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Just call me Jada or Arial / August 22 / Female / Self taught Artist / Undertale, Hamilton, and Splatoon 2 trash / Other blogs: @ask-arial-and-co , @bucca-does-stuff / 👌
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I spent the past four or five days rearranging ASGORE, Welcome To Dangan Island, Ikoroshia, The Danganronpa main theme, MEGALOVANIA, and a royal victory of a secret at the end into this tribute to the most prestigious of Sundays. With Tumblr’s ban we cannot have another legal fingers in his sunday now. R.I.P. (2018-2018)

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* THE FINAL SONG.

* 12/17/2018 ON THAT DAY, EVERYTHING CHANGED FOREVER. * THEY CAN TRY TO SILENCE US, BUT WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE THE MEMORIES.

if for some reason you think this is a serious post, i recommend you pee your pants

OKAY IM ACTUALLY CRYING NOW

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Hey Tumblr–

A couple of weeks ago we announced an update to our Community Guidelines regarding adult content, and we’ve received a lot of questions and feedback from you. First and foremost, we are sorry that this has not been an easy transition and we know we can do a better job of explaining what we’re doing. We knew this wasn’t going to be an easy task and we appreciate your patience as we work through the challenges and limitations of correctly flagging tens of billions of GIFs, videos, and photos.

Today, December 17th, our policy begins to take effect. This means that we will start hiding – not deleting – posts that contain GIFs, videos, and photos from public view that are in violation of our policy. Again, this is a complex problem, and over the coming weeks we will gradually, and carefully, flag more adult content. (Yes, we will still make mistakes, but hopefully fewer and fewer.)

More importantly, we want to clarify the things that you, as a community, have asked about the most.

Tumblr will always be a place to explore your identity. Tumblr has always been home to marginalized communities and always will be. We fully recognize Tumblr’s special obligation to these communities and are committed to ensuring that our new policy on adult content does not silence the vital conversations that take place here every day. LGBTQ+ conversations, exploration of sexuality and gender, efforts to document the lives and challenges of those in the sex worker industry, and posts with pictures, videos, and GIFs of gender-confirmation surgery are all examples of content that is not only permitted on Tumblr but actively encouraged.

We also want to reiterate some important information from our Support post:

Your content will not be deleted. If your post(s) are flagged under the new policy, they will be hidden from public view and will only be visible to you. You can appeal these flags if you feel your content was erroneously marked as adult content. Upcoming feature changes will also make appeals more manageable for those of you with multiple flagged posts. Your blog won’t be deleted if you’ve posted adult content in the past, and there is nothing you need to do if you have interacted with adult content up until now–it will just be flagged and not publicly viewable. Don’t forget too that you can download your content. It’s yours after all, and we don’t take that lightly.

What is still permitted? We’ve heard a lot of concern about what the policy does not permit, but we want to make sure that you also know what is still permitted:

Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, specifically sculptures and illustrations, is also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr. Although, photorealistic imagery or photography – images, videos, or GIFs – with real humans that include exposed genitals or female-presenting (yeah, we know you hate this term) nipples or depict sex acts is not allowed per our guidelines. 

Examples of exceptions that are still permitted but that you may need to appeal if they are misclassified are: exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.

The automated tools will improve. Having a post mistakenly flagged as adult totally sucks; we understand and agree that there have been too many wrongfully flagged posts since we announced the policy change. With tens of billions of GIFs, videos, and photos to review and millions of new posts every day, we really need your help to get it right.

The more you help by reporting content that’s not permitted and by appealing content that you believe was flagged incorrectly, the better our automated tools will get at classifying your posts correctly. The more content these tools review, the more they will learn the difference between what’s permitted and what’s not. Most importantly, your content won’t be deleted if erroneously flagged and all appeals will be sent to a real, live human who can make the appropriate call. 

We love Tumblr and the communities that call Tumblr home. You are Tumblr. This place has always been a reflection of the voices and communities that thrive here. As you’ve always done, help us continue to shape Tumblr into the community you want it to be.

<3

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So, you’re still doing the shit your community is dead set against, and allowing censorship of nudity in creative practices to be hidden from the public’s eyes?

You are still trying to institute your principles on nudity and porn on a community as wide and diverse as Tumblr? (Also you are fucking right we hate the term “female-presenting nipples”)

You are still allowing horrible things like neo-nazis and white supremacists a platform to spew hatred?

Yes, there is a legitimate CP problem on here, as well as large sections of the internet. Yes, there are porn bots everywhere. We want those things fixed.

Look. I have my own personal beliefs on porn, nudity, and expressions of sexuality. Honestly, I have no problem with illustrations and expressions of nudity and sex. The body is natural, sex is natural, those things do not offend me in the slightest.

However, there are people who completely disagree with me on that. Fucking weird right? The thing is, I believe both of us are allowed to express those beliefs. That’s fine.

What’s not okay is banning content because an individual or organization is imposing their beliefs on a subject - such as sex and nudity. I don’t want some organization telling me I can’t look at titties. What’s next? Nope, no Renaissance nudes for you. No depictions of Greek mythology and all it’s sexiness for you.

If you ban one thing, you lead a precedent to ban others. There are big exceptions to this line of thinking. Does it involve children? Yes? Then no we don’t tolerate CP on this platform. Is it consenting adults? Yes? Okay cool, whatever.

But what about children looking at these things? Like porn and graphic imagery? Well, here’s an anecdote that helps give my perspective. When I was little, elementary/primary school age, I watched South Park with my parents when it was new in the late 90’s. There was an episode that came on fairly early in the first season, I think the one with the Succubus and Chef getting it on. I saw it as a tiny child and asked my parents what was going on. My mom sat with me and explained it to me in gentle terms - about what the two characters were doing. My parents always explained things if I asked.

At least to me, the hard truth is that kids will always see shit they aren’t supposed to. I certainly did. I know my friends did. I know my own parents did. Should we hide more and more things away, or attempt to explain things properly when they ask instead of demonizing those things they are curious about? Because I know kids, now adults, who were hidden away from those things and now have to deal with the consequences of those actions. It’s terrible.

Now. If you made it this far, holy shit dude thanks for taking your time to read this! I just get so frustrated with people making things like porn and nudity out to be so evil.

Peace out dudes and fuck this stupid stuff @staff

i am going to be logging off now, bye everyone! it's been real fun here!

China is putting Uyghur Muslims into Concentration Camps

This is one of the greatest attrocities and oppression taking place in the world today yet still it is one of the least talked about issues. It’s estimated possibly over 2 million Uyghur Muslims have been put into these concentration camps which China calls “re-edcuation camps” and the goals is to wipe out and clean them from their cultural and religious identity. They have built dozens of these camps with fortified walls and barbed wire fences which they hide from the world media.

China sees Islam as an ‘ideological disease’. Many of the people put in these camps don’t make it out alive due to to the harsh living conditions inside. Many leave behind children who are then sent to government run orphanages and are brainwashed from a young age removing their cultural and religious identity.

Uyghur Muslims can be arrested and put in these camps for the smallest of reasons and every step they take is monitored by the authorities. Facial recognition cameras and high tech equipment has been deployed in East Turkestan turning it into a complete surveillance state. This isn’t fantasy or ‘fake news’. This is happening now in East Turkestan. Don’t let history repeat itself. Share and let the world know the truth.

December 17th - a rescue plan

Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.

I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)

One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.

More info over the days to come.

The plan is, broadly:

1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there

2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.

3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.

4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.

Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.

There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.

The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons - maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.

If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.

Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.

(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site - that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)

If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.

If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.

(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)

If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.

Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.

Oh I so hope this works. It would be great to get this out so we can try to get as many people as possible all back in one place and not split up all over different platforms.

Please reblog

Here’s hoping

everyone who see’s this from Me PLEASE reblog this!

~Uncle R.

Guys, check this out.

We now have a plan to save this Tumblr community!

Help is on the way!

More to come!

I want to personally thank all those volunteers who are involved in this project.

WarriorMale

Is this for real 👀? Do we have a secret Avengers team of developers looking out for us? I swear this better not be fake, this isn’t the place to play any games!

Reblogging this because all my NSFW blogger followers out there need it. I’ll probably migrate over too since I think my family is gonna be there

And anybody else I’m forgetting

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Let’s hope for the best!

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Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

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Nice try staff

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tumblr doesnt fuckin generate revenue and you all know it

Good, fuck Tumblr.

Logging off is EXACTLY what we should do. Especially if it impacts add revenue.

What you need to be is VOCAL about WHY you’re doing it.

Dont just quietly turn away, be clear WHY you’re walking away. If you’re choosing to leave for good, dont leave totally. Post a big fucking reason WHY your leaving and reblog that shit over and over every day until the 17th.

Protesting in silence will do nothing. Dumblr will just think exactly what this posts says. But if you are vocal and clear WHY you’re protesting then people will know where you’re coming from. 

Log off on the 17th. Dont just not visit the site,

LOG OUT.

Most people are still logged in even if the page isn’t up on their personal computer. You’re still “using” the website according to them. Log out on the site. Log out on your phone.

Until then, be as fucking vocal about this as possible.

How would you guys feel if I did art request?

And yes, I'm actually going to try to do them this time--

I don't know, I'm just not as busy as I usually am, so instead of taking a nice relaxing break, I'm doing requests B)

I'm only gonna take like 6 requests so I can still have my break lmao (Busts and half-bodies only oof)

1. Taken

2. Taken

3. Taken

4. Empty

5. Empty

6. Empty

;)

fingers in his ass sunday

you know what day it is

addicted to fingers in his ass sunday

I KNOW IT'S NOT SUNDAY BUT I'VE BEEN LOOKING SO LONG FOR THIS POST AAAAAAAAAAA

Tumblr Givaway!!!

who here wants my

Social security number?!!!!

I do!

rules for entry:

  • reblog this post
  • you must be following me
  • and that’s it!

3 winners will be randomly selected,

FIRST PLACE PRIZE: my social security number!

SECOND PLACE PRIZE: my blood type!

THIRD PLACE PRIZE: my DAD’S social security number!

enter now! the entry deadline is November 10th!

ME ME ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me

Nothing happened. 

I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE

*throws down gauntlet*

Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.

Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture. 

aight

OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT

DO IT

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WOW IT REALLY IS SOMETHING FREAKING GOOD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT

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Okay, if this is a rickroll I swear to…

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1) It was not a rickroll

2) It was super awesome!

3) No jumpscare or anything designed to freak you out, so doesn’t need an unreality warning (YMMV, of course).

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Suspicious but curious. Curiosity wins!

attention all writers following me- try this or you will lament.

EVERYONE TRY THIS (you gotta go to your on blog to click on it!)

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OK THIS IS THE COOLEST

MY WRIST IS ACHING

hmmmmm