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[pusangkambing]

And you run and hide and forget as hard as you can, as far as you can go, only to end up right back where you started...

[gothamsfinestdummy]

Some Pinkys

[taruruchi]

𝐃𝐚𝐲 3: 𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭

PLEASE click on it for better quality 😭 Tumblr ruined it 😔

Bonus: There's a reference to Spy x Family here...

Which is the timer in the corners of Azul's panels!

Also, here are the reaction pictures I referenced if you wanna use them HAHAHA

Taglist: @solxima @angelwishess @scint1llat3 @distant-velleity @twtysevapr @cynthinesia @h0neybane @viperbunnies @linabirb @thehollowwriter @wafflethewitchboy @siphoklansan @jewelulu @skibidibabygirl @jadelover69 (ask me if you wanna be added/removed!)

[writtenbyan-aries]

My Favorite Edit | Matt Sturniolo

I asked a friend of mine to make me t w o different edits for t w o different one shots, so the credit for these edits is all her! 🖤 The edit will be posted within the fanfic, but her socials are linked right below! I’m also pretty sure tumblr ruined the quality, so if you wanna see it without tumblr quality, click below.

Instagram - jas.sturn_ | TikTok - http.sturnx

Here is Chris’ version 🖤

∶ Summary: While doing an interview, reader gets asked about fan edits

∶ Warnings: slight flirting, kissing, fluff

∶ Word Count: 2.7k | unedited

─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ───

“Hello hello everybody, and welcome back to the podcast.”

You smile at the host, Lydia, as she continues, “I know you all have wanted me to bring on y/n, and let me tell you the wait is over because, for the listeners, I have her sitting right across from me, hello, y/n.”

“Hello, Lydia. Thank you so much for having me on!” You smile and she scoffs, “Thank you for coming on! I cannot tell you how many comments I’ve seen requesting to bring you on.”

“Same with me! I kept seeing stuff like, go on the Chatter Babe Podcast!” You laugh, “I’m just finally happy I get a break to do this!”

“Right, you’re a busy busy girl.” She laughs, “So today, we can talk about whatever it is you want, I mean I have a few topics I want to cover but they should be quick.”

You nod, “Fire away, girl.”

“Okay so first off, is it true that you’re working on a new movie?” She squints and you smirk, “No comment on that.”

She gasps, “I’m getting a yes from that, but I understand that you’re not obligated to speak on it, so moving on. Your last movie, when is it coming out?”

“Should be out within the next month.. it has to go through editing and getting finalized and all of that, but the premiere date is arriving quickly.”

“Can you tell us that date?” Lydia asks and you smile, “February twentieth.”

She gasps, “oh thats my birthday!”

“Wow, that’s so weird..” you reach down into your purse and pull out two tickets to the premiere, “I just happen to have these for that day and I figured you would like to come.”

She gasps louder, “Oh, y/n. You did not!”

“Happy early birthday.” You laugh, “This is also a thank you for bringing me on today.”

“Oh I’m going to cry. You’re literally so sweet.” She takes the tickets, “Oh I’m so exited. I’m going to tell Ryan to cancel anything and everything that he has planned because this is better.”

You laugh, “Oh, no. Don’t say that.”

She shakes her head, letting out a sigh, “anyway.” She laughs, “Oh! Did you see the one edit a fan made? They like took clips from my videos and mashed them with yours to make it look like we collabed finally?”

“No!” You laugh, “I didn’t, but now I kind of want to see it!”

You watch as Lydia pulls it up, turning his phone to let you watch.

“That’s actually crazy.” You lean back, “I mean, they got their wish.” You shake your head, “I have major respect for editors. I see a few pop up on my feed every now and then and I watch them a few times because it amazes me just how much effort they actually put into them.”

“Right? Like I want to know how many hours one edit takes, you know? Like they have to take at least an hour if not more.” Lydia shakes her head, “So you said you see some every now and then, what kind of ones do you get? Sometimes I get the grinch ones and I’m like how and the hell did that get on there?”

You laugh, “No, I get those, too. It always shocks me because I’m like, wait, how did I get here?” You sigh, “I get those, and then every now and then I’ll see some of my friends and I’ll send them to them and be like look at you!”

“Who are those friends?” Lydia tilts her head and you laugh, “some of my girl friends and then the triplets, Nick, Matt, and Chris.”

“Do they like the edits?” She asks and you tilt your head back and forth, “They like the funny ones, like when the fans clip the more funny moments from their weekly videos.”

She nods, “I like the edits that are like synced with the music behind it, you know what I mean.” You nod, “Yes, I like those ones too.”

“So. Speaking of, the triplets..” she smirks and you sigh, smirking at her, “Whaaat?”

“Out of the three of them, do you have an edit that you love the most for just one of them?” She tilts her head and your jaw drops slightly as you laugh, “I love them all equally.”

Lydia points, “Ooh with an answer like that I think you do have one in particular!”

You did have one, one that you vowed to never let see the light of day.

You shake your head, “I mean..”

“See!” She sits criss crossed on her chair and laughs, “Show me! Show me!”

You sign, “Fine, but you can’t tell anyone.” You glance towards the camera, “Not like that matters.” You laugh, pulling up the edit on your phone and you lean over to show her.

“All of you keyboard warriors out there will have to use the sound to your best ability.” She laughs and leans in, staring at the screen as the edit plays.

She leans back with a smirk, “Oh I fucking knew it!”

“No you didn’t, shush.” You put your phone away and you fail at hiding your smile, “He doesn’t know I have this. He doesn’t know anything.”

“Are there secret feelings here that I’m getting a whiff of, because if so, wowza you guys would literally break the internet.” Lydia grips her chair, “Like, I know you guys are close, and for a while there I thought you guys were a thing.”

“We’re just really good friends, Lyd.” You assure, more so trying to convince yourself more than her, “If shit happens, it happens. One thing I’ve learned over the last year, is that you just have to step back and just let things go the way they’re meant to.”

“Wow, that’s actually really good advice, y/n.” She nods, turning to look in the camera, “I’m not going to say any names, but if the person I just watched in this edit is watching, you better step up your game because you’d be stupid not to snatch this bitch up.”

You cover your mouth laughing, “Thank you for that. I hope he got the message.”

She laughs, “I hope it did something.”

After an hour, you were finally done and just chatting off camera, “So does he really not know you have that?”

You shake your head, “That’s one that I kept to myself and until today, wasn’t ever going to see the outside of my folder.”

“I’m serious, you guys would be a hot ass couple.” She raises her brows, “I think after tomorrow.. you’re going to have yourself a date to your movie premiere.”

“After tomorrow, I’m not going to ever get a piece of peace and quiet, especially from them. They’re going to hound me until they know.” You laugh, pulling out your phone, “Speak of the devil.”

You turn your phone, showing her Matt’s name on the screen before answering it, “Hello?”

“Hey, oh wait, you’re not in the middle of that podcast, are you?”

You laugh slightly, “We just wrapped up, you’re good. What’s up?”

“Just wanted to see if you had the rest of the day free, we’re going to catch a movie and I wanted to see if you wanted to go.” Matt pauses and you smirk at Lydia, “Yeah, what time? I need to stop at home first before I come over.”

“I think Nick said, hold on.” He yells to Nick, “What time does the movie start?”

“Six!” Nick answers and Matt repeats to you, “Six.”

“Sounds good. I’ll come over around five.”

“Okay, see you the- oh wait, how’d your podcast thing go?” He asks and you let out a sigh, “I’ll tell you about it then.”

“Okay. See you later.”

“Yep, bye.” You hang up and Lydia smirks, “A movie? What are you going to tell him there?” You shake your head, “No, I’m going to try and hold off on that until the podcast drops.”

“We’ll see about that.” She smirks, “I’ll let you know when the pod is about to drop.”

“A heads up, perfect.”

─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ───

You managed to make it through dinner, the car ride, and the movie last night without spilling beans on your little secret.

You were proud of yourself.

You almost let it slip a few times, but covered it up with something like, I told Lydia I can’t talk about it, you’ll see it on the podcast tomorrow.

Well, it was tomorrow, and life as you know it was about to change for the good or for the bad - okay, a little dramatic, but you were nervous.

Your phone rang at eight a.m sharp with Lydia on the other end, “Hey, my producer is about to upload the video.”

“Sounds good.” You sit up, “Thanks for having me on again.”

“Thanks for coming on. I definitely want you back, and oh, thanks again for the tickets! I’m super stoked about it!”

“Anytime!” You hang up and let out a sigh before you get out of bed. As you’re walking to the bathroom, there’s a knock on your door and you stop, walking over to look out.

You laugh as you open the door, “What are you guys doing there?”

“We came here to watch the premier of your podcast with Lydia!” Nick walks in, “We brought breakfast, so don’t worry.”

“I was woken up early, so this better be worth it.” Chris laughs as he walks in and Matt stands there, “Nick messaged Lydia for the time she was dropping it.”

“Of course he did.” You laugh, “she just called me. Said he was uplo-“

“Here it is!” Nick calls out and you close the door, walking over with Matt. He sits down while you stand behind the couch, watching as Lydia’s intro plays.

“Aren’t you gonna sit?” Nick asks and you shake your head, “No, because I feel like I’ll need an easy way to escape the embarrassment here in a minute.”

“Oh now I’m really excited about this.” Chris rubs his hands together and you gently smack him upside the head, “My embarrassment is not for your laughing pleasure, sir.”

“Uh huh. Sure.” He rolled his eyes and you glance at Matt, watching him look away as soon as you catch him looking.

You chew on your lip, taking a deep breath as you hear your voice on the tv. You tilt your head, “Do I really sound like that?”

Nick shushes you and Matt shakes his head, giving you a small smirk. You smile, leaning against the couch as you continue to watch.

Eventually you get to the part that makes you want to run and hide, but you stick it out.

Chris looks at you, “The grinch? Y/n? Really.”

“Shut up.” You laugh, groaning quietly as their name gets brought into it. Nick reaches back, patting your leg, “Thanks for the shoutout, y/n!”

“Oh just wait.” You mumble, rubbing your hand over your face.

“Out of the three of them, do you have an edit that you love the most for just one of them?”

All three of them turn to look at you and you laugh nervously, “Don’t.. look at me like that. I said I love you all equally.”

“Yeah, but one more than the other two.” Chris shakes his head, “Crazy work.”

Nick gasps, “I need to see this edit.“ He stands up, turning around to face you, “Right. Fucking. Now.” You shake your head, “Too. Fucking. Bad. Because no one is ever going to see that edit.”

“Where’s your phone.” Nick crosses his arms and you shrug, “I don’t know.” He scoffs, “Liar.”

You shrug, “It’s not.. that big of a deal, okay. So just-“

“He doesn’t know I have this. He doesn’t know anything.”

“He does now.” Chris and Nick say in unison and you laugh, “You guys don’t know anything. Clearly. That could have been anyone, okay?”

“But it wasn’t.” Nick shakes his head, “Now spill.”

“..but if the person I just watched in this edit is watching, you better step up your game because you’d be stupid not to snatch this bitch up.”

“Well, it’s not me, so.” Nick sits back down and stands back up, “But I still want to see this edit.”

You stare at him for a few seconds before he grabs your arm, “Chris, go. I got her!” You fight back against Nick but he pulls you over the couch and you let out a yell, “Whoa! Hey! You can’t-“ you break out into laughter, “Matt. Help please.”

He moves over and looks down, “All you gotta do is tell us who was in that edit and it can all be over.”

“You’re siding with them!?” You scoff, “That’s not shocking.”

He smirks, “Hey, I’m curious, too.”

“I got it!” Chris yells, running down the steps, “What’s the password.” You laugh, “Go fuck yourself is the password.”

“That won’t work.” Chris huffs and Nick stares at him, “Clearly.” He rolls his eyes, looking down at you, “Just tell us.”

“Matt.” You state and Nick shakes his head, “He isn’t going to help you.” You lift your head, “Matt.” Nick laughs beside going serious, “Oh shit.”

“What, did she finally say who?” Chris asks and Nick looks at him, “Give her the phone.” He nods towards you and lets you sit up. You take the phone and sigh as you get into it, “Here.”

You glance over at Matt, who has a smirk on his face, “Let me see it.” He moves beside you, his hand resting on your shoulder as he leans behind you to watch the edit.

After it ends, it goes quiet and Chris is the first to break the silence, “Y/n likes Matt! Y/n likes Matt!!”

“I mean, who didn’t see this coming?” Nick looks at you, “Lydia was right, you guys act like a married couple half the time anyway.”

“Oh so now you’re not surprised.” You take your phone back and Nick laughs, “I mean, Matt has a secret edit of you that he likes so it’s not really a big deal.”

“How do you know about that?” Matt asks, laughing nervously, “That, I mean.. fuck, fine. Here.” Matt hands you his phone and you go look at the video.

“That’s a good edit.” You smirk, looking over at him. He shakes his head, “Yeah, yeah. We all have edits that we like, so what?”

You stand up, “I’m going to go get ready for the day.” You walk away, mumbling to yourself as you walk up the steps to your room.

As you’re getting your clothes out to change, Matt walks into the door way, “Hey.”

You look up with a smile, “Hey.”

He walks in, closing the door behind him, “So, I guess the feelings are mutual, huh?” You shrug with a nod, “I guess so.”

He walks over, “Lydia is right though.”

You tilt your head, “About?”

He smirks, “That I’m stupid if I don’t snatch you up.”

You shrug, “I wouldn’t say, stupid, necessarily. But I didn’t say anything, so how would you have known to even s-“ Matt cuts you off with a kiss, pulling you in closer by your hips. Your hands slide up his arms to his neck and he leans back, “What do you say?”

“To?” You tilt your head and he smiles, “To finally being my girlfriend?”

You smile, “I say, that that is a great idea because now I finally have a date to my premiere next month.”

“Is that the-“

You cut Matt off with a kiss, “No, of course not.” You smile, “I think it’s great because now, I don’t have to hide how much I actually like you.”

─── ⋆⋅ ☾⋅⋆ ───

Thanks for reading! I love you all so much! Catch you in the next one! 🖤

Likes and reblogs are majorly appreciated!

[byfulcrums]

jean-luc godard for the win!

click for better quality cuz Tumblr ruined it :( also plz rb

Hatsune Miku-fied Whirl for the win lol

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

magnus + n&w?

I like to think that jack is heavy asf. also I put him in a cunty shirt bc I could. tumblr plz don't ruin the quality (click for better quality)

[laismoura-art]

AAAHH! I MADE AN ANIMATION!!! 💙🩷

So three things happened:

1. I asked y'all for outfit ideas for the best girls, Harumi and Lisa!

2. @gwenthefirecracker had this amazing idea:

3. Ibispaint, my beloved, now has a brand new animation feat!

Put these all together and bing bang boom!

You have Scorpion!Harumi being all flushed because her girlfriend is rocking on a new outfit and absolutely destroying their enemies!❄️

Now Fun Fact: Tumblr's dumbass can't read Ibispaint's animation file so I had to make this gif and not only it speeded up the whole thing but also TOTALLY RUINED THE QUALITY!🤡

So as a compensation, please, have the frame by frame set :D

Click for better quality

Final Notes:

Absolutely loved making this outfit for Lisa! It made her look so intimidating and that's exactly the vibe I want for her!

And no, Lisa doesn't believe in pants, pants are for special occasions only! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus: The suit also hints Lisa's Animality👀

On other notes: I CAN DO ANIMATIONS!!! I'M ✨️UNSTOPPABLE✨️ NOW!!!! >:D

@mikka-minns, MA GIRL!! HERE ARE THE GIRLFRIENDS!👀💙🩷

[miserableromance]

this is also like 2 months old i genuinely forgot to post this lmao

(click to get better quality😭🙏🙏 tumblr's ruining the quality like always)

purple blood frank is so real btw

also look at my cat :3

[vnillatree]

Yall said yes to the doodles so now I'll try to post some of them here every friday :] all characters in here are my OCs!

Also did all of these with pen only so ignore any mistakes BCCKSNCK

Click for better quality, I know Tumblr is going to ruin it

reblogs appreciated !!

[aliteraryprincess]

August 2024 Wrap Up

And just like that summer is over. It went by in the blink of an eye. It was a good, if uneventful, month. I had my birthday, which always means new books! And that's enough to make me happy haha.

(Also please click the photo for better quality. Why must tumblr make them look bad?)

Books Read: 9

And it was a pretty great reading month! My favorite was Red Comet, which is current my top read of the year. And I don't think anything better is going to come along, but you never know. My least favorite was A Lesson in Vengeance, which I found disappointing. I was interested in what was happening, but there were a lot of small details that just ruined any believability for me. I also read my first book in French! I'm really proud of myself.

The Dry by Jane Harper - 3.5 stars

The Moors and the Fens by Charlotte Riddell - 3 stars

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee - 2.5 stars

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes - 4 stars

The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 4.5 stars

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim - 4 stars

The Harpy by Megan Hunter - 4 stars

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark - 5 stars

Histoires ou contes du temps passé: contes de ma mère l'oie by Charles Perrault - 5 stars

On Tumblr:

Well at least there's a few things here.

July 2024 Wrap Up

Book Quotes: The Dry by Jane Harper

Book Quotes: The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Tagged: Top 5 Book Poll

On YouTube:

And as always, there's plenty here.

July Wrap Up | 8 books for #janeaustenjuly

What I Read for My PhD in English Literature | Feminist Theory

What Books Have I Reread the Most?

Currently Reading 8/12/24

Birthday Book Haul! (plus some extras)

September TBR | Shaketember, Shorty September, & more!

[sketchissketching]

To celebrate @moonlight-maniac uploading the ref sheet that ruined my life, here's a smidge of my layla art backlog! Also here are Naomi Schaefer (evil redhead. hate her! she's my other fave) from Moonlight Maniac, and my own oc Jennifer Specter (maaaaybe more on her in the future? who knows!) I bet tumblr will mangle these a bit sooooo click for better quality! I hope <:]c

[ch4osm4ster]

Important information about my profile or something;

Hi, my name is Geethee, I come from Poland but currently live somewhere else in Europe, i don't do gender and I like men, aliens and robots. My age is in bio, which will always stay up to date. I have C-PTSD, chronic depression, autism and a dissociation disorder (all which i am diagnosed for). I also experience schizophrenic symptoms from time to time, i take antipsychotics for it but apparently it wasn't bad enough for an official diagnosis. (I know it's a lot and TMI but it's important y'all know this as it can affect my behavior in major ways)

I made this account as the one account I will be keeping as pg13, just in case I will need to show my art work to some people outside my current friend circle. Ex; a job, new friends, family, ...

Currently the only fandom im active in is Rayman, but I am interested in many many more characters from other places. Feel free to ask about them if you're curious, or request art from me of characters that I didn't post on here yet <3

While I mostly post digital art here, I also like to sew, write, design, do some clay work, paint, game, etc. Those things I unfortunately don't take requests for as they take a lot of effort, but my commissions are open!

REMINDER TO ALWAYS CLICK MY ART FOR BETTER QUALITY (Tumblr ruins it with the preview)

Also I DO allow reposts AS LONG AS you credit me :)

[transmonstera]

In regards to your posts about ao3 and how vile it is in actuality, I wanna say thank you. I've not put much thought into the website I've been using but this has put things into perspective. I no longer want my work (work that I am proud of) on a website like that. Ao3 doesn't align with my values and I'm assuming many other people's who use the site.

Do you have any suggestions on a better site everyone can use?

(Side note: I absolutely adore your work!)

sure thing!

while there are no websites quite like ao3 in terms of filtering, curation, bookmarks, likes/comments etc there are a few alternatives out there!

Wattpad - I know people make fun of this one because it's where all the rpf for bands went back in the day but it is still operating and many people use it so you'll likely just switch viewers from ao3 to wattpad pretty seamlessly

Tumblr - you can always post directly on here! there is a character limit i believe of 4k so it's great for showing previews or even cutting up a small fic into parts 1, 2, 3, etc. a little clunky but it's an option if you only write short stuff! (Twitter threads can even be an option for this though again, a lil restrictive and works better for super short works!)

Google Docs + Linktree - if you have a linktree account you can always just link a view only (make sure people can't edit!) google doc of the fic! having the fics on a linktree still give people the ability to see all of your work in one place, and you can even see on linktree the click statistics for each fic! while it doesn't give the reader the ability to like/comment, you can always encourage those who do like it to leave a message on your tumblr!

Discord (or any groupchat tbh!) - similar to above you can always set up a discord server and post your fics view docs links there! it gives a curated experience and you can see the comments of people directly in the server

AO3 has seemingly made people believe that each and everyone one of their fan creations must be thrown out into the void where you hope everyone sees it and loves it. I think this has really stifled people's abilities to truly be creative in terms of making content of their favourite medias (and even with transitioning to making original work!) because you may subconsciously be adhering the current trends and whatnot of everyone else, even if you don't really like it yourself! I mean look at how common modern/high school aus still are today when I have yet to meet anyone who actually likes them. Look at how many books that have been published lately that painfully follow AO3 tag systems, where they don't even havea blurb anymore and instead just have "friends to lovers meet blah blah blah! read it now!". (Not to mention the quality of the books being published is fucking atrocious)

AO3 has ruined publishing and I am being entirely serious about that.

But back to where you wanna go with your fics now. Don't be afraid to restructure how you interact with your hobbies! It doesn't have to be so exposed and vulnerable to anyone and everyone having their say on it. I used to participate massively in fandom and I'll be honest, it made me miserable. I constantly felt like I couldn't keep up, that my ideas were wrong because another idea was more popular, and I really struggled. So I took about a hundred steps back and only interact with the media I like through my friends who also like it! And it's a lot better! You may not get hundreds and thousands of likes on fics from here on out if that's what you're used to, but I guarantee you'll have more meaningful interactions that you actually hold dear to you far more than any "a guest has left a kudos on your work" notification.

(Also just a pre-emptive thing of anyone who wants to defend AO3 on this post because "it's an integral part of fandom!" or "they need that much money because they run a site with no ads!", or you want to try and tell me that the fics on there are fine because it's fiction regardless of what the fics is (including literal fucking CSAM), just know you are completely unserious and I don't value a single thing you say. So don't even try it. How about you donate to a marginalised person's mutual aid for the first time in your life and you'll calm down.)

[itsdappleagain]

six ways to get covered in blood

inspired by/format from this post by @1percentcharge i changed a few of the ways to fit my own methods!

the kind of story i came up with for this one is that this is an au where carmen, after being mindwiped, starts to gain back her memories and eventually makes a run for it to try to get back to her team.

vile catches wind and, just after she's gotten out, they send a gigantic force of operatives (paper star, el topo, le chevre, tigress, mime bomb, and crackle) to drag her back- no matter the cost. they aren't losing her. not this time.

they find her and just. obliterate her. she stands no chance. crackle is overwhelmed with guilt at seeing his old friend beaten to a pulp and about to be dragged back to a life she despises, destined to either be brainwashed or imprisoned (or worse) for her entire life. had he just gone for help instead of continuing to live the lie, maybe she would be free.

tumblr ruined the quality so click for better

attempt at an image id under the cut! i never do them but I really should. please feel free to add/fix if I'm doing it wrong

[image id:

a six panelled "comic" which is entirely black and white/uncolored except for the color red, which is used for blood. it has little to no shading and is for the most part black lineart on a white canvas. there are no internal panels within the piece, and there is only one subject per image unless stated otherwise.

panel 1: carmen is slumped against a corner, and the image shows her from the bust up. a shadowed silhouette is pointing a crackle rod at her. her expression is half angry, half scared, but tired and defeated. she is covered in scratches, gashes, and one bite mark all over her face and arms. her right eye is completely closed due to injury, and blood is coming from her nose and mouth. her hair is down and her clothes are ripped. a large splatter of blood is on the wall behind her. in all capital letters the word "BLEED" is in between carmen (left) and the silhouette (right).

panel 2: paper star from the shoulders up. she is wearing her usual clothing and hair style. she is holding a paper star up in front of her left eye (between two fingers) and smiling, looking down. she has blood splatters on her paper star, cheek, and shoulder. in all capital letters on the left (ps is shifted towards the right) it says "SPILL IT."

panel 3: el topo and le chevre. el topo is on the left, apparently kneeling; he can be seen from about the chin up with some shoulder, as he is slightly hunched. he has a worried/regretful expression and is looking down. He has a few small splatters of blood on his cheeks and forehead. next to him on the right is le chevre. he is standing up straight and his face goes out of frame before the eyes. his torso ends at the bust. he has a somewhat indifferent expression from what can be seen, and his left arm is somewhat out as though his hand is on el topo's back. he has more blood on him than topo; it is splashed on his chest, shoulders, and cheek. the words "GET SPLASHED BY IT" in all caps go over el topo's head and in between the two.

panel 4: tigress from the shoulders up. she is in her operative suit but does not have her goggles on. she is staring directly forward and grinning at the camera. her canines are pronounced, almost like a vampire. lets say she got tooth mods in addition to the claw mods so they are big now. her lips, mouth, and teeth are dripping with blood. she is centered on the canvas. behind her, in large, all caps letters is the word "BITE"

panel 5: a close-up of mime bomb. all that can really be seen is his mouth, part of his chin, the bottom of his nose, and the sides of his face. he is grinning, and his mouth is painted as usual. the entirety of the mouth paint is red, implying he has painted it with blood. his thumb, also smeared with red, is touching the right side of the mouth paint as though he is applying it. the rest of his visible hand is in a fist like a thumb up. in the small part of his hand that is visible under his thumb the words "PAINT WITH IT." are written in all caps.

panel 6: crackle from the shoulders up. he looks terrified/what have i done type expression. his hands are up in the foreground, open and a little claw shaped. crackle is in his operative uniform. his hands are full of and dripping blood, and crackle is staring at them. this panel is much more dramatically shaded than the rest; his hands are white, but the background is completely black and crackle himself is a medium grey except for the whites of his eyes and his teeth, which are clenched. the words above his head in all caps are "IT IS ON YOUR HANDS." unlike all the other writing in the entire piece, these words are in bright red (the only other color except blood red to be seen), are in a scratchy, imperfect font, and have a blurry black shadow behind them to make them pop.

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[vole-mon-amour]

You guys already ruined the reblog chain. Now I have to go in the reblog and look for comments and scroll through thousands of them. I need my "click on the username and go to the reblogged post", whether the reblog was just made and was made 10 years agon.

You still haven't fixed the issue when you start an image post and it turns into a text post with images. Better experience? How so? It ruins the quality of my edits just like that.

Plus, an algorithm? Your best feature is that you don't have one. My feed is exactly the way I want it to be. The more blazed posts that cannot be dismissed you add, the more frustrated I get and I hcs to block tons of strangers that did nothing wrong but I don't want to see their blazed posts. Firstly, why are you pushing it on me? I do y follow those for a reason. Secondly, what happened to "This post is not for me"? Why did you change it to "Dismiss" with tags that shows up on your feed when you follow those tags?

You guys are making it way harder to use and the experience keeps getting worse and worse. I left all social medias, and Instagram was the first one bc I absolutely hated what they were doing. Tumblr is the only social media I still use on a daily basis, but you are making it worse and worse every single day.

Forget the algorithm. Stop making your site worse. Stop banning creators for their porn fanart. Bring back the freedom we lost in 2018.

There are also sooo many valid replies explaining why what you're doing is wrong. Stop it, please, just stop it. @humans

Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Retain and grow our creator base.

Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up. 

We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.

Actions & Next Steps

Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.

Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.

Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.

The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant. 

Actions & Next Steps

Deliver great content each time the app is opened.

Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are. 

Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds. 

Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.

Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.

Actions & Next Steps

Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.

Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs. 

Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread. 

Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads. 

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed. 

Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.

Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.  

Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.

The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.

It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.

Actions & Next Steps

Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it. 

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.

Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.  

Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.  

Actions & Next Steps

Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.  

Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages. 

Test what the right daily push notification limit is. 

Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.

Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.

The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.

Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.

Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users. 

Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

Conclusion

Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.

[starduskscribbles]

I love my novel charas so much