Vide Cor Meum

In the dark there is discovery, there is possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. Martina, 30+, Italy. Multifandom blog: tv show, movies, art, books, history, dnd, videogames.

[moontwyrine]

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Original Characters Sideblog: Keeper of Masks

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[meriwetherwrites]

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

[nightguardmod]

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

[tolerateit]

being referred to by my name, which is mentioned in my bio, and is the most commonly used tag on my blog, by people ive been friends with for years,

[hooved]

we're fucked

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[john-silvers]

BLACK SAILS, XVIII

[orteil42]

I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

[orteil42]

you are making this so difficult

[bogleech]

[dr-empty]

I perceived its effects on you. What I assumed was sorrow, loneliness. And worst of all terror at the thing you were becoming. There is an element of this journey in the dark that... I'm only now beginning to appreciate. What's that? How good it feels.

[unicorngunter]

8. Fish

This two illustrations go together with @brokenintrovert 's fic "Have you heard about that ghost...?"

[userarmand]

ARMAND & DANIEL Interview with the Vampire “I Want You More Than Anything in the World”

[cherubg1rl]

yay!!!! 🥳

[lelouch]

[thai-gl-polls]

Are you currently a woman aged 25-44 single and child free?

Woman

Aged 25-44

Single

Child free

2 out of 4

3 out of 4

All 4 babyyy

None of the above

Voting ended onMar 27

[artfulkindoforder]

[traegorn]

Your fandom spaces were all built by so called "proshippers"

[shadowmaat]

Anti culture is so sad. As traegorn wonderfully illustrates, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of fandom culture and its history. But take that a step further: fandom is about love. It's about sharing and caring and supporting each other.

Antis are the opposite of that. Antis are based on fear and hatred. It's hard to build a community when rampant paranoia has you watching yourself and everyone around you for signs of "failure." I think this is also part of the reason the lines have become so ridiculous. Hating "pedo" is one thing, but Antis have broadened the definition to the point of meaninglessness. Now it isn't just an adult molesting a kid. Now, if two fully adult characters have an age difference, even one as little as three years, it's considered "predatory" and "pedo." Hells, if either or both characters were ever depicted as kids, Antis still find it morally reprehensible for them to ever fall in love because even though they're now adults, they were kids at one point.

Antis keep extending the definition out of fear that they might be found guilty. The whole foundation is about moral perfection and "proving" that you're morally pure, unlike all those other disgusting people. Instead of being able to fully enjoy their chosen fandom(s), they have to constantly police themselves and everyone around them. Always watching for fault. Always hunting for imperfection. Always judging under the ever-broadening definition of "bad."

An "us vs. them" attitude is bad enough, but I don't think Antis can even trust each other because any of them might "fall" at any time- especially when the definitions of "immoral" keep expanding.

What kind of way is that to exist? And can you really be a part of a fandom when you spend so much of your time and energy attacking the fandom itself rather than concentrating on the show/media you supposedly love? They even had to change the definition of "Proshipper" in order to keep justifying their behavior.

Imagine not being able to relax and enjoy your fandom. Imagine spending most of your time policing it instead, and constantly working off a checklist of what is and isn't "acceptable." It sounds exhausting. It sounds miserable. And the escape route is SO EASY (1. stop and listen. 2. Do some research.) and yet it's hard to get out because even questioning Anti reasoning makes you suspect and vulnerable to attack from your "friends," AKA fellow cultists.

[lurks-no-more]

The fundamental ideas behind antis are the following:

thought crimes exist;

there's no difference between fiction and reality;

and specifically there's no difference between fictional characters and real living human beings.

This is all absolute nonsense, as you can see when you write it out, but that's what the antis are all about.

[intermundia]

like yes it's annoying when tumblr does major UI changes to make the site look more like twitter, but it's completely unacceptable to me when they do fundamental UX changes to make it to act more like twitter, turning reblogs into QRTs, destroying note aggregation, siphoning engagement away from OP, destroying the culture of yes-and reblog chains, etc. etc. like who is asking for this? did they ask users at all or was this a decision made in an investor meeting?

[probablily]

everyone talking about leaving this app for good is stronger than me. wheres that one post thats like "I'd be here even if you could only make posts with 3 letters at a time"

[bardic-tales]

The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr

@staff

For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.

Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.

Erasure of Creator Visibility

Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.

If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.

On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.

Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly

This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.

When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.

Impact on Collaborative Conversations

Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.

If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.

The Disincentive to Create

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.

For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.

This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.

By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.

[lynati]

@staff The above post is everything many of us are feeling but haven't been able to put into words beyond "this sucks" and "put it back how it was".