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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you 💖
Bolos Levedos.
Soft fabrics.
Driving aimlessly listening to cds.
Seeing my friends.
Bar room style pizza.
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[I need you to go look up "ICICLE WORKS - I STILL WANT YOU" and start blaring that as loud as you can right now.]
So. Typhus and I have failed in our mission to get him into everyone's bedrolls. Turns out that traumatized vampire got hands. We didn't have the heart to break up with Astarion, and I think we're DnD married now. Please keep us in your prayers.
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Tav relaxing in the faewilds
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Playing some Baldur's Gate, most recent Tav I've been playing: Faye.
He's a half orc, half hobgoblin Oath of the Ancient, Archfey paladin/warlock. He's old, tired and just trying to keep Shadowheart and Lae'zel frm strangling each other.
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Spider Leviathan in her Kil Skuls shirt
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Fun doodle I just like.
Will the reference fly? No idea, does anyone write to Penthouse anymore?
#spidersona#penthouse reference by way of antfish's jojos abridged#grandeville in the background#my art#doodles
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Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy
Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.
The Diagnosis
In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience.
Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content.
To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.
Our Guiding Principles
To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.
Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
Retain and grow our creator base.
Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.
Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.
Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up.
We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.
Actions & Next Steps
Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.
Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.
Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.
The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.
Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant.
Actions & Next Steps
Deliver great content each time the app is opened.
Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are.
Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds.
Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.
Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.
Actions & Next Steps
Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.
Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs.
Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.
Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread.
Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads.
Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed.
Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.
Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.
Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.
The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.
It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.
Actions & Next Steps
Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it.
Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.
Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.
Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.
Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.
Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.
Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.
Actions & Next Steps
Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.
Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.
Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages.
Test what the right daily push notification limit is.
Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.
Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.
The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.
Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.
Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users.
Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.
Conclusion
Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.
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More dicking about with Spider Leviathan, lives on an archipelago called the Rogue Isles bit northwest of Bermuda. Family was from the Azores originally.
Never bitten by a spider for all this, considered one of the more successful projects under Lord Recluse's direction. Spider people are fairly common where she lives. More spider-y and far, far more feral.
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Having a bit of fun with Betty, now titled Spider Leviathan. Her arms are fun to play with.
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Loved Spider-verse, dusting off an old Arachnoid for a spider-sona from lets say Earth-4282004, or as she knows it: Primal Earth. A universe that disappeared and reappeared.
Big Betty Birdeater
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May Doodles
working on stuff offline, waffling on how I want to do this. Drafting and redrafting the story as per usual. Will it come to fruition? Who knows
Missy (fabulous hair) and Dyna (glorious bone structure) at the top because I keep circling back to their other stories
The rest is Erin and Lorne
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RedBubble just announced that they will start charging a fee for artists from the already scarce profits you can make from the site. Their blog post about it is here
Here’s some highlights
[image descriptions: two screenshots from the redbubble blog
Image one reads:
Here is an example of how it works for Redbubble Standard Accounts
Your artist earnings are calculated at the end of the pay period.
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.
Image two reads: How are fees applied when I do not meet the payment threshold?
If your final payment amount is under the monthly threshold of $20, your payment rolls over. If your earnings roll over from one month to the next you will only be charged for the new earnings. Here is an example:
Let's say you earn $15.50 in May. Then you will be charged $6.15 as an account fee. Your earnings for May are ($15.50 - $6.15) = $9.35.
Let's say you earn $87 through new sales in June. You will be charged $31 as an account fee.
Your earnings for June are ($87 - $31) = $56. You will be paid out $9.35 (May) + $56 (June) = $65.35 in the next pay run.
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Because of this change I will be shutting down my redbubble account at the end of this month. I have never made enough from my redbubble to cover the fees they’re suggesting here. If you’re interesting in getting one of the few designs I still have there now is the time! Somebody the designs there may make a reappearance on another site when I have the time to properly vet another print to order service or I may start selling stickers through my kofi shop if I can get enough interest to make the up front fee worth it.
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I was so moved by all the doujinshi I saw on my trip to Japan last month I wanted to make one of my own, so I spent the next six weeks revisiting some of that Giovanni/Lt. Surge business I was on about a few years back and made a 42 page sexy gay violent pokemon fancomic about Giovanni and Lt. Surge being handsy with each other.
I just finished it so if you want to read it the whole thing is pay what you want on itchio for anyone willing to throw at least a dollar my way for the pdf. (Content warning for blood, violence, eye trauma, gore, and animal/pokemon death, but the actual romancey parts are pretty fluffy and cuddly)
I’m also posting pages one at a time on my twitter in case you don’t have a dollar but still want to read it. I’d link to it but for some reason tumblr is not letting me copy and paste links, so just keep an eye on Coelasquid @ twitter for those updates.
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Fat lady “ta da!” earrings version 2.0 available tomorrow for $20 at @fatfolksmarket ! They’re called “ta da!” earrings because they present your face! Very happy to be collaborating w @chelseajams (go follow her!!!!) Or you can DM me and I’ll ship them to you (I haven’t put them or my new posters on my website yet) #fat #fatacceptance #earrings #jewelry #joy (at Charm City Meadworks)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqMMfgbrvwg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Jeepers Creepers
Where'd you get them peepers
Thinking about a couple characters that share a common design element I use over and over. Big eyes
From top to bottom:
Erin the Revenant, (originally a Vampire the Masquerade character) she didn't originally have those eyes but as she's been tweaked over the past 20 years she gained them not long after the other two here. Her fun thing was that her intestines were prehensile and strong
Shizaru, a human with Aye-Aye sort of features, this is where the big eyes came from. He was originally from some Teen Titans fancomics I did on an oekaki board years ago. One of the Four Monkeys. Used him in a deviant art OC tournament "Rogue Skies" ages ago. He's fun, haven't drawn him in years. Loooong tail
Sarah Phillips, starspawn grown in a lab that can turn herself into a walking biohazard based on what chemicals she takes in. Part of an elderly lesbian couple that solve supernatural problems.
They are some of my favorites
#art#Sarah Phillips#Erin the Revenant#Shizaru#characters#gore#it cracks me up that ive got more than one character with big eyes and something prehensile
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