#they are not relevant to this post but i WILL tag them for exposure

[andonutty]

my first draft of this post had me sounding like an utter maniac, so this is take two, where i’m going to attempt to not sound as absolutely insane as i am actually on the inside. so the as dusk falls promo trailer took over my life a few weeks back and i managed to stop myself from obsessively (and i mean obsessively) rewatching it for a while, but then i rewatched it twice in the last few minutes and barely resisted the urge to start open-mouth sobbing. because it makes me emotional! and so as not to repeat the mistakes of my last draft i will end that line of thought right here.

there are a lot of things that make me scream cry throw up etc about this trailer, but i am going to talk specifically in this post about the thing that i am MOST composed about and LEAST prone to start vomiting about. which is jim.

it feels wrong to start out with this post, since i haven’t actually talked yet about how masterfully composed this trailer actually is. but tl;dr: everything about this promo is fucking phenomenal and it makes me violently ill (mentally physically spiritually etc). but the one thing that’s really relevant about the composition of the trailer here is the shots they chose for it. and again there’s a lot to say here, but let me just put it this way:

the promo trailer is for whatever game was being advertised in this poster. the only character on this poster that is not featured prominently in the trailer is joyce, and i can kind of get why that is. but it’s important and striking to me that bear and jim are neither on this poster nor are they ANYWHERE to be seen in this trailer. (sidenote & tangent i’m so relieved that bear is not present in any promo materials that i know of, since his inclusion in the story is one that i think was always meant to be shocking and jarring, and having bear in the promo stuff would sort of cheapen that impact. people should not be going into this game going omg sam douglas!! they should be entering this game invested in the story and the characters and then sam douglas jumpscare like a freight train) this is especially true for jim, since there are a lot of scenes in the promo where we know that he’s supposed to be there, but he’s purposely obscured from us. when zoe’s voiceover says “we were on our way to start a new life”, it shows her and her parents in the car, with no indication that there is a whole ass joe biden behind vince.

then, in the trailer, when the family’s approaching the motel, we get this shot:

vs. in the game, where that shot is actually...

... cutely including jim’s ass. and then here, we get:

where the trailer frames it like vince is alone, when in reality, dale’s already knocked jim to the floor. in the scenes where we see vince’s family, it’s always heavily focusing on vince, michelle, and zoe, who seem to be the three main characters of the walker family. (similarly, and this is why i wanted to make the main characters post before this one, but we live and we learn, the holt boys are shown in the promo trailer to be the three main characters of the holt family.)

so jim is just like casually missing. he’s just not there. and that is intentional, imo. because i remember the heart attack this man gave me when vince and zoe are going back to the car and we just see THIS:

jim FUCKING jumpscare. now okay, let me backtrack a little because this is IMPORTANT. when i was first obsessively watching this trailer, obviously the first thing i noticed was this little ditty, set to jay’s voiceover of “it was a long-forgotten secret buried in the dark”:

now obviously my first reaction is (beyonce meme) JIM1?!?!?!??!?!?! because i’ve already played this game and i know that jim admits to being the reason why the desert dream happens. jim clearly has a history with the desert dream and with two rock in general: paul recognizes him right off the bat and slowly remembers him as being a “travelling salesman” that went to sharon’s bar fifteen to twenty years ago. jim also, when he hears jay say that his mother is coming inside, immediately reaches for a cap to obscure his face. if the player chooses to send jim out instead of zoe, jim also stumbles to the ambulance specifically because he doesn’t want dante to see him. and when jim is concussed, if you ask him where he is, he calls the desert dream by its former name. so it’s made really clear that jim’s been to two rock before and that he’s interacted with these characters before. and he’s clearly afraid of being recognized by these people, always dodging questions about him looking familiar and doing everything in his power not to interact with key players like sharon and dante.

and something i have always noticed about jim is that whenever he’s outside, the shots he has usually include the water tower. and i noticed this because... well <3 the sniper that shoots at dale is on the water tower. so it was interesting and important to me, so seeing it in the background of, like, every jim shot was a little interesting. they are not really subtle with it! like, we see it in a bunch of different places for jim. we obviously see it in the jim jumpscare, and then we see it again when he’s approaching the desert dream:

and then if you decide to go talk to jim instead of michelle, you get this shot right after vince and jim walk out of the motel room:

and i can’t find a playthrough on youtube where someone lets jim go, but i have a feeling they include a shot of the water tower there too. so when im seeing that person digging something and they’re kind of tall and lanky and the water tower is in the background, i am like. that has to be jim walker right. like it has to be. but then im looking at this picture and i’m like ... no wait that TREE. i recognize that TREE too. and what do you know! right after zoe finishes her opening monologue in book one, what is the FIRST shot we get?

TREE.

WATER TOWER.

i’m like oh my GOD. the rest stop. the FUCKING rest stop on route 66 that weird ass abandoned little rest stop.

in the GROUND?!?!?!? under a TRE???e?!?

JUST TOT THE THErEE?!?!?!

and then. and t. AND. look at this. these are the shots from the trailer.

tell me why the tree is so emphasized. tell me why the water tower is there. do you know what we get in-game? do you KNOW?!?!?!?!

NOTHING. NOTHING. THEY PURPOSELY PUT THE TREE AND WATER TOWER IN THERE TO SIGNAL TO YOU THAT THE TREE AND WATER TOWER ARE A WALKER CURSE. AND THEN THE FUCKING WATER TOWER CAN KILL DALE. THE WATER TOWER IS LITERALLY A DEATH OMEN. IT IS L.

like my personal theory is that jim killed someone and he is digging a grave in the trailer. like he does offhandedly mention to zoe that he had a car he really loved and he just got rid of it one day, and as dusk falls experts (aka bluffmotel dot tumblr dot com) have theorized like okay maybe he moved the body in it so he had to scrap it. and it would make sense since it parallels jim to bear, since bear um ... killed someone! and then buried him alive! or at least tried to. like idk it says something TO ME that the only two characters who must die in every playthrough of as dusk falls are dale and jim, and both of them are heavily defined by the water tower. IDK! i think jim killed someone. and that something related to them is buried under the tree in two rock by the rest stop. and idk who the stalker is. maybe it’s eddie.

[light-blue-glazed-terracotta]

MCYT BLOGS: PLEASE READ

hi :) TL:DR please stop posting mcyt content in the #minecraft and the #mineblr tags.

long explanation under the cut

#minecraft and #mineblr are for minecraft content. this is anything from modded, to builds, to OCs, to art. it's about the game at its core.

if you post about minecraft content creation, please do not post in these tags. please. you have your own selection of tags to post in — mcyt i believe is an umbrella category for all minecraft content creation, and sub tags, like creator names and actual SMPs exist also.

they are, at the end of the day, two different fandoms with different sub-fandoms, and mcyt is bigger and louder and (sorry) more annoying. if you're a twitter/reddit refugee and genuinely didn't know this, fair! please just cut the tags out. if you just don't care about it and want more reach you're a dick, and if it's something you've forgotten about then please start doing it again <3

i realise it's maybe hypocritical of me to put this in your tags btw but it's you guys i'm talking to. so.

this is what drove me and many other people out of mineblr and y'know. it's got to the point where minecraft is no longer an umbrella tag, but a completely different fandom, and i'd appreciate if people would treat it as such!

and then there's the even deeper rabbit hole of the fact that some mcyt content is. eh. uncomfortable. and there's people who post shipping content in mcyt and you guys get annoyed! because it's completely different content! and it's the same thing here — we don't care about mcyt because it's not relevant.

keep them separate, please. and if you're posting to minecraft because it's a big tag with more exposure then your brain has been fried by twitter and you sound insufferable

[rmstitanics]

List 5 topics you could talk about for an hour without preparing any material.

With Malice Toward None: a Musical of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. I’ve been developing this musical since summer 2020. With Malice Toward None focuses on exploring the mental health struggles that Lincoln experienced during his presidency. The musical is narrated by Robert Todd Lincoln, who recalls the storyline’s events with complete omniscience while at the 1922 Lincoln Memorial dedication. Relevant themes for the show include mental health, public history, teams that become brotherhoods, compassion, the stages of grief, leadership, and a bunch of other concepts that I’ll probably end up yapping about on here at some point. Orchestrally, the show can be described as “if Les Misérables, Hello Dolly, and Evita decided to have a threesome in my brain”.

all of my original characters. seriously. I have SO MANY OF THEM that I’ve developed over the years, mostly for historical fiction. 😭 the ones that are living rent free in my head the most right now are Anastasia Andrews-Ismay (the human personification of the Titanic), Lieutenant General Ethan Clay, and Dr. Constance Pierpont Morgan. Honorable mention goes to my Star Wars OC Shi’al Valorum 💅 if any of these muses seem familiar to you then we’ve probably either been in a discord server together or you’ve somehow stumbled across one of my roleplay blogs.

the rms titanic. literally EVERYTHING about this ship and her sinking is my Roman Empire. I’m particularly fond of yapping about Captain Smith, Thomas Andrews, Wallace Hartley, William Pirrie, J.P. Morgan, or any of the officers — but if you get me talking about the vilification of Bruce Ismay by the sensationalist yellow press in the aftermath of the sinking, then I WILL NEVER SHUT UP.

star wars. my first exposure to the Star Wars franchise was when I was a sophomore in high school and I got to see a screening of A New Hope where the soundtrack was played by a live orchestra. suffice to say, this altered my brain chemistry and I’ve never been the same since. I’m a Prequels girlie and Jedi apologist to my CORE; my favorite characters are probably Yoda, Dooku, Mace Windu, and Bail Organa.

film and tv soundtracks. …the fact that I once did a TWENTY FIVE MINUTE LONG presentation on the film score for Titanic (1997) should tell you everything that you need to know about this silly fixation of mine.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ghost hunting, tarot cards, classical music, Taylor Swift, creative liberties taken by Lin Manuel Miranda for Hamilton, historical fiction as a genre in an era where media literacy is on the decline, Antebellum America, the Great Triumvirate (Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster), the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, and public history.

TAGGED BY no one. I stole it from the for you tab LOL

TAGGING: @viellohi, @the-rmstitanic, @man-i-dunno, @allysah, @charmwasjess, @quicksiluers, @aceofthyme, @tipsywench, @macaron-n-cheese, @meerawrites, @elisabeth515, @its-rmstitanic, @mattaytchtaylor, @tommy-288, @chamberlainswifey, AND YOU.

* make a separate post. do not reblog.

[hanasnx]

tag abuse in the peaky blinders fandom is insane. like yeah, cillian murphy is hot but why the fuck is your post tagged esme shelby and michael gray x reader when it’s just a gif of tommy.

but yeah, clogging up the tags with six/seven super long fics in a row that are incorrectly tagged, no “read more.” like power to you and your fic but you’re getting blocked. brevity is key sometimes.

no that’s literally it like. it’s just a gif yet it’s tagged some kind of x reader or with characters that aren’t relevant at all. and tbh i did abuse tags a couple years ago when writing on tumblr bcos i was coming from insta/tiktok with the mentality of “i want exposure” and when someone pointed tag clogging out to me, i switched up my shit instead of telling them to fuck off

the ones that get me the worst is when someone answers a normal ask with a normal ass response and then tags like it’s a fic. no one in those tags are going to care about you answering an ask that is irrelevant

it ruins the search in tumblr. these people are saturating our search features in the name of exposure which disgusts me. i want to be able to go into the anakin skywalker x reader tag and see actual fanfiction and not an update on that user’s day. i have to block just to filter through, and then their actual fanfic doesn’t get seen by me bcos they essentially cried wolf

[loudestcloud]

Outing myself but my favourite pastime is to annon ask strangers why they use the Vinsmoke tag just to get them to openly say why to their followers so that everyone knows exactly where they stand. I say it neutrally so I'm not the angry guys you'll see beating tf outta ppl verbally, I genuinely just wanna know. Unfortunately, in most cases, its people having NO clue as to why it's even wrong so! I do feel slightly bad because I guess then they have to look it up and get spoilers but also I still stand by the fact that A. you should unfortunately expect that with One piece specifically but B. If you post about a character, you should know about the tags you use, yk? Mostly because that can also get you spoilers of a much bigger kind. I saw this discourse a year before i even know what Whole cake was so thats probably why i don't understand not knowing and using it anyway. Also, the want to tag it for exposure is huge, I get that but if it's not relevant, it's not gonna help you more than any other tags. By relevant I mean AUs and even then tagging Sanji as that is basically useless because you have other Vinsmokes in the tags.

[exquisite-peculiarity]

How do you tag people's posts when you reblog them? Most people don't tag all the time, but when they do, these are the main categories I see

A) conversational or commentary: "#Oh god I wish that were me #what a good idea #OMG #blorbo #hot #okay so one time in high school...

B) tagging for people who filter/block: #animal death #election #abuse #snakes #nudity

C) tagging for exposure or to show up in search results (relevant to post): #cute #food #taylor swift #travel #art

D) tagging for exposure (irrelevant to the post content, just adding popular tags to unrelated posts) #booktok #dark academia #cottagecore #model #cats #fashion

Note: these examples are ones I've seen commonly associated with the categories I put them in, but are not always those categories. The big difference between C and D is their relevance to the post content.

I just really like asking questions to see how people do things. Please reblog for sample size!

[yandere-sins]

Wow, I didn't think I'd have to say it but:

If you have beef with someone for their believes or actions, settle it on your own.

On your own blog, tagging them by yourself and calling them out for their shit. Don't come to my inbox (on anon), send 9 asks with the same text, and try to force me to reveal doxxing information on someone I don't even know? I have nothing to do with them? I have never interacted with them as far as I know, and even if I did, it couldn't have been beyond hello and bye, otherwise I'd remember.

I have my own opinions and I don't condone being an asshole to any race/gender/group or whatever you want to call it. But I also won't share real life information on a person I don't know and don't have anything to do with just because some anon claims they are xyz. I don't even have proof or evidence that they actually are what you claim them to be.

In fact, if I disagree with someone on the internet, I block them, warn my friends, and move on with my life, I don't give them even more of my time or exposure through my blog. And even if they deserve to get what they give, I won't doxx them? What are we? 15? They won't learn just because you call them out either, why give them more room to spout their hate and defend their ugly believes. We're better than that. Wiser and above those things. People, both the ones in the right and the wrong, need to mind their own business. Leave what makes you unhappy alone. I don't even have time to deal with haters, much less fight battles for others.

Anyway, if you want to doxx and cause a stir with someone do it yourself. Don't make other blogs do your dirty work for you when they aren't even involved. Stop spamming my askbox because you feel slighted (rightously so if it's true what you are saying, but again, how would I know? Where's the proof? I don't have time to waste on blogs I have nothing to do with, skimming through them until I find something) and go make an elaborate post yourself. If you want to bite back then don't be a coward, running to others to hide behind them and use them for your revenge and hating on. If you make a post and I see it and find it relevant to share, I will. But I won't doxx someone and reveal who they are and where they live/work on the off-chance that some anon just wants to send hate to that person by using me. Be responsible for your own actions, as I am for mine, and others have to be for theirs.

[redtail-lol]

Actually though fuck people who think you're supposed to reblog things. I don't owe you exposure. I don't owe you a boost in visibility. I don't owe you shit.

I have 3 blogs now. This one is my personal blog and MOGAI blog. It's for MY terms, MY ramblings, and MY content! If I think something deserves visibility I'll reblog it. If I really like something I'll reblog it. If I agree with a statement I'll reblog it. If I have commentary I'll reblog it. If I reblog your stuff, that's a nice thing I did for you. I don't have to reblog your art, your fanfic, your flag, or anything you made if I don't want to. I reblog what I want to be on MY blog. I also have bilesproblems. That's for all things bi lesbian related, and I'll reblog things that are relevant to mspec lesbians but basically nothing else. Then there's my redtail arts blog, which I rarely use and was mostly to not expose this blog to my friend. I'll reblog art occasionally but it's mostly going to be MY art because it's MY art blog!

There are blogs that mostly reblog stuff related to a certain category and if you need more reach, tag them! I tagged queer-love-for-women on my lesbian flag because I knew QLFW is a prevalent reblogger and dedicated the blog to reblogging things related to queer love for women. You can also tag your posts. Don't make salty posts about how someone liked your post and didn't reblog it. You're lucky someone liked your post at all. When you get mad about likes without rbs you literally are acting like a spoiled child and if I see one more post on my dash about how reblogs matter more than likes I will start blocking y'all at adding "thinks reblogs are more valuable than likes/gets upset when someone likes a post and doesn't reblog it" to my Do Not Follow list.

[jerek]

Half-answer to a QOTD bot question, posted here to conserve space in the relevant discord

(cw: I don't even know where to start. I'm explaining what's going on between Midha and Wrathion. Remember what Dave Kosak said about black dragons.)

Currently, Midha's found family includes Zafirria and Wrathion. Once, it included Anduin and Wrathion. For the purposes of this post, I'll be excluding Zafirria and regarding Anduin as a supporting character.

At the start, when it was only Midha and Wrathion, Midha was a maladjusted preteen girl. Not understanding what she was doing, she (and in some part Wrathion) created a sort of double-sided parental affection:

Midha as the 'mother' to Wrathion because of her age, her willingness to listen, and her ability to carry out his plans.

Wrathion as the 'father' to Midha because of his emotional sway, his seeming authority in Ravenholdt, and his ability to provide gold and shelter.

This morphed in Pandaria to something more like a brother/sister relationship.

Here, Midha adapted more to Wrathion's perception of her as the 'little sister.' If she had any questions about his plans, she asked them privately. She tagged along, part of a package deal with the Black Prince, and she was debatably kept closer emotionally than his guards were physically. By this point, someone like Kairoz could start to spot what developed in Cataclysm: Wrathion was using Midha as a comfort object.

Then Wrathion disappeared, and Midha vanished in his absence. This might have been a warning sign for future developments, if anyone else were privy to their dynamic. Not even Anduin was aware: he might have thought of Midha as Wrathion's favorite champion, but probably not his first.

Moving on to BfA. Crucially, BfA Midha doesn't meet Wrathion any earlier than the player would. In fact, she meets him later.

In MoP, the invitation to meet that Wrathion sends Midha is different, and other 'cutscenes' are added onto her legendary questline.

In Cataclysm, Wrathion knows her by her presence beside his eggshell in the Vermillion Redoubt.

By contrast, Wrathion and Midha's dynamic in BfA is comparatively restrained:

Wrathion finds Midha having joined a raid into Nya'lotha, and having struck the final blow against his false copy. By this point, the Sha (possibly from exposure to Sha-touched items?) has taken over her. This is the first point at which Wrathion calls her family: speaking to her as he would "any sister in the grip of the black flight's madness."

Midha's restraint shows in not trying to contact Wrathion earlier. She even consults Yu'lon, asking what it is about her that makes her feel as though she'll ruin him by her presence: to which Yu'lon confronts her inner 'monster,' her loneliness, and eventually reassures: "There is no monster here. Only your heart."

Wrathion's restraint shows when, despite his doubt in himself, he allows her to leave after killing N'zoth. In fact, he brings her to Stormwind Keep, and takes quiet relief in Anduin inviting her to stay while he finds a way to cleanse her of the Sha for good. (This ends up not working.)

Before we move on to Dragonflight, let's also mention some other people in Midha's life. Chronologically speaking, Midha's romantic interests are as follows:

Shannox: Midha had a stint in Hyjal during Cataclysm. She started first 'noticing boys' around this time-- or, as the case may be, noticing men. We see here the exclusivity of Midha's love: Midha responds to her strange new feelings by systematically poisoning the all-male flamewakers which make up the rest of the hierarchy, trying to force Shannox to the top by default (in much the same way as she went after the remaining black dragons.)

Her kill count was over two dozen. Shannox was intrigued, but nevertheless did not take kindly when he finally met her.

This was the nail in the coffin for Midha prematurely neglecting her innocence and abandoning her role as 'child.'

Anduin: They were acquaintances in Pandaria who rarely spoke more than two sentences to each other. Midha held a passing fascination with him, as any common girl might with the crown prince of Stormwind. There was a rumor that his inner Light caused plants to bloom where he remained for long enough, like a red dragon.

Vyneia: Even Wrathion knew about Vyneia, though he didn't notice any romantic chemistry until they'd already split. They were fellow champions of his, thick as thieves. Vyneia had an advantage over Wrathion in being a girl Midha's own age, even if, being that Vyneia was a blood elf, they were on opposite sides of the faction war.

Eventually, something happened between them. Only the two of them know exactly what it was, but afterward, Vyneia was presumed deceased-- until she resurfaced as a void elf, having joined the Alliance.

Kairoz: Anduin was the only one who knew. He envied her for it. He saw Kairoz dab at her scrapes after a bout against a Celestial, reverse wounds, and speak to her like a peer. Like a woman to his man. He saw him teach her to dance. Nobody ever treated Anduin like that.

But that, too, would pass.

Anduin:

Deep down, Anduin had always viewed himself as the moral object: perpetually acted upon, unable to meaningfully impact the world on his own. He had a feeling about Midha, falling in with rogues, no fixed home beyond Wrathion's side.

That feeling utterly failed to stop him. And Midha liked to come to his room when she couldn't sleep: she must have known he couldn't either.

He had one week of stolen touch, stolen dreams, a future he was sure he'd wrest out of Wrathion's hands. Anduin was older, after all, and Wrathion really had no idea what he was getting into.

In any case, she was Anduin's champion now. Maybe Wrathion would come back for her wedding. Maybe Wrathion would envy Midha like he did. Maybe Wrathion would settle down, too.

A week later, when his trajectory faltered and his heart had finally started to slow down, he went out to Lion's Rest.

He asked his father for guidance, and heard the wingbeats of the Mawsworn.

...Now we arrive at Dragonflight.

There are two factors which shift the dynamic in Dragonflight: first of all, Wrathion has a family. The days of being asked whether Midha's a black dragon too are largely over: the other black dragons are right there at the Citadel.

Second of all, Anduin is gone. Wrathion's lost the devil he knows, and replaced him with a dozen devils he doesn't.

In Dragonflight, the relationship between Wrathion and Midha can best be described as overt.

Baskilian pulls Midha aside to warn her about Wrathion, and Wrathion responds by inviting her out on a canoe trip. He asks about Anduin, and when Midha explains in the politest, vaguest terms possible, he breaks aloud: "What he's done to you, he's done to me."

"I could still look through your eyes if I wished to, champion."

"All the care you should have for yourself is mine."

"Our two comprise the only one on Azeroth."

"If it must be someone, then let it be you!"

It's only one night. He holds Midha for so long she nods off against his chest. In the morning, they've washed ashore near the Ruby Life Pools.

Of course, he isn't the only black dragon anymore. And even if he were, his isn't the only flight. And even if it were... there's still Stormwind.

After another long excursion, Midha returns to the Citadel and apologizes. "There's the Mother Oathstone, and Stormwind, too."

He's not sure if what he does next is premeditated.

In what Wrathion calls a 'fit of the dual soul,' he breaks into an outraged laugh-- and then grabs Midha and forcibly kisses her.

"Tell them. Tell whoever would do the same to you: that I've fully lost my mind. That I've laid claim to you, and I will not allow so much as a word to spread against it.

Some will be revolted, yes! But they will revile me, and count you as a casualty."

When he comes to, he goes to bathe in lava.

He does it again, of course. Midha doesn't know how to stop him, or if she even should. There are broodmothers smaller than Wrathion: drakes are always enlisted where dragons are scarce. And she suspects it's nothing but jealousy: pure, white-knuckled loneliness, and maybe it's the fault of the knuckle-white Sha that seems to ruin everything she doesn't leave behind.

He kisses her so often that Sabellian catches him, and scolds him: "You flout nature like a hand-reared pigeon after its master."

And Wrathion responds: "She is my sister, Sabellian."

"How fortunate," Wrathion says, "that you may never understand. To be a son of one's daughter. A creation of one's creation."

Wrathion's prayer: It will have to be someone. Let it be her.

Midha's prayers have stopped.

Of course, there will always be more to complicate the dynamic. But that's for when I talk about Zafirria and Anduin.

[thirdmagic]

@spank-the-villain replied to your post “אני ידעת שהשבועיים האלה הייתי מאוד עסוקה בבגידה...”:

This you should translate and post, probably

ah, i was offered by friend to reblog it with translation to english and after talking about it with him i was kind of like 'lets put a raincheck on that and come back to it later', so i figure it's worth to give my reasons/thoughts on that here too where like. it is a sentiment that i feel strongly about and one that i would want to see it shared and be more available. including for diaspora jews since i know its not something relevant to only israelis either. but. to be blunt, i don't want the westerners to appropriate it lol

and like granted i dont know if this one specific post would even get enough traction to be appropriated so maybe this is me getting ahead of myself or giving myself too much credit, but i've just over the years seen how any kind of sentiment or any moment or any exposure to the dynamics here are instantly used as a justification for their hatred it's kind of the same way that y'know white americans like to absolutely gleefully jump at the display of any kind of racism or predjuice within communities of color between/directed at each other because of how validating they find it and how it makes them feel better about their white guilt, i've seen posts like this a few times talking about racism in very strong words and usually with the disclaimer or tags to the vein of 'white people, this post is not for you, do not reblog it' which i thought was pretty fair to just have there as a reminder even if it wont technically stop them from doing so

so i guess my through process of keeping it to hebrew was just in an effort to remove goys from the conversation entirely because i do think we need to have this conversation in general. just, only between ourselves, but also you know there is definitely room for diaspora jews there too. so maybe it is worth it to add a translation with just a big ol' 'hey goys this post is not for you' disclaimer somewhere there, i don't know

[homebrew-a-la-traumaverse]

Hi! I'm someone who has been homebrewing for 5e for a while and have recently opened a blog to put my creations, and I plan on also sharing some of my thoughts about the process of homebrewing.

I'm very new to this site in general, so I'm wondering if you have any pointers on how to get started with a blog. My posts also don't seem to be showing up in the public search, and I checked my content sharing settings, so some guidance with that would also be appreciated.

Cheers!

Howdy!

It's nice to see new faces on the scene! Getting to look at new ideas and the thoughts behind them is always fun, and analysis is something that we can't get enough of around these parts.

My advice might be a little scattered, but I hope it helps. If anyone else has thoughts, feel free to add on!

Tumblr can be a little finicky; I've found that posts often don't show up if you have external links. You'll want to make posts directly to tumblr rather than autoposting from elsewhere, and also put any links (i.e. to Homebrewery/DNDBeyond) in a reblog. And then reblog the reblog so that people can find the reblog with the links in the reblogs.

I tend to use a lot of tags for my own posts, both for organization as well as for exposure, but I'll admit I only rarely look at any tags other than the "homebrew" tag. I'm sure other people operate in their own way, though.

In terms of the tumblr homebrew meta, balance and formatting and all are always important. But even more important is PRESENTATION!

(Imagine I'm saying that in a Megamind voice. I don't have the time to find the gif.)

A lot of the time if you just have, like, a link or a readmore to a text dump, people will just gloss over it without giving it a second look regardless of how cool a concept is or how meticulously balanced it is. An evocative picture and image stains for formatting can go a long way in turning heads. You're on a site that loves images; style accordingly.

If you have a lot to say, adding a readmore can help you not flood readers in walls of text. Tumblr does it automatically now, but it's still polite to do it after one or two paragraphs if you're going to be writing much more than that.

Blog maintenance... Posting consistently and frequently is good, if it's relevant to your blog's niche (if I'm following you for homebrew, I'd rather not also get flooded in your love for, say, Superwholock Undertale crossovers; that's what sideblogs are for). That being said, there's diminishing returns; more than 1 post a day and people might miss them entirely just due to scheduling. Having a queue set up for that is helpful.

Combining related things into a compendium is worth considering if you have, say, 10 rogue subclasses that you want to publish at once, but you tend to get more attention if you post them one by one. A compromise could be to post them one by one to build hype and make another post with the compendium. Haven't made enough of those to really say how effective that'd be.

Also remember to keep your followers list clear of bots. It's your tumblr civil duty.

Cheers!

[celestial-alignment]

Hi! I hope it’s okay to hop into your ask box to talk about tagging. I feel like we’ve been on tumble for a similar amount of time, and I just wanted your thoughts or opinions on what I feel like is incorrect tagging. The 2 main sides I’ve seen have been on people that are tagging their content but they are tagging it as “s*x” or “p*wp*w” or something with a cutesy name that makes it more g rated. But they do not tag it as sex or gun violence as well. Which in turn mean that people are not able to filter this content or make an informed choice on weather they want to engage with that content. And then the second is where people are tagging with specific tags, such as character a x character b with the goal of getting as many people to read or engage with their content, but it has nothing to do with this character. I’ve been comparing it to false advertising. And I understand that tagging on Tumblr has never been great (it’s not AO3), but I really feel like with the fall of other sites Reddit and Twitter being the main that come to mind and this resurgence of Tumblr that the issue has become more pronounced. I feel like the 1st is a safety concern and the second is just rude/inconvenience especially when creators are called out multiple time by different blogs and refuse to except that the way they are tagging is not the way that tagging works on Tumblr or otherwise. I guess I was just wonder if others were seeing the issues or if I was just becoming the grouchy old man screaming at the neighbor kids to get off the lawn. And if it’s not just me, if you or your followers have come up with a way to filter these out. I’ve just resorted to blocking accounts that refuse to tag in a safe or appropriate manner.

Hiya!

It’s always okay to hop in my ask box!

I’ve definitely seen other discussions about the problems of tagging, or lack thereof.

If I’m totally honest, I need to preface my response with saying that I’m perhaps one of the lucky ones in that it is very rare for words or content to trigger me in some debilitating way (I might be too numb to the world, which is concerning in its own right but a topic for another day), but I have loved ones who have had genuine traumas and have been subjected to unexpected triggers. Having not experienced the extreme of it first hand (for me I usually feel strong annoyance at the worst), I have seen how damaging it can be to other people and that makes me very aware of it online, especially Tumblr.

That being said, I wholly agree with you that censoring words in the tags defeats the whole purpose of tagging. You can censor all you like in the post itself or text images, whatever, but the tag blockers simply won’t work if the word in its proper spelling isn’t there. So when people are using asterisks in place of vowels (like s*x) with the intention of being careful and protecting someone? It’s doing the exact opposite.

I agree with the second thing too, about characters and their ships being tacked on to a buttload of other tags for the sake of exposure, even though it isn’t relevant. It’s definitely false advertising! It’s basically click bait. I’m sure there are cases where it was not intentional, perhaps the characters and their ship have a small role in a longer fic, so the author or op thought it was important to include them, but if they aren’t the focus, and if they aren’t important enough to the rest of the story if it’s a fic, I think it’s probably best to leave it out of the tags. Worst case scenario for not tagging it is the people who like it will be pleasantly surprised. The people who don’t like it can keep scrolling or for fics will just have to tolerate it for the small part that it’s included in the story.

Tagging on Tumblr is very much a unique animal. I never see it translate well onto other platforms, so a lot of newbies on this site probably go the Tik Tok or Instagram route where the more tags the better, even if they’re just barely relevant. I once put my own comments in hashtags on Instagram, and someone called me out on it not understanding why I was writing long tags that don’t even exist in the algorithm. LMAO oops

Block tags when you can, block accounts when you have to. I’ve done it here and there, because in a place like Tumblr, the more comfortable you can make it for yourself the better. It’s not always worth the fight or the argument in this wild west site.

Also, I know I am not always the best at tagging things. Usually I get lazy when it comes to tagging specific fandoms, but I do try because I know some of the things I like may not be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s okay!

I am also always open to anyone who needs to kick me in the ass to tag better or something. Scrolling Tumblr half awake most of the time does not make for a conscientious reblogger…

Thank you for the ask! I don’t always voice my opinions on things here, but I don’t want you to be the only old man screaming at those kids on your lawn. I’m right there next to you shaking a fist at them. You’re not alone in this, Anon, I agree all the way around and I know there are others who agree as well.

I’d love to hear everyone else’s thoughts on this too!

[aracelisco]

Progress Reflection - 4/10/23

Posting has been going steady, and it's especially interesting being able to see the numbers that I'm collecting personally and the stats that Instagram provides for their business account setting! Here's a peek at the last two weeks of posting and engagement.

For my data I'm keeping track of engagement (likes/comments/shares/bookmarks) as well as post insights (exposure to followers and non-followers which when added together creates total reach and recording total impressions).

So far it has been steady with the impression that Reels are the best way to gain attention to grow a new audience as consistently I've been reaching high engagement and reach with them. The lowest engagement and reach I've received for a Reel is 33 and 111 respectively, while the highest is 150 and 870 respectively.

As for regular posts, the lowest engagement and reach I've received is 0 and 9 respectively, and the highest being 12 and 10. For the impressions of my regular posts, they completely consist of who is currently following me as opposed to my Reels where majority of the reach are non-followers.

Not recorded in my sheets--but screenshotted from the data of my individual posts--I've also come to realize for regular posts utilizing hashtags doesn't seem to bring extra attention unless I'm going about them the wrong way. I make sure to use hashtags that are relevant to what I'm posting, especially if it's fanart of a game or show I'll use multiple tags in relation to it. But under the Impressions detail most of the views are coming from the Home page aka those who are currently following me. Unfortunately, for Reels they don't share a similar data record to show where people are seeing my videos whether it's through the home page, explore page, hashtags, or others means.

Aside from data collection--I've actually come to really enjoy creating Reels as it's become a fun experience after getting past the "cringe" factor I was facing when I first started. Video recording and editing was never my forte, so going through the process felt embarrassing like I was doing something wrong at a new job. But now it's fun, especially doing the transitions between clips!

Other than that, I have this week and next week to complete my posting and data collection just to try to get as much information as possible about my posting experiences.

I've also finally completed the mockup for my website design, it took me less than an hour and a half, who would've imagined how easy it was? Shout out to executive dysfunction for that one! Here's a glance at it.

Thanks to having a posting matrix I won't have to worry about posting this week or the next, so I can focus my time into writing out my website copy for my main pages and developing visuals and graphs alongside of them. Once that's completed I'll be able to create a final mockup and receive approval/feedback from Sharla.

I'm not too concerned about getting this done as long as I really use my time wisely as once I have all the elements together, it's as simple as copy and pasting it onto the actual website builder I'll be using. If anything, I'll just be worried about the completion of my "Research" page as I'll only be able to partially complete it until I finish my posting on my Instagram page to go over all of the data I've collected. I'm aiming to get most of it done by the ending of this week, I think it's manageable for sure.

Thanks for reading!

[adomainname]

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Just want to argue with one thing (and sorry OP I'm sure you've already gotten 500 iterations of this, but this is the version of the post I saw and am reblogging, so I'm saying it probably again): AO3 is NOT just a fanfiction archive and it IS totally okay to post essays on insights and theories. It is not okay to post things like liveblogs or requests for promts, but you can post any kind of fanwork that isn't considered "fannish ephemera." The line between what is/isn't "fannish ephemera" is kind of hard to clarify but if you've written an essay with like a thesis and everything, I think that's pretty solidly fannish meta and permitted. Fanvids, art, podfic, and even recipes inspired by characters are also fine. It is probably going to lean more towards fic because unfortunately you can't HOST non-textual media on AO3, as hosting images, videos, and audio files gets expensive fast. But you can link/embed those files if you'd like to put them up there, and I like it when people do this.

I also think most people have their own particular standards for what merits kudos, commenting, etc. and since the feature was introduced there have been people who won't kudos WIPs, or only kudos porn logged out, or whatever. As an author I have given up on the practice of kudomancy and do not really care as long as you aren't mean to me in the comments or somewhere else where my attention will be drawn to it. (I do look at my fics' bookmarks but you can be mean to me in the bookmarks if you want, they're your bookmarks, I don't get emailed bookmarks or anything, I'll probably just mute you.)

A couple more notes on tags:

My rule of thumb for tagging things is that if someone is LOOKING FOR STUFF featuring that tag and they'd be disappointed when they found what you posted, you shouldn't tag it that. If it heavily features dog sledding, tag Dog Sledding; if chapter 3 of 87 has an in-depth discussion of the movie Balto and dog sledding ceases to be relevant afterwards, don't tag it. If the fic is heavily about Blorbo, tag them; if Blorbo has one line or is just mentioned, please do not. If you're writing something based solely or mostly on a TV or film adaptation of a book, please don't tag the book "for exposure." If you're writing the characters from one fandom and using a single worldbuilding concept from another fandom, it's also good manners not to tag the other fandom; instead put "Other Fandom Fusion" in the freeforms.

Tags that mean the same thing all get "synned" (made synonyms of each other) by people called tag wranglers. These are real actual people who are volunteers. There is no algorithm involved.

Because of this, you do NOT HAVE TO INCLUDE MORE THAN ONE TAG THAT MEANS THE SAME THING. You can tag Aziraphale/Crowley OR Ineffable Spouses OR Azicrow OR Crowley/Aziraphale OR . You don't have to tag all of them. They're all functionally only one tag.

Tags come in several varieties -- Fandom, Character, Relationships, and Freeform. These tags are all different tags that function a little bit differently, so, for example, it actually IS okay to tag a pairing that isn't an important main pairing in the freeforms. If you tag "Bert/Ernie (mentioned)" in the Relationships tag in your fic about Elmo's epic journey, it will be synned to the main Bert/Ernie tag, show up when people look for Bert/Ernie, and all the Bert/Ernie shippers will think you're annoying. If you put it in the Freeforms category, it will NOT get synned to the main relationships tag but will get synned to the freeform Bert/Ernie tag, and people who hate Bert/Ernie with a fiery passion will be able to filter it out, or at least be forewarned in the tags that at one point in your epic Elmo fic, Elmo calls Bert and Ernie and the conversation indicates they're definitely married.

There are tags that pop up in the dropdown menu when you're tagging before posting. These are called "canonical" tags. You do not have to use them, although there is a chance that if you don't, it'll take a bit for the tag you use to be synned, if there is in fact a canonical tag at all. I see this a lot with like, female characters who get married within a continuity and take their husband's last names, where people will tag, like, "Jane Jones (I can't believe I can't tag her Jane Jones it just says Jane Jones Smith smh like she's only relevant if she's a wife)." It's understandable that you wouldn't want to tag "Jane Jones Smith" if you're writing an AU where she gets together with her bff Jill and they live happily ever after in a cottage by the sea and she never marries Sam Smith, but, to be clear... if you just type "Jane Jones" into the box.... that is probably already synned to Jane Jones Smith. However, if you tag a long rambling vent at the tag wranglers... the tag wranglers will see it, and also they will have to syn it to "Jane Jones Smith." If you want the rant attached to your fic, that's fine, but if you just want to tag it Jane Jones, you can still do that, it's just not in the dropdown menu. Same goes for if you're tagging for Jane's superhero name, secret identity as Casimira Castillo, etc. You can even -- if you have an AU, say, where she's named Joan Janes -- tag it "Joan Janes (AU evil!Jane)" and it will eventually be synned to Jane Jones Smith. (This may also present a problem for you or the wranglers eventually, depending on what you and your fandom like to do with AUs, but in that case it's also probably good that you know this.)

That said, if you go really minimalist and just tag her as "Jane," it will be hard to find your fic. She will be mixed in with all the other Janes -- Jane Eyre, Jane Crocker, Jane Fonda, Dick and Jane Jane, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and a handful of Jane Does will all be swirling around in that tag. (There is already a Jane Jones tag for a character from a movie I haven't seen, so in this particular situation for this hypothetical other Jane Jones if you're dedicated to your Jane Jones tagging you might want to tag her "Jane Jones (Hypothetical Fandom)" to keep her from being mixed up with "Jane Jones (Movie I Haven't Seen)" or any other Janes Jones that may pop up.)

If you're curious about a tag's synonyms, you can look at the tag and its relationships by clicking on it. For example, I recently opted to tag something "Not Season 2 Compliant" even though the canonical tag is "Not Season/Series 02 Compliant," because the fandom I was writing for has Seasons, not Serieses, and I thought it looked better. I found the canonical tag, clicked on it, saw all the tags that are synonyms of that canonical tag, and went with the one I preferred. I could have made a new tag, say, "lol this is not remotely compliant w/season 2," that would have been fine, it just would've taken a while for people to be able to filter for non-S2 compliant fic (either to filter it out, because they, like I, NEEDED fixit fic asap, or because they did not want to think about S2 and wanted to live in happier times for a while).

(For an amazing example of how ridiculously varied synonyms of tags can get when a fandom is large and old enough to go through several iterations of ship naming conventions I suggest checking out the tag for Hermione Granger/Harry Potter, which contains no-longer-standard shipname forms like "Pumpkin Pie" and "Harmony," as well as about a thousand renamed AU versions of the characters and a lot of misspellings.)

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It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:

Kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished - you kudos.

If you liked it, you should comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don't care, we just love comments.

No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity. Don't ruin that for them.

Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.

There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.

For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.

Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLANTONIC, like friendship or family.

Nothing is banned. This is an implicit rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.

People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they "complete" a story. So it's considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.

Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite). It's an archive, not social media. No one cares what's the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.

Avoid deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - orphan it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to you anymore.

This is a creative fanfiction archive. No essays on your insights or theories please. There are other places for that.

I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.

I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.

[beatverse1]

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