#Likes vs Reblogs Ratio Hell

[mwolf0epsilon]

Y'all really should start reblogging stuff.

You don't have to do it immediately (I sure don't). Some people like to organize their reblogs to suit their needs and that's perfectly fine too.

Save stuff for a later if you have to. Set up a queue if you are prone to forgetting. Manually sort and reblog if that's your thing.

Just please do share the content you've found and enjoyed. It not only shows you appreciate the content creator, but it also gives us the encouragement to make more things later on.

[transrevolutions]

french revolution dashboard simulator

🐀 ami-du-peuple Follow

uh actually man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their beating hearts. hope this helps.

🎩 departicle Follow

Hold up. Okay. Actually, fuck this. This sort of violent rhetoric should not be tolerated on here. Do you seriously think this sort of thing is going to make the nobility give you more rights???? You must be out of your minds! Reported.

🧵 seamstressproud Follow

reblog to devour this guy's beating heart

#username checks out lmao #politics #everybody point and laugh #common adp w

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organt-deactivated06151792

update: new canto out now!!! go check it out 😈😏🥀 (remember don't like don't read <3)

📜 sacredhostreceipts Follow

@centuriesandskies this you?? not such a great look for a convention rep ngl

🌄 centuriesandskies Follow

listen. I wrote this a long time ago, before I went into serious politics. the account is deactivated for a reason.

I was twenty. I did poorly. I can do better.

#sj.txt #if this is the worst dirt you can dig up on me #i'm way less corrupt than half the people in the convention these days #at least i'm not doing fucking. embezzlement. #also sacredhostreceipts if you're who i think you are #don't you have better things to do rn?

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🌎 landscape-showdown Follow

🌎 landscape-showdown Follow

why the fuck is everyone tagging this with french??? political figures?

#what the hell is going on over there #also maybe cool it with the death threats #I don't want this blog to get taken down #what's a girondin #is this some joke I'm not french enough to understand #showdown update

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⛪ progressivepriest Follow

Unpopular opinion but why is everyone so up in arms about the new Civil Oath? Literally all it's asking is for you to promise not to commit treason just because the Pope tells you to? I can see where people are coming from with the whole violation-of-religion deal, but can you blame the Assembly for trying to make sure the people aren't forcibly subjugated by the wealth of the nobility?

faith-first-alwaysdeactivated03011791

Sounds like something a heretic would say. To betray the Pope and king is to betray the will of God and your eternal soul! You should pray for forgiveness and pledge loyalty to the monarchy or have fun burning in hell. Sorry not sorry.

⛪ progressivepriest Follow

L + ratio + iirc the Bible says "it is easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven" (Matthew 19:24)

🎻 lacarmagn01e Follow

occasional based catholic moment, go off OP!

🌊 sea-of-revolution Follow

looked the faith-first-always guy's blog, he's like a massive anti-huguenot too 🙄 why is it always the prot-exclusive radical catholics smh

🌊 sea-of-revolution Follow

LMAOOOOO HE DEACTIVATED

#religion tag #percs fuck off #anyways op makes a valid point #reblog #percs dni

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🛌 virtuous-bedtime Follow

she committee on my safety til I can't go public

🍊 springtimeofgovernment Follow

I don't understand the joke, can someone explain please?? 🙂 Thank you!

🧵 seamstressproud Follow

is that fucking MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE?!!?!?!?

🛌 virtuous-bedtime Follow

oh my god citizen robespierre I'm so sorry this was not meant to break containment lol I didn't even know you were on this site please forget you saw this

#this is the most embarassing moment of my life #literally sobbing rn #the original post is /j i prommy #i cannot be known as the citizen who had to explain this to the government

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🪓 indulgentsfuckoff Follow

fabre d'eglantine is NOT your poor little meow meow citizens he literally falsified decrees from the national convention and embezzled money to line his own pockets. I don't care how uwu babygirl you think he is he is a CRIMINAL who should be ARRESTED

💛 i-give-people-bread Follow

🥖🍞🥐

#baguette #loaf #croissant #i-give-people-bread #indulgentsfuckoff #silly

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🧱 comic-sans-culotte Follow

fucking fed up with the constant threat of the swiss guard, I think it's time we got some gunpowder and weapons and took things into our own hands yknow what I'm saying

🧱 comic-sans-culotte Follow

I'm no longer joking about this btw

🧱 comic-sans-culotte Follow

update:

hopital

🧱 comic-sans-culotte Follow

ok bc I've gotten like 50 asks about this: I am not injured and I am not in need of medical care. the punchline was that we stormed the fucking hotel des invalides to get guns and powder. didn't want to clarify the joke before now for security reasons but everyone knows about that and the bastille thing by now. please direct your money to people who actually need it.

#shouldve clarified the last post was /j #however I assumed yall knew this joke already #anyways #revolution #personal #500 #1k

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🌾 nopain-nograin Follow

got so high at the festivial 2day i thnk i saw hte suapreme being

#robespiere speech was prboably 🔥 #unforntuately i camt rember any of it #grainposting #oipum ehre is somtehing else thes days #memes

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🎨 jldavid-real-moved Follow

incredible speech from @springtimeofgovernment today at the jacobin club. nobody should be permitted to use their positions as civic leaders to commit crimes against the people, even under the guise of revolutionary fervor. if it comes to it, I too will drink the hemlock with him. for france. 🤝🤝

🍊 springtimeofgovernment Follow

Thanks for your support, @jldavid-real

The situation over here is deteriorating really quickly, the representatives are getting violent and abandoning due process entirely. Anything you can do to stand with us now would be very appreciated. You do a lot of great work for the revolution, and I trust you completely.

🍊 springtimeofgovernment Follow

@jldavid-real are you still there? We could really use your help right now.

🌄 centuriesandskies Follow

boosting @springtimeofgovernment here, can confirm he's been injured in a skirmish at the hotel de ville, they're passing summary death sentences without trial, @jldavid-real where is the help you promised us??? the people of paris are our only hope now.

edit: of course he moved blogs. coward.

#sj.txt #disappointed yet unsurprised #marat would be ashamed of you #9 thermidor #update

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🎻 lacarmagn01e Follow

DNI if you support any of these groups/people or their actions: m0narchists, f3uillants, br1ssotins/g1rondins, th3rmidorians, b0napart1sts, h3nri du v3rgier (also goes by c0mte de r0chjacquelin), charl0tte c0rday, or lafay3tte

(h3bertists and dant0nists you're on thin ice. behave.)

#censored so they dont show up in the tags #dni #get your nasty ass ideologies off my page #won't hesitate to block and/or report any violators #pinned

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gracchus-babeufdeactivated05271797

reblog to make the directoire choke to death on their stupid fucking outfits

🌊 sea-of-revolution Follow

hey staff. yeah you. where did this blog go?? notfishgoujon and prairial-95 are gone as well?? cowards too afraid to show your faces lmao especially after the fucking mess the directoire's made of the country. bet you anything that staff are on their fucking payroll too iykwim at least the republic didn't tolerate fucking bribery

#this site's gone to the dogs since thermidor yr 2 #following the trend of the rest of the country tbh #i'll probably get nuked for posting this #if so i'm not making a new account #i'll just make a paleocities or smth #politics tag #reblog #don't play with me ik full well gb didn't delete his blog of his own free will #they also zero note glitched it #just when you think they can't stoop lower

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📕 spectrehauntingeurope Follow

it's been 50 fucking years since gracchus-babeuf (and the other CoE blogs) were deleted without warning and still no response from staff, the govt, or anything. the site's gone through a fuckton of ownership changes and still nothing.

we're working on a bit of a project (some of you might know abt it already), it's gonna be out prob in the next year or so. remember '89. remember '93 and '94. remember '97.

the people will rise again. it's only a matter of time. 🚩

-mod karl

[liesmyth]

💀 A published author is on tumblr complaining about the decline of hits to comments ratio on her fics, and I simply cannot take it seriously due to her stating the exact amount of hits vs. comments which is a far greater number of comments than I regularly see on any fics to begin with.

Like maybe this is a real problem, but she was far from the right person to bring it up.

I LOVE THIS GOSSIP. genuinely have no idea who the hell this is and I don't want to know. I think it's fair to encourage people to leave feedback on fan works!!! I think feedback is great!!! (<- the reason I'm sooo always on people's dash 24/7 is because I have a massive queue, I AM the personification of “doesn't hit like just reblog”) I also think it comes across as annoying and guilt-trippy when people who ARE way more fandom popular than average bring up specific numbers to quantify how much you “should” engage, because it often comes across as like... greedy. Most people don't get anywhere near those numbers.

Anyway. god tier gossip. thank you for my life

(if you see this ask... maybe leave a comment or two on ao3!! even just heart emojis!! it's nice to feed your creators!!! but I'm not gonna pull a gun to your head about it)

[bitchfitch]

Like, it's a bit funny when posts go around claiming Tumblr isn't as good for artists as other sites, or that it's on par with other sites bc artists are more prone to asking for interaction here than elsewhere. bc here's The Thing.

On pure numbers of usual engagement vs audience size (the # of interactions a post gets on average not including any spiders georgs), Tumblr is fucking Fantastic.

Here's how the math shakes out. On average an Account on a social media platform such as insta or twitter in late 2022 can expect around a 1-3% engagements on their posts. If the account has 100 followers 1-3 of those followers will in some way do something with that post, that's 'Like' 'Comment' or whatever the site equivalent of peer to peer sharing is (rebloging or retweeting).

in General a User is more likely to use what ever the lowest effort form of interaction on the site is more often than the higher effort ones, with a tier system of interactions naturally forming

on Tumblr those tiers are likes > reblogs > comments

The average user is more likely to like a post than reblog it and they are more likely to reblog than leave a comment, (we are collecting comments left in the comment tab, tags containing a comment, and reblogs with comment in the same umbrella they require about the same level of user effort but tag comments are technically lower effort than actual comments or rb with comment bc of them being the inside voice as some have put it. )

Those tiers are Really important. because on a more typical site, on an account that isn't specifically using click bait and outrage bait to well bait interactions, you expect a significant disparity between those tiers on the average post. This varries dramatically between sites but it's usually a 10 to 1 between steps when i have to listen to my coworkers talk about engagement for nth fucking hour that day. (Tumblr terms: 10 likes for every 1 reblog, 10 reblogs for every 1 comment, 100 likes for every 1 comment)

So on Tumblr account with (to make the math easier) 10,000 followers you would expect the Average post to have 150 notes (1.5% interaction rate)

Of those 150 notes the break down will normally look like 136 likes, 13 reblogs and a single comment. This post originally only used a 1% interaction rate bc it made the math easier, but with that Very common estimate, a Tumblr post with a hundred notes would have No comments.

Has that been your experience? Do you Commonly see or make posts that do those numbers? I don't. I have about 1.2k followers on this blog and the only posts that get 12 notes or less are personal, non content, or non currated posts. Posts that aren't what my blog is a bout and aren't what people follow this blog for. My actual completed art, when posted at not fuck off o'clock in the morning Very often 50+ notes with the rb to like ratio being closer to 1 rb for every 5 likes.

Beyond that, Tumblr not being heavily dictated by an algorithm and allowing users to use the low effort interactions more than once means posts have a Far longer shelf life. Art i posted over a year ago still gets notes because it was tagged appropriately and has been passed one blog to another giving more people the opportunity to then interact with it.

Having said that, I could Absolutely reach a wider audience and get more number go up juice by using a more algorithmically focused site. If i was willing to bend to the algorithm and Only post what lined up with it. Only made content that appealed to a wide base that could be tagged with the latest hotness and also ran my profile in the most algorithmically pleasing way.

because that what those sites end up doing. They force users and artists especially to conform to the algorithm. If you Want that Coveted 3% interaction rate. or Hell, maybe you want to dream big and get a 5% interaction rate, something some of my coworkers have gotten Actual raises for consistently achieving for clients before. If you want that, you best better be willing to sell your soul to a black box that's unknowable to users On Purpose.

Tumblr is fucking Fantastic for the average artist on a pure numbers front. Partially because there's no algorithm concentrating interactions by fucking with who sees your post and stacking the deck in a way that gets certain Algorithm Friendly content creators atypical interaction rates.

The reasons artists ask for reblogs and interactions here more is because it's Way easier to see and Feel the disparity inherent to a social media platform. Partially because likes don't significantly benefit the artist beyond giving them the warm fuzzies, at best it'll bump the post out of reverse chronological order on the dashboards of people who have best stuff first still turned on or who use the for you tab

It's Absolutely better to reblog folks work. It is a Massive help for smaller creators who are trying to grow their audiences because we can't use the algorithm to our advantage here. There isn't one to exploit, there's no combination of tags and posting time or text in the post that'll trick some ones and zeros into dumping it on a million peoples' dashes without paying actual money to promote the post to an almost random selection of users. So creators are completely reliant on their followers to spread their work, and that makes a Phenomenal interaction rate Feel bad because theres no layer of obfuscation between the users and how their content proliferates, there's no invisible hand pushing the scale one way or another.

anyways it was like 4 am when i started writing this, it is now almost 6am I'm not fucking checking or editing this, Source. Me. guy who has to work at a marketing company bc ' obnoxious and reclusive wizard ' isn't """"'a viable career'"""" anymore.

[allyriadayne]

Yeah as someone who reblogs a lot I noticed the same thing. Like gifsets can still get 700-800 notes but it takes them longer, also the likes to reblogs ratio is horrifying they'll have 100-150 actual reblogs the rest is likes. I wonder if it's just the hiatus because when the teaser dropped gifsets were getting 1k notes easy and when the show was airing there are a lot of posts with thousands of notes floating around. Hell even just a few months ago I think gifsets were doing better. On a sidenote your posts deserve more notes.

thanks! yeah it might be the hiatus imo. hopefully it picks up when the show airs again. though the likes-reblog ratio i think it's incurable or at least very difficult to reverse because it comes from many people used to other social medias' way of "keeping" or liking a post. i have a post that is 2k+ likes vs 400 reblogs, it's so weird.

[hrina]

just remembered why writing fic exhausted me and why i took such a massive break from it

[thejudgingtrash]

Now hold up I would personally love to hear a full rant on this supposed adaptation I have never heard of until now. Like, legitimately, I wanna know what you have to say about this cause you seem to be one of the most valid PJO blogs

Uhhh what??? Me one of the most valid PJO blogs??? What kinda crack have you been smoking WHAT afahsgjskdh.

But still thank you 😊🥺🙈

Alright, you wanted a rant. You got a rant. Fuck the positives let’s just straight up jump into my aggression.

WARNING: Massive rant with a lot of swear words. If you can’t handle the heat, feel free to ignore this. I personally haven’t worked in Hollyweird, but I had some behind the scenes stuff here in Europe going on for a short period and also the trusty words of my college professors. So here will be a lot of prediction and speculation involved. Yes, I know that I’m a huge hypocrite for voicing my opinions based on stuff that hasn’t been pushed through in months and that I could be easily proven wrong in a few weeks/months. Still thank you should you actually take the time to read through this tomfuckery.

If things are wrong, please DO correct me!

Links to further reads will be included partially.

TL;DR: Keep your hopes to a low, stop harassing people online and mAnAgE yOuR eXpEcTaTiOnS!!111!!

Okay. First things first:

DISNEY

DOESN’T

GIVE

A

SINGLE

FUCK

ABOUT

YOU

Disney is a fucking multi-billion dollar corporation with many, many, many studios, stations, brands and franchises worldwide. The Percy Jackson franchise is a dime in a dozen. Disney doesn’t give a single fuck about the PJO fandom in general.

Disney doesn’t give a fuck about you 20-something year old with your 9 year old blog discussing which toilet paper brand Percy uses. And Disney also doesn’t give a fuck about you 16 year old, writing the worst fucking Solangelo fanfic I’ve read so far on this hellsite. Like goddamn.

Trust me, they know you are interested. They know they got you hooked. They see the numbers, they see the like/reblog ratio, they see the Twitter engagement. They see you with #disneyadaptpercyjackson. They see the petitions, they see how excited you were for the musical. You don’t get to be a gigantic conglomerate like Disney with playing stupid.

Also to you fuckfarts saying oH nO I wOn’T wAtCh It I dOn’T cArE aBoUt NeW sTuFf. Congrats dipshit. You are STILL alerting followers and people about what’s happening and creating more buzz, giving more awareness and adding to the transaction costs. You really cheated the system, you little edgelord. Again:

You are nothing but a number. You are a fucking walking dollar bill. You are a consumer waiting for a new shiny product to fill the void in your life for 45 minutes weekly or by two hours at some point.

The PJO movies 1. & 2 happened for a reason. Because Fox saw a popular book series á la Harry Potter, Twilight (and The Hunger Games) and wanted a piece of that action. They wanted your fucking money. Them entirely fucking up and ignoring Riordan’s advice is on them of course. But still. The movies happened. (And also saw people saying they were flops. Reception wise: hell yes. They are awful adaptations (not per se awful movies, there’s a difference). But money wise?? They made together over 245 million dollars in profit. Of course, that isn’t today’s Marvel level but it’s still fairly decent. Also don’t forget that the second movie still got greenlit. Interest was still there despite part one. You disliking something doesn’t turn it into a flop)).

Again, Disney doesn’t care about you. THIS is what Disney cares about:

1. MONEY

2. PROFIT

3. ENGAGEMENT

4. TOTAL GROSS

5. CONVERSION RATES

11. …. “Artistry“

So in terms of money, we gotta speak about the on-going woke culture. You know, lgbtqia+ stuff, poc representation and all the good shit we want and need in our life, right?

Well, I got bad news for ya. Disney being money hungry has its massive downsides. Because where is the money? In the east. Well and what happens if we include the woke stuff? Possible censorships (even retroactively! You know Gravity Falls went through that), bans, etc.

So all of you talking about representation and artistic vision and being bold and brave and blablabla… Throw that into the fucking trash. We can probably be glad if we get Grover back as the token black kid and a few other minorities sprinkled here and there. Open gay Nico? Doubt it. Your afro-latino Percy head canon? Definitely keep that but unlikely to be realized. And also, if you think that Annabeth wouldn’t get turned into the blandest whitest “I dOn’T nEeD nO mAn“ radfem, I got some bad news for ya…

The likelihood of everything being dumbed down, toned down with the exception of a few adult jokes or being even partially censored (depending on certain regions) is very, very high.

Also what makes you think we’re even getting close to the Heroes of Olympus and Trials of Apollo saga? I doubt you will see The Seven for a long time unless Riordan really says fuck it and throws his final ace card into Disney’s filthy greedy mouth.

So if Disney doesn’t have the fandom’s interest at heart, what are they interested in? Well… MONEY. Also NEW engagement. They know your funky ass is going to tune in. They know people will pirate the shit (Me waving like a maniac), they all KNOW that. Again, they aren’t stupid.

So: MORE engagement. MORE money. How do we get even more engagement? By luring new people into the fandom. Who is most likely going to get lured into a family friendly show/movie series because let’s not forget that we’re talking about Disney+? The targeted audience of the books. Who is the targeted audience of the books? MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. 11 to 14 year olds. Disney wants those kids’ (well their parents’ hard earned) money. They want to sell products, in that case books + Disney Plus subscriptions + possible merch. There you also have the likely future rating for the fucking show. Sorry to disappoint everyone that was hoping for gritty Game of Thrones filled with 12 year olds (like seriously wtf?).

Now that that’s settled, let’s talk about the outlook on the show/movie and Riordan’s influence that you people clearly overestimate.

How much power or say does Rick Riordan actually have?

ZERO. ABSOLUTELY NONE.

He’s in the worst fucking lose-lose-situation you could imagine.

Disney owns the books and Fox owns the movie rights. Wait. Fox got bought. By whom you ask? DISNEY, what a coincidence! In Rick Riordan’s own words:

Disney has him by his fucking balls and could crush them at any minute. And if you think, that Disney is letting go of that sweet sweet intellectual property you are fucking mistaken. Riordan isn’t a J.K. Rowling who OWNS the Wizarding World. You have no idea what Disney are capable of with massive lobbying that goes so far to influence copyright laws in the States (LINK)

So you can stop harassing him about a fucking Netflix adaptation as well! Or petitions that do nothing but annoy people.

These negotiations take up YEARS to get the simplest stuff done. No need to shit your pants whenever Riordan’s tweeting stuff.

Still: would Disney be fucking mad to do this without him? Absolutely!

Should Disney involve him to prevent a PJO movie 2.0 scenario?

Yes, they definitely should!

But CAN Disney do this without him?

OF COURSE THEY CAN! THEY OWN EVERYTHING.

In Riordan’s own words:

Read carefully what he has written. He doesn’t say he’s going to halter productions, he’s saying HE WON’T BE A PART OF IT. This also makes me curious about WHO approached WHO in the first place (my guess Disney tried to make some amendments because Fox ain’t shit and trying to alienate the author again would be a goddamn stupid move). Disney has the fucking film rights. Of course they can pump out shit without involving him. They could pull a Fantastic Four (the awful 2015 version) just to keep the rights and for the fuck of it.

There are the following possibilities with Riordan’s involvement:

1. Riordan as a producer: Dude’s gotta be loaded. We know that. But backing the production costs many, many, many millions and I don’t know if he’s THAT loaded. Also film producing isn’t his forte.

2. Riordan as a screenplay writer: Now we’re getting closer to something. Yes, many productions these days have authors directly involved which is great! But also can go the other way around (J.K. Rowling and her Grindelwald fiasco. Author’s do NEED to learn when to stop intermeddling with their franchises, just saying) Book writing and screenplay writing are two very DIFFERENT disciplines. You don’t have the liberties of book writing when it comes to film. The screenplay is the guide for the entire production, the visuals, the set design, the whole atmosphere of the product, the very first thing that needs to be done so that directors, designers and lastly the casted actors know what they have to do. Everything has to come to a point in a very short time and there are many, many, many versions of a screenplay before a final raw draft gets handed out. If that isn’t in Riordan’s interest (which I can completely understand) then that’s simply not happening

3. Riordan as a guide: Directors, screenplay writers, etc. sit down with Riordan on a regular basis to show him the written screenplay, which actors they have in mind, the whole vision and he has a mini veto right.

If you ask me, a mix of scenario 2 and 3 is the most likely to be the most successful. That means, that Riordan needs to have a good faithful team, that sticks closely to the source material. That isn’t guaranteed! Again: look at the PJO movies. But of course, we don’t know the internals of these meetings.

So… now the final part. The whole fucking “Animation vs. Live action“ debate. Well, both sides have their pro’s and con’s. And both sides are filled with a bunch of fucking morons. I won’t try to get you to either side.

But to those that want are begging for a live action version with age-appropriate actors I have the following to say:

FUCK

YOU

IN

PARTICULAR!

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT CHILDREN TO GO THROUGH THE HELL THAT IS DISNEY AND THE SHADY SHIT GOING ON THERE SO THAT YOU CAN BE ENTERTAINED FOR SOME MERE MINUTES?!

Oh my god…. You people REALLY really want a fourth wave Me Too movement in 15-20 years. Not every Hollyweird kid has a helicopter parent hovering around them on set and many do get abused/robbed by their parents. And the people involved in the production! Of course, animation has still a chance of this happening but the risk is somewhat lower when it just comes to voice acting.

Tbh, I actually wouldn’t mind an aged-up cast again just to prevent this as best as possible. Unfortunately, child actors will always be needed.

I have nothing much to add to this, I’ll just drop a link to an old small post from me about that right here (LINK)

Personally I lean more towards animation but in the big picture I won’t care. (Also the whole animation is for kids and dumbs down the whole narrative for PJO is fucking stupid, boo boo the fool. You being in your late teens/twenties and grown out of the targeted audience is the cause of nature. Animation can be mature or would you show Attack on Titan or South Park to your 8 year old cousin?)

I’ll be just tuning in to see if this is as messy as I’d expect it to be or to be pleasantly surprised.

Also again: this process is a long one. It’s going to be exhausting, depressing, demanding, pushing.

From the meetings now that will take a very long time, to a screenplay, which can take YEARS in finalizing, to hiring staff, location hunting and set design (should they go the live action route), to casting, to costume design, to rehearsing/production, to filming, to dispersing, to editing, to fx, to finishing, to marketing, to publishing, NOTHING IS SET IN STONE! This is a very, very, very, wanky process despite contracts and everything on paper. Let’s not forget, Disney can afford some good lawyers.

And even if everything goes as smoothly as possible. Higher up people could see the final edit of everything with editors having scenes close to the books in an a/b/c/d cut and some producer says NO! I want an c/a/b/d version that again fucks up the dynamics of the books. Or something terrible: everything is shot and done and THEN it get’s postponed. Or even fucking worse: SHELVED to be NEVER RELEASED. Aka Henry Selick’s career after Coraline (Coraline from 2009 is STILL his latest release because of his fucked up Disney contract and them cancelling his shit). Millions of dollars wasted and we won’t get to see ANYTHING. This is all very possible and happens constantly in the film business AND at Disney. This is nothing new.

And there’s nothing we can do about it. No one cares about Riordan, no one cares about the books, no one cares about the fandom.

DISNEY holds the cards. DISNEY gets to decide. Neither Riordan, nor you nor me hold ANY power in this.

So kids… what have we learned today? In conclusion:

Keep your hopes to a low, stop harassing people online and mAnAgE yOuR eXpEcTaTiOnS!!111!!

That’s it. That’s all I wanted to say.

WHEW.

[uh-mozzaza]

Kars Bruno and Gyro for the ask game \(^°^)/

Alright, lots of faves >:) I’ll try to put these under a read more

LORD KARS

favorite thing about them

Supposedly he’s a villain??? But he falls more on the amorality scale rather than the evil scale. He doesn’t exactly... look like a mad scientist (not your stereotypical nerd, let’s put it this way), but his goal is the same and story are the same. Daring to go beyond what nature imposed on his body, reaching higher and higher in the real of possibilities, desiring to experience more than what he is allowed, dedicating his whole existence to that objective, hubris and obsession. That’s very sexy of him, and he does all that while looking like that

least favorite thing about them

He needs some respecting women juice :/ I get that he didn’t give a shit about a honorable combat, but he could have avoided the hair guitar. And have you seen the PILLAR WOMEN???? Some crimes are hard to forgive

favorite line

when he drops off the cliff, avoids to smash the flowers and starts to maniacally laugh

brOTP

Pillarfam gives me family feels ✊😔❤️

OTP

Haha what if we committed the genocide of our species 😂 when they oppose us in our quest to finally see the sun 😍🌤 and raise two children together 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 and stay together for millennia 🙈💕 haha just kidding... unless?😳

nOTP

Since I interpret the pillar men as a family of which Kars and Esidisi are the two good dads, I tend not to like the occasional Kars/Wammu (but I’ve seen some people getting harassed for shipping them and like??? bro calm down)

random headcanon

You know how he made the vampire horses? I bet he made all sort of vampire animals, for “practicing” or as “enrichment training” for babby Wammu and Santana, at least that’s what he says. Truth is, he really liked having all those feral little animals around.

unpopular opinion

He actually looks better in his full clothed get up than when he is showing his dick to the sun and Speedwagon U_U

song i associate with them

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Miles and Miles by Yacth, cannot credit this one as my idea, read the lyrics on a fanart, I’ll try to find it and reblog. The song fits a lot with his “death” and make me very melancholic :(

favorite picture of them

when will my husband return from the war T-T one of my favorite araki tropes of “you will feel empathy for this villain”

BRUNBO

favorite thing about them

What can I say that has not been said before? He’s stomped toxic masculinity into the ground, he is kind, he is generous, he is cold, astonishingly sexy, dangerously scary, determined, and so very very very weird. If you are not in love with him, you are wrong.

least favorite thing about them

Issues of organized crime hit very close at home, I have to do a lot of mental gymnastics and when it comes to Vento Aureo. It gets tiring when I see non-italian fans (or hell, Araki himself in some instances) simplifying the situation or romanticizing the “problematic” aspects of Bruno instead of participating in critical consumption. It’s not that I think Bruno shouldn’t be a gray character, that’s actually one of his strenghts!, just that people should be a bit more mindful when talking about him.

favorite line

“nya nya” :3

brOTP

@ Trish ″You are my daughter... You’re my daughter! Boogie woogie woogie!”

OTP

A series started since the 80s, 8 parts long, innumerable characters... and the second spot for most fics on ao3 goes to Bruabba, a pairing that is together for half of a part and involves no one of the protagonists or recurring characters of the main series. Oversaturated? Overrated? Absolutely not, it’s fucking great. The power they have...

nOTP

my take on Br*trish and Br*gio

random headcanon

He likes Miles Davis and his favourite movie is Il Postino which like, suggest a hedonistic streak. If he had the time, he would enjoy going to those contemporary art museum that no one gets. He’d spend 3 minutes looking at a spot on the ground and people would gather around it thinking it’s art, but he probably was just dissociating for a little.

unpopular opinion

I’ve seen people argue that he is a MILF cause he is protective and cares for his children, I’ve seen people argue that he should be called a DILF instead because he is emotionally cold and distant. Those takes are not just sexist, but legally wrong. I’m begging y’all to get educated on the new italian legislation, that uses the gender neutral terms Parent 1 and Parent 2 (genitore 1 / genitore 2) he is a gnc P1ILF - Parent 1 I’d Like to Fuck

song i associate with them

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Il Pescatore - Fabrizio De Andrè

Where do I start to explain to explain this song? I would need a literature course. In very poor words, it’s about a fisherman helping a murderer as a last act before dying; it’s a whole reflection on morality and The Law vs love, kindness and humanity. You know, Bruno :)

favorite picture of them

GYRO

favorite thing about them

The last Zeppeli, returning once again in both the role of mentor and companion, his destiny intertwining with the Joestars. I get emotional about this shit. He’s so goddam cool, an executioner doctor cowboy, should be a ridiculous Mary Sue and instead works so well as a deuteragonist. He has one of the most satisfying character arcs in all of jojo to me (and in most of the stuff I’ve read).

least favorite thing about them

Hol Horse and Mista runned so he could laze on the sofa, waiting for you to make him a sandwich. He’s a misogynist, a fucking disgrace when compared to the feminist icons of past cowboy tropes in jojo >:(

favorite line

"If I stare at his ass the whole time, I can't win!"

brOTP

Valkyrie best girl, no joke she was the character I was most worried about getting hurt

OTP

Steel Ball Run is my favorite love story, that’s all I’ll say cause it’s getting late and I don’t want to cry

nOTP

I don’t think I’ve seen him shipped in any pairing that I actively despised? I dunno, Gyro x the cougar that cheated on her husband with him? I dunno Gyro x Women in general cause women deserve better than his stinky ass???

random headcanon

He probably has notebooks full of doodles of when he was a kid, when he was trying to learn automatically to recognize the golden ratio. Pages full of spirals, flowers, apples, animals and interspersed with his shitty jokes (which he probably had no occasion to share before he met Johnny given the severe environment he grew up in, he probably felt so happy to finally find someone he could share his thoughts with oh god here come the tears)

unpopular opinion

He is so fucking sexy. Yes I said that. His long hair is sexy, his green lipstick is sexy, the hands on his belt pointing to his “balls” are sexy, his canonically soft hands are sexy, yes even his GO GO ZEPPELI grill is sexy. He hits both my moronsexual and sapiosexual side, passing through my monstersexual side because everything about his appearance is an eldricht horror.

song i associate with them

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Yee -and I cannot stress this enough- Haw! Big Sky by Orville Peck

favorite picture of them

[sinditia]

I wish Tumblr had the option to hide the like button. Its so fucking frustrating to work on something for hours/days/weeks to see it get not even a quarter of the amount of reblogs versus likes. It sounds ungrateful as fuck but honestly I'm over it. I'm sick of working so hard on stuff, for free, for other people, just to see it get 10 or less reblogs.

I completely get it. And those feelings are totally valid. I feel the same way too. hell, on an excellent post i'd get a quarter amount the reblogs vs likes. it's more like a 1:10 ratio for me usually.

I don't really get the point of the like feature on a platform that's so heavily focused on content creation like tumblr. i feel like it's different than, say, twitter, where people tend to write more personal vents, and hitting 'like' can show solidarity to your mutuals without airing their business everywhere. i know some people use tumblr's likes as a bookmark feature, but why don't they just make it that and we don't have to see it? but hey, they don't call this a hellsite for nothing.

and don't worry, you don't sound ungrateful at all. it's perfectly valid to want some kind of recognition for your work and it can get very disheartening. maybe you can try tagging people in your posts and see if they'd like to share it? i've done that in the past with some of my fics, and people can be very supportive if you reach out. and anyone's totally welcome to tag me in stuff too. i don't have much of a big following, but i'd be happy to read and share posts. 

[joeys-piano]

To the Anon who asked for my opinion on Reblogs vs. Likes

TL;DR → Hitting the like button is like telling someone you love them while hitting the reblog/retweet is like expressing through action that you love them. Both buttons express love and feel good in their own right, but one over the other carries a more meaningful weight behind it. Really, the happy scenario here is if both buttons were hit because you get the best of both worlds.

Also, to fucking Hell to the bullshit conventions of “cringe” and to its whole host of brethren that sprung up out of social media culture during the past few years and decade. If you’re going to give fucks over someone because of what they like, look at your fucking self and think of how you’ll feel if someone did that to you. Mind your damn business if someone likes and/or reblogs something that you find cringy. Honestly, it feels like the ones that stir up that noise want to be recognized for something and let me tell you, you’re being recognized by my fist against your jaw.

Reblogs are an essential part to a content creator’s growth, especially in the beginning of their journey and as they’re discovering their style and especially when they’re joining other platforms to grow and diversify their audience. Reblogging or retweeting a creator’s content into your space opens up an avenue that benefits three parties. The first party is the content creator because their work is given more exposure and this provides an entry-way for others to discover more of what they’ve done. The second party is you yourself because generally, people on social media share what they love, what they enjoy, what resonates with them, etc…

If there is a piece of content that amazed, excited, took your breath away or what-have-you, I would say it’s almost human nature to want to share that experience and have others experience it too. And lastly but not leastly, the third party that benefits is your audience. By reblogging another creator’s work and introducing your space to them, you’re helping your audience find more content that they might enjoy, that they resonate with as well, etc… It’s like a domino-effect: those people might reblog the work to their spaces, their spaces might reblog the work to more spaces, and you see this beautiful chain of events. 

As a content creator myself, I am inherently biased. I would prefer reblogs a lot more than likes. I am very familiar with other artists, writers, photographers, cosplayers, gift editors and all the alike who express that same sentiment. With the shifts that have been going on in social media during the past few years and the change in fandom culture as well, there has been a significant shift in the reblog vs. like debacle.

We see time and time again, likes are now the predominant button that people click on and then they go about their merry way. I’m only familiar with Twitter and Tumblr so I don’t have much of a say for other social media platforms. However, what I can say is that Twitter and especially Tumblr are communities that have grown and proliferated because of the reblog/retweet function. With the advent of newer social media like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok or whatnot -- from what I could see as an outsider, those platforms are built more for the like function than for sharing. Or at least, those platforms share creator works not as directly as Twitter or Tumblr has. I could be wrong about that, but this is from what I’ve seen and am familiar about on those platforms.

Increasingly, something else that has caused the great rift between reblog vs. like how fandom and overall social media culture has changed. A lot. I don’t think this should surprise anyone but creating a piece of art or writing or gif edit or anything of the like takes time. Could take half an hour, days, weeks, months even? Content creators aren’t machines busting out pieces every second of the day. We have lives and when we can, we dedicate our time to creating what we love. Because there are so many of us on social media and we’re all sharing our works at different times, it’s no-question that we drown each other out and that a lot of people beyond our audiences even see or are even aware of what we made.

For content creators with an established audience or with an audience that is relatively large, they’re not as burdened by this fact because of their audience and you can count on a subsection of their audience is going to share the work and reblog or retweet it to their audience. For a beginning content creator or for someone that’s coming into a new platform for the first time is building on their preexisting audience from a different platform, that crutch is either non-existent or not-guaranteed. To these individuals, reblogs or retweets can make or break if they’ll continue using this platform or if they’ll continue creating. Because of lower engagement and because their work isn’t given exposure if any.

Likes are fairly decent. They alert a content creator that YOU enjoyed it, but a reblog or a retweet means so much more because in a way, it says: I love it enough where I want others to experience this too. I would even say that the like button is just verbalizing that you love something while a reblog/retweet is the actual action that expresses you love something. From what I’ve heard, action speaks much louder than words.

Earlier, I did comment that I was a content creator and that I would be inherently biased in this thing. That is true. However, there are instances and circumstances I can think on why someone chooses not to reblog what you created. Keep in mind that there are more instances than just the ones I’ll describe and that ultimately when it comes down to it, it is personal preference on whether someone wants to reblog/retweet your work or not.

Perhaps your work doesn’t fit with someone’s theme -- a valid statement, especially since social media tends to lean more towards aesthetics and having an account or blog that curates content of a similar nature. Perhaps this person can’t share for that reason but love the work regardless of that, so they hit that like button because it’s the only thing they can do right now. This person could create another account where they do just reblog things only, but handling a lot of accounts can get confusing and there isn’t much of an audience associated with accounts like that so….it’s up to you as a content creator on how you feel about that.

Another reason why someone didn’t reblog/retweet your work is because although they love the execution or how it was done, something about the content itself doesn’t resonate with them and that’s why they hit the like button only. I do this, especially with fanart. I’ll find an illustration that I love, but there’s something about the content itself that I don’t want to share in my space. Perhaps it’s a pairing or a character or something about it that subjectively, while I can objectively say it’s a good piece of work, I cannot share it for so-and-so reasons.

Another reason can be that if it’s a fandom piece, maybe someone isn’t familiar with your fandom but is liking it to give you support. Or maybe if it’s an original piece, someone gives you a like for support despite their disinterest or maybe the original work itself isn’t their thing but they want you to know that they saw it and want to support in a way that feels best with how they feel about it.

Another reason could be that: hey, I know people who use likes to bookmark content they’ve seen and are adding it to their queue. So the actual reblog will occur in a later time.

These are things to consider as a content creator, as much as we bemoan and give the dirty eye to likes because of the perceived lack of engagement in them. This reblog vs. like debate isn’t one-sided. It involves you and the other person, the person being whoever has glanced at your work.

Both parties cannot force the other to do anything. In general, forcing doesn’t do much of anything -- other than create arguments. Just as content creators cannot force their audience to reblog/retweet, the audience cannot force the content creator to create anything.

In situations like this, I think what would be more beneficial are encouragements and possibly breaking down the bullshit conventions social media culture has cultivated with the rise of “cringe”, with the rise blatant bullying against people because of what they like and the harassment that ensues because of antis and whatever the fuck they do to push a faux-agenda for cleaner and pure content, with the rise of gatekeeping because that shit exists, etc…

I feel that the reblog vs. like debacle is almost a result of other things that have bled their influence in this and that to make meaningful steps forward to a balanced reblog:like ratio, something has to be done about the issues I addressed and above and their subsequent brethren.

[gothgirlmahi]

I just started posting my fic and before then literally wrote ONLY for myself and loved it. And now that I post, I treasure every like/kudo/reblog/comment regardless of quantity bc it's about community for me and sharing. And if one person likes it or 100 do that's cool bc I'm not in it for the numbers? If you are that's fine but it seems like ur always gonna be playing a losing game that way? Idk I just hate this whole obsession with ratios now and how everything is writers vs readers 🤷‍♀️

Same because I really appreciate the interaction people have with my work. Even though I appreciate it, it’s like...I know some of my works aren’t even going to get one singular comment. And that’s okay, because I post here because I like it and I want to. I think part of putting your work out there is being open to all the ways people want to interact with it, whether it be through tons of comments, likes or, hell, even hate sent. I feel like some writers think because they worked hard on something, people should interact. But like...idk. I just don’t think it’s that serious. Like sure I work hard on things but even if I don’t get any interaction I still got the satisfaction of writing and improving my skill and even if someone didn’t show how they reacted with reblogs or comments, someone still probably had a really good time reading it and that’s enough for me. But that’s just my two cents 🤷‍♀️

[pinkletterday]

Writer's Year In Review

This year has been a revelation. I went from deeply, irrevocably believing I can't write fiction at all to knowing that I'm actually pretty good at it!

It's given me the confidence to find work as a freelance writer and editor in real life, after years of unemployment and anxious paralysis resulting from chronic illness and trauma. A lot of other factors also helped but the fic writing played a huge role in getting my shit together.

General Fic Stats:

Word Count on AO3: 92284

Fics posted to AO3: 23

Favourite Fic:

Kiss It Better (Westallen).This fic is my baby. I love little Iris and little Barry in it so much, the hurt and confusion in each other they attempted to heal, how that healing carried into their adult love and family. It will always and always be my favourite thing I have ever written. Wee!stallen is my jam, and the reason I ship them so damn hard.

Do Not Go Gentle (Westallen). Ngl, I love this for the sheer amount of truly gratifying comments. Every single one of them have been emotional and flaily. It all makes me feel like I may have finally levelled up. Hallelujah. xD

Funniest Fic:

The Care and Feeding (Queenwestallen). This is my ultimate OT3. This fic, written as a list and discussion is 95% humour and contains some of my best banter and (I feel) characterization. An element I'm really proud of is how I managed to center and include all their important non-romantic relationships in their conversations. Iris's boisterous female friends, Oliver's friends, Cisco and Caitlin's snarky commentary all shoehorned themselves into the list with hilarious and wholesome results. 

It's not a popular OT3 but I feel like it's a good first attempt to drag this ship to water. xD

Cutest Fic:

Dancing Queen (Olivarry). Even after a year this contiues to be the fic with the highest kudos ratio (except for the more recent one) and the second most bookmarked. I love getting comments on this because they are all some variation of "my teeth hurt. I have diabetes!" xD Well, I did build it around a rainbow sprinkle icing sugar donut, but there is a significant dollop of angst there in the middle. A flangst donut.

Your Vigil In My Keeping (Westallen). This fic has less than 200 hits but has the highest kudos ratio of all. I guess kid fic isn't everyone's cup of tea, but Wee!stallen is cute af yo. I headcanon the origins of Barry and Iris's steadfast partnership in this story, where her faith and belief in him is as strong as his protectiveness of her, all tied up in the language and innocence of children.

Kinkiest Fic:

WA Smut and Kink Collection. I literally just posted this yesterday lol. So far it's just a face-sitting short, but I have quite a few hard and soft kinks lined up. Westallen needs more hard smut tbh, and they have such a unique powerfully loving dynamic that every kink I'm writing has required me to come at it a little bit sideways with a whole lot of emotional focus.

Saddest Fic:

Three fics I can't choose from.

Do Not Go Gentle (Westallen). This is basically Iris's grief and fear in a raging tempest, and it's strongly implied that the future Nora has warned them of will come to pass regardless of what they do. The fact is that there already is and will be a timeline where Iris loses Barry, just as there must be one where she won't, because that is the nature of potentiality. 

The Paradigm of Uncertainty (Westallen). This was a drabble almost, that ruminates on the probability that speedsters do not erase timelines but abandon them, along those versions of their loved ones. It's as @rkwago's brilliant comment says: "Iris hurts in so many weird, cosmic ways that her life is almost an eldritch horror house," which is the most perfect description ever of what it means to be a time traveller's wife.

The Universal Constant (Gen, background WA). A lot of people find the way Barry goes off on Joe cathartic in this fic, and so do I. But it's not so simple. I don't think Joe was wrong to form the views he did, or that anyone was in the wrong really. As @sophiainspace pointed out, it's a mediation of grief and love, their parallels and continuations between parents and children and lovers. The fact that it takes Henry's death for Barry to find the adult language to articulate to Joe why he will always believe in his father's innocence is a tragedy that cuts three ways.

(This fic is also the reason I have a folder in my drive marked "how to get away with murder" and probably a likely reason to get me arrested one day. xD)

Most Popular Fic:

Strangers In The Cold (Coldflash). The Coldflash fandom is a joy to feed. This was my first smut fic which was preceded by an entire chapter of banter about nothing in particular (except it ended up establishing a background that gave birth to the Coldflash vs Olivarry polyam series) And holy wow, for a newbie writer, the response has been amazing. Looking back, I wince at a lot of writing mistakes and its undeniably rough, but it really bolstered my confidence.

(I feel a little guilty that all my other CF stories are still in my WiP folder while I update the polyam series at snail's pace.)

The Shape of Us (Westallen). I wrote this on tumblr half-asleep one night, half as a rambly headcanon...and woke up to literally one hundred freaking notes. What the hell. Now at over 260, it's the most popular fic I've ever posted on tumblr.

I never consciously intended it to be a body-positivity fic but apparently women really relate to the insecurities of growing older and watching our bodies change with marriage, children and the sheer hectic pace of life. Even my non-fandom friends reblogged it simply for its representation of "real women". Barry's response is my own wish fulfillment fantasy; the sort of total acceptance and validation that we wish we could hear it the times we can't find it in ourselves. In light of the virulent body-shaming Candice Patton has been subjected to ever since she was revealed to have gained a fuller figure in S5, I'm very glad to have written it.

Least Popular Fic:

Carry On (Gen) This character study of Oliver Queen only has 135 hits a year after posting, which is par for the course with gen. But has a solid 12% kudos ratio, which means it's probably as good as I think it is. It's one of my favourite and easiest fics I have ever written.

Love Me Like You Do (Olivarry) Lordy, if my first Coldflash smut filled me with confidence, my first Olivarry smutfic all but ruined it. I struggled with it for a long time, unlike SitC, which I suppose shows in the over-descriptions. I got carried away with the quipping and I guess Barry topping at all is really not popular with slash fans?

Still, I'm honestly toying with the idea of deleting and rewriting it. At least it was a learning experience - don't write smut unless it makes you feel horny yourself.  

Most Challenging Fic:

Do Not Go Gentle (Westallen). I think the reason stories you knock off in two hours are instantly popular while the ones you slaved over for weeks barely get any attention is because the process is reflected in the ease of reading. But this one is an exception. It was an absolute monster, taking three weeks and several revisions to wrestle into submission - and it paid off in spades!  Going by the response, I seem to have achieved the wow factor I was going for.

My only regret is that I posted it on tumblr before the last revision that finally made it work, so that too many readers saw the lacklustre version rather than the polished one.

Honorable Mention:

A Stitch In Time (Olivarry for now, eventual Queenwestallen) Baby's first multi-chapter! Admittedly chapters 3 and 4 have been languishing in my drive for a few months now and this thing has 100% more deleted scenes and outtakes posted to my tumblr than the actual story on AO3. But I'm so proud of it! I learned to write action scenes because of it, how to write climaxes, dream sequences, news articles and tell a story in several different formats. It made me rediscover my empathy for Felicity and write her as a PoV character, think deeply on Laurel Lance's losses and give voice to her struggles, and explore how a real friendship and understanding could evolve between Oliver and Iris out of their mutual love for Barry. (Centering female characters within manpain narratives, ftw! Otoh, I centered Iris so much it veered off the Olivarry rails into Queenwestallen territory on its own)

There is so much meaty conflict and delicious looming disaster in this story that I'm determined going to keep at it, even if slow and steady. If only to bring the light of Barry/Iris/Oliver into the world. xD

Holding On (Olivarry). This real-world disability AU deals with chronic and mental illness and the precariousness and personal demons of that reality. I tore out the rawest parts of my life for this fic and put them on display so that I couldn't bear to show it to anyone for a year after it was written.

I'm very glad I did finally brush it off and put it up because it has struck a chord with so many people, especially other Spoonies. The low number of hits on a fic that deals in hurt/comfort rather stings, as I can't help but think the disinterest is because of the "disability" and "neurodivergence" tags. But I still think it's one of the best things I've written and one I'll always be proudest of.

General Reflections:

Things I've learned over the past year of writing:

- Self-deprecation is not my friend. I need to be honest enough with myself to acknowledge when my writing is good, because either I self-validate and build confidence or I become a black hole of insecurity where validation goes to die. And if I think I'm a bit better than I actually am, it's not just okay but necessary to believe it.

- What I call writer's block is perfectionism, anxiety and physical and mental fatigue. If I don't eat, sleep, hydrate and acheive a relaxed mental state, I won't be able to write. 

- Momentum is more my friend than any amount of inspiration and motivation. Sitting my ass down and make it a habit to churn out X number of words a day, even bad writing, will do more to help me than polishing an idea to a high shine. 

- If I don't forgive myself for the stories I can't write I'll never write anything. I am doing this for free, to share the love and joy and therefore obligated to no one. 

- I'm capable of writing things I don't have the first idea how to write. My fingers on a keyboard can paint the picture my brain can't visualize. 

I don't believe in New Year's resolutions, but I am going to make it a personal goal to write at least 15k words per month, learn to stick to a posting schedule where possible.  and end next year with an additional 150k words posted. 

To everyone who follows this blog, commented, reblogged and liked my posts - I see and remember and appreciate every one of you. You're the reason I feel seen and valued and why I am motivated to keep writing through all the difficulties life throws at me. <3<3<3

[inumbro]

How would Zed go about seducing a man?

tbh my gut instinct response to this is why men specifically

Like, I doubt this is what you meant by the question, but I feel kinda passionate about it so I’m gonna quickly elaborate what I mean by that–

I headcanon Ionia – and Runeterra – as a place where homophobia doesn’t exist. Like, I don’t expect the ratios of how many people are hetero vs lgbtq+ to vary between the worlds, but there’s so much bullshit intolerance with queer people in our world, and I don’t want that seeping into a hobby that I do for fun. Consequently, if flirting with people of all genders is normal, I don’t see why the approach would need to be any different?

(I’m also of the belief that 95% of general trends of behaviour related to gender have much more to do with how we’re socialised than anything innate, so I don’t think Zed, or anyone, would really need to change approaches based off the gender of the individual.)

That said, sure, I don’t really talk about Zed and non-platonic relationships very often, so the actual answer to your question: 

Despite the meme I reblogged last night, I think that – these days, anyway – it’s very, very rare for Zed to actively pursue someone first. He does feel attraction, but he’d much rather wait for someone to give at least a slight indication that they’re interested in him before initiating any sort of flirting. It’s not a fear of rejection, but rather that if any attraction on his part isn’t reciprocated, he doesn’t want to risk hurting the Master of Shadows persona as a result of any thirst on his part, lmao. 

If flirting past that still counts as seducing, frankly, I’m out of my depth with this question HAHA I’m aroace myself so–

Words, though. He’s very good at assessing what kind of people those he interacts with are, and he’s had a hell of a lot of practise manipulating people, or simply persuading them to see his point of view. That applies to any interactions he has, including pursuing other people. Adjust his behaviour to be that of him at his best morality (unless, you know, they’re into the whole will-spontaneously-attack-people-who-irritate-him thing), gently nudge conversation into an area more blatantly discussing attraction. At that point it’d be more of a focus on physical cues.

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That’s so poorly worded but yeah I mean how does anyone seduce anyone he’s zed he’s not gonna just casually strip and show off his biceps until they’re actually in a room together, nor is he gonna sit down at a bar and offer to buy them a drink

that said! If he is genuinely interested in someone enough to want to figure out whether that interest is reciprocated, he’ll absolutely invite them for tea at his temple :’) But that’s how he hosts a lot of his meetings, so it’s usually a good opportunity to try to figure people out

if there’s smth you want me to elaborate on tomorrow might be a better time for that

[seenashwrite]

WORKS IN PROGRESS ✒️

A master post I’ll update as needed with the scoop on what’s up with both your favorite series/mini-series & what’s on deck - it’ll be linked at both the main index & the mobile master list for your curiosity convenience.

*~* COMING SOON *~*

The Cupid Complication

This is for my Secret Valentine this year, though it’ll be out the day prior for Galentine’s Day, and I bet you can divine from the title that it’ll be a crazy, fun time for the guys (and “you”!).

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Top of the World

The re-launch is coming, and with it a really killer page, full of images, a cast of characters section, and a chapter guide. It is now split into three "seasons”: Revelation, which is completed, followed by Heritage and Legion. Get ready.

6 Feb 19 - This is my baby. I still work on it/the awesome page for it weekly. I don’t know when the relaunch for book two is coming. I just don’t know.

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The Lore You Know

Part Five done, just one more and then the epilogue for TOTW readers.

6 Feb 19 - The final part is mostly fleshed-out; the epilogue I don’t know, since I’ve had to put off the big relaunch for TOTW

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#Nash300

Several prompts still in the ol’ drafts folder - I haven’t forgotten! Just gotta wait for inspo to strike! And sometimes I work these into other stories, so there’s that.

6 Feb 19 - Same, no change. When it hits me, it hits me. 

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*~* ON DECK *~*

See above - TLYK and the V-day fic are all that’s on deck for the immediate future.

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*~* EVENTUALLY *~*

---> A fun one-shot about THIS, wherein a dismembered colleague of the guys has a hell of a time, um.... getting it together HAHAHA wow that was lame.

6 Feb 2019 - This ^^^ is presently on hold. No one has my permission to use this plot bunny. I’ve given some away in the past. This isn’t one of those times. I’ve talked about this one before over the past couple years, I’ve still yet to see anything like it, so I better not see it within my circle/network because I’ll know where it came from. You’ve been warned (....she said seriously but kindly).

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---> #Nash’s 6 for 600 that rapidly turned into #Nash’s 666

This’n will take awhile.... but the rough draft’s there... I’m working on getting it reeeaaally tight, as I kinda didn’t mean for the celebration to entail all this, but hell, why not?

5 Aug 2018 - I was clear in the initial post (see screencap below) that the celebration was to be peeps tossing out six word stories. Some people misunderstood. I felt like I should do what they wanted, and that’s on me. I took a ton of time whipping up a video and fleshing out a story. I’m not doing this any longer. The celebration is over, this is complete, it is what I said it would be. I’m leaving the initial post alone for transparency (I am *so* not in the mood for being told I wasn’t clear; it was clear) but amending any related posts/master lists/master posts so no new readers feel misled. 

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*~* WHO KNOWS? *~*

Build Me Up, Buttercup

This one *does* occasionally call my name, it’s a great thing for me when I’m in a giddy mood and have insomnia - the time suck is (A) giving y’all some fun images, and (B) re-reading parts of the book to make sure I’m nailing it. But I’ve long had the book’s/movie’s parts divided into documents for each installment, so that sucker’s planned. Just depends on time! 

5 Aug 2018 -  Don’t get your heart set on it ever being finished. I know I chose to incorporate the book and not just the movie, and I know I chose to create *incredibly* time-consuming images and such, and now I’m choosing to stop. I don’t know what else to tell you. I may change my mind, may not. Sorry to those of you who genuinely like it. It was meant to be a quick one-shot thing (1st part), just a little parody-spoof. It’s not getting enough feedback - enough of a work:feedback ratio - to spur me to continue. 

That’s all to report for now, folks! Thanks for reading!

* Note: The reason for my blunt tone in some of these updates likely doesn’t have to do with you personally - last fall, I was treated, upon reflection, way too harshly for a couple things I did.

One was a post I’d made (since deleted, though I kept the screencaps/receipts of what was said on both sides) on the topic of lack of feedback to stories. Some of what I said was admittedly ill-phrased, but the overall message was clear, and was willfully misunderstood. For one example, accused of saying that I was “owed” praise, which I never said. For another example, one of the things I suggested were templates (fill-in-the-blank things, so that they could be personalized) for feedback for those persons who are shy, nervous about engaging, or simply believe they are not good at communicating, but who want to express their love of a story - so another thing I was accused of was telling people what to say. That’s what I mean by willful misunderstanding. Learned lesson, and while I may agree with/reblog/support fellow writers who discuss this topics in their own posts, I’m 99% sure I’ll personally never discuss this topic again. But it will always boggle my mind that people think it’s cool to not say at minimum “thank you” for an unexpected gift they received that they enjoyed. No one is too shy or too nervous or think they’re too poor at communication to simply say “Thank you, this was great”. It’s a bullshit excuse. Just say “Thank you”. Anybody - from toddlers on up  - can say “Thank you”, and anybody who has reading comprehension and understands a reblog button and how these blogs work can say (type) a simple “Thank you”.

Secondly, around this same time, I had sent an encouraging message to someone about considering putting a great tale they’d written into its own post, as opposed to leaving it on the reblog they’d used, so they’d get credit for their great work vs. the “likes” and reblogs getting mixed in with the ones for the gif set they’d written it on, because I’d love to put it on my rec list and get them some circulation. The bizarre vitriol I received in response (complete with name-calling and presumptions about my intent) were beyond the pale (and I showed others to check myself, and they agreed it was - have to use this word again - bizarre), and so I basically learned my lesson about trying to encourage people to have a new post for their work. So that’s why the tone - again, it’s not directly toward you, personally. It’s just me not beating around the bush.

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Updated: 6 Feb 2019