Jacquet.txt - Tumblr Posts
Ask me anything! I live for people asking me about UTb / my characters :D
Normalize going into people’s ask boxes and ask them random ass questions.
Tumblr used to be so much fun with all the asks (anonymous or otherwise), and we need to bring those back, especially now that we finally have a half-decent blocking feature in place.
Ask people things! Message them! Don’t let tumblr inbox die! It’s one of the features that made tumblr tumblr.
do you like community (nbc sitcom)
Can't say I've heard of it, will check out later
I headcanon that slugcats aren’t m/f but are hermaphroditic (like real slugs!) and it’s just a matter of presentation they prefer. Intersex slonks my beloved
Ah yes another slug that's doomed by the narrative.
Unless..?
I'm a sucker for great pain yet good endings so you may find yourself pleasantly surprised!
Not me wanting to make a self indulgent RW oc comic.. I know exactly what I want to do with Lover and what characters to introduce and how her ending goes. The most bioengineered story to make you cry
God what the hell. Twitter is so unsustainable. I made an alt acc and had to do 3 Arkose tests before they decided to suspend me. Then I get a nice little message telling me if I want to look at more tweets I need to subscribe. Cheery.
there's something i've wanted to get off my chest for a while now from how a certain community has affected me and how i feel about it and yet their community is the type that would start lashing out if i did so. hint hint they end in -verse
I'm writing + talking to friends and I'm going crazy but I like to think that slugcats and scavengers are both sophonts but they may have language (body and verbal) differences that prevent the two species from forming alliances like that without trade / favours like saving lives. That slugcats only really spawn when in larger numbers in the first place but are more prone to nomadic lifestyles while scavengers largely prefer 'clan life' and craft their own structures(?) and tools
Does anyone want to listen to me ramble about my slugcat characters. If so hit me up on Disc. (DESTR✦YUSALL#9230)!
by the way if you whine about 'purity culture' and that's summed up to you getting upset when someone says you're a freak for jerking it to lolisho zoo shit get the HELL out of here. my content is not, never has been, and never will be for degens
No, I don’t want a cohost acc. Why should I use Artfol. Inkblot’s UI brings me agony. I barely use Bluesky (Twitter 2) and when I do it’s 18+. No, I don’t want your new platform.
If you want to move platforms that’s your right but after going through wave after wave after wave of platform migration started by panic / outrage at the new thing™ and ending right where we started I must say: I can’t keep doing this shit.
No, Christ, I don’t want Buzz.ly 3. Because in a month or two more than half of you are right back where you started because the commissioners aren’t following you and you have to crawl right back, and yet we’re doomed to repeat this shit for some reason.
Hey. If you’re wondering why I haven’t been drawing much, it’s because AI has sort of sucked the wind out of my sails.
It’s very defeatist, I know, but knowing I can spend hours on an art piece and it gets thrown into a machine and it spits something out that’s “better” in half the time is certainly humbling.
They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.
how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes
(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)
First, get an RSS reader*:
Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader
Android: Feeder
iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire
You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.
Some feed URLs for social media:
Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)
Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)
Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)
Mastodon: Use instance.url/@username.rss
Deviantart: Info here
Spacehey: Info here
Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="
Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.
Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.
(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)
Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).
*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.
bonus points when they notice when something is extremely wrong with this animal but they continue to describe it as one because what else could it be to them
narration from a slugcat pov that mistakes an iterator for another animal >>>>>>>
tfw you want personalised tips on how to start your transition but harrassment campaigns against trans people online has tailored the urge to never talk about your agab
I'm sorry guys who followed me for weirdnimal worldbuilding Rainworld has taken over my brain like a parasitic fungus (i think i hauve covid)
I saw a post from a creator I've followed for a while, and they said 'If my story is bad from a technical / artistic standpoint, I'd rather make a bad story' and honestly speaking and there was no resistance in my mind because they're right.
I'd rather UTb be sloppy and weird and bad because I love it that way. Art is raw humanity channeled, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Yes even if the art is bad
I think something I like about tumblr is the fact that its the least grindy of the platforms I've been on. You don't need to worry about 'being relevant'. Posts from months ago at any point can be picked up by someone and go off. The culture here is much more lax, me like that