#tumblr is a blogging website. it's my blog . surely being myself on there wouldn't be too bad

[bastardwhoisnamedrat]

posting art is easy because i can sufficiently detach myself from that but i show my Whole Ass when i write. scary

#like if you wanted to dissect me #you could read literally anything i've written #i wanna clean up some poems and illustrate them for tumblr #too personal for twt and da where people are a bit more of a product #tumblr is a blogging website. it's my blog . surely being myself on there wouldn't be too bad #right? #anyway #expect that #i'm in a good artistic flow recently. #not a good mood no that's different #but i'm functional. getting it done #ok well mostly functional #listen i have adhd and i'm not on meds this is the best i can do rn #besides exposing Other People to my writing will help me get critique so my book's not total shit #that would be good if that happened i think :)

[sailor-aviator]

Hey.

Go ahead and get settled because this will be...long, in true Liz fashion.

So, by now I'm sure most of you have heard what's happened. If not, you can search this blog for some answers or others for more.

I joined this fandom offiicially at the end of September after being a long time lurker. I had just lost my job and times were uncertain for me. I felt inspired to write, and as someone whose formative years were shaped by the fandom experience, I wanted to feel that sense of belonging again - to feel like a part of a community. I've talked about it on here before, but I started my fandom days in the original Hunger Games fandom when the first movie had just come out, and then I shifted gears towards the SuperWhoLock fandom. If you know anything about SuperWhoLock, then you know you had to have pretty tough fucking skin to be a part of any of it.

Of course, this was back in the day when fandom was an actual community and not authors having to beg for scraps of engagement and people thinking its a numbers game. I was a fairly large blog within the SuperWhoLock community (Waywardly-Carrying-On was the username), but I left fandom for a few years because life got hectic and I felt like I had outgrown the fandom itself as I was no longer watching any of the shows. As the years went on, I started to yearn for the fandom experience again, which is how I found myself dipping toes into several different ones.

I was so excited to publish my first fanfic. I had convinced myself that I wasn't a good writer (much to the chagrin of my irl friends), and I had put a pause on writing my original story. I wanted to write this idea about a cowboy and a girl using characters that I had grown to love like I did way back in my older days. So, I started posting, and I was so excited for the story, that I kept posting almost daily. MamaMay was one of the first people to embrace not only my story, but me as a person into the fandom. She made me feel welcomed and wanted.

Pretty much right off the bat I was already getting anons telling me that I was being too much and that I needed to calm down with all the posting. I was confused because...this is Tumblr. It's literally a blogging website? Why wouldn't I post? I decided to ignore the mean words (not before giving my opinion, of course) and kept on doing my thing. Well, the anons got continually worse and worse. I had a suspiscion as to who the anons could be, but I never had concrete proof. So, I experimented with blocking suspects until finally it worked. I'm not naming names because that's not my style, so don't even bother asking.

The fact of the matter is, some of you have entered fandom spaces for the first time, and you don't know how to act. You don't care to learn fandom etiquette as you've made abundantly clear by calling fandom olds every name under the sun while utilizing the anonymous feature. Newsflash, you're part of the problem. You're the reason why authors don't want to publish anymore. You are the reason that something that's supposed to be fun is starting to feel like a goddamn chore.

How many times can authors on here say that we aren't machines? We have lives outside of this website: family, friends, jobs, school, etc. Some of you really are just hellbent on making everyone around you miserable, and it's sad. You can't just leave well enough alone and let people enjoy something, no you feel like everyone has to enjoy it the same way as you.

Some of you go after authors on here because of some weird sense of jealousy too. I don't know why my shit blew up, babe, I really don't. But I started out with no followers and no support just like everyone else. I'll tell you what helped me though: following fandom etiquette and reaching out to other creators to build an actual community. None of this "I've reblogged three of your things and now I'm messaging you so that you return the favor." No, I reached out to make actual friendships which is what fandom is SUPPOSED to be. If someone was clearly not interested, it was fine!! I backed off and kept doing my own thing.

Some of you think being mean on the internet makes you big and bad. Guess what! It doesn't! It's loser mentality and I feel genuinely sorry for you. I'm sorry that people in your own life made you feel so small as to feel like you had to lash out at strangers on the internet who are just trying to have fun.

Anyway, this is my really long way of saying that I am taking a break for a little bit. I have no idea how long it will be - could be the weekend, could be a couple of weeks, could be forever. I need time to decide if this is something I want to keep persuing. If I come back, I don't know if I will remain a TGM blog or if I'll shift gears and hop into another fandom with a rebrand. Guess we'll just have to see.

To the people on here who have been a constant source of joy, laughter, and support: thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Your presence has meant everything to me, and I hope that my break sees me wanting to come back and giggle about the silly plane movie with you all again.

Nothing but love,

Liz 💛

#psa #public service announcement #this has been a psa #liz speaks #liz rambles #long post

[trashprinceward]

EVERYONE LISTEN UP, THIS IS IMPORTANT!

I'm going to talk about the history of Tumblr, the current state of Tumblr, and why you should get out.

And you can call me a hypocrite, sure. But as an artist who depended a lot on commissions and art sales, I only came back to Tumblr because this is where the audience and active fandoms are. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't be here.

So, you've probably heard people calling tumblr "the queerest place on the internet". Probably more ironically that sincerely, lately. But the reason for this is that, at one point, it was true. Tumblr was synonymous with gay shit, all over the internet. That was this site's reputation. To the point that what the right wingers call "woke" these days, used to be called "tumblr shit". Tumblr was the BIGGEST resource for LGBT+ communities, information, advice and connection. That was here, on this site. Ask boxes thrived with friendship and fun games, artists got regular commissions and their work was shared. And, as much of a cliche as it may be to say this, Tumblr was a 'safe space'.

Then everything changed in 2018. I don't know how many of you were here for that, but that's when all this started. That's when we had porn bots. They'd start reblogging random posts, adding pictures of straight up porn. Naked people, straight up fucking. No tags, no warnings. Just uncensored porn and those stupid "click here to fuck me" captions. They were everywhere, constantly. And staff did nothing about it. No moderation, no kind of adding verification or new accounts. They just let the problem fester. Why should they care? Until they were threatened with being kicked off the app store, at least. Then they moved to do something about it.

So, instead of pulling together a human moderation team, or temporarily limiting new accounts, or doing any kind of intuitive policing of these spam bots, they just decided to make a blanket ban of all NSFW content, the enforcing of which would be carried out by AI bots. This, as you can probably guess, was a monumental failure. Anything that remotely looked like naked flesh was tagged as mature (a particularly infamous example features a picture of sand dunes being tagged as mature). And perhaps most tellingly of this failure, it didn't get rid of porn bots.

What it did get rid of though, was artists. Myself included. I was a mature artist. I had a NSFT sideblog. I sold commissions, I made money. It wasn't exactly career level, but I made enough that commissions helped me to eat when all my money went on bills. Then that was gone. Even SFW art wasn't entirely safe, because if the bot decided that your art had too much "skin" in it, you were flagged. (And at the time, I drew a lot of Jojo art, so I was screwed on that front.) So I had to leave. To find a new site where I could post my art, and try to continue selling commissions. The problem with this? Only a handful of people followed me offsite. I had roughly 300 followers on here. About 5 came with me to twitter. And then about 2 came with me to pillowfort. I had lost everything. Artists all over lost their following, lost their support, lost their income. All because people couldn't be bothered to boycott their funny fandom website.

But that wasn't all. Because now staff saw they had an opportunity. This bot they had created, was going around flagging anything mature, sometimes outright deleting posts or banning blogs that were too 'NSFT'. So... What group is often inherently seen as NSFT or sexualised? Yep, you guessed it. The queer community. And so that's what they did. They struck it all down. The biggest LGBT community on the internet, and they used the "porn ban" excuse to start flagging and deleting blogs. Never touched the nazi blogs, or the white supremacists, or that one blog that would doxx gay people in homophobic countries. Nope, they were left alone. But the most prominent, notable and well known queer blogs were gone. And again, the majority of the userbase was ok with this. They stayed.

I left this site for 5 years. And I tried to make it work elsewhere, I really did. I went to twitter. But over there nobody retweets work, nobody comments on your art. I only had like 2 regular supporters. I haven't gained followers in YEARS. Literally the only reason I still post to twitter is because Airdorf retweets FAITH fanarts. I tried going to pillowfort, which is honestly like a BETTER version of Tumblr. But, it was empty. Nobody was there. I even offered to give out free invite links to pillowfort so other people could join up too! Nobody ever responded to me. So I gave up. After 5 years with almost no interaction, almost no commission sales. No friends, nobody to talk to, nothing to do, nowhere to go... I came back here. And interaction is so much better (even though it's still a struggle to get people to actually talk to me). But I hate being here because I know what this site is like.

Also I know how complacent people are. The things they did back then, they're still doing now. Flagging trans women as mature, straight up banning them for no reason, spreading around campaigns of hate. Its STILL happening. And you're all still here sitting "oh this is awful, this website is transphobic" and then go back to reblogging memes. I saw a poll recently that asked what people would do if tumblr closed down or kicked them out, and the majority answer was just "give up social media completely" and it's like, really? There are plenty of alternatives out there. Artists and creators, and LGBT activists and whoever have been BEGGING you to join us, but you just wont. People would rather sit in this sinking ship till it goes down than make the leap and follow us into the lifeboats.

And I'm saying this again now because there have been talks about tumblr making a deal with midjourney. Because they want to feed all our art, our selfies, our hard work into the AI slop machine. So history is repeating itself again, and once more artists will be begging you to please come with us. Please get off this site. Please come to a place that isn't actively trying to get rid of us.

Me... I'll be staying here as long as I'm able because this is the only place I have any kind of audience. But if you can, if you care about friends, if you care about artists, if you care about queer people. PLEASE come with us. If the worst comes to it, then I'll be leaving for pillowfort. Please, PLEASE come with me. I have invitations, I can send you one so you can join. Send me a message and ask me. Just please, don't die with this place.

#tumblr #artists on tumblr #transphobia

[spacedykensfw2]

fake fucking lesbian. just fucking call yourself bi there's nothing wrong w being bisexual. stop letting men get the idea that they can "turn" us you piece of fucking shit.

Oh, anon, you are so lucky I have time for this today.

One: Not a fake lesbian. I'm a very real lesbian. Have been for a long time. Came out as a lesbian six years ago, in fact.

Two: You're right! There's nothing wrong with being bisexual. But, I wouldn't call myself bi, because I'm not bisexual. You see, I'm not attracted to men. Would this not make me a fake bisexual? (Plus, like, if you really want to get in the weeds about it, I'm technically ace, but I prefer the lesbian label to describe how I exist in the world)

Three: If you think I actually honestly believe that men have magical dicks that can turn us straight by fucking us good enough, you're out of your fucking mind. I make it very clear in my pinned post that this is fantasy, and I do not necessarily believe or support anything I post. It's a kink. Regardless of if I, personally, random dyke on tumblr with 361 followers (most of which are queer people), post orientation play stuff, there's still going to be that one asshole at the bar who hits on you and asks if you've tried dick yet. Do you really think those men are coming onto this website and consuming horny posting from people like me who also post about nasty queer t4t sex? I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule (there almost always are) but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no, they aren't.

Also, here's your friendly reminder that action does not equal attraction. I imagine a long term relationship with a man and I want to fling myself off a bridge. But I've hooked up with one, twice in fact, and had a blast getting my ass beat. Was I attracted to him at any point? Nope. Did I have fun anyway? Hell yeah! That's why I saw him twice.

Double also, do you think this is the only time I or anyone else has gotten an anon with this exact same meaning? Did you really think your anonymous message on tumblr dot com to someone's nsfw blog full of a kink you don't like was immediately going to change my mind and make me not enjoy it anymore? Or make me change a fundamental part of my identity? What was the goal here?

I get you don't like the kink. That's fine. I'm sure there's something you're into that I'm not a fan of. But I'm not going to come after you for whatever that may be. Pick another more productive hill to die on.

#asks #anonymous #meta

[handweavers]

I think it’s mostly just the way you phrased that post was like you were assuming whoever was reading it must be shallow and have no life or personality outside of “consuming media” (the most robotic internet term for enjoying art and stories). Which just feels ironic given that it’s on the self-proclaimed “fandom website” where people are bound to go onto their blogs to talk about, like, movies or whatever the hell. Not that I think that’s definitely how you feel because I don’t know you, but at least in my opinion that how most people read your post. It just feels kind of annoying in an especially Tumblr-y way to ask “can you even stand yourself when you aren’t reading a book? do you even have any personality outside of watching that show?”, get surprised when some people who see it think it’s dumb, then immediately go “well I must be right then if you’re all so offended by it… Maybe that’s something you should unpack”. Sorry people are being rude to you though lol, I’m sure you meant well and it was probably just meant to be like a 5-note-post for your mutuals or something.

it was a series of questions i wrote mainly for myself and maybe 5 people who i knew wouldn't interpret my words in bad faith and knew what i was trying to say because we are friends and they understand where i am coming from and the context i was talking in. it wasn't intended to blow up nor was it my goal and im actually quite frustrated that it did because it's only been a headache. even in this ask you are misinterpreting my words and reading into them in the worst possible way and making assumptions about me that are incorrect and you even acknowledge you're doing this in the ask lol so i don't even know what your goal was with sending this. i deleted the post(s) a while ago and want nothing more to do with this conversation sorry

#the way i wrote the post was based on how youre taught to ask yourself difficult questions in both meditation/mindfulness and in therapy #where even if the answer is difficult and the question is uncomfortable #the answer is neutral and something to simply observe and note . which again. i wrote for myself and the 5 people who would understand that #because they know me and how i talk and think #& why i repeatedly emphasized i did not mean judgement thru it and that the answers are ok no matter what they are #and u can disagree with that approach but it helps me and again. it was not meant to reach people who would read me in bad faith

[demonicintegrity]

Watching from the sidelines as photomatt makes a fool of himself. and I'm just tired.

Listen im not gonna say "i hope someone dies in a car explosion full of hammers" has like, the strongest high ground standing. I'm above that. So may you. But I am gonna say it highlights the double standards pretty well. Are we gonna pretend like half the site wasn't openly wishing for Trump or any sort of alt-right politician to die? Not even like in a cartoony way? Just straight up memes about preparing the crave rave if anyone went? Which was a lot more passionate and strongly motivated than this? I watch so many people get straight up nazis in their askbox. I see so many bigots remake blogs without a sweat if they're even deleted in the first place. Misinformation and racist memes abound. But this small thing gets someone and all their blogs nuked off the website? Okay. Sure. Yeah. That tracks.

Hell, the fact no one can even tag him now shows a special standard. Wdym none of us can blocked being mentioned by others but the specialist ceo can because he's getting flamed for his own double standards? We can actually, its just buried in my settings I didn't know was possible until writing this and double checking. LMK if yall knew that was an option cuz I sure as hell didn't. @staff can still be mentioned and replied to on some of their posts, I'm sure some genuis is gonna have the bright idea to bother them even though they have no control over him. Hell, I've seen them being tagged in posts about policies and drama and all that! The ability to bother the working folks is never taken away but the ceo is above that.

(and no, it's not comparable to a kys joke, which I have never and will not ever condone. That's a fucking crime and terrible.)

(And if the average person can't get the police to do anything about the weirdos in their dm's, if celebrities couldn't get the police to help by being stalked by paparazzi, I doubt they're gonna take "someone on the internet I don't know wished I would be dead by a silly way" seriously. They wouldn't even take my roommates bike being stolen on camera seriously. That was a bluff out of his ass and we know it. He just wants to throw around power he doesn't/shouldn't have.)

("I hope X person dies" is harassment at best but not a credible death threat. It's hard to prove any sort of legitimate attempt behind the words. I would know, queer people get told they should be dead all the time and there's nothing that can be done because it's not a threat. I don't even think it was mentioned at him or anything like that, so it wasn't even intended to be seen by him. So yeah.)

And that's what all the outrage is about. It's the double standards. It's about how all these legitimately awful people still stick around because its not hard, but some random queer or otherwise marginalized person will get scrubbed off the face of the Earth because they were a little rude once. Or because they've done nothing at all. Remember when normal-horoscopes' blog got nuked for no fucking reason at all? Have no idea if that blog was ever restored. But man, all those posts unable to be searched for again.

And to be clear, I'm not surprised by this. In the slightest. When have ceo's ever reacted will to the people using their product not giving a shit about them? I may not know the entire story of who this trans women is and her history but like. But this part doesn't shock me. It sucks but its not surprising when Whatever Rich Ceo picks an enemy out of thin air and tries to drag them around as an example. It's happen so many times. I'm not shocked.

Nor does seeing the transphobia spike AGAIN because of it.

It's just exhausted that I set up myself here all comfy and everyone I follow is considering jumping ship again. I doubt I'll ever use any of the tumblr copycats. I got rid of my twitter. I've been putting off making an instagram for forever. If this goes assume your best chance is finding me on discord or by carrier pigeon. And ill be upset as hell because I love tumblr, it's my homebase, and I just set up my art blog here.

Yeah. So none of this is surprising. Disappointing, but not a surprise. You mean the website that regularly thinks any depiction of a queer person deserves a mature label with no ability to really appeal and fight against that, is being mean to a trans person?? Is the sky being blue also shocking??

Yeah whatever. This isn't changing or personally affecting me in any way but like. Man. Sure. Okay. Might as well be an issue on top of the others on this god forsaken webbed cite.

#rambles #photomatt #current events ig

[fizzingwizard]

Credit where credit is due: I was thrilled to see this in my activity tab yesterday:

Tumblr makes so many tweaks and changes almost daily that it'd be impractical to roll this out for all of them. But for anything that might confuse or take users by surprise, I think using this more often would be great. It's so common on this site for me to open up Tumblr and find something just utterly different, and unless I think of wading through the Changes on Tumblr blog (which can be an ordeal if you didn't notice the change the day it was implemented) I'm just left to my own devices to guess why.

Now that that's over with.

I AM MISSING POSTS ON DESKTOP NOW. Before I thought it was just mobile. It seemed that on mobile, when lost of posts appeared while I was out or sleeping, Tumblr just wouldn't show the to me until I had reached the end of my dash, scrolled back up, refreshed, and scrolled through my dash again.

I did it for experimental purposes - to prove it was really happening - which is is - but I do NOT want to keep combing through my dash two or three times looking for stragglers. If it was just one or two posts, Idk, I guess I'd chalk it up to something with those posts or my connectivity. But it's been like ten missing posts a day. And that's my lowball number!! I'm doing my best to account for the possibility that I just didn't notice them on my first scroll. But that definitely doesn't explain all of them.

I figured it was to do with my data - because I normally have a long dash only when I'm on my commute to work, when it's been hours since I've last looked at tumblr, and all the chatty folk across the world who are awake while I'm asleep have been busy bees. So maybe it's too much for my data, plus I'm always on the train when I look at Tumblr and I lose connection every time we make a stop, lol.

But that can't be the case IF IT'S ALSO HAPPENING ON DESKTOP!!

I'm not a train right now! I'm at my apartment! My connection to the internet is the best it ever gets! It is wifi, but it isn't giving me any trouble on aaaany other website. Even Tumblr - when my wifi gets spotty, the picture become gradients, videos buffer forever, and I get shake my fist at the way loading ads is prioritized over loading you know the content I actually want to see.

Right now though my wifi is crystal clear, and Tumblr is working perfectly - except it's eating random posts!! Yes, I'm sure - once again there were too many for me to have just not noticed them all. My dash is long in the morning, but not TOO long. I deliberately follow only a handful of active users so that my dash doesn't overwhelm me.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if that's what's behind this? Maybe (I have no idea) it's common for people on tumblr to follow soooo many people it's impossible they'll keep up with all the posts on their dash anyway, so Tumblr just doesn't want to bother making sure everything shows up?? I don't know, I just know that that does NOT work for me. I use Tumblr because I want to see content posted or reblogged by people I follow. Also, being a very small blog myself, I don't like the idea that on the rare occasions I post something I actually care if other people see, that post might not even show up for anyone.

No idea if this is a bug or something purposeful but it's definitely happening. To me, anyway. Although, if it's happening to others as well, it makes sense they don't know because who scrolls through their dash TWICE?? The initial way I figured it out was because I saw a post I liked and forgot to Like it, so I scrolled again to find it... and found more than I was expecting :/

#tumblr

[lavenoon]

HI, Luce! Can I be sappy for a moment? I just wanted to thank you a lot for making the discord server and your AU in general! It was already fun getting into the DA fandom, but getting into the server has been a whole other level of fun! I often wake up and really want to check it immediately in the morning to see what has happened while I was asleep. I almost didn't join at first because I am shy, though I'm glad I decided to do it anyways (training myself to get over social anxiety by interacting more, can't even tell you the amount of times I force myself to hit send XD) because it's always a great time all around! I've met some very nice people through it and even if it hasn't been open that long it really just became a nice kind of familiar very quickly <3 Your AU and all it's variations are so incredibly fun to discuss and provides so much inspiration and blorbo thoughts that accompany me throughout the day! I'm just so very glad we coincided in the same corner of this very vast internet! I'm sending you a giant hug and all the good vibes for your day <3

After trials and tribulations (got distracted) I finally got to this ask!

What makes is funnier is that I had to draft this and go work because obviously I didn't get further. NOW however <3

You may be sappy just know that I keep melting at this ask aaa

And I'm so happy you joined too!! And I'm glad (and proud - because man social anxiety is a bitch) that you're being brave and interact!! I'd miss you if you didn't!!

Now I'm gonna be sappy, be warned

Because, well, yeah! I love the server!! Initially I wasn't too sure about the idea, thought I'm getting ahead of myself, that there isn't actually that kind of interest - but I'm glad I asked friends in dms and also that one post on here and then made it happen, because it's just so so nice!

I'm a very chatty person by nature (when I'm comfortable), and I just. I love that I can just blurt out a thought and then y'all jump on it and make it better, enable me to make more, and make your own!! All while there's not this pressure for it all to be fully fleshed out already. It's more a dialogue, a development, and sparking so so many of the things that do make it on here also!

I'm of course not trying to make the server like, a dlc to tumblr content or anything, I don't mention it on here to tease anyone who isn't in it, I'm just a lot more comfortable chatting on there and I love the server! It feels like a, well, a cozy little cove! Everyone is nice and it's a fun place to show off anything new in life, blorbo related or not, or hanging in vc - I've actually done streams! With me doing art in my mornings there's just not that many people who could join in the first place, but in the server it's a nice little opt in option that allows for chatting on the side! I'm a little self conscious still about my art process but it's just so so neat to have people react immediately to what I'm cooking up? Like with the CS comic yesterday hehehe, telling/ later showing the twist as I'm sketching it? Hearing the reactions out loud? Definitely worth it!

And it's just. A comfortable little corner, doesn't feel too public, and even on the lurkier days it's just really cool to see the chaos and people sniping each other, it's a little community and I love it! I love seeing the little spontaneous doodles and the agentsona thoughts that wouldn't make it on tumblr simply from the way this site is set up, it's just chatting and I love it very very much. It's really really reassuring for me too because of that, it's direct interaction and wanted direct interaction from both sides! Because yeah, social anxiety (and also rejection sensitivity) is a bitch sometimes and tumblr is still a blogging website, not a chat website! (tumblr DMs are my mortal enemy, and not just because of the weird ones I got before)

So tldr; I'm also very very happy that we found ourselves overlapping spaces in the world wide web, because I am so happy to be here with you!

Also, you've been shown as online the entire time, I do hope you slept well despite whatever your phone is doing FHDJS

#answer let luce #chaotikanvas #server makes me feel mushy and warm and I regularly puddle in there #just slide in there whenever for some serotonin #there's SO many funny things happening I now understand why people put discord screenshots on blast on tumblr fghdjs #also the link in the original post is still valid #for anyone reading along and getting curious #the reblogs have an expired link but I edited the op #tho you can also ask for a new link? #I'm just. again thinking abt getting ahead of myself so I don't constantly advertise it usually fhdsj

[mliter]

Elsword.

I was about 11. I was in despair in the basement of my new home, because it finally set it that i've moved away from all of my friends to some boring town in rural Canada (as i saw it then).

I saw an ad for this game when i was trying to distract myself. I wasn't sure what it was, i think i clicked on it by accident. The initial trailer that popped up on the page that i was on caught my attention. I usually stay away from MMORPGs because i found their gameplay to be mostly boring. But in this one, you hit stuff. This had combos. Skills. I would later learn that there was movement tech specific to each character. The enemies actually reacted to what you were doing when it happened. it was a 2D beat em up! It was so cool. Looking back, i was looking for more of a fighting game experience.

I booted up the game on my shitty acer laptop and gave the game a shot. It wouldn't hurt. I didnt have anything to do. At the time, there were 7 characters, including the newly released Ara. I picked Elsword. The kid with the sword. The other characters seemed too complicated for me. As i played, i got really excited. The gameplay was so much fun. The dungeons were amazing. The bosses were epic. Using skills was awesome. There were so many cool looking players. The customization was on another level. The character models looked just fine on their own, but the player expression here was elite. The community formed around the small areas of this game felt like a neighborhood. You could recognize people just like that. I discovered what classes were, and was wondering how everyone was changing into them. I took a visit to Elwiki, and looked at the classes that were available to me. At the time, a new class, Sheath Knight came out. He was a dual wielding knight with a talking sword by the name of conwell. I think i remember the moment i finished the grueling class quest. I was beyond excited. I would later make my tumblr account, as the GMs of the game updated their playerbase through their tumblr blog. From then on, my dedication was cemented.

The game had a bustling competitive scene. I found that the skilled players had the unreal movement, and insane combos. My favorite players to watch were Zero (Amazon (?)). He was a skilled Blade Master player. His combos were exquisite, and his ability to hold onto the last pixel of HP before turning it in. He also involved a lot of sound effects and commentary on his videos as he played making his videos so much fun to watch.

Another player was Rebelliel. or known as Rebel. I wholeheartedly believe that this person was the greatest Rune Slayer player of. all. time. His skill was rarely matched. I loved watching his videos. He would find himself in the most disadvantageous of situations, always managing to bring it back every. time. He also utilized many sound effects in his videos, making sure to include a familiar song for one skill. Wind Blade.

Watching him use this to me was like watching a superhero do their signature move, or a football player do celebration they're known for. It was so awesome to me.

There are many other amazing players, such as Kirbyblader, a legendary NA Blade Master player, due to his mastery of the character on a technical level. There was also spergus, an elsword player i really liked to watch. And there was one of the greatest. Je Hae Gwon. He was a very skilled and stacked player. He was playing the newest raids, the newest classes, the newest dungeons and dominating in all of them. He was just. good. His videos were entertaining. I remember them coming out around the times i would come back from school. I remember conversing with the people in the comments of a lot of these videos, and having them explain the korean memes that would be used in them. It was some of my first exposure to the korean internet, learning it's memes, and standout websites. It was cool.

one technique i found myself being proud of mastering was the X drop. People did this in the middle of combos to reset the internal count that automatically knocks players over so they don't die in one combo. You could keep your combo going off of this and do serious damage. Many of these techniques were muscle memory to me. I found this especially cool to see on Elsword, Raven, and Chung players. Witnessing all of this lead me to start making youtube videos in the same style, with my friends or without. I wasn't very good at the game. I only made it to S rank. But it was fun. Part of me wishes i could go back to those simpler times. running around fields, and wasting my time in the practice sparring rooms.

Elsword's character design and art in general is immaculate. Each character has so much thought put into them, even with the game cycling through lead artists throughout the years. I found myself enveloped in the well designed world. The skill cut ins were the most impressive to me. They had so much energy. They would occupy space in my brain back then. I wholeheartedly believe this game's art is some of the most impressive and greatest i have ever seen from a video game. Like it's gameplay, It shaped my influences, standards and my tastes.

I became obsessed with these characters, and found out that they made comics! I read them all and went to a certain community on the internet to post them. After a verbal lashing, i ended up meeting people on there. A lot of them were about my age. We ended up playing the game together. From then on, it was history. I played this game for years, finally stopping around the tail end of the 2010s. I still hang out with them today. We somehow just, stuck together. We're all adults now. We ended up growing up alongside each other. I don't think I've never conveyed it, but they all are truly are one of the greatest treasures of my life.

Nowadays, the game isn't what it used to be. All of the people I've mentioned in this blog post have moved on. Started families, are playing other games, or have left us.

I met some people which i consider childhood friends through this game. This game shaped my tastes, influenced me and set standards for video games. This game is a key part of my childhood. i spent countless hours playing it, and had endless fun during it's peak period. I'm happy i was around for that. Everyone has that game. This is mine.

#elsword #top 10 #game log

[hxllishrebuke]

I wanted to share this yesterday, honestly sooner. Mostly because people don't understand that I very much was a victim like anyone else, that I felt trapped by Loke and obligated to stay by her side. I said this in DMs to you, but I think it's about time I actually come forward.

I never cut off Loke for venomous reasons like Toastie claimed. At some point I watched as I saw things, little things, about her slowly become bigger and worse. I had friends who didn't even know about the callouts or what she had done tell me to cut her off because I often confided in them wondering if maybe I felt like the way she was treating me was no big deal.

Loke saw me at my worst, at my absolute downfall and breakdown that caused me to actually hand my server over to my boyfriend temporarily and leave it until he deemed that I was well enough to return. She promised to stay by my side if I improved, worked on myself, got better, and so, that's what I did.

She made me feel validated, told me she was proud of me, told me that I was getting better, etc etc. Said she saw improvements and that it certainly showed, she made me feel like I was getting better. And because of that, I felt obligated to her. Every time I did something wrong, she pointed it out, and I did my best to correct it. Sure it was often her being mean about it, but I figured it was just how she pointed things out.

On the case of the accidental misgendering, yes, I had said " she " prior, but like I showed in the screenshots, I corrected them and even stated that I needed to correct them and apologized for it. I was aware she sent the original cap before the fix to Rory, but not Sheep. However, she had stated that she would send the fixed cap over and even tell them both that it was an error I apologized for. Something she clearly never did.

I watched as she constantly complained about her life, about how she hated taking care of her mother, about how she hated being homeless. She'd constantly claim that she never had food, always ask for money, and of course the usual song and dance about how she was going to be homeless and many other things.

I gave her advice, told her to check a website that offer places to stay in return for smaller amounts of money or even in exchange for things like cleaning and cooking. Something I knew about because I had been homeless for some time myself. I worried for her, feared for her even, and while I couldn't give money, I could give advice. All that went ignored.

She offered ships, threads, pushed me into exclusives even though I told her I wrote with someone else at the time who rp'd the same muse, and while it was mostly on discord, said person also sent memes in on tumblr for things from the discord server. I told her this and then I learned she complained to someone else that I didn't keep exclusives.

These very same things wouldn't even last a week as she'd ask me for starters, asks, threads in general, only to turn around and drop or delete them before any response was given. I didn't think much of it until sometime this year when Hazbin Hotel came out, and I just .. started confiding in some friends.

Where it really kicked in that I realized things were worse than what I had seen, rose-colored glasses and all, is what happened with Stols. At the time, yes, I did believe it was low of Stols to namedrop Loke like that, but with everything I've learned, I fully retract that. The fact that full on callout docs and blogs were made to support someone like Loke along with all the discussions of how awful they claimed Stols to be made me start to really question things.

At some point I also realized Loke was only really keeping me around to get things from me, or at least that's what I felt, when I told my two friends, they confirmed that yes, she absolutely was using me, and at that point I didn't know what to do. I was scared.

I felt like I owed her everything.

I dropped muses because of her, I stopped being active in my own group because of her aside from occasional chatter, I stopped streaming because of her, my own bf didn't even want to rp certain characters around her either, and he usually doesn't care.

I almost dropped more if it had not been for one person, that one person who also told me I didn't owe anything to Loke. And that alone is what helped me decide to break free from her.

But I also learned that Loke never cared for me, that it was all a ruse, and that still hurts me because I genuinely believed she was someone who cared and actually wanted to see me improve. It hurts, and it will always hurt, and no amount of apologizing from her will ever make me forgive what she did to me or others for that matter.

I'm sorry this got so long but I just, I'm tired of keeping all this in. I really was truly terrified of Loke, worried that she could destroy me and take everything away if I decided to cut her off.

And the worst part is I couldn't even talk to her about the things that bothered me or made me concerned because she'd either bitch at me, call me stupid, or say " If I had a problem with you I'd tell you ", but yet, she never really did tell me the problems she had with me, she'd rather ruin me behind my back and lie to people about my mental disabilities and whatever else she can do.

posting as is

#loke

[wandering-doves]

16.04.2024

i asked a guy i've been interacting with on tumblr for like the last 8 months, if he wanted my number and boy do i regret it [but not for the reasons you may think]

so, as i mentioned we've been getting to know each other and messaging for like 8 months. i remember the first time he messaged me... it was completely random. he'd liked a couple of posts/reblogs and followed me before reaching out and sending a simple greeting. i was naturally very suspicious as it had been years since anyone had messaged me on tumblr and since it was so out of the blue, i was very cagey and cold. he persevered another 2 days before caging up himself when i asked for his name. then he dropped off for about a month. when he returned again, it was to apologise for clamming up. i told him not to worry as he was entitled to his privacy. and then he did something that really surprised me. he gave me his name and a little snippet of his story. he told me that he was feeling lonely and wanting to make friends and that he was going to try chatting to people on here again and sort of freaked out. i let him know that i understood, as i was also being cagey. once we both were on the same page, things were okay. we would checking in every now and then, ask basic getting to know you questions and chat about our day. i got more and more comfortable with the idea of him as a friend and opened myself up to him little by little. sometimes i would reach out to him and not receive a message back for months, bc he would take breaks from tumblr [i'm assuming for his mental health, which is understandable]. he would reply when he next came online and we would chat more. he ended up seeing what i looked like through my side blog and began complimenting me on my looks. occasionally, he would ask a sexual question and i would answer it as honestly as i could. [normally, i wouldn't tolerate that shit, but i was starting to like him.] his line of questioning got more personal as time went on and it felt like maybe we were connecting. so as the months progressed, naturally, i thought maybe i wasn't delusional and that he liked me for me [i sent him a full body pic and it was received relatively well, i think] so i thought that maybe he would be interested in continuing this outside of the confines of this website and decided to work up the courage to ask him if he wanted my number. this is where it goes wrong. he meets my question with a question and i start to think that this is already a bad start and maybe i misread the situation. am i wrong for thinking that a man who's called me pretty and cute and hot would want my number? am i? well apparently, because he never ended up saying yes. this felt as good as rejection and immediately the walls came up and i started being short with him. I even wrote "i'll take that as a no then" to which he replied some bullshit like "i twasn't a no at all" and all i could think was "yeah but it wasn't a yes either", which is as good as imo. he wanted an explanation for why i wanted this bc he always assumed he was bugging me [which btw is another thing i want to touch on. in the past, he has mentioned feeling like he bugs me quite often and i thought i'd been doing enough to let him know that that was simply not the case but ofc that was his reasoning this time too] and i explained that i liked talking to him and wanted to respect the time he takes off from tumblr bc ik it can be disruptive and it was met with an "im sorry if..." and that shit makes my blood boil so i havent responded back to him. it's been over 24 hours since he replied to me. i spent that afternoon absolutely bawling my eyes out. then i spent the evening upset too. i was having big feelings, for sure and couldn't deal with them. i feel maybe i was too harsh but he was too.

anyway, i've been listening to sad music and crying abt anything and everything lmao...

[jarateblog]

~ What Is This? ~

I am the entity known online as JarateChop (Jarate for short). They/them is preferred.

This blog is "jarateblog" because "jaratechop" was already taken by a now dead TF2 blog...

A twenty-something individual seeking their own place in the world. I love to talk but I'll never be the one to start a conversation. I may be shy but that doesn't mean you have to be, so say hi if you like :)

Blog Information

I have a blog on my website with posts that are more boring, personal, or technical than what I post on here. I don't really have a filter on any platform so know that before following :P

Personal tag explanations:

#choppost - Posts that are often related to my online presence or creative endeavors

#jarchive - Archive of older material of mine

#jaratechef - Things I cook and like to showcase 😜

Everything else is generally sorted by artists, characters, series, or other general terms (like #fav, etc.)

Interests

Music is my love and I am deeply rooted in electronic from the '70s-'90s. Some of my favorite bands/artists are Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, Yello, Orbital, Squarepusher, Depeche Mode, Underworld, and soooo many more! Help share the love by talking with me about them! (and, if it's not obvious, you'll spot me in a crowd wearing all black)

I've gradually fallen out of passion with video games but I have a lingering interest in the Sega Saturn and original PlayStation. Some of my favorite series I still keep up with are Mega Man (particularly X & Zero), Sonic, Metroid, StarFox, Kirby, Castlevania, and R-Type.

Literature and visual media are not my strongsuits, which may align me with stereotypes about the kids these days being illiterate. I love to read, I'm just picky and often don't know where to start (or I end up devoting my time to other things). My best friend (and self-adopted brother) makes sure to pick on me for my lack of a film palette. I'm friends with other fun individuals who educate me on the shows and cartoons I missed out on as a kid.

Predictably (tragically), I'm more versed in anime, but not by a terrible amount. '80s-'90s era OVAs are some of my favorites, like All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku and Birdy the Mighty. You may have followed me because of my Urusei Yatsura screenshots/gifs.

What Do I Do?

I'm a jack of all trades but a master of none: I occasionally create visual 'art' (a lot of which has yet to be archived) and play guitar, bass, keyboards, and program drums (no room for a real set -w-). I wouldn't call myself that good, but maybe I'll record something someday... External social and mental factors suck. Similarly, there are other projects such as software, games, and video edits/restorations that need to be finished. Stay tuned for any updates on those!

I own a YouTube channel that I am often ashamed of and have liquidated some videos on. It's technically the most successful thing I've created and therefore it haunts me. It's on indefinite hiatus but I may revive it at another date or under another name. I enjoy making videos when I have the ideas for them.

My website is constantly out of date but I'm trying to update it a bit more frequently nowadays. If you're interested in a more personal look into my tastes (or even some life updates) that's the place to look! Stuff here on Tumblr may get buried :P

My background is in computer science, with experience in installing/repairing/refurbishing hardware, some programming languages, and more recently networking. I'm looking to break further into audio-related work (it's adjacent to my current job) but may have to return to school to earn a better degree for those pursuits. That all depends on my mental state, however, in addition to our wonderful economy.

Speaking of, you probably already know my political opinions if you made it this far! If you need a reminder: pronouns, electronic music, '90s anime, a Tumblr account... So, bigots can fuck off! That stands for not only my presence here, but anywhere! I don't block unless I need to; the snark I inherited from my awesome grandfather is useful in deterring illiterate pricks most of the time.

Wrap-Up

I wrote this bio because I felt like it, and to prove there's someone behind this Shard profile picture. If no one reads it, oh well! It's here anyways!

Thanks for reading, and stay groooooovy!

#choppost #intro post

[realpokefarmconfessions]

"Tumblr is the last bastion for queer people to openly express their sexuality."

you mean the website where the CEO publicly harassed a trans woman off of the site / banned her himself over content that most of his moderation staff openly admitted they wouldn't have counted, revealed her personal information only he/staff would have access to regarding her BY FOLLOWING HER TO HER TWITTER TO CONTINUE OUTING + HARASSING HER, and then frantically started deleting evidence and DM'ing other trans women 'debate me' style gotcha's in a desperate attempt to convince people he's normal?

All of this AFTER ADMITTING that there was a member of the tumblr moderation team who was taking bribes to enact transphobic bans / image removals / post flaggings in passing and not describing any way how they found that member, what steps they're taking to make sure it doesn't happen again, etc.

and THAT was AFTER tumblr was sued in new york for the fact that their porn ban unfairly targeted all of their lgbt users more harshly than anyone else.

...And trans women are still reporting their blogs are being targeted + deleted for speaking out against him. Partly due to tumblr's complete lack of methods to defend against harassment / mass reporting campaigns, and probably partly cause there's still bias on their staff. no one really believes they've caught all of them, especially not with that response.

tumblr WAS big for the queer community in the 2010's. But don't act like this place is still safe while photomatt owns it. Remember: things could in fact get worse on pokefarm. They're somehow being more respectful than all of whatever the fuck I just said.

Sorry mod, you can choose not to publish this if its too unrelated. Remember to opt out of midjourney AI scraping content off this blog so the cringe doesn't poison the dataset (or actually, leave it on LMAO) I just couldn't help myself. that person is wilding.

I will go ahead and post this because I've seen a lot of this on my dashboard and it's baffling to know its happening. The more I re-read the ask I received earlier, the more it sounded like a copypasta, but it still left me somewhat floored. Folks can accuse me of a lot of things that may or may not be true, but my queer ass sure can't be slapped with any kind of LGBTQ+phobic accusations and they be in any way true.

#mod speaks

[conflictedkismet]

Rambling about Ester's blog under the cut

I've considered sending "anon" asks myself to get out certain information via answering asks. However, I ended up posting about those things naturally on my own anyways. So no faked "viewer engagement" needed (yet).

So. My plans with the blog.

Honestly, so far, the blog is just a medium through which I wanted to express Ester's story. It seemed fun and it is :).

Recently, I considered writing a one-shot or something for them. Maybe try getting an ao3 account to repost it on there. Who knows, that might still be on the table (however, given my current schedule, to do list, and writing skills, i wouldn't count on it akgjsjfj).

I do have an Ester design. I already knew what she looked like, but making a decent outfit for her has honestly been the more challenging part. No full color ref yet. I also wasn't sure if I wanted to post it on here or make it a submission through Ester's blog.

I have some artwork ideas for Ester, but, as always, my current artistic skill level and restriction to traditional art has me at a slight disadvantage.

To be open and honest, I'm considering making a website for her. Just a fun little space outside of tumblr where they can exist. Outside of actually being able to make one (bc I'm sure i can figure it out if i tried), part of my issue has been the fact that I'd only have traditional art of her to include on the site as visual reference. I can def work that into the site theme if I wanted to, no doubt, but I'd just have to cope with the fact that it wouldn't look as cool and clean as i hoped akhsjfh

#kismetthoughts #my ocs #ocs

[willowedwisteria]

i know that i should be saying this to pink but after what shes been through i ought to give her some space since shes got a busy life but like-

so i decided to uh look for her source of inspo which is you-

can we talk about the many achievements she did during her time in tumblr like how she singlehandedly manage to revive the cookie run fandom with her SACRK AU

how she manage to get popular writers look at her genshin works on her previous account

how she made fanart and submitted them to you despite her artstyle not being on the anime side which the hate anons like to shit on

how her quotev story breaks the norms of the genshin quotev cliche stories by getting your villain darling au to quotev cause she wasnt comfortable writing a long story on tumblr

and dont forget her latest work of having her only pokemon post at the top of the pokemon x reader page that one time

and of course her biggest achievement...

her sending you the ask that birthed the villain au when she was an anon.

like i said, i know i should be saying this to pink, but given her posts about how she was not going to write anymore HERE due to feeling like a 9-5 worker and the hate anons shes been having months and even on her previous blogs, i was surprised that despite all that, she still hadnt given up on writing completely. and i thought, wow, wisteria mustve have motivated pink that much despite being younger than her.

but this also should be a lesson to everyone else >:(((

you shouldnt treat writers like they're just workers in a retail shop! they're writers that have a passion on making imaginations come true! not only that, they have lives outside of tumblr.

if they say they're going to delay/go on a hiatus/etc, be understanding! dont demand for more content when they got 100+ asks in their inbox! dont rush them when some of them have school and college to deal with!

thank you for coming to my ted talk and im sorry for clogging your inbox

-long time lurker anon am sorry

Oh my gosh, I genuinely cried reading this.

@byulla-ponk <3

I have a few things I wanted to say about each paragraph.

1. I'm glad you're thinking about her space and probably the ridiculous amounts of asks that are in her inbox. I'm grateful to people like you and I'm sure there are many out there who feel the same way.

2. I'm very happy and even proud of Byu-byu's (Pink's) achievements. She was very aware of what she was writing, she knew when to stop the moment CRK started getting involved with NFTs. Reviving the CRK fandom in Tumblr isn't an easy task and I'm so happy about her getting the attention she deserves.

3. Normally, as a writer myself, I don't actually read much. The fact that other writers actually read Pink's works is an amazing feat on its own, not to mention that I wouldn't be surprised if someone mentioned that they were inspired by Pink.

4. I was always happy to receive fanart and I personally have no right to judge someone's art style because I don't draw myself and I have no idea how to. Plus, every artist has their own style. Even if it isn't too appealing to the eye, everyone can still appreciate art.

5. I was definitely surprised to find out that someone went all the way to quotev and STILL CREDITED AND MENTIONED THAT THEY WERE INSPIRED BY ME. It wouldn't a shocker to me if anyone just took my ideas without crediting me at all, especially on another website.

6. Having your works at the top of a page is certainly remarkable. I know this might sound weird coming from someone who is younger than Pink, but I knew she had potential and, with practice, she could be an amazing writer.

7. Her biggest achievement, her sending me the ask that lead to the creation of what's now the most, if not, one of the most popular AUs in the SAGAU genshin plot hole. It might have been ultimately a misinterpretation on my side, but it was a blessing in disguise.

8. I understand and I'm extremely grateful for Pink's sake that there are anons and fans out there caring for her wellbeing. According to Pink, she's currently focusing on real-life things. I was surprised about her not giving up, but I would totally understand if she decided to go on a hiatus due to the unreasonable hate being thrown at her.

As a fellow writer and Pink's inspiration, I feel like I should look out for her and understand the pressure she might be going through. My encouragement can't compare to how resilient she has been facing against hate anons.

MASSIVE NOTE: If I give you motivation, that doesn't sum up to a reason why you shouldn't quit doing a specific action if you genuinely are tired of it or you just don't like it. Just because I might be your main source of joy and inspiration, that does not mean you shouldn't quit writing when I offer you encouragement IF WRITING IS TAKING A TOLL ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH, WELL BEING, AND ENERGY.

In my humble opinion, treat writers as human. Some writers will always have this feeling that they should always write out whatever someone had requested to them. Please be considerate about what kind of updates they've been giving, their rules and regulations, your attitude towards the writers, and their mental health.

Thank you anon for sending this ask to me.

-Wisteria

#Wisteriachats

[randomfandomimagine]

To your rant: AMEN.

(Wrote a part of this to Ace while back but they apparently didn't receive it but I think it needs to be said so)

Honestly at the moment it starts to feel like people request wrong on purpose because they're bored or something and want to irritate people or test if they could get their request across even though it’s breaking their rules... because suddenly everyone seem to get a lot of requests which are breaking the rules. Like whenever I have my spamming events, I get 101 requests which are smut, romantic requests for 13 year old characters whose actors are also 13 and also celebrity requests are common and like those three rules are broken over and over and over again and now everyone else seem to get requests which break their SAME FUCKING RULES all the time. Also the fact that some are like “when your requests are open again, could you write a fic like this?” LIKE NO, REQUESTS ARE CLOSED FOR A REASON, BECAUSE THE WRITER HAS SO MANY REQUESTS THAT THEY NEED TIME TO GO THROUGH THEM BEFORE OPENING THEM AGAIN, AND IT SHOULD BE COMMON SENSE :DDDDD It isn’t like you’re writing only when requests are open.

FYI, WRITERS ARE NOT GONNA ROLL A FUCKING GOLDEN GLITTER CARPET FOR YOU WHICH IS ENTITLING YOU TO REQUEST WHATEVER YOU WANT WHENEVER YOU WANT.

So people please, if you can read all those long stories or binge 50 smaller pieces from a writer at one sitting, you can take time to check out their rules at least if you're gonna request………………… and the same goes for all writers. We. Are. Not. Machines.

And if it won’t go to your thick heads, you can think about what you did and whose fault it is when writers are gone after losing motivation for writing all these fics for you and getting only shit on their faces in return. We don’t even get paid by money, we are paid by feedback, reblogs, you interacting with our writing and btw that's a cheap price for writing your requests. If you continue acting like we’re machines and thinking you can treat us however you want, writers will start dropping out. My motivation to write is finally returning and I'm slowly starting to get back to the rhythm but tbh I’m scared to come back properly because of all these people being rude and breaking rules all the time. Tumblr is becoming a super toxic place and I hate it and I start losing hope that the boat can be turned around, and also started to lose motivation again the next day after I came back even though nothing happened, I just started fearing rudely formatted requests coming at me again, or guilt tripping or people being asses in general. But prove me wrong if you have balls to do that. Turn that boat around. We can all do it together.

We're in a sealed room slowly filling with water, and we have to work together so we can pull the lever to open that one door. But it won't work even if 100 mice (writers + those few who support writers) are pushing one sleeping elephant (readers-only) forward to pull the lever so they wouldn't drown in that room. That elephant has to wake up and help the mice, only that way they can get forward.

Also the fact that people finally got triggered about the fact that I don't feel comfortable to write for HP/Fantastic Beasts for now for obvious reasons :DDDDDDDD I got another last night after I blocked the first one. I can't believe I have such toxic, childish and petty people following me, and same kinds of people are following everyone in this community. People who take us as granted.

I hope things will get better and people learn some manners eventually. Every creator deserves it.

Thank you, Jenni! I know you’ve had to deal with some seriously stupid trolls and people that shouldn’t be allowed on the internet. 

Sometimes it does feel like a few trolls are requesting incorrectly on purpose, I was especially frustrated when I saw Lacey answering some requests that had me going like ‘seriously, people?’ And the fact that people disregard the same rules over and over again (especially on your case) just tells me that they care more about their request being written than your comfort, and that sucks. Those people think they’re entitled to our content forgetting we do this for free!

This part you wrote especially resonated with me, it’s so true:

So people please, if you can read all those long stories or binge 50 smaller pieces from a writer at one sitting, you can take time to check out their rules at least if you're gonna request………………… and the same goes for all writers. We. Are. Not. Machines.

I especially try real hard and reread my rules almost every day to make sure they’re short and concise, that I put bold and colors on the absolute most important stuff and people still don’t read correctly or just don’t care. 

Like, today I got an ask saying ‘what’s a prompt’. Just that. No question mark, no hi, no nothing. First of all, you can read my rules and my posts to know what they are, I linked examples and you can literally search the tag. It feels like a troll tbh...

You’re absolutely right that Tumblr is becoming an awful place for content creators and it’s up to people to start being more respectful and supportive if they want to avoid Tumblr becoming empty. Content creators make this website, not just us writers but also artists and gif makers and we all deserve some love!

And don’t get me started on the HP/FBAWTFT/JKR bullshit, I really have to restrain myself not to reply ‘shut the fuck up anon’ on every single one of your asks. I myself am thinking about not writing for those fandoms anymore because JKR ruined the series for me and I don’t enjoy writing for it as much as I did, so I will probably remove them from my fandoms list. For now I’m on hiatus for those fandoms, so fight me, anons!

*sigh* I hate that whenever we try to establish boundaries people either disregard them or guilt us for them, it really shows that those awful people only care about their requests and nothing else. There’s people behind the blogs, with real lives and problems and emotions! I do hope that things get better myself, if not I might actually quit one day since I keep thinking about it, and I know and I’m not the only one.

#non anon ask #mutuals #<3 #long post #swanimagines #ask