#there's something to be said

[windsweptinred]

Uppermill, Lancashire, England Nov. 23

#There's something to be said #For not rushing into Christmas in November #But enjoying the end of the autumn and the beginning of winter #Watching the dark half of the year roll in #And remembering why a mid winter festival was so important to us in the first place #my photgraphy #landscape photography #photooftheday #photography

[coldgoldlazarus]

That whole genre of "Expert in something reacts to and discusses various recommended media, with extremely variable amounts of actual relevance to their advertised professional field" videos on youtube is a fine mixture of interesting/insightful and just kinda silly, but I would love to see a professional parasitologist's take on Metroid.

#not a reblog #metroid #on one hand I feel like #there's something to be said #for the distinction between parasite and predator #and how the Metroids are really more the latter #especially after Fusion's reframing them #but also at the same time #setting such finer distinctions aside #various forms of sci-fi takes on parasitism as a concept #are a pretty consistent recurring theme #the metroids feed on lifeforce energy #the X Parasite infest a host and strip it to the bone #before using the extracted dna to mimic it #phazon is like a virus or a cancer #just at a planetary scale rather than cellular #(tho also works in small scale given Corruption) #the ing and dark aether are more metaphorical #but still could be read as a parasite to light aether #plus the whole body possession thing #idk this may be kinda stretching it #but I feel like someone more knowledgeable than I #might have interesting commentary on the thematic side of things there

[tabsters]

a nice conversation @iirexenii and i had yesterday:

rexen: your eyes are pretty rexen: i want to poke your eyes out and keep them in a jar next to my bed rexen: rexen: ...out of love tabs: tabs: that's like the one time i thought about ripping your heart out and nailing it to a wall rexen: rexen: but my heart's not as pretty as your eyes...

#alexa play the masochism tango #we're kind of insane #in a poetic way #there's something to be said #about when you find something so beautiful #you want to destroy it

[dubioushonour]

Not to stir the pot for a comic I don't even read anymore, but is nothing else happening in Paranatural for you guys to focus on besides one person's really mild critique?

With the amount of backlash Tumblr keeps shoving onto my dash I expected it to be a whole giant thing, but no, it's just a bunch of you feeding into each other in a cycle over the tiniest thing imaginable. Are you guys, like, okay?

#paranatural #i went into the tag like #last week to try and find an old ppst of mine #and all my recc's since have been about this #i dont even think the post chapter 5 #drama lasted this long #there's something to be said #about the fact that ive had to mute pnat #as a tag #twice in my entire time on tumblr #fandom never changes

[wingsyliveblogs]

Oh wow, that’s beautiful. 

A little morbid and unsettling, and perfectly fitting for this world. But beautiful nonetheless.

So this giant corpse is what the entirety of the Isles are built on? Was this guy the only one of their kind, or are there others?

#wingsy liveblogs #wingsy watches owl house #owls ep 2 #there's something to be said #about the implication that all life in this world lives surrounded by what looks like... a pretty unsafe body of liquid #but they're able to survive because they're sheltered by something much older and larger than them #but it's hard to put into words

[bokkerijder]

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

#rambles '24 #ok to reblog btw #all my posts are ok to reblog #if not i would make them unrebloggable lmao #edit: i am a fool #i said that thinking this would maybe get 5 notes or something #and now we're here lol

[james-p-sullivan]

the older i get and the closer i am to reaching 30, the more the people around me try to deny me my age. it’s a constant ‘oh you’re just turning 29 again teehee 🤭’ or ‘dont tell your SO that, he’ll leave you for a younger model 😉’ and i just???? hate it?????????

i spent my entire teenaged years fighting for my life. i crawled through the deepest pits of my depression to cling to the promise of a life beyond that pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die young, that i would never see the grace of my age starting with a 2, let alone 3.

so im going to turn 30, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from loving it.

#anyway it’s still a couple years away #but man im so fucking excited for my 30s!!!!!!!!! #i made it!!! #i survived!!! #so many people never got the opportunity to be 30 #im gonna enjoy every fucking second of it! #sulley speaks #sorry my coworker said something really rude to me lol #it struck a nerve

[detectivehole]

this is what i sent

this is what i got

#theyre funny over there #mine #thats a recreation of what i said anyway i didnt really think anything of it at the time #i usually put something stupid in those boxes #they used all lower case too damn what an attention too detail. or they are also lazy idk

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

#yes i want things to be free like ??? that is not a weird desire #'but but it costs money to keep up' ok and? how is that my problem #the government has plenty of murder dollars they could reallocate a few to make internet services universal if they wanted #also these companies were perfectly capable of supporting themselves before the internet got drowned with ads so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #edit: muting notifs on this post bc new additions have kind of petered out #so no one feel bad about adding something someone else has said‚ it is not bothering me im just trying to keep my #notifs page cleanish lol #also since i saw some people are being redirected to read my tags: firstly hiiiiii this is a special secret message for you:3 #secondly i have learned since making this that the reason they were able to support themselves previously was because #of investors bankrolling everything #and theyre now finally realizing that theyre never going to actually make a profit and arent as willing to invest #however thats just a minor correction and doesnt change my overall point #once again. so many murder dollars #so thats why im just adding it here in the tags rather than making an actual correction #anyways . love yall 💕 #origibberish #bigger gibbers

[shay-creates]

Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone's writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.

I apparently gained a bit of control of the canon because said writer really loved the art and decided what I drew/draw is canon.

2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it's IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)

3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited

Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However...there are two more consequences I was notified of today...nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.

Seeing the artwork caused his friends to become interested in reading and hearing about his story, which means more people are reading what he's writing and giving him critique on the story (which he actively asks for).

Apparently, upon seeing the art, his writer friends got a sudden second wind to pick back up writing they'd abandoned for a few months. Because, I quote, "seeing that someone enjoyed {his} writing enough to take the time to make art of it gave them the motivation that maybe THEY can write something that will inspire someone to also create something." I have accidentally caused a writing frenzy among his writer friends and my silly idea to make art for someone has had a butterfly effect for people who I don't even know.

Uhh...I'm pretty sure there's a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.

#shay speaks #crying and screaming #I was not intending this! I just wanted to be nice to someone and show my appreciation for their work! #make someone's day by giving them a personalized gift #maybe make them cry a bit in joy or something (because he said he would if I went through with making art for him and he knew my goals) #This is the silliest thing to happen from me making art and idk what to do with this information #positivity

[and-corn]

shoutout to the "foolproof" bread recipe I fucked up entirely for inspiring this

#something different from what I normally draw! #I said this when I realized the bread was NOT making it and I made myself laugh out loud #also...if you happen to really like this it's available in my threadless shop - acorn.threadless.com #tw: cursing #typography #lettering #graphic design #illustration #original art #digital drawing #digital illustration #comedy #humor #relatable

[bisexualpercyjacksons]

pjo tv show episode 5 alignment:

#percy and annabeth mighttttt be switched but grover as gaslight is undeniable #grover lying through his teeth captivated me I was like sweetie WHAT are you doing #annabeth said either help me or leave to a GOD amongst other things which is why she deserves girlboss #percy gatekeeps everyone (but himself) from sacrificing themselves which is as always true to character #pjo tv show #pjo #pjo tv spoilers #pjo tv #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #character alignment #a god buys us cheeseburgers #like no one has posted content yet so I’m making something and going to bed #mine #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #humor #no one bully me on the image sizes I’m on my phone at midnight using photoshop without an account #which means I can only layer one photo at a time so each time I have to make it a new photo #I’m bullying myself don’t worry

[magnusbae]

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

[the-tired-commander]

very important question

Could be your top surgery, could be someone elses, that's entirely up to you

polls done get outta my notes

#this is because of something said in [CC] sjdkfhsd #gotta pick one character sorry #statistical nonsense #get outta my notes the polls done

[notbrucewayne48]

"aphobia doesn't exist"

bitch literally not that long ago an aroace youtuber animator was insulted by almost half of its community for being it

#i did some research about it and found out that the problem was principally that she had previous experience in the romantic area #so people just didn't take her seriously and said she was lying #even though she stated multiple times that she wasn't comfortable in those situations #now things are more calmed but damn #mind your own bussiness #i believe she knows more about herself than you #sorry if i offended you with this comment but i hate how aro/ace/aroace people are always left behind #insulted and rejected because they “dont know what they are talking about” #or because they “just have to wait for the right person” #or because they are “psychopaths and they are missing something” #i love that animator and she helped me realise a lot about myself #and now that i know the context i think i will start making a list and killing aphobes one by one #aromantic #arospec #asexual #aroace #acespec

[bixels]

April-Jacqueline angry expressions.

#mlp #applejack #the grand galloping 20s #my art #fanart #character design #maybe someone said something nasty to rarity #aj and dash are the only action-orient characters in the main 6 so i can see aj getting pushed into fistfights