Grey shine of June

[siriusbound]

Malenia, for the heart 😌

[blacksailszine]

☠️ Applications are now open!

Calling all artists, writers, and merch creators in the Black Sails fandom! Applications are now open for issue 2 of our fanzine, Freedom in the Dark. We're accepting applications until May 21, 2026 at 11:59PM EST.

Before applying, please read our FAQ, schedule, and guidelines.

All details and applications are available in our Carrd.

If you have any questions, send us an ask! 🖤

[siriusbound]

They're also already having a party. I think

[siriusbound]

Party here Friday night (I'm pretty sure)

[siriusbound]

Let all things flourish

[cuppydogshane]

me and the mutuals are giving some minor characters rich inner worlds later if you wanna pull up. yeah its gonna be all day.

[siriusbound]

Gathering stars

[siriusbound]

Happy 10th birthday DS3, thank you for giving them to me to play with (they're taken good care of)

Proof ! They got cake !

[siriusbound]

Doll tea party here

[zigraves]

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

[siriusbound]

Out of curiosity (this is a super random ask and I'm sorry if this was something said before lol) but are the hands of the pins Dames specific character's hands or just random hands? I thought they looked a lot like two specific characters but I could be wrong ahah

Never a random question and I definitely haven't ever said, so it's very welcome ! But no they are not any specific character, I represented what the ideal hands look like (and that's either clad in gauntlets or delicately dangerous), they can belong to any ladies you'd like 🖤

[siriusbound]

4, 6, 15!

With 4 and 6 already done, 15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

I used to be able to draw anywhere, at any cafe on any table or bent like a shrimp in bed, and those were the times when I was free - alas time and injury have caught up to me and now I can only ever draw at my desk, with an easel-like stand for my tablet so it's near eye level. I suspect it's better to keep a proper posture in the long run, and some sort of work discipline about it, so I'm not complaining too much !

[siriusbound]

ask game 4 👀

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

I have to echo @starrythroat here, there is only one answer in these parts and it's absolutely Mohg. Sir your wonderful and glorious mess of horns is the most exhausting thing to keep track of. A number of times I've wanted to draw Mohg and not done it for this reason alone, and this usually never happens.

That said when drawing him it is helpful to keep in mind that he's heart shaped 🖤

[siriusbound]

For the artist ask game; anything that might inspire you subconsciously?

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

(The description is hilarious) This prompted the longest time thinking about it, and I'm still not quite sure - that is, whatever inspiration is subconscious I fear I may in fact have no access to and somebody else would probably have a more enlightened answer than me !

Though I will at least say that there is an unmistakable habit of painting people in classic portrait poses that keeps happening despite my best efforts, so perhaps that 🤭

[siriusbound]

Messmer, much like his younger sister, bore a vision of fire.

[siriusbound]

I thought I would do those little asks one of those evenings, easily enough, relaxing even as they're all lovely but you guys have hit me with such deep and introspective questions that I've been pondering since. I will get to them though

[i-like-eyes]

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated