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“There’s nothing stupid, foolish and idiotic about wanting the person who loved you, broke you and then left you to be happy. That simply goes to show that you are a person who remembers the good parts. Because those good parts, they were real. And being the forgiving person that you are is concrete proof that you will someday move on.”

— Juansen Dizon, Real Love

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A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

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Peanuts, May 15, 1953

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Before meeting you, I didn’t know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself alone. That’s because when you feel lonely, it means there is someone for you to miss.

Nanami Takahashi (via quotemadness)

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Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.

Clementine von Radics, Ten Love Letters  (via wordsnquotes)

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I admit that during these months I might have missed you at my weakest, yet that’s the point isn’t it. That’s how you really wanted me, subdued and numb. You needed me to need you, to depend on you, to see only you. With you my waters were calm, only caressing the shore, never too intense, never being real. This is what has now dawned on me: I want storms, strong winds and violent waves. I want to destroy, conquer and create. I don’t want anything to soothe me, I want to ride all of this, always proud, always on my own damm feet, feeling exhausted, feeling beaten up but victorious. Always victorious. This is what I am.

the-gray-and-substantial (via wordsnquotes)

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Dear Friend, Hi. How are you? Hope you’re well. Hope everything’s well. It seems that I’ve only caused more problems for myself. “How?” Is probably what you could be asking yourself. How…I don’t know how exactly it happened. I’ve known about The Moon for almost four years now. I’ll admit, the first time I saw her was when she was singing for everyone looking deep into the sky. I shouldn’t have felt any special as I heard her mesmerizing voice echo out through the night. It was her way of showing everyone of her love for music. To prove that she was worth of her shine. That besides the beautiful glow, there was more to her that any of us could ever see from earth. It wasn’t long ago that I heard her voice again, except this time there was something different about it. The song was slow and tender. I could hear her voice whither from the sobs she tried to hold back. Looking up into the sky I saw The Moon. She was crying. Tears streaming down snow white cheeks, even through closed eyes they escaped. I could hear the pain her heart suffered through the words she managed to keep in perfect harmony. I could even see the stars trying to comfort her with soothing words, charming compliments, and incredibly horrible jokes you’d most likely hear from a stereotypical father figure. Maybe it was low of me, but I was jealous of them. Jealous of the stars for they got to be near The Moon while I helplessly watched from the ground. There was never a time more than that moment that I wanted to be off this earth. I thought of everything I could do. How could I get The Moon to notice me? Before I knew it, I’d begun to sing the song I’d always heard her sing. It having been engraved in my memory from the first moment only to surface when I needed it most, along with all the thoughts I had of that night when I laid my eyes on her. The way her voice sent a wave of chills to crash through every inch of my skin. The way her eyes showed how much love and wonder she had for everything. The way I felt at peace when I was under the light of her beautiful glow. The best of it all though…the way her smile sent my heart into a wildfire that spread rapidly throughout me. Singing her song that night, I realized what it was that I felt. I questioned and scolded myself for barely seeing this now. For now, I’d set myself up for a long and painful fight. The crying ceased and I opened my eyes while continuing to sing only to see her now noticing how the stars had come to her side. She thanked them for their effort and told them how much she loved them, but I knew she was simply withdrawing her pain for them, not wanting them to worry. The Moon was willing to put on a façade for those she loved because if she were to fall then others would follow. She hid that part of herself. The darkest side of The Moon. I’d not stopped singing. I wasn’t going to. I was going to keep singing until the day The Moon would notice me. See how there was someone willing to understand and listen for she too should be allowed to be sad. I look forward to that every night. Going out and looking above to find her. Bringing myself to sing, no matter what condition I was in. Even if she didn’t notice me, I never stopped hoping for her happiness. To never see her smile fade away. That maybe one day I could become a star, so then I could possibly have a chance of speaking with her. Telling her my worries and how I’d be more than willing to help her get back the side she suppressed in the dark. She had not noticed me, but I never stopped hoping. If were never meet, then the only thing I want for her is to be happy. The Moon is nothing without her luminescent smile. 
From,
A Grounded and Stranded Admirer.

foreverdreaming252  // the letters that never reached you #1 (via wordsnquotes)

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Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

Lemony Snicket (via lifeofquotations)

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It has always been about heartbreak, hasn’t it? It is about people who left us & broke our hearts because we couldn’t love them enough. It is about losing your friends because you were never cool enough for them. It is about not getting a job you wanted so badly. It is about walking the streets, sitting alone on the park benches, having no one to share our ice cream with. It is about waking up in the middle of the night, crying our hearts out because we are alone. That’s how it is, isn’t it? In the end we’re all sad & broken & tired. We all have lost a part of us, a part of our heart. Our hearts are broken pieces sewn together waiting for another person to come & break them even more. And it’s a cycle which never ends. Because it’s always about heartbreak.

mysteryboulevard  (via wordsnquotes)

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Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut (via wordsnquotes)

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Here’s to the ones who have nothing figured out in their lives currently, the ones who wake up each day with no desire to ever leave their beds, the ones who fake smiles and wear a mask each day just so they wouldn’t hurt anyone around them, here’s to the ones who sleep with tears in their eyes and pain in their hearts, the ones who stay inside for days trying to pull themselves together as if they’re a puzzle missing all it’s pieces, here’s to the ones who find themselves spacing out thinking about how lonely they feel deeply in their bones even when they’re surrounded by all their loved ones, here’s to the ones who are afraid of their own thoughts and own beings, the ones who have to fight every damn day so they wouldn’t drown and collapse within their own selves, here’s to the ones who will look at you directly in the eye and tell you that they’re completely and utterly fine even when every cell in their body tells them to throw themselves at you and scream their pain and agony so loud that you wouldn’t have any other option but to listen, here’s to the ones who don’t know who they are, who feel as if they’re so many people all at once, who cannot afford the luxury of understanding their minds, here’s to the ones who ache silently, cry from within and stand strong as if their worlds aren’t collapsing down on them, here’s to the strongest souls out there, the ones who suffer all by themselves.

nada toghoj (via wordsnquotes)

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On March 24, 2001, Randy Johnson vaporized a bird with his fastball.

Being a conservationist, he was very upset about it. Of course PETA was mad at him, too, which makes zero sense…

Source

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waldeinsamkeit

(noun) A German word, meaning a feeling of solitude, being alone in the woods and a connectedness to nature. Waldeinsamkeit consists of two words: “Wald” meaning forest, and “Einsamkeit” meaning loneliness or solitude. It is the feeling of being alone in the woods, but it also hints at a connectedness to nature. (via wordsnquotes)