#Creative engagement ideas

[marketxcel]

Top 10 Employee Engagement Activities for a Positive Workplace

Elevate your workplace culture with these top 10 employee engagement activities. Foster a positive environment, boost morale, and enhance teamwork for a more productive and enjoyable work experience.

[calware]

thinking about doing a month-long event for the homestuck tumblr community to encourage people to make + post fanworks as well as reblog other people's fanworks.... where people can opt-in by being randomly assigned one of two teams (probably red and blue) so that each team has roughly the same amount of members. teams get points for making fanworks and having their posts reblogged, which encourages people to make posts and also reblog the posts made by their team members. and the top 3 people in each team to get the most points get some kind of reward... hmmmm

[soul-from-another-era]

[cicadaknight]

okay i have more (critical) barbie thoughts under the cut.

i really did enjoy it overall. it was fun, cheeky, surreal. i loved the experience of watching it in an energetic theater. i even cried a couple times. but i’m baffled at how powerful it was for so many people when it fell so flat for me. honestly, maybe what i’m feeling is just because i’m trans and it didn’t resonate as strongly with my experience of womanhood or masculinity.

i keep coming across people using gloria’s monologue to dismiss criticism by saying “anyone saying barbie isn’t feminist enough are doing the exact thing gloria pointed out! women have to be perfect but it’s just never good enough!” Y’ALL. having issues with a high-budget, corporate funded movie that has the same milquetoast girl-power messaging you’d find in teen mags from the early 2000s… is not the same as oppressing women under patriarchy. you can critique media and still resonate with aspects of it. good grief.

another response i’ve seen to critiques (specifically of gloria’s monologue) is that the movie’s messages are meant for barbie herself! not for the audience! it had to be super tame and generic because otherwise barbie wouldn’t have understood! all those speeches and ideas are aimed solely at barbie who is learning about all of this for the first time! it’s not for you if you already get it! what?????? that’s not how media works and you know it.

also, the idea that it’s meant to be palatable for a “wider audience” so it couldn’t have included intersectionality without losing people. translation: “wider audience” means white suburbia? white men? cishet people? where the most “representation” they can tolerate is a 3 second clip of a voiceless barbie in a wheelchair dancing? or a black president barbie who mostly says one liners and disappears? a wider audience being the same audience every blockbuster is catered towards?

i’m just spit balling here, but i don’t think it would have been impossible to introduce some unironic nuances like:

america’s latinx character experiencing sexism differently from stereotypical barbie?

maybe not using mount rushmore repeatedly to symbolize who’s in power?

avoiding comparing bringing patriarchy to barbieland to indigenous genocide?

a harsher perspective on mattel’s role in all this? where the outcome isn’t just will farrell’s character griping that he doesn’t even want to be in charge, he just wants to be tickled? (wtf was that lmao)

making a more obvious statement that patriarchy isn’t just a symptom of men stumbling across power and relishing it but that it’s rooted in violent white supremacy and capitalism? i’m positive there’s a way to address that without going full blown academic feminist theory mode.

having the black, fat, and disabled characters speak more than 5 collective minutes? (but at least they had screentime at all, right? ✨representation✨)

explicitly queer characters instead of “weird barbie” and allan being coded as the outsiders to an otherwise regimented cishet universe?

but all those ideas are irrelevant, right? because the movie was just SOOO self aware and layered in irony and if i was smart enough and hadn’t missed the point, i’d know the writers were in on it all.

[ambersky0319]

I need to create a mini guide for myself on what to say if people say "so tell me a little bit about yourself"

Also accomplishment - personal or academic. I need a more solid idea on what to say there lol

[mercymaker]

not to be sadposting at 4am, but maybe it's time to accept the fact that tumblr as I've grown used to throughout my many years here is truly gone and this new tumblr is simply not for me

[gemsbian]

yk I was making some scenarios on chat gpt (that only use for my own entertainment) and it used YOU as a detailed sources for Amethio's character! Damn

Also I love your fics on ao3!

Oh, that's unfortunate. It doesn't seem like there's a way to prevent AI scrappers from accessing works on ao3, but in my opinion, the main loss here is you aren't even getting Amethio's character.

My fanfiction is my interpretation of Amethio. Sometimes I make him do things he would not do to see how it would affect the story or other characters, etc. When you use chat gpt, for personal use or otherwise, you aren't getting Amethio. You get how AI interprets my interpretation of Amethio. It's multiple steps removed from his actual character.

I am glad you like my fanfiction, and I can't fault you for wanting to use AI for personal use, but there's so much to be gained from talking with other people about characters you enjoy. I've made a number of close connections within this community, and they've allowed me to enjoy the characters more and give me the motivation for my creative works.

The fanfiction that you read? I talked and brainstormed with other people about characters, got inspired, and wrote stories based on those experiences. If you have the time, I encourage you to be a part of that. Leave a comment on a fanfic, send a prompt to a writer. It goes a lot further than you think it does!

[bri-does-art]

Will you be leaving Tumblr?

Most likely.

From the looks of it, our data has already been compiled and will be handed over tomorrow (I don't have details, the article is locked behind an account creation pop-up) so there's little that can be done for what's already been posted.

I have very little faith that asking those giants to take out our data is going to lead anywhere. There is no obligation in the contract for them to do so.

And even if I were to opt-out, (if that's even going to work at all, remember how well "opting-out" of Tumblr Live worked?) do I really want to keep giving my engagement to a website that feels free to do that kind of scummy shit behind the backs of their userbase? No warning, no talks, no transparency at all? This sits really wrong with me.

So, unfortunately, I most likely will leave Tumblr.

[1eos]

living life with pure intentions and focusing on yourself is genuinely the funniest way to live bc projection, jealousy, pettiness etc will completely go over your head at first like i can't hear you over the clap of my ass cheeks minding their own business with nothing but love and light

[boundinparchment]

I have critical thoughts that clearly remind me I am Fandom Old™️ and I cannot put them here. I’ll have to eat them and pretend eating glass tastes good.

[joncronshawauthor]

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[davidsonandlicht]

Discover unforgettable Wedding Proposal Ideas that blend creativity and emotion. From a romantic beach getaway with a dazzling diamond eternity ring to a hot air balloon ride symbolizing your soaring love. These unique moments ensure lasting memories. Create an intimate atmosphere with a candlelit dinner, surprising your partner with a meaningful diamond eternity band. Add joy and surprise with a flash mob proposal or craft a cinematic experience with a private movie screening. Personalize each proposal to reflect your unique bond. Ultimately, these ideas capture hearts and create a timeless love story to cherish forever.

[cappurrccino]

whatever career I end up in, I need it to be one where I don't have to be creative. I am way too dumb to be making fun and educational posters, let me just write an essay and pin that to the board instead

[hauntedtrait]

god i have so much work to do for my sculpture assignment and all i wanna do is play sims

[unravelingwires]

Propones

Witches don’t exchange engagement rings. They do, however, have moors, worn on the right hand and symbolizing loyalty and safe harbor. Traditionally, these are made from actually woven plant stems enchanted against decay, but in the modern day, these rings can be made from anything so long as their band looks like woven fibers.

Jaya has three moors. The first is for the Narayana family, a dull gold band. The second is for the Chel family, an heirloom with the noble crest bound by strings of bound water. The last is a representation of her sponsorship of Lilith, an extremely traditional weaving of grass dyed gold.

Max has one moor. It's a similar Chel family moor of bound water.

Lara has one moor, made from dragon marrow to symbolize the Ravenswoods. Aster has a similar one.

Ellie has one moor, a meticulously enchanted ring of overlapping flower petals collected by hand by her parents.

Lilith has two moors. One was woven from grass stems by her mothers, enchanted to remain bright green. The other is a ring of ice strands dyed green and bought by Jaya.

Natalie has no moors. She wears a simple black ring she bought when she was twelve to cover this up.

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

WHYYYYYYYYYYY....