May 2026 Outdoor Sketchbook Studies

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May 2026 Outdoor Sketchbook Studies
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April 2026 Outdoor Sketchbook Highlights
March 2026 outdoor sketchbook highlights
so we can bully matt into submission, interesting
The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
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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.
Looking back into the history of my "fuck staff" tag because today's big announcement has me stewing in anger, and I encountered a change from a while back where they removed profile pics (for some dumb reason) and the uproar was loud enough to get the decision reversed (even as noted idiot cyle argued in favor of the terrible UI change, and even now is reblogging shit that paints himself as the superior intellect plagued by the peons of the userbase).
So yeah, send those feedback tickets, make a fuss. They've reversed course before, no reason they can't do it again.
2026 February Outdoor Sketchbook Highlights
Hi! I love your guache landscapes that you paint sometimes on your travel journals - do you use a specific travel kit with a set of colors to paint on scene or do you usually leave the space empty then paint at home?
Just curious if there's a specific combo you always bring with you if you're painting everything right then and there. The colors you use are excellent!
Thank youu <3 and thanks for the ask! Yes I tend to bring a small metal box of watercolours and gouache tubes along with some tombow markers wherever I go. I don't like carrying too water with me, so sometimes I'd bring a waterpen or carry a folded paper cup and ask the nearest cafe to fill it up lol
As for painting the scenes down I'll make a quick base draft first with a pencil crayon (i use a pentel multi 8), then do the work from there. If the scene changes or if I don't have time to stay put then I'll usually just improvise somewhere else. I do fix up some of the details at home if there are places that looks off to me. The colours aren't usually the most accurate but it's fun to be a bit creative with things and it's good for practice!
Here's some pics for reference:
January 2026 Outdoor Sketchbook Highlights
dumping some OC drawings from 2025
December 2025 Outdoor Sketchbook Highlights
god… december 2025 canadian government tax funded hockey yaoi induced psychosis i will never forget you <333333
"its so sad that everyone who knew how to do film lighting or cinematography died in 2017" 🚨WRONG🚨 They are working on canadian government funded yaoi
November 2025 outdoor sketchbook highlights
October 2025 outdoor sketchbook highlights