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i drew your little guy cause they give me dopamine, decided to make their shirt be the duck song duck because that's been stuck in my head for a few days now, i hope you like it!! :-)

not a bother at all!!!

we found the ask, so we'll copy-paste what we said there and add a few extras!!

decide pretty early on if you want to do a general archive or run an archive with a specific topic/theme. if you can’t decide, then we recommend running a specific one at first, since it’s a lot easier to turn a specific archive into a general archive than to turn a general archive into a specific archive

if you’re able to, always reblog the version of the post that has a PT and/or ID already!! a brief check of the notes can show you any transcriptions that have already been done, especially if you don’t have the ability to do one yourself

avoid using slashes in your tags. if you put the character ’/’ in your tags, then the tag doesn’t work. this can save you a ton of trouble later on

also regarding tags, the simpler your tags are, the better. by this, i mean that you want tags you can easily type out regardless of what keyboard you’re using {no symbols you need to copy-paste every time, for example}, tags you can type quickly, and tags you can remember. while pretty tags are nice, it makes it a lot easier on both you and people using your archive if the tags used for organization are simple, straightforward, and easy to use

once again about tags, you want a tagging system that is relevant to the purpose of your blog. as an example, while tags for specific characters would fit on a blog that archives terms related to a specific media, on a general archive blog they’d easily become overwhelming and hard to remember. a blog that archives all sorts of LIOMOGAI terms would benefit from tagging genders as genders and alderns as alderns, but if you only archive kintype flags and nothing else, then tagging “kintype flag” on every post would become tedious and annoying

it’s also good to give your tagging system room to grow. i’m not really sure how to explain this, so i’ll give an example from our personal experience. we used to tag every gender related to an object as both “gender” and “xenogender”, even if the gender wasn’t stated to be a xenogender. we’re slow to change, so we were pretty stubborn about it for a while {we also didn’t understand why they weren’t xenogenders but that’s another topic}, but eventually realized that the way we had been tagging things wasn’t working for us or for our followers. it’s okay for your tagging system to change. LIOMOGAI is a growing, living, evolving community, with changing terminology, and if you run an archive for a long time then your blog and tags will probably reflect that

if you think not having a list of your tags will bug you later on, then keep track of which ones you use, even if you don’t make it public. it’s been years and we’re still finding tags that we used once and never again, which could’ve been prevented if we’d started keeping track from the get go

remember that you’ve got a community behind you!!! back when we started, it was just us and one or two other blogs dedicated to archival work, but these days there’s so many other archival blogs and coiners are a lot more aware of the existence of archives!! ask for help if you’re unsure on something, if you’re overwhelmed, if you at all feel that you can’t do it on your own. there’s no shame in asking for help. we’re always here if you have specific questions or need advice!!

if you use Tumblr on desktop, then we recommend using Xkit and turning on the setting that lets you archive a post on archive.ph or webarchive directly from Tumblr. similarly, browser extensions for these archives to make putting pages on there easier is super helpful

in blog settings, enable custom theme. this ensures that people can view your blog outside of dashboard view, which alongside making it way easier to browse, makes it possible for archive.ph and webarchive to actually archive your blog. a dashboard-only blog can't be archived on either of those

similarly, turn off infinite scroll on your blog. this, again, makes it easier to browse, makes it easier to put onto those archive websites, and has the added bonus of not playing into the infinite scroll trap. we also just recommend turning off infinite scroll for your Tumblr account in general so you view things in pages rather a limitless scroll, as it's easier to take a break and also find posts you lost, but that's a separate thing lol

we recommend tagging each post with the name of the term on it. Tumblr's search is hell, but tagging terms with their name makes it just that much easier to actually find what you're looking for

also from Xkit, some other settings that we find super helpful are quick reblog, tag bundles, and the mass tag replacer. they help a TON

even if you can't archive a post or put it in the queue right that second, put it in the drafts. people deactivate and blogs disappear all the time; several times we've found posts that have only had any surviving versions left because we saved them to our drafts

not necessary, but can be helpful: ask yourself, why archive? do you archive so you can have all the terms you like in one place? is your archive for you or is it a community resource? do you archive because you don't want posts to be lost forever? every answer is a correct answer, and answering these can help you decide your priorities, format of your blog, and generally help prevent burnout later on

i can just imagine it, like one of his redstone-oriented episodes... 

ok ok there were also a BUNCH of interpretations that painted him as like, basically a god? it’s was fairly common for him to be a child of apollo, and he was always the son of the muse calliope, so he did have some divine blood, but some people just. took that to the next level

ofc there’s his singing abilities, which are a pretty important part of even the myths that paint him as mortal- like hadestown wasn’t exaggerating if anything they undersold his abilities orpheus really could just sing a song so beautiful that all the trees would sing along. lions would stop killing their prey to listen to him. rivers would flow in tune to his song. it was dramatic as fuck

in some versions he was a seer in life as well as death ( his severed head ended up on the island of lesbos and apollo gave it the gift of prophecy for a bit ). he was also like, a magician? which would explain the magic singing i guess.

some go even further and say that orpheus introduced medicine, agriculture, and/or writing to the rest of humanity- i’m not sure what he had to do with the first two but. idk. sounds like orpheus was some greek poet’s oc do not steal

there was also a whole religion/cult around him- orphism, based on the “orphic mysteries” ( which fun fact is the name of orpheus’s show in udad ). there’s not a ton of surviving records from it but it was assosiated with persephone’s cult (seeing as they both had the whole thing with going in and out of the underworld). they also had a pretty big thing with dionisius that involved a myth about him being ripped apart and humanity coming from, like, his entrails. so there was a lot of dionisius-inspired purification rituals that involved wine and ripping each other to pieces.