MY GOD WHAT HAVE I FOUND XD

I'm not sorry for having you know this exists XD

found the source in case anyone else also wanted the full version of the song

When fans are going utterly berserk for your thing but you're on strike🥺

Andy Lee

The Prodigy crew, by Jason Meier, who is currently working on season two which we're all hoping gets released!

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

Something I see mentioned often is "I don't have many followers, my reblog won't matter" which is untrue.

First of all, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could go in the long run.

For instance, let's say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!

You see, it does not matter if you don't have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.

As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it'll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don't have many followers and so it doesn't matter if you don't reblog is UNTRUE.

Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it's beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn't know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!

So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you're not 'big' or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!

P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :'D <3

TL;DR

Reblogging is absolutely the only thing that helps the site function. Unlike all other social media, likes are nothing here. They are meaningless. Reblogs are the only way to truly say you like something. The only way to make the site work as intended. I know it feels weird, that likes are soooo important on other sites like Instagram and TikTok. This is the anti Instagram. The anti TikTok. Tumblr needs reblogs to thrive. It's like water to a thirsty critter in the desert. Please 🥺 help the thirsty critters!

A like is basically one step below a bookmark.

this is so fun

Go! Go! Go!

Lots of new ships from Discovery season three and Picard season one, from Eaglemoss' latest Star Trek: Shipyards book. I love that one is a flying island and that after all the scorn placed on Picard's season one finale "copy and paste fleet" it turns out there were actually three different subclasses of the Inquiry class present after all.

If we don't get to go aboard an angelou-class in the final season, then what is the point of the final season?

MSD cutaway of the USS Defiant showing 4 decks and the Defiant’s turbolift graphic showing 8 decks.  *imagines decks 5-8 being some kind of extra-dimensional bizarro world*

Naw, it has eight decks.

But in order to fit eight decks into such a small ship, they compressed decks 1 and 2 into one deck, as well as 3 and 4, and they had to cut out decks 6 and 7 entirely.

So eight deck Defiant!

The Promenade directory, Deep Space Nine. Spot the in-jokes and references.

Tag yourselves. I’m Andorian Fast Food

Hi, I’m Fredrickson’s Squid Vendor.

I feel I should say something about “Pancho’s happy bottom riding club” but I have no words.

Pancho’s Happy Bottom Riding Club is a reference to the real life Happy Bottom Riding Club dude ranch, restaurant, and bar that used to operate near what is now Edwards Airforce Base. It was a popular hangout for test pilots and became famous as the hang out for Chuck Yeager, the first supersonic pilot.

And just to prove how much of a sad nerd I am, I’ll explain the rest of the references on the list…

Most of the rest of the remaining named listing are shoutouts to the production staff of Deep Space 9

A quick, sloppy little comic about Magritte

ELLE FANNING The Hollywood Reporter for our Comedy Actress Roundtable (2023)

there are three types of pigeon breeds: "just your average french fry thief," "a little weird but nothing to write home about," and "what the fuck"

normal dude. just loitering around the city. kinda funky, interesting colorway, but feral pigeons have plenty of variety. not really of any particular note, all things considered

u know, that one’s a bit of an oddity right there. in the realm of weird, yeah, but i can still connect point A to point Z

what the fuck. no, seriously, what the fuck is this. how did you get to this morphology via selective breeding. what led you to choose to continue this at each and every step. what.

bonus: why they ourple

The portraits Onoda gathered not only show the varied interior designs in the Plant’s apartments, but also their inhabitants. We chose to publish a select gallery because we were unable to find the contact information for many of the residents. Onoda interpreted this as the Obara Nori maintaining privacy even after the apartments had shut down.

I just want them to hear them explain themselves in monotone voices, Wes Anderson dialogue style.

this always gets me very warm in the face >/////<

Too good not to have here lol

After 8 foot tall lady dimitrescu went on a rampage through the internet getting everyone horny as fuck, I stopped being dysphoric about my height and instead use it to my advantage

USS Bonchune (Nebula Class) Bridge by Tadeo D'Oria

ok but this scene with Live Action Boimler doing exactly the same scream that his animated self always does is so, sooo funny

Spaceship over the City - Pt 1

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