Hey, just to letcha know! While pressing ctrl+z twice won't undo the undo here on tumblr, and while ctrl+y can work sometimes (sometimes it doesn't!) -- on the off chance that Y doesn't, you can press ctrl+shift+z and that will often work as an alternate redo function ♡
!!! lads i learn so so so much from all of you, how are you all so intelligent?? so curious?? so talented?? you're all amazing and blowing my sleepy little mind 24/7!! thank you for reaching out to tell us this, and thank you for being so brilliant and thoughtful! have a wonderful day my angel!
Have you ever logged on wanting to do something, the muse is there (or maybe you're looking for a bit of nudge to get going) but you don't know where to start? And instead of starting in one area, you just sit and stare at your drafts and askbox and unanswered messages? Most of us have probably been there and it gets frustrating not knowing where to start, then it becomes overwhelming because nothing is getting done.
Try this PICKER WHEEL. You fill in options, click spin, and the generator chooses for you. If you're not feeling the option given, no harm or foul! It's merely a means to help you decide on where to start and not overwhelm yourself.
can we talk about hearing loss and tinnitus ? chances are that if your character has a long history with guns ( say , in a twd verse ) they’re gonna suffer from some hearing loss or tinnitus . that goes double if they used to work in a career with a lot of noise involved . let’s say a cop or a paramedic or a firefighter . then there’s construction , armed forces , etc .
if your character fires a gun in a room without ear protection , they’re GONNA experience some hearing difficulty in the fallout .
I'm so happy to have your blog on my dash it has shown me that I'm not the only one struggling in the rpc. I feel like the rpc has fallen into a coma, people are so wrapped up in their own bubbles that they don't interact with each other anymore (it seems) like I'm so frustrated with tumblr at this point, I'm so sorry I just don't know what to do, it's really disheartening to have like 1k followers, writing an rp blog but no matter what you do, no one sends anything at all, no asks, no memes, no starters, nothing, it makes me sad and wonder if I have done something wrong? I checked the settings twice as to make sure asks are enabled and I try to regularly send the people on my dash things but now I'm questioning myself. Like why and how are so many people following me if it feels like they don't want to interact? Of course I know many of these are lurkers but not all? I'm so confused by this to be honest...
My Question is: Am I the only one who feels like that?
my lovely friend, let me tell you something. these feelings you’re having? we ALL have them at some point in our tumblr lives. it’s perfectly natural, there’s nothing wrong with them, much less with you for having them in the first place. you understand? i want to make that much clear before i continue, because i’m getting the impression that you might be trying to take on the blame and responsibility for other people’s actions, and that’s not close to being accurate, love, okay? you’re doing just fine! and now i’m going to go into a little detail on your message. but i don’t want you to read on unless you’re feeling solid and good about yourself again, because try as we might, we’re not responsible for other people. and you mentioned that you’re very active in your efforts to make people feel comfortable, so no. don’t go blaming yourself. you’re doing nothing wrong, my love, i promise.
NOW! i say as i slap my hands on my knees like a suburban dad in an american film! except not, bc my laptop’s there, but i digress. before i continue, i want to say that i’m only one person, my suggestions may not be applicable to you. if anyone reads this post, and would like to contribute their own suggestions, you’re all welcome to hop into the comments to help our lovely friend out! this is a sideblog, however, and i will not be able to interact with these comments directly!
the first thing that i’m going to say here is that 1,000 followers is a LOT of people. like that’s overwhelming to anyone, but i feel like it could also contribute to these feelings of isolation when you have a thousand people following you and nobody’s really reaching out. that’s why i would suggest that maybe you might feel better if you try and bring that number down? it’s like this; if you host a big party, realistically speaking, you won’t be able to invite a thousand guests. it’ll be next to impossible to have these intimate personal connections with one thousand individual people, right? but if we try, say, 500 people? instantly easier to handle, i think. personally i try to keep my own limit at 150 mutuals, because i’m oftentimes too tired and too stressed to handle the idea of much more than that, and it’s much fairer to 150 people than it is for 1000 people. plus, those 150 people are far more likely to have solid friendships with me. i’m only one person, and so are you, and we can’t be pressuring ourselves into trying to interact with 1000 people!
in your case, this also applies. 1000 people is a LOT. if you bring the number down, perhaps then you can explain to people that you will be implementing a few changes in the way you do things. you want to plot with people. you want to develop solid relationships both OOC and IC. you also might find it useful to use an interest tracker or a permanent starter and plotting call, or a few open starters are also useful!
i’m going to repeat something here. you are not responsible for other people’s actions. there are parts of the rpc that are withdrawing from the core purpose and values of the community, and the lack of interaction is a widespread challenge. it’s not their fault. it’s just something that’s happening. that being said, you can only control YOUR experience. which sounds powerless, but it’s actually entirely the opposite!
you can make that post and say what you expect to change in your blog. “i’ll be much more active in the rpc from now on, i’m here to make friends and write with like-minded people, and i’m going to be cleaning out my followers over the coming week. if you want to stay mutuals, please let me know, but i don’t want to stay mutuals unless we intend on building a solid friendship and writing together!”
you can obviously change the wording! be as nice or as blunt as you like! but try to be firm. your experiences of the dash are yours and yours alone. my suggestions might be worth nothing to you, and that’s more than okay too! but my earlier experience in the community was very much like yours in that i had about 500 mutuals, but it was so quiet and awkward that i may as well have had 0. it only changed when i brought the number down to 150, keeping my mutuals as people who i wanted to write with and befriend, and then posted a quick psa to let people know that i was planning on actually writing much more in the future, and i would be changing certain things in my blog to accommodate that.
you don’t have to do any of this, my love. you don’t have to soft block any followers, you don’t have to make a psa, you don’t have to do anything! my decisions came from a place when i was so frustrated by being stuck in the “nothingness”, or the “meh, idk, i don’t mind, idc” phase of the community, that i just decided to shift gears and change things. the way i see it, i could have 20,000 mute, withdrawn mutuals, but just one person who i genuinely loved to chat to and plot with and write with would outshine the lot of them! fortunately i found much more than just one person, though. and i know, i KNOW, you will too.
Dude, you don't undo a ctrl Z by hitting ctrl z again, that just undoes more things further. You undo a ctrl z by pressing ctrl y. Ctrl Y is the redo button.
while this is super helpful information to know in the future, i really feel like i should highlight that it's a really understandable thought process to think that ctrl z would undo an undo! there's nothing silly or foolish about making that assumption! i once went through years of college before i realized that "double spaced" didn't mean "two spaces between each word"! i also spent an alarming portion of my life believing that if i deleted an email from my sent folder, it would actually delete it from the recipient's folder too!
computers are very confusing, but this is invaluable information!
CTRL + Y is a redo feature, CTRL + Z is an undo feature!
I would like to let people know about Grammarly as it proofreads what you type as you type it! It's definitely improved my writing tenfold! :D
i love this suggestion so much!! grammarly was a hero during college and secondary school, so i have exactly zero doubts as to the value it'll serve to the rpc!
