Jesse Phoenix

They/them | Too old for this shit | Occasionally NSFW. | Website | Super Gay Productions | Bluesky | Store |

[ffxvcaps]

Final Fantasy VII: Revelation → Vincent Valentine

[prozdvoices]

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[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Real talk, though, because it needs to be said: as much as we all joke that porn was the only good thing this place had left, the reality is that it being the only place where one could regularly engage with and promote sexual content being gone is really not understanding at all what makes this place special. I mean we all joke about “horny on main” and all that, but the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression. For a lot of artists too, this was a great place to come and post NSFW work and get traction that became Patreon pages that became honest jobs. The problem with “family friendly” social media is that more often than not, the ones hit  the most by the whole family friendly nonsense are marginalized groups that have no vehicles to express themselves. Stuff like YouTube consistently bans or flags simple content featuring something as innocuous as two men kissing as “adult” content and makes it hard for LGBTQ+ content creators to compete with their non-queer peers for a lot of those reasons. The ultimate problem isn’t even that banning of NSFW content, it’s the general mess surrounding it and unintended consequences to these groups. For MONTHS Tumblr has had a huge problem with porn spam bots and outright child pornography, and for MONTHS the majority of the userbase has been in general consensus that both of these things needed to stop. Tumblr did NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. When Apple finally removed their app from the store, SPECIFICALLY because of the child pornography, Tumblr decided to do what any rich corporation owning a social media site with zero understanding of what makes it popular would do, and decided that the best course of action was to eat itself like an Ouroboros. Rather than admit that they have done an absolutely shit job at keeping pedophiles off this website and rather than hiring the necessary staff to carefully moderate content, they decided to loose a poorly programmed bot that literally deleted perfectly SFW blogs with thousands of followers, and rather than properly handling moderation, they decided that it was best to simply go the lazy route and block anything even remotely NSFW. They run this site in the worst way possible, and I don’t understand how @support or @staff or their completely oblivious “CEO” plans to keep this sinking ship alive.

[zuppaiaia]

THIIIIIIIIS ONE THOUSAND TIMES THIS

[lucrezianoin]

This is what’s going to happen with copyright pictures and content when article 13 passes in the EU

[bellamynochillblake]

we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we? 

[im-reddie]

LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!

[bellamynochillblake]

oh you sweet summer child 

[copperbadge]

Tumblr "Find Me" Directory

A place to enter your social media info and find others.

A directory of social media handles so people can find you on other sites. Once you fill out the form (none of the questions are required so in theory you can just hit “submit” without answering anything, but you can also just View Here) you will be able to access, but not edit, a spreadsheet of everyone’s handles across their social media. 

As the disclaimer banner says, EVERYTHING you enter into this form is made public so you know, be careful. If you don’t want two of your handles linked…don’t put ‘em both in there. 

I can’t think of a genuine reason this would be a bad idea but it’s a lot of data about people and their personal names that’s easily scrapeable so you know, if you can argue that this is a really bad idea for X reason, I’m willing to listen and delete as necessary. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

Well this wasn’t how I wanted to spend my Monday.

I’ll still be posting here but I don’t know how long this site is going to last tbh, and I’d still like to be able to contact all the friends I’ve made here.

[unicornempire]

I’ll be doing this today =/ wop-wop.

[woodsmokeandwords]

An open letter to Tumblr

I’m really annoyed about this. Like, I know a lot of people like to drag this site and make it the butt of jokes but I have more or less nothing but good memories associated with it. It was the first, and remains the only, place I have found where I could connect with fandom on such a passionate and enthusiastic level, regardless of which fandom it was. It helped me discover and explore my sexuality (both in terms of my identity and what I like in bed), I’ve learned interesting and amazing facts, I’ve found wonderful people and stories, simply by scrolling through my dash. I’d be poorer had I never made an account. And now it’s truly dying at last. In fact it’s become the architect of its own demise. And the sad fact is, they could have prevented this… They’re overreacting now to save face in light of truly, truly awful content finally being noticed on this site by the rest of the world. Content they could have eradicated long, long ago. If they’d done that, we wouldn’t be in this mess. If they’d removed the blogs belonging to leading members of the KKK, the child porn, the neo-nazi rhetoric, the inevitably innumerable other god awful things that festered in the underbelly of Tumblr for years, they wouldn’t now be planning to delete fanart, photography, video and removing an avenue for many sex workers to safely pursue their livelihood. They wouldn’t be creating a culture of shame around adult content. Apparently erotica is still allowed, but we all know it’s only a matter of time… It’s upsetting because they’re blaming their users for being ‘dirty’ and creating and consuming this content when they should be a) blaming the sick fucks posting illegal, exploitative adult content and b) themselves for not dealing with it before people noticed. This is on THEM. This is on Tumblr. They sat back and let this problem grow until the only acceptable action in the eyes of the world outside of the internet would be to remove everything, in some puritanical bid for redemption. And whilst we’re talking about this, why the fuck are ‘female-presenting nipples’ considered adult content. It’s nearly 2019 can we stop shaming women and afab folks for having nipples please??? Breasts are literally just for feeding our young. A nipple is a fucking nipple, for Christ’s sake! And now we’re facing a purge of, let’s face it, everything. Their system isn’t advanced enough to differentiate between true “adult content” and artistic nudity. Or in fact a gif of a kitten being given a stuffed toy cat, for example. This is the first time I’ve personally faced a purge since I was too young to experience the livejournal and FF.net purges firsthand but the friendships, artwork, self expression and writing that will be lost are things I’m already mourning.

[marceline2174]

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had

[scuteagenda]

I feel so far removed from how pink this is I almost dont wanna post it, asdasdas but alas

Also what are they saying, you decide

[omaano]

Picking up an old little sketch and reworking it as a “warm up” (that got waaaay too away from me) for my Day and Night AU that I love to bits (just look at those cute little sunflowers on Jesse’s hat, I’m real happy with those!) but never really had the chance to show :) 

Also that hat is totally glowing. Just saying :P

On another note - thanks Blizzard for McCree’s lips in the Reunion short *w*

[fuckyeahyoga]

[art-is-art-is-art]

Two Women, Joseph Christian Leyendecker

[thevintagethimble]

Coat, 1900–1909, Albanian Medium: silk, cotton & metal. | THE MET

[noovember]

My entire life I thought I wanted a relationship - the typical romantic one with dating, then marriage, then kids. When deep down, what I really wanted was to be close to someone that I knew genuinely cared about me, without obligation.

I thought the only way I could be close to someone like that was through a romantic relationship. But, believe me, unconditional, true, love reaches us in ways that are not romantic too.

The media will have you believe that the only way you will be able to find love like that is to be romantically involved with someone. This is not the case.

Don’t subscribe to any idea of what a friend should be and what a partner should be. Cherish those deep, unique, platonic connections! Love is love, and it is important, no matter what kind

[t--m--t]

Merry X'mas (✺⁰Ҁ⁰✺)

[halfdeadsketches]

-thumbsup-

[disasterjones]

it’s called supporting your partner Sam, gosh

bonus:

[black-cherry28]

My mind is like an internet browser. 17 tabs are open, 4 of them are frozen and I don’t know where the music is coming from.