“Me and who” you and whoever you’re thinking about if you tell them how you feel! The age of yearning is OVER go get what you want! Tell a friend you’re in love with them today!
The way that you react to this clip is a litmus test for if you’ve ever been autistic in public school or not
For example, HERE is someone who HASN’T been
Okay, for people who may not get it:
What is being shown here is the exact type of bullying that lots of autistic people (and, in general, people who miss social cues) are subjected to in school. ‘Popular girls’ have a tendency to attempt to befriend their autistic peers for the sake of being their circus freak.
Chelsea in this clip is constantly invading Ruby’s personal space, grabbing at her, and is never not talking down to her. She doesn’t rebuke Ruby’s self-deprecating beliefs (instead opting for a “yeah, you ARE a freak BUT…” approach). Chelsea is literally manipulating Ruby into ditching school in this clip, and we KNOW, based off of other trailers, that she has bad intentions.
Chelsea is a bully pretending to be a friend, and Ruby can’t read her well enough to grasp that Chelsea is treating her like a weird little pet more than a peer. And, as an autistic person who grew up facing this type of bullying, I am now hypersensitive to it, and can see it from a mile away.
Concept: Zuko sending izumi to a regular school so she could have some semblance of a normal childhood, she doesn’t realize completely yet that she’s the crown princess and that she’s any different from her classmates. One day teacher sends home permission forms for s field trip and asks parents to help chaperone and izumi BEGS zuko BEGS him to chaperone the trip and zuko cant say no so he works around his schedule to go on this field trip with izumi and the rest of her classmates are like wtf wtf wtf the firelord is here??????
Izumi’s teacher:F-Firelord Zuko?
Zuko: It’s Lee, actually.
Zuko: The Firelord’s scar is on the other side
Every child in the class: * holds up a picture of Zuko they made out of noodles * No it’s not!
Zuko, standing beneath an official portrait of himself without realizing it: No, I’m pretty sure it is
And the tradition of Life Changing Field Trips with Zuko continues.
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
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 ofall, 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
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