#queuing this because I know I'm going to need it even though I'm 'on hiatus' (yeah that's working out well)

[zorkaya-moved]

Morning, besties. Ya girl is back from her hiatus 1 day early, but only to update y'all beautiful souls about what's going on.

Did u miss seeing me and Zarina on ur dash (say yes 🔪)? ;)

I had the time to just chill out, concentrate on my real life, and understand that I'll be doing some things differently. I over-hoarded drafts and asks. Every year this happens, and I just never fucking learn, but I'll try to take my time to sort out everything. This means that I'll be looking through my endless list of drafts and finally replying to them (thank u brain for finally working).

I have a queue prepared to start tomorrow until 17-18th for now. It's 3 posts per day, but I'll keep it to 2 posts per day after 18th of March. I'll be absent today as well, even though I came back but it's like... Update-update. Still not going to reach out regarding plots because I'm still not back with those thoughts and ideas.

If YOU have ideas for plotting, through them at me!

It was SOOOOO NICE to take a break from Tumblr and just? Play games? Read books? Just vibe. Also re-connect with some of Zarina's personality traits that I've let to float around. Now, thanks to PTN, I finally understand how to write some of Zarina's apathetic sides and it made me super happy. I'll also post some of the metas I finally sat down to write. I just might continue this type of existence for the whole month of March due to how much I need to do.

I probably will be giving myself like week-long rests without Tumblr on my phone. I'll probably still take a bit of a long time to rest and not really communicate with anyone yet because I still feel like I need a bit more time there. I'm still playing games but I'm also especially busy this month (graduate school registrations, essays, recommendation letters, applying, all of that jazz). 'Cuz of that I'll probably full-on rely on queue. And yes, I wrote things over my hiatus because I just cannot leave my girl alone lmao. Thank u Google Docs for existing.

Hope y'all are safe. I've got things already queued. Today's gonna be a busy work day, and I've got a call with one of the universities before my application to ask some questions, yahoo! Have a fantastic day. Just know that the activity will only be continued through queue for now. I'll also try to limit my ooc posting because I think the amount that I posted made ME overwhelmed as well since I want to have more IC content to interact with people and not make others feel like I forgot or worse. I really was burnt out and I'm sorry if I hurt anyone, made them feel forgotten, or I made them annoyed with my activity/words/ooc posts.

I still struggle with replying to people socially/ooc-ly even in real life, but I'll try to do better. Over the course of my previous job, I was over-stressed but I also... lost touch with many people. And I didn't chase them because, yes, I didn't keep in touch and it was my fault. However, I will do my best to not let this happen again. I cannot promise anything as I still do not have stability in my life (and didn't have for the last, what, 5 years?) and I cannot make any definity promises. I promise to do better, but that's all I can do. And I will do my fucking best.

Oof, thanks you for reading this! Take care of yourselves. I'm gonna try to concentrate on drafts instead of asks these days because that's how active interactions go and I want to interact. Let's fucking go!!

[cultivating-wildflowers]

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[pens-swords-stuff]

[1/2]Dumb question: how do I get noticed in the writeblr community? Like I reblog and interact with people, I'm on tag lists, I comment and send asks off anon and such. But like maybe one or two people actually interact with my stuff, even though I'm pushing 400 followers? Like, I have my stuff queued up to be released in a cycle, so I do self reblog, but even then. And everyone seems like they have their cliques that I'm feeling really discouraged. I know it's not everything but it just feels

discouraging. Some time ago, I was part of a writeblr discord but some of the people came off as really transphobic (transperson here lmao) and one of the prominent members made me feel really unwelcome and would mock me quite a bit so I left so I’m really uncertain joining any more. What do I do? I feel like I’m wasting my time on all of this. Like if people aren’t interested now, what about when I’m published? Like I said, I self reblog, stuff is queued, and still, nothing. What do I do?

sorry for venting. It’s been a bad day and I’m just feeling really, really insecure. And sad.

I’m sorry you’re feeling this way anon, but it’s something I think a lot of us can relate to.

Have you connected with anyone and became friends, anon? If you’re feeling discouraged about cliques and not being a part of one, why not make your own? You could find a group of other writeblrs that are feeling the same way, and you can start a support network there. Because I promise, a lot of people are probably feeling similar things as you right now.

Have you tried reaching out to people? Have you tried talking to your mutuals and seeing if they’re interested on being added to your tag lists?

I personally am not a part of any writeblr discords so I can’t really say anything about your unfortunate discord experience, and I have no idea how they’re run so I can’t make an recommendations regarding that.

I recently wrote up a guide on how to get attention on writeblr that you could check out, I would recommend really taking some time to focus on your tags because that’s a major way of getting your writing out to others. I would also recommend reading up on my guide on how to deal with not having followers and not getting notes.

Beyond that, I don’t know who you are and I don’t know what your blog is like, so I can’t really give you anything more than general advice.

And sometimes that’s just reality.  I have over 2000 followers at this point and I consider myself lucky if I get ten likes (not reblogs or comments) on an original post that’s not a meme or some sort of advice. It takes a lot of time to build up your follower base, and it’s even harder to build an audience that engages with your writing. You’re not the only one with this problem, we all struggle with engagement so you’re not alone.

The only way to increase engagement is to keep going, and keep chipping away at your writeblr, not giving up until you find your audience — they’re out there, you just haven’t found them yet. But if it’s really weighing on you and affecting your mental health, it’s probably also a good idea to consider taking a break.

Running a writeblr can be really hard, especially if you aren’t connecting with people. The best advice that I can give you is to run it for yourself — run it because you want to, not because you’re looking for comments, reblogs and followers. I know, it sucks to not get validation and to not get any attention; it’s also legitimate and valid to want attention. But I’ve found that it’s the best way to deal with it — don’t tie up your self-worth in your engagement and your writeblr. Try not checking your notes for a little while and take a hiatus if you need to.

It’s a long road, but you’ll find your audience someday. Good luck!

[labyrinth-of-headcanons]

i want to request something, but i'm not a creative person ;-; so i decided to ask you: is there any character and/or prompts that you wanna write, but no one asked for yet? and i also wanna thank you for updating daily! there's so many magi imagine blogs that are not updated in a long time, but you are standing strong 💖💖

Thank you dear, I am trying my best. I can confirm that in a very soon time there will be the first and hopefully the only official hiatus which will go maybe one, maybe two weeks, depending on how much I am screwing myself with studying rn, in which I hope I’ll have queued posts but can’t guarantee for them to hold out the whole 14 days... But rn I am on vacation this week and next week, even though I’ll be on a convention three days, but overall there is nothing stopping me!Oh and no criticism to you now but I really want to speak for my fellow writers when I say that everyone of us is doing a great job and no one should feel the need to addict oneself with the “Omg, I have to post, omg, hurry”-feeling (that is, if not for the motivation), because that’s not why we are doing this and everyone has to do it in their own pace and how they are comfortable with. I too have days where I just can’t get it together at all or can’t handle the ideas of the requests and I think everyone notices how I sometimes post in a queue and then didn’t write anything and post it later as usual like today and yesterday, since I have an awful habit of only writing when it’s 5pm or later, not kidding. But I still have so much fun doing it and I hope that I’ll be able to celebrate at least one year (Funfact: I created this blog one day before my birthday so that makes double celebration, yay.), since we all know what is most likely to happen if a series ends.

And now. My time has come. I am going to say it in between again but don’t feel obliged to send these characters in. Only if the idea is just as appealing to you as it is to me to write them. And if not: Please do stick with the request you are comfortable with. And which follow the rules.Just a small cut here, it got longer than I thought...

I’d really like to write headcanons for people like:

Barbarossa, the Generals, Armakan, Darius, Takeruhiko, Mira(so sorry, but I am Kings-trash/Queen-trash), Serendine, Myers, Doron, SPHINTUS, the djinns/-equip

Or really soak in the feels with Rurumu and Pipirika, Mystras (that SNB-Chapter, ohoho, I am still crying over the two), Cassim, post-war Kouen (I am NOT over this, srsly I want my precious prince back) OR give me the (is this canon yet?) by David oppressed Sinbad. (I do like to tear my heart apart from time to time)

And if someone is bold enough and wants to risk it... I have really wild headcanons about Arba, test me.

...Yeah so much for the characters. Like the ones I have right now are great and of course everyone can ask for who they want, this is just something I’d find interesting. But I know you. You are all such sweethearts that the last time I told you which are my favorite characters, all of you send them in to make me happy. Please don’t feel obliged to do this!

And prompts hmm. I am following three or four prompt-blogs which kind of makes me dislike prompts which are not very expressive. The one we had before with the “How’s the most beautiful person doing today?” - “Don’t know, how are you?” was a lot of fun tho, wouldn’t want to write it again but it was a little like the ‘100 Ways to say “I love you”’ which I loved to bits. So clear, structured prompts are fine by me I guess!As for ideas in general, well. I like the fluffy ones like Cuddling, Family, Marriage, Pregnancy/Adoption. And then the creative ones like the tattoos, music related or soulmate ones (which are quite hard to write but I just liked them a lot)Also I’d really like to improve myself on angst/y stuff and/or NSFW, so yeah.

That’s it I guess, sorry that it got so long and chaotic. I know I am repeating myself but this is not a demand, please do send in all the characters and requests you have. This is just an idea for you requester to give me ideas...? I guess? It’s late (not that I am going to go to bed now lol)... sorry if that was hardly understandable at all :x

Thank you for asking me! I appreciate the thought!