#Free Blog Site

[sciderman]

well - webtoons is over, gang

[roomwithavoid]

idk if your still doing dividers but if you are, can you do an apple bloom from my little pony divider please?

cutie mark crusaders dividers

(f2u with or without credit AFTER reblogging this post!)

[BLINKIES MASTERPOST]

[ki-pulse]

Rain, a Tower, a serpent. A night with eternal repercussions.

[bikananjarrus]

once again deep sighing about the likes to reblogs ratio

[not-the-conversation-starter]

The Death Of A Website.

tl;dr click source to see an AU of my blog.

As many of you may not have heard, Cohost has gone read only. The website infamous for "Zero Discoverability" and its users "Not Being Funny." Servers will close down at the end of 2024, if not earlier, being backed up on the Internet Archive before that. Since their user counts were still low after 2 years (about half of all sign ups ever were from people evacuating twitter, which then didn't know how to use the site so most left almost immediately. Kind of hilarious) they didn't feel like anymore money bleeding OR the fact that a staff of only four people being on call 24/7 was worth it anymore.

However,

the people who DID use the site loved it. And they did some genuinely cool things on it, far cooler than anything I ever saw even in the glory days of Tumblr. You know, like Finn and Jake hi-fiving between 2 posts. Stuff like a playable maze, or a fully navigable 3d room you move around in with your mouse entirely within a post. They really did some cool stuff.

There were also a ton of really talented people, people like the composer Lena Raine(Celeste/Minecraft) who loved the site because you could just. Actually talk to people on it! Without an algorithm to boost their posts, the only people who saw it were genuinely looking for it.

Also some of them were just good posters, we did get Pikmin 18 billion and eleven from Cohost after all.

The point is, I think if anyone outside of Cohost actually knew what was being done on Cohost, it would of succeeded. There would of been enough active users for them to invest more. If I knew about all of this I would of been there way more!

But rather than just you blindly believing me, I decided to spend (almost) every hour I would of on Tumblr, on Cohost instead. Clicking that link, or the source, or the link on the source above in the tl;dr, will take you to my Cohost blog. At least while it's still read-only.

You should check it out. I reblogged a lot, but the first page or 2 (every 20 posts, I kept trying to stop but I got sentimental and reblogged more) is pretty much just people's last posts. I'd say give it 3 pages to see if you're interested or not in exploring more of what the website has to offer.

If you've ever wondered what people would post on a dying website,

If you ever wondered what some of the best posts people were making on Cohost that got shared again in its last dying moments were,

If you want some reference for what inside jokes would look like to an outsider,

If you're just bored and need something to scroll through,

if you ever wondered what I would of reblogged on that website if I remembered my password easily enough to log back in easily...

You could think of my blog as a small encapsulation of a small website. There's only 60 pages, including the ones from before the announcement from me just rarely using the site!

I reblogged all kinds of posts. Goodbyes, sarcastic hellos, mourning, long speeches about the spirit of Cohost set to sad music, nothing burgers, inside jokes I didn't understand, The New Garfield, posts I flat out didn't read past the title because they were too long and I just wanted to move on really there's a lot of posts to archive, CSS crimes, stuff I found funny, "Where to find me" and webrings and website posts for people I never knew, Love Honk, reviews for movies and games I never intend to play or watch, 88x31 buttons, music recommendations and history, entire games, signing up for RSS feeds, asks and answers related to other stuff I didn't share on accident, regular memes, Intern Secretary Eggbug, a post that's just an image hosted off-site so it'll update even after readonly, and so on.

(Nothing overtly NSFW. Tag search still works if you want that)

One that I, personally, am sad is gone. That I'm glad I got to see at least in its dying days. That I genuinely hope someone makes another attempt at creating.

[mushroomjar]

I don't like the way you guys talk about Palestinians asking for donations. I don't like it.

I had to see someone make MULTIPLE posts bitching and moaning about how people need to stop sending them asks asking for them to reblog their donation posts, that they'd just be blocking them from now on, and that they didn't care if they were vetted because they still found the act of sending asks to get reblogs on their donation links suspicious, even if they were in a dire situation. They even went as far as to say that they got an ask, deleted it, and then they got another ask from the same person, and accused the person of sending another ask to purposefully "get under their skin"

I don't know man, have you considered that being a victim of ongoing genocide will make you ask for help in whatever way you can? And sometimes that involves sending random blogs asks to see if they can donate or at the very least share your donation links? A Palestinian reaches out to you multiple times because they need help and your response is to whine about getting donation links in your inbox? I wish I had your problems

Also the thing about "getting the exact same ask from the exact same blog multiple times"... uh, duh? First of all, they're probably reaching out to dozens of blogs daily, do you think they're gonna type up a new paragraph for each blog they reach out to? Second of all, maybe they reached out to you multiple times because a. They really really really need the help and b. What, do you think they're gonna see your URL/blog and be like "oh! I already reached out to this blog, I'm not gonna send them another ask"? Or do you think they'll be like "this person has been reblogging other people's donation posts, maybe they'll reblog mine too"?

Like I understand being suspicious about getting sent donation links to your inbox, but literally all you have to do is check if the blog's been vetted by other bloggers? It's as easy as searching for their URL on tumblr sometimes, it literally takes less than a minute or two. And that's what bothers you? That's what you're complaining about? Find a real problem!!!

[redhoodie1723]

since i posted the fundraiser for a family in gaza, i have had a few more requests in my inbox to repost other's fundraisers. i've seen a few posts warning that a lot of these are scams, and i don't want to advertise any scams and am not sure how to reliably sort through them.

however, i have done some research into other charities and organizations that are helping in gaza and have listed them below. i am not any expert on this conflict, and this is just based on amateur research, but i hope this helps anyone who is looking for a way to help!

Save the Children - sending a lot of essential supplies and support

Doctors Without Borders - sending doctors and medical aid

Gaza Funds - donating straight to individual families in need

if anyone else has any reliable charities that they want to be shared, reply or repost and i'll make sure to repost back to my page!

[sillylovcsongs]

If you wanna hear about me from me, check out my neocities!!

HEADS UP: IT IS NOT MOBILE FRIENDLY

we like to have fun around there, say hi in my guestbook and poke around my lil' corner of the internet! :3

I AM MORE LIKELY TO POST ART THERE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

[girlwiththegreenhat]

i genuinely love when you can tell an older show was Not made with high quality video viewing in mind. i am watching knight rider and constantly seeing all the little mistakes they surely brushed under the rug thinking nobody would see them on their crunchy little CRTs back in the 80s, that are huge attention grabbers now in HD fullscreen on my 3 foot computer monitor

the biggest one of course is all the drivers/controllers for the (in-universe) self driving car, kitt. there's guys tucked down in the footwells who can't always stay out of the shot. there's a guy who has a Car Seat Suit to blend in and look like the drivers seat from a distance, but you can always tell when that's the method they're using for a particular shot because its so much thicker than the passenger seat next to it and the headrest is missing it's cutout section. in at least one instance he starts taking the suit off too early, on a focus shot of the damn car, so its REAL visible.

all the extremely obvious stunt drivers or performers who look nothing like the character they're supposed to be

props, such as animals, vanishing from the car interior for stunt/race sequences.

the production crew (or their shadows) being visible in the background. only at a glance, but its especially hilarious in shots where nobody else is supposed to be around

the camera panning out from a sound stage set far enough that you can actually see over the edges of the set and into the stage they were filming in. mostly this happens with their truck trailer mobile unit thing.

this one isn't a mistake but every time the car "turbo jumps" they CLEARLY hide the ramp behind another car, a prop, the environment, and its just. so charming. sometimes its blatantly on screen just for a moment. like... of Course in real life this car isn't magically leaping 20 feet, of course its a ramp, but it's still so silly and fun to be reminded of how they were doing those stunts to begin with.

also not really a mistake but related, the bracket they keep on the front of the car for stunt work.... is just left on half the time. cuz it's a pain to take on and off.

and there are more examples that are more unique that haven't cemented themselves in my head well yet, but these are the more notable or common things i see and it's really charming. if i'm not giggling to myself noticing the "seams" and flaws and so human imperfections of your show or movie what EVEN is the point. hollywood is too flashy these days i think!

[fishareglorious]

the r1999 webbedsite discord is in the works, just need to learn more about making the groups because i am a seventy year old grandparent when it comes to anything discrod

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

To my homestead Instagram girlies: I love you, I appreciate you, I want to support you. But I am not downloading your digital cookbook. I do not engage with recipes that way. I want a physical book.

Yes I realize it’s not that easy to just publish a book. Yes I’m sure the point is you can print off a digital download. Don’t care. Don’t have a printer either. I’m just saying. If I’m PAYING for something, I’d rather add a few more dollars for something solid, or pay nothing at all

[untoldsoup]

Can't believe this year I start actively and consistently drawing again (and am making comics!) And I hear today that tumblr will probably be shutting down soon.

This is literally the only place I post things. Maybe the site would be profitable if staff didn't actively try to destroy it every update.

Hoping it's all rumors but if they are truly going down to a skeleton crew and stopping updates that's not a good sign.

[alienhunteranonymous]

top 3 deltarune ships now.

Pfft like im gonna give you that info, yall can barely handle my bobatea agenda

SIKE Suselle Kruselle Kerdly in that order

[whiteingale]

No matter the era in which we were born, we will probably still feel disappointed and wish for something new. There’s no point of lamenting when and where it happens that we are born. We love being curious, exploring things until there’s nothing left but same as any fish in the sea we forget and get stuck in affirmative brain feeding loophope that never reaches end.

Maybe, there was no purpose in exploring it so extensively or trying to reach perfection in this despair. Being a human that miseryless meaningless way is too lively experience either. I am trying to point of breaking myself to search for way to improve I should accept it. Instead of being this shady opportunist.

[spoonerise]

Jesus fucking Christ I am Aged. I’ve had this blog for ten years? Ten(10) years? Double digits?

[gemsbian]

finally free from my summer job and moved back in - so enjoy some chili and nyebby doodles from a magma group draw as I relish in my newfound free time