#creative support

[8pxl]

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

[ihhfhonao3]

Romanticizing reading fanfiction with 100 hits. Romanticizing commenting on fics from seven years ago. Romanticizing giving kudos to a fic with three hits. Romanticizing reblogging someone’s fanfiction post from two years ago, giving them the first note on that post. Romanticizing saying in the comments “I hope there’s a chapter two, this was so good!” On a fic posted in 2013

[blue-eyed-author]

Writing rule:

Every character who speaks gets their own paragraph. If two characters are talking, each time they switch you must create a new paragraph.

Do not add more than one characters’s dialogue into a single paragraph or it will be too confusing for the reader.

[greenieflor]

Hey maybe a group of creatives deciding that they want control over their content and don't want to waste time and resources begging for ad revenue is like. A good thing

[freddykuno]

Is everything marketing?

The more I browse the web, the more I feel like everything has become a subgenre of marketing.

Wasn't marketing just a function of business? Why does it seem like everything must be infused with marketing if it wants to exist?

It’s like marketing your whatever has become more important than whatever it is you’re marketing.

Even worse: some things only exist in marketing but have no body beyond its representation.

This might just be a theatric effect of social media blasting advertisement-soaked content into our faces 24/7.

Even though it feels like online marketing is rather ephemeral, it wouldn’t be fair to say it’s all thin air.

There are all kinds of schemes and scams from multilevel marketing to bullshit coaching but it’s not like every online business falls into one of these schemes.

These scams are, however, the absolute low point of marketing: empty business models that sell no real product, just manipulative communications exploiting the feelings of greed and need of vulnerable people.

The problem I see is not that scams exist but that anything that doesn't do marketing falls into obscurity because there is such a fierce battle for visibility out there.

If you’re not visible on the internet, you don’t exist.

Thus, anyone who wants to be seen must engage in marketing to ascend from the shadows.

I guess that wouldn’t feel so bizarre if I thought of it as just „communicating or connecting with the world“ rather than „marketing yourself.“

Self-marketing is essentially the same thing framed in a business perspective: you create a supply of yourself on the attention market by shouting louder and more often, hoping to attract and bind people with the things you say, creating a demand for yourself.

It’s appalling for me to think this way.

The imperative to be loud, visible, and consistent runs counter to my introverted nature.

Yet I am attentive because it seems that if you ever want to be free by running your own business, you have to play in the theatre of the attention economy.

Maybe I can help myself by reframing this marketing as connecting with the world and those in it who care.

After all, we speak to emotions or reason or morals and someone out there has the ones that resonate.

Everything is connection, communication, correspondence. Making it marketing is a choice - one that I don’t have to make, but I might.

[eliotbaum]

The Hidden Isle Kickstarter is now live!

Don’t miss out on preordering a new TTRPG played with Tarot cards 🌊

The Hidden Isle is a pen and paper RPG that uses Tarot cards instead of dice, set in the 16th century on the secretive island of Dioscoria. It focuses on roleplaying and collaborative storytelling.

This is a game about swashbuckling adventures across Europe and the Middle East, stealing forbidden texts from oppressive regimes, protecting an island of outcasts using ancient magic,and toppling empires with just the right speech at just the right time.

It will run for 30 days, until October 28th 2023.

[jgmartin]

writing tip #3255: the fewer the fucks given, the better the writing. get out of your head and onto the page.

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

[borderlinebelle]

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS?

Cool, me too.

I’m assembling a community of like minded humans who can relate to the feeling of their own flesh+bone matter constantly contending with their sentient consciousness in a bid for power and control over their decisions and emotions… and/or humans who love other humans who continuously battle their own prefrontal cortex and endorphin creators for a bid at happiness…

come… rest here, weary traveller. find out more below ⬇️

delivered in a clear & chaotic voice of authenticity, my content centers around conquering challenges made into marathons by, often times common, mental health symptoms.

FIRST EPISODE: MY ROTTING TOOTH THAY ANXIETY AND FEAR HELPED ME AVOID

i didn’t explicitly reveal in the video… but I lived with a rotting tooth in my skull for months until it finally fell out of my jaw, months after my first botched root canal. 🙂

EPISODE TWO: STUPID WACK TAXES AND SHOCKINGLY I END UP MORE POOR!!! BUT I DID IT! (spoiler alert)

this new editing style for the 2nd video is going to land so ✨wildly✨upon your retinas…

i wanted you to FEEL what I feel and understand what those closest to me experience when I bang their lines with a new story of hardship overcome, as friends often do 📱🧠📱

unexpectedly entertaining & a true visual representation, a reflection, of the way I often perceive and process information and life😵‍💫

EPISODE ONE… was the prototype

for a fleshy & meaty ep 2: TAX TORMENT

(because it IS and ISN’T that serious) 🫠

I also fought a bug i guess… because spring sprung all up on me…

SO JOIN ME IN BEING BORDERLINE MANAGEABLE!

You can support the channel by stubbing & turning on notifications so you’ll know when my new video drops. I really really appreciate your not being a jerk about the ad, thanks.

[averagepikminenthusiast]

I MADE ANOTHER ONE ‼️‼️

[verkomy]

I often see people asking "is the idea I have unique and interesting?" and I think the most important thing is — is it unique to you, is it interesting to you? does it make you happy? does it bring you comfort? is it inspired by things you love and cherish? if so, that's the only thing that really matters because it doesn’t have to be good for the whole world, it has to be good for you. so create, tell stories, inspire, be grateful for other creators and respect their work and if what you do has a part of who you are in it then it will always be unique.

and just look at you! you created something with your own mind, the ideas came out of you and you put it on paper with whatever skill and experience you have at the moment and it will only become better with time and practice! you made it! cherish it!

[raplinenthusiasts]

IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL by Kim Taehyung

for @magicshop

cr. qdeoks

[freakdoodles]

Love, Death and Rollerskates by @spadillelicious been rotting my brain for a while now and I'm obsessed with it and Sun

The babygirl in my heart

Early valentines drawing maybe? Whatever this is I had a blast drawing it and will probably draw more in the future. The story and characters are just chefs kiss

Thank you for this unhinged sun

[digital-chance]

i wanted to send people asks about their wips and ocs more often. not only to promote them but also because everyone makes really cool stories. the sheer amount of detail and work that people put into their projects is amazing but often gets untold. and i wanted to start learning about them and trying to promote it to the best of my ability.

i sent out a bunch of asks yesterday and i want to do more. i dont want to intrude or be weird though so i wanted to get a list of people who would like asks.

reblog this if you would like to recieve asks about your wips/ocs a couple times throughout the week.

or you can comment to be put on the list.

CLOSED AS OF 8/16 8:30AM. any more requests/reblogs will be appreciated but ignored.

[kathaynesart]

in the time of the holiday special, do the boys all still have their ninpo?

They do! In fact this is pretty much the height of their Ninpo strength. Remember this?? This is where they're at right now!

We'll get to see some of this soon. I'm really excited to dive into more of their abilities. Got some ideas on how their powers have evolved that I've yet to see utilized within the fandom. Like... what ELSE could Mikey do other than just use chains to throw things? How else could Leo use portals both defensively and offensively? It's a fun puzzle to ponder. I just hope I can do the upcoming action sequences justice because I really... really... don't do them ever. Pray for me.

[freddykuno]

The most important thing is to start.

There has never been a time that was perfect to start.

You’ll never run out of possible reasons why you should wait.

When you remember the one reason why you absolutely should start, take that chance.

If you want to create a work, a habit, or a product, you know the impulse to just begin - and the inhibition that often comes with that.

Taking the first step can feel disproportionately hard compared to the actual effort it needs.

To write the first word, strike the first chord, or make the first phone call isn’t actually that difficult, but it can feel like a massive challenge because the act holds so much meaning.

We think that once we open that door, we can't go back.

We are tied to the plan we made and that's scary.

A whole bunch of “what if’s?” inhibit us from taking action.

But that constraint we feel is an illusion.

We can always stop. Go back. Fail.

Actually, it's much more likely over time that we'll stop something rather than proceed forever.

But that shouldn't prevent us from ever starting to build an idea because you have unlimited starting opportunities with ideas.

You may lack the financial ground to build a business but you never lack the permission to pursue an idea.

You're not running out of lives in the creative game.

If one thing doesn't work, try another.

Perhaps the cosmic supercomputer of evolution had to try again and again and again to create life.

What if it had never started?