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

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

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

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

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

If you want more of something, reblog it.

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I keep forgetting how badly transfems are treated in LGBTQ+ spaces compared to transmascs and it makes me sad that I've lost contact with all my transfem friends since finishing school.

I wish I could go back and give them all hugs and tell them I'm sorry for not being fully empathetic to their lived experiences and not trying harder to understand them.

I wish I could go back and be more understanding to my ex who was trying to come out as a woman but 20 year old me got stuck on the 'non binary' part.

Anyways yah be more nice to them because they deserve it and they deserve to be included in all these recent girlhood conversations

#transfem

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Why You Should Read Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily, a Cambridge professor of dryadology travels to a remote Scandinavian town to study a previously unstudied type of faerie, in order to complete the Encycopaedia she is working on

When her colleague and academic rival, Wendall Brambleby also shows up, getting in her way and infuriating her, Emily and Wendall must work together to uncover the secrets of the faeries.

This book is like if Howls Moving Castle and Spinning Silver had a child?

Emily and Wendall give major Howl and Sophie vibes. Wendall is a dramatic, over the top sliterer-outer (and may not be all that he seems). Emily is a bit of a curmudgeon, not a people person, and dedicated to her work.

This book is a journal format, and we are reading Emily's journal recounting the experience

Footnotes!

This is a winter read through and through

Cozy-fantasy that is set during the Edwardian era, although parts can get a little bit dark (that's just how faeries are though)

the Faerie in this book reminded me a lot of the the staryk from Spinning Silver, so if you like that type of faerie, this book is for you

This book is a love letter to fairy tales, faeries, and folklore

A lovable dog companion, lesbian side characters

Changelings, brownies, Winter Kings and Faerie Princes, enchantments

This book is just clever and neat, and really opens up a lot of potential for other books

All in all, I loved it, and I think you should read it too!

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Made this for u 💝

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there’s something about poseidon showing up for sally.

luke tells percy that they burn what they’ll miss most so that gods will know that what they’re saying is important so they’re really listen.

but sally burns ice cream. ice cream that she has no attachment to. it’s not even baby percy’s ice cream. it’s just random leftover ice cream that she grabbed from a pile of dirty dishes.

the ice cream could not be more unimportant to sally. in the grand scheme of things, the ice cream is nothing.

but poseidon comes to her anyway. he shows up immediately after probably the most lackluster offering sally could give. he shows up anyway.

just…there’s something about poseidon showing up for sally.

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HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

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Y'all I'm still in disbelief that the PJO TV show has brought me back to Tumblr over 11 years after the book series originally brought me to this hellsite

I am a full grown adult, I pay taxes, I work two jobs, and I'm scrolling on the same site and talking about the same shit I did as a 12 year old

What a time to be alive

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #percy pjo #pjo

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Nothing will ever upset me more than when someone else uses my bathroom and doesn't tell me they finished the toilet paper

What are you embarassed of, friend?

Do you think I'll assume you ate it?

I just want to pee and not have to worry

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At first, I was kinda mad about how the pjo show was making percy seem a little too perfect like during the lotus casino scene. But it just occurred to me that he was always like this. Percy was never dumb, he just thinks he is. In other words, percy in the books is an unreliable narrator.

The show displays his adventures in the third person and we see how smart and powerful he is. But in the books, percy's low self confidence results in him believing he is not enough.

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i’ll be honest i still fan girl over my own mutuals

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16/17 year old me that made this blog to write watching 23 year old me come back just to make the dumbest posts known to man

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Devil is the embodiment of evil

The embodiment of evil

the evil

de evil

d'evil

devil

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Remember when I was a 'The Arcana' short fanfic writer on here

Wasn't that such a fun era of writing chubby mc x Arcana characters

Yeah, everytime I make a post I get reminded because the suggested tags never let me forget.

#the arcana #the arcana mc #the arcane #asra the magician #the arcana asra #the arcana nadia #the arcana julian

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Let's bring back tragic lovers who simply cannot defy the odds and will never be together.

Give me the romanticized Sun/Moon, always in each other's rotation, but never able to embrace.

Give me good Romeo/Juliet-esque dynamics where despite how desperately they try - in the end, they lose each other (but maybe reunite in the afterlife?)

I wanna be sad at the tragedy that not every story is happy, but that despite everything- they tried their goddamned best.

#tragic lover #tragic love #trope #romeo and juliet #sayaka x kyoko

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The Woman Behind The World’s Most Famous Tarot Deck Was Nearly Lost In History

For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.

The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.

Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson.

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When Uncle Rick himself basically says the movie should become a forgotten media

Someone explain to me why the FUCK are so many people coming out of the woodworks in every PJO TV show comment section and saying "This isn't like the movie!!! 🤪"

We don't like the movie!!! It's a bad adaptation!!! Shut up!!!