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Thoughts on Shikadai?

as far as i'm concerned, naruto ended and nobody ever made anything related to it ever again lmao. but the concept of a bouncing baby boy for single dad shikamaru? very cute and good.

i'm really not familiar with his personality, but it seems like they're somewhat similar, which is also endearing. and he -looks- like a cutie pie, too.

#replies #not art

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#fr fr #i huge appreciate #esp through this desert time

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Deer au, so lovely. Do you still draw comics about it??

thank you so much shhfjfd yes i surely do/will, i am just very. in a Place rn. not necessarily a bad place, but it sure is different from before when the art machine took me whether i wanted to or not. now i gotta shovel coal into the art machine and man. man...... man.

#BUT THANK YOU

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**Just an FYI, there's nothing concrete as of yet, and I'd encourage people to draw their own conclusions.

#h a t e burning in my soul #psa

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#i fucking hate it here

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😭😭😭only for me to immediately disappear again dkjdsfkd thank you!! i am TOUCHED

#so srs rn youre so kind thank you #i am In The House now but boy i got stuff to do #gonna have a dedicated studio now tho so that's.... p cool....

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hi i've been sick and then moving; how about something completely different: some originals i drew weeks ago. a cyberg, a battery, a rock, another cybutt

#oc #someday.........

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fools with dumb shit like "male x male shippers dni" may please direct their attention to the big neon 'get the fuck out' sign, thanks

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thinkin about kurotsuchi she is CUTE

#kurotsuchi #gaara #kurogaa #?? lol #one on the right is older; could swear i put it here #naruto shippuden

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#gaara #naruto #the sloppiest loppy to ever slop

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re: tumblr

hello! I work in tech and here are some important things to know about "tumblr is going into maintenance mode." please note I do not work at tumblr, I've just worked at tumblr-adjacent sort of companies for my entire adult life and i've gone through this before.

what does maintenance mode mean?

literally what it sounds like -- Automattic is not going to be hiring new staff, investing in new product features, or doing anything new on tumblr. the staff that remains working on tumblr will be maintaining the status quo. most of the staff will be allocated elsewhere (or possibly laid off, though it looks like from that memo that's not what they're planning to do). it does not mean tumblr is shutting down. you should still buy premium, get merch, etc, because this is definitely step one of the shutdown process, but a maintenance mode designation is basically to see if tumblr will generate a revenue without putting more money into it than strictly necessary.

why did this happen?

obviously I do not know directly. from my observation, it's in part because Yahoo had absolutely no idea what to do with this platform, and then when Automattic bought it they also... struggled... but it is also in part because the user base has been so viciously anti-monetization that most attempts were killed outright.

yes, the user base is part of the problem. the absolute feral anti-premium, anti-ads, anti-tipping, anti-everything tumblr tried to do to make money is part of the problem. it's not the only part of the problem by a long shot, but I would be remiss not to mention it.

what do I do now?

use the platform. just like, keep using tumblr. do not abandon ship. buy premium, get yourself some badges, get yourself some merch, but use the platform. ad revenue is based on impressions and clicks. if a ton of the user base gives up, that revenue disappears.

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tumblr is extremely special. I've never seen anything like it in my 20-odd years of being Very Online, and I was a minor BNF in WolfStar during LiveJournal days. I don't know that it can be recreated elsewhere. I don't know where fandom will go. I know that something else will exist after tumblr and that nothing gold can stay, but i don't think the specific kind of joy found here can be recreated. i say this not to be a downer, but to be realistic. I guess I should find a Bluesky invite.

I've been here since 2008. I'm not going anywhere as long as this site exists. hope you'll stay here with me.

#not art #some thoughts

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I COULDN’T SETTLE SO HAVE BOTH

#man i miss Life

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guh

#hhhraerrrrrghghgh #whats that phrase about licking eyeballs

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#when i paint a bg for one panel and call it a day

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Hello again! What have you been up to these past few weeks?

hating everything i make, dreading working on art because of that, slogging through the executive dysfunction aka Wall of Mystery looming over every task that i must climb over to get to the fun part of actively being in the task, wishing i was the version of myself from 2017-2020 who had so many ideas that i could hardly sketch them out in time, vs now, the monumental effort required for a simple face sketch.... on top of Real Life.

but i did letter some comic pages today. crawled an entire inch toward the endzone.

#replies #not art #entirely too honest i am extremely sorry

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Why are rare pairs the only thing I know from shikagaar (the ship name I use for Shikamaru x Gaara) to a joke made that quickly became my life Hajime x kokichi I was hoping fungus-sama would be able to tell me

shit, man, the googling i just had to do to figure out that was a Dagnabbit Romper ship, whewie

but lmao shikagaar sounds like a toothy fish; i wanna fish for the legendary shikagaar ohoho--

relate, tho. idk what it is. my brain enjoys the.... challenge??? of considering how these characters might interact and/or perhaps pair up. i like it. that said, it isn't like, a conscious choice like i fkn... ENJOY the total lack of content.... clench fist... it's a hard life but we're here together lmaoooo 🤜🏻🤛🏻 thx for stoppin by.

#replies #not art #GOD tumblr even changed the fkkn formatting icons i hate this mgmt team

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Could I nominate "slyfox" for the official moira/kiri ship name? ✋️✋️✋️

god damn it tumblr, i just got done saying im never leaving and you dont even notify me of this message--

i like. this idea. strokes chin thoughtfully

#replies #not art