2:34 AM

bequeathed the rights to valenwind

[234am]

Hi, I’m X (or ecks). Uhh, I never know what to say in these things. I’m a goth guy that writes fanfic and makes shitposts, mostly about fandoms that won’t stay dead, like FF7, FF15, VHD, and CV.

This is a sideblog because tumblr doesn’t allow us to switch our mains. Also, there’s no anons allowed in my fun-hater club because I simply do not have the time to deal with nameless randos. Sorry.

tags for blocking/etc: text - yeehaw but at night ongoing fic updates - up at 234am

Feel free to show me cool bugs and blorbos!

Or go read my stuff @ https://archiveofourown.org/users/234am/

[vallenwix]

Warm up

[randomshenaniganery]

D is for Doodle

[shaydh]

"why did you write that"

my fetish

my friend's fetish

not my fetish but it fits in the story so i threw it in there as a treat. you're welcome.

[ckret2]

4. the character's fetish and i'm committed to portraying them with absolute accuracy

[aelkurai-art]

Thank you for your support or... Let's take an ibuprofen together!

✨Patreon ✨

[romancingbarret]

Calling all Barret fans: the time approaches to get this man smooched!

Join us July 5-12 for our fifth annual Romancing Barret Week, a multiship week dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating Barret as a romantic partner.

All ships are encouraged, both common and rare! And yes, we welcome: explicit content, poly ships, queerplatonic relationships, trans headcanons, and crosscanon ships. Barret deserves it all.

Stay tuned for this year’s prompt list!

@ff7central @ff7zinenews @ffviifandomcalendar

[aelkurai-art]

First drawing for mermay2026.

The HD version is available on my Patreon (link in bio)

printing coming soon.

[jjinpang]

Character request: I will be very predictable and request Vincent Valentine!

really really thought about what I like about vincent's character design. turns out it's CAPE and HAIR. hope you like it!

[yinza]

It has been another 5 years, and while Remake Part 3 ain't out yet, we have at least seen all our party members, so I figured it was time for another redraw!

[Image Description: Digital fanart of Final Fantasy VII's playable characters, all of whom are wearing sunglasses save Cloud. Cloud stands awkwardly in the center, blushing, with Aeris and Tifa leaning on either shoulder. Cid stands behind Aeris, smoking, while Cait Sith sits in front atop Mog. Barret stands directly behind Cloud, leaning into him with one arm around Aeris and the other around Tifa. Vincent stands behind Tifa, arms folded. Nanaki sits in front of her with Yuffie leaning across his back. All of them are smiling and grinning at Cloud.

The two additional images are the same basic concept, but drawn in 2021 and 2016, respectively. /end ID]

[dionysiaproductions]

[totallyboatless]

I once again crave data. I’m very biased against mpreg fic or headcanons bc of my own hangups around pregnancy as a trans man. That shit is an eldritch horror to me and i find zero fun in playing in that space. I should probably block the tag. BUT i want to understand the demographics and if i’m an outlier

How do you feel about mpreg? How do you identify? Please elaborate in the tags (especially if you like it, i want to understand why)

I DISLIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m transmasc

I LIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m transmasc

I DISLIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m transfemme

I LIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m transfemme

I DISLIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m gender fluid/nonbinary

I LIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m gender fluid/nonbinary

I DISLIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m a cis woman

I LIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m a cis woman

I DISLIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m a cis man

I LIKE reading/writing mpreg, i’m a cis man

I have no opinion on this (try to have an opinion tho it’s more fun)

Voting ended onApr 16

Reblog to fulfill my data cravings

[almiarangers]

As much as I love ‘I would kill for you’, it kinda really loses its impact if the person saying it is a villain who already kills at the slightest provocation

’I would refrain from killing for you, I would spare them all if you asked me’ is a very sexy alternative, and a much more powerful declaration of love coming from a character prone to violence

[dyradoodles]

Every time I play FF7, Cid wants to ride EVERY CHOCOBO I RACE.

(it’s adorable)

[groovyfran-png]

"Do you insert yourself as the top/bottom of your favorite ship?" No, I'm the cameraman

[zigraves]

Thanks to some very eager fellow citizen scientists, I have now tested the new features pretty thoroughly and can summarise the new system as follows: wow this is dogshit.

Now, as to how it works and the specific implementations of the dogshiticity, here is what I have observed from initial experimentation:

OP will get notified of all reblogs, so far as initial testing has gone. This includes tagged reblogs, commented reblogs, and uncommented-untagged "silent" reblogs. This also continues to include reblogs-of-reblogs. The only place OP will be able to see this is in their activity feed, because there is no longer any single location to see all notes/ reblogs on a post. Nobody else will be able to see ALL reblogs.

OP will get notified of any replies directly to their original post. So if you chatter in the notes of the original, OP will see that.

OP will get notified of any likes directly to their original post.

OP will NOT get notified of any likes to commented subsequent reblogs, as those now form a "new" post. Anyone wishing to leave a like should click the like button on OP's section of a reblogged post, otherwise OP will not know.

OP will NOT get notified of any discussion in the notes on comment-reblogs, as those are discussions on a "new" post.

OP will NOT be able to find any specific reblog chain, because for OP the notes on their post will only ever show the direct-from-OP reblogs and never any subsequent ones.

OP will NOT be able to find anything in their notes, and the Activity Feed is not a reliable place to be able to go hunting for other people's previous reblogs.

OP will NOT be able to turn off reblogging on a post, so there is no way to keep a post contained if it takes off in a way you don't want it to.

Every chain effectively becomes a complete silo, unconnected to any other reblog and only barely connected to the original post.

We will NOT be able to scroll through the notes of a post and look for funny tags or interesting comments, because the notes are now wildly fragmented and there is no central reference point. So it will not be possible to look through the notes and see if a hundred other people have already said that thing you were about to say.

OP will NOT be able to do anything to stop a harassment campaign that fills their activity feed, but also will not be able to find any of it in the notes of their post unless the harassers reblog directly from OP every time. This is a feature which will absolutely be used to harass people.

It is also VERY unhelpful that we don't have language to easily disambiguate "comments" (as in, a reblog that someone added something to, thus creating a new post) and "comments" (non-reblgo chatter that happens in the notes). Not that we can reliably see either of those any more.

So! Now you and I are armed with this valuable knowledge about how the new system works, please go to tumblr's feedback form and explain why this is a series of bad problems that you would like them to stop doing.

The feedback form is available here: https://www.tumblr.com/support

[inkskinned]

you may be thinking that some of the reactions to the tumblr update are unfounded or panicky. but i meant what i said: this will fucking destroy any artist on this site.

for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:

and here is what it looks like now:

holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.

maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.

but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.

do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.

it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.

the tumblr feedback form is currently crashed for me, but when it's up, everyone please go (politely! calmly! like you're walking in a burning building!) tell them what you think. in the meantime: @staff @changes like... i am begging you. literally just set up a suggestion box for ideas on how to monetize tumblr, surely one of us can help you.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.