[Image description: fantasy high fan art; Fabian, a half-elf boy with brown skin and white hair, sits on the floor. He is reclined slightly, looking down at his crystal/phone. He isn’t wearing his eye patch. Perched on the bed behind him is Cathilda, a middle-aged halfling woman dressed in a pale blue dress and apron, doing his hair. Half of his hair is already in twists, and she is separating a new section with the end of a comb. They both seem content and relaxed, smiling slightly. End description.]
also i think it’s funny how tumblr was like “you can pay to see someone’s posts” and we were all like FUCK you and they were like “… pay to… inflict your own posts… on others?” and we were like
yknow, people talk about the tumblr userbase being reclusive and stubborn (and we are), but its worth noting that we’re also aggressively social.
we dont NEED algorithms, because thats OUR job, and we take pride in it. we WANT to do the work ourselves! we WANT to tell people ourselves!
we dont NEED our blogs to look the same, because we wanna make our OWN themes, and share them with each other, and experiment!
our most successful april fools days are the ones that just gave us new avenues to SCREAM REALLY LOUDLY in (promoting candidates in the 2016 election, turning our dashboards into semi-randomized rube goldberg machines of text and emojis in 2022).
we’re always constantly ramping things up to eleven, so the best enrichment toy for us is just. see this ball? feel free to throw it as hard as you want.
> we’re also aggressively social
oh. I just realised.
this is what actual social media is. instead of the other websites, which are advertising media that pretend they’re social media.
Fantasy High is so funny to me. Rather than seeing 6 teenagers end up in one giant love triangle thing, we instead get 6 random teenagers meeting in detention, becoming best friends and then becoming siblings by law because all their parents start fucking.
