for anyone living in the US, congress sent out a survey with questions regarding a ceasefire agreement for Palestine, as well as the TikTok ban and the US involvement in the Ukraine war/NATO ⬇️
idk if this will even do anything substantial, but it doesn't hurt to send out your response!
Why I haven't posted anything of my own in over a month.
Me: Hey I really like Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, I want to write cool fan fictions of characters in this universe.
My Brain: Ok, counterpoint, here's a hyperfixation on mythology and demonology that'll last you a month.
Me: Ok fine brain, I do really like the designs from the Dictionnaire Infernal, so maybe I can draw some demons? Andras is pretty underrated.
My Brain: Hmm, that'd be fun, but do you remember when you used to draw fanmade vivosaurs for Fossil Fighters, wouldn't it be really cool to get back to that?
Me: Brain you're right, but I've already got two ongoing projects. I can't keep leaving things before they're finished or I'll get nothing done.
My Brain: Oh WOW, they're making a new ENDLESS OCEAN? That's a THING, from your CHILDHOOD!
Me: Ahhhhhhh stop swapping interests!!!!!
My Brain: REMEMBER SKYLANDERS!?!?!
Bounced through every major interest I have save for Digimon, SCP and Pikmin in a span of about two months lmfao.
Really dig this guy's concept, Dark definitely needs more characters and who can say no to hook hands like in the top two images
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If by some chance Skylanders 7 comes about I really hope there's another Krypt King situation with this guy, where they reuse the old concept in a new context. Goes way too hard to stay unused.
Seen above: Skylanders: Ring of Heroes concept art of Machetis, a scrapped Dark Skylander
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?