#talking abt algorithm btw

[ezlo-x]

im sorry if i just sound really angsty I'm just really upset with that website

[olberic]

a crucial and often overlooked part of the social media experience is the need to see posts from ppl about things you do not care about. do not misconstrue my words because im not talking about giving bigots a platform. im talking about following ppl who never shut up about a game i never want to play. people who post about their oc for a manga ive never read. fan artists who you have no idea what the hell theyre drawing but you like their style. vaguely horny artists who have kinks i dont understand. people who post about bands from the 70s as if theyre still together and on tour. people who are obsessed with poetry when youve never found a poem you really feel. like sometimes you gotta follow somebody totally at random just for the enrichment and see where it takes you.

[her-canine-teeth]

sometimes it's important to get a reality check. for example, i get violently interested in basically anything and ill ask my friend 'lots, is yellowjackets popular' and shell be like 'what the fuck is yellowjackets' and ill be like 'thanks great talking to you' and then. many a time later i discover it actually is popular and more ppl than my 3 beloved mutuals know abt it. but such is the life

[clarabowmp3]

my mum's talking marriage again lalallalalala

[lesbiangwenstacyy]

talking to strangers on the internet abt serious topics is so awkward bc it is next to impossible to tell if u r going to yell at me for not spelling like a homestuck character or not

[karaaaak]

Look, idk why, but ada gives me like neglected child vibes. Like the type of kid what would do anything so that their parent noticed them. Gave them a shred of their attention.

Don’t take my word on this, I can’t actually look up things abt this bc I have no WiFi rn.. this was written on a note at 4am okay.

Buttt, you can see my vision right? Like a small Ike child, that is Ada (which is just cute to imagine. Like I would die for art if them younger, official or not idc), going to extremes for attention for her parents. Whether that be purposely getting hurt, starting fights, making up things, going above and beyond to do everything right plus a little more, etc.

Maybe overtime she realized it was a lost cause and turned to external validation, like men for example. Men like Thomas (or Mr Tamerlane. I call him Thomas simple because I fucking hate him and I’m not calling him by Tamerlane).

Side note since I’m kinda talking abt families. This will probably end up a separate post in the future if I don’t come up with something against it

Also CW for abuse, since I am talking abt Pluto

Due to the Edgar Allen Pluto story the Pluto is based on, The Black Cat. I personally believe that Pluto has many other siblings.

I think that because in the story, The Black Cat, the narrator (which is the character plutos dad was based on), has many pet. His favorite of the pets being his black cat, Pluto. Overtime the Narrator becomes and alcoholic. He begins abusing his pets. For a long while he avoids hurting Pluto, since he is his favorite. But once night when he comes home from drinking Pluto scratches his leg, and in a drunken rage his cuts the cats eye out.

Much, much more happens in the story but that’s the part I’m focusing on.

Also adding kinda to this. After that incident in the story Pluto, the black cat, begins to avoid the narrator. Clinging onto the narrator wife (yes for some reason the narrator has a wife still. Even after murdering animals, honestly poor girl. She gets killed too btw..). I point this out bc it was odd to me that Plutos (nevermore Pluto) response to fear is to cling onto somebody for comfort. Most of the time this ends up being Duke, since he’s normally closer to him and trusts him. But I’m sure he does this with multiple people (I can’t think of them off the top of my head rn). This fear response could be because pre-death Pluto would do the same to his mother. He would come to her for safety and/or comfort.

(Side note in the side note. Later in The Black Cat, if I’m remembering correctly, I’ll have to fact check in the morning. The fact the cat, Pluto, starts constantly hanging around his wife, upsets the narrator. I think that’s is one of the reason that led him to killing the cat)

Anyway this post has been way too long, and I don’t think that “side note” is rlly a side note anymore. Anywho, as I say in all of my long posts like this. If you have any feedback, catch any mistakes, have tips for how I can improve my writing. Genuinely please do tell, whether that be through a reblog, comment, etc. I look at all my notifications so I highly doubt it will go unnoticed. If you like my long writings like this (which if you do, literally thank you so much 😭) then idk, maybe I’ll post more of these. If there’s anything you have questions abt, want be to try any cover (god that sounds like way to professional. I’m talking like I’m well know lmao) then do tell me! I love love reading people thoughts. Like it makes my whole day.

Well, that’s all I’ve got to say for now! I’ll post this in the morning and see if the algorithm picks it up. Thank you so so much for reading!

[kurishiri]

As fellow translator (not ikemen series), who has been on tumblr for a while, I can empathize with you because my translation barely have comments or someone thanked me for tl. But, I don't want to think it deeply.

Perhaps, some people uncomfortable to interact with others or have social anxiety. Even tho behind each account we don't know each other and so on, people that having this type of anxiety will feel insecure when interacting with others. Some sort of question haunt them such as; (what is the response if I interact with other, are people accepting my comment, should I comment like this or like that—), and more disturbing question appear on their mind. Other than that, some people maybe facing social burn out. They want to interact with others post but they have reach their limit of interaction so they reblog/likes instead, without commenting. Or maybe they faced hard time irl so tumblr are their escape place but because their socialize limit has reached, they not interact with others and only likes/reblog.

That's how I start to learn understand why some people not thanked me or interacting with me. I learn to accept all sort of interaction I get either it is reblog, likes or comments and appreciate each one of them even tho my inner self really want to talk about the tls I have done. But, as I said, I learn to understand each kind of people exist especially on tumblr. Btw, this is my personal opinion about this matter. I hope you don't give up on tl but if you start feel tired, you can take a rest from tl for a while and come back when you feel okay. Sorry for this long post lol and Happy New Year! ✨

happy new year anon! 🥂✨

first, thanks for sharing your thoughts! /gen tbh i wrote the original post in the car, not really thinking much of it at the time, but i never intend for it to pressure or guilt trip lurkers into commenting. it was honestly like…more so a silly vent, or a half-assed attempt to motivate myself lmao bc i looked at my dash and ended up having these thoughts of comparing myself to others when looking at other tls. like “wow there r my big shot friends and moots who get so many comments and asks, positive vibes, gushing together…then there’s me” kinda thing bfhsjfhshfs but ik “lurking” is just an inherent, inevitable phenomenon of social media, we’ve all lurked one way or another on the internet, whether we realize it or not. ik based on said phenomenon, out of all impressions and interactions, <10% will be active interactions like comments on average. (i took a class on social computing ,, interesting stuff) so ya i can’t and don’t expect comments or asks on a default.

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and i also understand ppl may struggle with anxiety or may not have the energy, which is also why i never expect ppl to comment on my stuff as the go-to. that’s just asking for too much. i don’t mean to invalidate such feelings. and i appreciate ppl who still like and especially reblog, as reblogging actively helps boost the post with how tmblr’s algorithm works. there r even a couple ppl who i’ve never even heard a peep of a word from but i notice they like and, or reblog nearly every tl post i put up. i do notice these kinds of things too. and i do appreciate lurkers and any interaction as well! i love y’all too /p

but ya even while understanding the inevitability of it and knowing ppl got their reasons for lurking, it doesn’t change the fact that, to me, one comment can do loads more for me than 100+ “silent” reblogs or likes. but as mentioned before, i can’t expect comments or similar interactions at a minimum (i consider myself lucky af if i get a comment lmao) so thats why i sort of have a smaller circle of friends that i sorta talk abt my tls to. like a circle i know will give me that feedback i want and need to keep me going aside from me having fun with tls. and i’m pretty sure i’m not the only fan translator like this…i just hope i don’t annoy said circle djahfhsgfhagds

[planefood]

btw I watched like a handful of history of insert country videos like mongolia and hawaii which mostly just talked abt US interference or just listing stats about a place but now i’m getting a bunch of weird ancient roman war history videos with wojaks in the thumbnails I hate the youtube algorithm rn what youtube video did I stumble across to get that into my recommendations, I don’t even like military history at all 

can someone recommend me some good long form youtube videos to watch while I draw? my youtube recommendations have been shit lately and I can't find anything decent that's actually engaging

[jjunis-moved]

BESTIE I AM HERE TO APOLOGIZE-

I haven’t send you a longggg ask in a while… (thank god our other tumblr bestie is still motivating and writing and reacting,,, ILY BTW @startlinejjuni ) IDK HOW TO EXPLAIN but my attention span is NOT FOUND… i do so much random shit and get nothing done lately💀💅🏻💅🏻

I rlly hope you see my reblogs tho! tryna get that algorithm to boost your posts!!! and don’t forget how much I love YOU and your fics!!!!!!!!!

My mind is all over the place and putting words together has not been smth I’ve been doing lately??? istg my irl friends just get “suree” and “be out in a min” and “omg gtg tho istg cya ltr��� texts like💀💀💀 or some RANDOM ass shit at 4 am…. i literally talked abt the gyaru?? trend and how it reminds me from mikoto from saiki k,,,, for an hour,,,,, AND THEY SAID SHES ANNOYING????? THE AUDACITY SHES MY BABE..

wow i got sidetracked immediately it rll took me 2 mins….

i just dont have cohesive thoughts and thats why I havent been doing actual reviews,,, although theyre so FUN so hopefully ill get back to doing them ASAP

as of now have my teddy bear as an apology

HAHAH JKJK heres the real one🥲

dont they look similar? CHILE ANYWAYS (a little delulu,,, its spoiler week rn and ur not safe ANYWHERE,,, LIKE WHAT GROUP HAS A SPOILER WEEK??? THEY RLLY SAID LETS CLOWN MOA… so I’ve been loosing my mind hehe)

TAKE MORE CARE OF YOURSELF BABE U NEED MORE SLEEP AND U BETTER EAT WELL OR IMMA BEAT U UP LIKE Y/N IS DOING TO SOOBIN AND U BETTER BE STAYING HYDRATED OR ILL BE MAD IN UR DMS👹👹👹👹👹💗💗💗

that was my ending ritual but less nice-

take care bby, eat well and sleep tight, stay hydrated and motivated too hopefully!!!! think of yourself then others honey and if u need someone to hype you up I WILL MAKE TIME

I love youuuuuu💗💗💗💗💗💗💗🤭🤭🤭🤭🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️ (I’ve been having an obsession with these emojis)

ps: i got sidetracked approximately 7 times in this ask,,, i kept 4? in … yeah im all over the place..

ps nr2 :fuck nvm i just did the emoji thing…i kept 5 in…

-chaotic shan… whats new😁

"i do so much random shit and get nothing done lately" - #relatable tbh

i dooooo and i read ur comments on the chapters too, i truly appreciate the support my love <3 it makes me happy!!

lmaoooo i know nothing about anime but!!! slap ur friends for being mean! (pls don't)

LMAOOO THE TEDDY BEARS 😭 now fr that's a cute teddy bear!!! i have a blue stuffed dog it's my baby <3

dude txt is just........... testing us tbh. so mean :(

i'm tRYING I WISH I COULD SLEEP istg last night i was nearly passing out but then 5 mins later my brain just went nope we ain't sleeping rn. this bITCH

take care you too bby, i hope you're doing well and that you stay healthy <3 kdsahdkjasd thanks for the hyping up then!!!

aww these are cute :( love u too!!!

[writinglittlebeasts]

Oh look, something else to distract you! 😈

When you get this, answer one of the questions (or all if you really want!) then pass it on to 5 writer friends! 🥰 If you have more than one WIP, pick at random! We want you talk about your works and celebrate with you! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 1. What are you most excited to write with this WIP? 2. How has this WIP changed since the “daydream/brainstorm” stage? 3. Who is your favorite character in this WIP and why?

~tabswrites

NICE TRY but i already submitted my swap write-up 😌distract away, demon

i will answer :

2. How has this WIP changed since the “daydream/brainstorm” stage?

i'm going to talk abt erotica now lol

so i've mentioned before that wolf's tooth was initially just, like. i was at c2e2 and i was sitting in on panels and i needed something to do with my hands so i started designing characters for a smut comic feat. werewolves and that those characters were raleigh and kirby. and then i never finished the comic lol but i kept drawing the characters-- raleigh in particular, who's made of such fun shapes and doesn't have kirby's fucked up nose and is just so fun to draw over and over again for eternity.

EXCEPT.... you'll notice that in the drawings from 2019 ( those trad sketches are, like, The First Raleigh And Kirby Drawings, Ever, Drawn At-Con) raleigh Already has his story-reliant neck scars. that's because those were initially a sex thing lmao, BUT because i wasn't going to be finishing that original comic and i was getting more and more attached to the characters (and because i love thrashing my characters), i couldn't just... Not... explain those scars. And Therefore:

(look at how itty bitty the scar on his face is btw... it's just a baby :')...)

so the concept behind this stage in wolf's tooth's narrative is largely the same: raleigh goes to his boyfriend's mother's house with kirby's cousins and the house is surprise-attacked by another pack of werewolves; raleigh is bitten but he doesn't turn into a werewolf (at this point it was just, like, biology; sometimes it doesn't work and we don't really know why-- may revert to this if my balls out draft doesn't mesh in the end) and the gang goes on a roadtrip to get some revenge. However, in this stage the pedersen pack was much more, like... Chill. i'm really into werewolves and i love reading werewolf stories, and i'm really into comics so i had been spending a lot of time reading on tapas, and i realized that there was like a veritable wellspring of indie werewolf prose fiction on tapas. Unfortunately a lot of what i ran into was that, like... essentially-just-omegaverse; crazy-unexamined-power-dynamic; gender-essentialist; one-of-these-characters-is-just-going-to-be-a-woobie-nervous-baby-while-the-other-one-is-a-hotheaded-d-bag; one-of-them-is-16-the-other-is-30; horny-but-in-an-adolescent-way -type deal, and a lot of them had these like heavily abusive hypermasculine misogynist (without any women???????? this is the omegaverse factor bc even the, like, gay omegaverse is like bioessentialist misogyny with extra steps) pack dynamics that were seen as like Genre Standard (and i think it's because the Algorithm was feeding me largely romances + genres tend to eat each-other like that) and the oversaturation of it was really grating on me so my little transgay anarchist ass was like 'my werewolf pack is just going to be one big happy family', so i had essentially just cut the power dynamic factor entirely.

uhhhhh but then i had trouble writing the story, because there was a single conflict and i couldn't make that conflict work in my fluffy little werewolf world-- it just didn't fit the vibe, it didn't make a lot of sense. so i started to add power dynamics back into the story in a way that felt more meaningful and thematic: lovise wants her direct bloodline to maintain control of the pack but kirby doesn't want to be the alpha; the pack is too large for a single alpha to direct, because she can't be everywhere at once, so her subordinates are becoming impatient with the rigid rules she's implemented to try to keep up; individual interpersonal conflicts between wolves in different pods that make the pack less cohesive; external pressure from other smaller packs because the pedersens are just so scary powerful, etc. it's much darker and more stressful a narrative than it was initially, but to my genuine relief it's nowhere even close to those stories that i was trying so hard to push away from lmao

and that's how awtfr went from pwp (porn without plot) to pwp (porn With plot) to handing out trauma like i'm bad santa

thanks for the ask lol

[shadow-stars16]

A rant bcs idk what to actually post

This one is specifically for booktok I'm just Genieuly so freaking confused. So hi I'm Jan(not my real name btw) I joined booktok less than a year ago around probably let's say may or June this year I don't actually remember which month is it. And the disclaimer is I don't create content on booktok I just view booktok vids, sometimes it's like y'all just reccomened a book said it is good and etc etc then I buy the book but a few months later u come on booktok and say that it is problematic blah blah blah. Do y'all just did not recgonise the problem before u reccomened it or u pretend u dk and reccomened it to others bcs I'm really confused abt it tbh, for example Sarah J. Maas, initially I saw reccomendation of her books and I was like maybe I will buy her books before I wanted to buy her books and get started on some smut ig idk. Suddenly a lot of ppl start talking abt how problematic she is as a person and as well as her books I'm just so confused and I held back my decision after hearing what her books content. Bcs ik a lot of booktok creators have read her books but do y'all just act like y'all dk or y'all never knew. Bcs sometimes if u just pretend u never knew and a certain creator started talking abt it and then there is a lot of ppl starting to talk abt her. Even if it's just u realise the issue and nobody is talking abt it just talk abt it if u don't u r probably part of the problem. Another book I saw talked abt recently by a few creators is the song of achilles it hurts me to knw that I might have encourage a wrong motive by buying the books months ago before I even knew of the issue. Tsoa was my first book off booktok honestly it's freaking disappointing seeing it now bcs I feel I have done something wrong and contributed to the wrong motive and it makes me rlly confused. Is it me or is it just tik tok algorithm or is it just booktokers?

Thx for looking at my rant I'm just so confused pls help me a little I guess