Ill Figure It Out

Seeing more and more blogs without a [username].tumblr.com site which means you can only view their blogs in tumblr.com/[username] mode, and I realized just the other day that nowadays you have to manually go to your blog settings and toggle the "enable custom theme" switch to have a browser site activated.

I REALLY recommend activating this! Especially if you're an artist or if you have a themed blog, like if you reblog fanart for a specific fandom or ship. First and foremostly you can change the whole theme if you want to, you can really just go wild with building your personal aesthetic for your page.

But what I think is even more important, is that you NEED to "enable custom theme" to enable access to your archive! The link [username].tumblr.com/archive doesn't work if you don't have this enabled!

If you post art or archive fanart or fandom content of any kind, letting people access your archive makes it so much easier for people (and yourself) to find older art on your blog or to look for something you drew a while ago that they remember loving and want to look at again.

We talk lots about how on Tumblr old art gets to circulate, and the archive is part of how that works. It's a really useful tool in finding good content that isn't brand new. And especially if you are good at tagging, it's very easy to filter the archive to find ship content or meta or fics, whatever you want to find.

(through gritted teeth) i love being out of my comfort zone it is necessary for my personal development

beloved king of worms

may i have your blessing

The King of Worms pin-for-art trade

my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:

soggy wet cats <3

Half-finished thing

you'd been sitting there for an hour

when i came by

an expression on your face

like milk turned sour

i sat down near the half-finished thing

you'd spent your afternoon on

before you started crying -

i spoke first: 'what's wrong?'

you stammered

something about bullcrap and 'don't give a fuck'

and your lower lip tremoured

so i reached out and picked it up

it was a little thing. delicate. beautiful.

with loose parts that jiggled with a gentle ring

watching warily, you looked on as i pulled it apart

too frustrated to care about undoing your start

wordlessly, i put it back together

you watched my fingers move. unsteady. clumsy.

i knew you could do it better

but at least it would be funny

you giggled. said it looked like a butt.

'i'm offended! not like you could do as much!'

you laughed. 'nah, i think yours still sucks.'

'why thank you, I knew you'd be awestruck'

i handed it back with a grin

and you started over again.

that half finished thing.

tumblr gets it first

I’ve been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.

I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material–I can’t actually call it fabric in good faith–and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they’re not made of asbestos. They’re only separated by time.

There’s no wood used in interior design unless it’s a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every “apartment hack” I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.

I’ve been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and “growth” and “profit” are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.