#somewhere on this platform

[saphire-spark]

People of Tumblr, i have a proposal

Together we can make These a reality

Let's Open Up a EC style company producing Dinosaure Chicken

[asipofurmay]

baby i'm a gangster too and it takes two to tango

[taffywabbit]

"why not just make your own website?"

with the announcement of cohost's death and amidst all the other tumultuous shit currently going on with social media as a concept (i am AMAZED twitter has survived this long given the circumstances), one suggestion that i've been hearing a lot is "we should just go back to the good old days of personal websites. let's all just make neocities pages!!"

(this is gonna be a long one sorry)

and like. idk! it's certainly something i've considered, i think it would be a fun thing to have, but it also feels like the equivalent of "capitalism sucks so let's all just run off into the woods and live in a cabin outside of society" to me. like it would be nice, it would be fun, but it doesn't ultimately solve the actual problems that are present with the modern internet, it just evades them. more importantly in my case and many others, it does not really help people who rely on the modern internet and the connections they're able to make there for their income. sure i can make a website and host my art and blog posts there, but who's going to see it? i can't build a consistent audience and make a living off of random passersby who peek at my website once, say "huh, neat!" and MAYBE add it to an RSS feed or whatever if they really like it. there's minimal potential for meeting and impressing new people outside my existing circles if i don't ALSO still have some manner of social media platform to promote the website on.

a lot of the "solutions" i see people proposing for the slow, painful decline of social media as a user experience keep coming back to old-fashioned, more isolated/insular systems. we miss forums, we miss personal webpages, we miss newsletters, etc etc. but like... those things were ideal in the "old web" because the old web was more about sharing hobbies and interests with whoever happened to pass by and check them out, and even just USING the internet was a niche hobby in and of itself for a lot of people. if you wanna be kinda cynical about it (and not unjustifiably so), web 2.0 is much more blatantly business-oriented, and its algorithms and carefully crafted UX's are primarily meant to funnel you towards viewing ads and spending money on products. looking at it that way, it sure does suck and Everything Was Better Before! but the modern web is ALSO more powerful than anything before it for just like. connecting people. spreading information and news. showing your art/music/writing/thoughts/etc to strangers who never knew you existed an hour ago. putting the tools to reach out to someone and tell them you think they're cool right there on the same website where their art is hosted, just a comment or a message away.

if you're able to avoid patterns of engagement-bait and obsessing over follower counts as a measure of self-worth (a big "if", i realize, but i view it like installing an adblocker - it's just kind of a basic prerequisite for modern internet safety and survival), a lot of these systems can genuinely be really positive and life-changing in ways that were simply not possible 20 years ago! almost all of my current closest friends are people I met through sharing our art on platforms like Twitter who were complete strangers at the time. all of the art clients that regularly pay my bills and support my work came from places like that too! the "social" part of "social media" is really what makes it ultimately worth keeping around in any form, and makes the pursuit of a Good social media platform still valuable.

there's a lot to love about the old web - its aesthetics, simplicity and freedom for personal expression - but every time someone says "just delete your socials and make a personal website" i am forced to confront the fact that i could never do what i currently do or be the person i am on the old web. if i was stuck hanging out in my own little space and only ever interacting with people who openly and loudly share my interests, i couldn't support myself with art full-time, i probably would never have met the kind and quiet strangers who are now my best friends and have made me who i am, and i'd just generally get a lot less insight into the vast range of experiences and perspectives that exist outside of my own. my life would be on a fundamentally different trajectory in countless ways without the advent of web 2.0.

and that's not to say "well twitter and facebook and tumblr all suck but you kinda still have to hand it to them" cuz you don't, obviously. they're corporations, and their job is to take the personalities and thoughts and art of the people who use their products and try to scrunch it all into something uninform and marketable that generates profit and pleases their shareholders. but like, you CAN still make a good thing out of them! these websites are tools just as much as geocities or myspace or IRC used to be. and the one thing these newer tools are pretty much all REALLY good at is discoverability. if you're just a hobbyist at the things you wanna share on the internet, then you likely don't have a lot of use for those tools, and perhaps you WOULD genuinely be happier just keeping a personal blog site or hanging out in private groupchats or sticking to specialized federated Mastodon instances or whatever. it just isn't feasible for me, and there are a LOT of people in my same situation. my entire industry of online freelance artists barely existed 20 years ago, and the web culture of that era is largely incompatible with my continued survival in the mid-2020s. i would LOVE to run off and live in the woods in concept, but all my survival skills are adapted for city living and i would just eat the wrong berry and die out there. i want- i NEED people to try and improve the spaces we're in, and support better forms of social media (like what cohost was trying and largely succeeding to do!) instead of just complaining that it all sucks, everything was better when we were kids, and digging ourselves little holes to hide in. much like all the other problems and frustrations and systemic issues of the world we live in, the modern web isn't going to go away if you just ignore it, so we may as well try to make it better for everyone.

anyways tl;dr i probably WILL make a neocities at some point. it could be fun, even if it doesn't help my career stability or whatever. but i do also need ALL THE SOCIAL PLATFORMS I USE FOR MY JOB TO STOP EXPLODING PRETTY PLEASE, and failing that, some actual half-decent alternatives that aren't going to fizzle out in a month would also be great thanks ✌

[beneathsilverstars]

been thinking about the differences between SASASAP and ISAT lately. because looking just at ISAT and the two hats ending, you'd think loop went through the exact same house as our siffrin, but looking at SASASAP, it's different. it's mixed up. it's obviously a condensed prototype.

but. that doesn't have to mean it's a different universe entirely.

maybe that's just what happens after a thousand loops.

the house warped in act 5. siffrin lost their shit and the house got changed and corrupted, far past its baseline king uncanniness. so it wouldn't be too out-of-the-question for it to be able to warp in more subtle ways as well, due to a more subtle breakdown.

like a jpeg uploaded and downloaded a thousand times, siffrin changed, and the loops changed. over a thousand loops of efficiency, the house got more efficient. rooms combining. items moving. data compressing. and of course, run in a changed house, the script changed as well. it did so slowly, one bit at a time, over a thousand loops of zoned-out half-listening – and by the time siffrin would have noticed each difference, they were already used to it. (and in the moments that they did look at a room that was less familiar than it should be and realize that they had no idea where to find the key, well. that's just classic siffrin, isn't it.)

through sheer repetition, siffrin was corrupted, and the loops and the house along with them. all purpose lost, all signals distorted, until finally they couldn't recognize the meaning in any of it. it was all noise and despair.

so they made a wish. and the loop restarted. not just a reboot, but something more complete.

the data was backed up onto a star – a guide, a warning, a reference – and the loops were factory reset. and for the first time in a thousand loops, siffrin woke up to a clear mind and the crisp sound of birdsong.

[burnyourtrains]

Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art Stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art stop stealing art

This means reposting without permission. Feeding into ai. Taking as your own. Not giving credit to the artist. Posting things that aren't yours in the first place. Etc.

This goes for fanart, original pieces from the artist, writing, gifsets - anything someone took the time to make.

Stop stealing art

[sentientstump]

BEEF ON THE IMP AND SKIZZ PODCAST

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!!??

YAY???

[ispyspookymansion]

i really do not believe i’ll adapt to another platform if tumblr ever dies ill be here blogging until the very last second but. bluesky twitter discord is kora6669 and um thats all.

[teaandinanity]

I would just like to reiterate that Kamala Harris is not and was never a cop.

She was a district attorney.

DAs can and have done a lot of good, occasionally up to and including refusing to enforce laws they think are evil bullshit.

In her case, she used the position to help start a program that literally said 'this nonviolent drug offender should go to school instead of prison, actually.' Which reduced recidivism and is EXACTLY the kind of thing I would like to see more of from our justice system.

She's not a cop.

[asipofurmay]

smile for the history books

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

The idea of my art just be being displayed somewhere else on the internet by someone else is wild to me, with credit or otherwise, because like, WHERE

[premamelody]

(unfinished utpyrt social media accs bc im too lazy to read this and finish this)

frisk social would be randomly posting full of internet vocabulary they gained overtime and using it at random. like they'd defo be mamaposting. also they like to draw bc I said so, um again

flowey would acc be chill like at least in present day, definitely would be a rant blog in earlier days but moreso in a 'the game came with your xbox' way about games and shows and stuff than like hateposting

like he'd get in an argument w somebody and will try to explain to the user while clearly putting annoyance into the tone

he'd definitely break out into a GIF pronunciation type argument with someone.

like someone who knows what they're talking about but they put it in an authentic aggrevated tone than a professional one. that's him.

toriel would be like that chill old ad who posts videos of cooking and parenting tips

asgore would have those barely worded posts like "today's flower" or smth with a ton of aesthetic emojis and he wouldn't really be personal or anything online.

sans I feel like would like not have any posts and just reblog stuff he finds that is funny but it's like "I hate you" type of jokes like clever but stupid jokes and stuff idk. I don't think he'll reblog a lot

bog, just randomly follow ppl

papyrus would post achievements, friend hangouts and stuff but he'd also post random things like one day he'll just post like "fish tower" and it's just a stack of comically large sardine toys stacked on top of each other somewhere in the middle of nowhere. like one of those gem posts that feel unreal. I think sans would kinda do that but I acc think he'd be more of just a non poster idk

alphys being a fandom person and a status poster is already canon but I'm just say it again bc it's so cool. she'd have chains of posts and some of them are analysis that she'll have to make a specific tag or smth to organize everything.

[bpenn]

To the one or two people that might be interested in seeing Jamie Parker be that little shit™

[loulooser]

This post is an accidental detailed vent about something serious to me so. I’m leaving it below a cut

Was omw home from a friends house and I’d missed a text and a few calls from my dad and he got angry at me for not having my keys (he was going to the shop and had to wait half an hour for me to get home bc I wasn’t responding due to just not noticing the texts and calls and would be locked out if he left the house) and also for not responding

So we argued for a bit because it was hot and I was tired and I couldn’t be arsed

And then I corrected him on my name because I told him and my mother about my chosen name change recently

And he called my phone then (we had been texting) and he’d misunderstood the message including the name correction and thought I was being dramatic (his explanation makes sense and it was genuinely just a fair word order misunderstanding) and the first words he said to me were ‘your name isn’t [chosen name], [given name]’ and even though he didn’t mean it in a transphobic way that will literally be stuck in my head for the rest of my life I will never feel as unsafe as I did in that moment ever again especially cause I was on my street my house is on by that point in the argument

Anyway he explained the misunderstanding to me, then wormed his way out of an argument about trans names because he knew he would mess it up and it would be bad, but then the next time he said my given name he backtracked and just angrily went ‘or whatever your name is’ and while it was just in the heat of the moment and he was backtracking/making effort to acknowledge the name (which he didn’t even have to do) I can’t even begin to describe how wild that felt to me

He preceded to deny that I ever told him about the name change (my parents were both in the room last week with me and I said ‘hey im trialing the name [chosen name] so I’m going by that to see if it feels right’ which IS an outright lie because I was ‘trialing’ the name in April and have decided on it already but I know my parents love my given name and I wanted them to be the least angry possible) and he denied it by explaining how he thought I’d said I haven’t decided on it yet and was just updating them or something?? Which again fair misunderstanding but yowch

Then when I got home I started half crying, kind of just light sobbing, stopped crying when he tried to talk to me (he also didn’t apologise or question the fact I was visibly upset to the point of tears), we had a LONG talk about how he doesn’t understand and wanted me to explain to him why the younger generation are trans and stuff so I did and we came to an understanding that it’s hard for him and he messes up all the time with it cause my sibling is out gender wise fully already and I just can’t be angry at him because he just doesn’t know what to do

And yes all of this is flawed yes he should be trying harder and doing better and he shouldn’t say these things but the problem is that I understand him and he loves his kids and it was mostly just a massive shock to realise that my parents have the capacity to say and feel this way about MY identity. It’s weird cause id had a long conversation with the person i was walking home with about transphobia in the older generations and also brought up my parents in that conversation and then THAT happened

I’m just a little shaken and upset

I also learned that my parents don’t use my siblings chosen name when they talk to eachother about them even though they do when I’m around. Which. Sucks a little. Turns out they just aren’t at all supportive

But like. They’re not NOT supportive. That’s the problem. Like you hear about people with terrible horrible parents that are violent or cruel to their kids for being trans and mine are just hurtfuly passive is all. It feels like it shouldn’t be a big deal but today is making me rethink things

[viaminvenia]

i just realized that i've rped sigrid for twelve years at this point. and rped susan off and on for ten years. i feel like part of why sometimes i'll be like 'i feel like i said this before but i can't find it' is because of the old blogs and other rp platforms and i can't remember where i said things sometimes.