#kinda like?? a weird twitter/insta/tumblr thing ??

[griffincastle]

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[goldenpinof]

You know all these ask me anything videos phil did where he wanted people ask him on insta or tumblr maybe he was testing the engagement of people on those platform to make statistics? I don't understand why only dan would post the newsletter thing yesterday and not phil and why wouldn't they mention it on twitter? What's the strategy? Then saying it's top secret in the mail? What kind of things is so top secret that the promo for it should be done by instastories? Why? Can someone explain? Am i just going insane?

you're so right about this being a weird strategy. and in hindsight, it's good that it was only instastories. imagine if there was also a wave from twitter with dnptour.com email.

they definitely wanted to test that Laylo thing with rsvp, i'm not sure it would have worked on twitter. would he open his dms for all? can he even do that with all the changes? doubt that. they could post a link, and maybe they will eventually, because they need that database to spam emails. we will see.

about engagement on IG/tumblr. obviously, IG would win. but tumblr gives you more space for asks. and dnp are kinda trying to engage with tumblr more just in general. i mean, tumblr is more liberal with rules and shit (compared to twitter and instagram), so it's good.

they used Dan's profile because his engagement is higher than Phil's. a lot of big things (videos included) are being promoted via Dan's social media. they couldn't post on both IG accounts because of spam reasons, maybe? for people to not send requests twice.

also, sidenote: dnp are trying to engage with the phandom more and more. so us having dms with Dan fits the narrative they have been shaping since October. this parasocial thing is so blurry right now, and it will be even worse, i fear. this rsvp is basically nothing, but it was unnecessary for us to engage with Dan like that. and yet, here we are.

[regretfulcorrine]

Heeey everyone! So little explanation as to where I’ve been— I kinda took a dive for a while 🥲 Really sorry about that! ((tw// mentions of mental health and mushy gushy emotional stuff under the cut))

In terms of content, I’m sure y’all have seen my Hazbin spiral kinda take a front seat for a bit but I miss my Drarry boys. They have infected my heart too much for me to part from them for too long 😔 And I may or may not have joined/finished a special project filled with amazing people coming out soon involving them 👀

So on Insta and here you’ll see me dive back into my love for them more than on the bird app! I love the amazing people/Drarry artists I found on Twitter, but it’s also a very big place for the fandom to just hit the fan unfortunately 😭 And it’s small enough to where unlike a bigger fandom, it can be hard to avoid. Doesn’t help the anxiety so for now at least I post my boys more here. I honestly wanna just post more on here in general!

I of course will still post my Hazbin stuff but it’ll be just more of a mix on here in terms of what I draw is all 💃 Thank you for still being here 💖

I’ve never really mentioned my health too much before but I have pretty bad crippling anxiety. It’s hard to do a lot of stuff (go outside, talk to people, etc.) and it even at some points has affected me physically. Whether that’s me worrying myself sick or being so paranoid I don’t even wanna really do anything besides watch like silly videos. And because of that I’ve only been really able to focus on one platform and that for some reason just happened to be Twitter (which in hindsight may have…contributed to the anxiety due to the nature of Twitter….ANYWAYS) I have meds and have finally decided to participate in regular therapy, but of course there’s always those breakout episodes!

Idk if anyone else has this thing but it had been such a long time I was afraid. That so much time had passed people were mad for some reason or there would be issues 😭 BUT I’m very happy to have finally just bucked up enough to come back, if you’ll have me!

Ive really missed you guys, and the second I opened this app and decided to post it was literally like a breath of fresh air. It’s weird to say in our great year of 2024 that Tumblr of all places has become calming but here we are lmao

Thank you for reading my rambles and excuses I’m gonna make it up to y’all with some good old fashion boys kissing 💖

[yonpote]

In a documentary they could share their history in their own terms after so much speculation surrounding it. Besides that rsvp for a tour makes 0 sense since they aren’t touring in every country. Artists do that AFTER the countries/cities are announced and then use the data to figure out how big of a venue they need. The email they sent would only end up as a huge disappointment (for the ppl who live in countries they wont visit) plus incorrect/useless data for dnp

i get what you mean abt your last point, but like, dnp have fucked up announcing what countries they'll be touring at before so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it turns out i do still have some emails from mitski's laylo, so the kinds of emails i got were for announcing her newest album, tour pre-sale tickets, links to new videos, limited time merch... well they already have a newsletter for merch, they link their new vids on twitter and insta and tumblr, and well they do have albums now lmao but they prefer to surprise drop them than release singles (this parts a joke). now hear me out. it would honestly make sense if this was just gonna be some kinda newsletter where they just consolidate stuff like updates, merch drops, and videos in one big thing as social media continues to go to shit, i know a couple of musicians who have gone down the email path after twitter became full flaming hot garbage. but then it wouldn't make sense to hype it up and do all the weird glitchy stuff if it was JUST consolidating various updatey things. so clearly it's gotta be SOMETHING.

i am not saying that a retrospective documentary couldn't be made interesting if dnp DID have full control over it. if it happens that would be cool i am not disagreeing with that!!!!!!! i just think it would make very little sense because a documentary in that style would make more sense if it were also announced to normies, ex-phannies, and otherwise people OUTSIDE of just us. but people who are signing up for a newsletter arent gonna be those people, so why would this be the way they are advertising/teasing it?

the email says we'll be the first to know about something. my immediate thought is merch drops and pre-sale tickets. it's gotta be something that is exclusive but only until it's released to the public. they already have a newsletter for merch. 🤷

[tangledbea]

This may be a weird question, but how many followers do you have? Since you're pretty much the biggest Tangled the series blog, I feel like the number of followers you have is probably a good guesstimate as to how big the TTS fandom is. Even if the fandom has shrank a bit since the series ended, and the series' fandom was always kinda small and underground compared to the brony fandom, the owl house fandom, the steven universe fandom etc, but I find it strange how the when the first season premiered, the pilot had millions of viewers, the show got into an expo, there was merch, but by mid season 2 it was clear that the series had became forgotten, and its fandom small and obscure. How big do you think the series fandom is/was?

This blog has over 7k followers, but please don't use it as a litmus for how many fans the show has/how big the fandom is. After all, not everyone who likes the show is on Tumblr. In fact, a lot of the fandom is divided, sticking to the social media platform that suits their tastes. I'm not on other social media platforms (I mean, I have accounts, but I'm not active), but I was, back when the series was still airing, and the things fans were drawn to was vastly different on Insta and Twitter than it was on Tumblr.

Also, honestly, I don't tend to pay much attention to my follower count, but I don't ever remember it being much more than this. Meaning that the number of people who follow me hasn't really changed since the height of the series.

But also also, this blog has over 7k followers four years after the series ended, and I see posts about people rewatching it or watching for the first time every week. That's no small deal.

[shuploc]

Hello!! I’m very very happy to have found you here on Tumblr omggg i found out about you through Insta then i found your Twitter (your art is doing extremely well and congrats!!) and then i found you here! I’m really pleased to know you’re such a sweet soul behind all the amazing artwork ^u^ i really enjoy your Miguel and Jayce stuff and can’t wait for your Peter B, you replied to my Insta comment about him 🙈😌

But anyway the real question: what do you think of building an audience on Insta and Twitter? It used to be so easy but now you get so easily pushed down algorithm-wise(?) and it sucks. Tumblr is the last safe place 😣🤞

I hope you have a good day!!!! Love your art 💕💕💕

Honestly, the only thing I know works when it comes to building a following anywhere is consistency (posting about the same thing and posting often), and also just not putting all your eggs in one basket. What I mean by that is, to not end up branding yourself as "the tumblr artist" or "the twitter artist", but instead make an account on as many sites you feel you can manage, and post something whenever you can. I use Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram and Artstation, and I'll occasionally post my stuff on subreddits too, if it seems appropriate. You kinda need to know what sort of vibe you want your pages to have too. Like you mentioned, Tumblr for me too is the only place I have where I don't need to be all professional, y'know. I keep all my other accounts very clean, but on Tumblr, I don't feel weird for talking or interacting with people, and I can answer asks and such 😌

I have not had much luck when it comes to being picked up by the algorithm though, so I 100% understand the struggle. For many many years, my "growth" was actually stagnant, and I was even losing followers at one point after switching fandoms. I'm almost certain that's gonna happen again too if I stop drawing Spiderverse stuff...

I have legitimately not experienced anything like what's happening right now though, ever, and it's all very exciting. People have been so sweet and supportive, it literally makes me so happy! I really wish I could've actually giving you some advice, but I honestly just chalk it up to luck at this point. Thank you so so much the kind words though and for the ask, I'm SO glad to hear you're a Jayce fan too 😍

[nevgig]

It's kind of weird of me to bich and moan about, but ever since I graduated with my associates from college, it's just... difficult to share my art, not because I don't want to but because there was a 2 semester period that completely destroyed my routine of posting, (and drawing art for a different company and project kinda sucked the life out of me and not in the sexy way) and it's easier to post on Twitter than it was insta or tumblr sometimes, but now everything is just kinda blown up and it feels weird to start over.

Not to mention, my life has changed dramatically since then, and I'm not the unemployed silly guy who gets to sit with his laptop and draw all day as I used to be

It's weird to reminisce when I would share fan art and my ocs and I got to collaborate in so many zines and talked with a lot of people and made a lot of gift art, and nows it's like "let's hope I get to post or make something this week!"

And then top the fact I developed some crazy art kind of perfectionist trauma from my years of art high-school and taking two kinds of industry art associate degrees, so that was another four years of trying to please strangers for good grades

(Insert meme of wow 16 yr old me did so much art I wonder what happened!)

This isn't me giving some sign that I'm gonna give up and leave the internet, tho!!! I'm just venting and kinda trying to come to terms that i might have developed something in my time in college, and I felt like sharing it because maybe someone out there is going through the same thing or understands me

[golbrocklovely]

Hey! Love your blog! When did you joing snc fandom/tumblr? And when did you join it, was this fandom better at some point? Or non?

aww thanks, i appreciate it :)

i joined the fandom in may of 2018. and then joined tumblr in late 2019, i think.

and i'm gonna assume by "better" you mean was this fandom nicer at one point, and i would say it has it's ebbs and flows. the best time, strangely enough, was in 2019 after the boys got arrested and then a couple months later when they took a month long break. the worse time, genuinely, was like 2020/21. twitter was such a hellscape i literally almost quit the fandom. but that weird level of vitriol has surprisingly died down on there.

the thing is, you're gonna get a different experience with each social media platform. here, it's a bit more loosey goosey, not that serious, but can be if we want to discuss something. also most of us are older on here. twitter... not as bad as it once was, but can be a bit annoying. tiktok is almost exclusively young so it's a bit of a minefield what you end up getting there. insta is kinda dead for the most part, and then reddit.... i almost don't even want to include strictly bc half the ppl on there talk about snc with either straight up indifference or weird anger so idk if i even count them as part of the fandom lol

[scootdoesart]

where else to find me since tumblr seems to keep goin' through this weird stage

as I kinda really just got back into posting here more frequently, I likely won't be leaving this site until it crashes and burns, HOWEVER- I do post on a lot of other spots!!

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Twitter- I'm a bit nitpicky nowadays with this wasteland but I do post about things time to time

BlueSky- I post here very often! honestly really hoping it takes off (also I have a lot of invite codes please dm me if you want any!!)

Instagram- Unfortunately, but I do post here quite often; I also have an insta specifically for my shop for promotional reasons (I also have a threads acct but gave up on posting there tbh)

TikTok- for memes and promotional stuff

My general site- Where I have links to all my socials, portfolios, ko-fi and my shop

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also for any moots my discord is open~ especially as I'm starting to try and lay groundwork for a potential FFXIV comic with my wol id love to shoot the shit!! just dm me!

[julieterbang]

different anon here. I am a malay myself tapi tak perasan langsung ‘terbang’ tu hahaha. when i first ‘met’ you, i thought it was ur name, Julieter Bang. so whenever u appeared on my dash, i’d be like “oh miss bang is online” 😭

not with miss bang sis lol 😂😂 i surprisingly meet lot of Malaysian here and it's really weird cause Tumblr is not a thing here like twitter /insta or other sec med

Tumblr known to Malaysian as a site to pervert lurking around and their explicit content . so it's kinda weird to most of them when you said i have Tumblr but not other soc med because of reason above

few years ago, Tumblr become known to Malaysian because of sick content with tudung girl etc and my older sister know i have tumblr acc for years. ( since2009) she kinda sus and throwing few shades on me , telling me i have this acc because it's easier for me to watch porn blablabla.

i casually told her you don't even have tumblr acc, but you still watch porn religiously haha. i straightly said to her pornsite exits for a reason and Tumblr is not the only place to watch it . i even have safe mode on for my tumblr to make sure this tumblr is porn free.

i would say tumblr is the best option when you don't wanna connect with your high school friend , teacher and even your once a year relative who keep on asking " bila nak kawen" kinda stuff

ok too much tmi sorry 😂

[historixally-accurate]

falls through the ceiling and lands in your inbox...hey gold. thanks for the concern, i appreciate it </3 life unfortunately hasnt gotten easier lately, im still mad busy and slated to be even busier until like late november. god get me out of here i just want to draw minecraft men!!!!!!!!! [insert my school's name here] you are NOT skibidi for this. rolls comically into a table in my despair. hope you survived math tuition and it wasnt too bad. again i hope my little ezsay can make you smile :) lets get started !

i did see the fulham stream you were talking about, but i was busy and couldnt pop in T_T i would love to talk but im still relatively new to the mcsr fandom, and im really self conscious, haha. i agree with you, fulham's chat seems really nice! although i dont really have anything to compare it to, other than mr hax's chat...ive only recently started to talk outside of posting my art, and my twitch account is uh. a few days old. i was a youtube viewer before this, and i made a twitch account just to watch mr 21mustard u_u my friends joke about how im an old person because im borderline social media allergic. this is NOT TRUE. JUST BECAUSE I HAVE NO TIKTOK TWITTER OR INSTA INSTALLED DOESNT MEAN I AM GERIATRIC!!!! madge. the best thing thats come out of this is the joke that my favourite social media is google classroom. (it is not. i swear on my apple pencil its not.)

i agree that the change from the T score system to the A level system was a huge one and aftually i still dont know if i agree with that. ill send my best wishes to the next batch of juniors too. godspeed midgets😍

love that ur picking up slang from fein and fulham. i also believe theyre explodable. and may i also suggest "weird" as a replacement word. idk man... speaking of speech patterns beong affected, i think i can be deadpan sometimes. a result of watching too much content of my deadpan content creators, i guess. COUGH zylenox COUGH gamerboy80. 80 specifically, lol.

its so good to finally have someone to relate to about never being awake for content drops/streams. before this i was kinda resigned to forever being behind on infodrops. so when i was still in a largely western fandom i would just wake up every day, open up tumblr and quietly observe whatever shitshow had happened last night. mcsr gives me hope. it really does. im not joking when i say i was a grade A lurker >_> i didnt have a proper mutual until this year when i joined mcsr :)

god you mentioning your emerald design reminds me i DO STILL NEED TO GET TO KNOW EMERALD... i still know next to nothing about him help. dyou have any recommendations on where to start :D? AND I AM AN AVID FUNNY WATCHER AS WELL. im terminally down bad for alisster compliations and funny channels. using the word baby sensory is crazy😭😭its lowkey true though. personally a funny clip to me is from the vid "minecraft speedrunners with above average IQ". its the clip where anjou spills his yoghurt and screams in deapair. yes i know theres something wrong with me.

my mom gave up on saying gen alpha slang, but my dad uses it at all the wrong moments. nightmare flashback to when he said "sigma" in the larger family GC when wishing someone a happy birthday💀i nearly died of second hand embarrassemnt. HAPPY TO HEAR THAT OUR HUMOUR IS SIMILIAR!!! my humour is always described as degenerate by some of my friends jokingly. in my defense my sense of humour hasnt developed past p4 humour. skibidiest griddy is crazy btw i hope you know i broke out into the widest smile when i saw that.

about fein and mime, upon further reflection, theyre the same person in different flavours. okay but they both have the same snark even though they express it in different ways. maybe im not making sense here ill stop rambling. and i think your emerald design is really cool man. call you ramsey cause my man is COOKING STRAIGHT GAS💥💥💥LIGHT IT UP

finally another milk before cereal perosn😭😭😭i thought this day would never come. https://youtu.be/MyWGw1x26NU?si=lojmAq_b2NCMSNcB please watch this. literally all of hbg pours cereal first with the exception of my goat ninjabrain. i use my spoon to meaure the amount of milk to pour in the bowl every time (i pour till the level of milk reaches the spoon handle etc), so i just vary the amount of cereal i put in. people who get so heated up discussing these sorts of things are so funny. i love casually dropping my milk first fact into IRL conversations when i first meet people to see if i can get em riled up. its probably gives them a horrible impression. just wait until i reveal i can do a split with my stomach on the floor. freaky.

giving a whole gastronomic analysis of pineapple on pizza is absolutely Wild but go off king! when you say chips my brain goes to potato chips. do you actually mean you eat potato chips with tomato sauce...wtf. what taste buds.... but thats still not the worst ive heard, i guess??? the weirdest combination ive heard is ranch suace with WATERMELON. WATERMELON. LITERALLY WHAT IS THAT. whats the wierdest youve heard of??

food rewards in return for good grades wow. i dont think ive ever heard that one before. where do you find that shit in SG??? i swear no place serves that. unless im dumb help.

I SEE YOUVE ALSO WATCHED THE DRUNK SILVARRUNS FUNNY VID. tahts shit was so funny bro i swear its the goddamn drunk ahh finger waggle that gets me every time. and the insistent "redlime. REDLIME BAN __" . and the fact that fein literally had time to get elytra and loiter aroundthe end long enough to build an I heart U while silver was struggling drunk. then he proceeded to snatch the win from silver literally what is wrong with them.

you deserve all the compliments btw your mime art mever misses. i loved the latest talkingmime thumbnail art btw. thumbnail game banging.

have a gyattastic day and a rizzful night! dead tired but hey the grind never stops (i literally still have lessons tomorrow. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY SCHOOL.) hope youre alright :D

see you soon, sgmcsr anon

p.s. I RECENTLY SMASHED MY PB IN MINESWEEPER. i can now clear a medium in under a minute smile. next goal is a sub 50 u_u best of luck for your own speedrunning shenanigans :>

oh my god anon I'm so sorry I too have been so busy I just. haven't built the energy to respond 😭😭😭 IM SORRY but I'm on a bus to amath tuition so I have time <3

nonnie if you have time. you have to hop into the fulham stream.. it's awesome. tilted ranked queuing by yours truly (mr fulham) and so many nice chat members... I've never talked in hax or mustard chat ever... but I do miss hax hackingnoisess..... where is he. ALSO I WAS LIKE. YESTERDAY YEARS OLD WHEN I FOUND OUT HAX WAS FROM HONG KONG????? insane. I didn't know?!?! and MONGEY LIVES IN AUSTRALIA.. absolutely wild 😭 and fyroahs from Vietnam... the Asian mcsr community is GROWING. this is such a dub.

don't worry about not having social media because although I have Instagram, I don't have tiktok (thank god). YouTube shorts and Instagram reels have already cocked up my brain so. no more tiktok <3 I think it's walright to not have social medias, I deleted twitter 2 weeks back and I have never felt so much peace ever.. wonderful... no politics... wonderful mongey life..

I TRULY WISH THE P6s WHO GOT THEIR PSLE SCORES A VERY HAPPY GOOD LUCK AND IT ISNT THE END OF THE WORLD.. godspeed to all the brainrotted midgets... near, far and wide.... santa is calling for his elves..

apart from the stuff I've picked up from fein and fulham, I've picked up shit like "unlucky" or "insane" from desktopfolder and other mcsrs ^_^ "HOOOOOLLLYYY" from couriway, or "RIGHT..." from every other mcsr that streams. I'd say my personality is now just a mix of fruitberries and everything else. I don't know. please don't judge me... I watch fulham, mime, and mongey the most in terms of streams, but i dont think I've picked up anything from them :') also about the grade a lurker? most of my subjects before EOY were subpar. after finding mcsr I got 4/7 As for my subjects :3 mcsr saves lives on god

sadly emerald doesn't have any funny channels, he only has his twitch highlights </3 they're all equally as funny. gen alpha speech has RUINED ME.

(update it is 3 25 pm I got cooked)

continuing on, I cannot go one sentence without the word skibidi. feinberg as polluted my speech. help. svae me. I need to be. normal. I hope I am funny. I hope. I just hope. people say I'm funny but guys I don't know!

YOURE SO RIGHT ABOUT MIME AND FEIN BEING THE SAME PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT FONTS. I love them oh so dearly. I would die for the mime and fein duo. save me... save me..... I don't think my art is that good 😭 there's stuff I can definitely improve in, I don't know why people hype it up so much 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 but thank you nonetheless <3

I watched that video. I am absolutely appalled that none of them put milk before cereal. EXCEPT MY GOAT MR NINJABRAIN. bless his soul 😭 for me, the amount of milk depends on the amount of cereal I put. so if I put half a bowl of cereal, I do a quarter bowl of milk so it soaks enough ^_^ it makes it taste nicer. I don't really gaf about how people eat their cereal, I just like the expression people make when I tell them I say one or the other way LMAOOOOOOOOO awesome. they are so shocked.

listen buddy I will defend pineapples on pizza with my LIFE. it's one of my favourite foods ever, I'm sorry Italians :') okay if I explain that ketchup and tomato chips are like chips with salsa would thst make it sound more appealing?? because that's the case for me 😭 I SWEAR I AM NOT THAT WEIRD PELASE.. ranch and watermelon is fucking RANCID what the hell. I don't like ranch unless it's the wingstop ranch, DONT MIX BOTH. THATS FUCKING REVOLTING.

idt there's any places in SG that do that, but some tuition centres give you free snacks sometimes (like mine) . yay. free snack.

THE SILVERR MODS FINGER WAGGLE AND SHOO SHOO AWAY ACTION IS HILARIOUS AND HAS BECOME A DAILY PRACTICE. I DO IT EVERY HOUR. IT'S SO FUCKING FUNNY. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. shoutout my AA goat feinberg aa minecraft for still oblitersting him despite getting the elytra and writing a whole ass message out of blocks for him 😭😭😭😭 drunkenruns my spirit animal.

THANK YOU... SHOUTOUT TALKINGMIMEFUNNY FOR COMMING ME.. I had fun. the video was so awesome. I'm happy people like the thumbnail as much as I do :'3 YEAH

anyway, that's enough gold yapping, have yet another mongeyful pyun pyun kawaii night or day ahead, I'm going to go grind out my feinberg cosplay lmao.

(ps THATS FUCKING SICK. good job anon... I want to really pick up minesweeper. so cool. so cool.)

obligatory mime doodle. doodle. doodle.

[raybeetle]

“Just get off *blank* site and move!”

Reddit: Bigoted everywhere except like.. 4 subs. Only 2 of those i feel comfortable enough posting in.

Twitter: Elon. And everyones actually fucking stupid

Tumblr: Theres nothing wrong with this website, its the queerest place on the internet! especially for trans women! Theyre treated so well here! cna you please let me g

Youtube: Actually fine (shorts commenters have to be some of the worst people ive debated with. Why debate with them you ask? Its impossible not to.) but its not really social is it (especially not with those commenters)

Mastodon: Hard to figure out if you arent used to the fediverse stuff. I cant personally figure it out because im fucking stupid

Bluesky: Kinda new, not many people on there so your posts wont get that much traction, and ive seen some mean stuff on there.

Tiktok: Twitter but with more 13 year olds who all have the same exact opinion on everything and also hate trans people depending on what side youre on. Also, brainrot. I feel like I have to control what I look at for too long or ill start seeing it more.

Insta: Ive only heard stories from the loved ones of those brave enough to be kinda weird and a little minority on there. Really scary

Discord: all the servers have their own little cliques already, too hard to get into them. The ones that dont are either dead or too active to really be apart of. Also more ofa messaging app, like telegram

Roblox?: Nothings really fun on there except like bee swarm or whatever nowadays. Paying for cosmetics is considered normal (i donr want to do that). Game devs are fucked regularly.

Snapchat: more of a messaging app I think, not really fun if you don’t know people who want to use it.

Facebook: my mom avoids talking about things because she doesn’t want to see them on facebook too much. Even if her phone is off

Quora: Posts that deserve 294729197 likes! Also I keep getting emails from them. I dont fucking care dude

Pinterest: Ai and stolen art. Fine if I have to look for like some aesthetic images but kinda sucks in the art theft regard. not really social either

4chan: Dude

Any other reddit/twitter alternative: owned by Nazis or dead

[avissapiens]

Avis' Abstractions #2: Public Transformation

If you use public transportation pretty regularly you’re bound to hit up on the same folks a couple times. You form a sort of strange psuedosocial relationship with these strangers. You unconsciously learn things about them. Where they get on. Where they get off. Parts of their schedule. Maybe you overhear bits and pieces of conversation. For the duration of that bus ride your spheres intersect and you are granted a fleeting, shallow glimpse into their world. And then one of you gets off and that bond dissolves like candy loss until you meet again.

It started when you saw a dude get on the same route as you did. Every day for a week. Painfully normal. Kinda chubby. Kinda ugly. Unassuming. Nose in a book. You assumed he must be a student of some sort, but besides that he was completely unmemorable save for the fact that he was always on when you were on. You always got off before his stop so you never saw him leave. It was the same kind of routine for weeks. Months maybe. He kinda zoned into the background, but became a constant in a sense. Vaguely comforting. 

One day though it kind of hit you. Was he getting bigger?  Not massively but..yeah definitely getting bigger. More toned for sure. You saw edges in his jaw that were new. His arms filled his sleeves differently. Veins were popping up under baby fat. You didn't notice it at first because it's really hard to see those changes gradually if you're exposed to them every day.

The books were also gone. He just scrolled on his phone now. One time when you sat nearer to him you saw what he was looking at. Insta and twitter and tumblr. Dude's timelines were filled with musclebros and fitness influencers. Kinda funny. You swear you saw him flexing his arms a couple times. You ignored it though. You stopped taking the bus for a few weeks. Called in your vacation days to have some time off so no need to catch that Morning express into the city. Crazy how much can change in a couple weeks. When you got back to the grind you had pretty much forgotten your Bus dude. But seeing him again hit you like a bat. Dude was packing on pounds fast. And he’d changed up his style. No more sleeves. Not even in the oncoming cold weather. First time on you couldn’t stop staring at them.  Toned. Powerful. folded across his chest accentuating that plunging neckline and the cleft of his pecs. The muscles in his forearms seemed to jump with every motion. Now those were something to remember him by. He stuck in your mind more. You occasionally even found yourself thinking about him even after you parted ways. You paid attention to his habits on the bus more. Every day now he got off at the same stop before you. Jumped off right outside the gym and went inside. Weird. Didn’t he used to go all the way into town towards the university? It wasn’t holiday time yet as far as you remembered. He was smiling so much more now, so maybe he was on vacation, right? His eyes were simultaneously so focused but so much more empty. 

He definitely flexed his pecs every couple of minutes. You would too if you were him. And every time he did you swear you saw a corresponding bounce in his pants. You tried to restrain yourself. Feels so skeevy and voyeuristic noticing those things in public. But damn it was hard not to notice with this guy. Eventually you got a car! Hooray…well. It was a company car and it meant you had to work a lot more. But hey, no long bus rides. No more bus dude. It was silly to feel such a wistful loss of a guy who literally didn’t even know of your existence. But he still stuck in your mind. You didn’t really have any reason to use the bus for maybe 2 or 3 years. That was until your car broke down. So you fished out that old bus card for the first time in ages and got on. It was hard to say you missed it really. Uncomfortable seats. Weird smells. Couple stops later a total stud jumps on. Sits across the row from you. Legs spread. Gym shorts filled with thick thighs. Stringer showing off the total bulging size of his upper body. You’re a little gobsmacked at first. And then you do a double take.. Fuck is that him?! It has to be.

If he sat normally he would still take up one and a half seats. But the manspread on him made it so that he took up the whole 3-seat row. It was lucky the bus wasn’t too full and that people seemed to be avoiding those seats anyway…though you get the sense that it wouldn’t have really mattered to him. Manners and etiquette were the last thing on this dudes mind. He adjusted his bulge openly and proudly. No way it could be the same Bus dude…unless everything had grown. He smiles and just sits there emptily. Doesn't even scroll on his phone. And for entertainment he just openly flexes and feels himself. Fingers kneading into his Massive pecs. Massaging his biceps and tensing them. You swear he's looking at you but it's hard to tell. His eyes are almost glazed over. Listless. Is he drooling? Licking his lips? Then you see a small spot on his shorts right where his bulge twitches and moves. Fuck..it just hit you how much of an aroma he has. It practically filled the bus making it reek of body odour and testosterone and intense douchey Axe bodyspray.  It made your heart throb. Absolutely intoxicating. But so vile and not fit for public consumption. He flexes his pecs and he almost moans. Adjusts his crotch and even after doing so you can practically see the rhythmic throb of his veins along his shaft. You look at the bus driver like "why aren't you doing something?" It’s then that you notice. The driver’s got a shiner and has his eyes glued to the road. All of the rest of the bus patrons are either transfixed like you or know well enough to avert their gaze

He on the other hand, is still staring straight ahead. It feels like his eyes are burrowing into you. But then you notice, he isn’t staring at you. He’s looking at his own reflection behind you. That your head just so happens to obscure.

The old gym is coming up soon and you feel a bit of relief. Being in this dudes presence was overwhelming. You needed a moment to collect yourself. But that moment never comes. Instead stop after stop goes by with him not moving. Just staring. You feel like a vulnerable piece of meat somehow. Eventually your stop is up and you get up and ring the bell. Concealing the tent in your pants. He gets up too. Fuck..he’s tall. You take a step. He takes a step. You tag off, He doesn’t; you realize he never tagged on in the first place. The bus peels away and you both are there on the sidewalk. “You were blocking my view.” It’s the first time you’ve ever heard him speak. It’s disarming. Soft. Deep. Sort of slow. You imagine he probably sounded different when he first got on the bus years ago. You mutter and bumble through an apology though you trail off when you realize he’s mostly fixated by his own reflection in a shop window. “I remember you. You work near here right?” You gulp and nod. He remembers you?? Its confusing. No way he still remembers all the times you got off at this spot right? “You know where The Abyss is? It’s a new gym that opened up around here and i’m supposed to start my first day as a trainer there.�� Guess school didn’t pan out.. You had heard about a new place. Supposedly super niche and weird. You’d passed it maybe a few times as a detour when you walked a different route from where you parked. You say as much. “Mind walking me there? If you’re not too late for work I could show you the place. I think my Boss would love someone like you with a good eye for potential” He smirks and pulls the neck of his stringer down even lower. You think back to the bus driver. You opt to be a little late for work today.

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[awsugar]

I don’t understand why some big mcr blogs slate anyone who believes gerard and frank had a thing, like our view didn’t arise from nowhere there’s clearly evidence that has led us to think this. I get disliking those who push frerard in frank and Gerard’s faces (barely anyone does this nowadays) but slating people for believing they had something in the past is kinda ridiculous imo. Franks solo music speaks volumes but if you read into it you’re demonised as a frerardie

mmmmm am i down to clown today... ok i will speak.

actually im going to put this under a cut bc my last ask was a long one and i feel like i am going to talk about this for way too long bc its 1am and im honestly a little tipsy.

note: i just finished answering this it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time and i dont think the person who asked this is even going to read it but i apparently have a lot of thoughts and no one ever wants to listen to me lol 

firstable yea actually unfortunately anytime they do a livestream, or anytime anyone SOMEHOW RELATED to them does a livestream. there are ppl in the chat talking about frerard. they both have comments off on insta now, i didnt actually read the comments that much and franks have been off for ages but im positive there were people in the comments talking about frerard. i mean fuck, franks LAST tweet he qrted someone who tagged him in the replies of a pic of The Kiss. so i mean yea its definitely not a majority but it still happens extremely frequently.

this is like. genuinely really funny to me bc im sure frank didnt see it, i think he knows enough not to look at the chat for the most part. but the moral is that its 2021 and people STILL dont know how to act. i wont go on about it but it actively enrages me anytime i watch a stream. rule one of real person fandoms is keep all that shit in your fan spaces. which is actually why i prefer tumblr. none of them are on here. actively engaging in mcr fandom on twitter is too close for comfort, especially since frank follows a handful of my friends and also like. knows me.

so like moral of my most times unavoidable wall of text is that ppl are right to be frustrated with the fans who act this way. i am extremely frustrated with them. and i think for the people who have never like tinhatted or anything, this type of behavior stands out and makes an impression and becomes the like. poster child for ppl who are like 'hmmmmm but what if.' about the frank and gerard stuff.

anyway, moving on, i think a lot of peoples hang up is that they view it as rpf. which i have a couple things to say about actually. its no secret that i have read a lot of rpf. i had never heard of fanfiction until i started getting into mcr in 2008. that was my introduction. and at the time, in that community, it was completely normal. and it was for a loooooooooong time. i knew of people who didnt read fic or felt weird about it but the majority of people i interacted with DID read fic. and on top of that, the people who didn;t were nothing like they are today. we all got along. no one was like demonizing people who did read fic. in 2012 when i think mcr tumblr was at its peak, ALL of the most popular blogs were "frerardies" (hate that term). they all talked about and recced fic and a lot of them wrote it too. everyone had a boyfriends tag. anyway when i came BACK to the mcr fandom in 2016 after a couple years away post-breakup it was still like that. people talked about fic all the time and you didnt have to like, hide it in fear of being labeled as a terrible person.

i always discussed this stuff, fic and theories, openly on this blog. for YEARS. the first time i noticed the rpf shift was 2019 tbh, when my blog was suspended and i (not related) had a mental health crisis and i spent a handful of months off tumblr, when i remade on a different blog suddenly it seemed like people were like noooo you cant talk about that. ppl who read fic are disgusting. if you think something happened between them you're homophobic. i was like honestly baffled bc i didnt know how it had seemingly changed so much in a matter of like 4 months or so. but thats the society we live in now lmao.

anyway the other thing about rpf is that i think most of these people are hypocrites. bc almost everyone makes an exception for unholyverse. theyre like ok i will dabble in the most popular fic and see what its about while still demonizing the people who read OTHER fics. like ugh.

also i have noticed its an age thing. a lot of the time. almost every mcr fan i personally interact with or know, which is a lot of people, read fic, used to read fic and just sort of grew out of it, and/or (usually and) believe something happened between them. but everyone i interact with is an adult and all of my closer friends are long time mcr fans like me. i feel like the percentage of fans who are minors who are extremely anti-rpf is way higher than the percentage of adults. and i think thats just due to the fan culture we grew up with and the fact that young people a lot of times are like..it seems very performative in an attempt to be the least problematic person that ever lived.

also random side note its really funny to keep updated with this debate on twitter. they literally yoyo there. frerard is ok on a bi-weekly basis.

anyway back to what i was originally saying which was that people view tinhatting as rpf and therefor not okay. which like idk maybe i sound crazy but i also always said this when i was in the phandom and discussing like dan and phil and whether or not they were soulmates before they came out, i don't think tinhatting is rpf. or like. idk theres a part of me that can see why people think rpf is a bad thing even though if i was famous i wouldnt care if people wrote fics about me. but like. analyzying the real life things that people have done and said in public (important). in order to try to contextualize their relationship or understand that dynamic better. well i mean first of all its not fiction. but like i do think its a lot different than writing explicit bdsm fic about them.

and i know a lot of the people on here who dont like actively participate in these conversations do like. see where we're coming from. with the frank lyrics and millions and like all of that stuff. they just dont talk about it. i mean *I* have stopped mostly talking about it at all unless its vague, due to the current climate and opinion. and sometimes we'll all have a moment of hysteria where we've all decided its ok to speak about. me right now apparently.

anyway im positive no one read all of this. i need to learn how to be brief but ive been saying that my whole life. but you're right. to me its clear that there's a bigger story behind it than frank and gerard just being buddies who were in a band together. a logical conclusion. and i wish we could just all get along again instead of people being sooooo mad about it.

[lexstellaris]

ngl kinda glad I hadn't nuked my twitter accounts yet bc I wanted to make sure I could chase up contact info for everyone I care about, and now I get to see how quickly it's imploding holy fuck.

I am actually sad to see it die this quickly. I've been on there since 2009 when a bunch of my lj friends decided to join and follow each other. Those people are still the people I want to keep in touch with the most now that twitter is dying.

I've seen some ppl be like, you're overreacting! It's not gonna die! Well, maybe not tomorrow, or next week, but like, at a certain point, there just literally won't be enough staff with enough knowledge or skills to keep the business operating at any capacity. It's just a numbers game at that point. Maybe it'll be a week or two before something crashes and it can't be restored properly. But you can't gut like potentially 90% of the workforce and expect things to still function normally. There just aren't enough people left, and the implosion has been SO PUBLIC that they'll have a hard time recruiting for replacements. They're fucked.

Twitter was the only social media platform where it just worked for my brain in way facebook or insta or anywhere else never really did. tho I will say, tumblr didn't work for me the first time round bc I tried to do Religion on there and it's really, really not the platform for that at all. So I won't be doing any religious posting here. I'll save that for dreamwidth. Follow me over there if that's your kinda scene.

The weird thing is, I ended up following such a diverse range of people on twitter that deciding who I wanted to keep in touch with outside of twitter has proved an interesting decision. I'm surprising myself with who I care about enough to follow, and who I'm prepared to let go.

There are things I'm definitely not going to miss about twitter though, and even a few days off the site has freed my brain for so many other things. I think, much as I will miss it, that ultimately twitter had become bad for my brain and I needed to kick it to stop myself incessantly checking it every five minutes.

There is a lot I will miss though. It was a good place, when it wanted to be, in the right corners. There were so many people I found that I wouldn't have otherwise. It had a great sense of community for marginalised folks that's not really easy to replicate anywhere else, because it was such a central meeting place. Everyone is scattering now, and so are those communities.

Also one of the primary reasons I came here and not mastodon was the shitposting lmao. This place is just more me. And I don't feel anywhere near as much pressure to market and brand myself as I did on twitter. I can just be a feral fucko over here and that's perfectly fine. And I think coming back for fandom rather than religion has been a much better decision. I feel the culture and how I fit into it a lot better and it doesn't feel weird. It feels comfy, like I should have been here the whole time, but came for the wrong reasons and gave up on it.

Is tumblr perfect? No. Am I gonna disconnect myself from a bunch of ppl I got news from and kept up to date on important stuff? Yeah. But I realise now I don't actually need a constant flood of information into my head, and much as I'll miss twitter, it's much more peaceful in my head without it.

Besides, I've been through this kinda site migration so many times already that I'm not THAT sad about it, even though it does suck to lose contact with so many ppl. Ahh well. Time to rebuild communities again and enjoy going back to smaller niche spaces again where I don't feel so Publicly Perceived as I did on twitter.

[ocular-intercourse]

🍓&🥃 for the gyoverse children

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🍓: Does your OC have any particular scents they like? Or hate?

GYO

gyo detests the smell of cellars, storage, and stockrooms, it's a really weird specific smell, but he can't stand it, this mixture of stale, musty, dusty, moist rock, wood, and dirt. the way the insides of old cupboards and closets smell over time, too. he dislikes the smell of sweat and just general human bodies

he likes the smells that remind him of priya. milk, honey, lavender, violets, cinnamon

NOOR

noor dislikes the smell of books and ink, maybe something she connected to her parents not having time for her when they need(ed) to work

she likes the smell of summer rain and several plants and herbs, like peppermint and sage

RAIME

raime does not like any artificial smells, like extracts and perfume

they do love the smell of the woods, fireplaces, and the smell of dogs

SOHLA

exact opposite of noor, she loves the smell of old tomes and new parchment

she dislikes the smell of spicy food, like curry, even though she does not mind the taste

ARUN

arun likes the smell of metal (weirdo) and soap

he dislikes the smell of several animals, furry ones at least

🥃: If your OC was in this universe, what would be their favourite show/book/band/social media platform?

GYO

naturally, gyo likes dad music, cat stevens, credence clearwater revival, leonard cohen...

he might have left his army days behind and does not look too fond on the whole institution, but the interest in military history and stuff is still ingrained in him, reads more books than he'd watch shows and movies, he likes crime fiction and the occasional non-fictional book, like self-help stuff or biographies, he reads a lot of stuff for his job, if that counts, magazines, catalogs, and technology reviews and stuff

gyo only touches social media if he has to for his job, it's not his thing

NOOR

noor would be an insta girl, lots of cute ootd and sharing her thoughts, lots of activism

she likes all kind of music but prefers it either calm, melancholy, or happy, so no metal and stuff

she's not super big on reading, but has a fondness for some of the books she had to read in high school (maybe because those are pretty much the only books she has read) like jane austen novels

she looooves media, watches pretty much any kind of show and/or movie, from true crime to reality tv and silly romantic comedies, really weird penchant for horror, both spooky and slasher movies, oh and anime, slice of life or magical girl stuff

RAIME

i think raime's taste would be somewhat incomprehensible, very weird obscure bands and movies, david lynch's mullholland drive and experimental indie bands, elevator music too

no books, they would rather spend the day outside and with friends and their attention span isn't the best when it comes to stuff taking place on a screen, except!! sports! and stuff that's just weird enough to catch their attention

raime is a lurker, reading reddit threads but rarely interacting with anything

SOHLA

much more into any non-fiction than fictional movies and books, she has trouble suspending her disbelief, she has a soft spot for the stuff she watched in her childhood though, marry poppins and home alone

she likes instrumental music, jazz, and blues and, oddly, girl and boy bands (another nostalgia factor)

her social media of choice would probably be twitter, she gets in a lot of discussions

ARUN

arun is a big nerd but like, secretly, watches a lot of anime and sci fi stuff, but would never admit it especially not in front of sohla, also he really digs kinda demanding or just weird (foreign) (art house) movies, like lars and the real girl or any Anders Thomas Jensen movies

he likes chill music, summer vibes and latin stuff, r'n'b

i can picture him on tumblr or insta just loosely following his interests

he'd read pretty much anything he gets his hands on, lots of comics and manga, but really anything he feels would expand his horizon (is that a saying in english? broaden his mind?) he likes learning about pretty much everything, from other cultures to concepts and fictional tropes, but in contrast to sohla he prefers some level of fiction rather than completely dry non-fiction stuff