I'm gonna be honest with you guys.
For a few weeks now i am having a really deep depression point. These things come and go but i don't want to do anything...
Eventhough i'd want to do so much...
I'm really close to finishing the Kralkatorrik statue
I have the scetch-plan for the next lazy comic update
I bough an old childhood game that i wanna replay as an adult (neighbors from hell 1-2)
I want to farm out my legendary gear for GW2
By all means i got things i look forward to, but atm i just don't care...
As i'm writing this it's 14:31 and i'm still in bed...
I have night shift today... i'm just gonna stay in bed till i have to go.
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I hope you guys know I’m also mentally loopy I just don’t post about it in fear of having it come up years later
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YAY YOU'RE STILL UPDATING YAY!
I have no intention of stopping, in other words, even if the update schedule has been pushed to a two-week period for right this minute! To put a long story short, I've got some health issues that make it hard to stay at my desk & consistently work on stuff, & I don't quite have the means to fix those issues right this minute. So I'm pushin' through with what I've got, without putting myself into burnout! That's why it's taking a little bit, but everyone has been incredibly patient, & I'm always grateful for all the feedback I get in the meantime.
Thanks for sticking it out with me! 🧡
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You guys ever see something innocuous that still hits you like a freight train? I got to work this morning and I had to walk behind the main building to access a supply room. I was looking at my feet as I walked because the path was narrow and there were plenty of gnarled tree roots to snap my ankles on, when suddenly I saw a single weed growing among the gravel. It was a thistley little thing, a sprig of grass with a tiny purple flower sprouting out of the tip. I don't know why, but that flower broke me. I almost started crying right then and there. The purple was so bright, so out of place among the browns and grays and muddy greens of the alley between the motel and the chain link fence, that seeing it filled me with a dreadful sense of melancholy unlike anything I've felt in years. It was like the floodgates opened, and I have no idea why.
It probably won't even be there if I go back, some lizard has probably eaten it already, or it was flattened by the rain. This really messed me up, something so stupid and insignificant...
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I haven’t been here long. What irritating changes have been made?
Credit where it's due, some changes have been good, like polls and stuff! But the big recent changes thus far that I would classify as irritating are:
- The UI change. This one may be less irritating for newcomers because it's basically the same layout as twitter and instagram, but for a lot of folks who've been here a long time, it feels cramped and like a loss of identity for the site. For many, the appeal of tumblr is that it ISN'T an algorithm hell like twitter or insta. Also, there's the annoyance of having to relearn where everything is, because it all got moved around.
- The users being lab rats for various tests the devs wanna pull out of nowhere without consenting to beta testing new site features- like the one that took away user icons on the dash for like half the site. They finally put them back after getting enough feedback that said NO, but users were so used to their feedback being disregarded that they were half expecting the change to be pushed through anyway.
- The Netflix tie-in advertising being pushed even to people who had PAID tumblr for a no-ads experience. Complete with them somehow thinking it would be a good idea to put an unescapable-by-scrolling spooky clown on peoples' dashboards that u had to use ublock to get rid of. While I'm not scared of clowns and often find them quite charming, it sucks that staff didn't take coulrophobia being a common fear into account.
- A wave of fully sfw trans posts being wrongfully marked Mature and staff doing little to nothing about it. Not sure if this is still ongoing, but it destroyed a lot of trust and good will. (LGBT+ users have been having to fight a constant war against censorship ever since the adult content ban on tumblr, so yeah... Nevar 4get the list of banned search words that would bring back no results, like 'girl')
- The site gradually moving away from customization. Tumblr is a BLOGGING site. But it seems to have lost sight of that fact, because most new users don't even know you can fully customize your blogs with css and stuff (an option that is now off by default for new accounts!), because of the in-dash viewer giving you only how blogs look on mobile, which is a lot more uniform. There, it's more like every other site- you get a banner and icon. Oh, but you can change colors and fonts from a drop-down list too, that's cool I guess. Though they recently took away custom color schemes on Message windows, just another little bit of personalization taken away.
- TUMBLR. LIVE. Basically tumblr teamed up with a skeevy dating app partner to allow for livestreams- but not the cool kinda livestreams like on twitch where you can draw or play games, no- to a site full of people who value anonymity, they decided to push phone cam only livestreams. Not only that but by agreeing to the terms, you're giving out tons of personal data including your location to said skeevy dating app partner and all of THEIR third-party ad partners. Needless to say, most people didn't wanna use it, so instead of users it's flooded by p*rn bots (which is ANOTHER issue we've been dealing with for a long time and have been getting an even bigger influx of FROM tumblr live) and scammers. And thus, since tumblr likes to put a carousel of current streams on people's dashes, you often get softcore p*rn thumbnails from the bot streams with no way to avoid it except for toggling off tumblr live entirely.
- Oh wait. That's right. You CAN'T toggle it off. Because you can only snooze it for a while until BAM, you're jumpscared by a carousel of ladies licking your screen again! But hey, at least they made the snooze 30 days instead of the 7 it used to be, right? Yeah, except for the fact that you can't get rid of the tumblr live button itself on the app anymore, and now it's front and center with a NEW notification tag on it, overlapping your dash and cramming useful stuff like the search button out of the way.
NOW- A lot of this stuff CAN be at least mostly fixed on desktop by installing ublock and xkit and tampermonkey + dashboard unfucker... But that's a lot of stuff just to make the site usable, you know?
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Conversion (Part One) and Therapy (Part Two)
I've been thinking about this fic for close to two years. I finally wrote part one and started dropping it in August of last year and I've dropped the final chapter of Part 2.
It's complete.
I honestly can't fucking believe it. But now I get to write something different (no pressure). So if you are feeling like you need a fic you can sink your teeth into and want 120k words of slow-burn religious angst and eventual sexual revelation, give it a read. Part one is a T-rating, part 2 has an E rating.
I'm super proud of myself.
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