#why would you write that

[cas-dyke]

“we’ve lost everything. and now you’re gonna bring him back.”

he’s lost EVERYTHING. he needs HIM back.

he?????? is EVERYTHING??????????!?!!!?

he begged!!!!!! he begged god!!!!!!!!!! he fucking said please.

[homeless-ghost-71]

“Don’t go to Troy” cool well I’m just gonna go lay down in the street

[naggetl1ve]

Tf you mean useless??

[stpansy]

deep blue love just came on shuffle. i will personally see to it that patrick stump is imprisoned for life

[yurious-george]

thinking about how solanum described how the universe would end for her school project :) and her teacher comforted her by saying she wouldn’t be around to witness it :) and then at the end of the game :) she does anyway :)

[allamericanb-tch]

chapter 20 of as the worm moon dies

what the heck

[instantmiraclekryptonite]

Another book recommendation

Read "Diary of an Oxygen Thief" while listening to "Swimming Pool by Marie Madeline"

[swampthingking]

sometimes you’re having a good day and you decide to read the love song of j. alfred prufrock and for dessert you read the hollow men and then you stop having a good day

[linktenbooks]

NOBODY FUCKING TALK TO ME, I JUST FINISHED THE SONG OF ACHILLES AND IM SOBBING 😭😭😭

[ase-trollplays]

Randomly remembers reading the sentence "Nani should we do?" from a fanfic I read twenty years ago and immediately takes 3d10 psychic damage

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[dandelioneffect]

Chainsaw man is so insane that i had to resort to my own therapy now

[dear-ao3]

pov your ex held your collection of thrifted spoons hostage for over a year (not entirely his fault, they got mixed up in his things during a move and you did not realize it, though he did adamantly deny that he had them) and reached out to your roommate on instagram nine months post break up after being thoroughly blocked for several months just to ask if you were still roommates and then to very cryptically reveal that he had in fact found the spoons (among other, mystery items that he did not reveal and you also have no idea what they are) in his car that he had not driven for a year cause he decided to make the worst financial decision of his life and buy a tesla and then tried to coordinate a meet up to drop off said spoons and mystery items which you did not want but you do want your spoons so you told him to either mail it or show up to your place of work when you were not scheduled only for him to entirely miss the point and still try to see you, then you reveal that you do not want to see him so he finally says that he will put on his big boy pants and mail it (though him actually mailing it is entirely unlikely) and also aparently hes gotten a perm since the last time you saw him and it looks terrible

[yellow-yarrow]

"haha the ex-za/um people are doing leftist infighting, how disco" um. Summer Eternal is literally a worker owned co-op and Argo Tuulik said: "To all other former respected comrades (Kurvitz, Rostov, everyone) – long time no hear, but we would love for you to join the struggle as well: time to roll up our sleeves and start building communism!”

meanwhile Dark Math has Kaur Kender (one of the moneymen) and a motion graphic designer who follows Joe Rogan and a bunch of conservatives on twitter. is the leftist infighting in the room with us right now

[olivieraa]

ok ok

couldn't they have just written ANYTHING else as a method of torture

anything

else

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.