#but instagram is so... algorithm

[beedalee]

Made a Bluesky account for funsies!

Also; Happy New Year. I know no one is looking forward to it, but please power through 2025 with me out of pure spite if nothing else, my darlings! We can do it!

[blueskittlesart]

we talk about the lack of reading comprehension on this site and obviously it’s bad yes but when i posted that rock eating meme on instagram yesterday i got people genuinely upset that i was “endorsing eating rocks” and lecturing me about why you shouldn’t eat rocks. so

[canisalbus]

Which is your favorite platform? (of the ones you have accounts to post things I mean. I can't imagine it being Instagram since you don't really post there which honestly fair)

Tumblr, Twitter (X?) bluesky? Something else?

I think I'm going to have to go with tumblr, and it's not just because we're here. Twitter and Bluesky are nice and my experiences on both are overwhelmingly positive. But tumblr has an atmosphere that encourages originality, sharing your creations and talking about things in depth.

[tennessoui]

so i've been thinking about this premise for so long but it wasn't working for obikin (which of course i took as a challenge) and i think i finally got it where i want it so

au where 35 yo obi-wan is a music sensation across the world but he's recently divorced and going on tour again after releasing a very cutting, personal, and well-received album

and 19 yo anakin joins his tour with his very small band of two other people (ahsoka, padmé) to be his opening act - they have a small but loyal following, a pretty big social media presence, and there are even people who ship anakin and padmé which you know means these are die-hard fans

anakin has definitely looked up to obi-wan and his music for a good portion of his life and he's like. beyond excited that he's going to tour with The Obi-Wan Kenobi - this is big, not just for his music career but also for himself and the little boy he was listening to obi-wan's music for the first time!!

i'm just imagining like....obi-wan and anakin meeting after a few days of rehearsal for opening night, and it's not the most auspicious start because obi-wan's going through like 20 different emotions at any given moment (he's on tour, he's divorced, he's tired, he loves the music, he can't be the person he was in his twenties when he was first on tour but that's a whole different matter, he has all the media training and charismatic instinct to cover up these less than savory emotions with flirtatious empty words) and anakin is just like. sorta starstruck sorta shy sorta eager sorta awkward so:

"i'm uh, i'm a singer it's nice to meet you. hi yeah. hello. i'm on tour. as well. with you. actually." "ah no, are you one of my backing vocal artists? we can't have that - you're much too gorgeous and my ego is much too dependent on the audience focusing on me." "um 😳"

so it's a relationship that begins with a lot of flirting and being flustered and progresses through moments of vulnerability and honest emotion which turns into mutual affection which turns into anakin's celebrity crush becoming very real....meanwhile obi-wan googled anakin and the opening band after the first show/introduction and finds all the stuff about him and padmé being together and that's. that's fine. young love. how sweet. any sort of disappointment obi-wan feels is because he's recently divorced and bitter about it and he's going to have to spend at least half his tour watching the lovebirds snuggling up together.

and even when all the misunderstandings about relationship statuses have been addressed and the pretense has fallen away to leave just attraction, both have to think about their careers - it's all well and good for obi-wan to date someone sixteen years his junior, post divorce, but that's an image he's never wanted to deal with or be associated with. and this is the biggest shot of anakin's career - his best chance to make it in the music industry. in the words of his bandmate, is he really, honestly thinking about risking it for a chance to sleep with The Obi-Wan Kenobi?

but what his bandmate doesn't seem to really understand is that for anakin, obi-wan hasn't been The Obi-Wan Kenobi in a long time. he's just been obi-wan. and that makes a world of difference.

[sinematically]

a story in three parts…

[bucket-of-amethyst]

Whenever artist post multiple images at once and arrange them side by side on the post and the drawing turns out super tiny on the dash and the post is so small and thin sometimes i even scroll past without noticing it was some banger art it makes me want to yell pls artist stack the images on top of each other i want to see them fill my screen ur not being annoying for making people scroll thru ur art trust me

[dovesick]

(darkening clouds) moxie is 22 years old, and already involved in criminal activities. on one stormy night, he and his girlfriend are holed up in a hotel room. the police raid the room, and he quickly climbs out the window, but it is too late for her. they run to the window, hoping to catch him. but he is gone, vanishing into the storm. 

[arttsuka]

You don't have to draw all the requests sent your way! As you get more popular (and you will because your art is good) that will become literally impossible to do. I promise you not a single art blog answers every single ask.

But, but I HAVE to you don't understand :( the pressure is killing me, I don't want to disappoint people

[kihteyu]

Guys you have to reblog beginner art and art that doesn’t already have a ton of notes too. Idk if you know this but beginners/non popular artists deserve to have their work shared. You can still share popular artists work but I promise they don’t need it as much as the art someone spent hours on and only got 5 notes

[elllayelich]

Autumn landscapes

[layraket]

i think soon i'll need to replace my laptop for drawing. each day is even harder with how laggy it gets

[bumpscosity]

instagram has decided it wants to randomly show me smiling friends posts to see if i'm interested which is fine but it keeps showing me charlie body pillow designs even tho i've never clicked one so i'll just be scrolling normally and then all of a sudden Charlie Body Pillow Jumpscare

[thesylverlining]

OMG. Okay. I have to rant about Instagram and Algorithms. Bad. It's terrible.

So I got an Insights Email from Instagram about about last month. In which I've been REALLY TRYING to post Regularly and Engage. Really trying. Posting and talking and. TRYING. HARD.

...and I got. 39% LESS engagement in September than before (in which I posted NOTHING).

ALGORITHMS ARE FUCKING BULLSHIT?? ☠️☠️☠️😭

I'm so tired. I'm a small indie creator and I'm so TIRED. 😭

[mafaldaknows]

Instagram: johnp.shanley

😏😉

Also, algorithms are spooky:

[tennessoui]

Aaaand that's one sick burn by Padme against Anakin, ouch, well-deserved though...

she can be a lil mean,,,,,as a treat

this anakin definitely deserves it

[simandy]

Next raid will be on tumblr headquarters