BTW not a slight at all but it’s very funny seeing tumblr users say “tumblr should just do ao3-style fundraising!!” when xkit users don’t even pay the xkit girl (me) enough to pay her home utility bills
shots have been fired 👀
no, but seriously this is an excellent point since a large majority of tumblr users use xkit.
lol nah. xkit users are in the low hundreds of thousands. the Chrome Web Store reported New XKit to have 300k+ users at its peak (it’s down to 200k+ now since it’s mostly broken), and the stats i have on XKit Rewritten put its userbase at less than 30k, although it is growing.
tumblr has millions of daily users. the majority of people on the internet as a whole don’t use their desktop computer or laptop as their main device. the majority of tumblr users? are using the mobile apps. of course, i don’t have the stats on how many desktop tumblr users there are, but i would be seriously surprised if even 10% of them used xkit in some form.
it’s easy to lose sight of tumblr’s scale when it allows you to so carefully curate the content that it shows you, but it is there.
The last of the classically trained tumblrinas
I’m not dead I’m ‘alive’, I guess- I just found myself incapable of being social on social media, & that incapability lasted FAR longer than I expected it to. It hasn’t been a very tumblr year for me in general. It seems like I’ve got far worse social anxiety than I thought it did- it’s been affecting me really badly in the flesh world & in the screen zone, posting anything, even a few sentences, knocks me out - I had to go eat a chocolate bar after I posted anything in the last year, bc lol it felt like the anxiety burned up all the calories in my body.
I miss everyone & I miss being on here- I dunno I how it’ll be for what remains of 2021 but I’d like be more active, & write more on here in the new year. I honestly like posting, I think it’s given me skill in articulating my thoughts in writing- & like feeling that skill atrophy has sucked.
Try and take over the world? Protect Konoha? Drink tea and complain? Your pick.
I actually really enjoy Part 1 Itachi and his weird bangs and his grumpy face. What a fucked up little guy. He and Kisame have the best dynamic
“Geryon sat on his bed in the hotel room pondering the cracks and fissures of his inner life. It may happen that the exit of the volcanic vent is blocked by a plug of rock, forcing molten matter sideways along latter all fissures called fire lips by volcanologists. Yet Geryon didn’t want to become one of those people who think of nothing but their stores of pain. He bent over the book on his knees. Philosophic Problems ’… I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us…’”
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red, XXXII. Kiss
from the radio tower, reduction linocut, 12x7.5 in., 2021.
nice to feel like a real artist making prints again! made this one partially for a residency application, partially because i miss the bay and the headlands a lot
Sorry for the cheesiness but after I had two panels done I was committed :( why. did i decide to have. colors. this was supposed to be a funny comic can you believe it but then i added color like an idiot
my hand hurts but my heart hurts more for this ship
This was a weirdly emotional piece for me to work on, because it’s a redraw of something I made over 3 years ago - original piece here. I had Hashirama from the original piece as my icon for forever and I’m still very attached to the AU setting this is from, so uuuuuh just big emotions all around for me.
Still love these guys <3
Quick little thing to wish you all a good start into the new year! To continue a thing where I’d draw these two to end the year, here’s the boys once more vuv I missed drawing them
Thank you for another year of enjoying my art and supporting me. 2019 had the 7th anniversary of my blog exisiting, that’s wild to me. I’m really grateful for people sticking around as I learn and grow and improve my craft!
Don’t think much more has to be said on this year, so I’ll just as usual express my gratitude for your support and I wish everyone a good year. Whatever may come, I hope things will turn out alright.
As per tradition, some New Year’s HashiMada from me! Still love them <3
