#reblog shit that you like!! go on spams or add a bunch to your queue!!!!

[arimiaromage]

"Dead fandom this and dead fandom fandom that" communities only feel like they're dying on here because no one wants to reblog anymore. when I made my first blog over a decade ago everyone would do reblog spams or have queues a mile long. it was not uncommon to wake up one day to your notification being one person mass reblogging your blog, including your own posts and your reblogs. I basically never see that anymore.

your fandom experience should be curated by you but if you want more fandom content made by fanartists, fan writers, fan creators, then you have to reblog shit. likes are nice! but if everyone only likes fan media instead of reblogging then it's not really an active fandom.

I'm not talking about just fan art here, I'm talking about gif sets, memes, whatever you do like but just don't reblog. and don't misconstrue this as "you have to reblog everything", that's not what this is, this is plain and simple if you like something then share it. if your blog isn't really "for that", make a side blog! make all the side blogs you want for specific niches, it's your space.

go on reblog spams again. it's not annoying, that's how fandom is cultivated and survives.

p.s. adding nice small tags to created media like "so cool!" or "really cute" will make the OP feel like a million bucks

[darsynia]

I want to add something that may help folks' peace of mind as new users: there are methods of spreading out the posts you make, if your reticence to reblogs is worrying about 'spam' or something. I'll note that I have a few mutuals who log on once a day and post a bunch of stuff and I tend to feel a great affection for them rather than thinking its spam-- like oh! so-and-so is on, hope they had a good day! So that concern about spam is maybe not as bad as you think!

Still, if you see something you love and want to reblog but notice that a chunk of people you follow have also reblogged-- you can put it in your queue, or you can go down to the 'reblog' button, hit the little upside-down ^ thing, and choose 'schedule.' That lets you schedule that reblog at a different time and date (I do this if I like a gifset a whole lot and it's on my dash already from mutuals-- I'll schedule it for 2 weeks so we can all enjoy it again).

Please know you can mess with your queue, including by increasing or decreasing the number of times it posts, or shuffling the whole thing around for funsies. Something you put on a schedule will show up in the queue (meaning you can (accidentally or on purpose) schedule something for the exact same time you have a queued post set up, heh), if you're wondering where to see that.

One note about the queue, a lot of folks will use a specific queue-related tag so that their mutuals and followers know they're not actually online. I love to see what people come up with for this, but I also love that it's maybe to prevent people from worrying that you're up late and upset and posting 'everyone in my life is full of utter SHIT and I'm joining the circus' memes, when you'd actually queued that 3 weeks ago In A Mood.

We creators talk a lot about the importance of reblogging and about comments really fueling us to keep at it.

This is all true and I will always encourage folx reblog it keeps our fics alive and to interact, we love it! We don't expect you to fawn, you don't need to be clever, insightful or funny. And reblogging absolutely keeps our fics/art from languishing on our masterlists unseen or unread.

BUT for the quiet readers, the "heart" brigade-

Know that when you are climbing through a multi part fic in an evening, "liking" all the way- I see you. When you are working your way through my masterlist likity-liking through out- I see you.

I take note of your url and I smile everytime it comes across my notifications. I say, thank you quiet reader, I hope someday to talk, but it's okay if we don't. I am talking to you with my stories and art, and you are a wonderful listener.

Thank you 💚

[annakie]

Notes on a blog cleanup.

I’ve been going back through my earliest blog posts (I joined this hellhole in May, 2011) to try and find a particular post I made, and decided to do some cleaning up of the early-blog cringe. Then I got a little addicted to it. 

So I started keeping this running log of notes as I went through.  Enjoy.

Basically the first few months my blog was more or less just a Doctor Who blog.  Just going back reliving those early Doctor Who memories, back when Season 7 was airing... and tumblr was at the height of the Doctor Who craze.  I’m only deleting the cringe-est of cringe posts from back then.

Fuck, this is making me want to rewatch Doctor Who.  I haven’t rewatched Doctor Who in like a half dozen years.  Probably more.  I mean I still keep up with the show when it airs but except for a few select episodes (mostly The Husbands of River Song, I’ve seen that like five times, it’s so good) I almost never actually go back and rewatch episodes.  This is a bad idea.

Also remember when we all felt the need to comment completely useless things on people’s posts who clearly didn’t care or add to the conversation.  Did a lot of that.  Deleting a lot of this unless it’s something I actually want to remember for some reason.

Any proof also that I may have liked Bedknob Cumberbund.  Only a few Sherlock posts but yikes?  Was that me?  Luckily no SuperWhoLock so far, but not surprising because I watched Supernatural enough to catch up to it and watch like season 8 live, and I think I tapped out mid-season 9 and was never THAT into it.

Adam Baldwin Appreciation Post... DELETED.  Yikes.

Apparently I once tagged something “otp3”?  *facepalm*

Found a post I reblogged where someone was DEMANDING CREDIT if someone reposted any pics from a set of pics of an actor because they spent a lot of time working very hard.... removing the watermarks from the pictures.  Imagine demanding credit for stealing the credit from someone else’s work.  Nowadays I’d just block the OP if I saw that on my dash. 2011 tumblr was a lawless time.

Getting in a few months to where I THOUGHT I had started tagging my posts, but instead I was reblogging with other people’s tags when that was able to be automatic.  I keep finding posts with like super thirsty tags that I am 99% sure were not mine, and deleting the tags or usually just the entire post.  Also lots of times I just kept tags that were like “mine” for things I clearly did not make myself.  Been kinda lazy about fixing this.

A LOT of “this post has been hidden for possible adult content” posts, and there’s no way to either see the post or delete the post.  Neat.  Also I’m sure almost none of them were anything objectional because even back then I didn’t relog NSFW stuff ever?

Oh no I’d reblogged a “Wake me up when September ends “joke” post.  Sorry Greenday.  Deleted.

Fuck, I’m rewatching Doctor Who.  How did this happen?  I’m on Aliens of London already?  This is so bad.  Why am I doing this?  Oh, nostalgia.

God I used to be so salty about Doctor Who / people who were assholes about Martha Jones.  I’d actually forgotten just how bad I was about that.  On the other hand, holy shit people were assholes about Martha Jones and I’d forgotten how shitty people were in her tag.  Even back then I’d block those OPs but still.  Yikes on both sides.

I’ve deleted over 300 posts now and I just made it to October 1st, 2011.

This is giving me the opportunity to go back and tag a bunch of posts as personal posts though so that I have a better record of what I was doing back then, which is nice.  I didn’t really start tagging personal posts as much until probably 2012.  Finding some pretty good memories that I’m glad I am tagging for keeps.

Hahaha remember when Netflix was going to rebrand the dvd side of their business as Qwickster?  My blog does.

Tags on a HIMYM post about shipping Ted and Robin more than Barney and Robin?  Definitely not mine. Ick.  Also remember having good feelings about HIMYM before the finale gut-punched your love of the show out of you?

October 15, 2011 I reblogged a post about Elizabeth Warren.  I was clearly ahead of my time.

There’s so many posts now that are just broken because the posts are deleted or because things were reblogged as links.  Remember when that was a thing?

Anyway I’m on Boomtown now and uh, Micky Smith is still great?  I can’t believe people hated him after the first episode where he was (understandably, humanly) cowardly.

Early December 2011 and I’m getting real tired of my own fandom wank.  I cared so much about a fictional character.  Kind of not regretting deleting more of this but hey I wrote a lot of essays, why not keep that proof?

Also I’ve started requeueing some good posts from way back when now, so expect a blast from the past on your dash starting a couple of weeks from now.  It’s a bit hard finding stuff that’d be considered truly good even today since gif size was so much smaller back then.

Seeing so many old familiar names of mutuals on my dash is nice though.  I miss some of these people... and a few are still around.  Hi there, friends I made through Doctor Who in 2011!

January 11th 2012 - I was watching Supernatural and damnit I reblogged something SuperWhoLock.  I hate you, January 2012 Me.  (OK actually I don’t because January 2012 me made a courageous decision that changed my life for the better in so many ways, but I’m still judging her choices in tumblr posts.)  At least the blog overall is starting to go down to like 60% Doctor Who and 10% Parks and Rec and 30% Other, including some socially conscious posts.  The cringe has lessened, but still there.

Also I’m on The Parting of the Ways, and yeah season 1 of New Who was just as uneven as I remembered it.  Eccelston did the best he could with what he was given, which was sometimes great, and the rest of the main cast was admirable as well.  Mickey, still underrated.  Captain Jack... still amazing.   And the Doctor did him so, so wrong by leaving him behind.  Gah. 

Anyway, in two nights I’ve now gone back over 750 pages of 15 posts per page, I’m on page 2488 of 2981.   I’ve deleted over 600 posts (40 pages worth) because they were dumb, bad, irrelevant, broken or just something I no longer want on my blog anymore.  I’m still only in mid-January, less than 8 months after this blog was started, but also I think I’m getting near the point of where I set up a queue and did a lot less post-spamming.  I may pick this project back up sometime next week, since I’m about to have a very busy rest of the week. I think the worst of the cringe is past, though.

[silvainea]

got tagged by @nose-bl :))

1. why did you choose your url?

it’s been a while but im pretty sure it was a mash up of the words for forest and vines in latin as those were heavily part of my aesthetic at the time

2. any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

nope. i had a few fandom accounts on instagram but theyve been long abandoned. 

3. how long have you been on Tumblr?

im pretty sure i joined early 2015 so i really missed the cursedness of 2010-2012 tumblr but i feel like ive been on here long enough to see some shit. also my early fandoms included superwholock and the phandom so :’)

4. do you have a queue tag?

nah so sorry when im on here you get a bunch of spam at once lol

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

to browse fandom stuff and because some of my friends had an account

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

it’s a character i drew for some artists dtiys a long time ago, and i ended up really liking what i drew. although ive been meaning to update it for a while so it might not stay for a lot longer. also just wanted update my tumblr in general it doesnt really represent me anymore i think. 

7. why did you choose your header?

its some Really Old Art that i made and never updated. it was one of the first semi photorealistic paintings i made off of some reference photo

8. what’s your post with the most notes

ummm probably an art post I made. https://silvainea.tumblr.com/post/176696719191/rivals-in-every-universe-some-self-indulgent-vld

my voltron x pokemon crossover. tbh i would really love to add to this if voltron didnt leave such a bitter taste >:((

9. how many mutuals do you have?

is there a way to check that?? I have no idea

10. how many followers do you have?

eh i dont think it really matters 

11. how many people do you follow?

263

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

yeah im pretty sure a few of my art posts qualify as shitposts https://silvainea.tumblr.com/post/169263817456/im-sorry-i-had-to-do-it and https://silvainea.tumblr.com/post/168422246741/i-cant-do-proper-art-rn-so-here-have-a-shitpost

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

uh idef been on here  a lot more recently, but it just depends on how busy i am. I try not too spend tooo much time online everyday though

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

nope. a drama free queen

15. how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

they rly annoy me tbh I dont like the concept of guiltripping people especially when they could just need time to unwind on this site, it just feels v attacky and in your face. I’ll generally ignore them unless it is truly important.

16. do you like tag games?

yeah i dont mind, I like interacting w my mutuals :))

17. do you like ask games?

yeah i dont mind them though i dont generally get a lot of asks

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

none that i know of sry i dont reallyyy keep track of that ( @hunny-pp and @choccos-aaart should be though their art is awesome)

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

um nah but @hunny-pp is my spiritual husband and is immaculate. love u bb

20. tags?

go for it if you want @hunny-pp (sry for hyping u up a lot this post lmao) @choccos-aaart @persaxophone

got tagged by @bauliya (ily) !!

1. why did you choose your url?

evergardenwall is a portmanteau word (i think that's how it's called in english?) mixing violet evergarden and over the garden wall, two animated series i love!

2. any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them.

i can't maintain sideblogs so i don't have one rip

3. how long have you been on Tumblr?

i used to bookmark my favorite pjo fanartists' blogs plus moringmark's (for his svtfoe fancomics) back in 2016-2017 before attempting to create myself a blog during that same year... but i never used it and it got purged. then i made another blog (this one!) in. 2018 or 2019? to look at yuhki kamatani-related posts.

i started being really active in 2020! (thanks to quarantine i guess)

4. do you have a queue tag?

nope!

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

yuhki kamatani and hiromu arakawa's manga!! and cartoons

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

ponyo is one of my favorite ghibli movies, and the eponym character is a figure who brings me a lot of joy

7. why did you choose your header?

tillie walden's art makes me feel like someone represented my brain under the form of drawings and i Love her works so much. especially are you listening?

also the color palette!!

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

i think it might be one of my drawings! :>

9. how many mutuals do you have?

...no idea but i am amazed my fma mutuals are still following me even though i am a jasico blog at this point LOL

10. how many followers do you have?

[redacted]

11. how many people do you follow?

217!

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

honestly i think most of my posts are shitposts by default... they are just incoherent thougts (unless they get peer reviewed)

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

way too often and i should prepare my grand oral instead but i'm Stressed and fixate on the wrong things instead (pjo analysis posts)

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

sort of? i once got in a debate with someone who said the 03 winry x sheska ship was grooming (no comment) and then deleted the thread because it was making me too anxious

15. how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

i scroll most of the time, unless i find the post genuinely important (but i really don't like the guilt trip going on in these)

16. do you like tag games?

yesss! it makes me happy to see people thinking of me haha

17. do you like ask games?

in general, yes, but my followers aren't v interactive sooo

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

several of my mutuals have popular posts but none of them qualifies for tumblr famous TM and you know what? that's for the better

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

i do have some mutuals living in my head rent free that i care about a lot and find Hot but i don't really consider them crushes (sorry guys)

20. tags?

tagging @iskindiriya @the-ghost-king @shrimpemojis @phlegathonbabe @nose-bl and @firewoodfigs ! no pressure tho <3