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Call me Noah. I'm 29 / bi / trans guy / This is my main blog. You can catch my art at @Le-Wendigogo! This is a safe space for LGBT+ and that includes ace/aro, nb, and gender nonconforming trans folk. Racists, TERFs, Truscum/transmeds, and other exclusionists not welcome

[ithelpstodream]

[honedperfection]

December 17th - a rescue plan

Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.

I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)

One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.

More info over the days to come.

The plan is, broadly:

1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there

2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.

3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.

4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.

Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.

There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.

The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons - maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.

If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.

Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.

(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site - that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)

If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.

If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.

(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)

If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.

Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.

[coachcanbeverypersuasive-deacti]

Pass it on fellas!

[torontopup]

Just boosting the signal.

[sunflowerseedsandscience]

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

[le-wendigogo]

“Summer Closing”

My patreon illustration for the month of November! Starring my trans OC, Adam, sharing a memory of the closing days of summer.

If you’d like to check out my patreon, all links are in my description!

[le-wendigogo]

Here’s the speedpaint!

[porterr-robinson]

[noahactually]

I wish this was legit

[usersukuna]

[antoine-roquentin]

answered your own fucking question there, marc, didn’t you

[sungodsinexile]

I absolutely think we should waterboard Brett Kavanaugh to find out if he’s lying

[girls-can-get-married]

[butchstudsubmit]

omg

[basketballamerican-deactivated2]

[smitethestate]

If there’s anything worth living for, it’s kittens trying to imitate their moms.

[gamergate-news]

Bethesda To Face A Class Action Lawsuit For Not Fulfilling Fallout 76 Refunds

Investigations have begun.

The moment we saw the cardboard disk in the “physical copies” should’ve been a red flag

[lesbian-toddhoward]

GAME COMPANIES HAVE NOT USED ACTUAL DVD’S TO SELL GAMES IN A LONG TIME

The cardboard disk has a game code that you link the game to with your account. It’s a rare occasion that a game company has actual dvds, and even when they do, it just installs a downloader that gets the game from the company’s cloud that links it to an ACCOUNT FOR THE COMPANY because it cuts down on piracy. You don’t recieve the actual raw files.

And Bethesda has the fine print saying that you CANNOT refund the pre-order bundle, and you can only refund it if something is terribly broken or wasn’t in the bundle that was advertised.

Y'all really are fucking neanderthals.

[crimsonveins-deactivated2019010]

If you read the article though you would notice that that isn’t the the reason why they’re getting a class action lawsuit filed against them. PC users are being lied to and told they can get a refund only to then get emailed a day later basically saying “Whoops, not happening.” Stop sucking Bethesda’s ass so hard. I enjoy Fallout as much as the next person but a lot of the shit they’re doing is shitty and unfair. People are paying good money for this crap. They’re allowed to complain.

[senpai-noticed-you-and-he]

I guess I mean they wouldn’t want you to have the raw files for a reason

[senpai-noticed-you-and-he]

Also wanted to add this because the “not has advertised” has already happened @alientoddhoward

[noahactually]

I jumped off the Bethesda boat a long while back. Todd will not be getting anymore of my money

[thisisbrancher]

I just want to say at that some point Venom and Eddie spend a solid afternoon just having Venom manifest as terrible facial hair – Venom soul patch, Venom handlebar mustache, Venom muttonchops – and taking selfies and sending them to Annie/Dan and laughing way too hard

[waystoraise-blog]

Writing Trans: Love

Considering the week, and our ongoing Share the Love event I thought I’d write a few things to remember about writing trans and nonbinary characters in love and in relationships. It’s something of a second parter to one of my first Common Pitfalls articles, Relationships.

Especially around Valentine’s Day, it’s important to remember that not all love and not all relationships involve romantic or sexual love. And that those that do are not superior, or somehow better, than those that don’t. Asexual and aromantic trans and nonbinary people of all kinds exist. 

Along that note, trans and nonbinary people of all romantic and sexual orientations exist. A character’s gender and sexuality do not dictate or invalidate each other.

Remember that when a cisgender person or people are in a relationship with trans and nonbinary individuals, they hold an increased ability to do harm to their partner simply by nature of them being trans and nonbinary. This can effect the way relationships work, especially with cis partners that somehow think they’re exempt from being transphobic because they’re dating someone who is trans or nonbinary.

Not all relationships are healthy, it’s okay to write a trans or nonbinary character in an unhealthy relationship. Just make sure that not all your trans and nonbinary characters are in unhealthy relationships, and that you don’t portray the relationship as if it were healthy. Which happens so much overall.

In essence, remember that your trans and nonbinary characters are people and respect them both in and out of relationships. Their relationships, the way they love and express that love, is going to be varied and unique.  It shouldn’t be their only defining characteristic, but it is also okay if it is an important facet of their life. As always it’s a good guideline to have many (or at least several) trans and/or nonbinary characters so you can show many different angles and do not have the pressure of any one piece of your narrative being used to represent trans and nonbinary characters or people as a whole.

Please feel free to send us your favorite trans authors, a little bit about your favorite trans characters, or any questions or topics you’d like to see me address, too. For some of our new followers, you can find past Writing Trans articles here in the tag.

-Chris

[deeplylearning]

I just learned that some websites use cookies to adjust prices. That is, if you visit a certain website a lot the price will increase.

You can tell if that’s the case by checking the same web page on a different browser if you have a different number of stored cookies for that site. I checked something on Chegg and it was $14.95 on Chrome, $19.95 on Firefox, and $16.95 on Safari.

The fix? Clear your cookies for that website.

Reblog, save a wallet.

[justaquickquestion]

Plane tickets almost always do this!

[lmaodies]

PLANE TICKETS DO THIS ALL THE DAMN TIME 

When you’re looking for plane tickets and waiting for prices to drop, ALWAYS clear your cookies beforehand and switch between browsers. A friend of mine was looking for a flight and getting prices that were the CHEAPEST at $800-1000, I sent her a link for a round trip that was like $495, and it read as $900 on her computer because she had been hounding the airline site. 

[mugglesofficial]

alternatively: avoid all this headache by using incognito when shopping for plane tickets, text books, etc

[captocie]

Hotel rooms are notorious for this, as well. Just like, go on incognito mode to look at these sites, saves u a lot of time & hassle.

[gunzonyatmblr]

Bruh I ain’t never know dis thank you man

[noahactually]

Old wrestling art from my days in the WWE fandom are emerging in my activity feed and idk how I feel about this dhdhdj

[transbisexuals]

trans ppl….it’s okay if you dont want to look cis!! if that’s not your goal, it doesn’t have to be. youre allowed to love your trans body

[morbid-an-pale]

I honeslty don’t think I want to go on T or get surgeries, and it makes me so insecure as a trans person..because yeah im dysphoric, but I don’t want to transition for multiple reasons..

[trans-n-enby-stuff]

Hey! That’s not something you should ever feel bad about, friend. Your body is yours, and you don’t need to use it to prove yourself to anybody. There are plenty of trans people who don’t want to go on hormones or have surgeries for a variety of reasons, and they aren’t any less trans than people who want every surgery.

~ Chris

[gardeniapride]

trans flag [x, x, x] [x, x, x] [x, x, x]

[trans-n-enby-stuff]

Trans people are often expected to see cis-ness as the ideal. We’re told that we should want to look as cis as possible.

It’s okay if that’s not your goal. Cis-ness isn’t inherently better, and wanting to look as cis as possible doesn’t make you more (or less) trans than other trans people.

[noahactually]

Agreed. I want to someday get hrt and go stealth, but there are legit reasons not to pursue that as well. Social pressures and dysphoria make it hard to think there is any other way to live as a trans person. However, we know who we are and looking cis isn't what makes it a reality. On top of alleviating dysphoria, it just helps to integrate more into cis society.