just a head’s up I am (probably) not leaving dumblr for good but like, on principle I am severely cheesed off with what they’re doing and as evidenced by the chaos of the past 12 hours their filter does nOT work and is flagging completely innocent stuff all over the place- I’ve always been a sfw blog, but that doesn’t mean I’ve escaped unscathed from their rampant flagging spree. I, however, happen to have a life and do not have the goddamn time to go through all my posts and find what they’ve done that to so I’m basically gonna ignore that and just live with the consequences. I’m also definitely going to start posting on Pillowfort, which is apparently going to go back up sometime this week! There’s also the small possibility that tumblr will realize What A Huge Oops they’ve done and will change things but who even knows? We’ll see.
Anyway. Regardless of all that I just want to say I love you. I’ve made so many wonderful friends here and I wouldn’t be able to do what I do without you. This site has been my main platform for over half a decade and it has given me access to encouragement, inspiration, education and emotional support from the highly creative individuals and art spheres I’ve found because of it. Regardless of what happens next, I deeply appreciate everything you folks have given me while I’ve been here. Thank you so, so much.
So, yeah. I am reluctant to leave on the basis of this rashly made and poorly executed decision by the people who own the site. I’ll let y’all know what’s good when things are more clear, but even if I’m starting up new places to post work and words I’ll still kick around here for a good while yet.
also hey is there an easy way to see what tumblr has decided to flag? because I don’t think I’m getting emails about it, it doesn’t show up on my main blog pages and I am NOT going to scroll through infinity to find out
also for those still unaware tumblr is flagging like, anything and everything, even things that are completely unrelated to people? it’s super bad. so uh yeah help would be super and other than that RIP tumblr you dumb site I made some wonderful friends here and I’ll stay if possible but my. god.
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Tumblr is apparently doing some crazy nonsense again, so it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pillowfort.io is a new social media platform that aims to give users control of their content and how it’s seen and shared, as well as provide better communication tools to promote conversation and creativity. If this sounds good to you, you can donate $5 to our PayPal and you will receive a registration link the Friday after your donation. And if you decide the site isn’t for you, you can request a refund for up to three weeks after you sign up. (All money we receive through this process is going towards paying our hosting expenses and compensating our programmers.)
I do have a deviantart account I haven’t used it for like 1000 years and going back there really would be a last resort! likewise I sort of might maybe make an instagram but I don’t know what the rules are there about ownership of the work you post so im like, hesitating on that.
I’m not uuhhhh sure what the heck tumblr is trying to do outside of causing people to voluntarily flee (and I ain’t a blog that blogs those thangs that they’re nuking) but hey seems a good time to reblog this because with their impressive track record of failure to discern actual post content heaven knows what and who they’re actually going to delete come December 17 :Tb
so. reblogging. also Pillowfort is down and looks to be that way for a while but I’m open to suggestions on other places to make accounts for \o/
Glass blowing Artisan dragon? We proposed doing lady dragons for Spyro but never went through with it. Here was an idea I wanted to flesh out that I never got to do, so now it’s fanart! Haven’t posted progress shots in a while, will post the final latergator. TFB hasn’t given me the go ahead to post my work yet, so here is a consolation prize!
yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine
The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.
So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.
Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.
Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.
That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.
I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop
i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story
if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.
The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.
