Matcha

MINORS DNI / 21+ / Canada

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I wanted to try some muscle practice, and who better than our patterned girl?

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A little non-kpdh since i've been SUPER into palia.

Tish is so precious

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A Rumi for the Fantasy AU - did this maybe a week ago :)

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Decided to draw Mira from that design vote!

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@forest-creaturre @mossfoxx @akaseru @deepaquamac

A side character from me'n the aforementioned homies' fantasy AU! Her name is Mulberry :D (some post-commwork doodling since i wasn't wanting to stop drawing.)

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Some background practice referenced a screencap of the emerald dream!

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A demony Rumi for the soul. (or lack thereof)

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Changed My handle! (Formerly bloodbrine) have a celine while I wiggle around with art styles

[imvec]

“I had it all (I had you)” by @somethinglikesawyer

“Demons, even half, are immortal. Humans, less so.”

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

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:D

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I don't have time today to draw something for Mira's birthday, so just reblogging one of my fave works I've done of her :)

Birthday girls get spoiled :nods:

[ratbastarddotfuck]

tumblr userbase is going to become unconscionably insufferable in response to this taste of power I suspect. don't let it go to your heads.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Lots of talk about "bullying wins" and little talk about power and the flow of capital, which is what matters to the corporate bigheads who approve these things. imo a few things were at play here to make them rescind this.

- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.

- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...

- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.

What do we learn? The answer is not "bullying works" and "swearing at customer service reps is fun". The answer is to remember that online, we are both the product and the thing that creates the value (similar to but obviously distinct from the actual workers of a corporation; if we vanished overnight they'd have nothing). Brush up on your collective bargaining & try to understand why this happened in this way. And don't try to replicate this for every random update that comes next by endlessly harassing them. Take stock of the little power you have and work out where to put it to use. This is still just tumblr.

[marinevhs]

« Eating is, quite simply, the exclusive privilege of the living. »

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This show was one of my best reveals of 2024 , I love fantasy, dungeons and great characters writing soooo it was quite a win for me 🐔

[dyrdeer]

for everyone asking, tumblr is making it impossible for you to add onto ANY post without making it its own separate post. If you put any addition on someone's post its now your post. The OP won't even be privy to any notes it gets unless they check that specific post. This makes it impossible to track anything which is really detrimental to artists who need to know their reach or just see what people are saying about their work. It also just means you can't reblog with any additions without taking notes away from your original post. This is part of what made twitter hostile and its the last gasping breath of a site run by people who don't understand it.

[anneapocalypse]

Idk I do think the biggest fail about this update is how it's going to destroy conversation and connection but I've also seen a few posts sneering about "note-stealing" in a way that seems kinda mean-spirited. Like, no, you should not be hanging your self-worth on social media numbers but c'mon, creators wanting to be able to see who took the time to engage with their work, even in a small way, is very normal and I don't think anyone's overreacting being upset by the idea that some rando adding a fire emoji under their art, or some irrelevant stream-of-consciousness comment to their text post, is going to get credit for every subsequent reblog of their work as what tumblr now considers a "new post." That's not "giving contributors the recognition they deserve," that's just rewarding the kind of behavior that's already undesirable. Adding irrelevant commentary to posts is already considered annoying on this site, but now users that regularly do that anyway will be rewarded, while more conscientious users will be discouraged from adding even something relevant and valuable because of the potential negative impact on the OP. Pointing this out is not "whining about note-stealing," it's just pointing out the negative incentives that this functionality creates.

[forest-creaturre]

I’m so far gone on the fantasy au and I am not complaining, I’m holding this dense yearning, can internalize anything, elf so gently— @akaseru; @mossfoxx; @bloodbrine; @sialu-the-arts-cat; @deepaquamac and everyone in the thread feed us all so well, constantly

Also yes we are big enough nerds that the tattoos have specific meanings to elves

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