MUSHROOM CHILD?

SEMI HIATUS? WHO KNOWS THIS IS NOT A FULL TIME ART BLOG SO DONT EXPECT TOO MUCH

[ambrellaexists]

MA the girls are fighting again!!!

[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.

[demigoat]

Donate to Ukraine

United 24: General fundraising

Come Back Alive: Specific projects

Prytula foundation: Specific projects

Dzyga’s Paw: General fundraising (animal themed 🐶)

They need all the help they can get.

🇺🇦

[avoiceofnerat]

Hospitallers: Volunteer organization of paramedics who work directly on the front line.

Kolo: Targeted campaigns and subscription.

[frozenladybug]

They’re so funny

[frozenladybug]

Tooth and nail

[moonnogginn]

Okay, so... this is one of my favourite scenes in the donghua, and on a rewatch with wulian on the brain, I couldn't help thinking: WHAT IF, that long, wistful look in Xie Lian's face is not just the usual yearning, but because that moment reminded him of someone? (By the way, I discovered later that the song that plays in this scene is called "recollections of old dreams (忆旧梦)"😭)

[cappucosmic]

Do you think Xie Lian ever came across his old belongings while collecting trash?

Bonus gif under the cut:

[pearlescentime]

Poison Garden, part 4/4:

Nightshade

It was never fair from the start, was it? Jabber thinks, and he's not sure whether to be envious or so deeply endeared to Zanka for it, but, You always had that upper hand. You were always going to win, weren't you?

Zanka, unconscious, cannot answer to his thoughts. Jabber scrunches the cotton sheets in his hand and wonders why he feels so sick in the stomach.

After a brutal fight, both Jabber and Zanka must learn how to heal. For Jabber, it means coming to terms with his own desires. For Zanka, it means forgiveness- and perhaps acceptance, too.

After months... thank you for your patience. Please enjoy the finale to the Poison Garden series! <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76027416

[gratefulturbot]

i DON'T need them to kiss i need them to come to the sobering realisation that their souls are merged and no part of them is extricable from the other anymore

[suzispoonerart]

Made a little zine about how to resist internet addiction if that's something ur interested in.

Pdf version available for free on my Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/s/a4681d2cbd

[kurtiness]

JABBER IS A CHEM MAJOR BECAUSE *I* AM A STEM MAJOR AND I SAID SO

[merryweathart]

there is smth deeply wrong with these guys

[frozenladybug]

Freak 4 Freak FR (FFFF) <3

[kushblazer666]

[othr-wrlds]

@frozenladybug

[frozenladybug]

the best kind of enemies, worst kind of friends

[frozenladybug]

Janka doodles forever becauseeee I don't have to work! YIPPEE!

[frozenladybug]

Tfw you're stuck in a fatal timeloop with your worst enemy who happens to know you better than yourself

@pearlescentime 's Janka series Poison Garden got me in such a chokehold that I HAD to draw fanart of it before I even drew any other Gachiakuta stuff! Highly reccommend