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yayroos:

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

  • Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
  • Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
  • Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
  • Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

  • Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
  • Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
  • Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
  • Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
  • Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

Re: Timezones: https://dbdspirit.tumblr.com/post/180913858029/the-official-log-off-protest-faq-the-log

(The following info from @dbdspirit link above)

There is also an official Tumblr blog (ironic, huh?) and Twitter for the protest! It’s at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/logoffprotest

Tumblr – https://logoffprotest.tumblr.com/

There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018 !

Thanks for your support guys. Let’s fight to make Tumblr better. Actually better.

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flurgburgler:

Hey guys, unfortunately I’m still having trouble finding work, so I’m officially opening up commissions again! About a month ago I updated some of my commission info, so do check out the full details here, but new prices are:

  • Half body, no colour – $10
  • Full body, no colour – $15
  • Half body, colour – $25
  • Full body, colour – $30
  • Additional figures – $10

If you’re interested, feel free to send me a message and we can hash out the details, but even just sharing this post would be super cool. Big, big love to all of you in advance ❤

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gothiccharmschool:

You. Yes, I’m talking to you. All of you.

The world is a better place with you in it. Please don’t remove yourself from it. 

If you can’t find the hope to stay alive, then stay alive out of spite. I don’t care what the reason is, just don’t kill yourself. Please. 

National Suicide Prevention hotline: 1-800-273-8255

The website, which has chat/text offerings: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service

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thorduna:

incredifishface:

karuvapatta:

confluence-and-drift:

the-power-of-thy-sword:

iesika:

expatgirl:

the-mad-duchess:

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)

I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.

wooooooowwww thank you Europe

!!!!!!!!!If you already clicked “OK”, go to your Settings > Privacy > disable the cookie consent and re-enable it, it’ll take you to the beginning of this  !!!!!

Good ole EU.  But yeah, unselecting them all, one by one, was a pain.

If tumblr thought I wasn’t going to tick them off one by one, they were sorely mistaken, ahahaha.

It’s annoying but takes about five minutes.

i had to do it twice. I checked through the Oath thing, and they were ALL on again. Be careful.

Lmfao the entire point of GDPR is that private persons should have very easy control on who can use their data.. and tumblr is doing its best to make it extra hard. Ticked everything off, but this is such a fuck up.

Pro Shipper/Anti Anti Community Survey

Link

fiction-is-not-reality:

who-gives-a-ship:

I made a survey because I was curious. Please be aware that it includes potentially triggering topics, including MAP discourse. Gonna tag some people who might be interested, sorry if I forget you.

@fiction-is-not-reality @freedom-of-fanfic @antis-delete-your-blogs-pls @himedanshi @oh-suketora @theassholeantiarchive @rottenboysclub @lines-and-edges @nonbinarypastels

Uh, thanks for the tag, I’m definitely gonna do this! 

Pro Shipper/Anti Anti Community Survey

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lordhellebore:

ao3org:

We recently received reports about one or more Tumblr accounts posing as “AO3 consultants” and contacting other users about their works on the Archive. In those messages, users are asked to take down their works “due to reports of abuse” or else have their works deleted by AO3 admins.

These messages are in no way sanctioned by the AO3 Policy & Abuse committee, who will never contact users via social media. All messages you receive from our Support and Abuse teams will be signed by the volunteer contacting you, and will reference specific abuse reports, requests for technical support, or other matters pertaining to your account.

Please keep your email address up to date, as this is our only way of getting in touch with you. To check, follow these instructions for changing the email address associated with your account. (If you go to that page and don’t see a place to enter your password, that’s a known issue, sorry! You can work around it by following these steps to change your password.)

[mirrored from a post on the AO3 News blog]

So if I may hazard an educated guess: some antis are impersonating Ao3 staff to intimidate authors into deleting content the antis dislike. Stay classy.

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heyfightme:

I love that I keep seeing that support post for Common Language Bookstore, and thought that people might want to spread that love to their local. LGBT+ bookstores are a dying breed, but they don’t have to be!

**on 18/04/18 the front window of GtW was smashed in an act of vandalism, which does happen quite frequently. While their online store gets up-and-running, they have a mail order service available! Details on website!

This list is probably not exhaustive, just what I managed to find with a little bit of searching. If you know of one that’s not on this list, leave a comment!

Help spread the word and support LGBT+ small businesses ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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eliciadonze:

I’ve been throwing this idea around Twitter…

Fan artists, we have the largest reach among the youngest voting bracket of all artists on social media. Young people online who’ve just become old enough to vote see our art more than they see any other kind of art.

It would be rad if we used our reach to get young people to register to vote.

So I propose the #artforthevote tag. Fan artists, put the message in the art itself or include it in your caption when you post your next piece. Include a link to https://vote.gov/ and tag your art #artforthevote.