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I wanted to make something surreal, to celebrate a new Magic Kaito chapter coming out today!

So have Kaito floating among many moon (jellies)! I wanted to try a new coloring style too.

(...they're not fish. I think he'll be okay, right?)

A close up of Kaito on this piece. I really like the details I did, but he's so small in the picture.

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unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.

I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out.

when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?

and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."

making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.

Psa for people following my main blog. Opt out now.

here are my gifts for @digitallyfanged ! I'm your little secret santa (ФωФ) [I wanted to make the backgrounds opposite, one is extravagant and colorful while the other seems like an ephemeral and ignored silence so maybe the characters would stand out]

I hope you like them! and I thank @dcmk-exchange for helping me and answering my questions being new (* ´ ▽ ` *)

(little gift doodles under the cut)

AHHHHH. Oh my gods, this is...so much! So amazing! You are too nice, and so very sweet!

I absolutely adore you thought of the two pictures as a whole, and did opposites in terms of backgrounds and emotional impacts. AND WINGED AUs ABOUND. This really makes me want to write more about the fae wing AU, which was from the Kaishin Reverse bang. And Shinichi being a type of angel.... HRNNNG. ✪ ω ✪ I also like all your concept sketches going into the pieces. Always interesting to see how the artist thinks when planning something.

The comics-! I would have been happy with just the two awesome pictures, but then you drew me all these little comics! My dream for another Lupin Conan crossover movie... *SIGH* Lupin would try to adopt Conan. Big brained detective? His now. And interacting with Jigen.

And the Gin hair scene XD I see why you were asking about it. Hilarious! I hope Vermouth tips the attendants well. And yes, Sonoko and Kaito would be BEST FRIENDS. Thank you so much for my gift. I love it!