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Arys is creating Comics and Illustration | Patreon

arystocrat:

Hello everyone! Since Tumblr is being weird, I decided to jumpstart my Patreon again, where I’ll be posting comic WIPs, updates, and the like.

Patron Tiers:

  • Villager ($1) – early access on comic updates, and you get to vote in the monthly poll to pick what I’ll draw next.
  • Quest Giver ($2) – exclusive WIPs and sketches, background info/behind-the-scenes about my comic, monthly wallpapers
  • Essential NPC ($5) – you can send in a request for the monthly poll and I’ll throw it in there, high-res files of my drawings, early access to “Skit and Side Stories” comics
  • Favorite Companion ($10) – character sheets (turnarounds, concept art, expressions), occasional sensual drawing

My income comes from you guys, so it would be really great if you considered supporting me. Every dollar counts!

Arys is creating Comics and Illustration | Patreon

masterpost of tumblr alternatives

twistedcaliber:

olderglow:

this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with more suggestions if you have them!!

for general use

  • myspace.com – yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you
  • soup.io – very similar to tumblr, plus it can import your tumblr blog
  • twitter.com – allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets

geared towards writers and bloggers

geared towards artists and photographers

  • deviantart.com – huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders
  • furaffinity.net – similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info
  • instagram.com – photo and video posts, excellent tag search
  • piczel.tv – allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
  • pixiv.net – huge anime art community, allows livestreaming

paid platforms

  • patreon.com – subscription-based access to many diff types of content
  • pillowfort.io – still in beta, but should function almost identically to tumblr
  • typepad.com – similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash

ways to save your current tumblr posts

  • use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.

  • wordpress and soup both allow you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.

  • if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer.
    even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line

    they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!

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in anticipation of reckoning day

Quick tip for those who post art in Twitter:

penguin-official:

penguin-official:

penguin-official:

You can force Twitter to post the “raw” quality of your pics by adding one (1) pixel of transparency in the image.

Twitter uses some algorithm to compress images into .jpg, but it cannot do that if there’s transparency involved in the image, forcing it to be .png in its full quality.
Literally one singular pixel ANYWHERE counts for this, it can be on a corner if you don’t want it to be bothersome.

Figured some folks might be interested in this, considering Tumblr no longer supports the _raw trick.

For the sake of example instead of hearsay, I’ve posted a comparison in my Twitter here, but will also explain here. All images are 2000x2000px versions of my logo you can see on the top left of this post:

Here’s the original image without a background, in its original form.
Notice the .png on the filename title.

Here’s the image with a white background.
You can see Twitter turned it into a .jpg and youcan see compression artifacts surrounding it.

Here’s the image with a white background, but one pixel edged off.
Notice the .png back on the filename and the retaining of quality from the first picture compared to the compression from the second.

All it took was a simple thing:

Nothing else, nothing more. It retains the original quality as you posted it, isn’t very bothersome and can be easily filled up if someone finds it.

Since Tumblr removed the _raw image trick from availability, this is a good way to share high quality, high resolution pictures again with the world.

Cheers!

Once more but with feeling of exodus