#tumblr for some reason doesn't like me editing the html of posts...

[samuraiofice]

"He doesn't have a body? Good to know. Thinking about it, I don't think I've ever dealt with a ghost..."

"If ghosts are just energy though, do you suppose ice magic could freeze them into enough of a physical form to hit them proper?"

🌀 "Ah............. you know he doesn't have a body right now, right? Do you even know what a demon is??"

"And yeah, that's the whole reason I'm in exorcist cram school. So thanks, but I've already got people training me." 🐈‍⬛

[ominous-faechild]

Hey how do you do the color gradient thing for your dialog tags?

Assuming you mean these things, I've actually been meaning to make a guide of my own for a while lol.

For one, you can only do this on computer/the website of Tumblr! There's no option to select this stuff on the app.

STEP 1: CREATE A NEW DOC / GO TO SETTINGS

It opens a dropdown menu/whole screen full of options!

From there, select the "text editor" dropdown, which starts as displaying "rich text".

Select "HTML"

And it should change how the entire post looks!

STEP TWO: CHEAT

Yeeeeeaaaaah, so I use a website for this lol

I inserted my colors for faeries (#30853C) and Cloud (#6DC1B4) for my example of "these things" earlier. To make this easier, I most often have two windows open at a time while working on uploading my scripts to Tumblr.

To get colours to insert into the Text Colorizer website, you can use any kind of hex color picker or even this one website I've used to yoink "thematic" colors from photos!

Personally, I've developed a massive library of colors over time for this exact purpose lol. Using my old colors as a "base", I can change it accordingly to the kind of "new color" that I want for a specific character or thing!

(I'll use the website to also make gradients for "in-between" colors lol)

STEP 3: INSERT TEXT / DESIRED COLORS

To make Nova's gradient, I start with #A600D9, my color for Magic, and end with #F56745—their individual color. However, being as it's short, I'll use a quote from them instead lol.

Once you've inserted your text and colors, you will click in the text box I highlighted in red, ctrl+a and ctrl+c to copy it all, and go back over to your new tumblr post tab!

From there, you'll ctrl+v to paste the entirety into the HTML area, which pastes the code into your post!

AND VOILA!

You have gorgeous gradient text!

However, I want to give a fair warning and a bit of advice! If you didn't notice wayyyyyyy back when...

Tumblr warns that this all can break your formatting!

It doesn't do it too often, but take it from someone who does an obscene amount of formatting... it's 100% true.

STEP 4: CHEAT SOME MORE!

For this reason, I personally have a whole separate draft post full of my characters' colors (and names lol) that I use to copy-paste them in from rather than using the "html" text editor on every post!

I mentioned earlier I often have multiple windows open while editing? Here's what that looks like!

Additionally, I'll use a separate tab off on the left (my "current wip post" side) with the "html editor" enabled for me to copy-paste stuff!

(Also here's yet another example of how many colors I have)

Once again, you can ctrl+c these things to paste them into another tumblr post with the correct colors!

And it's ONLY possible to do on the website!!!

EXTRA INFO!

WARNING:

Tumblr will only allow each "paragraph's html to be so many characters long, so you can't have too big of anything in a gradient!

And by "anything"... I mean you really can't have that big of a gradient in general. RIP lol.

It straight-up won't save the post so long as you have that "overflow" in the character block! MAKE SURE YOU'VE FIXED IT, OR YOU CAN AND WILL LOSE ALL PROGRESS ON YOUR POST!

SINGLE-COLOR TIP:

You don't need the website for a single color! If you'd like, you can just change the "color code" within the html editor to change specific colors!

MAKE SURE COLORS CAN WORK ON DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS!

On desktop, you can use shift+p while not on any sort of textbox to change the color pallet! I always do tests to see which colors work best before settling on any!

(Tho, the blue background SPECIFICALLY is nightmarish to work around. So if that's the ONLY thing I can't make work, I often ignore it and let you guys who use it suffer lmao)

(Hopefully this'll give you guys some respect for me and how much I do to make my posts aesthetic af lol)

Also hopefully this all helps???

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[spaxolotl]

differences ive noticed between tumblr and cohost so far:

tumblr has numbers, like most social media sites, for almost every aspect of it. notifications, likes, reblogs, comments, followers, following, etc. cohost only had numbers for notifications (opt-in) and number of comments. the rest had nothing indicating a number, not even for the original poster.

tumblr has notifications for many actions, including "<person> liked a post you shared" and others. it seems you can turn them off but the fact tumblr has them in the first place is concerning. cohost, by design, had very limited notification scope. when someone rechosted your chost with added text, you only got one notification: that someone rechosted it. you won't know the likes and rechosts of it. you also didn't get mention notifications.

tumblr also offers push notifications on their mobile app, while cohost never offered notifications (and was purely a web app that could masquerade as a mobile app).

tumblr's ask system (which cohost's was based off of) is a LOT more robust. private ask answers, the option to allow media in your received asks, etc. the only leg-up cohost seemed to have was the option to allow for asks from logged-out accounts. cohost also allowed for media in asks until the feature was abused and it was globally turned off.

cohost's post format had an unstyled title that could be up to 240* characters long, and a post body that could be styled however you want. tumblr does not seem to have this title system, other than the "biggest" text style option.

cohost never had an algorithm for showing you chosts. it was reverse chronological only. the only system they had for a global feed is the #The Cohost Global Feed tag, and it was still only reverse chronological. tumblr has a For You page, with recommended posts that your mutuals liked or have many notes, but it seems to have a Following feed that's reverse chronological as well?

cohost had mostly unrestricted html and css (as long as it was inline)* as well as some basic markdown support. tumblr seems to just have a few fonts, some colors, and pretty much the same range of basic text styling.

cohost was very sex positive and allowed pretty much all porn with exceptions for csam and other illegal material. (18+ content needed to be tagged as such). tumblr, as of 2017ish (iirc?) does not allow for pornorgraphic content of any kind.

cohost's four staff members were queer as fuck and the atmosphere of cohost was EXTREMELY queer. tumblr has seemingly had multiple instances of bans of trans users for seemingly no reason other than "they were trans".

cohost had a cool mascot while tumblr seemingly doesn't have any. eggbug win

as someone who used cohost a ton before it shut down, moved to bluesky, and is now dipping their toes into tumblr, i think cohost did it better than tumblr on a lot of fronts, even if its features weren't as fleshed out. i'll do a full retrospective piece about cohost another time though

anyways shoutout to tumblr sending one of my bullet points to the void when i was changing the formatting. very cool

and if you used cohost as well, let me know what i missed!! i'll edit this post if so :3

[astercontrol]

Hey! Question for anyone out there who

is working on archiving stuff in case it gets lost, and

is more familiar with coding than I am.

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I've been backing up my Tumblr regularly for years now. I'm trying very hard to get into the habit of saving everything I create that's of value to me and NOT relying on a website I can't control to keep it saved…

And the problem with Tumblr's innate "download-a-backup" function is that once you've downloaded it, it seems you can't fully access it unless your Tumblr blog still exists and you have an internet connection capable of viewing it.

Which, like, defeats the whole purpose of a backup?

???

And there is no reason that HAS to be the case! The backup does download the text of all your posts, and a copy of every image you've ever posted! You CAN look at all these things individually, on your computer, in the backup folder you downloaded, without accessing the internet at all.

But for some incomprehensible reason, the backup doesn't create real links between them!

At least, not the images.

It does give you a whole lot of individual html documents containing the text of your posts. And it does give you a big "index" html document with links to all of those.

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And as far as I can tell, all of THAT works fine, whether you access it on your own private computer, or upload it all to your own self-hosted html website, or whatever.

But the images embedded in those posts are NOT the copies that you have in the big, huge, giant image folder that you went to all that trouble to download with your backup!

They're the copies that Tumblr still has stored on THEIR website somewhere.

And the images will not show up in your downloaded posts, unless 1. Tumblr still has that content from your Tumblr blog up on their site, and 2. you are connected to the internet to see it.

So… the whole Tumblr download thing feels kinda useless. Unless we can fix that.

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There are apparently other methods of downloading one's Tumblr blog. But from what I've read, the reliable methods that actually produce a usable archive with embedded images?... are methods that require using the command terminal on your computer.

I am not enough of a programmer to feel comfortable with that.

Maybe, if someone could give me good enough instructions that I could trust not to mess up other stuff on my computer in the process, I might try it.

But right now, I'm just focused on trying to fix the archive I already downloaded.

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The closest I get to being a programmer is editing html documents in a code editor. (I have BBEdit for Mac, the full paid version.)

And I've made some progress in learning GREP (regex) commands in there. Because that's basically an extra-specialized version of doing search-and-replace in a document, and the logic of it makes a lot of intuitive sense to me.

Anyway. To illustrate what I'm saying. Here is the link to a post of mine on Tumblr with 2 embedded images.

It is a slightly hornyish post, and LGBTQ-focused, and contains an image from a movie copyrighted by a very litigious corporation.

And I'm not saying any of that, in itself, is enough to fear for its continued existence on Tumblr.

BUT, I'm not saying I 100% trust Tumblr with it, either.

So.... because of that, and the fact that it contains two embedded images with different extensions.... it's a good example to run my tests on.

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like on Tumblr:

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Here is what the post looks like in the folders generated by the backup:

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The "style.css" document in the folder is what it uses for some of the formatting. Which is pretty, but not necessary.

Html documents stored on your computer can be opened in a web browser, same as websites. Here is what that html document looks like if I open it in Firefox-- while it's that same folder-- with my internet connection turned on.

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Here is what it looks like if I open it after moving it to a different folder-- internet connection still on, but no longer able to access that stylesheet document, because it's not in the same folder.

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Either one of those looks would be fine with me. (And the stylesheet doesn't NEED the connection to Tumblr or the internet at all, so it is a valid part of a working backup.)

But here's where the problem starts.

These are the two images that this post uses. They're in another folder within the backup folder I downloaded:

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But the downloaded html document of the post doesn't use them in the same way it uses the stylesheet.

It doesn't use them AT ALL.

Instead it uses whole different copies of them, from Tumblr's goddamn WEBSITE.

This is what the downloaded post looks like when I do NOT have an internet connection.

(First: from the same folder as the css stylesheet. Second: from a different folder without access to the stylesheet.)

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Without internet, it won't show the pictures.

There is NO REASON this has to happen.

And I should be able to fix it!

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This is what the code of that damn HTML page looks like, when I open it in my code editor.

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First, it contains a lot of stuff I don't need at all.

I want to get rid of all the "scrset" stuff, which is just to provide different options for optimizing the displayed size of the images, which is not particularly important to me.

Which I do using the Grep command (.*?) to stand in for all that.

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This, again, is basically just a search and replace. I'm telling the code editing program to find all instances of anything starting with srcset= and ending with a slash and close-caret, and replace each one with just the slash and close-caret.

This removes all the "srcset" nonsense from every image-embed.

Which makes my document easier for me to navigate, as I face the problem that the image-embeds still link to goddamn Tumblr.

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My goal here is to replace those Tumblr links:

img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/887612a62e9cdc3869edfda8a8758b52/0eeed3a3d2907da3-7c/s640x960/8fe9aea80245956a302ea22e94dfbe2c3506c333.jpg"

and

img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/67cdeb74e9481b772cfeb53176be9ad8/0eeed3a3d2907da3-c6/s640x960/785c70ca999dc44e4d539f1ad354040fd8ef8911.png"

with links to the actual images I downloaded.

Now, if I were uploading all this backup to my own personally-hosted site, I would want to upload the images into a folder there, and make the links use images from that folder on my website.

But for now, I'm going to try and just make them go to the folder I have on my computer right now.

So, for this document, I'll just manually replace each of those with img src="(the filename of the image)."

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Tumblr did at least do something to make this somewhat convenient:

it gave the images each the same filename as the post itself

except with the image extension instead of .html

(one of the images is a .jpg and the other is a .png)

and with numbers after the name (_0 and _1) to denote what order they're in.

This at least made the images easy to find.

And as long as I keep the images and the html post in the same folder--

and keep that folder within the same folder as a copy of the stylesheet--

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--then all the formatting works, without any need for a connection to Tumblr's website.

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Now.

If only I knew how to do that with ALL the posts in my archive, and ALL their embedded images.

And this is where my search-and-replace expertise has run out.

I know how to search and replace in multiple html documents at once. But I don't know how to do it for this specific task.

What I need, now, is a set of search-and-replace commands that can:

change every image-embed link in each one of those hundreds of html posts-- all that "https://64.media.tumblr.com/(two lines of random characters).(extension)" bullshit--

replacing the (two lines of random characters) with just the same text as the filename of whichever html document it's in.

then, add a number on the end of every filename in every image-embed-- so that within each html document, the first embed has a filename that ends in _0 before the image extension, and the second ends in _1, and so on.

I am fairly sure there ARE automated ways to do this. If not within the search-and-replace commands themselves, then some other option in the code editor.

Anyone have any insights here?

[agalanthe]

2025

[ Version française ci-dessous ]

As the years go by, so do the traditional New Year's greetings. So, for 2025, I wish you a very happy new year ! In keeping with tradition, I'll first review the “dear” year 2024, before moving on to the new one. Then, as I did a year ago, I'll finish with a few words of thanks and talk about what excited me on Youtube last year - this platform does indeed run a lot in the background when I'm drawing.

2024, THEN 2025...

I told you about a secret project last year, and it was revealed last May-June. It was an opportunity for me to show some parts of the artwork I'm doing for this one : Pénombre (Penumbra in english) is the name of a new tabletop role-playing game in development (at Aether Labs editions) in Twilight Kingdoms universe, an imaginary world created by French writer Mathieu Gaborit. It's not Agone 2 for a number of reasons (rights issues among them), but a brand new ttrpg proposition in this universe, even if you're bound to find many elements in it, thanks to their common novelistic basis !

So I'm working on the Game master screen, of which you've already seen three pictures if you follow my Instagram and Facebook. If not, they're the ones illustrating this post throughout ! The first two have evolved slightly since then, and you'll be seeing them in their final version, along with the full artwork, in the near future :)

As a result of this vast and lengthy project lasting several months - this illustration is one of the most detailed I've ever made -, the progress of Moon Tales has been less than satisfying, much to my regret. I got back into it recently and it's a real pleasure to rediscover this world and its characters. I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that Moon Tales is a long-term project that will take many years to bring to fruition. So you'll have to be patient to read this one day, and in the meantime, all encouragement (to Pierre Coppet and/or me) is welcome ! :)

GOODBYE TUMBLR ?

If you've been following this blog, you may have noticed that the fifth Moon Tales design notebook, announced... a long time ago, has not yet been published. There was a lack of time there too, but that's not all... Indeed, I was unpleasantly surprised to learn that Tumblr had made some general changes that affected the control I used to have over the appearance of my posts.

For the design notebooks more than my other posts, I do a lot of customization of the layout, whether graphic or in terms of html/css code. Unfortunately, this customization is no longer possible, and it doesn't suit me at all. Fortunately, older publications, created before the changes made by the platform, were not affected.

In practice, for the moment, I still need to carry out a few tests. By giving the blog a new design theme, recent and, above all, still updated, perhaps the constraints will be less and my problems solved ? If, however, it turns out that everything really is at a dead end, I'll be forced to move on to somewhere else, somewhere with the right tools to meet my needs. So a big potential move is coming up, but if it does, it's hard for me to put a date on it... (again, lack of time !).

AND MY THANKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE...

This year, I'll be talking less about youtube channels in general - those mentioned at the start of 2024 are still the ones I follow regularly, and my thanks are still valid - and more about shows on a specific subject - in French only, sorry English-speaking friends, except for the first video about TLOU2.

I really recommend these videos if you're interested or intrigued by the subject :

- Grounded II, the Making of The Last of Us Part II video game : a fascinating insight into the difficult conception of this memorable game (much better than the first one in every way in my opinion), and the unfair ups and downs that plagued the development team (some of them because of the utter stupidity still displayed by some of mankind today).

- L'histoire oubliée de ceux qui inventèrent le RPG on the Bibliothèque d'Alvyn, tells, so to speak, the long birth of tabletop role-playing game and how Dungeons & Dragons emerged in the 1970s (and no, Gary Gygax isn't the only one involved in this story...), starting a few centuries earlier. Bravo to Flo for this superb documentary !

- 101%, ce vendredi c'est Alex et Moguri !, on the Origami channel, a nice tribute to this daily program from the former Nolife TV channel, dedicated to geek, Japanese culture and video games. Years later, here's a brand new 101% for you to discover ! It's a nostalgic moment, full of emotions that come back to you if you've ever known that era.

- L'art de D&D (Dungeons & Dragons, again !) on Roliste TV/Discussions et dragons. If, like me, your imagination has run wild at the sight of the magnificent artworks from the AD&D 1 and 2 era, created by artists such as Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Gerald Brom, etc., this podcast is for you ! And if you don't know much about this period, this is a good opportunity to discover it. These artists have given life and a strong artistic soul to the mythical worlds of Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Al Qadim, Forgotten Realms and more. Obviously, it's more to see than to hear !

- The Light City actual play (filmed tabletop role-playing game) from the Maxbrown collection, in four episodes, with two superb players and a chilling yet fascinating universe to enjoy (a bit like Dark City).

- I'm not usually into retrogaming and yet I've been hooked on the subject since late 2023 because of (or thanks to) two channels/shows : Super Vieux Jeux and Edward Retro Decouverte.

The first reviews numerous video games from bygone eras, linking them by a common theme. Here are two episodes, which I particularly enjoyed because of their theme : SW, la Force faite JV and Les adaptations des Blockbusters 80s.

The second is an original blend of feel-good webseries and retrogaming. It's funny, pleasant, nostalgic, sometimes gently melancholy.  You can start with ease at the beginning of season 4 (with the game Professor Layton and the Curious Village), then gradually hang up until now (season 5 ended recently). The story arc with Roxane, centered on the Zelda games with one exception, is also very enjoyable to follow (with long but few episodes) :  Ocarina of time is the first, followed by Golden Eye, Majora' mask and Wind Waker.

Naturally, I'd like to reiterate my sincere thanks to all those who have shown an interest in my work and in Moon Tales, my project at heart. Thanks again for your support !

Happy 2025 !

[ Note : you can comment this post on my Facebook or Instagram ]

*** French version below

Les années passent et, avec elles, reviennent ainsi immanquablement les traditionnels vœux de nouvel an. Donc pour 2025, je vous souhaite une excellente année ! Tradition oblige, je passerai d'abord cette "chère" année 2024 en revue, avant d'évoquer la nouvelle, puis, comme il y a un an, je finirai par quelques remerciements et parlerai de ce qui m'a enthousiasmé sur Youtube l'année dernière - cette plateforme tourne en effet énormément en fond quand je dessine.

2024, PUIS 2025...

Je vous parlais d'un projet secret l'année précédente, il a bien été révélé en mai-juin dernier. Ce fut pour moi l'occasion de montrer quelques parties du visuel que je réalise pour celui-ci : Pénombre est le nom d'un nouveau jeu de rôle dans l'univers des Crépusculaires de Mathieu Gaborit, en développement chez Aether Labs. Ce n'est pas Agone 2 pour diverses raisons (de droits notamment) mais une toute nouvelle proposition rolistique dans cet univers, même si vous y retrouverez forcément de nombreux éléments, de par leur base romanesque commune !

Je travaille ainsi sur l'écran de jeu dont vous avez déjà pu voir trois visuels si vous suivez mon Instagram et mon Facebook. Si ce n'est pas le cas, sachez que c'est eux qui illustrent ce billet tout du long ! Les deux premiers ont légèrement évolué depuis, vous les découvrirez dans leur version finale, ainsi que l'illustration complète, prochainement à n'en pas douter :)

En raison de ce vaste et long chantier de plusieurs mois - ce dessin est l'un des plus détaillés qu'il m'ait été donné de réaliser -, l'avancée de Moon Tales n'a pas été des plus satisfaisante, à mon grand regret. Je m'y suis remis il y a peu et c'est un vrai bonheur que de retrouver ce monde et ses personnages. L'occasion pour moi de rappeler que Moon Tales est un projet de longue haleine qui mettra encore des années à se concrétiser. Il faudra donc s'armer de patience pour lire ça un jour et, en attendant, tous les encouragements (à Pierre Coppet et/ou moi) sont les bienvenus ! :)

AU REVOIR TUMBLR ?

Si vous suivez ce blog, peut-être aurez-vous remarqué que le cinquième carnet de conception de Moon Tales, annoncé depuis déjà... longtemps, n'est pas encore paru. Faute de temps là aussi, mais pas uniquement... J'ai en effet eu la désagréable surprise que Tumblr avait opéré des modifications générales qui ont affecté le contrôle que j'avais auparavant sur l'aspect de mes billets.

Pour les carnets de conception plus que les autres posts, je fais beaucoup de customisation de la mise en page, qu'elle soit visuelle ou au niveau du code html/css. Cette customisation n'est malheureusement plus possible et cela ne me convient pas du tout. Heureusement les anciennes publications, créées avant les changements effectués par la plateforme, n'ont pas été affectées.

Concrètement, pour le moment, il me faut encore réaliser quelques tests. En attribuant au blog un nouveau thème graphique, récent et, surtout, encore mis à jour, les contraintes seront peut-être moindres et mes problèmes levés ? S'il s'avérait cependant que tout est vraiment bloqué, je serais alors contraint de partir vers d'autres cieux, un endroit qui disposerait d'outils propres à répondre à mes besoins.  Gros déménagement potentiel à venir donc,  mais, si cela arrive, bien difficile pour moi d'estimer une date pour ce départ... (encore une question de manque de temps !)

ET MES REMERCIEMENTS ET SUGGESTIONS SONT...

Cette année, je parlerai moins de chaînes youtube en général - celles citées début 2024 sont encore des canaux que je suis régulièrement, et mes remerciements ont toujours cours - mais plutôt d'émissions sur un sujet spécifique.

Je vous conseille donc ces vidéos - vraiment ! - pour peu que ledit sujet vous parle ou vous intrigue :

- Grounded II, le Making of du jeu vidéo The Last of Us Part II : une plongée passionnante dans la conception difficile de ce jeu monumental (bien meilleur que le premier à tous les niveaux selon moi), ainsi que des aléas injustes qui ont touché l'équipe de développement (dont certains à cause de la bêtise crasse dont fait preuve encore aujourd'hui une part de l'humanité).

- L'histoire oubliée de ceux qui inventèrent le RPG sur la Bibliothèque d'Alvyn, raconte, pour ainsi dire, la longue naissance du jeu de rôle et de comment on en est arrivé à Dungeons & Dragons dans les années 1970 (et non il n'y a pas, très loin s'en faut, que Gary Gygax dans cette histoire...), en commençant quelques siècles auparavant. Bravo à Flo pour ce superbe docu !

- 101%, ce vendredi c'est Alex et Moguri !, sur la chaîne Origami, bel hommage à cette émission quotidienne de feu Nolife, ancienne chaîne tv geek, culture japonaise et jeu vidéo. Des années après, voici donc un tout nouveau 101% à découvrir ! Un bel instant nostalgie et plein d'émotions qui remontent, si vous avez connu cette époque.

- L'art de D&D (Dungeons & Dragons, encore lui !) sur Roliste TV/Discussions et dragons. Si comme moi votre imagination s'est enfiévrée à la vue des magnifiques illustrations de l'époque AD&D 1 et 2, nées sous les pinceaux d'artistes comme Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Gerald Brom, etc., cette émission est pour vous ! Et si vous ne connaissez pas plus que ça cette période, c'est une bonne occasion pour la découvrir. Ces illustrateurs ont en effet donné vie et une âme artistique forte, de celle qui parvient à vous emporter ailleurs, aux univers mythiques que sont Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Al Qadim, Forgotten realms, etc. Évidemment, c'est à voir plus qu'à écouter !

- L'actual play (partie de jeu de rôle filmée) Light City de la collection Maxbrown, en quatre épisodes, avec deux joueurs superbes dans leur interprétation et un univers glaçant mais pourtant fascinant à découvrir (un peu à la Dark City).

- Je ne suis pas trop retrogaming habituellement et pourtant je me suis laissé prendre par le sujet depuis fin 2023 à cause de (ou grâce à) deux chaînes/émissions : Super Vieux Jeux et Edward Retro Decouverte. La première passe ainsi de nombreux jeux vidéo d'époques révolues en revue, en les liant par un thème commun. Je vous propose d'en découvrir deux épisodes, que j'ai particulièrement apprécié de par leur thème : SW, la Force faite JV et Les adaptations des Blockbusters 80s. La seconde mêle de façon originale webserie un peu feelgood au retrogaming. C'est drôle, agréable, nostalgique, parfois doucement mélancolique. Vous pouvez la commencer sans problème au début de la saison 4 (avec le jeu Professeur Layton et l'étrange village) pour raccrocher petit à petit jusqu'à maintenant (la saison 5 s'est finie récemment). L'arc scénaristique avec Roxane, centré sur les jeux Zelda à une exception près, est également très sympa à suivre (avec de longs épisodes mais peu nombreux) : Ocarina of time est le premier et se poursuit par Golden Eye, Majora' mask et Wind Waker.

Évidemment, je réitère mes remerciements les plus sincères à toutes celles et ceux qui montrent de l'intérêt à mon travail et à Moon Tales, mon projet de cœur. Merci encore pour votre soutien !

Happy 2025 !

[ Note : vous pouvez commenter ce billet sur mon Facebook ou Instagram ]

[quaranmine]

okay, looking like group blogs still have their desktop theme, as well as i have seen NON group blogs that don't. so it doesn't appear to be related to that.

basically, at some point between Nov 2022 and May 2023 (via waybackmachine), dsmpanalysis lost its custom desktop theme. you cannot go to dsmpanalysis.tumblr.com anymore, you will automatically be redirected to tumblr.com/dsmpanalysis which only shows the blog view. It completely nuked the theme and will not let us save/edit a new one afaik. None of former mods have touched it either. Like I open the theme editor and it doesn't save ANY desktop themes, even though it still displays the html of our old theme.

We're a bit baffled why/how this has happened, so that's why we were wondering if it had to do with being a group blog or not. MY blog still has its desktop page, and my settings are literally identical to dsmpanalysis'. There's no difference in settings to explain it. Is it related to inactivity? since we haven't posted for over a year? We have also found that in some other people's themes, blogs that no longer have a desktop page now have 404 errors next to them in the notes section. but those people HAVE posted recently, so they aren't also inactive.

I might submit a helpdesk ticket to see if this is just random errors since I haven't yet figured out a rhyme or reason to blogs getting affected (these are not newly created blogs, they are ones that USED to have a theme) but...the cynical part of me thinks this is a feature, not a bug:

notice how the dsmpanalysis.tumblr.com is still listed under address? if you click it, you get redirected to the tumblr.com/dsmpanalysis page. on quaranmine, i have the same exact message, but my quaranmine.tumblr.com blog is still up. but it's that little blue button that's interesting to me...

i think they're trying to usher in the slow death of the [blogname].tumblr.com theme in order to start selling domains. i think this makes a lot of weird decisions retroactively make sense, like how they've been REALLY pushing the tumblr.com/blog for opening links and things for some months now. of course, i don't know this for sure but...this is the evidence i've pulled together.

i just don't know why some blog's themes have been nuked right now and some haven't been. if this is intentional, that is--the way that it still shows our html in the theme editor is strange to me. if you were removing that feature then why would you also not remove the option to edit it? weird things happening lately on tumblr man

hey, just sending out a feeler here. do any of you run group blogs? if so, do you still have your tumblr desktop theme? as in does your [blogname].tumblr.com address still exist, or has it been redirected to tumblr.com/[blogname]

i'm testing a theory

[aceofwhump]

Question is the legacy editor any good? I've never used it because I'm paranoid about it messing my posts up lmao but I'm curious

The short answer is yes. Legacy editor, the older way tumblr did posting, is in my opinion, the superior editor. I love the legacy editor. A lot. It is definitely superior and I'm sad staff has decided to slowly get rid of it.

However! With that said I've been pretty much exclusively using the beta post editor for the last like year when staff announced that they'd be eliminating the legacy editor eventually so I thought it'd be a good idea to get used to the beta editor. Which I suppose I did. I've gotten used to it and don't use legacy much at all anymore. I also wanted to use it because I got really tired of not being able to edit in mobile the posts I made on web using the legacy editor. With the beta editor you can edit across platforms which is soooo nice. (although it appears that in one of the apps many updates I can now edit a gifset I made today via legacy editor but not the posts I've made in the past using the legacy editor so who knows what's going with that).

But there's a lot of annoying things about the new beta editor that make it inferior to the legacy editor and I'm praying that staff will improve it. For starters, and probably my biggest complaint, is how awful it is to upload and rearrange images. It's so much easier in legacy editor to move images around. In beta the page moves when you start to move the image and it drives me CRAZY!!! I always end up putting the image in the wrong place because the page won't stop moving! Legacy is wonderful to arrange images. I do think the upload is slightly better in beta purely because it uploads multiple images in the order I select them where the legacy just puts them in whatever order it wants to and I have to remember what order I wanted my gifs in.

Legacy is also better because it actually differentiates between an image post and a text post. With the beta editor everything is technically a test post. So my gifsets are not considered an "image post". Some people have noted that the beta, since it's not an image post, it resizes the images a little and sometimes decreases the quality of the gif by doing that. I haven't really noticed that myself with my own gifs but doesn't mean it isnt happening.

The legacy editor also allows me to upload my gifs without stupid errors for no reason. Lately any time I upload more than 6 gifs at once I get an error message and have to upload them one by one. Its not because of size because they're always under 7mbs so I don't know why I can't upload them all at once. I hate it actually. And sometimes my gif will be under 10mbs (like 9.7mbs) and it'll tell me that the gif is too big. Excuse me tumblr but 9.7 is smaller than 10! I never had this problem in legacy.

The legacy editor is also better when it comes to using html, inserting links as text and not the stupid thing beta does where you paste the link and it becomes that stupid post preview thing that I hate, and oh my god is it awful for text blocks! When it first came out you couldnt select multiple texts blocks at all. You can now but it isn't the easiest. And it like expands when you do and makes it weird. Idk it's hard to describe. In legacy you can just...select all the text with no problems. Text blocks are treated like individual sections in the beta and make editing a major pain in the ass.

I also don't like thst apparently new xkit won't work in beta and you have to use xkit rewritten because fuck I don't want to learn how to use that one when I've been using new xkit for years but I guess I'm gonna have to now. I haven't been having any problems with xkit yet but who knows....

So yeah I think overall legacy is better. Beta Post Editor has some good things (I like the increased image upload limit, the editing tags is good) about it but there's so many problems. Unfortunately we're stuck with it so I've been sticking to using it exclusively to make the transition easier on myself. I do suggest becoming used to how it works and to just continue to provide feedback to staff about features we dislike or bugs we come across. Hopefully they'll listen and improve it.

[daemadness]

Felt like making a post since I've gained quite a lot of new followers on this blog (as well as on my main, most people being the same on both), as well as lots of reblogs which is GREAT too since the fandom here is already way too tiny!!! And I'm aware that I haven't been too active on this side of Tumblr in a long time.

I haven't had the queue running since the last spring, simply because I started to run out of blog to reblog from. I feel like I have already had everything in my blog, and I keep finding older blog and reblogging from those has its own problems. At least when I last time added stuff to my queue and drafts, I had to use the old XKit for adding stuff directly from blogs because using the regular system is nerve-racking. On top of all that, reblogging old posts means the HTML code of those posts looks different from recent posts, which is why adding tags, also, got extremely frustrating. I use quick tags and tag bundles exactly for the reason that I don't need to type every single tag there myself, and that I don't need to open every single post individually for adding tags. Well guess what - old posts did not support the quick tags anymore. It just kept saying there was an error, and I had to type everything down myself. Often several times. (And not tagging just is not an option for me!) Plus, Tumblr often likes/liked (not sure if it's already fixed) to refresh the queue/draft page so that it got just pain in the add to click and edit individual posts only to scroll down the drafts/queue every single time, and then do that like. 70 times in a row. Which is far from fun.

Adding stuff to queue just got too overwhelming. Tumblr freezing my browser when opening several tabs of a blog at once. Then quick tags and tag bundles stopped working and posts breaking because the old HTML code doesn't match the current HTML code. And the queue/drafts refreshing itself every single time cos you can't use quick tags.

But I feel like I need to start going through blogs again. I feel like I owe that to my old as well as new followers. Hopefully adding stuff to the queue won't be as enraging as it used to be. At some point even the beta editor changed somehow and I had to use the old one because in the new one you no longer could arrange images so making gifsets or photosets was impossible. And you can't arrange them in the old one either, unless you open it on the app, but where you sometimes still can't arrange them because the desktop code doesn't match the mobile code. And if you can open them on mobile, then you might not be able to open them on the desktop anymore cos Tumblr says it was created on the app. Besides, this web beta editor still doesn't work perfectly. I wonder if it ever will.

The last issue then is of course: the like-reblog ratios. This is not Instagram. If you only like and never reblog anything, you can be sure that I will block you in an instant. ESPECIALLY if you don't have a blog title and use the default icons. Then I will assume you're either a bot, or "spying us for (dä) content" which is not acceptable, at least not in my eyes. Go make your own content and don't steal what others have worked on hard, sometimes for hours. Which leads us back to like-reblog ratio: reblog art, please. And reblog creations. Reblogging IS NOT reposting, and reblogging is very very very much encouraged! (If you're new to Tumblr, it's that arrows symbol that looks like recycling symbol.) So please please please, reblog creations! Our tiny fandom is already tiny enough so when everyone's here just watching and not sharing and interacting (by reblogging! writing stuff in the tags!), I assure you that the Tumblr fandom WILL die out eventually. In fact it used to be way more active before, and it's been horribly inactive over the past 2-3 years. Also I used to post my art, edits, memes and videos here but recently gave up on that because there's just no interaction whatsoever anymore. So I don't see any point in sharing MY content to others if others don't care to look at it. So, I'm creating for myself and also keeping it all to myself, then. Maybe sharing it to some friends + my Instagram followers since IG seems to treat artists a bit better than Tumblr.

Alright, I guess that's enough. I'll try to get back to keeping this blog active, but finding "new" content is so hard nowadays, and I already explained the problems with the older posts. (I also started school a month ago so that will take some of my time, but I'm still spending time on Tumblr as if my life depended on it so it hasn't affected my Tumblr time that much yet.)

[woobly]

How do you do the text gradient on your posts😯 i’ve always tried, but i can’t for some reason place it in a whole fic post like you do….pls teach me

hi omg i never thought i'd be getting an ask like this, but sure i'd be happy to help ! btw i do this on pc coz idk how to do it on ios/android </3

firstly, i think i shld say that i suggest this be the Last thing you do for your fic. tumblr editors are kinda weird sometimes so just to be safe, make sure you've already edited and finalized everything about your fic or else you may or may not lose the coding for the gradient </3

anyways so u open tumblr on pc and this coding website on another tab. i suggest you paste your fic first into a post before doing all the codes so that you can just copy paste the codes later.

in the post editor, go to the old one / non beta editor > settings icon > text editor then click on the dropdown button and change to HTML.

from here, you can copy the text that you want to have a gradient (the ones in black color or click preview to find the text easier) then move to the coding website. in the big white box at the bottom right, there are 2 smaller white boxes where you can type. paste the text in the upper box (or you can just type it there if it's not too long).

ok then you need to choose 2 colors for the gradient. click the red box then the up-down button (idk what that's rlly called) twice until 'hex' appears. type the hex code manually or copy paste if that works for you (it doesn't for me idk why). then just do the same with the green box using the second color you want. once you've inputted the colors, just click run and it should look smth like this (below).

then you just select the entire code in the lower box and copy. go back to the tumblr editor and look for the original text in the HTML. select that, making sure you're only highlighting the ones in black then paste the code there.

do the same for the other text you want to have gradient then save draft or post or wtvr you want. make sure Not to go back to the new editor before saving! idk if tumblr still does this, but doing that won't save the codes you just added 💔

altho i said earlier this shld prolly be the last thing you do for your posts, if there rlly is still smth you wanna edit later, you can do one of two things: (1) if it still allows you to change back to the new editor (which recently doesn't happen for me), i usually open a different draft that doesn't have additional codes and change editors there; if it doesn't give you the beta button on the top right, just close (not save draft) then my best suggestion is to (2) edit on mobile </3 the second is the safer choice so i personally do that !

hope this helped! i'm not rlly the best at explaining things in an easier way, so if you have questions, just ask (or dm if you're more comfy w that!) :] but also i'm sure there are numerous tutorials out there ����

[rabbitindisguise]

The fundamental purpose people have always used XKit for has been to fix Tumblr and revert it back. Tumblr users don't like new things- and we have good reason to not like new things. Because new Tumblr things generally suck. The only exceptions to this has been the change from nested reblogs, and the font options for mobile. These two features have had the best reception of any modifications so far.

We absolutely need old Tumblr blue. This is pretty much non-negotiable for anyone with migraines that can be set off. A site won't be accessible to everyone's needs, and trying to find the perfect blue isn't going to work. Let there be themes with different types of blues we've seen in the past.

The blacklist is tag only. This doesn't work. I rely on keywords in the posts to get anything blocked. I also need the option to collapse blacklisted posts so that the tags are the only thing visible without taking up a huge amount of space.

Forced endless scrolling is not cool. I'm been scrolling my entire dashboard every day since I first made my main blog in 2013. I need pages. Other people need pages. Pages are essential. Especially working pages that I don't have to manually edit the url just to get back one page of I miss something.

The font isn't more accessible for my dyslexia, and I want the old one back.

All these accessible options have literally made the site so bad that trying to find a way to turn it off is basically impossible for me because I can't be on desktop for more than two seconds. I can't give feedback because I can't even see what features it has because it's so awful to look at my brain quits before I do. Between the migraines and reading fatigue, I'm stuck on mobile. Indefinitely. I like finding bugs and stuff like that but I literally cannot physically use the website even if I'm willing to brave the no-keyword-blacklist no man's land that is my dashboard right now.

Feedback for what people might actually want to see:

Make everything on this website do what it's supposed to do. Audio posts play audio. Video posts play video.

Let people change things if they want to by letting them have custom dashboard themes. It's not that complicated. If you're dead set on changing the colors and the fonts and the aesthetics every five seconds, let people just pick what they want and leave them be.

Don't just bring back pages, make paged scrolling functional. I want to, with a click of a button, go backwards and forwards from whatever place I was when I clicked it. Right before the forced update, I could only see the second page behind the one I was on some of the time.

End the nonsense of forced roll outs. People aren't responding or cooperating because they hate whatever it is that you're doing. Bring a good update, and the users will come around eventually. I'd like the new update if I had a choice about getting to use it.

The ability to turn off features with an individual desktop theme. No rainbow, stuff like that. For desktop and mobile.

More custom stuff like the rainbow text and the curly font, but on both desktop and mobile. Tumblr got so popular in the beginning in part because of the themes for the individual blogs, and a lot of the userbase knows HTML. These are features that no other blogging website offers in this format.

In house meme editor that actually functions the way meme editors are supposed to. No branding. No bells and whistles. An "add font" option that works on gifs and still images, and popular meme templates (which will have to be added to nearly monthly, but classic templates get used all the time). That's all anyone really needs.

More respect for artists. Let images be higher quality without having to click on them. Increase the word count and paragraph limit on posts. Heck, if you want money, let people buy access to posts that the artists lock themselves for that purpose and take a lower cut from their profits than traditional e-commerce websites. Or let people tip. Or set up an e-commerce platform yourselves as an extension of paid themes. Regardless, this site was built on artist participation yet you can barely tell these days.

All of the above would be way more useful than a new site design that's apparently overworking people's laptops and doesn't function with XKit. Sources: me reading complaints about Tumblr in solidarity because I have complaints about Tumblr.

New XKit and the new Tumblr dashboard

Hi everyone! Some of you may be aware that Tumblr has been offering a beta of the new web interface for a little while now. This new web experience comes with some nice perks, such as color palettes, soft refreshing, a built-in tag viewer, and a better user blocking system. It’s also much more accessible for those with reading difficulties, and should be fully compatible with screen readers.

Unfortunately, such drastic improvements has come at a price for those that truly rely on XKit features - the new web interface is entirely new, written from the ground up, and thus, XKit doesn’t work on it.

Recently, we’ve become aware that some people have been forcibly opted into this beta with no option to exit it, and this lines up with the projection that this new web interface will be fully launched by April 2020. However, we do not expect to be able to fully update XKit for this new dashboard before its full launch.

“Oh no! Tumblr’s trying to kill XKit!”

You would be amazed at what’s actually happening. A few Tumblr engineers are working with us and are building things into the new dashboard specifically to make our jobs easier! So please, rest assured that XKit being broken currently is not part of some grand scheme to make the Tumblr dashboard unmodifiable - we just need more time to catch up, and we’re being helped along.

“But I can’t use Tumblr without XKit!”

This is a problem we see echoed a lot. While we will be updating XKit to work on the new dashboard, we can’t give anyone a timescale. So, in the meantime, we ask that you learn to use the new dashboard with all its new features, and give clear, constructive, and respectful feedback to Tumblr support.

Tumblr has already implemented some equivalents of existing XKit features, and we’re already expecting more to appear down the line. If you can successfully communicate why certain XKit features are invaluable to your usage of Tumblr, we may see that list grow.

This is not the end for XKit - merely a stage of metamorphosis. Thank you all for your patience!

[astercontrol]

Some valid points here, yeah

I do agree that the things now getting so hotly debated under the name "AI" are mostly just slightly more aggressive versions of technology that's been around for decades.

And just how close they are to that old technology varies enormously with the specific application. On Livejournal in like 2002 or 2003 there were little Markov text generators that could make up nonsense haikus from the text on your blog posts. I suspect that whatever is summarizing Google search results is just picking a few websites in the results and doing basically that with them. At least, it seems like every time it says something egregiously wrong, someone is able to trace the component parts of that text to either a shitpost somewhere, or a valid reference taken horribly out of context. It doesn't really generate, it just copies and chops up.

The whole debate of "I never ever use AI" versus "avoiding AI is impossible" seems to me like more of a moral purity thing than actually caring about the results of what you use.

People seem to be taking the various valid concerns about AI, and distilling them into a moral rule that divides the good people who follow it from the bad people who don't. But they can't agree on the exact criteria for being a Good Person who Never Uses AI.

I've been in private Discord servers that threaten to ban anyone who posts AI images. The enforcement of that rule follows no rhyme or reason in terms of what level of AI-enhanced filter someone can put on a photo before they'll get a warning. And nobody dares address the fact that some of those filters are applied automatically to any photo you take on your smartphone, without even letting you choose.

All drawing I currently do is on paper, so I don't concern myself with how much "AI" is inherent in any particular digital art software. But even if I want to share my paper-and-pencil drawings with anyone beyond the people I can meet in person, I have to make some sort of digital image of them. And I'm lucky I don't take this no-AI purity thing as far as others claim they want to take it-- because otherwise I'd have to know a lot more than I know about the workings of my camera and my scanner, and whether it's even possible to digitize my art without violating whatever the Morally Pure rule on this is.

(Guess I'm also lucky that nobody else actually takes that no-AI purity thing as far as they claim to take it.)

Spellcheck is a minor annoyance for me. Just a red line that appears under words (like "spellcheck") sometimes when I'm typing into fields on websites like Tumblr. I turn it off when i can, and it turns itself back on when it feels like it, and I ignore it as much as possible. (Again, lucky that no one actually cares about how this technically, by their rules, makes me a Bad Person Using AI.)

For long works where I seriously care about the editing, I don't use LibreOffice, I've gone more nerdy and formatting-obsessive than that. As I've talked about before, I write all my fanfiction in BBEdit, a code editor for programming, which I got in the habit of using because I make HTML pages and it's quite good for writing and editing HTML. This crossed over into fanfic because AO3 fics have to be formatted like HTML pages, and so the most effective way of making sure they retain my chosen formatting when I paste them into AO3 is just to write them in HTML from the start.

Which became even more funny when I started writing Tron fic. Guess it was meant to be.

BBEdit is pretty obedient about respecting my spellcheck decisions. And while it has some features for writing programming code in AI-- which is alarming for some of the same reasons as writing school assignments or work reports in chatGPT-- it doesn't force me to use that if I don't want to.

Which should not feel like a luxury, but here we are.

I feel like theres a need to distinguish between

"it's impossible to avoid using generative AI these days (because you need it to write emails and resumes and class assignments and work reports)"

and

"it's impossible to avoid using generative AI these days (because it comes up automatically on search engine results, and shopping websites use it to summarize customer reviews, and phone cameras automatically use it to enhance your photos without asking, and spellcheckers in browsers and writing software now use it instead of actual dictionaries, and turn themselves back on with every update even when you turned them off-- so unless you have a VERY strict list of what websites and programs you use, and you NEVER have to stray from that list for any reason, it's gonna get forced on you without your consent)"