Welcome to PriestNet's Word of Honor First Anniversary Event!
⇢ You might be wondering, what is this event?
Our Word of Honor First Anniversary event is a week-long event held by Priest Network to celebrate the anniversary of a beloved Priest adaptation, and to showcase our fellow content-creators within the fandom community.
⇢ Nice! What are the prompts?
The prompts of this event are as follows:
1. Day One: Favorite Character
2. Day Two: Favorite Scene
3. Day Three: Favorite Set/Location
4. Day Four: Favorite Villain
5. Day Five: Favorite Ship
6. Day Six: Favorite Object/Prop
7. Day Seven: Anything goes!
⇢ Okay, cool. How does it work?
We welcome all Priest-related content created with these prompts, as long as they don’t break any of the network rules for reblogging. You may do as many or as few works for these prompts as you please.
⇢ Sounds fun! How do I sign up?
No sign-up required! We will reblogging all eligible content for the event that uses #priestnet in the first five tags, mentions the net, and has Word of Honor Anniversary Event listed in the post description above any read mores. The mention is so that we don’t miss any material that isn’t showing up in the tags. The event will take place starting February 16th and will run until February 22nd, but anyone is free to do any of the prompts they choose at a later date.
Have fun, and thanks for participating in our event! We can’t wait to see what creativity everyone brings!
On the 31st of October the MDZS Network celebrates not only Wei Wuxian’s birthday but also the six year anniversary of the publishing of Mo Dao Zu Shi! Please join us in celebrating both milestones by participating in our Wei Wuxian birthday event!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Reblog this post to spread the word.
You do not have to be a member of the network to participate in this event.
Post your content on Wei Wuxian’s birthday – October 31st.
Mention @mdzsnet and tag #mdzsnet in the first five tags.
If something is not clear, don’t be afraid to send us an ask!
THE CHALLENGES
1. Color palettes
2. Quotes
“Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you’re up to.” (Sean Keogh)
“To be great is to be misunderstood.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.” (Malcolm Gets)
This is the MDZS Network’s official queue blog, which means it’s used only to follow members from the net and to help organizing the net queue.
Please follow this blog so the admins can send you a private message when needed.
This blog doesn’t offer content.
+ About MDZS Network
MDZS Network is a net dedicated to MXTX’s novel Mo Dao Zu Shi and all of its adaptations. We post about all the adaptations and everything related to the live action cast. The blog is completely safe for fans and we try to create a healthy and fun environment to everyone that decides to join us.
MDZS Network is a blog made by fans for other fans. We don’t have any contact with or relation to MXTX and/or the live action cast.
If you want to join us, or access our main blog to know more about it, please visit us here.
To celebrate the one year anniversary of MDZS Network, we are hosting two events. You can find more information on both events below;
🐇 MDZS NETWORK’S GIVEAWAY CLOSED
The first major event we’ll hold is a giveaway of small MDZS merch! As a thank you we’ve decided we want to give back to our followers and members, to everyone who keeps this network active and running, and so we came to the conclusion that we’ll be hosting a giveaway. The giveaway will be open for 10 days, running from today, April 13th, to next week friday, April 23rd. There will be two winners total.
WHAT WE’RE GIVING AWAY
The two winners will choose one of the following five products as their prize;
Wangxian standee (10 different designs to choose from)
Rotatable keychain (6 different designs to choose from)
Lotus tassle
Chengqing tassle
Heart-shaped badge (8 different designs) + acrylic keychain (6 different designs to choose from)
Both winners can choose the same product if they so wish.
PARTICIPING IN THE GIVEAWAY
Simply reblog this post and fill in this Google form.
Reblogging this post more than once does not increase your chance of winning.
Make sure you are either 18+ or that you have permission from your parents / guardians to give out your full address and name for shipping.
The giveaway is open worldwide, but please keep in mind that shipping is most likely going to take a little longer because of the pandemic.
🐇 MDZS NETWORK REQUESTS! CLOSED
For the second event we have decided to open requests. The admins, as well as some of our members, will be making the requests and posting them from the network directly. Here is a list of members who will be participating in the event, and the type of content they can create for requests.
To make requests, please do not send us asks, but make them through our Google form.
REQUEST RULES
You can request gifsets, graphics, fanfiction, edits, video edits, or fanart. Nothing else.
No NSFW requests are allowed to be made. If you do send in an NSFW request, it will be deleted immediately.
We won’t accept shipping requests, unless it’s a canon ship such as Wangxian or Xuanli. Requests of other relationships, such as familial or platonic ones, are of course welcome.
Your requests can span over all the MDZS adaptations but we will not accept crossover requests with other fandoms.
We will start accepting requests from tomorrow, April 14th. Depending on the amount of requests we’ll receive, we will cap off the requests when we see fit.
Thank you, and we hope everyone is in good health!
With the news of two admins stepping down and relinquishing their admin duties, we are now looking for two to three new admins that would like to join the MDZS Network admin team! As an admin you’ll have to be ready to answer questions, queue up to three times a day from the network tag, manage application periods, and host events.
If you’re interested in becoming an admin for the network, please send a DM to @mdzs-queue and we’ll reply as soon as we can. Please note that you have to be a member of the network to apply as admin.
Rather unfortunately we have noticed an increase of reposted content within the fandom and, despite the fact that we have already addressed this issue last year, we have decided to touch down on it once again. Please read this post for more information and tips on what to do when you spot a repost of someone else’s original content, and how you can support content creators.
Part one: what is a repost?
Reposting vs reblogging
When you reblog someone’s content, you are simply boosting the original creator’s works on your own blog. Reblogging is just that, sharing content of thing you like on your blog and acknowledging the time someone has put into creating that content. In no way is reblogging harmful to content creators, in fact it allows their works to be more widely spread around Tumblr. You can also like content creators’ posts, but the like function here does not work in the same way as it does on Twitter or Instagram in the way that it will show the posts you like on other people’s dashboards. Reblogging is actively encouraged by content creators.
When you repost someone’s content without their permission, you give the impression that you are the original poster, which isn’t true. Reposting is right clicking on any content to save it to your device and then to post it, in its original format, onto your own blog. Sometimes reposters will also crop an artwork or a gifset or even a video edit in such a way the watermark on it disappears, so that any and all traces to the original creator are erased. Both cases, but especially the latter, are incredibly disrespectful towards content creators and are a main cause for why so many content creators are quitting Tumblr. Reposting is actively discouraged by content creators.
Over here at the network you will notice that we only ever reblog our members’ original content, this for the very reason that every post we reblog onto the network can be traced back to the original creator’s blog should anyone want to check out more of their content.
Please refer to this post for a more detailed explanation.
Part two: why is reposting bad?
To put it short, if you repost something without asking the original creator for their permission you are profiting off of their hard work. Content posted to Tumblr doesn’t appear out of thin air, in almost all cases a lot of time and creativity goes into content creating. Artists do not spend hours drawing to see their art reposted, gifmakers do not spend hours trying to get their coloring right to see their gifsets reposted, fanfic writers do not spend hours perfecting their plot to see their fanfics reposted. Reposting someone’s original content is incredibly disrespectful and insulting. There have been many content creators who have given up content creating because of this reposting issue.
Of course we do not expect you to know all this if you’re rather new to Tumblr, which is why we’re making this post. You can make a mistake, we all do at some point, but when someone reaches out to you to ask to take their original content down, don’t argue back to them and just do what they asked. Content creators distributing their content online does not give you a free pass to repost that content.
You wouldn’t run off with Vincent Van Gogh’s artworks and claim them to be yours so it’s not difficult to show the same respect to online content creators.
Check out this post for a F.A.Q on why reposting hurts content creators.
Part three: what can I do to help?
Inform the original content creator
The original content creator has intellectual property (IP) rights over the content they create and distribute online. Their artwork, their gifsets, their fanfiction, their video edits, every single piece of content that is put online has immediate protection under copyright laws. If you take that content and repost it somewhere else you may suffer serious consequences of your actions. This happens very rarely, but creators have every right to sue you for IP infringement if you repost any of their original content.
Here on Tumblr you can redirect content creators to file for a misattribution report, or a DMCA notice which they can submit on most social media websites. If you would like to help a content creator submit a DMCA notice, check out the links below:
Twitter: here
Tumblr: here
Instagram: here
If you want to help a content creator file a DMCA notice on another social media website, then please check out this post for more resources.
Inform the network
Not only did we discuss the issue of reposting last year, we also decided to make a list of known reposters within the fandom. If you know of a reposter on Tumblr, Twitter, or Instagram, please do not hesitate to send us an ask with their URL plus the type of content they repost and we will add them to our list. Any and all Tumblr reposters are immediately blocked by the network.
Part four: more tips and interesting links!
Tips
If you encounter content online that you really like (an artwork, a gifset, a video edit, etc.) but don’t know where it’s originally from, leave it be. It has most likely (however this is not always the case) already been reposted by the person on whose blog / page you found it on.
Captioning content that isn’t yours with “credit to the artist” or “found on [website]” is not equal to giving credit to a content creator who gave you their permission to repost their content. Do not repost without permission and proper credit.
Content creators aren’t forcing you to reblog every single thing in sight by saying ‘reblog don’t repost’. Content creators come to Tumblr to share original content on the things they love, so they won’t appreciate it when you reblog their posts only to rant about how terrible it is. If you see something you like, reblog it. If you see something you don’t like, scroll past it.
Do not use Pinterest, We Heart It or Instagram as a source for your edits, these websites are built upon reposts that more often than not go uncredited.
If you reach out to a content creator to ask for their permission to repost their content and they don’t answer you, do not take their silence as permission to repost. Always reach out to content creators if you want to repost their work, there are no excuses not to. Content creators reserve the right to deny your request at all times.
Do not make up excuses along the lines of “[content creating] can’t be that hard”, it’s denigrating and offensive to content creators. If content creating weren’t that hard there wouldn’t be so much reposters on here.
Support content creators! Boost their works by reblogging them onto your own blogs, like their posts and interact with them, tell them you think their content is rad. It gives a lot of creators the extra motivation to make their next piece, and a compliment in general is always appreciated.
Links
How to spot art reposts by our affiliate @mdzsartreblogs
Reblogs vs reposts by @/qbanalras
Support content creators with reblogs by @/mochadean
Is this gifset a Repost™? by @/fen-ha-fuck-you
Disable right click by @/tumblrblogette
Disabling drag & drop + highlighting text by @/html-tutorials
But why is reposting bad? by @/fawnivy (deactivated)
A Guide To Essential Tumblr Etiquette by Leanne Tan
Reblogs vs reposts by @/studypetals
When People Steal Your Content on Tumblr by Anne
Everybody hurts (when people repost) by @/otonymous
Resources for free images by @/leave-her-a-tome
#Don’tRepost by @/zestydoesthings
“What’s so bad about reposting?” by @/daintylouis (deactivated)
Please feel free to share this as a resource.
– The Admin Team 🐇❤️
Coming June 27th we celebrate the two years anniversary of the release of The Untamed, the live-action adaptation of MXTX’s xianxia novel Mo Dao Zu Shi. We have put together a small event to celebrate this anniversary together with all of you.
We assume most of you know the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter books that sorted the students into one of four houses, and we’re excited to introduce our very own CQL Sect Sorting Quiz! Click on the link and answer the questions to see what sect you would get sorted into, and then center your content for the anniversary around your result or something related to it that you can connect to. You’re free to choose any character, scene, color palette, quote, etc. related to your result that you want for your content. We hope it inspires you!
🐇 Rules
Reblog this post to spread the word.
You do not have to be a member to participate in the event!
The event will be open on the anniversary of CQL’s release - June 27th!
🐇 Extra Information
Create any content (fic, gif, art, etc.) for the anniversary.
Center your content around The Untamed and your sorting quiz result.
You can decide to keep your results private until the day of the event for an extra surprise, but this is not a requirement.
Mention @mdzsnet in the caption & tag #mdzsnet in the first 5 tags
If something is not clear, don’t be afraid to send us an ask!
