askbox: almost always open! feel free to ask me about anything (within reason). keep things polite!
you can call me mei! i'm fine with any pronouns, except for she/her. po polsku można się do mnie zwracać byle jakimi zaimkami.
gadam tu po angielsku ale staram się wpleść tu trochę polskiego. :]
i talk about whatever i want, whenever i want (d'angelo wallace style lol). games, shows and movies, youtube vidoes, music, anime, manga, books, webtoons, fanfiction and art.
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picrew credit
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ina11 series sideblog: @wmiescieinazumy
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about me
polish 🇵🇱
speaks polish and english
part of the lgbtq+ community 🏳️🌈
NOT a minor
i am in a lot of fandoms, so chances are if you mention one to me, i will most likely at least know about it haha
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my tags
#sunbloom reblogs – all of the stuff i reblog
#sunbloom talks – my epic rambles about everything and nothing
#gamer hours – for posts i make about games i play
#sunqueue – thingies in the queue!
#mei's asks - for answered questions and so on
#mei's kids - tag for my original characters <3
a rule i follow in life is that as long as you aren't hurting yourself or anybody else, you can do and be whatever you want.
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general information on how i operate on this blog
i block on sight if:
there is a slightest chance the account might be a bot (default pfp and background picture, default title/something nonsensical in the title, nothing in the bio)
the person running the account is most likely a shitty person (ex. racist, homophobic, transphobic, queerphobic in general, ableist, a TERF, a p*edo, you get the idea. and i say "most likely" because people usually won't list their wrongdoings in their bio but you can tell what they think ya know)
the person running the account uses ai pictures/writing generators and posts ai generated stuff as their own and/or believes ai should be a replacement of artists and writers entierly instead of a helping tool
the vibes are off lol. sometimes i just don't like your schtick dude
no hate or discrimination will be tolerated here. this is a safe space for everybody and i'll do my best to ensure that.
While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'
And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.
A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.
That was on July 7th.
Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.
On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.
There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.
But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.
99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.
None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.
And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.
You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.
