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[marthawrites]

Hello friends and fellow writers 💖

I just started listening to Chris Williamson's podcast, "Modern Wisdom" with Rob Henderson, and the conversation at 11:15 (linked below) really made me think about the fandom experience, also.

Basically, it's the "1%" rule. 1% of internet users are creators, 9% are commenters and people who engage with content, and the other 90% are silent lurkers. Based on my tumblr fandom experience this feels pretty accurate.

I see a lot a lot a lot of writers (as I'm basing this solely on my experience as a writer in the fandom) complaining about engagement with their stories. And, like, I get it. In a perfect world everyone who reads your stuff would comment and reblog. But it's just not realistic. Chances are those 90% of lurkers agree with the 9%, and chances are you are a better writer than you think you are

This might be a hot take but im saying it with my whole chest: shaming people and guilting people to read and reblog your stories will not make people want to read and reblog your stories. Chances are it will do the opposite

TO ME, 10% engagement feels successful, and anything over that feels like a huge win

Anyway, wanted to share this here too because I genuinely thought it really neat

Here's the link to the YouTube version of the podcast and the discussion starts at 11:15

https://youtu.be/fiUkF5hAnaM?si=mqDZsqn8KEkNLh6f

To EVERYONE who reads my silly horny fics - silent readers, readers who only "like", and readers who comment - THANK YOU. I mean it. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read and enjoy something that I created ❤️

[a-a-a-anon]

if i had a nickel for every time a male british comedian i like said that on a childhood birthday a patriarch in their family said they were too old to hug and kiss them bc it's girly/gay i would have two nickels???? which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice....

(ade edmondson:)

(jon richardson:)

I went to kiss my granddad once-I would have only been about 7 or 8, but I'd had clearly what my grandad viewed as a landmark birthday. I went to say goodbye, and I kissed my Nana Gwen and went to kiss my Grandad Ron, and Grandad Ron said, "You're a man now. You don't kiss other men anymore." (- meet the richardsons 2.08)

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[agoodflyting]

David Tennant pissing off the Prime Minister bc he told government officials to stfu over their anti-trans bigotry and Michael Sheen literally poisoning himself investigating corporations dumping toxic chemicals in underprivileged areas is NOT the energy I expected from 2024 but oh man am I here for it.

[qrowpilled]

hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

[wormy-business]

I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone FROM YOUR BODY chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can't go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can't work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you'd let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

[cracklewink]

My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[lemongogo]

dont forget what happened to icarus

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[variksel]

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead