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TUMBLR WRITER PSA

Before I begin this long, drawn out, whirl wind of an emotional post, let me just preface this and say: I’m so sorry for this long, drawn out, whirl wind of an emotional post…

YOU yes, you… you over there, spending your free time creating these fantastic worlds, these amazing scenarios, and these brilliant plots…  You are a spectacular human being. You find the time in your busy life; whether it’s from work, family, or school, to sit down and create these fabulous stories, hoping others will love and appreciate them as much as you love writing them. 

But Paige, why are you even bothering to make a post about this?  Because, dammit, I still feel like writers aren’t appreciated as much as they should be in this forsaken place. And because I do whatever the fuck I want.

Today, I saw a post from a young lady I just recently started following, about how much she’s struggling, how she’s worthless. I actually shed a tear, seeing how hurt she is and how she beats herself up. But then I thought about the other folks I follow… how everyone has their struggles and Tumblr is the one place they feel comfortable enough to express themselves. Because their family and friends don’t care or know how to handle them, or because they just don’t know how to talk to people. Thinking about that just made the whole dam of tears burst. I’m sure the people stuck in traffic with me were like “what the fuck is wrong with this girl, is she crying? Bob, look at this girl, is she crying? Jesus, do we roll down the window and say something? Bob, Bob, Bob, don’t MAKE EYE CONTACT”.

Every single one of you, the ones I follow and the ones I don’t, please don’t underestimate the power and influence you have with your followers. As an avid reader, I can honestly say that every person I follow has saved me in some way. As an introverted, lonely, recluse who is desperate for some sort of positive interaction from people, reading your stories brings me out of my dull existence and reminds me how wonderful people are, and how although right now things are bleak, there are people out there who are smart and kind and genuine.

Well, I told myself I wasn’t going to cry while I was writing this, and I’ve completely failed.

You all are so brilliant and so kind, and so willing to be there and listen to your followers. Just don’t forget that you all provide solace for a lot of us, so never feel bad for talking to us about your problems. I love you all, whether I’ve followed you for a few days, weeks, or months. You’ve already brought me happiness that I cannot begin to express.

Tagging my favorite people/writers:  @waywardwinterfics, @kittenofdoomage, @castielspahdehrah, @abaddonwithyall, @wonderlxndwrites, @ursulaismymiddlename, @imaginegeekdoms, @avengersimaginings

You can email the obey me staff and if you enter in some data on your game and such they can find your account and give you all the old data back. Same thing happened to me and I ended up getting my account back! On the home screen go to support and press contact us and you could get https://shallwedate.jp/en/obeyme_support.html?app=obeyme&id=5d62fE4rJ1 this link. I think they’re off weekends but ive told others about using this way to get their data back and it worked for them too. Wish you luck with getting your data back!

Thank you so much anon (and also @lizziestudiesstuff , I saw your comment in my last post)! I'll try to do this.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Credit: James Trevino

Funny things I found in Genshin Impact:

Domain of Guyun is a JoJo's fan.

I was playing JoJo's music when I was doing this domain and the artefacts were surprisingly very good.

It really is

Hetalia Headcanon #1

The Arcana (spoiler alert!!!)

So... in the newest chapter of The Arcana (Lucio's route) it was pretty much confirmed that BOTH Lucio and MC are The Fool.

Bonus:

Scout can talk!

on fanfic & emotional continuity

Writing and reading fanfic is a masterclass in characterisation. 

Consider: in order to successfully write two different “versions” of the same character - let alone ten, or fifty, or a hundred - you have to make an informed judgement about their core personality traits, distinguishing between the results of nature and nurture, and decide how best to replicate those conditions in a new narrative context. The character you produce has to be recognisably congruent with the canonical version, yet distinct enough to fit within a different - perhaps wildly so - story. And you physically can’t accomplish this if the character in question is poorly understood, or viewed as a stereotype, or one-dimensional. Yes, you can still produce the fic, but chances are, if your interest in or knowledge of the character(s) is that shallow, you’re not going to bother in the first place. 

Because ficwriters care about nuance, and they especially care about continuity - not just literal continuity, in the sense of corroborating established facts, but the far more important (and yet more frequently neglected) emotional continuity. Too often in film and TV canons in particular, emotional continuity is mistakenly viewed as a synonym for static characterisation, and therefore held anathema: if the character(s) don’t change, then where’s the story? But emotional continuity isn’t anti-change; it’s pro-context. It means showing how the character gets from Point A to Point B as an actual journey, not just dumping them in a new location and yelling Because Reasons! while moving on to the next development. Emotional continuity requires a close reading, not just of the letter of the canon, but its spirit - the beats between the dialogue; the implications never overtly stated, but which must logically occur off-screen. As such, emotional continuity is often the first casualty of canonical forward momentum: when each new TV season demands the creation of a new challenge for the protagonists, regardless of where and how we left them last, then dealing with the consequences of what’s already happened is automatically put on the backburner.

Fanfic does not do this. 

Fanfic embraces the gaps in the narrative, the gracenotes in characterisation that the original story glosses, forgets or simply doesn’t find time for. That’s not all it does, of course, but in the context of learning how to write characters, it’s vital, because it teaches ficwriters - and fic readers - the difference between rich and cardboard characters. A rich character is one whose original incarnation is detailed enough that, in order to put them in fanfic, the writer has to consider which elements of their personality are integral to their existence, which clash irreparably with the new setting, and which can be modified to fit, to say nothing of how this adapted version works with other similarly adapted characters. A cardboard character, by contrast, boasts so few original or distinct attributes that the ficwriter has to invent them almost out of whole cloth. Note, please, that attributes are not necessarily synonymous with details in this context: we might know a character’s favourite song and their number of siblings, but if this information gives us no actual insight into them as a person, then it’s only window-dressing. By the same token, we might know very few concrete facts about a character, but still have an incredibly well-developed sense of their personhood on the basis of their actions. 

The fact that ficwriters en masse - or even the same ficwriter in different AUs - can produce multiple contradictory yet still fundamentally believable incarnations of the same person is a testament to their understanding of characterisation, emotional continuity and narrative. 

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

This post is old, but you are STILL ABLE TO GET AHOLD OF TUMBLR STAFF in an emergency: this just happened to me recently. All you have to do is email SUPPORT@TUMBLR.COM and they will handle the situation for you. Thanks for passing this along, guys!! xo Kate