#msg: ghosts

[kageyuji]

Hii! This is my first time trying this, but do you have any advice for starting and building a writing blog?

I've been wanting to start one for a while but I'm not sure how to gain followers and stuff.

hi!! no worries :D and tbh.. i’m not exactly sure LMAO despite it seeming like i have my shit together i Do Not. but!! i can give you some general things/ideas:

write for yourself. write what makes you happy and what you genuinely want to write. despite how much of a people-pleaser i am, it’s also really important to remember that this is a hobby and if you write things you don’t really want to write, it’s going to show through your work but it’s also going to burn you out quickly.

(that said, if you are writing for x reader content make sure your reader is ambiguous. having a character be a 5’4 brunette with a knack for baking is cool sometimes, but it’s also a very slim audience and it’s going to throw some people off)

similarly, don’t compare yourself to other creators and don’t compare yourself to.. yourself. if you have something that does really good, and then you post the next week and it does shit, that’s okay! sometimes tumblr algorithm is just shit. sometimes certain characters are more of a fan favorite. but, also remember that people who have already built a large following are going to have more notes. just don’t get discouraged easily — every fic is something entirely new and it shouldn’t be weighed off of someone else or an entirely different work.

make a masterlist, and make it organized. if you write for a lot of characters and use different posting types this can get really confusing, but look around at other places or play around with it until you find something that you think feels right.

watch your blog activity (once you start posting, anyway). i believe mobile doesn’t have it, but on desktop (or just login to tumblr from your phones browser app lol) there is a little icon that will show interactions with your posts/blog and you can ask it to show the chart based on time of day, weekly basis, etc. post accordingly to that, and hopefully your posts will gain a little more traction :)

aesthetic is (unfortunately) pretty important in my opinion. of course, if you have the most well written thing i’ve seen i’m going to ignore the kinks but i’m also going to be a lot more likely to read things that are organized well. this is mostly about fics to catch someone’s eye, although this bleeds into your actual blog as well.

(pinterest has lots of cool stuff for aesthetics. twitter layout blogs also usually have a lot of good headers. if you want dividers, you can search the “dividers” tag on tumblr or there’s loads of mobile apps to get the thin color strip dividers like i use.)

similarly, try to make your pinned/navi organized and easy to follow. in my personal opinion, i like adding things like rules/dni, tag guides, and especially masterlists linked somewhere in the post. although, again, it’s up to personal opinion on what exactly you want to link there. as long as it’s organized and somewhat simple, you’re good.

as far as a masterlist and rules go, i would recommend laying out certain things beforehand, like what characters you’re going to write for and hard “no”s. as much as i love people on tumblr, sometimes they just cannot read — it helped me a lot whenever i was new to tell myself “hey, i don’t have to do that. it says that right here and it’s not my fault that they didn’t see that!”

(i also added a little rule that said “if you actually read this, add a ‘<3’ in your asks so i know” LOL it helped me filter requests between who actually cared to read my rules and who didn’t)

add tags to your fics. add so many tags. add many more tags than you think you probably need. add so many tags that you get sick of them — that’s how people are going to find you.

try to keep anonymous asks on, that’s where a lot of interaction comes from. ik people can be dicks sometimes but there’s also a lot of shy people on tumblr. probably 90% of my asks are from anons and i use anon 90% of the time whenever i send asks (especially to my moots bc they’re scary :[ lol)

just generally be nice to people. you don’t have to go out of your way to send love letters to everyone on your feed, but i’ve found that just leaving a little “i hope you enjoy reading this” or something similar as a little note helps my mental for some reason, but it also (hopefully) makes me seem a little less intimidating

[scaramoon]

Hi🌹

oh hello! how are you my dear? :)

[yi3248]

was looking through your ghostroach art and just thought of a confession scene where ghost is trying to be romantic by saying something like, “Even if I was six feet under again, if it were you I was buried with, I’d be closer to Heaven than ever.”

and roach is like “What do you mean “again”?! And with someone???” and his mind is so focused on That that he completely misses the fact that ghost is trying to confess to him 😭😭 just a whole mess

(after that ghost just mentions its time for lunch and starts walking to the mess while roach is still trying to figure out his words)

ANON PLEASE REVEAL YOURSELF YOU HAVE THE BIGGEST BRAIN

u have no idea how much this kept me up at night imagining ghost either mustering up his courage, trying to confess casually (but still wanting his sincere feelings to come across), or he simply blurted it out while they were heading out for a mission

ghost's confession have me in shambles and i hope you have a great day

[ghuleh-recs]

I am beyond excited to enjoy the start of a new era with all of you for the first time! Remember to keep an open mind and take it all in. We’re all very lucky to share this experience ♡

[xo-cod]

Bodyguard!Ghost just scrolling thru his socials and it's just full of clips of his popstar!girlie answering questions from interviews on the main inspiration of her new songs/album, trying to be sneaky on hiding how she feels for him <3

Bonus points if it's Gaz or Soap sending him the clips in their groupchat going 'dis u?'

wait nonnie aww i love this so bad 🥺🩷🥺🩷

popstar!reader getting interviewed and getting flustered when interviewers ask about the new album <333 you're careful not to reveal any names but you can't hide the soft chuckle or the small smile that grows when they try to find out the person :")

the way bg!ghost would be stuck in a trance watching the videos again and again, his heart absolutely melting into pieces at your smile, who knew someone could look so damn pretty laughing? him secretly liking all the videos too on a priv account, #1 fan frfr 🤭

he listened to your new album, especially the song you wrote about him. he listened to it on repeat, half the views are from him pls. he can't help but chuckle when he looks at the comments, everyone trying to decipher who it's for but it's only a secret between the two of you

that is until gaz and soap heard and them instigating everything LMAO. blowing up the gc with their own conspiracy theories "THAT'S WHY SHE SANG THAT PART!!!" "SOAP YOURE A BLOODY GENIUS!" and ghost either replying with "🖕", "👍" or just straight up reading their messages. price asking both men to stop harassing the poor man and ghost leaving the gc only to be added right back by soap every single time 😭😭

[eggsdrawings]

drawing kirishima is therapeutic

[frostbeees]

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[sculien]

Love the Christmas icon!

oh thank you! 🫶

[herb-welch]

but are there enough??

[lightgriffinsect]

they want to be friends but they don’t want to care about each other

[karmicbias]

A thing that I just said, in joyous sincerity...

I'm gonna have to make a spreadsheet to keep track of all these shows, travel arrangements, and most importantly the people I want to try to see (my beautiful moots)!

[kageyuji]

hello non-oomf this is probably not a message you expected four years after but i ran into your lil smau a rock and a hard place (i went down your bakugo tag i can’t even lie) but i can only find parts 2,3, and 4 and the series master link on those posts don’t work bc they’re linked to your old account. so if you still have everything and wanna let my poor soul read it four years later to satiate my curiosity it would be appreciated

hi i’m so so sorry i think i deleted it because i intended to rework it and i then never got around to it 😭

[marcyonacross]

The pitch of the scream i scrumpt when they said 'and madison square garden for the first time ever' could only have been heard by dolphins and bats

[hamausagi]

employers messaging me on indeed asking about my availability and not answering for days is the same vibes as someone sending "is this still available?" on fb marketplace and never answering the seller when they say it is

[hoonvrs]

theme serving CUNT 😳😳

had to go back to my roots after the clean girl look🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[pagesofkenna]

Captivated, By You - Story 8: Nikaidou, Terrifying Class Trip Version