#vain of me but like lmao without that sort of interaction I don't think I'd be posting as much

[velnna]

Since you probably use more social media than most people, I was curious on what you think of the ones u use, especially now that blue sky is open to the public

Eh, I'm not super well versed on them these days because I mostly use them to respond to notifications, post and disappear, plus I have notifications filtered everywhere so I don't keep track of engagement. ESPECIALLY with bluesky, I've never even opened the general timeline there 😅

Twitter is still my favourite social media and the one I use more seamlessly. I think I see value in it because it's not primarily meant for visual posts and there's people from a bunch of different fields and industries engaging with whatever all at once, plus the line between commenting on a post and making a post yourself is blurred which gives for some funny interactions. It used to intimidate me but now I'm just chilling.

Bluesky I guess is supposed to be the same thing? But I can't bring myself to engage with it idk. Back when it started I could see that the most active people there were the ones actively hating twitter, while.. doing the exact same things on bluesky they did on twitter 🤷‍♂️ so I think Elon Musk aside it's basically the same thing with less users.

I used to be big on instagram but basically stopped using it when they introduced reels, now I just post and disappear. I hate that they couldn't just leave it simple and uncluttered and the fact that reels became so popular pissed me off lmao.

Tiktok is a tricky one for me because I go "viral" easily there and it's my biggest platform BUT it's very addicting and you sorta have to scroll through the main page to find content to make + a lot of the time you need to make content specifically for it. Which is a time sink for me in a lot of ways :') I tend to open it every other month to maybe post something then ghost again

Tumblr is... fine? Idk tumblr definitely feels like both the most useless and the easiest social media to use. Useless in the sense that I never expect anything that happens on tumblr to materialise into anything outside of it. Easiest in the sense that it's just chill for me to post and engage with what people send me without needing to think about it too hard. Trying to get original content to take off here was in vain but fanart does particularly well as expected.. which means it only started being fun for me when I got into BG3 as I'd never been in a fandom before lmao. I like that, just like twitter, it's not only for visual posts, but get overwhelmed at the idea of blogs and formatting and sorting posts, so I only use it barebones and tend to not engage with the main page/timeline either

Engagement-wise, I honestly couldn't tell ya. I think that comes down to you paying attention to each social media's trends and how people interact with it. Personally I'm (very luckily) at a stage where 99% of the time I don't care about whether a post makes numbers or flops, and my platforms are big enough that if I REALLY needed something to do well I could probably find a way to make it loud enough so yknow

Hope this answers your question :'D

[ilkkawhat]

3.18.21 writing progression

y’all sick of this yet cause I’m not

“Oh, of course, it’s always about you, isn’t it? You were saving yourself the pain, weren’t you? The pain of having my death on your conscience? Well, yours won’t be on mine at all.”

34 out of 48 total words of Every Breath You Take, the fic I’m probably overthinking and need to just let flow out of me

had a good couple asks today that had long responses, but I wrote 1874 words on my favorite ask of the day with my favorite response and feel it merits mentioning (and pinned it to my blog just cause i’m proud of it even if nobody else seemed to really care for it)

774 words were written spontaneously in response to an ask with a two-part drabble, the first part, I accidentally deleted but I think was roughly the same length?

total word count: 2696 which really isn’t bad considering the meta was more of a word vomit thing lmao. 

goals for this three day weekend: 

update or post one of the eleven WIPs I have open right now (closest is probably “death by a thousand cuts” since I have a good chunk written though “first flight” might be second closest?)

work on/finish “every breath you take,” which can easily be done in a day I think, if I focus hard enough

begin working on the next agony chapter (just as the last one, probably gonna be suuuuper long)

start thinking about the macdalton prompt I have sitting from january (ANON IF YOU’RE OUT THERE I’M SO SORRY)

to not actually get stressed about doing any of the above because I am taking a day off for a reason lmao