#i did not expect to be so interested in the media im hosting a tournament for

[tentacletournament]

What’s with all the Transformers stuff?? Let’s do some Rot propaganda to fix that. Or just facts about the rot. Who cares.

-There are V A R I A N T S. The main one is called the Daddy Long Legs and is blue, has a lot of tentacles, and CAN HEAR. Terrifying. There’s the Brother Long Legs that is brown, has less tentacles, and can’t hear. Found mostly in the Garbage Wastes. The DLC, Downpour, added another variant: the Mother Long Legs. It’s purple, can hear, and can only be killed by a SINGULARITY (black hole) BOMB. Just run. Throw a rock to distract it and just run away. You can damage it, but how does that matter when it heals 100 per second (slugcats deal 1 damage with normal spears)??

-There are also proto-daddy long legs (I think that they’re called that??) they just stick to walls and kill you if you touch them. Some of them have tentacles going between them, making it a little easier to navigate in Five Pebbles’ finicky zero-gravity areas.

Want to kill one? Stab it’s core with an explosive spear- it kills all mobile king legs except for MLLs instantly. Normal bombs don’t kill it immediately- it has to be an explosive SPEAR. Normal spears can disable the tentacles and do damage if you hit the core, but there isn’t really much of a reward for killing them.

-Apparently vulnerable to cold temps due to… (looks at a certain slugcat) spoilers.

-On the topic of spoilers, here’s one for Hunter and Gourmand. So the Hunter is a slugcat that can carry 3 spears at a time, does more damage, eats meat only, etc. for the price of a time limit. If you don’t make it into the Void Sea in time, and die on your last cycle, you can see hunter again in Gourmand… or rather, it’s corpse hijacked by the rot. Yeah. It can hear, has 50 health (?) and looks like this- SPOILERS!

(GIF yoinked from the RW Wiki)

-not a fun fact, but is currently in the process of infecting and consuming Cthulhu. It’s already taking down one god, why not another?

wait what. theres. a FAMILY OF ROTS??? there are MULTIPLE ROTS???? also the gif is going 👉👈 at me idk if thats on purpose or if anyone else can see that anyway sorry for my sudden random interest in transformers i still love you rain world (i know only information given to me about either of them)

[strangeocquestions]

Hi, I hope you dont mind me asking this. How popular is your webcomic? I want to start one myself but Im worried it wont gain any traction and I'll lose motivation :(

I currently have a few hundred active/mostly active readers, 200-ish of which actively follow the webcomic’s blogs and an estimated 100 or so more who read it without following. I only know of these readers’ existence because I know there are several dozens of people who I, friends of mine or followers of mine shared the comic with and who read it actively though they don’t have Tumblr accounts.

I don’t get much fanart or fanworks yet and new creators shouldn’t expect much of that either, fanbases are a difficult thing to build. Then again, my comic is only in Chapter 1 so there’s not much for fans to work with anyway. 

I’ve been hosting my webcomic for about a year, though only around 6 or so months ago did I actually start regularly posting new pages. I haven’t advertised it outside of Tumblr, a little bit on Discord and at school because I’m waiting to move the webcomic to its own website rather than just keep it on Tumblr.

You should keep in mind that I had several big advantages right off the bat, those being having big groups of friends who got invested in my webcomic and shared it with other people, running several blogs with large followings that helped me boost the comic and running a very active Discord server where sometimes I’ll find people interested in webcomics. Without these things it would have been significantly harder for my project to get any traction.

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Your comic isn’t going to get any traction on its own unless you advertise it to hell and back. Create popular content that will help your accounts grow so that you will have a larger viewer base seeing your promos, get into groupchats, talk about it on several different social medias, etc. It’s frankly the only way to go about it. 

More detailed tips to follow:

-Create memes for big fandoms. From my experience, memes get you more followers than fanart ever will. My most popular fanart  only has 2k notes, meanwhile my most popular fandom meme has 100k notes (decapitated Dumbledore, anyone remember that? haha…………… 😔👊). It’s pretty sad but it’s a reality we artists face.

-Create art memes! That way you can share your art WHILE being funny. I must say though… These are always a hit or miss. One post you may get 10 notes and another you may get thousands. My biggest hit of this genre was this (at 40k notes):

-TAG THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR POSTS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IT’S THE ONLY WAY PEOPLE WILL SEE YOUR STUFF PLEASE SPAM THOSE TAGS PLEASE PLEASE PLEA 

-Find forums, groupchats, communities, etc where it would be relevant to share your projects at. Reddit, Deviantart and Discord are quite useful.

-Promote your content by doing exchanges. For example, draw something for every new follower you get or something along those lines.

-Join other artists’ contests and competitions. Maybe even an organization’s contest. The prize doesn’t really matter for the discussion here, but winning will help you get exposure. I am currently participating in a videogame development tournament in my country. If I win, not only will I get a full scholarship, I’ll give my skills and projects exposure.

-You can also just create your own contests and competitions, though you’ll be the one giving away prizes then. Running a contest will definitely get you several followers though, so there’s that.

-If any of your friends shows interest in your project, ask them if they could share it with other people. Don’t put too much pressure on them, like, that’s a shitty thing to do, but asking doesn’t harm anyone.

-Additionally, get out there, meet new people. You never know when you’ll come cross someone who may be interested in helping you spread your project around.

-Don’t stress out. No matter how much time you spend promoting your creation, it’s still going to take ages to build a viewer base. 

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BY THE WAY (this is in this blog’s FAQ but I doubt anyone reads that anyway) this blog is open to promote other creators’content. Just DM me, send me a link, I’ll check it out and see if it’s appropriate and if everything’s fine I’ll post about it here. It will probably be a small boost but it’s a boost nevertheless. I am more than happy to help any creator in need.