#anyway i will be setting my queue back up and getting back into the tumblr swing of things

[veronicaneptunes]

for a website obsessed with making posts about mutuals and supporting mutuals and the special lil bond between mutuals a lot of you guys dont reblog your mutuals hard worked on posts lol...

[wistfulwatcher]

I know I've been MIA a lot lately, but I was trying to finish up writing a long mistynat fic and I FINALLY HAVE! I need to do a few read-throughs and clean it up, but I should begin posting "dust off those rusty strings" in the next few days!

I also wanted to take this opportunity to laugh at these old posts/publicly drag myself:

my final word count? 150k 🤭

[timbrrwolfe]

Keep forgetting to queue posts instead of posting them right away. Gotta get back in the rhythm

[wip]

A very very minor thing I have been curious about for a while, and I'm finally asking: why do you calculate queue posting times the way you do? For example, if I set my queue to post 3x a day, naively I would expect it to post every 8 hours. But in reality it posts every 6 hours with a 12 hour gap between days. Why complicate the math like that?

Answer: Hello @circumference-pie!

Buckle up y’all, it’s story time again!

First: nobody who works at Tumblr right now was a part of the work of planning the default queue implementation, which was more than ten years ago. So the full story behind “Why does it work that way?” has unfortunately been lost to the sands of time. All we can do is tell you how it works today and surmise some reasons why. The queue is actually a very clever system and part of how it works explains some of why it works the way it does. Also, there have been attempts to do what you ask—we still have “Queue 2.0” available in your Tumblr Labs settings, which tries to get closer to how you expect things to work.

Anyway! How the queue works today is not actually a queue in the traditional sense. There is no single list of posts that are in “your queue”. Instead, when you “Add to queue” after creating a post, we’re actually scheduling it to post at a future time, as if you had used the “Schedule post” option instead. We’re just calculating that time on your behalf when you use “Add to queue”, based on your settings, and how many other scheduled posts you have already. We use a secondary “index” model, called “ScheduledPost”, to keep track of posts you have scheduled on your blog. We do mark the ones that are a part of “your queue”, but the data model doesn’t keep one list of your “queue” per se.

You can see this in action on your blog, hiding in plain sight. If you add a bunch of posts to your queue, and then schedule a post for a specific future date, you’ll see both in your blog’s “queue” list, side by side. Because technically to us, they’re the same thing: queued posts are really just another kind of scheduled post, relying on the same always-running service to publish scheduled posts across all of Tumblr. Here’s a fun fact: we typically have about ~14.5 million future posts to publish from this list at any given time and are publishing hundreds of these scheduled posts every second.

So when you’re adding a new post to your queue, what we’re doing behind the scenes is starting at the beginning of your “day”, and creating time slots based on your queue settings. If a time slot is already filled, we move on to the next one. That’s why the default queue scheduler works how you describe—we’re trying to fill those “slots” based on the start of the day, rather than trying to divide the calendar day evenly. This just makes it much simpler for us to understand, scale, and predict when our “peaks” will be. At peak times, the publish-scheduled-posts service is publishing tens of thousands of posts in a manner of seconds. We did rewrite that post-publishing part of this architecture a few years ago to improve its efficiency and solve a lot of “lost post” bugs, but we didn’t change how “Add to queue” works.

However, the Queue 2.0 project available in Labs was an attempt to change the queue system to work as you expect—instead of starting at [beginning of day] and creating enough slots to fit [number of slots] every [number of hours], it tries to divide the calendar day into [number of slots] and fit the result back to the original algorithm’s mapping of the day. We never productionized this alternative approach, because it has a few bugs that some blogs hit in extreme cases, and we’ve never had time to fully fix them. It also can cause a bit of weirdness when time zones diverge, like with daylight savings time. Also, a lot of people prefer the default algorithm, and we haven’t thought of a nice way to transition everyone from one to the other. So for now, both options exist, and you can choose which algorithm for queue-slot-generating you want to use. We hope that makes sense! 

While complicated, it is a great example of a system built by engineers to make sense and be scalable and predictable. But sometimes these kinds of systems, while clever, aren’t very intuitive to understand without digging into how they work.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming. 

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Hi oh my god, this is the proshipping-polls mod. Sorry to bother you every time something happens, I just don't know what to do and I wanted to let people know!

So, I had everything set up to restart the blog today, but yesterday morning I woke up to the main account it was on, mod-nyashley, terminated. And since that was the main, I thought the side account would be gone too, and had pretty much given up on ever trying to remake the poll blog.

Apparently though, proshipping-polls-iii is still up and posted my scheduled post for today? No polls will be posted because I had the queue paused, but I have zero access to the account. It's kinda just. Floating in the void

I have no idea what to do. I'll try to contact tumblr asap to see if I can get access to the new one and get things back on track, but I have no idea if they'll answer me. They haven't so far regarding all my other accounts...

anyways, sorry again to bring this here to your blog, I just wanted to let everyone know!!

-mod Nyashley (proshipping-polls)

hi, I don't mind, it's no bother!

that's really frustrating! for some reason, tumblr doesn't like to respond when they have obviously made a mistake with denying a report or wrongfully terminating an account. for example, they never got back to me when I reported a nazi, and not when I reported transphobes who's content definitely fell into the "inciting hatred" category, but did get back to me about much smaller incidents. it's weird.

some gems from the tumblr user guidelines:

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I actually can't find info on ban evasion for some reason, is it not technically disallowed on tumblr, or is it supposed to be common sense?

The rule I assume they can justify it with is "promotion of child sexual abuse, including illustrations or text" which is just silly. And I believe the Dipper/Mabel poll got taken down, right? Which means that it's not exclusively "child sexual abuse" that's the problem..

Since problematic-polls was also nuked, I wondered if they ban blogs that may cause arguments or are problematic, but there are so many blogs dedicated to transphobia that it would require a ton of double standards.

I don't know if there's anything I or followers of this blog can do, but I can try bothering customer support too lol. No fun allowed on tumblr.com it seems

[v0rewhxre]

Tour Ticket Woes

This is just a funny little thing idea I had in my head after the Sleep Token presale . And yes, I finally remembered my password to Tumblr once again! It's written for Noah Sebastian but there's not a ton of mentions of the partner throughout.

CW: Some language, anxiety inducing, a little fluff

Topic: Noah x Reader

"Goddammit!" You screamed as you frantically tried to purchase tickets to the most anticipated tour of the year for your favorite band.

The queue just opened, and low and behold you were 14,567 for a 15k cap venue. Not to mention the fact that your presale code was never sent to you via email the way it should have been. You had to contact your brother, sister, and mother in order to receive a code. You made them all sign up just in case, thank goodness you sometimes let anxiety run your life.

Your boyfriend, Noah, strolled into the small office you set up in the smallest bedroom of your new house. A small smirk on his face as he gazed down at you hunched over your laptop.

Working in the industry, Noah knew just how intense obtaining tour tickets could be for more popular artists these days. He could pull any string with the newfound fame he had after The Death of Peace of Mind, get you on any guest list you wanted.

But you preferred the adrenaline of the hunger games of ticket purchasing somehow.

Of course, Noah already guest listed you at the concert anyways in the off chance you couldn't get the tickets fast enough. He would surprise you with them at dinner in a few days, but for now he would allow you to try and do it on your own.

"Could this little man walk any slower?" You questioned with a frustrated huff.

Noah chuckled, approaching you before he stopped to peer over your shoulder, "What little man?"

You forcefully pointed at the little figure walking in place as you waited in the queue, "This dude! He's not moving the way I need him to."

Noah looked at the number: 9,435.

"Well, I'm sure he will move soon. All you can do is wait," Noah placed a hand on your shoulder. He knew there would be immediate disappointment if you did not get these tickets.

You had been following this band since they were younger, newer to the scene. They exploded quickly and the high demand for tickets worried you every year they came back to LA for tour. And they only grew bigger and bigger. Soon it would be a luxury to see them.

"If I wait any longer, I am going to not only sweat through my deodorant but potentially my clothes too," you let out another short sigh, perking up when the little man moved a few centimeters forward.

6,767.

"As long as your celebration involves a shower afterwards," Noah wrinkled his nose earning a small slap to the stomach.

"You know I can't help it. My body doesn't understand the difference between buying tour tickets and being held at gunpoint," you looked up into his deep brown eyes.

You both smiled softly at one another, when movement caught the corner of your eyes.

2,341.

"We are in the home stretch now," you leaned forward, hunching closer to the screen to see. You forgot your glasses downstairs but it was imperative to stay glued to the screen now.

389.

"You have the security code for the credit card?" Noah asked, his voice stressed as he leaned closer to the screen as well.

"Of course I do... I have it memorized!" You grabbed the computer mouse and wiggled it to keep the screen awake.

The little man moved almost to the end of the loading bar, bells rang out from the screen causing a small jump from you and your boyfriend.

It was go time.

The screen reloaded, a small box appeared for the presale code once again. You copy and pasted from the computer screen sticky note, your hands shaking slightly.

Once you entered, the arena map began to load. The room was completely silent as the sections highlighted in blues and grays, blue for the available tickets and gray for the sold out sections.

You clicked one section, the tickets quickly depleting any time you tried to click. You moved to the next one, got tickets in your cart, and then hit proceed only to be met with a message saying they were gone.

"Come On!" You yelled as you moved to two more sections, with no luck in grabbing a pair.

Noah's breath tickled your ear, you moved to the upper bowls only to be met with a new message saying the show was sold out.

The feeling of defeat washed over your body, once shaking with adrenaline now shook with small sobs as you realized the tickets were gone. You could try for the general sale but the chances were really slim. And resale was so ridiculous you didn't want to waste the money.

Noah kissed your cheek and silently walked away, knowing you preferred space when you felt disappointed. A few tears made their way down your cheek as you closed the browser tab out.

You had seen the band quite a few times, though not seeing them for the first time ever made your heart feel raw. You should feel fortunate and lucky to have watched them grow, other fans should have the opportunity to experience them live too. But it still hurt.

Your phone buzzed, a text from Noah appeared on the screen. You grabbed it and unlocked the phone, met with a, "Noah transferred two tickets to you", link to Ticketmaster.

You clicked on it, two tickets to the band appearing in your account on the app for the LA show.

God you loved that man so much.

:)

[raccoonfallsharder]

✩࿐࿔ chill the fuck out. [new 3/11]

✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist | NEW: take what you need queue fanfiction masterlist | navigation

fluff | gn reader | no use of y/n | anthology one-shot | word count: 1,499. read ✩࿐࿔ chill the fuck out on ao3

is your calendar full of obligations? are you overwhelmed by tasks? does it seem like every time you finish a project, wash your dishes, or fold the laundry, there is just another project to finish, dish to wash, or basket to fold? are you weighed down by responsibilities so large and numerous that you don't even know where to begin? don't worry. the captain is here to help. he's gonna make sure you add pesky things like "eat" and "sleep" to your to-do list, and harass you into crossing off anything he doesn't think is a priority. (p.s. it bears repeating, in case you're worried about it: you are not lazy. you are doing the most you can. it's okay to be overwhelmed, to be overtired, to need a break.)

darling nonnie, thank you for suggesting this. it was definitely one of the hardest things to write (you were right - it was a little vague! but i don't think that's your fault; it's just the nature of overwhelm. how can you possibly describe it??). which is to say: i hope i managed to hit on something in here that will be useful to you, that will make you feel validated and put you a little more at ease. also please listen to rocket and fucking eat. and sleep. please. ♡♡♡ do it for rocket, and for me.

“Whoa. What’s wrong with you?” You drag your eyes up from the datapad in front of you, and try to wrangle a smirk for the Captain. You can tell that it fails — not only because you can feel it limping off the corner of your mouth, but because he actually cringes at whatever’s lurking in your eyes. His brow furrows. “You look like shit.” You sigh and set aside the screen. It’s just as well — it was hurting your brain anyway. “Why do so many of our conversations start like this?” you wonder aloud. “Why do you look like shit so often?” he shoots back, but you can hear the note of concern woven into the smug, shit-eating taunt of his voice. “Hmmm.” You tap a faux-thoughtful finger against your chin. “Maybe ‘cause I’m constantly being bossed around by a half-pint Captain with a meanstreak and a bad sense of humor?” He squints one ruby-red eye up at you. “What the fuck’s a half-pint?”

read more on ao3 ✩࿐࿔ for nonnie ♡ ✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist | NEW: take what you need queue

need more reminders from rocket?

the world is hard, and sometimes it's difficult to complete daily tasks & take care of yourself (aka rocket bullies you for your own damn good).

feel free to ✩ request reminders ✩ via reblogs, asks, and tumblr or ao3 comments if they would be helpful for you. it may take me a hot minute to get to them depending on life n stuff, but i will do my best. ♡ view the take what you need queue to see upcoming installations & the current backlog.

this is about as wholesome as it gets (for me) i think. can be read platonically or romantically. mcu-based anthology, meant to take place post-volume-3, but headcanon however you want ♡

✩࿐࿔ take what you need masterlist

eat somethin. (wc: 576)

go to frickin bed already. (wc: 737)

get outta bed & get your shit done.(wc: 925)

take a damn bath. (wc: 1,375)

leave your frickin skin alone. (wc: 1,579)

take a fuckin study break.(wc: 1,020)

drink some goddamn water. (wc: 1,209)

stop destroying your frickin clothes. (wc: 1,609)

just buy the damn thing already. (wc: 1,271)

it's frickin laundry day. (wc: 1,923)

get some sunshine, sunshine. (wc: 1,614)

did you take your damn meds today? (wc: 1,288)

schedule your fuckin' appointments.(wc: 1,222)

do your goddamn dishes. (wc: 994)

brush your frickin' teeth. (wc: 1,774)

nobody fuckin hates you (wc: 1,231)

stop biting your goddamn nails (wc: 2,920)

take a frickin' shower (wc: 1,359 )

take care of your fuckin injury (wc: 2,102)

cook some goddamn food. (wc: 2,707)

clean your frickin room. (wc: 2,465)

stop hittin shit. (wc: 1,862)

do your frickin homework. (wc: 2,121 )

chill the fuck out. (wc: 1,499)

if you find any of these at all helpful, they're meant for you.

teacup and teal line dividers by @/saradika-graphics | support banner by @/saradika-graphics | raccoon divider by @/thecutestgrotto. total wordcount: 37,423.

[goddessflorasparks]

I’m Back!!

I got kicked off tumblr 9 months ago and i didn't know why! I appealed and finally heard back a few days ago. Turns out I was kicked off for no reason!

I have done my best to follow all the rules here so I was absolutely devastated. I really liked the people I met and I enjoyed the image forward content sharing and my liked photos were full of inspiration for new shoots. It knocked a little enthusiasm out of me honestly :(

Sadly, my really well flushed out queue has disappeared. It’s gonna take me a little while to get back to a regular post rhythm to this.

In the meantime here’s a picture of me dealing with what I called “The Plum Emergency”. During a heat wave in California my plum tree produced more than it’s ever produced ever ever ever. I bought a steam juicer and set up shop in the backyard. I put up 20 gallons of plum juice (heat canned for shelf stable storage), about 20 pounds of plums for later in the freezer, made ungodly amounts of fruit leather (if you have made it, you know it’s very, very time-consuming), made some jelly and some pate de fruit!

its been about 3 weeks of feeling like I live in a plum processing plant 😂 Saturday I put away the final bit of plums and now I’m slowly decommissioning my factory for the year. I’m gonna take a break for a few months, but I’ll start making jelly and earnest for Christmas gifts in November :-)

anyway hi again!!!

[catghoststories]

Ah, I've gotten the bug to write Welcome Home again~ I mean it's always there, but after the update I just want *more* content for my fav couples, you know?! I am motivated to finish up my Valentine's Day fic (which is Howdy x Barnaby, with Eddie playing a role too). It would be out of season, but so is the WH site sometimes! 😆 I have set my word goals, I'm readying my editing pen, I am motivated!

Also, does anyone else struggle with balancing fanart/fanfiction and original stuff?! I have so many ideas backlogged, but then my little shipper brain thinks, "What if Eddie and Frank put on a fashion show?!" I know I will get back to my originals one day, but it's slow-going. Just wanted to see if I'm alone in that! 😆

Anyway, back to turning on my huge Tumblr queue while I work on things! The Frank pic from the update I am using as an icon definitely represents my mental state, between moving and work and all the silly ideas in my head! I hope you all have a nice weekend and get to do something fun and relaxing!

[my-name-is-markus-with-a-k]

prime numbers for the gif-maker asks? 👀

2. Least favourite set? Oh, I'm sorry but I don't want to answer that 😅 I've deleted any I really don't like, but I will say there's a set that keeps popping up in my notifs where I'm like 'really, that one again???' But that's all I will say. People like what they like.

3. The set with the most notes? This one with 1559 notes. I'm happy with that, it's a good set. The ones with Connor in them tend to do well.

5. Favourite movie/tv show to gif? dbh is my main fandom so yeah, dbh but more specifically, Markus. I just love giffing him, it's almost therapeutic at this stage.

7. Who are my top 3 gifmakers? @thirium @aghostinmyownmachine @mijchi for dbh gifs and also shout out to @babyjapril who is not a dbh giffer but her gifs are always incredible (sorry for the random tag ana).

11. One set I made that just won't die? I legitimately don't know what this means lol

13. Where and/or from whom did you learn to gif? I'm mostly self-taught but I have relied on a few tutorials here and there.

17. How many gifs do you prefer in a set? I guess 2? That's how many I usually make in a set, so that must be my preference. I do like a 4 set too though.

19. What I'd my giffing process like? Very on the fly, lol. I check to see if I have the footage I want, if I don't I screen record the scene I need. I upload that into ps, trim the clip to what I need, change the speed and crop. Then I brighten and colour them to whatever I'm feeling at the time. I always sharpen last. It's what takes the longest and I sometimes have to finick with the settings a bit until it looks nice on tumblr.

23. What's the thing you gif when you don't have anything else to gif? Take a wild guess. It's my boy ofc

29. Have you ever posted a set, realised you made a mistake later but realised it was too late? Oh yes many a time. Usually on sets with text and I made a typo. That's happens pretty often 😅 I usually go back and fix them anyway but then the old versions still get reblogged lol

31. Do you schedule/queue posts or do you post as soon as you're done? I usually post when I'm done. If I'm not really happy with a set, I'll save them to drafts and look at them later. If I decide they're actually OK, I'll post them, if not, I redo them. But I don't schedule posts, I'm too impatient.

37. What sets do you have planned to make in the future? There are a few sets I'm waiting to do when my skills catch up to my visions. But right now? There's a quote gifset I want to make with Markus but it will require time I just don't have right now.

41. Least favourite part of the gifmaking process? Oh my god, uploading to tumblr. I never really know what gifs are going to look good. Sometimes I'll spend ages on a set, upload to tumblr and it look like ass, so I have to redo the whole thing. It's infuriating.

43. Do you keep videos or delete them once you're done giffing? I keep them unless I need the space. I'm pretty lazy like that hahaha

47. Any advice for novice gif makers/people who want to start making gifs? Gif tutorials are your friend. I'm mostly self-taught but whenever I get really stuck, I search for gif tutorials. They are incredibly helpful.

That... was a lot of questions and I had to google prime numbers like a chump because I could only remember prime numbers up to 20 lmao

[reesescupss]

echo's of you (Dr. Sarah Reese x oc fic)

a/n: Hey so this is my first fic like ever lol, been a bit bored since I've finished school so I thought I would try something. I also have never actively used Tumblr much only lurked so forgive me. The fic is set mid-season 2 but I'm not really sure what direction this is gonna take in terms of following Sarah's plotline in the show. Anyways, suggestions are very welcome :)

The emergency department was short-staffed as always as Daisy walked through its doors for the first time, belongings in hand. She made her way to the reception desk and tapped and smiled warmly at the receptionist “Hey um”, she looked down at her name badge “Leah”.

 Leah, without evening looking up at her, seemingly annoyed, simply stated “Take a number and sit down honey it's gonna be about two hours” “Oh um im, not a patient, im the new receptionist here” Daisy smiled sheepishly. 

Leah raised her eyebrows “Sorry I forgot you were starting today, Daisy Morgan right?”, Daisy nodded, “alright, pop your stuff in one of the free lockers in the doctor's lounge to your right” Leah motioned over to the glass lounge “and then come back here and ill show you the basics”, Leah started furiously typing on her keyboard and Daisy took that as her queue to leave. 

With her hand to her head, trying to fight off that awkward encounter, she made her way to the doctor's lounge, to her left was a coffee machine that was sure to produce awful coffee, but she made a note of it mentally, this place looked like everyone needed to drink shit tons of the stuff.

To Daisy’s right was an old couch, and the lockers Leah was talking about were situated on the back wall.  She chucked her things in an empty one and turned back around to the door, out of the corner of her eye she spotted some doctors engaged in a serious conversation. 

Daisy’s gaze couldn't help but linger on the mass of dark brown curls, whose name badge stayed annoyingly out of view, suddenly the pretty stranger turned around and caught her eyes.

Embarrassed, Daisy shuffled out of the doctor's lounge and headed back to the reception desk, head down.  If Daisy had turned and looked back, she would’ve noticed that pretty stranger flash a smile in her direction. 

"Alright, the first rule of being an ED receptionist," Leah said as she handed Daisy her hospital ID. "You’re not just a receptionist. You’re the anchor. The calm in the chaos. Got it?” 

Daisy nodded, though her grip on the badge suggested felt anything but calm. Leah smirked. "Don’t worry. You’ll get used to the adrenaline. Now, let’s start with the basics." She turned the binder toward her, pointing to a Patient Check-In Protocol page. 

"Step one: Every person who walks through that door is either in pain, panicking, or both. Your job is to keep your voice steady and your tone gentle. Like this." She straightened her posture and mimed typing. "'Hi, welcome to the emergency department. How can we help you today?' Got it?" 

Daisy hesitated. "What if they’re... you know, yelling?" Leah raised an eyebrow. "Oh, they’ll yell. You’ll get the whole spectrum; crying, shouting, even the occasional insult. Just remember: it’s not about you. They’re scared” Daisy nodded again, this time with more confidence. 

"Step two," Leah continued, flipping the page, "the system." She gestured at the computer screen. "This is where everything happens. You'll log patient info, assign triage levels, and communicate with the back. Don’t let the software intimidate you, it’s basically just organised chaos." "Organised chaos," Daisy echoed, glancing at the clusters of tabs and charts on the screen.

 As the shift went on, Leah walked Daisy through the rest: handling ambulance calls, navigating tricky patient families, and the all-important skill of balancing speed with accuracy. Every so often, Daisy would glance over her shoulder, hoping to catch of glimpse of the curly-headed stranger, but she only managed to spot her walking across to file some paperwork in the middle of the emergency department. 

Daisy’s eyes raked up and down the stranger's form, although she was too far away to spot a name badge if she could just- “Ok, I think we're all done here” Leah remarked and snapped Daisy out of her lustful state.

“Oh yes thank you so much for your help Leah, im in tomorrow to do a shadow shift right?” Daisy cocked her head, “yes, and by the way, that doctor you've been ogling at, her name is Doctor Reese” Leah smiled.

 “What ogling? But yes, um, thank you, Leah, for the wonderful training I ought to go now”, Daisy awkwardly stood up and quickly retreated to the doctor's lounge to grab her things. She silently cursed to herself the whole way there, was it that obvious she was checking the Doctor out?

[cy-cyborg]

So I sent you an ask before your tumblr got deleted and I’m assuming the ask got deleted too. Basically, when I was watching Nimona I thought Ballistar got his prosthetic too quickly after his amputation. But I don’t actually know how long it takes for an amputation to heal, or to build up the strength needed to use a prosthetic. Also I would have liked to see him learn to use his prosthetic instead of using it perfectly from the beginning. But I’m not an amputee. Are my impressions of this accurate?

Yeah, I'm really sorry about that (also that it took me a little while to answer this time too!), I'm pretty sure my answer was actually the next post in my queue 😅.

So I haven't seen Nimona (I really want to, but I don't currently have Netflix lol) so I can only answer generally, but the healing time is different depending on what you mean by healed. If you mean just the wound healing, that takes a few weeks, usually 2-4 weeks. If you mean able to wear a prosthetic, for leg amps, that's usually 6-8 weeks, but I think it might be shorter for arm amputees since they aren't weight bearing through their stumps. Im not 100% sure, though. To fully heal (the swelling in the stump goes down, general pain settles, etc) can take a year or more, but most people will be back to their normal lives long before that, though. As for building up strength to use the prosthetic, that's really variable. Some people take to their prosthetics REALLY quickly, others take a while. The type of amputation is a big factor, but lots of other little things go into it too. Ballistar is an above-elbow amputee right? As I understand it, those kinds of prosthetics are quite difficult to use, both due to the strength needed and due to them not being super intuitive.

In saying all this though, unless its a focal point of the story or its a very grounded/realistic setting, I'm personally pretty lenient with most sci-fi/fantasy in this regards. We definatly need more media - even fantasy and sci-fi that shows that side of being an amputee or at least puts in effort to acknowledge it, but I think stories that lean a bit more into the fantasy side of things have their place too, especially in stories like Nimona where the focus seems to be elsewhere. This isn't to say you shouldn't try to include the realistic rep where you can, but you have to find a balance between realism and the tone your story has. Some stories really would benefit from the more grounded/realistic depictions that show everything, others might only need a brief mention. It depends on the story, and it's really hard to say where Nimona lies on that spectrum without having actually seen it, but from the little I have seen, I feel like it falls on the "brief mention" side of things since it already has so much going on.

I'm going to use How to Train Your Dragon as an example of what I'm trying to say, just becuase I know the first movie got a lot of critisism from amputees for having hiccup literally get up and start walking the moment he woke up after loosing his leg, but I think it lands in a similar area of the spectrum I'm talking about. HTTYD is one of those movies where having the more realistic approach wouldn't have really fit with the tone or pacing, but it would have benifited from a little more than what we got. Not much though, since we kind of already got it with toothless anyway. In my opinion, all it needed was a slight tweak to that ending scene and it would have been perfect (in my opinion). Personally, I would have made Hiccup (without a prosthetic) sit on toothless's back when they went out the door for the first time. The scene plays out almost exactly the same, and you get the symbolic framing the directors wanted, while acknowledging that walking so soon after a burn amputation is not going to happen. Gobber gives Hiccup the tail, saddle and his new leg in the bundle, which allows them to keep the "That bit's my handiwork, with a little hiccup flair thrown in. Think it'll do?" line. Hiccup can instead hold the leg in his hand and say "I might make a few adjustments" - everyone laughs and then it cuts to the end scene with them all flying with the implication some time has passed the same as in the real film. It's a small tweak, but I do think that's all it really needed.

So yeah, While its great to have more realistic representation in your stories, you got to work within the tone your story has. There's no "one size fits all" way to approach it. Again though, I could be wrong about where Nimona would fall here, I know it does tackle heavy subjects in regards to trans representation and discrimination, so maybe it could have made it work. I'll probably talk more about it once I actually see the movie though!

[groovygrub]

heyyy folks!!! as promised, a brief(...ish) explanation of what's been going down:

so we had ourselves a bit of a ~tornadic thunderstorm~ almost a week ago; apparently FOUR lil twisters touched down in our area and several were visible from our driveway?!! – tragically, i didn't get to actually see the tornados because i was tripping too hard (here's some common sense disguised as a fun fact! if you consume 16x a "microdose" of shrooms, especially combined with other edibles, the dose isn't so micro anymore!! that shit had me macro-ed, dude 😩 learn from my mistakes!) and also didn't expect any visible touchdown from our house :((( i cried when i found out i missed out on the nados, ngl.

anyway, the majority of the city lost all power and my house just got it back last night! we still got some live wires ⚡ hanging in our yard so it's cordoned off but hopefully they'll fix that soon because i really gotta go foraging soon & would prefer not to get yelled at and/or zippity zapped. i'm already getting zippity zapped enough by my own brain, you know??

while on the topic of brain zaps!! the extreme heat & humidity and stress (and without any AC, air purifier, very little water, etc) has been... less-than-compatible with my chronic health shit (especially my seizures, POTS, EDS, mast cell disease, and migraines) 😅 i've had 5+ (?) episodes over the past week and they're still periodically making little cameos 🥲

definitely one of the worst clusters i've had yet tbh. after the initial seizure, i couldn't really move & was just chilling there and my broke-ass brain very helpfully kept supplying me with nothing but the thought "damn, bro got prone" (i would make a great doctor, i know). and then i started sobbing because my CNS was too afk to go grab a drink and seizures always make me sooo goddamn thirsty for some reason & i was already so dehydrated 💀

and i didn't even get to see any nados!!!! like!!! that's so twisted, dude (pun really not even intended, just slipped out, whoops). "fucked up" doesn't even begin to describe it. absolutely gargantuan L for me :((( an elephantine L, a BROBDINGNAGIAN L, if you will. feels like i just got hoodwinked by the cosmos.

anyhowsies. i set forth with the intention of just letting y'all know why i've been playing tumblr hooky (oh!! and in the days immediately leading up to the power outage, i was just busy being helplessly in love. still am, don't have any plans of stopping ❤️✨ but i'm also trying to be more present again for my beloved little army of weirdos!) and to say sorry for the delay in memes 😕 so idk how it turned into this mess, my b!

i'm slowly working through my notifications too!! just takes some extra time to process things when Brain is rebooting (and Brain has to fully reboot every time i have an episode 🙄 dramatic ass lil bitch). thank you so much for all your patience, birds & bees (new inclusive alternative to "ladies & gentlemen" just dropped!) 💛

ps to my wonderful moot who said they were queueing one of my memes for last monday: if you're reading this, please know i didn't forget about you or your post!! i WILL get to it, promise! 🙏

[13eyond13]

Hii for the fandom ask game I'm shooting two of your questions right back at you because when you asked me them they made me immediately wonder about your answers, 23 and 25! Also: 1, 8, and 16!

omg thank you for so many asks!

23. The fandom you're curious about because of a mutual:

@stvlti posting on my dash about the new Scott Pilgrim anime got me curious enough to start watching it recently! I read those comics back in college and thought they were pretty great, as was the Edgar Wright movie. And the anime seems like a very good adaptation of it so far. Can't explain how funny it is as a Canadian to see Canada as the setting for an anime, either... I just feel like we have such a bland normie country to set things in, hahaha

I'm also getting very curious about a ton of different manga thanks to the recs I've received on my blog recently! (X)

25. A piece of advice for taking care of yourself in fandom spaces:

HMMM.

I think the main thing I get people asking me about here sometimes is how to make more friends in the fandom, especially when you're new and don't know anybody. I think the main bits of advice I have on that front is:

(1) I SWEAR YOU AREN'T BEING SNUBBED/INTENTIONALLY IGNORED, YOU'RE PROBABLY JUST NOT ON OTHER PEOPLE'S RADARS AT ALL

So follow a bunch of other bloggers in that fandom and interact with their blogs first! Like their posts, send them polite/friendly asks looking for their takes (this is especially easy to do when people reblog ask memes), and be brave enough not to go on anon when you do it so they can see your lovely face and actually potentially make a connection with you! Most people LOVE getting asks and are flattered when somebody else asks for their thoughts. If you're genuine with your interest it shouldn't take long for other people to start taking interest in you back.

Which leads to my second point of:

(2) MAKE SURE YOU ACTUALLY ARE POSTING THINGS ON YOUR BLOG ON A SEMI-REGULAR BASIS! People will probably click on your blog once you start interacting with them, and they will most likely only follow you back if you actually have stuff on your blog that shows your interests/personality/the kinds of things they can expect you to be posting on their dash! You can easily stock up a bunch of posts into a queue if you're worried about spamming the dash or don't want to be online 24/7 too, so it will keep your blog active without you actually having to be there all the time.

ALSO DO NOT HAVE TOO MUCH SHAME TO LITERALLY ASK YOUR FOLLOWERS TO SEND YOU ASKS. Reblog fandom ask memes, it's a great way to give people a template of questions to bug you nicely with, and answering one ask often leads to receiving another ask!

(3) DO YOUR OWN THING WHETHER OR NOT ANYBODY IS CONSTANTLY PATTING YOU ON THE BACK. First and foremost I'm usually making myself laugh here on my blog and hoarding all of these posts for myself, so even when I'm not getting constant feedback from others I'm still having a good time and posting on the regular! I'm SUPER glad that other people get something out of it too, but I think when it comes to blogging you should treat your blog like your own personal little kingdom where you are making the rules, and other people can follow or unfollow as they please.

And finally:

(4) YOU WILL EVENTUALLY LOSE A FOLLOWER OR TWO, BUT SO DO I AND SO DOES EVERYBODY ELSE. Try not to obsessively check your follower count or to take it as a huge calamity if your count goes down instead of up once in a while! It WILL eventually go back up again, and you genuinely have no idea why it dropped most of the time (it probably wasn't anything majorly personal - maybe somebody just is no longer in your fandom, maybe Tumblr is clearing out some porn bots, maybe a follower is deactivating their blog - or maybe you DID post something that somebody didn't like, but that's ok, it's probably better if they aren't following you anymore anyways!) And you should ALSO block/unfollow people freely if they're really making your blogging experience uncomfortable - at the end of the day you don't really know them and they don't really know you, and you will both probably move on and forget about it not too far down the road.

1. List 3 positive things about your current fandom(s):

(1) Genuinely extremely chill and cozy, and almost always has been in my experience!

(2) People have the best sense of humour here. IDK I think I took it for granted that all fandoms were like that but anytime I venture into other ones I find myself being a bit disappointed that people just aren't as funny in general a lot of the time

(3) OMG thank you everybody for all the delicious fanfic and fanart, and for continuing to still make it steadily even in 2023

8. You hope more people will come to appreciate ___ (a ship, a trope, an episode, etc.):

I'm gonna advocate for a ship I don't even have a ton of personal investment in and say meronia! God, stop sleeping on this pairing already and/or acting like it's way more problematic than it actually is, you silly ancient fandom you (no, they are not basically related, they simply went to the same school in their childhood for a bit). These two definitely deserve to have their relationship a bit better explored!

16. A tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate:

Watari had an entire-ass family of his own, apparently!

Isn't that weird to think about? There is actually SO MUCH unanswered stuff about how his relationship with L actually was set up, especially if you are just going by the original manga serial and aren't using the one-shots or the anime or LABB novel to flesh out L's backstory or any Wammy's lore. And sometimes I think it might be neat to see people exploring it in totally different ways that would still be 100% plausible based on what little we know!

[ask meme]

[selfundiagnosed]

Insane that my mom ran the most popular patrick stump archival blog on tumblr + was a full time lawyer + was raising two mentally ill kids + doing culinary arts school + having a cookie business. I think its her autism i wont lie. But now its all catching up to her and she has no energy which would be the ehlers danlos fault this time.. tried to convince her to steal her old url back but on cohost so she made an account but couldnt immediately make side blogs but boy oh boy. she would be giving the fall out boy fandom what they want and more. Shes like i cant do it again i have no idea how i did it before im like ma! its called having boundaries. Shes like i cant do that when i have a special interest its called autism. Im like right but queue posts for once a day and find 30 pictures from a photo set and boom one months worth of posting fall out boy and you can conserve your energy. But she doesnt know how to do her special interests in moderation. Im honestly just glad she went and accepted a bunch of access to her mega archive folder thingy. But shes so mad she doesnt have access to like her actual archive bc the website she used go archive everything changed their subscription plans and she has so many photos it would be like a zillion dollars she doesnt have 😭 like bogus i remember photo storing websites were so free. Take me back to 2010 for real :T Anyway she used to get so mortified when i told my friends as a teen about her blog i actually told her coworker once and her coworker somehow RETAINED the url and went home and looked at her blog and she was so upset at me 😭😭 but now like she kinda doesnt give a fuck anymore bc fall out boy was her special interest for an entire decade and she’s over it. Obviously still a big big fan but not in bandom anymore. Her new special interest is a band i introduced her to when i was 13 and its kinda cringe so i dont talk about it but she also ran an archival blog for THIS band and i told my friend at a sleepover who liked this band about her blog and they fucking FOLLOWED HER and shit bricks and my mom was MORTIFIED. But anyway yeah she doesnt gaf now if i tell people she was this blog and i even posted a tiktok about it once and people started doing detective work that would make her autistic self so proud…. Bc thats what she was good at! sleuthing stalking detective work on the band. Pete wentz privately answered several of her asks on tumblr i’ll see if she can send me the asks and their responses. But yeah she doesnt care anymore. her original url was scrubbed by tumblr and shes very angry about it bc it was an original bandom url for patrick stump so shes like wtf ever i dont wanna touch this im so mad. Which SAAAAME. ive done that so many times. She started permitting access to people who requested it for one of her photo archive website thingies she left in her last post. But yeaaaahhh… she was patrick stump for halloween in like 2008 and she won the costume contest bc she had rhe coolest sideburns and looked so much like him. My first ever concert was a fall out boy concert in spring 2007 i was 6 turning 7 within the next few months lemme just say the music video for carpel tunnel of love played on the screen as they played the song and my brother and i was so traumatized. But then immediately they played this aint a scene after that and we were like HELL YEAAAAAAAAA. And my brother (5 at the time) and i knew every single song and sang along and my mom went look at everyone else no one else knows these songs. You guys are so cool. And we looked around and yeah no one was singing the songs and were sooo excited! Oh and theres that one time she recorded us singing keep it simple by cobra starship and THEY PUT IT ON THEIR MYSPACE PAGE AT THE TOP WE FLIPPED SHIT. i wish THAT video was still up. Shes also met fall out boy so many times and walked away from patrick stump while he was talking to her bc she didnt want to take up his time at a meet and greet. Omg. so many memories. I was literally raised in online bandom thats so insane. Maybe thats why im a homosexual

[burning-academia-if]

Hello! I love the premise of your IF, and your writing is spectacular (Rook's backstory has me in SHAMBLES you don't understand) and I'm super excited for the next update, whenever that will be! On that note, I've got a question about making and promoting your own IF. I have my an idea that I've been working on, and I want to one day release my own IF with it, but I'm not sure how I would go about promoting it - I don't have a lot of time for writing, so I'm worried that I won't really be able to get it out there because I just don't post very often. How did you promote Burning Academia when you first got started? Do you have any tips for beginners like myself?

Thanks in advance!

Firstly, thanks for playing! Secondly, I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask about marketing since tumblr/the IF community ultimately did 99% of the work lol. With that being said though, here's some general advice!

Take time on your intro post. This is everyone's first introduction to your IF, and it's what net me most of my followers in the beginning. While there's a general layout to IF intros, I personally still went back and looked through all the IFs I follow to see what bits and bobs I wanted to add and what I didn't.

Be honest. If making an IF is a hobby or you don't have time, you can add a disclaimer if you want. Honestly, I think it's less about frequency and more about consistency. Pick a day where you have some time and answer asks, and don't feel pressured to answer every ask, especially if you're busy.

Also, be clear about the kinds of asks you will and won't answer. This is less a marketing thing and more for your own sake kind of thing lol. If you don't have a lot time to write the IF, then you certainly don't have the time to write prompts/scenarios.

Anyway, if you are worried about frequency of posting, set up a queue! Fill it with art/quotes/photos and tag them as inspo/aesthetic/characters/etc. This way the blog is still 'active' without you needing to be present all the time.

Circling back to the intro post: tag it properly. I jam packed mine with every tag I could think of, and I think that's part of why it got around so quickly (as well as the major IF blogs reblogging it as well).

While I'm not sure what you're thinking of using (Twine/Choicescript/Ink/etc), you'll have different options on how to market. For example, choicescript has their own forums where you can post a thread for your WIP or Itch.io has devlogs. Use them. While I don't update frequently on my itch, I do like to cross post certain things (the 1k follower short stories, for example, I put on itch. Updates are an obvious one). I pretty much copy and paste from tumblr to itch, just so people who don't follow my tumblr are informed to what's going on. I personally only use tumblr for BA, so if you wanted to try other social media then obviously do some research. I personally wouldn't use more then 2 socials max though, because it can get pretty overwhelming.

Finally, be part of the community! I know I'm personally not the best at this due to my own online anxieties lol, but just reblogging things your interested in and supporting others is always appreciated! I know this sounds obvious but after lurking in the IF community for years and being in the VN world, you'd be surprised by how many people just...don't?? Anyway, I personally love when other writers show excitement for other IFs, so I like to express that, too. It's also just giving back to the community you're a part of.