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Goodbye Tumblr

I enjoyed my stay. I don’t even want to leave T_T

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.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

gloomywitchboy-blog

There is nothing positive about censorship in my opinion. There was already a ‘safe mode’, people can make their own decisions if they want to see adult content or not.

caligobastet

I went through it. I went through it all. I was bullied, assaulted, laughed at, unaccepted, felt unloved and the loneliest one could ever be. I know how it feels. I’m writing this from my very core, still echoing this hurt. But it gets better. It truly, truly does. Once you can make your own destiny, be a master of your your own life, it gets better. I’ve met amazing people. Like-minded, genuine, sweet, open. Ones I can relate to, and them to me. Ones I can be myself with and… For once… Feel free. I would never, in a million years, go back to my childhood or teenage years. I’ve since learned what it means to be loved, what it means to love and, most importantly, what it means to be free. And I promise you, one day you will too. Just hang in there! This world needs you to teach it your lessons. To inspire others. To give it what only YOU can give. You’re special in ways that you don’t even know yet, and they’re just afraid of what you may give to the world, what you can accomplish in the future, who you will become. Know that you you ARE loved, You ARE accepted, by all of us, outcasts, by all of us changing the world one step at a time. I was you. I AM you. And you’ll be me. You ARE me. Just hang in there. 🖤🖤🖤

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #itgetsbetter #outcast #youareloved https://www.instagram.com/caligo_bastet/p/Bpy5ohnAzWa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3hebx8o8lrv7

gloomywitchboy-blog

I need this today, I’ve needed this for a long long time, am I going to do something with it? Nope.. T_T

I just made this, figured I’d share, maybe someone else likes it too :3

#sopor aeternus #sopor #jusa

moonskek-deactivated20251028

“Aerie” by Jeszika Le Vye

theprettykitty-3

“We match”!

Trying to be myself more, bring more positivity into my life. Today I climbed a few trees. It’s one of my favourite things to do :3

aestheticschaos

Son of the Forest aesthetic

gloomywitchboy-blog

This world needs more fae boys.

I’m going out into the scary world full of weird (read; normal) people today.. Not sure what to expect, as I usually kind of disguise myself as one of them.. They usually see trough my disguise though, the gloom blooms from my very core and radiates outwards with a terrible black mist of haunting specters that comprise my being.. OH THE WOE!

#goth #trad goth #ethnogoth #dramatic drama queer #silly goth

I’m struggling to ‘‘be myself’‘ and all that. I want to look a certain way, but I’m scared of what ‘‘normal’‘ people think and might say (or do..) to me. But I’m going to try my best, I want to be myself not just for myself but for others too, because I’m sure I’m not the only one hiding away. And who knows, maybe meet a few other people.

#goth #gothic #sopor aeternus #trad goth #ethnogoth

Spontaneous Poem.. kind of.

A shadow is cast on a forest floor, Between the limbs and branches. Dancing, dancing, gently then frantically.. Birds fly off, the dance is alarming, uncontrolled and unpleasant. The dancing shadow twitches, then calms down Swaying, swaying, as the wind blows the shadow back and forth The dance has ended, the peace returned No-one will ever find him, no-one will ever hear His voice is now singing, forever amongst the choir The voices of the dead.

#dark poetry #dark poem #goth #sopor aeternus

the-perfect-aesthetic

faronmckenzie

Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion, and purpose in life.

Fiddlesticks

I wish you well, you who reads this.

I'm terrible at saying hello..... Hiiii....... This is my first ever blog post and I would like to introduce myself a little.

My name is Oscar and I'm a twenty-something boy who wants to look like a witch who spends most of his or her time reading books in a candle-lit tower far far away from where humans tend to be.

But the problem is, I'm not even sure how I want to look because I've spend most of my life hiding my real self away from people because as far as I remember, whenever I would show but a glimpse of my true self, people would make me feel as if something was wrong with me. Even now, I'm hiding away in my room because I'm scared of the world outside. I'm utterly depressed, lonely and often wish that I would die in my sleep. Sometimes I wake up and feel disappointed in the fact that I'm still alive and have to face yet another boring, dull, empty day. On a good day, I might go outside for a short walk and maybe have fun playing a game. And that is all I do that day. On a bad day, well.. I just kind of sit around or lie in bed or pace back and forth thinking about the way I would end my own life (trust me, I know exactly how I would do that).

I have very simple aspirations, really. I certainly don't want to be depressed and suicidal, I want to live, I want to be happy and meet a lot of people and make new friends and make other people happy and intrigued by all the things this world has to offer.

I want to become an artist, I want to draw and possibly paint. There are plenty of ideas that I have, two comics that I want to work on, hundreds of ideas of drawings ranging from cutesy anime style to dark, abstract art.

I also want to be very expressive (yet simple) in the way I dress and present myself. Make-up and such is all quite new and intimidating to me. I have a black and a green eye pencil and some black eye shadow but that's all I have.

But first I have to learn. I need to learn how to draw, need to learn how to sew and other DIY skills that I can use for clothes and such, how to do make-up, all that. Luckily, youtube is full of tutorials. But that's also kind of overwhelming at this point (I'm easily overwhelmed right now anyway).

Now let's talk about fun things! Like music! I love music, especially dark music and classical music, I really like harp and lute music too. One of my favourite artists is Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows (wish I had the money to buy more albums because I haven't heard anything since Sanatorium Altrosa). I sometimes enjoy black metal, but usually only the kind of atmospheric kind, nice and gloomy.

Movies.. hmm.. I'm usually very picky with movies and such but it also depends on my mood. One of the last films I saw was Melancholia. I plan on watching a bunch of old vampire films and such at some point.

Books! I want to read more. Like, a lot more. I used to read books all the time but these days I have difficulties concentrating for longer periods. In fact, I have to stop writing soon because my brain is slowly starting to feel the burn.

Anyhow... I hope this blog will perhaps attract a few like-minded individuals who I can interact with.

I'm waiting on two books to arrive, books on Witchcraft! I might make a picture of those and post it here, I'll try and make it look really good.. I'm sure I can ''decorate'' it somehow.. Maybe lay out a few herbs, maybe a candle and some incense..

The point of this is definitely to express myself, something which I haven't done in a very long time.

I want to thank you for reading this and please be gentle with me, it's not easy just posting this for all to see.. I feel quite vulnerable.

But as Queens of the Stone Age said; ''..to be vulnerable matters most of all, if you intend to truly fall apart..'' And like anything in nature, once it starts to fall apart and die, new and wonderful things can grow from it. Of course, it sounds much more dramatic than it actually is.. But oh well!

Love & Hugs!

#personal #goth #sopor aeternus #witchcraft

Kiss the corpse, the blessed sigh, walk in the garden of the night.. Shed a tear, suspended in fear, every soul is starving here!