foxholemonster:

Hey all, I will be moving camp! Currently you can find me on twitter under “foxholemonster” and I will post links to anywhere else I end up on there. Been a good ride here, but considering they’re cracking down, on my birthday no less, and will likely (as usual) catch a ton of people in the crossfire who aren’t to blame for anything, I’m closing up shop here and moving everything over to other places.

TWITTER
Public: “foxholemonster”
For Mutuals: “pangowlin”

DISCORD
FoxholeMonster#2035

INSTAGRAM
foxholemonster

foxholemonster:

Hey all, I will be moving camp! Currently you can find me on twitter under “foxholemonster” and I will post links to anywhere else I end up on there. Been a good ride here, but considering they’re cracking down, on my birthday no less, and will likely (as usual) catch a ton of people in the crossfire who aren’t to blame for anything, I’m closing up shop here and moving everything over to other places.

TWITTER
Public: “foxholemonster”
For Mutuals: “pangowlin”

DISCORD
FoxholeMonster#2035

INSTAGRAM
foxholemonster

And now a warning about drafts

bogleech:

You ever write up a post you decide will be too controversial or embarrassing but leave it in your drafts to sleep on and then forget about it? How about real personal stuff you weren’t sure you wanted to share at the time? Heavy-ass receipts on bad shit you’re leaving there only just in case you’re forced to use them?

Well if any of your drafts get flagged by the new system, a mod can apparently see them in with all your other flagged posts, and if they un-flag them, it publishes them automatically as a brand new post. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

auctoritas-ritae:

thebibliosphere:

vaspider:

vaspider:

goddamnshinyrock:

goddamnshinyrock:

oh god what is going on now

guys calm down, you can still draw fictional people naked

#just not fucking.#I can live with that.#honestly this is slightly irritating but not ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’

Yyyyyeah except they’ve already:

  1. purged the ‘chronic pain’ tag
  2. purged the ‘top surgery’ tag
  3. made ‘trans’ tag inaccessible to non-functional
  4. deleted a bunch of chronic illness blogs
  5. deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)

This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects. 

The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.

ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers. 

Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)

This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.

I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.

Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.

(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)

Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.

And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.

So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.

This. I see a lot of talk about how “the tumblr ancients know tumblr will not die” and fam, I was an early adopter. I drifted in here after Strikethrough. (I’ve deleted and purged at least three accounts since then, before you say anything.) Livejournal still exists, you know? It’s not dead. It’s just not a place where fandom and fan communities or LGBTQAetc communities or living-with-disability communities want to be any more, because it was made clear that the owners didn’t want our sort. And what looked like the best possible alternative (hello Dreamwidth my old friend), a by-us for-us solution, kind of… didn’t exactly die on its ass, but most of the activity ended up here. (You know, on the scrolling blue hellsite that most of us agree is kind of a crock but it’s where the community is so we live with it.) 

I don’t know where the fuck we’re all going to decamp to next – even the little indie platforms that are just building up might sell out some day because business be like that and the stuff that stays indie stays on a fucking shoestring and dates badly (hello again Dreamwidth, god looking at you is like going back in time and I didn’t enjoy 2009 the first time around). 

I’m not looking forward to rebuilding a community and establishing new norms and all the teething troubles early Tumblr had when it suddenly got big. It’s fucking difficult and after the second go around it’s tiring, especially when people have forgotten – or were never there for – the last time a platform shit the bed while we were still in it.  And on a personal note, I came over here because VtM Facebook does my nut in, Reddit has the attention span of a suicidal fruitfly, and Blogspot/G+ is full of OSR people stirring each other’s shit with a long spoon. And as much as I like WordPress, you’ve got to build a community from scratch over there. It’s not a good platform to have actual conversations on.

Anyway. Where was I? Oh yeah. The sky doesn’t have to fall. It just has to get low and threatening enough that people don’t want to be under it any more.

twelveclara:

u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach