#but i hit post limit so off to queue you go

[cerealandchoccymilk]

im the anyone else who wants to do it. lets go

relationship status: single and wants but cant. its complicated

favorite color: really depends but usually saturated dark red

song stuck in my head: K² by Subete Anata no Sei Desu.

last song: Marginal Soul by Youman

3 favorite foods: this is always my least fav question bc object permanence. uhhh yokan, tiramisu, and pasta

last thing I googled: 鵺 妖怪 (nue yokai)(came up in conversation and had to show friend a pic)(nue are so cool btw)

dream trip: oh what i would give to go to austria or switzerland

anything I want rn: to get out of this houseeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but on a smaller scale i want physical copies of bukkira ni yoroshiku by tezuka osamu

@awesomeifidosaysomyself @green-cargaytions if yall want and anyone else

tagged by @creekcorpse tyyy 💞🫂🍻

relationship status: unavailable 

favorite color: pink! or red … sometimes orange

song stuck in my head: no sleep til brooklyn - beasties boys

last song i listened to: zuck by cleopatrick

three favorite foods: pizza, celery, sliced peach

last thing i googled: “beastie boys always on vacation” (trying 2 figure out the name of the song stuck in my head)

dream trip: roadtrip ! no destination in particular i kinda just wanna drive around find myself in small towns meet ppl id never normally meet tgt kind of thing

anything i want rn: 2 not have hw 2 finish 💔💔 also craving gummi bears

tagging @born-to-lose @lemonfloatz @junkyardromeo @smallbirdbigcoat

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

Tumblr mobile crashing while I'm in the middle of scrolling through 12+ hours worth of posts and shoving me all the way to the top of the now UPDATED timeline my beloathed

[broke-on-books]

AND WE ARE BACK BABY 🥳🎊🎉🥂🎆🎊🎆🥳🎉🎊🎆🥳🎊🎊🎆🎆🎊🎉🥳🎆🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🥂🥂🎊🥳🎉🪅🪅🪅🪅🪅🪅🪅🪅🪅🪅

If anyone asks me if I regret my decision (being unable to post for 22 hours bc I went ham on a sideblog and hit post limit at 2am yesterday) I'd like to give a resounding HELL NO by the way. It was a terrible experience bc unfortunately I'm horribly addicted to this webbed site HOWEVER. I'd do it again. It's what they [noncanon hetbait comic book couple] deserve. Anyways it is SUCH a relief to be able to post again. I am now so aware of how much I use this site though rip

[wip]

AH ANOTHER ONE, POST LIMITS!!!!!

I don't know why we're still only using 250 posts per day across all blogs. I hit this SO often and it's extremely frustrating. Are there plans to raise this???? Double it to 500?? Make it 250 PER BLOG at least???

Something that isn't just roughly ten posts an hour, which can go by extremely fast when you're trying to support artists and various crowdfunding efforts. There's not even a way to increase post limit with an ad free subscription, this seems like something that doesn't need to stay the way it is and i feel like we should talk about this and figure out a better number.

I get how limits help fight back against spam, but last week i kept hitting post limit early in the day because the counter resets at 9pm for me - so all of my late night posts + everything that piled up in the queue since i was blocked all day before 9pm gives me significantly less room to work with the next day. I am not spam, i am a human being, and doing regular organic activity is getting me driven off the site!!! the way this feels is like do you want us on here or not lol?? why are we being punished for finding it engaging, I do not think 250 is a reasonable limit.

250posts/24hrs is 10.4 posts an hour, and is all you have to work with regardless of how many other side blogs you maintain. There's not even a way to see how many posts you have left for the day, I think post limit needs addressing!!!! or at least some kind of acknowledgement to start!! 250 forever just does not make sense

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[rottenwoodandwiltedsunflowers]

#149- Waffle

Very very very very long time no see. I suppose the imminent end is making me revisit this blog and my regret about not documenting more of my time with the show is pushing me to sit down and make the time among my very busy life.

I'm not sure this is going to be as long as some of my older posts but I do want to document some of my shows from yesterday (Jan 14 Early) for my own memory.

149-Jan. 14th Early

We are old and well, old now so we are buying Oz's tickets because when you are out of town and have limited shows left you want to maximize your time. I've never minded queueing up an hour early but the time now is getting ridiculous. Once again, old now. Not lining up 2 hours early in the cold. Walked in to Maderley to find Vivian Fairchild which was comforting. It's is ALWAYS nice to see other long term familiar faces in the building. Also found some old familiar friends in the white masks and it felt all the more like coming home.

Once I hit the inside of the show I quickly decided to follow Bret's boy witch. Objectively, I think Bret is among the strongest dancers in this newest class. I haven't followed a boy witch for a whole loop in years. I like Bret's performance. He is really fun when he gets to play with the audience. His duet with Jeff's porter was fantastic! He commanded the scene and bullied Porter around with ease. His hair is getting a bit longer and I didn't really realize at first that he pinned it up with bobby-pins. I was the only one to follow him up to 4 and I found myself smiling as I watched him pull the pins out 1 by 1 and toss them on the stairs as he ascended. I really enjoyed his pool table solo. He laid on the table almost seizing as his legs repetitively hit the table. You could see him loosing control. He took a nice lunge off the corner of the table at a white mask before Speakeasy stuffed him in the box. I also loved how Micheala sniffed around the corner of the room like an animal as if she could track him down with her nose.

Going into the rave (and it's something I noticed during the first ballroom) I was really appreciating this asian witch trio. Starting my love affair with the show over a decade ago, it was painfully obvious how white this show was in its casting. Back then there were only a handful of POC in the cast and not all at the same time. As the parent of a Korean daughter, I'm so glad that the representation in the cast has gotten more diverse and I think it was the first time I've seen a visibly asian witch trio. It was such a wonderful evolution of the show to witness. When he had the goat head on, Bret climbed/jumped on the pillar and hung there. Loved it! In his post rave scene, he seemed utterly drained. It was a monumental task to even dress himself. I helped him with his shirt at his request and God bless a boy witch who doesn't hand you pants to help with! As he finished up he suddenly took off into a full on sprint to the stairs. I watched the banquet from the mezzanine and noted Kritsen's nurse. Filed that away for later show reference.

I had totally forgotten the dance he does in the light after he moves trees. That was a total surprise. When we made it up to the lobby for witches 1, it was pretty packed. There was an audience member who was standing in the middle of the scene so that was obnoxious to watch. People are absolutely obtuse. You are not going to get something special by making the actors work around you during their scenes. By the time Macbeth arrived the crowd was so dense I couldn't see so I snuck off behind the end of the lobby desk and watched from the corner.

Bret’s lip sync was so spot on. Much like his shower scene, at the end he kind of shy down for a second. It’s like he needed a moment to reset before drifting back to the lobby desk. After retrieving the tissue from Porter, he had me wipe tears before returning the tissue to the Porter and with a final glance at him, we were off to the phone booth. I never follow boy witch so it’s only the second time I’ve had the 1:1. Objectively, it’s easily the most overrated and anticlimactic 1:1 in the show. Bret did great but I do stand by that statement. We headed back down to the ballroom and I watched him pin his hair back up to start the cycle again.

From there I followed Duncan for a bit. At the top of the show I watched Duncan trying to figure out who it was. I was still thoroughly confused up until the end when I left and checked the cast board. They seemed familiar but I couldn’t place them. After looking at the board, I realized it was Gino Grenek! His dances were A+. I love when Duncan is so engaging the even watching him uncover clocks is captivating. So many beautiful moves and backbends. You can see the drugs working their way into his system throughout the whole scene.

Ventured up to the 5th floor eventually (like I do...) to find Jess' Matron. It was one of the most interesting Matron watches I've had in awhile. Sometimes I just enjoy creeping on the Matron through the creeping hole. You know the one. After every 1:1, Jess sat in the chair and had a visible moment where she needed to pull herself back together. Once I watched her wipe her tears. I was wayyyyyyy too delighted by her cutting tiny mazes with tiny sewing scissors. It pleased me to no end. Like tiny, tiny 1"x2" little maze pages. Utterly delighted!!! She put one down on the windowsill and left it there for like 5 minutes. When she went to go do the chalking I absolutely swiped it. Fair game I think. It was only when I got home the next evening that I took a much closer look at it and realized it has the fucking Grandmother's Tale written in tiny, tiny pencil on it. She must have written the tale then cut the maze design and I will NEVER recover from this discovery.

She headed out and did the chalking and when I looked up for the nurse, I saw...Jenna? Where did Kristen go??? Watched their scene and was invited in for tea afterwards. I took a lap around some of my favorite 5th floor spaces. It's something I find myself doing as my shows wind down. I so desperately want to hold onto those spaces after the show is gone forever. Found Jenna's nurse and quickly realized the show must be coming to an end and it was the last mirror dance. Stayed with the nurse and matron until the finale. As we went down to the Macbeth's bedroom, I looked in and saw Kristen as Lady Macbeth. Guess that explains what happened with nurse.

Some honorable mentions from this show include Omri and Steph T tearing through the hotel lobby first loop on their way to the banquet. They created quite the ruckus as usual but Omri went over to the hotel lobby desk as Jeff was hiding in the phone booth and slammed down on the bell several times before yelling out a crazed "HELLO!" I really enjoyed that choice, it made me chuckle. Steph then grabbed his arm and yanked him to the stairwell. Also, perhaps the most important news from this show...RED LICORICE IS BACK!!! This is not a drill! I'm not talking that bigger red licorice that taste like wax or the one they had for awhile that had a white strip and tasted sweet like sugar but like gross sugar. I'm talking circa 2015 red licorice! Remember right after the shutdown. I, like plenty of others, was like- "it's probably good they don't have unwrapped candy anymore. Not super sanitary to be eating candy 400 other people have touched." I at like half that jar between my 2 shows and if I get covid...that's a risk I'm OK with. It was worth it and it tasted like McKittrick 2014. NO REGRETS! That's about it for show one of the day. Go enjoy some licorice if you are there (assuming they restocked it because I ate it all).

[captivemuses]

SHIPPING INFO. Answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog.

What’s your OTP for your Muse(s)?

I have very obvious favorites when it comes to some ships with some of my muses and I'm not afraid to hide that with how often things come out of my queue (i.e. Renheng, Jingheng, Zhongchi, Sampard, most of my moots have been following me long enough to know my big big ships that I love with my whole heart). Basically anything that comes out of my queue is an OTP for me (as long as I can find stuff to actually put in the queue based off what I see on my dashboard or in tags I go through).

What are you willing to RP when it comes to shipping?

There's not really a lot that I'm not willing to write (some of your typical things like non con and minor/adult are no goes for me) but when in doubt just ask me and I can give you a straight answer. I know I have some muses on the list with various potentially dark and/or triggering topics in their backstory and I'm not afraid to reference those things in threads when it comes up. But unless it's say going against my characters sexuality where I really cannot see them having a relationship or a really dark and uncomfortable topic I'm more than likely open to at least exploring stuff in RP's. When in doubt fr just ask me.

How large does the age gap have to be to make it uncomfortable?

As long as you're not trying to get me to ship an adult with a child I'm probably okay with it. Like I RP Zhongchi where there's a several thousand year age gap so unless it's going into illegal territory where a muse would get in trouble legally for the relationship nothing's off the table for ages..

Are you selective when shipping?

I mean I can be for some instances because certain muses of mine aren't the easiest to ship with for varying reasons (i.e Childe, Wriothesley, or Dan Heng) and they may involve more discussion and plotting and buildup than others could depending on the potential ship I'm being presented with. I like to think I have a pretty good handle on my muses knowing what they would and wouldn't be into for a potential partner and that can determine how selective or not I am when it comes to a potential ship. But like I've said in previous answers above, when in doubt ask me.

The only exceptions that would get an immediate no would be if someone approached me to write a ship on here that I have listed in my rules as being exclusive with another mun (granted there's not many in that category but there still are a few) or if I've hit my personal limit for how many muns I'll write a particular ship with (one example is Zhongchi, I already have three Zhongli's that I love with my whole heart and so does Childe so unless we're coming up with a specific AU to do my answer would unfortunately be no).

How far do steamy moments have to go before they’re considered NSFW?

My personal rule of thumb has always been whenever hands are going below the belt and not intending on stopping is when I'd add a 'n/sfw' tag to an IC post or ask just to be safe. But I also don't typically write explicit stuff on Tumblr anymore I save that for private stuff on Discord. .

Who are other muses you ship your muse with?

Like I said above, an easy way to tell what ships I like is go look through my queue tag to see what's been spit out because that's where you'll see a lot of ship art or musings posts be reblogged. There are some ships that I now have and love that were not initially on my radar when I first picked up the muse and now love (special shout out to @frozenambiguity for our Chaeya and their chemistry that had them making out already within a week of meeting and taking Claudia and me both by surprise).so sometimes ships sneak up on me just from talking to other muns.

Does one have to ask to ship with you?

Yes. Mainly just to be sure that it's a ship I'm able and willing to do (I've said once in a previous post if you approach me to ship your Jing Yuan with my Yanqing you will immediately get told no because that's a never ever never ever one) and to make sure I'm not at my personal limit for iterations or it's not an exclusive ship or not trying to make my muse be with someone of a sex or gender that they're not romantically or sexually attracted to. I have some very homosexual boys here on this blog that I just personally do not see ever being attracted to a lady, or if they did it'd be a very character specific sort of exception because they just clicked. .

How often do you like to ship?

I'm a self admitted ship whore because it gives me a copious amount of serotonin to write my muses being in love and being happy (or going through hurt so they can get back to the happy, shoutout to @suffearable for our Jingheng two IRL month angst loool) so as long as muses are down and other muns are down I'm happy to do the thing to give me more enjoyment during the day.

Are you multiship?

Yes. Aside from my few exclusive ships (Chaeya, Dancae, Renheng) any muse is fair game for a ship.

Are you ship obsessed or ship more-or-less?

I mean I love my ships as much as the next RP'er and general fandom content consumer but I don't think it's an obsession to say it dominates my thoughts 24/7, no.

What is your favorite ship in your current fandom?

If I have to pick one and only one so I don't go on paragraph tangents about numerous ones, Renheng gets a special shoutout because it's had a chokehold on me for several months now and I regret nothing about it.

Finally, how does one ship with you?

You absolutely have to be forward and just straight up ask me if I'm down to write x ship with you or explore it to see if muses click. Anyone who's known me long enough knows that I'm quite shy to start (we love very negative past experiences with friends giving us trauma wheeee) but once I start talking to someone enough it's hard to get me to shut up, but I'm also a bit nervous at times starting new things because again past experiences with so called friends left me with lasting anxiety about being a bother to my RP friends and ship partners and it loves to kick me down bad rabbit holes every now and then even to this day.

So you have to be prepared for that with me, me sometimes needing reassurances that my brain is just being mean. But also I need need good and open communication from my RP/ship partners because I've had several instances in the past couple years where a lack of it caused friendships to split in very unpleasant ways and gave me the anxiety I still unfortunately occasionally deal with. I cannot stress how important communication is for writing with me just so there can never be misunderstandings or feelings being left unsaid because someone else didn't speak up with me. I promise I'm a potato and do not bite.

Tagged by: @delusionaid ty!!

Tagging: @reflective-muses @protectivemuses @gildedsplendors @galactia @whorunthewcrld and anyone who would have made Wriothesley proud having tea today

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Now That's What I Call Music! 8 2001 R&B / Pop / Teen Pop / Alternative Rock / Pop-Punk / Post-Grunge

Welp, folks, it looks like we're nearing the end of the earliest days for this beloved flagship series that's known for constantly delivering reproductions of the day's biggest pop hits, but I still have a couple more of these albums in my queue to enjoyably sift through. And just like the other seven installments that precede this one, Now That's What I Call Music! 8 also makes for a pretty great trip down commercial radio memory lane as well 😍.

But before we dive right on into it, how about we have some nostalgic fun with the ad for this release first? See, If you had placed an order for Now 8 by credit card or with check-debit, you'd also receive a free limited edition collector's box that you could store all of your other Now CDs in too! Wow! How considerate! Thanks Now! 😎💖

But we actually start off on a few somber notes here... 😔

Now 8 was the first dispatch from the main series to be released after 9/11, and so, I feel like the inclusion of its final track, U2's "Walk On," which never even made it onto Billboard's Hot 100 chart, was done solely in order to try to console an American psyche that had been deeply wounded at that time. "Walk On" was released as a single in February of 2001, and was actually about the plight of Burmese peace activist Aung San Suu Kyi—who, years later, would despicably do nothing as Myanmar's head of state to address the genocide of Rohingya Muslims that her own military was perpetrating—but in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the song found itself resonating with a lot of Americans, serving a sudden and newfound purpose as an anthem of perseverance for them.

And that's pretty much undoubtedly why Now chose this song to close out the album. Had 9/11 not happened, this comp's last track would've probably been a song that had actually charted on the Hot 100. But because this album was slated to release in November of '01, the Now brass probably thought it best to end with a song that could acknowledge that then-current moment of anguish and turmoil, rather than awkwardly and tone-deafly just loading up their CD with fun pop hits from the summer that had just passed.

But less than three weeks before 9/11, R&B star Aaliyah had also tragically passed in a plane crash after filming the video for her beautifully soft and sensual, final single, "Rock the Boat" too. So Now not only included that song on this release, but they dedicated the whole album to Aaliyah's memory, and also donated part of the proceeds from the triple-platinum seller to her memorial fund as well.

And last with the sadness, rest in peace to the great Steve Harwell. I absolutely despised your band's cover of The Monkees' "I'm a Believer" when I first heard it (which appears on this album), but I still genuinely dug your work more than most are willing to admit, and really also loved the critique you had about the commodification of social movements in "Walkin' On the Sun," which is something that many people probably overlooked because they had nothing nice to say about your band that, unfortunately, became a Shrek meme. At the end of the day, Smash Mouth made a bunch of fun music, man 😞.

OK, on to the rest of this album...

So, the album cover for this release says it comes with 20 chart-topping hits, but in reality, only three of these were actually Hot 100 #1s. There's Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious," which, to go with their Survivor album's theme, intended to use the opening guitar stutter from "Eye of the Tiger"—by the band *Survivor*—but had to settle for Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" instead; Usher's "U Got It Bad" ballad; and Joe's "Stutter," which isn't actually the most famous version of the song, but is the "Double Take Remix" instead, that was done by Allen "Allstar" Gordon Jr., and sampled both the iconic west coast alternative rap classic, "Passin' Me By," by The Pharcyde, as well as the song that that song itself sampled, Quincy Jones' "Summer in the City." And it also features now-canceled rapper Mystikal, which represents his third overall appearance in this series.

And speaking of remixes and samples, the famous Murder Inc. remix of J.Lo's "I'm Real," featuring Ja Rule, doesn't appear on here, but instead, it's her underappreciated and poppier original version that sounds nothing like the remix, and samples from classic Japanese electronic group Yellow Magic Orchestra's digi-chirping "Firecracker," which ends up naturally giving the tune a sweet 80s throwback kinda vibe.

Other songs worth mentioning are the brilliantly produced and super light and smooth Janet Jackson jam, "Someone to Call My Lover," which sampled from folk duo America's "Ventura Highway;" and a terrific tune that was actually originally released in 1998, but rose to US fame because of its inclusion in a 2001 Mitsubishi ad: "Start the Commotion," by UK duo The Wiseguys. That one's very much in that Fatboy Slim-helmed UK big beat vein; gotta love the blaring and swingin' sampled horns on it! 🤩

And there's a solid handful of other songs on this CD that I could devote some space to as well, but I think this post here is already long enough as it is.

So, another terrific nostalgia rush to be had in this trip all the way back to 2001. And I only have one more of these Now comps left in my queue, but I think I'm gonna save it for later.

Highlights:

Destiny's Child - "Bootylicious" 'N Sync - "Pop" Jennifer Lopez - "I'm Real" Joe feat. Mystikal - "Stutter (Double Take Remix)" Janet Jackson - "Someone to Call My Lover" Christina Milian - "AM to PM" Aaliyah - "Rock the Boat" Usher - "U Got It Bad" Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood" The Wiseguys feat. Greg Nice - "Start the Commotion" Sum 41 - "Fat Lip" Blink-182 - "The Rock Show" Fuel - "Bad Day" U2 - "Walk On"

[ahaura]

i'm sure someone's already made this post but for anyone seriously new (or returning) to tumblr here are some cool tips and tricks for having a decent experience

download xkit rewritten (i think it's on github, iirc it's the most up to date xkit that makes tumblr easier to use so you can avoid ads, use quick reblogs, etc)

make sure to go to your dashboard settings and toggle off the features you don't want to see. best part about tumblr is that if you don't follow people you won't see their posts. tumblr has tried to get around this by adding "in your orbit" and "for you" dashboards but lots of people don't use these.

TURN OFF TUMBLR LIVE. it is not safe to use, even less so than social media sites typically are. you'll have to hit the snooze button on it once a week which is annoying but if you don't like it send a message to support to let them know. your can and should utilize contacting support for bugs and errors and issues. be warned that it's hit and miss tho

if you want to use a custom theme on your desktop, you'll have to contact support and ask permission to use javascript. they'll provide instructions on what you need to do to get approved

use the filter option for content you don't want to see. xkit has an option to entirely hide filtered posts on the dash rather than just showing a post with the hidden tag on it

you don't HAVE to use tags but it's strongly recommended for organizational and practical use. if you make content like art or gifs it's the best way you're going to get other people who don't follow you to see it

REBLOG, NOT REPOST! whether it's art, gifsets, scans, or something else it is standard etiquette and common courtesy to REBLOG instead of REPOST. you will get more of the content you like if you reblog instead of steal things from other people. reblogging posts is a vital part of your tumblr ecosystem. you don't have to reblog every post you see but if you take a look at blogs that aren't transplants from twitter you'll know what i mean

there are almost always bot waves on this site and you can usually tell by their empty blog and/or default blog layout. i STRONGLY RECOMMEND personalizing your blog (at least choose your title and icon) and reblog some stuff so people don't think you're a bot and block you.

if you use the blaze feature you will be blocked and ignored at best and harassed in the replies at worst. give tumblr money at your own risk

tumblr's post limit is 250 per day but the queue allows for 1000 posts and drafts to my knowledge are unlimited. utilizing the drafts and queue features is a good way to help run your blog

you can make sideblogs but if staff finds out you're hoarding urls you will be shadowbanned.

most importantly: be normal in your interactions with others. block people who annoy you or you simply don't want to see. this isn't twitter and the only reason this site is remotely usable is because it isn't a copy of tiktok, twitter, or instagram

good luck

[malscare]

im like exhausted I feel like the skin under my eyes is going to like melt off . btw I hit post limit again so if I have anything to say i'll edit this one

update 6:55pm est I took a nap and feel better :)

update 8:41pm est y'all are getting bots with funny bios??? all the ones I get are blank

update 8:52pm est tumblr needs a quick queue option for mobile I can't take it anymore we can't keep living like this. also this would be a separate post but I genuinely hate living with people so much please stop snapping/laughing to yourself in the bathroom so I can shit and take a shower -_-

update 9:42pm est can you guys start liking my posts. im still on here blogging technically but im getting no interaction since im not actively posting. I need stimulation I need connection tell me u see me

update 9:46pm est I need tiktok to stop shoving rando political facetime debate lives every 4 fucking posts its so fucking annoying I don't want to hear some random fucking dude argue about people's right to life for fun and there's so fucking many of them

update 11:04pm est fast forwarding thru succession to get to only the greg and tom scenes

[direbeastrex]

#one of our VAs dropped this in the cast discord and#yeah#it's not-not Selkirk sometimes I (maybe vainly? I like to think it's to banish my imposter syndrome) go through the tags of my jewish werewolf post cause it's by far the thing that really like took off and resonated with folks in ways nothing else I've ever done kinda has, at least in my limited scope? and the tags are always so sweet and hysterical and it makes my day to see folks got a big kick out of it, who they showed it to, who they tag into it and I saw this and the GASP I made when I realized in like a more tangible way that folks shared my work with each other outside of just snorting quietly through their nose and hitting reblog or queue This stopped me dead in my scrolling- thank you so much to that VA, and to y'all for reblogging it and keeping it trucking around stuff like this puts a fire under my tail to write more stuff <3

Write a horror story in the format of an Internet search history

[2dkapsddr]

December 21st, 2024 (2/3) - EZ2AC, maimai, CHUNITHM, ONGEKI

We're BACK!!! with part TWO of this massive series of posts... it's a bit disappointing that the tumblr posting limits don't allow me to combine every score from this session into just one post, but in retrospect it's completely understandable... don't think anyone would wanna scroll through a post with 70 images, no matter how clean of a collage they are . on the upside, making separate posts for separate halves of the session makes for a bigger opportunity to write about certain scores and backstories without making them a slog to read!!! so, if any of those stories correlated to my scores Do pop up, i'll be sure to write about them as best and concisely as possible!!!

...and speaking of score-related stories, we've already got our first one here with the first score of the new post!!! kicking it off by going insida DJ Box... but anyways, this is SND!!! if you saw the post from yesterday (well . not Yesterday as in the time i'm writing the post, but Yesterday as in the daily session before this massive one), you'll know that one of the last few songs i played towards the end of my EZ2ON session with inkss was.... SND!!! this was the song that got him to 20.5 rating (amazing accomplishment btw, i'm still stuck at like 13 or something LOL), but moreover, it was a song i was quickly addicted to because of its rave theme and funny visuals... and to my glee, its BGA was indeed available in the version of EZ2AC following its release!!! what a wondrous day and opportunity, i just had to play it!!! ...only, i forgot just how hard EZ2AC was (mainly the 5K Standard mode) compared to EZ2ON, and so i was met with this tragic last-note fail on the chart when i already had the clear within my grasp... ah, such is life . i'll get it next time, mayhaps...?

alright then, backstory aside!!! i wanted to give it a few more tries in the moment, but it was already my turn in line to hop on maimai again, so let's check it out again!!! ...and once again, a ton of real bad and wonky scores... (massugu stream was legit a terrible chart, but hey!!! since they were both new ver songs, so i got a bunch of rating from them www) . so if you look close at the rating on a majority of these songs, you can see massive rating upscores as i had yet to fill all my new version rating slots!!!

...best score + new version scores are a plight on rhythm gaming though, and i'll still stand by this until games do away with it... but i can't deny how much it beefs up my already beefed-up rating, like over 1k new rating in a single session??? ...but alas, i knew this boost wasn't forever, so that's why i was trying to make the most of it in the first place www . maybe i could even hit 11k this session if i keep at it...

...gah, snap out of it!!! that's more than enough rating for you, quit focusing on it so much!!! we've got other games to play and other funny charts to explore... but my main reason for pulling away from maimai was surprisingly needing to fulfill certain song requests from twitter!!! with these past few maimai sessions (the only suggestion played above being STARTLINER though), i've been knocking out request by request, though admittedly a bit half-assed in the scoring department... still, couldn't do much about it as i really was just that bad at maimai . but you know what i wasn't As Bad at?? CHUNITHM!!!

maimai sessions were too short and the card queue wait was too long, so i quickly needed someway else to scratch that gekichumai itch . and that's when i approached this golden opportunity to grind and improve at one of the other funky sega rhythm games... results? INSANITY!!! it was as if i'd never stopped playing... like, just look at all these individual scores!!! STAR OF ANDROMEDA [Master Lv.14+] FC (+14k upscore btw), a sweet SS on Finite [Master Lv.14+], a sweet sightread SS on Ignition [Master Lv.13+], and even finally getting an FC on Fracture Ray [Master Lv.14+] in local matching!!!!

amidst all the chaotic scores, however, i was suffering through agonizing upon agonizing sessions of AJ grinding, with the target being STARTLINER to get it out of the way in all three GCM games . sure, i could've submitted any of these, but i knew i had it in me... i KNEW i had a christmas miracle up my sleeve, still . just need to charge it up a bit more before i unleash it, of course...

...so to summarize, i'm kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of GCM scores for now . so why not take a break from it all with some EZ2AC??? namely, why not try seeing if i can finally take down SND before it was my turn up on maimai again? and sure enough, first stage after several failed credits... i did it!!! SND [NM Lv.9] CLEAR!!!! and while i was at it, i also cleared Repulse Stream (RAVEN@TION Remix) [NM Lv.8] with very bad acc, and then i tried SND again to see if i could get better acc!!! (i couldn't) (lol)

...there was still a ways to go until my turn on the maimai cab, but amidst my wait... i saw a different cab freed up and another opportunity to game... on ONGEKI!!!! man, i rarely ever get the chance to play this game, and i sorta regret it because this game is FUN!!! AS!!! HELL!!! only problem is there's so many annoying popups and UIs that i end up skipping the results screen by accident when trying to take a picture of it, which is why you only see two scores here rather than three... thankfully however, one of the scores i managed to get was an S on STARTLINER [Master Lv.11], meaning i had knocked out 2/3 games now!!! 3 if we count the scuffed Chunithm scores, but i still really want to close out that AJ...

whew, okay FINALLY it was maimai time!!! and just in time for the end of my ongeki credit... so then, what amazing scores would we get after waiting in line for so long?? ....nothing of note, unfortunately . got forced to play stupid charts with my friend, so this was sort of a waste of a credit in retrospect... wah, all that time waiting in line and not even a single rating increase !!!

whatever, though . if maimai ain't got my back, i know chunithm does for sure . hopping back on after an exhausting and somewhat disappointing maimai session, i started going HAM with some of this scores!!!! like for one, i instantly kicked it off with a sightread FC on I'm so happy [Master Lv.13+] ft. the shoopster, and then i finally got that MAX-9 ALL JUSTICE on STARTLINER [Master Lv.10] that i've been trying to get for so long!!! ...and now, for the miscellaneous chaotic songs!!! following my little antics, we've got an SS (finally) on HERA [Master Lv.14]!! and then following a suggestion from twitter, we have a few songs to get though!!! the first of which was Insane Gamemode [Master Lv.14], where i slayed with a near-SSS and massive rating increase!!! ....only to have it sabotaged by the evil, evil chart (not really) that is Daitoushi=Klein Vogel Spiel=Erika [Master Lv.14+]... even though i got an SS on the chart on sightread!!!! so unfair... but i wasn't going down without a fight!!! so after yet ANOTHER insane play on another suggestion, Rule the World!! (Master Lv.14, AJ-2!!! maybe next time...), i went back to the song and destroyed it with a +4k upscore to make it... almost an SS+!!! and so began my mix of obsession and rivalry with the song...

aaaand wouldya look at that!!! in what's kind of a perfect timing, i hit the image limit just as i was about to transition over to maimai scores again!!! sooo i think this is the perfect spot to end of this post and come back again with the third and final post for this day's session!! overall, some REALLY good scores in the chunithm department, and a consistently good show of improvement in maimai!!! also super glad i managed to show off EZ2AC in this post, but i don't think there's any more scores of it in the next post... it's all GCM from here baybee!!! welp, i'll see you in the conclusion to this super lengthy saga!!

[thegamecollection]

"MECH SOME NOISE FOR ARMORED CORE!"

Hello, TGCollectors! As you'll know from our social coverage we're currently in Cologne for 2023's edition of Gamescom! It's great to be back and as video game enthusiasts like yourselves, we appreciate how lucky we are to call this work!

Right, enough with the gratitude attitude and lets get down to business. Thanks to our friends at Bandai Namco we were yesterday able to jump the queues and get hands on with none other than this week's hottest launch - Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon!

FromSoftware's longstanding expertise in mech games with their signature action gameplay and unconditional LOVE for making players grind with everything they have for a victory, means that Armored Core VI should in theory be a huge hit... and after yesterday's experience we can say that the guesstimate was right! This heavy mech-al entry transitions incredibly from theory onto the screen and is as every bit as good as it seems! Let us tell you a little more about it.

Upon beginning the demo and before flying into the mission, I was first able to choose from one of three AC Data Names that offered a base level customisation for my mech. I went with '4LEGS' because why have 2 when you can have 4, right?! This badass looking machine boasted some serious artillery with rockets on each shoulder, which even in my fairly limited gameplay experience of FromSoftware titles, I knew I'd be needing...

Once this was done and I was ready to gun, my mission briefing gave an in-depth drop on the area I'd be tackling, the enemies I'd be hitting and the objectives I'd be seeking:

Client: Balam Industries.

Mission: Inspect Central Ice Field/infiltrate Grid 086

Combat Zone: Western Belius

Enemies: Outlaws known as 'Dosers' and arms dealers known as RaD.

Once I'd loaded up on knowledge and proceeded to blast off, I was introduced to my own alias, 'Raven', which was provided by my radio accomplice known as 'Ayre'. A voice over the airwaves that offered me help and motivation for the battles ahead. I asked our Bandai friend for more information on Ayre but he wasn't able to give much away without revealing more of the story - so that's something we'll need to find out more on as we play through post-launch!

Now for the controls. I'll happily tell you that taking my mech for a spin did not exactly come naturally to me and that I expected it to play differently in my head. This is NOT a criticism, this is a FromSoftware game. After getting my brain around the hovering, dashing, and relentless smashing into walls and steel girders like it was my first day on the job (it was), it kinda started to click.

Sadly it didn't click in time for me to take a proper pasting from enemies within a minute of take-off. Those rocket cannons I mentioned were called immediately to action but the only thing worse than my flying skills was my aim. It's a good job I had the game's medi-packs known as "repair kits" which could easily be utilised by pressing up on the pad to restore my health.

After clearing out the first waves of outlaws, I began to get a feel for the flight. I found myself gliding around from level to level, getting to grips and honestly just having fun with the process. Did my minor improvements with controls make things easier in battle? Nope. Those repair kits come and go fast!

Upon meeting the first mini boss called "Invincible" Rummy, my 4LEGS didn't really stand much of a chance. In fact my maiden death in Armored Core VI was a quick one (like the next 5 or 6 that followed in the demo) and was served cold. That grind we expect from FromSoftware reared its challenging head within minutes and I was NOT prepared. However, the feeling of beating this bugger a try or two later was one of accomplishment... Until of course I remembered that these mini-bosses are just an appetizer and the main course was en route. About that...

The boss in this demo begins taunting you early in your approach. "Cinder" Carla is the name and being a massive pain in the mech is her game. Each blast door I opened, every corner I turned, it all brought me closer to an inevitable and absolute hiding. She's an evil, gear grinding gauntlet from which there is no escape. Four attempts were made, four swift servings of death were my reward. I didn't give up, I simply ran out of time. Would I still be there trying to fly around and somehow cause an iota of damage right now if I could? YEP.

My time with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon was brief, but you bet I'll be mechin' up for lost time when the game launches tomorrow 25th August!

This is your last chance to pre-order here! Secure before 2pm for same-day dispatch and earn an EXTRA £10 REWARDS at shipment!

Fly safe, Team. Not that it will help ya.

-Jack

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Day 314, and not a whole lot done, just finished up Incredulous, but that's okay since I'm feeling bleh anyway. Any progress is good progress when bleh :)

[frothingatthemaw]

pinned post! hai :3

👥 stevie, ender, ran, wil/will, mike 👥

matching w @kourys !!

ass-olotls -> aimsify -> genlossism

> 19 | they/xey/bap/star/ze ++ | system

!!! psa to please interchange my pronouns, it’s important to me that they are interchanged !!!

some interests of mine: mcyts (ex: aimsey & ranboo mainly + more), dream smp, hermitcraft, the life series, video games (ex: minecraft, night in the woods, sally face, stray, stardew valley + more), shows + movies (ex: stranger things, rick & morty, heartbreak high, sex education, it movies, spree, the devil all the time + more), literature (ex: poetry, web weaving), horror, music (ex: jxdn, lovejoy, quadeca, nf, glaive + more), generation loss, drag queens, youtubers (ex: jacksepticeye, gab smolders, sidemen, johnnie guilbert, jake webber + more) etc! please talk to me about common interests!

guy who’s an autistic aroacespec queer that is chronically online :3

• pronouns page || pronouns.cc || spotify || ao3

tagging system || list of headmate/alter blogs

my stranger things blog (@stonerharrington), my alt/personal blog (@igotpapercuts), where i rb stuff for mutuals (@ass-olotls), catkin blog (@kittybaps), for when i hit post limit (@ender-in-idiot-jail), our system blog (@originssystem), love-centric, webweaving blog, & aesthetics blog (@loverstained), rarely used age regression blog (@starshapedblue)

last date edited: nov. 12, 2023

times i’ve hit post limit (for fun): 1

more under cut!

additional interests info: LISTED THINGS ARE NOT LIMITED TO ONLY WHAT IS LISTED, i watch mainly mcyt content creators (ex: aimsey, ranboo), but i’m also interested in the dream smp (please ask me about headcanons of characters), the life series (3rd life, last life, double life, and limited life), hermitcraft, and empire smp. i mainly watch grian or scar for hermitcraft; i watch grian, scar, and jimmy for the life series; and i watch jimmy and fwhip for empires (i’ve only seen season 2)! i’m also very autistic about genloss so please—i beg you—talk to me about that :] i like an abundance of other video games besides minecraft, so feel free to ask about those as well!

BOUNDARIES!

do not spam me unless you are spam reblogging my writing or art! do not rb my neg posts without permission. do not rb my goodnight posts.

softblock to unfollow!

dm me or send an ask for me to tw something, or dm me/send an ask if i’ve done something i need to be held accountable for. also please do not dm me to chat if we are not mutuals.

DNI: tulpas, transmeds, sysmed/traumascum (sysmed reasoning here), terfs, map/pear/radqueer, radfem/tradfem, kink/nsfw blogs (i literally post about minecraft), blank blogs, ddlg blogs, discourse blogs, proship, irl shippers (especially minors), pro-ana/ed blogs, fakeclaimers, anti mcyt, c!dream apologists & cc!dream supporters, dteam/dream team supporters (yes, dream, george, and sapnap). people who sexualize and/or post nsfw of wilbur soot, harry potter stans, you break boundaries, sexists, ableists, racists, part of poppytwt/poppyblr, truthers.

BYF: i will post a lot of ranboo and aimsey, as well as other featured mcyts. i post about ranboo an abnormal amount and i do not tag it (i probably should at this point). i’m not a huge fan of quackity or slimecicle, but i will not post neg about them. i will post hermitshipping and not tag it. i don’t watch streams that often & i stay off of tumblr in general while streams are going on (usually) or i just ignore liveblogging. going off of the previous statement, i will liveblog me watching vods sometimes. i tend to spam rb and not queue. i swear and do not tag it. i use contradicting labels (ex: aroacespec and hyperromantic). please tag mcyt neg. you will be blocked deliberately if i find a reason to block you. WE ARE A SYSTEM WITH LOTS OF INTROJECTS, DON’T BE WEIRD!

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[tessavillaverde]

VTuber Re-Starter Kit (2023)

Who knows wtf Twitter is gonna look like by the end of the year? Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Tumblr, and all the other cesspits? I’ve got it all covered! Social media is changing and we must change with it. I’m so tired god please weh

Twitter is in free fall. Panic ensues. Valid. Many of us need that hellsite. Badly. It’s imperfect trash, but its *our* trash, understand? Fuck these “alternatives”. They are all noise right now. Cohost doesn’t allow commercial activity in its TOS, Mastodon has low engagement right now. Twitter Blue is here to stay. As VTubers, we all benefit from having it, actually. For $8/mo, you will be prioritized and boosted with mentions and replies. This means that threads and replies to you bump you up on the TL. Even if you pay for it, Lists and Twitter Circles are still a good idea. Heck, rotate people out of Twitter Circles to make sure you’re able to talk to more people. Continue to use Twitter to network by providing value to others and help others in their journey. Be chill and don’t use people for clout--it’s disingenuous. Treat people like people.

I can’t guarantee that things will be the same here on Twitter and neither can anyone else. The current data sets I see from clients and others may show that not much is changing, but this site is changing every day. We need to play it day by day and not worry too much about it.

Twitter has shops, utilize tf out of the business features. Given how much of a mess the site is with its daily tweaks and the loss of valuable engineers at Twitter, things could be topsy-turvy. Who knows? Be active!

This being said, you shouldn’t rely on Twitter alone. It’s not good for your business nor is it good for growing your brand recognition. So I’ll list where to go and the use cases. Don’t use this list to go to literally every place. There’s just not enough time in a day to maintain it all.

Instagram

Don’t make Insta your mainstay. Please, for the love of God don’t. Everything wrong with FB is still wrong with Insta with the added bonus of it being Diet Tik Tok. That being said, it still is a good networking tool and can help your sales with its shop features (for businesses/brands/media that don’t want to use Twitter). So what to do with Insta? Repost your Tik Toks and hit it n quit it. Post your schedule (3:2 format, crop down with 1:1 squares and schedule out posts to upload your schedule). Update your stories with important things (they’re pinned tweets basically). Have a link in your profile and reply to people when you can. Use relevant hashtags and hashtags that aren’t super saturated. GL;HF

Tik Tok

Hit it n Quit it

Post in prime times

Turn brain off

Be unhinged with your originals

Remix and hf with trends

Repost best shorts elsewhere

Tumblr

It’s 2012 again and we have no character limits and post gif memes

Relax, hf, life moves slower with an older audience

Not a Twitter replacement

SEO can be a benefit (technical jargon I’ll save you from), but you must remain authentic. What works on Twitter doesn’t fly on Tumblr. You will not get traction from doing what you do here.

Pay attention to etiquette. You can have assholes, but many are willing to joke as if nothing had happened. Be consistent by liking and reblogging things. Turn off your brain and follow blogs and tags that are up your alley and QUEUE up things to keep posting throughout the day. Tumblr humor is ironic, but not irony-poisoned. It’s punny and quirky and you must kill the chains that bind your inner cringe. Truly be yourself, share your personal thoughts more (it's a blogging site ffs), share your fandom of things, and things’ll be okay.

Also important on the ettiquite as a first tip: dont act like you do on Twitter. Its a different audience and the normal ways of crossposting wont work here. This is not Twitter. Tumblr is a blogging site where blogs share each other and it is fandom-heavy (meaning sharing who your favorite oshii is for example and hyping up others). It comes naturally. Be yourself and focus on building up a presence on your blog to give people a good idea of who tf you are. Nobody is really a celebrity here and you can't act like you are here. USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TA--

YouTube

I made another mega thread for this, read it later. YouTube should be one of your mainstays as a VTUBER. It’s more work, yes, but they also have Community Posting for everyone now. Scaling up your brand and having better brand recognition is crucial here. As you post more videos, ALWAYS improve your pacing, thumbnails, and titles.

Twitch

We know it. We love it. Consistency is key. Start with Rule of 3s: 3 days/week, 3 hours/day, 3 social media outlets. This is a general rule for a reason, but it's a good minimum to start with because I’ve seen too many clients in deep need. If you need to start half an hour later to catch your regular audience, then do so. Starting out, you need consistent numbers, engagement, and retention. I’ll explain later, but you want to do what you can to increase production value and give more interactables for chat to use.

Advice for partners, you need to continue to carry the momentum to scale. By this point, you likely know what it is you need to do, but perhaps there’s a discrepancy with engagement or retention, or god knows what that holds your audience back. Collabs help, but not as much as you’d like. This comes with raids being a nice networking tool funnily enough. Raid people with similar content and vibe as you to continue to network with people. Switching audiences and using adjacent categories to find that audience may be what you need.

This is all hard to determine for partners so plainly on social media without analyzing data, audience, content, branding/design, and personality. There’s a lot that goes into your churn (how many folks you lose in your audience on average). Fixing that can either require optimization and turning your personality up to 11 more consistently and differently, but also can mean taking a leap into faith with a “big risk, big reward mentality”. One thing I know works would be the optimization tweaks here and there by looking at data (or not looking at all and just gathering feedback from your audience and friends and staying objective and factual), and diversification on different platforms so more can know who you are.

Try tools like Streambee to simplify the VOD review process Streamloots to increase engagement and have better monetization TITS, VRChat, and curation to invite viewers with “planned exclusivity” rather than total exclusivity (how you do this is up to you).

Discord Not really a social media site

Great for talking and engaging your community and breeding loyalty. VTubers need fewer “groups”, fewer individual servers, and more community servers where you can pool your resources and hype each other up. Effectively make use of what Stream Teams are good for and raise each other up.

Monetization

Use Kofi for tips, a shop, comms

Use Gumroad for another shop that has more discoverability

Use Patreon for memberships to slowly phase out Twitch subs. Be creative and have fun with Patreon rewards

Use Streamloots and have fun with it

There’s more I want to discuss, but for now, you can follow me on Twitter and here on Tumblr for this data-backed advice, the nitty gritty nerdy jargon for social media with data and whatnot, and my personal thoughts with my positive experiences managing and consulting folks.

If you yourself are terrified still even with all of this, I have restructured my business with Build-Your-Own Bundle type of consultations and management. Services are 50% off. 69% off after your first purchase (nice)