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i LOVE them your honor

So happy to see them in your style :D

Off-Season drawings I realized I haven‘t posted before

Thanks for reminding me @gremlinpenguin hehe

Mild Blood warning for under the cut

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Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

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I forgot about this draft in the middle of filling it out lol but better late than never!

What got you watching SFTH? The IKEA portal to Narnia was the first short I saw that made me go to the full video, then check out the channel- and then I realized I had already seen their letters of complaint before and they were the same guys! I think the first letters I saw were either the FedEx or wife one.

First longform you watched? Oh My God, Is This A Joke?

Current favorite longform? The Unrelenting Aubergine will always have my heart, but Strange Noises from the Hole in the Wall is definitely up there as well! I’m also so fond of the Bamboozler of Notre Dame from the Patreon longforms.

How long have you been using tumblr? My account is 6 years old, but I think I was lurking for about a year before that.

Favorite fandoms other than SFTH? I think the most recent ones I’ve been in include Good Omens, Undertale / Deltarune, Epic the Musical, Magnus Archives, Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I also just like a lot of musicals in general (Newsies, Hadestown, Team Starkid, etc). And Smosh and Dropout stuff- especially ACOFAF and Mentopolis from D20!

Favorite SFTH character and/or ship? Favorite ships are definitely Ditch and John Jacob/Angelina, favorite characters probably include Derek, Locomotion, Pinocchio! And I just realized those are all Tom characters lmaooo

Song that you associate with a SFTH character/ship/longform? I associate I Do Adore by Mindy Gledhill with Ditch. It’s just very sweet :D

I thought it would be fun to try and get to know people in this fandom with a tag game! So reblog this and tell me:

What got you watching SFTH

The first longform you watched

Your current favorite longform

How long you've been using tumblr

What your favorite fandoms other than SFTH are

Your favorite SFTH character and/or ship

A song that you associate with a SFTH character/ship/longform in some way

Mine are:

The Irish Mermaids Change Game came up on my youtube algorithm; I've always liked improv so I wanted to see more from this group and the rest is history

The Off Season

Probably a tie between The Milkman, Moist & Magical, and Ballet on the Battlefield....but Creak in the Attic is getting close as well

Since 2016, so 9 years now!

My AO3 suggests Sanders Sides, but I haven't been deep in that for years...probably either Leverage, Skyrim, or Star Trek TNG

Character is probably either Jemima or Alexa, ship is either Egbert/Samantha or John Jacob/Angelina

I was listening to Aurora while writing my Creak in the Attic fic and I especially like the vibes of Little Boy in the Grass for Jim/El and Junior's friendship

No-pressure tagging some people to start us off, but anyone who sees this and wants to play can! I can't wait to read everyone's answer! @moonsanoverthinker @heliona @mangomaestro @ethernitty @rainy-weather-supremacy @not-an-idiot @ilikeasstrology @i-may-be-an-emu @bbatcat-09 @8pandacakes @theblackberryhimself

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I came up with this three-way table to help me (and now you, if you want) to rate things out of 5 stars. I was thinking of books and films when I made it, but you can probably use it for other stuff.

The idea is that you rate the thing on how much stuff you loved and how much stuff you hated, and those things weight against each other. There's only one way to get 5 stars or 1 star, so those should end up as the rarest ratings, wtih 3 stars being the most common.

'Spicy' means that the thing inspires emotion, whether positive or negative, while 'bland' means it doesn't affect you much either way.

An example of a 3-star (spicy) - for me personally - would be the Twilight series, because there's plenty of garbage in there but also some things that are like crack to me. I can't think of an example of a 3 star (bland) because by nature they don't stick in the mind.

(This also assumes giving 0 stars isn't allowed. That'd throw it out of whack...)

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The Creak in the Attic sketches/doodles!

Also working on Ditch stuff right now, expect some soon-

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"fuck it we ball" is for stress about the future "it is what it is" is for stress about the past and "this too shall pass" is for stress about the present thank you for coming to my TED talk

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advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

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69% of the way!! 5 days left!

DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.

I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can't bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.

Look at them! They do war dances.

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Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

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Calling all Brits on this hellsite.

We all saw Elon Musk do the nazi salute at the Trump inauguration. We know that he is influencing and fanning the flames of right wing political parties.

And that very well may include ours.

Because Elon Musk has pledged to donate $100 million to the Reform party. He has since mentioned that it might be hard to give such a large sum now.

But I don’t think we should take our chances. And I think we can agree that letting billionaires influence our countries politics is a terrible idea.

If you also agree here’s a link to a Parliament petition.

It calls for the government to remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).

As it is a parliament petition the government are required to debate it in parliament. But for that to happen it needs to reach 100,000 signatures.

Non British folk I’m afraid you guys can’t sign but I encourage you guys to reblog so that more people can see this.

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It’s a cold and it’s a broken mamma mia

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Modern AU of The Great Gatsby where Gatsby just sits there with Discord open staring at the green active dot next to Daisy’s icon without actually reaching out to her

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learned about the “light academic” genre today. which i guess is just if you go to college and don’t kill anybody

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artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

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“'Cause it's the funniest feeling

So let's slip inside

Out of this world

Out of this life

'Cause this place called home

Is no longer mine

So now I need to occupy your mind”

Song: Occupy Your Mind by Villagers

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If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.

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Good Omens x Hades - Aziraphale!

I've been playing Hades II and it's been itching my fingers to do something in the artstyle of the game! so here is my design of Aziraphale as an NPC in HADES!

(and of course, I will be drawing Crowley, too!)