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Twinning - pt 1
For a while I joked I should take twinning photos with my dolls as I have 80% of my current cosplays made twice in human and in doll size, it finally happened.
Qifrey - me / Mini Qifrey Coral Reef Rubellite, custom by me
photos by @adragonstale
My Superbuy/Taobao finds
I saw some other posts sharing and I figured there is no harm in also sharing my list for doll stuff (wigs, clothes, accessories, eyes).
List of Taobao shops on Superbuy I like
These links are to superbuy as I can't view Taobao.
Lots of them are stuff I see sold on Legenddoll too, just way cheaper directly from the maker!
Do note that I did not buy from all of these stores, and that since Taobao is only visible through Superbuy for me, I can't always be 100% sure how good they are.
Also since it's my personal reminder list, the notes are all over the place HAHA Sorry...
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Art doll Commission
Character design belongs to client.
The doll is 27cm tall with posable neck, tail, and semi-movable legs/loins. All solid elements are 3d printed from flexible resin.
Fabric fur, resin, acrylic paint, varnish.
More shots in previous post
it's not quite spring yet where i live, but it's getting there. hence i made some seasonal lil buds. they're about 12cm tall, the head sprout included, so very tiny very precious.
i still want a fresh light green version of this one, but the autumn leaf is very good for the season.
this little stick bug, who i have been calling sirca, is a double first; both the first bjd i sculpted by hand, and the one i learned 3d modeling with. it has gone through the most prototypes because i needed to figure out sculpting from the beginning, along with more technical things like making joints. i might still go back and add knee beans for more poseability.
the leftmost, handmade one seems quite clunky now, but it was also made in one afternoon with minimal tools, hanging out at a friend's dinner table and playing with some polymer clay i had bought as a distraction from life being Absolute Shit at the time. i definitely have a fondness for it, because it started this whole doll thing.
[photo credit: @posnakkel]
the adult version of my plant baby sculpt i said i wanted to make!
this is also a remix of my first 3d sculpt. i didn't really feel the need to remake her before, but when i thought about what the adult design for the little buds would look like, i realized it was very close to that sculpt -> instead of starting from scratch, i edited it to be more in line with my current aesthetics & skill level. this also has the added benefit of making the old doll the awkward teen phase of this creature.
I really like my Peakswoods girl <3 she still needs a proper face up for her overall look, haha. But I'm too lazy for that right now~
It begins 🌱 👁️👄👁️ .
The eye molds I have are slightly too big but I had fun making these anyway! I'm hoping to get some with smaller irises later. I salvaged the original eyes as best I could and they're currently curing so I hope to get shots of those soon too along with their finished faceup and body blushing that I haven't yet started. But I love them already 💚🌱 .
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yuki! :)
in case it's not clear to everyone, OPs can't even see tags unless they're on a post reblogged directly from them, even if nobody's added comments in the reblogs chain.
a post can have 500 reblogs, half of them with tags, but unless every single post is being shared directly from the original, the OP is probably going to think that nobody's saying anything
get ready for tumblr to feel like a ghost town, even when it's not
Send Support tickets.
Send support tickets from the @changes page.
If you pay for ad-free? Say so.
Everyone needs to submit a ticket. And when you get an email? Reply over the line.
Zenddesk has to deal with you if you reply.
Don’t stop talking to them.
Get loud. This one is for the soul of the site.
We got rid of Tumblr TV. We can get rid of this. But we have to flood the support tickets. The official way.
Thanks to some very eager fellow citizen scientists, I have now tested the new features pretty thoroughly and can summarise the new system as follows: wow this is dogshit.
Now, as to how it works and the specific implementations of the dogshiticity, here is what I have observed from initial experimentation:
OP will get notified of all reblogs, so far as initial testing has gone. This includes tagged reblogs, commented reblogs, and uncommented-untagged "silent" reblogs. This also continues to include reblogs-of-reblogs. The only place OP will be able to see this is in their activity feed, because there is no longer any single location to see all notes/ reblogs on a post. Nobody else will be able to see ALL reblogs.
OP will get notified of any replies directly to their original post. So if you chatter in the notes of the original, OP will see that.
OP will get notified of any likes directly to their original post.
OP will NOT get notified of any likes to commented subsequent reblogs, as those now form a "new" post. Anyone wishing to leave a like should click the like button on OP's section of a reblogged post, otherwise OP will not know.
OP will NOT get notified of any discussion in the notes on comment-reblogs, as those are discussions on a "new" post.
OP will NOT be able to find any specific reblog chain, because for OP the notes on their post will only ever show the direct-from-OP reblogs and never any subsequent ones.
OP will NOT be able to find anything in their notes, and the Activity Feed is not a reliable place to be able to go hunting for other people's previous reblogs.
OP will NOT be able to turn off reblogging on a post, so there is no way to keep a post contained if it takes off in a way you don't want it to.
Every chain effectively becomes a complete silo, unconnected to any other reblog and only barely connected to the original post.
We will NOT be able to scroll through the notes of a post and look for funny tags or interesting comments, because the notes are now wildly fragmented and there is no central reference point. So it will not be possible to look through the notes and see if a hundred other people have already said that thing you were about to say.
OP will NOT be able to do anything to stop a harassment campaign that fills their activity feed, but also will not be able to find any of it in the notes of their post unless the harassers reblog directly from OP every time. This is a feature which will absolutely be used to harass people.
It is also VERY unhelpful that we don't have language to easily disambiguate "comments" (as in, a reblog that someone added something to, thus creating a new post) and "comments" (non-reblgo chatter that happens in the notes). Not that we can reliably see either of those any more.
So! Now you and I are armed with this valuable knowledge about how the new system works, please go to tumblr's feedback form and explain why this is a series of bad problems that you would like them to stop doing.
The feedback form is available here: https://www.tumblr.com/support
Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.
As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.
Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.
If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.
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.
