#ghost notes

[insanelyadd]

Eternally fucking annoyed by the ghost notes I get where people who are like??? I don't even fucking know, new? Flagged as bots? Shadowbanned (which staff assures us isn't real and cannot hurt us)??? They like my posts and reblog my posts and follow me but I CAN'T FUCKING SEE THEM!!! I get the note popup on the activity button and I click it and There's Nothing There. @staff JUST FUCKING MAKE THEM VISIBLE THIS IS INFINITELY WORSE THAN JUST SEEING A BOT IN MY NOTES.

[cosmonautroger]

Veruca Salt, Ghost Notes, 2015

[blessicablimpson]

we said forever, until we die but we’re all offenders we all lie

[odetteissinning]

ghost notes vol.i

a fragmented collection of thoughts and feelings about my practice, art and teaching that I just want to get out

i.

Devany Amber Wolfe is an artist that I've followed for a long time, today she announced that she was stepping back from social media and honestly, her post resonated a lot. One of the biggest struggles I've found in trying to use platforms like instagram to share work is that it rewards content creation, not creativity because creativity takes time. To make something, to follow a project through its ebbs and flows is not quick, it's not a process that can resolve in time to please an ever hungry algorithm. Content creation, is inherently not creative because in this manner, it's simply reproducing that which is popular and formulaic. It doesn't actually require much thinking, just a bit of technical know how, but to do something really creative takes time, and a lot of that time is fucking stuff up so you eventually get to a finished product. I don't necessarily think social media is the cause of all the worlds ills, but I have noticed in the students I work with such defined subjects and trends that they stick to rigidly and don't think to push past them. I think that is certainly something that is caused by social media, and herein lies the issue. When you're making things to please an algorithm or to be brand/family friendly it automatically limits the spaces that you get to explore with your work. The boundaries you can push, because anything that pushes too far from easy consumption and makes people think about difficult things, it's hidden via shadow banning and straight out censorship. This is something that the Art Newspaper has written some interesting articles on too. Is Instagram censorship changing art itself? // Are you being 'shadowbanned'? // Censored: the exhibitions that Instagram doesn’t want you to see // Censorship on social media not only limits artists' online reach—it can prevent future opportunities, too // Invisible by numbers

You can see the whole post by Devany Amber Wolfe here

ii.

Finished assessing student work this week, and as much as I love my job it's also deeply depressing sometimes. It's a short unit but a lot of submissions felt so very half arsed and I just don't get it. Art school is a place where you get to fuck around for three years before you have to jump into the real world, and it's not exactly a career you can go in if you want to be really employable, so surely you should be doing an art degree because you're passionate about it? But, just no. It's like a lot of my students just don't really care, like they barely even like doing photography and it just seems a waste to me. I won't pretend I'm not jealous of the fact they get to have that freedom just to play and learn their craft so I guess I find it extra galling to see so little passion or enthusiasm for the medium they elected to study.

iii.

We live in an era of camera's so good at making images that often times you feel more like an operator that someone actually crafting an image. I used to have a Sony A7iii, and as a work horse camera it's brilliant. The eye/face af is incredible and it makes you really have to think less when you're shooting.

But apparently for me, that seems to be the problem. Nowadays I have a cropped sensor Fujifilm, with fine autofocus but not on part with the Sony's and honestly I actually enjoy using it more as a tool. It's got its quirks, and now I'm using a lot of cheap manual focus lenses nailing the shot is much harder and more involved but I actually feel like I'm making things again. Not relying on the camera to do the hard work for me. Think I finally crossed the threshold from being a photographer to being an artist and i feel 40% more pretentious.

[goddess--x]

Why do I keep getting ghost likes 😤

I'd like to think if I have someone blocked they cant see my posts 😒

[thecrystallinecryptid]

is anyone else getting ghost notes?

I keep getting notifications for two new notes, but when I click the activity thing, they're not there. just now, it said I had seven new notifs, but I looked, and there were only three.

[tampon-on-the-sidewalk]

Ghost Notifications?

So, every time one of my mutuals (more precisely, my FIANCE) likes/reblogs my posts, I will get a ‘ghost notification’.

As in, it’ll say I have new notes, I go to click to check, and absolutely nothing shows up.

But then I’ll scroll down my feed and see that he liked/reblogged my posts. Meaning the notification was for him, but Tumblr didn’t actually want to show me. 

Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it?

[a-soft-fluffy-girl]

.... It's been going on for months and I'm a little bothered by the ghost notes I keep getting. Are they notes from mature blogs or something? It'll say I got 4 notes and I look to see two new notifications. It's bizarre and I really don't like it.

[xen0lush]

if you blocked me pls unfollow cause i keep getting ghost notes >.<

[treecakes]

one follower emerges from shadowban and another enters -.-

[zikadraws]

Just got like 18 shadow notifications 💀 so I don't know who liked what, and I'd be curious to know, but either way I'm glad someone is enjoying themselves...? Also whoever you are, sorry to tell you that but your account is broken. Good luck

[weather-phenomenon]

what do all the people who give me ghost notes for whatever reasons want for christmas 🤶 asking early bc there's so much of you UwU

[blessicablimpson]

verucasaltband: Louise and Nina in Nina’s basement circa 2013 writing the outro to Alternica for Ghost Notes. Singing harmony together again after so long was powerful and profound for us. And in the end it comes around again.

[sonysakura]

Mystery Skulls Animated - Ghost (Oct 26th, 2014)

Ten years ago on this day...

[goopylittleghosty]

I love my friends so much. I once read a book where the writer's mum told her to 'save ten percent of herself' from everyone and like. Nun-uh. Sorry. I love with my full heart and m o r e. I am exploding with love.

[idyllcy]

husband - professor!simon riley x professor!reader

Every now and then, Simon gets a student who doesn’t seem to get it past their skull that he’s happily married and not looking for a side chick or mistress.

He can usually tell in the first handful of classes, brow raised as they ask him to visit office hours, shirt peeking a little too low, smile a little too uncanny for his taste. He finds that typically as long as he plays uninterested and talk more about his wife, most of them learn to back down.

Now, occasionally, he gets a student who just doesn’t back down.

In those cases, he entertains the office hours, forcing you to stay back and lounge on the couch when they visit, extra affectionate with you when they walk in, ring on his finger extra polished and your matching one visible when you work.

You find it hilarious when you reach for his tea, lips around his straw as you continue to work on your research, drinking up the way his student’s eye twitches at his blatant displays of affection. You’re his “beloved” when the student walks in, and his “one and only” when they’re almost out of hearing range. You get a kiss when you walk him to class, and you peek into his class so much more to drop off drinks as long as the student doesn’t back down.

He refuses to hold an office hour with the student if you’re not available to hang around. He’d much rather be called a shitty professor than a shitty husband.

He can find another job. Not another you.