fizzybubblespop said: OH, HI!! (timing?? its late @_@ i fear i’ve missed something)
I’d actually just been kinda sad about not having many followers, and RIGHT THEN you followed me XD
Quality over quantity~
jochai replied to your post: I tagged a post “watching attack on titan” and…
whereas it seems that nothing I do gains me any followers at all XD I think I’ll just give up and confess that I fail tumblr foreverjust like, paste it everywhere that you have a tumblr so people on other places no…
I’m, er, not really ON other places so much anymore :/ LJ is sort of dead, that’s why I came to tumblr in the first place. I’m kinda doing what I always did (some drawing, some writing), but I guess my style just doesn’t attract people? Like, I had a fanart post with about 300 notes, which is more than anything before, but no new followers *shrug*
I’ll probably hang around, if only so I can be like “hey MW is finished” one day. But it’s kinda depressing.if you really want followers and recognition for your work, the best thing to do is to talk to other people on tumblr and form friendships. most popular fandom bloggers like talking to people, and even if your just talking to a small clique of people who aren’t so popular, the personal touch it adds to your blog helps it look more attractive. (and you can queue posts so your blog still puts up content while you’re offline, making your blog look a lot more active then it otherwise would.) I’m also certain I have so many followers because I spend an almost unhealthy amount of time online… :) if you look at blogs like pax-etlux (is that spelled right? shit) who created a blog just to post art and ended up interacting with others in an open way that made blogging 10x better. I, honestly, could care less about follower count, but the people I talk to on here and friendships I’ve made make the blogging worthwhile.
gah now I sound all mushy. sorry.
you’re not mushy, that’s what this kind of thing is for :) I’m glad you’re having a good experience
haha, guess I’m just a dinosaur, then. I just don’t know HOW to talk to people on tumblr. Reblogging feels like shouting into the ether, half the time nobody responds anyway, and if there are a lot of notes, nobody sees it.
I guess it’s not so much that I *want* followers and recognition, I mean, I’ve never been very popular in fandom or very well known. I’m kind of used to having a small corner and that’s okay with me. (fun fact: Mirrorworld nearly got abandoned about 15 chapters in because I got discouraged by the radio silence. At one point, I was basically just writing for my beta).
But because I feel like I don’t know how to talk to anybody on tumblr, I just end up feeling like there’s nobody there, so there’s no point. *goes back to dreamwidth*
jochai replied to your post: I tagged a post “watching attack on titan” and…
whereas it seems that nothing I do gains me any followers at all XD I think I’ll just give up and confess that I fail tumblr foreverjust like, paste it everywhere that you have a tumblr so people on other places no…
I’m, er, not really ON other places so much anymore :/ LJ is sort of dead, that’s why I came to tumblr in the first place. I’m kinda doing what I always did (some drawing, some writing), but I guess my style just doesn’t attract people? Like, I had a fanart post with about 300 notes, which is more than anything before, but no new followers *shrug*
I’ll probably hang around, if only so I can be like “hey MW is finished” one day. But it’s kinda depressing.
*stranger responding to your last post about 'corporal' Levi* My only explanation is that Corporal doesn't mean the same rank in that world as it does in ours. Remember it's centuries in the future, they might have shook up the system a bit, you know? Also I have sometimes seen his rank translated as "captain" anyhow, which IS a respectable officer rank in the military ladder, so I'm hoping the answer is actually one of those two things.
*waves* howdy, stranger!
It may be a bit more significant in their world than in ours, but Isayama still chose a pretty low rank for him. Seriously, not even an officer XDDD. I mean, yes there’s the option that Isayama knows nothing about military ranks and just made an embarrassing mistake, but the research so far has been pretty good, so I’m disinclined to believe that.
I think that “captain” would be a mistranslation, because all of my dictionaries translate 兵長 as some variation on corporal. It’s not even a modern rank, actually, it was apparently used in the former Japanese army/navy.
Actually-actually, some list it as being lower than a regular corporal.
I think it’s interesting to think about why he might have such a low rank. Personally, I may stick with the theory that for some reason, he’s being blocked from being promoted, either because of personal preference, or because of conspiracy, or because he doesn’t play nice. I think that rolling with his rank, however low it may be, and seeing where it takes his character is pretty interesting, actually :)
Corporal Levi
I think the funniest thing about Levi is that he’s this super-awesome-amazing titan killer, and he does all this stuff, and he’s just… a corporal. That’s like really low in the military hierarchy. It’s not even an officer.
Where I live it’s what you get for just being in the army for like 6 months so they promote you ‘cause they have to.
So, either:
1) Levi’s SUPER badass because he’s been in the recon corps for half a year and is already the #1 asskicker
OR
2) He’s a total pain in the ass and they’re like, “you stay there and kill titans, leave the actual soldiering for us serious people”. And maybe he’s okay with that because it leaves him free to just kill titans all day or something.
