Benevolent Hellsite: choose your own adventure

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All things Fandom

Congratulations! You’ve come to the right place 😬.

Check out Tumblr’s Year In Review to find the fandom community of your dreams, or click below for some of our faves: 

Anime & Manga Characters

Anime & Manga

K-Pop

Ships

TV Shows

Movies

Shadow and Bone

Video Games

Mobile Games

Video Game Characters

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Humor

No surprise here, but laughing at funny videos and memes relieves stress and improves mood. Users cited laughing at funny memes and videos as beneficial to their immediate gratification, but also helpful in the long-run, because it gives them energy to get back to work, relationships, or long-term pursuits. 

Here are some accounts to get started:

😆dankmemeuniversity

😆tiktoksthataregood-ish

😆memeclassheroes

😆lolwtfmemes

😆shitpostinguniverse

Check out Tumblr’s Meme Year in Review for a list of the most popular meme hashtags. Have fun 😬

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STUDYBLR 📝🤓

Check out #studyblr to get inspired to dive back into your work, glean helpful studying tips, or commiserate deadlines!

Respondents told Benevolent Hellsite that studyblr aesthetic and tip accounts help them feel motivated and refreshed in their studies, and less alone amidst stress and burnout.

Search the subject you are currently working on, or check these blogs out to get started:

galina - book recs & lots of coffee aesthetics

thephysicsgraduate - follow a PhD first year:

emgoesmed - practical advice and [soup] inspo!

for more: here is a directory of studyblrs !

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WRITING

There is a lot here. Pick whatever feels right:

📝 Writing Prompts

Tumblr has a vibrant, active writing community that participates in writing challenges and shares advice— you can always find inspiration for beginning a new story in a quick tag search. 

Below are two blogs you can count on to get started:

visualwritingprompts

creativepromptsforwriting ← (amazing writing tips and exercises)

Think of these communities as an incubator to practice and get feedback.

📝 How to write roleplay

Tumblr users mentioned roleplay as one of the most rewarding ways to spend time on this site. Not only is it a creative outlet, it builds writing skills and community. As many Tumblr users know, nothing is as fulfilling as creating art for others to enjoy and share 🤗.

Here is an extensive list of role play advice and tip blogs to get you started.

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Helpful Tidbits

Need some encouragement? Browse and follow these accounts for quotes & reminders to get you through hard times, or just a regular old day: 

❤️Post-it-forward

❤️Quotes from literature

❤️Cokaino

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Art History

Art is good for your brain!  ...and can make you feel cultured and stuff. 

Tumblr users told Benevolent Hellsite that they developed their personal taste and eye for artwork by browsing and learning about artwork on Tumblr. 

Check out these blogs to get started:

🎨Abstract art 

🎨Books & Art

🎨Philadelphia Museum of Art

🎨A blog dedicated to classical antiquity, poetry, and the visual arts  

🎨Renaissance art

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Languages 🗣

Tumblr loves learning languages, and Benevolent Hellsite respondents cited it as a source of long-term growth, happiness, and community.

How current users learn languages on Tumblr:

Want to learn Korean? Tumblr is a rich resource of study tips and language learning communities. Study it with K dramas or these tips.

Create your own blog about your language learning journey! You may be able to help someone else along the way, and it's a great way to track your personal progress and learnings.

Check out the tag Langblr for more inspo. Tumblr users regularly participate in activities such as the ‘NVA challenge’ to motivate consistency through camaraderie and competition.

More study tips, and other languages 

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Cute Things

Great news! 

Looking at cute things actually benefits our emotional well-being and cognitive performance. It’s also endlessly entertaining. 

Here are some blogs to get started:

🐱 kilgorezouzou (streetcats turned apartment cats 🥺)

🦦 aww-cute

🐶 endless-puppies

Tip: set a timer for a cute-things study or work break to return refreshed.

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ASMR 💆‍♀️

Scientists don’t know what it is about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) that causes some people to feel “brain tingles” while listening to soothing sounds. 

Many claim that ASMR actually helps them sleep. No one can argue that’s not good for you!

Start here: soothifying-sounds-asmr

Or search the tag ASMR

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Web-weaving & mood boards

Search the tag ‘web weaving.’ A whimsical ~internet~ art form, there is nothing more Tumblr. It’s like a mood board, an online collage. 

Express yourself, read along, get creative, have fun with it! 

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Journaling

You chose journaling—good job! Writing in a journal has health benefits! 

If you prefer, create a secondary blog, set it to private, and password protect it to keep it to yourself or share with a selected list of people. For even more privacy and security, create an account at dayoneapp.

Tumblr users said that, predictably, reading other people’s entries provides more of an authentic connection than most other content. A perfect way to make your internet-time truly ‘you-time.’

For inspiration (art-journal-style): journalobsessed

For journaling prompts: fuckyeahjournalss

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books books books

You seem to know what’s good for you. Regular readers are shown to have better phycical and mental health.  

So go ahead and have your cake and eat it too. And set your dash up with consistent inspiration:

📚 Follow ‘Bookblr’ and ‘Tumblarians’ tag

📚 Frequent book reviews: lesserjoke

📚 Book and beer pairing: bookandbeer

📚 Book recs divided by category: books-cupcakes

📚 Tumblr’s most popular

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Politics, current events

You chose politics and current events. Tumblr users had a lot to say about the discourse on here. Here is an overview:

The positive: Many users stated that reading opinions and news on Tumblr was their preferred way to stay informed, develop new ideas, and challenge perspectives and biases. The internet can be an excellent resource to develop a political and social consciousness. 

The negative: Many become exhausted by online discourse, where ‘hiding behind a screen’ causes people to be less empathetic than they would face-to-face. To avoid this, try the following tips:

👆 Remember, you can unfollow tags.

👆 Here are some tips for surviving talking about politics on social media. 

👆 Try only following accounts that bring you new insight and challenge your perspective and pre-existing biases (and always ✨ fact check ✨).

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History, cultural criticism, fun facts, “anecdotes to share at parties”

Learning about other cultures, educating yourself on new topics, expanding perspectives—learning enriches our lives and makes us happier. 

Here are some blogs for you to follow & browse:

🤓 Random facts on the didyouknowblog.com

🤓 Random facts from e-l-soto

🤓 historymeetsliterature <-- just what it sounds like

🤓 Art and Science Journal 

🤓 chaotic-archaeologist.tumblr.com <-- also what it sounds like

🤓 Find an account you love? Check out who they follow to find more blogs.

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Crafts, cooking, baking, sewing

Crafts like sewing help us enter a flow state, while baking—well, it renders deliciousness. Tumblr is home to inspo and recipes galore.

Try sewing! 

🧵Inspiration from a talented sewist 

🧵A good place to start—repairs and mends

🧵Wasteless crafts (mending clothes, creative resizing)

Bake something elaborate, make enough to share!

🍰Full Cravings

🍰Introvert Baker

Try following or searching the tag “DIY” for other endless crafty ideas. 

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Create Art

Jump right in to these tutorials, and reap the benefits of producing art for your mental health and overall well-being. 

All you have to do is find a piece of paper and pencil (or stylus) and go:

🖌Drawing Den a collection of resources and tutorials

🖌Drawing clothing

🖌Tutorial on shading

🖌How to paint Ghibli-like landscapes

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Browse, Reblog & Share - ART

“Art is magic.” - Bridget Watson Payne

You seem to know what’s good for you. Studies have shown that art increases our well-being, creativity, and acts as a mood-booster. 

People of Tumblr responded to Benevolent Hellsite in droves, claiming that art (creating it, looking at it) makes them happier than any other kind of content. On Tumblr, there is an added dimension: you build a community around art, share your own creations, and watch other artists grow.

If you see an account that you like, check out who they are reblogging, who they are following. Often, this is the best way to get started to curate a dash full of content that inspires.

Here are some blogs to check out and get you started: 

🖼 Shulaya

🖼 GWORP

🖼 Tra-la-la-land

🖼 pterribledinosaurdrawings

🖼 And the most popular tags? Artists on Tumblr & Artblr