#random art post

[artboomboom]

Wednesday Random Art Post, (WRAP) for this week.

I was out of town for 5 days in Los Angeles for several reasons. And got to meet up with a lot of my old friends. It was an amazing trip that will hold deep in my soul going forward.

With that in mind today's WRAP is about sharing with a friend and enjoying their company. We are all in this together.

[ob-la-di-ob-la-di]

Just some random arts🌷💐🌸 🌟🌌🌫️

[ferretanon]

[clownsuu]

God I love the insane amounts of d r i p Stanley just casually wears

[the-magnus-protocol]

Tma + tmagp art masterpost

[not-enough-activity]

Art dumping portraits for 2 of my OCs :3

[paintedcrows]

Gravity Text Post (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[wasyago]

quiet hours

closeups under the cut :]

i really like these

[bluegiragi]

i drew johnny "soap" mactavish as phreak (the original design) from overwatch.

bonus (just for fun):

[adobe-outdesign]

hey Neopets can you explain why you have an unreleased petpet that's just a human man on all fours

you can take your time but I do need an answer

[somegurl8]

[wizzidoodles]

In honor of Lucifer’s debut, I’d like to bring back this masterpiece

[threateningwatercress]

their combined level of freak is unmatched

[stump-not-found]

A Lifetime Served in a Little Cup

pt.1 / pt.2 / pt.3 / pt.4

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bill, babygirl, the red flags get outta there

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.