Rick Grimes in The Ones Who Live | 1x06 - The Last Time

PSA: the bots are getting sneaky

Hey guys just fyi, I haven’t seen anything about this, but I don’t get a follower notification when a bot follows me anymore.

My follower count will magically go up, but my activity doesn’t notify me of being followed by them. But when I click on my list of followers, there they all are.

At first I thought this was an issue with my tumblr specifically, but I still get notified when other people follow me, so I think that the bots just found a work around.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

-- Richard G. Scott

(Bistrita, Romania)

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aight. You know the drill.

let's see how long it takes to clean this time-

Hello friends and fellow writers 💖

I just started listening to Chris Williamson's podcast, "Modern Wisdom" with Rob Henderson, and the conversation at 11:15 (linked below) really made me think about the fandom experience, also.

Basically, it's the "1%" rule. 1% of internet users are creators, 9% are commenters and people who engage with content, and the other 90% are silent lurkers. Based on my tumblr fandom experience this feels pretty accurate.

I see a lot a lot a lot of writers (as I'm basing this solely on my experience as a writer in the fandom) complaining about engagement with their stories. And, like, I get it. In a perfect world everyone who reads your stuff would comment and reblog. But it's just not realistic. Chances are those 90% of lurkers agree with the 9%, and chances are you are a better writer than you think you are

This might be a hot take but im saying it with my whole chest: shaming people and guilting people to read and reblog your stories will not make people want to read and reblog your stories. Chances are it will do the opposite

TO ME, 10% engagement feels successful, and anything over that feels like a huge win

Anyway, wanted to share this here too because I genuinely thought it really neat

Here's the link to the YouTube version of the podcast and the discussion starts at 11:15

https://youtu.be/fiUkF5hAnaM?si=mqDZsqn8KEkNLh6f

To EVERYONE who reads my silly horny fics - silent readers, readers who only "like", and readers who comment - THANK YOU. I mean it. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read and enjoy something that I created ❤️

Excerpt from “From the river to the sea”, a collection of poems by Palestinian author Zainab Zamil

The most important thing to know how to give in this life is a “soul hug”. You wrap yours around theirs and stay there, in that moment, until they feel safe.

@soulinkpoetry

You gave the best hugs

reposting this, because reblogs are turned off

if you'll try to threat OP or tell them to kill themselves I'll kill you first *mwah*

Rowena and Sam would kill each other and/or the things each other loves for the sake of their respective families, and they like that about each other.

can we stop using euphemisms to describe fat bodies please. "cuddly body" just say fat. "chubby" just say fat. "teddy bear-like" just say fat. "heavy" just say fat. "big-boned" just say fat. "well-fed" just say fat. "large" just say fat. "shorter than their weight" just say fat. "they've got a bit of a belly" just say fat. "lean challenged" (yes this is a thing i have seen used) JUST SAY FAT.

the more we use euphemisms to describe fat people and fat bodies, the more taboo being fat becomes and the more stigmatised it becomes. the use of euphemisms and dancing around saying plainly and simply that i was (and still am) fat harmed my relationship to my body so much in the past. i started to see the descriptor 'fat' as a morally and generally bad thing to be, when it really is just a descriptor with no moral weight or inherent goodness/badness.

and adding on to that, fatphobia in general doesn't make sense to me. it's the same basic principle of all discrimination - ostracise someone for something they can't control. discrimination by extension ALSO just doesn't make sense to me. if i was to put it into the context of something everyone can see as normal regardless of race or heritage or orientation or weight or whatever, like for example having brown hair, it just sounds silly. imagine living in a world where people treated people with darker hair like they treat fat people.

"look at her hair! it's so dark, she's let herself go." "oh my goodness his hair's almost black - he'll die any time soon, surely." "ugh my hair looks too dark today, i wish i could make it lighter, its so disgusting like this." "wow! his hair's so dark, i bet you he's so sad and chronically online lmao." "their hair is so brown, i bet you they have the tiniest dick known to mankind." "you know, you can get that dark shade lighter in two months flat if you really try hard enough - it'll come right off!" "ewwwww that's disgusting - look how dark their hair is. that's so repulsive."

it sounds stupid, no ?? and thats not even touching on people who can't lose weight due to general body type or a medical problem or because it's a side effect of their important medicine or whatever it is. personally, i've been fat as a relatively young kid all the way till now, and that's WITH me doing a shit ton of sports as a kid and eating well too, as well as relatively regular exercise and still eating well now. i don't lose weight easily, and i'm tempted to say that i *can't* lose weight. and as long as i'm healthy, i don't actually care too much about that. because being fat is just a natural state of the self for me, and for many others. i don't need to "fix" it, because being fat does NOT indicate me or anyone else being unhealthy (unless its sudden and there have been 0 changes to your lifestyle recently, then of course go see a doctor about it but otherwise a person's weight is in no way an indicator of their actual health) and that's that.

anyway fat isnt a bad word destigmatise the word fat please weight does NOT equal to or indicate health in the slightest stop targeting fat men and calling them incels or chronically online or making small-dick jokes - it not only hurts the fat guys themselves but (fat) trans guys and intersex people too and stop being mean to fat people