rancidarling · 2 years ago
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i think i broke everything
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titconao3 · 2 years ago
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how are you getting the best snape art posts??? honestly your tumblr + curation is so good <3
Oh hello!
and thank you <3 unexpected, but welcome!
So, er, methodology, eh? The short version: er, i see some art, i look at OP's tags, find a promising one such as "my art" or "(fandom) art" or "(character) art" and... go through it.
More under the cut, it got long. (Method in the madness or Madness in the method, i'll let you decide!)
Bear in mind that i Tumblr on a computer, using a browser, while using XKit (these days, it's XKit Rewritten): for most of my fandoms i have a pre-made tag bundle, so that's just a quick hover, scroll, and click each time. Well, click-click, one for [fandom] and one for 'fanart.' i draft all the posts then queue them alternating fandoms. All are tagged so that if anyone follows me (not that many people) they can easily filter out stuff they're not into. Once things are queued, they're also liked, so that whenever i see that art (or not art) post again, i know not to reblog it again. i have More Than Enough to queue already ^_^;; (so much more omg)
Most of the time i will reblog OP's own art and not reposts or posts from another website (sometimes it's the own artist's IG art, so that's alright, sometimes it's also from a deleted account.)
If the artist posts little, or lots but i like their posts, or most of what i'm not into i can easily filter out (i only filter tags, at least for now), then i may follow. i keep my dash manageable enough that i don't miss posts.
There are happy surprises because people aren't always systematic with tagging, so along the way i'll find other artists, draft the piece i noticed, and later when i have time i'll do the "go through OP's art stuff" thing. It can get a bit overwhelming when i get back in the drafts folder, if i've been away from home for a while and spent little time on a proper computer or laptop for days.
i also follow a couple of fandomedit tags (not fandom or character tags; that way lies madness and way too much discourse for me, tyvm), but only a small number and in fandoms where there is not a tsunami of new stuff every day.
Basically the clue is that i'm being a little Extra about things ;-) i do try to curb that down, because i've ended many times drafting then queuing all the art from every artist i found in a specific fandom, even when i wasn't in love with all the works, because i felt bad not reblogging them all (no, i'm not neurotic about stuff, why do you ask?). It's even sillier given that my drafts folder is so bloated that of course i haven't reblogged all the art stored there. In some fandoms i try to simply reblog the art i see from folks i follow and otherwise sit on my hands so i don't go down the rabbit hole of 'must check every work from every artist i see in every fandom i'm in.' That way lies madness; my drafts folder is already too unmanageable as it is.
i also am only on Tumblr, not twitgram, instatok, snapbook, or wherever fandom is happening these days. Well, i have a DW, for example, but i don't really go there often beyond posting my fic (sometimes weeks after i posted it on AO3) and managing event accounts (sibling blogs to those on Tumblr). i do use Discord but i vastly prefer one-on-one chats to group chats so i rarely wander into servers. i have to when i'm promoting an event i'm organising so i can do it when the stakes are high ;-) but it does mean that while Tumblr takes a lot of my online life, it's the only social media i spend any time on.
My use of tumblr is very much read/reblog: i don't post personal stuff here either, about myself, my woes, or my writing beyond the occasional 'i wrote this' post, and even that is not systematic. To me, it looks like it's either 1/ people See you and you become a potential target (or at best it becomes a job because if you do become popular, there will be more demands on your time and energy: can you reblog this? what's your opinion on that? etc), or 2/ people ignore you while you're writing stuff on a public platform because you don't want to be ignored, so you'd probably feel bad about it. However, reblogging art/gifsets etc makes the creator happy (well, i hope), so that's good. Although sometimes i see posts on how creators would like to see enthusiastic tags about why rebloggers like their work, but that would be extra work and pressure to say the right thing, so i don't. i still worry about it of course. #lifestyle ;-)
So i don't know if that's what you wanted to hear, but kudos if you got here, because that's quite a chunk of overly-tweaked text for what was probably just a throwaway note... oops?
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moved-2-coyotejone-s · 2 years ago
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man yknow. i know everyone's heard this one, but really truly just writing a few words, like 3 or 4, in a wip doc is enough to feel satisfying when you've truly accepted the mindset that any amount of words at any amount of time is still progress.
part of me wants to blame the education system for this shitty "if i don't write 3 paragraphs a day, i'm a failure" mindset, but i know that's not all of it. there's a lot of writers, both professional and not, who i think inadvertently push this kind of thinking on their readers and fans. are they to blame? not really, if they're doing it unintentionally. but it makes me sad for them because like. they got that mindset from somewhere too.
i think my point is like. there are no deadlines when you're writing for fun. sometimes i talk about a fic i'm writing and i'm super excited about it and then it sits in my drafts for months or even years. i feel guilty about it sometimes, i really do, but i make myself remember that i'm not obligated to keep writing it if i've lost interest. i don't owe anyone fanfiction. i write because i want to, i write for myself.
like i have so many poems and drabbles i've never even thought about posting. maybe i'll post them soon, get them queued up after i post this. but the point is i don't have to. i don't owe anyone these poems.
don't force yourself to write for anyone. the only deadlines writers should set are for career writing and education-related writing, so basically if writing is your job or you have a writing-based assignment. there are no deadlines for fanfic. there are no deadlines for writing for fun. progress is progress no matter how small, and if you lose interest? stop! don't write that anymore! put it aside, don't delete it, but save it for if/when you regain interest. no one's forcing you.
also i couldn't put this anywhere but deletion is also progress. you didn't like that part or you thought of something better or it just doesn't fit in the story. you made the story better by choosing to delete that part. you're fitting it to your vision. you're making progress. the forest suffers without wildfires.
i also couldn't fit this anywhere, but you do not have to write something every day. if you're doing a challenge, great! i'm proud of you! but if it starts to get hard or frustrating, please please please stop, i promise no one will be mad. if you go a few days without writing anything at all, that's okay. if you go a few weeks without writing anything, that's okay. if you go a few months, that's okay. a few years, that's okay. burnout is fucking real, and people have certainly tried, but the feeling is truly indescribable. imagine being completely unable to bring yourself to do anything creative at all. imagine wanting so badly for your hands to move but they just won't. imagine staring at a blank document, which we've all done, for hours, which extend into days, weeks, months. you simply can't do anything. that's what burnout is like, at least in my experience. and you can prevent it by taking breaks and not forcing yourself to write constantly. you are not a machine. you are a human being with thoughts and feelings and creativity, but you are also a human being with limits. and it's preferable that you don't cross the limits of how much you can force yourself to write.
write for you. for no one else.
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asterism343 · 3 years ago
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Wait so. Hang on a second. You made that really deep post yesterday or so, yes? With the rainbow text? How'd you do that?
Okay so! Here's how you do it. This only works on desktop btw so sorry mobile users you're gonna have to switch if you want to try it. also it doesn't work if you're answering an ask or using the "chat" style of post
okay so first of all you need to be using the old post editor. You can toggle this with the switch in the top right corner.
now you need to have the text you want. you need a decent number of characters for it to work right, i'd say about 80 at least (not including spaces). how do you find how many it has? it's simple! paste the text into a google doc and use the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+c (or command+shift+c if you're on a Mac). this will show you your word count, and most importantly how many characters there are.
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you need to cut the text in thirds, so now take that number and divide it by 3. I've got 54.667, which means two of the sections will be 55 characters and one will be 54. so i've done that. you might cut a word in half don't worry about it.
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now you need to go to this website: https://www.stuffbydavid.com/textcolorizer. and you need to open three tabs of it. now paste each one into the text box here. you'll have three tabs, make sure to get them in order.
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Now, if you want the exact rainbow i got, which is a pretty good one if i do say so myself, you need to do this: tab 1: set start color to #FF0000 and end color to #D1D107 tab 2: set start color to #D1D107 and end color to #0DC6FA tab 3: set start color to #0DC6FA and end color to #FA12F7
now what you need to do is (start with the first one) scroll down, find the box that says "HTML code for this text: (To use on your website)", and copy the whole thing into your google doc. or a new one it doesn't matter
then do it again with the second one, and the third one. make sure it's all in order. It's going to be pretty long, don't worry about it.
so now you'll have a google doc with this whole thing in it. and what you need to do now is get rid of all the semicolons. idk why they're there but tumblr doesn't like them. you can go and delete them all manually or you can do the easy way which i will explain now: use the keyboard shortcut ctrl+h (command+h might work but i'm not sure). then do this:
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put a semicolon in the "find" slot, and don't put anything in the "replace with" slot. then hit "replace all". now it's semicolon free!
now to actually put it in a post. first thing you have to do is switch to the old post editor with the switch in the top right. you're gonna want to make sure that if your post has any images you put those in first, and any other text should ideally go in before the rainbow as well. you might want to mark where the rainbow should go with like [rainbow text here] or something.
now you need to switch to html mode. do it like this
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this is what it looks like before (left) + after (right) switching to html mode.
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Now, wherever you want to put your rainbow text, paste it from the google doc into your post. some of it may show up black instead of blue and purple, don't worry about that either it's just tumblr being weird.
Once you've put it in, you can hit the "preview" button to see how it will look after you post it! here's mine:
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if you want it to be the small text, put <small> before the rainbow part and </small> after it.
the text colorizer does have a "colors of the rainbow" setting but tbh i don't like the rainbow that it gives you, you can barely see the yellow on a light background
oh yeah and one more thing! you can't edit the post after it's been posted, saved as draft, or queued without messing up the rainbow, unless you do this:
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now, when you go to edit the post with the rainbow, it will start out in HTML mode. you should probably switch it back to rich text after though because html mode is kind of a pain to use
so yeah that's how you do it
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beetleemoji · 5 years ago
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I'm so sorry I'm about to dump part of my queue
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