Seraph I. Renn is revising

🇧🇩Adult Urban Fantasy writer | Astrophysicist | Artist | She/they, grey ace, spoonie, ND Come for the writing complaints,stay for the shenanigans

[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

reblog to send three ghosts after elon musk

[writing-prompt-s]

You spend 3000 years in hypersleep, traveling to a distant star only to wake up at the destination and be greeted by a full human civilization because they invented a faster space ship 50 years after you left.

[seraph-24]

Records of your mission were lost in the robot revolution and because of the impossibility of communication in a language that's evolved for thousands of years, the humans on the planet are under the impression that you're a hostile alien invader.

[aroacespecsafeplace]

[luxlightly]

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[p-h-lee]

some authors on tumblr!

@isabelcanasauthor, author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories as well as The Hacienda, an awesome gothic romance novel set in 19th century Mexico.

@annleckie author of the amazing Imperial Radch books as well as (my fav) The Raven Tower.

@katenright is a fantasy author whose debut novel, Mistress of Lies, is coming out in 2024.

@samueldelany I don’t know if this is his account or if it’s run by an assistant, but it has some great images and essays by a man who I am struggling to introduce– an amazing author and critic of science fiction, fantasy, realism, pornography, and everywhere those genres meet.

@tkingfisher author of the World of the White Rat romances (recommended), pioneer of “cosy horror,” fellow writer of fairy tale retellings and, most dear to my heart, the author of the extraordinary mythological adventure comic Digger.

@neil-gaiman needs no introduction.

@seananmcguire Author of about ten thousand different series, in Wayward Children, and she somehow manages to keep writing all of them at once.

Are you an author on tumblr? Do you follow any? Please reblog and add yourself or your follows– there’s a big influx of authors from twitter and I would love to help you find some of them.

[what-eats-owls]

Hello hello! I was actually a chronic shitpost artist on here before swindling publishers into buying my books! You can see them all here, including the anthology I’m co-editing, and my fourth book, Painted Devils, both due out late spring 2023.

[seraph-24]

Hi! I write many brands of speculative fiction but mainly contemporary fantasy. My debut novel, Of Dreams and Despair is about a college girl with chronic nightmares who learns to lucid dream and angers the god of dreams who feeds on nightmare energy. Astral Projection shenanigans ensue and she accidentally releases primordial Chaos from the Dream Realm (Details on publication coming soon!)

I also shitpost profusely and occasionally write short one shot fiction blogs

[joshua-beeking]

Concerning the Twitter crash and burn, there's legit people encouraging others not to engage with creators trying to promote things so that Tumblr doesn't become commercialized, and I have to make something very clear:

A small creator who is encouraging people to interact with/share their stuff, trying to make their art/writing/etc known because they want a livable wage when they have NOWHERE ELSE they can turn to anymore and are trying to succeed in an internet that makes it near impossible for them is -never- gonna be the same thing as a celebrity shoving adds into your face to buy their newest clothing brand.

Don't encourage capitalism but do encourage the artists and writers that provide you most of their content for FREE and just want to pay bills like anyone else and already deal with being buried in the algorithm or having their art stolen and reposted.

We don't want adds or for this site to be monetized either, I assure you.

[seraph-24]

Where are the other twitter refugees at I need friends on here

[writing-prompt-s]

The aliens who captured you have determined that the fate of mankind will depend on the outcome of a competition that will pit you against one of their champions. They sit you in front of a board and explain the rules of their traditional game. You’re shocked to recognize the rules: it’s chess!

[seraph-24]

You're absolutely abysmal at chess but you've somehow managed to convince them that your phone is an extension of your brain functioning and cheat right under whatever-they-have-for-noses. They're both impressed and horrified to see the Stockfish move computations (which you've convinced them is a visualization of your thought process), and are convinced you are an ancient god of prophecy. They form a cult in your honor.

[inked-violets]

I apologise for having a nuanced opinion on the Internet, but "The destruction of a vast network that many creators rely on to reach their audience is heartbreaking" and "Watching the multibillion-dollar impulsive purchase of an entitled man-child crash and burn within days of getting his hands on it is objectively funny" are two statements that can and should co-exist

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

I am consuming a media and you are going to hear about it

[lu-sn]

and the thrilling sequel: i consumed a media months ago and you are still hearing about it

[freenarnian]

and the cautionary conclusion: the media has consumed me

[angeltiddies]

reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about

[invaderxan]

academic conferences

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Work meetings

[greenekatgrey]

Interviews

[ambulatoryhoodie]

Auditory processing disorder

[lemonsharks]

conversations with my cats who are yelling

[prismsgalaxy]

Me letting that little kid with their hyper fixation tell me every single fact they know about it

[antoinight]

[seraph-24]

I don't understand how this site works but I made a fake movie poster for ODaD (my book) so enjoy

[seraph-24]

When the non-existent reviewer claimed "too much angst" this is what they meant:

Oh, that wasn't to say he hadn't considered it. Killing her was, after all, the most, and really only, logical choice. He had very nearly talked himself into it once or twice. Then he would look at her, caught in a troubled dreamless slumber, or meeting his gaze with the barest flicker of light in her eyes. And he would remember the fire and defiance that had once burned there, and he knew that another betrayal would snuff out what little of it was left. In some sick, twisted way, he, the being who had committed to destroying her not so very long ago, was all she had left.

[seraph-24]

I don't understand how this site works but I made a fake movie poster for ODaD (my book) so enjoy

[wrongmha]

They should invent a type of sleeping where you wake up and feel rested.

Source: Tumblr