he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
DEAR READER
almost home
dirt enthusiast
Love Begins
roma★
Peter Solarz
Acquired Stardust
oozey mess
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Claire Keane
Product Placement
Jules of Nature
Show & Tell
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Kiana Khansmith
JBB: An Artblog!
NASA
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@plazasta
my annual contribution to the Needle Star tag, a dump of sketches from 2024-2026 ⛓️⭐🪡
I post mostly on IG, but realised I'm definitely neglecting the tag here, which has so many beautiful arts of him from other talented artists (thank u for that I cherish each one of them) 🥹🖤
so yeah enough of me yapping - hope this dump isn't too overwhelming! I definitely neglected Tumblr a bit and that's why it pilled up lmao 🫣
tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse
imagine youre a fat horse and your new neighbour is a personal trainer
horse that reads Marcus Aurelius
I was wrong. they didnt rock lee him. this horse is literally Gai. and i wish he was my dad
look at us fabulous
from this pic
modern megane catdad dante for @murdertramp25 and @shamelesscooper!!
ty for participating in @fandomtrumpshate 2026 and donating to charity (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ
he's actually one years old today ;_;
The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
@changes (Edit: I already sent this to Tumblr Support under the feedback option. I encourage everyone to send feedback on how bad this feature actually is).
For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.
Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.
Erasure of Creator Visibility
Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.
If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.
On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.
Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly
This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.
When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.
Impact on Collaborative Conversations
Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.
If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.
The Disincentive to Create
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.
For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.
This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.
By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.
link to staff post talking about these changes (and a response from them)
I just think they’d have such a fun dynamic idk 😭
The Rächer of Solnari, one of the Five Sinners of Khaenri'ah, Dodocorir
#GenshinWhiteDay #GenshinImpact #Rerir
Hmph. What gave my disguise away? Nothing?! Then how?? Ah, I suppose the item itself does say it all. Don’t give me that look. It’s not poisoned. I just- wanted to make something and it would be a waste to throw this out. So, will you take it?
Once upon a time, there was an amateur singer who dreamed of fame. Being an amateur, he was relatively good, but could tell he had a long way to go before being one of the greats. The way up was a slow, arduous process, and he wished for a shortcut.
One night, while wondering the forest, seeking a new muse, he stumbled on a witch's hut. Inside was a witch.
"Who comes upon my domain?" Asked the witch upon seeing the singer.
"Apologies, I was merely wandering," answered the singer.
"And why would you be wandering these woods this late in the night?" Questioned the witch.
"Alas, I am a singer in need of new inspiration," replied the singer, "a new muse that may allow me to have my voice heard across the world!"
"A new muse, eh?" Repeated the witch, "I think I may have what you are looking for."
The witch returned inside her hut, and began digging around her wares. Se promptly came back, holding a trinket in her hand.
"This medallion is what you are looking for," began the witch, "whenever you are in need of help with your singing, ask it for help, and it will provide what you seek."
She then handed the medallion to the singer, before continuing.
"Beware, however, that while it is capable of far more, using it comes at a cost. As well, such magical items may only hold their magic for so long before it disappears," warned the witch, before disappearing back into her hut.
The singer at first heeded her warning, only using the medallion as an aid to his singing, and found that it was making his singing more and more easy. He never again found himself in need for new inspiration, for whenever he was stuck, he merely had to ask the medallion, and it provided what he sought. He began relying on it more and more for inspiration, why would he need anything else when he had this wonderful medallion?
However, as time went by, it became harder and harder to resist using it only as an aid. One day, he discovered that, should he ask the medallion, it could even take control of his vocal chords and do his singing for him. He decided to try singing a piece completely beyond his abilities, but found that he could leave the most difficult parts to the magical medallion. When he performed the piece in front of an audience for the first time, the people were enamoured with his voice. He, however, could tell that something was missing from his performance when the medallion took over. It could sing all the notes for him, but there was no intent, no expression behind them. Still, that did not matter to the audience, so the singer did not care.
As more time passed, the witch's warnings had become long forgotten, and the singer relied on the medallion to do his singing for him more and more. How could he not? The more it sang in his place, the more effortless things became. On stage, he became more and more popular, the public always demanding when and where he would be performing next. Professional singers were not impressed, however. They recognized that his technique was impeccable, but they refused to recognize him as a true singer, brushing off his performances as mere vocalizations. The singer dismissed them. They were clearly jealous he had achieved their level of ability without any of the work previously required.
One day, the singer began to notice that singing without the medallion became more and more tiring, and then even speaking to people exhausted him. How glad was he, then, that he had a magical medallion that made it all so effortless anyway? He simply began using the medallion to do his talking for him all the time as well.
At the peak of his fame, however, the unthinkable happened. Right before what was to be his greatest performance yet, a performance that was to be attended by the royal family, the medallion stopped working. The magic in it had dissipated, and now it was nothing more than a static trinket. He would have screamed in horror, but finally understood what the cost of using this medallion had been: not only was he no longer able to sing, he had completely lost his voice altogether.
No one would ever hear a sound coming from his vocal chords again.
birthday boi and Kaveh's favorite junior
No matter how “sick nasty”, “mad dope” or “masterfully crafted” your LP’s cover art is, it will never match the raw dragon energy on display on the front of Supertramp’s ‘Breakfast in America’
100% STEEZ
True fact: this cover was such a hit that they hired the model to go on tour with them. She would go on stage in the waitress uniform and introduce the band. Changed her life!
This was a whole thread, here are some of my favourites:
haha it appears my art is unnoticed even here, I guess I'm the problem then (((^_^;)
but anyway, I love my dear reri and tholindis I hope they come back
men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers
I know that I'll certainly never be someone they'd build a memorial for, but if I could get one, I'd like to get one of those park bench statues that are sitting on the bench. Specifically of me sitting casually looking towards the other seat at an angle, looking intrigued with a "surprised but not disappointed" kind of a look on my face. Kind of a "huh, won't you look at that."
I want that specifically so people can make it a meme to post pictures of themselves showing me stuff. Like memes off their phone.
Or maybe things that they are proud of but don't have anyone else to show them to. Like your school graduation papers, this cool knitting project you finally finished, your baby who's never going to see their grandparents.
And I also want a clause that they will absolutely fucking never put those anti-homeless things of any kind on my damn bench. So if there's ever someone who's got nobody else to keep them company, they can at least spend the night with me.
