Australia takes its turn in 2024 with some impressive festivities in Sydney! 🥂🎇🇦🇺

HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2024

happy new year you filthy animals

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

OTC BIRTH CONTROL APPROVED BY THE FDA

I want Toby Fox three years after the last chapter to make a game where it's just the Fun Gang going on a road trip to the east coast to go fishing. They raid a gas station on the way to grabs snacks for the road (and the lobsters they catch). Happy April Fool's.

how do you live?

taking the crumbs of venetian agna qel’a chewing biting gnashing on them until there aren’t even bones left and then spitting out. carnevale northern water tribe style

in another life you would have been more than just a dream

you can start over. your history has its place, but who you've been is not all you can ever be. that which you aspire for is yours for the taking; you are bound by nothing more -or less- than your memories. what good is freedom if you squander it like this? who you will be is yours to decide. it's hardly as pre-meditated-or as foolish- as destiny, or circumstance. you can start over.

-shums

2024's already off to a rough start.

I was fully expecting this year to be more of a "tying up loose ends and making things better" type of year, but I honestly got thrown for a curve already. Outside of a pet death at my mom's, a medical issue came up I never expected to have. I had a seizure late on the 16th. I've had to make a bit of a timeline due to my memory being extremely foggy, but by the looks of things, I ended up having a grand mal seizure. The fatigue and pain afterwards is horrible, and the feeling is something that feels awful, too. I didn't realise how serious having a seizure can be until some people told me and kept telling me that they're glad I'm still alive. I haven't really felt the same since I had it, and the last three days or so has been battling fatigue, some of the worst brain fog of my life, and the paranoia and anxiety of "What if another one happens?" over and over in bursts, while having periods of feeling really, REALLY bad. My family has no history of seizures or epilepsy, for that matter, so it's been a bit terrifying to have to experience alone. For now, it seems the main worry is making sure I don't get hurt and that I know what triggers it, if it's not a one-time thing. I've been on edge since, and I'm not really handling it well, if I'm honest. So, yeah, that's how my 2024 has started. Not really a great thing to deal with but at the very least I'm still here? I still don't feel normal and I'm hoping that *maybe* I can return to normal at some point soon..

surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

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Image one: The Bad Kids and The Rat Grinders square up in the middle of the school cafeteria. Above their heads is written, "The Bad Kids vs The Rat Grinders."

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Image three: From left to right - Kipperlilly glares up at Kristen, Buddy looks on worriedly, Oisin has a hand on Kipperlilly's shoulder as he tries to intervene, Mary Anne has a deadpan stare, Ruben poses moodily, and Ivy smirks behind Oisin.

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archivist be upon ye

okay. listen. if you ever find yourself falling into a new ideological circle, pay attention. if you notice that you’re among people who define themselves as part of an “in-group” with a pre-prepared human “enemy” to constantly rail against—if everyone fantasizes about the mental state of these loathsome monsters, if they participate in witch hunts or (perhaps worse) poke bears and court harassment on purpose to comfort each other over—get the fuck out. you haven’t been enlightened to some grand conspiracy, there are no evil “enemies” or “degenerates” trying to rip apart the fabric of society, and you do not have the moral duty to “enlighten” anyone to whatever you think the “truth” is. it’s neither safe nor normal to spend hours of your day fighting with strangers on the internet

a lot of people wear this shit like a badge of honor, but it’s also not normal to hide your “in-group” status as a form of martyrdom, relishing when the “enemy” slips up around you. it’s comforting in the moment, but in the long run, you’re alienating yourself from the world outside of your bubble. the more you alienate yourself, the more vulnerable and lonely you become, and the harder it is to reject the comfort of belonging to the “in-group”

i’m writing this from the perspective of someone who grew up in a cesspool of awful, cult-like rural churches—which is its own situation—but i see similar shit happening in online communities all the time, both within and 800 miles outside of my own ideological principles. yes, every toxicass radfem i block seems to be trapped in a version of this vicious cycle, but i also see it happening in random queer circles and niche fandom communities. no one is immune, not even me. i’ve watched people fall into this shit and never make it out. be careful

It’s bring your kid to work day and Dick wanted to match