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prismatoxic · 8 days

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i've told parts of this story before, but bare with me, i'm emotional.

so like, i've had this blog since 2021. my original tumblr blog (made in 2011 iirc) was nuked in 2018 for exactly the reason you think (nsfw ban) and i didn't return for a handful of years because it stung so bad. even when i did, i mostly used twitter.

i started posting to tumblr more regularly when musk's twitter takeover finally pissed me off enough to ditch it. (i have since gone back, sort of, but am not reliably present and mostly just rt art people send me.) i've been pretty consistently here since then, sans a very angry break when all the shit with automattic's CEO happened.

and like... looking through my archives... i only made a dedicated tag for asks last july, even though i've been using an organizational tag system since i made this blog. that's how infrequent they were. my art usually got between 0 and 3 notes. when i left briefly back in january, i deleted every post in my art tag because i didn't want to leave my work here, but also, like... the only things that went anywhere were some of my mgs fanarts. no one owes anyone's work attention, but it didn't feel worth it, you know? like why share it with the public when i can just show it to the like 3 friends i know who care?

i came back partially because i felt... isolated. i have friends on the fediverse and on discord, but tumblr gave me a sense of being in a community, even if i didn't feel like an important part of said community. i missed queuing funny posts to enjoy weeks later, i missed being kept sort of in-the-loop about fandom goings-on, i missed my friends who were still here. (and that last one is also part of why i check twitter more now.)

but that alone wasn't enough, because i was a nobody here and it probably wasn't worth it to try again. but then devot and i started watching dungeon meshi, and i got into chilaios just like i thought i would, and tumblr has the largest concentration of chilaios fanart and posts. not only that, but every post i saw in the tag had so much engagement! i didn't see a single one that went unnoticed, back in february. so i hesitantly came back. i started reblogging chilaios posts. i didn't intend to try and break into the space because i knew it'd just hurt if i went unnoticed again, like i did in other fandoms.

but i made friends, little by little. i started a fanfic. i cautiously began posting my art again. i started writing meta, and shitposts, and replying on other people's posts, and commenting on other people's fics, and now...

that ask tag i mentioned? there are 15 pages of posts with that tag on my blog. only 2 and a half of those pages are asks from before i got into dunmeshi. people talk to me--they care about my thoughts and my opinions, they compliment the things i make. i have a group of like, 30+ people i interact with regularly, many of which i now consider close friends. everything i post gets some attention, no matter what it is.

this isn't a humblebrag, it's just... a thank you. i can't really properly express the depths of the loneliness i've felt in the past. i was an outcast for a long time, and it was way worse pre-2019, but i don't think it's ever fully left me. i've been hurt very, very badly in the past, and i've been abandoned a lot, and i've been ostracized a lot. i've grown into who i am today both in spite of and because of all i've been through, and for that i wouldn't ever change it, but it was still hard.

so today, as i turn 29, seeing asks and gifts pour in to tell me happy birthday, and that i'm appreciated... just, thank you.

if there's one thing you can give me today, it's this: reblog someone's art or writing or meta with some enthusiastic tags. send someone a friendly ask. reply to someone's post to comment on something they've said. write comments on ao3 for the fics that move you, no matter how much or how little you can think of to say.

this is going to sound cheesy as hell, but i genuinely mean it: reach out, and spread joy, whenever and wherever you can. you never know who's in pain, who's lonely or who feels worthless. and if it's you who feels that way, do what you can anyway; a community that isn't afraid to reach out will reach back to you, too. and you're not alone. i care, i promise--and more people than you realize do too.

it's so easy to underestimate how much a kind word can do. they add up, though. so keep going.

#tox.txt

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isolaradiale · 3 months

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ISOLA PATCH NOTES (02/01/24)

Hey everyone!

We've got a new policy update to present to you that includes the results from the member survey that we ran last month as well as some more general changes / reminders. Let's get started!

GROUP MINIMUM AGE

One of the questions we asked within the survey was whether or not the members felt like we should make the group 18+ finally. The results were overwhelmingly in favour of this with 75% of the votes in favour of this change and 25% against. As a result we've decided to enact the following changes:

As of the posting of this update on 02/01/24 the group is officially 18+ only. You'll only be able to join if you are 18 years of age or older. We have a zero tolerance policy if it turns out anyone lies about being over 18, and they will be banned immediately if found out.

If you are currently in the group and are under 18, please contact the masterlist so that we can discuss next steps!

We'll be removing the application field about interacting with minors and it will no longer be mandatory for an application to be accepted.

It will no longer be required to add "18+" to your blog title if you write NSFW. However we still recommend doing so if you believe you'll be writing a lot of NSFW on your blog.

As a reminder our other NSFW policies remain unchanged. Please continue to readmore and tag sensitive content for the comfort of members who prefer not to see it or may find it unsettling.

EVENT FREQUENCY

Regarding the results of the event frequency poll, over the past few weeks the leading results of 3 weeks and one month have been neck and neck. There has been a one vote margin between them this whole time, and they've been going back and forth on which one is in the lead. As a result we've decided on a compromise:

There will be a four week break between events going forward.

While this doesn't sound much different from the one month option, it actually prevents an "every other month" scenario since not all months have the same number of days and weeks.

As a result we can run roughly 7 events per year instead of 6 with the month break, meaning we can guarantee 2-3 reruns per year still depending on the circumstances!

GENERAL UPDATES / REMINDERS

We will be altering the wording on the masterlist for when characters are eligible to be reserved / apped from new media. They specify "12:00:01" and it was worded this way so people better understood that which day we were talking about, but we'll just be correcting it to "12:00:00" to align with similarly worded rules that just specify the day.

The previous events list has been updated to include the remaining 2023 events and is now current!

Just a general reminder that we will be posting an activity check for January in the next few days, but there will not be an activity check for February because it's a short month. This does not mean you cannot be sniped, so please keep this in mind.

If you're sending in a request for personal housing make sure you send it into the Galaxy blog instead of the masterlist blog!

We've noticed that there have been a lot of new minis added to the '#isola mini' tag but at times a lot of these minis are going unreplied to. If you're thinking of posting a mini we encourage you to browse the tag to make sure there isn't something you could reply to first! Likewise this is a more general reminder that the mini tag exists for those who don't use it!

NEW ASSISTANT!

For the past few months we've had a new assistant on the team. We're sure plenty of you are familiar with them but here's a few words straight from the horse's mouth! Or the mouth of assistant Andromeda we should say!

hey everyone! my name's bee! i've been rping on tumblr specifically since 2011, and i've been a member of isola since 2019! i'm a fulltime napper and an avid CLAMP enjoyer– if you get me started talking about those noodles i will not be able to stop, apologies in advance. currently i write lloyd irving from tales of symphonia and link from breath of the wild/tears of the kingdom, but you might see some other blorbos of mine pop up in the group from time to time. though my twitter is locked, you are more than welcome to follow me over at @/SHSLNOODLE! i'd be happy to chat anytime!

-- the island stars.

#modnote #policy update

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brakingpoint · 3 years

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tagged by @allgaslynobrakes to do this lil tag game! (actually it's a big tag game so i'm putting it under a cut)

1. Why did you choose your url? wanted to start an f1 blog, was absolutely spiralling over drive to survive season 2 episode 10 aka the 35 minutes of television that cured all my mental illnesses. gaslypodium felt like a fitting encapsulation of my brand

2. Any side blogs? this is a sideblog! my main is @lonelyroommp3 and i also have a woefully undercurated ~aesthetic~ blog (there is no coherent aesthetic to it it's just nice pictures) @messiaens

3. How long have you been on tumblr? i've been on this blog since january but my main dates from november 2012 and prior to that i lurked a lot starting in like, 2011 when all my irls got into tumblr but i thought my parents wouldn't let me make an account lol. basically i have long term tumblr poisoning

4. Do you have a queue tag? nope i think i've only even used the queue function once... u get my posts when they hit my silly little brain my beloveds<3

5. Why did you start your blog on the first place? main blog was because i wanted to make friends with my favourite les mis blogs that i'd been sending anons to for several months ahahahaha... i made this blog because i was getting super into f1 but i knew that i was gonna be liveblogging a ton so doing it all on main would be absolutely infuriating to people on main who followed me for like, musical theatre or whatever so i thought i should bite the bullet and actually make a sideblog. this is the first time i've actually had a fandom specific sideblog btw!! normally i am just a multifandom mess

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp? pierre looks pretty in it <3

7. Why did you choose your header ? i didn't have a good header for AGES and then dts season 3 dropped and that shot of pierre with the confetti on the monza podium just HIT me and i was like ah... i can make a blog theme out of this

8. What’s your post with the most notes ? i have no clue on this blog but on main i have a couple of 100k+ note posts knocking about. i think THE most popular was a post i made in like 2013 about people changing the pronouns on song covers i think that one made it to like 300k for some reason

9. How many mutuals do you have ? no idea! tbh i don't put a huge amount of stock in mutual follows anyway esp because i am very very bad at remembering to check my follower list and follow people back. so if i've never followed you back it's nothing personal and we can still be besties!!

10. How many followers do you have ? about 280 on here, just over 4000 on main 🥴

11. How many people do you follow ? about 650ish? a lot of them are inactive blogs from 2013 though lol

12. Have you ever made a shit post? everything i make is a shitpost don't worry

13. How often do you use tumblr a day? too much omg. i basically quit using every other social media (i lurk on insta but never post anymore) late last year so this is Thee hub for all my horrible little thoughts and posts

14. Did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog? not on this blog bc honestly i try to keep my f1 posting relatively drama free but omg i have had some legendary beefs on main

15. How do you feel about the “you need to reblog” posts ? used to be really anxious about the bad luck type ones but now i'm getting a lot better at ignoring them guilt free. if it's one of those "i see you scrolling past this >:( your stance on social issues is solely determined by whether or not you reblog MY post >:(" type deals then honey i am already 5 miles down my dash away from it<3

16. Do you like tag games ? i love them!! i'm always really bad at tagging people though because i'm always like omg nooo we're not besties enough to tag yet they're gonna think i'm weeeeeird

17. Do you like ask games ? in theory but i always forget to keep answering them halfway through esp if they're ones where my reply takes any kind of effort sorry :((

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is mutual famous? i have no idea what this means i think i am out of touch with the youth

19. Do you have a mutual crush? does it count if im mutuals with my girlfriend

20. Tags ? no pressure tags & sorry if you've already done it!! @schwarzevulkan @limp-wrist-max @maxricciardo

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olivieblake · 4 years

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Hi Olivie! I hope you're still doing ok! I've always just been a reblogger (lurker) and have never posted much on any social media. It's odd, since I'm fairly extroverted irl. I've gotten a pretty good response on fic I've posted on AO3, from the people that have actually seen it. It would be nice to be able to increase the exposure on here a little. How did you start out, or any advice on how to start overcoming the anxiety of putting myself out there in the void?

okay, bear in mind that I started writing in january 2016, which was the back end of a major heyday in the dramione fandom (the second wave of it, I think. 2011 was the first, followed by 2014-16). Isolation had just been featured in a buzzfeed article that drew a bunch of people into the pairing, so it wasn’t hard to find an audience at the time. I got a tumblr around chaper 14 or 15 of Clean, at which point I submitted to a blog called dramionefanfiction saying that I was a new author and I was writing a sixth year AU. not sure if they’re still actively collecting submissions, but dramioneasks definitely is. you can always submit to them, which is a great way to start, because a lot of people routinely check their site for recommendations and they have a very comprehensive tag system. I’m not saying I stand behind their recommendations, but they are a very powerful platform.

step one will always be your presence, so get off anon—if you had used your username, people might have followed this ask to your fic! for the record, it’s kinda bad form to ask another author to promote your work for you (I’ve had this done distastefully in the past), but establishing an actual connection where the author wants to promote your work is quite common in fandom. it’s a community at the heart of it, and in my early days I was much more active. at the time when my audience was growing, it was because I was much more present.

personally, I think the number one rule with promoting things is that no matter how much you promote yourself, other people choosing to promote you will always have way more power. most books are sold by word of mouth, and same with fics, rather than via advertising of any kind on your part, so if it’s too much to think about exposure, then don’t. in my experience, growing an audience is best accomplished by interacting authentically with people who are active in fandom. everything sort of follows naturally from there

as far as anxiety... I won’t lie to you, I have a lot of it. I have so much shame, honestly. I hate social media. I hate promoting myself. I can’t bring myself to do it most of the time, and I’ve gotten lectured many times for not using the social media machine advantageously. but I do think fandom is its own beast—also, pLENTY of people here have anxiety. so just try to remember this is a sea of largely like-minded people who are here for a new story to fall in love with, and try to trust that whatever you feel comfortable doing is enough

#writing advisements #fandom #Anonymous

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lantur · 6 years

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Hey Lantur! I've been MIA from tumblr for a while now (say a few months.. or has it been years?!?!) and used to check on your page daily! Mainly because of your awesome story Strings, and have been following you since. Always loved your personal stories, and how you're not afraid to open up. lots of kudos and respect for that! Now that I'm back here, would you mind giving a short recap of your life the past few years? I'd love to read all about it! (instead of scrolling back 592 pages)

Hi again, anon! I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed my writing. Thank you so much for sending me this, and I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you. The end of June/all of July was pretty overwhelming with a lot going on at work, and socially.

Short recap of my life the past few years, and during the month and a half-ish that I’ve been on a hiatus from personal posts on tumblr--

I moved to Minnesota for my first full-time job after graduating from grad school (which I did in August 2015) in March of 2016. It was hard to be on my own and living away from my parents for the first time, but I made friends via a board game and trivia group. My first friends irl in ~5 years!

My job came with some challenges, including lots of travel, large-scale and small-scale event planning, and public speaking, and that forced me to kill my social anxiety, or at least 99% of it, for good. I’m still working at that job, and I enjoy it and I’m grateful for it every day.

While living in Minnesota, after a year of living alone, I tried having a roommate, and moved in with one of my friends at the time. We lived together from June 2017 - January 2018. Things went spectacularly bad, like she suddenly stopped doing anything around our living space in terms of helping to keep it clean despite my requests for help, and I asked her to move out in January 2018. That was a pretty nuclear friendship ending, but oh well, you live and you learn. No more living with roommates for me!

I was single from 2011-2016, when I moved here, and I decided to try to start dating in 2016. I had many unsatisfactory first dates that went nowhere, and a short 2-month “relationship” (not an official relationship) in the fall of 2016. Then he ditched me and I was super sad. I had many, many, many more unsatisfactory first dates and an extremely stupid, sad, and long unrequited crush on a good friend of mine. Then, I met a guy who liked books, tennis, and board games on the Internet back in late January. I call him Tennis Guy on here. We’ve been together since then and are very happy.

I’m still working on maintaining my mental health every day and live a pretty strict lifestyle to manage my stress levels, depression, and anxiety. Everything is pretty well managed 99% of the time. Last year, I got into boxing, and it’s become the great passion of my life. I box 3-4 times a week (non-contact) and I love it.

I’ve been away from tumblr for a month and a half or so as I worked on managing my time, the demands on my time both at and outside of work, and my stress levels, but I think I’m ready to be back!

I hope you are well. :)

#Anonymous

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