#I need a business website

[indolentjellyfish]

Squid glass dip pens!

I didn't get much torch time this summer so instead of trying to churn out a bunch of the same old I decided to learn a new skill. I haven't perfected it yet but I'm getting there.

[watcherglowcloud]

everyone in charge of making university websites should be blown up with a big kaboom i think

[megumi-fm]

hi i have been inactive for a while due to the chk chk boom. hope you understand.

[recurring-polynya]

I often see posts on here about your Moral Obligation to Reblog (which I don't really agree with), but I don't ever see the argument that reblogging is fun and nets you followers. I love seeing stuff on my dash. I open Tumblr seventeen times a day in order to See the Posts. I like it when there are more of them. If I get a new follower, or someone reblogs one of my posts, I often go check out their blog, and if I like a high proportion of what's there, I'll follow 'em. It's cool to be a creator in a fandom, but liking stuff and being enthusiastic about stuff is a really important role you can have, too. I've only been on Tumblr since 2019, but even then, posts in my fandom seemed to circulate a lot more, especially older ones, and I miss that. People would just find something from a few years ago and say "HEY REMEMBER THIS? IT WAS SO COOL!" and I would think "I DO REMEMBER THAT AND IT WAS!" or maybe I hadn't seen it because new people join all the time. I don't care if I have seen a post eight times. I don't usually even mind if I see a post eight times today. I recognize your name and I think "oh ThatPerson liked that cool post, too!" If you add tags? Amazing. Fantastic. Instantly quadruples the chance of follow. They don't even have to be witty tags. "This episode was sooooo funny!" or "I love Blorbo in a jean jacket he's just like me fr!" or "OPartist I love the colors you picked!" make this place feel so much friendlier. As far as being fun--a cool thing about Tumblr is that if you reblog a thing, you get the notifs and OP gets the notifs. Yeah yeah yeah, I'm sure the notifs are a pain if you actually go viral, but I don't think that's a thing most of us every worry about. I love to get notes! It's fun to get notes even if I didn't make the post, because I see who else thought that post was funny! Do you know how good it feels to find some neat piece of art with 6 notes and you reblog it and it gets 10 or 30 or 100 more and you get to see that?

Anyway, reblogging is fun and cool. Tumblr even lets you make sideblogs, so if you want to have a dedicated blog to just your art (or whatever), you can make a sideblog for reblogging. Or, hear me out--people will come for your reblogs and then end up liking the things you make, too.

[probayern]

i think after the euros i'm banning myself from tumblr and twitter for two weeks. need a phone cleanse. love and light to transfer season but i'll find out who we got later

[wild-at-mind]

You cannot absolve yourself from the fact of your existence in a country that has done horrible things in the past and present by failing to vote. Sorry.

Should you need to absolve your own existence? Some people talk as if you do, but personally I passionately do not think so. Guilt and actions caused by it do not create good activism. The person who convinces themselves that voting is the same as committing war crimes themselves will have a lot of difficulty with basically anything they apply that standard to. That's the problem with society- you can't opt out, not really. Not even with the hyper-anarchist existence I was trying to describe recently. Everything we do, if through enough degrees of separation, harms someone. Anything we need to survive in this world- clothes, food, electronics. We know this. We have to live with this, and not succomb to the type of thinking that most closely resembles OCD with morality fixation. When I see people behaving like this, it blows my mind, like I spent so long trying to unlearn these thought patterns and you're doing it to yourselves?!!

Society is currently set up so that we have to harm people all the time, from living in countries that sanction wars in other countries to damaging the planet. We have to live with that in the here and now, and do what we can when we can. Of course we can ask for better, but I firmly believe the only way to work towards better is to work within society and make connections to others rather than driving them away with this absolutist guilting and hostility to each other. Do not take on a burden of guilt that the person you passed on the street doesn't have. We cannot make society better if we are constantly stumbling under the burden of guilt.

Signed- an OCDer and eco activist

[kendallroysmethpipe]

I'm going to say something. Making callout or warning posts abt people (particularly transfems I've noticed) specifically because they have distasteful fetishes/kinks when their blogs already have trigger warnings and explicitly state the things they're into and warn people not to follow or interact if it's something that makes them uncomfortable is unnecessary as fuck just block them and move on

[avatardoggo]

sooo i gave FG his birthday present 😭🫣🥹

[shima-draws]

Currently in my banging my head against the wall phase. Hope you all are well 🥰

[quicksilversquared]

Had an idiot pull out of the (completely stopped) left lane directly in front of my car (going ~30 mph, because the right lane wasn't clogged) when driving home today- without signalling, and presumably without checking to see if anyone was coming- and missed hitting them by about a foot when I stomped on the brakes. Then I went to the grocery store, and apparently their website lies about not only which aisle some of their products are in, but also what products they actually carry, so 3 of the five items I made the trip for to get weren't actually there. They are apparently also not carried at the local Target, and the other local grocery store's search function is apparently completely down at the moment, so no way to tell without going in person if they have those spices or not (and the store is a pain in the ass to get out of most of the time- well, at least the parking lot is). Got home, found out that I'll not be able to use the ceiling light in my room for probably a month because it's acting up (flashing when turned on, intermittent flickering at other times) and the landlady is going on vacation for two weeks starting this weekend, so can't schedule a maintenance person before she takes off (and will presumably take a week or so to get someone scheduled upon returning) (she is ordering a light stand to use in the meantime, but overhead is so much better) (worth pointing out tho that I first brought up the flickering at the start of July, before I went on my trip, and it remained unaddressed for a month and a half). Then I found out that one of the keys on my keyboard isn't working (the down arrow), so that will have to be addressed at some point, but this is the week leading up to the start of the semester and is therefore the most chaotic time to a) schedule a repair consultation with the local computer place and b) not have my computer (hopefully only for a day or so).

....yay Monday.

(also had some stuff in the lab not work out the way that it was supposed to- like, diluting a DNA sample should not have resulted in an increased concentration reading. So I get to figure that out with my advisor tomorrow. Yippee.)

[cozylittleartblog]

So how are you dealing with the red bubble situation

the redbubble situation is absolute horse shit since the margins on that website are already so small. yes, it's the price you pay for a completely hands-off selling experience, and yes you can set your own rates, but the increases they're asking for are absolutely ridiculous. it's like 50% for some of the smaller profits. good Lord they should have just increased their prices, not even etsy is that bad and etsy's fees are Harsh

i am lucky enough to have been put in the premium tier from the start for some reason, so for now my redbubble will stay open. i need the money and don't want to prematurely cut off my no-effort $20 i get every three to six months lmfao

i have an etsy!! but i also have a Teepublic, which is owned by the same company as redbubble but still functions as it's own separate thing, so this fees system may not come there. you can't adjust your margins but there's no minimum monthly payout amount, so if you make $2 in a month you will Get that $2 that month. also the product editor is way nicer and easier to use. i will be shifting more of my designs over to teepublic in case i do decide to close my redbubble at some point.

on that note, if anybody would like to join teepublic after closing their redbubble (or if you'd just like to get into print-on-demand websites in general and want to Also help out an artist you like), please sign up through my teepublic referral code B) i get $1 for every sale you make and it doesn't come out of Your margins, so you still make your full amount.

tl;dr - fuck redbubble but mine will stay open until i get dropped into the fees tier because i need money, also i have two other shops to fall back on thankfully. also everyone should sign up for teepublic

[the-lavender-clown]

GUYS ITS HAPPENING

GUESS WHO FINALLY PLACED THEIR FIRST STICKER ORDER AND BOUGHT SHIPPING THINGS FROM AMAZON!!!!

[russellmaelofficial]

just letting the jokes write themselves i guess

[stardustspell]

I wish I could afford a personal assistant for like 5 business days because good god I need one.

[bbbartblog]

In the beginning of the month I started to post my PonyxMuffy fancomic on The Duck Webcomics, after discovering that I can still access my old account, and I got featured~! They even wrote a little blurb about it!

It's always fun to see people describe my art hehe

[bare1ythere]

help trying to prepare visas and other practical stuff for an exchange term with the deadline so close is the most stressful thing I've done in a long time