Just here for the ships

starting this back up as a Twitter refugee

[fukutomichi]

Ugh I just LOVE the concept of multiple languages being spoken by people, but can’t understand each other, but they still try anyway!! Inject that directly into my veins!!!

[cullinankatsudon]

I straight up wrote a book where this was the first 2-3 chapters and let me tell you what a serene pleasure that was. I have no idea if it read as good as it felt to write but I don’t care, I had the best time. 15/10 would recommend the experience.

[sunfortune]

tumblr is about to be the social media equivalent of that olympic skater who won gold bc everyone in front of him fell over

[sunfortune]

played the long game with this quote

[cullinankatsudon]

Twitter refugee

possibly back. trying cohost too, but mostly just don’t want to lose people so I will go where most people end up. I hope.

[cullinankatsudon]

Okay I just logged back on after the logout

What’d I miss

[proudtoehaver]

Vader and Kylo Ren - The difference between Christian and Jewish view of evil

A lot of the complaints about Kylo Ren as a villain is that he lacks Vader’s larger than life evil, he’s too common, too human to be evil. Traits that are used by his stans to argue why he will/must be redeemed.

I would like to point out that both camps, those who hate Kylo Ren for his humaness and those who use it for his defense, has missed the point JJ and Lawrence were trying to make.

When Christians think of Evil, not the smaller, everyday evil but the one that commits genocide and other atrocities they tend think of people like this:

Or if we stick to the Star Wars universe, this:

or this:

But from a Jewish standpoint neither Hitler, Vader or the Emperor is the true face of evil. Evil isn’t some epic, outside force, or some larger than life villain.

Instead it looks something like this:

These are private photos of the social life of the secretary staff, the SS officers and guards of Auschwitz, taken between May and December 1944. These are the people who while singing, laughing, sunning themselves and celebrating as we see in the pictures, oversaw and carried out the genocide of the Jewish people and other assorted atrocities committed in the camp.

Complete ordinary looking people. People, men and women, born to good families and proper bloodlines (in the Aryan sense anyway), with good Christian raising, believing in good Christian values. Well mannered, well educated, usually erudite. And the direct committers of genocide.

To Jewish people there are no difference between Evil and evil, they are one and the same. A Jewish woman, Hannah Arendt, coined the phrase “the banality of evil” and I have yet to see a single goy use it properly, because this is what it means.

This is why JJ and Lawrence made the First Order an obvious, punch in the face parallel to the Nazis, in every single conceivable way that one can in a fantasy universe with no actual Germany. That is why they made Hux such on open and overt parallel to Hitler, and then went and made him a secondary, one note villain. Neither Hux nor Hitler symbolizes the true face of evil, or the banality of it.

Kylo Ren does. 

Which is why Kylo looks like this:

He’s a young man, from a good family, with (from the First Order’s or at least Snoke’s pov) “proper” bloodline. And he’s evil. Not in the epic, over the top, Christian variety like Vader or the Emperor, but the kind of evil that oversaw Auschwitz and ordered and carried out the atrocities there.

No Kylo isn’t cool, or awesome, or epic in his evil, he’s human. But because people are either incapable or unwilling to follow the Jewish understanding of evil many take that humanity Kylo Ren as a sign of goodness and the guarantee of his redemption, instead of as the source of his evil.

So the people who say that Kylo Ren isn’t space Hitler as absolutely right, they just miss the point. He’s something much, much worse.

[proudtoehaver]

@captainamericagf Next time some fucker comes at you arguing that JJ writing Kylo as having good in him matters at all in how evil JJ views the character as, please feel free to throw this post at them. Hard.

[elvhxns]

The Official “Log Off” Protest F.A.Q! 

The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW. 

This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.  

So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST. 

Times are listed above depending on timezone! 

This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over! 

How to Export Your Blog: 

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog

Alternative Sites: 

Pillowfort

Mastodan 

Wordpress 

Twitter 

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. 

[fencer-x]

Also, if you’re wondering what to do with your free time that day, consider going to their app page and leaving a nice 1-star review.

‎Tumblr

‎Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. Whether it’s fandoms or philosophy, fashion

[kirariky]

[whovian-on-ice]

Lan Wangji in episode 4

bonus:

[silverink58]

INSPRIED BY CHAPTER 66

Wei WuXian, “Lan Zhan, pick up the rein, won’t you?”

Lan WangJi, “Why?”

Lil’ Apple was quite clever. It wasn’t that it didn’t know to follow a person. Wei WuXian said again, “Give me some face and pick it up, won’t you?”

Although he still didn’t understand why Wei WuXian’s grin was so bright, Lan WangJi listened and picked up Lil’ Apple’s rein anyway, holding it in his hand.

Wei WuXian spoke to himself, “Hm. Now all that’s left is a little one.”

Lan WangJi, “What?”

Wei WuXian chuckled, “Nothing. Lan Zhan, you really are a good person.”

[marvelfandom]

[steventrevor-deactivated2024031]

#unclear if steve is turned on by bondage or honesty  (via @resistancepilots)

[goingknowherewastaken]

Bold of you to assume it’s only one of those and not both

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

Follow Ultrafacts for more facts

[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[beasti]

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

[lafayettelabaguette]

Law

[tooiconic]

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

[sighinastorm]

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

[linkislost]

a legacy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

[kindaoffkilter]

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

[fyeahyurionice]

Yuri!!! on Ice new art for the reruns theater tickets in January!

[cullinankatsudon]

Does anyone know

If there are old reblogs in our feed that are “NSFW” by the idiot new standards, will they just go away? Or are we supposed to go through and sanitize our own stuff?

Sorry for not doing my own homework but I’m in deadline hell and am frankly resisting the urge to just bazooka this entire site.

[shadow-spires]

Save The Blogs!

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.

@gallusrostromegalus @kaciart @lena221bee @deadcatwithaflamethrower

@norcumi @deandraws @morn-art, @thebisexualmandalorian @kristsune @marloviandevil @punsbulletsandpointythings @protagonistically @cris-art @elfda @fish-ghost @godtierwonder @heartslogos @haekass @iesika @incogneat-oh @itispossibleihaveissues @jaegervega @jhaernyl @the-last-hair-bender @kleine-aster @latenightcornerstore @lectorel @medievalpoc @mgnemesi @me-ya-ri @myurbandream @peskylilcritter @cywscross ,@cheshiresense @varevare @victoriousscarf @whatsmeantobe @swpromptsandasks @gabriel4sam @stonefreeak @brighteyedbadwolf @pumpkin-lith @puzzleshipper @suzukiblu @myurbandream @lacefedora @jademerien

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.

[gallusrostromegalus]

For people asking how to backup thier blog

[arahir]

twitter etiquette for new users

replying is how you make friends! reply to anything you want and be friendly. don’t make rude jokes if you’re not friends already though!

quote retweeting is a no-no. when you “retweet with a comment” it’s not liked by content creators because it makes a new tweet out of their tweet and they don’t get the likes and retweets they would get if you’d just retweeted it straight up. if you want to comment on a retweet, reply to it or post a new tweet starting with “LRT” which stands for “last retweet” (it’s fine to quote retweet dumb memes and so on.)

you can make your tweets private. this means no one but your followers will be able to see what you post and no one will be able to retweet your content.  you can switch back and forth between private and public at will. some people make a separate private account to tweet personal stuff and let mutuals follow it only. it’s a good way to keep things separate.

what is privatter? privatter is a third party web app that content creators can allow to be attached to their twitter. it lets them tweet content that they can make exclusive to logged in users, followers, mutuals, or a specific list of users. as long as you are logged in to twitter and fall into the intended category, you’ll be able to see it. 

you can mute people you follow. (and those you don’t, ofc.) you can also mute words and phrases and entire conversations. if you mute someone you follow and they reply to you, that reply will still show up in your notifications. it’s a good way to keep the peace!

you can limit notifications to people who follow you or to mutuals. (notifications from people you follow will still show up regardless of which option you’ve selected.)

miscellaneous tips and warnings: if you accidentally unfollow and refollow someone, it won’t show up in their notifications as long as it’s within a couple minutes. no more accidental stuff. everyone can see who everyone follows so watch out. people will know if you unfollow. if you want to report someone and want them gone forever, report a tweet where they used a curse word. screenshotting tweets for harassment is a no-no and can get you banned. don’t be lame. don’t be a dick. vaguing others is generally really bad form and so is complaining about content within a fandom you’re in. use the mute tools at your disposal and don’t be a spoiler. you won’t come back from a rep like that and everyone sees everything.

that’s it! happy tweeting!!

[arahir]

how do i keep all my content together on twitter?

threads are your best friend!! you make a tweet with your commission info and links and so on and pin it to the top of your page. then reply to that tweet with a copy and pasted link to the tweet where you posted the art/fic/etc you want to not lose. reply to that new tweet with the next piece of artwork and so on. you can also make a unique hashtag for your content to use when you post, so that when you search that hashtag later you’re able to see just your art. good luck!

[warlordrexx-deactivated20190410]

Oh this is good to know.  I have no idea how twitter works really.

[cullinankatsudon]

Quote RTing is only true for artists. Literally everyone does it all the time. Artists don’t like it, and it’s in general not cool if you’re just doing it to get your own threads going. HOWEVER. If people use Tweetdeck, which a lot of them do, IDK that they see all the simple RTs. Some people use modified timeline systems like realtwitter.com and that absolutely doesn’t do simple RTs, the only ones that would come through would be quote ones. Ironically.

Twitter has a HOST OF ISSUES, so be warned. Twitter is notorious for protecting Nazis over literally anyone and doesn’t police any hate speech unless you call a white supremacist a fuckhead. Warning is especially important for POC as there are active groups who run around looking to make messes. There might be a small pass if you keep your group tight and don’t get into anything political, but you never know what those fun lads will get up to and you should strap in preemptively.

Also they like to mess with your timeline all the time. It won’t be remotely chronological, and it will filter people. Realtwitter is  your BFF. 

Bear in mind too Twitter is allegedly about to get rid of the like button so they can make people talk to each other more, and went through a phase where they deliberately put “opposing views” into each other’s TLs (liberals got Nazis saying really horrid crap). Just… be ready. 

You may want to wait for Pillowfort. Or be ready to bail to it if Twitter is too real. 

[meijiatron]

Just to add, my twitter feed has been in chronological order ever since it was discovered that muting certain strings would put it back in order. Twitter itself restored the option to have your feed in chronological order in the settings, so if the only thing you use tweetdeck/realtwitter/etc. for is a chronological feed, it’s not really necessary anymore. And it keeps RTs in order, too, so you won’t see the same RT multiple times over the course of days unless different people you follow RT at far enough intervals.

That’s not to say they won’t try to mess with it in the future, but I think that discovery forced their hands, and was one of the best decisions they’ve made for usability.

[cullinankatsudon]

The other thing with RTing, is if you want to comment on something and sayin “regarding LRT,” I’m here to tell you most people won’t know what you’re talking about unless they follow almost no one. I follow about 1000 people and someone’s LRT is usually 15 or 20 lines down. As soon as I see LRT I just drive by because I know I’ll never get the context.

Also, despite multiple efforts to keep my feed chronological, it is not unless I force it otherwise. Lately it’s been slightly better, but it still likes to say, “see what you missed” and it doesn’t matter how many times I dismiss it, it comes back. Also as soon as I went to real twitter I saw how different my TL was and there were people I hadn’t heard from in forever suddenly appearing. Basically with Twitter, stay on your toes. You have to work to make it what you want, but you do have to work.

[ommanyte]

Truth coming out of her well (with female-presenting nipples) to shame everyone

[cullinankatsudon]

Since everyone is bailing

And I agree, this place is a dead zone, which bums me out, here’s a link to all my social media places. I’m most often on Twitter, which is a mess but it’s still where I hang out. I talk about writing a lot, FYI. But if all the fandoms go there, the writing people will have to deal with fandoms and the fandoms with the writing. I won’t be doing two twitters. 

I keep meaning to do more instagram but it somehow never happens.

What a shame about Tumblr. It was a good place.