#i had tumblr and deviantart

[snippydippy]

My friends and I used to walk in small groups of 4-8 and go either to the park outside the library, the skate park, the main river with an accessible strip of sand, or down underneath the overpass by my bf's house.

They were the places we could hang out, and now in the last 12 years, all of them have become off limits to kids.

The park outside the library is right next to where they let inmates out at the jail. This was never a problem when we would go. Sometimes people being let out would come and ask us to use a cell phone (sometimes they'd leave us with their "prison snacks" of chips in exchange.), and they were always nice. Eventually I guess some parents or the cops decided that wasn't safe tho, because now if anyone young sits out there for more than a few minutes, a cop will come over and shoo them away.

The skate park has always been right across from the police station, which was always a bit of a problem. Cops would always be watching our group like hawks, with a squad car that would pull out of their lot just to move across the street to be parked at the edge of the skate park. (This skate park, mind you, was about a 30ft by 30ft slab of concrete with one ramp, a grind bar and a set of stairs. My town has a population of less than 3k.)

If we got even a little too loud, the cop would come out and "make conversation" with us. Ask about what we were up to after this, if we had homework, if our parents knew where we were, etc. Eventually we got tired of it, but when I go back home to visit, I never see anyone there except really young kids and their parents. The place is also borderline unusable since the concrete is disintegrating.

The main river with it's little beach has been fenced off with barbed wire and a "no trespassing" sign. My group had put a rope swing up that everyone used, some others upgraded it to be a tire swing. They cut the tree in half to get rid of its branches before they put the fence up. This river is city property. No one has any real idea who put the fence up.

The underpass by my ex's old house almost always has a squad car passing by frequently. They have a cop using his paid piggy playtime to park his car, and look under the bridge for teens who God forbid might be sitting down there and talking. On public property.

Our movie theater only played a movie every other Thursday and Saturday. As far as I can tell, they don't have a regular schedule anymore. They just make a post on Facebook whenever they have a movie.

The arcade was bought by the new owners of the main casino and shut down. Their renovations to the building included completely walling off the space where it was. The bowling alley that was adjacent to said arcade is only open set hours a week, and almost always reserved by senior leagues. It used to be open every Saturday, all day, and anyone could bowl for five bucks.

It's a shit show, small towns and large alike. There's no where for kids to fucking go.

[cozylittleartblog]

@staff if you [change] the [design] of the fucking [dashboard] i will kill you

edit. i want it on the actual post that i am not actually making a de-th threat against the staff. that's shitty. the caption quotes the fucking costco hot dog meme, which i originally said in the tags. if any staff member sees this please do Not take it personally

[starridge]

yeah

[vilevampirez]

tsunami 💖💖

[sergle]

I was digging up my old pixel art bc my friend was asking me abt game assets and wanted examples of stuff I made-- and man I kinda miss it!! tbh! I should do pixel art again on occasion. like tell me these aren’t still kinda cute

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Zachary is Gay and uses he/him pronouns!

[vehemourn]

When the sun hits

i've always wanted to do an emo dog friend piece -w-

[nomeveas-art]

This one is OLD. How old you ask?

[fedoraspooky]

I haven’t been here long. What irritating changes have been made?

Credit where it's due, some changes have been good, like polls and stuff! But the big recent changes thus far that I would classify as irritating are:

- The UI change. This one may be less irritating for newcomers because it's basically the same layout as twitter and instagram, but for a lot of folks who've been here a long time, it feels cramped and like a loss of identity for the site. For many, the appeal of tumblr is that it ISN'T an algorithm hell like twitter or insta. Also, there's the annoyance of having to relearn where everything is, because it all got moved around.

- The users being lab rats for various tests the devs wanna pull out of nowhere without consenting to beta testing new site features- like the one that took away user icons on the dash for like half the site. They finally put them back after getting enough feedback that said NO, but users were so used to their feedback being disregarded that they were half expecting the change to be pushed through anyway.

- The Netflix tie-in advertising being pushed even to people who had PAID tumblr for a no-ads experience. Complete with them somehow thinking it would be a good idea to put an unescapable-by-scrolling spooky clown on peoples' dashboards that u had to use ublock to get rid of. While I'm not scared of clowns and often find them quite charming, it sucks that staff didn't take coulrophobia being a common fear into account.

- A wave of fully sfw trans posts being wrongfully marked Mature and staff doing little to nothing about it. Not sure if this is still ongoing, but it destroyed a lot of trust and good will. (LGBT+ users have been having to fight a constant war against censorship ever since the adult content ban on tumblr, so yeah... Nevar 4get the list of banned search words that would bring back no results, like 'girl')

- The site gradually moving away from customization. Tumblr is a BLOGGING site. But it seems to have lost sight of that fact, because most new users don't even know you can fully customize your blogs with css and stuff (an option that is now off by default for new accounts!), because of the in-dash viewer giving you only how blogs look on mobile, which is a lot more uniform. There, it's more like every other site- you get a banner and icon. Oh, but you can change colors and fonts from a drop-down list too, that's cool I guess. Though they recently took away custom color schemes on Message windows, just another little bit of personalization taken away.

- TUMBLR. LIVE. Basically tumblr teamed up with a skeevy dating app partner to allow for livestreams- but not the cool kinda livestreams like on twitch where you can draw or play games, no- to a site full of people who value anonymity, they decided to push phone cam only livestreams. Not only that but by agreeing to the terms, you're giving out tons of personal data including your location to said skeevy dating app partner and all of THEIR third-party ad partners. Needless to say, most people didn't wanna use it, so instead of users it's flooded by p*rn bots (which is ANOTHER issue we've been dealing with for a long time and have been getting an even bigger influx of FROM tumblr live) and scammers. And thus, since tumblr likes to put a carousel of current streams on people's dashes, you often get softcore p*rn thumbnails from the bot streams with no way to avoid it except for toggling off tumblr live entirely.

- Oh wait. That's right. You CAN'T toggle it off. Because you can only snooze it for a while until BAM, you're jumpscared by a carousel of ladies licking your screen again! But hey, at least they made the snooze 30 days instead of the 7 it used to be, right? Yeah, except for the fact that you can't get rid of the tumblr live button itself on the app anymore, and now it's front and center with a NEW notification tag on it, overlapping your dash and cramming useful stuff like the search button out of the way.

NOW- A lot of this stuff CAN be at least mostly fixed on desktop by installing ublock and xkit and tampermonkey + dashboard unfucker... But that's a lot of stuff just to make the site usable, you know?

[sinfulhares]

I'm so tired of sites self-destructing, PLEASE I am begging there to be just ONE art site that isn't a flaming pile of shit that could go down at any moment

I'm not leaving until the ship goes down, but I would like to hear potential places where people are also posting art

Personally I'm most active on Kofi and Bluesky because these are the only sites that I'm sure won't come crashing down anytime soon but god it's so tiring to have to keep rebuilding because everything turns to shit over the dumbest, most lack-of-common-decency bullshit from people who should never be in power to begin with

[androdragynous]

"why are we LYING and saying THIS social media is better for art than that social media because OBVIOUSLY that social media is better and-"

shut up. the site that will be ""most useful"" for selling your work has nothing to do with the site itself and everything to do with 1. if the people you want to sell to are there (and, surprise, there are other users on literally every site) and 2. if you can tolerate using it enough to reach an audience.

implying signing up for different social media is the only way to succeed as an artist is just straight up stupid. you want people to find your work? try starting with remembering to sign your fuckin name on it

[vampstel]

I wish Deviantart was still popular and wasn’t an A.I hellhole,, I miss the old layout before Eclipse became a thing. I miss posting silly art on there as a kid and being able to organize all that art into folders. We really took that platform for granted I swear

[cozylittleartblog]

chat imma be honest that project diva PC release has had lasting consequences ,

[ellenent]

If requests are still open, may I ask for Bowsette with movie Peach's halberd?

omg what if Bowsette was in the movie....

[kitteqq]

would dopegirl like hatsune miku this has been on my mind for a while

yes. the answer is definitely yes thank u anon. shes on the computer all day im sure she can successfully get those miku concert tickets (that i can never get in time)