#reposting here bc i deactivated my sideblog

[blossomajesty-archive]

What to do what to do

Tldr; before I become consumed by the Monhun brainworms again come Wilds I want to move operations to a proper sideblog because:

1) tumblr never implemented account switching and it’s mad annoying to log in and out

2) I'm not allowed to make my real account an admin of this blog and operate that way bc this is a “main” blog. Lame.

Otherwise, just tossing up the question of if I should delete this blog (bc I dislike having an unused account) or keep it up as some sort of archive, since I know people hate when somewhat popular blogs go deactivated. Original post got long so under the cut it goes;

It's been awhile as you can see, but tbh I haven't been "present" much on social media in general. I closed out my last semester of college (yay) so it's been rough for the better part of the past year as I went through the torture gauntlet that is exams and graduation, and another internship. Anyhow this blog is 5 years old woagh, but I haven't actually posted anything related to the story or characters introduced here in like, 3 years.

For this blog in particular, a decently-sized conundrum is that it's not a true sideblog but a separate account, and since Tunglr never made it easy to switch between accounts, its really annoying to log in and out so much (the rest of my blogs are attached to my main account now). Aside that, i've had enough of Wilds' marketing (i'm already sold and don't need to see more tbh) so I haven't been engaging a ton with monhun news and posts recently. In the meantime I was thinking of just making a MH sideblog of the same name for its original purpose of a place to spill my dumb thoughts/screenshots/ocs/whatever (one that's not so out of reach).

The question is what to do with this one; I tend to keep as few accounts as possible so I have no issue deleting it, but i'm also not normal when it comes to art and sure some would be opposed to this blog vanishing. I could compromise and make this one one of those "-archive" blogs for now if that's the case? (For more clarity I never abandon my fanfic stories/ocs if you're thinking you'll never see Surah and the like again. I tend to rotate between a couple casts of characters as my vidyagame interest shifts, bc making fanart and stories for the same series forever is a fast track to boredom and burnout. That also means No, you still can’t repost the art here or use the characters, those are still mine).

One last thing I guess is that the old "ask-a-monster" blog community/phenomenon actually went extinct a long time ago, this blog was set up the way it is for nostalgia mostly. I was planning on making note of all my unanswered asks here for prompts/inspo, but I don't see myself leaning as heavily into in-character asks ever again (with MH characters and anyone else).. It's been fun for character-writing purposes but as the fate of all the ask-blogs tells, building around it is a lot of work and always tends to fall off after a couple years. Heck, it wasn't even supposed to have so many ask posts in the first place (but don't get me wrong, it was still fun and I learned quite a bit). I’ll probably get around to posting the actual writing I’ve done that fills in some of the story gaps, but elsewhere (or in whatever new side location) as I’d rather put the blog to rest as-is than try to revive/reboot it when I'm not too keen on jumping back and forth.

No idea how many people are actually gonna read all this so I'll add this old Surah wip as compensation

[cheolism-archive]

i need ur advice on something :)) i used to have a blog that was solely for reblogging and fic recs but i would write but just never post. i eventually posted one fic and it got way more attention than i expected and it had a couple thousand notes. then people started sending me asks and dm’ing me requests and to write more which i did for like a couple weeks but i got so overwhelmed that i deleted my acc 😭😭 this was a year ago haha and now idk if i should repost that fic and continue writing and post what i already have or just keep roblogging fics like i do now bc i’m scared i’ll get overwhelmed again 😭 ik i can set my boundaries and have requests closed but i’m just worried that if i do start posting i’ll have the urge to deactivate. and that’s like the last thing i wanna do bc i get so bummed out when others do that. sorry if this is really long ik it’s such a do or don’t situation. i really do like writing and want to share it with others but at the same time idk if i could stick it out longer than last time. if this is really confusinf im so sorry 😭

hello babie!!! i totally understand where you're coming from. if you want to write then i definitely recommend starting up your blog again. i'd advise you to create a post and pin it to the top of your blog setting boundaries, just like i do -- there's no shame in not taking requests or anything like that!!! writing is supposed to be fun!!! if you don't want to deactivate, you absolutely don't have to either!! you can just put your blog on hiatus!! if you had the urge to do this, i would also say to make it a sideblog instead of your main so you don't have to get rid of your account entirely if you get that urge. and also: you don't have to meet a quota or anything!! just write what you want, when you want to.

if you want to talk abt it more, you can send another ask or dm me!! i'm totally here to help you if you need it lovely <3

[wri0thesley]

I would respect your choice to stop writing on Tumblr bc of iOS garbage—but would there be any way we can come back to the works you already written? Perhaps leaving the blog up or reposting onto some other platform? What are your thoughts?

I also understand if neither of those are options you're comfortable with, and deactivation is something we can surely expect in the future. Apple really sucks man and I've always detested them as a whole ☹️

Anonymous asked: Hey Nat! I totally get the frustration with the platform :( if you were to jump ship from here, do you have an ao3 or anything you’d be active on?

Anonymous asked: Oh Nat :( if you do end up leaving tumblr, is there any way we could still keep up with you somewhere else?

fgnbjkjnfgk anons... i've had some time and i probably won't be deactivating just because this blog has been so much of my life for so long and has helped me in some extremely dark times (when i started this blog my agoraphobia was so bad i didn't leave my room! now i live with haz in our own little home! absolutely wild!). i will be here until tumblr leaves the internet entirely, probably! hopefully this ios app thing will fizzle out a little, or at least they'll fix the tag situation a bit because . . . perhaps it's very strange that 'submission' is banned when tumblr tags submissions with that automatically!

but! my ao3 is under j0succ, as is my twitter. mutuals are v welcome to ask for my discord! i also absolutely wouldnt abandon my poor little oc sideblog @needleanddead because where else can i infodump about stuff people don't care about other than tumblr, twitter's character limit stymies me!

i am very touched you all wanna know what's going on with me, though! <3 (also low-key i don't want to deactivate because i thought about backing up all of those jojo fics that only exist on the blog and it was just. it was too much for me fgbkjnfkgjn)

[saintemry]

thinking about deactivating my IT sideblog and reposting my older fanart here. and then maybe making an spn sideblog bc i have no self control