#never really had a lot of mutuals on tumblr I'm more of a lurker on here

[jolyonvane]

Dude you don't even know how much your art inspired me and helped me out of a big art block or rather everything block. I just wanted to say I'm so grateful I found your videos, they mean so much to me :(

Bro I just checked out your youtube and 😨😨😨 shit goes HARD!!! Art block sucks so I'm happy you got outta there 🙏

[bonesandthebees]

Let's see...

💎 🪄 ☯️ for the ask game!!!!

💎why is writing important to you?

I've said this in a few other asks, but writing is just something I feel like i'm supposed to do. it's how I express myself creatively. it's how I make sense of the world around me and it's just a thing that drives me like nothing else. i've never had the same level of passion and dedication to improve a craft like I have with writing. it just means a lot to me, y'know?

🪄what is your post-writing/sharing aftercare? How do you take care of yourself or celebrate yourself when you've finished a fic?

well usually after posting something unless I really want to write, I'll give myself the day off from writing (of course I take days off when I haven't just written something, but I don't have the same nagging "you should be writing" hanging in the back of my head on posting days). a lot of times this leads to me needing something else to fill my evenings with, so a lot of times I end up cooking! let's see, for finishing strings today I: steamed artichokes and made a really good mayo lemon garlic based dipping sauce for them, made pasta and baked asparagus, and now I just took a blueberry pie out of the oven :) treating myself with good eats tonight

☯️how do you think engaging with each other through tumblr, twitter, comments, kudos, creates healthy fandom experiences? How do you deal with that if you're not a social person/experience social anxiety?

fandom is a community. its' always been a community, and a community is a group of people that interact with each other over a shared experience/hobby/interest/etc. if people are making content for a community, it's only expected that they receive 'payment' of some kind, which in the case of fanfics is through kudos and comments. and similarly with with fanart, RTs/reblogs are currency, along with replies! it's engaging in the community to keep it alive. you can't have a community of people if it's dead silent. with less traditional forms of content like analysis creating discussion is another great way to engage in the community. and then of course there's just standard having conversations with people you meet on twitter/tumblr and making friends!

if you have social anxiety, you don't need to feel guilty if you're not contributing to analysis discussion or dming your mutuals on social media. but there's silent ways to participate! again, like leaving kudos on a fic or reblogging fanart. i love tumblr because the tag system lets me ramble a ton of thoughts about my reblogs that I feel too awkward or anxious to actually put in the replies. to me, talking in tags feels like talking mostly to myself, but in a way that the creator can see it if they want but it's not creating an expectation for anyone to actually read my tags. so I highly encourage talking in tags when you reblog stuff. or of course people can do what you've done here and send anonymous asks! I mean, I have a whole group of named anons on my blog. so using the anon feature can definitely help with anxiety as well.

either way, if you want to be a lurker that's ok, but I encourage you to try and participate in fandom because it's just more fun for everyone that way! even if your support is silent, reblogging art you like or leaving a kudos on a fic you enjoyed does so much more than just scrolling past things and never letting the creator know you appreciated it.

ask game!

[therealun-kamen-t]

😷 UnKamenThought #1: Start of Something New, Yet Familiar? 👾

So many thoughts I wanna just spill out onto something/somewhere. From how I've been feeling lately about my idea(s), future plans, what I feel like I messed up on, what I think I did great on (glitch brain go brr so this is vague and doesn't really dictate the order of how the subjects are brought up... BUT I will separate each topic somehow... NGL just been a lurker of Tumblr, never really and active participant, but we gon learn as we go)

See, UnKamenThoughts started off on my Twitter where I just have random thought I wanted to share to stir a conversation with mutuals and/or just people in the same/similar space of vtubing. Thought it was a clever idea for my name to be included with a hashtag I felt would be used a lot. And I certainly did use it a lot. But thing is about twitter is that it's limited and cuz of how limited it is, I felt like I was kinda annoying people with multiple tweets in a thread by myself.

<Segway into thoughts on social media> 👀

Kinda glad that twitter was shaken up cuz it forced a lot of us to look for alternatives... Some alternatives are buggy (maybe shut down rn... Miss you Hive), some are confusing to use currently (Mastodon when?), Some are finally getting some dust blown off it... (And then we saw all our old cringe and decided to just make a whole new account. Hello again tumblr and Instagram) and some are established things but I don't think is for everyone to have since it's kind of just paywalled off content without the implications of it being strictly 🔞 explicit content (that might be for another day) Other than that I've already talked about what I want to do with my other socials cuz I've been a big believer in making sure you have other means of getting reach to new eyes and such... Yet I'm a hypocrite and definitely just on twitter and twitch 😅 (but we growing slowly outta it... This and the couple IG posts I made are the first steps) and don't get me wrong I feel like I did a decent amount of growing... BUT being on just 2 places and inconsistent AF with a lot of what I do (more on that later) yeah the growth is a bit stagnant. Besides that bit... The rumblings of it helped kick my @$$ into gear to complete the Discord Server... It still needs some work but I'm proud of it and can't wait to house a lot of fun things there. Though I feel like I accomplished a decent amount... I'm not happy with how I carried out or flaked out on plans... Execution of a lot of things... Unsatisfactory.

<#NoSoloNovemeber/Rivalry Series/Streams>

I had this fun (basic) idea of every stream I do in November would be a collab. Now building off that to make it a little more impactful and interesting I'd Collab with someone new almost every stream. And then to finish it off towards the end I'd do a big Collab with anyone/everyone that came on before and some who weren't available at the time to join me for a final hoorah if No Solo November. At the either final stream or at the end of every stream for No Solo I'd give thanks to everyone who hung out with me and why I'm so thankful for them (cuz Thanksgiving and such). Now it's December 5th (started writing this like end of Nov 30th), and I did the base idea with the other bits in mind yet I did not plan a damn thing (besides one thing) so it kinda flopped on it's face... I failed to plan, so I planned to fail. I didn't manage my time properly to slot people in for specific days and specific games. I was really kinda sad that I didn't even just grab a bunch of people who were free for a big thing at the end... The biggest part I'm upset about was I didn't give thanks to those who deserved it most regardless if we streamed... Main point was to have fun and let my friends and inspirations know how appreciative I am of them existing and wanting to hang around me. *Sigh* it's fine... This is year 0 problems, next year will be a better year. Besides this is all reflection on what I can do better next time... Now onto the one thing I did plan:

RIVALRY SERIES -

🦊Kitsune V Kamen😷: Pokemon Scarlet/Violet

So Rivalry Series is just ya usual VS series between two people of course as they play a game together or adjacent to each other. Now it will always be ___ V Kamen cuz I do plan on having various people as my main rival for whatever game. Kitsune - @heyjanaebers is (currently in my plans) a reoccurring main rival of mine so it only made sense that I start it off with her. That being said we were going to have battles with wagers at certain points of the game... Somewhere in the start (after 1st gym?), Somewhere in the middle ("50%" of the game) and finally at the end (beaten main story and give prep time for the battle). Now again I failed to plan (further) so I planned to fail when it was time... We did not, in fact battle after the 1st gym... We rescheduled due to Reality things goin on for both of us... And cuz I got really into the game and without battle gyms I kinda leveled up a lot... So she had to catch up (my fault) and I had to kinda dawdle around while she catches up. Which gave me more pokemon to use so I still technically had a leg up... Anyways we battled well past the middle point... So next battle is the last battle (for the time being) so I'm definitely giving prep time for both of us... Granted, currently she is ahead of me. I know where I messed up with this, besides not thinking the idea fully through and mapping it out or just having some backup plans to level out the playing field for "scheduled" battles I think the mistake(s) lie in it being a new game and sometimes... You want to experience the game as much as possible and you don't wanna wait for anyone when you are in the thick of it... SO that being said I think should've had some failsafes for either of us getting ahead... Should've stuck to the script of doing these battles when they were supposed to happen... Or do what I thought of and kinda make poke-updates on my journey... Would be just smart to make fuggin content/videos... Record everything and trim down to the good stuff...

Anyways year 0 problems... Fixing it for the next year and next game(s) for Rivalry series...

<Wrapping this up>

Overall, I know these are great ideas... I know these could be amazing things for fun content. But I have to learn from these things; plan things out fully, prepare properly and make sure to execute things right if I wanna be satisfied with the result... NGL I want #NoSoloNovember to be something I'm known for and a lot of others do as well... that as well as other ideas whether I tried them or have yet to put into action. Besides that... I just need to manage things better overall, I think something's have suffered due to lack of proper management. Starting off December weird due to irregular stream times but I made this post which I want to be a regular thing here... Both things mentioned will be better. I will be better.

💛👾😷🖤

<L8r GL!7ch3s>

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[dresupi]

So i don't really reblog I'm more of a lurker. I have zero things on my dash, barely even set up the page and I've been around for about 6 months. So if i was going to start reblogging, what do I do? what's the deal with hashtags? I know where the buttons are to actually do it, I'm just not sure on how to hashtag (like what to use) or comment with it when I send it to give credit etc. hope that makes sense.

I’m by no means an expert, but I can tell you what I do when I reblog things.  

Set up a queue - (just so you’re not bombarding everyone with your reblogs all at once, this spreads things out a bit so you’re posting things all the time rather than in little bursts) You can do this on a browser by simply sending something to your queue instead of reblogging it, and then by clicking the little person icon and going to your queue to set it up to post a certain number of times.  I have mine set to post 25 times a day (about once per hour).  I use the queue to reblog posts that aren’t as time sensitive.  So like, shitposts or fandom reblogs or gifsets or whatever?  I send those to my queue.  That way, when I’m reblogging fics and art, I can just reblog them immediately and get those creators their stats asap.  

Hashtags- the way the tags work on tumblr (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong), but the first five tags are searchable.  In that the post will show up in the search under those first five tags.  But only the first five tags are searchable.  SO, when I tag, I put the stuff I’d search for in the tags.  If you’re reblogging fic, you’ll want to tag the characters and/or ships in those first five tags. You can also put a rating in those tags as well if you’d like.  Only the first five are searchable, so anything you tag after that will be for your use or the use of your followers, ie trigger warnings, organizational tags, general fannish comments, etc. 

Commenting-  As a writer, I know that I love getting comments and reaction gifs on reblogs, but sometimes as a reader, you’re just tapped out and you don’t know what to say, and that’s perfectly fine.  Don’t think you have to comment on every single reblog.  Even some # or #love this in the tags is lovely to see when someone reblogs. Leaving love in the tags is just as wonderful as a comment or reaction gif on your reblog. 

Credit - Tumblr kind of takes care of that for you with the source thing at the bottom.  I’ve seen in a few of the reblogs of my post that some people have had authors get upset with them for taking credit for their work when they reblog it and I honestly have never heard of this happening to anyone before, but so many people have said something about it that I realize it MUST be a thing.  (No matter how mind boggling).  But anyway, I will go over the difference in reblogging and reposting.  

Reblogging is not the same as reposting.  Reblogging is hitting the reblog button at the bottom of a post that the author posted, and reposting is copy/pasting content and posting a NEW POST from your account.  Reposting is NOT GOOD, do not repost someone else’s work, reposting can be taken by the author as you trying to take credit, do not repost.  Reblogging is GOOD, yes reblog.  If you reblog, the source of the content is right there, so everyone knows who wrote it.  Another thing you can do if you’re worried about an author’s reaction is to tag it #not my work, and maybe tag with the author’s name?  If you’re unsure if the author wants their stuff reblogged, then you can always ask them.  Send them a message or an ask or even reply to the post and just see if they’re okay with things being reblogged.  I know for me and for most of my author friends, we love having our stuff reblogged.  But not everyone does, so if you’re unsure, or if they don’t have a lot of reblogs of stuff, go ahead and ask them to see if they’re okay with things being reblogged.   

I mean, like I said, I’m no expert.  But this is what I know about reblogging fics and art on here.  If any of my followers or mutuals have anything to add, please do it!