#perfectly functioning webbed site

[saiintvalentiine]

my inbox ate another ask 👍

[teeniebopperlaughin]

I was gonna make a post about how 'I only learned who Frimomen was a week ago, but I can tell y'all wanna put him into situations teehee' and then link a couple of my favorite songs, but tumblr won't let me post ANY of the links, so I will just die with my secrets <3

[mass-convergence]

Slow Burn: Chapter 2 is up

Chapter summary:

Emily rides out with Robin to the crime scene. An awkward and tense conversation ensues.

Fic summary:

When Emily and her team are called to investigate a series of arsons in the Idaho wilderness: She didn’t expect to find her ex-girlfriend leading the fire investigation. The same ex-girlfriend she was about to propose to. The same ex-girlfriend who suddenly left with barely a goodbye. The same ex-girlfriend that took an ax to her heart and left her to pick up the pieces. It's been 20 years. This is fine. She was definitely over it. This is fine. She's not still angry at all. This is fine.

[blackmetalbaker]

Ok I'm pretty sure it's just autoflagging this as gore or smth with like it's just a bump and the incision.

I've tried so many different ways and the stupid fucking error is no help

[kirby-souljourney-au]

Get Athena’d, losers.

Here she is, the full ref sheet for my silly little MetaGala fankid!

I had a really hard time trying to figure out her outfits for some reason, but it came out good in the end.

All her info and hex codes are under the cut!

Full name: Athena Iriam

Aliases: Athy, ‘Miss Dream’

Species: Dream-Heart-Matter Asrtral

Planet of Origination: Popstar

Age: 15

Height: 5’6”

Gender: Biologically both sexes; identifies as female

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Sexuality: Lesbian

S/O: None

Family: Ione Argon (father), Galacta Iriam (parent), Auberon Ivi (step-father), Ophanim (step-mother), Artemis Ivi (half-sister), Kirby Argon (step-brother), Cipher Argon (adopted sister), Inifya Argon (niece)

Programmer and musician.

Biological daughter of Ione and Galacta.

Plays electric guitar in her band, The Absolutes, alongside her friends, and is undergoing training regarding her magic.

The second youngest of the family, and by far the smartest with technology. She hopes to one day design and build the best Starship in the Galaxy, as well as just generally incredible space-travel tech.

A sweetheart with a bit of a temper. She doesn’t have many friends, but she is very close with her family, and the other members of her band. She has surprisingly strong Dream Magic, considering the fact that her connection to Dream Matter is very mild (and Ione’s actually really weak for an Astral, so his daughter’s magic being like 200x stronger than his is very jarring), and is training with her friend’s father Elfilin and her aunt Satia in using it better.

She prefers staying at home, but she doesn’t mind going outside to visit friends every once in a while, and finds enjoyment in the concept of space travel.

Her weapon of choice is, for the most part, her wits alone, but she does use actual weaponry when necessary; usually she summons throwing knives with her magic.

Hex codes

Both:

#1C1841 — Tail fur

#202261 — Fur base

#FECD8B — Earrings

#FFDFBE — Face marking

#F4D0D0 — Inner ears

#E3E4FF — Fur fade / Neck fluff

#FFFFFF — Claws / Wing talons

#C7C7C7 — Horns

#9F5252 — Iris

#FFECEC — Eye whites

Regular fit:

#181818 — Socks

#212121 — Shirt

#140C2C — Leg warmers

#D3C3FF — Skirt

Alt fit:

#101010 — Socks / Shorts

#171718 — Shirt

#1C1A22 — Jacket 1

#F0DED2 — Jacket 2

#EDEDED — Belt

#9F9F9F — Belt buckle

Tail-tip:

#11002E — Tail-tip base

#00162E — Fade (using Nebula brush)

#007BFF — Tail-tip glitter (using Glimmer brush, blend mode Overlay)

Wings:

#121316 — Covert feathers 1

#13131A — Webbing (front)

#1F1F37 — Flight feathers (back)

#333340 — Covert feathers 2

#767683 — Flight feathers (front)

#C8DBFF — Webbing glitter (curved 4-point stars / “GK-Style” 4-point stars / Glimmer brush, blend mode Linear Light, layer opacity 13%)

YAY I’M DONE!! Finally I can play more Planet Robobot—

[seaside-hysteria]

My dashboards broken 👍

[something-about-sunflowers]

Tumblr. I have infinite scroll on. My dashboard is chronological. WHY am I occasionally being forced to refresh the page because I was 10+ hours down my dashboard and I'm suddenly being shown posts from 1 minute ago? There's no reason for you to be showing me my dash from the TOP all the way down where I am NOW. I will GET to those posts when I GET to them.

[the-promise-has-been-made]

Tumblr mobile App is wild I just scrolled and accidentally sent a Post to a random person. Whoever you are I am sorry I sent you something it was just an accident!

[lostinthewinterwood]

...so, my oldest file for this claims it was created in 2020, but I'm pretty sure I've been playing with these harmonies since at least 2018? Maybe earlier, even, I'm not certain. the harmonies were allllmost complete in 2020 but then it took me another five years to get around to figuring out what wasn't quite right with them. as you do.

Anyway, uh, I heard this (...i think in high school...) and went "you know what would be good here? harmonies!" and so here we are, a frankly embarrassing number of years later.

hopefully this isn't too weird to be posting now lmao

(also I agree that the melody is extremely familiar! alas I also failed to place it. it sounds kind of like a gospel song? I sang several in choir as a child but it's not any one of them that I can actually remember the melody for, so.... idk)

sheet music under the cut bc i do all of my composing in musescore so i might as well share the fruits of my labor lmao. several of the parts are not being sung in the same octave I originally wrote them down in bc i am a baritone! and the first four-part arrangement i did was satb. so. this music is what i was singing tho

ETA: lol tumblr keeps eating my audio except on my blog page. this is a functional webbed site. gdrive copy below

(sorry if you're in dark mode, i couldn't be bothered to fix the images of the music being transparent pngs and i don't think? i can put a pdf on tumblr? lmao)

Heavily based on @fialleril​‘s Amavikkan worldbuilding. This is almost certainly too openly revolutionary to actually sing at any point in the stories, but…

Lyrics below the cut.

Keep reading

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 2, day 22

hehehehehehehahahahahaAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*ahem* Um, anyway, I did wind up having to make some adjustments on where the suns and falcons go to better match the topology of the axe head, which is gonna make the squiggly bits fun to fit in :)

[kawaoneechan]

Just after posting these un-elaborated-on song lyrics, Tumblr started returning HTTP 420.

Fuck you, Tumblr. I was enjoying a vibe, not smoking weed!

[t4tdanvis]

hm. interesting.

[malledhrim]

Love trying to find a post I’ve seen for days in my recommendeds, and the second I want to actually rb it, it disappears

[hawkeabelas]

is that thing still true where only the first five tags on a post count

[yourlocalxenomorph3]

okay genuinely why is tumblr taking over an hour to process a minute-long video

why does it take tumblr so fucking long to process video uploads

[screentones-webcomicresources]

There are many web hosting companies to choose from if you're taking the plunge into making your own website with a comic content management system (CMS) like ComicControl or Grawlix, a Wordpress comic theme like Toocheke or ComicPress, or a HTML template to cut/paste code like Rarebit. While these solutions are generally free, finding a home for them is... generally not. It can be hard to choose what's best for your webcomic AND your budget!

We took a look at a few of the top hosting services used by webcomics creators using webcomic CMSes, and we put out a poll to ask your feedback about your hosts!

This post may be updated as time goes on as new services enter the hosting arena, or other important updates come to light.

Questions:

💻 I can get a free account with Wix/Squarespace/Carrd, could I just use those for my comic? - Web hosts like this may have gallery functions that could be adapted to display a series of pages, but they are very basic and not intended for webcomics.

📚 Wait, I host on Webtoon, Tapas, Comic Fury, or some other comic website, why are they not here? - Those are comic platforms! We'll get into those in a future post!

🕵️‍♀️Why does it say "shared hosting"? Who am I sharing with? - "Shared hosting" refers to sharing the server space with other customers. They will not have access to your files or anything, so it is perfectly fine to use for most comic CMSes. You may experience slowing if there is too much activity on a server, so if you're planning to host large files or more than 10 comics, you may want to upgrade to a more robust plan in the future.

Web Host List

Neocities

Basic plan pricing: Free or $5/month. Free plan has more restrictions (1 GB space, no custom domain, and slower bandwidth, among other things)

Notes: Neocities does not have database support for paid or free accounts, and most comic CMS solutions require this (ComicCtrl, Grawlix, Wordpress). You will need to work with HTML/CSS files directly to make a website and post each page.

Hostinger

Basic plan pricing: $11.99/month or $7.99/month with four year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 4 year plans available).

Notes: Free domain for the 1st year. Free SSL Certifications. Weekly backups.

KnownHost

Basic plan pricing: $8.95/month or $7.99/month with four year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 4 year plans available).

Notes: Free DDOS protection. Free SSL Certifications.

InMotion Hosting

Basic plan pricing: $12.99/month or $9.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, and 3 year plans available).

Notes:  Free SSL Certifications, free domain names for 1 and 3 year plans. 24/7 live customer service and 90-day money-back guarantee. Inmotion also advertises eco-friendly policies: We are the first-ever Green Data Center in Los Angeles. We cut cooling costs by nearly 70 percent and reduce our carbon output by more than 2,000 tons per year.

Reviews:

👍“I can't remember it ever going down.”

👍“InMotion has a pretty extensive library full of various guides on setting up and managing websites, servers, domains, etc. Customer service is also fairly quick on responding to inquiries.” 👎“I wish it was a bit faster with loading pages.”

Ionos Hosting

Basic plan pricing: $8/month or $6/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 2 and 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free domain for the first year, free SSL Certification, Daily backup and recovery is included. Site Scan and Repair is free for the first 30 days and then is $6/month.

Reviews:

👍“Very fast and simple” 👎“Customer service is mediocre and I can't upload large files”

Bluehost

Basic plan pricing: $15.99/month or $4.95/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free domain and SSL certificates (for first year only). 24/7 Customer Service. Built to handle higher traffic websites. Although they specialize in Wordpress websites and provide updates automatically, that's almost a bad thing for webcomic plugins because they will often break your site. Their cloud hosting services are currently in early access with not much additional information available.

Reviews:

👎"The fees keep going up. Like I could drop $100 to cover a whole year, but now I'm paying nearly $100 for just three months. It's really upsetting."

👎"I have previously used Bluehost’s Wordpress hosting service and have had negative experiences with the service, so please consider with a grain of salt. I can confirm at least that their 24/7 customer service was great, although needed FAR too often."

Dreamhost

Basic plan pricing: $7.99/month or $5.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free SSL Certificates, 24/7 support with all plans, 97-day moneyback guarantee. Not recommended for ComicCtrl CMS

Reviews:

👍“They've automatically patched 2 security holes I created/allowed by mistake.” 👍“Prices are very reasonable” 👎 “back end kind of annoying to use” 👎 “wordpress has some issues” 👎 “it's not as customizable as some might want“

GoDaddy

Basic plan pricing: $11.99/month or $9.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free 24/7 Customer service with all plans, Free SSL Certificates for 1 year, free domain and site migration.

Reviews:

👍Reasonable intro prices for their Economy hosting, which has 25GB of storage 👍Migrated email hosting service from cPanel to Microsoft Office, which has greater support but may not be useful for most webcomic creators. 👎 Many site issues and then being upsold during customer service attempts. 👎 Server quality found lacking in reviews 👎 Marketing scandals in the past with a reputation for making ads in poor taste. Have been attempting to clean up that image in recent years. 👎 “GoDaddy is the McDonald's of web hosting. Maybe the Wal-Mart of hosting would be better. If your website was an object you would need a shelf to put it on. You go to Wal-Mart and buy a shelf. It's not great. It's not fancy. It can only hold that one thing. And if we're being honest - if the shelf broke and your website died it wouldn't be the end of the world.The issue comes when you don't realize GoDaddy is the Wal-Mart of hosting. You go and try to do things you could do with a quality shelf. Like, move it. Or add more things to it.” MyWorkAccountThisIs on Reddit*

Things to consider for any host:

💸 Introductory/promotional pricing - Many hosting companies offer free or inexpensive deals to get you in the door, and then raise the cost for these features after the first year or when you renew. The prices in this post are the base prices that you can expect to pay after the promotional prices end, but may get outdated, so you are encouraged to do your own research as well.

💻 Wordpress hosting - Many of the companies below will have a separate offering for Wordpress-optimized hosting that will keep you updated with the latest Wordpress releases. This is usually not necessary for webcomic creators, and can be the source of many site-breaking headaches when comic plugins have not caught up to the latest Wordpress releases.

Any basic hosting plan on this list will be fine with Wordpress, but expect to stop or revert Wordpress versions if you go with this as your CMS.

🤝 You don't have to go it alone - While free hosts may be more limited, paid hosting on a web server will generally allow you to create different subdomains, or attach additional purchased domains to any folders you make. If you have other comic-making friends you know and trust, you can share your server space and split the cost!

Want to share your experience?

Feel free to contribute your hosting pros, cons, and quirks on our survey! We will be updating our list periodically with your feedback!