#how would i tag this I don't think I've uploaded a video here on tumblr???

[kaydreamsart]

Happy New Year!! 🎊🎆

New animation on my YouTube!!

[muffinrecord]

Current Plans + Musings

I don't plan on playing Exedra to the degree I did for Magia Record, or playing it at all. Because of that, I won't be taking an active role in the community and archiving anything for it. Of course, if Exedra has like amazing gameplay and stories then this is all subject to change, but for now I think I'm done with phone games.

The two youtube channels will stay up and I'll check em periodically to make sure there aren't copyright strikes against the content. I've saved all my raw files, especially for the battle animations, so I can remake them in the future if the music ever becomes a problem for some reason.

Google Drive will stay up until Google rots away. I haven't recorded footage in a long time (as in stories, I do for the character doppels and such), but I'll upload things if they're sent to me.

Magia Union Translations still plans on translating things and making videos, especially leading up to the end, but also for after the game is over for whatever wasn't made in time. I'm not sure what form this will take in the future-- if it'll be manual captions added to the videos or not, but I know it WILL happen.

As for this blog, I'm not going to delete it or anything. However I'm going to be taking a step back. I'd like to say that I'll do liveblogs but I mean... *gestures at blog* I've been saying that for years and the only one I really did successfully was the Oriko one lmao. Ahhh oh well.

I'll have more words later, but it was really fun to be part of a fandom experience like this. I'm excited to work on my own original story projects though and quiet down a bit.

...

When I started this blog, I never expected it to have people actually read it. Or look at it. I just wanted a place to gush about how much fun I was having. I didn't even want to tag the posts with "Magia Record" at first because I was terrified people would be mean at me, haha.

But I'm glad I did. I made so many good friends through this game. I'm glad it existed. And it made me happy to have a place where people cared about what I had to say. Some folks actually got their news from here, can you imagine that? They had notifications turned on for this blog. My god.

Anyways, I'm going to be here for the next two months, and tomorrow I'll start reblogging fan projects and initiatives, plus general news. Maybe this blog will turn into a dumping site for art and fanfic reblogs, who knows. I might watch the remaining stuff and add various thoughts here and there.

Otherwise, you can find me on my main blog @malignmuffin, which only reblogs stuff (I don't talk much if at all there). I have another tumblr blog for my comic, but I think I'll reshare the name once I actually have content you can look at on it. It's pretty bare bones for the moment.

Actually it'll be funny if the end of this game is what makes me finally work on it again. I was in the process of working on it when NA came out, and it totally derailed me. Stopped writing, drawing, just focused on this silly little phone game. Now it's like those five years have gone by and I'm going back to where I started, except I think my lil comic is going to be a bit better than it was before. If I actually make it, that is.

If I ever do actually make my comic and start posting it, I'll be sure to update y'all here. hah

Anyways, thanks for being on this wild ride with me. The memories have been great, and I'm glad I had this experience, even if it had to end.

[edgecallskating]

How I Make Figure Skating gifs at SPEED

Fishing this from my notes because I think this is a fun question! If you'll permit me, a brief digression into how I do this!

I used to do live figure skating commentary on The Bad Place™. The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter moved fast, so if I didn't get my gif up quickly it would get swamped in the hashtags and feed. So I got really, really good at making gifs on the fly during comps. So! Here's what I do: I have the broadcast running in two sessions: master live stream on the tv, gif stream on the laptop. I load the laptop session first so that it runs ever so slightly behind the tv stream. This gives me a couple seconds of buffer before pulling the trigger to capture video. I have Giphy Capture sized and ready over the stream on my laptop. Watch, capture, repeat. While the judges score or during the flood, I start cutting and uploading. I've streamlined my naming convention for files to conform to the convention SkaterName_CompYear_CompSegment_ElementName. I can search everything quickly based on any one of those slugs from my drive. Everything's filed by skater as well. Mid-way through the season I'm familiar with most of the programs, so I'm reasonably prepared for the Good Bits and can pay attention to those while the event is live. After the first couple of skaters I also know if the replay videos after the performances are worth paying attention to and capture accordingly. I'm also a former, long-time skater, so I like to think I have a skater's sense of what's likely to be memorable or noteworthy. I like calling attention to small moments in addition to the big ticket elements. But yes, I am fast! I do appreciate that I don't have to move quite so quickly on tumblr. If I don't get a gif up in the first 5 minutes after a skater's performance it won't disappear into the slobbering maw of The Algorithm. I really like that tags on tumblr stay active long after the competition is over, so gifs have a much longer life and more people enjoy them. THANK YOU to everyone who likes and reblogs my stuff. I do this entirely for fun and it gives me a lot of happiness to see so many people love these little sparkling moments of a sport I love. Big hugs to all of you!

[abby118]

List of improvements I'd like to see on Tumblr (in no particular order):

disclaimer: I really enjoy using Tumblr, I've been here for over a decade, and these are just my personal suggestions. For being a free website, we've got plenty of options available already. Staff, please don't shoot me, thank you.

Applying to both the browser and the app version:

a working tag search

restrictions that would allow gifs above 10Mb, more than 100 links and 1+ video per post

an archive for the like section

the option to like replies

improved refreshing rate of messages in dms

the ability to reply to specific messages in dms

decreased upload time and increased resolution of videos

being able to remove a portion of a thread without having to remove all of the rebloged additions (this comes in handy when deactivated blogs are involved and you can't reblog from them to remove reblogs connected to their reblog)

older posts displaying people's tags in the notes (I believe this is a bug rather than a missing option, they only show as plain reblogs now)

the option to edit share-created posts' tags in the same way as ones created directly in Tumblr (applying to videos)

being able to message from a password-protected side-blog

the option to choose who sees your likes and following in addition to the already available display and hide options

being able to add an admin/member to a main blog, not just the sides (for example, when you want to have access from two accounts)

being able to search by more than a single tag, write commas in tags

being able to reposition your pfp

the where were we? feature for the like section

being able to click on a post under a tag in the trending list preview and actually seeing the post

searching a tag on your blog and seeing how many posts are under said tag (kind of like in the archive)

sending asks from side blogs

App-specific:

an archive (for both posts and likes)

the option to choose from the full range of browser-available colour palettes

the ability to edit tags without having to delete and rewrite them

being able to search by post type (in a blog's refine search option) rather than having to type a tag first

refine search adding an ask option

the image limit per post (10) being closer to the browser one (30)

the option to add image description before posting

the linked source of a picture showing

being able to edit a blog's description containing HTML without losing the code

being able to block people from side blogs

shuffle working in the app

a text editor (I'll add a photo because I know some of you don't know we've got this option)

Browser-specific:

the option to crop a picture before posting

the trending list displaying all 9 categories instead of 8

the ability to view the tags of a post in the mass post editor before clicking on it to edit said tags (preferrably by hovering your cursor over said post)

being able to change the order of featured tags

I am certain I forgot a good few but these were the ones I could think of off the top of my head. If you want to add to this, feel free.

[balloooonn]

NEW BANNER ! ★ LITTLE PRESENTATION 4 EVERY PONY !

★ DISCLAIMER : I'M NOT THE BEST AT ENGLISH ! SORRY FOR THE BAD GRAMMATIC !

Hi, I'm kotty. I'm 16, chilean and a trans male. He/him! I have a cover / music / animation etc channel, It's in spanish, but I'd love you to watch it.

I just do the things I love the most. The objective of the covers is translating songs to spanish and making them as accurate as possible, mixing it my own essence. It's something I always wanted to do since I was a kid.

You'll se Anjerta Vicaduñez and Alan in almost every video. Together, or separated. They're my ocs, a simple representation of the positive and negative side of things.

ABOUT MY ACCOUNT HERE ON TUMBLR :

I created myself a tumblr for posting fanart of the things I like. Just fanarts, not much else. I don't like posting about my ocs. (Maybe some exceptions in the future, I don't know.)

I've been here for just two years, yet I don't know how to use it fully... LMAO-

★ YOU'LL FIND THIS KIND OF FANDOMS :

• Eddsworld (Mostly neighbors)

• Bugbo

• Don't Hug Me, I'm scared

• Lacey's games

• Papa's canibalia

• Spooky Month

• My little pony

I'm in some more fandoms, but I think I won't upload about them here (I'll uptade this list when I do). Maybe I missed something, but whatever.

I'm tagging the rest of the fandoms in this publication.

Very big fan of Jack Stauber too.

MY PRINCIPAL FANDOM ★ EDDSWORLD AND MY CHILEAN AU PROJECT !

I have a project of Eddsworld in mind since july of 2023. It's an alternative universe of Eddsworld were they are chileans. It's just them being funny together, but in Chile, my country.

Needless to say I don't want to offend anyone with this, It's a parody, and I made this for my own fun, just wanted to share it with the fandom. (Seems like people like it, tho!)

I'll share some of the art I've made until now.

I tend to be very awful at having constancy and perseverance with my own projects, so I don't have advanced it very much. (Yeah, it's a bit abandoned.)

Eddsworld Chile has an account on Tiktok. I post news about the project, animations and other things. I have my own personal account too there.

I'll make a channel on YouTube for it soon.

★ EDDSWORLD CHILE ACCOUNT:

★ MY OWN ACCOUNT:

- I have to say that making this AU changed my life in a way I didn't think it would. That's something personal I've been thinking lately.

Despite everything bad that has been happening in my personal life, this was a very big comfort, and it only made me take a lot of inspiration for everything I want to do when we talk about art and music.

That's all! Consider watching my channel if you like Sodikken or Jack Stauber. Bye ;p

THANKS 4 WATCHING ★ HAVE A [Nice Day] ! ONLY FOR 4,99$ !

[robo-dino-puppy]

I hit a sort of follower milestone recently (and I'm reasonably sure most of you aren't bots) so... new pinned post time!

(to all the followers and moots I see in my notifs all the time - I love you all so much ♡)

▷ First of all:

I made horizon-armor and you should check it out if you've ever wanted a gallery of all Aloy's armor and dye options from HFW :D Here's a previous pinned post about it. This ↑ is the card I made for it in the Horizon Database, which is not mine but you should also check out if you're interested in gameplay mechanics/tips/tricks/practically any info you ever wanted to know about HFW. (the database was put together by twingeofregret on Arktix's discord, and many of the items there were put together by other server members)

▷ Second, I don't think it needs saying? But DON'T REPOST - meaning, don't reupload in your own post - any of my work and don't upload it to any other sites. Yeah this is "only" virtual photography but I still spend time on it and it's mine. Please don't, for anyone's creations. Reblog or share links!

▷ Thirdly, absolutely feel free to use my pics as drawing/art references or personal phone backgrounds! (But please don't edit my shots and repost them.) If you use things as references I'd love to be tagged so I can see what you drew/painted/whatevered <3

...the rest below a cut because I don't know how to be brief...

▷ Fourth: I would very much appreciate anyone who wants to add image descriptions to my posts - I know it's a sucky excuse but when I've tried doing it I just end up exhausted and feel like it's either too longwinded or not a good description at all. So if anyone who is good with words would like to help me out I'd be super grateful! I'll reblog your addition and (if you're cool with it) I can add it to the alt text of the image.

▷ Fifth: With the more-real-than-ever possibility of Tumblr imploding, I thought I'd also include where else you might find me! I'm not going anywhere until this place melts down because Tumblr is the only place I've ever felt comfortable, but I also have an account on Reddit (ew) that I use occasionally: I'm robo_dino_puppy there. I put Horizon videos on YouTube sometimes: I'm robo-dino-puppy over there too. I exist on Discord although it's rather... social for me and honestly I'm still not sure if I'm doing it right haha. I guess I should make an effort to join more servers to keep track of people just in case, but I've always felt like I'd be a fraud or an invader with the ship servers because I don't actually ship Aloy with anyone...

As a backup for the armor gallery I've snagged horizon-armor (and robo-dino-puppy, for that matter) on Neocities, but there's nothing there at the moment because I'm currently waaaaay too braindead to create a site from scratch. Also empty right now, but in case of future need I'm squatting on robo-dino-puppy on Dreamwidth and Pillowfort.

And now thanks to a kindly-provided invite, robo-dino-puppy on Bluesky!

aaaaand finally I'm also @robo-dino-puppies if you're interested in my non-Horizon stuff/reblogs/my sideblog 👀

[matan4il]

Hello!

I saw your post where you spoke about the 911's cast and writers being aware of Buddie, and the explicit support from some of the cast for Canon!Buddie.

I am quite new to the fandom and so I was wondering if there were any links you could source for this? I am genuinely curious :)

Funnily enough, I started 911 after loving LS, and saw a lot of buddie content on 911 blogs. I figured it was typical queerbaiting (tumblr 2012 era was ✨️ traumatising ✨️ and so resolved not to ship them.

But then I watched the show and yeah…there were definitely interesting choices made that make Buddie such an intricately beautiful ship. It's a slow burn to rival all slow burns :fire:

Needless to say, I'm now 100% on board!

Hi lovely Nonnie and welcome to the fandom! :D I hope you enjoy everything about it and I am so glad to hear you're on board! *hugs*

Okay, for links... TBH I mostly remember things as they happen, I'm less into saving links, but for you I made the effort, I traced my own steps (who knew I actually remembered where I yelled about certain things two and a half years ago? The power of Buddie), and found the source to the stuff I had in mind when I said Ryan, Oliver, JLH and Gavin have all shown support for Buddie. Her we go...

Let's start with Gavin! Obviously it was explained to him in age-appropriate terms, so take that into account, but still, look at how pure his response is (interview from Oct 2021):

And then they went and they filmed the lasagna scene in 601. You can't tell me that doesn't mean anything!

Now Oliver and Ryan have both expressed support for Buddie more than once, for example you can find my post showing how they were the ones who named our ship! In terms of official interviews, they've mostly given answers that are noncommittal but supportive, stuff along the lines of making sure they don't raise fans' expectations (in case it doesn't happen), but also letting us know they do like the enthusiasm for Buddie, and would be cool if 911 went that way. So most are kind of... let's say diplomatic. I will, however, throw in this live that Ryan did where at first, he had a few answers of that vanilla sort (encouraging the shippers, not promising anything, leaving room for Buddie to happen, but also leaving room for fans who don't want Buddie, and sort off summarizing with, "We'll see what Tim writes"). But then he got a question about Abby and I don't think he could help it, the Buddie shipper just jumped out of him, which I love. I edited and uploaded it to YouTube for you, since stupid Tumblr only allows me to directly upload one vid a post here:

Lastly, but maybe my personal fave, in May 2020, a gay fan of JLH uploaded to his personal IG account a video that he asked her to film with a message for his husband's bday. Here's the relevant part of the vid which I've edited and uploaded for you, where JLH is basically being all of us:

BTW, this is also a reply to the Nonnie who sent this ask:

I know about Ryan, Oliver and JLH but when did Gavin say anything about that?

I hope I managed to answer both of you! Have a great day, and as always, here's my ask tag.

[machine-saint]

Maybe you will have some insight into this. You seem reasonable and are aware of things like sampling bias and I'm kind of confused: Why is everyone so confident that the posts that are getting flagged for adult content are disproportionately posts by/about trans women? I keep seeing tons of innocent stuff (pictures of mountains, pictures of food, silly comics etc) that has nothing to do with trans women, getting flagged. And also stuff about or depicting cis or not-specifically-trans women. Reporting systems are definitely ripe for abuse but there just aren't very many terfs on this website and the bit of looking around on their pages and tags that I did for as long as I could stomach it (admittedly not that long) didn't give me any impression of a coordinated campaign. Unconscious bias does exist but that applies to cis women and all lgbt people too... Mostly I just keep seeing stuff that goes like "I'm a trans woman and all my friends on here are trans women and our posts keep getting hit with the mature content hammer therefore it's targeting trans women hugely disproportionately" and that's possible but it also seems possible that if someone's entire social circle is trans women then they're not going to see all the other circumstances where the label is being erroneously applied and will be getting an inaccurate picture. and it's a picture that people who think that "how many lgbt people are on tumblr" poll is a useful source of data have been pushing so I'm kind of skeptical about how much people are accounting for sampling bias and similar things.

Sorry this got long. I was worried if I posted it not on anon I'd basically get harassed till I deleted so I'm hoping to get your take because this seems so obvious to everyone else but seems really faulty to me. Please feel free to ignore of course.

so i think there's two things going on here

tumblr was under investigation by the new york city commission on human rights and they reached a settlement a year ago. apparently their evidence wasn't made public but i assume that a government organization has better sources than "animalgirlnoun on tumblr's selfies got taken down". there's also been historical cases of people doing much more 'controlled' experiments, like removing the word "trans" from the title of a youtube video, in ways that show some pretty clear discrimination (in terms of effect). i've also seen people post screenshots of tags that you can't search for (which is clearly a manual decision on tumblr's part)

but yeah considering the fact that there are screenshots going around of, like, pictures of trees or abstract patterns that are marked mature i don't think it's really possible for us to say how much of the problem actually is tumblr's moderation being discriminatory (intentionally or unintentionally) and how much of it is it just being bad. even if you try to, like, upload the same selfie twice and call yourself cis in one and trans in the other, it's likely that any human review would be done by separate people. the youtube example only works because that's an automated process.

ultimately i think it's likely that tumblr's moderation system has some amount of anti-lgbtq bias but the only people that can really know that are tumblr themselves and obviously they're going to try to make themselves look good. i've seen every combination of [trans girl porn/cis girl porn] [labeled as mature/with no moderation label] and it's not like i'm keeping a running tally

[redacted-updates]

Welcome To Redacted Updates!

A blog dedicated to giving you updates on Redacted Audios on YouTube & Patreon.

Inactive as of January 13th, 2024.

Redacted Audio

Patreon

YouTube

Hewll Yeah Podcast

Lore Site (Timeline)

Linktree

Weekly Schedule

Patreon early access: Tuesday & Friday at 4PM MST

YouTube release: Wednesday & Saturday at 4PM MST

Monthly BA: On the Wednesday closes to the 15th of every month (I believe?)

Hewll Yeah Podcast: They used to do like 3PM MST on Sundays/Mondays. But there hasn't been a schedule since early summer of 2023

*Erik's timezone is MST

Tags

redacted youtube updates - Updates of the youtube channel

redacted patreon updates - Updates of the patreon (please see FAQ below)

HYP updates - Updates of the Hewll Yeah Podcast

redacted erik updates - Updates of Erik, Mr Redacted himself

queue - posts from the queue

reblog - reblogged posts

Character Tags

gavin update - updates on our favorite incubus Gavin

lasko update - updates on the bestest sub- i mean nervous air elemental

asher update - updates on beta of the shaw pack, asher!!!

hush update - updates on hush...the mysterious entity...shhh...

sam update - updates on the sweet cowboy vampire

james update - updates on the guy who has a point

vincent update - updates on a vampiric prince

david update - updates on our alpha werewolf fiancée

porter update - updates on the mysterious vamp back in town

regulus update

ivan update

(this will be "real time" updated as characters get updates!)

Mods

Mod Dany - all pronouns, EST (unavailable after 8pm-ish), does transcrips/image descs when i have the time, will sometimes post meme/shitpost, tag: mod dany

FAQ

What is this?

An update account dedicated to Redacted Audio on YouTube (& Patreon).

What do you update?

Everything! Sometimes, Erik related activity. But mostly, video uploads, character lore, etc...

Who operates this?

I'm Dany. I run other Update Account blogs on tumblr and I've been watching Redacted since late 2021, and I've been involved with the fandom since summer of 2022.

Do you update stuff related to the Patreon?

Yes and no. This will be a situation to situation thing. However, I will not, ever update about anything that is posted behind a paywall for a reason. I will not disrespect Erik's wishes, so I won't post about BA's, certain upcoming content, links to private streams, etc... (if you have any specific questions about this feel free to ask!)

Do you post updates about the characters?

Yes! That is more or less the point of this blog!

How do I start watching Redacted?

The answer to this will defiantly be different from person to person, but personally I started with the "Everything" Playlist, it's all of the videos in a playlist in the order of release. But if you don't want to start with that, you can start with character/story playlists. Starting with either Freelancer Season One (Gavin, Lasko, Damien, & Huxley), Vincent, or David and explore from there! There really isn't a "right" way to watch Redacted, so whichever way you choose will probably be best for you :)

Who is [insert character here]?

Character Guide

Will updates be put in the main tag?

Yes and no. Again, this is a situation to situation thing! If you wish for me to further elaborate please feel free to ask!

Where did the pfp come from?

It's a screenshot I took of Erik from the podcast, it's from episode 47!

There's a podcast?

Yeah, Erik has a podcast with his friend Odie. The podcast is not about Redacted, they are totally separate things, but sometimes Erik will talk about Redacted related things.

Can I tell Erik about your blog?

I mean, technically yeah you can and I really don't think Erik would care...however, getting an Erik notice or his attention would honestly really freak me out lol so I'd rather no one bring it to his attention for the sake of my anxiety

If you have a question that wasn't answered please feel free ask it in the ask box!

Please Be Aware: Redacted Audio is widely regarded as 18+ however, I am not responsible for who interacts with my blog or Redacted Audio content. I will not ever under any circumstances put time or effort into policing others online, it is a fruitless effort and quite frankly, not my problem. If you do not feel comfortable interacting with 18+ content, that is your responsibility and if you are not comfortable with certain people within the fandom/or interacting with the fandom, the block button exists. You are responsible for no one but yourself when it comes to the internet.

[this blog also functions as an archive]

[heloisedaphnebrightmore]

How to grow your blog - For Beginners!

Since I receive quite a few messages about how I grew my blog and how others could improve theirs, I decided to do this post to help you with whatever knowledge I gathered throughout my time on here.

Disclaimer: These are only my personal observations, there's no proven success if used and they may differ in other people's case.

Things I will discuss below will include;

Interactions

Masterlists / Navigations

Tags

Taglists

Simplicity

So, I guess it's time for us to begin :)

Interactions

First and foremost, interactions are the most important elements of Tumblr. These can include asks/ comments/ reblogs/ reblogs with comments and any sort of interactions with other blogs.

Asks are important because while you're having fun and chatting away with people, your name shows up on their blog and their followers might be intrigued by your user name or what you said and they check out your blog.

Comments. When you read a fic or see a beautiful edit and leave a comment on that certain post, most of the time the creator will check out your profile and other people who leave comments might find you sweet and head to your blog as well. It's nothing deep with an underlying meaning. It's simple curiosity. If what you write is kind or relatable, people feel drawn to you.

Reblogs. Reblogs are one of the most important part of Tumblr. That's the only way your art can be spread. Sure, tags are important and helpful, but reblogs are the ones that keep your art alive. When you reblog a post you're essentially sharing someone else's content with 10, 100 or 1000 people without your knowledge.

Reblogs with comments are possibly the most important and significant part of this site. You don't just share someone else's art, you also add your positive comment to it, which draws people's attention. When you reblog someone else's art, they might check out your blog and they might reblog yours. Of course, it's not a rule nor should it be expected, but from my personal experiences, I have gained loads of followers through my mutuals. Their kind words and love for my fics have drawn quite a large traffic to my blog and vice versa.

Masterlists / Navigations

Many people will tell you that tags are enough and you don't need a Masterlist. I disagree. Whilst tags are good and useful, tumblr's tags aren't reliable and on top of that people can be quite lazy. The easiest way to showcase your art - whether it be fanfiction, fanart, gifs, drawings, video edits and such - is to basically offer them to your visitors/followers on a silver platter. It can be a bother at times, always keeping it up to date, but when people have to search for your content they get discouraged because let's be honest, we like things that are easily accessible.

Masterlists can be a single Tumblr post or a Google drive document where you add the link of your creations. In my Masterlist you can find different characters, organised by different fandoms. If you use Google drive make the document readable [but not editable] for the public.

Some people, such as myself, create Navigation posts, where they add relevant sub menus which help their followers navigate easier on their blogs. These can contain where to send "asks", "rules" that the owner of the blog might set, "blog recommendations", "side blogs", "about me" menus and the like.

Tags

Although I mentioned that tags can be unreliable, they're still a necessity. Search for relevant tags and use them when you post your art. Meanwhile reblogging is the easiest way to get your creations out there, people do regularly search for tags when they wish to see something and the only way they will find you is if your post appears in tags.

If you're not sure whether your tags are working, you can always head to your dashboard, click on the 👤 in the right upper corner, go down to the posts menu and look for the post you want to check on. Once you found it, click on the tag that you would like to search for. If it shows up in the recent tab of the search results, it means the tag is working, but if after 5 minutes of posting it's still not there, you might need to reupload your work. Unfortunately Tumblr has some issues with the tags and it takes two or even three attempts at times to upload something correctly, whilst other times it might work immediately.

On a side note, if you reblog nsfw content or triggering content, you might want to tag those appropriately. Tw food, tw blood, tw. etc. Depends on the content of the triggering post.

You can also create your own tags. Such as "XY's inbox" for your asks or "XY shares" for anything that you reblog from others. This way people can block those tags and see only those posts on your blog that they might find interesting.

Taglists

Taglists aren't a necessity, especially because there are many different ways to notify your followers of new creations, but it's certainly useful. The reason I think taglists are important is because tumblr won't always show your posts on everyone's dashboard, especially if they follow loads of people. However, when you use a taglist, and mention people on your newest posts, they will be able to get a notification of your update.

Of course, if you feel like tagging people might be bothersome, you might create a side-blog where you reblog your posts and people can turn on notifications to be notified of your updates. This option has been rather popular recently, because usually we reblog and post many things on our main blogs and people don't want to get notified about every trivial post, so a side-blog with the most important posts might just be it for you.

Simplicity

This might be confusing so let me be less vague. As I said, we can be rather lazy and that doesn't mean we're bad people, we might just had a difficult day or too much to study or work and we just want easy access to content. Being simple is a necessity. Though it's good to be creative and unique, such as creating a Masterlist that's called "Where the stars shine", it's not obvious for many what is hidden behind those words and they might not be curious enough to check it out. By being simple and obvious, as I said before, you're offering your content on a silver platter. Simple and neat. Sometimes people just need things to be easy to find.

I have been told many times before that my blog is very organised and I feel very proud about that because it means people can find things easily. Of course, it's not proven, but I think that could be a factor in growing your blog. But as I've said, these are only my personal observations.

I hope this helps. Have a nice day :) Heloise Daphne Brightmore

[hauntswitch]

I posted 530 times in 2021

97 posts created (18%)

433 posts reblogged (82%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 4.5 posts.

I added 210 tags in 2021

#doctor who - 33 posts

#drwho - 31 posts

#dr who - 29 posts

#dw - 25 posts

#homestuck - 18 posts

#my art - 16 posts

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#gwen was 29 when she joined torchwood so i kinda think she would have had a joan jett phase??? the jacket the hair the eyeliner...?? maybe??

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Doctor Who is basically like one big massive patchwork blanket - every new showrunner, writer, director, music maker, special effects person, artist, costume designer and actor (as well as all the rest!) add on their own significant metaphorical patch to the metaphorical blanket - no matter how big or small the contribution, it is still there. Each of the spin offs and every new incarnation of the doctor with their companions adds a massive patch where new “canon” or lore is added - and yeah, maybe some of the older bits have a few small holes here and there because of age and new ideas - but ultimately this massive patchwork blanket is a brilliant collective work and it is warm <3

328 notes • Posted 2021-08-29 15:09:26 GMT

#4

Its 2:30 AM and this came to mind

Furthermore:

428 notes • Posted 2021-02-28 02:24:47 GMT

#3

Why’d they have to go and change it for?!

437 notes • Posted 2021-03-03 13:47:31 GMT

#2

The date is 4/13 in the year 2021, where we are all HOME STUCK. Sarah Z has just uploaded a NEW YouTube video about a CERTAIN WEBCOMIC and you are EXITED to watch it. You need to get ready before you watch it. What will you do? You go to your CLOSET and select a BLACK SHIRT with a ZODIAC SIGN on it that most likely isnt the one you were born under. Your guardian is confused by this move. They never understood why you bought that STRANGE shirt in the first place. You add the shirt to your SYLLADEX. You then spot some GREY FACE PAINT and a HORN HEADBAND on the countertop. You add them to your sylladex too. You collect some more clothes to finish your COSPLAY then go into the bathroom to get ready. You notice a GREY SHARPIE inside the bathroom which has no place being in there. You don't know why, but seeing a GREY SHARPIE next to a BATHTUB makes you uneasy. You change quickly and apply the makeup, then return to your bedroom to load up the YouTube video. Your FRIENDS begin PESTERING you just as you are about to hit play. What could they possibly want?

1794 notes • Posted 2021-04-13 18:05:24 GMT

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The reddit thing on r/wallstreetbets is more than just a troll - I've been reading through posts and comments there, it's become personal for them. The comments are full of messages about how they are now doing this for their families and loved ones, and personal stories from their own lives that are fuelling them. There are stories about how users have been abused by hedge funds, and how the 2008 recession had affected their families. They keep repeating the "Its not about winning, it's about sending a message" meme from the Joker which is extremely fitting both in way that they are simultaneously clowning the fat cats who have the ability to mess people over because they're rich, as well as their own anger. Its payback and its beautiful

4419 notes • Posted 2021-01-28 14:21:32 GMT

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So sorry to have to bug you about this but I don't know anyone else to ask. Referring to Stana's tweet about how there are ways to watch Absentia if you are in the US ... can you tell me how? (FYI - I'm an idiot when it comes to technology and I've never live streamed anything before because I'm scared of viruses and stuff. I'm kind of assuming she's talking about live stream, but I'm not absolutely sure.) Anyway, any help would be very much appreciated.

Hey Anon! No worries at all (unless you’re my ISP or a cop, in which case, I know nothing about this. There’s nothing to see here, move along :P). 

Torrents, downloads, and streaming links are the three ways that came to mind for me. Torrents are a little more involved because you’re relying on people to keep their computers on and connected to the torrent program while others download the file from them, and torrenting can be slow if there aren’t a lot of people seeding, but a lot of people downloading. Torrenting can also be riskier in terms of viruses, cause basically anyone can disguise a bad file as what you’re hoping to see and you likely won’t know until you download it and open it up. 

The second way is that people often upload the videos they get from torrents to other sites like sendspace and rapidshare and whatnot. With those, you open the site and you may have to do some sort of captcha to get the “right” download link (all sites are different, and some of them have annoying fake links/photos that pop up other sites which can have bad stuff on them) or to start the dl and it’ll download the video file directly to your computer. 

After both of these options you would have an actual copy of the file on your computer, so I’d definitely recommend scanning it with your antivirus software before opening it. Sometimes people zip/rar the file - which just compresses it for transfer - and you can scan that file first.  Sometimes people also change the file extension to something that’s not a media file, but they will tell you to change it back if that’s the case. If you download what you think should be a video format file and it’s a .exe, delete it permanently. Don’t take chances. 

Streaming’s the easiest of the three, I think. You just use the link to open it up and hit play and it goes. There might be an ad to watch, or you might have to fill out a captcha before you get to the actual player, too. Every site is a little bit different. If you think a site looks weird, though, or if it causes a bunch of pop ups, close it. My antivirus software can monitor web traffic, so if a site has been tagged as having malicious content on it, it sometimes steers me away, so that’s another safeguard.

So those are the ways… and then there are links. Not using reputable links/torrents is totally the way things go pear-shaped, imo. I know there were a number of accounts that would do kind of a round up of links and would post them on tumblr on Mondays after new eps, so if they do the same thing for this show, keeping an eye on tumblr is probably your best bet. I wouldn’t trust twitter links unless they came from a friend. Patience is super important with these things, because sometimes people put up a bogus torrent and capitalize off of people who jump on it first thing. Plus, the legit dl sites and streaming sites end up super busy and packed with people who all want to get the ep at the same time.

Other tips (that probably sound super scary, and I’m sorry, but in that moment when you’re super excited and you just want the ep, you don’t always think straight): If you torrent, you’ll need a torrenting program (utorrent is one, I think) to open the torrent files, which then download. After that, never install any software that a dl wants you to - even if it makes it sound like a codec or something is missing on your computer, it’s 99% likely that it’s a trap. I would also recommend never installing anything a stream wants you to install, with the exception of something like Flash (and then I would go directly to the adobe site, not following any links a site offers). 

A good antivirus software can saaave your bacon. I use bitdefender and I highly recommend them for the very specific reason of when I got a virus in 2008 (right before dead week and finals, it was a dark time, but I digress), it was the only antivirus software out of four (maybe five) that actually caught the bad stuff on my harddrive and was able to get rid of it. So yes, antivirus is awesome. And even if you just stream, I suggest running system scans after you’re done watching, just to zap any of the cookies that a site might leave on your system.

I think that’s it. Hopefully this helped, and I didn’t scare you even more. Remember, of course, that ISPs tend to frown on this stuff, and I’m absolutely not encouraging you to obtain or view anything that’s illegal in your country, state, or municipality (blah blah blah).