message from God
Jules of Nature
Keni
Misplaced Lens Cap

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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Sade Olutola
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
RMH
Three Goblin Art
Show & Tell

Andulka
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
todays bird
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

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Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
will byers stan first human second
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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@haonox
message from God
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this small tangela i have on my pc
TANGELA LOOK OUT
RRRAUAUUGURHAUHGUHRUHAUHH
*pushes the button and holds it down for an excessively long time before releasing it. and then waits*
no facebook no instagram no twitch.tv no onlyfans. if you want to see me that bad check the trailcam footage in your local woods.
I spent ten years building up a following on Tumblr. I had 30k+ followers, great engagement, it helped my career thrive like nothing else. I could quit my day job and live off the fan base I’d accrued.
Then, their policies changed. Half my work was no longer allowed. People left the site in droves. I left too, for awhile. I came back to a ghost town. I still have 25k followers, but I don’t think more than 10% are active anymore. I’m followed by ghosts. Same with DeviantArt, although I was never quite as big there, and I’ve been gone so much longer.
This disallowed half of my work was never allowed on Facebook in the first place, or Instagram, but their algorithms are such that my stuff rarely makes it to anyone’s feeds, and if I post a link to where people could actually pay me for my content, it’s hidden unless I pay for it. Patreon swept my work away to a dark corner where no one could see it unless I personally guided them there. Twitch is so strict you can’t even show bare feet. The death of Google Reader means nobody follows RSS feeds anymore, so I can’t direct people to my own site.
So there’s Twitter I guess, where I can post whatever I want, but again, algorithms. But more than that, I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim. The thought of spending time jumping around through hoops for attention just to have it taken away again has stripped any motivation I had to try.
The internet has been gentrified. All the small cute houses and mom & pop shops have been shut down and replaced by big corporations that control everything. I’ve been making webcomics for twenty years, and at the start, the internet was a beautiful wild place. Everyone had a home page. It was like having a house and people came to visit you and you would visit other people in their houses. Now, we don’t visit each other in personal spaces anymore. It’s like we have to visit each other in the aisles of a megamart. Everything is clean and sanitized and the weirdos who made the internet what it was are no longer welcome. No space for freaks anymore.
People still ask me for advice on how to break into comics, and I don’t have any wisdom because I don’t recognize the internet anymore. I don’t feel comfortable working within its boundaries which seems to be getting smaller and smaller and smaller. None of the tools I used when I started exist anymore. They’ve been replaced by things I don’t know how to use. I don’t think I could break into comics today. 2002 had so few barriers compared to now. You might have started on Keenspace, but you could reach a point where you could break away to your own site and people would go to it. Now, you start on Webtoon or Patreon and I guess you just stay there? It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business. I’m looking at my career trajectory and it all points to being a Wal-Mart greeter with uncontrolled arthritis.
I don’t want to make “content,” I want to make comics, I want to make art, and I want to do it in a space that is mine. I’m not sure there’s a place for that anymore.
I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim.
It feels so much like owning a hardware store for years and then having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business.
This post hits SO hard.
So I don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but "overnight oatmeal" is this branded thing that comes in expensive little cups, and I just wanted to mention that it's not specially treated oatmeal in any way.
You can literally just buy a normal canister of oatmeal, dump a serving or so in a bowl, add enough to cover of milk, water, milk substitute, whatever pleases you -- I know I've seen it done with apple juice, I don't think I'd recommend orange juice. Then you stir it up, let it soak in the fridge for 6-8 hours, and you have perfectly edible oatmeal. You can toss in dried fruit, spices, whatever.
In Scotland several centuries ago, this was called "drammach", and you would make it with water when you were on the run, as sometimes happened in old-timey Scotland. It was handy because it didn't need cooking, so your enemies could not find you by the smoke of your campfire. Also a bag of dry oatmeal weighs practically nothing and will feed you for days as long as you have water.
(I hear they just get water out of the sky in Scotland. Can't relate. *desert dweller*)
These days, it's handy because oatmeal is very cheap and reasonably filling, it requires no special cookware, you can prep it in like three gestures (dump - pour - stir), and if you forget it in the fridge for a day or so it's still good and nothing catches on fire. So I thought I'd mention again, in case anybody would be interested and hadn't known, that this is a thing you can do and you absolutely don't have to pay three bucks for a lil half-cup branded container.
Me the next time I see my man
when you try to finish side quests before doing the main one and finishing side quests just creates more side quests
you are like an empty tip jar
Ready to be filled!
BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE ANY CENTS!!!
thrilling sequel
those have the same energy as this
Same energy as this
may i add
world heritage post
We will miss you Daft Pumk
Love from all Around The World
democratic senator kirsten sinema joining 7 other democrats in killing the $15 minimum wage by doing a stupid little curtsy and giving a thumbs down is cold blooded shit that i don’t even think the republicans would stoop to. literally mocking everyone for having the audacity to ask for better things. that’s what they do best though baby here’s to 4 more years of literally the exact same shit
“boating accident. very tragic”
do u ever remember all the horrible offensve things u said when u were like 15 and u literally feel ur soul detach and turn 2 dust
your fave is problematic: yourself
Basically, yeah. That’s kind of the point – you always have to look back on yourself and be mortified and resolve to be better. Shit, the stuff I said just five YEARS ago (and I’m almost 33) makes me cringe like a motherfucker. Burn in mortification. Rise from the ashes and be better. Lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your life.
This is why purity culture doesn’t work!!! We’re all shit! We can all grow and do better!
i feel like. he would do this
Everything is a mimic