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Posted by Linker - May 16th, 2022


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Around June of last year I finally decided to give One Piece a serious try. I went in only knowing vaguely about a crew of quirky pirates having adventures on their little goat boat, and now I can officially say I caught up with the story so far, starting with the anime, up until the newest manga chapter (1049).


I always had a soft spot for Shonen Manga, so you can say I'm a #ONEPIECE fan now.


I'll have to admit, the size of the series was always a reason for me to put it off for many years, the common jokes about it's length made it seem like it was impossible to see to completion... Ironically, having that many episode became a good thing eventually, because It meant I always had something to watch and new things to discover about the world of pirates.


To be fair, I always knew I wanted to experience it at least once in my lifetime, because I wanted to form my own opinion about it, and I'm glad I finally got through with it. ⛵❌✊🏴‍☠️


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Posted by Linker - December 4th, 2018


Back when Tumblr deleted all my blogs, including some very innocent gaming ones about two weeks ago in the so-called "Tumblr purge", I noticed how some of my friends and people that I followed got their accounts back pretty quick, and some weren't even affected in the first place, and it just left me wondering: What did I do wrong? Did I deserved this? Was I considered a toxic or unwanted member of that community?

As days went one, and not seeing any signs of getting my account back after trying to reach Tumblr's support, I started to think that would be it, and only a handful of artist were going to be struck by the ban hammer from the site... "Just my luck". I'm a nobody, so I can't make enough of a noise to force them to give me my account backs like I've seen some social media influencers do in the past, it's pretty much a lost fight.

I resigned my hopes of getting my accounts back, and I didn't see much point of starting a new one if it was going to share the same fate, so it was time for me to move on. 

It wasn't until recently that we all got the news that this was just the beginning of an even bigger event, one that would affect a massive group of artist and creative people that were just trying to use their talent into something that is considered Taboo or shameful by normal social standards. 

It's not the first time that I've had to face the unfortunate event of losing something dear or valuable to me, feeling defeated by a major failure perhaps to then having to start all over again, and the worst feeling I believe is just that one of being powerless or insignificant over that even, like you're all alone in this and you have no control over the situation, and when you try to fight back when you have no resources, no reach, no power, no level of influence, no one to support you, it feels like there's nothing you can do to change the situation on your favor. Because let's be real, If it was only a group of smaller creator that were affected by this, nobody would have really cared and people would have moved on without us, some didn't even noticed what happened the first time, they were already moving on, I saw it, you can't say that wasn't the case XD 

I'm not saying that I'm happy that all of this happened, I'm sorry that you lost all your hard work and tears invested on the site, I'm sorry that you lost your +40,000 followers that you worked hard to reach, I'm sorry that some of you lost content so suddenly without being able to back it up first, I'm sorry that you lost all the fun interactions that you had with people you met over the years through asks (arguably one of the best features of the site)... but if you want to see a positive in all of this, At least we're all on this together.

When I found out that almost every user from Tumblr was going to be banned for one reason or another I couldn't help but laugh, not because of all the things we were losing, but because of the ridiculousness of the whole situation, and seeing how almost everyone of us was under the same problem, it gave me some extra motivation to just... work. We're all on the same boat and conditions, let's keep on going, we still have the same level of skills as we did before, we haven't lost everything.

I'm already making some friends that I wouldn't have met if all of this didn't happen, hopefully I'll meet new ones through this post, and maybe you should do the same, at least this is bringing the community closer than it was before and that's always a positive, we're not gone, we just lost a platform, together we can rebuild everything, on any place, or any Newgrounds.

 


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Posted by Linker - December 2nd, 2018


Can anyone recommend me some artist to follow on the site?

Despite knowing the site for years, things have changed quite a lot, so I'm basically starting again I don't know exactly where I should be looking at.

If you could leave your suggestions in the comments maybe I could discover some new artist that I've never met before, that would be fun.

You can't recommend yourself, that's against the rules! XD but you can recommend a friend or a friend could recommend you.


Posted by Linker - November 23rd, 2018


Don't mind me, just testing the system.


Posted by Linker - November 21st, 2018


It's crazy that has been almost 9 years since I left this site... 

I guess that many things have change during that time, so we'll see what new things await for me here.

Hopefully people around would be more accepting of me now than they were back in the day... I mean, I wasn't the best animator then, but most of those comments I got were really uncalled for ^^; 

 


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