#i'm not really back

[sproutwings]

Logging onto Tumblr for the first time in 4+ months like

[sani3dreamlove]

Hello old friends and followers. No, I'm not really back, I just wanted to leave you a letter! I was simply deleted from Tumblr. Of course, there has been no answer to my very nicely worded question "why" "or a reason" so far. I would have really liked to know what I did wrong. I followed all of Tumblr's terms and conditions, I filtered all of my pictures and what's wrong with landscapes and faces? There were never any completely naked people to be seen or anything that would be wrong according to the rules.

Tumblr probably doesn't know that itself. I simply assume that Tumblr is sexist towards LGBT groups, because I myself have no explanation for it. Many of you have been following me for years. I recently had over 7300 followers and many people really liked my blog and I have also often received thank yous from very nice people.

So what now? Yes, I've had enough. And now go to #bsky.

You want to follow me? With pleasure, you can now find me at @sani333cs.bsky.social. It would be nice to find old friends there again. Feel free to write to me there or follow me there, I hope to see you there. And I look forward to a message there. Please not here!

sani333cs says goodbye.

[rggtattoos]

Also Wanting to get one but don’t know what one matches me or want something unique to me As a way to remember my dad even though i kinda didn’t get on well with him i still miss him

I am honored that anyone would ask my advice on these things! Please keep in mind I am not an expert, just someone who enjoys research. I can't give more specific advice without knowing more, but I'll do what I can to give you advice.

First of all, if you want this to be a memorial to your father, keep in mind what you know about him. His personality, how you felt about him, things you remember about him. This could also be a good opportunity to ask other people who knew him, family or friends, for stories. Other people's viewpoints can give us a different perspective on a person, and there may be people you love with stories to share. I would also reccomend you not shy away from complicated feelings. Complicated is ok. People are complicated, as is our feelings for them. Represent him in a way that feel true to you.

Next is research. If you're going for irezumi style, this usually involves a main subject (animal, monster, yokai, spirits and even people are all common.) and an accent. The main subject can be whatever speaks to you. Read folklore, whether it be Japanese or maybe something else that is close to you. There is a lot of fun myths to explore.

Flowers are common accent pieces, and flower language can communicate a lot of emotions, both positive and negative. You can also combine flowers for a more complex message.

My last bit of advice is to look at lots of tattoo examples for inspiration. You want a good image in your head as to what you want so you can communicate it clearly to your artists. Pick an artist who's work fits the style you want, and don't be afraid to ask their advice as well. Use their experience to your advantage. A good artist wants to do good work you'll be happy with.

[demaparbat-hp]

Existential Nihilism Squad™

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Man.... tumblr really has changed. Someone filmed themself having gay sex on the senate hearing room floor and I haven't seen a single post about it

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[zuzu-draws]

[ To Save your enemy (Your Family) ]

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[kimeoshi]

Corrupted Ratio for Twitter! Reached 2k followers and he won in a prompt game

Timelapse:

[piierrote]

Quiet

Mini ace attorney riso fanzine :)

[mimimar]

my little one

(art prints)

[xitsensunmoon]

He's a bit too excited to see you clock in

[rubydubydoo122]

I saw someone say a while ago that Jason attacking Tim at Titans Tower was just Tim hallucinating bc he was feeling guilty about being Robin even though Jason's not dead. Which is great, amazing, I think the whole Titans Tower thing is Bonkers, but I think it would be so much funnier if Jason tried to Gaslight Tim into believing the Titans Tower incident never happened, not because he's like evil, he's just super embarassed about it. like Or Tim did actually hallucinate Jason at TT but thinks it was real, so when he tells Jason about it, Jason's so fucking confused, and Tim thinks Jason's Gaslighting him

Tim: Remember that time when you broke into Titans Tower and beat me half to death while wearing a Robin costume from party city

Jason: What? Tim, I know i'm crazy, but I'm not...Insane.

Tim, pulling down his collar: I literally have the scar to prove it

Jason: Bruce told me that was from Clayface pretending to be me, which, might I just say rude. Tim... are you ok? Did you hallucinate me attacking you? like, I know I've done that before, but...

Tim, frowning: I don't think I hallucinating. I was benched for a while after because I had to recover-

Jason: well, you were benched around the time I was dropping hints that I knew who Bruce was outside of Batman, he probably just benched you to keep you safe. You probably were working too many cases with too little sleep and your imagination started to run wild.

Tim: Are you gaslighting me?

Jason: Are you gaslighting me?

[monstermonger]

I recently bought an art book on Caspar David Friedrich, whose emotional work stuck with me since I first saw it in a museum years ago. Over the course of a few weeks, I read about his life and at the same time did studies/interpretations of many pieces. It was a really enjoyable and fulfilling project; here's a good lot of them together :)

I was happy to see many people enjoyed Friedrich's work+my interpretations while posting them individually. It took way too long, but I FINALLY set up a print shop for some of these + some other pieces for those who expressed interest. Thank you so much!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm back in the Tigers cage again.

(You too can join in on throwing a Rat Of A Man into a Tiger cage by reading Tiger Tiger)

[a-rabbit-obsessed-queer]

Aspec men deserve much more respect and recognition in the aspec community than they receive. They often face a different form of aphobia specific to them ("men are naturally sexual they can't be ace" "all men are unromantic that's not unique") this rhetoric is spouted by many, even members of our own community and I hope for a day where that is no longer the case. As an ace and demiro woman (demigirl but that's beside the point) I want to encourage folks to take the time to give the aspec men in their lives support and to the aspec men reading, you are who you say you are no matter what people say and you deserve the world. I'm sorry for the ways in which toxic masculinity has harmed you. You are a valued member of the aspec community and the queer community as a whole. No ace or aro person is broken and neither are you. I'm sorry if anyone has ever told you otherwise.