#i've moved bc tumblr is fucking up my reblogs & my tags !

[emdotcom]

I understand all these posts with the angle of "OMG new users don't know how the reblog system works -- we have to tell them so they'll reblog art!" Bc that IS true! I have seen new accounts roll up with 0 reblogs & just likes.

But, also, you cannot fucking pretend that the reblog/likes ratio has not been on a massive fucking decline for literal years before this. It is not just new users suddenly not reblogging -- it is a massive shift in how the Tumblr populace itself regards & interacts with art & artist.

& as an artist, there is very little you can do.

[zeawesomebirdie]

I'm so curious about the fandom you're reading fandom blind in now 👀👀 obviously you don't have to say but if you want to give names 👀👀👀

Fbfjdkdkek listen-

So I'm mutuals with people in a variety of fandoms, yeah? And so I'm mutuals with people in the DC realm of things. And occasionally these mutuals will bless my dash with lovely things that I can reblog bc while I'm not familiar with the DC universe, I do vaguely remember watching the Justice League once as a kid, y'know?

So the scene is set. I am scrolling tumblr because I am so far beyond mortal exhaustion I am incapable of effective existence. As one does. And what do I see upon my dash? Superbat. Which. Yeah okay I've had mutuals place them on my dash throughout the years, I can totally see the appeal, I do Not go here but I support it and etc. Normally I just reblog and move on.

Well.

Guess who spent literally 90 minutes in the superbat tag 😔😔😔😔 at least I'm fatigued to the point of forgetting to reblog everything in the tag this time like I usually do

And so. I notoriously do Not go here. I am Quite Fatigued. I do the rational thing and look for fic recs. And. And I am being so fucking normal about Get Over It by rotasha right now. My guy. I am going off of the vibes I vaguely remember from various mutuals over the years. I don't know how or why I've ended up here but clearly fate is real and I am going to be so normal about this I swear-

[messmersflame]

Your cats are really cute!! I only sent a message because I've been down that pipeline before and it's a hard time crawling back out. Humans weren't meant to know what was happening with strangers hundreds of miles away from them, and it can become overwhelming to have to care about a new issue everyday. I just think the checkmarks are ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, fairly harmless and not worth compiling huge lists over, that's all.

i mean i appreciate the concern??? but theyre also kinda Not harmless considering ppl are spending over 100 dollars on it to stack em. like you can't rly claim to be anti brand and then pay for nothing while a brand site monetizes you

like, okay, if it was like. attached to the ad removal thing then it wouldn't be as much of a big deal- id still think it's dumb cause like. get ad block. but at least it's serving a purpose and those who actually give a shit can feel better paying the site that they like and get a sticker for it.

but THIS is doing... nothing? and getting into triple digits from a bunch of people, all based off an internet trend that is going to blow over anyways.

then, what? what about when it stops being funny? you gave 10, 30, 100 dollars for nothing.

a sheet of stickers is about the same amount of enjoyment. and that'd be fine if that's all it was! but it's not. they didn't do this to give something to be happy about. they did it to turn a profit. and they did it while they've been repeatedly suppressing donations from desperate people, banning people for speaking out against racism, and ALL WHILE THEY HAVE FASH AND PEDOS HERE.

so no, it's really NOT harmless.

like, don't think that im devoting hours of my time, furiously hunting down every single person with a few check marks, because i really, really am not.

i started the list as a petty joke kind of thing to poke fun at people that i felt were stupid at best and willfully callous at worst, bc i saw a bunch of check marks on my dash at the time.

then when it got reblogged, i just kept doing it, occasionally following a little list of check marks and being astounded at the amount of money people were pouring down the drain when they could have spent it in a way that didn't contribute to a website with a rep for censoring marginalized people.

people started tagging it as a block list and asked for transcripts, so i keep adding to it from time to time.

a lot of people don't want to associate with those willing to give money to the site over this sort of thing. and when a lot of people use mobile can't actually SEE the checkmarks, someone keeping a list of those that they happen to come across is useful.

and, yeah, a few times ive genuinely got pissed off, bc the people defending it just refuse to get what me and others are saying - that this is a skeevy and opportunistic move by tumblr and is just another nasty monetization tactic off the back of repeated PR fuck ups and gross mismoderation of the website. and then they also try and act high and mighty and talk down to us.

it's not ruining my day or sth but i really REALLY beg you to put some thought into why exactly we hate it so much

[dontforgetthefrenchhorns]

I posted 124 times in 2022

55 posts created (44%)

69 posts reblogged (56%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dontforgetthefrenchhorns

@lowbrassdad

@secondclarinet

@hothautbois

@justmusicianquotes

I tagged 74 of my posts in 2022

Only 40% of my posts had no tags

#the rat has spoken - 56 posts

#french horn - 7 posts

#band geek - 7 posts

#horn - 6 posts

#concert band - 5 posts

#marching band - 4 posts

#<3 - 3 posts

#george gershwin - 2 posts

#band camp - 2 posts

#beethoven - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#for me personally theres not much sex appeal in thr percussion section bc i dont like any of the people in my school's percussion section

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Im working on a solo rn lol don't think I mentioned that yet

Im working on Andromeda by Beethoven! It's pretty and not out of my range! I've had it for a bit but we just had our big full band concert so now I'm gonna start practicing this more rather than the full band stuff

This obviously is far from perfect but ill probably update with more recordings of this piece

11 notes - Posted March 1, 2022

#4

GUYS I GOT AN EXEMPLARY THATS THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE!!!!!!!

11 notes - Posted April 2, 2022

#3

Ahhh it's been a couple days bc my brain has been fries but!!! My last first comp of the season was on Saturday!!!

First in our division!!

Outstanding drum majors!! (regardless of division)

Best in visual effect!!!

So overall a very good last first comp for me

12 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

#2

GUYS WE GOT FIRST WE GOT FIRST

GUYS GUYS THE JUDGES FUCKED UP THE SCORE SHEETS IN PRELIMS AND ADDED US PLUS THREE OTHER BANDS INTO FINALS AND WE WON WE GOT FIRST MY SENIOR YEAR ALL FIRSTS BROO.SKQOSKWLLWKSD

16 notes - Posted October 22, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Reblog with the weird games you've played during band camp :3

I'll go first, we've played dead fish, where you lay on the ground and try not to move and people will try to make you move and if you do you lose. Best strategy for winning is to take a nap. We've also played yourself your neighbor which is one of those keep up with the pattern or you're out type of games

49 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

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[katojikuta-chaann]

I posted 4,365 times in 2022

That's 3,990 more posts than 2021!

32 posts created (1%)

4,333 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@weenie-kun

@bassboostedpunyeta

@exuberami

@humblecabbagemerchant

@badbadsomegood

I tagged 498 of my posts in 2022

#katoji overshares in the tags ✍️ - 10 posts

#i love da bebe - 6 posts

#important ‼️ - 6 posts

#me when - 6 posts

#puppy teary eyes - 6 posts

#👁️👁️ - 6 posts

#da bebe - 6 posts

#katoji shares niya lang 🗣️ - 5 posts

#katoji overshares ✍️ - 5 posts

#pag inggit pikit moments - 5 posts

Longest Tag: 134 characters

#the crowd inside (if you're standing/on the floor/near the stage). all these shits wouldn't be worth it if that's what you're bringing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Feel like I've been gone for a bit.

But it was just 2 days since my last rb/post.

hahahatdog.

0 notes - Posted October 11, 2022

#4

Di ako makapag emote / wallow in my sadness kasi nawawala yung earphones ko :)

0 notes - Posted October 26, 2022

#3

Rant

My head hURTS bc of screen time prolly.

but God i think if I don't keep my brain occupied, I'll drown in my thoughts.

Can't put in Earphones and listen to music or whatever bc IDK WHERE THE FUCK MY EarPHONES ARE!!!!!! THEY'RE my back up to my usual black ones that suddenly died on me and GOD DAMN THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DISAPPEAR ON ME AT A TIME LIKE THIS.

I'm so.. tired :( idk what and why these shits are happening to me, why im reacting like this.

Wanted to play genshin pa naman... But aaa i still have to wash the dishes....

I'm worried too bc idk When is the exact date of my cousin moving in.. and i dont want to look & feel like shit when she does.

aaaaaa wanna shut down irl and forever. Bye gonna wash the Dishes.

alzoooo this has been going on since oct 26 bc of the computer tower :>

🖕to me from me 🫶

0 notes - Posted October 28, 2022

#2

4000 posts!

and that's on reblogging fanfic 🤩

0 notes - Posted July 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I'm gonna watch pikachu da cgi bc I've been meaning to watch it but ppl Don't want to and i am an independent watcher now >:((

jk I've been watching shit alone for a bit na and yeyeyeye bye

1 note - Posted July 5, 2022

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[dcptcnx]

hello! I've been wanting to make this post for quite some time but just couldn't seem to find the words !!!

I'd like to make a post about some of my moots bc I feel like I don't appreciate you guys as much as I should. So I hope this finds you well and hope you enjoy my presence here on this hellhole 🥝 !!!

Kiwi's Moots!!!

@ygm1slt × mads you are literally like the BEST person to have come into my life when you did. I had recently moved back in with parents after my break up and had decided to come back to Tumblr to hopefully get back into writing. But I restarted bsd and came across your account bc of a fic or drabble you did for a character. And I fell in love.

I'm really glad we kicked it off like we did because I was in a really dark place and this really helped. I love you bro.

@cuz-like-why-not × RIRI <3 PLEASE. I would see your posts but I was so scared to interact bc I didn't want to come off as weird or something. I've loved reading your suguru anon things and just your posts never seem to disappoint. I love seeing you in my notifications!!!

@silkylious × silky you're so precious muah 💋 no really. I love seeing all your different posts and your theme makes me sob it's so good. You're super sweet and really pretty and GAH. you never fail to make me smile when you send a message after a post I make that comes off as sad 😭

@nightparades × Azul <3 you're so precious. I know we don't really interact that much, but I love the things you add when you reblog my stuff or respond. You're really sweet and funny and your account never disappoints

@getosbigballsack × Toni! your account slaps bro. i love your url and i love seeing you in my notifications. You post amazing things and Its Geto so of course it’ll be the best <3333

@beware-of-the-rogue × Ro, i know we dont interact as much, but you seem really fucking cool and i want that to change.

@mercieder × Mer! you’re too sweet and i love you. hope we can continue being new moots and i hope that i don’t become a bother!!

@novaresque​ × Its Abby! its funny too bc riri used to use your tag when answering my asks but i never complained xD you seem super chill and i hope we can interact more in the future!

@getov × MILA!!! BABY!!! you're so SWEET! I LOVE GETTING DISCORD MESSAGES FROM YOU! Always makes me smile when you call me Mamas because you're so precious. I hope you have a good life because you deserve it and your THEME IS SO GOOD BABES!

and lastly, I want to specially mention Armin. I miss Armin. I always hope they’re doing okay and hope i can see and talk with them again soon. What happened wasn’t right but Its not the same without Armin ;( @sadarminnoises BBY I LOVE YOU

I'm so sorry for anyone I missed. My brain is so scattered rn and I'm trying to not make typing mistakes bc my brain be mush lol.

[lookingforfairies]

I posted 7.311 times in 2021

18 posts created (0%)

7293 posts reblogged (100%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 405.2 posts.

I added 1.869 tags in 2021

#art - 789 posts

#lotr - 368 posts

#wwdits - 165 posts

#måneskin - 160 posts

#fav - 121 posts

#mcu - 82 posts

#p&p - 63 posts

#atla - 46 posts

#crimson peak - 40 posts

#met gala - 35 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#honestly 😭 like nevermind the bi rep discourse for a second imo the sylki moments were uncomfy from the start and they keep making it worse

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

ok minari is SUCHH a beautiful movie it’s abt a korean american family who move to arkansas in the 80s to basically start homesteading (partially based on the director’s life) and the plot is mostly based in the character dynamics which are all so realistic and sooo compelling to watch + the soundtrack/cinematography r beautiful..... ugh cannot recommend enough

ooooohhh this sounds good i love character focused stories! bet this will make me cry my eyes out tho when i have a possibilty to watch it sfhjg

4 notes • Posted 2021-03-16 17:27:27 GMT

#4

thank you @thorinlesbian for tagging me <3

rules: shuffle your playlist and post the first 10 songs (no skipping), then tag 10 people 

gasoline - halsey

let me down slowly - alec benjamin

sick of losing soulmates - dodie

habits (stay high) - tove lo

awake - bts

faking it - sasha sloan

edge of great - julie and the phantoms cast

wash away the wild - kawala

shinin’ - jonghyun

void - the neighbourhood

i’m tagging @onelostseagull @sunsetccurve @socumentary @whenispeakicrossmyfingers @dreamboymatty @lovesickgrls @goldstarsoup @valentinefemme @flawedrain @onlythesunn if you wanna do it :)

4 notes • Posted 2021-02-10 13:21:56 GMT

#3

Jsyk Måneskin are in Berlin, idk if that's close at all to you but if you find them tell Damiano I respect him pls

really sfjkg?? yeah i actually live in berlin tho i expect i won't run into them in this part of the city lol

4 notes • Posted 2021-06-15 14:40:54 GMT

#2

thank youuuuuuu @mithrilesbian for tagging me 💕

last song: montero (call me by your name) by lil nas x and yes i've had this song on repeat since friday

currently reading: rn nothing but i'm about to start circe by madeline miller!

currently watching: hunter x hunter (at least in theory, the site i used to watch it on shut down 2 weeks ago and i have been too lazy to look for another one but i will get to that i promise)

last movie: ponyo!!

currently craving: a glass of water but i don't wanna get up from the couch bc i'm tired

i'm tagging @onelostseagull @whenispeakicrossmyfingers @dykebilbo @thechainsofbirds @sunsetccurve if you guys wanna do it!

10 notes • Posted 2021-03-28 19:34:47 GMT

#1

can we pls fucking talk about I wanna be your slave cause at first I laughed and now I can't fucking stop OH MY GOD. I'm trash for them.

ahaha god me too!! the fuck. the first time i heard it i thought well idk if that's for me but now i can't get 'and that's fUCKing paTHEtic' out of my head sfhjf

(if anyone wants to share in the brainrot here you go mwah)

20 notes • Posted 2021-05-24 21:52:31 GMT

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[misanthropiczombie]

I posted 2,126 times in 2021

19 posts created (1%)

2107 posts reblogged (99%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 110.9 posts.

I added 26 tags in 2021

#bts in the wild - 6 posts

#cr spoilers - 4 posts

#gender - 2 posts

#gender queer - 2 posts

#bts - 2 posts

#chronic pain - 2 posts

#huh - 2 posts

#laudna - 2 posts

#agender - 2 posts

#genderfluid - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#also playing the what game but then physically feeling your brain reprocess what it missed and replying in the middle of them repeating game

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Note to self: next time design something a bit more simple for cross stitch project.

2 notes • Posted 2021-03-13 19:34:47 GMT

#4

So the live action bebop is... surprisingly okay??

Like the first episode is TRASH and I'm pretty sure was a pitch pilot they just did not have the time/money to re shoot, but after that they do actually hit some stride and the quality, writing, and acting gets waaaaay better.

Also Vicious looks like a Discount Witcher, and that alone is worth watching it for because I mad laugh every time he pops up

2 notes • Posted 2021-11-23 06:16:33 GMT

#3

When tumblr decides to refresh itself and put me back at the top of my feed, it's time to do literally anything else

3 notes • Posted 2021-03-03 04:46:11 GMT

#2

What do you do with complicated, contradictory feelings?

For the tldr of my life and a bit of the family drama, my dad essentially disowned or went no contact with everyone but me and a cousin, for reasons which I feel like were..... kind of shitty. Regardless, his decision to make and provided I wasn't roped in to the constant bitching, whatever.

But the thing is, I was still extremely close to my grandparents. They practically raised me in the summers when I was growing up (bc dad couod not be bothered). They had thier faults, but goddammit they were still important to me.

When my grandmother died, I called my dad crying to tell him, since nobody else was going to, and I asked him to come to the funeral because that was the first big loss in my life and I needed my dad. He didn't come. He didn't even tell me he was going to bail. Regardless of thier relationship, I needed him and he failed me in every way possible.

When my aunt died last year he texted me to tell me, and then left me holding the bag to call and tell thier other sibling the news, because he wasn't talking to her for whatever reason.

Now my grandfather has passed, and he once again texted me about it, which, hm. But he's also now saying he's going to, definitively, come to the funeral. And on one hand I am so, so angry. Why couldn't he have come earlier. My grandfather never forgave him for cutting and running, and my grandma always would have dropped everything to have him back. Is it spite? Is it some sense of growth? I asked neutrally because regardless of all of the drama, he deserves the chance to say good bye. Regardless of our fraught relationship. I'm glad he's going for that sake. I'm glad he's stepping up. I want him there, but I'm also still so angry and I don't know how to reconcile these thoughts. Very little of this is my drama.

I don't know why everyone stopped talking in full, and frankly I don't really care. They're all adults and I will forever be the child or the niece or granddaughter and I want no part in however fucked up those dynamics have become. I've got separate drama with my dad, because he's made some shit moves in his life, and I'll probably never fully be over them or fully forgive, but with time I have mostly moved past.

My husband thinks I should go no-contact, but I don't really want to. I have some foolish hope I have carried over my whole life that maybe once he'll pull through. Maybe once he'll step up to the plate. He's always been kind of generally shitty in the misguided sense, and has only ever been particularly maliciously shitty once (which is perhaps a story for another time if I need to scream it into the void, rather than vent at the people around me when the topic arises). I don't know.

I'm stuck in this awful ambiguous middle ground emotionally and I have no clue how to begin sorting through these feelings. Maybe I never will. In a year it will go down as a sour footnote in a fraught relationship, with no real clear answers. The feelings are valid, but fuck if I know what to do with them.

3 notes • Posted 2021-08-15 17:08:09 GMT

#1

I know agender, gender fluid, and gender queer all exist for me to use, but consider: gendershrug.

24 notes • Posted 2021-04-04 08:55:32 GMT

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[marquis-de-all-the-knives]

#UR NOT A TUMBLR TROGLODYTE I CHNAGED THE REBLOG BC I M DUMB I PULLED OUT MY DYNAMICS NOTS IM GONNA FIGURE THIS OUT#how did you avoid the differential equations🥺#what the fuck🥺🥺🥺🥺#okay i literally pulled out my dynamics text book and shit and did my research#fort galfridian whoever she is is fucking weird but like#okay ASSUMING the tube sun is DENSE ENOUGH that the cylinders rotate around it to simulate gravity#or wait do the cylinders rotate themselves?#because it depends what your center of rotation is#if it’s the sun!!!!#then yes congrats you have gravity#the thing is that each cylinder is a different distance from the tube sun#they’d all rotate at increasing velocities proportional to the increase in distance from the tube sun#so to keep THEM ALL going at gravity#each outer layer would get faster (think like how planets do the same thing as they’re further from our sun)#but their orbits (in this case the diameter of the cylinder) are longer as well#they could just let gravity decrease the further out you get from the tube sun#okay like but the sun is only 12.5 miles away from them?????? how do they not die?????#okay back to the main point#I THINK??????#if the next layer is moving at a velocity that allows them to also keep gravity constant#you would not notice the difference because typically as you get further from the center of rotation (ASSUMING ITS THE TUBE SUN???)#then you’d just get floaty#but if the next layer is still going fast enough to have gravity (that 9.81 m^2/s we know and love) then the only scary part i could see#is the transtion from one layer to another#im not sure what that’d look like though and it could be avoided by just having a 0 gravity transtion room between layers#well actually no the transition wouldnt be scary because you’re also rotating and so you’re frame of reference is not stationary#so tl;dr#each layer goes fast as FUCK and since you’re in one layer going fast as FUCK you won’t actually notice the change too much between layers#if the other layers don’t spin tho???#DO NOT STICK YOUR HAND OUT OMG SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR HAND YOU’RE RIGHT

okie i’m gonna move this into its own post @crychanwastaken​ and i’ll tag #fort galfridian math for anyone who’s lost interest at this point. and first of all i want to salute you for digging out old textbooks for this discussion. like, bravo, that is AWESOME.

(i did not avoid differential equations — i avoided the one class that was exclusively about differential equations and would’ve gone way more in depth than a standard calc class. ANYWAY—)

okie so @thedreadvampy​’s original post covered this but it was hidden under a readmore so here’s the basic idea:

two suns! one real, one fake. (fluorescent, according to the canon. the canon = High Noon over Camelot, an album by The Mechanisms.) nothing on the station is big enough to provide significant gravity, so everything is coming from the rotation. so yeah, you are absolutely right about the “gravity” varying with distance! by my calculations, if the innermost layer is radius 12.5 miles and the outermost 15 miles, you’ll only be going from 1 gee to about 1.2 gee. I have... no frame of reference for how wacky that would feel. but like, imagine suddenly gaining an extra 20% of your body weight. i feel like you’d at least NOTICE.

i did not even think of concentrically rotating cylinders for consistent gravity! i don’t have any impression that that was intended by the source material, as characters seem to navigate between the layers pretty much on foot and unrestricted. but it’s a fun idea to play with!

a summary of what we know about the station from canon: https://marquis-de-all-the-knives.tumblr.com/post/624472261126193152/all-references-to-the-structure-workings-orbit and also some extra context from the band artist here: https://thedreadvampy.tumblr.com/post/624542261472002048/a-round-boy-the-pylons-hold-up-the-sun-which-is and an illustration of the outside of the station here: https://twitter.com/windhounded/status/1286777579396108289 (by one of the bandmates)

I took a slight liberty in the diagram above by putting Fort Galfridian's axis of rotation perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. The tarot card art makes it look like the axis points along the radius of revolution, but I think it would get more even heating this way so that's how I've been imagining it.

[soonsluv]

rain my babyyyy heyyy!!!

ahhh omg i missed you 💖 i understand you didn't want to make me feel pressured, but dw you couldnt!

and oof omg ppl still aren't understand the importance of reblogs, huh.... it's not that hard, not every social media works like instagram 🙃 as someone who used to make content on tumblr (gifs) i relate sm with all the posts that have been going around. I loved giffing, but putting in +3 hours of work into a gifset only for it to have like... 10 likes.... and zero interaction.... really sucks lmao (painful)

i haven't been in tumblr in yearsss, but when I started stanning svt i came back fkdnsk i still need to go around and patch things up to be able to reblog things into my blog, but I've been extra councious about leaving comments while i work on it. I honestly can't understand what ppl think is so hard about INTERACTING.... i blame instagram fkdndm there you only double click and move on, i think ppl forgot that communities can't be held solely based on a like button

- 😺 anon

gato sweetheart<33 i’m so happy to hear from you again🥹

don’t even get me started…. that anon literally didn’t give a shit about what i thought, they just wanted to get on my nerves. when they said: “you just said abunch of words and said nothing at the same time tbh. ‘i can tell this ur not a wwirter' i dont write but i post images/moodboards of various topics. tags are way interaction happens. laso how else do you think i found your blog? thats right tags since the tagging on tumblr is not the disastor you make it out to be. reblogs are just annoying since, its not gonna leave the fandom circle since the people who want to see it will see it, tags are how new people find your posts” i was about to get violent bc despite me giving them MULTIPLE reasons as to why reblogs are important, they said i was talking out of my ass and told ME, A WRITER that THEY, A NON WRITER thought that the tagging system on tumblr worked perfectly find when there are so many posts out there that prove otherwise and they obviously wouldn’t know that bc they aren’t a writer like WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TALK TO ME LIKE IM STUPID?? if you want to be an asshole and refuse to reblog then fucking go ahead and shut the fuck up while you’re at it.

i’m getting heated just thinking about that interaction omds…

anyways, im glad i’m not crazy or anything, thank you for agreeing w me!

[panther-os]

I posted 603 times in 2021

49 posts created (8%)

554 posts reblogged (92%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 11.3 posts.

I added 64 tags in 2021

#rvb - 28 posts

#agent washington - 9 posts

#dragon age - 5 posts

#locus - 4 posts

#project freelancer - 4 posts

#dick simmons - 4 posts

#agent york - 3 posts

#anders - 3 posts

#locington siblings - 2 posts

#agent north dakota - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#currently im working with urdu as a placeholder bc i called fenris murder bae tan france once and havent been able to get it out of my head

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Is Freelancer real names still a Thing? I've been out of the fandom for forever and the hype seemed to be on its way down when I left.

Carolina: Rebeca Shani Church (Ashkenazi + Mexican Sephardi)

York: Jianhong "Jonny" Elias Rodrigues-Yuen (Macanese)

Wash: David Asher Church (Ashkenazi + Mexican Sephardi)

North: Vesa Kalo (Finnish Karelian)

South: Ansa Kalo (Finnish Karelian)

CT: Iona Blair (Scottish)

Maine: Moses-046 (SPARTAN-II)

Wyoming: Reginald Phillip Charles Prescott Winthrop-Covington IV (Upper Class British)

28 notes • Posted 2021-11-28 21:59:51 GMT

#4

Ngl a good 40-50% of why I love trans!Simmons is solely because of this potential interaction

Someone: Nice name, Dick

Simmons: Thanks, I picked it myself

P much everyone: Your name is a fucking pun?!

40 notes • Posted 2021-12-17 21:39:36 GMT

#3

art idea that will get me instantly assassinated by the rvb fandom: wash with a forget-me-not growing out the side of his neck

follow up fic idea that will get me brought back to life and killed again: wash dies in s15 and the reds and blues pull a director and make a wash ai because they've never met a healthy coping mechanism in their life and also wash is 99% of their collective impulse control (they manage to do it much more ethically but lbr that bar is a tripping hazard in hell)

40 notes • Posted 2021-11-13 20:13:22 GMT

#2

Works that cast Epsilon as a villain because of the Incident squick me out just as much as works that ignore the Incident ever happening.

Yeah, Epsilon was traumatized.

Yeah, Epsilon traumatized Wash.

No, Epsilon was not in his right mind.

And I don't know that Wash could or couldn't have handled it better, we're not given nearly enough information about that for me to draw conclusions.

I definitely don't think it's healthy for them to be in the same room together in canon, and I definitely do think Wash is right to enforce the boundary of not having another AI in his implants ever again.

But the only villains in that situation are the Director and Counselor and their shitty experimental unethical science.

Wash and Epsilon both have the right to feel hurt and the right to heal as they see best fit - in Wash's case, steering clear of AI and not letting his implants be touched, and in Epsilon's, moving on and going vigilante with Carolina.

Arguably, Epsilon is the one healing faster, but that doesn't mean he suffered less and it doesn't mean it's his fault that Wash isn't healing at the same pace.

It's just a shitty fucking situation all around and they both got fucked over and are figuring out what to do with their lives after the fact.

The best analogy I can think of is if one person (Director, Counselor) shoves another person (Epsilon) down the stairs and that person slams into a third person (Wash) like a bowling ball on the way down and both people who fell down the stairs wind up hospitalized. It's not the fault of the person who got shoved, but the person who got bowling ball'd still got hurt, too - emphasis on the "too".

43 notes • Posted 2021-12-02 05:29:20 GMT

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Okay ngl my favorite moment in the entirety of RvB is Simmons' soft little "y'alright?" when Sarge is having his breakdown in S16.

And also, tangentially related, my favorite moment in S17 is Wash's patented Mom Voice "Simmons!" before Simmons technically knows him beyond "that guy we met that one time who just shot my teammate."

73 notes • Posted 2021-12-14 04:20:13 GMT

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I never experienced art theft until one of my works became unexpectedly popular- since then, I've found my work reposted, redrawn, and used as reference for cosplays. It's been exhausting, both seeing it, and not knowing WHERE I should stand on the issue. I've let redraws slide (with credit), but I plan on not allowing future ones from occurring. How do you deal with art theft? How do you continue drawing without thinking about the disrespect thrown at you during bad/failed confrontations?

I am so, so incredibly sorry this happened to you, and empathize very strongly with you. Art theft SUCKS, few things can be quite as demotivating as a creator than having something you’ve worked your ass off on swiped by someone else. And unfortunately, given the current internet culture, if you continue as an online artist it’s inevitable that it’ll happen at one point or another.

Because sure, of course part of the reason why we create is because we want to, but a large part of the motivation for sharing it is to hopefully get some response that people like it, whether it be in the form of likes, reblogs, comments, asks, tags, or anything else. That is the tangible PROOF that our work touched someone, and for someone who put in zero effort and has no idea how we felt while creating to receive all of that instead of us…sucks.

I think where you stand on the issue is up to you, and it’s okay for it to change. YOU always have the right to decide how you’re comfortable with people sharing your art, and your feelings are valid regardless of how they change.

Ironically enough, I just had another art theft on Instagram (my Anniversary post) super recently, so I was like HAH when I got this orz

This rant got a bit long, so the rest beneath cut but here’s a rundown about how my feelings towards art theft have evolved over the years.

For example, over the years I’ve gotten much, MUCH stricter. My earliest online art, I just put it up, no url, oftentimes no signature, no warnings in the comments or my blog bio. Admittedly I was starting out and didn’t have much viewers anyway, but the point was I still had Trust at the time.

Then the art thefts began. I started adding my url to all my illustrations, even if it was just small in the corner, as this’d let people at least find my website. Most people are too lazy to type out a url though, and I’ve seen people asking “Who drew this??” on art theft comments EVEN WHEN THE URL IS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE…

And then people started cropping my watermarks. I made my url bigger, and started adding an additional “DO NOT REPOST” to the image itself. I used to allow reposts with credits on platforms I’m not on, like fb, until I realized that people were then reposting from THOSE communities without credit and putting them into their videos and fics and I just…decided it wasn’t worth it.

I switched to no reposts PERIOD. I have lengthy disclaimers on all of my art that leads to an even lengthier FAQ post that, should people wish to look, leads to even an even more detailed post about WHY art theft sucks, as I’m explaining now.

(EDIT: ALSO, reduce the quality of the images you upload, and NEVER upload the full resolution, and try to keep you unmerged original files. This is for several reasons: no matter how much an art thief reposts your work, they’ll never have access to the higher resolution, and if they ever decide to try to print to sell for profit it’ll be shitty quality compared to anything you make with the original. ALSO, you having the maximum resolution with no watermarking with additional unmerged psd files will be proof that you are the true creator should you need to prove it, which I’ve heard is sometimes necessary to show when your art is stolen at say, an artist alley)

I also used to bother trying to talk to art reposters. I’d comment on the post, try to send messages, etc. It’s fucking exhausting, and while there are some exceptions, the VAST majority of art thiefs will feel attacked and immediately get rude and defensive. (the failed confrontations and disrespect you mentioned orz) If it’s a large community, they may even try to gang up on you. I’ve unfortunately experienced this most frequently in communities centered around other languages (mainly Spanish) because of different mainstream attitudes towards art reposting etiquette combined with a language barrier.

You will, and no doubt already have, encountered people who will argue with you, like the people I describe above. “You should be grateful for the bigger audience!” “We just want to appreciate your art, how can you be so horrible?” “We’re all fans together!” “This is fanart and doesn’t belong to you anyway!” Etc. etc. etc. It’s exhausting, it’s repetitive, it’s neverending, and you already felt awful before it even began and the stress just continues to build.

So I personally have just begun reporting people, if the service allows it. Use DMCA takedown request forms (and YES, even if it’s fanart it’s still yours if you drew it). This is stressful too because it sends your real name + info to the reposter (and wow I clearly can’t trust these people to begin with, why would I want them to have that???) but most sites (facebook, instagram, certainly tumblr, twitter) are very efficient and responsive, and in the end the relief of receiving that email that the art has been taken down is worth it. Especially with facebook, they also send a scary official warning email to the reposters which I sincerely hope will help educate them and discourage future art thefts.

I try to avoid posting public urls because yes I’m aware how mob mentality Tumblr can get, but sometimes it’s just too much. There’s no convenient form of getting my content removed (perhaps bc it’s in a compilation with a ton of other content), or for some reason my attempts to communicate have failed. In those times I have occasionally asked my followers to help, with a reminder to PLEASE always be polite and respectful, regardless of the offense. Y’all have been amazing, and this has saved me many nights of crying in the past.

I will sometimes also write lengthy posts (like this one!) to help educate. Because I do feel that art theft will continue so long as people don’t understand what it does to artists, and it’s up to the community as a whole to make that change, which also depends heavily on the consumers not just creators. A lot of art theft really isn’t intentionally meant to harm, but IS super ignorant.

But in the end, all I’ve ranted about so far is how I’ve dealt with actually removing/dealing with the shit. But the emotional pain, it builds. Sometimes, when it’s too frequent and the stolen art gets way more attention than my original that I worked my ass off on that basically flunked on my own platforms, I feel a bit of me break.

And in the end, it’s up to you what that threshold is, where posting art and feeling good about it is overwhelmed by the pain, fear, and anxiety of art theft. I’ve crossed my own threshold too many times, and once had to take an art hiatus because of it (fandom was BH6). This lead to a break in my productivity and motivation and my eventual complete departure form the fandom. I’ve seen many other artists just stop posting art entirely or moving everything to private. It’s terrible, but my feelings are with these artists, and I feel so, so sorry that they were hurt so much to the extent they had to do this.

With my current fandom and followers, I feel that regardless of how niche an audience my content tends to be geared for, I have a community that is really satisfying for me to create for, one that is responsive to me and gives me tons of feedback. This is the number one reason why i continue to feel motivated to post a ton of online content despite the risks.

The takeaway form this long meandering post: Posting online is a hobby, it’s for fun, and I don’t make any money off my public audience (unless they come to Patreon! LOL!), so I’m a firm believer that once the anxiety + misery starts outweighing anything positive you personally may get from sharing online, which for me heavily depends on my audience and their responsiveness, there’s no reason to subject yourself to that anymore and you are in no way obligated to stay. There are various methods to more efficiently get rid of art thefts without dealing with them in person which is stressful AF, and also ways of marking up your content in ways that may look less aesthetically pleasing, but will hopefully discourage art thefts, and at the very least give them very little leg to stand on should they do it anyway. How forgiving you are in art thefts also depends on you, but the more forgiving you are, the more it can get away from you. And in the end, YOU as a human are more important than any complaints about art looking less pleasing or the feelings of art thefts who don’t get to do what they want with YOUR hard work.

Sorry this was so disjointed and literally just me spewing at you, but I hope some of it was helpful ^ ^; Please let me know if I can give you any other advice, and I’m sorry again that you have to deal with this ;_;

(and to respond to your second ask, I do try to respond to most of my asks, but sometimes it takes a while (sometimes even months orz), especially if it’s one that requires a lengthy detailed answer like this one ^ ^; thank you for your patience!)