The Desk of BHS

Observations, anti-nihilism, and geek obsessions from BHS, author of Tasakeru, Stars Above, Respect, Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights, and other stuff, and host of YouTube's Silent InvenTOYry. Personal account for AskOutcasts. Expect delays, plus frequent non-sequitur humor, nerdy fanboying, magical girls, gushing over Steven Universe, and llamas. M | he/him | ace/aro Become a Patron!

[bhsdesk]

This is Goodbye.

So here we are. I was going to spend time today thinking about how to say goodbye to this blog, but then... well. Something happened that hit me like a gut punch, and it’s been distracting me all day. I’ll talk about it more in my next Blogress Report.

Tumblr used to be the only social media site I was actually invested in, a place for creators, for weirdos, for rejects. My kind of place. It just felt different from a Facebook or Twitter or what have you... and with the way those two sites have become garbage fires, I was grateful for Tumblr more than ever. Tumblr helped me discover myself during an extraordinarily difficult time in my life, it helped me expand my horizons far beyond what a sheltered, disabled white boy mostly stuck at home could hope to experience. I genuinely feel that thanks to people on Tumblr, I’ve overall become happier with who and what I am.

But now I no longer feel welcome. Tumblr has turned its back on people like me and embraced the worst kind of hypocritical, puritanical self-righteous bullshit from its parent company. I cannot and will not stand for this; it goes against everything I believe in.

So I am not only participating in the Log Off protest starting at midnight tonight... I will be leaving Tumblr altogether, no matter what the outcome of the protest is. I will not stay on board with a place that believes people like me don’t have a right to equal expression. This blog will stay up, at least until I can transfer the important stuff, but I will no longer interact with it.

I’m trying to make Pillowfort my new social media site of choice. You’re welcome to follow me on there if you’d like.

The Steven Universe Commentary and Star VS Commentary archives are in the process of moving to a new Wordpress blog: http://susvtfoecommentaryarchive.home.blog . The import process isn’t finished yet, and not all of the SU commentary is there as of this writing, but it’s a start, at least. New commentaries will go up on my Pillowfort (linked below), starting tomorrow night with SU’s new episode.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my little corner of the internet over the past six years. I appreciate each and every one of you that I was able to talk to. @inkdearie​ in particular, you’re an angel and my best Tumblr friend, and of course @thesilvergoddex​ and @beloved-monsters​, the power couple of all power couples, you guys have been a constant highlight of my experiences in this place.

See you around.

- BHS

Where to Find Me:

Tasakeru - http://tasakeru.com

DeviantArt - http://www.deviantart.com/bhsdesk

Pillowfort - http://www.pillowfort.io/bhsdesk

Twitter - http://twitter.com/bhsdesk

FF.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3237916/

AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/users/BHS/

WattPad - https://www.wattpad.com/user/BHSDesk

Twitch - http://twitch.tv/bhsdesk

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/c/bhsdesk

Patreon - http://patreon.com/tasakeru

Steven Universe and Star Vs Commentary Archives (Under construction) : http://susvtfoecommentaryarchive.home.blog/

[kieren-fucking-walker]

Surviving the Tumblr Hellfire

A collection of posts with advice for getting you and your blog through whatever this mess is.

Check if your blog has been incorrectly flagged as NSFW (and if it has, get it unflagged before Dec 17th)

See all your blog posts that have been flagged (because tumblr didn’t feel the need to notify you?)

New posts not showing up on your blog and how to fix it (you have not been muted)

Exporting your blog (Tumblr)

Backing up your blog (to WordPress)

Alternative way to backup your blog

Masterpost of Tumblr alternatives

Complaining to Tumblr about this mess

Advice for those who’ve never dealt with a fandom purge before

All of these posts link back to original posts of other blogs, I mostly made this for myself but decided to make it shareable, please respect the following:

If you click through to ANY of these posts, even if you don’t use them, reblog them individually if you’re going to like/reblog this post. 

Share and add to this post if you can <3

[bhsdesk]

FUCK YOU, TUMBLR.

FUCK THIS SITE AND THE INCOMPETENTS THAT RUN IT

FUCK YOUR ALGORITHMS

FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL

[wilwheaton]

Signal Boost.

[ruptorune]

Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

[waywardsignns-a]

Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

[sandersstudies]

This is blatantly untrue

Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.

Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)

Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,

DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.

Please reblog this version of the post to stop the spread of misinformation.

[rifa]

A Few Things About Pillowfort

Alright so I’ve seen a LOT of opinions and incorrect information all over the place regarding the platform and Im sick of it. What a time to spread misinformation tumblr, never change.

I’m an extreme newbie on pillowfort but I wanted to clear up misconceptions and dumb talking points:

It Doesn’t ‘Cost Money’ in the way you keep suggesting

Pillowfort was a kickstarted platform and it is still in BETA (keep this in mind it’ll come up a lot) - It costs $5 to get a ‘key’ and enter. There are no subscription fees, no secret additional costs, its literally just $5. The cost is there to help support the building of the website, since the website is NOT owned by a giant company (like the one screwing us rn) so the money goes directly into supporting the platform.

I understand there is a barrier for people who are extremely poor or unable to easily make online purchases. They have stated on their twitter that they are looking into ways to make it more accessible right now with Tumblr shutting down the way it is. Also there have been people floating around willing to buy keys for friends, followers, mutuals, etc.

It’s not “Broken” or “Down” and it being offline for MAINTENANCE is a Good Thing

Pillowfort has been offline for a little bit because they are working on fixing security issues, yanno, making sure the website is safe and functioning for its users. Its unfortunate with the timing, considering how many of us are ready to pack up and leave now. They have said they are pushing to have it open Dec 4 or 5.

I’ve seen people say that their servers crashed, or that they dont trust a website that isn’t online 24/7 and thats all hogwash and you know it. Pillowfort is in BETA and they are still building functions and ironing out kinks, thats a GOOD thing. I would rather ride a rollercoaster that shuts down for maintenance for an hour every day rather than ride one that hasn’t been repaired until the tracks literally snap. Pillowfort is new and under construction, you gotta learn to be patient and understanding.

There are PLENTY of people using it and more coming!

I keep seeing people say “but its empty! no one is there!” like yeah Becky, its NEW. But there ARE a lot of people online using it, there are easy to find communities already up and running and with tumblr doing what its doing there are going to be WAY more people showing up. Joining any new social media is going to give you that awkward time where you have only 5 people you follow cause youre not sure how to use it yet, let yourself have those growing pains.

Its Not ‘Ugly’ or ‘Bad’ its UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Gods help me. They are still building the website and have a huge list of things they are looking to implement soon once the foundation is secured. There is transparent blogs from the developers where you can suggest what you would like to see if its not there already. Its NEW its UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

You “Don’t Trust” them? Okay have fun on twitter?

I dont even know what to say to people huffing and saying they dont trust any alternative. Like, do you trust tumblr? Do you? 

The fact is, if you PERSONALLY aren’t interested in another blogging platform that takes the good shit from tumblr and LJ and other sites and makes it new and their own then thats fine. But you dont need to spread misinformation to people to discourage them from trying it for themsleves. 

If you just dont want to use it until its ‘busy’ or whatever, then just shut up, take down everyone’s usernames, go to twitter or facebook or club penguin or whatever, and wait. But please stop spreading misinformation.

Also PLEASE 

Pillowfort has accounts on Tumblr and Twitter and have been VERY vocal. Go and read and look into things yourself.

[empressreborn-deactivated201812]

Call your reps

Most of you by now have read or heard the truth regarding the Net Neutrality comments.

Yes, it has been confirmed that the anti-NN comments last year are fraudulent, and the perpetrators all come from one location.

Russia.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/419846-fcc-chairman-acknowledges-russia-interfered-in-net-neutrality-public

This means 3 things.

1) We now have irrefutable grounds to prove that the Net Neutrality repeal is, in fact illegal, due to interference from a hostile foreign power.

2) Ajit Pai has confessed to violating the law.

3) Pai has committed treason.

The next steps now is to, ironically enough, contact all of the reps and AGs that you know that are not complicit and demand (yes, demand) the following:

1) That procedures begin to reverse the illegal repeal at once.

2) That Ajit Pai be removed from office and arrested on the charges of treason.

Signal boost!

[meeedeee]

From Fanlore:

“Others pointed out that Tumblr’s implementation was chaotic and lacked human review. For example, fan art that depicted robots having sex with tentacle monsters was deleted for bestiality, which led one fan to mourn that even Hollywood Oscar award winning movies were at risk:

“I guess this means The Shape of Water is a no-no as well? /stares mournfully at gifs of fishloving" [25]

When the artist attempted to explain to Tumblr that the “characters” were cartoon dinosaur robots, they were told: “"This termination is final, and replies to this message will not be reviewed.” [26]

Complicating matters was Tumblr’s shadow ban of certain keyword searches that could have assisted in ascertaining the extent of the impact: searches for “tumblr purge” led to no results. [27] Other banned searches included “fandom wank” possibly due to one of the words also having sexual connotation in the UK. The list of search terms blanked included: “"breast cancer,” “safe sex” and “chronic pain”.[28]

Perhaps one fan summed it up best:

“Tumblr dies the way it lived: completely fucking ridiculous.

[empressreborn-deactivated201812]

And you wonder why I chose to not trust the people that said that fan art and fanfiction would not be affected. I was right to do so. If this isn’t enough to open your eyes and read the writing on the wall, I don’t know what will.

[nihilismpastry-deactivated20230]

What Pillow Fort even looks like

This is the home feed and the management system. It operates JUST LIKE the Tumblr dash. 

You can see who you’re following and such. Personally, I like the added mutuals button. 

A massive filter and Black List button. 

No excuse why you can’t filter shit you don’t like. It’s pretty easy to use and part of the program from the get go.

Search button is with your other things on the user board thing. You can search shit up via hashtags.

Communities are basically places you can find people to talk to and such. Until I find an 18+ one though, I’m not signing up for one. Fortunately you still get content from the people you follow, so you don’t even HAVE to be part of a community if you don’t want to. I think this tool is what’s good for people like @dinodaddy @itsallprimal @thetriskeliondiaries @instructor144 @sccwriting @itsshinycollectordestinyworld and their D/s stuff. 

Making posts is standard. 

However, you can decide who views it, and if it can be commented upon. It’s pretty cool! 

You also get the post to be searched via tags as shown above.

Look, it’s my blog!

Customization options so far. 

And those are the features for Pillowfort. I personally enjoy them. There will probably be more once it gets bigger, and they leave the io thing. SO far it’s functional, but the increase in traffic makes it a little slow. 

What do ya’ll think? 

[itsshinycollectordestinyworld]

Looks really good actually @nihilismpastry and I must say, I’m quite interested.

Thank you very much for the tag - you’re a sweetheart 💙

[nihilismpastry-deactivated20230]

Anytime!

[shrinkingcoyote-deactivated2018]

Lookin more and more like it will be WORTH the 10$ to get in on it

[hayley566]

DEADLINE TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY IS DEC 10TH

Hurry and pressure your reps now! Especially these people here: www.demsagainstthe.net/#dems And of course, don’t forget to sign here if you’re an American: www.battleforthenet.com Make sure to spread both of these links around as much as possible and do not stop calling your reps and pressuring those that voted against net neutrality to change their vote!

[empressreborn-deactivated201812]

Considering today’s press conference that Ajit Pai confessed to basically committing treason by allowing the Russians to meddle with the Net Neutrality comments…

I would say that this changes the picture.

Get justice for @eternaldarkdragoness1 and those like her.

FCC chairman acknowledges Russia interfered in net neutrality public comments

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai is acknowledging that Russia-linked email addresses weighed in during the publ

[thefloatingstone]

UHM.... SO....

IF YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO POST YOUR NSFW ART….

….yeah.

This is real.

[seperis]

I need a word that encompasses ‘maybe touched’, ‘profoundly weirded out’ and ‘…oh’.

And gleeful as fuck.  For truly, the internet is for porn.

[thebibliosphere]

WAIT

…….fuck it. I wonder what the pornhub pay out is like compared to patreon.

[unzip-your-guts]

[mxponysyn-deactivated20190620]

Who knew writing erotica on pornhub could be a legitimate career 😂😂😂

[sirsbabybear]

Pornhub is there when life gets hard and when you get fucked (by tumblr).

[teratophelia]

Dont tempt me, holy fuck

[howtobangyourmonster]

Alright monsterfuckers, I’m trying it out! Come join me!

[teratofreak]

You know what I just might

[teradoration]

Seriously debating this

[marishka]

Oh my god

[furrywolflover]

For artists losing their accounts, this could be an option for you.

[ambris]

omg

[bhsdesk]

@queensparklekitten I was wondering when somebody would bother trying to translate my (deliberately) mangled French. Nice work.

Good luck with the rest of it. No, seriously, good luck. *cackles*

[pillowfort-social]

Invitations

Hey everyone, just a heads-up that we haven’t sent out invitations yet; there are a couple things on the site that we want to patch up first, as well as the already heavy site traffic complicating things. We plan to send out invitations tomorrow, and will be staggering the backlog of invites over a couple days since we have literally thousands to send out. So if you’ve donated since November 16th you will get your invitation over the next few days; sorry again for the delay, and thanks for your patience! (You can also request a refund if you decide you are no longer interested, just email us at [email protected]).

[bhsdesk]

Steven Universe Commentary is Moving

In light of Tumblr’s absurd decision to ban all adult content, thereby alienating half or more of its remaining userbase and putting thousands of people’s livelihoods at risk, I cannot in good conscience continue Steven Universe commentary on this site.

I will of course always be grateful for the SU fans and watchers that have followed me here, but this is a shameless attack on free speech and free expression, and I won’t stand for it.

Once Pillowfort is back up and running, I’ll be resuming SU Commentary on there when the new episodes begin in mid-December.

EDIT: Naturally, this goes for my Star Vs. Commentary too.

Thanks for everything. Give them hell.

- BHS

[bhsdesk]

EDIT 2: I’m in the process of attempting to move both the SU and Star commentary archives to Wordpress, in case the site goes down. If this actually works, you’ll be able to find them preserved for posterity there. Link forthcoming.

[thesilvergoddex]

HEYO heres some of the other places i am

message me if you want my discord and we can talk it out but since this is the final straw for me in the heat death of this website im gonna probably be posting on pillowfort instead of this shit ass website

find me on pillowfort @ thesilvergoddex

find me on twitter @ nbknyght

find me on ao3 @ thesilvergoddess

when pillowfort comes back up, ill add you all

[askoutcasts]

Where To Find Me

Tasakeru - http://tasakeru.com

DeviantArt - http://www.deviantart.com/bhsdesk

Pillowfort - http://www.pillowfort.io/bhsdesk

Twitter - http://twitter.com/bhsdesk

FF.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3237916/

AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/users/BHS/

WattPad - https://www.wattpad.com/user/BHSDesk

Twitch - http://twitch.tv/bhsdesk

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/c/bhsdesk

Patreon: http://patreon.com/tasakeru

[pillowfort-social]

How will pillowfort handle nsfw content? Will it be allowed?

Yes, we allow NSFW content, we just asked that it be tagged with a ‘NSFW’ flag (available when you’re creating your post) so that it can be filtered out for the convenience of other users who wish to screen out such content.

[tmirai]

GO TO PILLOWFORT.