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I think it’s funny how celebrities moving from Twitter to Tumblr gain nothing here.

Like, settle in to be just some guy. No one cares. You are just as much tumblrina as the rest of us now.

Yeah, you might be famous, but you’re not tumblr famous. Yeah, you won an Oscar but you’ll never be as beloved as Blorbo from my shows. We will never freak out about you answering our ask as we will freak out over our ship still not being canon. We care more about hot takes than follower counts here. We are so unmarketable, there is no good PR on our hellsite /aff.

We only wanna see cool shoelaces that’s it.

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The metaverse is dying, reblog to make it die faster

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Imagine if both Facebook and Twitter had collapsed by next year.

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REMINDER TO THE TWITTER REGUGEES THAT TUMBLR IS AN INTERACTIVE SITE.

See how your dashboard is covered in posts? Yeah, that's because people reblogged them. Reblog posts. Reblog artwork and gifsets and text posts. If you like a post, reblog it.

"Oh but I'm nervous about social interaction" reblogging isn't social interaction. It's not. It's adding things to a virtual scrapbook by yeeting the additions into a swirling vortex. No interaction necessary. Someone makes a post you like, you reblog it, that's it. Job done. Zero interaction, but a post has made it one step further in finding its way to people that might enjoy it.

Reblog stuff. For fucks sake.

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Also if you are on mobile and think reblogging takes to much effort compared to hitting "like", you can fast-reblog, without adding tags or other stuff, by dragging the reblog icon.

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Also, if you don't post or reblog anything, people will assume you're a bot, especially if you have a default icon.

maedhrosrussandol

This seems pretty spot on 🤣

neil-gaiman

For Novice Writers: the quick test for Are You Being Scammed Or Not...

I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for her story – instead she was actually buying copies of the anthology to show people that she had sold a story. And I thought, it is time to remind the world, and to enlighten young writers, about…

Yog’s Law:

Money flows towards the writer.

That’s all. All writers should remember it. When a commercial publisher contracts a book, it will pay an advance against royalties to the writer. Money flows towards the writer. Literary agents make their living by charging a commission of between 10 and 20% on the sales that they make on behalf of their clients, the writers. When advances and royalties are paid by a publisher the agent’s percentage is filtered off in the direction of the writer’s agent but the bulk of the money still flows towards the writer. If a publisher ever asks for any sort of financial contribution from a writer, they’re trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law. If an agent ever asks for up-front fees, regardless of what they call them (reading fees, administration costs, processing fees, or retainers), then they are trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law. It’s a brilliantly simple rule. We should thank James D Macdonald for it in the best way there is. Buy his books

Money flows toward the writer.

No, that doesn’t mean that the author should get paper and ink for free, or that he won’t pay for postage. It does mean that when someone comes along and says, “Sure, kid, you can be a Published Author! It’ll only cost you $300!” the writer will know that something’s wrong. A fee is a fee is a fee, whether they call it a reading fee, a marketing fee, a promotion fee, or a cheese-and-crackers fee.

Is this perfect? No. Scammers have come up with some elaborate ways to avoid activating it. But it’s still a good and useful tool, and will save a lot of grief. Any time an agent or publisher asks for money, the answer should be “No!”

neil-gaiman

Possibly time to reblog this.

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How come most days writing feels like hitting the bottom of the ketchup bottle when you’re low on ketchup and shaking it a bunch until something comes out. Sometimes you even gotta jam a knife in there to get anything at all.

And then other days … you just straight-up sit down, exit your body, and enter some sort of alternate dimension where the rules of ketchup no longer apply. You’re not even there-there, it’s like you’re kinda sitting off to the side, chilling, possessed by some spirit-demon-ghost with weird priorities. Your hands are movin’ so quick, where the fuck did all this ketchup come from.

Anyway, I sat down this morning to write a couple hundred words and now it’s 4pm and I wrote almost 10,000 words. Why like this

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So my first thought on reading this post was “well okay but that’s not how you’re supposed to hit the ketchup bottle, you never get the results you want that way. You hit it near the base of the neck; Heinz ketchup conveniently places their 57 logo in the right spot so you just aim for that” and I started to scroll past because I knew that wasn’t the point of the post but then I reblogged and added it because I think maybe it could be.

See, when we’re having trouble writing, too often we go for the wrong solution and then get upset that we’re not getting the results we want. Like the ketchup bottle. Sometimes the solution is to rest, we all need rest. Sometimes the solution is to try writing something different, or in a different way. But if no one ever tells us that, or all we have to work with is watching those who came before us hitting the bottom of the ketchup bottle, we never think to step back and reconsider our approach. And writing becomes a frustration.

So next time you find writing hard and you’re tempted to start hitting the bottom of the bottle or reaching for a knife, stop. Take a deep breath and look at the situation. Has this approach been beneficial to you? Is there another way you can approach this? Is there someone who you can ask about this kind of problem? Try something new, and see what happens.

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derinthescarletpescatarian

People talk about writing like it’s an adventure where they’re building something grand but for me it’s more like having one of those really long parasite worms pulled out of your skin. Like there’s a story in there monopolising your brain and you won’t have any peace until you’ve patiently drawn it out and pinned it to a page where it can’t bother you any more.

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And some days you’re like “but dragging the worm out hurts, can’t I just ignore it today” but the damn thing has to come out sooner or later so you sit at the keyboard and you keep pulling.

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