Steps for creating and running a tumblr poetry blog:
purplemonkeysexgod69:
1. Create poetry.
2. Create tumblr blog.
3. Post only your poetry.
4. Run out of your own poetry to post.
5. Post inane babble on your mundane existence.
6. Create more poetry. Post that.
7. Run out of poetry again.
8. Start reblogging other people’s poetry.
9. Create more poetry. Post your poetry and other people’s poetry.
10. Run out of poetry. Respond publicly to asks.
11. Post some photos. Make sure to use photography tag.
12. Fuck it. Try some prose.
13. Take a break. Think about deactivating.
14. Ah hell, no. Do you have any idea how long it took to get 100 followers? MONTHS!
15. Give in. Post gifs.
16. Post occasional original poetry mixed in with reblogs of others’ poetry, some original photography, other peoples non-poetry or non-photography posts.
17. Write ekphrasis of cat with glasses gif.
18. Play Russian roulette with an empty revolver.
19. Try writing poetry. Can’t, too much shit going on.
20. Give up. Create list for creating and running a tumblr poetry blog.
21. Forget to put in other steps like “making friends with other delusional people with poetry blogs”. Edit later without telling anyone because you were too lazy to edit it the first time.
22. Go get tacos for lunch.
23. join every clique imaginable
24. write poetry about tacos and hot sauce
25. rebuttal poetry with poetry
26. reblog and change content without fully plagiarizing
27. pretend to hate hipsters when in fact you are their leader
28. go back to step one
29. follow all your followers until they can’t stand it anymore
30. learn the difference between alt lit and surrealism
31. wtf. how did I get 5,000 followers?
32. complain about how many porn blogs follow you after thoroughly assuring yourself and your followers that they are indeed porn blogs.
33. follow people who don’t like you to get on their nerves.
34. write in foreign languages you do not speak and butcher the hell out of them and hope followers will message you with corrections.
35. go on a hiatus, but keep checking your tumblr and “hearting” things at random
36. eat more tacos.
37. use periods symbolically
38. be an all around good sport when your friends pick on you.
