Everybody’s talking about Tumblr’s probable eventual demise! So I thought I’d just remind you all that I can be found on a couple of different platforms:
I’m also on Dreamwidth in a more private/personal way as chocolatepot. My DW entries are mainly friends-locked, out of habit but also because I talk about my job and/or job search from time to time. Dreamwidth has a bad rep as a dead zone, but that’s a) kind of a self-perpetuating perception, since if people didn’t think “nothing goes on there” they’d take more time to read and comment, and b) not even that true, I read my friends-list every morning and there’s always new stuff. I’m going to quote from the recent post from the admin there:
With the new update to Tumblr’s community guidelines announcing that they will no longer permit adult content on their site, we’d like to take a moment to reassure all y’all that we have your backs. With a very few exceptions (such as spam and the like), if it’s legal under US law, it’s okay to post here. We’re 100% user-supported, with no advertisers and no venture capitalists to please, and that means we’re here for you, not for shady conglomerates that buy up your data and use it in nefarious ways.
Tumblr’s definition of “adult content” seems to be inherently visual, and I also wanted to remind people that we do have basic image hosting. (It’s definitely not as slick and easy to use as Tumblr’s, I won’t lie, but it does exist.) If you want to include images in your posts, you can upload them and the site will give you HTML that you can paste into your entry. Or, if you have post-by-email set up, just attach the image to the end of your email and it’ll be posted. All users have a 500MB image hosting quota right now. I know that’s small for people looking for a place to host NSFW image blogs, but we are reviewing usage statistics to see if we can increase it, or at least make it possible for people to pay for more quota like you can for more icons.
For those asking whether we have a mobile app: we don’t at the moment! There are many (soooooo many) prerequisites that we have to do first, which we’ve been working on but haven’t yet finished, because we’re dealing with a lot of systems and architecture decisions that were made nearly 20 years ago by now. (A mobile app would also be subject to the same censorship pressure Tumblr faced – it’s looking pretty good that Apple taking the Tumblr app out of the App Store was the proximate cause of Tumblr’s content guidelines change, and Apple is notoriously strict on apps for sites that allow user-generated content – so even once we have one, it’s even odds on how long it’ll be able to stay available for certain platforms.) We’ve been trying to improve the website’s experience on small screens in the meantime, and that’s an ongoing project that we’ll do our best to devote some more attention to over the next few months.
Feel free to use the comments to this post to recommend communities to join and to make new friends, whether you’re here for the first time as a Tumblr refugee or have been here since the start (and any range in between). To the newcomers: we’re happy to have you join us. Welcome aboard!
Fandom is a very different place on text-based and journal/community-based sites, but still fun! There’s a multifandom friending meme going on, too, to help you find people to follow there.
Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also
Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later
I’ve been dreading this one, so I figured I might as well do it and get it over with.
This post will start out one way, and then go to something completely different, but I promise it will loop around in the end.
Whenever I pull the Lovers–especially this one– I only ever think one thing:
“Oh god I’m gay how could this happen are you sure you’re gay? Are you really sure? I think you should dwell on this and go over every detail of your life in your head just one more time”.
I know that everyone on tumblr is gay but god it’s still so nerve wracking to post about it.
I have a husband, two kids, and I didn’t know I was gay until my late 20′s. I didn’t even figure it out myself, I had to have it pointed out to me. How lame is that. I had figured I was bi (thanks Orange is the New Black) but fully gay? Nuh-uh. I was bi, and then somebody asked me, “Jessica, have you ever considered you might be a lesbian?” I scoffed. No way. Then on my drive home I thought about it and my head exploded. Literally. There’s probably still skull fragments and brain matter on the seat. I don’t have a head anymore, that’s why I can’t do videos only write up posts.
Anywho. It’s been a couple of years dwelling and questioning and whatnot, and I am now…95% sure I’m gay. Most of the time. Until I see Eric Northman but you know how it is.
Okay part 2.
The main question I get about the Body Language Tarot is “you say the deck is all women, are there any trans women in the deck?”. The answer to that is no, there is not.
“Well you piece of bigoted shit, wtf is wrong with you, how dare you, you only picked conventionally attractive cis women, you are a horrible piece of nazi garbage!!!”
Okay no ones actually said that to me but it’s been implied. So why didn’t I include trans women in this deck? Honestly? I didn’t think of it.
Noel Arthur made the Numinous Tarot because they wanted a fully inclusive deck, filled with the people who are don’t see themselves in most media. And that’s great! That was their purpose and they made what they wanted to see! That was their goal, their intent, and their purpose behind the deck.
I didn’t have that purpose. My purpose, was to make a deck where a person’s body language conveyed the emotional feeling of a particular tarot card, with tattoos supporting that feeling. It was fun.
When I went to the art gallery with a friend, we read the little signs and so much of that art has a purpose. They’re speaking up against whatever, this piece shows the pain of these particular people, on and on. That’s cool. I don’t wanna do that.
There are many issues I feel very strongly about, but that doesn’t mean I have to make my work about them.
I make my art for me. I drew what I wanted to draw, and that’s not a bad thing. I like women! So I drew women! Just because that’s what I like, doesn’t mean I hate everything else. I don’t hate men. Naked men freak me out, but I still like them, just not in any kind of sexual way (and not naked). I have a man that I love very much, I have friends who are men, I just didn’t want to draw them. That’s it! I like pretty things, so I draw pretty things.
Maybe that’s a bit shallow, but you know what? I don’t care. I want to draw flowers and I want to draw snakes, and I want to draw naked women, because that’s what I like to look at.
I have someone boycotting me because I find conventionally attractive women attractive, and to that I say, well yeah. I like pretty women. I like women who are thin, fit, and probably blonde (those are not hard rules). That’s my type. That’s who I’m sexually attracted to. If Anna Torv were to come to me and say she wants to be with me but she hates tarot cards, I’d throw my decks in a dumpster fire and go live happily ever after.
Tumblr can be so
about things you know? Like if you’re not doing what they think you should be doing then you’re wrong and deserve to be destroyed. But the hard part is, everyone sees things differently, and have different passions and drives and causes and I can not fully support all of them. Nobody can. Most people usually have one or two things that they lives their lives for, and they all think that those causes should be everybody’s causes, but it doesn’t work that way.
I’m a firm believer in live and let live. If you want to do something, then find other people who want to do that thing, and go and be happy. You live for you, and you let other people live for them, that’s it. You like apple juice? Cool, drink apple juice. That doesn’t mean that everybody needs to drink apple juice, or that people should be forced to drink apple juice, it just means that you can, and no one should force you to do otherwise.
You want onions on your pizza? Okay cool I don’t lets order separate pizzas. You want to be hit during sex? That’s weird but whatever, go find someone who wants to hit people. You were born a woman but feel like a man? Cool bro, I won’t pursue you for my lesbian relationship.
If other people feel a certain why, why can’t they just be? Whenever I see those people who get all mad about homosexual marriages, or transgender bathrooms, I just wonder, why the fuck does it matter to you? Nobody is forcing you to have a homosexual marriage. Nobody is forcing you to use those bathrooms, we’re just letting people be themselves and be happy why is that so bad?! If you’re not a part of it, just let it be.
I felt really trapped, a few years ago, but I didn’t know why. Then I found out I was gay, and it was terrible. I had a husband! And kids! And I felt so guilty about it, and stupid, and terrified, and so very, very free. I felt like taking my hair out of my bun letting it blow in the wind, I felt like putting on lipstick and going out into the world. It was horrible and it was amazing and despite how other people in my life feel about the issue, I know it’s the truth. So yes. I drew of deck of lesbians, because that’s who I am and who I like. If you don’t like it, don’t buy the deck. I mean, I personally would like everybody to buy it, but you know. If you like it, buy it. If you don’t, then don’t.
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