#PLEASE ENGAGE

[superfastjellyfishsandwitch]

Guys do I post my ap art work here (my tumblr not linked to who I am irl)

Or my insta ( linked to my face and name so my future collage roommate can learn what I’m about)

[extrafingerfriendlier]

Mabel has informed me that many of you like monsters! I will proudly tell you anything you would like to know, as I have studied the bizarre for years! Do not be afraid to ask questions!

[swampxwitchxhattie]

I’ve read two stories of people being found after the Maui fire deceased, holding their pets. I have to avoid the news. I know that as an adult I should keep up with it and know what’s going on but my psyche is taking hit after hit and I just can’t take the heartache anymore. It’s pushing me further down the hole I’m trying to dig myself out of because I’m such an empathetic person. Strangers pain affects me in ways that are detrimental to my mind and heart.

Does that make me irresponsible? Does it make me apathetic? I feel guilty for not reading or watching the news. But the things I see and hear are gut punch after gun punch and I find myself crying and feeling more and more helpless. I want to know what’s going on, I want to know what’s being done. But when I find the actual truth it just breaks something in me.

[glitchmeharder]

PLEASE reblog this and add the last piece of utopian media you saw/read. Even if u hated it

[mermaidgirl30]

It really makes our day if you leave comments and reblogs 😊 Please don’t stay silent. Your feedback is what drives us writers to want to write and share! We want to engage with you 🩷

If you're a creator and you needed to hear this today:

You have no idea how many people lurk on your work. No idea how many times people go back to revisit your work. How big they smile when they simply think about your work. How fast their heart beats, how excited they get when they see that you posted something.

People are shy with their feedback. Sometimes it’s because they’re simply shy. Other times it’s because they assume you already know how great and talented you are. Could be both.

My point is, even if you barely have any likes or reblogs, don’t get discouraged. You have a lot of silent fans, but they are still your fans. Keep on creating. Because there is always someone out there who will love what you have made.

[theravenzvolute]

looking for artists!

HEY YALL !!! if any of you use instagram or tiktok, please keep reading this post! :-)!!

im working on a project that ill need 6-10 artists for! heres my pitch verbatim

IF YOURE INTERESTED PLEASE ENGAGE!! OR IF YOU KNOW ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD BE DOWN!!!!! PLEASE SHARE IM BEGGIINNGNGGG

TLDR; "instagram/tiktok clue au where theres artists for each color and their sonas/main cos are the ones in the game and we do an arg with our following to see what happens and its a whole big lore thing"

"there would be a 'cast' of 6-10 characters, all representing a color : scarlet, mustard, white, green, peacock, plum(extras if we get more people: peach, brunette, rose, black, we can change color names im just going off of the actual ones) each color would be represented by an artist and their oc/sona(no actual characters from a media)"

"all of the cast would get together and find out the story, who dies, who lives, who has which object, and how itll be introducted to their followers. artists would post their character publicly, then we could start using reels/stories/posts etc to show what happens, ensuring each artist posts at least one piece of the plot so everyone can have a turn(the point is to help artists get their art out there alongside making a fun little story)"

"viewers could have input on the story too, whether through polls or comments or whatever that could change the course of the plot(though im not entirely sure if thats a good idea yet im just throwing my stuff out there before i forget HAHA) and overtime people would die or live, until the murderer is revealed OR gets away with it"

[the-cimmerians]

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties--the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

[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.

[superfastjellyfishsandwitch]

Percy, betting good money on the Leo vs Nico gaming sessions that CHB hosts, but he isn't sure if he should bet for the one who builds the games or the one who grew up in an arcade

[azherwind-art]

"Tell your favorite creators that you like their work, people usually enjoy things silently, but hate tends to be loud"

This is a phrase I just heard from Dnd shorts that captures perfectly why I often try to make the effort of commenting on posts and telling people that I enjoy their work and why Even to small creators, I advice everyone to make the extra effort to tell them, I can guarantee it makes all the difference in the world, it's not cringy or obnoxious, it'll just brighten someone's day

[themissinggoldfish]

🌱🏛️ Our silent promise

[something’s changed in the year the traveler was away]

[superfastjellyfishsandwitch]

I got my first ever concert tickets!

It’s for the front bottoms

I’m so excited but my one friend who likes them couldn’t go with me :(

If anyone knows what I should wear they should suggest it because I need help lol

I don’t have any front bottoms shirts or hoodies and I’ll probably wear jeans because I live in jeans lol

[wanologic]

Don’t think. Feel.

[throesofincreasingwonder]

You know what? I want a whole post for this:

Sex Repulsion is not the same thing as, or an excuse for, Sex Negativity

non-negotiable!

I am a sex-repulsed asexual. This means that I am uncomfortable and repulsed by the idea of engaging in sexual acts. This does not mean that I have an excuse to be repulsed by other people's sexual attraction or the right to police how other people engage in or express sexual acts or attraction.

Young queer people need to learn the difference between sex repulsion and sex negativity, and actively work to unlearn sex-negative attitudes. Asexuality, even sex-repulsed asexuality, is and should be fully compatible with sex positivity.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of other people feeling sexual attraction or engaging in sexual acts that do not involve you in any way, that is not sex repulsion it is the cultural Christianity and you need to seriously work on that.

[idiotsonlyevent]

it is completely understandable to be uncomfortable with the sexual assault in dandadan. it's important to discuss how it's framed, whether it's handled poorly, or if it could be been portrayed better. but the number of people - even fans - stating that it is only fanservice, irrelevant, or could be removed is frankly bizarre to for SO many reasons, starting with the fact that this parallel exists.

the anime made it even more obvious by interpolating cuts from the first scene into the second one.

i thought this scene showed that momo gaining her powers by believing in her relationship with her grandmother gives her the strength to fight back against what is basically a horrific, much more aggressive and abstract (maybe even absurd?) representation of her shitty gross ex - who was demanding she 'put out' and pay for the love hotel in very first scene.

while the escalation from one scene to the next is surprising, it's not something that comes out of nowhere. this first scene is meant to be a set-up to what will happen later. it sets the tone, though significantly more lighthearted at this point. it tells you that sex, sexuality, etc. is something dandadan will touch on - though you don't know what the scope and depth will be until later in the chapter.

i cannot recommend this video enough, as it discusses some interesting interpretations of what the serpoians and turbo granny represent in their respective assault scenes, as well as how right now the treatment of both scenes is unfortunately uneven.

more notes about plot and thematic relevance below the cut. spoilers for anime-onlies (up to chapter 8, will probably be covered in episodes 4/5).

momo was assaulted, and almost cut up by the serpoians, much like the other victims turbo granny appeared around. this is an intentional parallel. turbo granny goes to momo because that is what she does. again, SUPER unclear how that factors into turbo granny's assault of ken, but if we keep the video's interpretation of cynicism in mind, it could be related to that; maybe turbo granny has a cynicism toward men - similar to momo in chapter/episode 1 - and this is why she chose to attack ken. unfortunately, it's still too early to really understand and explain a lot of her motivations.

again, completely understandable to not like how the sexual assault was handled or portrayed, and it's important to keep discussing it. but this is what dandadan does for many different types of trauma and difficult life experiences. this is a huge part of dandadan's identity. if you don't like it, that is fine, but calling the sexual assault 'just fan service' is blatantly untrue.

[wavetapper]

rb this and tag your favourite soundtracks! they can be anything like games or movies or shows or whatever i wanna know what the best ones are 👀