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"The Waever" and "The King" are both now on my inprnt store!
You can check them out here.
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is anyone else also doing ultimately fine + dying of stress + itβs not that bad + if i donβt wake up tomorrow hotter and better at every hobby its fucking over for me
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Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time
To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.
I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.
And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform π€·
for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblrβs inner workings. please back your blogs up.
ok, yes, I am, but let me clear things a bit, because some people may read too much in what I'm saying just because I used to be staff.
No one has told me "tumblr is going to close n X days" or anything like that. For what I know, current staff doesn't even have any idea of what's next (or at least they didn't last week).
But. Anyone who has followed me here for a while may tell you that I've been chanting "the end is neeeear! Repeeent!" for at least three years. But in every single post, every single time, I always tried to be super clear about how I didn't think tumblr was in immediate danger, that I thought Tumblr wasn't sustainable in the long run, but that there always were several steps that need to be taken before tumblr was at real risk of closing.
Well. Now all those steps all have been taken. Last week's automattic layoffs have left tumblr absolutely guttered. Not only the number of people working on this site is ridiculously low, but also... who. Every single engineer who was specialized on tumblr (people who have been here from the Yahoo/Verizon times or folks who joined more recently but Tumblr is the only division of automattic they have worked at) has been laid off. Every. Single. Person.
The engineers still on staff are awesome, they are very good. They are also the ones that have previous experience in other automattic products, so they could be re-assigned tomorrow and hit the floor running in any other division.
Also the number. You couldn't field an entire football (real foot-ball, not hand-egg) team with the engineers left on staff. It's hard to explain how absurdly low that number is if you don't work in the industry, but imagine a university where there used to be 90-100 professors than suddenly got downsized to 1/10th of that.
This is not sustainable, tumblr can't be run with so little people in the long term. It's not "they can't improve the site", it's "things are going to fail and there won't be anyone there to fix them". Hell, if want to keep a micro-team of people keeping this site running, you don't layoff someone like Cyle, who literally knows more about how this thing work than anyone alive or death.
So what's going to happen in the future is either: close tumblr ( either entirely or force-integrating it on WordPress.com) or sell tumblr. The later may look good, but I doubt any of the realistic options for potential buyers would let the site in a good state.
So no, I don't think there's a sustainable future for a site with barely any staff to keep it running. There may not even be a sustainable mid-term.
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Hazbin Hotel TLK AU: Alastor's Lullaby
"Lilith is gone, but Al's still around To teach this little gal 'Til she learns to be a killer With the lust for being bad!"
Back with my Lion King AU, I can't stop thinking as Alastor as Zira, he has the same unhingenness. And I can see him trying to teach/manipulate Charlie to do what he wants.
Planned to do this for International Asexuality Day (but I'm late as always lmao)
Hazbin Hotel TLK AU: Alastor's Lullaby
"Lilith is gone, but Al's still around To teach this little gal 'Til she learns to be a killer With the lust for being bad!"
Back with my Lion King AU, I can't stop thinking as Alastor as Zira, he has the same unhingenness. And I can see him trying to teach/manipulate Charlie to do what he wants.
Planned to do this for International Asexuality Day (but I'm late as always lmao)
My two top favorite comments about my art have been so far
1. It looks like it belongs to a concept art book
And
2. This dick looks so real, like you have actually seen this character's penis
Last one so funny because im a very much virgin sex repulsed aroace whose best look at a human dick it's from statues and a corpse in a morgue when i wanted to study medicine.
Anonymous asked:
I cheer and celebrate whenever you post any art! But I celebrate especially hard whenever you post nude people. You have an amazing grasp on anatomy, and you break it to make it more interesting! And that's so much fun and impressive!
Thank you a lot!
And it's all because i don't like drawing clothes lmao OTL
But idk it's easier and maybe it's the biologist in me that loves going under every single detail. I still make my fair amount of mistakes, i dont think any artist that draws nudes do it perfectly, but that's the fun on it i suppose
That doesn't mean im not trying to get better at clothing! I'm having more fun with armors lately. Studying cosplayers has been interesting, and it helped me a lot to understand how they work and what they do in circumstances. Like Eurylochous, for example, having a big sword it's cool and all, but i wanted to get how he would wield it. I found a good video on it and that's why i give him more clothing and it worked! It aligned perfect with his character and I didn't feel i was just putting extra materials just because. If i, myself, don't get it, it will show in the drawing
Same goes with anatomy and muscles: once you understand how one muscle makes the others react, you can show it with the weight and skin and it's what i like when i do my nude drawings.
Mistakes will be made, of course, but the good part of them is that you can become better once you made them. "You can't go lower than the floor, only up" used to say one of my dance teachers.
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i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better
are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces
Me: ah shit, I misidentified that yellow rumped warbler as a female goldfinch, I should literally be hung at the gallows for this. I'm such an IDIOT
My friend, pointing at a vulture: check out that fucked up crow lol