Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.
For people asking how to backup thier blog
Honestly I‘m just tagging anyone I can remember blog names for and tagging I know I don‘t know any of y‘all really/you don’t know me by this blog but here spread this
thanks for tagging me, give this a go guys, it works pretty well and its good to have multiple backups (and idk if i trust tumblr’s export function rn)
baby toucans are just. beaks and feet with a side of body. they look like if someone gently rested half of a banana on top of a birds face, made the birds toes 90% larger, and called it a day
there is something so comforting to me as a dilettante storyteller about eddie being a good-hearted dumbass with no impulse control. like theres no foreign thought processes that i have to try and simulate if i want to write his response to a problem. if eddie sees his friend in a glass case, if eddie finds out the guy hes gonna interview is dealing with wrongful death suits, if theres an alien about to get in a spaceship and go tell his people that humans are edible, the thought process is uniformly I FIX THIS NOW WITH MY TWO BARE HANDS. absolutely no consequences, all that exists in that moment is him and the crisis
but, you say. things are different now. eddie stands between venom’s predatory urges and all the rest of the planet, he has to be the reasonable one now. and i say yes. if venom wants to consume every person standing in front of them at the in n out then eddie says no dude we have to wait.
but now this is the baseline. eddie is fielding requests for living flesh at any given mealtime and he is so responsible for not procuring any. he is the rational one in the relationship now and HIS decisions are the good decisions now. eddie says to venom hey instead of eating this guy responsible for workers rights violations, we should just break into his house and steal his laptop and eat everything in his kitchen. that way we’re exercising a little more discretion and venom says I WANT TO EAT A LIVING THING THOUGH and eddie says i know baby but this is an exercise in self control
eddie lives his life as though one time he met a trickster spirit willing to grant him one wish so he wished that no matter what problems he encountered, he would always have a solution, and the spirit granted his wish on the condition that the solution must always make things worse
venom thinks dairy is hilarious. you take an animal with titties and you extract fluid from the titties and you wait until the fluid gets hard and then you put it in a sandwich. what the fuck. who does that. humans are totally fine with eating live organisms by the way when the organisms are too small to see and the entire appeal of the organisms being there is it makes the titty fluid viscous and sour. turns out you can make food out of the same animal for years at a stretch and the animal doesnt even notice as long as its gt big titties. EGGS you can eat the waste product of the unseeable organisms and its fine but try eating the waste of a seeable organism and eddie goes ballistic on you. except for the big weird balls of waste that come out of birds, eddie is fine with eating those, but only if you make them really hot first, nothing makes any fuckibg sense. eddie squashes a bug and venom goes to eat it and eddie says “no thats gross” and venom is like ITS FOOD. ITS A TINY LOBSTER AND YOU JUST EXECUTED IT SO ? and eddie says “yeah but we, humans, we dont eat bugs” and venom says THATS THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD NO WONDER YOU MORONS THINK OIL IS A GOOD ENERGY SOURCE
Imagine Eddie’s face when Venom finds out that, in fact, several other human cultures outside America eat bugs every day like it’s no big deal. One night Venom is surfing the web on Eddie’s phone to pass time while their love sleeps. They stumble upon an informational article about how many people in Thailand love snacking on grasshoppers, crickets, ant eggs, and woodworms. Their eyes light up with validation as they read that the bugs are seasoned and fried in a wok until crispy, then served to passers-by at local food markets.
Eddie is excitedly woken up at 3 AM by Venom who has some Very Important Information to share with is love. Eddie quints at the bright screen being shaken in his face and just rolls over grumbling something about waiting until morning.
the surreality of waking up at 3 in the morning because somebody is inside of your head screaming HUMANS DO EAT BUGS. YOU ARE JUST A LITTLE BITCH and your eyes open and you can only see the light of God and eventually that light resolves into a street food instagram video and you Know the food is bugs. it has been at least a month since the “we dont eat bugs” conversation and you thought it was over but Now It’s Not
Eddie walking down the sidewalk with 16 trillion bags under his eyes and an even more pronounced trudge to his step at 3:24 AM. He lifts his eyes to an absentee God as he desperately searches for a a singular shop that sells those cheese powdered mill-worms in little sealed plastic bags… Just to Settle the Great Bug Debate that’s been stealing most of his sleep for 4 painfully consecutive nights. Doesn’t even notice the pronounced raised eyebrow from the cashier as he purchases the bugs with all the pep and vigor of a Man Defeated. He hopes with what little sanity he has left that this will finally let him get some Real Sleep. Venom smugly wiggles in Eddie’s capillaries as he’s Cromching on a groggy handful of dead bugs. Venom’s victorious laughter fills Eddie’s head as he, to his weak horror, Develops an Actual Taste for Fucking Bugs.
He refuses to remain conscious after Finally Admitting that bugs Are Food. Venom pilots Eddie’s sleeping body back home happy and a Winner.
I wanted to do a redraw of my fan fusion moonstone! And I decided to do a little comic with it! 😊😊 this feels like one of the few scenarios in which pearl and lapis would fuse, if there were no other gems to help, and Steven was in danger, because they would both do anything for Steven 😊💕 and it would be the goal of making sure Stevens safe that would make moonstone stable! Otherwise I feel like she would kind of fall apart..she’d be a pretty depressed gem because of all pearls and lapis’s past truama 😅 but she would move heaven and earth to protect Steven! 😆💕 so I hope u enjoy it! 😊
The saga of Luka (my little werewoof pianist) continues as, after being bitten twice by a vampire, he finds himself locked up in a prison cell under the church one night before the full moon.
This is my half of a drawn RP thread, so if it seems disjointed, that’s because exactly HALF of the interaction is missing, lol~
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