Hear Me Out

yknow ever since people realized tumblr isnt dead and have decided to flock here from twitter and tiktok ive seen a huge influx of people in fandom spaces who dont reblog anything. at all.

like, i used to have an art blog with 340 followers. not a ton but not a small amount either given how this website works with creators. and in my experience back then even the ones who only left likes still reblogged other things or at least posted their own stuff. literally the only empty blogs were clearly bots.

but on this New art blog, i've had so many people with fandom-specific headers and icons with actual usernames as urls and some kind of title or description, but have. Nothing. no posts. all they do is like things. and it's always public, too. their following list and their likes list.

and honestly all it makes me think is that these people are New and also don't know how tumblr works. how likes don't give exposure. not even in a "oh, i know it doesn't give exposure, but i'm still going to reblog anyways" way, but in a genuine honest to god straight up doesn't realize tumblr likes don't work like twitter's.

PLEASE please if you're from tiktok or twitter or whatever please reblog people's art both fandom and original if you like it!! and maybe actually pad out your blog's content in some way so people won't potentially see you as a bot and block you.

REBLOG ARTIST'S WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET ANY ATTENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OH MY GOD. PLEASE. I BEG of you

omg, this was made for my characters. Okay. so...

Zvezda, he's really intelligent, as in, he knows a bunch of stuff. but he's not as smart, and fricken adorable.

Kolasi, they jokingly call him "dad" when they get away with it. He's also that one character with the disappointed mom look, like the one that tells you that he's not angry, but you should probably cease whatever nonsense your doing.

Luna, she's literally that song, you know (3052) An Original Song About Hyperfixation - YouTube this one. But also with all the stuff she learns. she never uses the knowledge but is like if a school and a encyclopedia had a child, and that child had the self preservation skills of Scamper from Igor.

Jack, Luna's the only reason they know him, but all the rest were like "oh you know Luna? okay, you're family now. nope, you have no choice". It helps his mental healthy but still. he wasn't too happy.

Neggra/Negaro, because they are the sassy shadow child with no filter.

friend group: tag the ocs that are

- the cute dumb one

- Parent Friend

- "I can't go five minutes without talking about the useless trivia I know"

- introvert adopted into the group against their will

- Fun Dude, what will they do next? nobody knows,,

I just reblogged 😁

Part 2 to https://randomkduck.tumblr.com/post/646102104601247744/100-character-development-questions

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100 Character Development Questions

14 questions came from here: https://volstagging-with-fandral-blog.tumblr.com/post/93350341309/100-character-development-questions Part 1: T

Part 3 coming right after! (Or I might be reblogging and adding to that)

halloween's over, I know, but I was too busy to draw this before so shhhhhh /j

got a bit lazy when colouring the boys lol can you guess each costume?

rise of the guardians thoughts

Because we needed more of those from me right lol

Anyway-

The timing of Jack being selected to be a Guardian is really interesting.

Because in movie canon, the other Guardians came together during the dark ages, right? And they needed to protect things that were being lost to children of that era due to fear and despair: wonder, hope, dreams, important memories.

But Jack. Jack becomes a Guardian in the modern era.

The implication is that modern kids are losing their grip on fun. There's fear and despair inflicted on the young generations of today, by school, mental illness, and the constant barrage of information and guilt on the Internet putting the weight to save the world on them while they're still powerless to do anything about it. Even when people try to aim that guilt exclusively at adults (which a lot of media doesn't!), kids tend to try to feel in control of bad things happening around them by assuming they're their own fault. If they can blame themselves for divorce and abuse, why not world disasters?

And when hope isn't enough anymore, when good memories are formed less and less, when the wonder and magic are stripped from a child's world, where do they have left to escape fear and despair?

Fun.

And I think that's why Jack was chosen when he was.

And it could be so easy to make that connection and let your hope for the world slip, but that's not the point of Rise of the Guardians.

The point is that actually, taking fear and despair too seriously, even when you're the one/ones fighting it- letting it consume your thoughts and time... doesn't do anyone any good.

Sometimes you need to fight it by being lighthearted in spite of the world.

I think that's why it's remained such a comfort movie for the generation it was made in. We see ourselves in these more or less helpless kids, struggling against a constant storm of fear and darkness, and this movie finds a way to pull that innocence and lightheartedness out of us again. It's comforting to feel like there's defenses and barriers against despair that will never truly go away, even just for a moment.

[gently holds] I made this with my own hands. I'm so proud of it!

For the linked universe discord server weekly prompt "Bones! (And Chocolate)"

Scratch that, me through all the trials and with alot more screaming

Literally my entire air trial experience summed up in one video:

fun fact: Shitty people in history had the opinion that cats were evil.

Ahahaha what the fuck

I have an idea for a genre of game.

idk what medium the games would be in, I guess whatever supports it, but anyways.

So you have a few different povs, and a few different characters that the pov isn't in. Kinda like those games where during the different chapters you play as different characters, but with a twist: You don't control the character, the character in the chapter has near full control over their own actions, you just talk to them and guide them. My thoughts on how this would work would be like; you see a room full of different objects, character goes to walk past one that catches your eye, you go "oh, wait, what was that? Go look, on the table there!" And the character (depending on their personality) will either go look for what you're trying to find, or will ignore you.

You playing the game would only have proper control during "possessions": Short periods of time in which one or more players can take over the character's body and steer them in the right direction or walk them through pain that would have otherwise debilitated them or even to do one of those quick time events in a combat situation. Of course possessing a character has consequences on mental and physical health and how they're viewed by others, but sometimes that's necessary.

Also, the characters you're able to guide/possess would be the only ones able to hear you, either that or the characters are only able to hear you when it's their turn to be guided.

It could also be done so that one person is in control of one character and other people are guiding that player, to add to the fun and maybe make it easier to make as a video game.

I have no idea if this concept already exists, but I think it would be cool!