So I‘ve finished the Alabaster Arc, but I‘m still hung up on Crocodile. I am very predictable…
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So I‘ve finished the Alabaster Arc, but I‘m still hung up on Crocodile. I am very predictable…

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Have you ever read an ongoing multichapter fic where the first few chapters are absolute fire and then the current ones get progressively shorter? It‘s like I can feel the author struggling to keep going and trying to keep that fire alive that let them write the first chapters in a furious haze, but life has caught up to them and no matter how hard they try they are exhausted and no longer as inspired.
It is pain. I can‘t even offer help by being someone to bounce ideas off of, since all of the above is just my assumption and the vibe I get, and I can’t just go „hey so the last chapters were kind of worse do you need help“ there is no kind way to say that. So I suffer in silence and hope their muse finds them again.
If any writer who this is happening to reads this: I feel you, it has happened to me to. I hope your flame can reignite and if you need to I hope you find someone who can help you strike the match.
Little Armand portrait from the gifs I‘ve been seeing from season 3
A quick sketch of a scene of Chapter 11 of See You in Eternity by @pugscatsbooks . It‘s Vicreature in modern day, where Victor survived by becoming a vampire and had a terrible time, while the creature (Adam) became a writer. It‘s so good, I highly recommend it to any Vicreature fans.
Okay so I went on a drive today and started listening to Frankenstein the book. And my first impression is that the guy writing the letters at the beginning has a very big crush on Victor, and young Victor has a crush on Henry. But I‘m really just getting to Henry.
Also both book and movie really amuse me with how Victor tells a story. Like, essentially he gets asked „who are you and why are you here in the Arktis and why are you so depressed“ and he goes „well you see I had parents“ 😂 bro this is not therapy you are allowed to get to the point. (Jk, I know this is good storytelling, but it still amuses me to no end) Really started at the beginning 😄
So far, fun times!

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So I watched Frankenstein 2025…
The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
@changes (Edit: I already sent this to Tumblr Support under the feedback option. I encourage everyone to send feedback on how bad this feature actually is).
For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.
Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.
Erasure of Creator Visibility
Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.
If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.
On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.
Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly
This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.
When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.
Impact on Collaborative Conversations
Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.
If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.
The Disincentive to Create
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.
For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.
This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.
By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.
Reblogging this because it summarizes everything quite nicely, and you gotta reblog now while it still counts. I‘m very much against this change to how notes will work, I get motivated by blogs reblogging my posts to a bigger audience. If I only see the first level reblogs it’s going to take a lot of positivity and community away from me and other artists. Fuck that. (Though I appreciate every person who reblogs directly from me, I als appreciate those who reblog from others)
I really hope we manage to be loud enough for them to roll this back quickly.
Watching Season 2 right now, but I’m still stuck on shanks and mihawk.
I‘m on the last evening of a ski vacation, but here is a little Mihawk that people have watched me draw over the last hour or so.
More Mishanks! I‘m reading a lot of manofbeskar‘s fics which are quite amazing, highly recommend.

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Adventures in Book Binding! This week I bound Part 2 of @purplejabberwock‘s Skulduggery Pleasant Dead Men Walking AU. This is still my favorite fanfic series ever and this book already turned out much better than the last few I bound. But there‘s still much to learn 😌
„Staying for a drink?“ - Just a silly little seductive Shanks 😊
I read an amazing fanfiction today where Shanks and Mihawk have a band together (with Buggy and Benn) and I just had to draw them performing. Not quite happy with the gryphon logo that I came up with, but oh well.
A couple more sketches. Is it obvious yet how much I like Shanks? 😅

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One Piece Sketches Round 2!
So I watched One Piece on Netflix and it was fun 😄