With the new update, I think we need to bring this back
The irony is i made this post in 2015 and every time tumblr fucks something up it comes back.

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With the new update, I think we need to bring this back
The irony is i made this post in 2015 and every time tumblr fucks something up it comes back.
A better, more positive Tumblr
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
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So, in short what you are saying is that you’re personally supporting Nazi propaganda and the alt-right movements of the world? Because nudity is so much worse than what they want, is that it? #EXPOSEJEFF
Honestly I think part of the reasons cartoons nowadays are failing is because so many focus on comedy.
Comedy isn’t bad when the jokes are actually funny and aren’t stolen from the internet.
The issue is that they take action oriented shows (Powerpuff Girls, Teen Titans) and turn them into shows that are nothing more than cash cows for the network that bank on the fame of the original while doing nothing to live up to it. A number of cartoons now fizzle out after so many seasons because they simply can’t maintain an audience. The issue is that kids grow up. Eventually the humor and stolen jokes become old to them while cartoons that should have fizzled out are kept going and out on repeat (Looking at you TTG)
“You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.” - Walt Disney.
I think that is a quote any cartoonist, comic maker, writer, etc. who aims or gears their works towards children should have in their notebook or animation guide. Why? Because it’s true. So many cartoons are lame because they have no growth with the audience or any appeal beyond a young audience that is subject to lose interest at the drop of a hat. For some reason, it seems like cartoon makers are afraid of making a cartoon that has dark elements to it.
I’m not saying people should make dark cartoons just for the sake of it because that’s what will appeal to kids. Rather, I’m saying there is nothing wrong with having a dark theme in your cartoon or having the characters deal with issues. It doesn’t even have to be truly dark.
For example, The Powerpuff Girls had an episode that showed the actually dangerous or downside to the girls powers when they moved out of Townsville. They had an episode that dealt with toxic relationships (the episode with Buttercup having a crush on Ace). They had an episode that dealt with insecurities on a number of occasions, etc. all while maintaining a sense of laughter and cheerfulness.
Static Shock dealt with homophobia, Racism (the episode where Static met Richie’s father) and gun violence and bullying (the episode where Jimmy was bullied and brought a gun to school with the intention of killing his bullies). They had an episode where Static had to come to terms with his mother’s death.
Captain Planet obviously dealt with pollution and environmental dangers, but also had an episode dedicated towards HIV and suicide.
Steven Universe attracts a wide range of people to the show due to the variety of issues presented in the show. Grief, LGBT issues, etc.
Gumball is a genuinely comedic show that doesn’t rely on memes and jokes stolen from the internet for the sole basis of its writing. The characters are likable and funny without having to be total douchebags to each other.
Shows that attract a wide range of viewers are good shows and they deserve the attention over some cash cow that is a hollow shell of the original.
With so many shows from the 90s getting revivals and reboots, I can only hope that they don’t fall into the shoes of PPG 2016 and TTG.
Kids deserve better than just hollow jokes and shells of the original show that they will outgrow. Kids deserve shows that actually stick with them till adulthood.
So much of all this, one of my biggest gripes with cartoons these days is that they all just feel like they’re made not only as a cash cow but also to just take a place to distract kids while the parents just go off for other things rather than spend time with them. Like sure, kids go to school for a large portion of the game, but that doesn’t mean that the cartoons they watch should just be a distraction, there is nothing wrong with a show being about teaching the children, not only about homophobia, racism, grief, and other things they may have use of later in their lives.
I am not speaking of Sesame street level of teaching but still, let there be some form of lesson, or something to take from the shows. At times kids can seem like they’re stupid or dumb, but that doesn’t mean that the shows they watch should be dumbed down to the point where they are just something to distract them.
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an entertaining thing to do would be to replace every instance of “for ritual purposes” in any archeology article with “for funsies”
#experts think stone henge was probably built for funsies
What I’ve Learned about the Ancient Druids/Celts
Celtic languages are disappearing, and disappearing with them is Celtic culture. In the last 100 years, Celts have become a popular trope in fantasy literature and New Age religion. Our perception of the Celts has suffered so much wishful thinking and poorly reinterpreted history that I have always struggled to find good sources on them. Here’s what I’ve learned in the last few months. If you have better (credible) sources, please add corrections.
The Celts Weren’t Always in the North
They were mercenaries for Sparta and Egypt.
They once occupied Thrace (now Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece).
They founded Galatia (now Turkey).
We get the word Gaelic (referring to people like the Scots) from the Greek word Galatia, which is derived from Gaul, “the territory corresponding to modern France, Belgium, the S Netherlands, Switzerland, N Italy, and Germany W of the Rhine.”
The expanding Roman Empire marginalized them.
Celtic Spirituality and Language Have Roots in Vedic Religion
Like almost all European languages, Celtic languages come from the Indo-European language group, which originated in Mesopotamia and northern India.
Celts and Hindus also had a similar caste system: educated rulers (Brahmin), warriors (Kshatriya), farmers, artisans, or business people (Vaishya), and serfs or slaves (Shudra).
Tree worship exists both in Celtic tradition and in “the agricultural tribes of India,” as “every village was positioned near a sacred grove” (Ellis 40).
The druid-poet Amairgen’s “philosophical outlook … parallels the declaration of Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita” (71), with presuppositions of reincarnation and pantheism. Though the Celtic Otherworld is unique, “the Celts celebrated birth with mourning for the death in the Otherworld, and regarded death with joy for the birth in the Otherworld” (176).
Somewhat like the Kshatriya, some Celts “fought naked because they believed this would release their karma to the fullest potential, enhancing their prowess and, if killed, speeding them to their incarnation in the Otherworld” (28).
Celtic gods were not creators, but venerated ancestors.
Druids May Have Simply Been a High Caste in Celtic Society
Though druids practiced magic and resided over many religious ceremonies, druidism probably wasn’t a religion, but a caste. The fact that Rome tried to suppress the druids implies that they represented the biggest threat to Roman conquest – they were the “intelligentsia,” the educated rulers. Warrior kings deferred to them. Throughout surviving ancient lore, druids fill the roles of doctor, astronomer, poet, and philosopher. Christian scribes were the ones preoccupied with druids as wizards.
Ancient Celts Were Pretty Advanced
They were the first Europeans to use soap. Their farming communities were prosperous, their art sophisticated, and their metalwork advanced. Officials were elected and property was more or less shared.
Unlike doctors in Greece, druid doctors were provided for by the community so that they could offer the same care to everyone. Of all pre-Christian European societies, the ancient Celts seemed to have the best healthcare system, refraining from then-otherwise-widespread euthanasia. They did not tend to view illness as a judgment of the gods, although they did address some illnesses as personal beings (250). Specific druid families passed medical knowledge and medical books down through generations.
Celtic women could be druids or warrior-queens. They owned property, practiced medicine, and had the right to divorce their husbands. Although their society began slipping into patriarchy before the arrival of Christianity, Irish Celts still had many female saints and spiritual mentors long after St. Patrick’s arrival. The cultural values of Christian leaders from Rome eventually put women in a less desirable place.
Truth was highly valued in Celtic philosophy. In fact, Truth was thought to hold magical power. “The Old Irish word for truth is also the basis for linguistic concepts of holiness, righteousness, faithfulness, for religion and, above all, for justice” (169).
It is false that the ancient Celts had no written language. Rather, the druids (educated caste) refrained from writing many things down in order to maintain secrecy and, therefore, political power. After Irish druids were displaced by Christian rulers, tiny little Ireland produced so many books that it made up one third of the literature in Europe.
The Celts Have Endured Some Garbage
They were slandered and suppressed by Roman invaders, and they were often slandered or misunderstood by Greek and Roman historians.
In England, invading Germanic, Danish, and Norman tribes marginalized Celtic tribes to such a degree that they no longer exist. Invading Germanics also displaced the Celts in what is now France.
Although Ireland converted to Christianity without any wars or martyrs, St. Patrick still saw to it that hundreds of druidic manuscripts were destroyed. We have no idea what they said.
Even after the Celts converted to Christianity, other so-called Christian kingdoms rounded them up to use them as slaves (see St. Patrick’s angry Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus).
This was still happening in the 16th century, when Oliver Cromwell’s “conquest of Ireland had wiped out just over one third of the population” and the rest were “shipped off to the New World, particularly Barbados, as indentured labourers…" Slaves cost money, but “Irish ‘indentured servants’ were supplied free by the government, and there was a tendency to work such ‘servants’ to death. They could always be replaced…” (Ellis 254).
Today, of the tens of millions inhabiting formerly Celtic regions, only about two million people still speak a Celtic language. Historian Peter Berresford Ellis states, “Language is the highest form of cultural expression. The decline of the Celtic languages has been the result of a carefully established policy of brutal persecution and suppression,” and their inevitable disappearance “will be as the result of centuries of a careful policy of ethnocide” (280).
Neo-druidism
During the Enlightenment, druids became a fad, and were excessively romanticized. The “Ancient” Order of Druids was actually established in 1781, an offshoot of Freemasonry.
“…By the end of the first World War (1918) there were five different sects of Druids vying to perform their ‘sacred rites’” at Stonehenge (274). Times being what they were, these tourists did a lot of damage to the site.
Breton Neven Henaff, le Grand Druide, “tried to organize a community who would live by a set of principles which he saw as Druidic” (276). Because he actually studied Celtic sources, his Neo-druidism is probably most similar to the original religion, but he also brought a lot of his own ideas into it.
During the philosophical upheaval of the 1960s, the New Age movement incorporated a lot of the fanciful and speculative ideas that were a fad during the Enlightenment and had no basis in history.
SOURCES:
Etymonline.com Confessio.ie Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis The Oxford Encyclopedia of the English Language
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