#I open the app. I See Them

[christakisbang]

the first take

#stray kids #bystay #bang chan #lee know #seo changbin #hwang hyunjin #han jisung #lee felix #kim seungmin #yang jeongin #skz #stray kids gifs #skz gifs #these look so ass on the app u better view them on desktop #i am begging u #also yes im nearly a week late to it yes i will now proceed to gif things that have already been giffed by half a dozen people #and yes i will whine when they predictably flop #such is life #no but SERIOUSLY they look so good on desktop i didnt expect to open the app and see the most pixelated shit ever #why do u hate me tumblr mobile what have i ever done to u #my gifs

[hella1975]

hiiii haha. hello. exceptionally awkward introduction bc idrk how to start something like this so let's just jump right in. im taking a break from this account for a bit. i know i said i wanted taob out before halloween and currently im fine sticking with that deadline, but if i decide i need longer away then i will take longer away. every time ive reassured people that id never abandon a fic and updates will always come eventually i never once considered that my writing and ability to feel safe and comfortable on this site would be actively taken from me, so im not even going to apologise. i dont want this either and more importantly i dont fucking deserve it. i dont know what it is in the past year, if ive hit a certain amount of followers or 'popularity' that's made it so the natural ratio of positive to negative interactions must in turn go up, but there's been a serious uptick in weird asks for me. the annoying part is that a very small amount of them are actually objectively mean and hateful, the rest are just weird and invasive from people who seemingly dont realise that's what they're being. ive reached a point where i dont care if the intentions are good. it's not my job as a 20 year old tumblr user of all things to defend the morality of someone who couldnt even bother to come off anon. unfortunately, after blocking only one or two anons, the weird asks have decreased substantially, which says all you need to know about the fascinating and exhilarating lives led by these people, but ive also gone on to turn anon asks off entirely. this is something i actively fought against doing and had to be pushed into by my mutuals (who have been the coolest people on planet earth during this entire thing). turning off anon was a big deal to me even if it sounds silly. i felt betrayed and like id been backed into a corner because it was so vehmently something i DIDNT WANT that to feel like i had to do it anyway for my own mental health??? that sucks. so even though ive 'fixed' the problem, im still kind of reeling and uncomfortable every time i come on tumblr. i hope it's just something i need time to ease because i'll truly be devastated if this becomes 'ruined' for me. tumblr exists as the only place in the world where i am honestly every facet of myself without shame or hesitation; losing that would be insanely harmful to me. and to the people who cant appeal to the actual human behind the post, let me put that in words you can understand: we wouldn't get any more writing 😦😦😦 riots and fires and sirens, i know. so yeah. to anyone who has sent me an anon ask and you're now wondering if you were part of the problem, im firmly of the belief that you'll know if you are. when i say 'weird asks' i dont mean 'you sent me a para about your personal life just to vent or ask for advice' or 'you sent me a really deep emotional compliment about the impact me and/or my writing has had on you' - i love asks like that, so much that i put off taking a break and turning off anon solely for the joy they bring me. im sorry that it might feel like you're being punished too bc of the actions of what in reality is a HANDFUL of weird people, but this is what i feel like i have to do to feel safe and not go insane every time i log in. love you guys, hopefully ill see you soon x

#seriously another shout out to my mutuals #id particularly like to say thank you to boom who's always right there for me no matter what's happening or how insane im being #and also everyone in our little discord that wound up having to make a whole new channel for venting #bc i was there so often like 'today's weird ask isssss.... telling me about my cupsize!! rip them to shreds!!!' #hannah and theo especially being there and pushing me to finally turn off anon. war is truly over #and of course rori bc the shamelessness u show when hating on my anon asks has been genuinely really cathartic #sometimes u really do just need a rottweiler mutual to tell random people online to kill themselves 😭 #okay weird oscar acceptance speechcore gratitude over. i do just rlly love my mutuals #like i went three years not telling anyone about the worse side of internet popularity for fear of looking spoiled and ungrateful #so for the first time to open up about it and be met with outrage on my behalf and people saying in fact it's MORE fucked up #than i initially realised bc ive grown desensitised to it is. yeah cathartic i guess #they are singlehandedly reassuring me of the good this cursed app still holds #so everyone thank them and send them flowers NOW #okay im done i think. see you guys soon. i truly do want to come back asap bc like i said i NEVER EVEN WANTED TO FUCKING LEAVE #SOME ASSHOLES JUST HAD TO PUT GRENADES ON WHAT I ASSUMED WERE VERY UNIVERSAL AND OBVIOUS BOUNDARIES #if you're reading this like 'ohhh fuck i defo sent something invasive lately. i thought it was a joke/we were friends' #then 1) we arent friends if you're on anon. it immediately creates a power imbalance where you know me and any necessary context #but i have no idea who you are or how much you know about me. that's already a fucked dynamic #and 2) I HOPE YOU FEEL BAD. LIKE GENUINELY I HOPE YOU FEEL AWFUL AND HAVE A GOOD LONG LOOK AT YOURSELF #okay i think that's all. ta-ra lads??? how tf do u end something like this #ive queued this to reblog a couple more times throughout the day

[skinnypaleangryperson]

I'm not putting this in the tag, because it sounds kind of weird, but this show deserves to have rude fans considering the content it puts out with its nihilism anyway. Who cares.

I don't like the new voice actors, if only because they give off such a derangedly awful neurotypical energy. Every single post that I see that shows up in the Rick and Morty tag, it's always the most typical bland neurotypical shit from I've ever seen in my life. I don't know or care anything about them as people, but they are so ridiculously normal. I can't stand it. Haha. I don't care about the voices. I'm just saying, that inherent connection with the assumption that someone on the other side of a show is as deranged and as mentally ill as you are in such a cursed species feels like it's gone.

#they want to a ball game? 'repping' their jerserys? #jesus christ #seeing them post feels like I opened up a dating app

[yourqueenb]

Y’all what if the light realm and the shadow realm aren’t supposed to be closed off to each other and that’s why everything in the shadow realm is so extreme? What if the answer to restoring the Deadwood and solving any other problems we face in this book is opening the rifts instead of trying to close them and letting each entity rejoin with their mirrored counterpart? What if the only reason the Ash Empire is trying to send an army through to the light realm is because there was never supposed to be a shadow realm in the first place? What if The Watcher was the one who divided one realm into two and closed them off to each other the first time?

#choices bolas #choices blades #blades of light and shadow #choices stories you play #playchoices #Valax did say that her mom was trying to *reclaim* the light realm after all #I think the empress will still turn out to be evil #but I think there’s a good chance that the answer will be opening the rifts instead of closing them as I said #bc I can totally see the writers doing that #but at the same time I kind of like the idea of it just being simple and us really having to just close them #idk I guess we’ll see #I’m just excited for what’s to come #will we have a shadow counterpart?! 😳 #all I know is that if we do we better fucking slay #choices #choices app

[reineydraws]

summary of art 2023! here are some of my fave (non-zine) pieces from every month this year :) i'm most happy with the way my digital colouring process has improved from last year 🎉 it's easier now to make things look less flat after some tricks i picked up and practiced throughout the year ✨️✨️

thank you for all your support! it's always a pleasure and a delight to see your tags and comments in my notes. it really picked me up this year when i needed it. :')💖 let's all have a great 2024!

pieces: jan / feb / mar / apr / may / jun / jul / aug / sep / oct / nov / dec

#art summary #summary of art #demon slayer #batfamily #one piece #newsies #stranger things #kny #spot me going through my phases haha :') batfamily > renkaza > mishanks #fr tho this year's kinda scared me and im still dealing but it was always nice to open the app and see the enthusiasm for my art #thanks yall 💖💖💖 #i wish i could add my zine pieces to this cuz im really proud of them :') #i couldve added the six au batfamily one but i also realized i have no idea what month id put it in lol #i finished it in apr but i posted it in dec 😅 #so i decided to just. not. lol. but im proud of it!!! #the figure skating mihawk one was a surprise for me. i didnt expect it to turn out so good. #it was a rough sketch i only coloured cuz i coloured shanks's and then it felt like i was being unfair to mihawk hahaha #but the shading + the bg turned out really nice

[heich0e]

saint just made a (valid + real) post abt saltburn and it reminded me of sofia aka the smartest most beautiful girl on earth's tweet

#i can't take another day of watching my irls react to saltburn like i didn't just open this app and see people saying things that would + #have gotten them burned at the stake in the seventeenth century #like oh the fictional guy drinks bathwater? my mutual is talking about getting pissed on (or in). grow up

[skitskatdacat63]

Boy King Seb :D

#thank you to Grace for the idea of making his chivarly collar red bull instead <33333 #he was gonna have both collars but then making that one made me suffer so no not today #this was a lot of fun but also made me suffer. but i keep looking at it and being like AAAHHHHH BABY!!! BABY BOY!!!!!!! #can you believe i tried to do this in one night? i cant #i stopped and came back to it and was like 'no way you could do this in one sitting at 1 am' #this is kinda the ascended form of that very first sketch i made for this au! concentrated boy king sebby!!! #i say to myself i need to take a break from drawing complicated things but youll prob see a nando version of this in less than a week ;;; #okay about the drawing(i wrote good tags and then tumblr deleted them so these are a bit inferior AGH): #this is typical pouty seb but is also referenced off a specific pic from AD 2009(beloved) #its very important to me how emotionally open Seb is. im not sure the specific context of this. maybe after a triumph? #but instead of being that typical stoic serious detached kind of ruler; i like him being openly emotional(think AD 2010) #its important as well for his dichotomy with nando and how they choose to portray themselves #seb is very assured in himself and his rule vs. nando who is more insecure and bitter about his #so nando takes strides to portray himself in that more stoic calculating way bcs he feels like it helps him legitimize himself better #whereas seb has absolutely no care for outward public image and shows how he feels and is loved for it(nando hates it but loves it) #not that nando cant be fun and whimsical!! but to me he always seems a bit more mysterious; like i can never tell his true thoughts tbh #anyways i feel like ill finish 10 more drawings before i end up posting the lore pt 2 LMAO #its just a lot harder to organize and layout compared to part 1 which was just an explanation #pt2 would be a mix of more world building/characterization/anecdotes ive talked about with mutuals(LOVE YOU GUYS!!!) #i have a *lot* of ideas (gotta whip out my notes app every once in a while to write down stuff abt it) just hard to put into a coherent pos #sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1 #f1 art #formula 1 art #f1 fanart #formula 1 fanart #catie.art. #*ill prob make a process post later if anyone is curious!! its fun to write abt my process and influences and such #boy king au

[tvuniverse]

Listen i just want to preface this by saying I don't even personally hate Tommy, but that's not really the point i want to make so here goes nothing.

The way a lot of people act as if it's impossible to dislike him because the characters have moved on so so should we, right? and that's the thing right here, as poc we're always being told to move on. We can't express our feelings, we can't hold grudges, we can't complain about issues without making it something more than it is, we always have to just... move on.

I know people are going to say it's just a show, it's not that serious, but the issues it touches on and the way fandom speaks on those issues are.

I've seen a lot of comparisons between Tommy and other mains, how each of them are flawed and have screwed up one way or another, and you're right, but it's still unfair to compare him to them. We've seen each of the main characters experience guilt, or be ashamed of their action, we've seen them apologise, put in the work to actually grow, and they have. There's not enough time in an episode for us to see that for side characters. In this case, Tommy didn't do any of the above and that's normal, he was a plot device to show some very real societal issues, and especially what people of colour/women might go through in the workplace, and once he served his purpose he didn't get much more beyond a few scenes where it seemed like everything was fine between him and chim/hen. It would be more appropriate to compare him to the buckley parents, (who appeared in more or less the same amount of episodes) like if people suddendly started saying no one is allowed to hate them because they got their redemption, their kids more or less forgave them, they more or less tried to be better parents. And yet it's still not enough for a lot of people, because how they treated their children, the shit they've said to them, hits a little too close to home for a lot of people and so no matter what the show says or does, they'll still be mostly hated by the audience, and that's more than okay. But if margaret buckley is your favourite character than by all means be my guest. And listen, i love this show, it's all about hope, and it means everyone gets a redemption arc, as short as it is (sometimes even just a sentence lol), but we won't always be satisfied with these arcs, especially if they don't feel proportional to the hurt the characters may have caused to our mains, so we'll all have different reactions to them.

I swear liking a morally ambiguous/grey character says absolutely nothing about you, but making excuses for them, antagonising people who might dislike them (for good reasons) or acting like suddenly triggers don't exist for people, does say something about you. One of my favourite characters is literally the worst person ever, an actual bigot, but i won't ever write essays about why people are not allowed to dislike him actually because he's my babygirl.. i very much understand why people would.

All of this to say, everyone will have different opinions about Tommy. Some might love him, some will be completely neutral or at worst slightly uncomfortable/bothered by him, and some will straight up hate him, and all of these are fine. Live and let live, love whoever you want to love, and hate whoever you want to hate, but please stop trying to dictate how others should feel, i'm begging. And this really does go both ways.

#i never ever get involved in fandom discourse. ever #my blog is my safe space and so i just want to reblog some silly gifs of my silly little characters and move on about my day #but nothing gets to me more than being told to 'move on' #anyway i know the casual (and not so casual) racism is rampant in this fandom but boy has this week been hell #but just another week in this fandom i guess #(also i know some people hate him just because of buck/eddie and this is a whole other discourse i won't get into) #anti tommy kinard #not really but just in case #fandom discourse #also i said dehumanisation because that's what he did to chimney #acting like people don't exist until they do something that's beneficial to you and that's when you'll finally treat them as human beings #that shit hurts like crazy but it doesn't get talked about enough tbh #and that's also kind of why i think it's hard to know if he's really Grown or if it's just a case of 'these people are the exception' #and we can't really know until we actually see him interact with other minorities #but that's just my opinion #also i know we're all tired of this discourse and i'm sorry to bring it back but every day i've opened this app and saw something about it #and closed it right up lmao #i just needed to get this off my chest once and for all #i'll go back to never getting involved in fandom discourse again #anyhoo #i'll probably delete this at some point knowing myself

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

#BEGONE!!! *wizard beam blast leaving a black smoking crater in the middle of the tumblr dashboard* #I think another downside to everyone doing everything on phone apps on shitty tiny screens nowadays is the inability to really see details #of an image and thus its easier to share BLATANTLY fake things like.. even 'good' ai art has pretty obvious tells at this point #but especially MOST of it is not even 'good' and will have details that are clearly off or lines that dont make sense/uneven (like the imag #of a house interior and in the corner there's a cabinet and it has handles as if it has doors that open but there #are no actual doors visible. or both handles are slightly different shapes. So much stuff that looks 'normal' at first glance #but then you can clearly tell it's just added details with no intention or thought behind it. a pattern that starts and then just abruptly #doesn't go anywhere. etc. etc. ) #the same thing with how YEARS ago when I followed more fashion type blogs on tumblr and 'colored hair' was a cool ''''New Thing''' instead #of being the norm now basically. and people would share photos of like ombre hair designs and stuff that were CLEARLY photoshop like #you could LITERally see the coloring outside of the lines. blurs of color that extend past the hair line to the rest of the image #or etc. But people would just share them regardless and comment like 'omg i wish I could do this to my hair!' or 'hair goallzzzz!! i #wonder what salon they went to !!' which would make me want to scream and correct them everytime ( i did not lol) #hhhhhhggh... literally view the image on anything close to a full sized screen and You Will SEe #I don't know why it's such a pet peeve of mine. I think just as always I'm obsessed with the reality and truth of things. most of the thing #that annoy me most about people are situations in which people are misinterpreting/misunderstanding how something works or having a misconc #eption about somehting thats easily provable as false or etc. etc. Even if it's harmless for some random woman on facebook to believe that #this AI generated image of a cat shaped coffee machine is actually a real product she could buy somewhere ... I still urgently #wish I could be like 'IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION. YOU SEE???? ITS NOT REALL!!!!! AAAAA' hjhjnj #Like those AI shoes that went around for a while with 1000000s of comments like 'omg LOVE these where can i get them!?' and it's like YOU #CANT!!! YOU CANT GET THEM!!! THEY DONT EXIST!!! THE EYELETS DONT EVEN LINE UP THE SHOES DONT EVEN #MATCH THE PATTERNS ARE GIBBERISH!! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THEY ARE NOT REAL!??!!' *sobbing in the rain like in some drama movie* #Sorry I'm a pedantic hater who loves truth and accuracy of interpretation and collecting information lol #I think moreso the lacking of context? Like for example I find the enneagram interesting but I nearly ALWAYS preface any talking about it #with ''and I know this is not scientifically accurate it's just an interesting system humans invented to classify ourselve and our traits #and I find it sociologically fascinating the same way I find religion fascinating'. If someone presented personality typing information wit #out that sort of context or was purporting that enneagram types are like 100% solid scientific truth and people should be classified by the #unquestionaingly in daily life or something then.. yeah fuck that. If these images had like disclaimers BIG in the image description somewh #re like 'this is not a real thing it's just an AI generated image I made up' then fine. I still largely disagree with the ethics behind AI #art but at least it's informed. It's the fact that people just post images w/o context or beleive a falsehood about it.. then its aAAAAAA

[goldevolution]

the thing about the fairy and walrus poll going around is that some of you are jumping through the most insane hoops about the walrus being there when my first thought for a plausible reason as to why a walrus could be at my door is like an elaborate prank where someone put a walrus on my doorstep, knocked, and then hid. which would be an absolutely insane thing to happen on so many levels do not get me wrong but a more natural conclusion to arrive at than "this walrus escaped either its natural habitat or zoo enclosure on its own to make its way to me specifically and knock on the door itself" i feel. like weve seen the shit mr beast does with his money surely a walrus prank is not so far outside the realm of imagination

#all this said though i havent even voted in the poll #mostly because my tumblr app is so out of date i cant even see polls let alone vote in them and im basically never on tumblr on desktop #so every time one comes across my dash i try to sleuth in the notes to see what the hell its about. with varying degrees of success #i lost track of where i was going with this. i also havent voted because truly i dont know what would be more surprising to me #even under the circumstances of an elaborate prank if i opened the door to suddenly find a whole walrus #the initial shock of it is still extremely there. i would be so startled id begin to question my sanity #much in the same way i would if it were a fairy

[raatopaikka]

#Fake planets made out of dry acrylic paint inside the lid of a tiny tin jar! #free resources #free to use #artistic resources #png #transparent png #planet png #i just made these for fun so feel free to use them for any of your own art projects/fanart/edits or whatever! #they're not very hq but im sure they're fine when used in small size in unofficial things! #and i seem to have fucked up with krita at some point cause they had these circular geometric lines in them that i've tried to blur out 🤡 #so def only use in small size! #also the red ones have a white background when you view them individually 👀 i'm guessing cause i inverted the colour? 👀 #but they all definitely have transparent backgrounds i promise! 👀 #which you can see if your post background is set to dark mode on the app #or if you open this blog on pc #2022

[crescentfool]

just put a one star review on the tumblr app 🤧

#lizzy speaks #ohhh tumblr your core product strategy post wounds me #you can find it on the staff blog #but principle 3 is what rubs me the wrong way... they're going to collapse reblog threads and possibly remove duplicate reblogs?? #my kungpowpenis... the tumblr culture... they're taking it from us... like prev tags... ohh i could dissolve into thin air this instant #ngl id probably end up staying on here anyways bc i have an extreme allergic reaction to using twt but like. why.... #anw! i dont like to air out grievances without giving a call to action so uh #if you dont agree with the post i would suggest going onto your app store and giving tumblr a one star review #also i hope everyone's doing ok!!! thank you all for being kind to each other in tags i always love opening them and seeing nice things #even if things can be shitty sometimes i am wishing everyone a good light at the end of the tunnel. good things will come ur way i believe!

[livelybook]

Me deep in my depression era going hypothetically if I did have money, shouldn't I go get treatment meds/therapy

And out of nowhere, the long lost voice of an extremist anti goverment conspirator went nah with the way the economy is right now, you don't want to have any of your personal informations and issues on record anywhere

#Like it's a thing now to seek treatment and be open about it #Instead of back then when mental health issues were not real and you have to wallow in yourself like your parents and their parents did #Until you strongarmed yourself into carrying on #Which I am very grateful is a thing of the past #But how is it that anti goverment conspiracies have come back with a resurgence #Cause like I saw a few days ago that several period tracker apps are now openly selling your information to the goverment #Like literal drug informants for the goverment to then track who is pregnant and/or having abortions #And now they're coming for no fault marriages #Next is taking away voting from everyone who doesn't look like them #And well #They've always had their foot on the neck of everything lgbt #So there's going to be escalation on that #And I am very sure the next thing is gonna be mental health issues #And it's like if I #A 20 year old something can see this everyone can so how are they getting away with starting this

[yoohyeontual]

I miss you all and I wanna come back, but the minute I’m back here I sigh and close the app I just can’t 😭 but I hope you all know :

#am i doing okay ? same old I’m getting distract from my duties with hyper fixation it’s not okay ✌️ jcndjdnd #i literally come look at dms reblog what I’m being sent or what I see when I open the app cause I feel like if I go further something #is going to make me mad that’s why I left #every day Internet disappoint me and I want to cry #i spent a lot of time on Twitter reblogging Palestine infos and I should come here at least once a day reblog things about them and leave #you can follow me there if you want it’s Korimi29 #i should also learn how to share things on insta I suck at using insta #if you want to send me things about what’s happening so I can reblog them that would be great I can inform people #this is the only thing + boycott I can do I should do it better #anyway I Hope you’re all doing well don’t forget free Palestine and take care of yourself ily all see you one day ! #also last time I made a post I said Puppy was not doing great well thankfully that change I think it’s was the stress playing with his heart #alex.txt