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If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

Several people got the design as a tattoo.

A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.

Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me

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we dont talk enough about how awesome folders on the computer are

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This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

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yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.

#ai art

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It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

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★ 【にしろしま】 「 ようこそ、美しき妖精國ブリテンへ 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

#fate #lb6 #fan art #cnoc na riabh #habetrot #percival #gudako #oberon #castoria #morgan #baobhan sith #morgan le fae #melusine #barghest

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this this this

#fandom

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#castoria #fate #lb6

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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

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from now on your tumblr nickname is whatever you get from this sexual identity generator  ☆

#self loathing cishet #NOOOOOO

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ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

#twitter

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HAYLEY ATWELL IS GRACE in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning [2023]

#hayley atwell #mission impossible

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Part one

#oof

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[ID: A conversation between two tumblr users. "If tumblr starts instituting the draconian laws that tik tok has (aka not being able to say kill, bitch, etc in posts in addition to tags) I refuse to say shit like unalive and do the slash thing. I'm gonna start using old timey euphemisms (Eg; I want to force Apple executives to kick the bucket) and borroing words from other languages. Like. They can't ban sex words in every language, can they??" The response is a picture of a tag: "GET IN LOSERS WE'RE GOING TO LEARN OLD IRISH TERMS FOR SEX". Overlaid over the two posts are pictures of Gudako and Queen Medb from Fate Grand Order, respectively. /END ID]

#LOL #gudako #medb #fate #shitpost

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