#with some of the likes to reblogs ratios i see on other artists works its incredibly frustrating

[stiffyck]

are you guys tired after liking a post? is reblogging it too much work? poor you.

[poisonouspastels]

FNaF fans I am grabbing you by the shoulders. I am looking you in the eyes. You're listening to me right now? Good. PLEASE REBLOG WORK ON THIS WEBSITE I am so, so tired of seeing so many talented artists, myself included, get their work shafted because the reblog culture in this fandom is DEAD for some reason. I will see POSTS upon POSTS about how people are tired of seeing 1000x Daycare Attendant AU stuff, but the moment that it comes to reblogging people's artwork, or fanfic, or non-DCA OCs, its liked and moved on from without a word. I also notice people tend to comment a lot here while also not reblogging the post, so please PLEASE consider if you have something to say: just put it in the tags of your reblog! I love the compliments, but you can give them while reblogging my work too so it helps me!

THIS is the reblogs to likes ratio of some of the top posts when you search FNaF on Tumblr right now. Only a fraction of people who have liked these posts have reblogged them. And I must remind you all: TUMBLR DOES NOT HAVE AN ALGORITHM Your likes do not help posts grow. Your comments are appreciated, but they also do not help artists get their work around. But you know what does? You reblogging. Do unto others what you would want done for your work, you hear me? Go support FNaF fandom artists. (And other artists too while you're at it.)

[himbos-hotline]

Wdym treating it like tik tok /gen

very simply. Reblogs are what keep this website alive, there are no rules to reblogging things. You can reblog things from mutuals, not mutals, you can talk in the tags. whatever you wanna do, as long as you reblog. that completely fine, thats what tumblr was made for. Whereas social medias [and I refer to tumblr as social media super loosely here] nowadays rely on likes as engagement. Liking things on tumblr is used for posts such as vents or stuff like that. Not for things that people make. I'm not calling it content, we arent getting paid for what we make we are not content creators. we are artists. No matter what thing we use to make our art- if youre a writer, painter, digital artist, photographer, whatever!

People make things for themselves, they share them for other people. You don't make an entire four course meal just for yourself, you dont spend hours making a cake just to leave it sitting on your kitchen table. Likes are not visible on tumblr and if yours are, nobody is going to go into your blog and click on your likes. nobody is doing that, like ever. So you like a bit of fanart and it stays in your likes, unseen forever. Where as with a reblog, you are showing that fanart to other people for them to then show other people. your reblogs are visible because they're visible on your dash.

People who create things, artists on tumblr thrive on reblogs for other people to see their things. Using the analogy of the cake again.

Likes are you putting the cake behind a glass wall and going "thats a nice cake."

Reblogs are you cutting the cake up and sharing it with other people, telling them the recipie.

People thinking that likes do anything other than just, staring at the artist. Reblogs are showing other people going "look at how cool this person is! this is where you can find more cool things!". Tumblr is not tiktok its made for people to reblog things.

your blog is your house, why wouldnt you want to decorate it with things you love? this is not some celebs house with crisp white walls. Have fun! reblog stuff!

Now dear anon, Im gonna adress you and other people reading this directly. Say you spend hours making something that you really love, your bleary eyed, youre tired and hungry and so fucking proud of what you made. So you go and so super excitedly show it to your friends. youre beaming and all wide eyed with joy, you have the joy of creation pulsing through your veins...and they just. stare. they all look at you. Maybe, if youre lucky, one of them will raise a disconnected, bothered lackluster thumbs up. How does that make you feel? Do you feel the joy drain out of your body? do you feel that lack of dopimine in your brain? do you want to pick up your pen again? do you want to put your time and effort into something that you feel like nobody cares about it?

Now, different situation. You spend hours making something that youre proud of, you go running to your friends going "look! look what I did!" and they all irrupt into this joyous laugh, they praise you, people freak out at you, you get affection. you get a reward. You walk into the kitchen the next day and the stuff you made is posted on the fridge along with sticky notes.

Thats how it feels to be a creative nowadays on tumblr. You spend hours working on a fic or a request or gifs or video edits or what have you. And if youre lucky you will get like, 3 reblogs and one of those are you re-reblogging. For example, here are the likes/reblog ratios from my most recent fics

My dead girl adam Cole Au- 4k words for one chapter

An adam sqaured request- 2k words

A hangkenny fic- 4k words

See anything similar? theres more likes than reblogs. People will stop making things if people dont stop treating likes the way they work on tiktok. Your likes are blocking up artists and then people who dont make things, get pissed when people stop.

[rapha3liii]

I know this makes me sound desperate for traction on my account but PLEASE reblog artists work! Regardless of if my art gets 20 notes or 500 notes the majority of those notes are likes. Likes, unfortunately, do not help boost an artists work besides in the already small circle its trapped in. The only way art (or any post) travels in any sort of way to other peoples dashes is by reblogs. This is not like Instagram or Twitter where likes play into an algorithm - literally the only way people see my art is if you reblog it to your blog and tag so others see it.

It just frustrates me because of course I can see that people are liking and enjoying my art - which is greatly appreciated - but regularly my art never travels because those people who like don't reblog. I get you dont want every post you like on your blog and that's fine - but this is a hugely overwhelming issue I've seen with so many arts and bloggers in general wherein new users who have recently migrated don't understand that liking does essentially nothing for the artists account or interactions. Please please please reblog artists work!!!! It will never get seen otherwise! While I don't do commissions often myself, so many artists completely rely on their work for their income and its so important that their platforms are boosted through reblogs <3

Just some examples from my own art:

Regardless of how many notes there are , whether it's 50, 70, 700 or over 1000 the reblog to like ratio is SO LITTLE

Like guys - on a piece of art I recieved over 900 likes... but only 69 reblogs. Do you see the issue here.

[blorbocedes]

F1 has to be worst fandom I have ever created content for. I dont know if this is because majority are from Twitter and TikTok where likes are the only thing they know, but whenever I see a fic/gifset/art/edit/whatever, F1blr without a fail has the most attrocious reblog to like ratio known to humankind. 1:3 is even a lot to expect. Any other fandom I do stuff for, the smallest ratio I got was 4:1 or 5:1. Says it all really about how ungrateful F1blr is and why its losing creators left and right.

That being said, you are one of the few blogs that I always see reblogging stuff so thank you for that

when I wasn't into f1 and I saw the f1 rpf tag on ao3 had like 23,000+ works was Insane. esp cause my prev fandom was just me and two friends in dms, so it had been super intimidating. then I actually joined and found oh, it's much smaller. still a very sizeable fandom, don't get me wrong, but a lot of the creators are on tumblr and here the max cap is 1000 notes (and that's if something Pops off. if something has 1k notes you can reasonably assume fandom has seen it and discoursed it already) so the overall community is very insular and splintered.

I think artists and gif makers/editors suffer the worse end of the stick cause their stuff is so often taken for granted, stolen and reposted without credit. when these archiving work -- videos, gifs, pictures, are what keeps fandom alive. reblogging and appreciating your creators is essential!!!

I have lucked out because I made friends with the creators I look up to, so I get to be both a fan and a friend. but without that social buffer, being Only a creator on f1blr is a lonely experience. I'm sorry your experience has been so rough, and it reflects other creators' 😢 if it has been weighing negatively on you, I do suggest taking a break from creating or from fandom altogether. fandom is supposed to be fun, and when it stops being fun, some time apart is good, as feeling bad over the engagement won't change the culture of how things are and just makes you feel worse.

I try to get my friends the hype they deserve when they make something cause I think making things is very cool. feed your creators!!! even those who you take for granted, such as downloading the most crisp HD quality from Getty with the photographers credited. they're holding fandom together!!!

[donnerpartyofone]

I just had the misfortune of seeing that 100k post where someone is commanding Twitter migrants to reblog all the fan art they see, on the premise that if an artist has a reblog:like ratio of 1/50 or something then they'll be so discouraged that they'll quit. OP then reblogs their own post to say that there's someone who sometimes reblogs the first post 200 times a day--which like, my reaction to that was "wow that's completely unhinged and not good", but what OP meant was that we should all cater to whatever that person wants to make them happy. I generally don't see the point in yelling at strangers on the internet, but I really had to restrain myself from pointing out that this was the stated motivation on the Staff post about fucking with the chronological feed: that if we all have too much power to curate what we see, then some users will feel unpopular. Which is like, completely normal and acceptable, in reality. There are just so many problems with this attitude:

Nobody owes you attention. Most people don't enjoy random waves of applause just for existing, and most of us have learned to live with this and place importance on things other then validation from strangers.

If your principle reason for making art is NOT the art-making itself, and if you know that you would stop making art if it never got you some form of fame and fortune, then you should literally stop making art. Just stop right now, and find something to do that is more rewarding and less psychologically perilous for you.

If you have ever tried to work in any creative industry at all, then you should know that it can take absolutely forever to get good at something. And it might never happen. And even if it does happen and you turn out to be a genius, still, people might not notice or care--especially if you're really original. There's a reason it's become cliche for people to remind each other of how famous writer X wasn't published until he was 50 or famous painter Y only became important posthumously. If you can't take the heat, see above.

If you're just begging your personal friends to help circulate your work, that's between you and them. But you can't order people who just got to this platform five minutes ago to fill up their accounts with stuff that maybe they like enough to hit the like button, but they don't like it enough to add it to their own page. People are allowed to like your art on a limited basis.

If you're so emotionally dependent on popularity that you think its acceptable to strong-arm strangers into shilling for you, then you should probably take some time to get to know yourself better and figure that out, before you rake yourself over the coals of social media conflict about it. I used to have a mutual (not an artist, just a guy) who had really serious behavioral problems in this department: One day I reblogged a very popular post that had been making the rounds, and suddenly this guy was up my ass with righteous anger about why I didn't reblog it from him personally. I actually took the time to explain that the post itself was doing a lot of traffic, I had no idea that he was one of the thousands of people who had reblogged it, and I can't bother to go combing through his blog every time I see something I like just in case I can reblog it from him individually. Incredibly, he didn't even get what I was saying, he was so invested in the idea that I should conscientiously use my blog to pay tribute to him, and eventually I had to block him for being rude like this all the time, and he was really sad about it. Don't be like that guy.

And finally, the post I'm referring to counted as art things like gif sets and "edits" (a vague concept I think barely counts as creative work but whatever) from TV shows and all kinds of other fan posts. And like, that is just a bridge too far. I shouldn't even have to explain why. And I won't.

[queerfandommiscellany]

AGAIN with the guilt trip?

Yeah, remember you can and prob should reblog things, it is the most essential function for this site especially for helping art be shared.

Nobody can force you to reblog things! Do what you want!

But also if you're looking at the note counts amd going "omg there's no visibility I have ten times as many likes as reblogs"-

1) there are lots of reasons not to reblog something, and most of them have nothing to do with you or the cool thing you made. Doesn't fit the blog theme, person is busy or tired and doesn't want to put it in their tagging system, they simply aren't paying attention... all of these are inevitably going to happen! A perfect one-to-one likes-to-reblogs ratio is INCREDIBLY UNLIKELY for this reason!

2) The like-reblog ratio also depends a lot on what kind of thing you're posting! As a general rule, small, tight knit fandoms are more likely to interact with your posts than larger or fandomless groups (exceptions exist I am sure). It is, to an extent, a cultural thing.

3) likes may not be useful for much but they are quicker and easier to give! Most of the time, reblogging is a SECOND STEP after liking something!

Which means! Most people who reblogged your post will have also left a like! So if you have half as many reblogs as you do likes on a post, say 20 reblogs and 40 likes (just as an example, I am aware the ratio is usually worse I just want easy math okay), that means that ON AVERAGE half the people who interacted with the post only left a like, and the other half also reblogged.

The ratio is bad, yes! But its not quite as bad as people seem to think it is!

And of those who didn't reblog, what proportion do you think might actually be influenced by reminders like this?

Some of them, sure.

But how many were inevitable combinations of circumstances? How many went "I like this but not enough to reblog it", as is their right on their own damn blog? How many times did it just fall into the ever-present gaps of human error?

I have been watching people make posts like this on tumblr since I joined around 2012.

"People don't reblog enough" is not a new problem, even if it may have gotten worse.

And guilt tripping historically has not and probably never will do much to fix it.

Consider less annoying strategies: like hey! General PSA! If you see a bunch of cool stuff you enjoy but that doesn't fit your blog theme, consider making a dedicated sideblog and reblogging it there! Or even just a dedicated-to-stuff-you-find-embarrassing sideblog! You won't even need to log out of your account!

Or if you, the artist want to do more about it: consider making friends! Interacting with other blogs! Doing shared prompts and DTIYS and that sort of thing, running or participating in exchanges, building up a community around you!

Building community won't fix the problem all by itself, but it will probably improve it! People are usually more willing to invest effort in a thing if they already care about it.

And if it doesnt work then, what, you made the internet a better place for no reason?

i will spend every day of the rest of my life saying 'if you're going to like something you should reblog it too'

nobody's judging you for what you reblog unless it is outright hate, but you know who DOES care about it? our dying art community.

this site is BUILT on fanworks and we're complaining an awful lot about the changes staff is making to try to boost site traffic, yet doing little to support what communities we have on here. you don't have to leave tags, you don't have to leave comments, but if you want tumblr to stay the same we have to reblog shit on this site like we used to otherwise we'll lose the artists and writers our foundation was built on.

[emperorpookie]

I am... gonna rant. Cuz I've been feeling... some type of way.

That way is very very very pissed off, by the way, just to set the mood for what's under that readmore. 😤😤😤

Okay so.... ive been posting more writing on my writing blog. And its been nice. People have been nice.

But here's the thing. And yes this is about the like/reblog ratio again. Because its been upsetting me. And yes im also on my period so im even more emotionally wacky but i have to get this out.

I made a small, teeny tiny vent post, that was incredibly sarcastic and bitchy and very clearly just me venting my own shit. I even explained in the tags that i was feeling really disheartened by it all and just needed to let out my feelings. And then i got this response:

And i GET it. People like things for reasons and blah blah blah BUT . I didnt know this person, nor did they know me. And they talked to me like i didnt fucking know how this goddamn website works, like i don't goddamn live here. It is not the same as any of that. "Its not that deep" I dont KNOW you!!! And you dont know ME! maybe it is! Maybe it IS that deep to me. I was obviously feeling upset enough to make a ranty post???

And they talked about not wanting things on their blog but they reblogged my personal bitchy post with a comment.... like... that could have been a reply!!! Or even better.... dont say fucking anything. It wasnt even a fandom blog. I dont know how they found the post, i didnt even tag it. I assume they follow someone who reblogged it, but i dont think it had that many reblogs. NOT THE POINT!

The point is, mainly, that... its nice getting attention for writing. Or any art you put out onto this little website, but like... my writing blog, which I've had for YEARS just NOW hit 10,000 likes like a couple days ago. And im not trying to sound ungrateful. Because likes are nice. They really are. I like posts all the time.

But the fact that i wrote a 12,000 word fic the other day, posted it, and it has 15 fucking notes, total. 2 of which are mine, because i reblogged it on my main blog. 5 total reblogs. And only one of those has tags. I understand that not everyone uses tags, thats chill.

BUT!!!! The fic was even NSFW and i dont write that super often, but its what i see most, its a popular genre, and the fic STILL only has 15 notes.

And it just... feels like I'm doing something wrong? Like, no matter what kind of fic i post, if it not just a tiny text post it feels like no one interacts or cares at all. And it just... fucking ... it's disheartening and exhausting and it fucking hurts.

Like why do i even fucking write anything? Or post anything? If no one gives a shit? Like, people dont get it, i know artists and gif makers, and literally anyone putting out content gets it. Because we put in hard fucking work and then get nothing back???

Like i have this amazing fic idea about plus size reader x eddie munson and i KNOW its gonna be fucking cute. Its eating away at my brain its so cute. But like.... .... i don't even want to write it now. Because no one will care. No one will interact with it.

It just sucks. I wanna write stuff and share stuff and know that people like it too. But like, if people only interact with posts that are like a paragraph long why the fuck should i even keep writing and posting stuff?

And i know im not the only one who feels this way. And it sucks. But to be complaining about it in my own space and have someone fucking come onto my post and tell me "it's not that deep".... like honestly, fuck you.

ESPECIALLY since i didn't know them??? And they didn't know me. And then came and talked down to me like I'm an idiot who doesn't know how this website works.

This is a sharing website. Its based on shares and sharing and thats how things get more views, and get more people into things, and the sharing and nice comments from others is what sparks more creativity and sparks more art and writing and gifsets and content.

And i don't know where im going with this, i don't really have an aim here i just needed to fucking rant. Because i got pissed off about it again and needed to let it out. But its goddamn exhausting when i put my heart and feelings and shit into my writing and then just... no one cares or interact or whatever and just uugghhh

IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING AND ITS MAKING ME FEEL GROSS AND UPSET AND I JUST WANNA ENJOY WRITING!!!!

[poryphoria]

sweethearts babes listen up now alrighty? i need everyone who follows me for madcom art to listen to me and then also everyone else. are you listening? you got your ears open? cool sweet good this post is important

you have GOT to reblog when you think a post is good!!!!!!

some spaces on here are better at this than others! the tboi niche, for example, is on top of reblogging instead of liking for the most part. going from posting about tboi to madcom has been sort of jarring so far, then, in terms of the ratio of reblogs to likes my posts get!

likes do nothing to help posts, literally nothing. reblogs are the only way anyone else is supposed to see the post other than tags. if you like the art, you pay it forward to the artist by reblogging!!

like, this isn't just an issue with my posts, either, ive noticed it happens to a LOT of artists on here, it's a site-wide problem, and it's kinda heartbreaking to see really good art with hundreds of likes and precisely 20 reblogs or less. (an actual fucking thing ive seen, mind you!) ive read a million similarly-worded psas on it before and it's to the point where its kinda blowing my mind that this is still an issue, but i digress!!!

be kind to your fellow artists, do the absolute bare minimum to show them you appreciate their work. you don't have to tag it at all!!! literally just reblogging it puts it on someone else's dash so they can see it!!!

and if you're worried the reblogs are gonna clutter your blog, make a side account specifically for posting reblogs to! i did that!!! it's @poryphoria-rb !! say hi to pory number 2!!

there is no excuse for it at this point! reblog those posts!!!

i love you all and you've been very kind to me hence far but please please please don't let me continue to scream into the void!!!!!!

[shoezuki]

I posted 14,524 times in 2021

8750 posts created (60%)

5774 posts reblogged (40%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.7 posts.

I added 11,847 tags in 2021

#mcyt - 3855 posts

#anon - 3739 posts

#technoblade - 1431 posts

#borealis - 583 posts

#mp100 - 460 posts

#connor - 459 posts

#twitter beef - 451 posts

#hard boiled takes - 322 posts

#ranboo - 291 posts

#queue - 256 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i was all like 'oh this is almost like dissociating but not really oh no what im so familiar with dissociation but this aint quite it oh no'

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

When techno said he preferred the Pig techno art it was a massive manipulation maneuver on his part. He was influencing artists to draw in such a way so he'd get more free art of his fursona. And it fucking worked we cant let him get away with thi

3495 notes • Posted 2021-08-12 00:24:17 GMT

#4

Seeing connor ratio a shameless tweet by wendy's to market to mcyt fans with a link to an article about wendy's sourcing their produce from unethical farming practices is such king shit honestly.

3528 notes • Posted 2021-02-26 22:38:32 GMT

#3

piglin techno confusing the fuck out of ranboo hcs

i jus be doin some shit sometimes n then my brain is like ‘hey think a this’ and i been tryin to type this out but my internet is so bad rn i couldnt even Open a new post what the fuck. anywayss. this ran so long. so fucking long

started with ‘i wonder how piglins act’ and now technoblade is doin some shit, ranboo is so confused, and philza is a delighted bystander who is having the time of his life

technoblade is 100% piglin. many people think he’s part human to some degree but hes Completely and Utterly piglin

most assume as much since he doesnt begin to rot in the overworld. but short answer; he’s Built Different

long answer is a blessing of the bloodgod but shhhhhh

techno never corrects anyone or talks about being piglin or Anything. he just doesnt care what other people think and assume. the only one who Knows is phil

phil had first thought it was out of some sort of shame or desire to Hide it but. yeah. no. techno jus doesnt care. build; different

although more Notable piglin traits come to like if he’s close to people

piglins are both social and anti social. kinda. they can be hugely independent, do well without ‘proper’ socialization for a Long while. but they group together for Lifetimes. once piglins find a family or friends and expend Full trust to them. its all or nothing you Cant break them up

how tommy betrayed and turned his back on techno just. its like a physical pain. once he trusted and respected him, the mere Idea of betrayal was nowhere in question. it never occurred to him

philza is now the only person that techno consciously and subconsciously considers him a part of his ‘pack’ (i cant figure out a better term but that one doesnt Fit)

techno never realizes when he acts piglin traits out towards those he trusts. he never does so in company outside of what he considers family. philza notices though.

phil tends to study and research other races and cultures a lot. he’s been around a long while, has met many people of all different backgrounds. he likes knowing and understanding what he can. its just fun too.

it mostly started when he first met techno because he wanted to figure out what the FUCK techno was doing without asking and therefore embarrassing him

but phil knows techno well. and he knows piglins well enough. and he Knows techno doesnt ever seem to be self aware of his more inhuman habits

but Phil knows. and he Notices when techno starts to consider ranboo a part of the pack

First, it’s gifts.

surprisingly, its ranboo giving techno the axe first

he wasnt there to see it. but phil might as well have been present, considering how Horrifically in depth techno ‘ranted’ to him bout it

but techno reciprocates it and Then he really starts to notice more and more

first, it was giving the enchanted apple to ranboo. sure it Technically had been swiped by techno out from under ranboo but it was still Something. techno wasnt one to give up valuables easily

then techno starts ‘complaining’ about ranboos living area. and his eating habits. phil looks away when techno smuggles golden carrots into ranboo’s shack 

eventually technoblade is crafting ranboo a cloak to match their own and he’s freaking out about ranboo’s height and his dimensions and how much cloth he’ll need but he refuses to ask ranboo and phil is holding his head in his hands

(phil forces techno to gift him the cloak in person rather than stash it under his pillow and run like he’d planned. techno bitched about it but after ranboo practically lit up, burying himself in the cloak and thanking techno so hard his throat mustve hurt, techno was so practically purring the rest of the day)

after gifts, its noises. 

techno is seemingly silent. he doesnt speak up much, moves so quietly people tend to jump when he appears. 

in reality, he talks to himself constantly. either when alone or when in phil’s company. philza knows that aspect is the ‘voices’, and also just technoblade’s tendency to fill the silence and wonder his own thoughts aloud

but the snorts, squeels, grumbles, and other sounds he makes without realizing are some phil knows are piglin

its often guttural, a noise he makes in the back of his throat that rumbles and reverberates through his bones. 

itd sound terrifying to anyone, but after years of techno trilling deep when phil enters a room, when he returns from some sort of journey, when he says hello or makes his presence known in anyway, phil realized its more like a greeting. excitement to see him. it became something sweet

long story short ranboo nearly jumped so high his head went through the ceiling when he’d first walked into the home, said hello, and some gruff purr sounded from the techno’s chest

theyd both jumped so hard, stared at each other as if they were trying to figure out what was wrong with the other 

phil was physically pained as he held back his laughter to the point he was crying. that changed the subject to him quickly

it didnt happen again for a while, but phil didnt say anything and just watched. it was too entertaining

techno would make his small squeals between breaths when he remembered something, muttered to himself, snorted and huffed even as ranboo was around

ranboo got used to it. he stopped jumping or even looking confused when techno trilled some sort of deep purr when ranboo would join them for dinner

lastly, techno was tactile

or, as tactile as he could be. techno wasnt touchy even on a great day. he was selective, reserved, would lean into phil or loop an arm over his shoulders but would never say anything about it

phil didnt question it and would just pat techno on the arm without saying a word

but. sometimes. when phil would be gone for a long time, techno would rest the entire weight of his head on phil’s shoulder, practically encapturing him, rumbling and grumbling so harsh it shook phil’s whole body

phil still wasnt certain on this one. he couldnt find much in the way of what it meant. piglin’s tended to stay with their own, and they never reunited after long periods of time because they never would dare to separate for long

 he was kind of guessing here, but the way techno would drop his shoulders and practically melt made phil think he was just missing him and wanted to confirm phil’s presence. 

it wasnt like he complained. it was sweet

ranboo had been gone a while. he was vague on why, or where. phil had a suspicion or two but ranboo kept a lot of secrets

neither techno or phil pried too far, but phil could tell it was disconcerting to techno. he was tense and kept himself almost deathly busy for two weeks

(piglin rarely if ever kept secrets from one another, phil had read once. omitting a few things here and there, maybe. but lying or deception was out of the question)

phil hadn’t been there when ranboo returned. he’d been gathering firewood after techno was insistent they completely top up all of ranboo’s stores

he’d heard the muffled growls techno made as he walked towards ranboos shack, before even seeing him. 

when phil found them techno had ranboo nearly completely obscured in his cape, and definitely he’d have been out of sight if he was any shorter. 

techno’s head was lofted heavy in the crook of ranboo’s neck, forcing ranboo to hunch with arms wrapped tight around ranboo. his arms were pinned. 

ranboo caught his eyes, looking so scattered and tired and confused and maybe even terrified. he might have spoken or maybe he just mouthed ‘help me’ but the gruff purr-like sound techno made was too loud to hear him anyways

philza shoved his fist in his mouth to keep from laughing

later that night ranboo asked phil if techno was going to kill him. phil wanted to scream

even later then, techno had admitted to phil that, yeah, okay, maybe ranboo was growing on him. phil had never felt so violent

4073 notes • Posted 2021-02-06 06:39:25 GMT

#2

This was about a spider he saw in his room at 3am this morning what the fuck dude

4357 notes • Posted 2021-01-31 20:07:29 GMT

#1

c!techno wears a tshirt that says ‘Yeah im a straight A student: asexual, aromantic, agender, adhd, anxiety, anarchy’ to syndicate meetings

YO HOLYFUCK

6110 notes • Posted 2021-05-13 00:54:38 GMT

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[the-smiling-doodler]

ok, I'm ready to talk about this now. please forgive me if i repeat myself or say smth that doesn't make sense, I'm a bit tired.

So for starters, I'm likely never ever leaving Tumblr, especially not for Twitter. BUT i have to admit that Twitter is better than Tumblr engagement-wise.

I know there's a lot of jokes about how 'ooughh why are all the cool artists only on twitter !!" but the truth is,, its because the community on twitter is more vocal. I've gotten more responses to my art on twitter than on Tumblr, and while i love the Tumblr SC community and all it's awesome artists, you guys are just .. Really quiet most of the time.

The BIGGEST problem is that no one reblogs art, and that creates less engagement*, which is very discouraging for creators and only drives them to either stop posting, or go to other apps to post. Now you might be wondering: "Why are they feeling discouraged about low engagement? Why don't they just create for themselves?" and the answer to that is: We DO create for ourselves. That's why we draw and write and compose music and make gifs. The art is for us. We SHARE it for you! If every fanartist only made art for themselves and didn't care about engagement, you would not have any content besides stuff from the source material. It's not the attention most of us are looking for, but the community. I want to know that my art is reaching people, I want people to interact with it, to ask about it, to be inspired by it, to just show that someone, anyone, likes it and wants to see more. I wanna know that I'm not screaming out into the void. So please, consider contributing to the community you're in by sharing the work of your favorite artists. *(Because Tumblr isn't like Twitter or Instagram. reblogs are the only way posts can be shared on this app. Likes and replies do NOTHING to spread the post around. Likes are basically just bookmarks. The only thing they really do is add more notes to your post, which helps get it to the 'Top' of the tags page.) Here are some of the notes I've gotten on a couple of my Tumblr art posts:

and .. God these are really bad like to reblog ratios. preferably, there should be more reblogs than likes on an art post, or at least, they should be close to equal. Like this:

This is an example of a GOOD like to reblog ratio! (the only thing that would make it better is if 3/4ths of those reblogs weren't made by the same person.)

"But Doodler, what if I like the post but don't want it on my main blog for xyz reason?"

That's a fair reason, but you don't have to worry about that bro. you can just make a sideblog!! If you didn't know, Tumblr lets you do that without having to create a second email.

if you're on desktop, just click the little account icon and press on the '+ New' button next to the Blogs section, and it should take you to a page where you can create a new sideblog.

(Keep in mind that any settings you have on your main will not be transferred to your sideblog, aka, you have to manually change the settings of each individual sideblog you make, and if you wanna block people from seeing your sideblog, you have to go into the settings of that blog and type out the names of the blogs you wanna block into the blocked Tumblrs section.)

there's more information of main and sideblogs on tumblr's help page, including how to create them on mobile: https://help.tumblr.com/secondary-blogs/

"Okay, but I have nothing to add to the post."

That's perfectly fine!! You don't have to leave a comment, just reblogging is enough to show support! Think of it this way: A reblog means "I love your post so much, I wanna share it with everyone who follows me!" A like is a nice gesture, like giving a thumbs up as you're walking by. It's sweet, but it doesn't really help the artist.

"But it takes more time to reblog than to like a post."

That's only true if you're not using the quick-reblog feature!

^ To reblog a post quickly on desktop, you can either hover over the post and hit the Shift + R key, or you can hold E and click on the post you want to reblog! The only cons to this method is that it only reblogs to your main (at least as far as I know, feel free to correct me if you know how to quick-reblog to a sideblog). But it's different on mobile! If you hold the reblog button for a few seconds, this should appear:

and you can swipe in the direction of the blog you want to reblog it to! Cons of this is that it only shows the first 3 blogs in your blogs list, so if you have multiple unused sideblogs, you have to drag your most used sideblogs to the top. (On desktop, click on the account icon on your sidebar, then use the 4 dots next to the username to drag the blog up or down. idk if there's a way to do this on the mobile app.)

"No one reblogs my art, so why should I reblog theirs?"

I understand your anger, BUT, reblogging other people's posts can actually get YOU more engagement!! Whenever someone reblogs my post with a nice comment, I tend to go through their blog to see if I can somehow return the gesture. We can only fix this culture of taking from and not giving artists if we work together.

"Isn't it weird to reblog a lot of posts?"

NUH UH!! It's actually weirder to NOT reblog posts. This site is built on reblogging. A lot of the most popular posts are ones with long chains of reblogs with people talking to each other in the additions, or via tags. Unless you're making a blog that exclusively for your art or something, your blog should be about 90% reblogs, 10% original posts. Of course it varies, but basically, more reblogs than original posts is the norm on this app. Also, reblogging is ESPECIALLY important if you're currently an empty blog with no avatar. Empty blogs are suspicious because a lot of bots look like empty blogs. I've had to stop myself from blocking some of you because you didn't have a title, didn't have an avatar, and/or didn't have any posts on your blog. Lastly, although I'm emphasizing reblogs in this post, know that there are other ways of interacting with blogs you like!! That could include using the ask feature. Some blogs let you send an anonymous ask(like my blog !!) so you don't have to worry about them knowing who you are if you wanna send a nice comment but are too shy to show yourself. Or you could try drawing or writing something for them and tagging them under the post. Any interaction is better than no interaction.

TL;DR: Reblog posts or artists will stop sharing things with you, and please try to interact with people in the fandom so that it feels more like a community and less like an endless void.

And please consider reblogging this post so that more people can see it. I'll also be reblogging some more post that explain this whole thing better than me. Don't be afraid to ask about anything. God. This is way longer than i intended it to be. ough. *falls over

thinking about how its been being on twitter,,

[fishnetxthighs]

What got you into dol?

I think I was scrolling through one of artists I like on tumblr when they reblogged some designs of Whitney, Robin, and Kylar! So I kept digging and found Dol! I believe I was trying to find some new lewd games to play anyway since I was burnt out on Lilith's throne and coc.

Pc gender?

Usually female, but I do have some male pcs.

Gender ratio in town?

Mostly Male with a few exceptions.

Npc genders?

Mainly Male... But I do headcanon some of them as trans. Such as I headcanon Kylar as trans.

Favorite love interest?

Eden and Robin. I rlly do like most of them tho...

Least favorite love interest?

Avery and Whitney, I don’t really hate them... Eh I normally hang around Avery for the pay check and Whitney gets annoying when I try to keep my pc pure. Tho he keeps trying to get in my pcs pants regardless of how many times I beat him up.

Favorite npc?

Darryl and Gwylan, I really want more content for them tho.

Least favorite npc?

Sam, I hate working at the cafe and all they do is sit on their ass when my pc gets harassed and then gets mad when I go back inside when my pc doesn’t want to get hurt. I just don’t care about them.

Favorite teacher?

Doren? Maybe Sirris as well, idk.

Least favorite teacher?

Does Leighton count? 

Favorite play style? (Sub/def/mix)

Usually I end up being defiant, mainly bc I want to save the v card for a character my pc actually loves.

Favorite transformation?

Harpy, bc it’s easier to get around by flying. Cow is okay I guess.

Least favorite transformation?

I don’t really have one.

Favorite job?

Alex’s farm, bc one i’m a stardew valley fan and the other being I like Alex. Plus its fun to beat Remy’s goons.

Least favorite job?

The docks I suppose, I rarely touch them. I heard it’s not very rewarding anyway.

Favorite bad end?

Remy’s farm bc it’s easier to escape.

Least favorite bad end?

Asylum, and I don’t know anything about the prison to make a statement. They will never catch me lmao.

Do you collect feats?

Yee I try to, but damn its hard.

Do you use cheats?

I do have a save for cheats, but that’s mainly for writing purposes and to see things I normally can’t see or can’t be bothered doing.

Reasonably debauched, Vanilla, everything goes or no beasts?

Reasonably debauched is usually the way I go. I make beasts into monster boys/girls tho. Annnd avoid the gross stuff such as feet play and watersports...

Anything else you wanna confess?

[tallaroo]

genuine question, why do you think you are owed likes and reblogs for posting art? as an artist myself, i find myself deleting social media often because if i’m on one site for too long i start equating my art’s value to my numbers. it doesn’t harm artists to not reblog their work. at the end of the day, likes and reblogs are really just numbers that show how many people both saw your work and wanted to let you know they appreciated it to some extent. if you care so much about the ratio, would you rather people not like your work at all if they don’t want to share it on their own blog? just because a person thinks your art is good doesn’t mean they’ve done you wrong by not sharing it with their friends. you have to admit that mindset sounds pretty entitled.

what i want to know is: what do likes and reblogs mean to you? if even 1000 is a small number for you, i’m curious why it’s so important for people who appreciate your work to press buttons to let you know. why do you create art? is it for yourself? for others? because you want to make a living? if you plan on making money off of it, i can maybe understand why exposure is very important to you, but if not, i think you really need to take a step back and look at how you are reacting to your numbers. compare your numbers to smaller artists’ and think about how you might sound.

if i know tumblr, i imagine there’s a possibility you might just read this and call me something like “deranged” for writing such a long message about this, but i hope you can take it as a genuine and heartfelt message instead. i’ve simply seen this attitude on this website far more than any other and it’s disappointing to see; the numbers on this site really don’t mean as much as people here seem to think they do. it’s important to reflect on why you create and why you choose to share your creations, because you aren’t owed attention or even any expression of appreciation for it. each like and reblog is a gift in its own — sure, a very easy gift to give, and not one of much value, but a gift nonetheless. people give you them out of kindness and appreciation, they don’t pay them to you as part of an exchange.

-🤖

I’m going to start this off by saying that my post was meant for all fan artists but mostly the smaller ones on this site. I used my numbers cause that’s whats available to me so I can get the numerical point across. It’d be an asshole move to pull up random numbers from an artist smaller than me. The point was to show that if it hurts with bigger blogs it will hurt smaller blogs even more.

I’m in school for art, I plan to be a professional in the field and the biggest thing my professors have told me is exposure and outreach means everything. You get the job through connections and visibility. Yeah social media and fanart is a hobby in the end and you shouldn’t get obsessed with numbers, it’ll lead to toxic thinking that will do you more harm than good. But artists big or small run on validation for their hard work. Disagree all you’d like on that but I’ve never met an artist who doesn’t share their work with someone.

Tumblr is a platform that only works if you reblog. Likes mesn literally nothing here, this isn’t twitter or instagram. Most fan artists I’ve spoken to do or plan to do commissions to support themselves. They can’t do that if no one sees their art can they? That post was never about me and my own numbers it was pointing out a universal problem this platform has. I don’t know why people can’t seem to get that through their heads.

Every time an artist speaks out about this we’re called entitled. The ‘small gift’ of a reblog is what allows more content for your fandom to be made. I’d love to see how y’all would cope if you didn’t have the amount of fanart and fanfic that you do. Fan content is the only reason fandoms stay alive as long as they do, remember that.

And since you’re going to put the words in my mouth anyways, yeah you’re deranged : )

[aroaceacacia]

at the risk of sounding kind of cynical/clout hungry.

if you're upset about your art (drawn, sculpted, written, sung, or otherwise) not being noticed in a large fandom, find a smaller fandom

1) fewer fanartists in a smaller fandom means higher potential for your work to be seen/shared

2) if I get 100 notes on art for a big fandom that's a "flop", but it's a success for a relatively small fandom. the numbers are relative and ultimately the numbers themselves dont really matter

3) it just... often feels a lot better to know that your work is being viewed and appreciated? in my experience a lot of smaller fandoms tend to be more close knit and willing to interact with each other in regards to art, text posts, etc. for example, hermitblr is very liberal with their use of screaming in tags, but general dsmpblr/mcytblr is.... Not? and meanwhile on futuretwt it's so great to see all of my fanart, no matter how shitty, being included in the creator's art reels or being responded to in some way

re point 3: it doesnt even matter what the ratio of likes to reblogs is, even if its massively tipped toward likes, if even one person leaves a really nice comment in the tags it can feel like such a victory. like yeah, my art - something which I was probably going to make anyway - brought someone joy, and that's what matters

(re point 2: yes reblogs help support artists a lot and yes I do like them more than likes but in the end it's just a number and I'd rather make someone happy than always have banger posts. like i made an animatic that's very memorable to one very specific niche of fans, and I am so glad and honored that it popped off, but also if it hadn't and only a few people had enjoyed it, I would have been equally as happy, you know?)

[evilwickedme]

Queerastronauts is my side but I'm putting this on my main

These are the notes on this post slightly less than a day after posting it.

This is really frustrating. Like genuinely so so so frustrating. If even half the people who had liked this post had reblogged it there would now be twice as many notes etc etc. I don't understand how this happened. What happened to Tumblr being... Tumblr?

I'm not even saying this post is like, a post for the ages. This is not going to be a Tumblr heritage post and I never thought it would. But it got those five reblogs immediately - because I sent it to a friend, who reblogged it, and then four people reblogged it from said friend! That's how the website works! And then not one person reblogged it from the second circle of reblogs.

My main grew its following from lots of small posts that got bigger and bigger because it was 2017 and people still reblogged things. My side has had a lot of small posts that stopped at fifty notes, but the book rec post for pride I made in 2017 or 2018 has several hundred notes - I think a little over a thousand? I'm not going to check - because it got reblogged by people. Queerastronauts is still a small blog with only a couple hundred followers. That post didn't get reblogged exclusively by the blog's followers. It spread the way posts on Tumblr are supposed to spread - one person at a time.

If you liked the post, why aren't you sharing it?

Hell, this is a recurring problem on this blog, where I have circa 3200 followers, well over ten times the amount of followers I have on queerastronauts. I often struggle to break 100 notes on a post I make now. The ones that do break that limit are ones that got reblogged! They don't have a 1:5 reblog to likes ratio!

I actively struggle to understand this, because I reblog so much that I had to start using a queue because otherwise I was hitting post limit almost daily. My queue still has to spit out 100 posts per day for me to not hit queue limit. Did y'all know that was a thing? I found out because I was reblogging so much that I hit it! It's 1000 posts! And then in a frantic attempt to empty my queue so I could keep using the site, I hit post limit again.

Maybe I'm just old school, idk. Maybe I'm reblogging too much? Whatever that means? I mean to me, I feel like I'm actively much pickier about reblogging stuff than I was in say 2015, 2016, cause nowadays I only queue about 50-150 posts per day depending on if I'm busy or not, so I wouldn't actually hit post limit most daysq if I wasn't using the queue. But I still believe in that basic tenet of if you like something on tumblr.com, what you should do is reblog it, because then other people can see it and also like it! I know, this is a revolutionary concept to some of you, but considering polls on this site consistently show that everyone has been here for a decade, WHAT HAPPENED??? Y'all used to know this stuff!

This is why artists are so depressed when they look at their notes. Like, I put zero effort into this post. This is a genuine conversation I had with my boyfriend that I screenshotted half an hour later cause I was still laughing about it. So if this crashed, meh. But I've received asks I spent hours answering to make sure I researched properly and got all the name and dates and facts correct that then died at 30 notes. The person who SENT the ask them often doesn't interact with the post at all. I don't mean just a like and no reblog or reply - I mean radio silence. So someone who's spent days, maybe weeks on a piece of art, something they may have poured their heart and soul into, and y'all refuse to even interact?

I just don't get it. It's just... Pure confusion mixed with a little bit of despair. This website will go down one of two ways: it stops working, or we stop interacting. And I really feel like many of us are already working on that second one.

And the wild thing is posts about reblogging do get popular and do get thousands of notes, so people clearly agree with this sentiment, they're just... Not putting it into practice.

Again. I'm just baffled.

My boyfriend is listening to the Locked Tomb series on my recommendation. I'm enjoying myself greatly

[boy-above]

I get your thing about your passion for art dying out because of insufficient feedback, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve lost my love for painting I’d have four nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened four times. Seriously though, I feel like in my experience it has been an idea that I’ve gotten only from publicising my art. At some point when you put yourself out there, you begin to expect something in return for your hard work and vulnerability, but a lot of the time you get nothing, which makes you believe your artwork is not worth anything. This is obviously not true because any creation is worthy of praise and support because it was MADE, but the thoughts are still swimming around. When you set those social expectations on yourself to succeed, you lose the point of why you ever started in the first place. You are literally 23 years old. Very few artists ever get recognition in their early twenties, and if they do it’s because of luck. Even if this art thing doesn’t work out for you, you’ll be okay. You have so much time to learn and grow and understand new things, and there are so many different ways to make yourself better as you go along. I think you need to keep drawing, even if you don’t want to. You need to find why it was you loved it in the first place and go back to doing THAT, even if it means making art that you can’t post or show to others - it needs to be for you. And if you can’t get back into it, take a step back and try again. Or try something new. Or eat something and try again. It’s clear through your art that you love doing it, and I’m sorry that love has seemed to dwindle, but I promise you’ll be okay, and you aren’t going to disappoint anyone if you decide to quit. You aren’t worthless without your art.

i mean that's the thing though, i don't really know if i even like art. i haven't enjoyed doing it since i was like, 14. it's not something that happened recently, i've been disillusioned with it for a long time. i Have been doing art even when i don't want to, for a Very long time actually. almost a decade. i know my art isn't worthless, that's not really the problem. my problem is how the landscape surrounding creators has changed over the years. i was around on tumblr back when the like to reblog ratio was actually even and people reblogged art, commented on it, and yknow, appreciated it?? art takes hours, days, weeks to create and only seconds to consume. and because social media makes it so easy to consume constantly, i feel like people just don't think about the work that's put into it anymore, a lot of non-creators kind of just take fanart of their favorite characters for granted, and artists are always looked down upon for pointing it out but people don't feel the need to support us anymore and its ruining a lot of us. reblogging our commission posts takes seconds but a lot of people just don't do it.

i feel like you're kind of misunderstanding my situation a little, because i've Had support on my art before, i used to be a popular fanartist and my art could get as much as 5000 notes. people reblogged it, commented on it, said nice things in the tags, were even intimidated by me. the wildest thing that would happen actually semi frequently was that people would actually be excited when i followed them and would screenshot it and stuff. like i Had support on my art, i know what it feels like to have it, i just lost it because people forget about you once you're not pumping out artwork that caters to their specific interests anymore.

i'm very aware that the quality of your work doesn't impact how popular you are bc back when i was popular, my art was obviously worse than it is now, and even Farther back, when i was a wee lad, i was a popular total drama island fanartist as well (dont @ little me for being cringe) and obviously at 12 years old my art was TERRIBLE but i was popular back then too, because i got lucky. that's something i always want to tell new artists, working hard and improving your art isn't necessarily going to make people like it and support you, it's about luck, and even if you Do get lucky, you can lose it just as quickly, just like i did.

i know you're trying to be nice and supportive and for the most part i appreciate it but the "you're literally 23 years old" part did kind of hit a nerve with me lol, cause it feels like i'm being talked down to. i know that's not what you intended but i figured i'd be honest about it. i also wanna make sure you're understanding my situation on the matter of my commissions as well, i'm not like trying to do art for a living or anything, ive never intended to because that sounds like a nightmare. so i'm not like waiting to be discovered or something. it's just right now it's my only source of income because my life is a nightmare, and for the last couple years most of what i've been doing is commissions, people have still been buying from me even while i've been doing hardly any fanart or personal work anymore. i was just venting bc doing commissions actually Gave me a reason to keep drawing, and of course having money to buy goods and services™️ is a pretty big deal to me too. i'm just very frustrated because i have to beg people to do the bare minimum to try to help me and almost nobody does. ive lost all those fans who actually cared about me yknow. i'm just sad about it. it's easy to feel really small and like nobody in the world cares about me. i know a lot of people feel that way in the world but it shouldn't be a normal feeling. it's not something people deserve to feel. it's just like, even if people don't reblog my art anymore, buy it anymore, whatever. i don't care anymore. it's just hard to see people ignoring the only important post i reblog. call me entitled, i don't mind. but i'm gonna be honest. it makes me upset. it makes me feel mad sometimes even.