#y'all follow me

[inkskinned]

i got my isbn today for the book. 8 months to go. my mom and i were talking about what the next steps are. i was eating trail mix, standing on one foot, phone tucked into my ear.

"yeah," i said. "the problem is that tumblr as a market is like, not something that can be studied." there's this weird wave of nostalgia and affection for this place that came up over me: how lovely we avoid consumerism. okay, it sucks as a creator. but also? keep stickin' it to 'em.

my mother made the sound at the back of her throat that i also make, the one that means i've got an idea. "you should figure out some kind of reward for presale amounts. maybe you give out poems or a mug or a signed book or something. would your followers like that?" my mother is sweet, and kind, and i have no idea how to explain on this website you can buy someone crabs.

i put more m&ms down the hatch. i had to speak through peanuts and almonds. "if it passes 25 thousand i will print the book out in its entirety and eat it live on camera."

"oh god. no, you don't have to do that." she was anguished. "just tell them that you'd love them to read it, and that they've inspired you to write. you got started on that site, and they helped you keep going. raquel, you love these people. the community? you talk all the time about the other writers and artists and whatever else. tell them that you're hoping for their support, they'll come through."

"no," i assured her. i discovered i had dropped an m&m, but an ant had already found it, so it belonged to him now. i will let his little life have a surprise blue treasure in it, too. "i'm gonna fuckin' eat the book."

#writeblr #:) #the small secret love i have for y'all. the way i am filled with gratitude. #for the nosebleed club. for stephen particularly. #for every artist i've ever been in contact with and collaborated with. #for every person who has commented on my work and passed it along or fallen in love with it #for every silent 'just hitting like' follower and for every person who sends me dms and for each of you #i know i suck at replying bc i have anxiety. but like. you keep being here. so i keep writing. #i legit wouldn't be here without you. #thank you sophie thank you katie thank you carolyn thank you stephanie thank you jess #thank you if you're reading this #i got too overwhelmed with love and have to stop writing this FAR too early into the thank yous bc im about to cry with love

[mobius-m-mobius]

Lokius in Loki 2x02 - "Breaking Brad"

#mobius #loki #lokius #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #loki spoilers #so for starters everything i said about how easy ep1 was to color came back to bite me tenfold with ep2 😂😂 #but as usual i only care about them so a great time was had again!! GOD loki wants so badly to be there for mobius :'))) #the line about who was following who killed me bc if that isn't their whole relationship in one go but now they've flipped characterization #and mobius in his tux added a million years to my life!! i'm not a bond fanatic for nothing and that was SO the spy who loved me coded 👀 #lastly y'all this set almost knocked me tf OUT lmao i'm not meant for speedy giffing but i'll do it for them #marvel #owenwilsonedit #loki s2 spoilers #dianagifs

[cangrellesteponme]

wife

#yeah i'm not dead woo let's celebrate #my art #kuroshitsuji #kuroshitsuji fanart #black butler #black butler fanart #grelle sutcliff #grell sutcliff #anyway i didn't draw SHIT for a good while and when i got back to it i suddenly hated using the flat marker brush??? #it's part of what makes my signature distinctive so i used it for that but yeah i switched brushes #oddly enough i'm not hating the more textured look? it gets very pixelated at times but it's not awful #back to the signature- it felt weirdly nice to sign things again #i haven't in a while #if you're one of the very few people who also follow me on instagram you'll know i don't use it on there #and the only art i've been doing these days has been original work so yeah nothing on tumblr #and thus the words 'brain exhaustion god stan' have not been written by this comically large hand in a hot minute #enough rambling this is just grelle art because i love her and i know y'all love her too so i thought it would be a nice comeback piece

[kenobihater]

reblog for a bigger sample size of former angry, creative, and/or highly dramatic children

#len asks #strangling tw #choking tw #drowning tw #<- ik followers and moots need those tagged but lmk if there's any more you want me to add #polls #personally i mostly hung my toys up. not in like a morbid way but i thought it was fun to swing them from trees #DEF threw them off structures in a morbid way. and melted their faces off in a morbid way. and gave them swirlies in a morbid way #i usually only did that to free mcdonalds toys and i don't think i ever did any of this to my expensive toys but i did like a bit of #violence here and there. it was an interesting outlet for sure. i basically always did it with a friend as well. bonding <3 #OH and we put out sparklers on an action figure once before tying blackcats to him and throwing him off a bridge. fun times! #oh and the freezer. i think that's it tho and i honestly only did most of these things once bc the novelty wore off #gonna periodically rb this for a bigger sample size. i will be HIGHLY disappointed in y'all if 'none' sweeps

[destinationtoast]

So, Tumblr is doing another new thing, and you may want to make your Likes private.

On my dash, I've started seeing posts with a header that says "Liked by [username of someone I follow]."

So far via this new feature, I have learned that various people I follow are fans of spicy queer photography, rpf, and some controversial opinions. Which is hardly surprising on tumblr dot com, but I haven't seen some of those people reblog such content in the past, so I didn't know that about them previously. (All these folks have their Likes publicly available, so I could in theory have browsed the posts they liked before. But to me, there's a difference between having Likes visible when people go looking for them vs. having them publicized on followers' dashes.)

If you don't like the idea of your liked posts showing up on followers' dashboards with your name at the top, you can change your settings so your Likes are private.

On mobile, open up your settings and click "Pages:"

Then make sure that sharing is turned off for Likes:

You can also send feedback to Tumblr.

#psa #tumblr #tumblr likes #privacy #i think many of my followers have their dashboard curateds to not include such posts #so I'm guessing many of y'all won't have seen these #op #i'm almost certainly going to mute notifications on this post so send me an ask or DM if you want my attention #my likes have been private for ages and I'm so glad that's an option #50 #100 #500 #1K

[alexandriad]

missed drawing ancient greeks so here are some antique lesbians

#tagamemnon #ancient greece #something for those of y'all who followed me for classics and now have to endure my forays into fandom stuff #long time no see lol but now going back to ofmd posting #Pseudoart

[hummerous]

I have a mirror in my hallway for normal reasons and I just freaked out seeing my own reflection in said darkened hallway - my first, second and fourth thoughts were "AHHHHH THERE'S AN INTRUDER IN THE HOUSE. WHAT THE FUCK—"

but my third thought was still "he's kinda built though. I'd hit that tbh"

which is to say, this has been a completely fine week and I am doing great.

#i told y'all not to follow me - so here. mediocre content be open ye. #less content and more just. colorized monologue but whatever #ori

[actual-changeling]

A small 'this is how you use tumblr' for the people that haven't been here very long. These are in no particular order, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them!

Since I probably did not mention a lot of things, you are welcome to add to this post with your own advice.

a) Reblog posts. if you like it, reblog it. even if you have zero followers and ESPECIALLY if it's art or writing of any kind. We will see the reblog in our notifications and that alone brings joy. One reblog can start a chain and push the post onto many people's dashes.

b) Tumblr is not a very functional website, if you want to survive without losing your mind, there are two things you need: xkit rewritten and dashboard unfucker. Play around with the settings until it is to your liking. Additionally, change to firefox if you haven't already and install ublock origin to get rid of ads, tracking etc.

c) If you go to your settings (account! not blog) you can find this under dashboard at the bottom. Turn off at the very least 'best stuff first' since that will fuck up your dash and not give you posts in chronological order.

The rest are a perfonal preference but it will keep your dash tidy and easy to control if you turn them off, too.

d) Apropos settings—get a profile picture, a header, write something human in your bio, anything. Otherwise people will assume you are a bot and block you on sight.

e) Blocking! Do it generously and whenever you want, this is how you keep whatever remains of your sanity. It's not a lethal offense, it is (usually) not even seen as rude or anything along those lines. You block people and they block you and everyone is happy.

f) Under account settings you will find this:

Just like with blocking, use both options to your heart's content.

g) Tumblr is not like other social media platforms, spam liking & reblogging and going three years deep into someone's account is NORMAL and encouraged. You can search a blog by post type, tags, or even go to the archive and scroll through the posts there.

h) Lastly—interaction. We already went over reblogging (I mean it, REBLOG), but there are also replies and asks. If you add something to someone else's post please behave like a kind human being and don't be an asshole; based on my experience, that's easier said than done. On top of that, the tags are ALSO used for communication, go unhinged, ramble, leave your thoughts, or simply use them for organisational purposes. Everyone loves a good insane tag wall.

An open inbox (either anonymously or with your blog attached) is to be used! Please send people asks if they have them active, use it like DMs or a comment section, use it to recommend something, ask questions, participate in an ask or prompt game—we love asks here.

(We do not like harassment in our inboxes, same rules as above.)

#alex yells at the void #tumblr culture #fandom culture #tumblr in a nutshell #how tf do I tag this. anyway #i know a lot of new people followed me after good omens 2 and still are #so this is for y'all!

[pouletpourri]

could you draw Caine pls🥹I love your art style and your what if Kaufmo didn’t abstract art!❤️❤️❤️

thought drawing him would be hard but it ended being fun (also thank you!! :^)

#you certainly didn't ask for the second doodle but i'm giving it anyway #tadc #tadc caine #caine #the amazing digital circus #tadc fanart #my art #fanart #(sorry for disappearing was a bit overwhelmed by the amount of ppl following me ^^;) #glad y'all like my art tho. will def try to be more active

[sketchinfun]

Calling myself out

#it me #blorbo #blorbos #every time man every tiiiiime #if you've been following my posts and fanart blogging y'all know which character and show i'm referring to #i'm amazed at artists who are able to have restraint and just draw the one fanart of whatever they're into and then move onto something else #for me i'm like Y'ALL WANT LIKE 10 SKETCHES OF THE SAME CHARACTER??? AND MAYBE MORE?

[quickhacked]

TOOL: OC QUESTIONS GENERATOR

a neat little generator that gives you a random question for your ocs! find it here // support me on ko-fi

>> FEATURES

over 600 different questions, covering every aspect of character building

easy to use, no unnecessary distractions, just a very straightforward generator

content warnings on the page itself, as well as in the first screenshot

>> NOTES

please send me a dm if there's a content warning missing, i'll add it to the page immediately!

if you have any ideas for questions, feel free to let me know and if they're not on the list already, i'll add them!

feel free to use this tool for personal projects or tell your friends about it, as long as you don't try to steal the code of the page or claim the generator as your own :)

i do not take credit for all the questions in this generator, i've gathered them at some point from both my own brain as well as stuff online

likes are always welcome, reblogs much appreciated!

#writeblr #oc questions #character development #character building #nuclearcoding #it's here besties. i'm relying on all my 25 followers to get this to 1 billion notes #anyway have fun with it!! let me know what y'all think <3

[mobius-m-mobius]

#dynamic of all time

#mobius #loki #lokius #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #loki spoilers #it's about the bickering it's about the inherant chemistry of overlapping dialogue it's about the married of it all 🤌 #ngl didn't really have time to gif today but #made partially to get the comparison off my mind partially for y'all who are still following me for gomens content bless your hearts 😂💖 #not that it isn't much appreciated but all that's gonna be happening around here is more owen thirst than can be comprehended lmao #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #dianagifs #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #michael sheen #david tennant #owenwilsonedit #goodomensedit #marvel

[niirem]

guy between yo legs 😱!! drew a couple moments from his recent audio as promised teehee

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #redacted guy #niirem art ! #u guys in my prev post better follow thru with all the crazy stuff y'all said #took me too long to get it started but here he is #do i need to tag this as mature or smtn #idk bruh i'm barely on here 💀 #too lazy to colour #reply farts if u actually read all these tags /hj #i <3 guy !!!

[cinamun]

People always want a source for facts, especially when they are probably the result of the negative end of said facts. I get it, its so unbelievable and you're so shocked about George Washington and Black people's surnames that, instead of googling your damn self, you send me two paragraphs asking for sources and instead of sources you got blocked.

Stop asking Black people to do labor for you during Black history month.

#now go create another account to follow me from #y'all be doing the weirdest shit #the internet is literally RIGHT THERE

[buggachat]

sometimes, as an artist, you look at old art of yours and are baffled by how.... bad it is, and how little you understood at the time how bad it was..... and then you think to yourself “well, it’s a good thing i kept drawing anyway”. 

here’s to that cycle repeating

#this is meant to be positive. does it sound positive? i hope it does #i hope me in five years looks back on what im doing now and thinks im damn moron #anyway my 2018 art was really bad y'all why did i have any followers at all #not ml

[lamb-roadtrip]

(from the official Monster Roadtrip × Cult of the Lamb crossover)

No longer (just) a friend, no less than a god.

Time for a date with the Lamb!

(Warning: cannibalism talk.) (Long post.)

Sure, that was basically just a cult recruitment interview... but you've been on worse first dates, right?

Every good marriage is built on a foundation of trust, respect, and seventy-five bones.

(I love all the details in this art it's SO silly.)

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl lamb #monster roadtrip #lamb roadtrip #debated cropping just the dialogue bc the scene is static/there's no sprites #but this way if y'all want to share these the scene art is there bc it is SO funny #it's just me and you and your dozens of loyal followers #one of whom you're standing on to be eye level with me while you recruit me into your cult #i really hope narinder has been watching all of this through the crown's eye. can you imagine