Fandom: God thereās like NO content anymore. I wish we could get more art and fanfics :(((
Someone: Hey, I canāt draw anything digitally, because I canāt afford a tablet, but hereās a pen on paper drawing that I spent a lot of time and hard work on. Also, I took a shot at my first fanfic and Iād really like some feedback or at least some kudos if you enjoyed it :)
Fandom: Oh... yeah sorry no... not you. We actually meant writers that are already well known and popular to produce MORE content... I mean, if a popular blog shares your work then maybe. And we donāt really like pen to paper art. We just donāt think itās professional or even looks good :/
You've just met this kid(also 15), who is loud and annoying and won't do a single thing you tell him to. Not only has he got a ridiculously strong ability but he has crazy control over it and he can handle himself in a fight. He's the leader of gang. The Port Mafia views him as a serious threat.
And you're forming your opinions as you're being made to team up with this brash annoying kid who keeps trampling on all your good plans with his own ideas. Clearly, he's used to doing what he wants when he wants and it grates on you.
The sooner this is over the better.
But then, it's not all bad. You don't really get to hang out with kids your age. Or kids in general, most of the people you know are adults (who also happen to be criminals). As annoying as he is, it's fun messing with each other. You go to an arcade together and make a silly bet.
He places his stakes, so you have to think of your own. Obviously, you come up with an ingenious idea. If he loses, this kid who does whatever he wants, he has to be your dog for life. It's the kind of dumb bet kids your age would make, right? You've heard that before.
You'll make him carry about some stuff with his ability and lord it over him for a while and it will be funny.
Only then his friends- members of his gang, The Sheep- walk in and he hides from them. Because of you. You are, after all, from a rival gang. You call them over just to mess with him.
And you watch the kid you got to know start to shrink. All his noise goes quiet. All his confidence dissipates. That annoyingly loud kid you've gotten used to, the one who won't do as you say, who argued back all the time, just stands there as his so-called friends chip away at him. You watch as they treat him like-
it makes me sad to see how so many people expect artists, cosplayers, writers, editors, etc to be posting content 24/7 and get mad when they aren't capable of doing that to their standards...like we are only human, we have lives, personal stuff to go through, we get tired to the point of burnout sometimes, we run out of ideas! and that's completely normal, no one can be at the top of their game all the time, we need time to rest our minds, search for inspo and grow! but the way some people behave towards creatives is so demotivating...we are not machines, you cannot expect us to behave like one.
People have always been very patient with me and i /still/ feel bad when i dont post something for a couple of days bc of this mindset i see all over the internet! its sick!! And lately ive seen people get complaints by others for not posting much or being "up to their standard" and im so mad. It's so so tiring and it really doesn't help to get most of us motivated to put out more stuff or try to be more creative.
GUYS GUYS GUYS I JUST SAW THIS NOW IāM PROBABLY VERY LATE BUT ANYWAYS!!!
skk going 60 ranks up and being in the 22th rank on the tumblr ship list!!!!!! itās amazing how theyāre on the same rank as their age tbh i love the power they have
Is it just me or is Dazai very Taylor Swift-coded?
Well, yes, I try to relate most of the songs I listen to with BSD for whatever reason, but some of her songs fit him perfectly.
For instance, Dear Reader fits him so accurately. It's almost as if it was written with Dazai's transition from the PM to ADA in mind. A few others that come to mind- This Is Me Trying, Anti-Hero, Mastermind, Right Where You Left Me (fits Beast Dazai- putting aside the romantic implications) and The Archer.
Or maybe it's the other way round- Taylor Swift is a Dazai kinnie confirmed?
We have some behind-the-scenes footage from the set of MitskiāsĀ new āMy Love Mine All MineāĀ music video soĀ check it out and listen toĀ her new album,Ā The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We,Ā rightĀ here.
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"
Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
(the quality is better when you touch the pic but i donāt recommend it bc itās traditional and it looks kinda weird)
i wanted to draw something else but i wasnāt able to THANKFULLY THO i drew him 3 days ago bc i couldnāt get the idea out of my head SO HERE IT IS: DAZAI THATāS HEAD OVER HEELS FOR THAT RICH, HANDSOME AND BEAUTIFUL CHUUYA KID, FROM THE SECOND HE SAW HIM (he just like me fr) (tbh this was inspired by this tweet and this thread of replies to it so pls go look at them.)
he looks kinda ugly bc my drawingās ugly. and thereās something so wrong abt the anatomy but i canāt figure out what it is so likeā¦ heās kinda uglyā¦ sorry bbygirl (and donāt come at me abt the dress folds idk how to do themšš)
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