To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
I am so smitten with fic writers who take the time to actually respond to comments, it is the loveliest sweetest thing, and I think it is not appriciated often enough. They anyways spend countless hours writing, and when not writing editing and trying to manage some other activities also. To sit down and reply to comments takes time and energy, and they chose to do this instead of the myriad of other obligations or, well— writing. I love this. Truly.
Obsessed with Dream asking “You are?” when Hob tells him he’s interested in his stories and interests as if the man didn’t spend the past 700 years obsessed with every single word dream had ever said
I don't even know how to describe the insanity of accidentally discussing the concept of minions in dreams, or worse, minions being escaped dreams or nightmares who REJOICE and scream in delight when Dream returns, rushing over and hugging his legs shouting "Boss!!" and "It's BOSS" and "Boss LA RETURNA" or some other form of gibberish.
Hob Gadling aiming to woo a divorced (+1) older goth man through the centuries should be applauded and respected. You go you funky little human. You can do it.
no but consider anakin post the mustafar fight expect with a fix-it outcome, asking obi-wan out and when obi-wan says 'absolutely not' anakin goes 'only a sith dea--' anyways this is the story of how obi-wan started dating anakin if only to not hear his own words used against him
Me, five months ago: lmao a star wars relapse, I bet it'll burn off in a few days :)
Me, today, lovingly framing and hanging prints of Anakin: *laughs nervously* haha I'm in danger :')