Before I start, I just want to say I know I've been a little dramatic. Since I kept on getting that Picasa something-something error message whenever I tried to publish posts with pictures in them on the app, I thought it meant I wouldn't be able to include pictures in my posts at all, regardless of how/where I was creating the posts. But today I found out it's only really an issue on the app.
I mainly use the app to post. I've grown attached to only using my phone to post. Typing posts up on a computer keyboard still gives me that "something's off" feeling, but it's not as bad as how it's once been.
I'm using my computer to type this. I also have some.. weird?, interesting? stuff to show you. Haha.. why? idk.
Ok so I'll start with talking about the app and then the website versions of Blogger. Just for me. Specifically.
(yeah, this one again)
See this post? I initially planned on finishing and publishing it just before 7 pm. If you check the time stamp for when it got published, it says 11:19 pm. That's around a four hour gap.
Many times between those two times, I've been trying to get the post to publish- or at least go to drafts- when I included an image or two in it. But no matter how many times I tried, Blogger refused to load enough so that the post could be published or drafted. Thankfully, the app has an "offline" mode, so the post didn't get deleted just because it couldn't be drafted.
I tried again the next day and the day after. The same thing happened. Sometimes the Blogger app doesn't cooperate with me and takes a while to publish my posts, so I thought that was the case. But when the same thing was happening with me two days later, I realized something was up.
I primarily use the app because that has been the easiest and fastest way for me to insert my pictures into my posts. I take pictures of my art and pets and whatever else I want on my phone. For me, it makes a lot of sense to use the same device that I have the pictures stored on to use as the one to create posts on.
And before anyone asks, I have my photos from my phone synced with my computer. (I currently have an iPhone and Mac, so..). The problem is on the website, Blogger is very picky about where and how I can insert images into my posts. It won't let me just use the Photos app to get pictures. So yeah, that's kinda frustrating.
Last night, I got the Google Photos app. That is the only way I can put pictures from my phone into posts now (without getting that publishing error message). So now I have my pictures on the Photos app and the Google Photos app.
Then after I made (and edited a few times) the post last night, I went back on the app. I also put a few pictures onto the Google Drive connected to the email I have for this Blogger account. Since I have my pictures on something by Google, I thought that maybe I could use the app to post pictures again. I read that it would work if I used Google photos and had an album on it to post. That works, sure, but only on the website. It still doesn't work on the app.
On the app, there are options to retrieve pictures from the "gallery" (aka from the Photos app) or from Google Drive. I got my pictures from my Google Drive to put into a post, but the post still wouldn't publish due to having an image in it.
So that's what is up with the app. Anyway, regarding the web version...
Before I got Google Photos, the sketch I put in last night's post was already saved somewhere under the "Add Images" thing that's there when you create a post on the website. Only that picture. No other pictures I had on my phone. Yeah, that was weird. It might've been because I had "offline" versions of the post I linked to at the start of this one. In the "offline" versions, I have the sketch picture in the post. They're only "offline"; they're not in drafts and they're obviously not published.
So then I got Google Photos. To insert pictures from my phone into posts when I'm on my computer/using the website, I had to create a new Google Photos album archive. I created one, and that's how the pictures I have in last night's post successfully showed up.
Well, this doesn't really include the signature images I use. Those were already saved somewhere on the Blogger "Add Images" thing. Under the "Add Images" thing, I have a few categories called my blog name (so they're all called "The Jamaa Mist"), one called "Profile photos", one called "Blogger Pictures", one called my story-only blog that I really only use to archive my story chapters (it's called "The Extraordinary Others" and btw I hate that name now lol), one called my contests blog that I used for like one thing and that's it (lol it's called "The Jamaa Mist Contests"), and one called "Drop Box".. and now I also have the new album category I made last night.
Images I've used on this blog (and the other two, I guess) many, many times are all already saved somewhere in the "Add Images" thing. Because of that, I still have these weird pictures stored on my Blogger account.
Here are a few ones I find particularly strange and/or funny. Let's go down memory lane now, shall we? :'D
(omg what the heck even are these?)
Very old Animal Jam pictures. XD
(I'm changing the sizes of the pictures and moving them to the left margin.)
Wait, I didn't use these pictures many, many times. Never mind then. I don't know why these are here. Uh...
Omg past me... X'D
An old picture of Thelma's paws- with stickers!
Precious, my funny and ridiculous AJ wolf character.
Old digital art of a random creepy girl.
Old traditional art of a character I still like but that isn't a part of the story world I constantly ramble on and on about (*cough* Fierdan and those characters *cough*).
idk what this is but it's from AJ.
Ok this is way more than just a few. Pfft.
Ok this is still very cute.
An edit I made. idk.
? ASK US ?
Yikes! @ that blog banner.
My collection of Mech Angel Wings. I think I have more now though, haha.
Apparently, I also have this bright, eye-bleeding version.
My den used to look nicer. idk.
Wolf pups!
Fox kits!
This was supposed to represent fox-form Duke. I can't believe I used to view him as an AJ fox. That concept is so foreign to me now.
And this was supposed to represent fox-form Twinkle when I viewed her as an AJ fox. I can only see my characters as humans now. Well, for a few years, to be honest.
I think this was the last time I drew Duke in anthro-fox form..? I drew him so buff, which goes against how I view his body type now. He's not a big muscular guy, what the heck.. XD
:'(
My main outfit on one of my arctic wolves. I miss this look. :c
My amazing penguin, Count Theeyes. Go on and count them.
This was the AJ fox version of Twinkle at the very beginning of the story. I want to draw her looking like that- but in human form. She appears a very specific way in my mind when she looked like this in the story.
I think this was the AJ fox version of Fauna. I don't know why she's wearing the cool sunglasses. Maybe she's just being cool. She's just oh so cool. Yeah idk.
Not sure what this is. Uh.. #/gay-rights?
This was the AJ fox version of Duke at the beginning of the story. It's his first appearance outfit.
Ok that's all the pictures I'll show. Wow, I showed so many. Sorry, I got carried away. Haha. :')
I really want to draw Duke (as a human, of course) in his first story outfit. I have specific details I have in mind for his shirt.
I'm thinking it's more like a long-sleeved white shirt with gray stripes. He wears those types of shirts a lot when he goes to school. He dresses kind of pretty nicely there..? He's not actually wearing a tuxedo (that's the AJ clothing item I have on him). It's more like a plaid shirt. I want to emphasize that he is wearing long sleeves. And the beginning of the story takes place in the month of May.
When it came to school, Duke cared quite a bit about his appearance. I have another drawing idea, and it makes me sad.
Because like.. Duke, this boy. He's creepy good at making others think he's fine and put together. But when you get to really know him, you know that's the opposite. So he dresses in nice shirts when he goes to school. Most of them are long-sleeved. Because when he was at school, he spent a large amount of time outside of it considering/attempting suicide, enduring abuse from home (when he still lived with his parents), and self-harming a lot. So, haha ah, yeah.
And when he burns his nice-looking white and gray shirt at some point in the story, it's also supposed to symbolize his break from keeping up that facade that he's fine and "normal" around people he's not that close to.
But Duke wasn't really a "nice student" type either. He actually is pretty damn smart, but he got in trouble a lot too.
Geez, I really want to draw Duke in his school outfit. (mm omg)
I have a drawing idea and it sure is sad. Great!
Well, I hope this wasn't too boring to look at and read.
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