schwoofy
◽ Seth ◽ He/Him ◽ 2D/3D Artist, Musician, Game dev, Writer ◽ Author of "ForgottenKind" ◽ Composer for Love in the Woods ◽ Commissions OPEN (1/5 slots) ◽ Other pages: schwoofy.carrd.co
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 24 (End)
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 23
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 22
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using tumblr right now is frustrating because it doesn't seem to matter what I post. it will get hardly any attention on here compared to bluesky, where almost everything gets seen and interacted with. even when I ask questions via text bluesky has better engagement.
every tumblr follower I've gained in the past year has been a bot or AI slop artists. it's gotten to the point I only post comic pages here, and if i stopped posting those I'd have no reason to share anything on this site anymore.
as much as I enjoy the humor and art it's getting harder and harder to commit to posting content.
ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 21
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 20
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 19
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 18
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In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.
P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3
ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 17
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I've been neglecting my tumblr lately but I'm more active on bluesky, if you wanna see everything I post you can follow me there:
ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 16
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We need to embrace the fact that the tumblr userbase is aging. What’s everybody’s favorite kitchen appliance?
ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 15
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 14
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 13
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 12
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ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 11
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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
Reblog to put candy in your followers halloween buckets :)
callout post for my mutuals um. hi guys i love you
ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 10
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as a little addition to this, many video stores would have a rewind fee if you forgot to rewind VHS tapes upon return. it was also a common job for those working in video rental to rewind tapes before putting them back on the shelf. this is why you didn't (usually) need to rewind your rented movies when you first watched them.
while I'm here I'll throw in a bit more 80s and 90s knowledge:
CRTs were common up until the creation of LCDs in the late 90s/early 2000s. CRTs take a few seconds to power on and the picture is darker until it has a chance to "warm up". CRTs aren't usually flat, curving in at the edges and corners (flat CRTs did exist in the late 80s but were expensive). they often emit a quiet hum and sometimes a high pitched tone (usually if there's something broken or misaligned inside). they can also have static electricity build up on the surface of the glass which raises the hairs on your hands. if you run your hand over this static and touch a doorknob, you could get an unpleasant shock.
dial-up internet was around since the early 80s but wasn't common in households until 1992, and was surpassed by broadband in the late 90s/early 2000s. your PC had to actually dial a phone number your internet provider gave you and the data would be transmitted through the phone line as audio which your PC's modem would decode. if someone used the phone to make a call it would harm the connection or disconnect you from the internet, so families typically had a reserved "computer time" when no one was allowed to use the phone.
before USB sticks, SD cards, and even CDs, old software was commonly installed with floppy disks. due to their small capacity a simple program might be sold on dozens of disks loaded into a floppy drive one at a time.
blowing air on game cartridges that weren't playing properly didn't usually do anything, mostly the act of removing and reinserting the cartridge does the trick, but it was still a common practice
game disks (such as from the PS1) that were scratched or played often would take longer to load over time. character and world geometry is typically smaller than audio tracks meaning they load faster. my copy of spyro 3 would load into the game before the audio had a chance to catch up, leading to music and dialog playing seconds later than expected or not at all.
I hope this info helps aspiring younger writers out there who want to write a story set in this period!
Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭
ForgottenKind: Chapter 1 - Page 9
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Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)
Art / game stream polls!
I should have the new PC built in the coming weeks, and I am once again thinking of streaming art and games.
Please take a moment to vote on a couple of strawpolls to decide what day and what time I should stream!
Poll 1 (day of the week): https://strawpoll.com/e2naXqYMwyB
Poll 2 (time of day): https://strawpoll.com/YVyPvlGK1gN
