I seriously forget I have a tumblr when I’m really active on twitter most of the time! Sorry guys ..!
I did do a bunch of Trolls art over there so if you wanna see that you can go to my twitter @ nouna_arts . Note tho, I rambled bout Trolls. A LOT
But I will show some of my recents here! (I did a lot more)
JUST A BUNCH OF MY ART ⬇️⬇️
BUT THE BRAINROT HAS UNFORTUNATELY ROTTED AND NOW MY MIND IS ALL SONIC AGAIN. curse you sonic prime,…
Anyways here’s my sonic doodles :3
I couldn’t put anymore images. Damn .but you get it😭
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i'm so unironically baffled at the amount of downgrades this site pushes out on a nearly weekly basis at this point. Near half if not all of them are almost completely useless and give absolutely zero benefit to user experience, if anything @staff is quite literally distancing their userbase.... do you think i want another twitter? Like what purpose or benefit does taking away dash avatars has... what's the benefit of taking away basic accessibility features.. fucking genuinely. I hate it here. I don't know how many more feedback letters I have to send in order for all this shit to stop... i'm so tired.
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I love you mute lists
I love you word blacklists
I love you blocklists
I love controlling my online experience so that my ability to exist as a freelancer is not an uphill battle against seeing the constant influx of bad news and burning out as a result of it.
There is nothing wrong with mediating what, when, and how you are exposed to news. It is no one's business how and when you put time, energy, and emotions into something extremely important. Not a single human is entitled to know how you prevent yourself from being spread too thin. You need to take care of yourself before you can sustainably take care of others. "Block and move on" is not just for fiction, it includes real world things that distress and trigger you.
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I feel like what's being left out of the conversation about why an algorithm would be bad for tumblr is because we know what algorithms do on other social media sites. Promote reactionary hate.
Twitter is such a discourse spewing cesspool BECAUSE the algorithm promotes posts with lots of engagement. What kind of posts are those? Posts that make people mad. It is an endless feedback loop of arguing and hate. There's a reason click bait of people doing outrageous gross things get spread and its because they make people mad. Facebook literally has papers showing how their algorithm promotes hateful content. It's a well documented, well recorded problem.
I know they've said they're rolling back the algorithm based dash idea, but still most of the complaints I saw were people not saying that they didn't want it to change. And yeah I don't want it to change either but there are reason behind that beyond just preferring it to how other sites run things
And since I'm only allowing myself one post on the matter- if they decide to compress reblog chains they're fucking idiots. They literally already have a feature for that, shorten long posts, and NO ONE USES IT!!! ITS ON THE SAME LIST OF THINGS WE TELL NEWCOMERS TO TURN OFF ALONGSIDE BEST THINGS FIRST!!! THIS IS ALREADY A FEATURE!!! IF PEOPLE WANT IT THEY CAN USE IT WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT MADITORY WHEN REBLOG CHAINS ARE SO INTEGRAL TO THE SITE
I would even argue that having these options, AND KEEPING THEM AS OPTIONS, is a good thing. If people want an algorithm spoonfeeding them content and an experience more similar to other sites? Fine. Let them. Tell them it's a thing when they make an account, and let it be something people can toggle on and off. Whatever. But trying to force everyone who prefers tumblr as it is to basically have Twitter 2.0? You're stupid and insane if you think that's a good idea
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truly using my talents for good (drawing my faves kissing again)
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It's fascinating how in reaction to the crab day idea half my dashboard is like "Tumblr is awful do not give them one red cent let the motherfucker burn" and the other half is like "let's save the rec center 🙂"
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Idc anymore i think i'm a good enough writer that i can say that when i noticed the pattern in what exactly makes a book "good" on booktok (and, bc of that, what makes it popular and top bestseller lists), it feels almost demeaning and denigrating to the entire craft. Idk if i should blame the way tiktok-esque social media has utterly rotted everyone's ability to concentrate and read more than three sentences, but literally none of those books are objectively good.
(Yes, yes, art is subjective. HOWEVER. Art is subjective when you look at style, at themes, at motifs, at plots and characters. Art is still a craft, it still requires skill. I've seen beyond the tiktok quotes of these books. Not even their editors are good given the amount of typos/spelling mistakes. That is not something that you should find in a traditionally published book.)
You look at these books, and you know the only reason for their existence is to make money. I cannot and will not accept that as art.
(I'm on Tumblr, of course I have to explain every point. Artists who make money off their art =/= people who only create art meant to be profitable. There is a difference between an artist who hopes to monetise doing what they love, who creates what they wish to see more of and who happens to then create something that other people wish to see more of, and a person who looks at what's trending and decides that making an unholy frankenstein's monster of a book that mashes all those trending tropes and motifs together would get them rich quick. The fact that a lot of these booktok books become popular because of nepotism is just the cherry on top. It's soulless.)
And to finally say what I wanted to say, it's because none of these books have any deeper message or even artistic value to them. You will find a few out of context quotes or paragraphs, ones written specifically so they'd look deep and beautiful when taken out of context, so that people would post them, so that people would buy the books. Entire books written just so those few lines could become viral and make cash. It cannot even be compared to a hook line writers would post to get people interested in their works, because in booktok's case, those are the only lines of quality and in the context itself, they are often out of place and forced.
I just hate booktok, i hate what modern social media has done to art. It's all created to be quickly consumed, for the few ☆aesthetic☆ glances, and then discarded. Just to make more money for those who are already nepo babies. As if artists needed more obstacles to jump over.
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if you have $8 to waste on a worthless set of checkmarks to signify that you’re in on a corporate joke that’s exists to take advantage of you, you have enough money to send a $8 tip to an artist or especially sex worker on the website currently trying to deplatform a huge amount of its nsfw creators instead
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i dont wanna live in a world and time where influencers are a thing anymore i‘m fine with classic celebrities like musicians actors whatever even sport stars but please i want out of here
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Oh also when I start dropping the Red White and Royal Blue book quotes expect a FLOOD I'm highlighting the fuck out of this book
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wattpad excluding fanfiction from the wattys is actually a joke. just don't give the winner money and give them a nice little sticker to put on their book. this is ridiculous
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i follow this welsh girl on instagram who almost exclusively posts pictures and stories of either her talking walks in the woods or reading a book in bed surrounded by blankets and she reads like 100 books a year. i don’t know what she does for a living or how she can manage to sustain any of that because she posts quite a lot. but if this isn’t the life i want…
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It is actually astounding how bad judges of character royals are.
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i'll be honest i do not trust any up&coming social media site that claims it will be free to use and also not sell your data and also have zero ads. WHERE are you getting money then? like sure you can rely on donations for sustainability for like... a couple years at best probably, if you're aiming to wildly increase growth/number of users. donation based works ok for small highly invested communities or for online repositories of data (wikipedia, ao3). but like facebook/instagram/tiktok are profitable becuase they harvest data and use ads. tumblr is BARELY scraping by because it only relies on ads. if you take away even that, as soon as you have enough users to surpass the limits of free hosting, you're operating at a deficit.
like not writing this to say don't give it a shot, sincerely wish them good luck and hope they figure it out, it's hard! but also i just don't consider those kinds of websites/communities a reliable "backup" plan compared to tumblr itself which has kept chugging along for years despite Everything. it's a shiny new social media but it is weird to profess that a social media site advertising NO revenue streams will last longer than this one here.
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