astrawberrykitsuneafterdark

[astrawberrykitsuneafterdark]

Fandom/Interest Masterlist

Books

Harry Potter/Wizarding World

The Hunger Games Series

Divergent Trilogy

Riordanverse

The Selection Series

Sorcery of Thorns

ACOTAR Series

Iron Widow (Duoligy? Series? Idk but the sequel’s on the way 🙌🏻)

An Ember in the Ashes Quartet

Hex Hall Series

Pride & Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Wide Sargasso Sea

The Poisonwood Bible

The Giver

Gathering Blue

The Count of Monte Christo

Anime/Manga

Digimon

Sailor Moon

+Anima

Ouran High School Host Club

Naruto

Tokyo Mew Mew

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

St Lunatic High School

Chibi Vampire

Little Queen

Hetalia

Free! Iwatobi Swim Club

Haikyuu

Big Windup

Love Live

Assassination Classroom

My Hero Academia

Spy x Family

Demon Slayer

Yakuza Fiancé

Games

Pokémon

Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons/Rune Factory

Voltage/Love 365

The Witch’s House

The Crooked Man

The Sand Man

Corpse Party Series

Ao Oni

Ib

Paranormal Syndrome

Misao

Mad Father

Persona Series

Danganronpa Series

Kamigami no Asobi

Diabolik Lovers

Uta no Prince Sama

Dance With Devils

Twisted Wonderland

Obey Me

The Arcana

Devil Butler with Black Cat (AkuNeko)

Nu Carnival

Ensemble Stars

Hypnosis Mic

A3!

Stardew Valley

Coral Island

Five Nights at Freddy's

Hunie Pop

Monster Prom

Outlast

The Sims

Movies

James Cameron’s Avatar

Brave

Mulan

Spirited Away

Ponyo

Princess Mononoke

My Neighbor Totoro

How to Train Your Dragon

TV Series

Avatar The Last Airbender Universe

Cold Case (god I love Lilly Rush)

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

The Tudors

Versailles

Alias Grace

BBC Ghosts

CBS Ghosts

[astrawberrykitsuneafterdark]

Remember this smug as hell post?

Well, keep it in mind.

I'm going to give some people here the benefit of the doubt and go into this post with the assumption that they genuinely don't know how fucking awful the Tumblr """"porn filters"""" are for images deemed - or reported by users as - 'NSFW.'

This is a rehash of everything I wrote out before, but it's going over all of it in one big post, because this issue with community labels moves well beyond debates over what is and isn't NSFW. There are doublestandards within doublestandards, and no way at all for artists and creators to know for sure if their post is going to get blacklisted.

We're not merely talking about the fact that these filters exist. We're talking about the fact that they are wildly inconsistent, and that reported images aren't seen initially by a person so much as an extremely stupid algorithm. That's why there's the option to say 'this ruling was made in error.'

There are literally no set guidelines for what qualifies as NSFW, and what doesn't, when it comes to nudity, and to what characters those guidelines actually apply. Staff rulings do not match up to one another. They legitimately do not make sense. You cannot divine how a ruling is going to end up, and it is infuriating that staff is jerking us around like this when the platform very clearly wanted artists like us back.

Not only that, they were, yes: that fucking smug about it. In case you forgot, that 'cheater' picture is talking about people who fled the NSFW ban specifically.

Examples follow:

Both of these images were caught by the filters, and then appealed. The first one was (visibly, as you can see) downgraded to Everyone, in spite of the character showing more secondary sex characteristics than the first (breast, visible nipple).

Similarly, a male character showing a pube fluff was left alone, even in spite of being cited in my appeal on the second image.

Last, there is, as noted, this readily available image of Felicia, that you can find by searching 'darkstalkers Felicia' on the search bar. Did people forget that she's bottomless, and those aren't panties?

Using fluff to cover junk is an age-old trick for characters like this. And it clearly isn't a problem with the male character.

Further, you can go through just about any archive and see a ton of images that were not subject to community labels, many of which are much more racy, and much more legitimately "NSFW."

So, yes, beyond the disgust of Tumblr staff treating any body like mine as filthy and inherently sexual in nature, this is also about a system that is arbitrary, penalizes artists for no good reason, and has deeply opaque standards. You never know when a piece of yours is going to run afoul of a bot, or what a staff ruling will ultimately be, or why the ruling is there in the first place.

And that's bullshit. If you think it's anything other than bullshit, you're being a contrarian ass. Especially since a forced label absolutely WILL kill your visibility, where compared to implementing the label yourself. It is punitive, it is punishing, and I will say again: it is completely unnecessary to jerk us around like this when the platform very clearly wanted us back.

And now that we are, we're back to being treated like garbage, constantly having to guess what the rules actually mean, how they apply, and to which sorts of bodies they apply, all while watching our viewcounts on contested posts eat ten kinds of shit.

tl;dr, do not talk to me about 'following rules' when the rules are so ill-defined as to be quite literally useless, to me, and to every other artist on this website.

[astrawberrykitsuneafterdark]

I’ll often search using lemon out of habit 🤣 old habits die hard I guess

we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we?