#its just....discouraging

[cassberry]

Just as a note from someone who's been in mcytblr for years now, qsmpblr you really have to start reblogging more posts.

Out of all the mcytblr fandoms I've been in, qsmpblr has some of the worst reblog to like ratios I've seen and that's incredibly sad because there are so many talented people in this space.

Reblogging is super important because it moves posts out of a tag and as the Tumblr search system is atrocious, a lot of those posts are lost to time if not reblogged.

The only reason people are able to find old posts a lot of the time and keep them circulating is because someone reblogged it. It keeps the qsmpblr ecosystem alive when you reblog stuff!

I have 3-4 year old posts from hermitblr and trafficblr that still get notes to this day because people find them on other people's blogs.

I'm not saying you have to reblog every single post you come across and I'm not trying to make you feel guilty if you don't, that's silly. But if you like something maybe consider reblogging it as well.

Think of it like a corkboard on your wall, you get to display a cool post whether it's art or a text post for others to see, and the poster is happy that their post has been acknowledged. It's a win-win!

#qsmp #fandom critical #<- just a light crit <3 #qsmpblr has been so lovely i just want everyone to be appreciated #i've had so many artist friends get really discouraged on qsmpblr because their posts get no notes #other than likes that is #(i have a theory that its because we have such a large ex-twitter population here) #(reblog things please) #(likes do nothing) #berry.posts

[askinsufferableprick]

is this thing working?

oh shit it is this is officially happening lets fuckin go

ok so uh welcome ladies, gents n such to the offical ask blog for the world renowned creator of SBHJ and various other cool blogs i know yall got a billion questions such as whos that super cool dude on camera there's no way that's the one and only dave strider himself i knew he was a epic dude but this is way beyond anything i could have imagined how does such a famous and busy guy got the time for yet another dope as hell blog or like hey doesnt putting your name and face up online go against like basic internet safety protocol all valid questions guess you gotta go throw some asks in that empty as fuck ask box if you want any of the answers

#dave strider #homestuck #homestuck ask blog #hs #homestuck fanart #ask blog #dave strider ask blog #ask dave strider #askinsufferableprick #((my partner and one of my besties r horrible ppl who decided that instead of discouraging me from making this they did the opposite so #now here we are....... #been ages since i had an ask blog so well see how this goes #are ask blogs even still a thing??? do ppl still like these?? anyway #gonna try my hand at pretending to be dave well see how it goes lol #and its gonna be dave from all over the timeline btw not just pre sburb but thought itd be fitting to start there #as i am rereading the comic and am early in act 1 #also please go check the actual blog instead of the basic little mobile looking thing #i spent way to much effort on that thing for it to never be seen #ok thats all for now lol))

[deoidesign]

This is your sign to be unhinged about your own characters and stories

I am giving you permission to make yourself whatever you want. set yourself free.

Make relationship charts.

Quizzes.

AUs.

Memes.

Moodboards.

Gifsets.

Animations.

Comics.

Form headcanons of your own characters, write yourself fanfic, dream up theories!

If it's fun, do it! DO IT!!!

You and your characters deserve to live!!!

It's enrichment!!! do it!!! Be alive and breathe life into your work! let it live!

#Youtube #the youtube tag was automatically added? anyways. #enrichment #my art #uhhh.. #memes #time and time again #webtoon #ttawebcomic #I'm being so so so so so genuinely serious about this by the way #it's genuinely so good for me and my mind #IDK if it discourages other people from making stuff at all? #I would be super doubtful that it would lol #but if it does then... if nothing else #it makes it so people have something a little more to enjoy than just my comic #but most of all. #its fun for ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 #THE MOST IMPORTANT MEMBER OF MY AUDIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I do also absolutely write myself fanfics #but no one gets to see that lol... #oh yeah #long post #sorry I always forget that one

[beaulesbian]

Shanks always said that if the path to what you want seems too easy, then you're on the wrong path.

#roronoa zoro #one piece #zolu #monkey d. luffy #oplaedit #it's about zoro drifting on the sea without a purpose to the point of letting the marines capture him. but still having that dream #and with luffy seeing a chance to actually accomplish that. by his side. and by the end of s1 they have a whole crew! #its about zoro being always lost but within a few days of knowing each other the directionless sense points him towards luffy. #its about zoro seeing how serious luffy is about his own dream. how stubborn and determined he is to become the pirate king no matter what #and how luffy and zoro knew each other only for a few hours/days but already understood so well what the other is about!! #like zoro knowing the garp thing wasn't that big of a deal if luffy didn't want to tell them at first #and luffy knowing enough about dreams to not discourage zoro from fighting mihawk. not standing in the way of his dream. #and how much it hurt luffy to think he wasnt a good captain.. but he had zoro! like in the early days - #it was just the two of them (even if more here but lets just say.. zoro was always the first. the anchor. the stability to luffy) #why am i emo about opla again #uhh captain and his first mate #one piece live action #mine #gif:one piece #gif:opla #opgraphics

[daftpatience]

one thing I have learned about being poor is that you cannot for a moment stop thinking about it

#theres no peace #every little thing reminds me we are poor #seeing friends having electricity wifi heat food gas. it all costs money. and bills and fees and charges happen all the damn time #im constantly worried that i am measing up somehow or im not keeping track of my finances properly #the person handling our disability assistance application keeps coming back with question after question about my job #and i have so much doubt and fear that ive made some mistake in my answers that will disqualify us from support #and theres this sick backwards stupid thing where applying for and being on disability support is discouraging me from trying to make money #because the more i make the less likely we'll get support but i need to make money to live #its just fucked. and once we're on support i have to make monthly reports of my income so ill feel like im explaining myself all the fuckin #time #cus the system isnt built in a way that makes sense for self employed ppl who have business expenses to account for #sorry for the ranting i cant sleep #truly truly i think poverty is making me a worse persin #more anxious more resentful more jealous more miserable more spiteful #i have so little and there is so little i can do to help it #i want things in a more desparate and even childish way than i used to eant things #spend a lot more time fantasizing about magically having expendable income #not to mention the constant exponential guilt that comes from asking for help or recieving help. its guilt i need to unlearn but i feel it

[dashing-through-ecto]

A little note to all who care.

Unsolicited critique can be the reason people block you.

I'm just having fun drawing my blorbos and sharing my art with people who like the same stuff as me.

I'm doing this for free and I'm especially just doing this for myself.

My art is my way of expressing my love for something, so unless I ask for help or inspiration, kindly keep you critique to yourself.

#even if its not meant to be malicious. #i just like drawing and want to ecpress my love for a media #a lot of time goes into my art and sometimes i even like what I make. #lot's of people get discourage when receiving criticism about something that they love. #your critique could be the reason someone started to dislike their art and stop having fun creating

[nymika-arts]

I've been seeing a number of posts opposing the whole "likes are worthless" idea on here and I feel like a lot of yall are purposefully misunderstanding what creators actually mean when we say that. no one is saying that getting a like means nothing. it's a nice little indicator that a single person enjoyed your post, but it's not helpful in any way to circulating art/creations. likes are worthless to the process of getting your work seen.

we're talking about likes this way because we're trying to push back against the huge disparity in the likes to reblogs ratios. we're trying to get people to understand that your likes, while not damaging in any way, do absolutely nothing to help creators boost their work. they're nice, but that's it. you should be reblogging the work that you enjoy.

#its nice to see people liking your posts but even that can get discouraging if people arent rbing it #if 80% of the notes are likes its just. yeah they liked this. but not enough to share it #your blogs are for reblogging yall fill your house with what you love #tumblr #nym.txt #*stares at my heartstopper art that got 2.7k notes and. 400 of them are reblogs* #like are u JOKING #anyway.

[tea0w0stache]

autism strikes again

#tea draws #danganronpa #trigger happy havoc #daiya owada #daiya oowada #demon slayer #sanemi shinazugawa #msa #msa fanart #mystery skulls animated #lewis pepper #the most unconventional crossover #but its not like i haven't done stuff like tbis before #its just only on my insta #cause nowawaday everything i put on here #just kinda .. flops and its really discouraging #reblog not just like

[pro-sipper]

What do proshippers generally believe about shipping real people? Stuff like creator x creator or celebrity x reader?

That it falls under the umbrella of "you should be allowed to write anything you want". Once again, it's not my personal thing. There's no real life pairing I read for, and the whole "blank x reader" is not appealing to me at all.

But I have no problem with people writing that stuff, or knowing it's out there. I saw someone a while back say that it's basically just writing about another character, and I agree with that. No matter how much a creator posts or how open a celebrity seems with their personal life, we're still only seeing a tiny snippet of their lives. We have no clue who they are when the cameras aren't recording because we just don't know them. And whatever someone chooses to write about is mostly stemming from that particular persona that they happen to put on for the world and that's it. It's completely separate from our reality because they're basically just writing about another made up character

The problem I have, and it's what I imagine most proshippers also take issue with, is when people start blurring the lines between fiction and reality. To me, there's a world of difference between posting something on ao3, and speculating on secret relationships in the comments of someone's youtube video. Or between talking about something on tumblr, and tagging the person directly on twitter.

I just don't understand people who condemn rpf and talk about how gross and invasive it is, but think it's funny to tag celebrities on twitter to bring up (what they think is) cringe-worthy fanfic tropes that people have written them into. Or people who print out fanworks to shove into an actor's face at a meet and greet and ask them what they think about it. That's where the lines get crossed, to me.

I think ao3 and tumblr still have an air of mysticism to them. A little secrecy, a little privacy. In the sense that someone in the public eye would have to put in a little work to find this stuff for themselves. They'd have to go to the site and search themselves up to find anything. As opposed to just about anyone in the world being able to force this content in their line of sight with a simple @ on a site like twitter.

So to me the problem isn't that this content exists. The problem is when people don't know how to keep fandom stuff private. Write all the rpf you want but remember at the end of the day these are real people, not your blorbos. You don't know them. It's inappropriate to say these things to them personally (which yes, also includes tagging them on twitter or in the comments of their videos). But it's also inappropriate to run up to them with other people's content just to say "look what these FREAKS wrote about you!!" And I think people either forget or just genuinely don't care about the latter.

#proship #proshippers #pro ship #proshippers please interact #proshipper #proshipping #rpf #real person fiction #asks #anonymous #sip rambles #i know its so much crazier in this day and age than when i was a kid #with social media and stupid stuff like tiktok basically being a requirement of the job it seems #and celebs posting constantly and having a quick way to interact with fans #or content creators whose entire brand exists on social media apps like tiktok #who seem to be posting 24/7 and broadcasting their whole lives #and i know most of those types of creators mostly have younger followers who probably do very easily get sucked into #feeling like they know that person like thats their friend #and i also dont think that type of creator really discourages those feelings bc... they want followers and $$$ #but idk just write your fic and read it or dont do either and just leave celebs alone irl please please please

[irradiatedsnakes]

[ID: two digital drawings of subway boss emmet. he stands, pointing upwards with one hand and gesturing with the other hand (holding a pokeball), and is smiling with his durant perched on his shoulders. he says “i am emmet. i won against you. but i think i just got lucky. in a double battle, if you misread one thing, the rest will be totally different. you know." he dramatically points forward in the next image, holding up the pokeball in his other hand. durant happily chirps from his shoulders. he exclaims “please win 20 battles in a row and fight with me!” end ID]

the battle subway is difficult, but it’s so hard to be frustrated when this is the dialogue you get when you lose

#art #pkmn #submas #emmet #durant #durant appreciation. look at this funny bug. #also im being 100% serious..i lost against emmet a few times trying to beat the regular doubles line #and its just! impossible to be discouraged when he's cheering you on like that #like yes i think i WILL win 20 battles and fight you again! see you in a little bit!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

https://www.tumblr.com/an-elegant-void/743516328073265152/here-are-the-instructions-from-the-help?source=share

Important info!

immediate indignation and rage aside, for some reason i dont have the option yet... it's probably due to the usuall "roll 'features' out to chunks of users at a time" but Still. nervous

#i hate ai i fucking hate ai #it should be used for shit like medical detection and logging and shit #Not Art. In Any Form. #not for writing not for illustration not for painting NONE OF IT. KEEP THAT SHIT OUT OF HERE #each month something comes out that makes shit worse and im sooooo tired of it lmao #like i am Continuously losing hope in the future no matter how much i try not to #where's that post thats like 'why should i read something that no one bothered to write' #AUGH. I HATE IT. i hate it. its so discouraging and depressing #rambles from the bog #yk this is the first time ive started to feel genuine Dread that tumblr might finally be kicking the bucket #all of the other 'apocalypses' were infuriating but also the Tumblr Is Dying!!! reaction made me roll my eyes #but now...? man. where would i even go if this is is. #i cant stand instagram or twitter. the other platforms just dont hold a candle to this site. i just #man.... man.

[shelli-gator]

Begging people who read fanfics to leave comments. Especially in the small communities like ours. Fanfics don't have the same support that art does, where it can be reblogged and commented and shared. The only validation we get is from comments, more so than kudos honestly. Because then we feel the engagement, and it feels worth it.

Lots of love and effort goes into writing. So even just a "Loved it!" Or "Can't wait for the next chapter!" changes everything for us. And sure, you can tell the artist directly, we love it when you do. But comments on our works are like scrapbooks. I go back to comments I love to read them over again to get that warm and fuzzy feeling. A hit of dopamine to keep me writing.

Do writers a solid. Tell them you liked it. And thank you to everyone who does. Yes, write for yourselves, but no one is immune to validation, and so we do it for you! Especially in communities like this, where there aren't many stories to go around to keep the fixation fed.

#just shouting into the void #because it can be discouraging #not just for me but for everyone I see out there #and i'm no saint i know i leave kudos and then go “i'll come back to comment” #i want to do better #this isnt an attack either I'm just like #please like me please like this thing #anyway #shelli speaks #support writers #as far as i've seen its a lot harder for them

[blinkpen]

i am Withering

#sporadic warbling #i crack jokes to cope with just how deeply deeply upsetting it is to me #i enjoyed working out and gym. unironically loved it. it brought me peace and joy. i was disabled but it was literally a Fun activity #and actually Alleviated my symptoms #now i can barely do it because of how discouraged i am over where the Wasting has put me. i Resent my loss of mass. #i am trying to power past it to relocate the joy bc i know its there and i do still better with an endorphin boost but man... #why yes i Am channeling some of this particular angst along with many more into a particular arc

[consult-sherlockholmes]

On days like this I ask myself what's even the point of this blog anymore. I have been gone for three days and not a singular ask or case arrived meanwhile. Instead, I receive anonymous complaints telling me that they dislike my personality, my behaviour, that I am too immature, and many more. They basically say all I do is wrong and then 'suggest how to be better' according to their own preferences. Telling me to reconsider my behaviour. Even 'threatening' to 'boycott' me (how does that even work, are you going to stop sending me cases? The person threatening probably doesn't even have any cases anyway) What am I, a puppet on a string? Dancing however you want me to? Just because you are displeased? If you don't like my character I don't even understand why you are on my blog to begin with. Given the blog is literally about me and my life. I know people dislike my personality, even more when I am face to face with them, I am used to that. I know I am difficult to deal with, that the majority of people don't like me. But then having the audacity to demand me to change and even telling me how to change because 'you know it so much better', that's a whole other level of audacity. Why should I want to change because people continuously criticise me? Do you think I changed because of all the people that yelled directly in my face how much they hate me? That's not how you get people to change, quite the opposite. You just make them worse.

At least have the courage to show yourself and stand by your words instead of hiding in anonymous shadows. Are the words of some anonymous even worth anything? You can't be that convinced of your words if you don't want them associated with yourself.

All that just seems discouraging. When the negative starts to outweight the positive what even is the point anymore?

#roleplay #rp #rant #dont reblog #its discouraging and depressing #i am not a puppet on a string #not a machine #Maybe actually have a conversation with me instead of just complaining in anonymous asks

[fossilizedhysterics]

i dont have the energy to write a whole post abt it so have me live tweeting while i watched the new video 🙏

#if my first comments seemed. very mean its bc they were #i was very angry forgive me 🙏🙏 #genuinely tho i am hopeful for the future of this series i love so much and i wish thomas the best #also ummm ft. my pk profile #if you recognize me NO YOU DONT #fun fact: i have been specifically recognized in servers before for being “the guy with all the sanders sides” #several times. #ts crit #ts criticism #ts critical #tss crit #ALTHOUGH i am still a little peeved abt the whole “ofc you can write critisism abt my series” bc it really does feel like we cannot #and the fact i dont think hes ever really discouraged his FANS from getting mad at criticism #just makes me feel a little.... hm........

[beybuniki]

What are your best tips for drawing? Ur art is so pretty 😭

im sorry but giving useful answers to these very big questions is so hard im sorry ydjhnv, i can only regurgitate what every other artist will tell you, practice very frequently and do hundredds of quick and small studies instead of one great study, observe from real life, and don't compare yourself to others! look back at your older art and appreciate how far you've come instead :) also stay very fond of everything you draw please dont strive for perfectionism you are not a corporation your illustrtations dont have to be perfect and clean etc! have fun:))

#i keep repreating myself but i think its easiest to keep creating when you just have fun with it #theres 17yo kids on twitter much better at rendering than me but like idc i still like drawing my silly favs #life is too draining to make your hobby stressful as well so have fun and dont let anything discourage you :) #learning frmo mistakes is proven to constitue the best learning environment making mistakes is good! #asks