Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness
Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you’ve read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?
THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT
I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it’s been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible
Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together
the worst thing about this post breaching containment is everyone who goes “aww, that’s nice…still not gonna leave comments teehee”
like last week the way im still absolutely BUZZING from it. i swear ppu has such a positive effect on a readers brain it turns to mush and makes u lose track of time fr 😧
anywho take ur time with ch29, they are ALWAYS worth the wait and ill be so ready to comment how much i love it 🤣
AW THANK YOU!! i appreciate this so much lol
i’ve been mostly working on art this month so ppu has kind of taken a backseat but I’m excited to get back to it when i get a chance!! <3 thank you for the encouragement! 💗
“sentihumans are just like regular humans but made from magic!” is literally so boring to me. if youre gonna make sentis then have fun with it. i think adrien played a wax statue so well because he doesn’t actually need to breathe and he only remembers to when people remind him about it.
adrien grows feathers in his hair once in awhile because hes a peafowl baby. and when asked by nino, “hey dude did you have a photoshoot or something? you’ve got feathers in your hair.” adrien responds, “no why would they put feathers??? im allergic.” to which nino plucks the feather out of his scalp like “??????” and adrien goes “thats my HAIR i dont judge YOU on how your hair grows!!!” and nino has to be all “buddy that is a fucking FEATHER that is not your HAIR. no human being grows feathers.” adrien is fighting for his life, “YES they DO. its genetic i got it from my moms side of the family because felix also has hair like that!!!” and when nino tries to get an extra opinion from alya and marinette, marinette fucking panics and starts backing adrien up.
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
This is what a community looks like.
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn’t need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It’s not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it’s the type of interaction people have. They’re content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
If you want more of something, reblog it.
Something I see mentioned often is “I don’t have many followers, my reblog won’t matter” which is untrue.
First ofall, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could go in the long run.
For instance, let’s say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!
You see, it does not matter if you don’t have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.
As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it’ll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don’t have many followers and so it doesn’t matter if you don’t reblog is UNTRUE.
Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it’s beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn’t know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!
So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you’re not ‘big’ or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!
P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :’D <3
Creative blocks have been striking me down like thunder I swear 🥲
But anyways, here’s a doodle that I put way too much effort into inspired by chapter 27 @frostedpuffs lovely fic, Perfectly Platonic (Unless…) cuz Adrien caring for Marinette always hits right in the feels.
(Btw if you have not read it, highly recommend checking it out! It gives major rom-com energy and the writing is so freaking well done ahhh 💗)
OH GOD THIS IS SO SWEET IM DYING THANK YOU SO MUCH
