#how to make 100k

[ravingblack]

Fanart for chapter 24 of Marriage of Convenience

He leaned in closer until Myungwoo’s heartbeat was starting to eclipse his own, and the hot butterflies were bleeding over their connection to blot out any other signal. Time seemed to slow to a crawl, yet the world still looked like a vivid, bright blur sliding past them. Myungwoo’s eyes were wringing out all the detail from this moment, making infinities out of seconds. The light cutting out the left side of Yoohyun’s face, the consuming heat of his hand around Myungwoo’s, the inexorable approach of his lips.  As the TV screen’s light faded into nothing in the background, everything seemed to burn in Yoohyun’s colors. The gap between them closed.

[crossthread]

No jokes here. The Navy’s best pilot and the Navy’s best admiral. Between them, eight air-to-air combat kills and five stars. These were men who commanded respect with or without your approval. This was the picture of ruthless competence.

Debriefing (& Other Stories) • part 2 of Easier Done Than Said by @compacflt

[chipper-smol]

people who go onto art blogs and reblog ocs with really nice tags are the best. theres like 0.001% of you guys in the entire userbase of tumblr but your impact on my desire to create is 500% more effective than the people who just come for the memes

[hana-bobo-finch]

honestly if I was Mothiva I’d be pissed off all the time too, imagine being a species that became so dependent on humans that they lost almost all methods of survival and then BAM humans are EXTINCT and now you’re just a species bred to be unfit for the wild

[watermelonlicker]

excuse me unless this twitter account is @delicateperspective why the hell are they quoting a post i read of theirs the other day WITH MY OWN EYES without fucking credit????

[oobbbear]

I think the reason I’m learning anything rn is to make my oc story more digestible so people can eat it

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Only two chapters left of Wobbly Hearts and then I’m DONE. 21 is pretty much finished I just got to edit it and look over it and all that, and 22 needs some tweaking but its almost done too and I’m AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA longest I’ve ever worked on anything like this and it’s almost done!!!!

[s0fter-sin]

last thing i’ll say; people aren’t owed free content but creatives aren’t owed financial compensation either

[hplonesomeart]

Hey!! So turns out a video I made between a certain “well beloved but highly sensitive/emotionally reactive T.V” and an “orange haired inkling-turned-human” has managed to sweep my YouTube channel and accumulate 100k VIEWS!! THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY?? My most widely viewed video EVER to exist in this moment in time?? AAAAA?? Not even mentioning the various comments and staggering increase in subs! It’s so much more then what I expected or even prepared for—might even be the most impactful thing to happen for me this year <3

…aside from graduating high school + the social connections I’ve been fortunate to make lol

BUT THE POINT IS I’d been closely monitoring the YouTube growth through the entirety of October. It’s make me smile like a dork, gawk in astonishment, dance frantically in my room from the energy boosts, and grow courage to stop being so selective/self-conscious with what I wish to share with the world! It’s kept my ambitions going!

I needed to find some way to celebrate the occasion and express my thanks—because I can’t NOT acknowledge this milestone jksjskp. Typically I try to avoid getting tunnel visioned focusing on the metrics/numbers. Mr. Puzzles had already demonstrated how much those things can mess with the minds of creatives. Caring too much about chasing views or placing your artistic value in attention seeking gets damaging. But at same time…it’s hard to deny the sense of pride the 100k achievement has filled me with. I understand that reaching 100k views doesn’t immediately make me any “better” or “worse” then I was before. I’m still just me! It only helps me feel seen by others—and that’s all I really needed. To hear some nice words & receive reminders that my ideas are cared about. So thank you SMG4 fandom for that, seriously thank you.

Please accept this Mr. Puzzle drawing as a way of sharing the happiness around. He’s so entertaining. Love him for simply existing. So glad we can all collectively be super attached to him (and the rest of the SMG4 cast of course). Can’t wait to see more incredible artworks from the fandom :)

Just incase anyone is confused by my vague description over which “animated video” I’m referring to here—hopefully this photo will help clarify lol. It’s this one!! Sorry about not outright stating the title at the start, I got carried away with writing!!

I’ve been in an odd place mentally when thinking about it. Wondering to myself if any of the attention is deserved considering it’s not even fully colored and could be dismissed as “low effort” content (despite taking several days making it). It’s easy to get into a trap of comparing yourself to others and questioning how much of the videos success is based on your skills, sheer algorithm luck, or only because you used popular characters and catered to a specific fandom. And then judging yourself by looking at other peoples videos. I’ve seen several artists post higher quality works then my own but it somehow gets less views. So why did mine succeed when others (who should have gotten just as much attention if not more) didn’t? Sometimes you feel like you’ve unfairly robbed them of that chance to be seen. However I’ve realized that I can’t ever expect views to be consistent—and comparing is pointless. So why worry about it or feel inadequate? I mean it’s pretty common for funny cat videos to go viral, so who am I to question the system lol. “Popular” YouTube videos can range from a passion project which took 7+ artists…to a clip of Toad singing Chandelier or a nonsensical Vine sketch. Anything can happen when it’s the internet! And just-so-happened my video was chosen. I should stay glad about that and get rid of all the overanalyzing. So that’s what I’ve chosen to do :)

[ranger-kellyn]

can't lie. i really love all my silly neopets ;v; kid me would be losing their absolute mind over having some of these pets jd;lfk

[mybuddieficrecs]

let’s hear it for the boy | T | 56k | @hattalove

in which eddie attends a self-empowerment group for gbtq men to supplement his therapy, and is empowered to: forgive himself, say "i'm gay" to his own reflection in the mirror, accidentally adopt an adult, make fried rice, and tell his straight best friend that he's in love with him. not necessarily in that order.

This is the 100th fic rec that I’m posting! Which means I am finally allowing myself to recommend my favorite fic in the entire 911 fandom (and close to the top of the list of the all time best fics I have ever read). This fic has an indescribable grip on me and I will start crying every time around paragraph three and not stop till at least an hour after finishing it, and I don’t think there are enough words in the English language to explain how much I love Eddie and his journey throughout this fic, all of the OCs but especially Aiden, and just everything (!!!) about this fic. I am on my knees begging everyone to read it!

[thawthebeez]

i love reading haikyuu tiktok shipping discourse comment sections. it's so entertaining seeing so many people with such bad taste.

[inkyzinky]

i feel like between sunk cost fallacy of "we've already put so much effort and money into the streamer we can't possibly backtrack" and their artistic vision for "tv caliber" shows, there's no way they don't double down on all this

[dapper-lil-arts]

I think the main appeal of twipie is the nerd x goofball aspect. Also, twilight and pinkie pie antagonize each other way less as the seasons go on. Plus they're always bumping into each other or hugging or anything really. It's mostly just a 'it's just cute if you don't look too deep into it'

idk man literally the last episode with them as focus is about twilight not wanting to spend time with her bc she's annoying, I never rly saw it as endearing myself; Sure, we got opposites attract, but it aint always as endearing, when they cancel each other out, not bring out the best of each other!

(EXAMPLE: Rarijack as opposites attract tends to function because Applejack gets a new thing to focus other than family, a really fancy and beautiful woman that she wants to impress and treat like a queen, and Rarity gets to come down from a pedestal to enjoy little things, a simpler life that meshes her desire for a perfect partner with the realistic expectations of a hardworking strong kind big sweaty farm woman lol)

They do have more friend chemistry than characters like Rarity and Rainbow dash (I think its funny that they have an episode dedicated to the fact that they DONT fit as friends lmao. Also that noir Rariry episode is a banger)

Yeah if you ask me not to look deep into it you don't know who you're talking to lmao look at the amount of work I put into this:

I don't do romance without looking deep into it sorrey

[rollercoasterwords]

in other news. wfrau has hit 100k words in my word doc...let's all clap & cheer together....

[dsntwrk]

help me i've gotten so deep into the steddie rabbit hole i haven't gotten this stuck on something since destiel

this really isn't good for my health

THESE ARE THE FICS THAT I SUBSCRIBED TO / LIKED READING (I'VE BASICALLY READ 1/5 WORTH OF STEDDIE FICS COMPARED TO DESTIEL FICS - I GOT INTO DESTIEL 4 YRS AGO, I ONLY STARTED READING STEDDIE FICS SOME TIME LAST MONTH WTF)

tbf, i have taken breaks from destiel to read other fandoms/fics so, ig the timing works out? if you think about it?