children are so fucking funny man. i just overheard a kid go “i just learned a new way to pinch, wanna see it? it hurts a lot more!” followed by a loud, notably pained scream

they're calling it the healthiest way anyone's ever engaged with art

It's good that people on other social media think we're dead‚ stops them from coming over here ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

parks closing at night for no reason other than to stop homeless people from having a covered place to sleep is high key insidious as fuck. what do you mean it's closed?? it's the outdoors

really really obsessed with this gif lately because it can be used to express basically any emotion you need it to

what if i need to express carrying a fluffy white bunny rabbit through a parking garage.... can it do that.....?

you better believe it can brother

sometimes when you like a fictional character too much and they feel too targeted it’s actually irritating bc why was the creator in my business like that

Gentle alchemy

How I think I’m writing: Using eye contact, or lack thereof, to display emotions such as intimacy, shock, denial, or nervousness. 

How I’m actually writing: She looked at me, and I looked away. I tried to look back, but she was already looking at the sky. “Look,” she sighs, looking back at me for a split second. “I don’t know how to say this.” We looked at each other and time stopped, but then she looked her lookers at something else to look at, looking tired. 

I hate making art but every second im not making art i want to bash my head in. Every time i finish making something im like “wow im glad thats done” and this horrible creature deep in my soul tells me to make more art and i must comply and create for that horrible beast that is the feeling of completion after spending ages making something .

Mutuals can DM. Mutuals can ask for Discord. Mutuals can rip open my corpse and huddle inside it for warmth.

How to Backup your Tumblr

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything. 

this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.

reference. 

Tested this, it works as advertised above. Grabs all text posts, image+gif posts (both original and reblogs). Preserves tags. Does not grab videos or audios.

Backing Up a Big Tumblr Art Blog - For Mac Users

Make the below changes to the Windows instructions already posted above. DO NOT JUST DO THE BELOW STEPS ALONE!

STEP 0: For any of this to work, your blog must be visible outside Tumblr

STEP 1:

STEP 2:

STEP 3: SKIP ALL PARTS OF THIS ENTIRE STEP

STEP 4:

STEP 5:

Thanks for sharing the Mac instructions!  I just did ‘em and it all worked.

also for step 2.2 if it doesn’t automatically unzip, just double-click it and it should unzip into the same location.  The precise file name might also be different toward the end.

None of my blogs are adult, but I still recommend doing this because sloppy Tumblr is sloppy, and it’s always good to have backups of your stuff - especially when a platform has proven itself to be unstable!

Thanks for sharing the

Mac instructions! I just did

‘em and it all worked.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Drawing in a sketchbook is like, the most fun a person could ever have

Painting on the other hand? One million psychic damage. A battle against layers, composition and colors where you’ll ultimately lose

i think something is wrong with my shaders

my seal drawing