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Hi, I'm Guile, or Ly. I don't know what I'm doing with my life. So have some shitposts. Pronouns: Mirror. Panromantic Demisexual. 21 #Lyca-Art or Lyca Art for my original art. #this....this is beautiful is any reblogged art

[lycaran]

Mushroom Spouses, Mushroom Spouses, whatever does it mean?

It means the mushrooms are dating

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

would you still be alive without modern medicine? looking back at your life, would you survive without any to the moment where you are now?

yes

no

barely

yes but it would affect me for the rest of my life

results

Voting ended onJun 2

I'd have my knee fucked up forever 🫪 alive but yeahhhhh

[quinloki]

Nope!

I mean, I got the chicken pox like three times, and while none of those times were fun, none required the hospital. I needed stitches a few times, but stitches are hardly modern medicine.

However, in my 20s, I had a nasty tumor. The size and type required a specialist and a style of surgery that was itself relatively new. And without an ultrasound it's hard to say anyone would've even known what was up to do anything about it, sooooooooo yeah. No. I'd be dead. The odds would not be in my favor 😂

[lycaran]

Oh, not at all. When I was 4/5-ish, I slipped off a dresser and cracked my head open on the bottom drawer. It required a hospital, and staples.

But staples can get infected, and honestly I don't think I'd be around after that without modern medicine. Even if olden timey shit could get by head stapled together, an ensuing infection would get my ass in the end.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

make a bunch of wheels with bread/cheese/meat/vegetables/sauce/extra so that you can Spin for Sandwich

you're making a sandwich!! Spin THIS wheel 3-5 times for the toppings!

How is it!

good!!

it's alright

ew

EW

inedible

Results

Voting ended onJun 3

op note: I GOT JAM, JAM AND HOT SAUCE. IM DEAD.

[mfdragon]

For anybody who remembers this post, we finally have a sample of what our Nika Dance charms look like!

This is still an interest check, so please let me know if this is a charm you’d like to have 👀 ✨

[insomniacrori]

Possessed Caine (A re-draw from episode 3). I kinda liked how it looked

[m0rtalseaw4ves]

im at it AGAIN

[peachpulpeuse]

IF YOU SEE ANY PAINTING BY "EMILE CORSI" ON HERE, DO NOT REBLOG IT THINKING IT'S REAL AND FROM THE 1800s. IT IS AI-GENERATED AND EMILE CORSI IS NOT A HISTORICAL FIGURE

examples:

[tattedpetticoats]

And if you love the vibes and wish you could find something similar painted by a real person, let me introduce you to John William Waterhouse, on whose work the AI was definitely trained:

[laziestgirlintown]

Corsi is not real

John William Waterhouse official site

John William Waterhouse wikipedia

[babellanas]

au where hawkins joins the blackbeard pirates post wano

[sporesgalaxy]

[lazymonth]

Some cross guild’s shenanigans I really wanna see for the future.

I think Buggy might still remember about the Poeglyph’s location during the time he’s still on Roger’s ship.

God, I hope Oda releases anything new about this team soon, I want them so bad.

[saltsoaaa]

[lycaran]

Item: A Half-blank Notebook Rarity: ⏶ Common

What video game do you most regret not finishing?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Silksong...I've been meaning to but I haven't gotten around to it yet

[lycaran]

Doodling random One Piece characters on sticky notes, Day 3:

Yonji <3

[raynee-days]

Reiju Yonji duo my beloved

Also Tik tok doesn’t like yonji so I legit couldn’t post there

[lycaran]

Doodling random One Piece characters on sticky notes, day 2:

Triplet Telepathy

[lycaran]

Doodling random one piece characters on sticky notes, day 1:

Enel

[photomatt]

Tumblr Advisor Board

I think it could be cool to put together a board of the top Tumblristas in the world, that could see previews of what's coming up and advise on strategic direction. Who should be on it?

[madseance]

I am going to get this out of my system upfront so that I can explain everything that's wrong with this idea in a clearheaded way: This is a bad idea, it feels incredibly gross, and it reinforces my impression that you do not understand this website at all. It is indescribably frustrating and infuriating. It makes me want to vomit, and that's even before I get to "Tumblrista".

Now then.

A key takeaway from the massive amount of almost universally negative feedback to the reblog change should have been: Tumblr users do not, as a rule, care about clout. We do not want quantified "credit" for how good our addition to a post is, and we don't want influencers who are anointed as more important than everyone else because they are popular. That's not what we do here; it's never been what we do here. If we wanted that, we could get it from ANY other social media. The fact that we're here instead makes it pretty clear that clout is not important to us, and in fact is actively repulsive to us. Anointing particular Tumblr users as "top Tumblristas" and putting them on an "advisory board" that gets special access to new features and the opportunity to give feedback on them would constitute the exact type of hierarchy we despise.

Furthermore: When a corporate entity proposes an "advisory board of power users", what they're actually doing is trying to pre-empt wider user pushback against executive decisions, by creating the illusion of user buy-in while using social pressure to enforce decisions that have already been made. The actual reasoning behind selecting "top" users is because they are popular, which suggests they have influence over other users. The idea is, rather than convincing the community as a whole, you convince a smaller subset of influential people, and then they convince everyone else. Again, this depends on a kind of hierarchy and clout-based "influencer" system that we don't have and don't want.

As for the "top users" board themselves: By choosing someone and telling them "you're a Top User and you get to be on the special committee and have special privileges," you are giving them something (supposedly) desirable: social status, (the appearance of) influence and power, etc. And you can take it away. That means now you have power over them. If they don't want to lose their special status, they will avoid displeasing you. Which means they are less likely to give you significant pushback, and they are more willing to pressure others to go along with what you want to do. That makes them incredibly useful to corporate, but completely undermines their supposed role as a voice for the community. We see this already with influencers on every other platform, who become de facto spokespeople for corporations and brands and stop meaningfully criticizing them out of fear of losing the access that is critical to their status.

I'm not saying all this because I think it's news to the CEO of a tech company. I think you know all of that perfectly well already. I'm saying it because I think you assume we don't know it, and because some people might not. But I have played this game before and I know how it goes. It never benefits the community. It is always a way to control the community.

You do not need an advisory board to get feedback about site changes. The community is demonstrably perfectly able and willing to speak for themselves individually. If you really want to know what everyone thinks, you have to ask everyone, not a handpicked group of influencers who are under pressure to play along.