#the pros and cons of rambling

[yukipri]

Having been here since Tumblr's Golden Days and having watched its slow decline into a graveyard (albeit one with a pretty active infestation of chittering goblins), it's been fascinating this past week.

Blogs that have been silent for years, that I'd assumed long dead and abandoned and among the many graves that litter this hellsite...are suddenly come back to life.

I'm not sure if it's more like seeing critters come out of a very, very long hibernation blinking around at how everything's a wee bit different from what they remember—or perhaps something a bit more timeless and undead, like vampires kicking open their coffins or zombies bursting out from the graves where they'd laid.

I hope the time has come for Tumblr's zombie reawakening.

Welcome back, y'all. Welcome back.

#YukiPri rambles #Tumblr #People are right to be wary of this site after the Purge #but the timing of staff's N/S/F/W deets and the blue bird's crisis is definitely connected #There are always pros and cons to there being more users #but at the same time I miss having more interaction and company #and seeing some old familiar handles i'd honestly forgotten about is like being slapped in the face with nostalgia

[foldingfittedsheets]

MY COMICS ARE LONG. If you follow me you already know that. But I’d like to see how best to make it so people see them but don’t hate scrolling.

#ramblies #there’s pros and cons to each #I’m not positive a read more can work but I hate having two parters where people miss the whole story

[zhongrin]

sometimes i see posts with 'siblings are so annoying' or 'having siblings sucks' and i'm just here like well yes they kinda are sometimes, but then who else would unconditionally do things like going through all my trashy genshin artifacts for a strongbox and plays my spiral abyss for me?????

#rin rambles #siblings are great actually #more pros than cons for me #i'm lucky they're all generally great people

[chimerahyperfix]

hot new au: egg au. Your egg dies -> you become egg.

let me go off on a ramble rq

What if that’s the punishment? Becoming the egg? We’ve seen tiny glimpses of the mod’s mc skins. What if they became eggs? What if they were on the island first? I swear something in the server talked abt an experiment; maybe this is it? The consequences?? Does this mean the other egg parents are going to become eggs when theirs eventually pass away? When will the remaining players realize the amount of them are dwindling and yet there are so many eggs? You become an egg, what does that feel like? Is it painful? Are you becoming a monster, or a child or something entirely different??? Are they still coherent? Do they know what's happening to them anymore????

just thinking.

#qsmp #implied body horror #qsmp gegg #look at the consequences of me thinking too hard. horrors immediately #this au is literally pov: the consequences of your actions are here #qsmp slimecicle #pros: you become a little creature #cons: you become a little creature #chimera rambles #chimera draws

[etirabys]

I'm ambivalent about affirmative action in US colleges (my for and against file contains many items, none of which are personal factors) and I want to disclaim that the following personal thing is an argument about it. I think the way I and my family gambled so much on an elite college admission + scholarship was not very wise or necessary. South Korean culture cares about positional goods too much for its own good. If you invest so much into getting a rare positional good, and you damage yourself stressing over whether you'll get it or not, it's largely your fault for putting yourself in that position. Okay, now that I've given enough caveats:

It was spiritually corrosive to go through the process of applying to elite US colleges as an Asian person.

And it was spiritually corrosive to attend, and realize how wide my friends' range of scores & preparation was.

That's it. That's the post. I don't particularly feel like centering this as an experience that has shaped me, because it isn't central, but it's not tiny either, and sometimes people make remarks that make me go, oh wow, you don't know this about me. Which makes sense, because I don't talk about it, because I have no desire to be misconstrued as sneaking in a personal feeling as a political stance... so I walk around with this little nick on my psyche that usually feels closed over, and a couple times a year feels like someone just stuck their whole finger in there.

#rambl #anyway if you want one of the weirder items from that mental pros/cons list it's that i think grades based admissions raises P(pogroms) #in the medium-far future and that makes me unhappy

[signanothername]

Ngl been thinking of making a secondary blog solely for reblogs with its own tag system to organize this main mess a bit more

This would mean no more reblogs on here, just my own art or rambles

Should i or nah?

#pros: this blog gets to focus on art alone #which in turn makes it more organized #cons: I’m a lazy person #and will definitely get tired operating 2 blogs #anothers ramble

[raintailed]

perhaps i am a mantis shrimp in disguise. i can see colors no other human can

#raintailed rambles #/silly #apparently i have really precise color vision and i think that's because i've been doing digital art for so long #pros of this: i can do cool color palettes #cons of this: i am extremely picky and spend a lot of time getting a character's colors “right” #slowly turns to look at weaver's reference #which has received multiple color revisions

[doodlboy]

Gem au Mammon poll:

-versions with visor under the cut-

#im strugglinf help #pros and cons of all 3 #pros of 1: easy 2 draw. the original style i had in mind. can be fused in2 a cool pompadour #cons of 1: might be TOO simple. not easily readable as mammon [but when have i stuck 2 canon]. kind of an awkward shape #pros of 2: my hc of his hair in the main universe. consistent. pretty boyyy #cons of 2: looks like lucio overwatch hair. squarish locs look a little bizzare. too complicated for a gem design(?) #pros of 3: actually looks like pyrite. would have good contrast #cons of 3: would be a pain in the ass to recreate all those little squares. even less recognizable as mammon. kinda generic style #elliot rambles #polls #obey me gem au #om gem au #obey me #wip art #art poll #art polls #obey me mammon #mammon obey me

[wutheringmights]

um. ickywars sweep?

this is how ickywars can still win

#in my defense i said to temper your expectations #believe it or not but i actually do like the ship and i think they could really have something if circumstances weren't different #okay rant time but warriors having an oc boyfriend is a common trope right? so often the boyfriend is a fellow soldier or a sheikah warrior #which. fair. but also THE FRATERNIZATION!!! HE IS A SUPERIOR OFFICER #which is why Warriors having a weird situationship with an agent of an enemy state is a fantastic alternative #pros: warriors is not capable of having a normal relationship ever. it's funny. the enemy agent is mean to him in a way he thinks is hot #they can have a fun little dynamic where they're teasing each other about treason and spilling national secrets #it would be fantastic #cons: NONE #like you don't even need to make it icarius #just go ahead and make this the common trope for oc boyfriends #i want this to be my cultural impact #me rambling #lu ctb #ask #linked universe #anonymous #ctb is a comedy

[mysteryghost]

Me: yeah idk if delta-8 will really get me high or anything-

Me, post gummy: *starts explaining random plot points from homestuck to my fiance for 28 minutes straight only pausing because they had to get up for a moment*

#i will never be free from homestuck #pro im not in pain now #con my old homestuck hyperfixation is looming ominously now #also gods i remember too much from that webcomic #anyway #time to ramble to my fiance about classpects #homestuck #delta 8 thc #i still dont know if delta 8 normally gets you high or not #but by god im blamming this on it

[welcometoteyvat]

too little gfx in the tags lately this is so unfortunate

#pros of tumblr: backwater hell. cons of tumblr: backwater hell #actually add another con: hostile to all image makers now ig #nothing but gifs..................... please..... graphics where r u #tho tbh idk where the graphics makers live because i literally have never seen any on twitter either #a discord for transparent renders that i lurk in opened a channel to share your edits and like #some of them are a bit cluttered but they're still very nice and nothing like tumblr's usual edit style #they're very . digital ig? full of textures text stickers and random bits and bobs everywhere its interesting #some of them also have the magazine mockup thing going on so its got block font bold as hell style usually main focus is drippy splash art #which like . WHERE DO YOU ALL POST YOUR WORK?? SHOW PLEASE ive never seen any style like it in my life #all are like really cool as hell though im impressed and inspired #esp these are all single image focused whereas tumblr's full of like photosets that make up 1 coherent thing #so it's a different kind of challenge... sooooooooo cool though #lowkey wanna try it zzzzz theyre all so neat... scratches a good itch.. #ramblings!

[gaminegay]

I don't trust this AI bs even if you can opt out (since when has anyone respected 'dont use my work') but where would I even post if not tumblr. I'm betting Instagram isn't any better and I'll die before I use twitter

#alda rambling #Before you tell me about artfol or whatever. Cmon it's not the sameeeee #It's not even so much about the actual possibility of some. Big AI Company taking my shit or whatever #It's the principle. I'm tired of this shit and the cons are catching up to the pros #Or maybe I'm just grumpy bc it's morning we'll see.

[dol-dee]

ignore me lmao

#urghghghgh consumed by depraved Butch!Avery somno thoughts but they're too rabid for me to comprehensively turn them into anything #the pro and cons when youre into a niche version of the character. The majority of Avery fanworks is about M!Avery with the occasional- #sprinkle of fem!dommy mommy Avery #dol rambles

[aturinfortheworse]

Really nice card I got from a student who graduated last year. 🥺

I want to make a cutting comment about how I don't have any real life experience, but I guess actually with the things she needed help with, I do. Like the girl's not worried about paying rent, she's worried about having the joy and confidence and purpose ripped out of her life. Which is something I do know about, though I'm still a little surprised that anything I said or did made a difference.

It's also funny to me that she viewed it as a rocky start to the relationship because it was, like the first thing I was told about this job is "she doesn't want you here and she hated the last teacher aide that was with her," but from my perspective I went "Well I'll just try being really open with her, try not push any boundaries, blame it on the school when I have to" and that worked perfectly! Having my first strategy work perfectly is all I could ever ask for. I'm not like surprised that it takes time to establish trust.

#ruin rambles #work stuff #this was a really weird and unique work situation to have had #and i continue to feel slightly uneasy that every person who talks to me about it assumed i didnt like it #god people will NOT stop telling me how happy i must be that its over #It was literally just. it had pros and cons like any other job. #sure the cons included 'sometimes had to do CPR' but i dont have an issue with that #there are downsides to every job! #it's better than dealing with timetables!!!

[rivilu]

Cant formulate this vampire thought I just had properly right now But. You know that thing when it snows and it looks like the middle of the day all night long? Yeah.

#pros: you get an experience as close to standing in sunlight as you can probably possibly get #cons: warmth not included #astarion ancunin #since this IS about him specifically #vampire thoughts #river rambles

[dove-da-birb]

*planned out new layout for room*

... when my back stops hurting I'll do it

*nothing is really true to scale, but I tried*

#dove rambles #i would like to fix the walls though since my walls are made out of stone #but i would have to move a queen-sized bed by myself and my wood furniture #and like hell i'm doing that with a busted lower back #i also need to get rid of shit and organize #i want to fix the walls though; so badly #pro of living in the basement; lots of space; con of living in the basement; it's not super pretty #maybe paint the ceiling while i'm at it ....