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deus-ex-mona · 11 months

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we are united in a common cause on this ✨#blessed✨ day

#hi bots why do you keep liking my lxl posts lmaooooo they aren’t even good mans #n o t that any of my posts are even good to begin with but… my lxl posts are the worst of the worst o k #i mean. they’re p much bot bait at this point.. well! at least the bots like ‘em fruity too~~~~~#though. speaking of this hellsite.. does anyone else get annoyed when the dumb app makes you follow people you’ve never heard of?#like i can never tell if someone i’m following has changed their url or if they’re someone the ‘site possessed my account to follow #like… well… backstory time: i originally made this account to browse the ship tags for a c e r t a i n ship from a c e r t a i n fandom #back when the year was still somewhere in the 2010s i think.. then i lost interest in the ship and the fandom (rip 狛 x 日 y’all the ogs)#and then i deleted the app without having ever followed any accounts. but when i next logged in a few years later. m a n.#i was following some account that i’d never even heard of lmao. like whoaaaaa who you #the account seemed to have been abandoned though.. but they made some really pretty non-fandom art i think…#idk i just thought about it bc i keep seeing accounts i don’t recognise on my dash and i m just like w h o y o u 👁️🫦👁️#i feel kinda bad when i see posts from the accounts that use this site like an actual blog y’know..#like there you are; using the site like it was probably meant to be used.#while im just here making shitposts and the occasional tl for a small-ish fandom #hm. i think i could make t h e most boring blog ever if i ever tried to be a blogger lmao #like i once made a w o r d p r e s s jokeblog that had nothing but a post about kale chips on it… i think #i wonder if that site is still up though… can’t rem if i deleted it or something… o h w e l l #o h c o w. what point was i trying to make again? i forgor—#though. speaking of cows. ‘cow’ (in a c e r t a i n c h i n e s e d i a l e c t) was allegedly my brother’s first word as a kid #and yeah. it was directed at yours truly. (sadge) to think that my bro learned how to talk just to insult me..#brothers amirite? (truly sadge……..)#it is suiyoubi my dudes

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olderthannetfic · 2 months

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https://olderthannetfic.tumblr.com/post/744091634492440576/has-xir@n-j@y-zh@o-always-been-unhinged-or-is-this#notes (I censored the a in the name with a @ in case you wanna use the link, you will have to replace it with an A again.)

Kinda wild how people assume that "unhinged" must be about the call outs, and that OP, or ONTF is negative towards them. I mean, I was here, and I think everyone on here was actually pretty positive about them, besides some people asking if the victims were fine with it which I count as a neutral approach. Aka: Good that it got exposed, hope the victims didn't receive extra backlash for it tho. The other exposed was also pretty positive, when it came to the Hugos.

Idk about OP, but from my online experience "unhinged" doesn't always mean "ur opinion is wrong" or even that they're doing something bad, it can also easily mean "Too intense for me. Not something I can handle." Meaning its about the intensity of the posts, and how they're presented. The twitter/x/xitter is linked directly from their authors site and some other sites featuring them, and is also pretty high up on the search results when you look for the author, and their books, a YA and middle grade book. If you go to someone's socmed expecting a focus on their works/books, and maybe some (less graphic) political posts, but are immediately confronted with very graphic pics of dead babies, corpses, and gore on their socmed. Yeah, ngl it can feel a bit "unhinged" aka too intense, when you're unprepared and see a dead people. Regardless of your own opinions, it can be a bit much for anyone when all they expected were, as I mentioned, posts about books and less graphic posts. Especially since both their works are seemingly aimed at and more popular with a younger crowd: YA and middle grade.

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It's not wild. It's standard fanpoodle-defending-idol deflection.

Equally funny is people going "Why are you linking to a smaller account?" when that should be expected from a certain type of approach to social media. Nobody should be surprised.

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woetoy · 8 months

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Anon art human again, I mean finding views or just acknowledgement for you art, I'm broke and either way wouldn't feel right blazing the nsfw stuff I draw but it gets no traffic or notes. Idk leaving an ask was impulsive but I really respect your art and was curious how you got your followers, if it was more a waiting thing or you found the right areas to post.

I dunno, it probably takes patients to get attention but finding motivation to make good art and then getting nothing but emptiness and boredom at the end of the process isn't motivating lol. Anyways Im thankful for your response and apologetic cause I got this trigger instinct to just blurt my questions to the cool artist I found on tumblr, and I'm sorry for bothering you so

No worries, I just felt bad that I didn't understand ya!

Getting noticed depends on a lot of things. I've had several accounts through 12 years spent on this site, and this one is the first that kinda popped off!

Do you make art that has crowd appeal? As in, is it a little silly, cute or relatable? Does it have a story behind it besides looking pretty? Is it attached to a fandom? Are you making stuff for an underrepresented niche? I often see people make something that is technically impressive, or their personal best, but it doesn't get shared too much because it lacks that appeal. It sounds harsh, I know, but it happens to me too. Until recently, my most popular piece was a doodle I banged out in an hour - just how it is, but I'm happy it resonated with people! You can have a look around at what other people post and see which posts of theirs do better or worse as well.

I don't follow the rule of posting at specific peak times, or posting every day. But I do try to tag stuff appropriately. Tumblr only uses the first 5 tags from your post in the search function, the rest you use for categorizing for your blog. So if you're starting out, it really is a waiting game until someone notices and shares your stuff, unless you have a buddy that can boost you.

I come here to have fun, I make art for me and if other people like it - awesome! I don't really optimize that well for social media reach, I just have my characters and their little stories. I do my specific niche of porn/kinks that are fun for me to draw and talk about. It helps that I have a more solid art style now than I did when I started. Apparently I've been doing NSFW for the past 7 years, and early this year is when it took off on tumblr.

To counteract the emptiness, it helps to have friends to bounce ideas around with or to make characters together with. It's why I create, really. I do it with friends because that's what I find fulfilling. And then I feel driven to draw and post about it as well, and that's been true all this time for me.

I hope you can find fulfillment as well, I think it does come through sometimes if a piece was made for reach or from personal joy. I for sure see that in ancient fanart I've done, I hate those pieces. But the personal stuff that I did for fun is still cute to me, even if it did get at most 5 notes way back when.

Sorry if my thoughts are jumbled. But yeah, this is what I do and what worked for me. But it's always different person to person. Much luck in your endeavors!

#woetxt

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cyncerity · 1 year

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Hi, I absolutely love your store shifter au and it gave me so much brainrot!! I’m borrowing a friend’s account for the moment because I can’t have a tumblr. Anyhow, I just wanted you to say that even if I can’t interact, I absolutely love all your ideas!!! If I understood the lore right, I would assume George is Sapnap’s younger brother and whatever traumatizing experience caused Sapnap to shift also took George away from Dream when they were young. Will Dream and George ever meet in person and if they met as tinies, would George realize it was Dream and what would he think of Dream having the pendant/braid? How would Tommy learn Dream was a shifter, and if one of them was tiny when that happened how would they deal with/would there be a language barrier? And how does Dream learn to shift back? This is much longer than intended, sorry. Feel free to answer parts of it or none of it, I just wanted you to know you’re wonderful!! And if this ask isn’t long enough, then here’s some writing prompts -a friendly admirer

“I can’t believe it.”

“What?”

“My clothes. They just look so, so…”

“Yeah. Hard to believe we even fit that size, right?”

“It’s crazy.”

xxxxxx

"Wow"

"What?"

"Nothing... I'm just not used to

seeing you from this angle.”

"Yeah, I guess it's usually the

other way around.”

This is literally one of the most personal asks I’ve ever gotten solely for the fact that how you described being on tumblr is exactly how I was

I wasn’t allowed on tumblr, so i’d wait till everyone in my house was asleep and then pull out my middle school ipod as a burner device, look at g/t posts for an hour or so, then delete the google tabs i’d pulled them up on and fully shut down the ipod and hide it.

I lurked in this specific community for about a year, then lurked with an account so i could send asks for about another half year until i caved and got the app without parental permission lol (my dad had seen how tumblr was before the bad bots started to get banned so he honest to god thought this was one of those kinda sites but hes chill now)

suffice to say i completely know where you’re coming from and I love you for it 💖

Even if you can’t like my posts or have an account, just coming on here and saying you like my content is so awesome and it absolutely means the world to me 💕✨💖

As for you’re thoughts on the lore (and thank you for sending so many questions I love when this happens):

You’re getting close >:)

Sapnap doesn’t have any siblings, but as I’ve mentioned before (i think), Quackity does! And the event that sparked Sapnap’s shifting was similar to what got George taken in the first place (which could definitely be a reason that it was distressing enough to cause him to shift 👀), just on a larger scale and at different times. George was gone well before Sapnap became a shifter.

As for more on George, i’ll limit myself to what I can say cause there’s so much I want to write for him. At some point it’s my goal to write a story for him as a sort of interlude of the “dream shifted for the first time” story (there will be more parts! I’m working on them! Ngl this ask kinda made me realize how much I wanted to finish the second part of that) and have him fully explained there.

But I can tell you that Dream and George will meet in person! I can’t tell you if Dream will be tiny when they meet, cause you don’t even know for sure what species George is yet, but i promise the boys will meet! Will George know it’s Dream when they meet and vice versa? Who knows! That’s for me to know and you all to find out later >:)

Tommy won’t learn Dream is a shifter for a while, since Dream is stuck at the store. It also takes a bit of time for a new shifter to shift back to their normal size, since they’ve been repressing their capabilities for so long, their body has to stay at the opposite size to get used to it initially. Dream will be able to shift back at some point, but not without some help :)

And now that you mention it, there definitely could be a language barrier, and that could make things really interesting 👀 (im imagining Tommy seeing Dream tiny for the first time at a loss for words and Dream frantically trying to explain what he is but obviously Tommy already knows, so Tommy starts talking about being a shifter himself and he can’t hear Dream’s absolute shock and confusion at this information and can answer none of his questions)

And the writing prompts, YES, i am IN LOVE WITH THEM

If i don’t write specific things for them, they will be put into the next few stories for this au because they are such good ideas oh my word

and as a treat because i loved answering your questions and it made me really happy to get an ask that hit so close to my own experience here’s some miscellaneous Store Shifter drawings from my chorus class, just for you bestie 💖

i have so many of these for so many aus you don’t even know the half of it

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socks-is-scared · 8 months

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Ok so as someone who started using this website right before Elon announced taking Twitter, I just want to talk about my take on (some of) the changes since then because, in theory, they should be targeted towards my demographic.

Blazing: I think this was new when I joined, but I didn’t think it seemed bad. You can pay to make your post reach more people, probably to attract brand accounts to the site. I can’t say I’ve seen a lot of brand accounts since then on my dash but I’ve seen a lot of blazed posts for photography. Didn’t really mess with how I had used tumblr at the time, doesn’t change anything now. It’s cool

Buying Checkmarks: taking the piss on twitter, which was funny at the time. However I’ve noticed people with more checkmarks will often have posts on my dash that are kinda cut off? I assume the checkmarks reached a second row and pushed the text out of the post but it’s kinda annoying. This has really only happened to me on mobile and is a pretty rare occasion, but i just don’t understand how this kinda thing happened in the first place? Was it not accounted for that some users would have ridiculous amounts of checkmarks?

Tumblr live: I’m gonna be honest, I thought this was a gaslighting thing from the community. Fucking never showed up for me, but from what I understand nobody liked it. My rule of thumb is if your feature is “opt out” for no reason, you never had confidence in it in the first place.

Side bar: why is it there? Isn’t all the stuff it shows already available on the top of the screen in the desktop application? And why? I honestly liked how tumblr payed out there stuff compared to other social media because it just felt different. It just seems like tumblr is trying to become new twitter, which is not a good look bestie.

Icon hiding: this is the newest one and I hate it so much. Why do I even have a pfp if nobody is gonna ever see it? Why am I able to display stupid checkmarks and badges if they don’t show when I reblog a post? A lot of these changes just feel needless, and this one by far is the stupidest.

Now, for a change of pace, what would be some changes I would actually LIKE to see as a newer user?

Tagging presets: when I reblog a post, or hell even post my own, wether I tag it at all or not depends purely on how I feel at the moment. For me rebloging feels like it should be able to be done quick. To remedy this, I think you should be able to have custom presets near the tag button. Like say I wanna reblog some art, I could click my “art” preset to automatically put down all the tags I would want when reblogging a post like that (Art, Not Mine, Fandom, ect). From there I can add or remove tags if I feel like it, but the point is to just make it more intuitive to reblog with tags. Especially because, from what I understand, that’s the only way a post will get traction.

Likes doing something: I don’t know what the point of likes are for. I think they contribute to your For You page, but I don’t look at that as often as my main dash. Maybe if likes had an effect on the main dash it could also help the problem with reblogging. Though I have no fucking clue what they would do extra if im being honest. Maybe just get rid of them entirely. They are, to say the least, pointless.

If I have any other thoughts I will just add them to this post.

#long post #tumblr changes #serious post

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nova-astral · 6 months

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The Problem with Bluesky

So, I've been struggling with my anger over this for a week or so, and instead of a one-off post, I'm going to use Tumblr for what it was originally intended, and I'm going to write a blog post.

Yup. A whole-ass blog of a post.

Since Musk farted up and destroyed Twitter, there's been a huge influx to Threads and Bluesky (or, at least, for those who can get invite codes). Threads has been a mild experience, and I haven't seen very many trolls, or people with so much delusion that they see themselves as site-wide moderators.

You've probably guessed, in that latter statement, that I'm referencing Bluesky.

In the interest of keeping people with PTSD and other neurological issues safe, I will be mentioning these people by the names they use on bsky.app.

A little over a week ago, one of the handful of trans women I follow on Bluesky was trying to find more trans people to follow. A normal thing to do, since that's a practice we all see a lot of the time. The community is sometimes hard to scrape together.

Bennie (@bennie.gay) was someone I started following from the beginning. I thought she was kinda cool, despite the participation in the pollution of the timelines with senseless shitposting, as if we're all hanging out on Something Awful still, in the year 2023.

Previously, Bennie had been posting about not having enough money for food, and struggling, and this is how I came into contact with her. I gave her around twenty-five bucks with no expectations about it, so that she could feed herself. I don't say this as a way to say, "Man, this shouldn't have happened, I gave her money!" but more as a way to say, this person does not care at all about any of the people around her, even if said people do care.

Now we'll fast-forward back to the part I mentioned about Bennie making a post in an attempt to wrangle up other trans people. It wasn't the fact that she posted asking to find more trans people, or trans women specifically, it was that her post solicited other trans women by calling every single one of them "trannies."

As someone with a large background in dealing with hate, discrimination, being slurred, being accosted, being threatened, losing friends, losing jobs, being completely alone and to myself for years at a time, etc, etc. This isn't really something that's easy for me to see, let alone type in a long-winded explanation about why Bluesky is bad, and what's wrong with its biggest accounts.

Seeing this set my brain into a kind of panic, scorched Earth sort of mode, as it does, when you have specific neurological issues related to abuse and trauma. In as kind a way as I could muster, I told Bennie that maybe she shouldn't be posting actual slurs like this directly onto the timeline without any warning.

Enter: Backlash, lack of empathy, and "You can't police the words I use to identify myself with! We've reclaimed tranny! It's not bad anymore!"

I want to say that I've been dealing with people like this for a very long time, and when you come at me with this kind of extreme narcissism, and inability to sympathize, or empathize with those around you, it pisses me off. It makes me blood-curdling angry.

(See: the saga I was involved in being manipulated by Laurelai Bailey and threatened should I ever speak out against her)

It makes me even more angry, when your followers, or what I would call sycophants, come into my notifications to essentially tell me that my feelings don't matter, that I'm alone, and I have to deal with everything on my own, and nobody cares.

I don't know if these people decided that they're all incapable of empathy over my current state of not transitioning due to numerous life situations I happen to be in, or simply because I said, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't put this on the timeline without warning."

I could go into a whole spiel about how reclaiming slurs is a personal endeavor and it is never universal, you can never speak for millions of people, but that's a whole other point. A point that, if you don't understand in 2023, I'm just going to automatically assume that you're dangerous.

I told a few of her rabid followers to "Fuck off," or "Shut the fuck up," and then I blocked every single one of them.

But that wasn't the end of this. This is where the bad part of Bluesky comes in.

On Bluesky, you have the ability to craft public mute lists, lists that are available for everyone to see on your profile. And on this website, one specific trans community large-account-holder has somehow made a name for herself as some kind of pretend community moderator ... on a Twitter clone.

This might not seem bad just from that statement, because more social media websites could use a trans person as a moderator.

But it goes deeper than that.

Bennie and Kairi (@estrogenempress.gay) are involved with each other. To what extent, I don't know, and I don't care. Kairi runs multiple mute lists that many, many people subscribe to. Lists that describe themselves as lists for people who "scared the hoes," or "people with weird vibes" or just nasty people in-general.

Yes, I saw Bennie begging Kairi to put me on her mute lists. Her trans community, massive-following mute lists that got her interviewed by large tech media magazines.

This is the important part of my whole entire novel length rant: Public mute lists that can be subscribed to by complete strangers, without proper vetting, and much like the Blockbot of Twitter-past, are prone to abuse, in which they are often used to silence innocent people. Used to silence innocent people by malevolent agitators with an agenda.

I have spent years dealing with people like this, being silenced, denied any kind of platform, and largely due-in-part that I don't take bullshit, I have trauma that I deal with, and it's not unreasonable to ask someone not to put very real slurs in front of all of their follower's faces without warning. Whether they're using an offensive, violent slur as an identity marker, or not.

I used to feel this way about "queer," but I've come around on that topic. "Tranny" on the other hand serves no purpose other than to dehumanize, and it has been used against me numerous times while I was still actively able to transition. And I have a lot of trauma. No, that isn't her fault, or Kairi's fault, but it is their fault if they're not willing to listen, not willing to empathize, not willing to move even an inch on anything, and would rather resort to literal abuse.

But that's what you get when random people are allowed any modicum of "power" whatsoever.

And that's why, when all the dust settles, Bluesky will very likely not make the cut.

I would rather spend the next 10 years rebuilding my audience for my work on Threads, than struggle with disingenuous manipulators out to silence anyone and everyone who even so much as slightly disagrees with them.

And, if you're curious, these are the mute lists I've been subjected to, because I asked a random trans woman with a lot of followers to please not put "tranny" in my face.

#slurs #cw slurs #trans community #trans #transgender #trans woman #trans women #bluesky #bsky #bsky.app #bsky social

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explosionshark · 11 months

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Uh, genuine question, but what should non vegans and/or non vegetarians do to be respectful of vegans and/or vegetarians?

And also, a second more specific question, i get that unless the person has actually said something, irl wise it’s generally kinda dumb weird and probably a bit rude to go out of your way to avoid any mention of meat as food in front of a vegan/vegetarian, but online, where the rules are obviously different,

would it be good practice to tag posts that are about or mention meat or other animal products being used as food? Because i imagine even if you don’t care it just might get a bit grating? Like when you keep having to hear a bout a fandom you’re apathetic about

Again, promise this isn’t mocking or anything, these are genuine questions, 🙏 i just believe that similar to religious beliefs, veganism/vegetarianism shouldn’t be mocked and instead respected

None of this is dumb or weird! I think it's nice that you're trying to be mindful.

Personally, I don't think tagging for meat or animal products or stuff like that is necessary. I feel like 99% of the fast food ads I see on billboards or commercials is more obnoxious than like someone posting a pic of their dinner and talking about how good it was.

Tbh the only content I actually see on Tumblr that bothers me In A Vegan Way falls into one of two categories.

Exploitative Animal Images: idk to me this ranges from like mildly annoying to hellish. I feel like a lot of images of animals clearly in distress or in unsafe circumstances get passed around as memes a lot here and it's genuinely kinda disturbing. I mean obviously pictures of living animals captioned with something obnoxious about the kind of food you want to turn them into is one example.

Other stuff would be like videos of wild animals in domestic settings where they don't belong (I hope I never see another pet sugar glider video in my entire fucking life tbh) or like otherwise in captivity under CLEARLY shady circumstances (those tiger farms for example). Otherwise stuff like videos of people scaring their pets bc they make funny faces or silly noises about it. A lot of this stuff is pervasive in Internet humor or like cute animal pages and it can be easy to overlook but I think it's worth being critical of thinking about the circumstances animal content is produced under. Tbh I think this is a good internet rule in general - esp when it comes to meme images of violence and stuff like that.

The other category is probably more obvious and the thing I most frequently block/unfollow people over - please don't reblog weird anti-vegan propaganda. I feel like I don't really have to worry about this from you, anon, since you're clearly approaching from a respectful place but there's been what feels like a significant uptick in anti-vegan content couched in progressive language on this site recently.

From blatant misrepresentations of what veganism means to holding vegans solely accountable for stuff everyone does and/or corporate marketing, to weirdly hateful and defensive screeds - there's a LOT of really popular bad takes going around. And some of it is truly wild and really shows how little people read a post before reblogging it - a couple years ago I saw several majorly popular blogs on Tumblr reblogging an anti-vegan post that had lines about the "occult implications" of veganism buried somewhere in the text and it nearly drove me insane. More mundane examples would be the recent rise of 'vegans love to pollute with fake leather bc they're ignorant babies' type posts. A lot of these don't even have to be outright hostile to be annoying, but they all fundamentally fail to understand what veganism is about. It's not a health movement or an environmental movement or a 'lifestyle' movement - the #1 concern of veganism is animal rights.

Not saying there aren't overlapping concerns like environmentalism that can be used in the messaging, but at the end of the day whether something is good for your health or for the planet is a secondary consideration to 'does this system harm a living being unnecessarily.'

Anyway I hope that was a helpful answer!

Thanks for reaching out! Have a good one!

#vegan #please no one be weird on my post

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nhidalgo9 · 11 months

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June 16th Bamboo Forest + Monkey Park

Sorry for the late post today was full of monkey business ( a joke you’ll get later in the blog) I skipped breakfast for yet another day our destination was a bamboo forest. Our first stop was yet another love shrine so I’m kinda starting to wonder if this is subliminal messaging from the professor. Does he think we really need love that bad, does he see our group and go “yea they need some divine intervention”. Theres no shot all these different love shrines or love streams stack on top of each other one of them has gotta cancel it. Too much of anything is a bad thing so maybe too much love is also a bad thing, enjoy that food for thought. In other news I took more 0.5 pictures which is the supreme way of capturing an image of yourself. After the bamboo forest we headed to a monkey park that had all these little monkeys wandering around that I paid some yen to feed them tiny little peanuts. I was on great timing today with my monkey and banana themed jokes everyone was laughing at them and having a good time. On our way down Eliza, Sam, Aulora, and I started discussing dreams, what they are, how often we have them, and the intensity at which some of them are. A weird but fruitful conversation that happened on the side of a mountain as we climbed it down. A group of us then went to a cafe that was generationally awful, everyone will tell you that the aesthetic or the vibe of the place was worth it but I promise you there are places with just as much vibe but better food. We tried to use Raj’s abilities once more to find an RB but we forgot it was friday night so we didnt account for all the people that would be there. To my

preference we just went back to the hotel and invited everyone over for Uno. Its an interesting feeling always being the apartment or room to host and its a phenomenon that happens in Gainesville and now here in Japan. It just always seems to fall that way, I dont mind it for the most part but every 5 or so hangouts sometimes I want the room or apartment to myself. It will continue to be that way when I invite everyone to Casa Sucia for our reunion or even just for a fun party (I already got some RSVPS). Tomorrow is our last free day in Kyoto and more importantly in Japan, you can definitely feel the energy start to shift into the falling act of our little study abroad play but I try to pay it no mind and enjoy the time I have left with the people I have met here.

Academic reflection

Today our reading was on “The tale of Genji” and we went to the actual spot where he had his love affair with the lady rokujo. It was more important in the sense that that area was where future priestesses where kept even in actual real world history. It was nice to concretely have a place described in fiction that is based on something real and then go to said site. Being their I imagine myself as Genji pleading to the lady Rokujo to consider him and take him back after he himself made up his mind about leaving (a tale as old as time)

The second reading gave us a little insight as to why the bamboo forest is preserved in the way that it is. Despite all the nature in Japan one thing they do not have too many of are forests in the way that we think of them, luckily over the course of Japan’s history lots of different groups of people have put an emphasis on keeping the bamboo forest tended to either by planting more or by designated the forest as a protection zone. It was nice to know that because of people’s efforts years ago we were able to enjoy such a perfect and scenic view.

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fallingsunflower · 2 years

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I'm dreading tomorrow for so many reasons, I'll list them because maybe you, or someone reading this, might understand my mindset lol

I'm fearful that maybe the media has twisted this thing more than we're aware. Looking at the history of this drama, most of it came from Deuxmoi and Lipstick Alley anons, to which sites like Daily Mail copy and pasted. I know that not everything that has been rumoured is true—but a part of me is (who is a fierce Florence Pugh supporter btw) is like... "Oh f*ck. What if they *O & Flo* admit there has never been any bad blood between them and this whole thing was just rumours". Yesterday I wouldn't of dreamt writing that, but there's this unwelcome ball of anxiety festering inside of me today as the premiere approaches. That dreaded "what if..." (edit: nah, I don't feel that way after typing out this whole message. But I am gonna look like a clown because I've been so vocal about Flo being a victim lol)

Then again I am dreading seeing the 'happy-clappy' photos of them getting off of the water taxi's and doing a brief dock-side photocall before the press conference. I know that Florence isn't obligated to do any press (just show up at the premiere), but just the thought of her having to stand next to them, without someone in-between, is really sickly. The same goes for the premiere. I feel like a lot of O stans are going to use pictures of them being all smiles as "proof" they're not feuding.

Someone on twitter posted earlier today that Warner Brothers are just to blame as Olivia, and I can't unsee that tweet, although they didn't say it outright—Warner Brothers is using Florence's own contract against by forcing her to be there. They're forcing a victim to be with someone she clearly despises for the sake of greed and publicity. I actually hope she doesn't go and just pays a fine or something. If they sue her she has the receipts. However, Dune is owned by WB so I presume she'll most likely go to keep them in her good books for now. Maybe 10+ years down the line Ryan Murphy will create FEUD season 69 based on the drama 😂

This is more advice for anyone reading—please don't post photos of O and Flo together. While the photos are gonna be real, even red carpet instagram stories videos, them being friendly is not real, even if they say they are besties or whatever. Also, lesser known gossip websites steal pictures from tumblr. Don't post pictures that you think are gonna make negative headlines for Flo! (Please do with O lol, she needs her comeuppance)

I just... I don't know. I love Florence and the idea of her, right now, probably being anxious about tomorrow doesn't sit right with me. She's avoided this film for so long... That suddenly she's thrown into the deep end by a production company who sides with people like Ezra Miller and Olivia Wilde. She's kinda being taken advantage of publicity wise. THIS FEELS GROSS.

We'll see how it goes. I understand the anxiety but nothing that happens this weekend negates what has already happened:

Florence has BARELY posted about DWD. She promoted other films that weren't hers and she was the only cast member (besides Harry I think) to repost the DWD teaser trailer from an account other than Olivia's. She also spoke about how the film's promotion of sex has made her uncomfortable. She pulled out of press besides the red carpet event. She never responded to Olivia's gushy instagram post praising her.

Olivia was also caught in a major lie. Either Florence felt uncomfortable on set and Olivia didn't stick up for her OR Olivia created this whole narrative of her being a knight in shining armor (this last one happened regardless). Plus Olivia keeps marketing this movie as something sexual when Florence spoke up.

Regardless of how the media spins their "friendship", there's still evidence of some sort of quarrel between the two. They'll be professional this weekend but it doesn't mean shit in terms of what's going on behind the scenes/personally.

It does feel gross though, I agree with you. It's uncomfortable. People need to stop giving Olivia so much attention

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mattdemers · 1 year

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My safari through current social media alternatives

So I figured that after a week of Twitter doomposting by other people, I'd weigh in with my thoughts on the vibes/applications of social media sites that people have migrated to. This isn't meant to be a scientific tier list, just thoughts.

Tumblr

I haven't been here in years. Things are largely the same, but there's been some UI improvements, and I've liked things like the new posting UI (still needs some work. Would prefer Markdown, but I get how zoomers aren't going to put up with that).

Aesthetically, it feels like the transition from being 18 to 22. Like, the company voice is a bit more older/sassier/"leaning into what people told it that its strengths were" and I don't know if that's good or bad. I feel that it's a bit limiting but I think Tumblr needs all the help it can get.

I've also noticed a lot more gamification, encouragement, "things that you are doing correctly that we are going to enforce" from Tumblr itself, which is probably positive.

Probably will be fine in the short term.

Cohost (Link to me)

"Tumblr, with a shit colour scheme."

I'm having trouble with Cohost mostly because I've done the least amount of exploration for new people to follow or hashtag discovery. I really like the post editor (it's Markdown, see above) but I can understand how that's going to hurt it.

It reminds me of a university/college internal website for students, aesthetically. I don't want to say "who is this for?" but there's a larger deficit when it comes to its identity as a site. Tumblr is clear what it wants to be, and who it wants to house, and Cohost was sold to me "for creators" but I have less idea how/why/beyond that.

Clicking into a tag for "league of legends" (which I guess might be a good comparison across platforms) the last post in that tag was 3 days ago.

Yeah, I'm kinda thinking Cohost is gonna be dead, or a zombie like Vero Social in a year.

Mstndn.social (Link to me)

It's hard to talk about Mastodon due to the nature of federation, so I can only zoom out and talk about "the normie experience" that I'm seeing.

I think people are using Masto as a bit of a panacea; they see a familiar Twitter-ish interface, but are lost with the tech-speak of federation and what it might mean. I've seen ambitious people start their own instances and think it's "building a new Twitter" in terms of scale expectations, but it's not. You're essentially building your own pillow fort.

The thing is, I think some people might be... hoping otherwise? Like, the stuff that's interesting me most about Masto is the Lord of the Flies scenarios happening in certain circles, where they're finding out:

How much work actually goes into moderation, and how unsexy it is

What happens when people you don't know/can't vet are joining your instance

What happens when people have a visible person they can point their grievances to

To be honest I'm not optimistic about Mastodon but I think it serves a purpose in educating people about what was convenient about Twitter. They'll go crawling back, and maybe a few people will embrace the "local" group they've now joined.

Some normies literally have never had the experience of joining a small forum and learning to love that community; this isn't that. It's more like Reddit, where one account enables you to post everywhere, but you might find a "home" subreddit.

I've been using Pinafore as a better UI for Masto and I've been enjoying it.

Other thoughts

I joined The Hive about two seconds ago, but I'm moreso just reserving a username in case it blows up. A two-person team and being on the market for multiple years before this kind of makes me wary, mostly because I think they're hungry to accept any kind of winning milestone, and that means they're going to listen to anyone if it makes them think they can keep the momentum.

Tech users largely don't know what they want, and it's going to waste the resources of a dev team in order to try to get everyone satisfied. If they're doing crowdfunding, I'm kinda also pessimistic, because man that's setting up for some "I paid for X!" complaints.

What's funny/cool is I've gotten "mattd" on all these platforms, not "mattdemers." Kinda nice to shift a little bit because I'm very insecure about saying my last name verbally and having people be able to find me. Oh well.

It's the URL of my new Substack too, where I'll be posting more things like this, if you want more. It isn't launched yet, and is under construction, but it's there if you want to move early.

#social media #cohost #hive social #tumblr #mastodon #mstdnsocial #fediverse #sociology #technology #twitterpocalypse #elon musk twitter #twitter

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icannotreadcursive · 2 years

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Hello it's me again. Tell me if you want me to stop sending you asks nonstop, I do not fully understand how interaction on the internet works and so I base everything I do on whether I'd enjoy it myself and I would, but I recognize you might feel different and bwahdgahhhkjkkljkll

Anyway, how did you first get into writing fanfic? How did you get over the feeling that everything you write is #cringebad? I know every writer thinks that...

Hello! I quite enjoy getting asks but rarely receive them, so honestly this is great, don't even worry about it hon

As for how I got into writing fanfic, I really started writing things that would count as fanfic long before I knew about "fanfic" or "fandon" as concepts.

Like, I wrote a sequel to the musical Cats when I was 5 or 6. And for some elementary school creative writing assignment I wrote about the kids of a bunch of my favorite book and movie characters going to school together. I just naturally engage with stories by making up more stories.

I actually discovered fanfiction . net in middleschool--I think the only things I ever posted to that account were a continuation of an anime that had ended like mid-arc and a Harry Potter fic with just the most unabashed self-insert mary sue going to Howgwarts with like Harry's kids and all that generation. I stopped using that account and switched over to a second ffn account I initially made to keep my Brokeback Mountain fic separate because that movie's rated R, so that fic felt grown up and different to me, and I was kind of hiding it from my mom, but that didn't last long because I'm a terrible liar.

That fisrt ffn account is long gone, I took those fics down, but some parts of the HP fic stil exist re-worked without the self-insert character and can be found as the And The Family Circus series on my Ao3. My other ffn account is still up (unless the site purged it, I haven't checked on it in a while) but everything on there has been crossposted to my Ao3, except for my very first Brokeback fic, which I cannot bring myself to take down but which I have grown so far past as a person and a writer.

Now, I want to make a point that no, not every writer feels like everything they write is #cringebad. A lot of writers are insecure about their writing--hell, I know successful professional screenwriters with movies you can call up to watch right now who dread other people seeing their writing! But that's a learned insecurity, it's not an inherent part of being a writer.

I'm lucky enough to have grown up with a lot of support for my writing. My family's always treated my interests with respect, and I just kinda didn't make friends with people growing up who would be jerks about that kind of stuff, so I never got that social shaming as a kid that teaches you that your interests and creative endeavors are bad or cringe or a waste of time because you'll never be good enough to make anything of it or whatever.

Do I look back some of my old writing, from like high school, and cringe? Yeah, absolutely. Cuz I've learned enough to see now that it's clunky and unrefined and dialogue is stilted and unnatural and the character interactions don't make sense and a lot of it is hamhanded and messy--but it's the writing of a child, of someone still learning not just how to write but how to be a person. So I cringe with fondness for who I was and the enthusiasm I had to so confidently put that mess out into the world, and I thank the stars that I've grown since then.

But yeah, I write primarily for myself, and I enjoy what I write, so I figure I must be doing a pretty good job. The fact that other people enjoy it too is a wonderful bonus.

And I do know that every writer (except maybe a few who are delusionally arrogant) has moments while we're writing when we're fighting with it and every word we're putting down feels wrong and it's like damnit this is terrible, I don't know what I'm doing, this is so bad, why am I doing this???

At that point you either gotta push through and tell yourself that's a second draft problem--because the most important thing is getting it on the page, you can edit bad writing but you can't refine something that doesn't exist--or you take a breath, take a break, take a walk, just put it down for a while and when you come back you may find you have a better feel for how to handle the scene or you may find what you already wrote isn't as bad as you thought.

Well, that got long, but yeah, that's my story and my thoughts on the matter.

Thanks for the ask!

#eiiri answers

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allegro-mcvivace · 26 days

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Greetings from the Other Side

Well... Hello. (This isn't meant to be super ominous.)

Long post, and if you're someone I owe and explanation to (if you know, you know) then this post includes it. However, the main point of the post is something different from that. Big sorry about it being this long, but I had a ton to say.

If you find this in the wild, this is equivalent to a vent/personal post so please have respect. Everything's below the cut.

This post is mostly to just say that, hey I kinda wiped this blog of its posts in order to hopefully be more active. The main reason I wasn't posting very much at all is mostly because of, what I can describe as "major cringe" because I want to talk about my OCs again but I've completely redone the lore like 5 times since the last time I've done that and there'd be a lot of misleading info from 3 years ago sitting around. To be fair, it's not just because of that, it's more that I knew for a fact I was in a bad part of my life for some of that and there's oddly personal stuff or just me throwing a tantrum in a post, which I didn't want anyone looking through my old posts to stumble upon (or have that somehow be their first impression).

This is not a full rebrand or anything, all I ever did was make OC posts and reblog stuff anyways. That fact is not changing.

Back in the day, I would just delete my whole blog when I wanted to start fresh, and disappear off the face of the earth in an instant. But here I felt like, I dunno... Lots of the people who follow me come off like they arrived from my various exploits, like my band/orchestra stuff that I don't actually post about, and that those people are still lingering here because they've no reason to unfollow? Especially with how inactive I've been lately. I bet I'm that guy who people forget they were even following in the first place... It feels like nobody would have a good reason to follow my new blog if I were to make one. Plus, with the dashboard change (I personally have a script that changes it back) and stuff with like, transphobes, it feels like this is a really bad time to try and "start fresh on Tumblr" but I have no clue what else to do. I've been in this absolute slump when it comes to just, my life in general, like I'm some kind of corpse. Big sorry if it's a little much to bring that up like that, but y'know... I wanted to talk about my lore and stories, and I was mostly doing that through running roleplays for people as some kind of GM, but it's gotten to this point where I feel like nothing's going anywhere for me and I really need to actually talk to people. That's not a negative feeling about roleplaying itself, mind you. I still love TTRPGs as well as wacky text ones, and I'm still open if anyone wants to roleplay. I've just put myself in this situation where it's blatant I just want to talk about my OCs but it always has to be this big thing up to standard, and maybe I just want to infodump...

The ways I usually talk about my stories/lore and the actual pieces of writing is either in big ol' documents or through talking one-on-one in someone's DMs, and I have a really hard time going through with the big documents because my miserable perfectionist mentality. It took me 'til this point to realize that maybe it was right under my nose this whole time, that on this hellsite right here I could just infodump and doodle my OCs and stuff in a place where multiple people can see it, I can tag it so people don't see the stuff they don't want to, and maybe I could finally make new/more friends if the stars give me a chance. This is exactly what I was using Tumblr for back when I was active in the first place. Well, the real reason I made my first account was for fandom stuff instead of OC stuff, but my point still stands for why I keep coming back. It's a site where all the posts are basically opt-in, which I definitely took for granted before seeing just how much crap Facebook for instance shoves down your throat and you have to opt-out of every individual bigot page/group/whatever that randomly pops up and there's no way to get them all. Even without that, there's this weird vibe thing where most other sites are places where you talk about real life stuff and I feel like an absolute outcast when all I want to talk about is my fictional people in order to distract myself from, you guessed it, the horrors (in general, nonspecific).

Now, for the entire fucking elephant in the room right now. The fact that on Discord (for those of you who just know me from Tumblr or only saw this post, I am not open to rando friend requests, not that my username is the same there) I absolutely disappeared without much of any warning. It's because I was at my breaking point and I absolutely needed some distance right away. Nobody did anything, it's entirely personal. I'm not "quitting Discord" or anything, at least that wasn't my intent, because I have way too much stuff on there just to ditch it like that in good conscience (I own a server). The main worry of mine is the way that I straight up had an ongoing campaign and stuff in that vein, and as I said there was basically no warning. I've been gone for, what, two months? It proves a good point that enough time has passed that I lost track of how much it was. I'm afraid to go back because I'm scared that people will be mad at me for leaving, or that everyone just left and I had worked myself up to going back just for there to be nothing. Even if people don't do that, because it's unlikely, there's this fear that people will just act weird about me, which is a thing I worry about a lot when I'm burnt out like this at my breaking point.

My plan was to come back on a Wednesday specifically because our sessions were on Tuesdays and it would give us a week to "get back on track" but if I'm being honest... By this point, I feel like nobody would want to just continue anything if I were to show up out of nowhere again, but even moreso I don't even think that I'd want to continue it myself, either. I've been procrastinating all this because I didn't want to deal with any confrontation, and I've just accepted that if I wait long enough it will "go without saying" that I'm not going to continue any of that, as opposed to me having to manually tell all my players that it was cancelled indefinitely. Being cowardly again, I know.

I know for a fact some of those people I disappeared for happen to follow me on Tumblr. Hence, I was really afraid to try and start posting and reblogging without any sort of explanation for my rash behavior because I at least owe them that. So, instead of hoping that they don't see this for whatever reason, I'm banking on my friends absolutely seeing this, like a cry for help and an apology all in one. Big sorry for making anyone panic, and big sorry for some other things as well. Mentally, I believe it'll still take me a while to go back, but I came back here so I would still have somewhere to talk.

Despite the date, this is not an April Fools' Day thing. It would be cruel if it was, but I also fear that nobody will take me seriously if I make any kind of post on this day regardless of what's in it. I really wanted this to be my first post from the blank slate, so I felt like I couldn't really post or reblog anything until I made this one, and I would've had to wait 2 more days because I have work and stuff tomorrow.

Plus, I feel like April Fools' Day is an oddly perfect time to choose a fresh start, being a memorable day and all. Obviously not because of the "this might be a prank" mentality, but because I can look back on it being that day where Flight Rising made all the flights stuff like "crunch" and "explode" and Tumblr had a boop counter. Once again, I will promise you that nothing about my panic attack or disappearing was a prank, and hopefully you can see why the post was today.

On a previous point, this isn't a "fresh start" to imply I'm removing my Discord servers when I get back or anything. Everything's gonna stay, I just wanted to elaborate on why this blog's posts disappeared.

Kind regards to everyone reading, ~Allen

#allegro-mcvivace #text only post #text wall #long post #personal post #please dont reblog

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redrosesshadowwolf · 28 days

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I used to love writing. I mean I still do, and I get sparks of creativity all the time.

I never seem to get past a few chapters for a fic so I rarely post my writing.

But that's not what this is about.

You see, there is this thing people used to do. I have no idea where I remember this happening. But when I was younger I read several works people had done together. Whether it be POV shifted with alternating chapters, or they worked together for the whole thing.

I've always loved that type of work. I've always wanted to do such things.

But finding someone to write with you? Someone who has the same brain worms?

It can be hard.

Despite having been perusing tumblr for a long time, I didn't make an account till a few years ago. And I've enjoyed how people jump back and forth adding to prompts in the notes, it's a smaller version of what I enjoy so much.

I've done that, I've verbally jumped back and forth making short stories with friends as well. But finding time and motivation between people to bring about one central idea hadn't worked our for me too well.

So I guess why I'm saying this all is so I can see if anyone else has this issue, if anyone knows a platform that works best for such things.

I'd try and find people to write with. But that takes a little more than just spotting a person and agreeing to write with them.

I have also seen group things like this done for short prompts from large discord servers I'm Fandoms and such. But I think one of the most unique times I've seen this done was for some old zombie apocalypse story I had read on Wattpad when I was like 11.

Because yeah, I'm part of the time before making sure there were proper childlocks on every site and device.

Honestly kinda feel bad for the kids who are stuck with such things. I would have hated it.

But I understand they're important for kids who don't know any better.

Also, some people really need to just teach kids to click away or turn off things if it makes them uncomfortable. Because some people grow up instead just going through with watching or reading stuff that fucks them up in the head. Or they complain to adults and the adults turn it off or get rid of it for them and the kid gets like no problem solving ability for such thing.

I don't know many kids, but somehow I've still seem both issues prominently displayed in real life and on media platforms.

Anyways ignoring my beef with people, and other such things. I really do love back and forth about writing and with writing.

I think when I was in like elementary or middle school one of my teachers had a few assignments where I had to do such things. And that really opened this can of worms of me loving the idea.

Because I've never done sports or been a part of a large team, but I have had to team up in academic environments and doing creative writing with people who also enjoyed writing was just an incredible experience. Even if it was more likely you'd get stuck with someone who didn't like writing and they'd make the experience so very annoying and horrible, those few good times outweighs the bad for me through this type of writing.

It's once again, probably why I love tumblr so much. Because we do this in small doses throughout fandoms and general writing prompts. Some people ask that people don't add on or elaborate on their writing. But so many more seem rather happy if someone takes their beginning and adds a middle, even if they plan on writing their own middle and end.

It's honestly a fantastic thing.

#why i love tumblr #writing #my favorite type of writing

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floorpancakes · 9 months

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its funny there was a big period of time where i just didn't bring holic up at all and idk what caused it really but there was a point where I did a little on twitter and there was absolute crickets and then I was on this spiral like FUCK!!!! NOONE GAF !?!?? AM I ALONE IN AN EMPTY ROOM??? and THAT was what spurred me to incessantly holicpost like that was the final straw. i was like if doumeki has 1 stan then thats me. if watanuki has 0 stans i am dead. i then realised a few ppl gaf and im still reeling from that yes its a series that still gets merch but i was so awkward approaching anyone with even a vague interest believe it or not i have social anxiety so rampant it actually overshadows my reflex to just talk and talk and talk about Thing I Like which is crazy because nothing overshadows that and as a result my brain finds ways to make me feel bad abt it

anyway im glad i redownloaded tumblr on reflex a while back when the twitter nonsense started. i need to keep my twitter otherwise I'll lose all the fucking ppl who aren't remaking or are remaking on random sites ill never use and it's kinda a part of me now but tumblr is important for other reasons

plus i need space to longform post its my default when i got twitter way back when it took a lot of time to have to get used to that. and where else can i use tags as a FURTHER stream of consciousness. thats the real good shit

anyway im still fucking awful at talking to people and communicating but its nice to not feel so alone. and it makes things EXTRA funny when every few days I see someone accidentally fall headfirst into my account like feeling the exact same confusion at not being alone on this lol

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tonicandjins · 10 months

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hi, ate faye!! you could try making a kofi account, link it on your fics so readers know where to commission and buy you a coffee (that's the term the site uses hehe). you can also post a goal there for donations and get subscribers. i hope this helps 🫶🏽

great idea. thank you so much! T_T

i kinda feel bad for asking so i want this to be a one-time thing of some sort until i recover from all the expenses when i was hospitalized. but i'll keep this in mind. i'm also thinking of academic services/commission from fb or twt but i'm not to certain if i can trust people to pay me to do their work for them cuz i've seen lots of bad feedback about acad commissions from fb. thanks so much!! i'll create a kofi account now and see what i can do with it!~

#queue and a

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shxxtingstxxs · 1 year

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Deserved Update (READ TO THE END, IMPORTANT):

Hello. I wasn't dead, I just... I had some issues. I haven't been entirely honest with any of you.

As you may know from majority of my posts. I vent alot. And usually it leads to nothing good. I push away others because of my own mental state, I don't trust many people (And that is a issue I'm working on.) and when I become friends or mutuals with other people I tend to get attached. It stems from abandonment issues.

I actually was taking some time off to reflect and I decided I wish to not roleplay, on this account. I can't manage 10 accounts at once. I guess from all the stress I have piled up at once I kinda snapped.

I didn't decide to make Rose transgender (reasoning being, that the idea was stupid and that it will take a lot of reworking to do.) but she did become Comet. I myself identify as transgender (I have issues with transphobia in my family rn and they aren't willing to use my proper name and pronouns and I feel extremely disrespected.)

I normally don't make such long update posts, but I am not enjoying tumblr anymore, I keep getting drama started on my main. For NO REASON. I don't provoke drama on my own accord (I used to do that for petty reasons.). On my Main someone accused me of glorifying an ED I have because my name contains the name in it.

It was one person that decided to harass me and I... I can't stand this site. I stepped away from this site for a couple of reasons. One mainly being, I wanted to kickstart my career as an VA, Writer, Singer and Songwriter.

I have been depressed for awhile now, and I barely could do anything without getting upset. Most of my reluctancy to rp with anyone and send in asks stems from the fact that I cannot send in asks. I can't even form the will to do anything.

I appreciate all the support you've given me through this tough times, I am still alive and well, I currently have no mutuals. (I lost 2 of my mutuals because I generally have social anxiety and awkwardness and my Autism and trauma makes it to where I can say some fucked up shit.) I don't really care about it anymore. Roleplaying on here used to be so fun and engaging but losing everything made it so... Useless.

I have no real reason to even be here anymore. I stay because everyone wants me to. I want to make people happy. Everyone just blocks me or assumes I'm bad news when I have IDEAS. I normally tend to suffer from trauma and I incorporate it into my works of fiction.

But then again...

That's not how the story goes.

I am not going to sit here and pretend that I'm fine when I'm not.

I'm airing my issues out and saying.

"I'm sorry."

I'm sorry I can't be a good partner to you guys or actually reach out. But no matter the amount of apologizes I give, I can't recover my follower account.

I'm scared to look at it now.

If you're wondering what's going to happen on this account, I'm still roleplaying on Tumblr but my main is where I am active so follow @2cvri0vs4u. Its my side blog on my main so I can see and respond to roleplays. Please forward roleplays there.

I can't keep doing this anymore. Roleplaying on here fucked with me and got me to the point where I lost my friends and greed took over.

I might end roleplaying for awhile, I dunno.

#🗣️ || oh my oh my oh my god · mun speaks

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