#custom stuff

RAAAAAAHHHH BLUEY STICKER GIF CAUSE HELL YEAH

The originals were plastic powder drink mix jars that I had drawn on with poscas many years ago. They never quite lost the drink mix smell (lol). They look pretty good in these photos but they weren't doing so hot, so instead of trying to fix things I just redrew the images and had them printed on ceramic mugs. I've never had mugs done before and I think they turned out really cute!

I know it's confusing because tumblr also has paid domains now, but you can just toggle the 'enable custom theme' button, and you'll see this:

and when you 'edit theme' you can make your own page however you like! Tumblr has multiple free default themes you can just plug in, and you can find even more free themes online. You don't need to know how to code to use these themes either, just select one, this is what the editor looks like:

you just fill in the blanks and choose the colours!

Obviously I recommend this to everyone just because I think it's fun to have your own custom page, but in particular I see a lot of creative people who make really great art nowadays just have their default tumblr page with no proper url and instead just a pinned post with links to all their stuff and it feels so... disorganized to me?

I may be getting a bit 'old man yells at cloud' here because when I joined tumblr having your own url was the default, and now you have to toggle it on, but also look at this!

I have two blogs, this one for writing and my other one for sewing. Not only can these blogs have completely different aesthetics, but instead of clogging up my posts with a big pinned post at the top, I can link everything I want to link to on the side bar there. You can link to tagged posts, tagged posts in chronological order, external websites (like maybe an AO3 account or etsy page) or even just make a custom page. This is what my wip page looks like, for example:

instead of pinning a post to the top of my blog, I can just have a custom page with links, or just link directly to my stories on the side bar! The world is yours with a custom theme!

I know not everyone has the time to do this, and obviously it isn't a requirement, I just find it to be an easier way to navigate other people's blogs, and find art or stories that people have made. If anyone was under the impression that you have to know how to code yourself to use one I wanted to dispel that notion because you really don't!