Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.

To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!

I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.

Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.

This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.

Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.

We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!

Can’t risk it

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

I can’t fucking risk

I ascared

Dormant Predators

One sentence horror story

imthepunchlord replied to your post: Soooo predictions for the Ladybug episode…

Yeah I can only imagine it having insignificant consequences because 20 minutes just isnt enough time to cover proper fallout and 2 or 3 parters is only reserved for chloe for some reason nowadays

Can they release an official poster for Viperion like how they did for Ryuuko already bc my boy deserves some HD respect

[plunges hand into water, pulls out a live lobster, and answers it like a phone]

ugh fine my personal blog is not cutting so I’ll post here 

DO! NOT! DONATE! TO! AMAZON! CONSERVATION! NGOs! DO NOT!

they don’t act on the root of the problem, they don’t mitigate the effects of deforestation, they do have limited action and they don’t help conserve the forest land outside their very small grounds besides doing little to nothing to help the people who actually live in the amazon and conserve it on a daily basis

DONATE TO THE INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS INSTEAD

they are organized, they can keep woodcutting companies away from their land, they are getting murdered for it, they are the only reason there is any forest left at all

Found these two things today. Anyway Mexico is cool and reblog with other additions if you see them

Literally if you’re going to show up and talk with your friend the entire time, just don’t come. Everybody else in class hates you

Oh, it’s that time of year again. Don’t speak unless you’re going to pay my tuition

When it seems like we might finally be free of Chloé drama since she's no longer going to be a miraculer but it also probably means she's getting an "arc" where she becomes a villain which means more attention on her character and more Marinette-blaming

I don’t own either of these pictures, but please!!! Do this!!! This is something we MUST do! She needs us, witches. Mother Earth is hurting!!! OUR MOTHER IS IN PAIN

people who sleep with one pillow make me sick

people who sleep with more than one pillow are shown to be more lonely and depressed

reblog and put in the tags how many pillows you sleep with

I don’t want it; I don’t need it.

this scene is even more creepy when you realize Spirited Away was a metaphor for the sex industry in Japan

oh

oh

OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE!

NO IT WASN’T, YOU JACKASSES!

“Totoro’s about dead girls!”

“Spirited Away is about sex!”

You know what I hear?

“Maybe if I make up something that sounds smart, people will think I’m smart, even if it’s a complete fucking lie!”

Hayao Miyazaki is a man of values. He’s a man who believes in the innocence of childhood and has a wonderful imagination. He believes in simplicity, kindness, the beauty of nature, and the old ways. He draws on these beliefs and his personal experiences when he makes movies.

Spirited Away was made for some friends of Miyazaki’s. Specifically, the ten-year-old daughters of some friends he invited to stay at his vacation home. It’s fairly common for Miyazaki to decide that he’s going to make movies targeted at a specific age group. Ponyo is for five-year-olds. Spirited Away is meant for ten-year-old girls, but enjoyed by a much wider audience.

I repeat, SPIRITED AWAY WAS MADE FOR TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS.

The bathhouse? Not a brothel. Based on a bathhouse in his home town, which he thought was a place of mystery and wonder when he was a kid. That scene where the bathhouse staff has to clean the polluted river spirit? Based on Miyazaki’s own experiences of a town coming together to clean up a river. This scene? It’s about Chihiro not being greedy, because Chihiro is a positive role-model for ten-year-old girls.

The themes of Spirited Away are courage, strength of character, and individuality. ESPECIALLY individuality. That thing where Yubaba takes away peoples’ names and changes their species? That’s her taking away their individuality. Chihiro’s parents are now pigs, not people. Haku’s name has been shortened so he forgets who he is. When Yubaba changes Chihiro’s name, the only Kanji she leaves spell out “Sen”, the Japanese word for “one thousand”, meaning Chihiro is just another pawn of Yubaba’s, not her own person.

You want to seem cool and intelligent? Talk about the movie’s actual themes. Don’t make up this shock-value bullshit for attention.

You stupid motherfuckers.

How It Should Have Happened - Outing Lila

Here’s an idea for a particularly lovely Lila reveal:

After the events of Silencer, Kitty Section gets a lot of publicity. Everyone is talking about how Both Roth and XY tried to steal from them, the akuma that resulted, and how they were outed on TV for doing so.

So of course Lila has to join in on the craze and makes up lies to keep the attention on herself.

There are just two things.

First off, that when Kitty Section made their as of yet only public appearance, it was while wearing their masks.

Secondly, that nobody as of yet had told Lila just WHO they were.

So Lila is spinning a new story about how SHE got her “best friend Ladybug” to out Bob Roth and was the main reason he was revealed for the cheat he was. How SHE knew the designer behind the costumes personally and even gave him the ideas for their creation. And how SHE knows the band, how SHE inspired their songs, and even that the lead guitarist even had a crush on HER.

Everything goes dead quiet.

The members of Kitty Section are confused. Ivan is about to speak up when someone else steps forward.

It’s Marinette, and she’s smiling in a way that anyone who knows her would be terrified by—which at this point is only Nino, who promptly backs away and pulls a confused Adrien with him.

“You mean the same one who made Jagged Stone’s glasses and album cover? Wow Lila! Tell us more.” Marinette encouraged.

Confused but jumping on the opportunity, Lila nods. “Oh, he’s gotten pretty popular. I’m so glad, since I helped to get his name out there. I introduced him to Jagged Stone when he made those glasses. Jagged was so impressed that he asked him to make the album cover as well. I just knew it’d be a hit!”

Everyone is staring. Marinette is still smiling. It’s questionable whether it’s the blatant lies from Lila or Marinette’s unnerving attitude that had them more concerned.

And Lila, in her foolishness, only tried to amp it up more.

“You know, I could get you a meeting with him for some tips and collaboration.” Lila said with false sweetness. Of course she had no intention of doing so, but it’d make her look better in front of the class to seem like she’s trying to be friendly with Marinette. “We’re such close friends, after all. I’m sure he’d love to meet you!”

And just like that, the trap was closed.

Marinette’s grin turned downright feral.

“That’d be a little difficult, seeing as how you’d be trying to schedule me with myself.”

Lila froze.

“What?”

“MDC. Marinette Dupain Cheng.” Her eyes narrowed. “That would be me.”

“You don’t have to make things up, Marinette.” Lila said with a glower. “I’ve met MDC.“

“So has everyone else in class. But if you’re so certain, let’s ask Kitty Section since you were apparently so involved. Ivan? Rose? Juleka? What are your thoughts?”

Lila paled and spun to face the band members.

The three frowned at Lila in anger and hurt.

“I didn’t call Lila on anything. Did you guys?” Marinette continued, looking to the band members.

“None of us did because of everything that had happened. There was no time.” Ivan explained, looking more angry.

“Then…why would you lie?” Rose asked, looking about ready to cry. “Marinette…everyone had worked so hard!”

“Did you really just try to take credit from us?” Ivan demanded. “We just got done with dealing with that from Bob Roth, we don’t need it from you, too!”

If looks could kill, Lila would have had a heart attack from Juleka’s downright sinister glare. “Not cool. My brother doesn’t even know you. And he likes…” She faltered for a second. “…someone else.”

Lila shrunk at the outrage, glancing around quickly to try to find an out. Her gaze fell on Marinette and she saw a hint of spite before Lila started putting on the waterworks.

“How could you do this, Marinette? I was only trying to protect your identity and you would try to turn it on me? After I helped you with your designs.” She fake sobbed into her hands.

Marinette was not impressed.

Neither was anyone else.

“It was never a secret.” Max stated, looking annoyed.

“Yeah! Everyone knows Marinette made Jagged’s glasses and album cover!” Kim exclaimed.

“And won Gabriel Agreste’s hat contest!” Alix added, crossing her arms.

“We were with Marinette for the entire time we were all working on the video.” Rose explained, shaking her head. “She was drawing out the designs right there with us the whole time! We would have known if you were involved.”

“And she was right there with us when we tried to confront Bob Roth. You weren’t.” Ivan stated with a fierce glare.

“She-she texted me!” Lila insisted. “That’s how I knew!”

“Marinette doesn’t like you. She wouldn’t text or call you about anything if she could help it.” Alya cut in, almost in a rage. “And after that stunt, I can see why.”

Lila at least stopped trying to pretend she was crying as she attempted to defend her claims. “Well, she did! And that’s why I got in touch with Ladybug—”

“Are you even friends with her? Or was that a lie?” Alya demanded.

“It’s not! You can’t prove that!” Lila insisted.

Juleka looked up from her phone. “Even if we can’t prove one way or the other on Ladybug, I just texted Luka and he confirmed that he doesn’t even know a Lila. And I know you weren’t there when we were coming up with any of the songs. So that’s two lies for sure.”

“And your helping Marinette’s another one. As was your claim on introducing her to herself.”

Lila looked away, nervous now as her lies started to crumble around her. “I was only—”

“You were only lying. Again.” Alya seethed. “And if you were lying about that, I have to wonder what else you’ve been lying to us about.”

Everyone outright glared at Lila with only two exceptions.

One being Adrien, who only shook his head in disappointment at her. His words came back that her lies would only turn everyone against her and now she was starting to see that.

The other was Marinette Dupain-Cheng herself. Who didn’t look angry. Only vindicated, as she smiled at Lila in the most saccharine way.

“Thanks for the opportunity!”

Lila fumed, knowing just what “opportunity” Marinette meant.