howley and aziraphil are here to save the world

howley and aziraphil are here to save the world

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

After SIX MONTHS I have another Rabbit Lightning fic... that I wrote two years ago. This one ft. Redd and Lohn and some post-quarantine lovin'.

Ask For What You Need

🐰 17.9k ⋆ NC-17

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P.S. If you want Redd's "I got the Dolly vaccine" t-shirt, that's here.

And so is this -- the official Rabbit Lightning t-shirt in Mythical's Amazon store doesn't ship to New Zealand, so I made my own.

sidenote i can't believe i posted this on rhett and link kiss day

A dogfish pack is now available for purchase at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery! 🐟

Link to their website in my pinned post.

Local purchase or international shipping available so feel free to get in contact with them if interested!

Catfish Pup - $225cad

Zebra Danio + Yellow Perch - $85 each

Spotted fish + Barred Knifejaw - $55 each

I keep meeting artists who complain that Tumblr Is Dead then when I check their blog they've made four posts in six months and all of them were self promo lmao. Influencers whining that "tumblr is useless for engagement" tells me every part of the problem, like sorry you can't just show up and farm this userbase for clicks by waving buzzwords around the way you can on tiktok. This is the Excited About Stupid Things website reblog some shitty fanart or die

what do you MEAN people don't want to hang out in your curated space and chat with you and look at your work when your space is uhhh entirely crossposting shop links from instagram. you look like a fucking bot lmao

#i keep vaguely wondering when one of those artists is gonna show up and get indignant about this but #they won't find it because they don't use tumblr to look at other posts lol

Waaaay back in 2012 I was confused about how Tumblr worked - I had created a personal blog so I wanted to showcase personal stuff, like the silly little comics I was making at the time. So i posted my comics and followed a lot of people and scrolled through my dash and liked things but didn't reblog stuff because I wanted my blog to be kind of a portfolio.

And it was really boring, and I didn't get any attention for my drawings, and having a tumblr felt kind of useless, except now I could see all the memes I'd been laughing at on imgur in context.

But then there was a comic that was cute and funny and it was about Dune (because there are active dune fans on tumblr!) So I reblogged it because nobody was looking at my blog anyway and the floodgates opened. I started reblogging regularly and adding comments and occasionally adding little comics or sketches on the comments and suddenly tumblr made sense. It was "working," because *yes* tumblr is a blogging platform, but more than that it is a social media site, and to get it to "work" you had to be social.

And that ended up getting me a job as a cartoonist. And it ended up letting me promote my band better than any other site (and thank you so much to the tumblr users who came to our shows!). And it let me build an audience of thousands of readers for my webcomic. And it is a place where I can share my art and get attention for it and promote stuff I've got on sale, and a place where i can link people to my website (because tumblr is still bad as a portfolio, even if it's good as socal media). But that only works because tumblr isn't just someplace I post, it's someplace where i hang out and people know me and we have history and a shared language of memes and shitposts.

I've had people ask how i get tumblr to work for me and the answer is, unfortunately, it only works if you live here.

This. All of this.

And yes, sex workers and artists following me who keep complaining about your low numbers, this is why it's happening to you. And part of why I reblog so much stuff and engage with folks and post personal shit as well as work- people will totally stick around for and boost your work, but you gotta have more than just that, especially if you're like me and stuck slowly churning out only ine or two new things a week at best. Interaction is the best method for tumblr.

This is absolutely true, 100% of my audience is from Tumblr - and to add my two cents, another trap I see people fall into is only blogging for/engaging with fellow artists or writers. All of my success on this site has come from being a part of the wider community, not just the niche of indie writers (which is very small, and has few exits.)

mact of the fatter is, the whole engagement economy that companies have spent years and billions trying to perfect took inspiration from the genuine connections and shit people make on tumblr and other now-dead websites. like. our engagement still means something—and means something in a non-marketing sense, but i guess in a marketing sense too? idgaf about that shit rn tho—because we’re actually engaged. we actually like each other and like the same shit, y’know? that’s what makes a recommendation from someone on tumblr or reddit actually mean something to me rather than something with the very same objective, but on tiktok.

influencer marketing tries to capitalize on people’s trust and connection with each other, but in its proliferation (idk if thats the right word we’re rocking on 4 hours of sleep, babes), degraded those very connections that it tries to leverage! somehow (and luckily) tumblr hasnt been as touched by that shit, and so lives on a little slice of humanity on this fuckin commodified-as-fuck new internet.

this is all to say, if you want to use tumblr as a marketing tool, you’re gonna have to get in the trenches and make friends. you might just end up enjoying it, believe it or not

#you wanted the party to listen? it did#you wanted a powerful man to willingly give up that power for the sake of the country and the people he swore to serve? he DID#now it's time to roll up our sleeves and convert an astonishing opportunity into a historic accomplishment (via @unstatedmartini)

“She has a chance because we are going to give her a motherfucking chance” is probably one of the stronger motivating statements I’ve seen…for years, really.

From a numbers perspective, the way Democrats (both official endorsements and regular voters) have immediately LINED UP behind Harris is something we haven’t seen since Obama and I’m honestly not sure it was this strong then (the Obama/Clinton primary competition was fierce). ActBlue (the Democrats’ political fundraising platform) raised $63 MILLION in one day yesterday, which is a record for any political fundraising ever. On the more conservative side, the Nikki Haley Voters PAC, a group that represents conservatives who oppose Trump and had already endorsed Biden, immediately endorsed Harris yesterday.

There’s tons of work to be done, and there will be challenges. The misogynoir has started and it’s going to suck and we need to be prepared for that. But this is more than a chance, this is the most energy I’ve seen from the Democrats in YEARS.

Oh and I just saw this and I cannot imagine a zoom call with 40,000 people (the call raised over $1 million in 3 hours)

I don’t want to find out about world events anymore

can't wait for biden to resign from the campaign this sunday, july 21 2024

I'm about to pass out

Long week for Cas and Dean

David "the walk" Tennant

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Joe Biden, coherently and normally: I have three issues to speak about. First, the NATO conference went well. Second, the economy is back on track and inflation is down. Third, my proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza is moving forward. Any questions?

The media: Did You Know That You Are Old

At one point Biden misspoke and said “Vice President Trump” instead of “Vice President Harris” when answering a question, but to be fair he was probably expecting a relevant question about his opponent and not literally 6 questions in a row about whether or not he’s Dead Yet

Can’t believe I went back on political Twitter for this, but I needed some sane takes after weeks of nonsense.

Biden has a stutter. Sometimes he mixes up names, replaces words, or pauses for a minute. But it’s not forgetfulness - it’s literally misspeaking. It’s not great. But it has nothing to do with his ability to govern.

This press conference showed a clear and in-depth understanding of the job he is doing, particularly in relation to NATO and foreign policy. The media is too cowardly to bother asking Trump the same questions, but I think we all know his responses wouldn’t be nearly as coherent. This whole conversation has been overblown. There’s only one candidate in this race who can do the job, and it’s the one who is already doing it.

I'm honestly appalled that we got some of our first concrete news on a deal that both Israel and Hamas agreed to AND that stipulates Israel will not occupy Gaza after the war, and all everyone can talk about is "Vice President Trump".

To be fair the bots are all talking about it and the press stopped listening to people a long time ago, so you can understand their quandary

Everybody just needs to stfu and get behind Joe and do their civic fucking duty and showthefuckup and vote. At least NYT's editorial board showed some huevos this morning. Everybody and everything else in the news (UNTIL THIS) gets a facepalm.

ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.

"someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts" or maybe i'm in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.

also like... something something, being afraid of healing because you're afraid of letting go of the stability of misery, letting go of the narrative you made up to feel worthy of attention, letting go of your "sympathy cred," this narrative has probably killed a few ppl.

Generally if you find yourself demanding to know why strangers aren't living more miserable lives, you're probably in the wrong.

"I'm not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed."

Holy fuck. Tattoo that one on your bones.

That's good.

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the unbreakable connection between me and a song I heard in a fanvid over ten years ago

YES IT'S THAT SECOND ONE

i ADORE it

just. unreal levels of serotonin from seeing that

thank you so much for your services to my mental health

Inktober Day 24:

For Natas, who wanted Rabbit Lightning performing while also touching an electric dove~

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