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my dumping ground for indulgent crap (#zed art) is the art tag. unfortunately too busy for commissions. she/they, aged 30+

[jester-nonconforming]

btw i love when dubcon is used in fiction as a way to explore characters. i love when characters don’t understand how to “properly” ask for consent because they have never had their consent respected in their lives. i love when traumatized adult characters make potentially unwise choices about what to do with their bodies because they have the autonomy to do so. i love when characters make choices that i personally wouldn’t make, but i can totally understand how they got there. i love when characters have complex, fucked up, unhealthy dynamics, but still care about each other and want to do better. i love when writers trust audience members to read between the lines instead of spoon feeding them moral lessons. i love when characters are allowed to actually fuck up and have mistakes to learn from!

[zed-sabre]

in honour of all hail chaos coming out, here is a marius expression sheet i drew for @mcgae

[blinkeasy]

Good Bones, by Maggie Smith / Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama

[zed-sabre]

up in my wha feelings rereading silver eve

[apocryphics]

oh ok

[gorps]

[trinidemgyal-deactivated2026051]

[homely-lunatic]

we need to talk more about the fandom experience of "I actually do like the idea of these two characters together and think it would have been an interesting direction for the show to have gone in, but unfortunately everyone who openly ships them is so exhaustingly unpleasant about it that it's barely even enjoyable to engage with the fandom at large anymore so the ship itself is now ruined for me"

[zed-sabre]

i'm like 5 days late for the deduesday theme but better late than never - here's a goliath heron laguz dedue

[sabertoothwalrus]

I DO think tumblr's dev team has been instructed to constantly implement new features and that's why they keep tweaking the UI in goofy ways. I imagine this is an upper management thing, so even if we say "well don't change anything and just maintain the status quo" they'll continue to make other changes anyway.

I will admit I REALLY like the recent improvements they've added to tumblr's search (you can exclude terms now!! you can search multiple tags!! and time frames!!) so it's not like they're incapable of adding useful features. it might be mutually beneficial for us as users if we were more vocal about things we want and don't want. Some features I'd like to see added:

spoilerable text

spoilerable images

the return of hover text!! remember when we had that?

ability to embed videos in reblogs

ANIMATED GIF ICONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ability to turn off other people's animated gif icons

the ability to filter original posts on a user's ENTIRE blog, not just a tag/search

more html support, like what if we could build tables

adding reactions to replies! I'm glad we can like them more but it'd be nice if we could take this further

embeddable tiktoks?? I don't even use tiktok but I remember trying to embed one in like 2020 and I'm surprised we still can't! even vines were able to be embedded

being able to search in your DMs. not being able to do this is why I tend to redirect mutuals to discord

MUTING USERS POSTS/COMMENTS WITHOUT BLOCKING THEM! just cause I don't want to see someone's posts doesn't mean I don't want us to never interact ever

a mutual-only dashboard feed

a feed for the blogs you're subscribed to

get rid of tumblr tv lmao I've literally never used it

"mark as read" button for communities without opening them

please dear god no AI shit unless it's a way for me to filter/block it easier

several of these I've submitted support tickets for under "feedback", and if there's anything you feel strongly about I suggest you do too!

[sun-moon-talia]

i think every comic fan should have at least 1 favorite character whose characterization peaked 20+ years ago and will probably never recover to their former glory. it builds character.

[zed-sabre]

play 1000xResist

[zed-sabre]

so i finally read captive prince because of chinatsu kurahana's japanese covers

[zed-sabre]

happy deduesday!

[zed-sabre]

just kitty things

[the-uncanny-dag]

[shinladyanarki]

You can block those.

Go to your account settings, and scroll down to "content you see".

Type and save the username/tags/site url, with quotations if its a more than one word. Also put "wordpress" on the list as well. That nukes about half of those sponsored ads. The rest will have to be shoot on sight.

Also get "rethink dns"

https://www.rethinkdns.com/

if you have an andriod phone so you can block the generic ads on the domain/ip level.

44 ip rules and 25 domain rules so far.

[zed-sabre]

for people who hate livio’s redesign for trigun stampede (that’s probably about 2 of you), consider: clean professional hitman look -> ponytail snaps and doing the ghibli hair thing for an even greater contrast when razlo

[zed-sabre]

i'd like to thank the people who acknowledged how super duper right i was

[zed-sabre]

slides one in before midnight yet again… for birthday boy felix hugo fraldarius

[aegithalis]

Blood is running deep, sorrow that you keep.