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@lop-unny positive posts
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tags: #text rebloge - #rambles - #sillies - #milotic - #animals
i should make more tags, hmm
you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.
you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.
you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.
you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.
you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.
you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.
you have to be kind. you have to be kind.
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
PSA For Digital Artists
Unless your tablet or monitor has some kind of fancy "paper white" lighting option (is that even a thing?) I need you to STOP DRAWING ON A WHITE CANVAS. You are essentially STARING AT A LAMP FOR HOURS.
Save your eyes and use a middle grey canvas instead! My default is hex #8A909B, but you can find what works for you!
I am being so serious right now please stop drawing on a white canvas oh my god you're damaging your eyes no wonder so many digital artists get migraines I thought this was common knowledge but apparently not so please please please take care of your eyes you only get two of them in your whole life and I am begging you to be good to them—
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
Wishing you a relaxed nervous system
being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response
feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little
i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know
YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE
YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL
Rereading this on my sick days 🙏🏽
Why do I feel like I should print this out, frame it, and hang it in my office?
"I can’t look at peoples faces. So I feel much better when I look down."
A Silent Voice (2013)
I've been finding a lot of job postings that ask me for a photo lately, which is uncool of them.
So I made an image which lets me bypass their demand. I don't care if I get that particular job, I just want to shame the HR goons who thought the photo requirement was a good idea.
Note: this only applies in the USA.
Took me a bit to figure out the implications: this image can be downloaded from here and uploaded whenever a job application asks for an image. Clever!
That's the hope! Save this image and upload to job applications that "require" a photo
I'm loving the discussions about the role and purpose of fandom, as well and what activities are needed to keep fandoms alive and flourishing!
However... as a fandom creator (writer and artist), I sometimes feel like too much pressure is concentrated on creators. I don't know if this is a frustration others share? Not only should we keep making things, but somehow we also end up becoming these central fandom figures who can feel pressured into responding to comments (or else we're called arrogant or ungrateful), making friends (or else we're rude for ignoring well-meaning people who reach out), and being the drivers and pillars of that community (running events, responding to memes, etc. – and everything falls silent if we stop). It's a lot of work!! I don't always have the time and energy to make things for fun and then also engage in all the ways people might sometimes feel entitled to because they enjoy my works.
I really wish that more "non-creating" fans in the community would discover their fandom power!! and not just rely on the visible "producing" creators to be the only people worth engaging with. It takes nothing more than passion to write a meta-post about a character or a plot point, or to create an ask game, or to DM someone else who you see posting funny tags – not just the creator! Maybe your followers have other tips for evening out the balance a little more?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, anon. This is an observation I've seen in many parts of life, not just fandom.
A lot of people feel as though they need permission or an invitation of some sort in order to contribute. That's why I always end my answers by asking people to share their thoughts. I want to make it explicitly clear that I want people to add things into the reblogs (which I can then share out for more people to see) and the replies (which people can at least read even if I can't reblog).
I have heard fans who are readers but don't write fic say that they think they can't get an AO3 account unless they plan to post something. This is incorrect, of course, but a lot of people make that assumption.
I think at least some people (I don't know what kind of percentage) assume that someone who is writing fic or posting art or making podfics and video edits etc. has some sort of expertise that "allows" them to post.
People with less confidence or with less practice etc. sometimes need an extra nudge before they realize that they're welcome to contribute too. If that's the case for you, please allow me to say:
You are welcome to post in your fandom, even if no one invites you to. Even if you think you're not good enough. Even if your idea isn't "popular."
Start a conversation. Share a thought. Talk to folks who reblog cool shit. Be a folk who reblogs cool shit. You don't have to do everything in order to do something.
As mentioned above, please do share your thoughts in the reblogs and replies to keep the conversation going.
Other things people can do:
make a rec list
make a "here's all the fics I've found in this fandom with this one trope/general vibe/very particular setup I just think is Neat" list
make a "welcome to the fandom, here's the fics that people will just assume you've read/know about to get you started" list
make a "if you liked [popular fic A] you might enjoy [less well known fics B through N]" list
More things you can do!
Create whumps lists
Create lists of shippy moments
Make screenshot collections
Record and post clips of your show to get more people into your fandom
Make incorrect quote memes
Make silly little TikTok-style edits of your favs
Make character playlists
Figure out the layout of buildings/cities
Recreate those building in the Sims or with an online floor planner or even just draw it out because holy hell writers will be so thankful for that
Make your blorbo in various video game character creations
Build a pokemon team for your blorbo
Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?
Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!
Create outfits based on your blorbo’s design or outfits they would wear
There are so many ways you can engage with fandom that aren’t making fanart or writing fanfics. Fandom is community - Please don’t be afraid to join in!
I know "money can't buy happiness" is a bullshit lie meant to keep the underclass from demanding better things, but at the same time looking at people like Elon Musk and Mr. Beast who seem to have never enjoyed a single minute of their lives...I do think that while money can make you happy, being ultra-wealthy makes you uniquely miserable in some profoundly fucked up way. It's like AI psychosis, having all the people around you never tell you no and always talk you up but also being the kind of people who don't actually like you and instead just want something from you just breaks your brain.
Babies don't misbehave, they just behave. There's no such thing as a baby being "bad" because they don't understand cause and effect at first and have no concept of others feelings for a while after they do learn that.
A baby is never doing something to upset you. They don't act up to piss you off. They act in the only way they know how, and yes, sometimes the behaviour they're drawn to isn't great! That's why you guide them and comfort.
It's okay to be mad, but you need to remind yourself of this or you'll become resentful. Babies don't misbehave.
i really do think we should substitute gacha games instead for like. the random wikipedia article button. gives you the same "yay i got something new and exciting!" feeling without spending any money and you get to learn something new on wikipedia. the problem is that its missing a cute little storage menu where you can see all the links to different articles youve "collected"
so many people could be weaned off of gambling if we just gamified that website a *little* bit
okay so ummmmm. its real
like, we all have our writing pet peeves but we also need to accept they can discourage authors from writing as a whole
can't even tell you how many times i read "here is how to write something properly" posts and thought about a WIP including that thing. i had written it wrong. i would have to rewrite it to do it properly. might as well just write something else at that point
i saw a post one time where someone was mocking fanfic like "japan doesn't have pizza delivery places" or something. like what are people who just want to write fanfic supposed to do? research every little tiny detail? do you know how inconvenient that is to stop and look up 'does japan have pizza delivery places'? do you know how annoying it is?
let's say you write a fic where characters kiss because they picked a romantic movie to go with their pizza or something. now your entire 5k fic is invalidated apparently.
whether it's an overreaction or not to being wrong about a tiny detail... it can be discouraging either way. especially to people who don't already write a lot, and guess what? those can be budding authors. those are the ones that should not be chased away.
just how much do we lose out on because writers get discouraged from writing it to begin with?
hearing about investments and shareholders rn. i maintain that stock market analysts are like lowkey business tarot readers. upright and reversed cards? up and down predictions? same thing for different audiences.
while i am aware that whole area of corporate land supposedly has basis in reality, consider that fortunetelling, astrology, etc. are very popular regardless.
a lot of people don't care about the stock market world and think it's BS, and a lot of people think that way about astrology and fortunetelling.
you see the vision right
