All tumblr kids were in at least one of these fandoms growing up and whichever one you were in explains A LOT about you and your issues:

-Wings of Fire

-Percy Jackson

-Harry Potter (Fuck JK Rowling)

-Warrior Cats

-ATLA/LOK

-MLP

-Omori

-Sally Face/Fran Bow/Literally any messed up video game

-FNAF

-Sanrio

-Disney/pixar

-Minecraft (and you watched the minecraft youtubers)

-Comment if i forgot any other fandoms bc im rlly tired rn and can't think :(

AAAAAAA IM SO ALONE-

Imagine this:

You guys love each other sm and would literally jump off a cliff for each other. (can be platonic or romantic idc.) whenever you're together you constantly sing this one super catchy song you don't know the name of. you've heard it at least 1,000 times together but you both barely know the lyrics, so you just sing the melody together. fast forward to a point where things aren't looking great. they're laying in your arms and they're gonna leave you at any second. you can her them singing THAT song. through all the tears being shed from both sides, you both sing the lyrics perfectly for the first time until they abruptly stop and you're left sitting there, feeling like the world is too silent. only after they're gone do you find the name of the song.

IM GONNA FIND SOME SUPER CRYPTIC OLD SONG THAT ISNT EVEN ON SPOTIFY AND GET SUPER ATTATCHED TO IT-

couldn't resist drawing the fella

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Said it before, I’ll say it a million more times—fuck people who say “tumblr poetry” or “this reads like a teenage girl’s diary” as a critique or insult when reviewing a book. I’m sick of seeing it on Goodreads and Amazon book reviews. I’ve encountered so many lovely, intelligent writers on this website and they do not all write the same. The sexism that lies behind the notion that young girls journaling are some disposable group of society and literary world sickens me. So many of the best pieces of writing in history were from women who published their journals.

hello ladies, gentlemen, and all those neither or in between

i need some new stuff to get hyperfixated on bc i’m sad and bored… give me something to fangirl over so that i can carry on my useless existence thank youuuuuuuu

TUMBLR PEOPLE

i need every person who is interested in cryptids to reblog this RN.

please :( im hyperfixating on this i need a friend

me: *gives my characters a shit ton of trauma*

random ass person: why are your characters’ conflicts so specific? they’re so similar to you

me: oh yeah i project onto my characters sometimes it’s no big deal though…

person: it’s so realistic that u may as well have been living through these things yourself! how much of this stuff have you actually gone through?

me: [insert awkward laugh here] oh honey you have NO IDEA-

YA’LL I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MY COUSIN MAKES REALLY COOL MUSIC AND SHE ONLY HAS LIKE 40 FOLLOWERS SINCE SHE JUST RELEASED HER FIRST SONG BUT MORE ARE COMING SOON. WE LOVE SMALL ARTISTS HERE TUMBLR WORK UR MAGIC. I KNOW I’M A TINY ACCOUNT BUT ITS OK

The Tumblr writing community is dying.

It’s something I’ve noticed over the past two years of using this site. It was gradual, imperceptible at first, something that most would brush off as a silly concern, or fault Tumblr algorithm for. While it’s true that Tumblr’s engine leaves a lot to be desired, I’ve noticed that even popular blogs have started to dwindle in terms of interaction or motivation. There could be a lot of reasons for this, but the biggest two I’ve noticed, experienced myself, and asked fellow writers about is this: (1) content being stolen, and (2) lack of feedback or interaction. I’ve never seen any logical person defend content being stolen, so I want to address point 2 instead.

Lack of feedback and interaction. I’m not saying this on my behalf so much as I’m saying this for friends and smaller blogs who have lost motivation to write. I was looking at my yandere writing blogs list the other day and noticed that a good majority of them no longer write. I usually update the list every few months, and by that point, more and more writers have stopped writing entirely. This isn’t a problem confined solely to the yandere fandom; in fact, there’s less writing blogs in general these days, especially ones that are active. I used to run a very popular BNHA blog with some friends, but that dissolved after our content was stolen and our followers stopped interacting as much. Out of our 8,500 followers, we hardly got 0.015% notes (~128 notes) on an average post. Tumblr is to blame for the lack of eyes seeing our posts, for sure, but that also means that at least 128 people saw one post and didn’t leave a comment or ask. We were considered a big blog; imagine what it’s like on a small blog.

My friend recently made a post that summed this up perfectly: 

“I’ve seen people say “Be grateful that people even lurk on your page.” and, while I get the message they’re trying to say, it’s more dismissive and hurtful in my opinion. Like you’re saying, “Oh your writing is mediocre, you should be grateful people even LOOK at it.”

Me personally? I’ve heard the argument that AO3 is a better place to post fanfics, and while that might be true, I’ve had friends experience firsthand the lack of interaction there too. I’ve heard the argument that interacting with some writers is intimidating (me included). I’ve heard that argument that followers might be too shy to interact. I’ve heard the argument that writers should write for themselves and not for views / likes / reblogs / etc, and while that’s ideal, it’s not sustainable for everyone. What works for one writer won’t work for another, but you know what will? Interaction.

That comment or ask that took you 2 seconds to write? We remember it. That reblog with the compliments in the tags? We remember it. Every single ‘named’ anon we get (heart anon, sunflower anon, etc)? We remember them. And the best part is? It’s actually easier to do these things on Tumblr since you have the option to send anonymous asks or make a sideblog specifically for reblogs! Trust me, whether the lack of interaction is the cause of a lack of motivation or what have you, every writer appreciates feedback (don’t be shy to offer some critique or compliments) or even a simple keyboard smash with some emojis. Even sitting down for 5 min a day per week to comment on your favorite writers’ new pieces makes a huge difference. Personally, since Tumblr’s activity feed is beyond terrible and I have over 1,500 posts, I don’t always see new reblogs or comments on my content; asks though? Always see those, can never go wrong with those. If you don’t want to reblog or leave a comment, then you can never go wrong with an anonymous ask. 

As my wise friend says: writing is an art, and in order to improve that art, we need other people’s eyes to see what we don’t.

For the sake of every writer (past, present, and future) on this platform, please share this post.

Music has made all the shit my therapist couldn’t fix so much easier for me my head feels like glitter-

silly little story idea (thought if this while crying in the shower because i’m fucking single)

as the world caves in: a short story by me

it’s some time in the near future: there are 2 characters who are immortal and they’ve been around since the human race was first created. neither of them know they’re immortal because they’re always changing their identities to stop popularity (because of course 2 immortal people are gonna be famous for the rest of time.) they find out that the third world war is starting for whatever reason and it’s causing the world to end (doomsday) which means that humans will go extinct from all the explosions. the first immortal person is very pessimistic and has cut off all contact with humans since they found out they could live forever because they’re scared of being heartbroken every time their companion dies. they live a pointless life where they don’t feel sympathy towards others, and they’ve given up on humanity. when they found out about doomsday they were a bit surprised, but not worried because they haven’t been in an actual relationship for YEARS. the second immortal person is the complete opposite of the first. while they’re scared of finding a romantic partner for the same reason as person 1, they’re completely open to making friends because they know they’re never gonna die so they want to enjoy all the time they’re forced to spend on earth. when they find out about the world ending they’re heartbroken, but willing to actually try to find love before the world ends because they only have a week before doomsday (forgot to mention that earlier sorry.) the 2 people cross paths and while person 1 is unsure about taking to people at first, they eventually give in because it’ll be the last person they talk to before people are wiped out. they eventually find out that they’re both immortal which causes their friendship to become even greater which eventually turns into love. they realize that they’ve been soulmates from the day they were born and that they’re destined to be with each other due to their lifespans. they promise to stay with each other until the end of time, never abandoning their partner. they spend the last day with each other, their hands intertwined, as they listen to the explosions and screams around them; knowing that in this situation, there’s no other person they’d want to be with.