Ok new pinned ig
Hi I'm Boba I mostly post art over here but sometimes other stuff ig idk.
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@bobanchikn
Ok new pinned ig
Hi I'm Boba I mostly post art over here but sometimes other stuff ig idk.
More stuff under the cut
you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want
controversial opinion i think even saying "omg the climax of (movie) was so good" or "ugh the ending of (tv show) sucks ass" should count as spoilers. babygirl i wanna go in with zero expectations stop expectening my expectations.
i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:
"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.
an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.
You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.
If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.
Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.
SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT
heya!
this right here?
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.
the "@staff" is just the bio text.
tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:
DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.
report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.
@staff @tumblr @support
NEW TUMBLR SCAM
So some asshole has thought up a new Tumblr scam: it's a post on a Tumblr account that's named something to make it look official-ish.
Variations include:
account-help
account-sync
account-update
account-updating
These posts show up on your dashboard, telling you that because they think you've monetized your Tumblr account, they're putting you in the penalty box sending you to the cornfield setting you to "Lurker Mode" where you can post but no one will see your posts. And, naturally, all you have to do is click on the helpful link to give tumblrsupport your account data to get it fixed.
Friends, this is a big fat lie.
The official location of Tumblr Support is https://www.tumblr.com/support or https://support.tumblr.com. And guess what? They'll already have your account information.
Tumblr has no such thing as Lurker Mode.
If you right-click on their link, you'll see it's a munged/shortened link. You can go to a site like https://www.expandurl.net to expand that link and see where it takes you: it's not Tumblr Support.
@staff, please be aware this is happening.
Be aware. Be careful. Don't give your account info to anyone. Be safe, and happy blogging!
you guys know about the hobby lobby smuggling scandal right
hobby lobby’s hammurabi robbing hobby
i demonstrated great social competence at the bar recently when the bartended mentioned shopping at hobby lobby and i said i never did this because of the trafficking in looted antiquities.
They are extremely homophobic and transphobic - each year they give millions of dollars to the National Christian Foundation. The NCA then uses that money to fund 23 different non-proffits which have been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups, they also make huge campaign donations to conservative Christian political candidates, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
They have funded successful campaigns in other countries to make homosexuality illegal and punishable by death. They strongly support conversion therapy.
They went to court and won the right to only offer employee insurance that does not pay for birth control or abortion, and because of this lawsuit any business can also deny women the right to control their own bodies because "religious beliefs".
so I saw someone just today, re: the Joann Fabrics closings, saying "you're not a bad person if you shop at hobby lobby because you don't have anywhere else nearby to buy craft goods in person"
and like. I don't think shopping at shitty stores makes you a bad person. but consider that in order to live according to our principles sometimes it may be necessary to accept inconveniences. whether that means shopping online or driving a further distance than we'd like, or saving up to buy more expensive supplies, or whatever.
I'm the first to say hobbies are important to our well-being but also we will not shrivel up and die if we have to wait an extra couple weeks for more yarn. I'm also the first to say there's no ethical consumption in late capitalism but there is also definitely a difference between standard shitty corporations and these weird imperialist fucks.
Some alternatives:
Shop Michaels arts and crafts store for art supplies, crafts, framing, floral, home décor & seasonal products. Michaels is your go-to for cr
For yarn:
https://hobbii.com/yarn
https://www.yarn.com/pages/yarn
Art supplies:
Blick offers the best selection of art supplies online. Shop paint, drawing supplies, crafts, framing, and more. Find all your art supply ne
Also, you can find supplies on places like Facebook Marketplace & craigslist! Also search Mercari! Plenty of gently used or brand new stuff out there if you know what you're looking for!!
And at I've noticed a few local shops outside main citys. Check your suburbs!
@i-add-sources ? I think these are true but I don't think I've actually seen a source
^"controversies" section has sourced info about the contraceptives and more about the smuggling, and endangerment of employees as well as the "he gets us" superbowl ad campaign.
Hobby lobby 2023 tax returns. The biggest donations ($6+ million , twice) are to Vanguard charitable endownment program, possibly to hide controversial donations. There are also donations to many different universities and fraternities/sororities, and a few churches, as well as a single, comparatively small, donation to a planned parenthood location in Houston, TX.
In 2012, Hobby Lobby donated the Northfield campus to the National Christian foundation. The building was estimated to be worth $20.000.000 at the time.
This is true.
HAPPY PRIDE MONTHHH
I love gay ppl
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Stupid little drawings from my phone cuz my FUCKINH PC died on me
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...
so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts
posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig
sometimes mental illness does make you act like a piece of shit. when my ocd was undiagnosed a couple years back I was absolutely insufferable because I could not control my confession/reassurance and rumination compulsions at all and I fucking hated myself so everything had to be morally pure or I would spiral and I made myself believe and said some things that made my personality not the best. sometimes healing means knowing that you are not perfect. sometimes mental health issues make people act awful and that does not give you the right to demonize and dehumanize them or the disorder. yes even that disorder. and sometimes you have to forgive yourself for the bad things you believed. you are not perfect and that is a good thing.
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over
always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
If you don't want LinkTree putting your imagery into AI... get out now
Just canceled my account (not that I used it that much). But I won’t permit this. Via @unaminh.bsky.social:
IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.
…Just so you know.
First time opening comms here on tumblr but hey! I wanna give it a shot :]
Opening comms for the Rainbow face paint
Rainbow jumpsuit
& Rainbow Beret
If I don't feel comfortable with doing the comm I can & will reject doing it ofc, tho I don't have much limits I believe :v
I'm just gonna be honest the way I see people talking to their fellow fandom members (not in Flondon) is really like. 'Sit down and eat your slop and be grateful—how dare you be upset that you didn't get what YOU wanted, just because you invested your own years and support and fanart into a Grown Adult's project! Think about the children you're discouraging! Stop analyzing everything and just eat your slop! Any betrayal you feel is completely on you because the company and creator you supported the success of owes you nothing!'
And it makes me feel like everyone has lost the plot or like I'm in some nightmare dimension.
Like I'm sorry, when did it become fandom's job to shelter the creator of anything? Obviously I don't think people should be harassed; don't send the creators death threats, don't put hate on fanart, etc. But that's basic and that's different.
The overall vitriolic relationship fandom has grown towards its critical voices and communities, although some do have less than analytical complaints, is... really gross? People are allowed to complain. About anything, really, even things that are really beautiful and complex and may be your favorite thing in the whole wide world.
I think the person who has the worst take on my favorite character of ever, should still be allowed a space to complain. Because complaining is a human right. And maybe I want to see what they think. Maybe I want more than a single perspective.
I always suggest using the method of labeling your thoughts 'x and y critical', so people can use the tag system, for the sake of those sensitive. But lately those sensitive have forgot, on their end, to use the block button. I'm seeing people be explicitly shamed for following a story, getting excited, making their own theories, and getting dissapointed when when what the story lead up to, just doesn't happen.
I will always stand by the people's right to complain, especially about the media they consume and are invested in. Don't we have enough forces in the world right now, with enshittification, telling us to sit down and just take it? Why should I coddle a person I don't know? If a creator doesn't want to see people's thoughts or can't handle criticism, they can literally do that. But they're not going to end up making very big strides in their storytelling abilities.
This is not a fanfic. It is the source material. Being able to take criticism, because the relationship between creator to consumer is to producer and *customer*. Not every customer is right, I've had stupid demands made of me, but if all your customers hate your product, you have a problem and if you don't address it, it's not going to get better.
There is a line in the sand between 'creatives have their own vision and should be allowed to convey it', and 'humans are also people that contain biases, some harmful, and when they potray a story those can show and harm those the biases are against', and 'you need to consider that creators are real people', and 'creators are not your best friend that you have to defend personally and sometimes real people suck no matter how talented they are'.
Holy parasocial boom, for fuck's sake. I know this is Tumblr. But stop demanding the poor take the piss.
Do you wish you received more Asks in your inbox?
Reblog this if you're willing to answer random questions via Ask.
(Which means you're giving folks who see your reblog permission to Ask Away.)
this fit would be insanely peak with a cowboy hat but i did not buy any of the hats from the last two traveling spirits so goggles it is! it's still peak with the goggles but a hat would go so well
DAYS OF COLOR IAP COMMISSIONS
those pants are amazing. what the hell. gimme.
be nice
you will need to pay the tree costs
send all references to main (@traversety)
i think there are more rules but ive had a long day i cant remember them rn ok
DARK RAINBOW EARRING PACK, RAINBOW HEADPHONES, OR (HIGHEST PRIORITY) RAINBOW TIED JUMPSUIT - $9.99 USD
one full body, line art only
DARK RAINBOW TUNIC - $14.99 USD
one character sheet (includes a chibi, full body, and bust shot), line art only with one accent color
(HIGH PRIORITY) RAINBOW BERET - $19.99 USD
two chibis, colored (i do not have colored chibis so the line art will have to do)