#good stuff in the reblogs y'all

[simplepotatofarmer]

c!dream and c!techno make me crazy, actually. what do you mean that their narrative was painted by the same man? what do you mean techno fought against it tooth and nail while dream accepted it?

[ilraksroost]

(I should be working on a libretto but I've been recommended some posts and seen some stuff floating around that has me a little ... perturbed ... so this little post is coming out)

This is more me letting off some steam/getting some thoughts out there so I probably will NOT be responding to any reblogs or comments (see above - I need to be working on a libretto and do not have time to get into discussions online but felt this might be helpful)

I've noticed this a lot in various communities (singling out the alterhuman community right now for this post because that's the community I've seen this the most in) where folks will make a post that reads as a "I have X problem", folks come in to help, and then the original poster will push back on the advice (that nine times out of ten, I honestly would personally have given as well), which leads to arguments.

I think it would be wise for folks to start doing something that has helped my husband and I a lot. To preface: We would both experience a lot of frustration for a while because, for example, I would just be wanting to vent and my husband would go into "give advice" mode which, when I'm wanting to vent, is the LAST thing I want to hear. So we have started either prefacing with, "I need to get this off my chest" or "I need some advice/help with this situation" OR when one of us begins to vent, we wait and then ask "Are you looking for advice or do you need an ear to listen?" Something like that. It has helped IMMENSELY.

For those posting these vents/asking for advice/asking why x isn't this way in the community - you may be better served if you specify from the get-go if you need advice or if you're just needing to let off some steam. This also goes for folks who see the posts and are wanting to hop in. Asking "Do you need an ear to listen or do you need advice" can go such a long way!

Anyway, gotta get back to work but wanted to just uh ... toss this out there.

-ilrak

[not-tomorrow-satan-blog]

If this comes across your page, no matter when, please do me a favor and remember that the world is a greater place with you in it. I may not know you, but I'm proud of you for every single day you survive on this earth. Surviving isn't easy, and for you to do so for this long is incredible. I'm proud of you, I love you, and I appreciate you.

I hope you either have a good day or a better one.

[belovedkaveh]

(my fave) Genshin Impact ships as love tropes

CyoNari - Friends to lovers (other friends set them up bc they can't keep watching them)

ZhongChi - Soulmates (slowburn with a happy end)

KazuScara - One fell first, the other one fell harder (angst in which Scara accepts his feelings for Kazuha too late and loses him to someone else)

KazuHei - Destined to be (Kazuha realizes it's been Heizou the whole time)

HaiKaveh - Opposites attract (fluff/angst/hurt/comfort)

ThomaLuc - Highschool lovers to friends (fluff to break up, still friends

AyaThoma - Second chance love (both meet each other at a low point in life and fall in love pretty fast and hard)

IttoRou - Idiots to lovers (crack & fluff, both are idiots and no one is ready to make the first move)

ChiLuc - Enemies to lovers (do I need to say more?)

[smimon]

Today I am very bitter. Excuse me rambling in tags below

[maruxee]

Rambling abt a very specific moment in ep.10:

the heartbroken soldier looking at Vash through his scope, seeing through it only the monster that took his family

Vash lowering his hands means nothing to him, nor the expression on his face, mirroring his own grief

to Vash, I bet the bullet just punctuated the devastating mess of emotions he already got from the soldier's words alone and the heat of his glare :')

the sight of his parents' supposed killer through his scope, just taking in all his hate without a word or retaliation or self-defence

so easy to pull the trigger

Vash's hand on his fresh wound like he's cradling the bullet close and keeping it in, as he then turns his back to them all and calmly walks away....

did he see the empty look in Vash's eyes through his scope after that??? did the soldier manage to notice it, past the veneer of hatred he held onto so tightly?

the mirrored emptiness left within the soldier as he lowered his gun, after he exacted revenge, left with an outcome he'd probably thought about before ever since Jeneora Rock, and had likely been so sure would feel better than this

[theparadoxmachine]

GO - S1 released: I'm in the hospital with meningitis, shingles, a UTI, and have been diagnosed with bursitis, bone spurs, and plantar fasciitis less than a week prior. DT and MS are doing an early morning talk show interview while I'm having the MRI that will show that I have a progressive, congenital neurological defect that will require brain surgery to treat.

GO - S2 is announced: I joke that I hope I'm not in the hospital this time around.

GO - S2: It's worse. The day after the season's release, one of my favorite people in the entire world dies of cancer, a diagnosis they (reasonably, justifiably, and entirely within their right) did not disclose to the public, though to my horror and devastation, I had predicted years prior. I'd go through a hundred lumbar punctures to make this not real.

GO - S3: *gestures vaguely at all that. Also an election year, the results of which could be the end of my country and legal personhood as I know it.*

I'm pretty sure there's a curse in there somewhere. You guys enjoy the movie. I'm going to be getting my affairs in order.

[clandestinegardenias]

getting so many unhinged interactions on that moral theory post people are literally accusing each other of blood libel in the comments

so like NATURALLY i have another one sitting in my drafts...

[honeysucklethornsandalligtrhorns]

wait do people unironically ship billford. like think they should be together and everything.

...guys T-T

[undertale-fic-librarby]

I love being called a librarian.

[campingwiththecharmings]

so over the last week or so i've noticed several people liking almost every fic on my masterlist and, while i am appreciative of the interaction, i just wanted to take a second and ask: if you read something i wrote and enjoyed it, would you maybe at least consider reblogging it? it only takes a couple of extra seconds and is really so helpful and appreciated ❤️

[zo1nkss]

Last thing I'm saying before my official break, and last thing I'm saying on the izcourse for a bit in general:

The canyon bullied several of my friends of color out of the fandom. If your only concern is whether or not people are being nice to you over a character that has led to such a significant drop in BIPOC engagement, I do not care about your feelings. No I will not let you use my posts that I make calling out toxic culture from Izzy fans to victimize yourself and your friends just because you feel attacked.

[byanyan]

the amount I've been hoarding away some of the memes I've seen on the dash over the last week or so is so not okay for someone with as many drafts as me ashfjdh

[vulpinesaint]

i will be for real with you all. the many variations of the "everyone should be commenting on/reblogging my fanfic!!" mindset (and its children, "and if you're not doing that you're a bad person" + "and i am directly tying that to my motivation to write/my self esteem" + "and if you don't do that you are directly harming my motivation to write/my self esteem") are all bad for you. i've said it before! and i'll say it again! there is nothing wrong with reminding an audience, whether it's in the notes of a fic or in a tumblr post, that authors like comments! calls to action are great! it's the anger that i see when people post about how they get no reblogs. or the passive agressiveness in posts about how people will like but not reblog. or posts straight out saying that likes mean nothing. that's the shit that's not working.

first off: it has to be said. you are not entitled to people's time or effort. it's a harsh fucking truth but it has to be said! you're not entitled to the time it takes someone to read your fic, much less comment on it. you're not entitled to a space on someone's personal blog. human beings are never going to do exactly what you want them to because people just don't fucking do things sometimes. and expecting things from the people that read ur stuff (or see your art!) is only going to create a cycle of frustration in which your expectations are continuously left unmet and unmet and unmet, and if you cling to them, you're going to build up that frustration and anger, and it's not going to go anywhere positive. prommy. it's okay to be frustrated with a lack of attention! but then you have to let that go. and accept that any interaction is because people choose to interact, which is more than they can be expected to do.

which leads me to the "likes are worthless" argument. first off telling people that you don't want their interaction is not going to lead to more interaction. second off what the FUCK are you talking about. i know people get upset when people like but don't reblog because it doesn't further their content's reach, but: what the FUCK are you talking about!!!! likes are an acknowledgement that someone saw what you did and they liked it, enough to let you know. isn't that the goal? with a quick reference to the above paragraph (you are not entitled to time/effort/blog space), we have to talk about the way that people structure their intake of validation. likes are good! reblogs get your stuff out to another person's audience, but that enables more likes! any interaction is interaction. and also:

we cannot be basing everything around validation and interaction from strangers. that is only going to do you harm. as i said, your expectations are realistically most often not going to be met, unless you don't set expectations; if you will only have good feelings about something if people give you a certain amount of likes/kudos/comments, a certain amount of reblogs, you're going to end up with negative feelings, because most times, you're not going to get that. and the same way that you build up anger and frustration, you'll build up anything else you tie to that: sadness, worthlessness, however you feel when you don't get something you want. you can't let that control you. you can't live your life with all of your sources of happiness and self-worth rooted in external factors. those things are great for a boost! but you have to love your creative work for its own sake. you have to enjoy sharing things because you enjoy sharing things. it is genuinely not a healthy mindset to hang so much on other people's actions.

and i get it! believe me! i had one big work a while ago that got a bunch of comments with every update and it was absolutely thrilling and i got hooked on that validation. and then it fucking sucked afterward, cause nothing else i did ever got to that point again. it's brain poison! for real! it's the same shit they put in likes on social media, and i'm sure we've all seen the articles or ted talks or whatnot about the dangers of social media addiction! it's the same thing! and what i had to do to get out of that was find validation elsewhere. start investing myself into my creative processes for the sake of enjoying the creative process. train myself into enjoying every bit of interaction i got, rather than setting a threshold at which i could enjoy it. and it's hard work and i have to do it constantly and it fucking sucks but i am so much happier with my fics because of it. living in that disappointment and anger is awful. i promise it's better to fucking. practice gratitude. i hate that shit but it works sometimes.

and also! it has to be said. as a fic writer + reader: the "likes are worthless, everyone should be reblogging/commenting on fics" posts are fucking annoying. make different posts.

[elisa6102]

cheater cheater strawberry eater (my farmer basically.. she's a bit silly)

...aaand on an unrelated note

my silly little blog is 1 year old.. moots if you're reading just know i love y'all hehee <33

[goddessofwisdom18]

the way im just sitting here with no notes on 90% of my posts despite being a pretty good artist T_T i'm tired of being humble GIVE ME CLOUT PLEASE