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god I fuckign love ocs. my characters. my friend's characters. the characters of mutuals ive never spoken to. the characters of artists ive followed and maybe spoken to a little more. the characters of complete strangers I see in passing and think "aw that's cool". if you have ten fans I am one if you have one fan it is me etc etc. I love you

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Reblog with your score

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Virtu Aoidos set~ 🏹

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Hey there! I've been considering whipping up something for 'MiqoMay', considering that MiqoMarch not only falls during a bad time for me (seasonal depression, ugh), but I couldn't come up with anything new for the same prompts as last year, with my creativity at an all time low (my physical health was in the dumps too)... and I miss being to engage with it! I miss writing and photography prompts!

Would people be interested in another round of Miqo-love? I was even debating keeping it to 3-5x a week, so there's less pressure to do something every... single...day. Unless every day is more appealing to others? Prompt ideas also welcome, else I'll otherwise just hit a random word generator and go from there to make it work with XIV.

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If i’m open commission… will there be anyone interested??

I have a pre-retinal hemorrhage on my right eye which causes a blurry vision. Now i have to rely on my left eye for my daily routine. Also i need money for my medical bill. I have open comission once s a long time ago. I wonder if anyone still interested?

I might not be able to draw a full cg. But a chibi or skech is okay. (I can’t look at the screen more than 10 mins i have to. Take a break.) hit me up if you interested. If there are a lot. I will make the commission rate and contact you back.

Thanks in advance.

BLF19

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STOP GIVING HER MONEY FOR FUCK'S SAKE

I haven't purchased a HP item in close to a decade - I use the books I already had as doorstops or to prop a laptop up for meetings nowadays.

There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.

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reblog to cast level 5 spell: everyone who reads this gets a full night sleep

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Back on the Ragnarok

Commission for @dawn-forged!

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IMPORTANT: TUMBLR HAS MADE A DEAL WITH MIDJOURNEY/OPENAI.

YOUR ART AND IMAGES ON TUMBLR ARE BEING USED TO TRAIN AI MODELS.

The opt-in is automatic, but you can turn it off in settings.

Go to "Blog Settings" -> "Visibility" -> "Third-Party Sharing" and turn it off. (Visual example here.) You need to do this with every sideblog.

Spread the word. Everyone on Tumblr needs to know about this.

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Ten People, Ten Songs

Share ten songs shuffled at random from a playlist. Not tagged, but I saw @eriyu do this and I want to do it too!

I'm gonna use my road trip tunes and definitely not because it's only one of two playlists i have and the other is my bedtime playlist what are you talking about

I Will Show You - Ailee

On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons

BOOMBAYAH - BLACKPINK

Lollipop (Candyman) - Aqua

Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

The Light - Disturbed

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Fair Winds to Guide - Soken Masayoshi

The Call of Destiny 2 - Jeon Dongseok

Scream - Dreamcatcher

Tag 10 people - @seasideloner @stellarfatalism @velnica @sophexheri @lelu-kitakaze-izar @maccaroni-eh @eld-creative @hamstr @aeonianflames @kuromanyan

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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Terms related to "shipping" and their usage

How terms related to "shipping" are used within fandom spaces: the original meanings and how they've been twisted.

Proship

Proshipper

Anti(-shipper)

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There's a post going around Tumblr about how if you're post-menopausal and have bleeding, you should get it checked by your doctor. I brought some minor bleeding I'd had up in a doctor visit earlier this year, prompted by that post, and this week, after a biopsy, I found out I have cancer. It's early stage and the survival odds at 5 years are 99%. I have an oncologist appointment and we may have caught it early enough that surgery alone will be sufficient treatment (no radiation/chemo).

So that post may have saved my life and it may have made my treatment a lot easier too.

If you get into menopause and then start bleeding again, really, get your reproductive innards checked out. The life you save may be your own.

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Why can't I be a professional blorbo thinker

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I've been doing the Vanu beast tribe quests and ran across this one, where they basically give you fantasy catnip and have you catch five of these adorable little critters.

I had just caught a second intoxicated gaelicat when it suddenly hit me, that my Warrior of Light is a miqo'te. And now I can't stop wondering about this...