#this tumblr lives with a bug

[lawbreaker13]

The sheer statistical difference in the use of beta polls versus tumblr live is killing me. Look at this

8 people go live. Clearly all bots or at least not your standard tumblr users. 315 total participants between the 8 livestreams including one with nobody tuned in at all.

One poll. Snail race. Five options, all the same emoji. 41,482 notes. 125,259 votes and counting.

This is the platform I want to be on.

[hellsitegenetics]

hey!! I’m doing insect and spider research and I would love to know what type of organism (hopefully an insect or spider lol) the research as a whole/concept would be!! I’m looking at insect community diversity and trying to connect it to red oak tree genetic diversity! I’m essentially laying sticky insect traps on tree bark, collecting the traps, and looking at them under a dissection microscope and IDing them to the family level, recording which families I find and how many of each were on each trap on each tree. Then I’ll compare it to previously collected red oak tree genetic info to see if abundance/diversity is related to individual tree genetics or genetically similar trees!

thank you, as a silly creature lover I love and respect your blog lol

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Closest match: Synanthedon andrenaeformis genome assembly, chromosome: 21 Common name: Orange-tailed Clearwing

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[ot3]

the difference is so pronounced. one of these is a calm placid lake the other one of these looks like a malware infested trash heap with some blue paint on it

[exlimix1a]

Quick piece of @luluyamofficial 's character Lucelia + a 30 second speedpaint!

[greenieart]

More tiny paintings I did in January 💚

[moyarb]

The fact that I cannot tell if the Tumblr Live icon staying on mobile despite toggling the snooze option is just a glitch or because Staff is notoriously bad at making things user friendly is just hilarious.

[milk-lover]

it’s been like 20 hours and I’m still legit upset about accidentally cilcking the caterpillar on bug race instead of snail like i was scrolling and i didn’t even LNOW polls were a thing yet and i hit it mid scroll as i was scrolling i hit it on ACCIDENT and i would have voted snail not fucking caterpillar and now snail is LOSING and I’m so SAD bc i CONTRIBUTED to that. I wake up in a cold sweat every night knowing that i fucked up and there’s nothing i can do about it

[seastawright]

some redesigns of adopts I've gotten fairly recently!! been having fun giving these guys all solid concepts finally. I'm so in love w them all

[jitterbugbear]

beetle :)

[omega-shiva]

Garden.

[wip]

Will you guys fix the problem with editing answers for asks?

And also when will Live be gone for good?

Answer: Hey, @julyzaa!

Two questions need two answers. 

Firstly, we are glad to say that the issue with editing answers was fixed as of Android 32.7, which just went out to y’all in the last week or so.

Secondly, the Live question. Tumblr Live is due to be shut down on January 24, and you can find out more here. There will be more information to come here, but that’s the long and short of it for now.

Thanks for your question, and have a good day!

[aceghostie]

[Image description: Trade offer meme (a man labeled "tumblr staff" sitting with hands steepled, above his head reads "trade offer")

The left reads "you receive" with a small screenshot below of an official tumblr banner stating "Tumblr Live is shutting down on January 24, 2024"

The right reads "i receive: no double tap to like" /End ID]

[getvalentined]

We're back into absolutely ancient OC territory; I think the last time I drew K'moh was like 2006? Might have been later, though. Unfortunately, the gallery where I had all the original artwork of the character no longer exists, so I can't go check. Tragic, really.

K'moh is a male black widow spider (referred to as a "widower" in his society) and he has a lot of fingers, so flipping someone off does not look as emphatic as it does when a member of his mostly-mammalian staff does it. The mandible-bearing is an arachnid analogue, but non-arthropods don't really understand it very well so he just does both for clarity's sake.

[coolbugpics]

purple! 20203-2024

[stxph-artist]

if I do a hunger games simulator with the bugs, then what??

[criminal-sen]

Me: boy I sure am nice to bugs! They sometimes still scare the shit outta me but I've come so far:'3

The biggest spider I've ever seen in NY/New England area, crawling across my floor with a lil bindle (bc he is moving in): 😎