aquarius

characters who dig themselves out of their graves (whether literal or metaphorical) are at the top of the list. nothing beats a character who should have died but didn't and comes back to haunt their own life and the world around them, benevolent or violent it doesn't matter, it's enthralling either way

write fanfic that three people in the world will read, because those three people are going to be fucking pleased that it exists

“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else

If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one's stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don't hold back.

digital piracy is the most important invention of the internet era im not exaggerating. people copying media and giving it to eachother has kept so much information and art around even before the internet was a thing, but the difficulty inherent in physical production & distribution of those copies limited access. torrenting shifts this process into pure data flow, making it easier to acquire things and also allowing pirates to distribute at a massive scale without the need for their own infrastructure. piracy allows the internet to function as a worldwide library that anyone can contribute to and always has a copy of whatever it is you want. anyone with a computer and an internet connection has access to an incredible wealth of media representing human knowledge and experiences from so many different people, places, and times right at their fingertips all because of piracy

Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it's called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes