worm!

I'm so full of love it deeply sickens me.

[opossutism]

I have some Liz Lisa and an Aphrodite piece on my shop right now. Prices aren't firm! ❤️✨

[opossutism]

My little vintage apparel business is really taking off! If you love pop fashion or timeless counterculture pieces, check me out! My focus is on mindful, ethical sourcing, animism , and affordable sensory friendly options!!!

[theropoda]

love leopard seals. they are so dragon coded. that is an entire mammalian marine wyrm

[theropoda]

Look at this fucking. beast. Medieval painting animal that eats princesses

[lovertm]

pathetic affirmations (button sets, part 2) by Claire Thompson

[thecountryfucker-deactivated202]

I know some rad fuckers.

[noizm-deactivated20231224]

3 shots of luna by luigi cazzaniga

[daily-spooky]

[tytonidyke]

These are so fun to make

[milksockets]

'man carrying a very big paiche fish to the market, peru' in (un)fashion - tibor kalman (2000)

[zegalba]

Kiko Mizuhara for Paloma Wool (2024)

[dykeselfcest]

one of my favorite posts ever on r/polyamory boiled down to "how do I find poly people who aren't into d&d?"

[flowercrown-bard]

Inspired by @lacnunga 's adorable dragon embroidery

[opossutism]

I missed Tumblr 😔✨

[greggturkington]

i just imagined thousands of beautiful animals flying through the sky together

[vampmilf]

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

[syrcusnt]

actually i'm reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.

There's people in the notes talking about "not basing your worth off numbers", and like. that isn't what this post is about. It's not a threat, either, it's a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.

Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.

Likes. Are. Worthless.

They don't do anything. They're a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn't even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don't. They're personal bookmarks and the only people who "get" anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don't keep the post in circulation, they don't keep it alive.

Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it. And there's a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that's how posts stay alive and in circulation. It's like a contagion, but we're sharing creativity instead of disease.

And that matters. That "lifespan" of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts. We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue. But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it's not making it onto your dashboard. And if it's not on your dashboard, you won't see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn't have an algorithm like twitter and insta's and it shouldn't, it's the last bastion of chronological timelines.

Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or "threatening" to withhold our fucking work (you're not entitled to it! it's ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we're well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We're just stating facts.

[sabrinaacarpenters]

also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ???? 

these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio

not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts

[itsmightyfunny]

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.”

— Thoreau, Walking

[opossutism]

Hi, tumblr! It's been a very, very long time since I last laid eyes on this ol' dashboard of mine- and a much longer time since I've checked in with those of you guys which remain!

Update time! (I also chose to include a few random photos- the last few the ones where i’m chubby, thanks for scrambling the order tumbles, being from 2021/2020- that I feel best describe my recent state of mind in life!)

-Retransitioned to demiguy/omingender and ceased testosterone therapy after five years on it. I could write a novel about my decision, my internal self, and all that... (Hell, I just might). -Gained, and then lost, about 100 pounds, mostly through self care, support and being active & engaged with the world around me.

-Cycled through a few more partners before landing, (safe and sound), with my fucking amazing, kind, and smart-as-hell (now husband) of 5.5 years and my current boyfriend- who seems to be a twinflame or something- it’s kinda creepy how “meant to be”/”fated’ it seems to us both.

-Moved to California, then more specifically to Hollywood/LA, part-time, and the bay area the remainder of the time. May be moving to England next, even!!!

-Visiting Germany and a few other European countries next month to say hey to my sister, and to my husband's family. -Was FINALLY diagnosed with Poly Arthritis, Hashi-Grave's & Lupus, after years of “oops” diagnoses and being told it was my lifestyle, (it's not!) -Had my mis-dx's of both Bipolar 2 & of BPD disorder revoked, and am now officially on the books as ASD (Autism), OCD, GAD and cPTSD with possible ADHD-c. And also With something called PMMD- which was, ultimately, the REAL factor in all my early behavior and decision making impairments.  -Gained an interest in 5-Element theory & TCM/Ayurvedic medicine, which I may be seeking my degree in starting next fall.

-Been sober for gosh... a while now tbh. Never stopped meditating and exploring what I love about life!!

-Been in therapy for half a decade now, and have finally started actually resolving my traumas from past abuse/institutionalized discrimination and violence/poverty/SA/relationships/homelessness/etc etc.

-Still best friends with one of the coolest guys on the planet, who taught me the joy of birdwatching- which I still do as often as I can.  

-Still making art && taking part in the furry community/lifestyle- whee!

-In touch with my “innate” sexuality and able to safely engage in intimate relationships as well as S&M dynamics again. _Less shame about my choices and lifestyle- I am not sinful, shameful, nor is the way in which I choose to exist a “crime”.

-My mom is in school at age 50 to be an LCSW and has a phenomenal GPA to boot.

-More I could say but... I miss you and I will always be grateful for the political, sociological and psychological lessons which I learned from this site. I might have never gotten into leftist spheres, feminism or even fully explored the depth and breadth of my gender/sexuality if it hadn't been for this hellsite, lmao! /gen <333   I'm not sure if I'll ever actively use tumblr again- especially this specific blog/dash, as it contains a LOT of uncomfortable memories that I can't currently spare the bandwidth to process, but I wish you all the best and I will keep trying to be the most authentic me that I can! If anyone wishes to contact me, please DM me here- I will remain logged in for a couple weeks just to check if any old friends are still active here!! <3