For example: when I update my ask blog a certain amount of times, I tend to get noticed quite a bit from random people who (outside of sending asks for the blog) want to just talk. A good portion of this comes from including other people’s OC’s in my posts, so of course something like this was to be expected. But whenever I stop updating for any period of time (be it because of schoolwork, art block, important IRL issues, etc.), a noticeable amount of those people simply stop communicating like I had simply vanished.

There are those very few, though, who I cherish the most because no matter how long the hiatus, they continue communicating with me. They’re the ones that taught me that follower count doesn’t matter as much as those you retain as friends or faithful followers. I couldn’t be more thankful to those few who make sticking around this fandom (and Tumblr in general) just a little more worth it!

- submitted by Anonymous