You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

thinking about how doomed chip and arlins reunion is. like. even not including all of the corruption and stuff implied to be happening with the hole in the sea. chip was around 9. a 9 year old who thought the world of arlin, and how can you live up to the expectations of a child who thinks the world of you, one who has had a decade to build you up in their mind.

and on the other side. arlin remembering a small boy who was a bit mischievous at worst, now stood in front of him ten years older, with countless scars, not even breathing. completely unrecognisable.

all im saying is that no party involved is ready for what might happen and thats scary as hell

feeling evil and i cant draw so this will have to do

dont think about how badly chip doesnt want to repeat the ways the world has wronged him to anyone else

he doesnt want to completely abandon ollie and leave him alone with nothing like chip, they make sure he has people to care for him. he doesnt want to let his crew follow him to the unknown if they aren't prepared for it. he tells ollie to stay home, out of any danger

but old habits die hard and he still promises ollie they'll come back

even though he doesnt fully believe it

even knowing hes feeding into the cycle

but yknow

dont come looking for me when its my turn

im thinking about this again,,,, post finishinig riptide,,, ough

rewatching riptide 97 because i hate myself and something about gillion choosing the wrong lever,,,, it makes me insane

his whole life is choosing between two things- his destiny or what he wants to do, the land or the sea, and in this moment despite being told what the right thing to do is he chooses wrong and his friends suffer for it

realistically i know its charlie slimecicle being dumb but god does that fit into the nightmare scenario of gillions fear of failure

he FAILED man,,, the people he cared about were being hurt and it was his fault for choosing the wrong thing

makes me wonder about the whole prophecy situation and how he's going to react to it after that plus everything in recent episodes (granted im only just past 113 so yknow this could be irrelevant in 114) but man. gillion tidestrider

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william wisp what are you DOING MAN

anyways this took 7 hours and flopped on twitter AND made my wrist hurt greyscale arc hurting me in more ways than one

RAAAAHHHH CHAOS COLE

can’t take this fucking guy anywhere

(close up bc i like how drew his face and then made it really small)

they’re so incredibly silly and also tragic doomed siblings i love you

another pair of characters that i thought a Bit Too hard about and then went insane

redesigning my wiwi

i have started the Greyscale Arc so yknow

suffering

mom…

see how cool i am?

In the podcast straight up rolling wirht it. and by "it", haha, let's justr say. My dice.

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I really really don’t have an excuse this time. More le tadpole shit haha

i love that i can tell when someone is going through the jrwi fanart tags bc i will just get a series of notifs on different posts bc i never shut up and im clogging the tag 😔

Old habits die hard