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Odds and Ends

@jinja-neko / jinja-neko.tumblr.com

Teacher, artist, tea drinker, traveler, explorer, reader, Brownie Owl, cat keeper, wife, student of life.
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Wow, it's been a WHILE, huh? Let's see if I remember how to do this. I'll put the sordid tale of why it's been so long at the end for those who care to know, and for the rest, I was really hoping this would be done in time for Christmas, and I'm so happy that I made it. Happy holidays, everyone.

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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:
  • Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
  • Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
  • Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
  • Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
  • Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
  • Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
  • Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
  • Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
  • Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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the truth is out there, and its in the heart of downtown toronto

what the actual fuck

this is toronto’s cultural pride and joy and it is slowly being consumed by an alien spacecraft

A significant portion of the city looks like this actually. Toronto’s aesthetic seems to be “real old buildings being devoured by real new buildings.” And like sometimes you have houses that look like a 12 year old’s first minecraft build sorta jammed between Victorian era stone houses it’s real fuckin weird

I feel like ocad and the ago should be added to this because holy shit toronto’s buildings are weird as fuck

THESE LOOK LIKE VIDEO GAME GLITCHES ARE WE SURE TORONTO ISN’T SECRETLY A GIANT GLITCH IN THE MATRIX??

I don’t feel like i have the right to post this

stop making fun of my backyard 😰

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jinja-neko

As someone who went to OCAD during the renovations, FUCK that crossword puzzle box on giant pencil crayons.

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svetlania

Hay, Tumblr, it’s been a while… I’m still buried in life and work stuff (working on “Crush”, follow-up to “Awkward” and “Brave”), but just a heads up for those interested: we’re briefly opening my online store for ONLY ONE WEEK. We got signed prints from “Dramacon” and “Awkward”, as well as books and stickers! Check them out here (store closes again at the end of Dec 3rd): https://squareup.com/store/svetlania/

SIGNAL BOOST!

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Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

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sergle

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

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bundibird

Reminder of how to fix it:

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modmad

hey folks you know what’s great? the fact that we hit the base goal for printing Volume 2 of TPoH! but you know what else would be super great? getting to the stretch goal so you can get a real peachy keen print Volume 1 with a snazzy new cover to match! there’s still just over a day left, and as you’ve proven nothing is impossible- let’s go for gold! keep spreading the word and remember I am so so so SO proud of you all I am so amazed with what you’ve achieved!

LESS THEN 4K TO GO!

We’re super super close! Last chance is today- there’s only 11 hours (ha, eleventh hour…) to go so please shout about this kickstarter all you want!

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Day 27 and 28 of Inktober. 

I fell behind a bit again, but that’s life. I hope to get two up tomorrow as well so I’m mostly caught up. I haven’t been able to draw EVERY day this month, but I’ve done so much more than I have been doing. It’s an arbitrary start and finish date, but I feel much better for having done it. Now to continue that drive throughout the rest of the year XD.

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