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If you've got time to fantasize about a beautiful death, why not live beautifully until the end?
Jess|they/them|24|queer
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(Mostly) Art blog of a biologist and history enthusiast who draws and sometimes writes. I tend to get really into one thing at a time, and it's currently FGO o'clock, babes!
Feel free to talk to me, request things, etc.! I'm just a tiny nerd who cries over video games.
Blog is SFW with occasionally suggestive content, but I tag things consistently. I run the Daily FGO blog!
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the project wrapped up a while ago, but here's my illustration for fatality and flora, a persephone and hades inspired zine! i was assigned to draw for summer, and i based my piece off of ways for a long-distance couple to stay in touch 🌺💀

one of my favourite things about tumblr is how it's all lovingly handpicked. there's no algorithm forcing things onto your feed, but instead long chains of mutuals and followers passing posts around simply because they liked it and ooh, maybe you might like it too. the entire website runs on people's sheer love of other people's posts and it's probably the best thing about this website. at least it's definitely the reason that this place feels more like a community than any other social media.

Uhh, well, sort of?...

Tumblr does have algorithms. But if you’re old school, you turned them off when they showed up. Unfortunately, over time, new people might not know about them. I’m not certain which is the case with this post?

Regardless, if you go into Settings > Dashboard Preferences you can turn off the algorithms. The main algorithm is your basic non-linear “what tumblr thinks you should see” feed. Yes, it’s of people you follow? But it still leaves the ability to throttle certain posts Tumblr might hope you don’t see to the bottom of your non-linear feed.

The second and third are more harmless, randomly inserting posts from tags you track into your feed, but clearly labeled as such. So it’s something you might enjoy or not.

Really we need to share this info more regularly, so as time goes by, new people know that they’re in a non-linear algorithm feed of the people they follow, like Instagram or Twitters “home” mode.