What I mean:Â Modern country music, especially songs sung by modern male country artists, revolves around similar themes of toxic masculinity and nationalism. The recurrent lyrics referencing guns, trucks, beer and girls in short shorts are uncreative and not entertaining in the least. However, older country artists and folk rock bands such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and Johnny Cash have stronger, more diverse themes and often carry an overt anti-war message. I hate the fact that what was once an interesting and powerful genre of music has now been claimed by gun-toting conservative bearded dudes, and it hurts my heart to say I hate country music when there are so many country artists that I very much enjoy, but cannot state the fact that I enjoy country music without being associated with the aforementioned group.Â
I’ve seen some people say ‘but they’re just trying to crack down on child porn!’
a: If that was all it was, the site would not be in this much of an uproar. The new guidelines specifically say all nsfw content, including ones that include two characters or people that are both over 18. Some people make their livelihood off of adult art that is only of adults, and tumblr may have most of their paying customers. Having this sprung on them with little notice is just a dick move. If you painted landscapes and had a site say ‘hey in a week we’re banning the color green’ you’d be pretty pissed. Trust me, if it was just getting rid of kiddie porn, 99% of the site would be all on board with this. (And btw, nothing is mentioned about getting rid of. Yknow. All the nazis.)
b: If you weren’t here when tumblr first turned on safe mode, it targeted e v e r y t h i n g. Any lgbt content no matter how fine it was (like an aesthetic board or a flag), pictures of pets, selfies, fully-clothed fanart, action figures. You know what it was bad at catching? Actual nsfw content. I saw someone who posted screenshots of disney afternoon shows get almost all their content flagged. The flagging system is terrible.
c: The purge is taking down tags that people use to discuss serious topics, like chronic pain, abuse, and surviving assault. They’re tags for a reason- so you can either blacklist it if you don’t like it, or go into the tag to find people to discuss it with. That option’s been completely taken away. (It also took down the ‘tumblr purge’ tag because can’t have people talking about what you did!)
If theres one thing I crave whenever I play New vegas it’s.. horses.. So i MADE MY OWNÂ
They’re called sleipnir for pretty self explanatory reasons, plus I thought being named after something mythological fits pretty well with some of the other mutant animals in the wastes. The run cycle is mostly rotoscoped
We at Piczel.tv are sad to see Tumblr’s stance against NSFW artists, and would like to offer up our services as an alternative to Tumblr’s arbitrary shadowbans, deletions, and general stupidity.
We’re happy to host adult artists who are looking for a new place to call home, and are planning a few key upgrades and features.Â
Effectively immediately though, our gallery upload size restriction has been removed, to be likely raised to 10MB in the near future for non-premium users.
As always, we support image sets, and don’t compress anything.
Firstly, for those that have been using tumblr as a portfolio, you’ll need a way to download all of your art, if you don’t have backups somewhere else. We are planning a tool for Piczel.tv that will import zip files full of images, including titles and descriptions if we are able.
Second, we’re planning the following upgrades to piczel in the coming weeks:
1. Bulk upload/import to your piczel.tv gallery 2. Gallery UI cleanup and improvements 3. Gallery performance improvements 4. Gallery comments with in line image and custom emote support 5. Site-wide PMs (in the vein of tumblr asks, but better) 6. Archive button for your piczel account
Don’t forget to follow us on twitter, we may be deleted on the 17th with everyone else. Until then, we’ll make posts here to keep everyone in the loop
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From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
– archive everything on your blog you want to keep
– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
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