#also this isn't targeted to any blogs in particular

[hmfaysal99]

New Business Marketing Tips And Tricks for Success

Starting a new business can be an exciting endeavor, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges, especially in the competitive landscape of today's market. Effective marketing is crucial for the success of any new venture. Here are four essential marketing tips and tricks to help your new business thrive.

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In conclusion, effective marketing is essential for the success of any new business. By defining your target audience, creating compelling content, leveraging social media, and continuously monitoring and adapting your strategies, you can position your new business for growth and long-term success in a competitive market. Remember that success may not come overnight, but with persistence and the right marketing approach, your new business can thrive.

#business #digitalbusiness #digitalmarketing #seo #market analysis #data analytics #marketing #management #sales #learn digital marketing #Digital marketing course #seo expert #business success #businessgrowth

[mintacle]

So, you've seen the words "anti" and "proshipper" thrown around in people's bios and "batc*st dni" on people's posts. Maybe you want to know what all the fuss is about, maybe you have a particular opinion about all this fuss. In any case, this informative post is for you.

Using Samantha Aburime's paper "the cult structure of the american anti", I'm going to explain the issue.

First of all what is an anti even? It's a term people use to self-identify within fandoms. As the name anti implies, they mainly identify with being against things.

Which leads us to our problem of the anti mentality.

Most antis are minors or under 24. People who left the anti community have explained their experiences in the following manners:

Maybe you have felt the pressure to join in anti behavior as well. If any of the following feelings are familiar to you, then you are experiencing anti indoctrination:

If the shame and guilt instilled in anti members isn't bad enough, there are more consequences for the targets of the antis. In the batman fandom these are blogs that may or may not describe themselves as proship, meaning they ship characters that are (adoptive) members of the wayne family (Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake and Damian Wayne) with one another.

Essentially: this is how anti action works:

Examples of dehumanization and harrasement which are very commonly practised among antis:

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And threats of violence:

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Beyond the aggresive nature of the anti mentality, the problem is that the people it targets are overwhelmingly vulnerable minorities.

And I have often seen antis justifying their harrasement by explaining that they are themselves queer or non-caucasian, which is an example of moral licencing and does not actually excuse targetting other minorities or people of the same minority as you.

So what do antis specifically do? The anti community of the batman fandom will often throw around accusations of incest ("batc*st") and pedophilia.

Let us examine those three concepts, disinformation, virtue signaling and legitimate abuse.

We can find disinformation in the prectise of denying reasonable arguments for tolerance of proshipping. An anti will not engage in any attempt to understand why people ship something they find morally apprehensible. They will label proshippers as degenarates, thereby misrepresenting who it is they are targeting. Furthermore they will misrespresent the amount of influence that proshippers yave on influencing people.

Virtue signaling describes the practise of labelling things as problematic without delivering reasonable arguments for doing so and instead using strong emotional language to explain their judgement:

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Virtue signaling also represents the practise of self-describing the anti as morally pure and the "enemy", the proshipper as morally degenerate.

Both disinformation and virtue signaling allow for legitimate abuse. Depersonifying and villifying the opponent gives the anti a feeling of being legitimized in their abuse.

For followers of my blog, I would like to raise awareness of this side of anti culture. Emotional and shame-inducing language can easily sway us. I plead my case for reasonable and distanced evaluation of what you see online. Condemning pedophilia and incest will seem perfectly natural on face value, which is why it is so hare to understand that often time what is labbelled as such is misrepresented, and really all the time the anti myth will equate preference of fiction to beliefs of real life morality (see first image)

To finish my informational post, I leave you with one last essential quote from Samantha Aburime's paper:

"The anti movement perpetuates archaic systems of judgement based on personal disgust and region-specific morality, punishing powerless people for their fannish interests and tainting their online communities. Their work does nothing to dismantle harmful systematic institutions; rather, it embraces them, even going so far as to actively harm and destroy members of their own community."

Read the full paper here. It's very interesting and a not too long read.

https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2147/2829

#fandom meta #batcest #or batc*st if that makes you feel better I guess #education as a way of combatting polarism and extremism #essentially. no matter what your opinion is. if you find yourself harrassing people online... you are probably doing something wrong #anti #anti culture #antis #the problem with being anti is that you define yourself through opposition #proshipping #proship #i happen not to be proship. but don't let that make you think I endorse anti mentality or dnis #because I really just HAPPEN not to ship any batfam members #there is more. but the post is already very long and I have hit the ten image limit #ideally I would have inclided a part about how antis call out. expose and target specific blogs #rules for life: 1. live and let live 2. don't yuck someone else's yumm 3. always allow yourself to have your own opinion #dc #batman

[askagamedev]

Have you, or some of your colleagues, ever worked on a game you didn't particularly like? Not like "the creative team is wrong and I hate it", but more like your taste didn't align with the director's, or the game wasn't something you'd care to play. If so, how do you cope with that, given that projects can last for several years, often with intense working conditions?

Thanks for the blog!! It's always a great read.

My very first job in the game industry was working on a game in a genre I had little personal interest in, programming parts of the game I never had any particular interest in. I was quite far away from the kind of games I grew up playing or dreamed of making, but I did my best anyway because I knew that it was the best opportunity I had to get to where I wanted to be. Since then, I've worked on projects that I thought were great until they got cancelled, projects where I didn't see eye to eye with the creative leadership, and all sorts of other projects besides.

Even if the big picture game isn't in my particular wheelhouse, that doesn't mean I can't do my best to solve the problems I'm tasked with. I enjoy coming up with creative and engaging ways to grab the attention of the target players. Even if the game isn't to my taste, the problems I solve are still interesting and the solutions I deliver can still be clever, elegant, and robust. I can still do work that I can be proud of. This is what it means to be professional - I'll always deliver high quality work at a shippable level, even if I don't personally enjoy the game I am making.

Taking a step further back beyond the personal circle, I've also learned that the project itself doesn't mean much if I'm not working with people I can enjoy collaborating with, no matter what dream IP or concept it might be. What really matters are the people I work with, not the project itself. If I work with great people, the project will be great. If there's no team cohesion or camaraderie, the project can't be great. I remember going from a team with little cohesion and noncommittal leadership (leading to terrible morale) to a team with stronger leadership and cohesion. I know that my morale palpably improved after transitioning off of the first team and onto the second.

That's really the long and the short of it - on a personal level, I get more job satisfaction when I'm solving interesting problems and challenging myself to level up as a designer, engineer, and developer. On a project level, my morale is higher when I'm working with people I feel I can trust to do their jobs and that we can all work towards well-defined common goals. The particular game idea, story, genre, etc. tends to take a back seat to both my role and my team. Without a good role and team, I'll be miserable and even the most interesting game idea or IP in the world wouldn't be enough to keep me from looking to jump ship.

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[pinkinsect]

can you elaborate on what you mean when you mention the "blue lock sociolect." because the linguistic/social situation that must be developing in this stanford prison ass training center fascinates me endlessly

hello this is going to be a lot. tldr at the end.

for anyone unaware, i use blue lock "sociolect" in this case specifically meaning the dialect that develops in the blue lock facility. i'd classify it more as a sociolect than a dialect, because while they now have a geographic location in common, i would say the speech features show up more in certain characters who've leaned into the blue lock egoist mentality more. the way hiori speaks changes as his view of himself and soccer change. (i also think that bltv enjoyers start talking like this. horrifically)

the blue lock sociolect is a phenomenon i invented in my mind palace to cope with the way i feel when i read blue lock and see phrases like "you're an eyesore, you pink-haired philistine" and "rotten orange." i brought it up in this post on my other blog some time ago, but in short, i've decided that the rather. unique way the blue lockers speak to one another is a result of putting 300 [and lowering] boys age 15-18 from all over japan in a hypercompetitive environment with very little adult supervision.

it's all about the individual, hence many of the insults taking the target's most striking physical trait and combining it with something the speaker decides is negative about the target. with japanese being a language with pretty structured assignments of appropriate politeness based on age, experience, and status, i could see it eroding given the general lack of older adult presence (ego appearing on a screen for like 15 minutes doesn't count, especially since he's rude as hell), and the mentality the players are encouraged to accept. rin isn't the best example given his dedication to hating across languages, cultures, and age ranges, but isagi pretty much comments on how he's rude as hell by social norms once, then clearly gets used to it.

i think the blue lock sociolect starts to diversify a bit once we enter the nel. the blue lock boys are shown studying english, but the nel introduces an environment where a lot of their teammates will most likely be speaking a language other than english or japanese within their teams (except for manshine but that's british english which isn't usually what's taught in japan so even then their contributions to the sociolect will be a bit different).

we don't know exactly how accurate the translation software is, or how it handles the cultural differences in honorific language, but based on some of the things we've seen (ness calling kunigami "kunigami-san" that one time, also ness being shown saying "ja" through the translation, "beinschuss" from kaiser, whatever's going on with charles, etc.) they're not always consistent.

(i haven't checked out the raws for these yet though, so im actually not entirely sure what's coming through in japanese.these could just be translation choices.)

this multi-language environment and the non-translation of certain speech could also have an impact on our blue lock players' vocabulary and introduce other languages' terms and speech patterns. japanese already has a pretty huge collection of loan words that eventually create "foreign" phrases that don't exist outside of japanese, so this facility could make this phenomenon occur more rapidly.

we see otoya say "golazo" during the fc barcha match, and while darai says the same thing during their bowling match, it wouldn't be too far off to assume that otoya picked it up from his spanish speaking teammates.

i could add more but this is getting too long so tl;dr: putting 300 15-18 year old boys in a prison with barely any adult supervision would make neat language shifts.

some features of the blue lock sociolect i think exist:

the particular type of insult we see so much of in blue lock

general lack of/comparatively less importance given to honorific language and polite conjugations of words

shounen protag accent (you'd know it when you hear it.)

increased usage of german, english, spanish, italian, and/or french terms

FAR less subject omission than average japanese, especially when the subject is "i" [thanks aryu.]

#anyway i think at charles's request shidou taught him how to say 'kill yourself‚' among other things‚ in japanese. which he used whenever #rin asked for a normal fucking pass or something #the blue lock sociolect #<- im probably making more posts about this 💀 #these are the types of things that make people ask me if im a linguistics major. unfortunately not. if i was this would be longer because i #would know more #answered #agnesandhilda #blue lock

[the-babygirl-polls]

As I'm wrapping up the posts for Week Three, I guess it's time to announce some changes to the blog

Week Four and beyond will be cut down from 100 posts per week to 50 posts. I'm gonna be starting up college again and honestly, keeping up with 100 posts will take like three weeks. It's also just easier for me to keep track of everyone and not make mistakes lol

I'm also gonna just clarify a couple of rules that I haven't really put out on how submissions work:

No real people please. Characters portrayed by streamers are acceptable, but not the streamers themselves as people. I'll be deleting polls made prior to this that contain real people.

Don't submit any characters or propaganda in the inbox. This isn't targeted at anyone in particular, but I've gotten a couple propaganda submissions through the inbox and I feel bad deleting them, but I gotta make sure my inbox isn't cluttered.

Please check the submission sheet before asking if anyone has been submitted. I know that the sheet sometimes doesn't work (such as the most recent ask I answered where they clarified the sheet wasn't working) but if it is working, please just Ctrl+F and search the name.

Yeah that's about it

Hope everyone has a good day!

#no babygirl in sight #mod puggo #announcements

[rw-ethology]

Slugcats, Sociality and Altruism

Seems like a decent place to kick off the blog :)

Even from just the intro cutscenes, dreams, and alike that provide a glimpse into their lives before braving the harsh ecosystem alone, it's easy to tell that slugcats in general are very much a sociable sort. Whether part of a large colony like Gourmand's appears to be or the single family shown in Monk and Survivor's cinematics, none of the "wild" slugcats we actually get to learn about the circumstances of are alone before the events of the game- and some of them don't stay that way either, with the recent introduction of lost slugpups to find and take care of. But what's so unique about that?

(Long post under cut.)

At first it might not seem like anything special- a given, even. Animals grouping up or remaining with their families into adulthood, eating, sleeping, grooming and playing together, isn't that unusual; even if you're not particularly bothered about companionship, there are many survival benefits to being part of a closeknit group when you're a small and squishy prey animal. Perhaps most straightforwardly, the statistical odds of you specifically being picked off by a predator go way down when your prospective attacker has more targets to choose from, and more trying to drive it off- safety in numbers is a given, when it comes to everything from finding food to raising offspring. The more eyes and ears and hands the better, and it just so happens many creatures that do this are also very sociable with each other.

Sociality to the sheer extent slugcats seem to take it, though is actually considerably rare in the animal kingdom. A lot of animals, even those that are very close with their families, simply don't care all too much about anything outside of their immediate circle- while protecting their own mate and offspring is important, any stranger could be a potential threat or after their valuable resources, and there's little reason to expend time and energy rearing young that aren't theirs. But then in certain more large-brained, intelligent species (and slugcats are undeniably intelligent), where the payoffs and benefits of collaboration and compassionate acts between peers become great enough to create a huge social advantage, things can get a little more interesting. Over time, evolutionarily, an emotional motivation to help others in need starts to emerge.

This is a big deal! Animals with lower comparative intelligence just don't do this; this particular response goes beyond instinct, it creates the capacity for true altruistic behaviour, even in the absence of any immediate tangible reward. And considering the behaviour is learned, reinforced and reciprocated between an entire group so that everybody benefits, it's easy to see how it's so effective. For virtually any creature on its own, missing one too many meals or becoming badly injured or otherwise incapacitated can be as good as a death sentence. Within a group that's personally invested in your wellbeing, however, you've got the insurance of the stronger, fitter members of your family being willing to provide for you catch-free while you can't for yourself, giving you increased survival odds that other animals in the same predicament simply don't get. In a world where just about everything larger than you wants to eat you, having companions who would rather nobody gets served up for dinner is one of the biggest advantages you can have!

However, problems do arise when you lose that advantage of numbers. Having apparently evolved to pass up on sharp edges and defensive strategies in exchange for smarts and compassion, a lone slugcat with no support system has little to rely on but their own resourcefulness to survive- while also likely battling the psychological effects of separation and loss commonly observed in highly social animals. But not all hope is necessarily lost; even in the absence of their own kin, a slugcat's motivation to care is hard-wired, and evidently not limited to their conspecifics either. They can befriend scavengers, another intelligent, social species with a similar inclination to return favours and good deeds; tame lizards (their own predators!) by acting as a provider of food or rescuing them from harm, which will then defend you against others; and in some campaigns, take in lost pups as their own, who will also attempt to come to their aid when in danger. And then, of course, there's perhaps the most interesting friends they could make in the circumstances.

After all, it would be amiss not to mention their apparent affinity for meddling in the affairs of passing gods! Whether or not you fetch them in your own playthroughs, Looks to the Moon has more neurons the later you encounter her in the timeline, and by Rivulet's time even the old cloak recoverable from the depths of her superstructure, suggesting their canon* retrieval- not to mention the events of Rivulet's entire campaign. Considering extending kindness to something as wildly different to them as an iterator is clearly not a stretch for even wild slugcats, it's probably not just a coincidence they seem to make such effective purposed messengers, either; there are likely stronger, faster options to choose from, sure, but you'd be hard pressed to find a creature more loyal, versatile and sympathetic to the plights of others anywhere else.

All things considered no matter the campaign or how aggressively you personally play, just from looking at the overarching plot and events considered canon, it can be said everything happens as it does because slugcats are just how they are- motivated to act based on how strongly they feel for others, whether for better or for worse (read: Artificer's grief-driven rampage). Despite being just another little creature struggling their way through the cycle, time and time again a lowly slugcat manages to affect the world around them and/or its inhabitants in ways far beyond their comprehension and well into the future, just by following their nature. If things were any different, in all likelihood the overarching story and timeline as we know it wouldn't be remotely the same!

*Not technically confirmed as far as I can tell, but for the purposes of this post I am going with the implication that Monk and/or Survivor are responsible for the extra neurons and returned cloak.

#slightly nervous buT HERE WE GO #youve heard of humans will pack bond with anything now get ready for slugcats will pack bond with anything #i know the boring answer is that we are playing as them so ofc they do what we want to do. and sometimes we want to make friends #but this blog is for FUN answers #if you liked or found this an interesting read id love if you'd consider reblogging!! this blog is Extremely new itd help a lot :) #and since this is the first post i will say double if you see any inconsistencies or something i missed or want anything clarified lmk #rain world #rainworld #downpour spoilers #rain world downpour #rw-ethology #main post #slugcats

[would-this-pokemon-be-a-friend]

gengar

Unfortunately, keeping a gengar as a pet would not be a very fun experience. One may even describe it as miserable. Gengars, I must definitively say, would not make good pets.

To start with, gengars are fairly large at nearly five feet tall. When I first began my research, I thought that perhaps gengars would be weightless, being ghosts, but they actually weigh almost ninety pounds! That being said, I'm sure space isn't too big of an issue for gengars, since they can float about and hide in the shadows (Red/Blue).

Interestingly, depite being part poison-type, gengars can't naturally learn any poison-type moves. They more than make up for this with their impressive collection of ghost-type moves, some of which can be a real problem for humans. Moves like Curse can pose a huge threat to people, causing you to lose a fourth of your health in short intervals until it completely runs out. Other moves, like Lick and Confuse Ray can inflict paralysis and confusion on targets, which can be followed up by heavy-hitting moves like Shadow Ball to take down a human with ease. If a gengar wants to, it can take down a human, simple as that.

When it comes to analysis on this blog, we usually take these risks with a grain of salt, as no pokémon is guaranteed to attack you any more that a dog or cat would be guaranteed to attack you. In gengars' case, however, there's a pretty good chance that your gengar may wish you harm. In the wild, gengars are known hunters that seek to steal the life force of their prey, which includes humans. In fact, gengars often target humans in particular: gengars are said to have once been humans themselves and seek out humans to kill in order to create a travelling companion (Moon). I'd wager that the closer you become to a gengar and the more they like you, the higher the chance there is that they will want to kill you in order to turn you into an immortal spiritual companion. Gengars stalk their prey by hiding inside their shadows and waiting for the right opportunity to ambush them (Silver). It's difficult to spot when a gengar is stalking you, but they can be detected by sharp decreases in temperature (Yellow): wherever a gengar goes, they lower the area's temperature by ten degrees Fahrenheit (Diamond). In the Alola Region, it's said that there's no escaping from a gengar once it has selected you as it's prey (Sun).

Gengars are dangerous and have a well-documented interest in attempting to kill humans by stealing their life-force. That is simply not a good combo for a pet. Also, as a side note, gengars are said to be the spirits of dead humans (Moon). Is it ethical to own something that was once a human as a pet? I don't know. Anyways, there's a lot of problems with gengars. Just don't try it.

#pokémon #pokemon #gengar #pkmn irl #PR-:(

[risingsouls]

What's all this with the rpc making you a villain?

[I should first preface this with the fact that it isn't the DB RPC. In fact, the Dragonball RPC, save for a few times, has always been chill and a really great place to hang out. There are some really cool and creative people here, and I'm so grateful for them. They're also very chill and, for the most part, can recognize the difference between a harmless opinion about a character in a series, the difference between IC and OOC thoughts and behaviors, and actual, harmful "vague blogging" and toxic behavior.

The rest under the cut because I sort went overboard.

That said, that's basically what I've been dealing with for months in another RPC (which I'm sure plenty of you know which it is if you know my blog count). In short, I've been lectured and turned into a monster by a very clique-ish RPC seemingly for my character not always being sunshine and rainbows and for both of us having opinions that go against the grain of the rest of them. It seems that since a mun did not like the way my character interacted with theirs--this was all IC I want to let you know--they've spread a whole bunch of lies about me being a bully and toxic to the rest of the RPC, which is small and, according to someone who decided to lecture me, "everyone" in this RPC are friends and they all talk (first telling me plainly you're not part of the "in" group so you can't "misbehave" like their friend did with ACTUAL vague blogging in this particular scenario as well as confirming the very clique-ish nature of the RPC). Through this is how THEY heard about how "terrible" I am and told me they didn't want to RP with me. Which you know, on it's face, whatever. That part wasn't the issue and I'm sure you can see what was.

So, since then, it's been a constant fight against people, anonymously or not, coming at me over literal nothing posts. Telling me I shouldn't "vague blog", passive aggressively telling me that there is an X character blog in the RPC and that mine or my character's "harsh" opinion might hurt their feelings. For then and perpetually having to defend myself and explain my POV, that my character isn't a ray of sunshine, that IC =/= OOC. Just to be told I was the one being aggressive and rude and a horrible person for doing nothing wrong from the jump. For making a nothing post about, in this most recent case, the portrayal of a character IN A CANON(ish) SOURCE (it's a side game that technically isn't part of the canon, for reference). Nothing about how someone played them. Nothing about any particular mun. Literally just IC commentary from my character and a short, fair critique of the depiction of this character in this particular source material. Oh, and then it was a lecture about doing it "publicly" (the conversation was in replies where the person STARTED IT I should add), so...you know.

And that's not mentioning the blatant double standard there seems to be when I have friends that post similar stuff and never hear a peep from anyone about it. They're not blocked by basically everyone. They're not getting messages or replies to their posts with people clutching their pearls and lecturing about RP decorum.

I've been basically blocked by at least half of that RPC, a ton of them people I've never even interacted with, so I can't help but feel some type of way about what might be being said about me behind closed doors. I'm not even sure if the story I told you above is where this started. I did make a mistake that I owned up to years ago when I lost my temper, so I'm not sure if that ordeal got me a bad rep or if it's just all this recent garbage that people have flung at me for just...running my stupid blog. For my character being rougher around the edges and for both of us being outspoken and opinionated. Like I understand I won't be everyone's cup of tea. That's fine. But as I've said...I can't help but feel this is a targeted effort. That this is a group of people poisoning my name and putting me on an RPC wide DNI list.

This probably sounds like me playing the victim, but I really don't understand why it's happening. At all. Everyone I've talked to that knows the situation are as stumped as me. I just really don't get it, and there's nothing I can do about it. I guess I just have to accept my role of the resident monster and just RP with the people who give me a chance and who know me already.]

#.:ooc:. #.:ask:. #negative cw #discourse cw #drama cw

[raayllum]

Since there's a new sock playbook happening and it's slightly different than the old one, thought I'd nip this one in the bud. In the past week three (3) different blogs have been made to rebuttal my and other's posts about the theory that Callum will free Aaravos. Which, fair enough - people can disagree and if I don't like what someone is adding to my posts, I can block 'em on both my side AND my main.

But, granted, that only works if the person respects the blocking boundary.

So here are some of the new signs:

Blog has left the old 'three words mashed together' schtick and is implementing a usually 2 word TDP themed mashup

Blogs are all mostly TDP with another fandom worked in

Blog is randomly made, reblogs posts in the other fandom, and then makes their foray onto one of my or other's posts to rebuttal

Known potential socks (in order of apparent appearance):

Virenhunter. Seemingly made on August 17th, reblogged my posts and others. Lied about wanting to not clog up my notifications since I was OP of the post they were arguing on and I had blocked them (simply because, so they had to make a new post - which is fair - but then offered up a false excuse.) Dragonrecap. The similar naming structure, quick appearance, and reblogging one of my posts to be contrarian in such close order is what initially made me suspicious this was a sock / burgeoning harassment situation.

Moonabovemoon. Same previous tells, also recently made, reblogged one of my clearly theorizing but also very much joking posts (note my own tags of "tone gets increasingly unhinged" and hordika asking a question of how I have also answered many many times re: Callum doing it to save a loved one).

As always, I don't really care if people disagree, but it's obtuse to 1) shove it onto multiple posts, 2) ignore blocking boundaries by making socks to get around it, and 3) specifically, repeatedly target things I've made or posted (mocking my "predictions achieved" tag when it's existed since 2019 and has had nothing to do with these theories until they started happening, mocking a post I made where I mentioned s5 being like a victory lap for my characterization of Callum not really caring about being Lied To when 5x01 proved that too, etc). when I tag everything accordingly in multiple ways for tag blocking purposes, I encourage people to block me, and you can use tumblr saviour to ensure you don't see any of my posts unfiltered on your dash.

Either way: PSA for the fandom, the usual old tells of "isn't Rayla so cute and small and Callum is so strong and principled," has a new front. He cannot / refuses to be reasoned with, cannot manage to have a respectful disagreement without either losing his cool or playing the victim when he's called out for it, and has a habit of targeting marginalized creators in particular (which given the sexism towards Rayla makes perfect sense). Best thing to do is just block and not engage as much as you can, and keep on enjoying the various theories and interpretations you like in peace. 👍

#fandom nonsense #blog-hordika-us #me: yeah i Personally think callum freeing aaravos is more emotionally compelling & what the show is leading up to #this weird sad man: UM ACTUALLY #like bro just relax

[jaysgirlx]

kleo's psa announcement!!

i'm gonna say smth guys and you may not like it but i would prefer that if you are an 18+ account and you really don't want minors on your page then please stay off my page unless we're mutuals or you don't allow -17.

i feel like if you don't want minors on your page you shouldn't be interacting with them. don't get me wrong i love getting likes and reblogs and seeing y'all's comments but i don't want to click on your page just to see you're an 18+ page who doesn't want to interact with minors yet you interacted with my page.

i can understand stand if you happen to just come across my work and not know my age but if you really don't want to interact with minors i feel like that is something you check. and yes this is targeted because there were a couple accounts doing this recently and one account in particular pissed me off. this shit goes both ways guys, i'm not counting down the days until i'm 18, i'm just trying to write for fun. some of the stuff i write is 16+ but if you feel it should be 18+ feel free to click off my page and block me. you don't have to interact with me or my works.

i also don't mind if we interact on a side blog that sfw but if you don't want minors on your page i'd prefer you stay away from interacting my content. if we're mutuals and you don't mind me reading your works or interacting that's fine. y'all can check who i follow i'd you want i'll make it open to everyone because i don't follow any mdni accounts at all. of i've ever interacted with an 18+ work it's probably because it was from my mutuals or it was rebloged by a mutual and not labeled.

anyways that's all i gotta say for now, but if those accounts continue, i'm going to have to start blocking people which isn't fun for me guys. and feel free to comment your opinions on this because I've been thinking about this for days and it's really been bugging me a lot. toodles :)

#✩ fragments of reality ✩ #i'm sorry if anyone's offended #but this is how i feel #my page is a safe space for everyone #my page is a safe space for my followers and me #people have to respect how i feel #i'm not counting down the days till my 18th birthday y'all #i'm literally just vibing #i'm just a girl #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity

[duhragonball]

Cab you check out my post?

There are only two posts on your blog. The first one is a short video clip of Goku and Bardock set to a song I've never heard before. I don't really understand it, but I'm a middle-aged man who listens to dadrock all the time, so I'm probably not the target audience. I can't really offer an opinion on this.

The other is you introducing yourself and inviting people to follow your blog. That's... not really how this works. I'm guessing you're new to tumblr, so I'll try to explain.

Basically, you have to earn followers. You can't just ask people to follow your blog. Well, you can, but it probably isn't very effective. You have to give people a reason to want to follow your blog. You're trying to get people to look at the stuff that's already on it, and get them to think: "Hey, this is some cool stuff, I wonder what cool thing will show up on here next? I'd better follow this blog to find out."

Of course, for that to work, you actually have to post some stuff in the future, to pay off that notion. If you don't post cool stuff fromt time to time, then there isn't any point in following your blog, because there's nothing new to look forward to. A person could just skim through your archives and never come back. They've seen everything there is to see, so why bother following?

Okay, so you have to post cool stuff over time, how do you do that? Well, you've already started by making that video clip. You make your own stuff and post it and tag it so people can find it. You can make more video clips, or make a gif, or post screencaps, or draw a picture, or write your thoughts on a particular character or storyline. It can be whatever you want as long as you don't just copy someone else's material.

My advice is to tag the relevant characters in those posts, along with the name of the show they're in. That way when people search for those tags, they'll run across your stuff. If they like it, and if you demonstrate a willingness to make more, then they'll stick around and see what you've got.

Reblogs are also important. The nice thing about tumblr is that you can reblog cool stuff that other people made, and present it on your own blog as a sort of tribute to the original poster. Of course, it helps to follow other blogs to find the sort of stuff you want to reblog. Find artists you like and follow them. Reblog their posts when you like them, and reblog the things they reblog. The only rule is that you have to enjoy it.

This is what people mean when they talk about "curating" a blog. You're deciding what to put up there every day. One day it might be a poem you wrote, the next day it might be a YouTube video you wanted to talk about, the next day it might be a reblog of some fanart you liked. The next day it might be nothing, because you didn't feel like posting or reblogging anything that day. It's all up to you.

Over time, you'll develop a certain "flavor" to your blog, a style that visitors can come to expect, and some of them will decide they like it enough to stick around. But that doesn't happen overnight. It's something you build, and that's why I say you have to enjoy it. Because if you just post and reblog content for clout, you'll only make yourself miserable. Your audience begins with you, so focus on the material that you want to see, and find out who's interested enough to check it out. That might be a solitary process for a while, but that's the way it goes.

#ask duhragonball

[storm-of-feathers]

cant sleep gonna say my thoughts.

I think what a lot of people miss about tumblr (and especially unfocused blogs that, say, aren't fandom oriented) is that it's essentially an open journal. it's a microblogging website, and all blogging micro or macro is fundamentally a web log (where the term comes from!). if it seems like I'm not talking ab something enough, it's not because I don't care at all.

It's because first and foremost, this blog is a piece of my soul that I am choosing to share. I'm not trying to be an activist on the internet, I'm not trying to sway anyone to my opinions. I'm saying the things I think and feel. If I talk ab american politics too much, that's because im american. if I'm writing frustrated posts about performative internet activism, that's because it feels exhausting to be out there doing the work (because that's what it is. Its work. Its boring and taxing and it feels like youre getting nowhere. Until you see how far youve come) and having to come to tumblr and seeing people say I didn't talk about [disaster 30000 of the past ten years] enough.

if I seem angry and upset and scared and irrational, its because i am those things. you have to understand. in spite of my rather large follower number, this blog is, first and foremost, for me. I am writing things down and allowing strangers and friends and wanderers to read it. I won't call it a privilege that can be taken away, bc its not like some of my thoughts are exactly a treat, but it is something to keep in mind.

if you ask me why I'm talking about the supreme courts recent decisions but not similar decisions in other countries, the answer comes down to "one of those directly affects me, and therefore i can fight back."

but I shouldn't have to announce where and how I'm fighting back. if for no other reason, my own fucking safety. but also bc this blog isn't any sort of guide to activism, it's not any type instruction. it is, at best, my diary that I published.

and that isn't a bad thing!! and it shouldn't be!!! that's why I harped so hard on the carrd post. that's why I'm vaguely annoyed with my reddit posts. that's why I shared my marital status and sexuality for a long time. that's why i have a rwby icon. that's why my blog title which hasn't changed since 2018 is what it is.

I understand that sometimes I have opinions people don't like. oceangate in particular has proven to be a fantastic example of that. But i am, at the most basic terminology, venting my thoughts and feelings.

that's why I'm talking ab the supreme court and their awful decisions. why I may not be talking about issues that don't directly affect me, but might affect some of you. it's not because i don't care. It's never because I don't care.

It's because my target audience is a mirror.

#you need to understand. #im well aware of my bad reputation for not reblogging dono posts and for defending teenagers into dsmp #(not even dsmp itself! just the people who like it.) #i am MORE than aware of the evils on my carrd post im the one who has to see it. #but ultimately i stand by the things i say unless i change my mind. #if i change my mind its because i have more information than i did before #(ie. again. oceangate. i went back and forth as info came out. because i wanted to have an *informed* opinion) #but if i believe in what i said. if i hold to the principle i am espousing #its hard for me to apologize for anything more than i might have worded it weird #but at the end of the day #of the month #the year #life. #this blog. MY blog. is a record of alex storm-of-feathers #if someday a historian figures out our internet and how to access it #i want them to know #i want YOU to know #my name is alex #this is my journal #this is not any type of record on historical events #this is not me trying to organize activism #this is simply me. #my name is alex. #please remember that. #please remember me.

[dissentersrising]

For lore asks!!!

If the Auditor's intentions are to invoke unity on even the level of the Gods, does it have any particular plans for which god it might start with, when the time comes? What member of the Eleven does it believe to be the 'weakest link'? the one it can most easily conquer and start it's path toward complete and total control?

In the unlikely possibility of the Earthmover starting to... Move, again, do the dragons of Sparkhaven have a contingency plan for surviving the sudden reactivation of their home? Is there any concern from the surrounding area that this might be part of the plan of those who live atop the remains of war machines- to revive them somehow?

cut exists for the sake of scrolling this blog. anyways

okay, first off, in my lore, the eleven have been AWOL for... i don't want to give a specific timeframe, because i know i will regret giving a specific timeframe, but they have been unreachable for a very long time. so they're straightup just... not involved in sornieth and have not been for a significant amount of time.

second off: the auditor is a cocky little bastard. the auditor also knows that they are made from the combined magic of all eleven elemental deities. so their actual mindset is that the deities aren't going to respond until they and their agency's swept across the whole supercontinent, and even if the eleven finally come back out of hiding- what then? what then? what is any one element against them, who was created to balance the elements in the first place?

if you forced them to answer, though, they'd probably say the arcanist. because the arcanist, from the beginning, has never been interested in fighting.

also, as a sidenote: the actual nation-flights that are the best targets are currently arcane and water, because again, arcane has a very weak military presence due to their lack of interest in it. the odd thing is that it's still arcane so they might be able to make some weapon of mass destruction. but it is like playing against a beginner at chess: you should be able to stomp them unless they manage to do something weirdly brilliant by accident. and anyways, even if they do make a ridiculous weapon to use, the jury's out on whether the rest of the flights will let them use it in the first place.

water, on the other hand, is the most magically destabilized flight, geographically speaking. hey! fun fact! did you know! (in my worldbuilding specifically) the tidelord is no more absent than the rest of the deities? the real problem here is that water magic is very physical, for lack of a better term. it is tied heavily to having, well, water at hand. and, unlike the earth flight, who also have a very physical element, the water flight's territory was located in an unfortunate location.

what i'm saying is this: a lot of flights dropped out of warring for dominance over the centuries (which is a whole other tangent that i'm not explaining in this post). the last to stick it out were fire/lightning/nature/plague. the water flight happens to be right in the middle of all of those.

and, well, the final stretch of the war was fought using earthmovers, which, as we know, damaged the leylines real badly. because water is geographically in the middle of this all, a lot of their leylines were badly affected by it as well, which damaged a lot of culturally/magically significant sites.

water magic isn't affected at all. individual seers' powers work just as well as before, but culturally and politically they are at a loss. the more religious sects say the tidelord has gone silent because the places dragons would go to commune with him (actually places that had particularly high concentrations of water magic and/or water) aren't working anymore.

which is to say: the auditor, being based out of plague as they are right now, has their sights set on water as their first full flight to take on due both to geographical proximity and also the sheer chaos going on in the flight itself

and on that note, we segue to talking more about earthmovers.

In the unlikely possibility of the Earthmover starting to… Move, again, do the dragons of Sparkhaven have a contingency plan for surviving the sudden reactivation of their home?

yeah, there were a lot of worries among the settlements built atop earthmovers that they might be able to reactivate themselves when the leylines began to recover again.

different towns dealt with it differently. at least one completely gutted their earthmover to make sure there there's just... no components left to reactivate in the first place.

plan in sparkhaven specifically was to keep its fuel systems empty and dismantle the weapons as soon as they could. also kept the shield generator online as a failsafe to minimize damage to the city if all else failed and it stood back up again.

for a little while, at the height of all the worry, there was a task force specializing in keeping vermin and other animals out of the earthmover's internal pipes to make sure it wasn't going to get any blood in there at all. that wasn't really necessary because a couple rats just aren't going to have enough blood to keep even a damn lamp on for a significant amount of time, but it let dragons have more peace of mind, so there was a task force.

in the modern day, near-to-all of its power generation has been re-routed to the city's essential (and/or nonessential) sectors anyway. don't get me wrong, the city relies mostly on external power plants at this point but hey, may as well use what is already there. either ways, it's commonly considered that their earthmover isn't going to wake back up.

...which isn't 100% true. in the specific case of spark-havoc, you could probably still reactivate it. but like all you're going to be able to reactivate is its central consciousness so all it's going to be doing is sitting there lol

as for -

Is there any concern from the surrounding area that this might be part of the plan of those who live atop the remains of war machines- to revive them somehow?

not from the surrounding area! most of those settlements are descended from dragons who, for one reason or another, left their own earthmovers behind to settle on the ground instead.

no, the concern comes from the dragons of the tempest spire and goldensparc (and places in the general goldensparc area). the thing is, they were just far enough removed from most of the fighting that they escaped the worst effects of it, okay, and also there's just a major elitism issue in lightning. goldensparc and the tempest spire, massive cities on the cutting edge of technology as they are, have a habit of looking down on the less well-off parts of the flight. and other flights too but that's besides this point.

there are undercurrents of fear that the towns built atop earthmovers, all the way out in the rest of the flight, might then turn their war machines against the higher echelons.

which, by the way, isn't happening because of all the reasons explained before. even if someone wanted to, it's just not gonna happen.

#flight rising #/usr/textpostin' #/etc/lore time #HOOOOUHGHGHGH MY HEAD HURTS NOW I HOPE THIS IS READABLE #god watch me reread this and go “oh well fuck i forgor to add important details” #ohfcugk #ultrakill spoilers

[kyra45]

Things of suspicion

This list is not meant to target anyone, but rather it's odd things that seem to commonly line up with donation scammers overall. It is things I have seen across the multiple times I've investigated accounts.

When someone donates to them, they will then repeat-ably harass the user for even more money. This happens even after the user will claim they don't have any more money. It will continue on until the account gets blocked to force them to stop messaging.

When they see posts that question their legitimacy, they get extremely defensive and start to claim the account is the sole reason they won't get any money. This happens even if it is a single person who has very little influence in the community and is not well known enough to make a difference.

Evidence the accounts provide as proof of being real are often hastily thrown together and don't usually make much sense. It is even possible they are editing someone else's images to use as their own and when asked about it they simply ignore the question and instead accuse the asker of trying to ruin their reputation.

The evidence post always directly targets a specific account who calls them out and never targets anyone else. Even if multiple users are calling out the suspected donation scam account, the blog will only target ONE person in particular and not anyone else. They will then go on to harass this person constantly for weeks after the accusations or even LONGER.

Lastly, these donation scammers tend to use multiple accounts for their fundraisers and will say their main account was banned for no reason. It'll come out the ban was because they were/are spamming messages only a daily basis to anyone and everyone. These messages may often contain triggering content/etc and come with words to tug at ones heartstrings. While having multiple accounts isn't a sign of a scammer, it's usually suspicious if there are several made all at once with only one purpose and each one doesn't state who they actually are if they are constantly sharing the main accounts aid post. These accounts may also harass the blog who made the original accusation post.

#kyra45 speaks #donation scam

[inchidentally]

some of my trickier asks or things I want to keep out of the tags

[link was a twitter post saying they wanted to get rid of Oscar to have car|ando back together at McLaren]

AFASFGHLASHFL babe even as a car|ando person I have to let you vent that out because that is possibly the most cringe thing I have seen since maybe 2016. I am fully expecting DTS to do another segment on car|ando and frame it so that McLaren and Lando want Oscar to leave because he doesn't touch Lando enough on camera or use nonstop gay innuendo. forget teammates valuing respect for each other and piling up McLaren's hardware cabinet, why oh why won't Oscar tackle Lando to the ground or talk about dicks and balls with him for fancams 😭

sorry anon I'm just cutting off that last part bc I don't want to attract any discourse about it to my blog <3 but yeah I honestly find it baffling that car|ando ended up being the larry ship for F1 fandom when Carlos of his own volition chose to leave after one season?? if they were real life a couple and wanting sex all the time surely staying on the same team would make sense and that he wouldn't go to Ferrari and immediately start acting more like a besotted, handsy husband with Charles than he ever did with Lando yet no one thinks they're secretly married. why didn't he do like Daniel and stick it out with McLaren even during bad times to stay with Lando if real life couple

and straight up they're not only disregarding everything that Oscar has brought to McLaren and promises for the future ! they're deciding that Pato is disposable too. I say this as a semi fake fan but even I wouldn't base my predictions about contract negotiations on rpf.

<3 thankfully it isn't all of us car|ando people who go too far but it feels like the other side are getting louder and louder

honestly I can boil my two main issues with the car|andoisreal brigade to three points:

misogyny and publicly targeted hate toward their real life girlfriends who they actually do have sex with/have romantic feelings for and who they openly choose to be around at the exclusion of their sports bromance friend

this particular brand of car|ando revolving entirely around Lando being conveniently stripped of a personality apart from giggling so he can be handy insert for women desperate to have Carlos for themselves

bringing 1D shipping into yet another new fandom and basically rinse and repeat with Carlos and Lando's names inserted in the [namexname] box

I know that a lot of us car|ando folks are nothing to do w this garbage and the good thing is that usually these people take themselves out either by pissing off the men involved in the ship or getting bored waiting for their fake ship to "become canon" finding a new rpf ship to latch onto.

oh and I do know that the person who made the office meme about Lando saying the podium thing intended it solely as a joke but it found the Other Side real fast and they genuinely put it in their dossiers of car|ando vs |andoscar. which I don't get for many reasons but also if they think Carlos and Lando are in a secret gay relationship and Lando doesn't even like Oscar then why the need to keep going seeee seeeeee he loves Carlos not Oscarrrrr aslfhsalfhslahf jesus christ why am I even trying to rationalize this

thing is I don't want any more of this on my blog or in our part of fandom so I'm going to limit how much of any asks I'll answer about it. I don't at all mind if people need to vent but jsyk I might not always post it publicly.

I'd recommend blocking and not engaging with it to everyone else too. I might curb how much car|ando is on my blog for a while just because it's so embarrassing to be associated with the grown ass women stalking Rebecca/Carlos content and flooding it with car|ando comments.

#inchreplies #vent asks

[hellfire--cult]

I’m the anon from earlier and I just wanted to say because obviously it was not clear that of course I am reblogging the smaller creators I think deserve recognition. However I’m a nobody and my less than 100 followers aren’t really going to drum up many readers for the fics that are already lacking in notes. You can of course reblog whatever you like and I already said that I have read the popular fics you reblogged and agree they deserve the recognition. But I can’t make a post about this on my own blog without being eaten alive and seen as a pariah and potentially dragging down the small creators I’m trying to lift up in the process. I’m sorry for choosing your blog to make a statement. It’s nothing against you personally. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed. People make a big effort to bring life back into the community but only want to give it back to their favorite most popular writers that already get hundreds of asks about their work and have thousands of notes on their stories. The bigger accounts all reblog one another and the smaller ones are left in the dust. How is a story with 25 notes supposed to compete on the dash when you can’t scroll down 2 posts without running into TYP again with comments all through the tags saying how amazing it is and it changed the reader’s life. They don’t. No one wants to read a story with under 100 notes if they’re being consistently spammed with stories that have thousands. What I’m trying to say is, you reblogging 3 of the most popular fics in the Eddie fandom on the first day of this new event thingy was the perfect example of what I’ve been seeing happen during this type of “lift up the creators” effort before the throwback Thursday was even created. I’m really sorry if I made you feel bad and I want to stress that I’m not trying to control what you do on your blog and I’m certainly not coming here to ask you to do something I wouldn’t do. It’s just the fact that some stories, like those you reblogged in particular are really not the target audience in my own opinion, for something like this as they’ve never left the dash in the first place and certainly not been forgotten. The thought behind it was to bring back stories that people missed because they were too busy reading the most popular fics in the fandom to give others a chance. So by everyone just “bringing back” the most popular fics. Not only are the smaller stories missing out again but anyone currently posting stories from smaller accounts are being overshadowed as well. It’s the double whammy for the small blog. Anyway thank you for participating in bringing back older stories. Also thank you for being kind to me in your reply.

I totally get what you're saying!

I have many mutuals that do in fact reblog many creators of any kind, be it with lots of notes, or not, and I do stop and read and reblog. It also depends the mutuals one has!

I have people I follow that are solely readers, so they reblog any kind of the fics that are out there.

I went into my archive yesterday to see my first fic reblogs from july of 2023, because I have so many fics in my head I do remember reading, but I can't, for the love of me, remember the exact titles or remember the usernames or I thought I did and they changed it or deactivated (which happened a lot this past year)

And I am not going to lie, I felt a little thrown back with your first anon, I felt a little anxious because I didn't reblog many at first, so I was sort of taken aback. But thank you for being kind, and show your anger at what happened with this event for now, and to show me you didn't come to talk to me to express yourself in a harsh or hateful way, and thank you for feeling like you actually CAN express yourself to me

But this isn't an event from yesterday only! It's going to happen every thursday, and I am sure more and more fics are going to see the light so others can find them

#roe answers #ttt event