Takfloyd Posts Stuff

Like art and shit. Occasionally.

[takfloyd]

tumblr may have gone to shit, but for old times’ sake, here’s a new fan art I made of mah boi Karkat in celebration of the amazing Homestuck Epilogues! In a world outside of canon, he finally got to be the badass he always imagined himself to be. Tall pants and everything.

[staff]

A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

[takfloyd]

This is the end for tumblr. Say good bye to your success story.

[takfloyd]

When you finally get enough of that “cloying stench of shadow” that “lingers still”.

Had to do a rare fan art to celebrate my man Gaius’s return to the story of FF14. Here’s hoping we get to bro it up with him in the next expansion and kick all sorts of ass.

[takfloyd]

Tegiri-sama recording himself studying the blade in the anterior hemisphere of his lawnring. Countless Faygo bottles are indiscriminately massacred, none can resist his peerless swordsmanship. 

I’m sorry.

[takfloyd]

That’s me just off the left side of the frame, of course. 

I hope the five people in the world who know all three of these characters find their way to this drawing. 

[takfloyd]

Commemorating HIVESWAP’s belated release, some FAN ART of a FAMED ADVENTURER/UNINTENTIONAL DOUCHEBAG EXTRAORDINAIRE appreciating a choice BLUE BEAUTY.

[takfloyd]

Sonic Mania, except it’s about team edgelord from Sonic Forces. You know you want it.

[takfloyd]

Just a little Steven Universe doodle. Some silly teenagers got really offended over this character concept by Lamar Abrams, a storyboarder on the show, to the point where the creators felt forced to erase the character out of existence. Well, here’s my part in making sure that jerks who harass content creators for anything they can twist into appearing “problematic” don’t have their way. I happen to think this is a pretty cool design. Lamar Abrams is himself a black man, and if anything, what’s truly racist is saying that black-coded characters aren’t allowed to have light lips because "that offends me”. As for the part where she can’t read, my drawing says it all - what would a gem need reading for anyway?

[takfloyd]

What, you don’t remember the story where Scrooge was a samurai in ancient Japan? 

Old doodle, relevant to current happenings. Ducktales remake hype!

[debirudori]

[takfloyd]

There is a highly appreciable amount of irony present here.

[kdougs95]

Joebama ❤️💙

[takfloyd]

I don’t often go political, but when I do, I go with memes.

[takfloyd]

This is a real book. It’s right here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Days-Ohio-Gathering-Juggalos-Everything-ebook/dp/B01LVV94LB

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that this reality is our reality.

[takfloyd]

Thanks Obama Trump.

[takfloyd]

Idiocracy is real

the news anchors are now saying they're glad weed just got legalized because they know what they're going to do when this day is over

...and I have 420 followers.

[takfloyd]

The strawberry battlefield from SU  is Hardanger, Norway

I’m dying. That’s like, my backyard. And the area is famous first and foremost for its fruit crops, especially strawberries. Everything suddenly makes sense.

[blackbookalpha]

Hey, I caught up to all Steven Universe episodes. I think Steven’s Lion is more OP than most people think. If true, the Crystal Gems are just hanging out with a God-like super-being in the form of a giant cat.

The Diamond Authority were so determined to wipe out Pink Diamond from Homeworld’s existence that we barely see any clues or traces of her at all, even before the Gem Wars / Rebellion.

Pink Diamond’s traits would have been the exact opposite to the governing Diamonds; a race that consumes planetary resources and destroys organic life to expand their own kind. Rose Quartz is just a soldier that carried on her ideals, passing it on to Steven.

Where does organic life start btw? When a planet has an abundance of H2O, aka water. Pink Diamond’s affinity could have been water / ocean-related. The only clue we have of her is on the moon satellite showing off her motif, which has soft, cylindrical coral / ocean-like elements to it.

Lion doesn’t have a diamond or gem that’s visible. Its possibly hidden in its mane and could also be cracked / incomplete / fragmented. Cracked gems usually have an ‘incomplete’ or ‘distorted’ shape (physical damage), versus a corrupted gem that turns it into a monster despite being whole (psychological damage).

Lion is possibly a cracked / fragmented diamond, ‘softened’ by the Earth’s ocean for eons just like when a sharp shard of glass eventually winds up on a beach as a soft, colored pebble. Explains why Lion retained a soft, fluffy appearance with a calm behavior in contrast to a volatile, corrupted gem.

5000+ years later (possibly 10,000+ to a million years, since its way before the Gem Rebellion), Steven meets Lion in a desert, with Pearl pointing out that the Desert Glass artifact they were trying to retrieve in the nearby ruins summons columns without roofs, and staircases that leads to nowhere.

That desert could have been an ocean before it dried up. The columns / tower that it builds also has cylindrical, coral-themed architecture. This could have been Pink Diamond’s final resting place before her gem was eventually weathered down by the passage of time, and re-formed into a smaller beast rather than a giant humanoid.

Lion is by far the most powerful ally in Steven’s group. The missing Diamond could just be just hiding in plain sight (and gnawing on Steven’s furniture / clothes).

Also, Lion can walk on water.

Source supporting this theory:

http://stevenuniversetheoryzone.wikia.com/wiki/Lion_is_Corrupted_Pink_Diamond

[takfloyd]

Yo I also caught up with this show and there’s another thing supporting this theory: There’s leaked images of Pink Diamond which may or may not be real, where her hair indeed looks a lot like Lion’s mane. Apparently there’s some evidence that they're the real deal. Here’s one of them: http://pasteboard.co/5qIDeVBKy.png

Possible spoilers obviously.

[fairybulls]

some pics of my tavros from desucon norway :’o

photographer: @takfloyd 

[takfloyd]

Implying I know the first thing about photography

(I don’t)

(Luckily my friend’s cosplay is so good that no one will notice that fact)