hello, i am kaz! ✨ i am a space werewitch from Pluto who loves talking about ocs, and drawing buff ladies with giant axes, and dragons, and i also write and do a bunch of other stuff. I do post nsfw 🔞 so no minors, please.

art tag #kaz draws things, talking tag #bluh bluh, oc tag #kaz oc, quiet art-only sideblog @affectionatetea, hellaverse sideblog @kazoimp (isn’t active anymore, just an archive)

Lately I’ve been mostly on bsky, and only sometimes remember to crosspost here 😬 tumblr really hates reblogging and nsfw and it’s a huge bummer…

Feel free to unfollow or block at will, you are responsible for curating your online experience however you see fit!

I am generally friendly and up for answering questions or being tagged in things! I’m just also very quiet and anxious.

dragons-locator:

crowvern:

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(made using the pattern here! though i made the wings with my own patterns, and downsized the head some.)

little man COMPLETE!
took several months to make because i FORGOT i had NO PLASTIC BEANS to fill this guy with. and then struggled with embroidering the eyes on because as it turns it out that is Very Hard to do when you’ve already assembled all the fabric pieces together. so. his eyes get to stay closed. permanently sleepy….

DRAGONS LOCATED

[image id: several pictures from different angles of a green and brown plush dragon. The eyes are a single line of embroidery so they look closed.]

stellanslashgeode:

ofishal-fish-posts:

Since there’s been another “Tumblr is gonna die!” scare, let’s do a poll…

If Tumblr dies, where will you go?

Waffle House

Dark alley

Swamp

Probably haunted house

Dashcon ballpit

Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience

McDonald’s PlayPlace

launched into orbit

under the sea (with the fish)

Cardboard box

shouting my shitposts at random people

Living in the walls at Tumblr HQ

Rb for larger sample size appreciated :)

i’ve been busy achieving new, unpredecendented levels of horniness for a comic i’m working on for femblitz week 😎 no one will see it here, though, so it’ll just be on bsky later this month. ko-fi supporters got a tip on how to see it early, tho! ☕💕

derinthescarletpescatarian:

girlfriendsofthegalaxy:

the960writers:

rlyehtaxidermist:

ephemeralhorror:

ephemeralhorror:

why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

“if you have a prosthetic it takes out a part of your soul” like thanks shadowrun

in early cyberpunk, the point was more along the lines of “if we integrate technology into our bodies we risk becoming dependent upon the people and institutions who control that technology, who would then use that to enrich themselves at our expense”

unfortunately that was too anti-corporate for American mainstream culture so as cyberpunk moved out of its niche it became “uhhh it eats your soul I guess”

tags by @rubyvroom: 

#this is important context #if you weren’t around at the time it is easy to miss but #anti-corporate sentiment was pretty much the lynchpin of cyberpunk until there were movies and games making money off it #it was the 1980s you guys #the entire point was that corporations are evil and technology should be used to circumvent them and escape their control over our lives #and not be used to make ourselves into another product #now that the internet is entirely monetized and corporate it’s harder to remember that originally it was synonymous w freedom & independence

Yes, exactly. Cyberpunk is anti-corporations, not anti-body-modification.

#the real horror is medical debt ( tag via @bronanlynch )

And they (the original message, not Shadowrun) were right. So many people with prosthetics and sensory aids and insulin pumps and so forth are at the mercy of the bloodthirsty corporations who own the rights to their devices.

aeroknot:

mhalachai:

lyteupthelyfe:

thehellsword:

themodernmaccabee:

sugarycoffeebean:

doggendoodle:

myothertardisisonthemun:

miss-bubles:

ghoulgoon:

ghoulgoon:

i think rickrolling is the only meme that gets objectively funnier with age. in 2009 you learned to anticipate it but in 2019 it happens just infreqently enough that i fall for it every single time

like people still make rage comics and doge jokes and shit but it’s always ironic (the real punchline is that you’re using an outdated format) or more in line with modern absurd internet humor. rickrolling is the only meme i can think of that’s been the exact same for a full decade- click on a link thinking you’re getting something else, get rick astley instead, and it’s still consistently funny

the more time passes the more foolish you feel for falling for a rickroll as well. Like darn I learnt about this prank 10+ years ago how did I just fall for it now,

Plus, as far as memes go, turns out it’s still incredibly popular 

Nooope. Nope, you can’t get me. I’m not clicking on that link and you can’t make me.

I am a fool for clicking

it’s honestly so, so fascinating—here’s a graph I found that estimates how many people have been rickrolled in the past decade!

Originally posted by supplimental

Youtube themselves got rickrolled in December 2020

brownheadedcowbird:

brbeth:

noknowshame:

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says ��that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

I think…you might be right

what the fuck

rot-iron:

Some more process work from Hotblood! Vol. 1: The Land of Promise. I heard tumblr probably won’t be the next pdf, so I made a dedicated bsky to share updates about the book launch :)

uhrwerk-und-eisen:

catboybignaturals:

duerede:

duerede:

mudwerks:

100% atk and 0% dmg baby goat

ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ. ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ & ᴋɪʟʟɪɴɢ & ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ

The goat a gnome warlord would ride into battle

Reblog to headbutt prev

Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!

erinbowbooks:

guerrillatech:

Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father on Father’s Day…his grave is annually shot by local police

.Some context for this:

-Fred Hampton was a black activist from Chicago – an extraordinary speaker, youth organizer for the NAACP. 

-He joined the Black Panthers and shone so brightly that he was made chair of the Chicago chapter when he was only 20.

-He founded the Rainbow Coalition, which brought together Black and Latino activists and radical anti-poverty Catholics.  He forged an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them make peace and work for social change.

-In 1967, when he was just 19, Hampton was identified by the FBI as a “radical threat.” The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation to get the groups he’d drawn together to distrust each other, and getting an FBI plant next to him as a bodyguard.  

-(This is part of an illegal FBI program called COINTELPRO, which aimed to paint black civil rights activists (among others) as violent and threatening.  If you’ve only seen pictures of the Black Panthers as armed and dangerous revolutionaries, and never heard of their children’s breakfast program, their community health clinics, or their “copwatch” patrols, this is why.   It’s because COINTELPRO was a highly successful work of political propaganda.)  

-On December 3, 1969, Hampton taught a political education course at a local church, and then several Panthers gathered at his apartment for a late dinner.  One of them was the FBI plant bodyguard, who drugged Hampton.  

-At 4:45 AM on December 4, a squad of Chicago Police officers and FBI agents with a warrant to search for weapons stormed the apartment. Investigations later showed they fired between 90 and 99 times.  The Panther on security detail, Mark Clark, was holding a shotgun.  He was shot, and the gun went off into the ceiling.  This was the only shot fired by the Panthers. 

-Fred Hampton, in another room, didn’t awaken.  He was shot in his bed.  Twice, in the head, at point-blank range.  He was 21.  

-Four weeks after witnessing Hampton’s death, his finance Deborah Johnson gave birth to their son, Fred Hampton Jr.  That’s him in the photograph, visiting the grave of a father who died before he was born.  A resting place riddled with bullets.  

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

stuckyparty:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

What the “haha millennials can’t even make phone calls” crowd fails to appreciate is that making phone calls is a far more user-hostile and physically uncomfortable experience than it was 15-20 years ago.

It used to be you picked up a landline, which had physical buttons and at its smallest was still 3x larger than a smartphone, dialed the actual location you wanted to call (instead of a corporate call center) and you could actually talk to someone with access to the store computer/government records/dinner reservations that actually fucking applied to you.

You could also actually hold the phone with your shoulder without it hurting, which freed your hands up to cook or eat, or type on a computer, etc. it didn’t require an accessory you had to keep charged. It was built into the phone’s physical design!!!

It sucks more to do phone calls now! Like it just does!!!

The most mundanely dehumanizing experience I’ve had in the last few years was when I called a domino’s to troubleshoot a pizza order and they directed me to a call center in a different state.

“We had to automate it because nobody would do the job!”

PAY YOUR FUCKING WORKERS

Wrong, it’s important to talk to people. It’s how you live in a society. Not being able to talk to people for three minutes is how we got in this mess.

The first two posts on your blog are supernatural and captain america did you fall asleep in 2015 and just wake up

Buddy I lived it.

ellieinafternoontea:

don’t bite me！

hug-your-face:

hug-your-face:

via @swatercolor [insta]

This is the best tag I’ve ever received on a post, I think

eel-slap:

victusinveritas:

Good advice, and two cautions: fava beans can be harmful for people with G6PD deficiency (if you have that, you likely know you do) and kidney beans MUST be both soaked and fully cooked to remove toxic compounds similar to those in castor beans. Kidney beans are probably the one bean it’s better to just buy canned for that reason.

natalici0art:

“But this is how I really am…I always knew…”

butchlinkle:

plaidos:

jv:

jv:

jv:

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:

1. download and install python 2.7
2. download tumblr-utils
3. create an application on tumblr to get an api key
4. extract the tumblr-utils zip and open the tumblr_backup.py file in notepad
5. search for “API” and paste in your OAuth consumer key
6. then go back to the folder where you extracted tumblr-utils and choose open folder in terminal / command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar while inside the folder

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