#tumblr wouldn't index the tags on this post

[abby118]

Tagging/searches

Reuploading this entire thing, updated.

• I see people complaining about Tumblr's search systems not working, and that's fair if you don't know the rules (I don't know all of them either), but one little tip I can give you is that, sometimes, simply looking up a tag on your blog shows you fewer posts than if you were to click on said tag directly in your blog's posts and browse it that way. That's how you get all of the results.

• When tagging, make sure the most important tags for general searches are the first three and for blog searches the first five. If you create a problematic tag (don't ask me what that means, that's tumblr's decision), more often than not, it does hide the entire post from your searches, meaning it won't come up even when you search it using one of its other tags (or the post's words).

• If you reblog something and tag it appropriately, it still won't show up in the general searches because those only show original posts. Tagging them is for your blog only. That said, tag your original posts so they get in the tag.

• When I can't find something, the method that never fails is to go through archives. If it's a text post, then that's fairly easy - you click on the text post filter and search a word from your post (not a tag! you can't do that with the in-built browser search, only the archive search). Remember, the result is only for the posts you see on your screen so you need to scroll -> refresh the search -> scroll etc. It won't always highlight the word for you, or better said, you won't always see it, and in that case, it means it is there but not in the post's preview (the preview is small; it can't fit everything in it).

Photos are more difficult to find but it is possible if you use the right tags to organise them. As in, don't just tag under the general tag, create subtags.

• If you want to create a tag for yourself only, add an underscore before your tag. It works exactly like a normal tag except for the fact that it's hidden for everyone but you. You won't see it when you look at a post but it will be there when you click on it and enter the editing mode or when you edit in your mass post editor.

• Featured tags: These are tags you can set for your blog. If you don't set them, tumblr will pick them for you based on what you post the most. They show up in your archive's tags and in your blog's search (though you won't see all of them in your blog's search if you have too many). If you can't find a tag there, add it to your featured.

• Capital letters make no difference (Abc = abc = ABC). They're a matter of personal preference. However, spaces matter (abc def is not the same as abcdef ..... think of fan art and fanart for example).

• If you want to find anything on tumblr, use: words you remember from a post site:tumblr.com (you can add /post directly after that for more accuracy because some posts get indexed differently and it wouldn't catch those without that addition)

• url.tumblr.com/day/insert year/insert month/insert day

• If you want to search by using two tags at once, use: https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2] (just remove the brackets)

A post that's worth a read

What are tags actually for

[spirk-trek]

Hey so, it's me. The debbie-downer vaguing you in the spirk tag. I didn't mention you directly because my post wasn't directed at you, although it was made in response to checking some of your posts because I do have Unification in my filtered list (content and tag), so those fanworks? Behind a button, so my choice to look is all my own. (I didn't send the anon, though. That was someone else, sorry to say.) It sucks that that's how tumblr's system works but yay content filtering! Tumblr didn't always have that.

I didn't make that post to start drama, and I'm not the sort to get my kicks by being a contrarian for opposition's sake (like. I'm a Shatner fan. In a lot of online Star Trek spaces, I might as well say I hate K/S or Leonard Nimoy or kick puppies in my spare time, you know?), but I did make it in anger and for that I apologize. I should have waited longer on it to phrase things better or simply have deleted it from my drafts after typing it out. (But it's out there now and I'll live with it.)

I do understand where the joy of connecting the past to the present comes from (as a lot of your posts do with connecting old and new fanworks together), and that a lot of people are celebrating the Unification short as a culmination of 50+ years of K/S despite their initial separation according to the initial story, but for me (personally! I want to stress that. It's just me and my own opinion here), I keep seeing it as a valuing of what a company is finally offering fans rather than the celebration of fans who saw where K/S's story ended at the time, rejected that ending that was offered by the corporation, and made their own ending for K/S, without looking towards any official channels as a guide for their visions. That's what my post was about, where my anger was from, those questions--what becomes lost in fandom if we accept canon from the corporation that holds the copyright? What does it say if we look towards that same canon as being above what fandom has already envisioned? In a fandom as old as Star Trek's, one that laid so much groundwork that we take for granted, to overlook that worries me.

I suppose the biggest issue here is it's too similar, like a reflection in a mirror: on one side, Unification stands as the canonization of what the fandom has envisioned all along. It culminates. On the other, Unification appears as a bone tossed to finally appease fans who have seen K/S from the start and it feels too little, too late. Ironically enough, the short has seemingly managed to divide people, but it's too early to tell how lasting such a division could be.

Hopefully I've cleared the air by this. Unification clearly is not my cup of tea and I'm honestly not trying to ruin anyone's fun (most of my posts have gone untagged for a reason but I forget tumblr still parses for post content to index. Yikes. That post was tagged, though, because it was a snap decision made in anger and I wanted my thoughts to be seen). One could argue the short wasn't even made for me as I've long wondered if I will watch Generations because I've read the summary and didn't like it. But that's the joy of fandom and transformative works. We can look at the story and pick our favorite parts and rewrite the ones we don't like. If we didn't do that, fandom wouldn't exist, or it would but it wouldn't be as much fun.

Sorry for the essay in your inbox and for causing any confusion and hurt. I hope you've had a great day 💛

i'm not going to lie, it does hurt a little. i wasn't going to answer this publicly but i don't have the time today to have a private convo and i don't want you to think i deleted it or ignored it, so here we are.

i don't think unification made spirk any more canon than tmp did. i don't think the short was made with k/s in mind at all, even as a bone to toss starving shippers. star trek at large was never intended as a love story between them, but people have always seen it anyway. 

i'm conflicted about the use of nimoy's likeness too. despite that, i think that they did it as respectfully as they could have and involved the right people. it was a goodbye, not using him for a cheap cameo or advertising purposes (yes i know it was an "ad" like everything is, but it's not like spock holds up a coke at the end). you can disagree with me, and i understand your point of view. that's why i said i understood where that anon was coming from. 

what i see is william shatner and others taking a story that ended in a way that was disrespectful to both characters, one of which he himself has been playing for the majority of his life, and trying to fix that. it doesn't mean there's no corporate greed involved. both can be true. at least they posted it on youtube, they didn't premiere it or put it behind a paywall. it was just eight minutes, and less than a quarter of that had nimoy's face in it. my favorite part of the whole thing was seeing tos kirk meet his future selves. i love that even though they both die out of their times, they find each other in the end. 

i don't want to be an activist or defend or endorse anything, i just... 

those zines i tagged were 1) a poem by della van hise that was so accurate to the short that others were already reblogging it (i posted it weeks ago). i found it super interesting that she wrote a poem about them meeting again in death before tmp/wok even came out, let alone this short. 2) i was gushing about unification in the tags. 3) another poem about being side by side, which again, i found incredibly relevant. the other one i posted was because it went well with the others visually. it has nothing to do with unification other than the fact that spock is laying down. 

this has just made me sad tbh. i'm not angry and i love your analysis/fan work so much, so :( idk, i don't want anything i post to be divisive or disrespectful. i wasn't even worried about that before. i just really needed a win and maybe i clung to that a little too hard :/

[mariamegale]

Would you or anyone else be interested in starting/joining a server for patho fans to follow the dybowski allegations and push back against IPL for transparency and to fire him? I am wondering if a community for fans who care about justice would be useful

I'm not saying I'd be uninterested, but if I'm allowed a piece of advice as a person who has been involved with stuff like this in the past: Discord servers are notoriously bad for organising this kind of thing for any prolonged period of time. Ideally, instead, you'd want a forum where you can index and search posts more easily, automatically organise topics as they come up for ease of reading and keeping a red thread going, be able to tag and time-sort posts, and alleviate time zone issues by not having chat-based communications. Especially, you want this initiative to be findable via Google.

Let me explain, and preface this by saying I think the initiative itself is a fantastic idea. I'm just stating my opinion and experience, hoping to help.

Discord is great for many things, I fucking love it - but larger attempts at organising something very important, with strong feelings involved, is usually not one of them. What tends to happen is that you end up with a core group of incredibly dedicated people, while reaching very few lurkers or outside audiences which you typically need for these kinds of initiatives to pack a large punch. Chat-based communications are usually just too fast, and end up alienating newcomers and those who aren't able to either be constantly active or able and willing to read through old chat logs to catch up. I'd much sooner suggest a subreddit, or maybe even trying out the new Tumblr community thing (I don't know very much about it, but it seems to have a tagging system and it's also on-site which should help significantly with recruiting people into this thing).

Another alternative is, of course, if that core group would be willing to produce a (quality) video, text post or document to be crossposted over other sites, which if done in the right way could serve as a rallying point for that wider audience, for example towards a petition or similar. But it's important to keep in mind that you need to do this in a prepared and focused way, as you're going to need to send a very clear message to the viewer of what they can and should do right now.

I'm not saying I definitely wouldn't join a Discord, but my online time is pretty limited (a few hours a day) so I know from experience that if this server would show any kid of volume, without severe SlowMode-control, I would struggle a lot to keep up without stressing out. It's simply likely my contribution would just be showing up once a day or every other day asking for a tl;dr:, which I likely wouldn't get before the conversation moved on. That is not in anyway a read on Discord users, I fucking love Discord, just matter of factly my experience.

Besides, having something open to the internet (ie, Google) makes it easier for people to find whatever resources you put together much quicker in the future. Think about it this way: If you wanted to find out more about allegations against a company, would you sooner go to Google and watch or read through the top results, or hunt down a discord and manually search and scroll through chats until you find the relevant info?

I do think the initiative is great, though, and I don't want you to be discouraged. But I think you're more likely to see wide-spread engagement through organising on a forum on the open web, as opposed to a closed chat server. If you do want to go with a Discord, be prepared that you may need to produce some kind of off-server material to draw others in.

tl;dr: I'd join, but I think a subreddit, maybe a tumblr community, or other similar forum-like platform would be more successful for this endeavour; alternatively, to make a plan for a quality, punch-packing video, post or document to be spread as a rallying cry down the road.

[sleepymarmot]

Backed up my blog using the Python script. The process froze twice and I had to quit and continue. On the third try, it completed.

After ~3 thousand lines of error messages, the log says it backed up 140,381 posts. That's a bigger number than either of the post counts displayed by Tumblr itself this week. There are 140,309 files in the "posts" folder. Some of them seem to be broken, and without the broken ones it's 140,297 — two posts less than the current official count.

The backup process took approximately 13 hours and resulted in a folder size of 357 GB. 355 GB out of that is the media folder.

Even though I used the "--tag-index" argument, the script did not create a tag index, leaving me with an unsortable chronological list of posts.

I tried backing up dwparallels to see what happens. The process froze at some point but mysteriously restarted. By the official count, the blog has 1075 posts. The backup saved 1072 posts, according to both the log and the file number. It also built the tag index successfully.

My only guess was that in my request for the main blog, there was an extra space after the "--tag-index" argument. Because there was an extra space there in the tutorial, and I copy-pasted it directly. Could that be the culprit? Or was it because I quit the script by force? Was I supposed to use all of the arguments again when continuing an aborted job? If so, then a lot of audio and video had to be missing as well.

I started the backup of the main blog again, now with the "--no-post-clobber" argument so that it wouldn't redownload existing posts. It failed once, because I reached the daily API request limit and couldn't continue afterwards. On the second try, it successfully went through all of my posts and then seemingly froze on the "Building index" stage. When the script reads/downloads posts, it displays progress in numbers, but when it builds the index, there is no progress indicator at all so there's no way to tell if it's running or came across an error and stopped. After approximately 35 minutes, according to the timestamps, the script updated the index and created a folder for the tags, but the log stayed still. A few hours later, I right-clicked on the command line, and the log suddenly updated and displayed the completion message. On this second run through, the script downloaded 2 more posts, so I now have 140,299 html files, exactly like the official count. There are also 30 other html files in the posts folder that seem to be broken. The json folder has 140,299 files exactly. The html files are timestamped with what seems to be the corresponding post's creation date, but the json files are timestamped with the time and day of the backup.

So now I have all posts, a monthly index, and a tag index. Unfortunately, the html post pages display photosets by wrapping every image in its own paragraph, and don't seem to record the photoset layout anywhere. I hope that data is preserved in the json somewhere, so that it theoretically would be possible to reconstruct these posts properly if the need arises. That's far beyond my own technical capabilities, though.

Now, if only any representative of Tumblr deigned to explain to me what they have done with all my posts that have disappeared into the ether without a trace...

[cyle]

Regarding talking in the tags:

There's basically no way to stop Tumblr users from doing that. It's impossible with how ingrained it is in people's minds, and trying to force people to do it differently wouldn't be very good.

So here's a new idea: leave the tags section exactly as-is, but let us mark certain tags as "sorting" tags. Like if I were commenting on your post to my followers, I'd say "#I don't think there's a good way to fix this #tumblr updates #discussion", with the last two specifically marked as tags to sort by.

Importantly, since more people use tags for commentary than for indexing, the indexing should be opt-IN, not opt-out.

Combining this system with removing both the tag limit and the "first five tags are indexed" thing will both fix the problem AND mesh really well with the current culture.

(Addon: make one-word tags automatically marked as indexable for simplicity and convenience)

thanks for the feedback about this. a few thoughts come to mind here.

first, i'll remind folks that nothing is planned to change about tags right now, so there's nothing to worry about. i think folks read my initial thoughts on this and assumed it was because we're planning on changing anything: we're not. this was just a conversation i thought would be interesting to have in public, and it has been.

while it may seem "impossible" to stop anyone from doing anything, that's not really the point. the point is how the product (tumblr) nudges people to do one thing or another. every design choice we make nudges people towards certain behavior, conscious or not. currently, the wide-open tags field means that the behavior people ultimately exhibit in that field is nebulous and hard to predict. that's what we see today. and in a sense, that's pretty amazing: it leads to emergent behavior (behavior designers didn't plan) like "talking in the tags". that's magic! that's awesome! we didn't build that: you did.

on the other hand, it's important for you, me, everyone, to realize that the current usage of tumblr you're probably familiar with is the minority. most posts do not have tags to begin with. the most engaged tags are not the "talking in the tags" ones. one huge source of confusion for people joining tumblr today is the tags field, and "talking in the tags" specifically. adding more complexity to that is antithetical to solving that problem. it would only make the situation worse, because it would require even more specialized knowledge about how tumblr works. we cannot do that, or tumblr will continue to shrink and die.

if tumblr was growing and popular and making money today, then we'd probably be fine with making tagging more complex. but that's just not the case.

ultimately, what will probably end up making the most sense for the most people will be uncomfortable for the minority of us who have become comfortable with the way it works today. that's one thing product development is about, unfortunately: managing that discomfort. please read about survivorship bias to understand what i mean here.

regardless, regardless, regardless of all of this thought exercise, i'll reiterate that nothing is going to change with tags in the foreseeable future. because ultimately, the problems with "talking in the tags" are not the biggest problems we face. they are emblematic of our problems, it's an introduction to those problems, but it's not the one to fix first.

[callsign-cups]

Hellu!

(Masterlist of posts at the bottom!)

Heyho, the creator behind Cups speaking.

I'm a 23 years old artist and writer, both being practiced as a hobby of mine, who is present in a few fandoms; the two I am currently in the deepest being D&D and Call of Duty. (Socials further down below) I'm a pretty shy bean with a sprinkle ~of social anxiety~, so it is easier for me to reply to messages rather than approach someone on my own. It gets easier the more I interact with people, as one might guess.

I am planning to post short stories and character informations of my OCs, both to practice and have a place for backup information. I would also love to expand what I can post in terms of drawings, since TT is rather specific with how much skin is allowed in a picture. (Which is not enough for a fullbody tattoo references and NSFW art).

I did not have a tumblr phase, so learning how to navigate all of this will take some time. Tips and Tricks are greatly appreciated!

As for the character, Cups: He is a fictional character and, although certainly a self-insert, not me. We share traits, ideals and morals, but are not the same person, have differences in many other ways. Please do keep that in mind for any stories or art I share and post!

One example of my art and, wouldn't you know it, Cups in gear. (There is an animation for this specific one on TikTok and here.)

My socials:

TikTok: Callsign: Cups

AO3: Cupl_Writes

On Tiktok, I mainly share my artworks, drawing process (refer to story posts) fan art. At the moment, most of my fan art is dedicated to cosplayers of the Cod fandom.

On AO3, I started writing Cups' story, called "Dug my grave and got the executioner". It's on pause because of personal issues (AO3 curse, yay) and because I need to figure out how to actually write down what I have in mind. Do read the tags, people!!

Index of posts:

Crow Content:

Cups' Spotify playlist (will keep adding and reordering songs)

AO3 Introductions to "Dug my grave and got the executioner":

Chapter I: New Arrivals

Chapter II: Family

Chapter III: The medic and his Captain (Part 1)

Chapter IV: The medic and his Captain (Part 2)

Tumblr posts (some also on TikTok):

Debrief report 1 (+ animatic)

New Year (story bits, reposted with drawing)

"I'm stupid, do me." (silly little animatic showcasing some of their dynamics)

Firsts (story bit, mind the TW/CW!)

Forget yourself (animatic follow up if "Firsts")

Fan Art:

Glitch's Subject 7-1 (Soap cosplayer fanart)

Cain's Frag (Soap cosplayer fanart)

[babbybones]

Oekaki updatez...

Monster Kidz Oekaki is still up and i'd like to keep it that way, but i need to give it some more attention and keep people updated on what's going on/what my plans are for it. so let me jot some thoughts down...

data scraping for machine learning: this has been a concern for a lot of artists as of late, so I've added a robots.txt file and an ai.txt file (as per the opt-out standard proposed by Spawning.ai) to the site in an effort to keep out as many web crawlers for AI as possible. the site will still be indexed by search engines and the Internet Archive. as an additional measure, later tonight I'll try adding "noai", "noimageai", and "noml" HTML meta tags to the site (this would probably be quick and easy to do but i'm soooo sleepy 🛌)

enabling uploads: right now, most users can only post art by drawing in one of the oekaki applets in the browser. i've already given this some thought for a while now, but it seems like artist-oriented spaces online have been dwindling lately, so i'd like to give upload privileges to anyone who's already made a drawing on the oekaki and make a google form for those who haven't (just to confirm who you are/that you won't use the feature maliciously). i would probably set some ground rules like "don't spam uploads"

rules: i'd like to make the rules a little less anal. like, ok, it's no skin off my ass if some kid draws freddy fazbear even though i hope scott cawthon's whole empire explodes. i should also add rules pertaining to uploads, which means i'm probably going to have to address AI generated content. on one hand i hate how, say, deviantart's front page is loaded with bland, tacky, "trending on artstation"-ass AI generated shit (among other issues i have with the medium) but on the other hand i have no interest in trying to interrogate someone about whether they're a Real Artist or scream at someone with the rage of 1,000 scorned concept artists for referencing an AI generated image someone else posted, or something. so i'm not sure how to tackle this tastefully

"Branding": i'm wondering if i should present this as less of a UTDR Oekaki and more of a General Purpose Oekaki with a monster theming. functionally, there wouldn't be much of a difference, but maybe the oekaki could have its own mascot

fun stuff: is having a poll sort of "obsolete" now because of tumblr polls, or should I keep it...? i'd also like to come up with ideas for Things To Do like weekly/monthly art prompts, or maybe games/events like a splatfest/artfight type thing. if you have any ideas of your own, let me know

boring stuff: i need to figure out how to set up automated backups, so i guess i'll do that sometime soon... i should also update the oekaki software sometime (this is scary because i've made a lot of custom edits to everything)

Money: well this costs money to host so I might put a ko-fi link for donations somewhere... at some point... maybe.......

[culttvblog]

Inside No. 9: Dead Line

Spoiler alert: this blog post gives away essential plot points but not the conclusion.

This is the blog post for Halloween and is about a show which hasn't appeared here before. Inside No 9 is a black comedy anthology series created by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith of The League of Gentleman and Psychoville, both of which you must watch immediately, if you haven't already. Each episode has a new situation and cast, and incorporate a plot twist, twisted humour or horror. Dead Line was the 2018 Halloween special. In fact you wouldn't believe the trouble this blog post has given me, perhaps because it's such an odd episode of a rather twisted show.

Before the show broadcast a synopsis was released to the press:

' When Arthur Flitwick finds an old mobile phone in his local graveyard, he makes the mistake of trying to contact the owner, but some mysteries are best left unsolved and as Halloween draws near Arthur is plunged into a nightmare of his own making.' (Source: Wikipedia)

However, cleverly, that is not what the show is about at all. It starts off like that, but the broadcast rapidly goes wrong with technical problems and mysterious things happening.

We see snatches of other shows, including Most Haunted investigating the Coronation Street set. We see behind the scenes of Pemberton and Shearsmith talking about what a disaster it is in their dressing room, and suspecting that their discussion is actually being broadcast. We see bits of one of the first series episodes of the show. We hear strange whisperings and hear the announcer scream. We see the wonderful Stephanie Cole who guest stars with a magnificent cod Irish accent, getting a strange phone call. We see the filming going even more wrong than it was to start off with.

In no time everybody is at sixes and sevens and it just gets incresingly freaky as the show goes on. It becomes apparent that the drama is actually about the studio they are in and it's all fairly horrific.

This is an excellent drama which surprisingly does take repetition because it pulls no punches.

I just have one criticism which is about the subject of ecclesiastical vocabulary which surely isn't that difficult to get advice about.

I think my favourite bit is Stephanie Coles's character who is intentionally set up to be acted badly with no understanding of motivation and plot. In fact in many ways this show is a train wreck but it's a master class in a train wreck done by experts.

This blog is mirrored at

culttvblog.tumblr.com/archive (from September 2023) and culttvblog.substack.com (from January 2023 and where you can subscribe by email)

Archives from 2013 to September 2023 may be found at culttvblog.blogspot.com and there is an index to the tags used on the Tumblr version at https://www.tumblr.com/culttvblog/729194158177370112/this-blog

[magz]

Hello, I hope you're doing well (relatively). I'm sure you get asks about tumblr-utils a lot, but I suppose you wouldn't know why saving posts from a specified tag doesn't work for one tag, but works fine for another? The images from the malfunctioning tag are saved, but it's not in the index html or posts folder. I suppose it's because it's a bug of the older version? I can't figure out how to use the new one with what I've already saved;; Sry for the long ask and thank you!

It's really strange,

If magz had to guess - it could even be the format of tag itself, like using characters that weren't taken in mind. especially since tumblr changed how to handle things like tag spacing n some special unicode characters, for example.

If it ends up still being issue in new version though, which magz should at least get documentation updated within weeks time - then it would have to be reported as bug to developer.

Note: The new release 1.0 and up, use completely different way of install script.

[fateandloveentwined]

okay, here goes

🍂cnovels masterlist

🕯️les mis index

🌹phantom of the opera (not much)

🌋index of the rings

also please indulge me in the linking of this tgcf 5+1 on Xie Lian's character analysis, in english and chinese because i have come to be rather fond of it.

so tags:

#fate's meta — definitions, "etymology", whatever comes my way

#fate creates — on creations, translations, thought experiments and fic recs. for side-tags see #fate's analysis, #fate translates, #fate recs and #fate's wonky thoughts.

#fate's stuff — miscellaneous stuff that i posted or commented on. just for differentiating reblogs from original rambles; there's not much to see on this tag. #i tries to answer for asks, #reads and books for recent reads and book/tv series related stuff.

and other "non-selectively mine" tags that may interest you: #interpretations realisations (headcanon analyses), #chinese language, #chinese (on culture)

n.b. chinese translations—i'm definitely interested in doing some of this in near future (read, when i'm actually free). it'd be mostly short pieces instead of fics though, say classical poems and songs.

hmu am always open for chats or questions though replies may take time depending on the day. feel free to send meta/translation/rec requests/chinese-related questions too because i wouldn't know what to write otherwise!

tumblr page background cr. lofter@kuidaidai (2ha) / pfp cr. unknown (encountering a snake)

[tea-with-evan-and-me]

I also saw you being shamed for posting about who some of Evan’s fans are because “it invades his and their privacy.” Literally all those people except for Brian and Jesse are in the public eye. Jesse you could argue he is because he is a musician and went on tour recently. It’s not a secret who Evan’s friends are like there’s many pictures of him with them, he’s tagged them in his own Instagram posts when he had it and they’ve tagged and posted him. Brian has had his Instagram private for years but some fans follow him and Jesse will go public for some time and then go private a lot it’s not a new thing. And some fans follow him too. Like I just don’t understand it’s not a secret and it’s not invasive to talk about who his friends are. And also their social media was never even shared like she said it was.

you are correct, none of it is private in the sense that people know who these folks are because they are friend's of evan who have openly shared posts tagging him on social media, back when he had accounts lol i have photos with brian ogle that i only found because their friend group posted and tagged him and evan. they weren't like, some mysterious people who we magically figured out were friends with evan. he has tons of friends we don't know because they did the opposite and never publicly tied themselves to evan.

none of these friendships are brand new information and none of them were broken to the public on my blog, or any tumblr blog to my knowledge.

she can talk all day about invasions of privacy and what evan would want/wouldn't want, blah blah blah... but ultimately, she ran a hate blog and discord that served no purpose outside of scornfully indexing and critiquing the every move of his girlfriend of 2 years, while they were together. you would be absolutely out of your mind if you were to think he would not have disdain for her due to that. so i cannot take her seriously when she acts holier than thou about respecting evan's wishes.

even when it comes to posting other private content, the source of the problem she is identifying is her. she did not find the airbnb, or the amazon profile, or anything else, really. she was in a separate discord server with a group of girls even more mentally unstable than she is, and she took their finds and spread them amongst her friend group on her server and expected them to keep it within that circle. not out of respect, but because she liked holding things over peoples' heads and bragging about what she had that others didn't. if she really cared, she would not have done that because an invasion of privacy is an invasion of privacy, regardless. if she had an actual moral qualm then she would have simply left the other discord server when she realized they were all stalking evan and also had really weird delusional beliefs about him and his relationships. but she will never address that situation honestly because if she did, it would open an absolutely insane can of worms and a rabbit hole that few would believe, including me, except i have now spoken to numerous women who separately and on different occasions told me the same wackadoodle, fever dream shit.

[lonita]

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In case you were curious, though I wouldn't expect it, the onslaught will be over Wednesday evening.

I had enough creative posts backed up to last until the end of 2029, but I have no patience. That, and I'm not trying to grow an audience. I'm trying to share information - and that's easier to do when you actually share the information.

Once posted, they'll be sorted in a hand-done index of sorts, in a far more functional (maybe) fashion than Tumblr's tags provide. Then people can have a far easier time picking out the things they want to try when they can actually find them.

It'll then be down to just the personal stuff, the odd new creative post, the once a month collation of the daily posts from my Bluesky Idealog account, and the Per diem word prompts on the first day of every month.

This is what happens when you don't throw things away - your hard drive ends up stuffed to busting with a metric fucktonne of text files with Things in them.

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A work-in-progress version of the Character Index is now up!! It is currently a blog page, as tumblr wouldn't allow me to create it as a post ( presumably due to a link limit ). I know blog pages aren't accessible across all devices for some reason, so if folks have suggestions for alternatives, please let me know!

+ It is a work-in-progress because I intend to go back and tag forms as well as individual characters in the near future.

[vergess]

This is such a blatant, malicious warping of the actual events.

First of all, tags used to be easier to avoid. In the old days, circa 2012, only the first 5 tags on a post were indexed to the tag feed. So, it was common practice to, for example, use the tags "NSFW, Not safe for work, adults only, porn, pornography" to eat up the first 5 tags on explicit works, then tag the ships, content, etc to organize your blog safe in the knowledge that you would only be posting porn to the porn tags.

Then the "search"new tag search" (my term, not theirs) was introduced. This was around 2014? 2013? It was before acecourse really took off, because it helped fuel a lot of acecourse's more heinous behaviours.

See, tumblr has always been a majority adult, majority NSFW website. This is reflected in the app stores' age ratings being 17+. Which, you'll notice is distinct from the 18+ that denotes "adult only" in the US. This is because anyone over 13 has always been able to register on tumblr. This was and is common practice on much of the internet today, eg facebook, twitter, youtube, etc. It's broadly accepted that children may be guests in these places, in the same way they may be guests at a sports bar on quiz night. So long as no one gives the children alcohol, the adults are welcome to drink.

But, many users had previously avoided porn on tumblr simply by not knowing where to look for it. This combined with a strict politeness about tagging NSFW for the benefit of fellow working adult users of the site, led to a small but vocal subset of users who genuinely had no idea about the porn thing.

Until the new tag search dropped.

Suddenly it was much harder to avoid porn. You needed a blacklist of some sort, which tumblr wouldn't introduce as a native feature for many years. Blacklists were critical for managing your tumblr experience in those days. Tumblr saviour, missing e, eventually the first xkit. They all addressed the need for blacklisting now that you couldn't politely avoid posting your porn to everyone.

Because, again, tumblr has always been a majority NSFW, majority adult website. Since its very inception, this has been true. Tumblr has never, for one single moment, been "for kids."

There are websites for kids, you know. Not as many of them as there used to be in like 2005. But they do still exist.

Tumblr is not and cannot be one of them.

Because tumblr has, since its inception, been "for" artists. That mission was frequently degraded, to the point that many people don't even remember this. But there was a time when the popular joke on "fandom tumblr" was that tumblr had "two continents." There was "art tumblr" and "fan tumblr," which was a known, smaller newcomer.

Today you still see echoes of that joke in the phrase "the science side of tumblr."

Anyway. Porn became unavoidable.

This shocked some of the kids who hadn't known they were using a porn website, but they generally quickly recovered because the contemporary horror surrounding the concept of sex was actively being fought in the popular culture of the time. See also: slut walks, female toplessness in the US.

More importantly. It horrified two groups of adults. The extremist christians, and the TERFs.

Extremist christians were quickly laughed off by most tumblr users, even the kids. This is because extreme christianity wasn't nearly as popular to discuss publically 10 years ago, when some dim concept of "separation of church and state" was still considered acceptable in a public space either.

TERFs, however, were mostly adult women, often queer, but just as often painfully capital-S Straight And Cis. Still. Often queer women. Queer adult women.

They had an extremely easy time presenting themselves as mentors and kindly protectors to any queer kid who stumbled into a bit of properly tagged porn and expressed discomfort.

To put it plainly, they were predatory. Their prey were queer teens and young adults desperate for guidance in a violently queerphobic world.

They nurtured the feelings of discomfort in their prey, purposely exposing them to uncomfortable and adult topics on purpose. Literally grooming these children, for real.

That is what bred the anti-porn minority on tumblr. Adult women who couldn't cope with the idea of trans people existing, and literally created controversy after controversy to ensure that there were always kids on tumblr exposed to violence, despite the best efforts of any normal user. TERFs started anti-asexual discourse on tumblr. Anti-nonbinary discourse. The entire "tucute vs truscum" mess (note: truscum literally named themselves 'scum' on purpose and now pretend they are being insulted). TERFs looking for victims underlie every single "queer discourse" tumblr has ever had. That includes anti-porn and anti-kink discourse.

And to be clear, this entire problem started with a poor decision on tumblr staff's part.

Then tumblr got sold to corporate masters, with corporate money. Unironically, the developers and staff were being held hostage and forced to be as user hostile as possible.

That included cuts to (or else refusal to properly grow and manage) the user support team who handle reports for bugs, harassment, etc. There were many years where you could send in a dozen clear and explicit murder threats including your geographic location to staff, and get no response.

YEARS.

So people's distrust of staff grew as they were forced to worsen everything, including but not limited to making it harder to blacklist the god. Damned. Porn.

Thus the fire remained fueled for years.

And in the mean time, political sentiment in the united states went FUCKING. INSANE. Every single basic civil right we have all come to take for granted in the US has abruptly disappeared. Now to be fair they were always tenuous, but this shit is bananas. It was done with such glee, despite the vast majority of US Americans being horrified.

But our cities were literally designed to make it as easy as possible for the military (or the militarized police) to take over, so I can see why some hesitance is warranted.

Anyway, it was in the early days of this fervor that the bills SESTA and FOSTA were passed. Advertised as a way to stop sex trafficking, they failed completely. They literally made sex trafficking worse. That's not a joke, there have been studies done.

They passed 6 months before the porn ban.

Now, one thing of note did happen during that six months.

An actual ring of child abusers sharing violent images of their victims was genuinely discovered on tumblr. This was reported to the correct authorities immediately, and handled by the feds as was appropriate.

I know this, because my moirail (yes, I am in fact that kind of homestuck fan) was the one to file the initial report.

Now, let's say you're a major corporation like, oh... verizon. You have a website that could be held liable for aiding child trafficking. It's absurdly unlikely, but the possibility exists. Your investors and business partners are breathing down your neck, including the notoriously hard to please Apple. Sex workers are pretty famously a significant part of your user base, even.

They banned porn because the US government went fucking insane 6 months earlier and no one knew yet if that shit was going to go to court.

But of course the long time anti-porn TERFs on tumblr celebrated this as a huge victory.

Meanwhile every normal person was panicking over the loss of history.

Which apparently we were right to because it's barely been 5 years and this shit is passed down like facts from on high.

The porn ban had nothing to do with your disgusting, TERF fuelled, impotent attempts to get queer sex re-criminalized. You malignant shits just happened to have the same goals as literal fascists, namely putting more people in danger while claiming it's for their own safety.

Anyway, tumblr has since been resold and that's a whole separate thing but to be clear? To be crystal fucking clear?

The goddamned US government's hatred of sex as manifested by SESTA/FOSTA caused the fucking porn ban.

Your petty little ego is, tragically, not as impressive as the imperial capital's descent into fascism.

cgl literally is the reason tumblr rules say no porn. they couldnt keep it in their own tags and started harassing minors lmao. it got really bad leading up to the porn ban

Literally not the case, but please do continue to hate on a kink in my inbox, I will totally support you eventually I'm sure!!!

[mizgnomer]

Crowley & The Tenth Doctor - Parallels - Part Two (both as played by David Tennant)

Link to [ Part One ]

[coquelicoq]

the reason for the tag issue is that some of the posts are somewhat self-aware and know when a fantastic tag is attached to them so they won't let go - even if it's just to exchange it for a better tag

tumblr! let me make my tags better you cowards!!