#bonezrattling

[skellebonez]

Artists.

You do not need your Twitter.

Twitter is not the boost you think it is anymore.

I have seen at least 6 people I follow on BlueSky saying they have looked into their numbers and compared to Twitter? BSky gives them over double the exposure and follow through for outside links (probably because Twitter kills your tweet if you have links).

Twitter is testing a feature to allow other users to click a button attached to your posts to put your art into their Grok ai and make ai art with it without your permission automatically.

It is marking non-ai art as being made with Grok (probably to promote it).

You do not need Twitter.

Twitter needs you.

Starve the fuckin thing.

[skellebonez]

I understand the intention. Really I do.

But sharing links to piracy sites openly and spreading them to mass amounts of people, namely on TikTok, is how we have lost multiple sites like Bato in the last year.

Stop.

Sharing.

Them.

IN PUBLIC.

DM them. Hint at where to find them.

But don't LINK THEM.

Or we're gonna lose MORE.

[skellebonez]

Ya'll, I have discovered Campfire Writer and it has changed my fucking life as a writer. I am never going back to any other program I have tried again (except StimuWrite, but that's because wordsprints in that make my brain go brrrr).

I have been looking for ages for a cross device program I can have on my computer and phone that won't mess up formatting, and this delivers. BUT IT ALSO HAS SO MUCH EXTRA SHIT.

Dashboard of a quick project overview.

Character profiles.

Location and item profiles.

Research tab.

MAPS.

Relationship mapping.

Tabs for magic, species, languages, religion, anything you can think of for complex world building.

A BUILT IN TIMELINE FEATURE.

And this thing is both FREE (with limitations but still) and has CUSTOMIZABLE THEMES?

Bruh. After trying yWriter, Novlr, ButterDocs, Scrivener, Lore Forge, and ZohoWriter (and even more I can't remember right now) to find a replacement for Google Docs... I am dropping all of them for THIS.

[skellebonez]

If you are new to Tumblr... or, heck, even if you're not new to Tumblr, please.

PLEASE use the read more option for super long posts that are like... 2000 words or more.

Just. USE THIS.

PLEASE.

[skellebonez]

It will never not fuck me up that isekai as a genre used to not have a name and had a good blend of demographics it was aimed at while the most popular ones used to be mostly aimed at kids, especially young girls, (Inuyasha, Digimon, Magic Night Rayearth, Fushigi Yuugi, and The Vision of Escaflowne especially), or were more down to earth and mature (things like .hack//SIGN or Now and Then, Here and There).

And today over 85% of isekai being made are male power/revenge reincarnation fantasy with harems, the other 15% being villainees reincarnation fantasy (with half of these being good), unserious goofy premises, a Digimon show sometimes, and everything else.

[skellebonez]

It sucks when media you love ends.

But you don't need a constant stream of that media to have people motivated enough to be in a fandom for it.

There will always be people making things for something they love. There will always be people making fanart and fanfiction and sharing it. You can be one of those people if you don't let the defeatest mindset take hold.

Psychonauts had a very active fanbase all the way up until the second game came out. Rule of Rose still has an active fanbase, and the chances of that getting a remake or sequel are astronomically low. Shows from the 90s like Gargoyles still have active fanbases. I still see active fandoms for the most random and obscure 80s and 90s anime out there.

Get brainrot. Be the active fanbase you want and people will meet your energy. The fandom may be eternally small, but a fandom doesn't have to be HUGE to be a fandom. It just has to exist.

[skellebonez]

Hot take: I think EVERY GAME THAT COSTS MONEY should have a demo version available.

I am so frustrated for people excited to get games with no demos only to find out that the game refuses to work on their computer for whatever reason. Or for getting a game that looks great but is full of BUGS. Or getting it thinking they'll like it only to find out that one of the key gameplay elements pisses them off or due to any reason they physically cannot play it.

Every game that costs money should have a demo version.

[skellebonez]

Listen, I am one of the first people to say that you shouldn't limit yourself to only media that doesn't challenge you. I am of the opinion "you can and should watch and enjoy cartoons for 7 year olds, but you should also try other things at the same time".

But if a morally grey character, someone who has been written to be complicated and not 100% evil or 100% good, shifts in character after events happen in the plot and does something genuinely shitty ONCE in the entire span of a piece of media in a scene where we are not supposed to agree with them and see them as the one in the wrong... and you think that is an endorsement of said shitty thing from the creators, once again when the moment is clearly meant to show THAT CHARACTER IS IN THE WRONG? And it makes you disown the piece of media and the creators? And you are an ADULT?

I genuinely don't think you are emotionally ready for complex media made for adults that is meant to make you think about the complexities of context. Because holy shit have you missed the point there.