What up!? I’m plums (she/her) @ fewplums on IG, and other socials. My fanart lives here. Illustration mainly, but I also aim to dabble in comics, ceramics, and a dash of animation! WIPs, headcannons, and shitposts periodically. Follow only if you're cool with stylistic whiplash. Realistic studies one day? Might be cartoony lil guys the next. Art style? Never met her. Likes / follows are from my dead main, iykyk
BIG THANKS for enjoying my strangerthingamabobs ♥ EVERY like, reblog, tag add, comment etc. is read and appreciated!
A LOT of #1 best blorbo Dustin, plus select cameos for other characters. I have many ideas in-process! On record, the finale was lame, they massacred my proverbial & literal boy(s). Ignoring To85 on principle (But I respect others who want to enjoy it! It just won’t factor into my stuff). ✊ The Party belongs to the people now✊
I’m not feral about ST ships, but Henderhop is mad cute and works for me narratively. This is the only ship for which I currently have planned art concepts.
Other obsessions to be on Clown Watch™ for down the road:
✧ Legend of Zelda (in most of its forms / games)
✧ Blue Eye Samurai
✧ Samurai Champloo (+ Watanabe works in general; Cowboy Bebop, Lazarus, etc.)
✧ Pluribus (+ Gilligan works in general)
✧ Arcane (sorta kinda, on and off)
✧ ATLA and LoK (sorta kinda, on and off)
✧ Pokemon (once in a blue moon, and early gens for the most part)
I'm also an insufferably huge fan of vintage internet bullshit, in case it wasn't clear.
Trying out something new for Henderhop Week Day 1: BardMage meetcute (ft. man bun Dustin and Jane as a tiefling 😈 cuz you know bro would be down bad for a cute magic lady with demon horns)
I didn’t plan for this to be my next post. In fact, I have at least 4 other WIPs that I’m itching to get done and share. But it’s so easy to get siloed in insulated fandom bubbles, so I want to do my part to make people aware. This affects everyone.
This Monday, good ol’ Tumbs rolled out a big scary change to the reblog system that would’ve broken the feature as we know it. If a user reblogged a work and changed anything, it’d be treated as an entirely new post. OP gets cut off from comments, tag silliness, and a ton of other engagement metrics that ensue. Note counts get nerfed, and root post OP credit would be erased. As a super tiny artist who JUST got back in the game and lives for the awesome, kind words I get on my works, this was devastating news. It would’ve turbo-charged art theft, killed small creator discoverability, and stifled community.
@bardic-tales has an A+ post here that better explains why this was disaster. Honestly, I was ready to stop posting on principle.
So what happened? Maybe you haven't noticed any of this. Welp, it was reversed the next day after immense backlash from the users.
But the coast isn’t clear. In multiple posts, staff noted “more changes to come” and that they’d attempt to find another way to implement a different flavor of the above idea. Yay.
I’ve been around these parts an embarrassingly long time and sadly artist-built platforms always seem to go down the enshittification tubes at some point. This is not the first time tumblr has shot itself in the foot for some absurd reason.
So listen to the funny science boy, please stay vigilant to changes on this hellsite, and have a plan B in case the next one nukes things for good. I’ve set up @ fewplums at the listed platforms. I haven’t truly used them yet but here's my take:
Pillowfort.social
✧ Direct Tummy competitor, though pretty clunky UI. Reblogging is innately more limited, but it is artist-centric, writer-centric, and building out its community spaces.
Cara.app
✧ For visual art. Seems a little more professional portfolio-focused, but there’s absolutely a fanart presence! No community spaces as far as I can tell, though :(
Bsky.app (Blue Sky)
✧ Bit of a learning curve, still figuring it out. Plenty of artists and a lot of broader subjects too. Feels like a mish mosh of IG, tumblr, and twitter. So far, a lot of covert “ads” in the ST tag that link offsite, so that’s annoying.
Plus our old frenemy IG. I’m active on it and will continue to post polished stuff there, even though I missed the S5 algorithm push and I’m shouting into the void 🥲
Thanks for all y'all's encouragement and eyeballs!
