hi! :3 do you happen to know of any application/cross-discipline work (if that is the right term) between fiber arts (incl manuals, etc) like knitting and knot theory? it seems like there's an obvious bridge, but i dont really know enough abt either to go digging myself
Oo nice one, I admit I haven't thought about that myself.
For the uninitiated: knot theory is about knots in strings which have connected ends, and about when they are "equivalent" (i.e. whether you can form one into the other without using scissors or passing the string through itself).
When you're knitting, there's all of these different stitches you can do. You could see that as some kind of code (and those knitting guides really look like complicated code to me (I don't knit) (this post is a collab between me and my mom) (everyone say hi to my mom)) where every codeword/stitch gives the material different properties like stretch, rigidity or thickness.
Apparently, researches around the world are working on understanding those stitches using knot theory. Because if they manage to understand knitting, that will both lead to a mega-breakthrough in pure mathematics, and they might be able to use it for micro-materials! That's pretty cool I think :)
As an aside, since knitting consists of only a few actions you can do in different orders, and since every action is reversable, you get some sort of algebraic structure out of it :3 which is also pretty neat.
Dion x Painful character development via ego death, its got tons of fics for it on ao3 /j
Disu will always be my favorite Dion ship. The ship I have the most fun with, if I had to pick, is Gisu x Dion x Morris!
Gisu and Dion are both dorks in different ways and romantic saps. Morris and Dion push each other's buttons and have healthy competition. Gisu and Morris are already friends and it's surprisingly easy for them to find romance just a little to the left of that.
Disu is always an S ranked ship but throw some poly in there and it's like chocolate sauce on ice cream.
Hiya! I’m kind of a small creator on here and trying to get my rottmnt fic an audience but no matter what I do as promo material (art, skits, rambles) nothing ever works to get more than like 2 notes max. I’m confident in my story’s quality so I’m fairly sure that’s not the issue. I was wondering if you have any advice or anything like that? Your stuff is lovely and get a lot of community engagement so I’m curious if there was anything you actively did that helped you grow! I hope this doesn’t come off as rude or desperate, I just wanted to know if I was missing something since I’m pretty new to Tumblr. Enjoy your day ^^
Don't worry! You don't come off as rude or desperate at all!! <3
But tbh... you are asking the wrong person here...
I'm going into marketing, and I spent a full school year in high school doing an independent study on social media algorithms. So I know a LOT about how to grow social media followings- specifically instagram accounts.
But I never actually studied tumblr. I used to use instagram as a platform, but knowing how the algorithm worked was too stressful for me... I'd post stuff and be like "the algorithm won't like this because blah blah blah." Eventually I was drawing for the algorithm and not for me, and so I quit because it just wasn't fun anymore...
Which is why I have very specifically not studied Tumblr's algorithm, because I don't want it to turn into the same situation as with instagram. So I don't know a ton about how to grow a following... and also I've only been on tumblr for 5 months...
THAT BEING SAID: I can walk you through my tumblr and how it's grown!
My very first post was of a meme redraw with the 2012 turtles. I think it got around 1,600 likes?
I posted a couple more things, with varying amounts of likes and such. My first comic (which I never actually completed past the first part) got a total of 7 likes within the first months of posting it. Only when I got more followers did the like amount change.
When I posted my first chapter of the Flashbacks AU, I had 33 or so followers. I think I got to like... 300 followers from that first chapter alone. From there it was just... a steady growth of followers I guess. And with followers comes more reblogs, and with more reblogs comes more followers.
I have around 1,600 followers now. Not everyone is gonna like my posts, I think I get around 20 for responded asks and 100-300 for random pieces of art. Comics get closers to 600 or so. It depends on the content.
I think there are a couple of universal things that help grow an account:
1- Making sure your content is reaching the right people. Put the right tags in. Go crazy with them in fact. If I'm posting a piece with Rise Mikey in it, Im gonna tag: Mikey, Mikey tmnt, Mikey 2018, ROTTMNT, Rise Mikey, etc etc. On instagram they are currently trying to get people to limit their use of tags, but I don't think the same thing applies here. Even tho tags don't help as much here, they are still a good tool!
2- Consistency. Idk how it works on this platform, but consistency is generally a good thing! With instagram theres an actual method to it (1 post a day= good, but the more posts you do a day the less people it shows it to), it might be worth it to look up if tumblr has something similar.
3- Have fun with it! I know this is kinda lame to say... but don't change your content for views. Just... do what you like and eventually your target audience will find you :)
4- Engage with what audience you do have! It's fun to bond with people online, and it helps that "community engagement" piece you talked about!
5-... stalk people hehe. (By which I mean: Look at what other artists post! What tags do they use, do they reblog their own posts a lot, etc etc. Also look at artists with similar followings to your own. For example, studying Cass might not be very helpful, because Cass has a large amount of followers and I'm convinced they could post a picture of a blank canvas and still get 1,000 likes hehe... BUT- I mean you could scroll down to Cass' (or other artist's) first posts and see what they were doing then! Just... observe others I suppose!)
Id love to tell you likes don’t matter, that what matters is having fun and loving what you are drawing. But also I do know how it feels to post something you are really proud of and then have no one like it- it sucks.
But just keep on going :) You'll find your people eventually I'm sure.
OH ALSO: IF ANYONE ELSE HAS ANY TIPS FEEL FREE TO REBLOG AND ADD STUFF IN!!! <3
If you were the God of anything, what would your be the god of?
This one is very fun to me.
As a Gemini (please, hold your fire) and someone who enjoys the gifts of the ways of Dionysus, I feel like I would somehow be a niche god of "Companionship." I bless you when you show kindness to close friends and loved ones. We savour the pleasure of having one or more partners. Acts of closeness and shared moments are sacred.
💋💍🚫 Snog, marry, avoid? (*must provide 3 slashers of your choosing!) Stu, Norman, Michael
snog - norman; because he’s my Soft Boy who needs love and affection *mwah* but then i gotta high tail it tf outta there before his mom kills me
marry - stu; mr funnyman, light of my life, never did anything wrong in his life ever except for some murders, long tongue, nice sweaters, my even get a second extra boyfriend out of it-
avoid - michael; is it possible to avoid The Shape? 40 years of Halloween movies tell us no. he is one of my faves i love to write fluff about but just,,, realistically,,,, i’d be so so dead save me jamie lee
