@ranaeley / ranaeley.tumblr.com
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Realized I still haven't made an introductory post, so...
I'm RanaeLey (but you can call me Rana)! I'm an aspiring artist and character animator. The art you see on here will be mostly fanart, but I post OC stuff too on occasion!
As of right now, I am only here on Tumblr (and on Artfight). If that changes, this post will be updated :)
People used to comment on web comics.
People used to comment on fanfiction.
People used to comment on fanart.
People used to comment on OCs.
I hate "content" culture.
I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.
People used to be excited about the art that other people created.
People used to want to share that excitement with creators.
I hate this future.
Once someone tagged art that I made with "woah" and I think about it at least once a week. Someone else said "oh neat" once. Someone else WROTE A WHOLE DAMN POEM IN THE COMMENTS. Anyways even just one word can change how someone sees their art. You don't even have to think about it too hard. You could put a keyboard smash and I'd probably cry from joy.
I'm also trying hard to interact more, I understand that it's hard to break away from opening your phone and being in Content Consumption Mode.
I honestly hadn't stopped to think about this until I saw this post... I used to think people would get annoyed if they were notified everytime someone posted a comment on their art. I never thought about it being like fanfiction and that they might appreciate comments. Frick, that means I'm part of the problem on here. Thats gotta change.
Every tag, every comment, every reblog with some kind of reaction/opinion or even just one word. All of these things are precious to creators!
I spent countless hours reading and rereading tags full of love people left under my art. All the people i could gift a laugh to or even inspire with something I made mean more to me then you could ever know.
It's what makes me proud of my art!
And to think that you could have enjoyed my art in silence and I would have never known.
A very special shout out to the person who tagged "these mcgriddles make me want to shit so bad" on fanart in 2013 I think about you once a day
tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)
HELL YEAH LET’s GO
This was fun :D tagging (no pressure ofc!): @offbrandoreo, @coffee-n-sleep, @samstudios8108, @quathxr, @jc-martin-og, @existencebringsonlypluey
Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week
Drinking spiders??!
You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.
And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.
I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.
We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.
I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.
It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,
if you're seeing this pretty please make yourself in this picrew it's really pretty I'm begging you
honestly rlly like how it turned out AND ive two people on here that can tell me whether they think i was accurate or not….
just tagging the moots, @thedivided @yronica @sodaroniii @beneathsakurashade @starsarejustplasma @scatterplot-official @millicentkisser and anyone elde…
AWWWHH i love piccrews ty for tagging me hehe
they didnt quite have the right hair length for me but this is pretty close!! im so glad they had eyebrow slits cause they almost always miss that. plus i own these exact earrings and this exact jacket #love
taggginnngggg @thelittlefrogblog @h3n5h1 @qwalexa @manofshrimp @crimson-rots @008lux @graphmo @oilith
and a billion other people spiritually who i want to tag but i forgor their actual blog names other than their fruit cult blogs 😭😭😭😭😭😭
There's no septum...! What a tragedy lmao. Ty for the tag!
@lunar-jewels i think you're gonna have fun with this, it has your hair!
ooo, it does have my hair! hooray!!
My hair is not that blond (any more) but there were no options between very blond and too dark brown, alas
No pressure tags for @whotookthenamelunasticethatsmine @just-a-random-dungeon-master @a-dark-void @ribbity-rabbit-420 @somecrazypants @thevillagequeer @hellomagicalsouls @coffee-n-sleep @spellwell and anyone else who would like to join!
Thank ye for the tag @acetypeface!!!!!!
I need to cut my hair soon probably
No pressure tags: @bloodied-dagger @rainbowangel110 @hecateisalesbian @temporary-temporal-temper @kyndyr-gardyn @feathersnflowers @idontliketomatoesleavemealone @existencebringsonlypain @childlikegoblinqueen @findmeinthefallair @a-concert-just-for-me @lucent-roase @zibiscusloon @willowsz-plantsz @ranaeley @for-those-who-wait and anyone else who wishes to join!!!!!
Tagging @offbrandoreo, @samstudios8108, @quathxr, and anyone else interested in joining
i was preparing a wet specimen one day and my dad was like this reminds me of my work buddy who ties dollar store balloons to roadkill and watches them fly away. and i had to drop everything for a second and say no. no i dont think this is like that
do you think prev is older or younger than you?
Expression is sacred, and imagination is not illegal, but when your imagination is not from the soul, and expressed with stolen talents, then you don't deserve protection, but only punishment.
A MARTYR?????
i looked into this a bit more and studio ghibli didnt even send him a cease and desist. he faked the letter. hes pretending at being a martyr because.... if i were to guess, business is slow lol. what a loser
i just think it says a lot about the person. my favorite is a bear named theodore
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 🤷
for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.
In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.
Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.
If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).
To use it:
now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:
Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.
On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.
This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know
but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts
if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!
tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down
if you're having trouble with this one (like i was) i recommend this forked version that works with python 3! very easy to use. just make sure you have python 3 installed.
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