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magnusbae · 10 months

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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.

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

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zhukzubast · 6 months

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...so about those preview costumes

#i honestly might draw more b/c there's. there's a LOT of feelings i want to get off my chest #luffy #egghead island #one piece episode 1086 preview #i am avoiding manga spoilers for this part of the story like the plague but i'm so goddamn curious #one piece

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notmoreflippingelves · 1 month

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Actually going insane over the implications of Jason asking Dick to be the Robin to his Batman in Battle for the Cowl.

Like I initially took it at the purely surface-level of Jason wanting a partner in the general sense. Which made sense, it's a huge responsibility and a lonely one so an assistant/sidekick/partner seems a no-brainer if you can get one.

But then I really thought about it, because Jason is not asking Dick to be his partner in the general sense; he's not even asking Dick to be his Nightwing. He's asking Dick to be his Robin.

And they both know exactly what Jason means: "Be the light to my darkness. Be the smile to my scowl. Be the hope to my fear. "

He's saying "Be 'Robin'; be the embodiment of Love and Justice and Goodness. Be the exceptional person that you have always been. Be the slightly-less exceptional person that I was when I wore your colors. Be the person that I was in the process of becoming and might have been (or might still be), if only Joker hadn't clipped my wings."

He's saying "I am prepared to become vengeance, become the Night. And I will go further than Bruce ever dared to, because it is what is needed. I will be the necessary evil. But you don't have to be. If Batman is Gotham's curse, Robin has always been its blessing. I will be the brutal punishment to our world, and I am asking you to be its incandescent gift."

He's saying, "Be for me, what we were for Him. Be my anchor, my comfort, my hope. Remind me what it's all for, why it's all worth it. And remind yourself as well."

He's saying "Be 'Robin' again--for both of our sakes."

#dick grayson #jason todd #battle for the cowl #jaydick #dickjay #kinda but also not kinda #batman #dcu #otp: be my robin #'we can rule together as just it always should've been with you as my guiding light and conscience'#is that not in essence; a sort of marriage proposal ?#well no but it's not NOT one either if you catch my drift #i should note that i haven't actually read bftc yet and i know it's considered controversial/bad #and considered ooc for pretty much everyone #so i am not even sure if I will like it #but i am still planning on reading it for the jaydick crumbs #and b/c i am using it and knightfall as the primary inspo for my krisnix au #apparently jason does ask tim to be his robin first and that's interesting as well #but honestly a little less powerful/interesting to me at least since jaytim just doesn't interest me as much as jaydick #and honestly i've looked at the panels and it seems a little more genuine when jason asks dick idk #more like 'last chance; i'll let you live if you join me' for tim vs. 'join me because this feels right' for dick #and honestly even with clumsy execution; just the narrative and emotional richness of this scene is still making me absolutely feral #this arc could be complete trash in any and every other way but if it gives me THEMES; i will forgive anything #it's the former english major occupational hazard #*apollo justice voice *: I'M FINE #(narrator voice: she was not in fact fine)

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 10 months

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Hi! Your Hollow Knight AU has really cheered me up so I wanted to do a little drawing for it! This got me to get my art tablet out after months of not feeling like it so thank you for the inspiration! I hope the colors look good on any monitor that's not mine sdfsdf

Bugs In the Jingshi wyd?

I am so genuinely awestruck at how well you translated this AU to the hollow knight style! Also obsessed with the height difference.

#mdzs au #hollow knight #lan wangji #wei wuxian #fanart #Thank you so much for this B'*)#This is *so* incredible!! I feel incredibly honoured to have inspired something so beautiful!#I showed this asap to my friend who's been letting me observe their hollow knight playthrough and oh man oh man. The hype was real.#The colours have the Hollow Knight gloomy swag and the way that this looks like it could be an area in the game is soooooo good.#Thinking about the bug sounds they would make.....Peace and love on earth could be achieved with lwj hollowspeak....#I hope you keep finding fun things to draw!! Your art has continuously brought a lot of joy!#I very much understand the pain and struggle of having a craft you just...cant seem to get your heart back into.#Sending you so much love and energy and artistic inspiration!!!!#(lwj has the wrong eye shape b/c I was too focused on getting the silly angle for dramatic perspective. whoops)#I have honestly loved doing this AU and I'm fiercely happy that its been resonating with people (as it makes me want to do more hehe)

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emblazons · 1 month

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"Let us take to the skies together, and bring a new dawn to Valisthea."

Phoenixflare Week || Day 1: Red Thread (String of Fate) Joshua Rosfield, Dion Lesage & The Honor That Binds Them

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miroana · 11 months

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“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.

Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.

These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.

What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.

#“rip to the greek class but I’m different” no you’re not #it’s so funny to me how famous this specific quote is bc people love it for one of three reasons (all equally comical):#A. they have not read the novel and thought the words were pretty (so true but honestly still concerning)#B. they read the novel but took julian’s words at face value and think him brilliant #(this category of people would end up helping henry push bunny into a ravine 100%)#or C. they read the novel and understand well the satirical nature of this quote.#despite this knowledge the act of deeply obsessing over narrow ideas is too tempting to not do it anyways (calling myself out)#congrats! by reading this you now belong to category C #henry winter #richard papen #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #bunny corcoran #julian morrow #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt

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raineandsky · 1 month

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hey i just recently discovered your acc and I'm honestly in love with your work! I don't know if you do requests but just in case you do,could you maybe do a snippet of supervillain capturing hero and torturing for months until they suddenly got bored of them and ordered villain to get rid of them for good. Basically villain doesn't know that it was hero they were ordered to kill by supervillain and when they entered the cell where hero was to kill them,they suddenly recognize hero and become extremely suprised by what they saw. Villain for some reason can't bring themselves to kill hero and just stands there for who knows how long whilst trying to decide what they should do as hero just layed there slightly unconcious full of bruises,wounds,cuts, burns and dried up blood all over their body. Sorry if this was long hehe,feel free to continue it (if you want to of course) :)

welcome to the gang, glad to have you here!! thank you for the request, i hope you like it :D

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A curse tumbles from the villain’s mouth before they can stop it.

Of all the people the supervillain has caught, has been bragging about catching, why was it hero? The hero should know better. The villain knows they know better.

The villain’s never seen them so… defeated. They’ve thrown their fair share of punches, of course, but they’ve never quite managed to have them half-conscious on the floor like this. Crimson paints their skin in crazed patches, black circles smudged underneath them, rope digging violently into their already reddened wrists. The hero lets out some half-hearted noise as the villain nudges their clothes back to survey the damage better.

Bad. Very bad. It’s a miracle the hero’s still alive, but that’s what they do, isn’t it? Survive despite the odds. The villain gets back to their feet with a scowl. Where the hell did the supervillain find them? Why would the hero let this happen? Probably to protect some random civilian, the villain knows that, but still.

The hero’s eyes open, kind of, unfocused and glazed over. They get a front seat view of the villain’s shoes and, for whatever mindless reason, weakly reach their bound hands out towards them.

The villain takes a half step back, more on instinct than anything, and despite the lack of… well, anything in the hero’s expression, they can somehow still see the slight distressed crumple of their face.

Fuck. Their heart stings, even though it knows better.

No, they think sourly. You’re here to get rid of them. Don’t show weakness. Show [Supervillain] what you are.

The villain’s dagger is inside their coat. It’d be so easy. Nothing more than a shallow, red line across the hero’s throat. Easy. Kind. Merciful.

They step forwards again, ever-so-slightly, and bend back down to the hero’s level. Their hands are where they left them, abandoned in their desperate attempt at connection, and the villain nudges their foot between their fingers in potentially the biggest show of compassion they've ever have.

It’s a kindness, right? The hero would appreciate it. It would be the nicest thing the villain’s ever done for them.

But it wouldn’t, even the villain knows that. The hero doesn’t want to die any more than they do.

Every passing second is throwing more doubts over what they’re doing here. They need to make a choice before the supervillain decides they’ve been down here too long. They need to act before they can change their mind.

The villain pulls their blade from inside their coat,

and cuts the rope at the hero’s wrists.

#creative writing #writblr #writers on tumblr #writing #writing community #heroes and villains #hero x villain #requests #im glad you like my stuff thank you for the compliment!!!!!#honestly imposter syndrome is a b i t c h and sometimes yall come in with the simplest lil comments and it literally makes my day #thank you anon #you got me goin. i edited that bitchass scene in my novel ridin this high. ily

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cumjunxendura · 8 months

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My piece for the @tf-bigbang! I had the honor of working in conjunction with @legendtrainer, who did an absolute bang-up job of writing a richly detailed royalty AU, Birds of the Self-Same Feather, which I cannot recommend enough.

#tfbb2023 #Starscream #my art #Transformers #Honestly I'd like to draw more for this fic b/c I joined late & Garland deserves more art for all the work he put into this.

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hazelnutnebula · 4 months

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forgot to mention.. i preordered the leon nendoroid. ... . 🧍

#My Characters #Mallory Rae #Resident Evil #Leon S. Kennedy #Fanart #ive been so artblocked and unmotivated. and honestly not too happy with this. b ut like #this was originally just meant to be THE quickest shitty lil silly things to say i preordered the nendoroid anyway s o idont c aar. .. .. 🧍#anyway. !bitinghimsobad

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frnkiebby · 4 months

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this fuckin’ bastard~🎃

#w h y #i honestly sometimes ask myself why i do this #why torture myself #b c i l i k e i t #bc it’s FRANK #he’s just so goddamn pretty #frnkiebby #frank iero #mcr #frnkiero #mcr5 #mcrmy #frnkie #my chemical romance #my chem #ilhsm

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hoofpeet · 3 months

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where can we read hoofology? or is it just concept ^_^

Atm there's a sorta precursor chapter to explain the setup and a shitty halloween special from 3 years ago, before I got fixated on other things entirely and lost motivation to keep working on new chapters ... so It basically is a concept story rn

#mailbox #though tangentially- good timing b/c i started making rough pages of ch2 yesterday #.i dislike the current chapters honestly but they're easy to google if you want to read them ig

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benevolenterrancy · 1 year

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Torchwood books can be hit or miss but they sometimes have some real gems...

#torchwood #something in the water #owen harper #toshiko sato #tosh #i quite enjoyed some bits of it but honestly it just felt HEAVILY underutilized #so much more could have been done with it that would have felt a) more in character b) funnier and c) MUCH more clever #my art

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hpdcultureis · 6 months

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Mixed PD (BPD/HPD/NPD/AvPD/DPD) culture is not knowing wtf your deal is today.

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puppetmaster13u · 10 months

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DP Prompt

Danny Fenton dies.

He dies at the age of fourteen. He dies with the cosmos filling his lungs, the world holding its breath, stars in his hair and infinity in his eyes before everything crashes down into agonized screams.

Danny Fenton dies and yet it feels as though he had finally woke up. He dies and yet he doesn’t, a star collapsing into a black hole only to form a galaxy. He dies and he lives, teetering the edge, never more one than the other.

He lives and yet tastes the ashes of a supernova. He lives yet feels the call of the abyss, the stars calling, calling, always calling.

He lives, yet he dies, the echoing cries of the end of it all ringing through his ears. Danny lives, yet he doesn’t, only one world in a cosmos that beckons.

Danny dies at fourteen.

Blood like glittering starlight dances down his hands, body colder than anything on this world yet hotter than the sun. Spilled cosmos that stains the mortal realm, begging to leave the confines of the ground, to fly amongst the sky, higher than any cloud.

Danny dies at fourteen.

Every breath in is the birth of another realm, presence tickling at the edge of his mind. Every exhale a death, a blackhole swallowing yet another world. Dust and ash catch in the back of his throat, crystals of frost glistening at his lashes.

Danny dies at fourteen.

Yet Danny lives.

#DP #DP prompt #prompts #danny phantom #danny fenton #space core danny #space core #story prompt #art prompts #eldritch danny #implied eldritch #death #halfa #drabble #drabble prompt #honestly would love to see this with either #A) parental/mentor clockwork #B) a DC crossover of some sort #or C) Both of the above <3

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sallysellsseashellssundays · 1 year

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Thinking about ‘The Long Game’ and how the Doctor says Adam is Rose’s boyfriend and she immediately says “not anymore”

And just the entirety of her on-off relationship with Mickey

I feel like there’s something to be said too about how it’s implied Jackie is always with a new man...but she always loved Pete

Idk where I’m going with this exactly but I feel like dating for Rose must have been a very casual thing she learned from Jackie, I really never even got the sense that she and Mickey were in a serious relationship (neither one of them treated it that way honestly)

Maybe it’s why it’s so impactful when she talks about how the Doctor isn��t her boyfriend because he’s more important than that

#doctor who #ninerose #tenrose #mickey smith #rose tyler #just saw that gif #with adam fainting #like rose and her pretty boys is such a fanon thing to include in fics #but at the same time i feel like she never really thought too much about being flirty with someone #and just not have it be a big deal #???#idk like rose and mickey were both young #and i honestly don't think either one of them was too blame #*to blame #but at the same time they both shared the responsibility #b/c they could have just had a convo about it but again they were young #my rambling

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mattodore · 1 year

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- if i were around when you were younger...

- what, you'd have stopped it? you couldn't even help yourself.

- but i could have wiped the blood off your face.

#simblr #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 screenshots #echthroi #matthias evanoff #theodore doe #a burning house to live in #river dipping #🦇#i'm not going to tag their parents because i'm honestly still trying to figure out how i want to name them...#so far the only one whose name i'm certain on is matthias's mom. her name is estera.#anyway............. this post. hm.#honestly i'm not very happy with these and i feel like i kind of hit a wall where it's like okay i'm picturing THIS #but can't accomplish it the way i want b/c of my skill level and the limitations of the sims #whomp whomp....... for what it means to me though i have to love it anyway. there are some details i really love too.#specifically in the first photo... i'm really happy with the way i've posed matthias... like you can tell how drawn #he is to theo from the moment you look at it... from the subconscious raising of his left foot to follow after theo while still sitting #to even how his fingers are twitching like the first movement of muscle after being so still... all from a mere glimpse of theo #i also really love how theo's protecting himself in every frame.... yeah....... ugh.#i'm proud of those aspects. um but here this is... they're reflections of each other etc. etc.#sad i had to size these down so much for them to not be blurry but y'know how it is......... slings and arrows #i'll answer that ask from the other day now kjdfnhknj said i'd do it earlier but got distracted by simblr for like. five hours. oops.#OH. and i'll post cas pics so you can see their faces in better detail.#i really love how theo's mother came out :-)#also theo................................. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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