#it’s fandom its not that serious ‘mutuals’ is not a criteria i personally use but it is for other people

[quicktimeeventfull]

like a bunch of people unfollowed me when i started posting a billion photos of baekhyun from slightly different angles and like. i respect that u know. i would stop going out for lunch with someone if they refused to go to any restaurant that did not sell exclusively mint jello. but we could still play smash bros together that would be fine.

[moodr1ng]

repeating it periodically: the majority (though not all!!) of mutual aid fundraisers spread via massively copypasted asks to random users i have seen have been scams, and theyre usually easy to spot if you take a minute to check.

(edit: i forgot to say this specifically, but palestinians are one of the few exceptions where most of the fundraisers being spread through asks ive seen are legit and not scams. the following criteria does not apply; many palestinians have very recent blogs with little information, but are still legitimate. fundraisers vetted by palestinian users are trustworthy.)

signs to look out for:

- the blog is very recent, usually a couple days old (presumably, the scammers need to keep creating new blogs each time one loses momentum from being recognized as fake), and there are no indication that this is because the user just remade or lost their previous account.

- the blog has been filled with one, two, or maybe a small handful of pages' worth of reblogs. the reblogs are all directly from the source and are either of popular posts or posts all on the same subject - the scammer is filling up the blog with innocuous-looking posts so it won't look brand new at a glance, either by reblogging whatever is on the trending page, or reblogging from a couple of tags (usually fandom tags).

- the blog either has no bio, or has a very short, sterile, impersonal bio: a name, an age, maybe some slogan like 'blm', but no other indications of a personality or identity present.

- there are no personal posts whatsoever on the blog, aside from the post promoting the fundraiser.

- information about the fundraising is vague and non-committal: the reason given for needing funds lacks any details (or the details make no sense), no updates are ever posted regarding the situation, and/or the amount needed is never specified.

- the photos used as the blogs avatar or as "proof" in the fundraising post are stolen from somewhere else. this one is blatant, but back-searching a stolen image unfortunately doesnt always work and you may not find the source that way.

- you were sent an ask about this fundraiser despite being a small account with no particular reach: why is this person sending hundreds and hundreds of the same copypasted ask to random small blogs rather than going for popular blogs or relying on their mutuals and followers?

- the fundraising is being done through paypal and the name of the paypal is completely different from the one used on the blog (while many people on tumblr dont use their legal name online, you may still notice stranger discrepancies, like the fundraising blog giving a last name which isnt the last name on the paypal account, or the scammer claiming to be a person of color and using a clearly non-white name on their blog while having a very white name on paypal) - and if you look up the paypal name on tumblr, you find post after post warning people about this being the account of a repeat scammer.

while some of these alone may not mean someone is scamming, if most of these are there... its a scam. just looking up the persons url on tumblr is a quick way to find out if this person is being called out for scamming all over the place, as well.

if youre tempted to assume a fundraiser is probably real without checking because the story being told is so serious and no one would be fucked up enough to make up such a heartless scam, please know i once had to contact a father on facebook to tell him someone had stolen a picture of his toddler currently suffering with a life-threatening illness lying in a hospital bed, switched out the little girls name while copypasting her actual story, and had started a gofundme to make money off her and spread it on tumblr, while the real parents were themselves trying to raise money to keep their child from dying. there is no degree of depravity that these scammers will not stoop down to. just take a minute to check.

[many-gay-magpies]

i got tagged by @mari-kigold!! this was so much fun, thank u for the tag artzyy <3

1. why did you choose your url?

very simple actually. it was gay-jesus-official for the longest time but i needed a change of pace, SO here we are! im gay, i like birds, and my name is magpie—hence, many gay magpies.

(more under the cut)

2. any side blogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

i have three but in only really use one of them sjfhdffgfgc

@bambihee, for moodboards! (it's mainly enhypen-centric at the moment, as is my main)

the other two are old blogs from back when i was in the koc. one of them was my koc "main" that is 99% dead, and the literal only reason i havent deactivated yet is because of the past messages with a close moot that i dont want to lose ;-; the other is a koc rant blog-turned-normal rant blog that i havent used in weeks, honestly i dont know why im keeping it. attachment? pretty jeonghan layout? who knows. anyways im not tagging either of them because theyre both dead af and there would be literally no point <3

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

hold on uhhhh *sounds of a gay doing math* i think like 19 or 20 months? cuz i joined in october of 2019

4. do you have a queue tag?

i barely use the queue BUT since i recently started making moodboards i have a tag for when i promote stuff from my moodboard blog which is just q: bambihee

but other than that no

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

i'd been kind of wanting to do it for a while cuz i kept seeing screenshots of tumblr posts on pinterest and it seemed gloriously chaotic (it is), but what really made me take the ✨deep dive✨ was me wanting to see what the kpop, particularly stray kids, fandom was like on tumblr

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

it's a picture of heeseung because i'm whipped for him and it's this PARTICULAR picture of heeseung because he just looks so soft in it :(( like seriously his eyes are so big and beautiful

7. why did you choose your header?

i don't have a header at the moment, BUT my last header was a screenshot of heeseung from the fever mv which i don't think requires an explanation <3

8. what's your post with the most notes?

i don't know for certain, but im guessing its the one onlyoneof post i made about the members' reactions to wooksung's ✨move✨ in the libidO dance practice

9. how many mutuals do you have?

i havent counted and i dont really care to to be honest

10. how many followers do you have?

325

11. how many people do you follow?

350

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

what, really, is the criteria for a shitpost? what is "shitposting"? what is our purpose in life?

(the answer is yes)

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

ahahAHA

hAHA

hA

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14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

if i ever end up fighting somebody, even just over tumblr, i will probably cry, have a panic attack, or both. i would rather walk into a tree than engage in conflict with a person.

i did disappoint someone once and frankly i think that was just as bad

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

i do not like them. i used to reblog like every one i saw because i was always like "but what if", but i have since decided that i will not be giving a fuck. i reblog your post when i want to, thank you very much, i dont care if madame zeroni or whoever the fuck curses me for all eternity, that shit is an unnecessary stressor for already plenty-stressed human beings and has no place on my blog

16. do you like tag games?

yes!! not that you'd know it from how little i actually participate in them svfhfhfgdg

i appreciate you tagging me very much i am just forgetful and stressed :<

17. do you like ask games?

ALSO yes! tho i dont get them that often tbh

the ones that are like 'mutuals send this emoji in an ask to see what your mutual thinks of you!' lowkey stress me out because im afraid i wont know what to say ghdhghvh (it doesn't stop me from doing them tho <3)

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

uh. none of them? i dont know

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

nope, and i never have <3 (not a serious CRUSH-crush, anyway)

20. tags?

im gonna tag @ateezaligned @baby-dinobean @markismybxtch @sunghoonseyebrowcult and anyone else who wants to do this! you don't have to if you don't want to ofc ^^

[voxxian]

biggest plot-twist of my entire life

so i get connects for my prompt on cherubplay, right? voltron roleplay. i’m keith and i get 3 lance rpers to connect.

i get replies from all 3 of them and its then that i realize which roleplayer i’m most compatible with and who fits all my criteria surprisingly perfectly. i had no idea why or how, but they seemed to match me up perfectly. perfectly as in, perfect grammar, spelling, perfect characterization of lance, perfect length. lots of detail. they were very patient and consistent. indulging me whilst indulging themself?? sharing this thing we mutually indulge over? never had a better partner in my life.

(this is sorta lengthy, as i try so very hard to convey my shookness, so i’ll throw it under a rm)

i mean, i’m so excited about this roleplay, i tell my little sister. my 12 year old sister. as i always do. she helps me with ideas for prompts sometimes, helps me figure out how to flow paragraphs together. sometimes just her being there sparks my brain, little words she says serving as inspiration for sentences and even entire prompts themselves. and she loves hearing about the ideas. loves reading my roleplays. loves sharing fandoms with me, and i enjoy it just as much because she’s ridiculously mature and i feel as if she’s another one of my friends around my literal age and it’s honestly astonishing to have a child so aware and so mature, so smart??? i’m rambling.

so anyway, to put it simply, i blab. i do not shut up about this prompt to my sister. and she’s just as excited, i mean more excited than she’s ever been about a prompt, which didn’t strike me as odd- i mean, this particular au was one of her faves as i came to learn.

so one of my favorite things to do when i roleplay is send them to her to read! and also point out flaws, what people could do better, how they could improve. sometimes i express pet peeves when it comes to the pushy, mean roleplayers and sometimes i express the little things i get ecstatic about with the nice, detailed roleplayers, though these gems seem to be stretched thin lately. i’ve been getting a ton of lackluster partners, ones who do not seem interested, and absolutely put forth minimal effort into the roleplays. total turn off to me, and things like this i tell my sister.

so when i mention this perfect godly roleplayer who connected to an au we’re both equally ecstatic about, she’s immediately interested. lets me blab all about it. asks me what this rper could do better. all i tell her is that the hunk is slightly out of character, but otherwise, it’s perfect, and i could care less about the hunk because this is about keith and lance. it’s more than i could ever ask for.

after this dies down, i offhandedly mention something about 18+ roleplays about 20 minutes later as a sort of random afterthought of reading someone’s prompt on the site, and how i hate it when underage people connect to roleplays that are explicitly stated to have some kind of arranged smut. which my roleplay, this voltron one specifically does have, as oftentimes i’m very adamant about including smut in my shippy rps. and then it happens.

“um, hey ren. can i tell you something? [insert prefacing about how i shouldn’t be upset or mad, and how it might change things but it won’t be the end of the world, etc etc etc. this is the kid i help soften the blow of skipping class from literal states away when she’s having bad mental health days. nothing’s gonna be that bad, i thought, because obviously i love my sister to death and we’re very very very close. so i said i wasn’t gonna be mad.]”

“what”

“i’m the third lance.”

“yeah fucking right lmao” i say because uh, lmao? she always fucks around like that. always tries to be funny or witty. well, i’m in the middle of replying to my fucking perfect third lance, i don’t have the mind to really respond to her because um. i need to concentrate. 

"no really, i’m the third lance i’m being dead serious.” more banter i thought. no, of course i don’t believe her. i tell her i don’t believe her, i start tuning her out while she desperately tries to convince me because uh? the writing is too good. too detailed. too beyond her level. damn near matching my fucking level. and i genuinely don’t mean to toot my own horn, but i want to stress that i can write upwards of 1000-3000 word starters, detailed beyond belief, because i love story-telling. i love roleplay. so after she continues on with these claims, i tell her to prove it. and then she comes at me with this.

obviously by this point you can tell i’m fucking going bananas on discord during our voice call considering her response. i mean i’m so shook. i’m so fucking astonished, i’m still fucking astonished, this was just barely an hour ago???

who would’ve known my 12 year old sister can write better than more than half of the connects i’ve gotten from adults on this site since day one (literally) of its launch since i joined???

her reasoning to tell me so soon and not let it progress like she’d planned to was cause the guilt was eating away at her, and then the guilt really killed her when i offhandedly mentioned underage roleplay and how it was illegal- which she didn’t know. i mean why would she? she doesn’t roleplay. not into that scene. info she wouldn’t come across unless she roleplayed, and then she would most definitely know because she’d figure it out with research (like i did! like a lot of people did) or tell me she wanted to start roleplaying, which then i’d of course tell her the do’s and dont’s. this time however of course i just mentioned it by chance, luckily, and it didn’t go much farther. it was for fun, she said, to see how i’d react, and also so she could garner totally unbiased opinions and critiques from me about this “perfect lance.”

part of me wishes she was an adult stranger so i could keep this thing going, enjoy it like any other partner because this person seemed so perfect before i realized it was my sister lol. but hey, i told her we could roleplay it (minus smut of course lmao she’s fucking 12 don’t come at me LMAO), she could use it as a sort of way to improve, have fun, all that.

needless to say, i’ve never simultaneously felt disappointed and weirdly prideful in my entire life before up until this point. my sister’s fuckin bomb lmao she cranked out paragraphs and paragraphs of nicely-put details and creativity beyond any and all expectation.

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