#tumblrfandoms

[imdigitalvinod]

How to Engage with Tumblr Communities: Finding Your Niche and Making Connections

Tumblr is a vibrant platform with communities that span across countless interests. Whether you're into fashion, art, fandoms, or social justice, there's a place for everyone on Tumblr. However, finding your niche and making meaningful connections can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you're new to the platform. This guide will walk you through the steps to engage with Tumblr communities, find your niche, and build connections that matter.

Step 1: Discovering Your Niche

Tumblr is all about finding what you love and diving deep into it. Here's how to find your niche:

Explore Tags and Keywords:

Start by exploring popular tags related to your interests. Use the search bar to type in keywords and see what comes up. You can find communities centered around everything from #Art and #Music to more niche interests like #Cottagecore or #Steampunk.

Follow Relevant Blogs:

Once you've found tags that resonate with you, start following blogs that consistently post content you enjoy. This will populate your dashboard with posts that align with your interests.

Engage with Content:

Don’t just passively consume content. Like, reblog, and comment on posts that speak to you. This not only helps you connect with others but also boosts your visibility within those communities.

Step 2: Creating Content for Your Niche

Now that you’ve found your niche, it’s time to create content that will help you stand out:

Original Posts:

Create original content that reflects your passion. Whether it's writing, photography, art, or a mix of all three, make sure your posts add value to the community.

Use Appropriate Tags:

Tag your posts with the relevant keywords so they reach the right audience. For example, if you’re posting fan art of a popular show, use tags like #FanArt, #[ShowName], and #[CharacterName].

Join Group Chats:

Tumblr allows users to create and join group chats based on specific interests. This is a great way to connect with like-minded individuals and engage in real-time conversations.

Step 3: Building Connections

Engaging with Tumblr communities is about more than just following people; it’s about building real connections:

Comment Thoughtfully:

Instead of just liking or reblogging, take the time to leave thoughtful comments. Engage in discussions, ask questions, and show genuine interest in others’ content.

Participate in Challenges and Events:

Tumblr hosts various challenges, like art challenges or writing prompts, which can be a great way to engage with the community and gain exposure.

Collaborate with Others:

Reach out to other bloggers for collaborations. This could be anything from co-writing a blog post to creating art together. Collaborations can help you tap into each other’s audiences and build lasting relationships.

Be Consistent:

Consistency is key on Tumblr. Regularly posting and engaging with others will help you stay connected with your community and grow your following over time.

Step 4: Staying Positive and Respectful

Tumblr is known for its supportive and inclusive communities, but it’s important to stay positive and respectful:

Respect Diverse Opinions:

Tumblr is a melting pot of ideas and perspectives. Engage in healthy debates but always respect others’ opinions, even if they differ from your own.

Support Others:

Encourage and support others by reblogging their content, offering words of encouragement, and being a positive presence in the community.

Avoid Negative Drama:

Stay clear of unnecessary drama or negativity. Focus on creating and sharing content that uplifts others and contributes positively to the community.

Conclusion

Engaging with Tumblr communities can be a fulfilling experience, allowing you to connect with people who share your passions. By finding your niche, creating meaningful content, and building genuine connections, you’ll not only grow your Tumblr presence but also make lasting friendships. So dive in, explore, and start making your mark on Tumblr today!

[seriesmagicx]

Die 7. Staffel von „Supernatural“: Ein tiefgehender Blick ohne Spoiler

Die siebte Staffel von „Supernatural“ nimmt uns mit auf eine weitere spannende Reise mit den Winchester-Brüdern, Sam und Dean. Diese Staffel bringt neue Herausforderungen, die ihre Beziehung auf die Probe stellen und sie vor bisher ungekannte Bedrohungen stellen.

Die Einführung der Leviathane als neue Antagonisten verleiht der Staffel eine düstere und unheimliche Atmosphäre. Diese uralten Kreaturen sind mächtig und gefährlich, was die Winchesters dazu zwingt, ihre Strategien und Verbündeten zu überdenken. Die Leviathane symbolisieren die unkontrollierbaren Mächte, mit denen sich die Brüder auseinandersetzen müssen, und bringen eine neue Ebene der Gefahr in die Serie.

Ein zentrales Thema dieser Staffel ist das komplexe Geflecht aus Vertrauen und Verrat. Sam und Dean müssen ständig abwägen, wem sie trauen können, während sie sich neuen Feinden und alten Verbündeten gegenübersehen. Diese Dynamik sorgt für spannende Wendungen und tiefgehende Charakterentwicklungen.

Bobbys Schicksal spielt ebenfalls eine zentrale Rolle in dieser Staffel und hat tiefgreifende Auswirkungen auf die Brüder. Seine Weisheit und sein unerschütterlicher Glaube an die Winchesters motivieren sie, auch in den dunkelsten Momenten weiterzukämpfen.

Die wiederkehrenden Charaktere wie Castiel, Crowley und Meg fügen der Handlung zusätzliche Tiefe und Komplexität hinzu. Ihre Rückkehr bringt neue Dynamiken und interessante Entwicklungen, die die Serie bereichern.

Die emotionalsten Momente dieser Staffel zeigen die Verwundbarkeit der Charaktere und verstärken die Dramatik der Handlung. Symbolische Elemente und Metaphern sind reichlich vorhanden, was der Staffel eine zusätzliche Tiefe verleiht.

Die Musik und der Soundtrack spielen wie immer eine wichtige Rolle und verstärken die Atmosphäre der Serie. Von klassischen Rock-Hits bis hin zu melancholischen Balladen, die musikalische Untermalung ergänzt die Handlung perfekt.

Insgesamt bietet die siebte Staffel von „Supernatural“ eine fesselnde Mischung aus Spannung, Emotion und tiefgehenden Themen. Trotz einiger schwächerer Momente fügt sie sich nahtlos in das „Supernatural“-Universum ein und liefert wichtige Entwicklungen und emotionale Höhepunkte.

Schaut euch die Staffel an und lasst euch in die Welt der Winchesters entführen!

[igraphixart]

Exploring the Mysteries of Gravity Falls in a Futuristic Dimension

In this latest rendition, we take a journey through a reimagined Gravity Falls—but with a twist. What if the town we all know and love merged with futuristic technology, creating a world of glowing screens, neon grids, and cybernetic landscapes? Inspired by the characters' endless curiosity, these visuals bring the magic of Gravity Falls into a world where technology and mystery collide. From Dipper venturing into high-tech ruins to a cyber-cat hero patrolling neon-lit streets, this new world feels like a retro-futuristic dream!Which version of Gravity Falls do you want to explore? Let me know in the comments! ✨🌌

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Get ready for an exciting show at Netflix Tudum 2023! Suhana Khan, Agastya Nanda, and Khushi Kapoor shine in "The Archies" at Sao Paulo, Brazil.

[eddiegettingshot]

it’s hilarious that they’re trying to act like people fawning over the episode and buck/tommy are some oppressed minority when that’s like at least 80% of the tumblrfandom right now. sorry they got some mean anons but maybe the pages and pages and pages of buck/tommy content will help them suffer through

yeah i definitely do not doubt that they’re getting shitty anons but taking it out on me (or suggesting that i’m somehow sending them????? or causing them to be sent???) is so unhinged

[alannah-digitalcommunities]

Week 4: Digital Community and Fandom

This week we discussed Reality TV, specifically its digital communities and fandoms, and explored the role of reality TV’s cultural contributions to public spheres. Concerning one of this week's readings, Graham T., & Hajru, A. (2011, p. 4) explores the enhancement of reality TV connecting its social aspects as digital communities, specifically fandoms. These citizens use hashtags concerning a reality TV show to engage in intimate discussions with one another about social issues, such as sexism. Similarly to one of the readings, a video that I found during my research, 'Life after reality TV, is about a television producer that presents her perspective on reality TV programs, including the pressures that reality TV stars face, during and after the show has aired.

Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9JxhugIFsc&feature=emb_logo

Digital Publics & The Public Sphere

The public sphere is the space where people can interact; where public opinion is formed; where citizens deal with matters of general interest and express and articulate their views (Sakariassen 2020).

The Public Sphere and Reality TV 

The public sphere has been apparent through Reality TV as there has been an opportunity for reality TV stars and fans to interact across media platforms such as through podcasts, conventions, cameos, etc. With an ongoing rise of social media, fans of popular entertainment programmes continue to be engaged in new and innovative ways across several platforms as part of an ever-expanding interactive economy. Reality TV also creates Digital Publics; The British reality TV show ‘Love Island’ exploits new forms of digital media to encourage multi-platform consumption of content by its fans. 

Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=love+island+uk&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU915AU916&sxsrf=ALeKk02knYiiXsJQ5swmfdbWGRRvO2rF4w:1622105683839&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkwMrIvunwAhUCA4gKHZP8CZAQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1434&bih=748#imgrc=fuIo0KTJaz-YxM

Another Reality TV show that encourages audience engagement and participation and digital publics are, ‘Married at First Sight’. The hashtag #MAFS can create spaces for people to discuss important social issues such as sexism, attitudes to women and the role of marriage in contemporary society. There is a clear correlation between the changing landscape of mediated sociality and the public sphere concerning reality TV shows. MAFS has certainly triggered political talk and social issues concerning sexism in the public sphere. 

Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=married+at+first+sight+australia&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU915AU916&sxsrf=ALeKk01KahMtN9eLtNq_WAdik2LM6SScew:1622105753621&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb5e3pvunwAhUL4XMBHVl7BhkQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1434&bih=748#imgrc=tg04P2ivzr0pIM

There have been increasing opportunities for reality stars and fans to interact across the social media landscape (podcasts, conventions, cameo, etc). Reality TV creates digital publics for an everyday political and social talk. 

Image source: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mafs-bec-exclusive-exposes-truth/id413046628?i=1000517835470

Image source: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/49-married-at-first-sight-2021-cheating-scandal-new/id1523979167?i=1000508653158

Twitter Hashtags & Twitter's History

In the early phases of adoption following its launch in 2006, Twitter had almost none of the extended functionality that it does today. 

Public communication is made possible by Twitter’s hashtag functionality: by adding a keyword preceded by the hash symbol ‘#’ to their tweets. Hashtags have proven remarkably important in providing a shared space for a community of interested users. These users do not need to be Twitter followers of each other to engage with a topic of common interest, from tracking the unfolding of breaking news events (e.g. Bruns et al. 2012; Bruns & Highfield 2012; Hughes & Palen 2009; Sarcevic et al. 2012) through engaging with political campaigns (Bruns & Burgess 2011; Larsson & Moe 2014) to participating in shared audience activities (Highfield et al. 2013; Harrington 2014). 

Twitter hashtags such as #ausvotes for the 2010 and 2013 Australian elections, #londonriots for the coordination of information and political debates around the 2011 unrest in London, or #wikileaks for the controversies around Wikileaks aid the development of ad hoc publics around specific themes and topics. Some much longer-term hashtag communities also exist (including, for example, the #auspol community for discussion about Australian politics). 

References:

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics [Ebook]. Retrieved from http://snurb.info/files/2015/Twitter%20Hashtags%20from%20Ad%20Hoc%20to%20Calculated%20Publics.pdf

[shinelikethunder]

Listen, if the conversation happening around third-party AO3 apps were any of the following, we’d be cool:

“this app doesn’t even offer useful features in exchange for ads/subscriptions, it just looks like a skeevy cash grab”

“this app may be misleading users into thinking they need an ad-ridden app to access something they can already get for free”

“authors are bound by the ToS to keep their work strictly noncommercial, so it’s pretty fucked-up that third-party app developers can monetize all they want”

“monetizing this shit could draw the ire of corporate legal departments, and creators and/or AO3 could end up in the crossfire”

“does this app respect edits and deletions? does it bypass access controls on NSFW and archive-locked works?”

“wait, this random app is collecting login credentials?”

“whose ire will be drawn towards AO3 if Apple decides this app isn’t bowdlerized enough for their tastes?”

But that’s not the conversation you’re having, is it? That’s all secondary. Y’all are talking as though any third-party viewer app whatsoever is somehow “stealing” your work by existing. You know, the way an RSS reader is “stealing” your blog when it requests the full text of a post. Or the way you “didn’t consent to have your work taken out of context” when someone views your Tumblr posts in the Washboard app. Or the way Discord’s auto-embed previews are “stealing” fanart. Any online RSS reader is probably running ads to cover its server costs, btw. What are the ethics of that?

And once it’s been framed as “stopping content thieves,” apparently that end justifies absolutely any means of takedown, regardless of the actual nature of specific apps. Brigading, finding the dev’s personal accounts and harassing them there, doxxing, review flooding, sending spurious DMCA notices about apps that aren’t even hosting content, tugging Mama Apple’s skirts and pointing at the exact content AO3 exists to protect as reason to nuke it for Purity Crimes... what the fuck, guys. What moral high ground could you possibly hope to occupy by tattling about all the icky, nasty porn on AO3, all to force an arbitrary takedown of an access point you find dodgy for unrelated reasons? I sure as fuck didn’t consent to having my fic used for that.

Do you have any idea what kind of chilling effect this all has on fans who might want to create third-party apps with actual, useful additional features? Because y’all aren’t exactly drawing distinctions between the sinners and the saints, here--you’re at “see AO3 app, burn it to the motherfucking ground.” Right now, one of my Discord servers has multiple members completely reassessing whether/how to share fandom-related coding projects and how to keep their identity firewalled, so they don’t get fucking doxxed if some underinformed moral panic lumps them in with whatever witches are getting hunted next week. Is that likely to happen to fans trying to contribute helpful extra functionality, noncommercially, out of their own pockets if necessary? I don’t fucking know! I realize the vehemence of this incident is mostly driven by the monetization, but the way y’all are talking sure isn’t giving me faith in your willingness to even consider that distinction.

Just... take a step back. Be willing to make distinctions and articulate the boundaries of your wrath. Consider what you’re actually objecting to. Consider analogous cases. Ask yourself if whatever you’re saying goes for them, too, and if not why not. Fan, as the old saying goes, is a tool-using animal--consider which tools your condemnation applies to before you put it on full blast. Also, you know, put the fucking pitchforks down and take a step back from whatever the mob mentality is telling you would be totally proportionate and justifiable as a response. It doesn’t have a great track record of holding up the next morning.

[ms-sakurai]

The Ritz London, I’ve got you now and I’m not letting go of you

[firesnap]

EmeraldDuo is on the TumblrFandom's top ships for this week??

How does this keep happening.

[seriesmagicx]

Sherlock Staffel 2: Ein Meisterwerk der modernen Krimikunst

Die zweite Staffel von *Sherlock* hat die Messlatte für moderne Krimiserien erneut höher gelegt. Diese Staffel, bestehend aus drei spannenden Episoden, bietet alles, was das Herz eines Sherlock-Holmes-Fans begehrt – brillante Deduktion, tiefgründige Charaktere und atemberaubende Spannung.

Fesselnde Handlung

Jede Episode der zweiten Staffel ist ein eigenständiges Meisterwerk, das die klassischen Geschichten von Arthur Conan Doyle auf kreative Weise in die Gegenwart überträgt. Von der ersten Begegnung mit einer mysteriösen und äußerst intelligenten Frau bis hin zu einem finalen Showdown, der die Grenzen des Verstands und der Moral testet, bietet diese Staffel eine packende und tiefgründige Erzählung.

Charakterdynamik

Die Beziehung zwischen Sherlock Holmes und Irene Adler ist ein zentrales Element dieser Staffel. Ihre komplexe Interaktion ist nicht nur von Intelligenz und Scharfsinn geprägt, sondern auch von einer tiefen emotionalen Spannung. Sherlocks Faszination für Irene und ihre gegenseitigen Machtspiele sorgen für einige der faszinierendsten Momente der Serie.

Moriarty: Der Erzfeind

Jim Moriarty, Sherlocks Erzfeind, zeigt sich in dieser Staffel von seiner brillantesten und bedrohlichsten Seite. Seine Pläne sind komplex und unvorhersehbar, was die Spannung bis zur letzten Minute aufrechterhält. Moriarty ist der perfekte Gegenspieler für Sherlock und stellt dessen Fähigkeiten auf eine harte Probe.

Moderne Technologien und klassische Ermittlungen

Ein weiteres Highlight der zweiten Staffel ist die geschickte Integration moderner Technologien in die Ermittlungsarbeit. Von Smartphones bis hin zu komplexen Datenanalysen – Sherlock nutzt alle Mittel, um Verbrechen aufzuklären. Diese Kombination aus traditioneller Detektivarbeit und modernen Werkzeugen macht die Serie besonders spannend und relevant.

Visuelle und akustische Brillanz

Die visuelle Ästhetik und das Sounddesign der Serie sind herausragend. Jede Szene ist sorgfältig komponiert, um die Spannung und das Drama zu verstärken. Die Musik untermalt die emotionalen Höhepunkte perfekt und trägt maßgeblich zur Atmosphäre der Serie bei.

Fazit

Die zweite Staffel von *Sherlock* ist ein Muss für jeden Fan von Krimiserien und modernen Adaptionen klassischer Geschichten. Sie kombiniert brillante Erzählkunst, tiefgründige Charakterstudien und moderne Technologien zu einem unvergleichlichen Fernseherlebnis. Lass dich von den spannenden Fällen und der meisterhaften Inszenierung fesseln!

Erlebe die spannende zweite Staffel von Sherlock jetzt auf Prime Video!

[trashcan-inc]

Sketchdump of actor ANDREW SCOTT because I saw 'Denial' in cinemas yesterday and Andrew Scott is an Iconic Boy™. I should probs draw him as Moriarty sometime soon? (Also i'm so happy bc this is one of many attempts since last year and I finally drew him gOOD✨) #myArt #art #drawing #creative #andrewScott #jimMoriarty #sherlock #pridemovie #jamesBond #actor #artistsoninstagram #illustration #fanart #fanartist #bbcsherlock #mormor #fandom #tumblrfandom #sketch #sketchbook #cartoon #cartoonist #characterdesign

[substantiating-shadows]

I remember watching a commercial for the premier of The Secret Life of the American Teenager at the cinema when i was in the fifth grade. I was super excited for it to come out bc the trailer was genuinely really good. And i watched that show till the very end. It got super ridiculous but also super good, i think its the closest the US might get to Degrassi. I remember the french horn, taking the pregnancy test in the school bathroom, ashleys entire bizarre arc, Anne coming out as gay, and most of all i remember Ricky in the episode with his father. And how i had never seen a male victim of CSA. I know theres not a #tumblrfandom for secret life and there definitely wasnt one when i was watching it. And it probably would have been a mess but a part of me really wishes there had been. One of my favorite parts about consuming media is looking at it critically. And by god if secret life was a brand new show. Boy would it have meta on it. It was by no means perfect but damn was it trying to do something different. I feel very much that the books and shows ive watched have made me, even if i can barely remember them. And secret life was one of them.

[dailynewsicon]

Indecisiveness reigns in the battle between Tamannaah and Vijay Varma in "Lust Stories 2." Experience the conflict of lust and love on Netflix.

[e-l-forever]

fully enjoying my most fulfilling and beautiful manga ship Touken on tumblr, right next to Tokyo Ghoul’s TumblrFandom™

[chaotickn1ght]

#tumblrFandoms