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razanartuk · 3 years

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about me tag game thing

i was tagged by the wonderful @nothingunrealistic! thank you very much ily <3

under read more bc i was not capable of keeping my answers brief this time around

why did you choose your url?

this...was supposed to be a short explanation but it turned into quite a tale so strap in i guess because we are going on a ride. back in 2017 i was just getting into musical theatre rp and i was still feeling too shy to really talk to anyone ooc so i would just wait for people i wanted to interact with to post starter calls so i could just do things in character with them the easy way. So i did this with my friend cam, who posted a starter for me using a lyric from If I Could Tell Her. she linked the song so i could listen to it, so i did and i went ‘wait a minute, is that Ben Platt from Pitch Perfect?? (and other things too, but i only recognized his voice at the time bc of the acappella girl movies)’ and yes it certainly was.

i had zero idea what the plot of Dear Evan Hansen was about at that point, and for some reason based off Just That One Song and the poster art of who i assumed was Some Guy in a Polo Shirt i started to think it was about some jock guy who broke his arm and had an emo/goth friend who had either died or gone missing under mysterious circumstances. also i intuited that Evan had a crush on his friend’s sister but he couldn’t tell her that directly or his emo friend would kick his ass. so i was like mostly wrong, but a little bit right.

oh and i knew jared and alana were characters from the show bc cam said that they were i think?? but i had no idea what their role was. so after listening to if i could tell her, i listened to good for you and all i really got out of that was that evan the apparently not-jock guy had done...something... that really hurt jared and alana. and at that point i finally decided to go look up a plot synopsis and i found out i was waaay off base. but honestly this is why cast recordings should include scene dialogue in the songs bc otherwise you just get soundtracks like dear evan hansen where the songs have like. zero context. we really just go from waving through a window to for forever to sincerely me without like. any reason as to what is happening huh. It’s honestly not a surprise anymore that all those people on twitter had no idea the plot isn’t about gay teenagers.

anyways. cam was writing jared and she made a post at one point about wishing somebody would write alana and i was like ‘oh i could do that!’ (after i had actually Seen a bootleg and finally knew what the whole story was, of course) so i made a multimuse rp blog featuring alana beck, nabulungi hatimbi, chloe valentine and some other characters, and cam started sharing her headcanons with me that alana is trans, jared and alana were close friends when they were little kids but they sort of drifted apart as they got older and their priorities in life changed, jared was the first person alana came out to when she realized she’s trans, etc.

one night i started talking about wanting to pick a more theatre-relevant url for my blog and trans-[character name] urls were getting pretty popular, and at least 3 of the friends i made through rp had changed theirs to coordinating trans-[character name] and i think it was cam suggested i should make mine be trans-alana so i did. eventually i realized the unhyphenated version was available so i changed it to transalana with no hyphen and i have lived here ever since. sometimes i think about changing it but i feel like transalana has become a part of My Brand and i am not so great with coming up with cool names for things.

any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

in theory, i have sideblogs... i don’t really use them, but of the ones i do have, there is:

emsbookblog - this was supposed to be where i would post excerpts of the book that i’m working on, but i think i did that maybe one time roughly 2 years ago and then promptly forgot about it/got nervous about my writing and was scared to share anything else. the rest of the stuff that is there is assorted writing tips. i don’t really know what to do with it now. i probably should post all my little thoughts about em and anita and caleb there instead of infodumping on my main from time to time, but if i do that then i have to promo a sideblog and direct people over to it which is always annoying to me when i could just do it on this blog which is much easier

dearnovelhansen - this is basically no longer used, but was a sideblog i made specifically to talk/complain about the novel adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen which was about 3 years ago?? maybe? i can’t be trusted to understand the passage of time. but to summarize: i thought it was an honor just to have the story be made more accessible since many of us couldn’t see the stage performance, but i hated a lot of the creative liberties that were taken. my main grumbles are that everyone who isn’t evan or connor is done so dirty in the novel. connor’s still kind of done dirty in the book, but not as much as like. heidi, alana, jared, and zoe are.

horseisle3 - this one was meant to be a place where i could just enthusiastically post screenshots from hi3, but instead it turned into a blog where i occasionally reblog other players’ hi3 content and bitch about how bad the game admins are bc hi3 is the tumblr famous (infamous?) homophobic horse game. the game where it was once okay to call your club store the gulag bc according to their head of hr, ‘it’s just a russian word for prison’ but you can’t say ‘im gay’ without somebody accusing you of corrupting young children who play the game. unfortunately there aren’t very many good interactive horse games out there, so this one is still about as good as it gets. it’s either that or star stable and i don’t care about star stable.

mlaenie - i’ve had this url saved for i don’t even know how long. way way way back in the day when i wanted to escape from the clutches of the onceler fandom i abandoned my first blog where i basically had an alter ego i guess?? and i decided to just be myself on the new blog. i don’t fully remember who came up with it, but one of my sister’s mutuals suggested that if you scrambled the letters in your name you could come up with aesthetic-looking urls. so lauren’s url became lrauen, and to match with her mine became mlaenie, which i abandoned on tumblr after about a year or so? but have continued to use as my main username on twitter, reddit, youtube, xbox, steam, and discord. i barely ever use any of these accounts aside from twitter, steam, and xbox, but yeah. so i’ve decided to try and turn this empty sideblog into a place for video game thoughts maybe. we’ll see how long it lasts this time around.

how long have you been on tumblr?

i made my first tumblr account in december of 2010, but i didn’t understand how to use it at all or how to customize my theme to look cool and unique so i quickly abandoned it. i made a new account in september of 2011 after some kids at school and my sister told me i should and i have been trapped here with varying degrees of activity/inactivity ever since. i have witnessed the rise and fall of the lorax/onceler fandom, hyperfocused on lord of the rings, star wars and back to the future all at the same time, and for the past 4 years i’ve mostly been a musical theatre blog with assorted other fandom stuff mixed in. i feel i have seen everything and nothing, but mostly i’m just tired and bored.

do you have a queue tag?

no bc i don’t use a queue. i’ve tried using it in the past but i irrationally feel pressured to sustain a coherent theme to queued posts and my brain simply does not vibe with that so i just don’t use it at all anymore. Instead i instantly reblog or post several unrelated thoughts in succession and then don’t post again at all for 3 days. the way god intended

why did you start your blog in the first place?

my very first blog was intended to be a place for me to post all of my petz 5 animals’ profile info, but i didn’t have any understanding of how coding worked at all and i don’t think i really wanted to learn, either. so it just sat there, unused. my second attempt at blogging was as a classic rock fandom person, so as you can probably imagine i was pretty pretentious about ‘modern pop’ vs the beatles, the rolling stones, the who, the monkees, and so on. and then i slowly devolved into a lorax fandom blog and everything went to shit so i made a new blog for lord of the rings/the hobbit which later evolved to include star wars and back to the future blogging. and then for the past 4 years i’ve been mainly a musical theatre blog with other random stuff i like thrown haphazardly into the pot. wonderful.

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because my url is transalana and two of my most prominent lgbt headcanons are that alana beck is trans and a lesbian. i gotta be shouting out @kinqmike though bc she’s the one i adopted the trans alana beck headcanon from in the first place!

why did you choose your header?

in 2017 i was hyperfixating on Dear Evan Hansen (and Be More Chill, but there weren’t many gif-able videos then considering it ran for a month in New Jersey in 2015 and there was only one yet-to-resurface 35 minute bootleg) so i just grabbed a random gif off of google. i really should get to replacing it with a new header of my own though. i just don’t know what i should do for it.

what’s your post with the most notes?

i have lost track of how many notes it has (i think it’s somewhere around 200 now?) but when Will Roland and George Salazar performed Two Player Game on Good Morning America, i posted a screencap of their Jeremy and Michael along with that one quiz answer meme that says stuff like ‘i want to see it grow up healthy’. i didn’t tag it with any ship names or anything because i was anxious about having it show up in the tags, but somebody who reblogged it from me did tag it as boyf riends and i firmly believe it took off because of that. i don’t think i make posts that are relevant enough to amass thousands of notes, even by accident. which is probably a good thing bc if i did i would have to block so many of them.

how many followers do you have?

on this blog? 175 according to the counter. how many of those are still real people and how many are bots and abandoned accounts? i have no idea.

how many people do you follow?

i try to keep it somewhere around 200. i think i’m sitting at 180 right now but i kind of need to go through and clear out the really inactive blogs.

have you made a shitpost?

let’s think about this for a second. i’ve been on tumblr for nearly 10 years. you might even be able to say i’ve made more than one. they’re just not what you would call...popular shitposts.

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ post?

that stuff makes me so incredibly anxious that i have to fight the urge to want to yeet my laptop or mobile device through the closest window whenever i read it, so i try very hard to avoid any sort of ‘if you don’t reblog this, i’m judging you’ posts. i find them very manipulative and not particularly helpful

do you like tag games?

yeah babey!! i just frequently forget to do them, but please know that if you have ever tagged me in a tag game i felt incredibly touched by the gesture and the @mention even if i completely forgot to do the thing afterward

do you like ask games?

i do! but also rip to literally anyone who has ever sent me an ask meme bc it takes me so long to answer them. i’m still working on a micro fic prompt from a few weeks ago. also, horrified to realized that it has in fact been a few weeks and not 3 days anymore.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

i don’t know that any are tumblr famous as a whole. but probably @neverheardnothing

do you have a crush on a mutual?

in any sort of romantic connotation? no. not that i’m aware of. there are mutuals that i have friend crushes on where i want to be friends with them but i get so anxious when it comes to meeting new people that usually nothing ever comes of it. i’m really not good at small talk or other casual conversation either which, as you may or may not be able to imagine, sucks. i just wanna skip over all of the awkward introductions and ‘hey how are you, how is life, what are you doing with yourself?’ stuff. not because i don’t care about it. i do, but i think most of my friends/the people i want to be my friends are also depressed and anxious so asking these basic questions about life tends to uh. make us all nervous. and i don’t do much with my life so i always have the most boring answers anyways.

i’m not tagging anyone officially bc the @ thing has just completely given up on me at this point, but if you want to do it, go for it. and then say i tagged you so i can read it c:

#mel.rtf #abt me #tag games

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sugarjared · 6 years

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Bring Back The Real Tumblr: It’s not just staff changes, it’s us too.

The year is 2019 and we’re currently facing a reblog problem. As most of you have noticed, most creations and original posts go untouched for reblogs but get plenty of likes. This has been happening for over 2 years now, but it’s only more pronounced now that high traffic bloggers are complaining about the same issues. Text posts like, “If I have a blog with such high follow, why are my creations going unnoticed?” pop up in my feed almost on a daily basis. It’s not just that the site has changed tremendously for the worst ever since Yahoo took over in late 2013, followed by Verizon in the past year-- it’s that the population killed itself in its own thirst for quality control. We’ve turned it into a geekier version of Instagram. Yikes.

If you find yourself skipping this post just because it’s long, you too are part of the problem. Specially if you blacklist long posts.

Simpler days, more community roles, more reblogs, less inhibitions. Back in the days of the mishapocalypse, the days of when tumblr grandmas used to start networks and chats for newcommers and creatives, the days of lot’s of plain REAL socializing with people OUTSIDE of your cliques, that’s when most of our first succesful blogs hit the big tumblr boom. It was fun to start new friendships. It was fun to reblog just because it was a funny post, or because you agreed with someone’s opinions. Everything was done at the tune of one simple rule: “I like this, so I’m putting it on my blog”. Commenting on a post till it got outrageously long wasn’t a fashion faux pas either. People didn’t attempt to control how many blogs they were following. Oh yes! We were MUCH, MUCH, MORE LOOSER with the amount of people we followed. At one point in 2012-2013, I remember celebrating when I reached 666 followed blogs... all multifandom of course. What happened, why did we change?

Monkey see, Monkey do and the quest for elitist fame. Eventually, many blogs got tremendously big. Even small effort bloggers like me would reach over 10k followers in about 1-2 years. A dumb text post would get 500 notes within a day, and 2-3k easily by the end of the week, if not the month. So imagine someone sitting on top of 25-30k followers, answering questions day in and day out, upon impressionable smaller bloggers who wanted to create such an experience for themselves. You know what we often saw in those replies? Examples along these lines: “I try not to follow a lot of people. I have 32k follwowers but only follow about 92 blogs. “I only follow people who post original content daily/weekly.” “I only follow my closest inner group, but I’ll give sevral posts a like or a little promo, but won’t follow sorry.” “I don’t follow blogs that have too many text posts.” Exclusivity was birthed, visual content was in, real life text posts and low quality compositions were out.

And that’s when other’s started doing the same shit. I’m guilty, I did the thing too. BUT WE DID TRY for a while to combat this because we KNEW IT THEN AND WE KNOW IT NOW that it’s a shit move that WILL come back to bite the community in the ass, and THAT’S when networks became a thing.

The Networks Renaissance

We created networks run from sideblogs, and used text posts as chats. We had our own network tags to help everyone in our respective communities get more exposure. Across all the big fandoms that’s what we started doing. Welcoming people with less followers, welcoming people of all walks of life and all levels of artistic skills, no matter how often they were available, no matter how shit their beginer content was. We were there to HELP them grow, just like we once did. It was the perfect template... but it died. And it died a horrible, dragged out death. People went back to their clique-y holes, college and work demanded other people’s times... we just, forgot networks all together. The reblog apocalypse now had a clear path to truly end our golden years.

Now we’re here.

At this point, bringing Tumblr to its more humble, social, reblog and follow friendly nature is probably near impossible. Unless of course we use the formula that works, “The Monkey See- Monkey Do” Formula of course!

Y’all love to think you’re independent thinkers, but not really. All humans are social animals, and heard mentallity is found in every single group ever. You wan’t your old tumblr back? You gotta lead the revolution. Oh what’s that? Don’t wanna start giving in order to recieve? Well, guess things will have to remain as they are.

But if you find yourself in a position where you never gave up your blog, are sitting on top of a lot of followers, and have a large group of friends who are also there with you, do the right thing, and bring back the reblog economy. Nobody else can. It starts with the top. DO SOMETHING TODAY, and you’ll profit tomorrow. Stay friendly and humble, and encourage people to be more positive, less shallow, and fill your blog with life once again, not just regurgitated over-reblogged posts. Bring back the old tumblr. Or you know, keep on going like it is now and completely give up on it when it’s truly dead another 2 years from now.

Your Move, Fandoms.

#SIGNAL BOOST #either wake up and shake it up #or it's gonna really die #shit essie says

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countarganan · 3 years

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I posted 1,252 times in 2021

366 posts created (29%)

886 posts reblogged (71%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 2.4 posts.

I added 1,882 tags in 2021

#queue - 416 posts

#ooc - 262 posts

#undetermined verse - 194 posts

#mun speaks - 192 posts

#guest muse: calista arganan - 169 posts

#sphinxsmuses - 154 posts

#fire emblem: three houses (au verse) - 137 posts

#ask meme - 134 posts

#rp meme - 115 posts

#rise again (main verse) - 109 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i noticed i keep accidentally 'unfollowing' people when i try to click the ask function (which is located in the three dots beside the butto

My Top Posts in 2021

It’s more than about time I made a multi-blog promo for ALL my active RP blogs right now, so here it is! XD The faces shown are the FCs for the muses (save for Leon, Pegasus and Cassandra’s blogs as they currently don’t have FCs).

PRIMARY BLOGS (follows will come from one of these two for ALL blogs):

@meisterkirisaki: RP blog for Meister Kirisaki from Yakitate!! Japan

@countarganan: RP Blog for Count Arganan from The Last Story, as well as several other muses

SIDEBLOGS:

@industrialpegasus: RP blog for Maximillion Pegasus from Yu-Gi-Oh!

@hierophantofdelilah: RP blog for Cassandra Gladstone from Count Cain: Godchild

@undefeatablechampion: RP blog for Champion Leon from Pokemon: Sword & Shield

@exorcistofgrace: RP blog for Geist Grace from Bravely Second, as well as a few canon & OC muses

@pinkpompomsandkatanas: RP blog for Nobutsuna Kamiizumi from Bravely Default & Second, as well as several OC muses and a few canon muses

@adeadlysong: OC RP blog for Tahirah Zakiyaa, as well as several secondary OC muses

PLEASE read the rules pages on the blogs before interacting with any of them; they differ slightly for various reasons. Also please check out the verses & about pages on these blogs too! Thanks!

UPDATE as of 9:42 pm EST TODAY: I COMPLETELY forgot one more blog to add to this promo, and it’s @niteofkaoli: RP blog for Kaolinite from Sailor Moon, based on the 90s anime & my own headcanons. Sorry about that!

...yes, this means I’m running 9 RP blogs. OMG.

15 notes • Posted 2021-04-30 01:11:43 GMT

@qceensofkings from here

“That’s true.” Asthar agreed with her, surveying the crowd. Everyone was dressed up in so many fanciful outfits that it was hard for Asthar to keep his attention on anyone for long...which was both good and bad considering that it was his duty to watch over this party and make sure nothing bad happened.

Any of these costumes could be dangerous. A hidden knife under a skirt, a pocket concealing a weapon or maybe a quick vial of poison to pour into someone’s glass....fancy costumes were nice to look at, but also a cause for concern.

18 notes • Posted 2021-08-22 00:23:13 GMT

@fellstarsirius wanted to flirt??? (hello! XD)

“I have to admit, you look very nice. I don’t think we’ve met before—have we?”

25 notes • Posted 2021-08-18 01:57:27 GMT

@sphinxsmuses from here~

“Ai? Why are you blushing?” Calista is absolutely confused. Sure, it was a little punny, but that doesn’t explain the blushing... “Do you have a fever?”

27 notes • Posted 2021-10-14 21:41:55 GMT

@sphinxsmuses from here!

“The fresh air is so nice out here...” Calista smiled as she looked towards Ai. Today she wore a blue, one-shoulder bikini top with a cream-white skirt and sandals. “And I look forward to the fireworks as well. I think they’ll be fun to see!”

69 notes • Posted 2021-07-04 22:20:54 GMT

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#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #ooc #THIS IS SO COOL XDDDD

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