#maybe everyone on insta knows but tumblr doesn't

[vivaciouscynner]

Catra is a tumblr user

Shadow Weaver is on facebook and new Twitter

Glimmer and Bow are on insta

Double Trouble is on everything

Adora doesn't want social media, but is addicted to it, signs up for both insta and tumblr to stay connected with Catra, Glimmer, and Bow even though she sees them every day. She's also part of a discord group to be connected with the other princesses. She has another discord group for Catra, Glimmer, and Bow. She has another group for the Princess Alliance, but doesn't include Sea Hawk since the other one he begged Mermista to be included in.

Mermista is mostly discord with like 5 to 10 other social groups. She's on twitter, insta, tiktok, and facebook (for the guilty pleasure gossip)

Sea Hawk has multiple old accounts on everything, but has "burned too many ships", so to speak, to reveal himself. Everyone knows it's him.

Frosta wants to be on social media but everyone tells her no.

Entrapta is NOT on social media. She's built her own platform. Fully secure with end-to-end encryption and is practically begging everyone to use it. Not because she built it, but because it's secure and because she sees all the data all of them are just handing over to big corporations who shouldn't have it in the first place. "at least use a vpn. I even built you one, for free, juse have it, use it, please!" she would say, but since no one knows anything about how big data is used or how security works, they just kinda go ehhh maybe later

[liesmyth]

i’m new to the fandom and am incredibly surprised that more people aren’t sad about tamsyn muir not having an official website for tlt or all her works. Not even at least a tlt official insta account. Like what.

I think most people in the fandom understand that she values her privacy and mental health and respect that. In general, I think that not being accessible to the fandom is a good thing for creators, especially queer creators writing queer works that are quote unquote problematic, especially works that attract a large fandom, who can start to feel entitled to the creator's time or opinions or attention, or demand updates or that they should weigh in on the issue du jour.

Also: as a new fan, you might not know that TazMuir got fandom cancelled in 2020 for fanfic crimes, and that's why she stopped being online. She still might be if she hadn't been harassed, or maybe she'd have peaced out for different reasons, but as things stand it's not as simple as her not being online — she was run out of fandom spaces by an angry mob. (x) (x)

(Broader rant you didn't ask for: I understand everyone does fandom differently but personally I'm not enthusiastic about doing fandom on Instagram or other algorithm fuelled platforms. I understand it's necessary for some authors to be online to promote their books.... #booktwt #booktok #bookstagram etc all seem soulless cesspits to me and I'm glad that TM is successful enough that she can market her writing without having to farm for clicks on social media if she doesn't want to. This isn't to dismiss the authors who DO, and I'm sure some of them might actually enjoy it, just like I know for a fact many people have a grand time on fandom insta or tiktok. But here in my lil tumblr cave, everything I hear about book social media is controversies and someone's 15 mins video essay where they dissected a book they knew they weren't going to like just to cash in on the outrage hype, and I'm glad I can be a part of the TLT fandom without having to stay up to date with that)

[x-liv25-jamieswife]

could you do a head cannon of Xander and Grayson?

P.S. I love the head cannons you make. They are so amazing!!!!!

xander and grayson head canons

of course. i hope you like them (as always, i apologize for spelling mistakes, i'm a lazy ass bitch and don't wanna proof read). as always, if anyone has any requests, feel free to send them. i really enjoy making these.

xander forced grayson to get an insta account. xander is always live, grayson not so much, but sometimes xander will get grayson to join his live and talk to the fans.

when xander gets shitty racist comments, grayson tears the haters apart (he never talks badly about anyone, he doesn't want to get cancelled, but for xander he would)

grayson is always cooking xander meals cause he forgets to eat when he's busy in his lab.

when gray sends him those meals, he sticks little notes to the plate. sometimes it's just to ask if he needs anything else (other times just to say he loves him)

xander sometimes sneaks into gray's room and color-coordinates his closet (he comes back bc he knows gray is gonna mess it up again), gray loves it.

when they were younger and xander would piss gray off, he used to send little toys he made as an apology (gray would tear up).

xander is the only person who knows gray has a secret insta account dedicated to fashion.

xander is always hacking gray's main insta account and posting weird stupid stuff.

when xander was younger, he was afraid of the dark. gray would lie down in his bed until he fell asleep (sometimes he would leave afterwards to go back to his room, but other times he'd just fall asleep.

xander has a grayson fan account (he thinks gray doesn't know about it but he does)

during the eras tour, xander teased grayson relentlessly during shake it off.

they went to the eras tour twice (maybe even more), the first time, xander got avery to do the vigilante shit performance with him, but the second time he dared grayson to do it. (if anyone doesn't know what it is, i'll insert a link to a video at the bottom).

when grayson goes out to buy himself coffee, he buys flavored coffees (vanilla, caramel, etc) for xander (and avery) bc he knows they love it.

xander loves reading romance books (bc of max) and got grayson into it too.

when xander get injured bc of experiments gone wrong, grayson takes care of his wounds and tells him to be more careful (xander swears he will be but never actually does).

when max drags xander along to sephora, he'll buy gray some skin care he thinks he'd like (or purchases things he knows he's running out of and likes)

same things goes for books. when xander is dragged along to book stores, he'll buy some classical/romance books he knows gray will like (gray will buy him romance books too)

they both lovee medical dramas (xander cause of the drama, and gray cause he's interested in medicine) (sometimes libby and avery will join cause they like medical dramas too (i mentioned this in my hc post for them)). sooner or later everyone's joined them and it become a weekly thing.

xander (and jamie) get him gag shirts with their faces on them (gray will wear them when he's doing his skin care to not mess up his suits).

grayson secretly loves fast food so whenever xander is out, he makes sure to get him some.

when grayson and xander were younger and xander needed supplies for his experiments, gray would take him out to buy them.

xander gets really nervous when buying max gifts cause he really wants her to like them and grayson always reassures him by telling him his gifts are perfect.

xander (and avery) play matchmaker when lyra comes along (they're their biggest fans) (i just had this thought tho, what if jlb is trying to trick us into believing lyra is his love interest, but in reality she isn't)

xander lovesss collecting blankets so whenever gray is out, he makes sure to check if there are any blankets he thinks xander would love.

xander posts on tumblr about his fav ships and stuff and gray likes every single one of his posts.

sometimes they'll sit in the living room and just read.

they have this book club (just the two of them). every month they pick one book they're both going to read and talk about it. (nash and jamie think it's adorable and max and libby (libby also loves reading romance) sometimes join)

xander loves to annoy grayson by increasing the temperature in his room so he wakes up sweating (gray needs to sleep in really cold rooms cause he's always hot).

when gray is overworking himself, xander will either make him coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, and then get his robot on wheels to take it to him. (gray always laughs at this thinking no one hears him, but the robot has a microphone attached to it so xander knows. it always makes xander happy cause gray never laughs).

xander used to look up to grayson cause he thought he was so smart and amazing (he would look at him with amazement and stars in his eyes)

gray loves organizing his papers in binders but never has time to do it so xander does it for him.

gray loves rings so xander buys him some whenever he goes out (as you can see, they're always buying each other stuff in my head).

that's all i have for now, but i love them sm i'll probably make some more (it was literally so easy to come up with hcs for them)

here's the link to the vigilante shit performance for the ones who don't know what i'm talking about.

[idialover]

!!NSFW!!!

My friends and I have a tradition of playing "does this character have sex" whenever we get into a new piece of media, because we always enjoy everything together, and today we spent a few hours discussing TWST charactrs. They found out that I now have a Tumblr blog and told me I should "post our very scientific findings for the interwebs" (Note that we are all between the ages of 16-17, so in the same age group as the characters)

Heartslabyul (general judgement): The virgin one

Riddle: no, and he somehow doesn't even know what sex is. You'd think he'd know with how much he studies about everything you learn in school, so even sex-ed but no, he doesn't know

Ace: gray area, no bitches respectfully, except maybe Deuce, but we couldn't agree on that, he would treat it as "it's just a prank bro, no homo"

Deuce: yeah, sure, I mean he's pretty okay looking, not often tho

Cater: he seems like he'd be a dicord kitten or an insta-thot, he tries but doesn't really succeed, maybe once or twice.

Trey: no, because he actually wears a fedora, unironically. "he's as bland as the flour he uses in his cakes"-my friend#2

Savanaclaw (general judgement): Gahdayumm!!

Leona: YES! absoulutley 100% just look at him, but he'd be one of those lazy tops, is very casual about it, there isn't a lot to say because it's just so obvious that he is 100% a sex haver

Ruggie: Hard to say, he has an Italian souding name so maybe no, he hasn't yet discovered that he can earn quite a lot of money that way, or maybe he has (we couldn't agree on this)

Jack: gay wolf boyfirend fantasy so yes, big buff man go brrrr

Octavinelle (general judgement): ehhhh, fish go brrr

Azul: this was a very hard one to decide but in the end no, no real reason just doesn't seem like he would have it, he's on that alpha buisness grindset

Jade: Yes becazse friend#1 said so (she's a strong Jade stan) and everyone decided to let her have this one, but everybody else generally thinks he is Asexual (friend#1 is also ace)

Floyd: yes, he is bisexual in wicked and scheming ways and everybody is aware of that. Chaos bi, him and Jade are two side of a coin, all or nothing. He flirts by messing with people, mostly Riddle but as I've already said Riddle has no idea what's going on and just thinks Floyd has it out for him

Scarabia (general judgement): This was the hardest one to discuss

Kalim: He is very lovable, but no, for unknown reasons, boy has 0 rizz

Jamil: yeah, ig, normal 17 year old guy, he isn't basic like Trey, but he just doesn't have time because of Kalim

Pomefiore (general judgement): slayyy!

Vil: Yes, and his standards are surprisingly not as high as you'd think, we got very heated about how people often mischaracterize him as a very vain but he just wants people to be themselves and best version of themselves. Good for cardio

Rook: yes, in freaky kinky ways (see Rook alchemy card) he sometimes has touble finding people who are into the same stuff as him

Epel: no, beacause he is an "alpha male" in the worst ways possible

Ignihyde (General judgement): you'd think they be reddit mods, but they actually tumblr sexymen

Idia: yes, he has that disheveled rizz, the more they look like they haven't left the house since 2015 the better. We stan broken men in this household(blog), only on halloween tho that's when his confidence get's a bit better and he becomes and active member of society

Ortho: he is a robot based on a young child! NO!

Diasomnia (General judgement): oooh spooky~~

Malleus: yeah sure

Silver: gray are (they demanded I make that pun, pls forgive me)

Lillia: He is the most slay character, an old vampire/fae obviously yes. He has a lot of experience, best sex haver he's so amazing, Lillia for the win

Sebek: no

Staff (general judgement): a very mixed bag

Crowley: someone somwhere slept with him, he is kinda usless but he gets laid, look at his vacation outfit

Crewel: Definetly, high standards but he is correct, he gets to have high standards, he is the perfect man, not a DILF but also not not one

Trein: yes, loyal to his wife (rip tho), good husband 10/10 would trust him, good man

Vargas: Yeah, he's a typical good looking guy, he has never had a long term relationship but he doesn't want one

Sam: We debated for a long time and decided that yes he does have sex

[madraleen]

Delicious in Dungeon - Ryōko Kui Vol.9: The one where I write a Mithrun essay.

-mithrun cover! beautiful, magnificent, extraordinary, sublime-

-the way marcille insta-changes her vibes, i relate to it so much, i see myself in so many of her expressions

-SPILL IT OUT, MARCILLE! TELL US ABOUT YOUR PAST AND YOUR DREAM! ffs, keeping silent after drilling chil like that

-laios and marcille are so sweet together

-eheheheheheehe laios' ideal is marcille, cute cute cute

-MONSTER marcille is laios' ideal?! boy would he find his place on tumblr

-...do we trust the winged lion, do we really? do we trust "power"? i can't tell.

-is that. is that baby kabru? HE'S SO CUTE

-mithrun, sir, are you aware that you are the most beautiful character in the manga, sir?

-AHAHAAHA NO, "IDENTICAL" KABRU ACCORDING TO MITHRUN OH NO

-the fact that mithrun has no idea what kabru looks like but knows there's a mushroom around his leg

-yes, a week of just kabru and mithrun, that's all i want, that's great

-kabru: pls tell me how i can tend to you properly. mithrun: *proceeds to tell him his entire backstory* like, you didn't have to, my man. you didn't have to.

-the "others. others. mithrun" is me when reading dunmeshi

-aw past mithrun has longer hair, lil bb

-mithrun going from "i can't sleep without spells or potions" to just dropping asleep on the floor, everyone say "thank you kabru"

-"barometz soup. ingredients: barometz." i burst out laughing. senshi is sensing this and crying somewhere out there

-surely you can't expect me to see mithrun in his domestic era with his disheveled hair and his little bow scarf and his little spoon and his puffy sleeves and not love him? surely?

-wait so, mithrun's beloved is still alive out there, and she's with his brother?

-i wonder what mithrun’s non-abridged story is.

-lol at how the elves feared for mithrun's well-being, when instead they should have been fearing his spilling every single ancient secret to a guy he just met with arguably conflicting interests

-NO RESCUE, NO RESCUE I SAY, JUST KABRU AND MITHRUN!

-ah. oh man. mithrun asking kabru "what do you want to do?" hit me some way

-MITHRUN LOOKS SO SOFT WHEN HE TELLS KABRU "right. then let's do that." MY HEART! OH MY GOSH MITHRUN IS STAYING WITH KABRU. and kabru doesn't even question it, lmao, "of course my elf man would stay with me, wdym"

-okay, hold up though. i'm interested in how mithrun makes choices like that without desires. can choices be completely devoid of desire? if you choose something over something else, especially so blatantly, like mithrun choosing kabru over the expected course of things, ie his rejoining the canaries, that entails preference, and doesn't preference correlate to a want, to an extent? we don't seem to be differentiating between want and desire, so... is the want in such choices so minuscule that it doesn't count as a want? you could argue that choosing isn't necessarily wanting- you could be neutral about all choices and just pick one to get it over with, but mithrun wasn't asked to choose. kabru didn't invite him along, he didn't even imply he wanted him along. the canaries were like "come, captain, pspspsps" and mithrun asked kabru what *he* wanted, and then mithrun's actions were like "well, i don't have wants, but i'll trust *his* wants over my team's that i've known for years if not decades, so... bye bitches." which is heartwarming, to say the least, for someone like me who loves the mithrun/kabru duo.

or maybe, is mithrun’s choice completely driven by desire for revenge? but that would be easier to obtain if he stayed with the canaries. or could it be an extension of mithrun needing things and his actions being dictated by those things, just without mithrun registering consciously that he needs these things? eg his body collapses when he needs rest, but in *his* perception, he just collapses randomly, he doesn't register the need for rest. so maybe something in him needs to confide his backstory to kabru, needs to join kabru, and it doesn't register consciously as a need, he doesn't care to know the reason for acting on it, but his actions/choices are dictated by it all the same. is this elaborated on later and i'm babbling nonsense, or is it never addressed and i'm just overthinking it. i wonder.

-on a lighter note, i really love the tidbits of "meanwhile laios' party" 'cause it's so cool seeing "oh this is why they found the fire, this is why the dullahan lacked a horse" etc.

[luxqaer]

Happy Late Melly Monday everyone!

Time for another commission blog. This time it is with @moonllita with Queen Melia and child Eunie.

Queen Melia is definitely a favorite look of lot of Melia fans. And it is plain to see why. The big poofy black dress and the decorations such as the blue wings and the three birds on her garment is such a strong and distinctive look for Melia.

It's incredibly gothic inspired, and it suits her very well.

Now with child Eunie was a given. I liked the idea of Melia being with Eunie when she was a small child (in the old world before Xenoblade 3) and the design of child Eunie's outfit Moonllita gave her was such a treat to be honest.

Nothing much has changed from the sketch. I love the linework a lot, and I don't think maybe people can't agree there.

As for the art itself, HOLY ZANZA IT IS AMAZING!!! LIKE I love how she was so consistent with the colors here. Eunie's outfit especially looks nice. And I love the expression and Eunie touching Melia's wing here. It was a nice *touch* if you know I mean XD.

I find it funny that at the time, there was a theory that Eunie was Melia's child similar to how Mio is Nia's child. I personally don't believe that, but let's just say it formed some very nice friendships along the way. And I really do appreciate those friends. 😊😊

You can find her on Twitter, Insta, and right here on Tumblr. She doesn't do commissions often, so do keep an eye out for commissioning her. She's consistently a fantastic artist that draws amazing Xenoblade art.

Thanks so much for reading this! Tune in next week where I revisit an old friend of mine. See you then!

[sansaorgana]

modern au has me on a choke hold

i was thinking about their social media, take your time answering, just rumbling

aegon is a tiktoker, and kinda of famous and loves pranking everyone and they are all done with his bs💀also he definitely has a yt channel and its always in everyone's personal space with his camera doing vlogs and wtv. he also has a instagram for thirsty traps all day everyday (yes he posts them on ttk too)

i feel like helaena has a tumblr where she posts a lot of pictures of flowers and all her bugs and she is like, really famous there, also i agree with you, she loves cats and post a lot of pictures of dreamfyre, really cute shit and she posts the same thing on her insta along with pictures of her and reader bc i love their friendship and i want be friends with her so bad </3

aemond is just like ewan lets be honest 💀 boy has a instagram with no picture and like 3 followers who are consisted of: helaena, reader and alicent (its private and he blocked aegon for obvious reasons) and i feel like when he started dating reader he changed his profile pic to a pic of him and reader, just really cute shit

(also, sorry for the long ask)

oooooh social media 👀

Aegon is a fuckboy from Tik Tok and most of his followers are thirsty teenage girls. No, despite him being an asshole, he doesn't take advantage of that because he knows they're still kids. He rather seeks one-night stands on Instagram while flirting with women in the DMs. I also have a feeling he'd be into women older than him. He loves a good milf. Yes, he would be a prankster but he'd also make gaming videos. Everything teenage boys like, too. So, he's one of those content creators who are kinda trapped with a teenage audience lol However, I don't think he'd be massively popular because it requires time and patience, meanwhile Aegon is lazy as fuck. He would also lose a bunch of heartbroken teenage followers after posting his videos with you.

Helaena is a Tumblr girlie 100% but, once again, I don't think she'd be popular at all. Plenty of blogs posting cottagecore aesthetics + bugs are rarely anyone's cup of tea. She wouldn't care, though, because she's not doing it for the notes. And she would have some online friends from Tumblr who were her only friends for a long time (I can relate lol)

Aemond blocking Aegon on social media is so true, omg! And yeah, he totally wouldn't post anything or he'd have like three posts on a private Instagram account (of his dog Vhagar). All would have sweet comments from Alicent. On Facebook he would have a screenshot from some cartoon as a profile picture. He's secretive but he also doesn't want to gather even more attention than usual. But, yes, for his girl he would change a bit. He'd let you post a picture with him once in a while and maybe, eventually, he'd change his Facebook picture to the one of you and him. He's also the type to have his sweetheart's picture as a Facebook header. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Aemond had a Tumblr blog, too.

Alicent would have an Instagram only to follow her kids (and their girlfriends) and she always leaves cringe but sweet comments and she's posting things like her kids' pets, flowers in the garden etc. and the pics aren't edited and they're often out of focus. On Facebook she would share memes all the time because she's bored at home and she doesn't have much else to do. She would also spam her kids' messengers with links to some memes and scam articles from Facebook ("You're only wearing black? Find out what it means" @ Aemond for example). Oh, and she would think Aemond is super mean for blocking Aegon and keeps telling him to unblock his brother because she thinks this silly thing is a symptom of them hating each other for real or something like that (she's read somewhere that young people treat social media too seriously).

[toomuchracket]

Longtermbf!matty. Tormenting him with that quote about crappy coffee and boys who don’t care. Like captioning an Instagram post and crediting it to him. Or buying him a T Shirt with it on. Being asked your favourite Matty quote and quoting that (before admitting you’re joking and disclosing your favourite real lyric of his, of course).

i forgot about that quote oh my goddddddddd. also this feels very birthday-partyverse-coded to me for some reason. like maybe someone sends a screenshot of the tumblr quote (when it's originally posted) to the groupchat and everyone's pissing themselves laughing because - and matty points this out - how the fuck is it being attributed to him? it's so obviously not something he'd say! and it's a bit within your friend group for a while and then you all kinda forget about it, until years later when you're in urban outfitters (i don't know why, you just are) and they have a mug in the homeware section with the quote printed on it (because they would) and you're like. i have to buy this. and it's common knowledge you and matty are dating at this point so the girl at the till is like "oh my god?" when you hand her it to scan and you're like "i'm going to take the piss out of him SO BAD with this". and then when you get home you take a pic of yourself drinking from the mug and post it to insta like "jazzed with my new purchase today. have truer words ever been spoken?" and the fans are LOLing in the comments. and then the bold trumanblack comments on it like "you did not fucking buy that. jesus christ" and you reply "obv i did? and it's from urban so if you throw it out you'll be wasting like £48393 ly babe xo". and matty comes home and just throws total daggers at the mug but doesn't say anything about it. every time he's doing the dishes and it's there he grits his teeth and tries not to lob it out the window (you actually do use it regularly so he admits it would be a waste to get rid). and the next time you do a solo interview (maybe a social media one on the red carpet at a literary event) you get asked what quote of yours matty likes best and you're like aww that's a cute question and you answer it honestly, and then they ask you what your favourite of his is. and your brain just goes 😈 and you look dead into the camera (like matty talking about that fucking hyundai) and say the quote from your mug, and then laugh and say "no, that's a lie, i just like riling him up" and then you say your actual fave matty line. and when matty sees the vid on twitter or whatever it goes straight on the insta story like "she's lucky she's so hot that she can get away with tormenting me with this shit. nobody else could. just her. because i love her. even if she is a pain in the nose" <3

[theaccursedninth]

Getting to know the mun

NAME: Tex

PRONOUNS: They/Them

MOST ACTIVE MUSE(S): I MEAN. I think this blog speaks for itself. Been here TEN YEARS and I'm not planning to leave any time soon ;D

RP PET PEEVES: I have a few, but they've lessened over the years. I guess all I've really got left is this insta-blocking of RP accounts some of the younguns have started. Not even a brief convo, not even investigation, just "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" and B L O C K. My guy :/ just tell me you don't wanna write with me. It's not that hard and you are being rude.

Also for the love of Odin, please stop sprinkling your text and grammar like confetti on a cake. Your replies should be accessible for everyone. I have a learning disability that makes this silly floral formatting extremely difficult to decipher. Stop it. It's 2024, let's all be inclusive, okay?

EXPERIENCE/HOW MANY YEARS: Uhhhhhh...I wanna say 2010. Maybe 2011. Not on tumblr, but I love collaborative writing so I've done it for quite a while!

FLUFF, ANGST, or SMUT: Fluff and Angst. Only three partners have possible smut privileges (you know who you are )and that will not be on this platform. I don't really like writing it, anyway. Asexual and all.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: Wherever inspiration takes me! Malekith is one of those characters who feels and thinks a LOT but says very little, so I tend to write multiple paragraphs for him. However, that doesn't mean I expect everyone to match me in length, nor does it mean I'm beholden to it myself. If only a few lines or a single paragraph will do, then that's how I'll reply. I'm here to write. I love to write and tell story and make people feel things. It's not about the length, it's about how well you can tug at other writers/readers heartstrings or funny bone.

TIME TO WRITE: Ya mean how much time I have? Oof, not a lot, but I try. Writing is my favorite hobby! One day, I really really want to make it my profession but like I said...not a lot of time.

Tagged by: Borrowed from @xinchargeofthetvax

Tagging: Whoever wants to!

[ramayantika]

Random free gyan for chotus here

I took time off from social media, news, everything for a while. I logged out of my main insta page. I used the internet only to watch lectures, dance and writing. I have come back but I no longer login to tumblr like I used to nor do I use my other accounts for Instagram that much. My main account is still logged out since 27th August. Hence, here are some few things I discovered/realized

1. Navigating through loneliness, FOMO, and restlessness about your work/future/friends etc

I took a drop year in 2022, gave entrance exams till July and I have now secured a college. All this while I barely talked to my school friends who themselves were busy in their courses and college activities. So it does feel sad and a little depressing seeing everyone do other stuff while you are here in a small room studying the same 11th 12th books.

Then I made a new insta account once again after my exam dates neared so I would reconnect with everyone again. Does it happen so easily? Not at all. I was still alone. I would like reels, stories and posts but apart from that nothing except a few calls from friends.

That did give me a desperation to share everything about myself. No one to talk to, no friend nearby and you have so much to talk. I remember staying late up and writing god knows what on my closed stories, ranting about my crying episodes every damn thing. Then after getting a college I was still feeling lost, thinking what to do ahead regarding my career plans. I would then chat with whoever I found from school groups or online friends groupchats late at night but a lot of it was just shallow interaction because I wanted to pass time and not utilize time. We all write about the strange cringe feeling we get after oversharing about ourselves, put up memes for it, but do we ever work on it.

Yes, you can shitpost on tumblr, reblog those relatable posts but you have to put in work to control yourself. And after a while I was fed up. I knew I needed to change it. I needed to put a line over myself which made me disable and log out social media accounts. I came back home after completing my admission related work at my college, finally deciding to find my own worth, fix my restless hopeless personality for wanting to share everything on the first online app I get. This doesn't mean that you stop posting on tumblr. I literally wrote in all caps about savitha Sastry, dance stuff, college, yes. But if you are someone who is alone preparing for exams, away from friends, do not give in to that strong desperate urge to put up everything for everyone to read; to share every bit of it to the new person you made friends online.

I have had my own share of FOMO. Not knowing what I am doing with myself while seeing others doing internships, attending competitions, fests and trips while I sit here scrolling right to left. We are all online most of the time, but it is really necessary to not attach your sense of worth to social media.

Some of you are younger to me, still in school, and maybe you all aren't at that stage now, you all can be tomorrow for preparing for entrances or other stuff that will demand you to be away from social events for a while, to have a rigorous academic schedules. It's sad, but that's how it is. Maybe some change can be brought later for young minds to still have a healthy routine that combines studies as well as other activities.

If you all ever get this dreadful feeling wondering where you are, what are you doing, is it all even worth it. I need you all to take a deep breath. Yes, it is worth it. Yes, you are at the right place, and yes you are learning at this age so you are doing good. It's okay. Your attempts, your hardwork will always get you 'success.' failure is a path to success, and all that disappointment, sadness etc will exist. You will have endless doubts over yourself but please remember that all of it was worthy. You will definitely see in some later period that whatever you underwent was all worth it.

But what about my lost time, lost friends didi?

You know little ones, friends change with age. Some stay intact for a long time while some move away and sometimes you grow out of it. Sometimes you will also reconnect with those friends from class with whom you barely had any conversation but later you see them talking with you and you realize that they are fun too.

And about lost time... I did this mistake too. You all never lose time. You aren't ahead in the race nor are you behind. You are where you have to be. You will get your desired friends, colleges and life. But to reach there, that 'lost' time teaches you patience. And to learn patience, one needs to learn how to wait through hopeless situations and endless moments of despair where you want to give up. But that's the catch, if you give up, you don't learn it anymore.

This is why for every thing that sometimes goes wrong in your life at this delicate stage where you all are growing up, I want you all to be kind to yourself. Take a deep breath, and indulge yourself in your favourite activity or close your eyes and actually meditate or just listen to music depending on your mood. Yes, the same advice everyone gives, but it works. You all, me, everyone needs discipline bacha. Wherever you see yourself, be it career, financial stuff or relationships, one needs to learn discipline and patience. You need to learn how to control the mind because it's going to be very easy to fall into a mindless scrolling session, or giving in to other distracting temptations.

The mind loves chaos. It easily jumps to doubtful thoughts. In the end, from this age you need to learn to control the mind and take steps to be your best self, best adult figure for your younger self to look upto. Jin posts ko reblog karte ho ki I want to be the woman, my 10 year self would look upto etc uske liye effort time sab lagana padega.

Meine bhi voh memes pinterest posts like reblog ki hai that were about existential crisis, the absolute dread of not doing anything in life and other stuff that are actually problematic in the long run for the mind. Kahin na kahin tum jab inko like reblog karte ho they do retain inside your head and tum vaise hi mind ko train karte ho.

Aaj jee neet cuet ke liye akele sabse durr rehna hai, kal badme masters ke liye wait karna padega ek saal ya phir baki exams. Uske liye vapas doston se durr, ek room mein padhai, phone kamm, shaadiyan trips band hoti rahegi. We all need to take life in a simple and easy way too. And sometimes these problems have solutions that you all know deep inside but choose to procrastinate or not take a step towards it.

In the end all of you chotus, just understand one thing ki life badi hai. Aaj yeh nahi hai kuch mahine baad sab milega vapas. Phir kuch pal baad tumhe vapas se akele rehna padega yeh phase sabka hota rehta hai. Rona aarha hai ro lo, akelapan lagega but iske liye jaisa meine pehle kaha tumhe hi khudko kehna hoga ki mujhe apne life mein abhi bahut kuch karna hai yeh sab usi laksh tak le jayegi. I know you all are wonderful, and capable of so many things. You all need to wait for a while, and work hard. Tumhare friends sab tumhe badme milenge humesha aisa boring akela phase zindagi bhar nahi rehta aur nahi hai humesha Bunny from yjhd types happening hogi.

Jab yeh sab permanent nahi hai toh bas mann ko samjhao ki apne kaam pe dhyan do. Tumblr pe bhadas nikaldi kabhi ek baar kisiko overshare kar diya theek hai chalta hai par isse apni personality mein pura entwine nahi kar daalo.

You all are made for so much for. There's so much in life that you all will slowly experience, good and bad everything. You all are growing up and I wish you all the best for it.

[freyjas-musings]

If we set aside the idea of today human standards and self insertion, would it be still harmfull for a fae character to have lurring powers? How and why?

I am genuinely curious what you think about this idea. It is not tricky question to start any controversional discussion.

I apologise for anonymous question but i do not have tumblr account.

Dear Anon,

Its a fictional character and I don't care about people having an opinion on whether or not they like a character. They can dislike Gwyn find her annoying or boring or childish none of that really touches any sensitive social issues it doesn't hurt Gwyneth Berdara because she ain't real. These are opinions based on character traits and people are welcome to have their own opinion.

When it comes to topics that are related to serious social issues like SA , people of colour, sexual orientation and representation or disability one must practice restrain because these are very sensitive issues and a reality for many people. We cannot set aside these by "human standards" because it is a reality for many even within the fandom and a lot of the times these insensitive comments are by human beings and my problem is the ideology behind it ... just because you hide behind a fictional character does not make it ok.

Sometimes a character represents more and that's exactly the case with Gwyneth Berdara . She is a character people relate to ... seek comfort from ... real survivors ... it isn't unreasonable to expect people to be politically correct and sensitive.

My issue with luring abilities associated with a SA survivor ??? It is insensitive. Why??? the only equivalent example I can give you (and I really apologise beforehand I absolutely do not support such thoughts or people who use it) is adjacent to people who comment on how the woman was dressed a certain way or how she was a little too friendly to veil the disgusting behaviour of the attacker. The ideology behind the two are very similar. That's why it is a harmful thought process I hope you get the point.

I don't care which side one belongs to being politically right and sensitive is not optional whether it is about a females ability to have children which again is a very real issue or whether it is weaponizing SA or associating survivors with luring powers.

Maybe wait for the actual book and stick to Canon information when it comes to sensitive issues .

Why is it so hard for us to spare a minute to just process our thoughts and make sure it won't hurt real people .

I am extremely ruthless when it comes to my page on insta everyone knows this .... I don't care about the number of comments or likes... what matters to me is that there are real survivors who enjoy my page and art I don't want them reading anything triggering and I make sure there isnt anything triggeringin the comment section ... its time taking and exhausting but to me its not optional ... Is it really that hard to be mindful ??? Is it really so unreasonable to ask people to be sensitive...

[starmaniamania]

New to Tumblr? Some tips!

Hey pals, a non-Starmania post for once!

A few new people have started following this blog (HI!! :D) but this also applies to some older followers :p

There is something you need to be aware of if you have completely blank blogs, meaning:

No personalized profile picture,

No blog title,

Nothing in your bio,

No reblogs.

When people look at your blog, it looks like this (random example):

Typically on Tumblr, this means you will be mistaken for a bot. Not just by me, by everyone.

This is a problem for you because many Tumblr users block suspected bots on sight. Tumblr has a big bot problem where empty or very "generic" accounts will follow you and then one day start posting porn and/or links to malware.

If you are blocked, you will lose access to the content you're trying to follow, and not be able to message the blogs that blocked you to let them know you're NOT a bot!

I'm trying to be more careful now and not block new accounts right away, but be aware that this is a thing on Tumblr! And it's very easy to prevent by doing one or several of the following things:

Upload a profile pic, maybe something related to the thing you're interested in! (DO NOT use a picture of yourself looking cute. That's porn bot behaviour and will not help you :p)

Give your blog a title. It can be anything, except the default "untitled" name.

Put a couple things in your "bio." Again, it can be anything, it doesn't have to be your actual bio details! (It probably shouldn't be, in fact!) Something as basic as "I'm here for [something] content" will do the trick.

Reblog some posts! 🔁 1. it will populate your blog, which is reassuring; 2. it lets you add your commentary in the post or in tags, which shows you're a person with thoughts, and also can lead to interaction which is always nice; 3. it's good for the Tumblr ecosystem in general bc Tumblr doesn't work with an algorithm like Insta, so "likes do nothing" as people like to say (and let's be clear, they're wrong -- likes let creators know you liked a post, which is great, but it doesn't help the post reach a larger audience, and many posters on Tumblr are annoyed about that); 4. it does make me very happy when my posts are considered interesting/good/funny enough to be shared and not just liked privately :p

Post something yourself.

Send an ask or start a DM conversation to say hi! I'm always happy to talk to people :)

I hope this helps you have a positive experience on Tumblr! Have fun, and I hope you enjoy this blog! :)

[synadsartdumpster]

Are you still around anywhere? Your accounts seem kinda dead

Oh hello, just passing by, surprised to see someone do asks here. No, I'm technically officially done with art and mostly just draw something once a year when I feel like it. I do have an instagram where I post random stuff that involves me painting toy soldiers or whatever, but it contains my real name so I kiiiiinda don't wanna leave that here. A good detective might find it though, cause I DO post the yearly drawings here AND on insta. I also streamed games on twitch, then pivoted to Digimon TCG playing and then ran out of time in my life so no more streaming as well (but might return if I ever feel like it, who knows, no promises). The twitch channel was also called 'synad' so not hard to find. Mostly I'm just busy with real life stuff and don't really feel like I need to advertise myself on social media that much anymore, except on facebook, which is ironic when everyone says it's the worst of all the social sites, yet that's where I got all the irl people connected with me and I like to do almost life milestone posts there. Maybe I should do something like that here as well if anyone ACTUALLY cares about how I'm doing here. The people who do sincerely care and are from tumblr are already in my discord dms, so ya know, doesn't feel like I need to post life updates here. So yeah, thanks for the question, this was nice, I just came back to find one post on my blogs to share with a friend cause feeling nostalgic and here I am writing paragraphs. Thanks anyways, bye!

[mybraindumps]

Tumblr was a love affair. I admired the screenshots from afar (read: Pinterest and Instagram) from years. Infact I used to think it was an ancient site, like myspace or Olympia, no longer standing. (That's how everyone sounds here btw. I love it.) I especially love the Tumblr tags. The best kind of goldmine. I was so disappointed to learn that's not how tags are used everywhere. Anyway, I created my account, once, twice, thrice, over the past eight years, but never stuck around long enough to figure it out completely. I am not sure why, but I suppose the blatant vulnerabilty intimidated me. That is, until last year, when I started my first job. I realised I needed an outlet, and my diary wasn't enough. I tried twitter, and a second account on Insta, but they were just... mehh Then I am remember exploring other platforms for a client when I found Tumblr again. And ended up creating this account. The first thing I did was follow all the accounts from the screenshots I had saved. I was so happy, to read their posts in real time and not wait for someone to screenshot it. It took me forever to think of a username that wasn't taken. And to start posting instead of saving like 50 odd drafts. And there was a moment when I realised how naturally shitposting comes to me. And I wondered why I had not been doing it all this while. And now I wonder how I ever lived without dumping all my thoughts. I re-read all my posts today. And even though some of them are cringe af, I wouldn't have it any other way. It doesn't matter if one person reads it, ten people read it or nobody reads it. I love my blatant vulnerabilty. And I love not keeping everything inside. I am not sure what will become of this. I can't rant for all my life I suppose (or can I?) But when have I ever cared about 'to what end?' I don't know why I am writing this? Why 'this' on New Year's Day? I just feel like it I suppose. Or perhaps because I start my new job, for real, tomorrow. Or maybe I want to mark the year I was finally here. Because it has been the best kind of ride. This feels so silly, writing a love letter to a platform. But its so real. To more shitposting this year on this hellsite. Happy New Year 🌻 1st January 2023

[yanzinator]

I need to rant rn about how much I hate my dad, in a place he won't find out about it, so I'm doing it here. Be warned, this is very negative about Judaism. If you're a convert or a goy, or whatever else, don't interpret this as integral part of it, it's just certain circles within certain circles that I'm in, but if you don't want to see the darker side of Judaism, maybe don't read on. Also trauma dumping!!

I fucking hate my dad, which is hard, because he's a hard person to hate. He has fantastic people skills, he knows everyone, and he's friends with everyone he meets, he seems really kind, and also he's really rich. He's a millionaire, we live in basically a mansion, so every time I tell someone "yeah I'm mendy's son" they're like "oh you're so lucky" "that must be so great" "he's such an awesome person" and I have to pretend I agree with them or else I look like a spoiled asshole of a child, and it always feels like I'm stabbing myself. He's an egomaniacal control freak, he thinks of me as his property, I know this both because of how he acts, and the fact that he makes sure to regularly explicitly remind me of this. "you're my son, you belong to me. I own you", any time I'm slightly out of line. Which is a lot because his standards are insane. My hair is currently about 5 inches I think. From my forehead it reaches to right under my eyes, I grew it from a buzzcut with no in between cutting. I use hairclips to keep my bangs off my eyes, and I regularly have to threaten him with never talking to him again so he doesn't buzzcut it while I sleep. He makes sure I know about that one reel he saw on insta where a guy cut a line on his friends head, so the friend had to buzzcut the rest. If I want anything at all, there's no way to get it other than making it myself from scrap or paper, or going through him. Now to be fair, he's usually very generous, because he has the money, but if it's something he doesn't like, and remember he's a religious nutjob so most things, I'm out of luck. Even if it's a 2 dollar cup with a girl, any girl tbc, doesn't matter how tznius she is, because it's too inappropriate. I want to run away, get a job, live alone, be financially independant, if extremely unstable, because even with a landlord breathing down my neck, at least he won't be looking at my bookmarks. Problem is, I don't know how, because I have no secular education. When I was a kid, we lived in Buffalo NY, we were poor back then, we lived in a bad neighborhood, my mom hated the place, but I loved it. I went to a tiny private Jewish school, had 60 students total, but they taught well, I learned properly, I had friends, everything was normal. By the time I was 10, My dad was doing really well, not rich well, but he had a lot of assets, a few thousands in savings, we moved to mexico because of a business opportunity, and there I had no friends but worse, no education. Now there were schools, but they weren't Jewish schools, and god forbid someone with foreskin teach me how to find X, so instead, he financially strained himself to find me tutors. I do appreciate that, he worked really hard to emulate school for me. My curriculum when I was 12 was more intense than actual school was, and now I think like an Amorai, I know details about tanach no even thinks about, I can tell you mechanics about the world that make me look like conspiracy theorist, but no that's just tanya, and if you have a question in Halacha, I can answer you as well as a Rabbi, and if you want to know where your poop go after digestion, I know this guy on tumblr... Taxes? I don't know what the first form even looks like, what name to look up. Job application? Like from the movies? And what would I put on it? "Dissected a worm in 6th grade, top of my class in hebrew, 18 years experience as a professional Jew". Eventually I did have an opportunity, when I was 15, I went to Yeshiva in florida, they had a class where they "taught" GED. So I'm there right. I go to the rosh yeshiva, "I want to learn GED", They gave me this thick as book, and told me that they have a teacher come in for an hour a day. I could be a loner who learned with him and give up 1 of 2 hours of free time that I had in the entire 24 hour day, which btw included 7 hours of sleep, because the rosh yeshiva read an article saying adults need 7-9 hours of sleep, never mind we're teenagers who need 8-10, -block text limit

and that the range isn't "everyone needs to get at least 8 at most 10", so much as "some need 8 some need 10", but no we all get 7!!!, and then 2 hours of free time, I had to dedicate half of that to learning GED, and the teacher's teaching style was, "you see this page. Read it. Then read the next page.". When I ask my dad what I'm supposed to do with this, he tells me not to worry. When I get married (between ages 24-26) (to a religious Jewish girl), he'll buy me a house, then I'll go to shul and study all day, and he'll pay me a salary, and I'll be a talmid chacham who learns torah all day, a perfect chassid. What if I want to do something else? "you have an internet connection, find some online course". I quit that first Yeshiva after half a year, and went to another Yeshiva in tzefat. That one had more secular studies, it taught us from a 1st grade level, and it was preparing us for Bagruyot (12th grade tests) and we had a year to catch up. Also, they made a point to never allow more secular studies than holy studies in the curriculum. we had ~2 hours of free time, but 8 hours of sleep! but also the non free time, the lessons were much, much harder... also also Mikvahs! sorry to digress but fucking. In tzefat, they were mandatory for a certain period, not all year, but enough that I remember vividly, I often see people online talking positively about Mikvah, so does my family, I know how to pretend I like it but it is a fucked up concept. When I was with my uncle, he's ultra religious and very convincing so I'd go to the mikvah with him, he was very respectful, he waited outside until I finished and then go after, and he'd always take me while the local minyanim were praying so I was alone. He's the only person who ever took my feelings into account, but even then, occasionally someone else was also going at the same time, but it was one person so I just had to face the wall and it'd be fine mostly. In yeshiva, the guy who kept track right, he was respectful, waited outside the changing room, but unless you wanted to get up at 5am, and go in when everyone else is asleep, though even then you'd be going in with 2 or 3 other students, after chassidus boker, you had 30 minutes to dip, and this yeshiva had hundreds of students, and not a particularly large mikvah, now I'm sure no one was looking at my dick, but that didn't make me comfortable. Also two of the rabbis also dipped at this time, so that ++. Anyway, after a year, I managed to get 3 yechidot in gemara, but I was so stressed that I was considering and had already planned out my suicide, so when oct 7th happened, I used the excuse to not go back to israel (I was home for the holidays) and I have not went back since. So anyway, my lack of education is also blamed on me. And hey maybe it is my fault, I don't fucking care, I still have no way out of here. I hate my beard so fucking much, I want to wax it off, I want it to hurt, I want to feel it seperating from my skin, "they are wires that connect you directly to god", god's getting a direct live feed of all my spite. I hate everything about everything I have to deal with, but I have to pretend I'm so happy because from the outside that's what it looks like, and if I don't appreciate my good fortune I'm clearly just a spoiled rich kid.

[lil-tumbles]

Okay, I got my like 3rd scam ask this week so I'm making a post for newbies on key scam dog whistles

If you copy and paste their ask/their username into the Tumblr search, you will see you aren't the only one to receive the exact same ask with the exact same wording (unless it's a very new scam or everyone before you recognised it as fishy and deleted the ask

You may receive multiple asks phrases the exact same way from the same person

If you click on their account, you can very quickly scroll to the bottom. No original posts except their call for donations, maybe a few reblogs but all from trending tags or things like moodboards and astrology, and formed probably within the last week.

Their donation: they will be asking for money, usually to venmo or PayPal, in a very stilted way (see an example below)

It's always vague on the details. there's a sob story but beyond that, nothing on their life. You may have seen your mutuals who you know, talk to, and care about making donation posts- they talk like a real person. They explain as much of their situation as is comfortable, and you know you can trust them because you know this person. But scammers? They will say something like this:

Let's take a second to analyse.

A clearly automatically generated username (not something a person would choose, but something an automated system would choose).

A picture of a real person (that if you do a reverse image search on, it will turn out to be something stolen from Insta (or someone else's social media on some other platform). Not cartoon character like a normal Tumblr user.

A sob story (and it's almost always "I'm a mother of a (number of) (age) girl(s)". There's usually a pet involved too- that blog had a cat as their header.

A bunch of words are misspelled. I'm not saying any one of these things immediately means it's a scam- especially not the misspellings. Dyslexic non-scammers need money too!- but in combination with all those other things? Every scam ask/post I've ever seen has misspellings, bad grammar- oh, and the number they've "got so far"? That doesn't change. And it will never be close to the amount they "need", because they need you to feel like they *really really need you*. They're playing on your saviour complex, which is why they'll also claim to be-

A minority. They'll claim to belong to a group that has historically been oppressed, which is difficult because these groups are also legitimately more likely to suffer from income inequality or otherwise actually be asking for money (non-scammers). But if you watch out for those other whistles, you should be okay.

I am begging you, use your critical thinking skills. Do not answer the scam asks, just block the blog that sent them. Think: why would a stranger come to Tumblr, immediately beg for money from you, some rando, and that be one of their first posts? As humans, we're sort of programmed to respond to calls for help. We can't resist them. But people will take advantage of that, so if you receive an ask or message or see a post asking for help, take a step back, and think. Isn't it a bit odd?