#tumblr truly is a functioning app

[fitzselfships]

WHY did I just now get a notification for a message I got last friday

[hailthedragonmaster]

ok does this shit happen to anyone else

like videos at some point just randomly stop loading. all i get is this fucking thing. like?? what is the reason

[ot3]

the fact that tumblrs app version does not have access to pages and chronological tags, what I think are two of it's best features that help to put it's functionality leagues above other social media websites makes me feel insane. I'm better off linking to a third party site like carrd to host information permanently and instead of linking to tags in order I have to make a chronological list of hyperlinks in their own post because tumblr does not support its own native features for massive chunks of its userbase which is just truly something I can't wrap my brain around

[herearedragons]

Ooh tell me more about Aqun!

Heck yes I will! and the tumblr app refreshing and deleting everything I wrote before cannot stop me

Aqun is my archer/artificer rogue Adaar who is actually a human/Qunari half-blood, born to a human engineer and a Tal-Vashoth she once saved from a dreadnought wreck (which is a story of its own).

He had a pretty secluded upbringing, living with just his parents (and some animals) in a cottage outside of Ostwick, with their nearest neighbors being a Dalish clan that would camp about an hour away from their house every spring (which is why the house was initially abandoned and Mom Adaar was able to buy it basically for nothing way before she had a husband and a child. unlike the previous owners, she managed to get along with the clan just fine). He was homeschooled by his mom, and didn't really have any friends his age except for the Dalish kids he'd play with every now and then.

He joined the Valo-Kas when he was about 20 and freshly rejected from more or less every place of work/study he'd applied to in Ostwick because, despite him being a pretty good artificer and having internalized most of his mom's engineering degree, no one was quite ready to take in a half-Vashoth. The Valo-Kas happened to be looking for traps and explosives, and Aqun has never really dealt with those before, but it was an opportunity and really how hard can it be to figure out. He took the job and hit the books; fast forward ten years and he's a full-time member of the Valo-Kas and one of their main demolition guys.

Vibes/themes-wise, he's the kind of guy who's never given up on a problem (often to his own detriment). He's also A Professional, A Perfectionist and A Goddamn Nerd. He wants to know everything and to fix everything, and his worldview is this weird mix of practicality and almost a romantic approach to things. His specialization these days is mostly "machines and chemicals that help you destroy things good", but he is also very invested in the idea of building things that help people. He also grew up with his dad's stories of the Tal-Vashoth Rage, which messed him up a little because now he's scared of his own emotions and works really hard to control his temper.

Also, this is him:

(this is already pretty long, but I'm going to put more thoughts under the cut because I've been given an excuse for an Aqun Ramble and I'm taking it)

easily fascinated with morbid magical things like red lyrium and the Blight, and at least part of it is him kind of wanting to try to fix the unfixable. he gets REALLY into trying to figure out an efficient way to destroy/neutralize red lyrium, and into trying to help Emprise du Lion recover

the Anchor is really bad for him for two reasons: the first is that he needs two functioning hands to build things and shoot things, and building and shooting is who he IS. the second is that the flare-ups make him very irritable, which is bad for his Qunari Rage Issues because every time he catches himself getting uncontrollably angry he's scared that he's going to hurt someone

loss/grief is a big part of his arc; losing so many Valo-Kas members both before and during the events of DAI hits him pretty hard, and he barely has time to process it with everything else that's happening

fully commits to being Inquisitor; he becomes the title. he thinks about how he's perceived and tries to consider the ramifications of his actions in the long run; he also starts several research/restoration projects using the Inqusition's resources. he's been given Power and, like with everything else, he tries his best to Understand It and figure out how to apply it correctly (he does believe there is a "correctly" here)

when I say that he's a nerd I mean that he carries a field journal full of Research and as long as circumstances allow he'll stop and study every new fun thing the party comes across. also his party members. also the Anchor. he will truly take notes on anything (he's the most interested in how things can be Useful, though)

the thing about making him romance Solas is that Aqun is the guy trying to fix the world and Solas is ALSO the guy trying to fix the world, so there's recognition and eventually respect and admiration, but also Solas WILL have to break every single thing Aqun has built to succeed in his plans, and Aqun WILL burn through every resource at his disposal, including himself, before he lets that happen.

it's also about Aqun being the Wants To Know Everything Guy and Solas being the Pwease Ask Me Questions Guy

it's also about Aqun casually going "when I was a kid the Dalish children I played with always asked me to be Fen'Harel in our games because I looked the scariest" and Solas taking psychic damage just from hearing that

it's also about Aqun being in love with the waking world the same way Solas is in love with the Fade and both of them being in love with each other's fascination with how Their World works

there are more fun parallels but that's the gist of it

also, here are the Adaar parents. look at them. my emotional support old people power couple

[thebibliosphere]

Tumblr is definitely a Fully Functioning App™. 🙄 I can see a notification that you replied to my comment on your book promo post where you reference positive humiliation. But, some-fricking-how, that post no longer exists for me. So, I cant read it or reply. But I adore you and hope your weekend is fantastic!

Ah, a functional website indeed. My reply was that I loved that you have a screenshot of it, and it was able to help you figure out what you wanted. There's not a lot of soft dom content out there that's truly soft dom, so I write what I wanna read!

[cupcakeshakesnake]

hey you still got that post about the bank website page that got badly mistranslated as "cock bank" a bunch of times or something, i can't seem to find it

Here:

Had to use Google to find a post on my own blog, Tumblr's search function is truly busted

[puppy-phum]

tag game ✨

thanks for tagging me zey @thasorns ♥ i teared up at your addition about me, that is so sweet :( i miss our dff talks too! idk what you're into these days but would love to talk about some show with you again :')

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1. why did you choose your url?

bc am obsessed with one (1) man who belongs to another amazing guy ♥ (been thinking about an url change lately tho bc i'd like to put last twilight and the hurt it caused behind me but haven't found something else to tie myself to yet. maybe we are and phumpeem if the ending delivers?)

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

not really. the only side blog i have is my og url vishcount saved for nostalgia purposes but there's nothing on that blog

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

started on this hellsite (affectionate) on the lord's year 2013 and it shows

4. do you have a queue tag?

i don't use the queue much so no. you will only catch me reblogging like ten posts in a row when am online/in the mood and then going back to lurking again

5. why did you start your blog in the first place? 

i was into a bunch of animes and tumblr was filled with amazing fanart. i wanted to be able to look at them in peace

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

to show who my url is about ♥ mork my beloved

7. why did you choose your header?

wanted it to fit the theme. also i adore the last twilight rooftop kiss, it's one of the brightest spots of the show

8. what’s your post with the most notes? 

most likely this the untamed edit from 2020. i was truly living my peak back then :'D tbh i feel like the whole of tumblr was living its peak when the untamed was airing and when we all lost it together for the longest time after

9. how many mutuals do you have?

way too many and i adore all of them, tho i probably forget or cannot recognize most of them. especially if you've changed your url/main fandom OR i have, we might not even know each other anymore haha

10. how many followers do you have?

more than i deserve and idk what all of you are even doing here but i like feeling like i'm part of some type of crowd ♥

11. how many people do you follow?

quite recently i unfollowed some inactive blogs and blogs about things i don't really care for anymore so my follow count is a nice number of 205

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

uh. i don't really know? do some posts from my finnish tumblr (suomitumppu) era count? :'D

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

am chronically online and i open this app like a fridge

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

no, not really. am not really one to share strong opinions, especially negative opinions, publicly online which i think is the cause of most arguments ppl have here. i'd rather just keep my peace and be nice

15. how do you feel about ��you need to reblog this’ posts 

mostly i don't like doing things when am told to do them

16. do you like tag games?

yes! it always makes me happy to know that someone is thinking about me and i do find these a lot of fun to do ^^

17. do you like ask games?

also yes. i just don't often reblog those bc i don't really have a lot of interactions on this site. if i find an ask game with very interesting questions, i might forward it to kiddo @i-am-just-a-kiddo and we do it together privately to enjoy it like that ♥

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

the first one that comes to mind is hanyi @ruanbaijie who i think deserves all the recognition for her absolutely amazing giffing skills ♥ she's also the sweetest so idk what's not to follow, make her even more famous if you can!

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

nope. idk if i function like that tbh. i have some huge friend crushes tho and want to be closer with some ppl a lot! not mentioning names bc am shy haha

but i want to say that monica @stormyoceans is very important to me these days. she brightens up my days and makes my whole fandom experience so much better by simply being her enthusiastic and authentic self ♥ never change!

and also jessi @oswlld who i still cannot believe is someone i can call my friend and bestie on this site. i am so happy we've gotten to share bad buddy, vice versa, and last twilight together! also happy to hear about your life at times and to just share silly things with you ♥

third one i want to mention is shannen @icouldhyperfixatehim who always manages to stand out in a positive way. we don't interact much but i cannot help but feel very giddy about their presence on my dash. they leave the best tags and every time they reblog any of my edits with their tags, they manage to make me feel like i've made it and my edit was worth the effort :'D so thank you!

20. tags?

want to tag at least @psychic-waffles @foxofninetales @hils79 @sherrymagic @srnileforme and @thitiponqs ♥ also the ones i mentioned before are free to join and anyone else who wants to do this!

[theygotlost]

idk how much longer i can keep up using tumblr in my mobile browser it truly is a miserable experience... i really REALLY dont want to update my app but if they dont restore functionality to the older versions then i will have no choice. which is exactly what theyre trying to do and i dont want to let them win

[ocularmacdown]

my dtamhd thoughts? oh, why thank you for asking! yeah, i only have a few, but uhh- *drops a towering stack of papers in front of you on the desk*

i really, really liked this episode. maybe it’s because i wasn’t going into it with set expectations or hopes, maybe it’s because dennis is not my number one blorbo and so his development is more fascinating to me rather than a personal/emotional investment. either way, to me this episode was a fucking winner and i have so many thoughts that haven’t even formulated yet. the writing is incredibly well-paced, subtle enough that the twist is not immediately obvious, yet explicit enough that watching it a second time, the clues are right in front of you the whole time. it’s fucking clever, and for me personally, it does justice to dennis’s very specific brand of mental health issues/neurodiversities/trauma/etc etc.

first of all, i’ve seen people saying they’re disappointed, that they wanted to see dennis fall to his knees or scream himself hoarse or crawl into mac’s arms with his tail between his legs. but…,..like.,..i mean..,,,.he literally tore a man’s heart out of his chest? and then crushed it with so much force that it becomes a diamond? and then he ATE it? with blood running down his arms and the sun haloing him and the watch on his arm lit up red for “danger, you’re in danger, you’re a danger to yourself”? that is so explicit and so raw and so powerful. me personally i am chewing through concrete slabs.

he takes his heart - his core, his feelings, his very self - and controls it so fiercely, so violently, just so that it might be something of worth. something precious and valued and beautiful and rare. and what forms diamonds, pointed out in this exact episode? coal. objectively seen as cheap, and worthless, and nothing much at all. dennis’s heart is coal, to him. fuel to a fire of rage. so he tries to make it something better. not by nurturing it, tending to it like a garden.

instead he crushes it.

and then he eats it.

i don’t know what else you could want tbh.

i’ve also seen people say that it wasn’t an accurate depiction of mental health issues? i don’t even know what to say to that like. are you yourself dennis reynolds? are actually him, down to a T?? or are you a totally different person with different life experiences and brain functions and trauma and personality and expression of self?

characters are not made to reflect individual people and their experiences - they are separate from us, and us from them. we can look to them to find similarities, but they can only be as relatable to us as we are to everyone around us. this episode is quite literally an insight into the fact that actually, dennis doesn’t show his rage, or any of his feelings, and the way that he experiences his emotions is wholly and totally different from others. sure, he allows outbursts over minor things - sounds that irritate him, insults against his car, women as a concept, all the fucking apps - but nothing that really, truly matters. it’s about control. control, control, control. a grasp on his anger so so tight it’s a vacuum, a cavern of pressure.

maybe your experience of mental health is totally different to that, and i sympathise that not seeing yourself reflected on screen can be and is frustrating. but. if i may overshare a touch on tumblr dot com, oversharing central, then..,,..he just like me fr fr.

as someone who has never related to dennis reynolds at all in the history of the show and is different to him in every objective way, this episode got me. i felt seen. it’s not about mental health as huge outbursts that everyone sees and sympathises with, not all the time. it’s not about sadness or pain or misery, not all the time.

it can be about anger. anger as an emotion you can feel so intrinsically and powerfully. anger that you don’t understand and you shouldn’t be able to control because it’s so fucking strong. but you do you do you do. because you just have to. there’s no rational reason behind it; you’re just angry and you just don’t show it. not when it really matters, anyway. you have a moment of private catharsis, deep inside yourself, an upwelling of frustration and rage that feels like a day but you quench in seconds. and then you move on.

so yes, it’s an accurate depiction of mental health, and i’m not elaborating further than that. i imagine someone else *cough @sewerkingcharlie cough* could probably go into dennis’s psycho-demographic and history and how that effects his mental health far better than i ever could anyway.

me personally, i am. obsessed with the insane surrealist route they went down. expressions of deep emotional pain are only understandable via sobbing breakdowns if you have no critical media skills or appreciation of several major art movements of the last hundred years. once again, he tore out his heart and crushed it into something else with his own fist and then ate it.

looking at the journey the episode takes as a whole, it’s so so incredibly fucking clever. it’s set up as though it’s a journey narrative that will end with a big emotional expression a la mac finds his pride or the gang carries a corpse; it’s pretty much what we all expected, i think, to be able to observe dennis and his inner emotions at a closer range, from one side of a two way mirror.

but during that insane scene, we are actually allowed inside his head - not just an observation into his mind through the lens of spectatorship study, but into dennis’s broken perception of reality, from his point of view, intra-diegetic. we are inside his head looking at everything around us, trapped in the laboratory of his mind. is not the clean cut, easy-to-analyse narrative and visuals we saw before of dennis getting more and more frustrated until his breaking point; the world in his mind has twisted and deformed into one that no longer makes sense to us the spectator, but does make sense for him, for dennis.

mac and charlie were able to express their emotions outwardly with another person present. they were grounded in reality because that is how they experience emotions of that level and intensity. that is by no means to say that what they felt in those moments are is any less intense or extreme or soul crushing as dennis, only that they experience both their inner emotions and the world around them in different ways to him.

dennis internalises as much as he possibly can, pouring into himself rather than out. he can only hold so much, the pressure builds, his insides contort and shift to make room, he keeps pouring.

his innards no longer makes sense.

his feelings are physical, they’re his organs, and they’re worth something, worth so much, but they’re simultaneously just the food he consumes.

he consumes, he internalises, everything’s within him.

he was never going to have an emotional outburst. that’s not his catharsis; it would change him too much fundamentally.

everything channels inwards. it’s too much but at least it stays inside. even his breakdowns happen within. he keeps the lid of the pressure cooker on.

Dennis Does Not Take A Mental Health Day.

[bisquid]

A copy of the feedback I sent to Tumblr support:

I would like to know why I am being forcibly opted in to the pointless and obtrusive advert that is the 'Luffy' tab. I have not engaged with the 'one piece' fandom - I had to do some investigation to even figure out what fandom it *was* - and had no particular opinon of it, with zero interest in engaging with it in the future. I now have been *made* to engage with it and thus now have extremely negative associations with it. It is, effectively, an *anti*-ad. Congratulations! Nobody's happy.

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I would also like to know why the Tumblr development team consistently rolls out a change to a small number of people without warning or explanation and no option to opt out, despite repeated requests from the userbase.

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I would like to know why the Tumblr development team consistently pushes changes to the app or platform that clearly and demonstrably reduce accessibility, convenience and intuitiveness, offer responses to the resulting outrage that are not only often blatantly false but also so incredibly patronising as to be downright offensive, and then have the unmitigated temerity to insist they're doing it all to "help content creators" and "improve usability" and generally prioritize hypothetical future 'new users' over the existing userbase while simultaneously making it clear that they consider these mythical new users to be too stupid to learn the basics of a new platform.

I truly cannot properly articulate how utterly, cynically disingenuous it is to explain that they can't implement more settings options because that would be *confusing* - as though navigating clearly labelled toggles and drop down options are some hyper advanced technical skill the average user doesn't have and can't achieve - so the absence of those options actually makes the app *more accessible* than implementing any actual accessibility options.

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I have been on Tumblr for more than a decade, and I love it and the community I have found. It is heartbreaking to watch it steadily disintegrate into a less functional carbon copy of all the social media sites I have hated and avoided just because the handful of people making the decisions don't understand the point and value of Tumblr.

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Please. Please. If we wanted twitter we would be *on Twitter*, if we wanted Instagram, that's where we'd be. Tumblr is precious and vibrant *because* of it's difference, not *despite* it.

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Ostensibly many of these changes have been made because Tumblr needs more money, and clearly the management team believes that the way to gain more money is to increase ad revenue, which is presumably why they seem so focused on pushing algorithmic content at the cost of an increasingly hostile user experience. Unfortunately that is incorrect.

Right now, Tumblr is attractive to advertisers because it has a vibrant community and is an established platform. If this trend of increasing hostility continues, more and more of the long term established users - who generate a hugely disproportionate quantity of the 'content' that makes Tumblr so unique and interesting - will leave. They will be left without the online community they have been a part of for years, something deeply distressing for them and for the community they have left, which in turn will be slowly dissolving as more and more members reach their limit and delete their accounts.

Tumblr will be left a spiralling mess of algorithm driven advertisements and porn and spam bots and a handful of bitter users, and sooner or later someone will pull the plug when it becomes apparent just how lucrative it *isn't* to advertise to non existent people.

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Or you could listen to your userbsse.

[angelstrawbabie420]

truly love the feature of the tumblr app in which you cannot use some of the functions (reblog/comment/editing buttons on posts) bc notifications are constantly popping up over them. wonderful and functional

[bennidraws]

To Euthanize Your Heart - Rosio & Lucis backstory, part 1 (ao3 link)

hello darlings, may i interest you in my ocs,, yet again 🤲

i'm so sure this thing is completely unreadable on the phone app 😭 i love how functioning tumblr is haha, so bless ao3

anyway, would they truly be ocs if they didn't go through childhood trauma. and this is only the Beginning✨

it's important to point out that this story doesn't really have a good ending. and in the same breath, all the parts that will follow will touch on pretty serious topics (rape attempt, domestic abuse), so please be safe 🙏

[loderlied]

so uhhh this is an old post of mine that i for some reason cannot edit or reblog to add something to it without the app crashing so. doing this i guess. tumblr is a functioning website. anyways. rambles about zeke’s understanding of gortash. (under a cut + cw for really gross period stuff. truly mind this warning i’m not joking gortash is a horrible freak)

cannot read his face or predict his actions at all. total enigma. maybe because of his foreign core as the machine total antithesis to the wild-> it is simply unknown. a bright, indecipherable light. the inherent ‘god’ in the unknown. people like karlach can give way more accurate insights of gortash’s psyche than zeke, someone who has seen and experienced gortash (often even without any masks) so much over a time period of almost 15 years compared to karlach’s definitely shorter time with him

(this unknown, this light piercing through all his pores into him makes gortash’s conquest of his mind, the way he understands zeke better than zeke could ever understand himself, even more horrifying to zeke than it already is)

(zeke is generally a person who makes way too much eye contact. literally stares at you, not blinking for way too long, endlessly directly into your eyes. with gortash though? exact opposite. zeke struggles immensely with just looking at his face, and his eyes are at least 10 times worse. this is why you’ll often see gortash moving zeke’s head to face him when they’re in a room together.)

while there is no concious recognition, there is an instinctual reaction to behavior over time to specific ways his face twists, his hands move, etc etc which mean future danger to zeke. (these reactions are still very inaccurate and paranoid, because again, gortash is even more indecipherable to zeke than regular people)

what he needs to achieve the hunt/kill only. still has an insanely hard time with it. (contrast to gortash who knows every single little atom of zeke. a digestion of his mind. like. just to demonstrate how bad it gets. literally tracks his cycles like an absolute lunatic and huffs his period rags when he gets his hands on them to be able to differentiate what day he is on by smell and scent. just because he needs to know every aspect of zeke. clinical need. scientist dissecting a prime specimen)

[suntreehq]

Graceful Degradation

In tech “Graceful Degradation” means that even if a system (eg website or app) has some features that don’t work, it will still provide a basic level of functionality so you can get the important stuff done.

It’s all about ensuring that you don’t hit a wall when things don’t go as planned.

Today I was planning on doing a leg day workout and making sure I hit my calorie and protein targets.

But... I am super tired.

I got very little sleep last night, and am feeling tired and fatigued today. The weather is also miserable (not that that should be a factor in anything really, but it is).

My tumblr friends, this system is well and truly operating in a degraded fashion...

I've already gone off plan and had a cookie at the coffee shop.

In the past I know I would have just written this day off and used my tiredness to excuse going totally off plan. But today I try something different! Today I will try and bring some gracefulness to this degradation...

I'm not feeling like cooking tonight...

...so I'm going to get a take away (a masala dosa and NOTHING else).

I'll also eat a load of fruit (strawberries and pineapple) and have my protein dessert as my last meal (memo to self: post photos of this).

I'm aiming to stay within my calorie limit...

...but wont hit my protein goal.

I'll probably not do much of a workout

maybe 30 mins on the indoor bike and some mobility work.

If I can find the energy...

...maybe I will do some Squats (at a lower weight than usual), and perhaps some Romanian Dead Lifts.

Today I have developed the awareness and restraint to be able to degrade my performance gracefully, limit the damage of going off plan, and salvaging what I can.

Something > Nothing

Embracing constraints and adapting > Throwing in the towel

Progress > Perfection

[black-cat-aoife]

Great so if I click "this post contains a blocked tag show anyway" it doesn't just show the post in the app ... It opens the link to the post in the webversion of Tumblr in the App Tumblr. Truly a Functioning App™

[shiirojasmine]

OH MY GOD i’m so sorry to pop in here with so much energy but i had to stop by because ive been looking for your art for literal Years. i used to be very into yugioh, and i was on tumblr for a good bit of it, and i remember falling in love with the way you drew the boys. You were my favorite artist in the fandom and it inspired quite a bit of my art at the time (even now when i look at my preferences for soft texture brushes shdkfjdk)

anyways, i lost my old account a couple years ago and along with it, many reblogs and likes from that time in my life. and i didn’t quite know to miss it (i hadn’t been in the fandom for a while by that point), but i remember thinking about a mer au for a different fandom, and remembering the most awe inspiring piece i had seen who Knows how long ago. i only remembered the fact that it was for yugioh, yami was part octopus, it had some Gorgeous ocean hues, i loved the hair, and the poses of the two characters. and once it got in my head i started looking for it. tumblr’s search functions are awful, and i couldn’t find it, but i kept trying every couple months, trying to remember tags i could go through or going thru yugioh art blogs on the chance that i would see the artist that inspired me so long ago. I looked up sao (i thought i remembered a comic? related to it on the same blog but it was a long shot at Best) i tried looking through yugioh daily updated blogs until those stopped being as common, scrolling through every yugioh tag imaginable. it was frankly borderline impossible given my memory of the actual image was shaky at best, and i had no doubt that after years your artstyle would have evolved through practice, and i was afraid that i wouldn’t recognize any new works even if i happened across them.

I know it’s out of the blue and most likely just a long ass anon msg to you but i just had to come by and say that i finally found where it came from (you)!! and im so happy to have found it, ive actually been looking for Years, my memory isn’t the greatest but there’s no way it hasn’t been 4 or 5 years at Least by now. and its just as beautiful as i remember. (if you happen to have read this: if you ever have prints i would cry to be able to actually buy a copy)

i rlly just wanted to let you know that your art is beautiful (it’s not even scratching the Surface of it really), and it really did have such an effect on me as a growing artist. it most likely doesn’t mean much being just words shdkfjkd but thank you so much. i’m so so so happy to be able to look at the art and remember and really appreciate how lovely your works are with more experienced eyes.

that’s enough out of me, i hope you have a lovely week, and truly from the bottom of my heart: thank you

thank you very much for the kind message, i'm sorry i didn't see it sooner! i'm not on tumblr very often these days, but i appreciated reading this very much.

my time in the ygo fandom was definitely one of my favorite and most exciting times for me art-wise! i really enjoyed experimenting a lot with my favorite ships. i think i know the piece you're talking about, i remember being extra excited to paint it because krita was finally working semi-properly on my old macbook at the time. (i never liked photoshop, and while clip studio paint was fantastic, there's something extra delicious about a free but excellent painting app you know?)

i unfortunately don't have any art prints to sell, but i'm more than okay with people printing to keep at home haha