#i just wanna have a good hub blog url

[spring-lxcked]

wanting to change the hub blog name as soon as possible & knowing that something like aspen-hub is probably the obvious choice VS i want it to be. fun. cool. exciting. because i am not changing it again for like a few years LMAO.

[irradiatedsnakes]

I was never able to dive too deeply into biology as a kid but as an animal lover with a vast knowledge of assorted animal facts your stuff and knowledge absolutely blows me away. Wanna try studying biology and animals leisurely for my own enrichment so are there any biology books you’d personally recommend?

that's so kind of you to say!! unfortunately, i'm really not a big books guy- i'm pretty awful at reading anything longer than a short story- and most of my knowledge comes from classes and casual research (honestly, a lot of the stuff i post about i check details with quick searches beforehand), so i can't recommend much. i've recommended my comparative vertebrate anatomy textbooks in a similar ask if you're into that nitty gritty sort of stuff, i think just searching up "anatomy" on my blog should come up with it.

if you're into dinosaurs and their ilk, mark witton's "pterosaurs" and art books are good, as is darren naish et al's "all yesterdays", a short little book of wonderfully speculative illustrations. i have "the complete dinosaur" textbook, since ive heard good things about it, but it's An Entire Huge Textbook and i haven't delved into it much. mark witton's blogspot is also a treasure trove of paleontological reconstruction talks, they're really cool.

if you like modern birds and can get yourself some way to have access to it (ie via a school), the "birds of the world" database is an incredibly detailed look into..basically every bird, in nice digestible and well-structured formats. if you're in north america, the sibley guide to birds is a great field manual, too.

with regards to plants, see if your state's department of forestry has published a field guide to native trees or other plants. virginia has the native tree and native shrub/woody vine guides available for free online, they're incredibly helpful to me. any sort of illustrated native plant guide should be good to have, and i recommend starting with trees, personally.

other than that, uhhh.. find published papers on niche biology topics you enjoy. you can use search engines like google scholar, or even universities may have searchable library pages without a login to help you find those sorts of things. sci-hub is your friend for anything behind a paywall, check wikipedia for the most recent url.

that's most of what i can think of off the top of my head, i hope it helps!

[raevenlywrites]

Get to Know Raev

Thanks for the tag @apollonkondric

1. Why did you choose your URL? - Cause I'm a Raeven, and the things I write are very Raevenly (also its a nickname from my wife)

2. Any side blogs?

@raevenlywrote is my wips only sideblog, so folks who wanted to put notifs on but didn't want to be overwhelmed by nonsense had options

@raevenlyrites is my witchblr that I never remember to post to

@artrefsforlove is where I keep art stuff, mostly cool pictures my wife might like to watercolor

@worldbuildingwedasks is a community hub for reblogging open asks for Worldbuilding Wednesday, and also recently just cool inspiring worldbuilding stuffs

and also @wip119 is technically still a thing? It started out as kind of like a writing advice shitposting silliness

3. How long have you been on tumblr? I had a tumblr back in college, @acorvidsnest, but then like school do it ate all my time and quite frankly I don't even remember what email it was under but there's my blast from the past if yall wanna go take a look

4. Do you have a queue tag? - Yes? But I don't remember what it is, because I never use it? queuex4 maybe? idk

5. What did you originally start this blog for? - To promote my web serial, In Search of Asylum. It didn't get the traction I wanted, but I learned a lot from it and I've made a lot of fun friends in the writeblr community so I'll count it as a win

6. Why did you choose your icon? - It me! I very rarely feel like I look like myself in pictures, but the photo this sketch was based on really nails it (even though my hair doesn't look like that anymore)

7. Why did you choose your header? - Because my tumblr is my brain on a plate. Fun fact: Those are my hands and that is a real jello brain I made

8. What's your post with the most notes? - Lords I don't even know. Probably one where I tried to make someone else's post funnier though, like Lawful Chaotic or We Do Not Write in Notebooks (the brogle uquiz is doing pretty good atm too)

9. How many followers do you have? - somewhere over 2k? I try not to look so I don't obsess about it going up and down

10. How many blogs do you follow? - somewhere over 2k as well? Most of my followers came from follow backs when I just went through writeblr posts and went on a massive following spree :P

11. Have you ever made a sh*tpost? - I don't have the tag #raevenly shitposts for nothing

12. How often do you use Tumblr every day? - as often as I get bored

13. Have you ever had a fight with another blog? - Nah. I don't engage, I block

14. How do you feel about 'you have to reblog this' posts? - Nobody tells me what to do

15. Opinion on tag games? - love em, but it always takes me FOREVER to get around to doing them. Also I kind of loathe the long reblog chains of them, they're dash destorying and they make me think I'm getting comments on my stuff only to realize they're actually talking to someone else who's added on :(

16. Opinion on ask games? - Love em, gimmie dem asks! You don't even have to care about the answer just copy/paste a question and go on anon. You'll make someone's day just sending them a random ask :)

17. Which of your mutuals is Tumblr famous? - oh lord i have no idea

18. Do you have a crush on any of your mutuals? - I am in love with @loopyhoopywrites's creativity. Does that count?

Tagging: Anyone who'd like to do it! I should be going to bed instead of playing on tumblr XD

[coolxnxblue]

de rules:

1. Themes might very with this blog. It’ll typically be SFW, but there will likely be dark themes, violence and swearing.

Things will be tagged! I’ll try my best, anyways. If you want something in particular tagged, please let me know through ask / anon / im. The format I use for tagging is, for example, tw: swearing.

I don’t have any triggers but I do ask you tag all of your NSFW content.

That said, I won’t do anything NSFW - gore is okay, though.

I’m of age.

2. I’m private, meaning I only really roleplay with people I follow. This is so things don’t get too overwhelming and for me and to cement who I want to interact with. I generally follow most people if our writing clicks, though.

If I don’t follow you and you’d like me to check out your blog, lurk in my notifs. I’ll definitely see you and make note to check you out. Same with promos, or you can just rb them to a sideblog / send an ask with its url. I can’t gurantee I’ll follow, but I’ll certainly check it out!

If it’s a crossover, I have to know the fandom and be at least a little bit confident with it. This is so I’m able to work with you, our thread and have muse for it. You’re free to ask if I know of a fandom or not! I’ll have a list at some point.

I follow the tag #coolxnxblue. If there’s anything you want me to see, like dash commentary, just tag that and x-kit will alert me of your post! I may respond to ic stuff ic stuff if I’m feeling it. 

In that sense, I’m chill with dash shenanigans with most folk, not just mutuals!

Absolutely no godmodding. It ain’t fun, fam. If you’re not sure what this term means, do look it up. This includes powerplaying, metagaming, and other things of that nature. This applies especially in fights if they happen (I’m chance-based and hope that you are too).

I can be picky with OCs. But rest assured, if you’ve followed me/interacted with my promo, I’ll always give your pages a read.

Please don’t be offended if I don’t want to interact with you (and please don’t try to guilt me into doing so!).

As for following back, I usually take a week tops to do so - but if you’ve hit up my promo, I go through that eventually.

I DON’T CARE ABOUT AESTHETICS. I just think they’re pretty. If you don’t use formatting or anything like that, or heck - even wanna’ just do iconless rp - I have no problem with it whatsoever! It’s you, your writing and your muse I care about!

3. Please don’t rush me for starters or responses.

PLEASE understand that I have blogs galore and my muse tends to fluctuate; this can mean I’m everywhere at once and can end up neglecting a blog or two. It’s nothing personal; you know how muses are! Additionally, life happens to be a thing.

Please note the mun deals with anxiety and depression, and has part time jobs which are honestly tiring - this might affect how frequently she roleplays.

Chances are, I’ve probably has seen that bit of interactivity and just haven’t gotten around to responding yet.

My roleplaying style being para/multi-para, I may take a while to respond. I hoard drafts like a dragon - it’s really just the motivation to write and ship those out.

I hoard asks, but sometimes can’t find muse or interest for all of them. If it’s been a month or two, generally assume I’m not interested / can’t find muse for it. You’re free to send another though!

I answer asks from anyone - personals, rp blogs and anons. I’ll answer non-mutual asks occaisonally but I won’t be making threads out of them

4. Shippings? Heck yeah, I ship lots with my blue son! Just make sure they’re of similar age pls.

If I don’t happen to be interested, don’t force anything on my character.

I do not ship incestuous ships. Do NOT follow/interact if you do.

The ship has to have chemistry; I’m generally shipping trash, but if they don’t click, they don’t click, sorry.

This is a multi-ship blog, meaning there will be more than one ship without them conflicting with eachother.

If you want to ship and I already have a ship of your choosing going with a duplicate, please don’t hesitate to hmu! My ships aren’t exclusive and each character/relationship portrayal is unique to me!

Relationships are eternal until you deem otherwise. If you’re not interested in a ship anymore, just let me know!

Sonic X Tails won’t be happening on this blog, sorry.

5. Whilst I am of age, I’m not aiming for sexual content on this blog (and will not be dealing with fetishes). That stuff makes me uncomfortable, and I typically don’t recommend pulling it with my character if you’re interacting with me. Nonetheless, should it arise, I will tag it appropriately as nsfw //.

6. About reblogs…

I am not a meme source, and reblogs clog up my activity. Please reblog any ask / starter memes you find on this blog from their SOURCE. The exception to this rule is if there is no source; go ahead.

I don’t feel comfortable with Personals reblogging my IC or OOC posts, so please don’t do that. If I put something in the fandom tags for whatever reason (bar promos), you’re free to, though.

This goes for my art too unless it has the tag ok to rb, but otherwise only the person I drew it for can reblog it. If you wanna’ reblog something, I DO put it on my art blog eventually!

A few times is fine, as it happens, but repeatedly breaking these rules will result in me soft blocking you.

I try to participate in reblog karma as much as I can, but always reblog from the source/a meme source.

If a post or ask is for you, you’re free to reblog it to save it though - but only if you’re an rp blog!

7. I’m a para / multi-para blog, novella if I’m adventurous and have time. Whilst I may roleplay crack threads with shorter responses, this does not apply to all threads I write. This means:

I write my replies as detailed as I can muster, and length can range from 1 paragraph to 6.

Short responses (such as one-liners) in more serious threads where I’ve written a decent deal can instantly kill my muse for that thread.

Whilst I’d prefer for partners to at least somewhat match my length, it’s entirely up to you - just try your best and make sure you give me enough to work with. ♡

If my muse happen to go nuts out of nowhere - like, overboard - don’t stress too much about matching him.

8. Threads! You can yeet asks, memes, and even starters at me if I’ve liked a call! I’ll obviously have my own you can like.

You’re free to like starter calls even if we’re not mutuals; I can check out your blog that way. I still only write starters for mutuals though.

I know pretty much most if not all Sonic media, bar Fleetway which I haven’t gotten around to reading yet. Since that’s unfamiliar territory, I’m unlikely to tread in it yet.

Starter memes are the BEST way to interact me because they just yeet a prompt at my face and really help me write starters. If you see me reblog one, send one!

If you want a certain verse, lemme’ know! Otherwise, I’ll either resort to game verse or whatever continuity your muse applies to (i.e, Sally (archie), Starline (idw), and so forth).

If you want to turn an ask into a thread, go ahead!

In that sense, I don’t recommend writing starters for me unless we’ve discussed something. I don’t like to leave anyone hanging.

Please don’t assume things about my muse. If you’re uncertain about things, ASK.

IMs are open to mutuals, if you want to do any in-depth plotting. I also have Discord if that’s more convenient for you!

9. Guidelines on mains and relationships:

If we’re mutuals and we interact a lot, you’re welcome to ask me if I’d like to be your main!

Please don’t be offended if I deny, though; I typically want to pick those I trust to be my mains as well as people I can comfortably write with.

Not limited to them! I roleplay with duplicates galore so don’t be afraid to hit me up if you want to interact!

Pre-established relationships are a-okay in my book; if you have an idea for a relationship between our muses we can work towards, hit me up! I reblog those pre-established relationship memes every so often too. Romantic relationships link back to the shipping guidelines.

Also, friendship/family/rivalry relationships are EXTREMELY valid to me - so don’t feel scared about asking for them!

10. If you have any issues, please let me know and hopefully we can resolve it!

Mun is actually super nice, so don’t be afraid to hit her up!

I am absolutely terrible with IMs and Discord. I either respond quickly or days later, depends on my mood. Social anxiety tends to interfere with this (and more recently exhaustion from work) - but honestly, if you’ve sent something, I’ve likely read it and just haven’t gotten around to it yet! It’s nothing personal; trust me!

Please leave me out of drama; I’m here to have a good time, as is everyone else, and it pains me to see people arguing.

This is a little different with callouts - if I see anything on dash pertaining to any problematic users, I will take it into consideration and rb it if I believe them to be harmful.

11. To retierate, I tend to follow those that:

Write para and whom I feel my muse would click with.

Seem chill? Tone can really intimidate me honestly.

Have rules and about pages! Knowing the boudaries of my rp partners is super important as well as their lovely muses! Sometimes rules are enough, though, if you’re going to write the about eventually.

Tag their nsfw.

Don’t have massive icons - ie, have rp icons that take up an entire text post like 500x500 or something. I don’t want to clog the dash and it’s tiring to resize them.

...also, if I follow your hub blog (provided it doesn’t double as a personal), it generally means I’m cool with any blogs that are attached to it.

12. On threads…

If you’re not interested in a thread anymore, and would like to drop it, please let me know! I’d feel terrible if we’re both not having fun with it or if partners feel overwhelmed with the amount of threads we have.

Honestly, unless I let you know, our threads have no expiry date - so no need to worry about me dropping them without telling you. I can just be quite slow sometimes.

13. Mun does not equal muse! Anything my muse might say does not reflect on how I think unless I explicitly say so.

14. Know that if I follow you, I WANT to interact with you.

I literally couldn’t care less about follower counts. I care about YOU guys and our interactions.

15. Rules may be subject to change.

Please like this post if you’ve read the rules! You don’t have to, but it’s of personal reassurance to me if you have.

[teskarot]

I was tagged by @maple-fox, thanks Maple, real sorry for the wait bud~

Rules: tag 20 people you wanna see do this too ( or how many you know)

Nickname: Jas, Jassy, (Jasu on Discord) (Jerrito by my co-worker, much to my chagrin) 

Gender: Male

Star sign: Libra

Height: 5′10 (180cm)

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Time: 2:07am

Birthday: October 4th

Favorite band: Daughtry

Favorite solo artist: Elton John

Song stuck in your head: Young Turks by Rod Stewart 

Last movie seen: The Fox and the Hound

Movie I want to see: You are Umasou

Last TV show watched: PJ Masks (I had came downstairs to make coffee at the time, it was already on so i was like “why not”. it’s really not bad~)

Why did you create your blog: Because someone i used to be friends with introduced me to the good on Tumblr and at the time it was enough to interest me

What do you post/reblog: If i post something, it’s usually Monster Hunter, or when i think i’m funny/ I normally reblog stuff that’s funny, JJBA (Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure), or Monster Hunter

Last thing you googled: Boob Slider (cause i wasn’t thinking on what it actually meant and i thought it was a meme cause of the Xenoblade Controversy where people whined about a character’s chest being too big, which i admit does look kinda weird when the main character standin right beside her looks like he’s 12 and is what i assume his love interest. Now a character in particular in that game which is a white haired girl, they try to pass it sayin she’s not human but jesus christ they look like balloons. I get it, sleaze sells, but chill the fuck out lol)

Other blogs: Only one, cause there’s nothing that i have to say that i need to be sneaky about lol

Why url: It’s based on a Demon from the first SMT game i ever played, which was my absolute favorite cause it looked cool. Tezcatlipoca, an Aztec god, but cause of what i believe were letter constraints and like, 8yr olds aren’t gonna remember that name, shortened and changed to Teskarot.

I follow: 33. Lately i heard that’s definitely not enough and i need to follow more people, but then i’ll miss out in case someone’s in a bad spot and needs someone to be there for them

Followers: about 65

Average hours of sleep: 6 (10 on sundays~)

Lucky number: 4

Instrument: been about 5 years but i think i can still work a Tenor Saxaphone~

What are you wearing: Mmmm...Sweatpants and my work shirt cause i got home from work an hour ago

Dream job: Nothin really. Just wanna provide for the people that dealt with me for the past 24 years.

Dream trip: I’d love to go on an island. A mostly vacant island, so the only thing i hear is the waves and the trees and fauna. The crisp blue waves when the sun hits it. Pop out a chair and just enjoy the luscious sea breeze. Exotic drinks galore, what a good time.

Favorite food: Mmm...Sesame Chicken 

Favorite song rn: Jus Jack and Speed Limits - All falls down

Top three universes: JJBA, OP, and BNHA

Last book i read: Uh...Redwall? it was awhile ago.

i’m tagging @temnuka-hub @bubblybikerides @nuclear-brachy @krazy-fool @jefferson-ft @crotakuknowsbest @chickenpower1 @cloudsofteeth @dylanajane @flamboyant-king @hydrias @whyiseveryusernametaken @wolfablaze @pastatoast @radpenguinpenguin @thecuriousinquisitor @ultravioletreyes @xanthous-hoe 

[winking]

♧ h-hewwo...

You’re my: ^-^

How I met you: ...hmm...u followed me after u saw one of my wanna one posts but i hesitated to follow back bc i had already followed u once n u didnt follow back n i was like lmao the tables have turned Why I follow you: bc ur super funny an d enjoyable and a good friendYour blog is: a mess most of the timeYour URL is: factsYour icon is: beautiful sana.. the most prettiest girl int he world iconicA random fact I know about you: u get drunk often and i wish that was me General opinion: u hav a strong personality but sometimes u need that in a friend or else ur life is boring A random thought I have: im watching rupaul season 6?  top 3 is bianca adore n cour...wait nvm i just remembered when u asked me if i was talking abt porn hub is one of my posts does that mean u see armys on porn hub too 

[mattved]

On blogging, again

Everybody makes a mistake from time to time, and the junction came where I gotta admit belonging to that exact domain. My blog went through about as many changes in platform as it had posts. (Everybody sometimes exaggerates, right?)

So I am here today to give an account on journey of my content across individual platforms, outlining their upsides and downsides and ranting about my fuckups leading to choosing them.

The Beginnings: Blogger

One of the most popular blogging platforms of the 90s offered two gates of entrance to your Google-hosted website: Hitting an URL, either name.blogger.com or your own domain, and being discovered through hub of all Blogger articles, featuring the most popular favorite-tag-relevant along a fulltext search. Both obviously played role in googlability and building an on-line brand.

It seemed to work for a while. I was getting units of traffic from people and crawler hits every now and then. With keywords including my name and username, I slowly made it to the first page of results in Search and DuckDuckGo, pushing the pamphlet article about a person of my name dying at the age to the second, and enabling to compete with identically named photographer for #1. The latter, I unfortunalely did not make. And am obviously mad about it.

The problem was that Blogger lacks some cool features of the modern web. To this day, you are limited to a raw/wysiwyg HTML editor, forced to do more clicking than real writing. Uploading images was a completely separate activity from the writing process and involved browsing filesystems three times before inserting one into the article.

Besides, people no longer visit the article hub, making it useless for anything than that SEO aspect mentioned earlier, and professing the site's backend obsolescence with the a searchbar included along the top edge by default. Of course you can hide it through creation of custom theme including a CSS tweak, but that is just more hassle. Besides, you are not really allowed to do much other than raw CSS to manipulate the site's looks. And the loading times of some articles were just horrible, especially when the engine attempted to apply analytics tools on embeded content, often causing its failures to even load.

And even though Blogger was my big love for the early posts and I stayed for almost 9 months with it, these aspects had driven me elsewhere. Somewhere I was in control of both my content, looks, and structure of the homepage.

The Techie Period: Webhosting

I had rented a cheapo webhost my friend and I had been using for ages as a platform for our various PHP projects the history of which ran all the way to our sweet boarding school development sessions, which were known throughout the staff hierarchy and occassionaly lifted the curfew imposed on us by the system.

Since I was now able to do whatever I wanted with the whole base, many experiments were done and a lot learned in the process. I even made a switch to self-hosting everything on my very own BananaPi webserver, gaining a lot of sysadmin skills.

May I write, please? Wordpress

So many people love wordpress, since there is a massive ecosystem around it, with so many commercially available themes, wonderful plugins, and an open-source base. But I was not overly excited about having somebody else's work showed off on my little personal site. I wanted to build my personal brand and allow myself to be actually proud of it.

But the time it takes even a fairly skilled webbie to get into the zipped-theme format with about as many files as a fresh core linux installation has is not the shortest. And the tweaks always seemed to break whatever I was trying to customize. I sure could've had a blog in no time, but getting to something I'd be happy with was a question of becoming fairly expert in the wordpress ecosystem, which is honestly not worth it, unless you wanna capitalize on it as soon as you can. Besides, there is no certainty in how long such profession would remain relevant. And there is all the Filipinos beating you in sales.

Wordpress is really not for you if you want to give individualist impression. After about a month, I deleted the folder.

This is actually fun! Anchor CMS

Real perfection for those who know pure PHP and want to build a unique site really quickly. It is also where I first encountered markdown outside of GitHub. And it had been my platform for over a good year and a half.

But my audience disappeared entirely. The search engine performance remained, true that, but that was about it and it seemed that some social network marketing was necessary. And even though I do have some outreach on Facebook and Instagram, I consider these to be purely personal devices, that I give public limited access to. So in spite of my general satisfaction with the workings of my wonderful brown colored design featuring many elements enriching the text, I now understand that this alone just won't cut it. And maintaining the website along with a different platform is just not something I have time to do.

So long, my love. I'll pull you out once I'm famous enough. I'll rebuild you on something less outdated than Anchor.

Taking it seriously: Medium

The problem here is that I rarely react to immediate news. Because I am long-term oriented individual aware of the self-adjusting nature of running averages of almost anything. And it doesn't even need to be on index-based variables. Because yes, I do believe that all functional relationships have some sort of equilibrium. Logical or strictly endogenous.

Besides, Medium is filled with... well, media. Wide-readership accounts shitposting five times a day in order to maintain audience, especially of those behind the paywall, who may even consider that the media they are paying for through means other than advertizing are more reliable as a source of infromation.

Yes, I went through the grind of migrating my entire blog to this site, copy-pasting almost everything and adhering to that non-markdown article editor, which made me feel well in the very beginning. It made it a no-bullshit platform after all.

I even wrote one medium-exclusive post, which is never gonna be on Tumblr as I managed to delete it along with my entire account days after doing all the hard work.

Medium is a great concept badly executed. Adios.

Terminal station: Tumblr

At least so far. I may be giving up on fully custom theme for a short time or I may be on a retreat. I may have decided to use an exclusively ad-based platform (at least I can remove ads on my personal tumblr, if not in the feed.

I don't like that there is very little original content on here, but I might soon benefit from reblogs. I don't plan to reblog a lot myself, unless I find a post to be five-star. But I will always like whatever feels appropriate and amazing. And I am always happy to stay in touch with any number of followers. Because some audience is better than massive audience. And I can get at least some feedback here. Hit me, guys. I'm posting for my own benefit and hope somebody will take time to read and reflect on what I am about to post here.

I even plan to switch back to the slightly more interesting topics, showing off my knowledge and passing it on.

Wish me luck ^^