There Are Two Types Of Writers:

oh god…

oh no….

you’ll never guess what JRWI episode I just finished…

Oh my great Gillion Tidestrider, what did I just listen to?

my agatha finale bingo card

Another doodle, this time it’s Velvette

I’m slowly making my way through drawing everyone so stay tuned

was drawing Lizzie today and realized her new design has striped pants her og design didn’t. then looking at chip’s old vs new art, realized his new design doesn’t have the striped pants, but his og design did, along with suspenders. The same look Arlin has. Chip has finally stopped fully imitating Arlin, and Lizzie is finally re-embracing her life when she was younger, as Elizabeth. Both have grown, but in opposite ways.

While I fully accepted that people I work with are a little bit insane I still get caught off guard

My coworker: Did you know that the reason we don’t do human taxidermy is because you can see the stitches? Because normally the fur would hide them but since we don’t have it you would just see every single cut?

Me: uh…. I’m pretty sure there are different reasons for not doing human taxidermy. Like uhhh… you know ethics?

My coworker: yea, sure. Whatever.

for some reason being a dude and wearing pants and a bra feels euphoric. like that should be shitty why am i chillign

reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics

If this post gets to 5k I’ll confront my sister about her not using my preferred pronouns

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

I do have a heart. It’s black, and it beats for you.