dragged kicking and screaming

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, in various incarnations; Lewis/Hathaway; Imperial Radch, Rivers of London, and so on and so on. Sometimes unable to resist fact-checking what crosses my dash, frequently NSFW, often in a bad mood, and rarely tagged. KINKTOMATO; your ship is fine; antis met with contempt.

[annabowles]

[natgeofound]

Elsie Bell Grosvenor stares straight at the camera in this portrait taken in 1901, possibly when she was pregnant with Melville B. Grosvenor. She is wearing a hat decorated with a huge ostrich feather.Photograph by Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic Creative

[boschfemme]

I am gonna make it through this year, if it kills me

[camillo1978]

@k2dangergirl was the wonderfully generous winning bidder on my @fandomtrumpshate offering. Thank you so much for your donation to the TransLifeline!

The requested picture is inspired by a scene in the classic Sherlock fanfic:

  The Whore of Babylon Was a Perfectly Nice Girl (link to AO3) by out_there

[staff]

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

[ancientreader]

Well, this is a load of putrescent garbage, innit.

[dreamwidth-help]

Building Your Circle

If there’s one thing Tumblr does well, it’s that tag searches and reblogs make it fairly easy to find people to follow. In comparison, a common complaint I see often about Dreamwidth is that people unfamiliar with the format of LJ/DW find it hard to get “out there”. It’s not exactly like existing in a void, but you’re definitely not instantly connected the moment you start posting.

The key, similar to Tumblr, is exploring.

When you first make your journal, DW will suggest that you add a few interests to your profile. If the interest isn’t unique to you, it’ll turn into a search link when you view your profile, so you can find other users and communities who share it. Even if you don’t have a particular interest added, you can still look around using the search bar. (Example!)

Or, hey, curious to know what’s being posted to Dreamwidth in general? There’s the Latest Things page for you. (Keep in mind: you will see literally everything, depending on what and who are posting publicly, including unfiltered porn, spam, huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge images and posts.)

Friending memes play a part in finding other people. Essentially, someone sets up a post, you comment with some details and hopefully that way you gain some new friends. However, they tend to be rare and largely depend on where they’re posted/shared for people to find them. Add Me communities like these serve as an alternative.

Speaking of which: communities! The official FAQ gives a good overview of their purpose, but basically this is where most of the group discussion on DW happens. You might be familiar with them via kinkmemes. Some people even use them as separate art/writing blogs, as you can do on Tumblr.

As previously mentioned, you can search for communities by interest (WHICH IS WHY I can never emphasize enough how important it is to add interests when you make a new community). Alternatively, there’s the official community promo community (and others). Or, you can make your own!

I won’t lie: a lot of communities you come across will be inactive, since Dreamwidth kind of lost out when the majority of fandom shifted to Tumblr. A lot of people see this and try to start new ones, especially now, when it seems like there’s a growing need for more organized fandom than Tumblr can provide. I still highly encourage you to at least give the old communities a try, rather than letting them stay dead, as seeing someone else post may encourage others out of the woodworks. (I have seen it work, although with varying degrees of success.) The FAQ even has steps for you to consider if you think a community has been abandoned. But whatever works for you!

Phew. That should just about cover everything. Hope it helps!

[dreamwidth-help]

Giving this post another bump again since people are reblogging it a lot right now.

[spank-the-villain]

Also, once you have a small circle, you can check out your friends’ circle for people with similar interests, and add them too.

[meeedeee]

WayBack Machine Archiving Tips For Any Blog

These tips apply to your bog. Or that of anyone else’s. You do not have to be the blog owner to archive through the Wayback Machine (WBM).

1. The Wayback Machine allows you to submit a URL to archive.  Read more.

2.  If you have your Tumblr set to endless scroll you have to save each post one by one

3. If you set your Timblr so that there are pages (Previous/Next) you can “bulk” save each page of 5-10 posts and not just each post: 

Ex: https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/page/2

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/page/2

4. If you run a post or a page through the WBM, it is not guaranteed that the  embedded art will also be saved. If there is something you really want  to save, right click on the art and submit the image URL through the WBM machine

5. “Read More” and flagged material may not be archived correctly through the WBM. Check your links.

6. Audio and Video will not be archived

7. Why bother with the WBM? Why not download? Well, you should download your blog, no matter what. But you will be the only person who will see the download. To save the Tumblr post or entire Tumblr blog for future fans to see, use the WBM.

8. Want to save the blog of someone who has died or gone offline? You have  2 choices: submit the pages to the WBM or use the Python script below. 

Download only Tools to archive your blog:

Tumblr’s export tool

Github/Python Tool (you can also use this tool to archive someone else’s blog)

If you need help archiving a blog, Garfield, a fan vidder, is offering to use the Python install on their machine do it for free. 

[17decemberarchive-blog]

Save endangered tumblrs before 17. December

Please submit all endangered Tumblrs you care about in this form.  Also please spread the message.

Hello Tumblr users,

we are the Archive Team, the Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it’s lost forever. We already worked on other Yahoo related projects like GeoCities and Flickr.

You can learn more about us under https://archiveteam.org/.

We plan to save many as many of the endangered blogs as possible. To do that we take multiple approaches.

We use or scan of Tumblr we did in April 2018

Some guys are working on an AI solution to detect endangered pictures

We look for tags manually

But just us looking is not enough. You know Tumblr better than us.

Submit your favorite endangered Tumblrs here. That way we can be sure not miss them and put them in front of our queue.

If you have technical knowledge join us via IRC chat.efnet.org:9090/?channels=%23tumbledown

[destinationtoast]

I was asked to signal boost this.  You can also check out the Archive Team site and their page about Tumblr to learn more about who comprises the team, their mission & past sites they’ve archived, and their approach for Tumblr. 

Note that what they’re asking for is URLs of blogs (your own or other people’s) that you want to make sure get archived.

[britishdetectives]

James Hathaway Porn Pack [insp]

[mcgstarroar]

Tumblr can pry this adult content from my cold, dead hands. 

[ancientreader]

Considering that a nonzero number of my flagged posts were photos of Hathaway ...

[plaidadder]

So, I am not getting any notifications about my posts being flagged. Yet I know at least one of them has been.

If, uh, you see anything of mine that’s been flagged, can you let me know? I’m real curious now about exactly what part I’ll be playing in this brand new catastrophe.

[hotshoeagain]

out of curiosity, how do you know one has been flagged, if you didn’t get a notification? 

now I’m wondering which, if any, of my posts have been flagged … or if I will never know.

[plaidadder]

So, I was actually mistaken: I saw that someone else’s reblog which included one of my OPs had been flagged and assumed my OP had been flagged. But I found it on my blog with no flag on it so I don’t know.

To see content of yours that’s been flagged, you have to scroll through your blog using this URL format:

tumblr.com/blog/yourusername

If a post has been flagged there will be a red bar at the top telling you htat. You can then click on “review” to appeal the flagging. 

So far I have only found one actually flagged post, and it is a reblog of a Washington Post article which uses the photo they ran with it. This flagging operation is truly astonishingly indiscriminate.

[needmoregilly-deactivated202603]

So the offending photo was somehow ok to be published in a major newspaper available on every newstand and paper boxes everywhere, that minors( who this is suppossed to be about) could access it , but it’s suddenly so salacious as to be verbotten on Tumblr?????? sounds really fucked up.

[plaidadder]

It’s worse than that. It’s a photo of a woman, with her toddler in her arms, talking to a man at a table. Everyone’s fully clothed, in public, interacting civilly with each other. It’s only newsworthy because the man at the table is Scott Pruitt and the mom was telling him he should resign because he’s ruining the planet for her toddler.

This is beyond being oversensitive and overreacting to borderline content, the way a human censor might. This is just plain failure. Their AIs are just unable to distinguish what they’re supposed to be looking for from…basically anything else.

[daisyfornost]

@plaidadder heck, often flagged stuff doesn’t even have people (or depictions of people) in it. Flagged things I’ve seen (or read reports of) include sand dunes, umbrellas, shoes, wallpaper patterns, and ducks.

[ancientreader]

As far as I know, no one has gotten the promised notification with urls of flagged posts. I went through about two years’ worth of my posts and found maybe 20 that were flagged, three of which were actually porn. I also found a number of porny images that weren’t flagged. Not that I’m complaining about the latter.

In addition, as far as I can tell there’s no way to request review of a flag if you’re not the OP. So if the OP has deleted/deactivated their Tumblr or just isn’t around anymore ...

[listing-to-port]

Nine stories of the death of websites

1. A website that was purchased by a mystery conglomerate subsequently revealed to be a giant mass of lizards. All the lizards wanted was to navigate to the website and sit for a while under its glowing screen as they woke up for the day. As such, they gradually banned all the content and every form of site customisation apart from making the background a nice yellow colour. Initially it seemed that surprisingly little damage had been done, but the surge in new registrations turned out to be because lizards were unable to remember passwords and hence had to make a new account for each use.

2. A website which delved too deep and opened up a vast portal to a nameless, unhallowed howling void. The website remained basically usable provided you were sure never to click on the links that had gone a little bit grey. This was problematic if your profile or content happened to be adjacent to the void’s content, but the developers promised updates to deal with the void problem. For example, users might soon be able to access a cute hamster digital assistant, which would help them forget for a moment that the void existed.

3. A website which was very strict about removing bottoms. As a result, nobody who used the website could sit. The chair industry, which was faced with massive losses, lobbied governments across the world to shut the website down. When it closed, investigators found a giant inflatable buttock in the field behind the head offices. Whether it was a confiscated relic or out for revenge was unclear.

4. A website upon which unusually many items were flagged. One day there was a particularly strong wind. The flags caught the wind and the whole thing pivoted to video and floated off down the nearest livestream. Anyone who had not been online at the time of the pivot was left behind. As to those who had been on board, well. I am not sure where they are, but they were generating enough data to survive indefinitely without having to resort to piracy, so I am sure they will find their way home eventually.

5. A website whose increasingly strict biometric identification requirements were eventually revealed to be the result of techno-vampires experimenting with digital blood transmission protocols, but not before three hundred people had been drained nealy dry by their genetic verification add-on tool. The website went bankrupt and was bought out by the actual sun, whereupon it shrivelled into dust.

6. A website which collapsed under the sheer weight of people wanting to join it and became a black hole, thereby going from popularity to sucking in an unusually short time.

7. A website which was revealed not to have been a website after all. It was in fact a pencil. This mistake had not been followed up on because initially the website only had one user, and they could move the pencil fast enough to escape detection. However, the delicate edifice came crashing down the moment a second user tried to join, with predictably disastrous effects.

8. A website that turned the wrong way at a crossroads and ended up in Basildon. It was never the same again.

9. A website which got overly involved in time-travel fandom, eventually making the decision to go all in and do time travelling itself. Donning a special header for the occasion, the website set off for Victorian London. It was astonished to find that it was not able to survive there because there was no internet. It evaporated in a brief flash of sentient electricity, leaving a 404 not found etched out of the dirt on the wall of a sewer for all of fifty minutes, before the rain started.

[colinquinn]

@staff u pack of bastards

[datmos]

bread is illegal now

[poupon]

[conversationswithbenedict-deact]

Sherlock blinking and talking nonstop in his head, instead of out loud? Yeah. He’s going to do that in bed, too, the first time.

I must admit I believed this would never happen John Watson in my bed John is in my bed and he is taking off my clothes and he is very good at taking off my clothes but then again John Watson is talented in many unexpected ways For example John Watson is kissing me now and despite having dissected many human tongues over the years I never would have imagined that a tongue could do THIS but then again it is John Watson’s tongue Such interesting textures and sensations warm wet slippery this really should be vile and repulsive this commingling of saliva but mmm oh was that me I think I made that sound I hope John Watson will not think he has injured me as I did make an alarmingly loud moaning sound just then Where is he going with that tongue of his I have discovered I quite like it in my mouth Oh well that is very interesting considering the male nipple is a vestige of the embryonic stage and serves the male of the species no real purpose holy GOD what YES upon further study the purpose appears to be primarily one of pleasure what is he OH that is rather YES stimulating And here we have a perfect example of brain synapses firing and nerve endings communicating throughout the BODY I will have to study this again, at a different OHHH my nipple is connected to my penis I’m not sure I knew that before Hello penis I have observed John Watson’s hands on many occasions and thought I was aware of their many capabilities but he is so full of surprises is my John Watson JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH his hand is on my penis or should I say erection pull it together Holmes don’t lose the plot now HE IS STROKING MY ERECTION HIS HANDS ARE OF GOD How did my legs spread themselves of their own volition and where is John going with that mouth and those hands I am not done with my observations where is OH GOD WHAT? HOW? FOCUS HOLMES! John Watson’s tongue is stroking my erection up and down FRENULUM! FRENULUM! in a manner lewd and entirely fascinating I must say had I known FOR THE LOVE OF perhaps it had not occurred to me he would be able to fit both in his MOUTH concurrently OH OH OH but he certainly can there is no denying the evidence A FINGER is that a FINGER I BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS DIGITAL STIMULATION OF THE AN-AN-ANUS THE PROSTATE IS A GLAND THAT PRODUCES HOLY FUCK FOCUS FOCUS IT APPEARS I AM APPROACHING CLIMAX TWELVE MINUTES THIRTY-SIX SECONDS SOONER THAN PREVIOUS ESTIMATIONS ALLOWED HOT HOT HOT TIGHT TIGHT WET SUCKING SUCKING HOW IS THIS EVEN OH OH OH YES IMPENDING ORGASM ORGAS- ORG- OR-

And at the end of it all, John says, “Are you aware you said all of that out loud?” And Sherlock is speechless.

[conversationswithjohnlock]

Thank you, @green-violin-bow, for sending this to me!

[benedictgingerbatch00]

Perfect

[johnlockismyshockblanket-deacti]

[allmyfavejohnlock]

This is a little lewder than i’d normally post here but I don’t want it lost from my NSFW blog

[alskander-deactivated20220811]

Oh. My. God. 

[luluvanhoagland]

Made it to 10 Boober comics!

Have a big post of kitties. I think I’ll be making a little book when I make some more!

[ancientreader]

@glenmoresparks, I think these cartoons were drawn for you …

[ancientreader]

No, really. @staff ...

[redscharlach]

St Hugh of Lincoln is often depicted with a swan, because he was friends with a swan. The swan would follow Hugh around, eat from his hand, and reputedly attacked people who threatened his saintly human BFF. For this reason, the best pictures of St Hugh are the ones where the swan looks like it’s about to fuck you up. Like, massively.

MESS WITH ST HUGH AND HIS SWAN WILL END YOU.

[ancientreader]

I am here to remark on the realism of this characterization of swans.

[ancientreader]

Flagged. Wow, @staff, do you not like swans or something?

[sleepingexplorer]

Inktober #2 - Benedict and Martin outside Irene Adler’s house, setlock. ballpoint in my large paperblanks, 2ish hours. i plan to add actual scans beneath the cut eventually. thank you all for the kind notes on the first one ♡♡♡

Keep reading

[ancientreader]

Oh, for Pete’s sake. @staff, you are bozos.

[kayjaykayme]

Inktober 2017: Day 14  :  FIERCE

What is more fierce than Watson protecting his Holmes….

Micron pens, sharpie markers of different ages, liquid paper pen

tried loosening up my hand a bit.

[ancientreader]

And flagged, @staff, you fools.