Gotham City is a MESS @batrxgues - Tumblr Blog

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

thebatcreature

Oh he thinks he's so funny

#batman #bruce wayne

anj-does-stuff

Oh wow I hate this. So I tested it a little on a side blog and this is what it does

Then, if you go to the notes on the original post, it only shows the reblog from "two"

So the OP doesn't get to see how much engagement their post has unless people like/reblog from the original post. If someone adds any sort of comment, it splits them up like this. Artists, writers, crafters will see less engagement, nobody will know how far the reach of their post is or if someone says something nice about it. If you want OP to know, you'd have to make a conscious effort to reblog from the first post listed in the chain.

Not only is this going to be bad for general community things, but this could easily promote harassment. You won't see anything but the initial reblog from you if someone makes an addition, so there could be whole conversations that go completely missed.

Thanks, tumblr. Very cool 👍

#important

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.

#important

s-02012

🖥️🪡🎃🎩 🎶

#jonathan crane #jervis tetch #mad hatter #scarecrow #hattercrow

shewhowillrise

#bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #nightwing #red hood #batman

macdenlover

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

#fandom

scleracentipede

their eepy it’s past their nap time at the retirement home

#jonathan crane #jervis tetch #mad hatter #scarecrow #hattercrow

goldfish-inhaler

Jervis has a lot of feelings. Johnathan wishes all of those feelings were fear.

#scarecrow #johnathan crane #mad hatter #jervis tetch #hattercrow

butchdogs-md

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

91939art

"Superman."

"Ms. Lane."

#clark kent #lois lane #clois #superman

robinhuntr

Arkham-verse creators when they see Tim and Jason

#tim drake #jason todd #red hood #robin #red robin

spookyprime

I found this old Tim/Bart sketch that’s like 3 years old this shits still funny tbh

#timbart #tim drake #bart allen #red robin #robin #impulse

ghostpainters

1980's inspired Teen Titans

Here's some fun Teen Titans redesigns I did for the heck of it. I'm still working on Blackfire, and I am hoping to get around to some of the others. I know the roster of characters I have right now doesn't make any particular type of sense. But I just started drawing the characters that I like to draw and let it grow from there :)