#post with an audience of ONE and that is ME

[valtsv]

birds i'd want to look like if i had wings, in no particular order

sun bittern

starling

kingfisher

kestrel

scarlet ibis

archangel pigeon

mallard duck

magpie

[crazyw3irdo]

okay but bernard would freak out about the whole dickwing thing

ah, my favorite conspiracy theorist

(masterlist)

[lesbianmarrow]

what is it with fandom finding asian women characters annoying, like they said it about keiko from ds9 and jubilee from xmen the animated series and rose tico from star wars and mona from legends of tomorrow and glimmer from she-ra. like why “annoying” specifically, like is their tolerance for immaturity or imperfection just that low when it’s a character who is not white? is it because asian women in popular western media have been depicted as submissive and subservient for so long and these depictions have become so normalized that any time an asian woman onscreen asserts her personhood, audiences find it grating? is it because the (often white) writers reduce these asian women characters to plot devices with little interiority, rendering them one-dimensional and making it difficult for audiences (who are already resistant to identifying with any character who is not a white man) to relate to them? i think it’s probably all of the above to some extent

[bivampir]

big fan of media set in 1980s where the wet pathetic bisexual man with the moraly questionable job is cringe and cheats on his girl with a man.

[kalique-abrasaxx]

...ABBA really does go with any fight scene PART 2 (part 1)

[humanmorph]

lets hear it one last time for duvall my friend duvall

[chocolatecakecas]

dean literally has a crappy little radio on the counter so he can dance around the kitchen to his springsteen cassettes while he cooks

[slim-yduck]

Fëdor Dostoevskij - Crime and Punishment // Barry HBO

[pandorasbugs]

some toku aggie fun ^o^

[septembersghost]

Bates Motel + literary references

1x01: “I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly.” - Jane Eyre

4x02: “Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.” - Great Expectations

4x10: “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” - Wuthering Heights

[crazyw3irdo]

Does Mr. Edward Nygma also have a twitter page?

twitter can be very cagey about letting villains use its platform but ed not only is allowed one he’s verified

he’s actually pretty popular?? he posts riddles often and actually loves engaging with his followers. at one point he gets really into ARGs and sets up one that (while legally questionable) manages to get super popular. he also loves solving them too and has a competition where if anyone asks him a riddle he can’t solve then they win like, merch or something.

there’s some people online (outside of gotham) that don’t even know he’s a villain. it’s like people finding out neil cicierega made so many internet classics, the “wait the riddle guy is a legitimate supervillain i just thought he was edgy” realization is something a lot of his fans go through.

the heroes are surprisingly supportive of it too. well, when he’s active online then he’s not active committing crimes, and ed’s truly in his element. at this point he’s only really doing crime whenever there’s a particularly bad troll in his comments.

he does a lot of guesting on podcasts too. he goes on hey riddle riddle and doesn’t shut up about it for a couple of months. he goes on mbmbam and is surprisingly supportive of riddle me piss.

he’s still friends with the rogue’s gallery too he’s just a lot more chill.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

So I'm thinking about doing Business

I'm going to experimentally pay for Tumblr's "Blaze" on one of my posts to see what the effect is, if any. I don't plan to use it often, but if I'm using this site as part of my silly little content creator job, maybe it makes sense to advertise some things?

I don't even know what it would make sense to use that feature on, either... posts with my official video releases? Stuff like that article I wrote about the experience of going viral? ... posts about my merch store? (oh god I don't want to advertise the merch store, I haven't added anything to it in ages).

Anyway, if you see one of my posts with a "promoted" tag on it, that's why. Just figuring out if that's something that should be part of my job on here. There are some extended personal reflections on using Tumblr for My Job™ below the cut.

On the other hand, Twitter was never that much of a Business Platform for me, either. That site and app is insanely bad at driving traffic anywhere else, which is part of why its ad revenue was so low depite the huge user base. Getting people to click away from Twitter to anywhere else is like pulling teeth, even for people with million dollar marketing budgets, and so I just... kinda never tried, really. Partly because it never seemed worth the work, partly because it was my personal Twitter before it accidentally became my Business Twitter.

Tumblr in that regard is different though. Four years ago, someone posted an outtake from a shitpost video I did laughing myself half to death over an article about how millennials are killing mayonnaise. That outtake went some degree viral on Tumblr, and that virality did prompt a lot of people to go find the full video on YouTube, making it briefly the most successful video on my whole channel.

So I dunno. Maybe it makes sense to use Tumblr for Business™ in that way. Not that I think I can manufacture a viral hit, of course, but maybe paying to have my work shown to more people on here could be worth it? I guess I'll find out once that Blaze goes through the moderation.

It sorta ties in with a broader pre-post-Twitter reflection I've been having about how I use social media, though.

I don't want to be my job

My personal twitter became my business twitter entirely by accident, and while it was fun at first to have thousands of followers on my personal shitposting, it wasn't fun at all in the long run. At a certain point, usually somewhere past the 10k follower boundary (or if you had the misfortune of having a pre-Elon checkmark), people stop treating you like a person or a fellow poster, and start treating you like a brand, a celebrity (however minor), like a Public Figure. And on the one hand that's good, kinda, because if you have a larger platform, you do deserve more scrutiny. On the other hand, it means you can't be a person on your own social media.

Dark humor, in-jokes, dumb shitposts with friends, dunking on some random hot take, all of that starts to come with the danger that some stranger, who is determined to misunderstand what you post in the absolute worst possible faith, will see it and start yelling about it.

And if, as a person who has a bigger platform, you yell back at them, or dunk on their bullshit... yeah, there's a real risk that you're the one being the bigger asshole, actually. When you have a big Twitter audience, you have some responsibilty for what happens to the things you put in front of that audience. And if you have fans, they might want to defend you, and if you have a lot of fans, some percentage of them aren't going to know how to act or where the line is, and go way the fuck too far.

It's the reality of having a public profile. People will come at you in absolutely wild ways, accusing you of saying absolutely insane things that they have derived from truly deranged (often willful) misinterpretations, and you can't respond to that like a person responds, or you run the risk of being the one who does more harm.

And so you can't be a person on your social media anymore. You now have to be a Public Figure, and if you don't figure that out you're gonna get in trouble. I should have made a private friends-only account on Twitter far, far earlier than I did, I should have made an official brand account far, far earlier than I did. But the only way to know that is in hindsight.

... which leads me back to Tumblr. I've been thinking about Doing Business™ on Tumblr - Blazing my posts, doing SEO, promoting my brand and all that other shit that technically comes with the job I ostensibly have.

I fled back here when I saw Twitter start to torch itself, because I need to post somewhere, but do I need to post for myself, as a person?

Or do I need to post because I am TBSkyen the YouTuber and posting is part of my job, my brand and my online personality which I crafted as a layer of separation between myself and the audience but which has at this point become so entangled with my real self that I don't know the boundaries between them anymore?

Am I going to look back on this and realize, as I did on Twitter, that I should have made a private, friends-only Tumblr account right from the start, and not mixed the personal with the professional and with Posting? I have around 2000 followers right now and this is still fun and casual, but what happens if I manage to luck myself into a real following again? When am I going to dunk on something I think is dumb and cause the person who posted it to receive actionable threats because someone who likes my videos doesn't know how the fuck to act?

Anyway, this is the kind of shit that gets powerblasted through my brain when I pay $10 to make some more people see one of my posts on a website - how's your morning going?

[monarchisms]

[from part 1 of the achievement hunter live: encore documentary | timestamp is 18:46]

[catcrumb]

gone through and added the tag “coolcrumb” which goes on posts that got pretty popular! cremecrumb continues to be the tag for my personal favorites but i figure that coolcrumb would be more useful for people who are not me

[nonalectos]

Moments that prove The Nanny big four are Very Bi™️️️

C.C. Babcock || part one // four S02E08: Pishke Business

[kmagsy-moved]

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