Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting
First like and this has already found its intended audience
uh oh
Hello, I'm Aster and I'm in UT, FNAF, Cuphead, The Walten Files, BATIM and BATDR fandoms. I hipe you enjoy your stay.
Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting
First like and this has already found its intended audience
uh oh
i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year
actually i'm reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.
There's people in the notes talking about "not basing your worth off numbers", and like. that isn't what this post is about. It's not a threat, either, it's a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.
Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.
They don't do anything. They're a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn't even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don't. They're personal bookmarks and the only people who "get" anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don't keep the post in circulation, they don't keep it alive.
Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it.
And there's a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that's how posts stay alive and in circulation.
It's like a contagion, but we're sharing creativity instead of disease.
And that matters. That "lifespan" of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts.
We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue.
But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it's not making it onto your dashboard. And if it's not on your dashboard, you won't see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn't have an algorithm like twitter and insta's and it shouldn't, it's the last bastion of chronological timelines.
Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or "threatening" to withhold our fucking work (you're not entitled to it! it's ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we're well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We're just stating facts.
also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ????
these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio
not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts
It really does suck, because there's no way to realize your likes aren't actually helping spread posts and art you like.
You may have something you don't want on your main blog, but the solution to that is simple - make a sideblog! That way you can channel certain hobbies one way, and fanart and fandom involvement another.
enter this into the Google search
site:<url of site where you read the fic> <a line you remember from the fic or character names plus a unique detail>
for example:
site:http://archiveofourown.org/ Todd Margo pedicure
Google will search only AO3 and tell you which pages contain the words Todd Margo and pedicure.
REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE
REBLOG TO SAVE MY LIFE
REBLOG!!!
Not sure how common this knowledge is, but I’d like to add that if you enclose a piece of text in quotation marks, Google will search for only the exact wording of it. So if you’re lucky enough to remember an exact quote, that’s also a powerful tool. I can’t count the number of obscure tumblr posts I’ve tracked down from screenshots with just those two techniques; I’m sure it’ll work for fic too.
how it looks for two loner shut-ins to swag out together
Wait is this true?? We’ve just been actively lied to by anatomical diagrams this whole time?
this is true of pretty much all internal anatomy, because the real situation is sort of like if you stuffed a bunch of water balloons of different shapes, connected by tubes, into a bag, itd be really hard to tell whats going on! so you make things more orderly when you represent them, and the connections and lengths and stuff are correct. like the former image is what you get if you cut it out of someone's body and arrange it neatly (and also, if their system wasnt aberrant somehow, but most people's bodies are aberrant somehow. so what they show you is more of like an average of everyone's weird aberrations)
Reblog to change someone's perception
Animation I made of a scene from the comic!!!! It has some continuity errors but let's pretend they don't exist.
And the backgrounds I drew. They turned out decent!!!
The panels
these two queens
This is what nightmares as a kid were like
🌚 REBLOG TIME, NAUGHTY CHILD! 💙
After a trip to parts and services sunny is back together!
It is done....
Mission 2: pants.
THIS ONLY HAS 4 NOTES AT TIME OF REBLOG. GIVE IT SOME LOVE.