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a godtier karkat i messed around with + concept doodle

(vvv bonus recolor and closeups under the cut vvv)

And when everyone’s autistic…no one will be

This is why his name was Syndrome

4chan memorial post. rest in hell

Do I have to do everything myself around here?

this is how it feels to be living at home and unemployed

art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

sorry to be like this and I'm very much not loving it, but tumblr loses around 30M a year. divided by the cost of yearly subscriptions, it means half a million ish people on premium undoes that loss. I saw stats claiming more than 300M users. That sounds super not right since even the sacred texts don't often cross 1M notes. I know there are around 12M posts a day. Yeah, yeah, we post multiple times a day, but there's a quantity of lurkers out there, and I'm trying to goldilocks a number to do math without having real data to pull from, leave me be.

If there are 12M users, it needs around 4% of users. If there really are 300M (still don't believe this) it would be .16%

You know what portion of Spotify is paid accounts? 40% ish (can't find data from the last year)

But, because we are the worst, and so probably will end up with a sundowning social platform... If someone knows of another platform that has this kind of reblog with added comments that doesn't put your comment first, lmk, cause every alternative someone has suggested aint been it for me. Bluesky and pillowfort aint it. TT is video based. Reddit is.... almost? except that there's a reason we got refugees.

I pay for Tumblr premium because 1) I have the money to do so, and 2) I want this platform to stick around.

If you're out here with the money to spend on tumblr freaking out because you're worried tumblr may disappear because of its yearly losses, there is 1 very real thing you can do to help. And that's a premium subscription.

"OMG BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY TO BE ON THIS HELLSITE."

Websites cost money. Period. It's why AO3 does donation drives twice a year. Because it costs money to run a website. Tumblr needs money to run because it is a website. It can't do a donation drive because it's not a non-profit.

But you CAN give them seven dollars a month because you have seven dollars a month and also are very aware of how much time you spend here.

"BUT I HATE IT HERE."

Then leave. Fucking leave. I'm tired of all this, "OMG, why would you pay for this stupid place?" Because I fucking like it here and won't do some sort of anti-tumblr performative pantomime to seem, what? Cool? Disaffected? On fucking tumblr? The scream and reblog website?

Until tumblr heaves its last, I'm here. And I'm giving them seven bucks a month. Because giving them seven bucks a month is something I can do to hopefully keep the lights on a little longer and not have to contemplate where the fuck I'm going to be a loud, horny weirdo. I'm never going back to anything remotely like twitter; insta won't let me set a permanent "followers only" timeline; communication options on Youtube aren't meant for the kinds of interactions we have here; Dreamwidth is there and chugging along, but it's a legacy build that does NOT have the same integration options as tumblr has.

Tumblr is the only thing like tumblr. You want tumblr, fucking pay up.

Listen, if I had the time I would just make Justice Leauge the mockumentary, lol.

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