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I cant believe I'm still surviving my first Nuzlocke and making some truly awful art in the process.
(I've been slacking on showing the updates to my stupid Trainer card)
More Fire Red today 2-4pm GMT!
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#im not very good at social media#pokemon nuzlocke#drawlocke#trainer cards#oc art#digital sketch#giftuber
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Watching Penny Snapcube watch the jak and daxter cutscenes made me want to create a creature
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My obsession with him is something unhealthy.
#dandys world#dandys world fanart#dw#dw rodger#dandys world rodger#rodger dandys world#dw toodles#dandys world toodles#toodles dandys world#my art#I'm So Normal (tm)#Less content than usual#but hopefully this makes up for my absence lol#admittedly im not very good at the social media thing#but I'm so grateful for all the lovely comments and love that has been shared with me :]#Rodger content to feed the masses#This is my gift#Enjoy it thoroughly.
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"the strike is gonna kill my favorite shows" babe okay if you don't want to think about the human livelihoods at stake (you should really be thinking about the humans though) like. think about what happens after this. when writing pays you enough to eat; more people get to be writers. more stories. more interesting plots and ideas. think about what gets made when artists aren't starving.
you've been complaining for years that tv is going downhill. part of that is because the writers aren't paid enough - a screenwriter needs to be able to live with a very low paycheck while being virtually anonymous, so as a profession it self-selects for a very slim number of people. part of bad writing is burnout and the absolutely criminal amount of influence corporations have over scripts. writing is actually a craft, despite what people who love chatGPT will tell you - and, as a craft; it takes time, diligence, and support.
and yes, i understand. you have a connection to a piece of media, which is what writers want. but we regret to inform you that your blorbo is as real as the image in the mirror - is your reflection actually you? can the reflection ever show anything but the truth? as writers, our work is the reflection. you can't keep throwing our bodies under buses and then being shocked that our work is bitter, 2d, "needs revision". imagine what gets made when the artist is inspired and has the time, space, energy, and fucking budget to actually make what makes them happy.
i love you so much. but also, really - and for real - before anything else, please remember it's human livelihoods at stake.
#tbh i think we're about to see another rush of “reality tv”#idk how well that same approach will go for streaming services bc that's a lot of how cable skirted around the last one#but also at the same time social media exists and reality tv has been dying pretty significantly -#there's a huge push for 'definfluencing' and being LESS involved in parasocial relationships which is VERY GOOD#but i wouldn't be surprised if netflix starts some kind of big brother/love island/etc#im writing this to seduce one very specific person#it's you
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random CrossCode sketches I did months ago when I was playing thru the game. Lea my sillygirl :>
PLAY IT IT'S PEAK FICTION


this one I did purely from memory of the squad

And obviously the best one I did lol

(i sucked at drawing that thumbs up hand hhdhj)
#pinyatart#crosscode#9/10 gaming experience besides a lot of the puzzles being hard af for some reason. everything else is chefs kiss perfect#it's useful having a very large backlog of art i never post to social media that i only send my irl flesh friends#it's like im giving you very old leftovers that somehow still taste good and didn't give you food poisoning. i think#when it comes to drawing i have two sides: draw like it's your last damn day on earth or do fuck nothing and play gacha games like a loser#the latter is beating my motivation's ass to hell. save me
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hi everybody! i hope you’re all doing as ok as it is possible to be right now. im hopping on here super quickly to say that i FINALLY bit the bullet and h*cked my DS the other day and it has unironically been one of the most serotonin-producing decisions ive ever made LOL. i got pretendo earlier today and i would love to exchange my pretendo friend code with ppl on here in case anyone wants to add me!! i don’t have any games w online functionality rn but i would love to do some streetpassing and swapnoting… and once acnl is available on pretendo i would LOOOOVE to visit everybody’s towns :”~D i may not respond right away / add everyone (it’s nothing personal at all i just get overwhelmed LOL) but if ur interested please dm me! bonus pic of my mii (on the pretendo site)… this is my true physical form btw <3

#purrs#tomodachi life / acnl / streetpass plaza minigames have truly been keeping me going lately. i fucking love miis and the DS / wii era so muc#i missed miitomo SO much and getting into these games / this TREASURE TROVE of community support for miis and the 3DS makes my heart so ful#also tiny life update: im still struggling w mental health stuff but doing better than i was when i last posted :’~)#this app has changed so much omg. i still might slowly come back to using my sideblogs for things like ilomilo warrior cats etc but for rn#think not having a social media presence anymore has been very good and clarifying and healing for me#but that being said.. i do miss this place and all of you. if youve stuck around all this time thank you so much sincerely. im beaming#tenderness and courage and gratitude your way 🫂
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Hey, I remember you mentioning on your IG something about two types of popular artists and one being good at social media and the other being good at art or something like that (I can't really remember lol). But it got me thinking, any tips for how to be good at social media? Cuz I'm certainly not even after posting art for six years lol
Heya!
What I meant by that is that there are traits that allow you to grow on social media, and traits that determine what a highly skilled artist is, and those traits do not always necessarily overlap.
I've seen so many amazing artists that post artwork that blow my head off, and yet they don't have many likes. On the other hand, some artists at the same skill level who draw more popular things will get way more attention.
That is not to say that either is the correct way to create art, but there is definitely a formula to social media that is in play.
There are a lot of posts about how to grow a social media account, particularly on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram art spheres, and imo you really need to examine what you want from your art before jumping into social media mode
The stuff you create to pander to social media might not be art that you want to create at all - I'm lucky, because I am less artist more storyteller, and what I enjoy is telling jokes and silly stories to liven up people's moods :] this, of course, conveniently does well on social media. On a personal note, I have a history of being a recluse and not connecting well with people, and art is my way of trying to communicate my feelings, one way or another.
So of course, if you draw for any reason other than my own, my approach to art and it's relation to social media might be inappropriate for you.
All that being said, if u take a look at those "get big on social media" videos they always cite the same few points... And you can look into that, for sure, but this video sums up how I feel about all that.
I spent like 20 minutes drafting words after the above paragraph, but I really ended up regurgitating sentiments from the video... So really don't listen to me, listen to that video
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I just realised I didnt actually answer the question with my anecdotal experience, so here's a list of things I did
1. Posted like 3 doodles a day on social media
I did this for 6 months on a side account on Twitter recently and got the account to 11k followers... And I did this for 3 months on Instagram a few years ago and I think got 3.5k followers. Of course, do not spam maliciously and make sure your art is still of good quality, but for those artworks I posted quickly, I did not colour, and mostly did clean sketches. This also trains you in the matter of line confidence haha. Again, this worked for me because of my set of circumstances (love for the media, want to tell stories, simple art style)
2. Focus on my favourite aspects of media
This helps with respect to burnout - kinda hard to burnout when you love what you're making! For me, it's character interactions and comics. I want to see my blorbos kiss and if I'm not the one drawing it who will?!
3. Interact with people
People eat up work that they can interact with. A choose your own story situation, one of those like/rt to strip a character 😭 those do numbers for a reason.
Additionally, if you post stuff people love, people will respond to it with comments, maybe their own headcanons, adding on to the work... I've gone into long looong Twitter thread conversations with people who added onto my ideas that I threw up onto the screen and I think it's also a nice thing to do to respond to positive comments haha... I'm not very good at this (read: bad at communication)
I think that's the key points... Hope this helps!
#people who are good at social media are good at marketing basically#theyre their own hype man who has something cool to show#and would like to show everyone that cool thing!#its not purely about art its also about charisma and trying to get people to be convinced that youre cool as well#thats why there are social media influencers#people who vlog and get popular because of the way they present themselves#me i am very much my own hype man#not really because im particularly good at art (im not) but because i have so many thoughts in my head that i want to share#and i need people to also be poisoned by these thoughts so i enthusiastically promote it#side eyes the blood soup comic i dedicated like 20 pages to#on my end it comes from the love of media and my desire to build upon the established canon#but i understand that not everyone is so intensely passionate about their own work... but yknow#you need to love your own art in order for it to succeed#just like you need to love yourself before you can grow as a person#its easy for me to say because i do have social media attention though#i remember so desperately chasing social media validation when i was 16#so really i cant really say much regarding that haha#but do watch the video and hopefully it helps!#i wrote so many words...#heph answered
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Also I have barely been on here so just to let people know- I’m good! I’ve just been cutting back on a lot of social media use and screen time, and I’ve been doing a lot more art in my free time
#ive taken up doing echo art and it’s very therapeutic and calming#ive been painting#so yeah im all good just spending less time on social media!#i dont plan on leaving tumblr this is my hellhole#but I am trying to be offline more#because averaging 8+ hours of screen time a day was not good for me <3
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me and the snails are going out on the town for a girls night don't wait up
#also hi I'm still alive and here sort of!#Im not very good with social media anyway but I do dip in sometimes to see whats going on and#the egg summer camp that some of my mutuals got involved with? EXTREMELY cool hell yes I loved to see it#but yeah. qsmp ended and I dipped for a bit and have returned to look at pictures of edgeworth and shadow the hedgehog I'm not sorry
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You HAVE to love the moment after your phone dies and you are left hunched over the screen, your eyes deprived of the blue light to which they have grown accustomed, your mind deprived of the distraction from the horrors of your reality, to behold your own image (reverse Narcissus) in all its double-chinned, acne-scarred, chocolate-stained and cheeto-dusted glory, and horrified by who you have become, and you are full of guilt and (remorse) exhaustion, and you are (entirely, devastatingly) alone, and you blink, and you get up, and you (cry) (look in the mirror?) go plug in your phone and get some more cheetos
No, really, you have to love it. It's the law.
#i dont know what compelled me to write this#but#to be clear#this isnt coming from the old mindset of “all technology is bad and everyone who uses social media is dumb”#because that isnt true and never has been#this is coming from somebody with the kind of mild screen addiction that most people have#who generally enjoys being creative and using entertainment platforms and interacting with people online#but who is also somewhat frustrated with my relationship with my phone#and very frustrated by the way social media and videogames and screens in general are thought of and talked about in the world#screen addiction#phone addiction#relatable#is this relatable?#does anyone feel like this?#im whispering into the void#self awareness#i dont know#i have so much work to do#and my executives are dysfunctioning#i am having a Bad Go of it#its just#its been quite a month#you know?#maybe ill make a ventpost#later tho#all ye who find my ramblings here#have a good day#or night#or else
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I'm making a 1/4 page ad for my job and the internet has conflicting answers about how big that is so I just called the paper we're advertising in, and the dimensions are fucking 4.937" wide by 10" tall. And that 4.937" is upsetting me so much. Why not make it 5. I feel like once you're at three decimal points, you can just round up and no one will notice
#another edition of 'small gripes about my job'#truly i love my job but its very different from all other jobs ive had#now im important enough to be making a newspaper ad ig#thats not a small ad either. christ. thats going to be seen#its fine tho. my only problem is our events person#shes very particular about this specific event#to the point of expecting ne to resd her mind and getting snippy when i cant#im really looking forward to making this ad snd it not being good enough for her#also i just put those dimensions into canva and its horrific#thats just such a weird ratio#its so tall and thin#i signed up to make cute little social media posts and take artistic pictures of classes and gallery openings and such#now i have a nemesis and im somewhat important
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so recently i decided to do a mention list (tag list) for who wants to be mentioned when I post new poetry, although I haven't been writing much. does anyone know why tumblr is such a darling and when you mention lots of people some have the underline and some don't? I'm very confused
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lowkey the way i draw is so not conducive to the social media environment like i just get bursts where i draw like 10 """"postable"""" things over one weekend and proceed to post them all back to back because i have no self control and the idea of staggering posts for a more consistent presence online is so annoying to me. i just post them when i draw them or they never get posted at all
#also im sure people have noticed#but i go through very long phases of not posting Anything#even though i am drawing#usually its cuz it's either uni stuff or something i just dont think ab posting#but then i find it 6 months later and im like Why did i never post this#and making stuff for yourself rather than an audience is like A Good Thing#but this is more because i dont think social media posting is a big deal#so i should be posting whatever i want because idgaf anyway#im literally just lazy and dont like formatting things
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2023 reads
Wren Martin Ruins It All
YA contemporary romcom
student council president proposes to cut the school valentine’s dance because it's expensive and alienating for queer/single people, but instead the vice president (who he adamantly hates for being perfect) suggests they get sponsored by a popular friendship app
he decides to secretly give the app a go to “know his enemy” but ends up making a friend, and starts to catch feelings for him...and maybe realises the guy he hates isn't actually so bad either...
ace mlm MC, aro-questioning side character
I loved this so much! great MC with a funny internal monologue
despite the title most issues or misunderstanding are sorted out pretty quickly rather than drawn out for the drama and plot. which is refreshing
I was a little nervous about the concept of ‘ace hates the school dance and wants it shut down’ - there's a bit of a stereotype of aspecs being boring Fun Haters - but I think it did a really good job of showing the specifics of why, not dragging it out, and also that he’s just a snarky fun hater in general with not much weight behind it.
There’s also no discovering of sexuality or big coming out (just one-on-one) - he already knows he’s ace, and it comes up naturally a bunch, talking about how dances etc can feel isolating, the way the friendship app called buddy being called ace-friendly can feel infantilizing, avoiding dating because of the stress of having to check upfront if people about it, etc.
I would have liked to know more about his relationship with his mum? Though I understand that it’s clearly something he avoids thinking about - going too deep into his relationship with his parents might have changed the tone a lot. but still.
ARC from netgalley thanks netgalley
#wren martin ruins it all#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#asexual books#ngl as soon as i was like oh this boy is elliot schafer coded i was a lost cause#(re aro character - I have noticed a bit of a trend of “maybe aromantic but I don’t like labels” in YA#contemporary recently that I don’t love - but it’s not an inherent issue with this book)#I’ve read a lot of YA contemporary books where the portrayal of social media and made up apps doesn’t feel right; but this one did to me!#maybe it’s because it’s from the POV of someone’s who’s cynical about it.#(and types no punctuation no capitalisation…I could see my online-communication style reflected back at me…)#Even the confrontation at the end where feelings are confessed isn’t made into some big dramatic thing in front of everyone with no#communication. But it also doesn’t feel emotionally anticlimactic.#(maybe a couple of the reveals in the confession felt unnecessarily dramatic to me? like the story would have functioned without them. )#but it's common for comtemporary ya to overdramatise silly things for the plot and im glad this didn't#possibly this is just my adult opinion about teen narratives.#The adult characters (even though they’re mostly background) feel like real people.#and it has some good friendships. also he has chickens and they are very good#it did become increasingly obvious that it was the same ppl but also they’re emotionally stupid. and like….it's part of the genre.#we all know this going in.
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one thing ive come to really appreciate about tumblr is the fact that reblogs have the ability to outlive the original post. the post got deleted? oh its okay, it will continue its existence in my blog. the post was changed? thats alright, the prior version is right here, isnt that cool? a little progression story, no?
#love their whack database. no cascade deletes or cascade updates here thank you mwah#oldtxt#theres no concept of permanence in instagram#you put something you like on your story and after a day its gone#(yes its in your archives but who checks those out + wheres the communal aspect of that)#you repost something on twitter: if the original tweet gets deleted the repost is useless. it shows nothing#now theres no proper permanence in any social media site or the internet as a whole#but ... idk its something#im just very happy about this#(pats tumblr) you did one good thing (knocks on wood)#and yes this is about art. everything i say in some way comes back to art
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#i think im delusional#normally im so good at knowing off the bat if what im shipping is a rare pair or not#but after finish squid game 2 this week i happily strolled over to ao3#yknow to check out fics that surely existed for what i was looking for#nothing. zilch. checks character tag. certainly has a lot of fics. absolutely zero of what i actually wanted#like....surely im not crazy. surely SOMEONE gets it. it was literally right there. guess ill check social media?#checks social media#NOTHING. ZILCH#desperately checks REDDIT#NOTHING!!! ZILCH#HELLO???????#I THINK IM GOING CRAZY. DID I WATCH THE SAME SHOW??? DOES LITERALLY NO ONE ACTUALLY GENUINELY SHIP THIS#im literally terrified to even say what it is even tho it isnt like a surprise#its so normie vanilla cutesy shit to me like it seemed so obvious but i guess i have idiot goggles on!!!!!!#this seems a bit like a ship rant but its not i swear to god#i love all the ships a lot#but im actually genuinely absolutely stunned that apparently zero people are even engaging with this#so ill just.....? i....i dont even know what to do LOL#(i cant be bothered to even write this out properly as a text post im just here to express absolute confusion)#(also inhun incredible. that wasnt what i was searching for. i definitely do not have to dive to enjoy that. i can enjoy very easily)#sighs. pulls up gdoc#blah blah
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