escaptherapy 🔪

Got Art Fight on the brain. I do enjoy this game a lot and I want people to enjoy it too, so here's some things I personally keep in mind.

I am grabbing you by the scruff and telling you that a small follower count doesn't mean shit for this game.

If you want to join Art Fight, then join Art Fight. You do not need followers to participate, you can draw for complete randos and - although I do note not to expect it - they may just draw for you in turn!

WIP Week (Work-In-Progress Week) Returns in June!

WIP Week is a week dedicated to updating fanfic or other types of fanworks.  All fandoms are welcome to participate.  Original works are also accepted.  Please tag your entries with the #wipweek or #wip week tag. Since multiple fandoms and ships are participating, please clearly list the fandoms, ships, and content warnings in the post so that they can be properly tagged for any potential readers.

The second WIP Week of 2026 will be held June 21-27. 

Each day will have a theme, but you do not have to post every day. You are also not obligated to follow these themes. You can work on one fic or fanwork for the entire week if you choose. If you’re not comfortable posting full updates but still want to participate in the week, you can post your daily word count and/or a small snippet from your work. The use of AI is prohibited.

Here are the prompts for WIP Week:

June 21: Your Oldest WIP June 22: A WIP From Your Smallest Fandom June 23: Your WIP Closest To Completion June 24: Your Favorite WIP June 25: A WIP From Your Largest Fandom June 26: Your Newest WIP June 27: Any WIP

A scammer will mention (@) you in a comment under a post that impersonates a tumblr announcement. This post will falsely claim that your tumblr account has been restricted, and you have 48 hours to follow the link in their post to rectify it.

These comments and posts are fake.

One of the active scammer blogs is @system-blog-help.*

*(If this blog changes their url, the new urls will be added below. Please see the original version of this post for the most current list. These blogs can be monitored despite url changes if you make a side blog, then block them on the side blog. If they change their url, you will see the new url in your block list.)

Other urls: @system--data @system--updater @confirmation--page @account-confirmation @system-profile @confirm--page @verification-support22 @assist-page @system--blog @verification-support9 @notification2346 @new--notification

Here are some of the red flags you may see on these blogs and their posts:

None of their links in the main post go to a tumblr page (do not click on them).

They say you only have 48 hours to take action. This creates a sense of urgency and make you turn off your critical thinking skills.

Tumblr staff never reaches out to people in public for account-related things. Anything related to your account is for your eyes only and meant to be confidential.

If there are problems with your account, especially if it is time-sensitive, tumblr staff will not @ you on a post you might not even be logged in to get the notification for. Notice how you didn't actually get an email from tumblr staff about this apparent account problem; you only got the "mention" email (if you are signed up to receive emails about mentions), which any user can make.

Tumblr staff will never mention a user in a group with other users for matters related to account access.

Staff does not offer premium as an apology if they make a mistake. This is not in the terms of service anywhere.

Here are two screenshots from the offending blogs (note, these may not be exactly the same on future blogs):

You can also see two archived versions of these scam posts here and here.

If you see a blog that looks like this, report the post as "spam/bot", and the blog itself as "spam/bot".

If you have time, you may also comment "scam", or anything else that points out their intentions, on as many of their comments as you can. This slows down the scammer, as they have to either clean up your comments or block you, which briefly stops them from making as many comments to @ more people.

More and more recently, I’ve begun to get some people coming to me asking for some clarification on LGBTQ stuff. When I was younger, I had to discover many basic identities and labels by myself, through research of various sources, or pieced together from disconnected blog posts. 

In the year 2019 you’d think we’d have a kid-friendly website that describes all of this in simple terms but… I’ve yet to find one that isn’t primed for guardians/parents of LGBTQ parnets and prioratizes them instead of the LGBTQ kids themselves…. 

So I tried to make a quick graphic to organize everything!

Keep in mind - this is based on MY experience and the terminology I have grown up using. Everyone’s experiences may differ - and I tried to simplify in some places to make it easier to read. (For example… I didn’t really go into detail on non-binary identities… but I may make a seperate graphic for that someday because that’s its own box of pears.) 

Other video games doodles!

I guess kinda spoilers for additional character?