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With the whole Tumblr thing going on right now, I want to make it clear I will remain on here till if/when the site shuts down. I would have large intervals of inactivity but I would still be here.

In case, you need to find me elsewhere. You can see my blog, my Pillowfort, and my Mastodon.

#tumblr #pillowfort #blog #mastodon

nerdinsandals

All my Coordinator Conway designs (so far!)

In chronological order + their themes/inspirations:

Dusknoir (2014), conductor (retroactively :P).

Slowking (2017), Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Aggron (2018), Lordi.

Shuckle (2019), breakdancer.

Heracross (2020), singer/idol.

Lickilicky (2021), marching band.

#pokemon #pokeani

beif0ngs

Pokémon Concierge

A close-up look at some of the Pokémon in Pokémon Concierge

#pikachu #Furret #wooper #mudkip #magikarp #eevee #bulbasaur #psyduck #snorlax #pokemon #pokemon concierge #stop motion

xxtc-96xx

It's remake time again!

this time of an old comic where the theme seemed....fitting of current story events

#mewtwo #ambertwo #pokemon #pokeani

MadeByNuwa's Pin Club Queen Tier November Reward.

Isn't Sakura so pretty? She's my sun, moon, and stars, the light of my life, my queen. Of course, I had to get her and it's so worth it.

Patreon exclusive only as will be sold in the pin club tab. You could get the pin secondhand for sale from anyone who didn't want it. Nuwa does sell her pin club exclusives in person at her booth in Artist Alley.

#ccs #cardcaptor sakura #sakura kinomoto #keroberos #kero #enamelpins #enamel pins

MadeByNuwa's Free to Dream Evil Queen.

Patreon Exclusive only as it's only in the pin club tab on the website. Sold out in the store and won't be restocked due to the high flaw rate.

I only got this after missing out on the Pin Club blind bags from a secondhand sale. I have been searching for her so long because she is lovely.

I don't collect Disney. Whatever Disney merch I have that wasn't from my childhood were gifts. I will only collect the designs I like from Nuwa's FTD series and that's it on the Disney collecting end.

#Disney #the evil queen #enamelpins #enamel pins #snow white and the seven dwarves #disney villains

buryymeinblack

THis news is better than gay sex

buryymeinblack

wait. this is hilarious. They were contractually obligated to keep it, so when it was universally hated, they added an option to completely erase it from the dashboard without getting in trouble for removing it ...... "snooze tumblr live" is funnier than we thought

buryymeinblack

“Our previous approach wasn’t working.”

Guys literally all of this is good news ,..they're gonna be changing their approach to everything and focusing more on core functionality. which we all know this site needs. And they're not downscaling any part of the trust & safety team so moderation should .. at least not be getting any worse

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“One thing I’m hoping with a more focused approach in 2024 is that we can streamline some of the extra things that were launched (like Live) that haven’t gotten the adoption we hoped, and focus in on the core functionality that people use a ton of on Tumblr,” he said. “We will likely be shipping less new stuff and more focused on improving existing functionality and core flows.”

“What’s super clear is our previous approach wasn’t working,” Mullenweg elaborated in another post. “It didn’t turn around the business to make enough money to support the investment of infrastructure and staff needed to run Tumblr, and a lot of users were unhappy with some of the changes we tried. There have been a few staff changes within the team, but basically what we’re saying is starting January 1st, 2024 we’ll try a different structure with smaller, more focused teams working on the core parts of Tumblr that people say they want improved. We’ll sunset or rollback some things we tried that didn’t work.”

thekobrakiddo5

They tweeted this 30 minutes ago

#tumblr

photomatt

Have you considered a voluntary subscription for the site as a whole? It's the last social media site standing for me, I wouldn't mind paying per year for it.

Yes! We launched the Supporter badge which is 29.99/yr or 2.99/mo. You can also subscribe to ad-free which is a similar price. Subscribing, and encouraging as many people to also subscribe is the best way to support Tumblr. If you do it on the web we pay less to Apple/Google. Out of the 11.5M monthly active users of Tumblr, only about 27k have subscribed, or about 0.2%. If that were 10 or 20% we could run the site forever.

not-poignant

A lot of folks don't even know about this, but for those who like to support your favourite artists/writers on Patreon, and who know that to have the thing for free, a few people who can comfortably afford to do so have to pay, please please consider subscribing if you can!

You can also subscribe for ad-free as well and I've been thinking about doing some drives potentially where I can gift this to others as part of the Patreon or simply as something I'd like to do to make Tumblr more comfortable for the people who use it.

The reality is that conversion of 10-20% userbase to subscription is not likely to happen (just because of how subscription works in general in audience studies re: mass communications), but I also think a lot of people who might convert and can afford to have no idea that they can get the Supporter badge in the first place. I do think realistically a conversion of at least 1% is possible if more of us visibly throw our support behind it and do what Tumblr is generally actually pretty reluctant to do under Automattic - forcefully advertise something to us, because y'all know how we are with ads, lmao. They know too.

I'm not talking to the people who genuinely don't like the site - you're cool, you don't have to listen to this - I mean the folks like me who actually really love it here, despite its issues (blue hellsite (affectionate)), and think it's probably one of the very best socmed sites out there at this scale. If you can comfortably afford $30 USD for a subscription (or for ad-free), even if you have to cancel next year, please consider doing it. Tumblr is vital for many fandoms, and like, we all would have completely forgotten about Goncharov if it didn't exist or broke down.

And from a very personal place, this has been my all-time favourite place to learn how to be a professional writer, as well as a fanfic writer. It's been a place where I've gotten to make friends, get to know you, host your fanart and your creations in absolute awe of your talent, talk to people who have been vulnerable in asks, shared memes, and enjoyed your posts too.

It's the only place on the internet where 10+ years of asks, Fae Tales fanart, and more is archived with tags and (somewhat) searchable. I know some of you don't need or use that, but for those of you who specifically like it here, consider supporting Tumblr. It's always genuinely struggled to make money, Automattic (you might know them better as Wordpress) acquired it at a steep discount, and its userbase is broadly hostile to most innovation (sans like, the badges, which have been fun, and ad-free which has been genuinely very useful)

But fandom is at least sometimes about community support and always has been, including support of struggling businesses. It's hard to run a site like Tumblr, with a userbase like ours. We're very passionate, very loud, and sometimes very hostile.

Maybe we can also show that we can back something we believe in, and idk about you, while it's cool to hate on Tumblr, it's cool to have it here to hate on in the first place.

#tumblr

My haul from Mamobot.

Fashion Gardevoir Wave 1: Chandelure, Giratina, and Shiny Pumpkaboo. My freebie is the regular Gardevoir vinyl sticker.

Except for the Shinies, the regular variants are up for preorders up till 11/11 due to demand on his website.

The Shinies, both sold individually and as a set, in this case, were sold for one time only at the shop drop and won't be restocked. They were special one-off freebies out of Mamobot's own pocket to give randomly to Fashion Gardevoir Wave 1 first round of preorders. He actually didn't have to sell them and was doing it to be nice because he knew the shinies would be popular.

#pokemon #enamel pins #enamelpins #mamobot #shiny pokemon #shiny pumpkaboo #giratina #gardevoir #chandelure

photomatt

There's obviously a lot of talk about Tumblr being shut down, which does not appear to be happening, but do you think the re-organization will be enough to keep Tumblr running indefinitely? Or is this maybe the start of an eventual shut down of Tumblr?

What's super clear is our previous approach wasn't working. It didn't turn around the business to make enough money to support the investment of infrastructure and staff needed to run Tumblr, and a lot of users were unhappy with some of the changes we tried. There have been a few staff changes within the team, but basically what we're saying is starting January 1, 2024 we'll try a different structure with smaller, more focused teams working on the core parts of Tumblr that people say they want improved. We'll sunset or rollback some things we tried that didn't work.

I'm advocating for this change because I think it has a good chance at success. I don't do anything hoping to fail. There are lots of examples of products with hundreds of millions more MAUs and smaller teams than Tumblr currently has, and there are amazing examples like OpenAI and Telegram running circles around much bigger players with small teams. That's what we hope to replicate.

The good news is as well, since people leaving Tumblr aren't being laid off, they're just switching to other teams within Automattic, if something doesn't work or breaks we can always pull them back in to work on it.

gayweedanimal

nice to hear people aren't being laid off, and if i'm reading between the lines correctly we may finally be rid of tumblr live and other useless cruft

#tumblr

khaleesi

re: tumblr

hello! I work in tech and here are some important things to know about "tumblr is going into maintenance mode." please note I do not work at tumblr, I've just worked at tumblr-adjacent sort of companies for my entire adult life and i've gone through this before.

what does maintenance mode mean?

literally what it sounds like -- Automattic is not going to be hiring new staff, investing in new product features, or doing anything new on tumblr. the staff that remains working on tumblr will be maintaining the status quo. most of the staff will be allocated elsewhere (or possibly laid off, though it looks like from that memo that's not what they're planning to do). it does not mean tumblr is shutting down. you should still buy premium, get merch, etc, because this is definitely step one of the shutdown process, but a maintenance mode designation is basically to see if tumblr will generate a revenue without putting more money into it than strictly necessary.

why did this happen?

obviously I do not know directly. from my observation, it's in part because Yahoo had absolutely no idea what to do with this platform, and then when Automattic bought it they also... struggled... but it is also in part because the user base has been so viciously anti-monetization that most attempts were killed outright.

yes, the user base is part of the problem. the absolute feral anti-premium, anti-ads, anti-tipping, anti-everything tumblr tried to do to make money is part of the problem. it's not the only part of the problem by a long shot, but I would be remiss not to mention it.

what do I do now?

use the platform. just like, keep using tumblr. do not abandon ship. buy premium, get yourself some badges, get yourself some merch, but use the platform. ad revenue is based on impressions and clicks. if a ton of the user base gives up, that revenue disappears.

tumblr is extremely special. I've never seen anything like it in my 20-odd years of being Very Online, and I was a minor BNF in WolfStar during LiveJournal days. I don't know that it can be recreated elsewhere. I don't know where fandom will go. I know that something else will exist after tumblr and that nothing gold can stay, but i don't think the specific kind of joy found here can be recreated. i say this not to be a downer, but to be realistic. I guess I should find a Bluesky invite.

I've been here since 2008. I'm not going anywhere as long as this site exists. hope you'll stay here with me.

#tumblr

tazskylardaily

Beautiful One Piece fan art by @futanekoya on Instagram 🏴‍☠️🧡

#One piece #opla #one piece live action #One piece Netflix

date-a-jew-suggestions

Many things can be true at once.

Israel is an apartheid state that unjustly occupies Palestinian land.

Israel is a Jewish state.

Jews worldwide do not bear the responsibility of the Israeli army or government.

The American government backs Israel, largely because of the efforts of evangelical Christian lobbyists. Wether or not Jewish Americans want this is irrelevant to the USA military.

The American government is rooted in white supremacy and antisemitism, and is constantly verging on Christian theocracy.

Criticism of Israel, while necessary, can very easily be co-opted into antisemitism. It needs to be handled carefully.

We can expect both antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes to spike in the coming weeks.

Jews and Muslims are not enemies. We have to remember that and stand up for each other.

#don’t know how to tag this #current events

catnippackets

are you an "I own every single piece of licensed and fan made merch of my favourite thing because I love it so much I need everything" person or an "I only own a few pieces of merch of my favourite thing because I am incredibly picky and I only want the things that I deem worthy enough to represent its greatness" person

#The latter #Fandom

the-sixth-wheel-deactivated2026

OP Live Action - Initial Thoughts and Reviews, and a Poll

I have heard a lot of good things about the live action, such as the production quality and such, as well as the performance of the cast, but I also see a lot of mixed reviews. Apparently they made Garp too serious of a presence? And I've also heard people say that Luffy has been made too wise, along with the fact that they've given him some Marvel style banter.

I wanted to ask, so far, what do y'all genuinely think of it? Beyond the hype? Is it one of the best live action releases so far? If y'all think it's bad or not up to expectations, what do you think is missing?

How do y'all rate the OP Live Action so far?

10/10 - Perfect, best live action adaptation ever.

7-9/10 - Very enjoyable, but had some minor flaws and issues.

4-6/10 - Meh. Way too overhyped and not very fun to watch.

1-3/10 - Really bad. Borderline intolerable. Mostly a pain to watch.

0/10 - Refund my time.

Not watched yet.

Voting ended onSep 8, 2023