imagine?

well i already mentioned @nothingunrealistic​ @unproduciblesmackdown @kkamikazed and @annabelle--cane earlier so i guess them. only if yall wanna tho. also @talkfine​ @rovermcfly​ if yall wanna do this. and anyone who wants to talk about themself go for it.

#teresa talks #oh hang on #about me #hang on wait maybe. talkfine and you can bond over the whole mcyt + musical theater thing actually

[teyuuka]

I think you should read my ask one more time. Not once did I say you have a vendetta against youtubers. I don't think that at all. I also never said you were defending companies, I actually brought that point up. I just think your animosity is directed at the wrong group. A repost can't happen if someone didn't wrongfully upload in the first place. Not to mention, many uploaders didn't purchase the cd either, they downloaded it for free from somewhere online and they want clout like anyone else.

To be clear, I didn’t say you said I am defending companies, I said that to swat off replies saying “oh but capitalism” before they come (which is another can of worms, but since we’re talking about piracy, it’s often that people link it to the thing where people be like yay I’m fighting capitalism by pirating TV shows/anime! - which I have mixed opinions about).

I used the ask to elaborate a longer coverage bc tumblr and twitter users tend to read one thing and act like we’re all black and white as if I didn’t consider other factors when I refuse to support certain groups/actions.

Now that that is sorted, I think it’s clear from my previous reply as well that my animosity is not directed to only translators isn’t it? It’s directed to whoever is reposting the content - regardless whether they’re translating it or not.

Reposts don’t only happen when they manage to get free shit somewhere else — someone could buy a CD and post the entire thing online and add a translation, and that’s still considered a repost.

Statistically I don’t think all YT translators repost CDs they downloaded off the net. Although it’s prob a minority, there are also people who repost translations of CD which they DO own/buy. (That does not make it right, though)

What I’m saying is any of reposting actions don’t vibe with me. They are still posting a CD that the companies explicitly asked not to repost, even if they slap a translation or not at all.

In that sense, I think you’re actually on the same side and think they’re wrong too, no? Unless you’re trying to make another point.

Actually, I’m quite curious which was the original post where you started thinking that I dislike YT translators ONLY which prompted you to send the first ask. I thought I made it quite clear that any unauthorised reposts are just yikes, regardless of the form and media.

To summarize this interaction:

1. If you think my animosity is directed to one group (the YT translators) only, it’s not.

2. If you’re trying to defend YT translators by the point of “they couldn’t have started if they didn’t download it somewhere to begin with, so they’re not wrong here”, then it’s not really the case because they could have actually bought it (although we all know that’s rare). And again, I still think reposts are uncalled for.

3. If you’re trying to make any other points, I’m not catching it atm.

Edit: also @ others, if you are here only to read translations or CD recs, please feel free to block the tag #chitchat which I usually use for my opinions or non-CD stuff!

#case in point #I have CDs that I could just upload to YT with my translations (in fact I’ve received commission requests to do so - which I rejected) #because I consider that as a repost and it obviously don’t align with my values #long post #sorry guys it’s long bc I Tend To OverElaborate(TM) #anonymous #chitchat #replies

[lesbiancarat]

Book anon here to say today is a happy day because it is dk and vernon day ^0^ the fact they share bdays makes my heart so big like djakdnaks that's the best thing really! (I say this as I don't like celebrating my own birthday lol but that shiz makes me soft) like how can it not get better than sharing a birthday with your fellow bandmate who is also your buddy :'))

Back on topic, I am happy that in the fandoms I'm in, update blogs or accounts are well loved so no drama there but I agree on cc peeps, my gosh the decline of them is obvious for the past 2 years =/ I remember 2018 the carat fandom here was HUGE with creators and lots of notes but now...its hard to see more than 200 for some and while numbers don't matter because you should ALWAYS be doing this for fun, its so shocking to see the interaction go so low and its more likes. I do have a theory as to why this is the case and it might be due to nowadays, people on Tumblr find reblogging alot to be "too much" akaspamming. I would know because some told me I do this and I'm like ??? I am simply reblogging content I like and if it means hitting the rbelog limit so be it djajdjw. Legit idk why its seen as bad nowadays when everyone used to reblog alot and no one complained so maybe this could be why? Again a theory but it would make sense and its a shame if this is the case :c I admit I like stuff because I sometimes do reblog it for a color theme but mostly I hit the reblog limit so I want to reblog it later xD

But let's not get into people that take others work as their own -.- now I get giving credit for say icons (I do this for icons and headers I use because its the least I can do. I would link it but idk how to do it on Tumblr lol) but taking someone's say gif and just posting it on twitter to share is like ??? You do know there is a share button that SHARES THE ORIGINAL LINK BACK RIGHT? Smh i can't with people. That's why I try to make sure for icons at least I know its not a repost and try to stay away from pintrest as best as I can (also svt on pintrest? Are they making moodboards or smth? I leave Tumblr for a bit and this is what I come back to lol)

Oof I wrote too much again sjamdna I'm living up to my emoji huh? XD but yes my tooth is better! It hurt again last night but today we are good!

I'm late answering this but yeah the fact that dk and vernon share a Birthday is super sweet! it's fun that they get to do their birthday live together as well ^^

but yeah i joined carat tumblr around late 2017/early 2018 (i made this side blog during oh my era but I'd been reblogging svt stuff on main before then) and I'm p sure most if not all the cc's i originally followed are inactive now :( obviously like you said content creators should make content for fun and bc they want to and not for the notes, but it's understandably disheartening when less people are interacting with it and even the people who do still see your content are (at least seemingly) less enthusiastic about it (ie liking but not reblogging it, less ppl writing things in the tags or replies, etc.)

but that's so wild to me? I've never heard anyone say someone is reblogging too many things like... how do you expect to see posts if people don't reblog stuff?? id welcome that extra content on my dash dhfjfh. i guess you can go in specific tags but like. idk reblogging is the main function of tumblr i don't know why there are people sort of against it/not as willing to use it (i mean... i suspect at least one factor is other social media platforms relying more on algorithms and likes to show people new content and ppl are just more used to that maybe?)

i feel like to some extent people feel entitled to have every or any gif or fanart or fan content on their platform of choice, but like if an artist posts something on tumblr but not on twt or instagram it doesn't HAVE to be on twt or insta. people can make a tumblr (or whatever platform) account if that's the only place a creator is active and they really want to see their content. and if people want to share something cool to another platform it is not hard to just post a link to the original post and tell people to check it out. like i do that every once in a while if there's a translation that doesn't allow reposts, but i still want ppl to know that trans exists if they wouldn't normally. and yeah!! you're gonna get less engagement that way!! but that's when you need to question whether your intention is really to share something cool w people who wouldn't normally see it or if you just want clout from this cool thing for yourself

and obviously not everyone who reposts things wo credit or permission has such innocent intentions as "i want to share this cool thing" but i think in a lot of cases it is something similar to that where ppl see something and they want to use it or share it for whatever reason and they just forget that it's something an actual person took the time to create and chose to share it. fan creations, unless otherwise specified, are not like memes in that they're intended to be shared and edited and copied to hell and back

but yeah pinterest is the worst in terms of reposts. like very little if any of the content on there (at least that's fandom related) is original content. the vast majority is reposts from other platforms without credit. a few weeks ago i saw someone on twt post like an old SVT photo or something and someone asked where it was from and they were like 'idk i saw it on pinterest' and when i tell u my blood boiled dhfkfj like!! ok!! so you're reposting a repost and u have no idea what the original source is... great

but yeah i have no idea what SVT is gonna do with pinterest... guessing it's just gonna be pledis posting official/behind photos that they also post on twt anyway. it really looks like it's something bh made them create given other bhl artists also have pinterests they're all following each other. also pledis didn't even officially announce the new account opening anywhere as far as I've seen so like. i think they really don't care dhfkfj

i really don't know what bh thinks they're gonna gain though like. ik there are active fandom pinterest users but i think most of them also have other social media like twt or insta. like they're not cracking open a huge new market, and LITERALLY NO ONE expects any musician or celeb to have an official Pinterest so. it's just so unnecessary dhfkgj

I'm glad your tooth is feeling better!!!

#melia.ask #ask #📖 anon #oof prime example of me getting carried away and writing too much #this was meant to be a quick break from studying #theres another ask in my inbox which is short anyway but i really have to get back to hw and studying ;-; #long post

[rowecommaadam]

Terran Trade Authority Interview

Okay, this big text-heavy post isn’t from me. You can find it online over at this website. It’s a great interview with Stewart Cowley, author of the Terran Trade Authority sci-fi art book series from 1978-1980. 

I’m just reposting this as kind of a backup. Cowley doesn’t have many interviews out there, but his candid thoughts are the best secondary materials out there on the TTA. There’s no reason why the original site would go away (and honestly no reason why this tumblr post won’t be erased either!), but a few redundancies can’t hurt. The rest of this post is in the voice of the original interviewer, Philip Banks:

Some time back I got a very pleasant surprise in the form of an email from Stewart Cowley himself. In fact it was something of a shock for me - it simply wasn't something I expected to get despite having had contact from the other Stewart Cowley who is also writing books. Not only that but he supplied a lot of information on the hows and whys of the books. Accordingly, with his permission, I've taken the emails he sent me and edited them into an interview of sorts. I hope fellow TTA fans find it as interesting to read as I did.

Without further ado, here is Stewart himself...

(Stewart Cowley) Someone mentioned your site to me so I checked it out. It brought back a host of memories. Spacecraft 2000-2100AD was the first book I ever wrote and represented a major point of change in my life. I was working as a graphic designer when I had the idea. I was doing work with an illustration agency called Young Artists based in London UK. They happened to represent a new generation of brilliant artists working in the SF arena, and I was really excited about their work. The only outlet for their illustrations at the time were paperback covers, but I felt convinced more could be done with the amazing images they were producing.

I persuaded them to loan me file transparencies of art samples and had them stuck on my lightbox for a couple of weeks. I'd look at them every day, trying to think how they could be utilised. Then one day I remembered a book I'd had seen as a child. It was Jane's Fighting Ships - a survey of the world's navies - and it hit me. Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD was born. Being a designer rather than a writer, I tried to find someone to author the project but couldn't find anyone with the same vision as I had. I wanted someone who could not only create specifications for the spacecraft shown, but set them in a believeable historic context.

I had already discussed the project with Hamlyn Publishing who wanted to do it and issued a contract. As I was running out of time, I started writing it myself and sent sample text to them to keep them quiet to buy time until I could find a suitable author. They liked it, so I thought, what the hell, and finished it. The rest is history as they say.

(Philip Banks) That actually answers a question I was going to ask , which was whether Janes Fighting Ships was an inspiration for the first book particularly.

(SC) The book went on to sell 800,000 copies in eight languages so they asked me to do a sequel. Space Battles was produced in 3 weeks and as you rightly point out in your review, suffered in quality as a result. That also did well, nevertheless, and they commissioned a further title. The strong sales of both books gave me more clout and I was able to insist on having more time to complete the following two titles; Spacewreck and Starliners.

I'm afraid I must also own up to the Galactic Encounters series by Steven Caldwell. I'm not proud of those six books. I was approached by another publisher to write for them, and they offered me enough money for me to quit my job as a designer and become a full-time writer. I confess that I just did it for the dough and all I had to work with were the images that I had rejected for my earlier books. It wasn't only for contractual reasons that I used the pseudonym of Steven Caldwell. So that's the story behind the TTA in a nutshell.

Incidentally, there isn't a combo of the second two TTA titles as far as I'm aware.

(PB) What was the idea behind the combo books? Simply a way for the publisher to re-use material and get more sales or was it a way to do a reprint of the first two books when the later two came out?

(SC) The combo was the publisher's response to requests from their customers who apparently felt there was a demand for it.

(PB) You mentioned pretty much authoring the series entirely yourself - how did Charles Herridge, co-author on Great Space Battles, fit into the picture?

(SC) Charles was the publisher who commissioned the books from me. Because of the almost impossible deadline he contributed some of the storylines and worked closely with me on others so I felt he should share the writing credit.

(PB) Whose idea was the 'Space Warriors' book? It seems to have been the idea of the TTA Books stripped down and targeted at nine to twelve year old readers, so was it a publisher request?

(SC) The request for a title for younger readers came from a publisher (Deans, I think). I was still living in the world of TTA and decided to keep the context for the stories in this title.

(PB) Is this the only direct spin off book from the TTA series?

(SC) Yes, as far as I'm aware. However, there may have been references to the TTA in the Galactic Encounter series, but I haven't looked these for about 25 years so might be wrong.

(PB) It has to be asked, what was the story behind the 'pasta master' modelmaking running joke?

(SC) I'd forgotten about this but it was a nickname I earned at that time because as my friends constantly reminded me it was the only thing I could cook. In order to try and interest some interest in my limited catering, I used to build exotic constructions out of pasta shells, giant clams, alien heads etc.,and stuck together with melted cheese to hide the unchanging sauces beneath.

(PB) Did any of the artists featured in the books thank you for promoting their work via these books? Do any keep in contact with you?

(SC) Yes. After the success of the first book, some of them got more involved and I worked with them on the selections. One or two had not done a lot of work before and the exposure in the books got them more work. I did stay in contact with one or two, like Chris Foss who went on to great things, but the currents of life eventually took us different ways.

(PB) Where you aware that the TTA books were a big influence on the two Homeworld games made by Relic?

(SC) Not at all. I didn't even know about them. If that's true, it's nice to know that the books meant something to some people. Most writers don't really get much in the way of feedback on their work and positive responses mean a lot.

(PB) Which is your favourite book of the series and why?

(SC) The first one was a milestone because it helped to change my life and created lots of opportunities for me. As a book, though, Spacewreck is my personal favourite. Space itself is a mysterious place and I loved the idea of astro-archaeology - starting with a mysterious artefact and working back to try and unravel it's story. Even if it is fiction, the process embodies the same sense of curiosity and a sense of the truly alien.

(PB) Was it a surprise to find a website out there dedicated to your books? Indeed are you surprised at how popular these books have turned out to be?

(SC) A complete surprise! Especially after so many years. When I wrote these, I don't remember there even being a world wide web available to people!

I want to thank Stewart for taking the time to answer these questions in such a candid fashion. Not only were the answers informative but it has solved a long standing mystery as readers of the TTA pages had been emailing me for some time about the Galatic Encounters series being very similar to the TTA books.

#terran trade authority #Stewart Cowley #interview #text

[jabberwockprince]

hey fellow gamers

Dunno how many people actually followed this blog for art, but in any case, here’s a heads up ! 

I’m gonna be deleting ALL of my Monster Prom art from the public eye and from all of my social media ! Mostly because i’m tired of this fandom. Specifically those messages I get each month about how someone has ONCE AGAIN recolored/repainted/stolen/copied that ONE fucking Damien Lavey fanart I made.

And if you’re interested in why the hell i’m doing this since MP in general is what gave me the most clout and shit, here’s a more detailed explanation under the cut !

All of my efforts to teach other artists not to steal, repost, repaint and etc - specially not without even asking me first - have gone to shit and so have my efforts to ignore and avoid this entire shithole. Which is why i’m going through the easy route : leaving the fandom all together cause MP isn’t even fun anymore 

The devs are nice, the game is really cool, there’s a lot of effort and love put into it and the sequel is around the corner, but i’m just really fucking done, man. Literally fed up with the fandom, the reposters, the thieves and all this unwanted attention I gotta bring to myself everytime I stand up for my art.

Because of how tumblr works, I can’t exactly delete all of my art, since the reblogs will still go around - but like yknow, it’s something I guesS ? So, i’m sorry for those who like my OCs and shit, but i’m not gonna make anymore content for Prince the Incubus either, even if he’s the reason a lot of you even followed me on the first place.  I literally don’t care what happens to the fanart, but all I ask is that you guys just let my OCs and shit die. I’m done with them, it’s not fun to draw things for Prince or Meri anymore bc of all this drama with art thieves.

If you like the art, you’re free to save it for yourself but just your own personal enjoyment. Y’know don’t be an asshole and shit, pretty easy basic stuff !   

#i dont even remember the tags for this blog wheez e #monster prom gave me a lot of good memories and i met a lot of cool people thanks to it #but like this is too fucking much for me so fuck it