Pinned
Here's all my sideblog if any of y'all are interested
@glasstrashart -all my art collected on this blog
@glasstrashneoblr - neopets sideblog
@aratraios - comic sideblog (not much there yet :( )
@glasstrashreblogs - reblog sideblog
@glass-animall-crossing - animal crossing sideblog
Art tags are: #glass art and #glassart
when you find a friends oc hot thats literally it for you. they practically own your soul. youve entered a fail state in which they can put on a sockpuppet and do a silly voice and make you swoon like youve locked eyes with a gorgeous fortysomething dyke at the bar
THOUGHT I LEFT THIS ONE IN DRAFTS. I POSTED IT????
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
i have already personally backed up all of my tumblr posts but this is a good reminder for everyone else
Hiii. Okay, so... very few people are even going to know what I'm going to ramble on about in this post.
It's about an au/fanfiction I was very attached to that I am now letting go of
This is mostly for me. So I can feel a bit of closure.
This post marks the end of my production on Mirror Image
At least for now.
I don't know if I'll want to return to it in the future.
And, I'll go on to explain what I had planned for the story, but first I just want to just... Ramble about my feelings towards the whole thing.
I need to do this. Because what once was a driving force of creativity and motivation for me, has now become something I feel weighed down and shackled to.
And like.
It ain't never that serious to anyone except me.
For those who don't know:
Mirror Image, or the submas reflection au... Was a project that got me through some of my darkest times. Ingo was and still is a character I'm VERY heavily attached to. Even when I'm not posting about him or Emmet he stay on my mind fr. Ingo, Emmet, and the submas community were (sadly) some of the only things that seriously kept me alive. I wish I was joking. I am not.
So perhaps you can see why this project is really painful to let go of
I cried about it. Hard. No seriously, my mom came in to check on me, and I had to explain it was actually really embarrassing.
It was a story that I put a lot of thought into, and I put what I needed to hear in it, what I needed to feel, experience, to keep me going.
And I say all this just to put into perspective how much this is and story meant to me, even if it was only enjoyed by a few people. Even if my initial love towards it soured.
It still means a lot to me.
So...
Here are the plot beats I wanted to hit in Mirror Image.
Asexuality day let’s goooo
Credits to @kalcifers-blog for inspiring this one, song bellow the cut!
HEHEHEHHEHE
What is their go-to comfort food?
Quickly, let them give us some life advice!
And what would you say to comfort them?
With Hopkins :3c
Hehehehehe!!!!!
Hopkins really hasn't had a lot of options when it comes to food throughout the campaign, but if he has the option to choose anything in the whole world. It would be literally anything his dads make. That would really comfort him right now.
"Take no shit and kill the people making your life miserable >:D"
What I would say to him,,, is that he isn't a failure for being afraid. And that he doesn't need to put all of his own feelings on hold because there's other shit going on. It's okay to focus on yourself, little buddy. You're not alone.
36 with Hopkins! 💛
36. What would they gift to their partner or their best friends to show their affection?
He would absolutely get different gifts depending on the person he was getting it for.
this post is going to quickly make no sense to anyone who does not have any context for who everyone is
Hopkins would def get most of the party practical gifts, but also things that just remind him of them. Mcgee and Yule would probably get mostly flowers or flower-shaped things. Cyra gets anything star or crystal related, Hadeon gets anything horse related, and most of the things Hopkins would get Zuzu would probably be food. Hopkins doesn't know Davey well enough to get him anything quite yet dfhgkjhgjf
Hopkins already traded a real ass god damn sword for Win to have as many paints as she wanted in canon fgkjhgfhjgfhj Thats his fucking Bestie and he will do anything to make his bestie happy fjkhgfdkhgf
Wholesome OC ask 18. What is their favourite hobby? Would they share it with someone they love?
For Hopkins
I don't know if I'd call it a hobby, but Hopkins Loves anything to do with knives and violence dfkjhgfkdhgdfg He likes to feel strong, especially when he's so much smaller and younger than everyone around him
He also likes reading (warrior cats specifically) and drawing :3 He Absolutely shares that with the people around him. If he's ever given the opportunity, he will infodump about Warriors to anyone who'd listen jfdhgkfdhghgf
20 with Reed and 5 with Orion :3
20. What is their hidden talent? Is that a skill they've been practicing since childhood or just something they happen to know and never had the chance to show? Besides, was it something forced upon them, taught by someone close, or they picked it up themselves?
Since he's worked with his spell marbles for many many years now, Reed has taught himself how to hand juggle the small spheres in unique ways. At first it was just a figit, rolling the marbles around his fingers while he studied his magic. But over time he taught himself and practiced to the point of being able to fluidly roll the marbles across the back of his hands and do small tricks with them between his fingers.
He also knows how to dance! But that one is more of an open secret lol
5. What is the song you most associate to them?
Altale by Sakuzyo! :D A friend showed it to me and it absolutely fits Orion's vibe! (I think I'm wanna clean up and render this sketch later lol sorry that its so messy)
cool people :D @therealjacksepticeye @turquoisemagpie
Wrap up your OC in a blanket burrito and let’s answer some questions!
Have fun and feel free to add more questions if you like ��
