#as well as a shoutout to all of the random blogs I interacted with today who spam booped me to get me here

[omniscientrose]

LETS GOOOO!!!

[puffyducks]

DCRC Week #4 (Part 2)

This post will be covering TWO stories by Don Rosa: Nobody's Business and Mythological Menagerie. First one is a Gladstone story lord grant me strength 🙏

he's going fishing you guys no way...... he just like me fr

YOU

I hope you get food poisoning you curly haired fuck

Donald looks so excited for this I'm sure this will only go well for him and he'll be very happy and wealthy by the end of this comic!!

liquidating... liike..... like liquidator....... darkwing duck refere

Donald just singlehandedly destroyed one of the largest restaurant chains in the entire world you gotta respect the hustle. Nobody does it like him 💪

Can.... can you even do that??? Can you sell a completely vertical property???

happy gladstone yahs ytuesday everyone. i still want him dead

I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HI

you guys dont understand my beef with gladstone is so personal he literally stole my wife and crashed my car. he came over to my house and tracked mud on my brand new carpet and dug up all my crops. and he called me fat. he deserves nothing.

This is the part where I share the anecdote that one time I was browsing tumblr and I saw that a random blog I had never interacted with had me blocked and I was like "oh no what did I do :(" and then upon further investigation it turned out to be a Gladstone stan account and I think they didn't like me talking about wanting to hit him with my car. Clearly they didn't see my really cool and really good Gladstone Hips Don't Lie AMV that I had pinned to my account for a while but in all fairness I did also post a picture of him dying in a glue trap and I would absolutely do it again. This account is not a safe space for Gladstone Gander.

Moving on to the next comic-

Tell me why I literally got excited seeing them mention hognose snakes. I don't keep any reptiles myself but I watch videos of people that own them online (as normal people do) and hognoses are so cute you guys they're literally just little fellas. Also shoutout to tufted titmouses too (tufted titmice??) there's one that visits my bird feeder every now and then. Shoutout to animals in general actually.

BASED ASF HDL LEAVE NO TRACE 💯

Shoutout to Donald and the boys for going out to the woods to look for creatures together. I keep trying to get my family to go herping with me in a swamp wearing full-body waders but they always say no cause they're "scared of getting bit by snakes" and they "don't wanna catch malaria"

Grandma Duck ALSO based asf 💯

Man imagine being half plant and half duck that would probably suck like that would probably be really lonely. hey have you guys heard of darkwing d-

I thought this panel was just Grandma Duck full on mowing Donald over with her car (he kinda deserves it in this comic)

WHAT IN TARNATION

Live HDL reaction

Donald is literally such a hater bro, all the triplets wanted to do was go out and look for little creatures and he had to be so mad about it 😭

The morals of today's stories: Gladstone Sucks and be nice to animals (or else).

[jgracie]

hi!! i’m just starting my writing account; do you have any tips/tricks for newbies?

helloooo !!!! first of all congrats on starting a writing blog :) it’s SO fun over here ur gonna have a great time trust 🤍 anw these r all from the top of my head sooo yea

MOST IMPORTANT THING: MAKE SURE U ARE IN THE TAGS BEFORE U START POSTING !!!!

i feel like no one ever talks about it but it quite literally makes ur breaks the beginning of ur blog LOL 😭 if this is a new acc you’ve never used ur most probably not in the tags so u have to follow + interact w a lot of stuff ! tumblr j does this to make sure ur a human LOL

if this is an acc you’ve had for a while and u have been using a lot then it’s most probably either u didn’t verify ur email or u have ur blog hidden from searches !! in settings -> visibility make sure u have these turned off :

in order to check if ur in the tags, post smth random and tag it w literally anything then check the latest section of that tag n if ur post is in there ur in the tags ! if it’s not then ur not 😞 being in the tags is rly impt as a beginner blog since u have no followers to rb ur stuff and get it around yet !

STAY ORGANISED AND CONSISTENT

make sure u have an organised tag system before u start !! make all ur masterlists and rules n all that done before u start posting TRUST ME u will be thanking urself (i’m a second timer on tumblr and i remember the PAIN of making a masterlist later on😭)

link ur masterlist on ur writings as well so ppl can have easy access to it and therefore see more of ur content :)

in the beginning it also helps to be consistent!! when i first started i posted like twice a day but tbh i’m just extra LOL just don’t post and then leave for like a month yk 😣 (unless it’s serious tumblr should NEVER be the priority!!!!!!!)

HAVE REQS OPEN

this one’s really random but i found that it helped a lot w me personally ! i got reqs pretty quickly after making my blog and now the majority of my posts r acc things other people have requested !! i think this helps because u don’t have to think of as many ideas and also cz the people can say what they want so target audience n all that 🗣️

(also it’s just fun to see what they come up with!!!! everyone’s so cool and creative)

INTERACT W PPL!!!!!!!!

i cannot stress this enough!! follow other writers & make friends and have fun w it :) !!! i wouldn’t be here today without my lovely friends on here <3 (SHOUTOUT TO ALL OF U 🤍🤍🤍) honestly this would be SO boring w out them 😣

anyway lmk if u need any more help love u SOOO much !!!!!

[that-house]

Hey so I hit 100 followers today!

Buckle up, this is gonna be a LOOOONG post.

I quite honestly expected it (while my ego is a little smaller than my jokes make it out to be it is definitely present), I didn’t expect it to happen so fast.

It’s not an insane milestone, plenty of people have 100 followers. A hefty portion of my followers are bigger than me. But it’s still important to me. Knowing that there’s 100 people out there who enjoy my shit makes me happy.

First and foremost the credit quite honestly has to go to ahegao George Washington. No, I’m not joking. Until I posted on r/tumblr about my desire to draw that, I had 0 followers. I jumped to like 10 overnight, which was awesome. And then those new followers helped me spread my posts and get more attention.

Secondly I’d like to shoutout @imaverysadgirl and @themeaninglessjumble. You two were my first real tumblr frens. You were the first of my followers to really interact with me. Ember, I’m super happy you’re alive to see me hit 100 followers. Jumble (I don’t know your name unless I forgot it), your art and creations are great and you deserve way more attention.

To all the rest of you, you guys are great, too. Every new follower makes me happy. I’d say I don’t deserve you all, but my colossal ego says I do. Regardless, being nemesi and getting called out for being horny on main and sending and receiving asks has made this last month or so great.

Finally, for all the shit it gets, and for all the shit it pulls, [tumblr] really is pretty dope. I got to meet you all, and it’s actively making me a better person by exposing me to groups of people I’d rarely interact with in real life.

Why does it feel like I’m saying goodbye? I’m not, don’t worry. I plan to stay, and neither death nor pain shall drive me from this hellsite. I’m just saying thanks.

Now with the thanks out of the way, I want to talk about myself a little. Just the stuff that I’ve always wanted to say and never quite gathered my thoughts and found the time to talk about.

You’re gonna get to know me so well! This is like a mini autobiography!

First off, my mental health. This is something I don’t talk about much on this blog, mostly because it doesn’t need much talking about. I’m doing pretty well, to be honest. I have a smattering of anxiety and I’m maybe a little too introverted for my own good, but I’m not suffering from depression and the only time I ever even remotely considered suicide was when I just really really didn’t want to go to French class. COVID has been great for me, since I don’t have to see people. I suppose I’m not a great person to talk to if you’re struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts, seeing as I can’t personally relate, but I’m still always here for you guys if you need me. Just because I haven’t lived through your experiences doesn’t mean I can’t try to help.

Next up I want to talk about my sexuality. This one’s a bit of a mystery. For the past 16 years of my life I’ve considered myself 100% straight. But lately (let’s be honest, following the release of Spirit Blossom Thresh) I’ve been wondering if I might be bi. How many times can I joke about wanting to smash sexy boys before it’s not really a joke anymore? And if I am, a lot of things would suddenly make a lot of sense. But every time I think I have it figured out it suddenly feels like I have no clue what’s going on. Regardless, my sexuality has honestly never been a massive part of my identity (though I’m definitely not asexual, my friends can attest I’m far too horny for that). I have no clue if I’m bi and for now it’s kind of a fun little adventure!

I guess I’ll talk about school and stuff now. Believe it or not, I’m kinda smart. I’m taking a shitton of AP courses this year. But I simultaneously feel like it’s too much and not enough. I’m smart, but I’m not a great student. Compared to my dad, who graduated college with a 3.98 GPA (and his only B being in History of Canada as an American) and now has a super well-paying government STEM job that he loves, I feel like even if I work my ass off I’ll never quite measure up. And my parents have had super high expectations of me, and it’s only recently that they’ve started to accept that I might get some B’s here and there. I’m worried about all the homework this year. I’m a year ahead in Math but I don’t feel good enough at math to be taking AP calculus junior year. I’m worried I’m going to get like a C. But for the most part school is alright, too. That’s sort of the trend in my life. Everything’s alright.

Time to talk about my love life! I have no love life! I’ve been single for 17 years and probably stand no chance of changing that until at least college! Haha I’m so alone! But I can live with it. Growing up an only child with a few friends means that I’m pretty good at functioning without a ton of social interaction, and, while I’d like a partner someday, I’m not desperate. I can wait until I find someone. Pretty much my goal is not to die alone.

Onto sports maybe? I played soccer for most of my life, and was always the worst player on the select team. I was too good for the normal team and not good enough for the select team (kinda like math). Soccer was really toxic, especially when you’re the worst player on a team of high school jock drug addict boys. So I quit, and started playing frisbee! It’s a lot better. The people are nicer! But my first season never happened because of COVID and now I’m in my Junior year and haven’t played much frisbee! So I kinda suck! But I’m physically fit and that’s good enough for me! On my own time I bike and run to stay in shape.

Are you still with me? Now I’m gonna talk about my hobbies and things!

I’ve been playing video games for a long time. I kinda suck at them to be totally honest. I probably have below-average reaction time, and my parents only let me play 15 minutes a day for most of my childhood, so I have a lot less practice than most of my friends. I’m pretty slick with Swain in LoL tho.

This next part is borderline shameless self-promotion, but since the Kickstarter isn’t live yet I guess it doesn’t count. I’m making a tabletop role playing game! I’ve been working on it for the past few years. My goal is to launch the Kickstarter prior to my college applications, because that’ll look sexy as fuck to potential colleges. It’s a post-apocalyptic sci-fi game where you play as supersoldiers trying to reconquer the wastelands of Earth for humanity. I’ll do a big post on it when I launch the Kickstarter, and I guess that’ll also be a full name reveal (kinda spooky since my full name is ENTIRELY unique and one-of-a-kind. More ego boost lmao).

And finally I want to talk about my art and writing. I’ll start with my drawing, and finish off with my writing, since that’s what I’d most like to be known for on here (but that’ll never happen because my caveman brain shitposts are too funny).

So I’ve been doodling for a long time. I briefly got formal art training but sacrificing my Saturday mornings to draw what someone else wanted me to make so that I could make better stuff in the future didn’t appeal to my 8-year-old brain. I draw in the margins of worksheets. I draw on random sheets of paper. Recently my parents bought me a drawing tablet, and I’ve been trying to improve at digital art. I’d say I’m getting better, but I don’t practice nearly enough. All in all my art serves its purpose. It makes people laugh and can sometimes creep people out. It’ll never go in a museum, and I’ll never make money off of it but whatever.

And finally, my writing.

How can I talk about writing without talking about reading? I’ve likely read more books than both my parents combined, and if not, it’s close (and my mom is a prolific reader too). I have three bookshelves in my room and books on every surface. You can’t follow me for long without seeing a post ranting about my latest read. I love to read and I read incredibly fast. Reading spurred my love of English class, which in turn helped me write.

And finally, we get to writing in and of itself. I’ve been writing stories since I was a little kid. I’d like to think I’ve improved a fair bit. I’m still no novelist, but I consider myself a fairly adept short story writer.

But I suppose where my writing really stems from is my bed. Every night while I’m lying in bed, I tell myself stories until I fall asleep. I work on a story until it’s done or until I get bored of it. Along the way, in the shower, on my bike, I build the world of the story, crafting the plot. Sometimes the stories are elaborate fanfictions of my latest reads. That’s probably how they started. Often, they’re unique worlds all of their own. My current writing posts are about the City of Mammon, but my current story in my head is about some vampires who hunt other vampires in Victorian England.

And now we get into the process of writing. It’s fun! I sit myself down with an idea in my head, and use all the fancy words I picked up from my books to convey the vibes I want. I honestly wouldn’t be a great writing teacher. It’s just a skill that comes naturally to me as a result of what I’ve been doing with my free time my whole life. And it’s beautiful. And every time someone compliments my writing or reblogs it, I love writing just a little bit more.

Well I guess this is it. The 100 follower special. I wonder how many of you guys will take the time out of your day to read this. Hopefully a lot!

James (or That House) signing off for the night!

<3 thanks guys

[johnny-writes]

1 year of RPing

Today is July 23, which marks one year of RPing. It all started here, where poor painfully and eternally shy Crona Gorgon got asked by Johnny from The Room and the thread is still ongoing. Since this will be a long post, with lots of my reflections, I’m putting the rest under this line, in order to not clog your dashboards.

So I want to share with you guys how things changed. When I first started RPing, I only RP’ed with one partner and a few random characters I liked just either to introduce her to my fandoms.

But seeing that she had more partners, I decided to try my hand at finding more people to RP with. At first I didn’t know how to approach people and after a few misfires, I finally started to reach out people and now I have lots of partners, but always open to more.

My writing has also evolved, I feel I became a better writer and my original characters have developed further into their own characters and I’ve had fun managing to use canon muses as well. I even managed to make one of my partners to get to listen to Lumi songs, so it’s awesome. So I’d like to make a special mention to my partners with over 50 turns:

- @crona-is-ready-to-deal-with-this/ @levy-solid-script for introducing me to RPing. I love your writing and I love all your threads, you’re my best friend here.

- @rachel-of-slaughter for having an awesome Rachel (where we first started interacting), for introducing me to AoD and ToZ and I love all your canon muses and OCs, you have provided a lot of fun moments and I vye that you become a great artist in a few years.

- @luckyyoukairabbittewi for having an awesomely cute and sketchy Tewi and for incentivizing me to reach out more people.

- @riigfire for having an awesome Flandre and your muses are great, you put a lot of effort in your writing and codes.

- @sphinxsmuses for being a great partner and committed to make epic threads, your OCs are great.

- @thecalamitywitchalessandra for providing an opportunity to write an epic Touhou/Castlevania-style thread and I love how our muses complement each other.

- @carrots-and-cappellas for having a great Gumi, and for being a great person as well.

- @castielmaris for being a great mutual and I’m glad I could help you, keep growing, you will create something amazing.

- @wanderinghellkitten for Hailey, she’s a muse different from everything I’ve seen, hard to approach, but you made it in a way that differentiates her from others and I consider quite innovative.

- @globgorthemonster for giving hilarious moments with Globgor and Marcos.

These are people whom I have over 50 turns accumulated. The reason why I chose this number as a cute is because it gets time to get used to a partner’s writing and quirks, so these are the ones that I’m most familiar because we had what I considered enough turns to know or start to know them.

So I want to make an additional shoutout to other partners who are under that number, whose threads I’m having fun or just like them enough to recognize their writing style: @cantfeelanythxng (I love the dedication in all your blogs and your portrayal of your characters is lovely), @batsing1 (you write a cute Kogasa), @outsidersmith (you have a great writing style), @miracleled (I love reading your headcanons and mini-fics), @sacredarrcw (I like your Kagome and your writing style is great, fits her so well), @wistfvlsouls (you put a lot of effort in your muses and icons), @thegreenchairman (for writing such a relatable Jade), @fantasyrift (you write the best Reimu I’ve seen).

If I didn’t put your name here, well, it’s because I haven’t learned much about you yet to provide an opinion or a preliminary opinion. I have some recently started threads and some threads that go slow, but I’m always open to learn more about my partners and their muses. And there are people whom I didn’t cite here that I’m eager to interact, to see where our threads go, so that in the second year I can also make a note about them.

I tried to give my most sincere praise to everyone, because since this is an anniversary and I wanted to spread positivity, even for people that I don’t interact much, because even if there muns that don’t “click” with me (for a variety of reasons), they may “click” with someone else and I don’t want to deny this opportunity to them, so I encourage anyone to give a chance to any of the RPers cited here.

Practically all my interactions here have had different degrees of positive. I mean, I was reading @confessionsofa-roleplayer and I saw a lot of bad things that can happen - after you filter the whining from the confessions (let’s be sincere, whining is part of any confession blog), you see that there are some relevant problems in RPing, but these problems can be avoided and so far my experience has been anything but positive. In fact, the most negative experience was that I was partnering with a person that everything was going fine, I was hyped for our thread but then she dropped and blocked me - in the end she put her blog on hiatus, though I consider it a pity since I would definitely cite her here (and I didn’t because that would be kind of stalkerish). And there are cases where I simply messed up, with some of the partners I tagged, and to which I apologized. If you think I messed up with you, don’t hesitate to tell me.

Here’s to another year and I hope this year may be full of fruitful interactions!

Last note: tagging @askdacast and @paragonrobits for absolutely no reason because you’ve been following me from the distance, you two are awesome!