-my current main interests are Team Fortress 2 and Deltarune :] The Stanley Parable is hanging around there too -i post my art at @artpegacorn, follow that blog if you’re interested in my art! -on here i mostly reblog posts, but when i do make original posts they’re tagged with #pink’s ramblings
You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that’s happened gradually, and which I’ve seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I’m not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it’s due to the homogenization of social media sites? There’s a lot more of this divide between “content creator” and “consumer” instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. “Asks” aren’t really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an “ask” on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it’s probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
I think engineer is constantly at war with the evil genius and the polite southern boy in his mind. Like. This guy can gun down an entire team in seconds while laughing like a maniac but he cannot lie directly to Paulings face because that’s just not how he was raised dammit.
If the team were rumored to be making a scene in town when they shouldn’t have and Pauling goes to question them, they are all rushing to throw engineer in a broom closet or something because they know if Pauling goes to get answers from him it’s Over.
I’ve been so excited to share Meow’s story with you all! I mean, he’s a partial recover, and you’ve seen those before, but in this case, I used multiple fabrics to replicate his striped original fabric and I was really happy with how he came out… and so was his family. So, without further ado, may I present Meow!
Meow is a very small cat, maybe 7" long? Less if he’s sitting. But he had been very well loved in his short life. His person’s uncle wrote to me, asking if I could help. Here is the diagnosis photo he sent:
Just fyi, his balding was also pretty serious on his back.
There were a few options for care, but treating his balding was definitely the most serious concern. In the end, his family opted for new eye, bald spot treatment with transplants but not a full recover, and a gentle spa, as well as wound repair.
So he flew to the hospital from Washington state, not too long a flight, and started his treatment with a spa:
Next, he got new eyes. His eyes were originally green – the cataracts were so bad, I couldn’t really tell the original color till I took out his eyes and looked on the backside of them. Here he is with vision restored to 20/20:
Next were transplants…. Perfect matches for striped fur are impossible without a donor (and sometimes even donors aren’t perfect). I’ve done transplants where we use the background fur color, and add black stripes for tigers (you’ve seen some of those here) but Meow’s stripes weren’t black. Sometimes we just use a solid close to one of the stripe colors in that case, and that was an option… and actually the plan for Meow. But then I had two fabrics which matched his two stripe colors really closely:
I talked with his family about it, and we agreed to mix the colors in the transplants… a little of one, a little of the other. But keep in mind, stripes on animals aren’t exact lines, so this wasn’t a case of making a fabric by sewing strips on a machine, and then using the new fabric. Each piece was chose, and shaped for the area where the bald spot was, and sewn in separately. It was more complicated than this surgery usually is, but also kind of meditative. :-)
So… here is Meow all better! (He did get a heart btw, I just didn’t photo it)
His family was thrilled too. “He looks great!” they wrote. And Meow flew north and home.
