so beautifully bitter, so painfully proud

today on the train home the guy next to me was on his phone and at one point i saw him go on tumblr and he just had like. a normie dash. like it was all photography. of nature and architecture. he was using tumblr the way a heterosexual landscaper for rich people might use instagram. i actually had to watch his screen for a few seconds to be sure it really was tumblr because i was so taken aback by the content he was viewing. this is why algorithmless websites are so beautiful btw because i genuinely didn't know that this side of tumblr even existed. he didn't even so much as scroll past any text posts.

Honestly it's so unusual opinion to me.

I joined Tumblr more than 10 years ago, and it was all about aestethics then. For almost everyone. I still have my (used to be) main acc, not active now, and it consists of pictures I find inspiring still: gothic aestethics, historical clothes, architecture, beautiful places, black and white photos, my own egl style. It was something that Pinterest is now.

I still kinda miss that time, because most of my dash there is long gone now.

And even here, on my fandom and main acc now, I'm still trying to keep my dash beautiful and inspiring.

Piece inspired by JC Leyendeckers “Man and Woman dancing”

Been rewatching full metal alchemist brotherhood for the hundredth recently and I love Roy and Rizas story so much💙

when you are done with a tab you can close it. every browser in the world has a feature that lets you open recently closed tabs. also there is browsing history. need to visit a webpage often? may i introduce you to the bookmarks feature. there’s no reason to leave your tabs open. hoarder behavior.

OP I’m hitting you with a shovel

Anyway tag this with however many browser tabs you currently have. I have 40.

Thanks in part to you I now have a comprehensive categorization of types of people based on number of tabs they have open:

1-9: Kindred spirit. I am kissing you on the mouth

~10-25: Normal. This is more tabs than I would have open in most situations but it is not an unreasonable number.

~26-70: Woah there, partner. I don’t agree with this lifestyle but I understand it is normal for many people. Are you sure you need that many open though? Right at this very moment? Surely you can prune a few here.

~71-99: Okay calm down. You definitely don’t need that many open. When’s the last time you actually opened half of these, really?

100+: Official freak. This is too many. There’s no way you even remember which ones you have open. How are you supposed to find any of them?

1000+: Listen, I know I made a joke up there, I said “hoarder behavior,” but I think you may actually have a problem. With your browser tabs. You might as well have a maze of 50-year-old newspapers to navigate through to get to a youtube video. It’s time to re-evaluate the way you use the internet. I’m serious on this one.

I have around 1000 opened tabs on my phone, and most of them are ao3 fics

It's my whole fandom history!

Orodreth

graphite, sketchbook

because the series premieres today and I’m scared.

Tears in Heaven~

My QuanYin piece for MXTXFanworkBook, such an honor to have participated in this project 🥲​💖​and to have given a little love to Quan Yizhen and Yin Yu my boys