#does anyone use tumblr anymore??

[sassafrassrex]

oh my God i just tried out the tumblr mobile website on my phone's internet browser and holyshityouguys were you hiding this from me??

i just deleted the app fr

#holyshit I can mess with already-typed tags just like on desktop waaah?! 😂 #when people put links to other tumblr posts in their comments I can actually click them!! #I *can* turn off people's weird blog settings to make their blog readable! I didn't think you could do that on the mobile site but it's eas #WHY does anyone use the app?? #the only thing I can't seem to do is drag and rearrange tags anymore #but god knows that feature never seemed to work on the app either 🙄 #it just rearranged tags in random order so you'd spend way too long trying to fix them before giving up and rewriting #or maybe I just have thick fingertips and it's a skill issue but whatever #point is: zero buyer remorse this is so much better #it's a brave new world y'all 😆 #hellsite #game changer

[yutaleks]

Hi aleks, sometimes I feel like, no one wants to connect on this social media site? Idk. The like to rb ratio is depressing. I mean, I’m grateful that people are liking my posts. But like. I wanna hear what they think too, ya know?

not sure if you are a writer im guessing from the wording of this ask that you are. but I think it's a bit hard these days to get the level of interaction that you may be asking for

depending on what fandom youre in or what character youre posting about or what trope youre writing etc etc the size of the audience will change. like I already know in my mind if im writing something that is more geared towards stereotypical heteronormative relationships that will get much more interaction than something that is subversive. or if im writing a fic for a popular character that will get much more interactions than a not so popular one.

But at the same time, coming from someone who used to write for a very popular character, I have to say that the grass is not always greener? As in, I think there is a difference between quantity and quality of interactions. If im writing something that I know a core base of people who follow me will like, I know I will most likely get at least some sort of interaction from people who typically enjoy that content. I find that interaction to be more meaningful, especially if it's something I enjoy talking about. vs, if I write something with a bigger 'audience', perhaps there will be more reblogs but the back and forth interaction does not happen. that person will read the fic, reblog or leave a comment, and then be on their way. It does not create this relationship where you end up having a back and forth conversation or becoming mutuals or anything like that (at least, in my experience).

Like if I post a fic that EYE enjoy, and I get ten comments from lovely people, that means more to me than a hundred interactions on a fic I didn't put my whole dick into. ya know?

idk where im going with this. I guess I wanna say if you are passionate about something, and you receive even a few bits of feedback, that will feel so much more rewarding than trying to 'chase' the feedback by writing things you think others will enjoy. and I think too that people will be able to tell when you are writing something that you feel passionate about.

im of the opinion that you can't force people to reblog and interact with your work. ive seen every excuse under the sun for why people wont reblog. but I think if someone feels as passionate about something as you do, they will overcome whatever shyness they feel to come tell you that they appreciate what you are doing

#idk if what I said makes any sense but #I think coming into Tumblr as a writer its okay to want a better rb to like ratio but don't feel discouraged #there is a lot stacked against you right now #no one that I know uses the tags anymore cause they are full of spam #so sometimes the fics that appear on the dashboard are just mutuals reblogging each other. and as a newbie those circles are hard to get in #so someone with no writer mutuals and no following... their posts wont be seen by anyone with significant pull/reach #I would say that I think 'bigger' writers on here should at least try every once and a while to peek into the tags and boost writers #that are new / starting out and making genuine efforts to write #I wont explain but I think when you've been on here long enough you can tell who is posting in the tags for 'Tumblr clout' and who I postin #fic bc they genuinely are passionate about it #but I know most writers on here only read whatever they see on their dash #if people actually stopped spamming the tags with nonsense and the tags were more useable I think we would all use them more... ironic #anyway. I personally always try to reblog fics with comments and check the tags every once and a while for fics to read #I think that is best practice for writers but I know not everyone does that... #in the same vein #i think if you put effort into being a good reader consistently. writers with larger followings will notice / want to be mutuals and help #boost your writing to the dashboard #writing fic is a community that takes genuine effort to grow #TLDR: be a good reader and reblog fics and interact with writers. write things that come from your heart. interactions will follow with tim #*time #long post #ϟ asking aleksandria

[heydocpotts]

should i post my art here again yay or nay

#ppl were stealing my art through tumblr so i stopped for a long while #but i kind of miss tumblr??? shes my mother this is where i grew #man that would be a lot of art id have to post but that could be fun right?? #hmmm #does anyone still use tumblr anyway idk anymore #i know some ppl i consider pals still do so thats cool #i just talked to a few #hmmm much to think abt #tell me what u think tho pls #talk

[eddiebillysteve]

i truly don't know if anyone cares these days but i just posted the next chapter of c&m FINALLY and you can find it here <3 PS I don't remember who i used to tag but i hope anyone who used to read sees this ok bye

#cat and mouse #harringroveson #harringroveson fic #billy hargrove fic #steve harrington fic #eddie munson fic #god how does anyone tag anymore idk how to use tumblr these days

[sagechan]

not trying to put anyone on blast, but this is exactly the kind of interaction that fanfic writers and fanartists on this site are begging you to move away from. this isn't tiktok or instagram or twitter, where engagement is driven by likes and replies. if you like something on tumblr you need to REBLOG it so it gets spread around! 50% of the reblogs on the post this comment is replying to are from me, the original poster!! because no one reblogs anything on this site anymore! you like it, awesome! now reblog it! otherwise the post I made, the fanwork I spent hours/days making, just sits on my blog and goes nowhere. YOU the reader drive engagement by ENGAGING with the material on this site. it has always been a challenge for fanfiction writers on this site to get any kind of traction or reblogs, but it is only getting worse with the influx of users from other social media platforms where you are encouraged to do no more than click like and keel scrolling. a reply/comment on the post is nice, and appreciated! but it doesn't do anything to share the work. reblog the stuff you like to support the artists and writers you like.

#I'm sorry I'm just fuckinf frustrated #Twitter is actively hostile to anyone posting links to their work #but when I come here it's almost worse #because no one knows how to use tumblr anymore they just scroll past or hit the like button and that does nothing #fanfiction woes

[taegularities]

Rid I'm so sad that you're receiving this hate but for me you're one of the kindest people in here. I'm always rooting for you. Sending hugs. 🥰

thank you babe, i think i needed to hear this.. you're the sweetest, all the hugs back 🥺🤍

#dunno if anyone will read the tags but to be fully honest.. someone said it just yday but #it just sucks feeling so lonely bc so many ppl here seem to be in groups and also hate me? i know i cant be liked by everyone that's okay #but all this hate?.. n i see people interact and be friends n stuff and im in my corner here and just extremely lonely #mutuals don't really interact w me either :') and then i always feel awkward and weird bc i think nobody WANTS to be my friend #which used to be different. maybe i deserved it idk #but yeah very lonely and very “everyone hates me” feel and makes me not rlly wanna do tumblr and writing anymore which is why i might close #this blog after cmi :( n wow i think ive never said it that openly and maybe ill delete it all again ufjdjfud ive just been Sad about this #idk i just hate constantly asking myself 'does anyone still care or like me at all' it just sucks #i'm saying all this n anons will once again find a way to send hate lol. just made tumblr very not comforting for me.. and yeah. anyways #thank you to you guys who still send so much love. when i say it means a lot i truly mean it bc it's always nice to know that ppl are still #here 🤍 #notes for rid 🌹 #anon

[anti-transphobia]

I do feel bad having a lot of reblogs centering around transmasc issues specifically and not more posts about transfem and nonbinary people, but unfortunately, repulsive lateral violence is the current discourse, which means that a lot of posts made about those issues are said BECAUSE "who is actually the most oppressed" is the current topic of discussion. So even posts that seem normal or even agreeable have language you have to look suspiciously at and when you check op you do in fact find that those posts about transmisogyny are because they got mad trans men are speaking up about the violence they face.

It's very similar to how ace discourse was. Completely normal seeming posts, in the context of a really bad couple of years where saying you're ace/aro publicly even once led to getting anon hate, were actually criticisms of the idea that other people face hardships. Hell, though people scoffed at it when I said it, even completely unrelated FANDOM posts could be clocked as being made by someone whose current fixation is hating on aspec people by the way they keysmashed. Because it wasn't just a discourse, but like a fandom, and fandoms follow quirks and trends and I could read it in a keysmash easily, check their blogs, confirm I was right, and block.

Anyway my point being that the issues, general and more specific, faced by non-transmasc trans people INCLUDING those issues caused by other trans ppl is EXTREMELY important to me, however I just unfortunately don't see a lot of people talking about it in good faith. And hell, me talking about my experiences about how afab trans people have harassed, sexually assaulted, misgendered, body shamed me, and leveraged their agab specifically to harm and exclude me for not being like them is something that I can't talk about without worry of it coming off as "trans men are evil". That's just the current culture. A reasonable worry of a post sounding like thinly veiled transphobia is silencing victims of the thing these transmasc oppression deniers claim to hate.

Anyway I definitely do reblog good posts like that when I see em but I'm really not on Tumblr much anymore

#i dont Owe anyone an explanation but i do feel bad about it #it sucks! #oh also im very pro Palestine but i don't think ive reblogged a ton of posts about it on here??? i honestly cant remember #i do that on other social media but typically i only come on Tumblr now to look at very specific things #some fandom stuff. mostly all the poll accounts i follow #i kinda just rb the things i happen to see when i do so #i don't have an active follower base (most of em deactivated years ago) anymore so im not worried about Not Using My Platform for good #because i lost that platform! and i dont regret it. ppl will turn on a child on a dime for the crime of being annoying. im glad i went #inactive for a long time #but anyway #im not misusing the platform i no longer have by not reblogging pro palestine posts #but i should go look for some #Tumblr search does not fucking work anymore but if it decides to one time i could at least go back to it as reference #for links and stuff

[xisadorapurlowx]

OKAY I'm going to blitz these two chapters and then leave it for a week or two???

This also means that I can start writing my Yan Oc content and introduce you all to them!

EEEE I'm so excited to show them to you guys XD

Again, there will be live updates lol

#writing #fiction #creative writing #author #writerblr #my writing #writer #writing community #writers of tumblr #indie author #yandere imagines #yandere oc #tw yandere #yandere #soft yandere #male yandere #yandere male #does anyone even use XD anymore???

[excerptsfrom-myheart]

you ask me if you can come with me to work- and i make an excuse. i make an excuse because everyone gets tired at one point when i let them come with me. but you keep asking and so i say okay and we spend the day together; it was hot and you had to wait around and we didn’t find seats on the bus but you were laughing throughout it all. you were smiling and unbothered and i got lost in thought at around 5:30pm- in the midst of rush hour with people pushing and shoving and screaming- you stand there still. telling me it’s fine with your light hearted smile. it’s okay. it’s not a big deal. it’s easy. you’re easy. it feels easy with you. it feels light. it feels like a breath of fresh air, like flowing water. like being stuck in traffic isn’t actually my fault. like we could go to kadikoy right now without thinking twice if we wanted to. you feel like golden sun rays and lemonade and warm summer days and hope. 

back to reality. i look up at your eyes; what colour are they? you look away but you don’t know i’ve been looking for a while.  pools of golden honey and caramel swirled with subtle specks of verdant green. i’m trying to decode exactly what mix of colours make your eyes yours. yours. yours. 

“stop looking at me like that” you say to me-you smile as your eyes squint; the lines around them become more pronounced- they look hand drawn, fitting your face perfectly. 

“i’m trying to figure out what colour your eyes are” i reply. i’m nervous, infatuated, confused, curious to know what colour your eyes are so i can think about them later. so i can write about them to get everything i’m feeling onto paper. 

you look directly into mine- butterflies. and suddenly i can see my reflection in your eyes. 

#poetry #poem #love #poet #spilled ink #pastel pink #infatuation #boys #writing #short story #no context haha #do tags even work anymore #does anyone even use tumblr anymore #mine

[dc-himbo]

So I think I'm going to start writing some actual fics. I'll probably mainly post them on AO3, but I might do some cross posting here to promote. (Not sure yet.) I'm not sure on pairings, but I do know that the self insert/OC characters I will be writing will be transmen. I am on the fence about if they will be self inserts or actual characters. Seems like Tumblr is skewed to self inserts so I might just write in second person.

Anyways, what characters do you all want to see? How do we feel about OCs verses Self Inserts? Any tropes? Head cannons?

I know I probably won't get any interaction on this, but any feedback is appreciated.

#batman #dc comics #new writers on tumblr #feedback #advise #does anyone write oc content anymore #interest in transmale characters #as transman want to write transman #if i write self insert im not using the y/n thing #i think it breaks immersion but im weird like that

[pwurrz]

here are some examples of my art!! :3 roughly form oldest to newest

#artists on tumblr #does anyone still use that tag anymore idfk

[foolishfalls]

watching the internet burn down in real-time feels kind of insane to my chronically online mind. i spent my formative years on this site. it influenced me a lot for better or worse and i'm glad i was able to grow and experience more than this but it also sucks that the internet just really isn't the same separate world of escapism and media it used to be it's just another place for us to be sold things now and another thing to distract us and take up our time.

#not saying that being like an insane tumblr kid in 2012 and staying up all night in the summer was necessarily a much better use of my time #but also it kind of was because i was just goofing off with my friends and it was fun and shit and i feel like how everything is set up now #is just hostile to that kind of experience on basically every social media site #like does anyone remember when they used to just goof off on facebook with their friends and shit? #does anyone remember when stuff was fun #twitter and tumblr and lots of others sites have nurtured at least some ability to do that #for a long time but now everything needs to get in the way of that somehow bc marketing and advertising and profit motives wtvr #there are lots of other factors involved in this and it's really just capitalism's textbook deal of commodifying everything #and making it so that people don't have any sort of access to a “commons” anymore #the internet seemed to emulate that for a brief space in time #on a much larger and more interconnected scale #but idk #this got away from me shh #im high

[bravevolunteer]

decided that while i'm still putting my ask answers in new posts, when someone answers an ask Not in a new post i'm just reblogging my response right from there now... if that makes sense HFHLFF

#i used to make new posts and link the ask bc it would work better for the way tumblr used to cut posts #and i just . have kept that out of habit this whole time #but that? really does not matter anymore with trim reblogs i cant be bothered KHFKDFL #for some reason that's so much more of a hassle for my brain than answering my asks in new posts lmao #honestly mostly still doing THAT solely bc i like the silly lil banner and the format i use #i really do not care what formats anyone uses this post probably isn't even necessary i'm just Aware It's A Change #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

[k0kichiimagines]

oh my God?? theres actually medicine and shit you can do what the fuck no one told me this

#i never got the cloth on heads anytime i overheated when sick i didnt know if i should put more layers or less or what lol #damn #my parents weren't bad parents but they really just left me to fend for myself from the age of like five lol #they would have mocked me so bad if i asked what to do when sick lol dont know where they expected me to learn it #at least theyre teaching my brothers stuff they know more then i do as a grown adult 😭 #anyways #the advice about cooking lol i dont cook perfectly healthy i live off of fruits #healthy enough #hm #i should get spicy things im convinced they cure sicknesses #wow look at tumblr nitpicking not aloud to use hm twice #anyways does anyone actually go to the doctors when sick #i dont go for anything it is a last resort to me #i dont want them to laugh at me 💔 #and literally the two times ive gone for a small thing ended up being two chronic conditions i needed loads more for #i have something wrong w my hands #too terrified to go i dont want to know anymore

[possumkingdom]

Hello back for my bi yearly check in. I’m being harrassed by a parent at work, how are yall

#does anyone use tumblr anymore. #i think all my friends have deleted but i refuse bc this url is too good

[scuopsie]

Does anyone else feel… bored? Not even necessary on tumblr. But in mbb verse or kpop in general.

Like… monsta x are on tour and i feel like we have so little content (especially here on tumblr)? Which doesn’t make sense.

#this is more of a rant than a complaint #and definitely not a complaint at update accounts. thats not what this is about #like sure we’re getting fancams every stop but thats not all concerts were about #i mean… I remember from my previous experiences when my ults would tour aside from getting the usual fancams #we’d be getting so many interaction vids going viral #and ments #ments were so huge…. they were usually different at every concert and after every shown we had to wait for them to get translated #(ofc this isnt the case here bc mx are touring the us and they either speak eng or they have a live translator) #but i feel like im barely seeing anything new every stop #idk if they’re not happening or they are but just not going viral #like… sure there are a lot of clips on twt but i fucking hate consuming shit there #and no one reposts stuff on tumblr anymore #Ame is inactive and im clearly not doing it #and i know these clips arent something update accs usually repost #like does anyone else remember having 3-4 different angles of an interaction or an incident that everyone would talk abt for days? #like i cant tell if im growing out of mx/kpop or is it just genuinely not as fun as it used to be #i dont even make sense to me so if anyone else feels remotely the same please come forward im going insane ldfkkdkd #niki screaming into the void #another thing #weren’t a lot of these old hilarious vlives that we talk abt to this day from tour eras? #like them just doing group vlives in their hotel rooms and doing/saying dumb shit? #what a situation bro? prank call? minhyuk and jooheon’s secret bonding experience? #im pretty sure all of this happened in hotel rooms #AND SO MANY MORE