#if you want more

[xputting-my-pieces-togetherx]

A very short story about the time Ren and Aida took in a stray kitten.. 💜

#about my ocs #oc #short story #story #randompurr #xputtingmypiecestogetherx #super random #artist of tumblr #my ocs #about my characters #like and reblog #my artwork #my oc art #aida #Ren Beaufort #Ren #art #like and follow #if you want more #🥹 #💜

[icarus-suraki]

I love driving on these "semi-rural" roads out here because all the new developments have street names that are like what the moms who will soon live in the McMansions being built there will name their kids. Here's a short sampling:

Oaklyn

Corsham

Overby

Crowder

Terrene

Charlbert

Floresta

Foresten

Anfield

Maxton

Blaney

Branston

Blaydon

Alslee

Graedon

Tobermory

Koreman

Newlyn

Fenella

Danton

Crilly

#you can have these for free #if you want more #i'll need gas money

[kishdoodles]

you said

on twitter

that

you would spare us of

vitalasubz

but

will you do the same thing for your poor tumblr audience

please say no

im curious now

i want that fanart, kish

please

I literally have a vitalasubz tag.

#mcyt #ask #anon #go look smile #if this meant whether i had more. i didnt #i was just talking abt that one pic of them making out i drew #if you want more #on it boss

[dumfanting]

I need to talk about something.

I know the "please reblog" posts have been making the rounds again, but the message just isn’t being heard.

Before I get into that though, I need to make one thing as clear as possible:

I am grateful for every single note I get, no matter what kind it is.

But this is frustrating.

Last time I made this kind of post, I’d made a hand drawn graph but this time I made an effort to keep this one as clear and concise as possible. I included replies because it’s still an interaction beyond just tapping and moving on. My own reblogs and replies have been subtracted for the most accurate data.

Only one of these has a good reblogs to likes ratio, and it’s the least popular of the stories shown. And honestly, seeing the disparity with all the others hurts. I spend hours and hours of my time writing. Even when I’m not actively typing anything out, I’m thinking about characters and plot points almost constantly. And seeing it mapped out like this makes me feel like all that time and effort is wasted and unappreciated.

Think of it this way: You’re working a job, and your boss keeps telling you how good you are at it, so you work harder, hoping to get a raise. But no matter how good you are at your job, the only thing you get out of it is ‘nice work’. After a while, the words feel empty and you stop putting that effort in, since there’s no tangible reward for it. Then your boss wonders why you aren’t working as hard and gives you grief for it, sometimes even demanding that you work hard for nothing.

You tell them, over and over, that you need that raise. There is no reason for you to not get it. They have the money, but they just won’t give it to you. The effort of changing one number on your paycheck is just ‘too hard’.

You wouldn’t stay at that job for very long, would you? Of course not, you want to be somewhere where you feel genuinely appreciated and are shown that by your boss.

That is exactly what the situation is like for creators here. Except we don’t get paid for posting to begin with!

There is no algorithm on this site. Liking a post won’t make it appear on your followers feeds like it does on Twitter. Unlike YouTube, the number of views a post gets does absolutely nothing for us, that isn’t even tracked here. Liking a post will not automatically show you similar posts like it does on TikTok. If you want more, you need to reblog.

I’ve seen a few people talk about empty reblogs (those without tags or comments). Personally, I don’t mind those! The very act of reblogging is what matters, because even if it is empty, it’ll still show up on your followers feeds and more people will see it.

I’ve also seen posts from ‘likers’ that say we aren’t entitled to interaction, and we are very much aware of that, but that also means you are not entitled to our work. Work that we are doing for free.

If you don’t let creators know in some form (reblogs, replies, messages, even a simple tag of ‘nice’) that you really want to see our work, you have no right at all to complain when we stop posting or even delete everything altogether.

It’s really sad that, right around posting my twentieth story, I’m thinking about stopping. This has been bothering me for a very long time. Graphing the numbers up and seeing what I’ve been feeling proven, through cold, hard, facts, has done nothing to change my mind.

#PSA #if you want more #put the extra millisecond of movement in to show us that

[tales-of-coffee-and-mint]

#Photos #amature photographer #photography #flowers #white flower #white aesthetic #aestheric #my grandfather garden #If you want more #just ask #ive got heaps

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

#the ethics are whack but more importantly you didn't even want to write it?? who is it even for?? not you? not me? #you didn't even have enough interest in the premise to take a crack at it?? then who cares? #please don't populate in my search results I'm looking for things that people wrote because they liked something #ao3

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

#greek mythology #ares #athena #greek gods #dont get me wrong it aint athena slander but it sure is ares praise #on some level at least #man justly accused of bad things deserves some mid praise more at 11 #thank you romi for helping me with words though i duly noted you insisted on ares not being cautious rather than him not being careful #romi be like “i want him to care” and honestly good you should say it #also EPIC led to this and i just..... i want to draw some animatics man i just need infinite time now #my long lost love for greek myths just will never stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming #i want some vulture design in here for ares but not sure about this one #kochei doodles

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

#oh the experience of being 13 years old and seeing all my friends talking about wanting to have sex and obsessing over it #and being like 'we are all literally WAY too young to be having sex what the actual fuck are you talking about #why are you even considering it when we have much more important things to worry about. like how much middle school sucks' #you know what though. i still stand by this. that was an entirely reasonable thought to have and i WAS being normal about it #anyway #mine #asexuality

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

#not art #but important #please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads #in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[catmask]

its true that romance amd friendship will not solve everything but. objectively speaking its very hard to get sad when you can say 'lets go get cake tomorrow okay' and someone will go get cake with you. like there is some good at least. you know

#i think this is why ive been so much more geniunely happy these last few years #like. i will never be going to bed alone. i will always have someone who wants me here #i will always have someone to say 'im sorry im not feeling very well now' and they will be concerned instead of being annoyed #at you as if those feelings are an inconvenience #scratchpost #txt

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#original post #text post #500 #1k #2k #btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here #it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact #and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more! #wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there #love you mwah #5k #10k #15k #20k

[nemkero]

rewatching atla after like 10 years and zuko is so insanely pitiful

#i want to dunk him in water #and wring him out like a towel #zuko... zuko you are so lame... #zukooo.... zukoooooo.... #(he is so me) #get off of my SCREEN #will def draw more atla btw #learning how to draw the gaang rn #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar #zuko #atla zuko #atla fanart #atla art

[lgbtlunaverse]

Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.

#this is about tenko bnha #but it is also about dahlia ace attorney #watch the nezumiVA videos on ace attorney trilogy they're great #anyway dahlia saying she (at like. 6 years old) apparently convinced her father to abandon her sister. hmmm #also everyone including herself thinking of her as the manipulator in control with terry when she was 14 dating a 20 y/o #anyway these characters both did do terrible things but feel the need to pile on more and remove nuance from where it exists #to convince themselves that this is what they really want. that they chose this. #it's about the loss of control it's about being a victim feeling worse than being a villain #at least if you were the bad guy you had autonomy #shimura tenko #shigaraki tomura #dahlia hawthorne

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[gatorinator]

“Walrus on your doorstop” this “fairy’s more unrealistic” that my professor just uttered the sentence “there was one day I found a real octopus in my backyard” this man hasn’t left Utah his entire life. How was there an octopus in his backyard in Utah. He then said “I do not have time to elaborate we need to cover a lot today in class” GIRL WHAT DO YOU MEEAN

#al speaks #we are fifteen minutes into class and still haven’t had any class cuz he was telling a story. wdym you don’t have time for the octopus story #stop class I want to know everything. I guess he would say he would be more surprised to see a fairy than a walrus #walrus or fairy

[nonbinary-arsonists]

Sleepytime for the gang! <3

continuation of this

Caine's reaction:

#caines just happy his stars (prisoners) are getting along #my art #digital art #tadc #tadc comic #tadc caine #tadc zooble #tadc kinger #tadc gangle #tadc ragatha #tadc jax #tadc pomni #tadc fanart #tadc bubble #the amazing digital circus #let me know if you guys want more :) i love all of the comments + reactions + tags #kinger doesnt sleep