‘I Take Issue’ project- wrote my first graphic novelette! Not something I’d normally say, but I’m super proud of this.
(please excuse the weird layout, it’s formatted for printing rather than internet)
I had to reblog this. Because it’s not only beautifully painted, its idea is something that needs to be shared, again and again, so that more people will take their bloody buckets off.
I think more importantly I am an Australia. So if you ask an Australian about the god-like Aussie icon that is Steve Irwin you’re going to get pretty similar responses.
I can’t put into words the impact Steve Irwin had on Australia; in wildlife education, safety, conservation and just general fascination with our native fauna and flora. He had such a profound influence on Australian culture and really brought wildlife conservation to the forefront of the public’s mind.
Think of the sort of impact Sir David Attenborough has on many people, and it would be very similar to how Aussie’s feel about Steven Irwin.
A list of entities who don’t like Steve Irwin:
some snakes that were kind of annoyed by being picked up
1 crocodile who didn’t feel sufficiently admired
maybe some wombats
some parrots
IDK, some kind of new hyper-vegans who think you shouldn’t even go look at wild animals?
Yes, it is. They stated that no account will be deleted, only adult contents will be oscured and and made private. But it’s not what is happening.
Tumblr is shadowbanning all visual artists, no matter if they have NSFW or SFW material on their blogs. And this is mainly damaging the visual artists in the fandoms. The proof? Until some time ago, typing “Johnlock” in the dashboard search bar, I had among the popular results, tons of fanarts from the most famous artists. The fanarts were the most immediate and numerous result of the research, I’m sure you remember this. Now it has completely changed. These are the search results on “Johnlock” search from today. There are almost exclusively text posts, chats, and memes. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against memes or text posts, they are great. The problem is that fanarts, manips, photosets, gifset, and even most of the actors’ photos have disappeared from the research.
Is it strange? Not a result from Anotherwellkeptsecret, Reapersun, Bluebellofbakerstreet? How is it possible? Because Tumblr doesn’t want fandom material on its site anymore, and it doesn’t give a toss if it’s SFW or not. You’re a fandom artist? You are punished by becoming invisible. So much for “SFW content is still allowed,” right? :))) No, in reality it is not. How are users supposed to find new artists to follow, if they’re shadowbanned? How are arists supposed to make themselves known and show their creations, if they can’t be seen? I surely don’t have to remind you that many artists use commissions to pay bills and as a help to live. If they are no longer visible, they will lose commissioners, and even if they don’t do commissions, this attitude of Tumblr will discourage them from creating new art, since they will be invisible. There will be less new contents, less ficlets written under fanarts (if I don’t see the fanart, I can’t write a ficlet inspired by it). We are all losing, due to the new Tumblr policy.
All of this adds up to other forms of boycott that Tumblr is using: – internal research that no longer works: you can no longer explore the tags in a blog, because you do not see any results; – some users don’t appear in the list of the notes to a post, even if they added something; – for many users, their most popular posts are no longer visible under their username and blog title;
Tumblr doesn’t even allow anymore a visual preview of its own links, inside and outside Tumblr:
Besides, there are the old problems this site always had, never solved and now even more serious. The @ function doesn’t work anymore for many of us, and many peole don’t receive notifications from other users who have addressed them specifically. Seeing what the situation is like, I don’t think they have the will to fix any of these errors.
Ultimately, we can also decide to remain here, but it’s clear that the site no longer wants us here, and it’s doing all it can to crush us and make us invisible.
But what can we do to fight back? Not much, I’m afraid. The only thig I can think about, is:
Follow and reblog
FOLLOW AND REBLOG
FOLLOW AND REBLOG
FOLLOW AND REBLOG
FOLLOW AND REBLOG
Make sure you follow all your fave artists before December, 17th, so you can keep track of them, and you can visit their blog directly, if you don’t see them in the search or in the dashboard. And reblog their art, EVER. It could be the only way to save them from the oblivion. Lurkers, readers, writers can be safe, for now, but our artist comrades are under attack. This is the time to show that a fandom is truly a community, giving them all the support we can.
As a form of protest, and since I believe that Tumblr will try to shadowban this post, I have decided that I will punish it every day. Deal with it, @staff 🙂
“Not safe for work content will be taken off starting Dec 17″
“Also Safe for work content will be removed”
If Tumblr is so desperate to kill itself just shut down the servers
Well, this is worrying.
It’s not surprising but seeing more people getting hit with a shadowban makes me wonder where Tumblr is eventually heading towards. It’s like looking at a person very slowly walk towards a cliff, and no matter how much you yell at them, they just keep walking.
Still, let’s see where this is going.
And thus tumblr became a barren wasteland
im gonna warn some artists i know just in case. if you were tagged and you did not wish to be, sorry. (>w<“ ) i just want to make sure people are aware just in case, cause i sure as heck would like to know of something like this..
Well cool. Yeah guys, if you watch me here, watch me on Twitter too. And if you like a piece, please reblog as well. No wonder my commission posts have been ineffective as of late.
Also if you have a Pillowfort, follow me there too, same name as here.
It’s actually not much to do with fandoms. The sm*t-detecting bot is just BAD. It can’t tell the difference between photos of people, period, and photos of sm*t. And it’s not even being reviewed by actual people.
These are virtual pets on a pet adoption site. They’re just released, so no one but their designers know what they look like hatched. The egg images aren’t loading, but the hatchies should be fine. They need clicks to grow, anyone mind just clicking on them real quick? They need maybe 5 clicks apiece to grow, and only 1 click per person counts.
BettSplendens Tumblr Evac 