#or is that just a local thing

[jupit-er-loves]

Y'know it never crossed my mind until now that I can send an ask

Anywyas, what flavor of ice cream are you? ^u^

Hi!! Hello?? I am so sorry, I don’t even know when you sent this, I have notifs off— but thank you for sending an ask!!

Does orange flavored ice cream exist?? I wanna be that :)) if not that then… idk, cotton candy? I like baskin robbin’s cotton candy, so that’d be cool. 😎

[fleuvien]

[pinklavenderdoll]

[shitbl0gger]

[sweettestdoll]

[roseforviolet]

[pussywinegirl]

how it feel to write your thoughts in a diary so as not to go crazy

[strawberryblondedoll]

its true ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

[anotherpapercut]

yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well

so here's a quick reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don't know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal public support

[zephyyyrr]

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[fleuvien]

[marysfavdaughter]

[shitbl0gger]

[sweettestdoll]

[roseforviolet]