ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill
Bowser is going to thrust his hot balls in your direction!
Get some action with the new demo for Mario Strikers: Battle League Football is now available on Nintendo Switch eShop. Get in there with as many friends as you can fit!
Artists who’ve gotten used to twitter are afraid tumblr won’t be as useful to them if they jump ship, but here’s the thing: twitter is only built for instant short-term gratification, and it severely limits what you can share anyway. You can only post one short paragraph and up to four images that get compressed to death, then at best get a burst of viral attention that lasts a day or two before their algorithm buries it forever and it’s forgotten immediately.
On tumblr you can post a whole original article, story or multi-page comic. If you want it to get attention you just tag it every relevant thing you can think of and it stays pretty visible in those tags forever and ever. People interested in said tags follow them or routinely search them, scroll through and will see what you made even years later.
Without an algorithm automatically flooding your dash with nonsense and without a “trending news” feature, it’s also practically effortless here on tumblr to avoid things you don’t want to see. If you don’t like a political topic, you just don’t search for it or follow people who post about it and you’re already significantly less likely to see it, just like that. If you really miss algorithmic content, tumblr mobile now has the “for you” section and has always had “based on your likes” options.
This is absolutely the most comfortable and useful website for creators to network on as long as you understand its advantages!
Twitter ads work cuz there are a lot of boomers on Twitter and they'll buy Oreos or capitol one or whatever.
They don't work here cuz no one here likes corporations plus the ads we have aren't so much selling us things as trying to confuse and entrap us in the strange fae realm where they reside.
Examples:
What am I being sold?
Nothing.
Except perhaps a world so different from my own that to simply gaze upon it would inspire an unalterable and incomprehensible metamorphosis of my brain, and I could never return home with it intact.