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Sonhos  | She/they | 28 | Portugal | Please ask for permission if you wish to use my art| art only blog is @sonhogentil | i love my gf✨ Commissions | Links/carrd

[sonhogentil]

Commission for karlansaintess on twitter!🌼✨

[sonhogentil]

Commission for @slightlycrackedteapot

[bettyrightnow]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to put no effort into my appearance

[dr2-hell]

bsito

[sonhogentil]

Commission for @slightlycrackedteapot ! 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩✨

[napelf]

you love pandora

[sonhogentil]

Comic based on a concept me and my gf talked about for them when they intially started seeing each other!

Sydney did the thumbnails and i went in with her and sketched it all out with her input

Pandora belongs to @napelf !

Patreon

[sonhogentil]

Commission for SaberRadioProductions! 🐻✨

[sonhogentil]

Commission for Anonymous! 🌹✨

[sonhogentil]

Commission for Anonymous! 🌹✨

[sonhogentil]

Commission for @slightlycrackedteapot ! 💘✨

[napelf]

it is not a "big boy gun" when it's being held by the gentle hand of an incredibly anxious lesbian

[napelf]

honestly this was because I'm watching a stream of re9 (can't afford to buy it and I can't remember how pirate shit good no more) and the dude kept calling the requiem "the big boy gun" despite the fact it's currently in the possession of grace "the most anxious resident lesbian in evil history" ashcroft

[napelf]

every weapon is made far more powerful when held by a nervous lesbian

[vamplire]

“you should be at the club” i should be a vampire.

[kavalyera]

both🖤

[janederscore]

now can we perhaps get a major publication to pick up the story of how tumblr's staff is massively hostile to trans women and actively lets harassment directly in violation of its tos proliferate constantly . maybe then our good friend matthew would do something productive about that too

[scoobydoodean]

At the end of the day: If I make an original post on MY OWN BLOG, then when I click on the notes of MY POST on MY OWN FUCKING BLOG, I should be able to see absolutely EVERY SINGLE piece of engagement with MY POST that has EVER happened. The fact that even by clicking on MY OWN ORIGINAL POST I can't see all the commentary that has been added to MY POST is unacceptable.

[thegenderal]

as a denizen of this busted ass website for half my life now i do know how staff works and i’m going to lay out what they think will happen as someone who has witnessed this exact thing play out

People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

Getting around it: set an alarm. Get mad not just now, but in a few days, a week, two weeks. They are expecting people to sigh and get over this very odd edit to the site in a few days. Keep flooding them for more than just tonight. Be mad for the week, for the month. Leave a message every day.

[thegenderal]

like . I cant even blame them for being like “we’ll monitor for the week”. Remember when they changed the blue back in like 2015? This website acted like staff had gone into their house and shot their dog. We’re here because we’re allergic to change and therefore it’s hard to parse if people hate the change because it’s bad or because we go into thermonuclear meltdown over what color blue the background of the website is. Just continue to bug them beyond today and beyond this week.

[drfunkbeat]

Another "for later" step I'd recommend is, once the changes are out in the mobile app (NOT YET), leave a one star review on the app store and mention why. If the rating goes down significantly, that provides quantitative evidence that people do not want this change and it's a bad idea.

[inkskinned]

you may be thinking that some of the reactions to the tumblr update are unfounded or panicky. but i meant what i said: this will fucking destroy any artist on this site.

for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:

and here is what it looks like now:

holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.

maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.

but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.

do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.

it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.

the tumblr feedback form is currently crashed for me, but when it's up, everyone please go (politely! calmly! like you're walking in a burning building!) tell them what you think. in the meantime: @staff @changes like... i am begging you. literally just set up a suggestion box for ideas on how to monetize tumblr, surely one of us can help you.