things you might not want to hear, but i'm telling you.
if you treat role play as a job, then naturally you are going to burn out eventually. writing on tumblr, unless you are actually an author working on earning money through commissions, should be something you want to do and not something you feel like you have to do in order to stay cool, relevant, popular, needed, interesting and so on. this is a hobby, i assume, so try not to let it become an obligation for the second it becomes a must, there's a higher risk of you losing your spark for it.
if you constantly strive to outshine, outdo and 'beat' every duplicate, every author and every designer, then you are going to burn out eventually. role play on tumblr is not a competition and it has never been despite what the vibes might have suggested, and this is so damaging in so many ways. this goes for the authors who feel the constant need to compare themselves, but also the authors who open up for competition for their muses' attention. it's not a race, it's not a battle of muses, it's not a war.
if you keep holding onto draining relations, exhausting dashboards and demanding interactions then you are going to burn out eventually. this goes without saying. the more negativity you surround yourself with, the less energy you'll have to spare. allow yourself to clean your mutuals, inboxes, threads, followers and so on. you're free to do as you please.
if you constantly stress about perfection, whether it's writing or editing or even creating in any format, and keeping up appearances as a perfect individual with a perfect portrayal, you are going to burn out eventually. we're humans, we're allowed to have bad days and we are allowed to have feelings.
and when you feel the burn out lurking, you are allowed to take a break from Tumblr. you won't be forgotten, you won't be abandoned, you won't be anything but taking a break which you should. a hobby, a website, should never affect you as negatively as tumblr role play might from time to time.
take a deep breath, loosen up your shoulders.
