#pass it along

[ever-so-slightly-monstrous]

Incredibly important Boop related news!

If you're on desktop and hover your mouse cursor over the boop button and wait a second, the boop does a little flippy and turns into a Super Boop (tm)

Do with that as you will.

#boop #april fools #tumblr #pass it along

[impala-dreamer]

Guys. My bedroom and office are FULL OF SPN, CULT FANDOM, AND MUSIC ART. Like... so many awesome paintings done by @mom-and-popcosmic. I love them, but they gotta move on to new homes so I can get him to do some Bucky for me ;) anyway...

I'm initiating a sale on our POP!COSMIC Etsy Page starting RIGHT NOW!

From today, 3/26/24 thru the solar eclipse on 4/8/24 you can get FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING ON ANYTHING IN OUR SHOP! That's right. And you can fill your cart with whatever your heart (and walls) desires. No limit. No conditions. Just FREE SHIPPING!

Just hop on over to the page and check it out. Use code

ECLIPSESHIP

#pass it along #sale #etsy #spn fanart #popcosmic

[vivika-ka]

Antis that insist Karen making a move on Billy is okay because he flirted with her it’s concerning for a number of reasons, but what never fails to absolutely disgust me is their thought process.

Are we to assume that every person between the ages of, let’s say, 16-18 that are sexualizing themselves are essentially inviting 38-40 year old adults to have sex with them?

I don’t remember where I saw it but someone once mentioned, “Sexualizing children and teenagers is bad, including when they sexualize themselves.”

It’s not an invitation, for fuck’s sake. It’s not a girlboss moment for a 38-40 year old to want to have sex with a 17-18 year old. She knew Billy was Nancy’s age, we have it right there on season 2. And antis are ok with ignoring that because *checks paper* right, Ted Wheeler is a lackluster and uncaring husband. Maybe get a divorce? (and don’t give me, “it was the 80s excuse,” the 80s had record shattering divorce rates). Maybe sit down with your husband and have a conversation? Maybe look for someone your own god damn age?

As an adult, and yes, as a mother (I’m pulling this card, idc) Karen should’ve turned him down the moment he made an advance on season 2. Maybe sit him down and explain that people her age shouldn’t be accepting sex from a teenager. Perhaps for once act like the mother of a “nuclear family” she pretends to be.

[Also, fuck the Duffers for portraying that as hot]

And the fact that we have to clarify why Karen Wheeler accepting Billy’s advances in plain 2022, with all the bullshit purity culture happening, is beyond me.

#tw karen wheeler #anti karen wheeler #billy hargrove #st billy #billy stranger things #protect billy hargrove #billy hargrove deserved better #he has mommy issues #how are people ignoring the OBVIOUS #double standards #at its finest #anyway #watching s4 was a mistake #why am i supposed to care for this woman #the wheelers suck #pass it along

[kply-industries]

I don't think this is how you play telephone.

#animated gif #animated gifs #gif #gifs #old advertisements #old ads #retro #vhs #telephone #pass it on #pass it along #dumb games #9:01 #90s

[sleep-deprived-crowbar]

Dick Grayson listens to Abba, pass it on

#dick grayson #nightwing #batfamily #batfam #batfamily headcanons #batman headcanon #headcanon #nightwing headcanon #dick grayson headcanon #dc #dc headcanon #pass it on #pass it along

[the9mm]

This current environment is the worst environment for artists I've ever seen.

Redbubble has just announced that, like Society6, they are going to be implementing new fee structures onto accounts.

If you didn't already know:

Effective May 4, 2023 when you make a sale through Society6.com, or one of our third-party affiliates, a shipping fee ranging from $0.30 - $8USD will be deducted from your earnings. Shipping fees vary based on the product sold and the full list of fees can be found below. Your artist earnings will be calculated using the following formula: Artist Earnings = ((Base Price - Discount) x Markup) - Shipping Fee The implementation of these new fees was carefully considered by our team. Shipping costs have recently risen significantly and both Society6 and our customers have absorbed those increases. As customers become more price sensitive, this is a necessary step to ensure the viability of the platform. We remain dedicated to providing a platform that allows our artists to profit off of their creativity.

Source: Society6 Help Articles

And now, Redbubble will be charging people who make too few sales (but not if you don't make any sales or make just the right amount of sales!) fees:

On May 1st, Redbubble will be introducing a new tier structure for artist accounts, and an account fee for some accounts. We understand that this is a big change for the artist community, so we want to be transparent and clear about what’s happening. We are introducing an account fee for Redbubble Standard accounts. The account fee applies when an artist makes sales in a given payment period, and is a flat fee based on your earnings in that period. If you make no sales during the payment period, you will not be charged a fee, so artists are never out of pocket. The fee will be automatically deducted from your payments. The introduction of an account fee will enable us to invest in the service, support, platform features, and tools we provide for different artist tiers, plus improved support for your customers, and more marketing opportunities. As recognition for positive engagement with and investment in the Redbubble marketplace, Premium and Pro accounts will be exempt from the fee...

Source: RedBubble blog

RedBubble gives examples for the fees as follows:

Say you sold products worth a retail price of $300 in total, and made $75 (avg. 25% margin) during a payment period. Your account fee is based on the total earnings of $75 and is a flat rate of $28 (see the fee table below). This is deducted from your total earnings before your monthly payment is processed, so your payment amount is $47.

Source: RedBubble blog

I understand it. Users who upload content to the service and never sell anything are just hogging resources on a server and taking up space, but that's the tradeoff when your platform is not moderated in any way, and you need designs to fill your platform.

But it's a really bad time to do this to artists.

We've just started to get over having major sales events like conventions gutting our incomes due to pandemic shutdowns. We're entering into a recession and people are holding tight onto their money -- they don't want to buy original art.

We've just had "AI" steal all of our artwork and used everything it wants without any due credit or monetary offering in the way of royalties or otherwise for sampling our hard earned work. Any person can go type in a text prompt, spit out an image, and have it printed.

You can't mention your shop, your links, your products, or post any external links on social media without being downgraded in their algorithms. Playing "the game" on social is exhausting and you spin spin spin on a hamster's wheel trying to keep your existing followers without gaining any new ones.

Now, Reddit and Facebook groups are tightening their rules. Ask any artist, they'll tell you how toxic all of this is. Communities welcome your creations, but don't you dare mention that you made it, that it's for sale, or that people could follow you for more. Don't ever give yourself credit, because promotion is not allowed! I am watching a friend who can't even post her artwork with a watermark on it without Facebook group moderators declining it as self promotion. She can't even protect her artwork or claim it as her own in any way without it being deemed "self-promo" and getting rejected or deleted.

So what do you do as an artist trying to make money with your art when you can't afford to dump money into advertising, can't afford the fees to set up an ecommerce shop, can't afford to pre-print all of your work to sell, can't afford a major convention table, filling it with merch, and attending, can't get your art into anyone else's hands, and can't mention anything anywhere to try to make a buck or two or gather new admirers of your work?

You give up.

#art #artist #artists need to know this #pass it on #pass it along #this is important

[mintspider]

I love reading and seeing everyone's different creative takes on their fandoms!

Keep up the great work!

#fandom #positivity #pass it along

[buildarocketboys]

Fly Boy Blue/Lunette - elbow // Pass It Along - Frank Turner

#idk just been thinking about these two lyrics a lot recently. no reason. #elbow #frank turner #fly boy blue/lunette #pass it along #lyrics #web weaving

[virgilvandijkswifey]

man city haters, it’s okay to not be okay

#pass it along #man city

[headspacedad]

hey new tumblr users

Welcome!

So - you’re starting to settle in to your new tumblr home but the landscape is still pretty wild and you’re not sure entirely what’s going on outside your window.  Since my first post about reblogs kind of blew up a bit and it had a couple of questions showing up in the comments, I figured I’d make another post in case that helps anyone.

Today let’s talk about communicating.

no, no, come back here.  It’s gonna be okay.  This is something you only have to do if you want to.

You can go your entire tumblr existence just reblogging posts and enjoying the people you’re following.  That’s cool.  But I see a lot of new arrivals want to be interactive too and that makes sense considering this is a social media site.  In fact, tumblr can be VERY social given half the chance.  This post here puts it wonderfully.

So, you’re on tumblr.  You’ve picked out an icon for your blog.  You’re reblogging posts you enjoy (sharing the cool rocks you found with the people hanging with you) and you’re ready to get a bit more interactive.  Its kind of daunting though because tumblr seems to have a lot of ways to interact and some unspoken rules on how to do it.  Let’s break this down.

First and easiest is to respond to posts.  You see something you want to comment on, an interesting post about sharing rocks for example.  There are three ways you can interact directly with the post.  

1.  When you hit ‘reblog’ there’s a spot for you to add comments (gifs, etc) of your own.  This is great for things you don’t mind everyone and their cousin getting to see.  A quip, adding a fact, telling a related story, politely disagreeing or providing another viewpoint, bouncing off their idea and expanding with one of your own, adding to the story idea they’ve presented, throwing in a relevant gif,  etc.  This is the space for things you don’t mind the entirety of tumblr getting to read.  You’ll notice a lot of posts are chained comments like this with multiple people contributing to the post by the time it reaches you.  There really isn’t any rule about not doing this but general consensus is to make it, somehow, apply to the original post and to not be a butt about whatever your reply is going to be.  Someone posting about fighting depression by making themselves stop and enjoy the way roses smell probably doesn’t need you replying by talking about how rotten roses are and how life is pain, highness.  Start a new post of your own if you want to express that.

2. tags!  Tags are the #tags part of a post when you hit reblog.  A lot of people use these for their original purpose, which is to *cough* make it easier to find things using tumblr’s search engine (tumblr’s search engine is pretty wack).  Still, tags are sometimes useful.  They can, theoretically, help you or people on your blog look up posts quickly.  They can help people doing a general search of tumblr tags find posts on subjects they’re interested in.  I regularly search ‘bunblr’ for instance (highly recommended).  BUT tags have a secondary use that a lot of people have adopted as well.  Tags can be used for a kind of ‘aside conversation’.  This is where you can write comments when you don’t necessarily want to add them to the body of the reblogged post.  It isn’t meant to be shared with tumblr as a whole.  It’s for the people following you.  Sometimes one of your followers will paste your tags to the post itself and you’ll see comments like ‘how could you leave these in the tags?!’  That’s a good thing and usually means you hit a cord but most of the time tags are just for aside conversations and not derailing the post itself.

3.  Reply.  That little speech bubble at the bottom of a post?  Click on that and you get the little ‘reply’ section.  Here’s where you interact with the original poster (OP) directly.  You can ask a question, add a short story, give encouragement, etc.  There’s a character limit on it so you can’t get crazy verbose but its a good way to add a short bit to a post and - hopefully - get a reply from the poster.  Be aware though, people like me are pretty forgetful and don’t always check their notifications.  That little lightning mark at the top of my dash is always at 99+ and pretty roundly ignored on the daily.  Still, other people can also read the reply part and sometimes you’ll get entire discussions in there as people respond.

Be aware that all three of these methods are viewable to everyone.  Anyone who sees the post can click on the notes and the tags, comments and replys will pop up for them.  These aren’t for private conversations.  They’re three ways to interact with posts publicly.

Private communication will be for another post.  So - you ready to test it out?  Use this post as your free trial and get some social interaction practice going on!  Once you’re comfortable you can branch out and there you go.  Social times for everyone (that wants it)!

#tumblr #new to tumblr #tumblr guidelines #how to tumblr #tumblr newbies #how do i tumblr #and all the other wonderful ways you the fine viewer can get your interactions on #and settle into making a place for yourself in the tumblr wilderness #have at! #okay to reblog #please do #pass it along

[oh-my-damn]

me and bestie @georgiapeach30513 at the boys:

#lmao #PASS IT ALONG #send me a proper daddy 😤 #preferably one thats into breeding #pls and thank you #also somno and free use #ooops who said that 👀 #d/s #obsessed #be obsessed with me or get out #dom/sub #send in the proper doms

[victusinveritas]

And now that I've read this horror, you just too.

#pass it along #the horrors #evangelicals #christianity

[dybalassunshine]

Lionel Scaloni is Pep Guardiola in Argentinian font.

#i've said what i had to say #pass it along #lionel scaloni #pep guardiola

[quietgayguy]

💛 🐒 🦺 🙌

#safe #repost #golden monkey #you're welcome #safety first #pass it along

[sol1056]

save zilker park in austin

got this email today & passing it along to any fellow austinites -- or anyone who’s been to austin and enjoyed zilker park for music, picnics, riding bikes, flying kites, or just hanging out:

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Back in 2002, the ACL Music Festival kicked off in Austin’s Zilker Park.  Since then, the festival has grown tremendously, from 43,000 attendees in 2002 to nearly half a million over two weekends in 2022.  In 2014, the ACL Festival lost its local ownership when C3 Presents was acquired by Live Nation, a monopoly in the music industry that is under investigation by the Justice Department for abuse of its power.

As things stand today, Austinites have already lost access to a large portion of Zilker Park for much of the fall when major commercial events take over the Great Lawn and other parts of the park.  

Despite this loss of public park space, special interests including Live Nation are now pushing a plan to transform Zilker Park into a year-round entertainment district to service commercial events and their wealthier patrons.

The City of Austin is considering a $200 million dollar plan to completely redevelop Zilker Park which includes:

3 Parking Garages within the park -- representing a 90% increase in permanent parking spaces within the park

A 5,000-seat amphitheater located on the Great Lawn

A large welcome center and terrace above the Barton Creek spillway

If this plan is enacted, the park would become something like a playground for the well-off, with expensive parking garages servicing pricey music festivals, weddings, and other events with VIP tickets and packages.  It is a costly and environmentally destructive plan that would make Zilker Park much less accessible for most Austinites.

A recent Public Policy Poll shows clear citywide opposition to this plan – across every one of Austin’s ten Council Districts – in stark numbers:

76% of Austinites like Zilker Park the way it is

79% are opposed to paid parking garages within the park

83% are opposed to an Amphitheater on the Great Lawn

Unfortunately, City Council appears poised to give approval to this plan on July 20th.

You can help stop this misguided plan by writing to the City Council, and by speaking against the plan at City Council.

You can also help by donating to the Save Zilker Park PAC, which is activating Austinites to oppose the plan.  You can donate to the PAC here.

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One thing this email didn’t mention is that when Austin gets hit by particularly severe spring flooding, many of those years it’s Zilker Park that acts like a catch-basin or flow-over from the river. But if Zilker Park’s 350 acres get paved over with impermeable surfaces like parking garages and an amphitheater, you can bet they’ll put in some kind of barrier to prevent the park from flooding.

So on years when Zilker Park would’ve been covered in 2′ of water, that ~30,492,000 gallons of water will have to go somewhere else: into the city on the other side of the river, but more likely downstream to drown East Austin (the poorest districts in the city) even more.

As in, there are literal downstream effects from Austin losing its biggest river-side greenspace.

#austin texas #zilker park #austin city limits #pass it along

[alilfox]

Tagged by: @zoddamnlt

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Currently Watching: Utopia

Currently Reading: Cultish by Amanda Montell

Current Obsession: Slime ASMR Videos 😂 I can’t stop watching them!

Passing this along to: @darklord-fenrir @possession-of-a-pink-weapon @haplo00 @skinslip

#Spotify #pass it along #I have such a hard time finding people to tag #tumblr stop deleting my fav mutuals blogs!