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There’s a certain sort of tragedy involved with the act of having a brother, blood or otherwise. Bilbo’s an only child, so he doesn’t know this. He’ll learn the full extent of it eventually. And for once one of his plans pans out exactly the way he wanted it, but he finds out pretty much immediately that he might have played himself.

In between alternating bawling his eyes out and taking mournful pulls of whiskey, something clicked.

Of course. Of course.

God, he was a moron. It was so simple. 

Bilbo was jealous.

No, he wasn’t envious of Dwalin’s sudden drunken confidence that he could make things work with Thorin. He wasn’t envious of his and Thorin’s history, or even of their relationship. 

He was jealous, plain and simple. Jealous of Dwalin, and of the king’s obvious feelings for him.

Do you see this image? Do you know what is happening? Well, I'll tell you what is happening:

THE AMAZON RAINFOREST HAS BEEN BURNING FOR 16 DAYS.

Sixteen days. Without any help or declarations of the Brazilian government. Our biggest form of animal and vegetal wildlife is being destroyed and no one is making anything about it.

São Paulo was covered by a smoke cloud this week during hours, as a result of the fire, if that single fact wasn't already alarming.

I lost hope in humanity. Because the trees are still burning right now as you read this text. Because no "famous environmentally friendly" person is talking anything about it. Because everyone else is too selfish to even care about the wellbeing of our own world.

This is for @genevivepeach

I’m gonna go ahead and make a guess it’s not what you guys are doing wrong (such as nobody liking your WIPs or because you took a hiatus or anything) but:

In some parts of the world, it’s summer, and people may be vacationing so don’t have access to the internet, or it’s very likely they don’t want to access the internet during vacation. In other parts, school is in session (maybe?).

It’s also Camp NaNo month, so everyone is likely trying to focus and work on that.

Yeah, writers are migrating to other websites. I don’t know, genuinely, if it’s WattPad or if it’s another website they’re going to. I personally wish there was another website like tumblr.

This website is broken, and they’re now continuously breaking it. From removing line breaks, unable to do read mores on asks (the option is there, but it won’t do it) so it can be hard to fill out prompts, tagging not working (as of right now, I cannot tag four people–I’m following them but it won’t let me tag ‘em), blockquotes are fuq’d. No idea what the hell @staff is doing but.

People may now be feeling like their works aren’t good enough because they’re not receiving enough notes. Or perhaps because they don’t feel like their graphics are good enough/can’t make graphics, so their works don’t get as noticed.

This just may be a minor thing, and as summer comes to a close, or starts for others, activity will pick back up again.

And on this website, it’s just really hard to get noticed. Honestly? It’s hard to get noticed anywhere no matter what.

How to fix this? I dunno. There’s many events for people to partake in as of right now, and it’s people’s choice to do so. @pens-swords-stuff is doing the WIP blind date thing (which is super cool!), which might help a little bit?

I think we’ve just started communicating less. More people are waiting for interaction before they give it themselves.

writeblr is actually bigger than ever. 

Also y'all when someone posts fanart/fanfic/edits/etc:

Up until around 2016 or so, the like to reblog ratio was the total opposite of how it is now. And it applied on posts with fewer notes and posts with a large amount of notes:

You get my point. But over the last few years it has flipped completely:

And, of course, see OP’s screenshot.

It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the posts with more reblogs have an astoundingly higher amount of notes because of increased exposure. Reblogging allows more people to see the content, that’s more people to either continue reblogging or at least give a like. For artists in particular who would benefit from the exposure in terms of commissions and patreon and all of that, this is a huge deal. It can make all the difference. 

Tumblr as a blogging platform was created with the intent to post and share content. It’s not meant to be a consume-only form of social media like Instagram. For fandom blogs in particular, it always boggles me that people don’t share content that they like. Tumblr was appealing for fandom in the first place because of the ability to plaster your blog with amazing things that other people made - this used to be unheard of. For me, it’s like saving something precious so you can always come back to it again. It’s giving the people who follow me something awesome to look at too. Creating and sharing content is the heart of fandom.

People rely primarily on their dash for content. Most people avoid going into tags/searches because of wanky fandom drama. So reblogs are crucial for exposure! Likes are a nice gesture, but they do nothing to help share and promote content. That’s why content creators are frustrated or moving to other platforms, or why they stop making content altogether. Tumblr has its issues, but it’s still one of the best places for exposure due to its reblog function and overall post formatting. It’s discouraging seeing content creators on Tumblr as a concept die off. This site is nothing without them.

We can enjoy making things as much as possible but when we share it and no one cares enough to show it to others, it does make us wonder why we bothered in the first place. And this isn’t a new complaint from content creators. But it has worsened over time as the likes started dominating the reblogs. 

It’s not that we don’t appreciate likes at all, notes are notes. But reblogs equal more notes, which equals more exposure, which equals happy content creators, which equals more content for fandom to consume. It’s a wholly positive chain of events that circles back around. Your reblog could be a deciding factor on whether that content creator chooses to keep contributing or to give up entirely.

Of Fire & Stone (1)

Chapter Title: All That Blood Looks Good On You,

Pairing: Thorin Oakenshield x Original Female Character

Summary: ❄ What if the time was different. What if Smaug never came and the Avari never disappeared south. 6 Clans that settled in a cold and barren north filled with Houses of Wolves, Snakes, Dragons, Boars, Raven and Goats. ❄ A land where a widowed woman can start a new life and where the lonely mountain is home to more than just Dwarves. ❄

Warnings: Violence, Death and Murder

Word Count: 1,774

A/N: I posted this on AO3 as well. its got like all of the best things like dragons, dragons and more dragons please do read it and let me know what you think and how I can improve it. Thank you x x

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17867831/chapters/42171227

its got like all of the best things like dragons, dragons and more dragons 

a reference for herbs and their magical uses !!