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Late night thoughts

Silver Pokemon Rings made by Stephen Hoang

Ghost Embroidered Converse // Hoai on Etsy

Def no need for apologies, your health (mental or otherwise) comes first. Def glad to see you back, but don't force yourself to do things you're not up for. If that means posting less often, that's ok! You do what you gotta do for *you*!

I do hope things get better for ya soon though :< lmk if I can ever help you out at all!

Thanks a ton, it means the world to me that y'all care about me :>

The only thing I'd probably say I need help with still is money for my cat's surgery bill. It was pretty high, so it's taking me a bit to pay back my MIL for it. Plus it's with interest, so I'm sorta scrambling to pay her back more quickly.

I can offer my P@yP@l link again for those willing to donate a little bit of money to help me pay that off.

Other than that, I just need to get back into the groove of things! And I'm slowly shaking myself out of it like a dog with a chew toy.

Once again, I really do appreciate the love and support y'all have for me. It makes me feel so at home to know we're all willing to help one another in any way we can, and I think that's great.

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[We've just added some custom scalemail earrings to our Etsy!]

Super light-weight, super jingly, and super cute custom backing art!

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Emergency Comms (help me afford to live)

I've been staying in a hotel since May 6, the only one that would take me because I'm 19. After all those months I've finally been able to land a cheap apartment. 650/month all utilities paid. However as you can see, i cant afford that now. I'm unemployed right now because I'm disabled. My one and only source of income is commissions.

My usual commission info can be found here, but because I need money I'm also accepting Pay What You Want commissions.

Paypal - @ mothwithapencil or bluebellviorel@gmail.com

Venmo - @ mothwithapencil

DM me or send me an ask proving you sent something, and I'll try my best to at least give you a sketch of whatever you want as long as it's not illegal or pr0shippy/generally evil or nsfw in some way. You can give me a ref of your character or anything. If you want you can leave your email in the message so I can send you the full quality image. You can also commission me with my regular prices if you'd like.

Literally anything helps! A pretty expansive exhibit of my art can be found by searching my account for my art tag, #moths art, but here's some random examples of what i can do:

Reblogs help !!!! I am really struggling so everything you can spare helps!!!!

Me

hello friends! i'm once again in i-cant-buy-goodies-online-because-i-live-in-nightmare-country hell. would anybody be interested in a colored sketch for $60? paypal, single character fullbody, simple bg, humans/pokemon/furry/robots/etc etc is all good. shoot me a message!

The Do’s & Don'ts of interacting w/ content creators, & other people you don’t know well mutually I slapped together for Twitter.

This ended up being more Don'ts than Dos but I feel like people need more help learning what NOT to say once they stray away from simple compliments and questions.

Ive seen multiple posts from reddit refuges that go like "im queer and its so welcoming here!" Or "im nonbinary and dont get quized on my gender here!" Or "im autistic and i can be weird here and yall like it!" And its so fuckin cute its like yes hi hello welcome this is the gay ass autistic website we love special interests we love weird genders we love just saying random shit and the just happy surprised tone of those posts is so wholesome to me like yes! hi! you are in fact the target audience! welcome home

My favorite current reddit protest. r/pics is only allowing submissions of John Oliver.

Reddit management threatening note to protesting moderators:

If I were a pro-protest subreddit member with sneaky intentions, here's what I would do:

I would get together with some other members and, after privately contacting the existing mod team to make sure they are on board, we would apply to be moderators. Then we would use this generous offer to become senior moderators and displace the protesting moderators like the scabs we are. Then we would reopen the sub.

Then, after a few hours to allow management to enjoy their victory, we would close it again.

After a couple of days, another band of clean-cut Company MenTM would step up and displace us. And then they would do it again.

I have faith in Redditors. They are the most thrawn of social media users. They can win this fight.

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

So like, the Reddit strike going on right now, yeah? I've been seeing a lot of people comment on how they appreciate the protest and then go on to say that this has the notable downside of them constantly looking up questions and not being able to easily find the answers because all of the easily-findable answers are exclusively on Reddit. I am not sure if most of the people making this observation are within the line of thought of "man, maybe this protest isn't such a good idea after all" or "man, it really sucks that we've let the internet get so consolidated," and I'm really hoping its the latter.

Like, all of this? This right here? Reddit making a shitty, anti-consumer grab for money and control over how people are allowed to access the information on their servers, and the website going dark in protest causing tons of people to not be able to access important information? This is exactly what people mean when they say that it's bad that the internet has shrunk down so much and is mostly comprised of, like, 10 websites. It's a fucking problem that one company making one bad decision and causing their website to crash and burn can jeopardize so much of humanity's cumulative information.

This two-day glimpse into the internet without Reddit is the warning shot. Imagine what will happen if Reddit actually goes down for good for one reason or another one day. Imagine what will happen if/when Discord or Fandom bites the dust, or gets rendered practically-unusable without paying an ever-increasing premium because they're owned by blood-sucking corporate leeches.

Another big thing is Twitter clamping down really hard on your ability to DM people if you don't have Twitter Blue. If this goes through, it'll put a ton of artists and sex workers who rely on Twitter DMs for their business operation into a shitty situation. Now, obviously, it's not gonna be the end of the world for them, but once again, it feels like a warning shot to me. Twitter is a sinking ship, and unless something changes and it starts to course-correct, I worry that it'll go under and all of the creators who rely on it will suddenly be in an extremely precarious situation.

These are the sorts of things that we, as the users of the internet, need to seriously think about as time goes on, and if we don't find an adequate answer sooner, we're going to pay for it later. I still hold that the best solution is to start making and using more individual, niche websites. Things like Twitter, Reddit, Discord, etc. have their place, of course, but I seriously think a lot was lost through the death of things like individual forums and the existence of many different wiki-hosting sites.

We need a concerted effort, not just on the side of larger creators, but on the users themselves, to stop exclusively using these larger websites and support the creation and growth of smaller, more niche websites, and prevent a catastrophe before it actually happens. I simply hope that people with larger platforms than my own pick up on all this and start talking about it and swaying people to act sooner rather than later. I know it's possible to correct the problem of the mysteriously tiny internet before a modern Library of Alexandria moment happens, I just don't know if that correction will actually happen in time.

ok since i don't think i've seen any semi-comprehensive lists of the tumblr holidays for the reddit refugees, here it is.

IT JUST HAPPENS

DAY 15 GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

Thursday the 20th

The Fifth of Wednesday

Sometime in June: That One Halloween Post Starts Circulating

Sometime in July: Dancing Pumpkin Man Video/Gif

WEEKLY EVENTS

Every Monday: El Muchacho Monday

Every Tuesday: Tuesday Again? No Problem...

Every Wednesday: Wet Beast Wednesday

Every Thursday: Out of Touch Thursday

Every Friday: Flat Fuck Friday

Every Saturday: Don't @ Me, I'm Chilling/Caturday

Every Sunday: Fingers In His Ass Sunday

YEARLY EVENTS

January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day

January 29: Threshold Day

All of February: Funguary

February 14: Aromantic/Asexual Day

March 9: Miku Day

March 10: Mario Day

March 14: Pi Day

March 15: Ides of March

March 23: Ever Given Got Stuck Today

April 1: Mishapocalypse

April 2: Dashcon Announcement Anniversary

April 3: Dannypocalypse

April 8: Rex Manning Day

ALSO April 8: MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD

April 13: Neil Banging Out The Tunes

ALSO April 13: Homestuck Day

April 20: haha 420 blaze it

April 25: The Perfect Date

April 28: Ed Balls Day

April 30: It's Gonna Be May

All of May: Mermay

May 3: Beginning of Dracula Daily

May 4: May the 4th Be With You

May 5: Revenge of the Fifth

May 25: The Glorious 25th of May

All of June: Pride Month

ALSO All of June: IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

June 5: Barricade Day

June 16: Let Papyrus Say Fuck

July 20: Moon Landing

September 8: The Queen Is Dead and Sans Undertale Killed Her

September 21: DO YOU REMEMBER-

All of October: SKELETON WAR

ALSO All of October: Inktober

October 3: Mean Girls Day

ALSO October 3: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Day

October 20: Unnecessary Feelings Day

October 31: HALLOWEEN

November 5: honestly what didn't happen that day

November 19: Goncharov

All of December: Will the Gävle Goat Get Destroyed Again?

December 10: Please, It's Christmas

December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS

Alola folks, glad to finally be back on the scene of things and stuff. Unfortunately, I have found myself in a slight pickle (and I don’t like pickles).

My M-I-L (who I respect A TON and everything) has been breathing down my neck for things regarding my kitten, Chia. I appreciate her looking out for the wellbeing of my kitty, but she does get on my ass about things way often than not.

Because of the slow season at work, I’m not getting a ton of hours, which means not a lot of money for things for my kitty and myself. I’m suppose to be taking my kitten to the vet for her shots and other checkup stuff on Tuesday, and I don’t know if I’ll have the money to pay for vet expenses.

If anybody could spare a few dollars to help me and my kitty out, I’d mean a lot to me. And if you can’t spare money, reblogging to get this out there would help too.

I thank everyone to sticking around during my year-long “hiatus” and enjoying my return to form. And I super thank anyone who helps boost this or donates, it means more than the world to me.

https://www.paypal.me/ashleigharts P-Pal link to donate

it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

[Image Description: Digital art of Ted and Nick from Kid 'n' Teenagers. Nick is in werewolf form. They're standing side-by-side, looking at each other. Behind them there are a few leafless trees and a nighttime sky with some stars and the full moon. The art is signed "Tundra Echos 2022." End Image Description.]

Happy Halloween! @z-t00n

🐺 Content on Tumblr is circulated by the users, not the algorithm. If you like my work, please reblog it so that more people will see it. You don't need to say anything, just click the reblog button!! 🍉

Tis the season

Hey keep the music train goin here’s a full release! ENJOY the cool choir sample. sleep to this song, wake up to this song, eat to this song.

SOUNDCLOUD LINK

SPOTIFY SOOOON