"If You Like Monsterfucking Or Eat Meat You Can't Reblog My Aesthetic Slime Post" Is Honestly The Funniest

"If you like monsterfucking or eat meat you can't reblog my aesthetic slime post" is honestly the funniest concept to come out of the new age of social entitlement tbh.

I cannot stress this enough:

BUILDING COMMUNITY AND ENGAGEMENT ON TUMBLR IS A TWO-WAY STREET.

Stuck for ideas? Try:

Send asks. It could be anything, even something super basic. Tell someone you like their blog theme or ask them what they think a character's favorite color is. Ask them if they have a secret hobby. Tell them you had an absolute banger of a slice of toast for breakfast. Literally anything. Give them something to talk to you about. You might even make a friend!!

Draw silly little doodles for your favorite piece of fanfic. Literally cannot stress this enough; even stick men art can be adorable and/or hilarious. And I guarantee you it'll make the author's day. A two minute sketch on the notepad app of your phone could genuinely be the reason someone updates their fic, or writes another one.

Write silly little drabbles for your favorite fanart. I used to love this back when I made fanart on my old Tumblr blog. People would reblog it with a silly little 100 word drabble based on the art and I. Would. Swoon. My thing made someone else make a thing!! Amazing!!

Make rec lists. It could be for fanfiction, themed blogs to follow, recipes, movies, anything. Ask people to share theirs. Ask people to give their opinions if they try out something from your list. You wouldn't believe how many of my fanfic bookmarks have come from seeing the blogs I follow recommend something. Because we have the same interests!! Because its even quicker than me scouring hundreds of tags on AO3!!

If someone posts writing or art, ask them questions!! Humans love to be asked things. Especially about things we have made. Ask them what inspired them to make the thing. How long it took them. If they have a favorite thing about it.

Tumblr's engagement and activity levels are not dying because of the website. They're dying because of us. If we're just sat existing in a sad, isolated little bubble, of course we're going to move on to somewhere where we get actual engagement. Where there are other people in the bubble.

We've become so obsessed with an entitlement to receiving and consuming while never actually giving anything back, and that has to die.

"Oh but there's no community for what I like on here."

Make. One.

Tell people about the thing you like. Get them interested. Engage with them about it. Give them a sounding board to share their thoughts and ask questions and create content to enjoy and consume. Make it a discussion and give them something to get involved in.

Find that one other tiny blog screaming into the void about it and scream together!! That's how this website works!!

How exactly do you plan on stopping people reblogging it?

"Here's a cutesy gifset about a psychotic serial killer who murdered kids but also if you write dead dove you're not allowed to reblog it!"

I would buy so much more music and band merch if it wasn't all cheaply made, mass-produced, stick-on factory crap that costs $95 for a single t-shirt.

And like. I know why its so expensive. I know why its so cheaply made. But still.

No.

As a Destiel shipper I actually think we should leave Jensen and Misha alone about Destiel. Its been almost a decade of asking the same questions and hounding them for fanservice and gratification.

what are your thoughts on RPF?

Chris Hemsworth could hold a gun to my head or promise me the reward of groping his thighs and I still wouldn't read self-insert/reader RPF.

I swear people who write self-insert and reader RPF fanfiction have a personal mission to flood any and every relevant tag they possibly can with it. Its like they have a game of seeing just how many tags they can force me to add to my block list.

I do, however, fully support RPF as a form of fiction, and I do read celebrity/celebrity RPF. I think, like any true 2012 girlie, my first dip into RPF was One Direction.

I have some points of contention with it, and I could talk quite a bit about the differences in respect, interaction and boundaries between RPF and character fiction, but the gist is that I wholeheartedly support RPF and consider it a valid form of fiction.