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Rules: Tag 4 mutuals and ask one question. Tagged by: @norval17​

Question: Favorite franchise. Books, movies, games, comics etc.

Answer: Touhou, I’ve been playing every single game since I was ~12.

Here’s my question: do you have a song that never fails to make you dance?

My question: what is the most recent book you’ve finished?

my question: what’s your opinion on pineapple on pizza? what’s your favorite pizza topping?

Answer: I love it and it’s my favourite topping :)

My question: Favourite song?

Answer: https://open.spotify.com/track/7s8VgA8OjvwBUuigKzEGBx?si=4ae53d1dd67e482d

My question: Favourite color?

question: favorite music genre???

question: how many pillows/blankets do you prefer to sleep with?

my question: what is your favorite niche interest or thing that just makes you go fjfhdhdhf 💕💕

Uhh

@crossiantgay @lily-of-the-i-think-not @i can’t actually remember my friends tags fUCK @catmaid-badboyhalo

-What is a fandom/ franchise you are interested in but scared off by how toxic a part of the community is.

Question: what’s your all time favourite movie?

q: give me one sentence you’d say to your favorite celebrity if you could.

q: who are the top three people you’d like to meet in real life?

Q: what’s a song that you will never grow tired of?

Q: Favorite book/movie/video game?

Uhhhhh

Q:Favourite song/band

Q: would u rather have fire powers or ice powers?

Q: How many pillows do you sleep with?

My question: would you rather be able to fly (with or without wings) or teleport?

My Question: Top 3 favourite streamers or YouTubers?

My question: What are your favorite book or show you’ve ever watched?

My question: Who’s your favorite character? It can be any character you want.

Question: which actor would you like to become friends in?

Question: Favorite show or movie? It can be anything, like anime or a YouTube series, if that helps.

Question: Whats your hobbies aside from drawing or writing?

Answer: I really enjoy playing video games in my spare time! Especially Animal Crossing.

Question: Do you have a favorite author of a book/manga/etc.?

A flirty Sam for everyone! ^w^

dude.

tumblr is apparently rolling out a beta for a new post editor that essentially makes it so there are no longer post “types” (text post, audio post, photo post, etc.), and instead all types of content are better integrated into a single post. pretty neat, right?

…until you read the fine print.

The maximum number of total content blocks allowed in a single post is 250.

i emailed support and asked whether each paragraph counts as a content block. i received this reply:

SO. each paragraph counts as a content block, and i’m only allowed 250 content blocks in one post. the solution provided was to reformat my fics by using shift+enter after every paragraph instead of simply enter. which is already unnecessarily annoying in of itself, but then you come to the second hurdle: 

The maximum character length of a single text block is 4096 characters.

so–what?? besides spending my time writing thousands upon thousands of words, i’m expected to copy-paste it and then reformat everything, counting every single one of those words to make sure they fit within the restrictions? or i’m supposed to chop my fics up into multiple parts, even when i don’t want to? how exactly are writers supposed to write on this platform?? as you all know, my style tends to run pretty dialogue-heavy, so i start new paragraphs (and, thus, content blocks!!!) pretty damn often. i did a quick check, and let it snow, at almost 19k, is 550 paragraphs. with this new system, i would be forced to upload it in three (3!!!!!) posts! even my shortest chapter of ego, at 8.8k, is 350 paragraphs, and i’d have to split it in two.

this is honestly a formatting nightmare as a writer, and this is a decision that is liable to drive content creators away from the site and change fandom culture as a whole. 

This post was made yesterday. Biden is winning.

Spread this to your friends and family if you can.

I will update this if I can with more information.

Stay safe.

Ok y’all here is some self defense tips from someone who has been doing this for 10 years and has taught beginner classes. I want y’all to be safe so:

-your main goal is to avoid confrontation. If you can stay indoors, stay indoors.

-if you are confronted by someone who is seemingly unarmed. Run, it takes on average 15 seconds to pull out a gun and fire it. In that time you can get to a public area or at least get away from the attacker.

-if you are confronted by someone who has a weapon. Give them everything they ask for unless they plan to: kill you, kill those you are traveling with, take you to a secondary location, or sexually assault you.

-travel with others preferably those who are white or white passing and straight and straight passing.

-keep your doors locked and you blinds closed.

-take your garbage inside so people know you are home (protects against robbery)

-don’t post anything political on a social media that has your face and preferably use a VPN

-wear clothing that is thick and covers your arms and legs (not victim blaming I’m just trying to help, you should wear whatever you want. One way to get around this is to bring a thick jacket with you)

-try not to make direct eye contact and stay alert when in public.

-if you believe someone is following you either get to a public location or make multiple turns in a row and then sprint.

-use things like carabiners for self defense. Using your keys is more likely to injure you.

-if someone tries to take you and you can no longer fight back. Go limp, lean back and hold their feet.

-if fighting is your only option aim for the: eyes, neck, ears, feet, elbows and their upper abdomen in an upside down T shape starting from their neck.

-when running try to pull nearbye objects into the other persons path.

-if you think someone is following you. Drop into a dead sprint or act extremely crazy.

They gave me a number to shoot for.  It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.

So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.

I got what I asked for.

If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known.  I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.

God fucking damnit 

This fucking virus is spreading like a wildfire right now

IF YOU SEE THIS. REBLOG.

Do not click the link without a script blocker! Do not click the link without a proper adblocker! Do not browse the web without Firefox!

 It looks like this:

THIS IS NOT TRUE. Voting laws vary state to state, and in some—such as North Carolina—poll workers actually HAVE to mark your ballot in order for it to be counted. If you pick a fight with poll workers about them marking your ballot in one of these states, YOU WILL LOOK VERY SILLY AND MAY GET IN TROUBLE.

Snopes has done a piece discounting this misinformational post and others like it. Tumblr doesn’t like links, but google ‘Snopes handwriting ballots invalidated’ and it will come right up. Here are screenshots of the article. I will reply to to this post with a direct link to the article.

Please read up on your local voting laws. Don’t be fooled by seemingly well-intentioned posts that rely on your trust and ignorance to succeed. If it doesn’t have a source, try to do some research before you spread it around.

This is so mind-numbingly simple to execute, and it will block a whole IP address, which means that anons cant make new profiles to send more hate.

You wanna know what happens once you kill yourself? Your mother comes home from work and finds her baby dead and she screams and runs over to you and tries to get you to wake up but you won’t and she keeps screaming and shaking you and her tears are dripping onto your face and your dad hears all the screaming and runs into the room and he can’t even speak because the child that he loved and the child that he watched grow up is gone forever and finally your little sister runs into the room to see what all the fuss is about and she sees you dead. The person she looked up to and loved. The person she bragged about to  her friends, the person she wanted to be just like when she grew up, the person that made her feel safe. But she’s never really going to get to grow up and smile and laugh and love because she’ll always be consumed with this feeling of missing you. And now there’s something missing from your family and they can barely look at each other anymore because everything reminds them of you but you’re gone and hurts more than anything. and you think that your mom never cared because she was always busy and yelling at you to finish your homework and clean your room and forgot to say I love you sometimes but really, she loved you more than anything and she doesn’t leave the house anymore, she can’t even get out of bed and she’s getting thinner and thinner because it’s too hard to eat. Your father had to quit his job and he doesn’t sleep anymore, every time he closes his eyes he sees his baby dead, and the image never goes away no matter how much alcohol he drinks. And at school your best friend sees that your seat is empty and she gets this sick feeling in her stomach and that’s when she hears the announcement. You killed yourself. And suddenly she’s screaming and crying in the middle of class and no one even bothers comforting because they’re all  busy sitting there staring at your empty seat with tears dripping down their cheeks and all she wants is for you to hug her and tell her it’s gonna be okay like you always did, but this time, you’re not there to do it, everything is dark now that you’re gone and her grades are slipping, she barely goes to school anymore and she ended up in hospital after taking too many pills because she wanted to see you again. the girls who used to make fun of the way you dressed feel their throats get tight, they don’t talk to each other anymore, they don’t talk to anyone, they’re all in therapy trying so hard not to blame themselves but nothing works. and your teacher who always gave you a hard time stares blankly at the wall, she quits her job a few days later. And then your boyfriend hears the news and he can’t breathe, he still calls you a lot just to hear your voice and he talks to you on facebook but you never message him back, he can’t fall in love again because every girl he meets reminds him of you, he’s never going to get over you, he loved you and he cries himself to sleep every night, hating himself and slicing his skin because he couldn’t save you and he’s never going to hold you in his arms or hear you laugh again. Now everyone who knew you, whether they were a big part of your life or someone you passed in the hallway a few times a week, they carry this aching feeling around inside them because you’re gone, and they miss you, and they don’t know why you left but it must’ve been their fault and they should’ve stopped you and they should’ve told you they loved you more and that feeling is never going to go away. And so you killed yourself

This is literally the sweetest things I’m so close to crying🥺😭 thank you so much. This is so nice…I cant even convey what I’m feeling right now.

I see every single one of my followers reblogs dw.

fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment. 

5 years ago (just before I left tumblr) people were more than happy to reblog content. There wasn’t this hesitation that people seem to have now.

E.g - These are the notes on some of my posts from 5/6 years ago

The ratio of likes to reblogs was always around 50:50, it was great. Nearly all blogs that put out creative content grew and put out work consistently because people actually bothered to hit the reblog button and helped people to get their work seen and appreciated.

Now, I know a lot of people will be like “Well you should write/draw/make content for yourself” and yeah, to a certain degree, that’s true. But when you’re putting out content just to have it flop time and time again because people either remain silent readers or hit the like button(we all still appreciate likes, so thank you) it gets disheartening.

I’m lucky that my work gets notes, but let me show you something

These are the notes from what some of the fics I’ve written. Don’t get me wrong, I still appreciate the likes, but look at the ratio now. Not to mention I have over 16,000 followers (which I’m incredibly lucky to have) but something just doesn’t add up and it’s really disheartening for me and a lot of other content creators on here.

Tumblr has already fucked us over with their new bullshit tagging system, but then when we’re putting out (FREE) content for people and they can’t even be bothered to hit the reblog button…well…you can see why a lot of creators end up jumping ship to another platform.

Another thing I see a lot of is big blogs not supporting their fellow creators or only supporting a very tight knit group of mutuals. This isn’t anything new, I’ve seen it time and time again, and I hate it. I don’t know if it’s because people are worried about competition from ‘outsiders’ or what, but I t’s so shitty to see.

YOU SHOULD SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW CREATORS, NOT JUST YOUR FRIENDS!!! IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEARCH THROUGH THE TAGS, CREATE YOUR OWN TAG THAT PEOPLE CAN USE LIKE I DID AND REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG!!!

You’ll have no one left to blame but yourselves when there’s barely any content left on here/your favourite writers give up because you didn’t want to reblog a piece of work they’ve worked hard on because it didn’t ‘fit your aesthetic’ or because you’re worried about competition.