this site is so unlike anything else in all the best ways and they've tried for years to make it profitable but couldn't because a user-friendly and user-driven experience and profit simply cannot coexist but stagnating/dropping profits aren't an option in today's climate. that being said i highly doubt tumblr is going down it feels too unkillable but if it is im not going to instagram or twitter or mastofort or whatever i will simply walk into a forest and become moss. god bless

Can't believe this year I start actively and consistently drawing again (and am making comics!) And I hear today that tumblr will probably be shutting down soon.

This is literally the only place I post things. Maybe the site would be profitable if staff didn't actively try to destroy it every update.

Hoping it's all rumors but if they are truly going down to a skeleton crew and stopping updates that's not a good sign.

Just saying , I genuinely hate Spa.rkle/Han.abi and I haven't added her to my blacklist yet but do not ever request anything about her because I will seriously block you . lmao .

And additionally , do not interact with me if you have her as your layout or anything like that , again , I will block you ^_^ <3

who is the scoundrel? I see you posting about them(it? Idk) all the time but I haven’t figured out who they are

my fallen london OC! i made them by accident a few months ago and as you can tell ive very quickly developed scoundrel brainrot. it's a terminal illness for which there is no cure and the symptoms are instead of brain there is scoundrel.

in terms of actual character rundowns, their full moniker is The Bandaged Scoundrel, though i tend to call them "the scoundrel" for short. their real name is D█████, but they'd sooner die permanently than respond to or even acknowledge its existence.

they are! a bastard! a rat! a son of a b___! a motherf______! they are vain beyond your wildest imagination and they think they're the most infallible perfect being in all of existence and they have the exact attitude of a saturday morning power-hungry cartoon supervillain on cocaine.

and also, perhaps most importantly, they're Really Fucking Stupid. because of course they are.

they are resplendently awful. they are inevitably going to cause their own demise in an act of pure karmic retribution. they are a speck of dust in history that desperately keeps trying to insist they're actually a tornado. i love them dearly.

in loose conclusion while also acknowledging ive explained literally nothing; my goofy silly victorian london browser game player character that deserves to get timetraveled against their will to the 21st century specifically so they can get hit by a truck

What places besides FairyLoot have pretty books with sprayed or illustrated edges? I’ve seen lists before but they just tell you what genre of books or whether there are bookish goodies, and not how pretty the books are, which is very silly of them because I and many in the market are very shallow and do not care about the genre, we just want pretty books that are good I guess.

i am also extremely shallow and picked my subscriptions based on book prettiness

fairyloot has boxes with lots of goodies as well as book-only boxes, i've found their books to be some of the prettiest (if i were smart i'd be doing book-only for both young adult and adult but that would mean risking not getting gideon the ninth socks)

illumicrate also has really pretty books and a book-only option, they have a romance box as well HOWEVER the romances are NOT as pretty as the regular illumicrate books. they have sprayed edges but not stenciled or digitally printed. also they're all tradpub romance and i'm a selfpub kinda girl where romance is concerned.

owlcrate books aren't usually as pretty, often are the same book as fairyloot or illumicrate (but less pretty), and they do harry potter merch. no thanks!

i recently bought a book from thebrokenbindingsub.com (the legends and lattes special edition lmao) and i'm going to try to resist Yet Another Subscription but i'm real fucking tempted ngl

i don't trust litjoy because they have a lot of non-book nerd shit and also a lot of unlicensed definitely-totally-generic wink-wink nudge-nudge wizard shit. fuck off with that. also the books aren't as pretty. and their bookshelf alleys don't even have real depth despite looking cool at a casual glance. thumbs down. it's a bit of a shame because i do like the model where instead of paying for a box every month you pay for members-only store credit so you only receive items you actually want instead of having to figure out what to do with an atlas six booksleeve.

(and before anyone gives me shit for spending way too much money on books because they're pretty: i don't actually keep all the books i get and i actually prefer ebooks, but when i really like a book i want the prettiest possible version to keep on my shelf. so it's either subscribe to fancy book deliveries and resell the ones i don't like or else spend $300+ on ebay when a good one shows up. not buying pretty versions of books i like is NOT an option because why the hell did i get an office job if i can't buy pretty books to console me when i get home.)

Morning rush!

Periods are probably more likely to be irregular in the wasteland due to radiation and the various levels of food insecurity and S T R E S S.

But I wonder if everyone's just free bleeding or if they've reinvented pads.

Cause like depending on where you are you don't wanna waste clean water on cleaning reusable pads. But at the same time I can not IMAGINE the sort of wasteland fuck off diseases and mutations that'd result from pads cleaned with dirty AND irradiated water with who fucking knows trace amounts of FEV floating in it with the microplastics

paid too much for an old bike at my local cycle workshop but what i have learnt after a few hours working on the bike to add fenders (the rain is cold and wet) and realigning brakes is that the sunk cost fallacy transforms into love

What if I start talking about Hazbin Hotel, huh? What would you do then??

tumblr is one of the only refuges artists have without fighting twitter’s worsening algorithm or instagram’s image crunching so i think on top of being vocal about bad changes, be vocal about the good ones too. like it or not, the Blaze feature is an awesome addition as it allows artists to boost their own work. the sponsored artist alley thing that shows as an ad spot is an excellent compromise between not having ads and helping the user base. the addition of top posts on a blog are good. if you send feedback complaining about the user-hostile updates, always mention previous versions that were better and why, and any new updates which are good and why.

hiii! i just wanted to ask (bc im a broke bean rn) when you say pre-orders will close 4/15/24, does that mean the shop will too??? i was going to wait till next month when ill have extra $$$ to get a few things (i had my eyes on certain charms) but now im not sure if they will sell out... 😢 will there be a chance things can go out of stock??? i rlly hope not, but i understand if they do!!!

unless something comes up that makes me close my shop (like irl things or whatever) I plan on keeping it open indefinitely this time now that I have extra stock of a lotta items 👍

so the only thing closing are the preorders cuz that'll be when I order stock

for out of stock items, I'll be making orders of those in limited quantities when I order the preorder stuff after the closing date. so for example, I know my goromi card charms are out of stock so I'll order more of those mid april. so if there's something you got your eye on but it's out, then you can totally wait till I order more!

I don't really plan on retiring anything atm so I'll make sure I have stock of everything whenever I do reorders. I usually make merch orders every other month or so cuz I make custom standees n shit for my patrons so that's the schedule-ish

i've been getting spammed with asks asking for money bc they're from gaza with little variation between each one, so on the off chance one of them isn't a scam - i'm sorry, but because of how many scammers are profiting off this, i won't donate if you ask me to through a tumblr ask. there's google docs out there with lists of vetted crowdfunding links (example) i'd advise you to get in contact with the owners of those instead. anyone sending me asks on tumblr for donations will get blocked & reported instead.

some photos of my room :3 the more maximalist, the more recent (if you want to know the artist for any of my things just let me know!!)

I don’t think I’ll be on this platform anymore, at least for now, due to everything that’s happening. I’d just like to keep away from it and supporting it at all. See you later, maybe.

-heartbeat anon

i understand heartbeat!! safe travels wherever you find yourself!! thank you for sticking around <3333

Guys tumblr isn't going to be deleted....!! 😭 a skeleton crew is just the bare minimum amount of staff required to run the website. It will still be here and it will still have staff/people working on the site, just a lot less of them

trying my hand at writing (fic and original) again and are any other people that read fics using squidgeworld instead of ao3. i want to gauge if it's worth it to transfer my works from ao3 onto squidgeworld or if i should just start with a blank acc