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CAESER ARE YOU OKAY

ARE YOU OKAY CEASER

Some philosopher valentines from yours truly

Vhenadahlen (16/25)

Like the vhenadahl, Artie is there for the people.

This is the L A S T advent image being posted on Tumblr! You can find the other nine elsewhere! It is extremely likely this account will be deleted in January, so if you like my shit, come follow me elsewhere now!

I EXIST ELSEWHERE

This is no longer, if it ever was, a particularly reliable place for my works. I’ll be returning to my previous haunts and a new one, though I’ll still exist on tumblr for a bit yet. (It took me years to jump ship on LJ, after I survived the Strikethrough, though I don’t expect to be that lucky, this time.)

I’ve begun porting my old DA meta posts to Pillowfort, and I expect to make one final backup of this month’s posts, on the 17th, before I delete my account. I’ve lost about 200 posts already, and I’m not just going to sit here and wait to be flagged into the ground. I love you guys, but this latest decision is bullshit enough that I’m pulling the plug on myself so that Tumblr can no longer count me as a user.

That said, I’m on Pillowfort, as noted above, and you don’t even have to be following my main to get the stuff you’re looking for, because *gasps* COMMUNITIES.

That means posts are going to be late sometimes, because PF doesn’t have f’kin scheduled/queued posts, but the content will get posted, when I’m not sleeping. *laughs* Yeah, most of the post times are times I’m asleep.

Anyway, if you’re one of our fans, and you don’t have a Pillowfort key, let me know at this month’s party, and I’ll see what I can do. Merry xmas, Rhapsody fans, I will help you off this shitfire of a site.

ALSO, all the usual Kirkwall Gazette content is still on our Patreon, because Patreon finally decided we weren’t NSFW.

And if enough of you tell me you’re on DW, I’ll set up xposting over there, too. Point is, not here. Not after this.

I EXIST ELSEWHERE

This is no longer, if it ever was, a particularly reliable place for my works. I’ll be returning to my previous haunts and a new one, though I’ll still exist on tumblr for a bit yet. (It took me years to jump ship on LJ, after I survived the Strikethrough, though I don’t expect to be that lucky, this time.)

I’ve begun porting my old DA meta posts to Pillowfort, and I expect to make one final backup of this month’s posts, on the 17th, before I delete my account. I’ve lost about 200 posts already, and I’m not just going to sit here and wait to be flagged into the ground. I love you guys, but this latest decision is bullshit enough that I’m pulling the plug on myself so that Tumblr can no longer count me as a user.

That said, I’m on Pillowfort, as noted above, and you don’t even have to be following my main to get the stuff you’re looking for, because *gasps* COMMUNITIES.

That means posts are going to be late sometimes, because PF doesn’t have f’kin scheduled/queued posts, but the content will get posted, when I’m not sleeping. *laughs* Yeah, most of the post times are times I’m asleep.

Anyway, if you’re one of our fans, and you don’t have a Pillowfort key, let me know at this month’s party, and I’ll see what I can do. Merry xmas, Rhapsody fans, I will help you off this shitfire of a site.

ALSO, all the usual Kirkwall Gazette content is still on our Patreon, because Patreon finally decided we weren’t NSFW.

And if enough of you tell me you’re on DW, I’ll set up xposting over there, too. Point is, not here. Not after this.

As a fairly non-religious jew I don’t think I ever appreciated how badass the story of passover was until I considered how it would look to your average egyptian dude living through it

Imagine growing up all your life being waited on by a race of slaves who despite living in squalor cling to the belief that they were the chosen of this omnipotent elder god. You laugh this up, pray to Horus and then go about your day

Then one day, a slave with a robe and staff barges into the palace claiming to be the hand of an elder god and demands liberation. You grab the popcorn and try to get a front row seat while the two highest level clerics in the entire kingdom demolish the guy, then watch in shock as he summons a giant cobra and kills them both in one go.

Then, Over the next 10 days you watch this warlock proceed to flood your rivers with blood, summon hordes of wild vermin, drop a pestilence on your people and livestock.

All the while your king goes off and says “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”

Its at this point that the hand of a dark and ancient god has had enough, and with a wave of his scepter like a conductors baton, he calls down the fucking reckoning. As meteors stream from the sky, the warlock yells out his incantation. It’s not an ancient tongue, or poem of dread. Just four simple words: “let my people go”. With one more breath he raises his staff, and with the screaming of a million angels he puts out the sun

At this point I should point out that with each plague this sorcerer has turned the domain of one of your gods against you, starting with Sobek: god of the Nile and working his way up until it appears he has struck down Horus: the god of gods.

Your gods are dead, and the only one still alive is your pharaoh: the representative of the gods on earth

Now, with extreme prejudice, this sorcerer summons a fucking angel of death, and one by one it slaughters the heir of every family until your own king, a firstborn himself pleads for mercy and gives in.

As the freed slaves retreat, your king grins and unleashes a sneak attack, pinning the sorcerer and his people between an army and the sea. Finally this sorcerer, who the whispers say was a fallen prince, raises his staff in mock surrender, and when he brings it down the fucking ocean shatters. Leaving a jagged crack for his people to escape

God fucking damn that’s hardcore

holy crap

I have no use for religion in my life, but I fucking **LOVE** stories like this. We humans are exceptionally good at creating and telling our myths, and whoever developed this particular myth deserves the biggest fucking trophy in the known universe.

Censorship is a tool that gives power to abusers

Thread here. 

Read  Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights by Nadine Strossen

Excerpts:

“In the late 80s and early 90s there was a vocal group of radical feminists who believed that pornography inherently harms women, not just in its production but also in its consumption… These anti-pornography feminists teamed up with the religious right and managed to get anti-porn laws passed. In particular, a law was passed in Canada preventing the importation of “obscene” material”..

…. Guess what was seized first? “The Joy of Gay Sex” and the like. Guess what businesses started finding all their shipments seized or delayed – sexually explicit or not – to the point where they were being put out of business? Gay bookstores.  Guess what wasn’t seized at all? Mainstream porn made for straight men…..

Here’s the key point: Strossen is a legal scholar who’s looked at a lot of attempts at censorship, and you know what she found happened every time? When you try to censor pornography, even in the interests of protecting vulnerable people, that censorship will be applied first, and hardest, against the people who are most vulnerable. They won’t come for actual abusers, they’ll come for the abused, and prevent them from accessing resources, education, talking to each other, creating art to express themselves, or organising against those who are actually causing harm. 

This is old, old business, we’ve seen it more than once before, and it never goes the way the antis think it will. Censorship is a tool that gives power to abusers and lets them inflict more harm on those who are abused, vulnerable and discriminated against. Don’t fall for it.

Water is wet, the research is done to confirm that water is wet, and some jerks out there are still going around saying that this time it’s different, our new authoritarianism is OK, don’t mind the screaming disenfranchised LGBTQ+ people!

Let’s circulate this post far and wide. People should know the consequences of what they’re doing.

Red Tree by  Nagy Norbert

I EXIST ELSEWHERE

This is no longer, if it ever was, a particularly reliable place for my works. I’ll be returning to my previous haunts and a new one, though I’ll still exist on tumblr for a bit yet. (It took me years to jump ship on LJ, after I survived the Strikethrough, though I don’t expect to be that lucky, this time.)

I’ve begun porting my old DA meta posts to Pillowfort, and I expect to make one final backup of this month’s posts, on the 17th, before I delete my account. I’ve lost about 200 posts already, and I’m not just going to sit here and wait to be flagged into the ground. I love you guys, but this latest decision is bullshit enough that I’m pulling the plug on myself so that Tumblr can no longer count me as a user.

That said, I’m on Pillowfort, as noted above, and you don’t even have to be following my main to get the stuff you’re looking for, because *gasps* COMMUNITIES.

That means posts are going to be late sometimes, because PF doesn’t have f’kin scheduled/queued posts, but the content will get posted, when I’m not sleeping. *laughs* Yeah, most of the post times are times I’m asleep.

Anyway, if you’re one of our fans, and you don’t have a Pillowfort key, let me know at this month’s party, and I’ll see what I can do. Merry xmas, Rhapsody fans, I will help you off this shitfire of a site.

ALSO, all the usual Kirkwall Gazette content is still on our Patreon, because Patreon finally decided we weren’t NSFW.

And if enough of you tell me you’re on DW, I’ll set up xposting over there, too. Point is, not here. Not after this.

Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 8

Today’s scholarly reaction to the Tumblrpocalypse comes from a locked thread on Twitter by JSA Lowe, reposted with permission. Read on for some delightful musings on the difference between “art” and “porn”.

what a nightmare—seriously, @tumblr? seriously?? in the year of our lord 2018 YOU are going to try to determine the difference between art & porn when ≈3000 years of human culture have been unable to do so?!?!? oh my actual god, I WILL NEVER STOP LAUGHING

“Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, & any content—including photos, videos, GIFs & illustrations—that depicts sex acts.” HOW THE HELL DO YOU T—okay you know what, never mind. Just…never mind.

“Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, & nudity found in art, such as sculptures & illustrations, are [sic] also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.” Oh—art! Well then! PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT THIS ART OF WHICH YOU SPEAK SO FREELY.

the temptation to post approximately A THOUSAND PHOTOS OF GREEK & ETRUSCAN POTTERY & another thousand of Edo-era shunga has NEVER BEEN SO STRONG

honestly, I’m grudgingly impressed—staff actually managed to do something WORSE THAN Strikethrough! it’s quite an achievement, I’m almost admiring (in the same way Ash says of the xenomorph’s blood, “I admire its purity”)

to conclude my eye-rolling spittle-flecked thread: here, have some 17c #shunga (春画)! I’m sure the RENOWNED ART HISTORIANS OF @TUMBLR will have a REALLY EASY TIME deciding if these are artistic or pornographic! have at it guys! don’t get turned on though!

just used the mass tag replacer to retag all my posts tagged “nsfw” as “art”! so THAT WAS FUN! may I suggest you do the same (and then backup your tumblr)! tags.circumfluo.us

now a gifset of James McAvoy having an on-camera orgasm is tagged art! so are romantic Victorian-style line-drawings of Yuri & Viktor making love while crying! & all my naked K/S fanart! I’m so proud of myself & my research at this moment! WHERE IS YOUR PURITY CULTURE NOW, TUNGLR

what about all the posts I’ve sardonically tagged #nsfw like gifsets of Misha Collins’ hands, or Gillian Anderson wearing clothes? WHAT ABOUT THOSE, @TUMBLR, did it occur to you for ONE HOT MINUTE to think about the ways we actively use the affordances of your OWN COTDAM PLATFORM

YES. Holy fuck, yes. Let us do this. Let’s make this fucking happen.  Let us bring the remains of this fandom to a new home and perform a resurrection. ... ... *looks around* Who’s the cleric? All I have are bards...

(thanks, kye, you said it, but we were all thinking it)