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palmtreepalmtree · 2 years

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Twitter has caught on to my work-around for reading Ian Millhiser's tweets without signing up for Twitter and I'm bummed about that.

#this is my only social media platform #it's not loyalty #it's cause my mind is poisoned enough by you yahoos #i don't need to expose myself to the unhinged miscreants of twitter

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discworld-heritage-posts · 3 months

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What do you think you add? Do you think you make a poignant post better when after scrolling down through it we see someone saying it's "official"?

I'm choosing to interpret this ask as a genuine question (albeit one that's been worded a bit rudely) instead of a hate anon, because I wouldn't want to tarnish people's dashboards with hate anons.

Now, to answer your genuine question... The "Discworld Heritage Post" tagline I add to the end of posts has as much validity as I have authority to bestow it: none. Do I think my tagline makes posts better? Of course not! And I certainly don't think I make them official, (and neither my url or my pinned post claim that I do so).

I don't know what reasons other people had to start their own Heritage Posts blogs for other fandoms, but I will gladly tell you mine: I got into Discworld. I discovered the Discworld fandom in Tumblr. And, one day, while scrolling down some Discworld related tags, the idea just popped into my head. After checking that there wasn't a Discworld Heritage Posts blog already, I decided to make one.

I personally follow a few Heritage Posts blogs, and my reason to do so is probably the same as to why many people follow this blog: I wanted to see that kind of content. Tracking tags and being up to date on the most popular posts of a fandom is doable, but doing so for the dozens upon dozens of media I'm into is impossible, so I like to follow some Heritage Posts blogs to get some of those posts directly into my dashboard (it's also worth mentioning that sometimes, some iconic posts are made when people comment stuff on them, and those don't appear in the search tags, so following blogs that post about a certain fandom is the best way to come across some of those collaborative posts, because otherwise you'd rarely get to see them). So yes, I created a blog that, had it already existed, I would have liked to follow. Also, while other blogs with this gimmick usually limit themselves to reblogging, let's call them the "greatest hits", I've said since the beginning that I didn't care about how many notes something had. Be it cool art or a funny or insightful post, if I like it, I send it to my drafts.

However, none of those reasons are the main reason why I made this blog. The main reason is that I did it for myself. After exhausting all the content that showed up in the Popular Posts tab, I couldn't help but think of all the gold and treasure that wasn't there, buried and hidden due to the way Tumblr's search engine works. If you're familiar with the Discworld concept of "lies-to-children", that's what the "top posts of all time" is in Tumblr. A 20k post from 2016 will not be there, but a six month old post with 400 notes will show up. Surely there had been amazing Discworld posts and art posted in 2015 and 2013, but I wasn't going to find most of them unless I expressly went looking for them. And this blog was the perfect excuse to do so. As of replying to this ask, there's nearly 600 posts sitting in my drafts, and if I didn't have this blog I would have never discovered 90% of them. And those are the ones I've seen. I still have dozens of places I haven't searched.

I know that if I reblog a month old post with over 2k notes, a lot of people in the fandom will have already seen it. However, a 2k notes post from 2014, or a drawing with 40 notes from 2012 is something that is less likely to have hit people's dashes recently, or at all. When you come across the "Discworld Heritage Post" tagline in a post, please don't picture me as an uppity monarch performing the Tumblr equivalent of a knighting ceremony, or a stuffy museum curator deigning a piece worthy of being included in an exhibition. Picture me as a kid enthusiastically jumping and flailing my arms around while yelling "holy shit guys check out what I just found!!", because that's how I feel running this blog.

Ultimately, whether one of my posts does better or worse is indifferent to me, because they aren't my posts, or memes, or drawings. I'm just the intermediary. That being said, of course it's not indifferent to me, because more engagement means that was a post many people hadn't seen before, or had forgotten about, and one of my goals was to run a blog that would allow people to find those hidden or long forgotten gems.

When all is said and done, Heritage Post blogs are just another one of Tumblr's gimmicks. If we're not your cup of tea, you're free to ignore or block us. If you want to reblog something and don't want the tagline, you can reblog it directly from OP (or from another reblog if OP has deactivated their account).

#long post #THAT BEING SAID #I've seen people being very exited about something they made showing up in this blog and calling it an honor and stuff like that #and to those people I say: I see you and your lovely tags and my heart warms when I read them #i might not have any real authority besides a self imposed gimmick in a nearly defunct social media platform #but if seeing your stuff here makes you happy and proud those feelings are valid and I want you to treasure them #a lot of things only have the meaning we ascribe to them and my tagline might not hold any official meaning #but it does mean something VERY IMPORTANT:#that I saw your post and I loved it and I reblogged it to make sure other people could also find it and love it #I need to come up with a tag for asks don't I? ok how about #asked and answered #dhp's asks #discworld

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earlgreytea68 · 3 months

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I feel like every day it is going to be my act of radical rebellion to say over and over:

I love writing fiction. It's my favorite thing in the universe to do. I write because I love writing and I think writing is fun. If you give me a free and open day with zero responsibilities and ask me what I'm going to do with that day, I'm going to spend it writing fiction. It's okay to love your art.

#you would not think this would need to be an act of radical rebellion #but I'm tired of seeing writing talked about like it's drudgery #and only worth it if someone's paying you #not by people here #but by people on other social media platforms #and I used to think this was fairly benign #but now I think it's going to be used to justify letting AI take over all the creative writing since the writers hate writing so much #so this is my stance against the AI revolution

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gabriellabowden · 16 days

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Heyy i wanted to ask you something. I've been following you for years now and i remember your beautiful paintings, but im not sure if i remember correctly if you used a canvas or a wood/mdf panel, so my question is, which one did you use and if it was wood/mdf, did the painting changed with time? Would you recommend using wood or is a canvas better? Thank you

so I use mdf, because it’s smooth and that suits my sensibilities when it comes to my subject matter and how I like to paint it - it’s certainly not for everyone though! I had no formal introduction into painting (which is extremely evident) and I know very little beyond what worked for me. I didn’t like the textural qualities of canvas, or perhaps I didn’t have the skill to navigate the rugged surface without error, so MDF became my default almost immediately.

If you’re going to use MDF, getting panels thicker than a few centimetres is important because it warps/pringles easily - and make sure you prime it conscientiously, covering every part twice over.

These days though, as I’m tentatively getting back into making work after doing only 2 paintings in the last four years, I’ve been using leftover construction timber from building sites. In January I asked some builders if they were going to use the huge, long planks stacked by the side of the site, or if I could take them home and chop them up. They cut them up for me on the spot, I gave them a bunch of chocolate banana muffins, and since then, whenever I see a building site, I ask the people working on it if there’s any leftover or unusable lumber I can have for paintings.

Consequently I have nearly 100 beautiful rectangles of thick, primed timber lying around my tiny kitchen, and I trip every time I go to make a coffee in the morning, and by the end of the month I’m probably gonna have another hundred stacked up in my bedroom.

#I am going through my inbox after like two years of not really reading it and #I’m so sorry to anyone who’s asked me anything #there are thousands of messages and some of the questions are really interesting so I will be answering them as quickly as I can!#nice to be back #firmly ensconced in the arms of the only social media platform I’ve ever loved

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shinxpoptart · 7 months

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Chunky sweaters & broomsticks ofc

#artists on tumblr #character art #sketch #halloween #witchy vibes #cute witch #witch art #spooktober #witchtober #small artist #please commission me the algorithm on every social media platform only shows my stuff to like 4 people ; ;

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noodleblade · 2 months

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After a day of a pretty depressing road trip, it’s time to tuck into bed and finish some wips

Also fuck tumblr and it’s AI bullshit.

#I finish the skids/swerve fic TODAY #rambles #seriously though fuck tumblr and the ai bullshit #I’m so over it #I don’t blame anyone that decides not to post there stuff on here anymore #tumblr and social media as a whole is supposed to be a platform to express yourself #not fund corporate bullshit through OUR own creativity because they only view the arts as a profit and nothing more #manufacturing cheap bullshit on the backs of people’s blood sweat and tears #I’ve been fuming as I’ve been driving all day #anyway ai rant in my tags but ¯\_(ツ)_/ who cares

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spaciebabie · 9 months

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You're like the only reason I check tumblr other than two people

And a notification popped up saying your "tumblr crush posted" I'm crying what 😭

I didn't know that could happen

BAHAHAHA YEAH

if you interact with a tumblr blog enough they get promoted ta crush status X)

#its happened ta me a few times lmao #spacie splains #its a little silly lmaoooooo #honestly ik its normal that tumblr is not the main platform for everyone but its still surprising ta me #idk!!! its cuz this is literally the only social media i use #all my friends are here i cant imagine being anywhere else #anyway #*dismissively waves hand* unimportant #im just chronically on tumblr lol

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bonesblubs · 2 years

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I LOVE your tags on those recent asks/sketches, please tell us more about everyone's social media presence

Oh god ok

So like I said, Xie Lian has an Instagram only, that only a handful of people know is his since he’s never posted his face. He posts extremely vague pics of trash/scraps on the street that look interesting to him, he has one singular follower that looks like a bot and probably is one but they like every single one of his posts so XL doesn’t report the account or block it. The bot always comments one relevant emoji and Xie lian always comments one back. It feels more like a conversation between two people than an actual blog (which is perfectly alright with him).

Hua Cheng is on Reddit ironically, he spends a lot of time correcting people in very specific subreddits, he’s become somewhat of a legend and his username is well known. He pops up in strange corners of the internet to absolutely flame someone and disappears again at his leisure.

Mu Qing is on every social media platform there is except Facebook (he had it for a week before he got tired of seeing pictures of people’s babies). He schedules his posts, mostly selfies. He’s extremely meticulous about his image so one would think he uses Instagram the most, but actually he’s been most active on Pinterest, where he can quietly create/organize boards for inspiration. He spends less time on his own social media pages and more stalking the accounts of his peers.

Feng Xin is on twitter and TikTok, he yells at trolls on the former and posts instructional archery videos to the latter that he doesn’t know are actually thirst traps. He has a huge following that consists 70% of women, and much of the comments are (mostly) respectfully thirsty. Mu Qing has a secret TikTok account just to follow (for reconnaissance).

Both Feng Xin and Mu Qing have open tabs on Xie Lians Instagram but have not followed him.

#ask box #not art #bones rants #y’all asked and I must deliver #no one is on tumblr besides Qi Rong #tgcf #(these are the only social media platforms I’m familiar with I’m sorry my phone is a barren wasteland)

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decarbry · 1 year

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OC art feature! Thirdghost the brat 💜

#illustration #wolf art #fantasy art #kidlit art #wolves #squints awkwardly #so… I was going to keep my tumblr mostly to fan art #but considering the state of social media these days #I can’t afford to underutilize a platform #so I’ll resume posting my other art here too alongside fan stuff #a lot of active followers here have only seen my BNHA stuff but surprise!! I do a lot of full Illustration of animals and other #fantasy things too

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taikk0 · 1 year

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hi tumblr sorry tumblr im back i promise to not care about twitter ever again

#taikko memes #i got sucked in im sorry #i hate that app so fucking much #I HATE TWITTER!! *looks over to my followers on twitter* not u guys tho....#the only reason i have a twitter is so the ppl without tumblr get fed and thats it #twt acc deactivation looking real tempting tho #sorry yall having a social media platform crisis rn #not in the internet microcelebrity way. in the WHY CANT I HAVE ONE SOCIAL MEDIA WITH ALL THE GOOD FEATURES way #all social media apps sucks except for tumblr #tumblr only has a few tiny downsides and even then. that still makes it better than a majority of all the others i have considered #i wish i could use deviantart. i really do. but it fucking SUCKS #pleas... we need a new social media app.

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lambentplume · 4 months

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i’m playing sea of stars. the big hook moment for me was the time cycling mechanic. i’m about to fly through this game i can feel it. new turn-based detailed and fun combat system just dropped

#sea of stars lb #hi everyone happy new year. i’m using this blog more like a blog now because i’m tired of opening twitter #happy this is my only social media platform to me!#anyway. this game is so so charming. and it doesn’t need 2000 layers of bloom to look nice #(SAID WITH AFFECTION AS AN HD2D LIKER)

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vamprisms · 2 years

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neil gaiman still being on tumblr after most celebrities have peaced out of here is so funny. are you well

#he's like that little girl they find in the vents in aliens 1986 how did you survive here alone all this time #if i were a famous writer i would simply delete my social media never mind being on the only platform with pvp still enabled

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the-physicality · 2 months

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pwhl montreal social media manager: just for me, I need you to cross post things on twitter at the same time as instagram. please.

#it bothers me more than it should #perhaps because it is also my field #and i do not believe in 1. customizing content per platform #or 2 staggering posts #maybe it's because it hate instagram #despite the fact that it is the preferred app of like all of pwhl montreal #no comment #here's a fun fact if you've read this far: claire dalton lists professional athlete at pwhl montreal as her linked in position #i only know this because i wanted to see who was running their social media and claire comes up second when you search pwhl montreal lol #mostly because i feel like if pwhl montreal doesn't have a player who tiktoks [i'm out here begging for a maltais equivalent]#i'm going to need the team admin to step up and provide some content pretty please

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