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[emirael]

Where I’ll be after this Friday

Hey y’all. Honestly been feeling the tumblr fatigue for a while. Blog gets deleted on Friday. I’m not disappearing off the face of the planet/internet tho. Here’s where you can find me if you’d like to keep in touch:

Writing - ArchiveOfOurOwn, as emirael

General blogging (not sure I will keep a fandom blog like this one for a bit, but currently holding down usernames/potentially blogging at the following) - pillowfort.io, as emirael - swarmr, as emirael

General talking/existence - Discord, as emirael#1838 (add me if you’d like) - I hang on the Avatar - We Watch server sometimes

Art - Instagram (DM for username. ig is more closely connected to real life, so am not posting it) - I basically haven’t posted art on tumblr in ages but this will be the only thing I forsee consistently updating/posting to for a while. No fanart, but if you want to see what else I get up to, lmk and I’ll link you.

[emirael]

Last day y’all. Lights go off tonight.

[emirael]

A friend was sad about me deactivating, so we struck a compromise: I’ll go on a lights-out hiatus for 3 months and then see how I feel. Also I started feeling Bad(tm) about certain old drabbles I'd posted to this tumblr that never got migrated to ao3. So. Putting this thought on hold and taking an enforced break. I'll pop back in 3 months or so and figure out what I'm doing from there.

I very much dislike changing my mind and I dislike doing so publicly but. I did so here we are.

Maybe nobody ever leaves this sinkhole website.

Maybe tumblr will be merciful and decide for me before I get back by vanishing into the void.

[emirael]

Where I’ll be after this Friday

Hey y’all. Honestly been feeling the tumblr fatigue for a while. Blog gets deleted on Friday. I’m not disappearing off the face of the planet/internet tho. Here’s where you can find me if you’d like to keep in touch:

Writing - ArchiveOfOurOwn, as emirael

General blogging (not sure I will keep a fandom blog like this one for a bit, but currently holding down usernames/potentially blogging at the following) - pillowfort.io, as emirael - swarmr, as emirael

General talking/existence - Discord, as emirael#1838 (add me if you’d like) - I hang on the Avatar - We Watch server sometimes

Art - Instagram (DM for username. ig is more closely connected to real life, so am not posting it) - I basically haven’t posted art on tumblr in ages but this will be the only thing I forsee consistently updating/posting to for a while. No fanart, but if you want to see what else I get up to, lmk and I’ll link you.

[emirael]

Last day y’all. Lights go off tonight.

[emirael]

Where I’ll be after this Friday

Hey y’all. Honestly been feeling the tumblr fatigue for a while. Blog gets deleted on Friday. I’m not disappearing off the face of the planet/internet tho. Here’s where you can find me if you’d like to keep in touch:

Writing - ArchiveOfOurOwn, as emirael

General blogging (not sure I will keep a fandom blog like this one for a bit, but currently holding down usernames/potentially blogging at the following) - pillowfort.io, as emirael - swarmr, as emirael

General talking/existence - Discord, as emirael#1838 (add me if you’d like) - I hang on the Avatar - We Watch server sometimes

Art - Instagram (DM for username. ig is more closely connected to real life, so am not posting it) - I basically haven’t posted art on tumblr in ages but this will be the only thing I forsee consistently updating/posting to for a while. No fanart, but if you want to see what else I get up to, lmk and I’ll link you.

[emirael]

Where I’ll be after this Friday

Hey y’all. Honestly been feeling the tumblr fatigue for a while. Blog gets deleted on Friday. I’m not disappearing off the face of the planet/internet tho. Here’s where you can find me if you’d like to keep in touch:

Writing - ArchiveOfOurOwn, as emirael

General blogging (not sure I will keep a fandom blog like this one for a bit, but currently holding down usernames/potentially blogging at the following) - pillowfort.io, as emirael - swarmr, as emirael

General talking/existence - Discord, as emirael#1838 (add me if you’d like) - I hang on the Avatar - We Watch server sometimes

Art - Instagram (DM for username. ig is more closely connected to real life, so am not posting it) - I basically haven’t posted art on tumblr in ages but this will be the only thing I forsee consistently updating/posting to for a while. No fanart, but if you want to see what else I get up to, lmk and I’ll link you.

[emirael]

Where I’ll be after this Friday

Hey y’all. Honestly been feeling the tumblr fatigue for a while. Blog gets deleted on Friday. I’m not disappearing off the face of the planet/internet tho. Here’s where you can find me if you’d like to keep in touch:

Writing - ArchiveOfOurOwn, as emirael

General blogging (not sure I will keep a fandom blog like this one for a bit, but currently holding down usernames/potentially blogging at the following) - pillowfort.io, as emirael - swarmr, as emirael

General talking/existence - Discord, as emirael#1838 (add me if you’d like) - I hang on the Avatar - We Watch server sometimes

Art - Instagram (DM for username. ig is more closely connected to real life, so am not posting it) - I basically haven’t posted art on tumblr in ages but this will be the only thing I forsee consistently updating/posting to for a while. No fanart, but if you want to see what else I get up to, lmk and I’ll link you.

[dare-i-say-asexual]

i just walked past the apartment beneath mine and through an open window i could hear my downstairs neighbor crying faintly while the song jolene played in the background and im just like… bitch are you okay…?

[dare-i-say-asexual]

I actually ended up going back downstairs to check on her and brought some leftover cookies I baked this afternoon. she’s very sweet and going through a Breakup Mood™️ after being cheated on. she’s coming over to my gf and I’s annual bad movie night on Friday and she even let me pet her cat named Clarence

[dare-i-say-asexual]

my gf thinks it’s funny but very fitting that our downstairs neighbor was able to summon a concerned lesbian just by playing jolene while crying about being done dirty by a man

[glumshoe]

Is there anything more nauseating than ‘expensive heterosexual wedding’ culture?

[glumshoe]

My dream wedding: outside, illegal fireworks, shoes are optional, mostly potluck, someone’s dressed as a wizard, I get to insult my relatives, hopefully some live music.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

You want to get married at Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday

[lauralot89]

Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror

[architeuthism]

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

[retroactivebakeries]

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

[crazy-pages]

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

[crazy-pages]

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

[lesbianredpanda]

Tumblr is gonna die without me knowing a single fucking thing about Homestuck and honestly I think that’s pretty sexy of me

[otterault]

I think it’s a sign of the times here on tumblr that I legit have not seen a single post abt the Avengers 4 trailer on my dashboard all day

[unicornships]

Compilation of all the times Toph called Aang his best nickname ever, in chronological order. Sorry Aang, you’ll forever be known as Twinkle Toes.

[ao3org]

Happy holidays from AO3!

To celebrate the spirit of giving and gathering, we’re providing 8 invitations to all users who have been with us 6 months or more and

posted at least 1 work, or

left at least 5 comments, or

given at least 10 kudos

Since we’re generating a lot of invitations (over 7 million!), it might take a few days for them to arrive in your account, so don’t worry if you haven’t gotten them just yet! You can follow these instructions to access and share your invite codes with anyone who wants an account.

Happy Hanukkah!

[phantomrose96]

Throw back to 2013-specific Tumblr experiences

“Can you make that ask rebloggable?”

Any post more than 3 sentences long getting reblogged as a “link”

Seeing someone’s reply in a comment chain deleted and wondering what stupid thing they said to get themselves deleted

Having the power to delete/edit other people’s comments in general

Reaction Image Folders

“I might lose followers for this, but this blog supports gay rights!”

Tom Hiddleston thirst

Bendytoots Thirst

100000 posts about ex-anime nerds getting back into anime because of Attack on Titan

“Reblog this image if you’re in the (X) fandom”

Flower Crowns

Flower Crowns on Hannibal Characters

“And now, the weather”

[ontarom]

Does anybody remember this “go nuts, show nuts, whatever” gem? Oh how the mighty have fallen.

[sophie531896273240810891]

is being into coffee an older sibling thing bc everyone i know who loves coffee is the oldest child

[sophie531896273240810891]

like every oldest child ik loves coffee, the middle child hates it/prefers tea, and the youngest will drink it but only if its super sweet n has a ton of milk

[sophie531896273240810891]

rb w/ if ur oldest, middle, or youngest child and how u feel about coffee

[hawt-me33]

Coming into a fandom late

[baxterdamus-deactivated20130513]

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

[valorious]

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

[leatherpatches-deactivated20150]

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

[fauxmoux]

Accuracy at its best

[street-of-mercy]

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

[my-reylo]

all of this shit…lol

[nerdsagainstfandomracism]

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

[not-so-secret-nerd]

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

[jupiter235]

This gets better every time I see it. 

[sageblackrose95]

@fuboos-mess

[inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac]

Being in a dead fandom…

[illogicalarchive]

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

[erilias]

The accuracy hurts.

[fanfic-yes-please]

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

[it-is-bugs]

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

[sweetferalbaby]

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

[teaganvamp]

This just gets better..

[hamboj2]

@mi-kleos

[thatcrazysonicchick]

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

[knightofbloodcancer]

Fandom hell in general

[morathavictoria]

Yes.

[marvelanimelover]

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

[stop-talking-babe-deactivated20]

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

[raise-cain-archived]

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

[crochanblackbeak]

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

[kateriverameliawolfe]

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

[ishipwhatiship247]

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

[ravenhilarious]

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

[swanqueen-author]

Being in a fandom that actually works together

[commanderunhingedmongoose]

Why is this so true? All of it.

[pillowprincesslexa]

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

[hangingfire]

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

[priory-of-stars]

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

[marianagmt]

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

[batbyte-alghul]

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

[tirnel-sutcliff-spears]

I love this. and it’s gotten better

[cartoonjessie]

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

[brit-is-bookish]

All of these are me. Lol

[thehikingastronomer]

Being in a fandom on Tumblr

[julietsemophase]

And it reached its epic conclusion

[isa-ghost]

I CHOKED ON FUNDIP

[kirabook]

Dear people planning to move to pillowfort:

As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.

Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that. 

Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult. 

If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there. 

If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably. 

We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more. 

Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations. 

[drst]

Seriously be patient with Pillowfort. They’re undertaking something enormously complex on a tiny budget. Y’all come in demanding it work just like Tumblr immediately - especially if any of the whingers start in with the “well where is all that money going!?!” bullshit - and it won’t happen.

[olderthannetfic]

Yup. This is why I’m going back to DW for now. I’ve got a Pillowfort too, but they’re not yet ready to go.