#but please at least customize your blog and even put in your thing that you mostly lurk so people know!

[santae-salt]

it's funny that in one of these posts someone suggested that disgruntled users create their own pet site, and then the comments were all people saying why it was too hard, and that it took too much time, money, and effort, and they couldn't do it.

Look, I think the way CJ is handling some things is pretty terrible, but can we at least level set that running a site like this is HARD? I mostly agree with all the criticism that's been brought up here, but what I don't see much is an acknowledgement that everyone wants to be pleased, when there is literally no pleasing everyone. This is an opinionated and vocal community, and even in the posts on this blog there are clearly very different opinions on any given topic. I'm not giving him a pass by any means, just pointing out that it's a hard role to do well, and not many have done it well.

I think the best thing that can happen for the site is for CJ to step back and act as a true leader; delegate and let others who have skills and expertise do the work they are skilled in. He can still set the overall creative vision, give input, and on occasion, engage with the community. But trying to do everything himself and micromanaging everything is biting him in the ass. He needs to empower a strong community manager and his senior admins to make decisions using their best judgement, within the rules of Santae. The fact that mods have to check with him for everything is absolutely idiotic. You either trust your team or you don't. Clearly, he has lost the trust of the community, and the only way to gain that back now is to be less prominent and earn respect back by showing good decision-making. I understand santae is a business and needs to make money. Even if he doesn't give a single shit about the community, the best business decision is to step back. Nobody likes CEOs or business owners. By design, they are directly blamed for everything, whether warranted or not! If CJ wants to be a hero to us, which I believe he does, then he has to accept that he hasn't been handling things well, and admit that, and focus on the things he's good at (and whatever your thoughts on him, he has managed to put this site together, so he's clearly skilled and capable in many areas). But he's not a business guy. It's one thing to conceptualize this world and bring it to life, and a completely different skill set to market it, make money, and grow your customer base.

The second thing that needs to happen is to take the site out of Beta if we're no longer in a culture where user feedback is welcome. I actually think it's fine to launch now, with the caveat that things are still being built, we're very new, etc., to manage new users' expectations. There can still be a feedback thread, but we won't have to pretend that users are helping to shape the site's functions and culture. We've had months of good general feedback that has helped improve overall user experience. In my 20+ years on pet sites, I've never seen the level of user entitlement that santae has. I primarily play Subeta now, and what I like about that site is things are very black and white. Staff makes decisions, and if you don't like them, you're free to not play or grin and bear it (and if you guys think santae'scash shop is greedy...it's nothing compared to other sites and games!!). I truly don't think it's a sustainable model to be as "open" to user input as santae has claimed to be. And, I do think that among the valid complaints, there has also been a lot of really stupid criticism and unreasonable expectations from the community. Voicing the opinion is fine. Expecting staff to change core functions or features to meet your specific demand, and being angry when that doesn't happen, is entitled. I won't call these out, but given there are many different opinions on feedback, I think they should either close it off entirely and run the site how they want (and users can decide if it's a site they want to play) or tighten up the kind of feedback users can provide since we'd be out of Beta anyway.

☁️

[domain-of-revelation]

Love & Deep Space Notes (so far for Day 1, all quests/tasks completed, Ch. 2 completed)

The pre-launch MC editor was a nice touch to tide us over until launch.

The voice over customizer needs some adjustments. Even though when tuning the voice to the extremes gives a warning in potential audio quality dropping, I find that some sliders are more likely to come out weird, particularly the “Husk” slide. I myself have instances of vocal fry, so hearing the Husk slide have such a small range of “okayness��� before it absolutely sounds inhuman needs to be redone.

May we please have more POC hairstyles/hairtypes? May we please have short hair options?

I noted this in the Survey L&DS has already put out, but the dialogue (at least in English) of the opening cinematic is incredibly fast and doesn’t have a lot of inflection or weight to it.

Speaking of the dialogue, the subtitles don’t line up perfectly in some instances, especially when characters are interrupting or talking over each other or when characters speak directly after each other.

While Zayne is my bias so far, his voice fits the least. My opinion.

I love Tara. She’s such a cute little side companion/exposition girl. I want to see her character more and explore her. Her voice actress is spectacular and fits her perfectly.

Jenna is a girlboss and we love that. Her voice is a great fit.

When “texting” the boys, there’s an option to also have captions!! I adore this. Great for people who are hard of hearing.

L&DS has graphical options for quality. I’m on an iPhone 12 (?) and having it on High doesn’t make my phone melt.

I’m on level 12 with one of the LIs, and I enjoy that every new bond gives you something, from gems to poses to new features you can do with them.

There are a few minor visual glitches, but nothing game breaking.

If you’re playing on mobile, you can’t also watch a YouTube video at the same time during the opening. If you do, the audio for L&DS cuts out completely.

Please know that your first and last name will show up as the actual character designation. I haven’t gotten to where a Nickname is used, so use a different name other than your actual name if you do that.

You get a free rename and new birthday ticket.

I’ve done all the quests for today, and reached level 20. I have to wait until server reset to continue the story, which is locked to 21+.

I’ll do the side stuff, like the branching dialogue side stories later tonight.

(Psst! I posted part 2 on my blog! Not much has changed, but there were some things I noticed. I’m also now on Chapter 5.)

[laughroditee]

Thinking about the COD urban fantasy AU that I will be writing a fic for. I have a background in fine art and comics and have experience with video editing, so because of this, this fic came to me as a movie trailer, which I plan on making an animatic of. (If I can get my husband to learn how to voice the characters, I may include voices as well.) But it came from the idea:

What if there was a necromancer who would raise your loved one, but if you didn't pay them, they'd take control of them?

And that leads us to the

🟡 "Repossessed" Trailer Script, starring necromancer!graves

(please note that I do not have any formal training in actually formatting scripts so these are just my notes for the animatic. Filmmakers, don't come for me.)

(OPEN on a cityscape at sundown, cue music, if any.) Voiceover: "The name's Graves."

(NIGHTTIME. cut to a scene of a man, back to us in a cemetery. Close in on headshot, he turns to face the camera.) V/O: "Phillip Graves."

(INTERIOR OFFICE, DAYTIME. Graves is seated behind his desk, feet up, leaning back in his chair, maybe playing with a Rubix cube or something, speaking with a client, whom we can't see yet.)

Client: "Phillip Graves? As in 'fill up graves?' That's a bit… on the nose isn't it?"

Graves (smirking bc he's a cocky mf): "I don't so much fill ‘em up as I do empty ‘em out nowadays."

(Cut back to scene of Graves in the cemetery where a green, eldritch light glows from his hand.) V/O: "As a necromancer, I can bring anyone back from the dead."

(Cut back to Graves in office, looking at client.) Graves: "For a Price."

(Graves leans forward, cocking his head): "What would you pay?"

(Flashes of the deceased, happy.) V/O: "What would you do...?"

(Flashes of the deceased and the client together, loving etc huehuehue) V/O: "...To have them back with you?"

(Cut to Graves sitting behind his desk, holding up photo of the deceased between two fingers, looking at his client, cocky and eager.) Graves: "Pretty little thing like this? What's it worth to ya?"

(Cut to John Price seated in the chair opposite the desk, looking grief-stricken, desperate, and determined): “Everything.”

(cut to black, dramatic pause if there's music)

(Cut to first person POV, looking up at Graves, giving you a hand.) Graves: “Welcome back, darlin', to the land of the living.”

When I post the art (storyboards and eventual video) for this, it will be on my art blog @momokeen and reblogged from there. (I try to keep my 18+ stuff here separate from my main blog, even though I update more here, currently.)

Issues I know I will have:

Time - my chaotic brain always has a billion projects going at once, which is why I wanted to at least put this much out. I have at least four other fics that need attention, not to mention actual real life, and running a small business. I will be doing it though. It may not be good, but it will be done, eventually.

Finding the right music. Currently I'm looking for good epic trailer music. I have zero money to commission someone to compose something custom, otherwise I would ask my friend if he'd take the job.

Voices (because I want them 😩)

The decedent. I had planned on writing the fic as a "x you" POV, but if I'm including a visual trailer, done in the way that I want, obviously I have to pick one way the decedent looks, which I know will leave many people feeling left out. This is why I tend to make OCs, as it's easier for me to make decisions that my OCD and trauma brain won't let me make otherwise, because "this person is their own person and this is how I've developed them." (Also I'm new to fanfic, pls forgive me. I know OC x Canon is the less-liked option here. I really struggle with trying to make everyone happy, to the point that it's debilitating and I honestly don't know what to do.)

And finally, ✨mental health✨.

But yeah, that's it. That's a thing I'm gonna make. This was step one. Thanks for reading. 🖤

[kerubimcrepin]

Live-Read: The Remington Comic [PART 1]

(but only the bits with Joris)

While I usually try to go about this blog in an in-universe chronological way, I have to jump forward to Wakfu era here — because the next stop in this blog's plan is the actual, released games of the franchise. Which will take around... a million years, I assume?

TOME 10

Worlds most mentally stable demigod. This excerpt from Otakia is included for my Ush-loving readers, and also to give some context: this guy is keeping some of Remington's besties captive, besides turning his brother into a cat.

"Wait… you're taking me to a… bazaar? am I dreaming?" "Pff… wait till you see what's inside."

In the past tome of this comic, Remington and Grany received a tip, that there exists a magical item that can help them, and an address to a shop, as well as the name "Beating Heart".

ALSO. The store has door chimes. Cute.

"Anyone?" "Yeah, I've seen enough." "They have potions, at least." "Grrr..." "What is that thing?" "??"

They don't seem to really like the place, lol.

"Let's see… "The Treasures of Kerubim"… O.K… We're looking for someone called "Beating Heart."" "Is he the owner of this store?" "Anyone home?" "If we can't find this clown, we could compensate ourselves for the trip." "Hello, sir."

SDGJSAHGUISREHGVDSFHGHHAFGSDFKJGDKSFGSDFGSFDHJS

If you think this is awkward, don't worry. It gets worse from here. Also — apparently, the name of the series is officially the name of the store. The more you know!

Well done little fella… You managed to surprise us.

AND YES. They use tu/toi for the., the 600yo ambassador of Bonta. who is also the owner of the store. who also just overheard them discussing shoplifting.

We're looking for a guy named… sir Beating Heart. Y'know him? Maybe that's your father? It is not my father… It is an object. And… the owner of this store, then? Where is he? In front of you. ... So… uh… you say "beating heart" is an object. Sure. And... could we perhaps see it, that beating heart?

HE'S SO FUCKING DONE ALREADY. he HATES them. also him saying he is the owner is so funny, even if it ISN'T a lie. Like. The store is named and themed after a whole different guy.

Insane.

Beating heart... beating heart... Listen to the rhythm of the heart, replace the rhythm of the body. Beating heart, beating heart... Out of sight… Out of mind… Will you give your soul the time?

Very cool poetry, Joris. I do wonder if this is him talking to himself to remember where it is, him liking this rhythm, or him fucking with Remington for his own amusement.

Please wait here. Careful, Mr. Curious. Small chests can contain big trouble Let's have a closer look. Yeah, bring it quick. Here it is, Beating Heart.

He's so used to shitty rude customers. The fact that he keeps vous/vous'ing them is funny. The fact he only calls Remi "mr. curious" is pretty emblematic of his saintly patience.

Say hello to Beating Heart first. Huh? Say hello to a watch? You have to be kind to objects… each one has its own story to tell. Say hello to Beating Heart… you too, funny talking bow meow. Hello? Hello, Beating Heart… delighted to meet your needle. And how does it work? No idea… Objects do whatever they want. I already have a hard time putting them away. One day, a set of table knives wouldn't stand next to an old sword… a real headache, those two.

I refuse to believe that this scene is not Joris deciding to simply fuck with Remington and Grany, by saying insane things for his own amusement, and making them talk to a clock.

That or he's more mentally ill than I thought. Oh well.

You talk to objects and they talk back! better and better… I know how to listen to them, but that doesn't mean they talk to me. But how can this watch help me? Listen, little guy, my brother suffered a kind of curse. An ecaflip named Ush cast a spell on him that turned him into a bow meow. Ush? The bontarian nobleman?

Either Joris sensed he was being taken way too seriously and backed down, or he decided to go "nah they don't talk to me i just listen to them" route because he knew it'd be a way to confuse the two further and he finds that amusing, or he didn't want to come across as crazy.

But in the end, his reign of making them confused as fuck ends with their mention of Ush — with whom Joris has history, and yet, all Joris says is "bontarian nobleman"... He's hiding that history. Because now he's interested.

And it seems that this Beating Heart could help me become a rogue again. Beating Heart has the ability to give its wearer what they desire most. But to use Beating heart, you need the proficiency in magic that you don't have. It's not for sale, sorry. But for your time, I've got a magic hat that curls your hair. Do you know where you can stick that hat? You little piece of…. brat! Come on, come on… excuse him… he's having a bit of a bad hair day right now.

Notice how fast Joris switches gears: he brought these two this amulet, and was showing it off, before, immediately after Ush's mention, rapidly going "you won't be able to use it, I will not sell it, also your hair sucks ass".

As we will see later, you don't need deep magical skill to use it — you need some self-control, so I really doubt Joris was genuine here.

I have multiple theories:

Joris doesn't want beating heart, a powerful magic item, anywhere near Ush's schemes.

Joris wants them to steal it so that he has an excuse to involve himself in Ush's schemes like the noisy curtain twitcher he is. If this transaction is legitimate, he has no excuse like "UMMM YOUR VICTIMS BROKE INTO MY STORE REPLY TO ME IMMEDIATELY ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING???"

Considering the fact that he puts it away under a glass dome, as Remington and Grany, rogues, watch (and they HAVE talked about robbing him) — I am leaning more strongly towards theory #2.

Thank you for everything, dear friend. No, no, you're not going to tip him on top of it! Hey bro? what's not for sale is up for grabs… As we rogues say. That's right… tonight, beating heart will be mine… he he he.

If my theory of this being a honeypot by Joris is right — then hook, line, and sinker.

On one hand, he doesn't exactly look like he's scheming, on other — he doesn't look too worried.

I think at this moment, his main concern is Ush.

(side note, he's drawn really well in this panel...)

[tehyunnie]

this was inspired by this

i did this 4 u @strawberry-kirby @mazeinthemoon 🙏🙏💖💖

 A grunt left your lips as you finally sat down after hours of standing and serving customers. Rush hour just passed by and you couldn't be more grateful that it was over.

 Sure it meant more customers but it also meant having to stand around longer and having to put up with more annoying customers.

 You were about to scroll on your phone before your mind began wandering about a certain blonde boy.

 Kai was his name and he was a regular. And by regular, i meant going to the cafe every single day at least two times a day and ordering the exact same thing.

 You even memorized his name, his order, what he looks like, what time he usually comes— which reminds you. Where was he?

 It was already 5:53 pm— which is wayyy past the time he would usually comes. 

 Negative thoughts soon engulfed your minds, what if he found another cafe? what if he got tired of this cafe? what if he just decided to just not come here anymore? what if—

 And speak of the devil and he shall appear.

The door of the cafe swung open, revealing none other than the blondie himself. You could clearly tell he's been running from the way his sweat glistens under the dimming sun; to the way soft panting escaped his beautiful soft lips— wait what?

"Yn! H.. hey!" A breathless kai made his way over to the counter, leaning against it as he catch his breath.

 "Woah slow down there, big guy. Take a deep breath then talk to me." You advised him, a slight undertone of worry hinted in your voice.

 Kai did exactly as you told him and took his time before looking up at you, his eyelashes batted itself at you while a soft smile made its way towards his face.

 "The usual please." he politely said, a cheeky grin now replacing the soft smile. You nodded and typed his order in, ringing it up for him. "Its on the house."

 Kai looked at you before shaking his head "On the house? Pleaseee just take my money pretty." he said while shoving the exact total. You rolled your eyes at this— trying to hide your red face as you shoved the money back at him "No I insist!".

 This goes on for a while before you finally give up and just take his money before dragging yourself to the kitchen to make his strawberry acai.

 Kai sat at his usual spot, waiting for his orders and you.

 You brought out his order, placing it neatly in front of him— then proceeded to drag yourself back behind the counter.

 But before you could get far, kai tugged at your wrist halting you in your steps. "The cafe seems pretty empty so.. chat with me for a bit?" You looked around the cafe before sitting down in front of him.

 Peals of laughter filled the once-quiet cafe, seemingly brightening up the atmosphere. Unfortunately, you both were too busy chatting with each other to notice how the sun has already bid farewell with the moon now replacing its place.

 "Oh, what time is it? I should close up the cafe and you should probably head home now." Kai looked at you, clearly sad now that you have to go. "Don't look so sad now, you'll see me again tomorrow!" 

 Despite saying that, kai's mood didn't seem to change. 

 "Um.. Oh I know!" You quickly grabbed a pen from your apron and wrote something down on a tissue. "Here!" You beamed while sliding the tissue, with your number, towards him.

 Kai's face got noticeably redder upon seeing said tissue. "Text me!" You said while getting up to close up the cafe.

 Kai smiled and grabbed the tissue and shoved it inside his pocket— almost skipping while making his way out of the cafe.

 Just know that your phone will never be empty again after this.

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[identifying-cars-in-posts]

update on asks, submissions, rules, state of the blog, etc

first of all, thank you everyone for the interest in the blog! it’s become significantly more than i expected, and since i’m just one person who works full time and is the process of moving i haven’t had the time to keep up with the influx of attention. i’ve spent the last few days figuring out how to run the blog moving forward to best manage a good balance between it and my actual life

submissions: submissions will re-open wednesday july 26th at 8pm EST. this is where you can send me images or videos you take irl or see outside of tumblr to identify. this includes submitting your own car for me to guess. i won’t give my thoughts or anything in submissions, it’ll be just like the other identification posts. please keep any sort of identification request like this to submissions. asks exclusively requesting identifications, dms, and original posts made for the purpose of tagging me will be ignored and/or deleted after submissions are re-opened. submissions will remain open indefinitely just to see how it goes, but will close if/when they become overwhelming, just to keep up with them all

asks: asks will also re-open wednesday july 26th at 8pm EST, and stay open until thursday july 27th 5pm EST. going forward it’ll essentially open on the evenings before my days off and close the evening of the day off so i have time to give my actual attention to asks instead of rushing responses in between customers at work. i work retail so this won’t be consistent from week to week, but i will announce when asks are opening at least a day or two before they do. asks will be for asking me for opinions, recommendations, questions or suggestions for the blog, etc. identification requests without also adding something should go into submissions

tags: i have been going back through old asks to retroactively tag requests for recommendations as #car recs. going forward any recommendations given will go under that tag as well. i’m working on a permanent pinned post that will have more information on the tagging system going forward

pinned: i’m working on a kind of landing page post. this will have an FAQ, information about the tagging system and links for navigating it, rules for asks and submissions, and most of the information in this update. i may also put the date and time for when asks will be re-opened in that post and keep it updated. if you have any requests for things to put in the FAQ, or any other questions, feel free to reply to this post. it will stay pinned until the big boy pinned post goes up

tagging me in posts: i will continue to try to get to every pre-existing post i’m tagged in, but make no promises about getting to all of them, especially if they have a bunch of cars in them. this goes for submissions and asks as well - as fun as it is to play i spy and try to get them all, i only have so much time. if i can i’ll give it a shot, but the multiple posts and asks i’ve gotten of full yards or highways full of cars will definitely take longer to get to, if i get to them at all. as much as i’d like to do them for the sake of the bit lol

thanks for bearing with me over the last few days!

[eatanorange]

@ethan-elliott u r always pulling through with the tag games and I love that. its a silly little get to know me but I also overshare re:family grievances/trauma so I'll put it under here (no specifics, factual, lighthearted)

Origin of my username: it's pinned at the top of my page ;) This page was born from me struggling with being an autistic adult* & (re)learning skills I "should" already know and be able to do, like driving. When I forced myself to learn at the 'normal' age, I got into two accidents and pulled over before turning 18 (aka less than a full year) 😀 I still haven't tried the highway circa age 24, but from the ages of 18-23 I wasn't driving at all and I became homebound after I graduated college, then my mother decided to disclose to me the family history of agoraphobia after 23 years of 'damn why don't u just do things'. Eating an orange sounds so simple, doesn't it? Sometimes it is. It doesn't have to be that deep, though, maybe I want to encourage tumblr's vitamin C intake.

OTPs: u could convince me to like any ship if there's a specific claim to it (/gen). I do have a star tattoo for Jegulus though 😭😮‍💨

Favourite Colour: warm purples

Song Stuck In My Head: whatthehellishappening? by glass animals

Weirdest Trait: if you tell me your birthday and I like you even a little bit I will remember it. forever. I will *not* remember day of though bc I rarely know what day it physically is.

Hobbies: writing, gaming, drawing tarot cards based off shows, bit of MMA type exercises, fan editing, ......blogging.

Profession: I work in a pathology lab right now, I have also worked in biocontrol and environmental law research for my jobs in undergrad, I'm studying to be an information professional (magnus archives got to me)

Dream Job: ironic, given the agoraphobia spell, but I want a job where it's in the description/nature of the profession to curate community or add to a small community so, librarian. I have fantasized ab the barista life (fully convinced my disassociation is stronger than most mean customers).

Something I’m Good At: hallucinating spiders when I take melatonin

Something I Hate: people who conflate respect with authority, car infrastructure

Something I Collect: my contact lenses in a little bottle next to my bed

Something I Forget: the post about rosekiller I was going to make relating them to whatthehellishappening? by glass animals (stay tuned)

Love Language: idk how to answer this 🤗 it has varied amongst everyone, so I suppose whatever leads to knowing specifics about one another. Likely extends from quality time(?)

Favorite Movie/Show: jujutsu kaisen is Up There, I'm quite easy to please tho.

Favorite Food: garlic bread and chocolate cake/brownies 🫵🏼

Favorite Animal: love a panther, foxes, crows & hawks, will u accept giant silk moths as an animal?

What Was I Like As A Child: I was really mean with a lot of internalized biases and neglected mental illnesses/developmental differences. whenever someone talks about doing that exercise where you speak with your inner child mine is screaming and tearing me to shreds and calling me slurs, turning into an eldritch horror then breaking down sobbing. everyone say ✨thank you mother✨. I don't remember my childhood until I do <3. Azula from atla was my favorite character growing up if that helps with context. Like I wanted her to win.

Favorite School Subject: I am a nerd and a generalist how dare you ask me this question (/j)

Least Favorite Subject: it was history, but I think bc my district was bad at teaching it.

Best Character Trait: curious, patient

Worst Character Trait: spiteful, dismissive

Who Would I Meet if I Travelled Back in Time: my grandmother's parents before they fled The World War

anyone who wants to do this pls do and please tag me :)

[chacusha]

My tips to new users to make Tumblr more usable

This is kind of random but I think Tumblr is one of those websites that hides a lot of its functionality from users and comes with default settings that makes it kind unusable (at least for me). So I've decided to collect some suggestions about things to do immediately in order to make Tumblr a much more usable website:

Most important: Put the content you actually opt into on your dash. First, go to Settings > Dashboard and turn off "Best Stuff First." In general, (1) I don't think it's good to let social media sites curate your content feed (they're not very good! you can curate your own content feeds!), and (2) chronological ordering is much more helpful for making sense of information. I don't know why you would want posts on a site to be presented in any other way. Please save yourself and make your dash chronological by toggling this monstrosity OFF. Also for the love of god, turn off "Include posts liked by the blogs you follow" and "Include 'Based On Your Likes!'" too. Other people's experiences might be different from mine, but when Tumblr first introduced this feature and I tried it out for a while, it was so predictable that every time I came across a post that made me viscerally angry and think, "How the HELL did this get on my dash?" it was always always some random post from someone I wasn't even following… So yeah, get rid of that.

Second, make the "Following" tab your default, instead of the "For you" tab. How to do this is not particularly obvious. From the Tumblr homepage (not settings), you need to find the tabs at the top of your dash (For you, Following, Your tags) and then click the toggle/settings icon to the right of those tabs. This will allow you to reorder your tabs. In particular, what you need to do is click the pin icon to the right of "Following," and this will set Following to be your pinned and first tab. By default, when you open Tumblr, your dash will show the posts of people you have actually opted into following rather than what Tumblr suggests to you.

Next, make sure timestamps on posts are on. This should be the default (despite what Tumblr says?), but if you don't see timestamps at the top of all posts, I highly recommend turning this setting on (under Settings > Dashboard). Knowing when a post was made is hugely helpful for understanding the context of the post, and I don't know why websites would allow you to hide this, really, unless they want you walking around with no sense of time or context, which uh… I don't recommend that social media experience!

Turn off endless scrolling (under Settings > Dashboard): Websites like endless scrolling to keep people from leaving the site. I recommend turning this off to make it more obvious how many posts you've scrolled through on Tumblr, to make it easier to find your place in older posts, and also to make the website just lighter to load. When I last used it, the Tumblr mobile app does not allow pagination, which is pretty typical of social media apps in general. Honestly, I recommend just not using the Tumblr mobile app at all. I've uninstalled it and aside from missing the convenience of being able to attach photos from my phone onto Tumblr posts, I really don't miss it…

Things that you may or may not be interested in:

Enable custom theme on (each of) your blog(s): So fun fact: If you don't have a custom theme enabled, then when people visit your blog when not logged into Tumblr, they will only be able to scroll through a few of the posts on your blog before being prompted by Tumblr to log in if they want to see more. This popup cannot be gotten around, and so people without Tumblr accounts or who are browsing on a device/browser without a login session just won't be able to see your posts. Personally, I do not like this behavior -- I like my blogs to be archives with useful permalinks that can be browsed by anyone. Anyway, you can get rid of this annoying prompt by going to Account > (select blog) > Blog settings and toggling that "Enable custom theme" slider. It doesn't really matter what theme you use (although there are a lot of options to choose from), just use a custom one!

Turn off "Shorten long posts" (under Settings > Dashboard): YMMV, but I personally don't find this setting very helpful as the maximum length for when it starts cutting off posts is pretty short and falls far short of what I would consider a "long post" that is inconvenient to scroll past. Instead, you may want to turn off this setting and create a filter for the tag "long post" (under Settings > Account > Filtered Tags).

Mature content: If you're interested in possibly seeing mature content, you may want to review your mature content settings (under Settings > Account) as by default, Tumblr is set to hide it entirely and doesn't tell you that it's hidden posts from you and so you probably just will not be aware this setting is a thing! Personally, I use the "Blur" setting.

Hiding content from users you don't want to see: As far as I can tell, if you see someone's posts in (e.g.) tag searches and would prefer not to see any of that person's posts in public places like that tag or appear on your dash by people you follow reblogging their posts, you should block them. Official Tumblr documentation does not say that this is a feature of blocking, but it is.

When Tumblr's functionality isn't enough… External tools such as XKit Rewritten provide a whole lot of QoL fixes to Tumblr's interface like making it easier to reply to replies, hiding posts you've already seen, showing how many new/unread posts are in tracked tags, showing all tags on posts by default rather than requiring you to click "See all," etc. For me, one thing I needed in order to make Tumblr semi-usable for me is hiding notes in tag searches (because I don't really need constant reminders that my tastes aren't aligned with wider fandom's tastes lol). I couldn't find a tool that does this, so I wrote a simple Tampermonkey script to do it for me.

Hope this helps new users of Tumblr, and feel free to add other helpful tips if you have them!

[crowpunkcognitivedecline]

*context & details under cut!

the symbols being referenced are this flag and this symbol!

physical items = pins, patches, flags, paintings, mobility aid customization digital items = zines, digital artwork, possibly animations, whatever else i can think of.

please don't buy my work/vote that you will because you think i need the support. i am not in desperate need of money or aid. i am a full financial dependent, and my living situation is safe. your support is voluntary and your lack of support will not harm me in any way.

me making merchandise would not mean:

no one else can sell work with the designs*

the designs would in any way become pay-to-use or pay-to-download

the designs would be "my property" (the original images--as in, the literal original pngs on my blog--are "mine", but even just recoloring or resizing them makes them not mine.)

*excluding selling the exact pngs i've posted, which i already ask you not to. i can't stop you from just ripping the image and putting it on redbubble, and i don't care to try, but i do ask that you don't. the pngs aren't even all that high quality. you can literally just bump up the resolution and it's yours to do whatever.

it would mean:

i add to my passive income as an artist, which is nice!

i have more funds to table at in-person events and donate my original work [ie educational zines]

you have a place to buy shit with the designs, if you so choose

[fefairys]

ok i wanna make my own tips post for the redditors

hello welcome :] here's some things i've noticed it seems a lot of you aren't aware of. i might add more later:

first of all, PLEASE turn on custom theme! you don't have to actually make or find a theme yourself as it gives you a default one, (but it is really fun and good to personalize your blog however you want) but doing this makes it easier to view and search your own blog, as i will describe later. this makes it so that you will show up at yoururl.tumblr.com and not just tumblr.com/yoururl it gives you your own page! it's good!! you can only tick this setting on desktop:

another very important thing: DO NOT FUCKING REPOST ART WITHOUT CREDIT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. honestly you should not report art without permission at all, but at LEAST credit the artist. and saying "idk who did this but credit to them" DOES NOT COUNT. take some time to reverse google image search and find the artist. if you can't find them, DON'T REPOST!!! turning the art into a meme doesn't mean you don't have to credit the artist!!!!!! AAHHH!! ok.

TAGS/SEARCHING in reblogs, all tags serve to do is (a) leave a bit of quiet commentary, if you're too shy to leave it in the actual body of the post or (b) organize posts on Your Blog Only. tagging a reblog does not make the post show up in the searchable tag. reblogs are not searchable through the tumblr search bar.

to find posts from a certain tag on your own blog, go to yoururl.tumblr.com/tagged/tag. you can also add /chrono to the end of that url to view the posts in chronological order! you actually don't need to tag original posts with every variation of a tag either. for example if you tag something as "r/196", it will show up when just "196" is searched for, because it contains "196" in it. so you dont NEED to tag the post "196, r196, r/196" etc. but i mean. do whatever u want. honestly i think a lot of veteran tumblr users don't even know that. but yeah tagging with a ton of variations like that is unnecessary unless you're spelling something differently or doing an abbreviation as well as a full title, such as "#what we do in the shadows, #wwdits"

also, your posts are searchable by literally any word in the post, whether it be the body, the tags, or even your url. so if your url has 'catboy' in it, and someone searches 'catboy' they will see all of your original posts in the tag lmao. it is pretty stupid but that's how it works.

on that note, FILTERING with filtering tags, it is very specific. so if youre content warning tagging something, please just tag it with the word, like "#blood" because if you tag it "#cw blood" or "#blood ///" people who just have "#blood" blocked, will still see the post! lots of veteran tumblr users don't seem to grasp this either 😭

you can filter out words as well as tags, but that can get tricky because if you filter out "rape" words like "grape" and "drape" will also be blocked, so i only use the word filter to block peoples urls. because even if you have someone blocked, you can still see people reblogging their posts, so if u don't wanna see them at all, block their url as a filtered word.

you can do all of this in the regular ol' 'settings' tab on desktop. on mobile it's settings -> general settings -> filtering

PAGES something i love about tumblr but is getting used less and less is the ability to make separate pages on your blog. the option to do so is all the way at the bottom on the theme customization panel. (only available on desktop tumblr)

nowadays a lot of people just make a carrd and provide a link to that, but tumblr allows you to make your own separate blog pages! a lot of people use this to make "about me" pages, since it provides a lot more freedom than just the "blog description" section! you can put images on there, and just completely code the whole thing yourself! unfortunately, these pages aren't visible on mobile unless you link to them in your blog description (see my blog as an example) using <a href="link">link title</a> lots of people have links like this in their descriptions that lead to about pages or carrds! you should click on these to learn more about the person you're following!!

some people have "DNI (do not interact)" or "BYF (before you follow)" pages to set boundaries on who they do or don't want following them, as a warning of like "hey if you fall under this criteria and you follow/interact with me, you're getting blocked" so those are good to check for! some folks have lots of strong opinions on these that theyre "stupid" or "useless" but really it's just a warning and setting boundaries. like, if you follow me and ur not supposed to, i'm just gonna block you anyway, it was just a warning that that's what was gonna happen!

speaking of blocking, just fuckin' block whoever you want whenever you want. if you find someone annoying just block them. if they post something you don't like just block them. there's no need to get into an argument. just block! and they're gone! wheeee!!

SIDEBLOGS!!! you can have separate blogs from your main one that are connected to your same account! some people have tooooons of sideblogs for every single fandom they're in, some people just use their main for everything. it's up to you!

note that you can only like posts, send asks, follow people, and reply to posts under your main blog url. sideblogs are just for posting and reblogging in a more organized manner :] it's good to say in the description of your side blog what your main blog is so people know who you are when you like and reply to posts and such! (and also to list your sideblogs somewhere on ur main for the same reason. i use the aforementioned about page for this ^u^)

um that's it for now! there's a lot of other things i could talk about, but i'm sure other posts are covering it.. these are just ones i really want to iterate, especially the tags thing cause i think a lot of tumblr users don't even realize that lol ^u^ i've been active as fuck on tumblr since 2013 so I can answer questions if you have any :)

[m0thisonfire]

What the fuck.

Okay, yeah, we get it-

Good for you. I’m genuinely glad good things have been happening to you. But this stresses me out more than I already am.

6’4 body builder guy?? Who can knock someone out in a swing??? Fun. Good. Glad you clearly have so many people who do care. Can you not encourage people killing people? Especially when those people are women who are in a very fragile state? Are you shitting me? Did you even elaborate on that or were you just riding the high at the idea of someone getting hurt over you? I don’t know if this story is even true, but Jesus Christ, please let it not, because it just shows how much crazy she has left in her…

My partner did not purposefully hurt anyone. You two were both in bad places and shouldn’t have even been talking to each other if you were in such a bad position. You should have been talking to the other people who clearly cared so much and you knew so much longer, Keri. Not someone who you had just met and put your entire mental health pillar on when she was in just as bad a mental spot.

And then blaming her for her disorder that literally makes her have favorite people? After she warned you multiple time? That is not her fault. You shouldn’t have dragged it out as long as you have and just gone to your actual friends, because clearly, you weren’t thinking this one through.

I’m so tired of stressing on whether or not every goddamn time I check frecklydork’s blog, it’s another death threat, complaint, or her bitching over commissions.

Lately it’s been good! Life seems to at least be kind to her! But her exaggerating to a customer?? And him threatening death and her delighting in it???

Why? Why why why? I can’t do it. I can’t handle her doing this. It’s constant with her. She doesn’t want to get better, she wants attention. And she’s getting it and she’s just making it so much worse.

Talk about getting away with things. Encouraging death threats and wishing death on someone? In my opinion, that is the worst thing to get away with. No one deserves that. Especially not someone I’ve been talking to the entire time she was, from start to when it broke off.

I. Am. So so so tired. Of Keri continually threatening and encouraging threats towards my girlfriend. My partner. Over fictional characters and comms. Its a fictional character. Lines on paper.

God save me or kill me, at this point I would be so much fucking happier if she just moved the fuck on.

[fictionkinfessions]

This is a post about the current blog poll regarding ask games on this blog. You can find the original post and poll to vote on via this link below. Please do not send votes via ask messages.

Posts about this topic have the tag 'blog poll'.

https://www.tumblr.com/fictionkinfessions/724128639169544192/

This is long. Here is a read more.

Anonymous asked: sorry im not home and mobile search sucks or else id look myself, but is there a catchall tag for ask games? i think there is but bad memory lol. if not maybe there should be so people can block all games instead of each new one !

Anonymous asked: Suggestion for the ask game debacle: why not tag all those posts with one consistent tag like "kinfessions ask game" or something? Either in addition to or in place of the custom tags. That gives everybody's blacklist something to pick up without requiring someone to add a tag for every single ask game.

Anonymous asked: voted to keep ask games but consider just adding a catch-all tag alongside the specific game for blacklisting purposes maybe? the anon has a fair point with how many there have been lately that it can kind of drown out regular confessions but ask games are fun and it wouldn't exactly be fair to completely get rid of them. wouldn't mind a sister blog for them either though

There isn't a catch all tag, and that's a extremely good idea. I'm kinda kicking myself for not asking for feedback before making a whole poll about it. We'd still have the poll, but there would've been better options about what to do. Also for not doing that to start with.

Anonymous asked: i'm all for continuing the ask games, but can we at least LIMIT them? sometimes it feels like there's a new one every day, or like everything posted is a response to an ask game. it's obviously not stopping anybody from kinfessing normally, but it feels weird to only see ask game responses when the blog was originally intended for kinfessions

Anonymous asked: a suggestion about ask games: host one or two as events with loose but present time limits. kinda like this blog had for june, with mostly pride-themed prompts? it would probably require more moderation, so no pressure if you don't feel up to it mpc. we could even vote for favorite games but i can see it may leave someone upset bc their idea lost. right now it seems (to me. just a personal opinion) like this sudden overflow of different yet very specific prompts is a bit directionless. it's not necessarily bad for a community blog but could discourage a full "conversation"? of linked confessions, which i see as the point of ask games. this isn't to say there are no responses to posted answers - quite the opposite, actually! i just think having fewer themes would allow more unique experiences to be included, instead of splitting more subtopics.

True, there have been a fair amount, and it's been ramping up. Not a bad thing, it's nice that people have curiosity about other's canons and sources.

Seems like a lot of work, but doable imo. My concern would be actually getting people to vote for the ask games. Also if an ask game wins, but nobody plays it, then what? Do we just go onto the next one? Would there be a time limit? What if people send things after the time limit? I'd feel like such a dick for not posting it because they didn't send it in on time. This isn't really a final exam at school or your office job with time limits. Literally how do I explain it without sounding like a Super Serious Tool?

People do that for holiday things, you can't stop that from happening. The only reason I put a time limit for holidays is so nobody gets triggered after they remove a tag from their blacklist, assuming nobody celebrates Fathers Day 2 weeks afterwards. You know what I mean? Not to mention this blog is very active. People may not see prompts until long after the time limit, and they may still want to participate. Also who thinks up themes, if there will be any?

Though maybe we don't vote on them. Like you mentioned, people might get upset if theirs isn't picked. I suppose we could just do it chronologically, as they're sent in. I'm not sure how to manage this. Save the future ask games to drafts and hope I don't lose them? Probably.

Anonymous asked: Going to agree with the anon, there is a bit too many ask games ngl, like I like them but there is so many of them at this point and like I even blacklist the tags but they still get through. I just wish that there was a bit less of them or that there was a seperate blog :(

The thing about the auxiliary blog is that it won't have the same amount of traffic and might go dead. Not a bad thing, such is life. But I think part of the appeal of ask games replies and confessions is that this is a fairly high traffic blog. People want to be seen, even if it's anonymous. I wouldn't mind running a side blog, or at least getting it active enough to let someone else handle it.

Anonymous asked: Hello MPC! You don’t have to post this, but I saw that you were asking for opinions and I can’t actually find somewhere to vote on a poll (unless it was metaphorical? I can’t tell honestly), so feel free to delete this if it’s just taking up space- but I kind of agree with the anon who spoke up about the ask games. It’s not really a bad thing they exist, but when you have so many going at one time, it’s hard to keep track of and sometimes the pinned post/asks become incredibly long. It also feels like it goes against the whole ‘this is not a canon call’ mindset of the blog because it can and does spark up conversations between people, if that makes sense? It’s not a bad thing people are involved, but I feel like it takes away from the point of the blog a little. I think having the ask games be cleaned up and a new system put into place to make it easier to block the tag/find them would be super helpful, but I know that can be stressful. All in all, I’m sure everyone will support your decision!! Thank you for everything you put into this blog MPC 🖤

The voting poll post is here if you haven't found it already. Thank you for your input, you have some good points. https://www.tumblr.com/fictionkinfessions/724128639169544192 It's true that the ask game post is incredibly, tediously long. Even with tags, it's hard to ignore.

I don't know about the canon call thing, I haven't really seen people implying they should be contacted over x y z happening in their canon due to an ask game reply. Honestly I'm not fighting that battle very hard anyways.

I get the feeling that ask games are going to stay. But we did get some ideas on how to manage them better than their current form.

Summary of suggestions

Limit amount of active ask games per week or per month. Maybe 3 per week?

Create a catch all tag for ask game responses

Ask game topics per week or month. Maybe can be voteable as well?

Create side blog solely for ask games regardless??

[causemufins]

I'm a smaller blog so this might not go far, but I figured I could add in some more info that's more in depth. (mainly bc i have adhd and cannot be succinct no matter how hard i try)

when changing your icon, please don't make it a real person unless it is some fun image of a very recognizable celebrity. most people see the default icon or an icon of an irl person and block and report on sight

you may see this elsewhere, but please turn off/snooze tumblr live and don't use it. you can do that in settings>dashboard>preferences>snooze tumblr live. it only lasts for 7 days and you have to go back in every week and turn it off and on again.

While you're technically fine to use it, it steals a lot of data to the point that isn't present in certain countries due to their privacy laws

@.Staff is of course the staff's tumblr blog where they will mention big things to tumblr. From what I've seen, it's mainly for show and getting upset and mentioning them in a post won't do much.

they also have @.support as well as @.changes as other blogs. I recommend at the very least following the latter as they post every tuesday and friday with what changes and bugfixes have been made as well as what they are aware of and are trying to fix or stuff that may be upcoming.

people are most likely to reblog and put stuff in their tags as their comments on the post, but reblogging and actually adding a piece to the post is fine too. Usually that's done when you want to add content to the post that will hopefully be used going forward as tags only exist on your reblog and disappear when someone reblogs from you.

As said, Likes are similar to saving a post. Think of them as bookmarks in a way. One way I've found they work best is for people's compilation posts as likes will change along with any edits made to the post (or the specific reblog you're looking at) while reblogging saves the specific version you see and will not change even if the OP changes it or even deletes it.

I believe while there's technically no karma limits for reblogging as you can reblog anything you see, whether from being posted a minute ago or from years and years ago, there is a post/reblog limit. But I think it's like, 250 a day and I've never personally managed to reach that.

You don't *need* to make a second account or anything as you can make sideblogs. sideblogs are connected to your account but are otherwise just like every other blog. You can make one to reblog all the fun stuff you see with no regard for theme while having another that's a fandom specific blog, and another where you just post original content.

The only big difference between main and sideblogs is that if you like, reply, or send an ask, it will always show up as your main blog. You can reblog to any of your sideblogs, and you have messaging for each individual blog, but those first three are always linked to your main blog

along with your account and dashboard settings, you also have settings for each individual blog. Your main blog will have options to show off the posts you have liked and the blogs you follow

all the blogs will have options for people to send asks, submit posts, messaging, visibility, etc etc. these are unique to each blog so you can allow asks in one, but none for another. Asks and submissions also have extra options for allowing people to send things anonymously so they could hide their account or send without having an account.

Also, please enable the custom theme for your blogs. If you want to actually customize your theme, you are free to, but there is a default 'custom' theme in place when you turn it on. There's still a few things that are sort of broken with the non-custom themes so it's helpful to have the custom theme. Plus, people can look at the default or the custom theme based on their preferences and aren't just limited to the dashboard styled default.

Because I see someone asking in the post's replies, to turn off the algorithm, the options are in settings>dashboard>preferences along with the tumblr live switch. the toggle itself is labeled 'Best Stuff First' and turning it off makes your dashboard appear in reverse chronological order (most recent stuff first, getting older as you scroll down)

Just because It might not be clear to new people (i've been on here for years, so don't know what tumblr tells you when you make you account) the icons you'll see in the top right on desktop are as follows:

- House icon is the dashboard. this is where you see all the posts of people you follow. If you have 'stuff in your orbit' 'based on your likes' and 'included followed tag posts' turned on, you will intermittently see some of those woven into your dashboard. these will be labeled as such and also won't be in chronological order like the rest

-Compass icon is the explore page. this is where you can see stuff from today (reblogged from @.todayontumblr), stuff the site thinks is for you, what is trending (which lists the top few trending tags, which i can only ever see 8 of), staff picks, and then 'more' is to see top posts based on type of post (ie: text post, photo post, videos, music/sounds, etc)

-the other house looking icon with the decorative roof is the tumblr shop 'tumblrmart', which is a drop down menu to buy things for your tumblr blog (mainly badges) or real life merch like tshirts, water bottles, stickers, etc

-Envelope is your ask box. this is where you will receive the asks people send you, and also responses to your own asks as long as you didn't enable asking anonymously. these can be divided based on your blog.

-Chat Bubble icon with the smiley face is your messages. You can see your messages with other users, and clicking on your own blog name will let you swap between your blogs.

-Lightning Bolt icon is your notification feed. this will tell you when someone reblogs or likes a post from you. you will get this if they are reblogging or liking a post you reblogged, but you will also get notifications for posts you make and when they are liked/reblogged from other people's blogs. This will also tell you when someone follows you, posts a reply on on of your posts, or mentions you by putting an @ before your blog name. (note the @ can appear in a post or in replies, but shouldn't work in tags). Click on the little spike graph to see more in detail

-The Person icon is a drop down menu for your account. this is where you can get to your likes, who you're following, your settings and your blogs. your blogs have their own sections to see their posts, followers, etc. The main drop down also has the logout button (if for some reason you want to use that (/joke)) but it also has dashboard themes(change palette) and keyboard shortcuts. if you see someone take a screenshot of a post and it is colored differently from what you see, that's probably because they use a different theme.

Theme 1 is the default, 2 is dark mode, 3 is low contrast blue. Those are the most basic ones and then the others are more fancy. 4 is Cement which is white background with light gray for everything else (essentially light mode). 5 Cybernetic is black with neon green text and accents. 6 Canary is essentially Cement, but in light yellows instead of bright whites and very light grays. 7 Ghost is even brighter than cement, going for a pure white other than black text, and any colored things being red. 8 Vampire is similar to dark, but with red accents and also a serif font. 9 Pumpkin also has a serif font that gives you dark oranges and purple accents on a black background as well as orange text. 10 Snow Bright is ghost without the red accents instead making those a light gray. 11 Goth Rave is dark purple on a black background with purple and blue accents with most text being purple but some as blue. and finally 12 Pride a bright neon pink background, white backed posts with purple text, other text being a bright yellow for a pink lemonade vibe on the pink background, and 0 0 255 blue for buttons. All of 12 is super super saturated.

With all the shortcuts, the ones to use most are J and K to scroll down and up 1 post at a time. Very helpful with long posts, but these only really work on desktop. Sorry to users on the app or on mobile browser.

A tumblr users suggest switching to Firefox. You don't have to, but just be aware you might see that here and there, like for certain extensions. They can be found on other browsers, but tend to work best on Firefox for Tumblr. Mainly since most other browsers actually still track you when you're incognito and are breaking ad blocker. Either way, check out the aforementioned XKit Rewritten.

No one cares about follower count. No one can see your follower count unless you take a screenshot and post it. And Honestly, sometimes less followers is better. You could make 1 post that gets thousands of notes, but still get few followers from it while your other posts are getting at most ten notes.

And also I'm going to say it again, treat Likes like they are saves or bookmarks. People can hide their likes so the only person who knows you liked it is the people who made the post and whose specific reblog you liked. It is you taking a thing you like and putting it in a chest of things you like for only you to see. It gets the post notes, but not much else. Reblogs are what you should do. If you have a blog theme and it doesn't fit, make a side blog for all your reblogs.

While Likes get notes on a post, it only goes so far. A person can make a post and then 3 of their followers like it, and then that's it. But if one of their followers reblog, then their followers see it, and then theirs see it. so on and so forth. You are most likely to see reblogs and most content people follow you for is going to be reblogs. Reblogs are the lifeblood of Tumblr and it is how the site functions, so it won't work as well without them.

Also, while you can post just pure original content, Tumblr leans into fandoms and also sort of absurdist humor. A lot of posts will reference other posts that got reblogged so much that it's a site wide inside joke (color of the sky, spiders georg, color theory, shoelaces, jpegs like dolls, etc etc.

Also I know it's unfortunately become recent tumblr culture, but please please please do not tag a reblog as 'prev tags' unless you are adding a screenshot of the tags to the post in your reblog or quote the tags in your own tags. When you reblog a post, your reblog can keep existing even if the one you reblogged gets deleted, so if that happens, people can go to look at prev tags and find tumblr saying 'there's nothing here. the post they reblogged or the tumblr they reblogged from no longer exists, so those prev tags also no longer exist'

That's all I can think of, but others can add on as well. Some people may not like new users, but that's only because new users don't know how tumblr works and it becomes obvious if you try to treat it like other sites (mainly like twitter, so you guys have a leg up coming from not there).

obligatory welcome guide for redditors

A lot of the guides I've seen don't actually seem to understand how reddit works in comparison to tumblr so

your blog is basically your own small subreddit. some people curate this heavily to fit a theme, like a sub, most people don't

reblogs are culturally equivilant to upvotes but functionally equvilant to crossposting

there is an algorithm. it sucks and nobody uses it. turn it off in settings. everything is generally chronological

likes are functionally equivilant to saving a post

you've probably already seen this but change your icon and put something in your bio or people WILL assume you're a bot. personal info not required

generally, anything you would put as a comment on a thread should go in the tags or the replies of a post. only add comments in reblogs if you want it to become part of the base post

tags are mostly equivilant to flairs, used for organization and commentary

your dashboard is an aggregation of everyone you follow

there is an r/all equivilant(trending page) but it sucks and nobody uses it

our search also sucks. your best bet is using tumblr.com/tagged/[TAG] and not /search

there are no mods

by extension, reporting something doesn't put it in front of the mods, it sends it to staff, who may or may not do anything(usually they don't)

there is no karma, there are no karma limits. anyone can reblog anything, comment/reply to anything, or post in any tag

"reposting"(reblogging) old content doesn't matter. people can and will reblog the same post multiple times, including in a row

CAVEAT. reposting someones art(NOT reblogging, making a new post) is a dick move. i know this is commonplace on fandom subs but its not necessary here. everything you post should be [OC] unless you are reblogging. or posting shitty memes

we have our own sitelore, you'll pick it up

(though im not opposed to bringing some over from reddit)

our app also sucks. we do not have third party apps and any that claim to be are scams. sorry

for desktop, most people use the XKit Rewritten extension for QoL improvements and to revert shitty aesthetic updates, much like old.reddit

we have no idea where the porn rules are at either. add a mature content flag to anything you'd get fired for looking at at work, that's about it

finally, from the bottom of my heart, fuck u/spez

[mattgambler]

So where is that book you keep yappin about?

It's right here!

But so far I only printed four custom versions for my loved ones. Initial toe-dipping into the query-lake left me with nine form rejections and three silences, so clearly it needs a bit more work. ...I think. Actually, not quite sure! See, the issue with form rejections, as most writers will probably know, is that you don't even get half a clue about what it was that made the honorable slush-pile-reader say no to you. Here is one of my examples:

Matt,

Thank you for thinking of me and Agency on your search for an agent. I'm sorry to say that after careful consideration of your work, I've decided I'm not the best fit at this time. Please note that mine is only one opinion in a very subjective industry, and I encourage you to continue querying to find the right match.

I wish you the best of luck on your publishing journey,

Name My girl Judith read this and went "why not include a query letter with actual feedback in it instead?" But that's the point - I didn't get one, they are all like that. Might be the writing sucks. Or perhaps the issue isn't in the writing itself, but the query letter is confusing? You know, those 350 words that you have tried to forcefully cram your entire novel into, and then you forgot to mention WHY your bad guy is bad? (Not that I would ever do that, ahem) Or maybe you got everything in there, and your writing is better than your rambly blogging skills would suggest, and it's simply that you decided to debut with a six-part fantasy saga instead of with a standalone novel that may have been a lot simpler and easier to sell. Then of course, you start digging, and obsessing, and throwing yourself around in bed at night, wondering if maybe you shouldn't have written that one part where the donkey fucks the queen! But it *is* a really handsome donkey, after all... Then you go and watch some Youtube videos, and this one agent says "at least have an Instagram account where you post regularly". Another one says "you should definitely have your own website at this stage, after all agents will most certainly look you up". So now I made my very first Instagram account (I left Facebook and Twitter years ago and never looked back) and looked around a bit on websites like Squarespace, although a little whisper in the back of my head is telling me that maybe it just wasn't meant to be. Then again, my brother read the whole thing in a week and told me "you should keep sending it, it's actually good". But I am also aware that I am one of thousands that get rejected every week, maybe even every day. Maybe I could write a standalone prequel in the same world. And if I can manage to sell that, then I don't have to debut with a saga anymore, and maybe that would make it easier then. But also, as I said earlier, maybe it simply needs more work. A stronger hook on page 1. A bit less of X, more Y. And so on. If your head is swimming, so is mine. Finishing my first ever novel resulted in a high that I'm still riding to this day, but I also finished in November, and now we have April. And while I have done a lot of work since then, I don't enjoy this part half as much - and I also haven't written anything new since November, and instead spent my time posting on Instagram, watching Youtube videos put out by literary agencies, reading through the archive of query shark, not to mention reading a ton of novels on the hunt for comp titles that fit, even remotely. I guess that's what I get for wanting to write a story that's different from what I've read before, good luck comparing it to... anything. This might sound like I feel disheartened, the negative nancy that is trying to convince herself into surrender, but really I'm just putting this here so I can show it to all the other aspiring writers one day when they ask me how I managed to become the next Stephen King of Fantasy. Obviously.

[kittykosmos]

GURL I'm so SHOCKED there are people who didnt recognize Killer-Laurents art is ai. Or AT LEAST suspicious. I scrolled back to where you said (2023) and i saw he uploaded art that looked like he drew it himself ( not bad but just very hobbyist type of art) , then the NEXT day he posted GOD TIER anime-looking renders at the level of a PROFESSIONAL. BSFR. ANNND he had commissions posted just a day apart, too!!! Like what???? Ive never known an artist that could produce that much art that quickly and to that level of render without their hands falling literally off. ALL while claiming to be amateur and still learning. HUHH? I scrolled his page and saw he also had some tracing allegations too. HON, when you trace for practice , as a growing amateur artist, you dont ever post it. And if you do, you say it outright. Its artist etiquette!!! 😭 when artists base things off well known art, it means they didnt trace it, its a homage. The original artist is always acknowledged but you can SEE with your EYES its not traced. When you do an art study TO PRACTICE, its copying 1:1. Artists also say it outright that its a study. But if you can line up the art , one over the other, and see the lines match up but the only thing changed is that its vampires now, that's not "BASED." off anything. It's traced. Bro was always cutting corners. And then not too long after Mister Killer Laurent got called out for giving others permission to use commission art for their own projects. I cant believe there were people defending him on that. Are those people OK???? ARE YOU HIS PR TEAM OR WHAT??? plus If you are not a commission artist pls dont put your opinion on those things cuz people that do commissions KNOW - for a fact - exclusive use goes to the person who paid for it to be made. Otherwise whats the point??? Im not gonna to pay for art to be made exclusively for me just to have EVERYONE and their mamas use it. So, yeah. The person who complained for what they paid for - was in the RIGHT. Cuz imagine buying a custom computer, having it and then the manufacturer gives some other person ACCESS to your computer because they made it and it would work well for the other client too. wtf. I guarantee youd be mad. OMG , im so sorry for the long rant. 😭😭😭 im just so done with this guy. 💔💔💔

@killer-laurent

Yes, I’ve noticed that he tends to post commissions and art during time windows that seem unusually close together. Even WIPs are often shared just before or a day prior to the completed render. Which is a remarkably short turnaround time if he's posting as he works, especially considering he’s juggling multiple commissions.

I tried to find examples of the rendering differences you mentioned, but it seems he’s been deleting a lot of his work from both Tumblr and Cara, mainly the completed pieces. For context, here’s what his Cara looked like when I noticed he had deleted the two drawings I referenced in my original post: ( he deleted one from Cara that is missing here. And one from Tumblr. Both pieces are not missing from Cara. ) March 17 2025

and then today ( April 4, 2025) :

But yes, these following pieces were posted just a day apart in January: ( The finished version in the center is gone from his blog )

There are these from march, also all just a day apart from eachother.

These following pieces are from earlier in the month. Again single days apart. (all these march artworks are gone from his tumblr minus the WIP.)

Maybe he finishes rendering before posting WIPS? Personally, I doubt it considering he captioned the January WIP with "I'm so excited to finish this print." and then, bam, the next day it was done. Again, it's such a short turnaround for work that detailed. Either way, the completed artworks are now wiped from his blog. Also, please note the jump in style and rendering detail. Especially, within works posted just a day from each other. I should mention, though, there’s nothing wrong with his personal art style. However, you can clearly see a difference between pieces that feel more organically created by him and others that look distinctly AI-generated or enhanced. I just find it so sad when an artist who very clearly can draw gives in to the machine.

On a side note, I fully agree that when you pay for a commissioned artwork, others shouldn’t be able to use it. Asking for exclusivity isn’t unreasonable - it’s something you should be able to expect. I’m glad he at least made that stipulation clear for his clients. I do wish he’d be as accommodating about the AI issue, but maybe that’s too much to ask.

Here are some screenshots of the asks related to this situation. The middle two asks regarding commissions specifically were removed from his tumblr. ( in the first screenshot you read the bottom ask first since it is the oldest.)

[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

We’ve had a pretty great week here in our part of Virginia. It’s been sunny with temperatures in the 60’s! 😎

Other than that it’s been one of those regular weeks. Nothing overly exciting going on except for the disaster that is our country leadership at the moment. But let’s not get into that here.

Please enjoy the links! ❤️

Carmel Dagan, J. Kim Murphy • Variety

Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy Arakawa Found Dead in Santa Fe Home; Oscar-Winning Star of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Unforgiven’ Was 95

This one hit me. Gene Hackman is my favorite actor of all time. There was just something about him. It didn’t hurt that he reminded me of my grandfather who was an extremely kind man but tough as nails. That’s how Hackman always came across to me.

There are my favorite Gene Hackman films.

The French Connection

Target

Mississippi Burning

The Replacements

Unforgiven

There are many more excellent Gene Hackman films to choose from.

In the end he lived a long life and managed to live out his final years peacefully with his wife in New Mexico. 🪦

Joan Westenberg

Why Personal Websites Matter More Than Ever

I love reading Joan’s work. Whether it be on her personal blog or on The Index. She’s just a darned good writer.

Anywho, I agree with her 100%. A weblog is the best social media site you can have because it’s yours. If your host shuts down you can freely move it and your content to a new home.

Start free with a WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, or Micro.Blog account and see where it takes you. There are, of course, others to choose from.

The next step in your journey, perhaps it should be the first, is to acquire a custom domain name to host your blog. They’re also quite easy to get and all of the blog hosting providers I mention above will let you set your own domain name. Easy least!

Nico Grant • The New York Times

“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google’s lineup of A.I. models and apps.

I emphasized the 60 hours comment. That’s a bunch of BS. Trust me, I should know. I put in those kind of hours in the 90’s and early 2000’s. In the end they get a bunch of free work out of you and, if you have a family, your family suffers. It’s just not worth it. Ok, ok, so do a few years of it, say five, and get out.

If you’re single and don’t have any friends this may be the only way you socialize. I could see doing 60 hours a week, but at some point your mind and body pay the price for it.

I’m approaching 60 and I’d rather spend my time with my wife, children, and grand children.

Be wise. Don’t be me.

Scott Neuman • NPR

Skype, the pioneering and once ubiquitous free video calling service, will be history come May. It was so popular that people used it as a verb: “I’ll Skype you in the morning.”

I guess all good things must come to an end, right? Skype was equally loved and hated. I know folks who used it to do international calls and it’s been a huge part of the podcasting world for over a decade, probably two? Folks tried other services but Skype just worked better. It wouldn’t drop connections which is its primary job. The UI sucked but it did the job.

What are folks using today for recording podcasts? I’d love to know.

Jonathan M. Gitlan • Ars Technica

Yes, it turns out you can make a Tesla Cybertruck even uglier

I don’t know if this is uglier or just as ugly in a different way. Lipstick on a pig indeed! 🐷

It’s a garbage “truck” made by a garbage company “run” by a garbage human.

I put quotes around “run” because there is zero chance *Space Karen is performing his duties as CEO for Tesla, SpaceX, or X at the moment.

(* Yes, I pointed to Nazistack. I wish these damned good writers would get off that platform.)

Tim Hardwick • MacRumors

Apple has offered a reason why the iPhone 16e doesn’t include MagSafe, one of the more notable omissions from its latest entry-level smartphone.

I’ve said it a few times now. This may be the perfect phone for me. Lower priced and is good enough. I’d still get iOS and an incredible piece of hardware with good battery life. Oh, and a small camera on the back. 😃

Jack Dunn • Variety

‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Draws Glowing First Reactions, With Some Praising the Opener as the ‘Best Pilot of Any MCU Series Thus Far’

I’m happy to see this back! I haven’t started watching yet, but I most certainly will at some point. Apparently we’re gonna see The Punisher show up at some point. I was a fan of that series as well. ❤️

Kelly Crandall • Racer

Carson Hocevar earned a NASCAR Cup Series career-best finish Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway but was left having to explain himself afterward.

Last seasons Rookie of the Year really pisses people off. He’s been doing it since he was part of the Truck Series. Wrecking Corey Heim in the wall during the Championship Race in 2023 was a disgusting display of selfishness.

These Cup drivers won’t put up with his overly aggressive style. He’s stepped over the line from aggressive to reckless. The veteran drivers will straighten him out. It may take a few punches in the face, but they’ll fix it. 🤬

Valerie Ettenhofer • /Film

Tom Cruise who? Hulking action star Alan Ritchson has now played beloved antihero and skull-knocking machine Jack Reacher in more adaptations of Lee Child’s bestselling book series than the Reacher before him (who’s currently busy risking life and limb as a different beloved action hero), and judging by the reviews for “Reacher” season 3, it’s a role Ritchson was meant to play.

Here’s another series I need to get back to. We really enjoyed season one but haven’t watched since.

Alan Ritchson is a really great actor and he fits the physical description of Reacher much better than Tom Cruise.

Michael Larabel • Phoronix

The SystemV file-system that implements Xenix FS, SystemV/386 FS, and Coherent FS is set to be removed from the Linux kernel. The SystemV file-system was orphaned back in 2023 while now is set to be removed entirely after developers realized the code was fundamentally broken.

Ahhh, SystemV. Seeing the word Xenix in there takes me back. Do y’all remember Microsoft Xenix? Probably not many. How about SCO? Yeah, probably not. 🤣

I installed a lot of SCO Xenix at one point in my career. I want to say by then it was SCO UNIX? My memory isn’t that clear on the matter. 😃