#ill update by bio later ig

[mxbutchtwink]

I wanna try out ze/zir/zirs pronouns for a bit

[her-canine-teeth]

INTRO Post YEAHG (ppl wanted this). this is LONG but there's a shorter version now!! exciting.

g e n e r a l stuff ig

(i have never made one so idk what to put here (it's way longer than i thigght though. sorry) but if u have any questions u can ask me everything! fr)

the names that i primarily go by here r mito n tomas (bc theyre the ones in my bio thing) but I have like a lot of names (bascially every word I like. more or less) so I guess u can just call me whatever??

I love music and I listen to almost EVERYTHING so it's hard to pin down a few artists. the ones i think r most underrated are flower face and aliceband though (if u ask i WILL make u a playlist. if u send me more music i will be happy). Idk i play guitar and I want to play drums which is hard bc I dont have any. also want to learn piano like this year

other than that i write pretty much (sb beta my stuff pls) oh and I have synesthesia which is fun Uhhh i love (over)interpreting things so there's a lot of that here and I csnt spell!! but I think thats obvious.

Im queer like in general

Im posting abt a lot of stuff, main interests (rn) are: tma/tmagp, starkid/sap, and yellowjackets. and discworld. we <3 discworld (sb ask me what my fav book is)

asks/dms r always open!! I love talking.

NOTE i wont be there as much the next 5 weeks, i think but u can still talk to me (pls do) ill just answer like a bit later

beneath that thing r my tags n projects it's rather long though i think. n this is long enough alr

t a g s

mitos incredible life - basically all of my original posts. whys it called that and not smth like 'my posts'? i dont fucking remember and id rlly like to know that too but im not gonna change it now. anyways it's everything from poetry stuff to edits to complaining etc

mine art tag - stuff i make, mostly edits and sometimes writing

spine - writing stuff im basically just putting somewhere when im on tumblr anyways and dont want to open the notes app. those are real life first drafts and not good

there r more i think but ig youll get them

p r o j e c t s

basically if ive planned smth for more than 1 day it's a project to me. If youre reading this I probably got multiple going on rn

the ones that are finished always have a like wrap post thingy

tag: tomas pulls thru

then I have a current wip status post which you can find here. like bascially what's finished alr and what's not n other stuff. (probably gonna forget this exists though so. might not be accurate I just love unnecessary complicated things).

tag: current wip status (if u dont wanna click the link or smth idek)

andd the post where the finished project r listed is heree

tag: project overview

IDK WHAT ELSE TO PUT HERE it will probably be updated. very sure but not the next few weeks bc as ive said i will be gone.

[metalgonemeta]

MAJORLY LONG POST IM SO SORRY

This whole post is a comparison of Isane-the-shiny, aka my older version of this blog, to its resurrection MetalGoneMeta

First things first, im sending development for this blog into motion. And although everyone who saw and i interacted with under the Isane-the-shiny/-and-muses usernames are now 2 years+ inactive and/or archived, i feel its best to put up the similarities and differences between then and now both for their sake should it be of interest as well as to give myself a blueprint for resurrecting under Metalgonemeta.

Isane-the-Shiny/-and-muses (2018?)

ItS was a Non-Selective, Independent, Pokémon/Metang OC Roleplaying blog

While I ran ItS (and later IaM) I was very VERY new to Tumblr RP and didnt know what anything meant besides a blog being Selective or not. And if you even had Semi-Selective in your bio, I posted the Same. Damn. CopyNPaste Ask of basically:

THIS GD ASK HAS PLAGUED MANY A USERS INBOX, and yknow how i said i didnt know the terminology of RPBlogs? That included those who had “Mutuals Only” as a rule of their blog.

To those whos blogs i did invade, I do apologize. I will say that i have improved since then.

(Also SHOUTOUT TO THOSE WHO ACTUALLY RESPONDED DESPITE THEIR OWN RULES /pos Istg i look back on this Invading copy and paste ask with HEAVY cringe, but I also remember feeling so ballistically happy seeing the “X answered your ask” notification. I hope all is well for you ^^)

Back to this list of how things were, pretty much said above but to put it shorter and more organized, Back when i ran IsT/IaM i was very Invasive and i was unaware of boundaries. And this was mostly due to it being back when i was about 14-15. (Im an Adult now dw ^^”)

Lastly and pretty much the only last changes and differences… Isane, the Metang OC of this blog, Is getting a name change and Overhaul. This is primarily for finding purposes ig? Basically, There is a character from a different fandom i follow, Bleach, with a character of the same name. (If anything i legit just stole the name cuz i liked Isane lmao). I do not have a new name decided *yet, but am actively searching so i can get it set in stone for the blog. And in terms of the actual overhaul, im going to look into updating, aka giving, her lore as well as (likely the only thing anyone i interacted with gave a shit about if at all) a redesign. Whether im going to turn her into a default blue and silver metang, or my Orrian Metang design is also still to be decided (you can find said design here )

Metalgonemeta (2023 onward)

Now all the big stuff i will admit is under the previous section by accident and ive noticed this post is getting pretty lengthy so ill try to keep this section short and to the point.

MGM is likely going to be identical to ItS in the fact it will still be an Indie NonSelective Blog. Though if i wanted to label every applicable term i found to give a better idea of what itll be: Indie, Pokemon/Metang OC, Based on Canon events that happened in both the mainline pokemon games as well as Pokemon Colosseum/GoD:XD, though will likely focus mainly on Unova B2W2* in writings.

Now i will say, factually in my stance, i should NOT go around peoples inboxes all wild andlikely childish. Even if i didnt make the other person uncomfortable, there were cases where i did make some uncomfortable… likely those who had stated mutuals only and yet here i was, a complete stranger banging on the ask box. Im probably going to just stick with those who interact with me first because of this and keep me going into inboxes at a minimal (i.e posted staters, prompts, etc.)

Kinda to keep parallel with the previous section, in terms of age rating im thinking ill have this blog be 18+. Not because of any mature material (if anything this blogs gonna be pretty sfw since its a gd METANG) but to avoid any uncomfortable complications regarding me, an 18y/o adult interacting with teens/minors of any age tumblr allows (I dont know what to even think of this cuz i just turned 18 not too long ago so from what ive heard i shouldnt have to worry about this type of stuff in the way say a 24y/o should), im just deciding in the hopes to just avoid any complications just keep the 18y/o me in the 18+ audience.

And that about wraps up all there is in terms of blog comparisons.. this was mostly focused on the blog technichalities and i will look into setting up a accessable Rules and About page when i get everything set up and can move onto a theme.

Im sorry this was so long but i felt it was best to post this now while everything i want to do is still fresh in my mind.

Thank you for reading through,

—Tamer

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ILL COMMUNICATION: ‘BACK THAT ASS UP’ BY ILL POETIC

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When it all falls down...

Ever had your computer crash? It sucks. You know this already. Late one February evening during a conference call, my laptop froze up. After a couple false restarts I quickly realized this was deeper than a typical freeze-up. A few Google searches and BIOS tests later, I’d confirmed a crashed hard drive. For 7 years my laptop ran smooth as I could ever hope and in the blink of an eye he was down. Wouldn’t be the end of the world except I had roughly six months of naked-as-hell files on there completely unprotected: some deeply personal (recent family memories), most creative and professional (lots of beats, full album mixes and such). Yes, I should’ve had them automatically backing up, but my external was full and believe it or not my new external was in an Amazon shopping cart awaiting purchase later that week.

Per advice from my wife, I went through a host of local businesses to both rebuild my laptop and recover my data and I’m thankful I did. Though it all cost me more time and money than I’d hoped, my files have since all been recovered and reorganized and my laptop has been rebuilt stronger than ever. Yay for me. But I’m not writing this for me, I’m writing this to pull some lessons and tips I learned along the way that may be of value to you, the content-creating, laptop-owning, external-drive-needing creative on the other end of this screen. So here goes:

Tip 1: Revamp your setup with SSD Hard Drives

I’ve known I needed to do this for a while but it took a full-on crash to finally make the switch from a standard and less reliable spin drive. I went with the Samsung 860 Evo SSD , recommended to me buy my repairman Darrell (highly recommended if your in the San Diego area). My laptop is now taking advantage of both hard drive spaces and I am taking advantage of how best to use these workhorse SSD drives.

Tip 2: Use one SSD Drive strictly for running programs, Use the other for active files

As with the first tip, you can find this advice in a ton of PCMag articles I’m sure, but as it relates to artists and (ughh) “content-creators”, this is important for us. SSD drives are built to carry heavy loads. Anybody working with large studio sessions, productions or video content needs all the hard drive space available. Splitting your programs onto one SSD drive and your active files onto the other allows the primary drive to perform at its highest quality with no impedance from the large files you’re working with. I noticed the difference instantly.

Tip 3: Cloak your second SSD drive in the cloud.

Again, none of these tips are innovative. We all work on the cloud. Many of us use SSD drives and may even split how we use them. I’m interested in exploring how all of these ideas work with each other. So after reserving a single hard drive strictly for your active projects and sessions, I recommend purchasing a $10/mo 1TB Dropbox account (or something to that effect). In doing this I’ve essentially cloaked my entire SSD drive inside of my Dropbox account. This means that every file, session, template, plug-in or instrument that I find myself pulling from is constantly updated in real time and accessible no matter where I go. My entire laptop is essentially on a private (using the term relatively) cloud.

Tip 4: Back-Up and Double-Up

As projects continue to outgrow that initial SSD drive (which they will, quicker than you’d like to imagine), automate daily or weekly backups to a large-scale external drive (as many TB as you’d like). I myself now have two external drives (a 2TB WD MyBook and a 4TB WD Passport) actively backing up my cloud-based SSD drive and my 4TB is updating into it'sOWN cloud because I never, ever, ever, ever want to have to go through the shit I’ve gone through these past few months

If you’ve never gone through a catastrophic hard drive crash, this may all seem par for the course, but if your income-therefore-survival depends on the content you create and service (mine does!), then you know how much this shit matters. There’s nothing more embarrassing as a professional in any field than having to tell a client you’ve lost their work. There’s nothing more heartbreaking than losing your own work, the shit you’ve no doubt put countless hours into, knowing you’ll never be able to recreate the stream of creative epiphanies it took to produce it all in the first place. There’s really no excuse you can give them or yourself to justify what went wrong. As I said at the beginning of this piece, the shit sucks.

I’ll close with one final tip, as I’ve had a long time to think about this clusterfuck while backing up terabytes of files these past few weeks:

Tip 5: Give yourself the time to organize files, and price your services with this in mind.

Nobody at a professional level in their field just ‘doesn’t back files up’. It’s typically something that gets put on an ever-growing to-do list and slowly bumped to the bottom as new work comes in. And it remains near the bottom, something you swear you’ll get to once you wrap up this project that your head is so deep into. It’s boring as fuck and it feels like you’re wasting time that could be spent making music, money or spending time with friends and family. You know, being happy and such. But as a self-employed or semi-self-employed artist, producer or engineer, it’s our job to etch out time for these basic maintenance issues. Accounting for things like this gives a better understanding of where our time really goes and to value our worth in accordance. Next time you offer a price for your production or mixing services, really think about all of the steps involved, not just the creative ones. 

My name is Timothy "Ill Poetic" Gmeiner. I am an artist and producer residing in San Diego, CA. I’m currently back in school as a full-time student of music to sharpen skills and further education in my craft.

This past year, under mentorship of my department head, I developed a full college-level curriculum on artist & producer entrepreneurship and self-employment. I toured it out through various university lecture circuits.

This summer, along with a host of Midwest festival dates, I’ll be offering this curriculum as a series of entrepreneur workshops for those interested in taking their own journey. Dates will announce soon. Sign up on my mailing list HERE if you'd like me to keep you updated.

You can learn more about me via my website, IG, Bandcamp or yourfavorite streaming platform.

My most recent album “An Idiot’s Guide to Anarchy” is available on all streaming platforms as well as vinyl.

The sky is falling.