oops forgot to post this here- a bday gift for @cartoonsinthemorning

SCREAMING YELLING CRYIN G ROLLING ON THE FLOOR JUMPING ON ALL FOURS What an AWOOGA of a present, it makes me insane, THANK YOU so much again Nori!! I LOVE IT

My gift for @cartoonsinthemorning for Secret Solenoid!

THANK YOU GLASS AAAHHHHH (❤´艸｀❤)💞💞💞 I keep smiling like a dork...the cut of the dress is perfect for him, the chest area compliments his spark so beautifully 😍 I absolutely adore your gift, thank you so much again!

I'm desperately trying to figure out how to translate the original post's reply of "actually adding fat to your veggies makes it easier for your body to metabolize the nutrients they contain also you get more nutrients out of food you enjoy" into a similarly-worded point about how desperately trying to make a minority character (such as a trans character) "good rep" is a losing battle that ultimately reinforces Hayes Code like structures that will ultimately lead to actual minority voices getting silenced due to being "problematic" and I'm just not getting there.

opening commissions again! I need to pay some dental stuff and save some money up so I'm taking as many as I can^^ 2 commission slots 10 queque slots

some exaples!

-new commission format- colored sketches commission, everything is a little wonky but they are surely more affordablee ^^ format with some examples!

really wishing to make some ace attorney commissions hehe QwQ DM to contact me!

since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:

if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.

and why this?

because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.

ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.

of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.

there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.

so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.

signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.

This is what the Series connector is for! Let your fics breathe, even if they are only drabbles

It also wrecks the ability to sort/filter by word count. If someone is looking for a story that is at least 10,000 words, that means they want a story that's at least 10,000 words, not 20 stories that are each 500 words. And me, as someone who likes short stories and often particularly seeks them out, won't see yours if I'm filtering for works that are 5k or less, for example. I am your target audience, and you're making it harder for me to find you!

new to tumblr?

found yourself getting blocked for seemingly no reason?

does your profile look like this:

you're getting blocked because people think you're a bot

do yourself a favour and change your profile images to literally anything except the defaults. give your blog a name, give yourself a bio even if it simply says "new, figuring this out" or something. please, just do ANYTHING that shows everyone you're a human. then you wont get blocked anymore and you'll have a lot more fun here!

oh and while we're here, another hot tip: reblog things. likes do nothing here, there's no algorithm

okay happy tumblring tumblrinos, tumblrinas and tumblrinehs!

i think the post may be exploding bc someone pointed out that new users can't change their profile pic until they follow at least 3 ppl...???

IF that is the case, regardless if you are or are not following at least 3 ppl, that shouldn't stop you from making a post, like bee said, that says "new here, still figuring everything out!" we don't WANT to block actual ppl who are trying to get into tumblr and figure out how this site works, we just want to block bots.