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This doodle deserves its own post.

Crawling my way out of artblock by making another headshot of myself

When in doubt I just pick a new brush and scribble XD

SUN WUKONGG

Going back through Magnus Archives reminded me of the one time I got scared shitless by my sister the first time I listened to it XD

I had just found it and was binging the episodes while waiting for my sister to finish up in the bathroom (this was during Covid and we share a room at home)

I was on the episode “A Father’s Love” (first episode with the Darkness for context) and I was fully immersed in the story, eyes shut and laying on my bed (with the lights on mind you) I reached the part where the daughter was describing the streetlights being slowly choked out by the thick darkness, and then the last one winked out and there was a knock at the door. RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT, the light in our room turned off

For reference, our room gets hit with the full power of the sun in the evening and we got blackout curtains a while ago to help block it out during the summer, and I had closed them earlier. So when the lights turned off, it was total darkness. And I freaked. the fuck. out.

Turns out, my sister had come in at some point during that point and thought I fell asleep (I had noise canceling earbuds in too, so I couldn’t hear her at all) so she shut the door and turned off the lights. Cue me jolting up about two feet of my bed with a shriek and scared the shit out of her XD

She still teases me about it to this day SKFJSK

not arguing with a lady in pretty dresses whatever u say beautiful!!

~Tangled in the lily pads~

Ooh boi I love making some angst to one line in a song XD

Here’s the song too cause it’s so frickin ethereal

I'm in monkey kid brainrot XD

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

Pro Tip for Writers

If you want a great spelling check website, all you have to do is hit the "post/publish" button and all your mistakes will become abundantly obvious to you through the magic of absolute mortification

my favorite character ❤️‍🔥