I set off, off to kill the man I loved

Back by popular demand, my third annual vampire appreciation week will take place from Tuesday, November 7th to Monday, November 13th. All content is welcome, from gifsets, to graphics, to edits! You don’t need to be following me nor do you even have to like me to participate, truly EVERYONE is welcome. I tried to incorporate some new prompts as well as keep some of the original ones. Here’s how it will go:

Tuesday, November 7th: Favorite vampire

Wednesday, November 8th: Favorite vampire/vampire dynamic OR favorite vampire/non-vampire dynamic

Thursday, November 9th: Favorite mythos (which vampire story did the vampire mythology the best?)

Friday, November 10th: An underrated vampire OR vampire fiction that deserves more appreciation

Saturday, November 11th: Favorite vampire fiction(s) OR first vampire obsession 

Sunday, November 12th: Most attractive vampire

Monday, November 13th: You choose!

you repost to twitter, to pinterest, to instagram, to tiktok and lord knows what else. on twitter, a single gif taken from a gifset that didn't even receive 1k notes (not 1k likes or even 1k rbs, if that even exists these days) can get 3m views and 30k+ likes. without credit, of course - if you're like, you get a mispelled: made by x on tumblr, no link of course.

hell, you repost on this very site and you refuse to listen. your set, stolen from someone else and mixed in with quotes, gets 1k notes meanwhile the original sits at less than 500. you do not credit the person who made it.

we ask you to reblog things instead of liking them and you go on rants about how it's unnecessary and how we should do it for fun. we explain a hundred times that tumblr doesn't work the way other social media platforms work, but you refuse. you wonder why there are less gifmakers.

gifs don't take 10 seconds like on ezgif or imgflip or whatever the hell you're using. it takes hours sometimes to even download footage, but you don't care. it's a moving image that we "stole" (?) from the original work but the labour? you don't care. depending on our process, it can take from half an hour (the downloading and the editing part) to hours upon hours. but who cares.

you credit text posts, fanvids, and you go after those who steal written work (as you should). we cannot even get other gifmakers to care when our stuff is stolen. staff took away our only tool to fight reposters on this site, and we never had any to fight reposting to other sites.

we know what the staff is aiming at with the changes they make and the changes they refuse to make - we explain that why disabling likes would help, they say they will not do it. they cannot slap an @ onto gifs when saved to prevent stealing but boy, look at the shiny new editor that adds an additional least 5 minutes to upload your gifs! again, intention is very clear.

we know you don't steal gifs under a certain quality and we know you ask us for requests for scenes/parallels that have been done because you do not like the quality of those. we see you stealing quality sets.

there is no point to this i just needed to vent. staff is disregarding the very foundation of this site, gifmakers are given less and less respect and you wonder why scenes aren't giffed.

Likes don’t boost content and allow people to see it. Reblogs do.

When you reblog, it puts the content even further out there and allows other users to see it.

When you hit the like button on something on tumblr, it’s similar to putting a book you like from the library on your personal bookshelf so you can read it later.

When you reblog you’re saying ‘I like this book and other people should read it too!’ so you return it and then they put it on the shelf and someone else checks it out and loves it and passes it along. (And when you reblog and add tags it’s like putting that book on the recommended shelf and even more people see it!)

idk I’m rambling but while it’s okay to like a post if you like something someone created, reblogging is so much better because you’re sharing the content and telling the content creators that you’d like to see more from them

and here it is afterwards:

Another before and after example:

There’s two groups of reader perspectives: those who envision the actor/actress as they read and those who have their own perception of the character.

“but when it comes down to ‘well, Rose isn’t white or Lissa doesn’t have blonde hair, or so and so isn't queer in the books'? Well, the books were written 15 years ago and we have to tell stories that reflect the world we live in now."