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Worldbuilding idea that will haunt me for life.

Instead of Bill Nye the Science Guy Honkai-Earth has Welt Yang the Science Man.

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oh nous means mind that makes sense

Btw since I am writing rn, I figured out that the nicknames for Athena in Silent Wars actually have nuance lol

Ath - For situations when Athena was too long of a name to call, and for bickering used by Ares and Aphrodite mainly

Thena - Everyday best, seriously that is basically her name atp used by everyone who is even tangentially close with her on occasion

Thea - softer and more affectionate, "I love you so much" packaged in four letters used by Ares, Hera and Heph (Zeus uses it sometimes and I am not happy about it).

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>1k 😭

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help if i lose all my coloring work for the third time istg

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now i really want to know

HELP PEOPLE PF TUMBLR I JUST REMEMBERED A COMIC OR WEBTOON OR CARTOON THAT I WATCHED SOMETIME AGO AND I FORGOT WHAT IT WAS CALLED HERE ARE THE THINGS I REMBER:

- artstyle was like steven universe kinda of but what if more contrast of pastel and vibrant and kinda like cool watercolors

- the plot is about these kids too young for this shit, they come from a lab sorta thing, but they break free/it gets dystroyed and are now on am island of an abandoned civilization sorta

- cool cat robot or something and the cjaracters names were hard to remember

- a sense of awe and wonder and adventure that was only there when i was little is emanating from this piece of media

- its sci-fi kinda, but like something to do with magical kids.

- i cannot emphasize the amount of wonder and awe and adventure this media puts off

PLEASE HALP LITERALLY ANYONE WHAT THIS THIBG IS CALLED I DONT REMBER

I dont fucking rember

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agreed

How to get 1,000 notes (and why not to)

The other day on my blog I had a strange occurrence. Something I had posted got popular in a hurry, and within a day or so I reached a milestone that, for a humble indie music writer, seemed far outside my grasp. Four years on Tumblr and it happened in a single day: 1,000 notes. 

1,061, to be precise, as of this writing. Fameballs like these have a longer shelf life than the average Dashboard squib. I posted a GIF of Thom Yorke a year ago that still occasionally gets reblogged. And all of this, of course, is quite fun. Red hearts and reblogs are the twin engines of Tumblr addiction, and it’s almost impossible to post to the Dashboard and not check back a few hours moments seconds later to see whether anyone liked your work. And so to see notes in the four digits is a kind of triumph – a useful reminder that Tumblr is a broadcast platform, and that on any given day your posts here could be seen by a huge global audience.

The thing about this particular triumph, though, is that it felt kind of hollow. As with the handful of images I’ve posted that scored notes by the hundreds, I didn’t make it myself. I didn’t even add an editorial comment. A friend of mine had shared it on Facebook, and I thought it was cute. I hesitated for a moment about whether to share it, because – if I can confide in you – I’m not a big Beastie Boys fan. But the drawing was whimsical, seemed to capture a moment, and I thought people might like it. Right click-copy-paste to desktop-upload-publish; the whole process took five seconds. 1,061 notes.

In a way it can haunt you: this is what Tumblr wants from me? This is the thing of mine worth sharing? The thing I had nothing to do with? The first time a post of mine scored several hundred notes – a post that, again, I added nothing of value to – I didn’t post again for days. It was, if not depressing, disorienting.

Because it’s hard not to think, at a moment like that, of the Saturday afternoon you decided to stay inside and hammer out an earnest commentary on some musical subject, only to find after you posted it that your thoughts resonated with at best three or four other people. Sometimes when that has happened to me I’ve wished wish there was a secondary, recursive heart you could click on the Dashboard, a way of saying thank you for noticing, thank you for making me feel like this matters just a little. When I post a song and see that among hundreds of followers, just 30 went ahead and clicked “play,” I want to identify those 30 people and send them a care package. This is our lives on the Dashboard. 

How to get a thousand notes? By posting something other than porn? Here’s one way. Identify a recently deceased celebrity, one who reminds you of a younger self. Find an image that pays tribute to that celebrity, and your nostalgia, simultaneously. Post it within a few minutes of learning the celebrity has passed away. Watch the notes roll in. 

That’s one way of doing it, anyway. Another is to regularly remind yourself, as Jamieson did on Twitter the other day, that it’s not about the notes. Post about the subjects that interest you and, over time, you’re likely to find the best audience for whatever it is you’re writing about. A wonderful aspect of Tumblr’s indie music-writing community – the one Jamieson himself is giving shape to, through his current podcast series – is how we’re all using Tumblr in ways it wasn’t really meant to be used. Which is to say: ways that are hostile to notes. 

Long, tough text posts. Threaded conversations made ugly by the way quotes look when reblogged. And opinions, always opinions, even and especially when the writer knew no notes would be forthcoming. To me this is the animating spirit of the place – this weird corner of the Internet, where the precious few people on earth who care enough about music that they try to explain why can find the precious few others willing to listen.

Notes come and go, or they never come at all. But when you go to take the measure of your own work, my guess is that you wouldn’t simply sort your posts by the number of notes they received. Tumblr is about the smaller victories – the idol who followed you back, the single red heart from the person whose work you admire, even the thing that no one loved but you. If you like everything you post, you’ve won. And so I tell myself: Put your heart into a post, and quit worrying how many hearts you get out of it. 

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omw to rewrite myy website for the 3rd time :

it's not going to be bad this time trust

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@sundewraine did you ever get to reading this?

☆ NEW CASTOFF PAGE ☆

☆ New Page ☆ Read from Beginning | Get early access on Patreon!  

And we're back.

☆ Castoff is a fantasy-adventure comic about magic kids with glowing eyes on the run from their problems (and the fantasy cops). Contents include magic boys, badass ladies, fight scenes and found family. New pages every Monday and Friday! ☆

(Reblogs appreciated!)

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the april fools xkcd is actually crashing my computer with the notifs

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the new xkcd is crazy

also firefox>>>>>>>

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raid shadow legends raine sundew legends

more of a comment but every time i see your name i think RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

Damn, but also look at Smiski

Isnt Smiski is great?

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i am listening to epic the musical.

have you listened to epic the musical?

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as long as they're appropriate

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i dont think i can sleep

if my eyes had to look at it so do all of yours

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the correct answer is 25:00

what's your favorite time of day?

Ooo fun :)

8:00 pm, i still have time to work on school stuff but i also have time for me. Wby?

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

artist: @\cheras-drawings

drawn for you.

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shork says haiiii :3c