#i have. people who like myart and are so nice to me that should be enough. even one person. but. alas.

[inkats]

its actually stupid to be so down on my art ive been drawing for like. 5 years. only. and look at how much better ive gotten. everyone u compare urself to's been drawing for over a decade. youve got 5 years more. imagine what it'll look like then <33

[cobaltington]

Hi there

If you’re reading this post, that probably means I sent it to you because you asked me how this website works.

So, welcome to hellsite known as tumblr. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. Also as a disclaimer, I haven’t used this thing since 2016 so I’m not fully up to snuff on how this website functions nowadays, but I know the basics.

This will be a small guide to all my mutuals on twitter who might be looking into getting on this site should twitter decide to crash and burn, so lets start going down the list of things to know about this site...

1: This is a “blogging” site

Tumblr was created as an easy way to make a blog for yourself in the mid to late 2000s in a time were blogging was the hip and trendy thing to do. The website has sort of shifted towards a bigger general social media influence since it’s inception, but because of it’s origins it has a few advantages over twitter.

These include:

The ability to use formatting stuff in your posts (like this bullet list)

Basically infinite post length

Fully customizable user-pages with htlm/css/javascript magic

The ability to use more than 4 images in a single post

Unrelated but tumblr compression is less shitty than twitter.

There are downsides to this however. Often times people will use custom layouts for their page, but the html/css will be fucked and the fonts will be incredibly small. These layouts might also be missing various QoL features that the default layout has. Since post length is essentially infinite, you will probably be met with word walls every now and again. Web dev wizards will also usually find ways to make their text float away from their post, or crash your timeline every 2 or 3 weeks. This kinda just happens.

2: How the fuck do these posts work

Some people I’ve talked with are confused about who made a post or how it’s getting on their timeline. I’ll use a diagram to explain instead of words.

Got it? cool. It should also be noted that whenever you reblog something, you’re basically quote-tweeting it, or starting a thread. it’s weird. If you’re coming from twitter though, so long as you just press the reblog button and don’t do anything else (except for adding tags), it’s more or less the equivalent of a retweet. If someone does want to ‘quote-tweet’ it/start a thread, you add your own text to your reblog. It’ll look like this to others:

This can be a little annoying at times because you’re more or less adding to the entire post for everyone who rbs your version to see. tl;dr, unless you’re a genius in comedy or you have something actually important to add, please just don’t.

3: Tagging

I mentioned tagging in the last post so lemme explain. Tags are weird as hell because people use them in a few different ways.

People use tags as normal hashtags

People use tags to sort their content

People use tags as a way to quietly “comment” on posts 

Explained:

1) Having a not so in your face hashtag feature is really nice, so people often use it a lot more to garner attention on their posts, as people like searching specific tags like #birds, #furry, or something of the like

2) In addition to searching the website for tags, can also filter your posts on your blog using tags. So, if you’re say an artist, you could make a tag like #myart or  #[oc name here] so people interested in your content can more easily find that specific content. It’s a really useful feature!

3) Tags as comments has been a thing people have used for a long time on this site. If you only use this site to chronically reblog stuff and not make your own posts, this is basically your usual way of communicating anything to your followers. Since you don’t add to the post when you comment with tags, it’s essentially tumblr’s reply system. Tumblr added a reply feature a few years back, but people tend to not really like it for whatever reason, so just be wary that certain users will just have the normal reply feature off because of this.

4: Asks

Tumblr has an “ask me anything” feature which can be enabled/disabled. Someone who gets on your blog page will see it if it’s enabled and can just ask you a question. If you’re wary about people being mean to you for no reason I’d suggest turning off anon-asks. But also know that if some shithead is hiding behind anon to harass you they’re a fucking dweeb and a coward because they can’t face you head on.

5: I forgor 💀

I don’t really remember other details about this site!! Thems just the basics!!!!! I guess I should say people can and will get unhinged as hell on here but whatever the case if any of my info is outdated or im missing something and one of you champs who still uses tumblr is also still following me please feel free to add to this post. Alright cool bye and good luck nerds.

[charlott2200]

#Aromanticawarenessweek2021#aromanticpride#aromantic

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Last hours of it ,wanted to do something bigger but was super busy so hope you all like this quick one .

The paragraph is my favorite part of this cute WOY fanfic : https://archiveofourown.org/works/2405576

"I’m not in love with you either. You know how I feel about romance."

She did - romance was nice and lovely and beautiful,so long as he wasn’t actually involved in the romance part and was just an on looker. The guy loved love. In theory.

Im bad at expressing myseft so i copy this text from my drawing last year

Since i was a kid i liked romance and enjoy shipping .(mostly in animated series ) but i never have feel anything like people describe , and how in school allmost all girls were having crushes some even dating ,i started to pick my crushes like" this boy is pretty ,or hes nice an smart ,they re gonna be my crush " i even did letters and all that cheesy stuff i hate . Now i realize i was all an act .

People seems to asume some things about me . Im a shy ,quiet ,kinda good student ,femenine person ,so a lot of people asume i am a "sensitive" girl .

who loves romance and wants a family and all. When in reality i dont want any of those things .

the "just friends "part comes for the big number of male friends i always had ,i always got along better with the boys .

so people think im dating when i go out with them .at my 22yrs i never dated ,and always hated when they say "that kind of frienship dosent exist " why all have to be romantic ,why i cant give kisses and hugs to my friends ,walking by the hand . Why everytime i show my family a photo of one of my friend the response is "you should date him" ,my granma had told me that "im gonna fall in love ,have kids and be like EVERYONE but i wont just cause i dont feel romantic attraction .

#Aromanticawarenessweek2021#aroace#myart

[viizipn]

Yes. I am officially off of hiatus. I will explain my reasoning on not posting below.

As some of you may know, I was grounded. While others may know I was also being stalked by one of my exes; (probably still is being stalked, but I don’t care anymore. It’s blown past me, and honestly sitting here and being a dump over it isn’t gonna help me get higher in life.) My main reason for leaving was because of the stalker issue. It made me really uncomfortable, and I didn’t like the fact that my profile was being stalked by someone I once loved. As some of you may see, I have made my account private, not only for safety reasons, but for privacy reasons. I know my stalker is probably still out there stalking me and shit, but eh. I say privacy because some people I’m not on good terms with likes to make multiple accounts and harass me. This way, I can manage who’s one of the people harassing me or not.

I was grounded because typical me being stupid, haha. I don’t want to go into detail cause that’s not really meant for the social web. But I will say, I do regret it.

Another update with me, I suppose.. My art has improved over the time I was gone. Allthough, there is are that I have due to do, it may still be delayed due to my schoolwork and my necessities that needs to be done. I’m beginning to become a more independent and mature woman because I’m gonna be a adult soon, and art shouldn’t be on the top pyority on my list because self love should be. Yes, art is nice and all, but I’m not gonna let it stop me from doing what I need to do. I need to grow up, and learn how to be a woman.

My art statuses (since I need to update them.) Comissions: open. Art trades: friends only, (for now.) Requests: friends only, (for now.)

I’ll talk about some good things. I’ve gotten into another Zelda game. I’ve been playing Breath of the Wild, and I am absolutely in love. So I guess that’s a good note to end off of.

Thanks you guys. Thank you to the followers who decided to stick with me through my almost a year of not posting shit. Thanks. 💜

Art + Monstarr © me.

See you on my next art post.