Emerald's Isle

“God left me unfinished.” - Papa Franku’s miscellaneous friend, circa 2016 (methinks). Fandoms I’m In: Fire Emblem, Fate, Terraria, Pokemon Sexuality: Triangles (Bisexual) Pronouns: Helicopter/Helicoptself (She/Her) Current Husbando: Gilgamesh (Fate) Any questions for me should be posted to my asks.

[fullhalalalchemist]

 Lobbyists are pushing a bill that would be super bad for copyright. Think SOPA and Article 13 + 11 meshed together. Like THAT bad.

It’s called H.R. 1695/S.1010, and what it would do is allow the president to appoint who will be the next Register of Copyrights. Right now that office is under the control of the Library of Congress. It’s a non-political position. But Hollywood has been lobbying hard to get this into a political position.

Whoever Trump picks is obviously going to be someone who bows to the whims of Hollywood and pushes for things like website blocking, upload filters, etc. It’s bad. It’s like BAD bad.

Anyway, it’s heading into a Senate committee meeting on December 12. I’m not going to lie, it looks dire. BUT it hasn’t passed the committee yet so it’s not headed to the Senate yet so I mean idk, let’s TRY to at least get them to not pass this law?

Dial 1-916-823-9612 and enter your zip code to call your Senators and ask they stop this legislation before a crucial committee vote.

[muslim-daily]

China is putting Uyghur Muslims into Concentration Camps

This is one of the greatest attrocities and oppression taking place in the world today yet still it is one of the least talked about issues. It’s estimated possibly over 2 million Uyghur Muslims have been put into these concentration camps which China calls “re-edcuation camps” and the goals is to wipe out and clean them from their cultural and religious identity. They have built dozens of these camps with fortified walls and barbed wire fences which they hide from the world media.

China sees Islam as an ‘ideological disease’. Many of the people put in these camps don’t make it out alive due to to the harsh living conditions inside. Many leave behind children who are then sent to government run orphanages and are brainwashed from a young age removing their cultural and religious identity.

Uyghur Muslims can be arrested and put in these camps for the smallest of reasons and every step they take is monitored by the authorities. Facial recognition cameras and high tech equipment has been deployed in East Turkestan turning it into a complete surveillance state. This isn’t fantasy or ‘fake news’. This is happening now in East Turkestan. Don’t let history repeat itself. Share and let the world know the truth.

[the-real-seebs]

So tumblr has an “export” feature these days. Main menu [little person icon] -> Settings -> click on blog -> “Export” button near bottom of page.

It takes a surprisingly long time for blogs with a few hundred posts.

Anyone seen it complete, at all, ever, for a blog with significantly more posts? Say, >40k?

[aflyingcontradiction]

I tried it twice, it took an entire afternoon (I have less than 20k posts on here) and in the end the zip file was broken both times and didn’t unzip. I’d suggest the Python option https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/blob/master/tumblr_backup_for_beginners.md

It was insanely fast in comparison and worked as intended.

[the-real-seebs]

interesting. i have done a couple of under-1k-post blogs, they seem okay, my main blog is somewhere well over 4GB, and i would expect it to be broken because zip doesn’t necessarily handle that well.

[xenoqueer]

My blogs with under 2000 posts seem to finish processing in a few hours, and become downloadable. However, around the 2000 post point, even if the blog finishes processing, the download doesn’t actually work. It downloads half or a quarter or some fraction of the zip, and breaks.

I really strongly suggest using the tumblr_backup.py script, from here: https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/blob/master/tumblr_backup_for_beginners.md

[banneramous-deactivated20181215]

I tried the Tumblr export option on Saturday night.

It’s still stuck at “Backup processing” today.

Needless to say, I’m going to backup my tumblr another way

[rifa]

Check your backups! 

I backed up a very important fiction side blog and everything that tumblr’s on-site tool saved was completely useless. 

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

Saving for later.

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

So about the Battlefield V controversy (mess, more like)...

People here are assuming that fans’ decision to reject the game due to it having women replace men is born completely from misogyny and bigotry.

Really, it isn’t so much about that as it is about EA’s abysmal response to the backlash, which basically went along the lines of “if you have any complains, go fuck yourselves”. The geniuses over at this soon-to-be-dead game company decided that no one is allowed to have an opinion but themselves. We can’t forget this lovely screenshot from the release party (held while the game was flopping, BTW):

The point is that EA is intentionally upsetting their customers here. Whether or not you agree with the fanbase’s complaints is up to you, but you can at least admit that EA handled this in basically the worst possible way. They won’t be recovering from this year’s chain of disasters anytime soon.

P.S. They did the exact same “everyone who dislikes the game is a bigot” thing when Dragon Age II and Mass Effect III. AKA, the inclusion of female replacements to male characters might very well be a distraction from the quality of the game imposed by EA.

...For God’s sake, people, just write your own inclusive stories instead of changing preexisting ones.

[staff]

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

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

Tumblr staff are fucking idiots. “Without this content, people will feel more comfortable expressing themselves.” Seriously? We all know this policy change is a cop-out to avoid dealing with the actual problems of child porn and bots. And by the way: preventing discussions about sexuality is going to STIFLE creativity, rather than make it easier to express.

And if you’re trying to make this site a massive safe space, you’re going to fail beautifully. You can’t prevent kids from getting on the Internet as a whole. They’ll just flock to other sites that do allow adult content. This policy change is utterly ignorant of the psychology of people these days.

Maybe, to prevent child exploitation, you should... I don’t know... have your team actually make an effort to keep child abusers off the platform? Like... IDK... having gotten rid of the self-proclaimed MAPs and their tags earlier? That would’ve helped. Or using your so-called state of the art tech to screen SPECIFICALLY FOR CHILD PORN AND BOT SPAM.

The admins of this cancerous site have no comprehension of how to actually address this issue. Please, Tumblr... get a new team, or I’m leaving. Permanently.

[4gamers]

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/pOlpW5v

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

@ my classmate who insists on defending this game: Fallout 76 is incompetently programmed.

[zeldathewandofgamelon]

Visit Original Link

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (OST) ~ End of Despair (Fire Emblem: Geneology of the Holy War) New Remix

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

Wait... wut?! An FE4 remix in Ultimate?!?! REMAKE WHEN, NINTENDO

[dovekie3-deactivated20190501]

best things about minecraft

making a cute little farm

taming dogs/cats

the feeling of excitement when u find a village/temple/shipwreck/etc.

wandering around n finding cool areas

worst things about minecraft:

baby zombies

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

BABY ZOMBIES ARE FUCKING CANCER

[nephenees-lance]

When Three Houses comes out, I hope we can still customize our avatar. I don’t like his default hair style. The outfit can stay, it’s the best looking one out of literally everyone else I saw in the trailer.

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

>Implying that Three Houses will ever come out

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

I think I am still holding to my wildly controversial Trump hot take that he really doesn’t have an ideology, he just stumbled into fascism and doesn’t even know what that means. 

Like I think he is absolutely a racist, as racist as you would expect a rich 70 year old white American who watches Fox News to be (so extremely), and when he decided to run for President he just shot the shit like any old racist asshole would, and then suddenly he was surrounded by actual outright fascists like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon who loved it because he was openly racist and not “politically correct.”

So then he thought “hey, these guys like it when I’m a jackass authoritarian. I should be a jackass authoritarian more,” and that was the end of it.

Even his comments after Charlottesville, I think his thought process was more like “well, I know that SOME of the people on the Nazi side support me, and people who support me are incapable of badness, so some of the people on the Nazi side must be good,” and not anything more thought out or ideological than that.

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

Honestly, I can agree with this. Trump is the sort we like to refer to as an idiot narcissist. Whatever’s necessary to stroke his ego, he’ll do it, no matter the ramifications. It’s pathetic.

[snythpop]

waking up.wmv

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

Kill me.

[rayinberkeley]

These exchanges between a bigot named Brendan Sullivan, and a heroic troll named Robert Graves, will be the best thing you read all day, I promise.

[officialprydonchapter-deactivat]

ROBERT GRAVES IS BACK ON MY DASH

[sinick]

robert graves: 5/7 pwnage

[chocomoola-deactivated20210427]

@lime-time @taxidermycactus

[fortunatewriter]

Robert Graves is a fucking legend

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

When millennials are too young to know that Robert Graves and Brendan Sullivan are the same person and Graves just did this for the lulz.

[owtytrihtneves]

[carryoncrowsblog-deactivated202]

The more I learn about Satanism, the less horrendous it seems. Not even kidding.

[ruingazaki-deactivated20171122]

That’s cause non-theistic Satanism is more about worshipping yourself and sorta treating others how you want to be treated etc

[eternalblumenkraft]

hail satan

[halogenuine-deactivated20150201]

satanism is actually really solid like the Fifth Satanic Rule of the Earth says not to make sexual advances unless you are given consent 

[phantomsqueaker-archives-blog]

satan seems like a pretty nice guy

[pugnaciousjester]

This week on “I didn’t know I was a Satanist”

[lekswinterisdyslexic]

Wait till you hear the Nine Satanic Sins

1. Stupidity

2. Pretentiousness

3. Solipsism

4. Self-deceit

5. Herd conformity

6. Lack of perspective

7. Forgetfulness of past orthodoxies

8. Counterproductive pride

9. Lack of aesthetics

That’s right. If you ain’t got no style, you be sinning.

[thepotentialtobe-yours-deactiva]

*converts to Satanism*

[hewwobrine-deactivated20180515]

it mentioned a rule above, but i havent seen the rest of the satanic rules posted here, so…

1: Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked

2: Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them

3: When in another’s home, show them respect or else do not go there

4: If a guest in your home annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy

5: Do not make sexual advantages unless you are given the mating signal

6: Do not take which does not belong to you, unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved

7: Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it to successfully obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will loose all you have obtained.

8: Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.

9: Do not harm young children.

10: Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.

11: When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them.

[mistresserycinae]

Today in ‘Shit, lets be Satan.’

[1w1wbigher06fan]

I’m a catholic christian but this made more sense than some of the stuff in the bible does!

[imaginetheavengers]

I don’t usually post things like this on my blog but I thought it’d be important for people to know that:

Satanists DO NOT worship Satan. “Satan” is the latin root for “the one whom opposes”. The name was purposlly chosen to piss off Christians. Satanists are opposed to everything religious, which means that they do not believe in God, therefore, they do not believe in Satan either. The misconceptions of Satanism come from the movies where you see people sacrificing goats and all that stuff, but it is not true. I have read the Satanic Bible. I can assure you that they do not believe in anything religious.

[ficcyshit]

Throwing this back up here because I’m thinking about leading with it at the family reunion.

[the-vampire-inside-me-deactivat]

wow it’s kinda like perking your head outside a window they always told you would be dangerous, and instead… you find only another view, interesting

[gwinrivers]

So it looks like I’m a Christowitch employing shit tons of Satanism… aight well this is something to think about, damn 😳

[anobodythatsall]

so in essence

satanism as a religion is irony itself

[atomheart-brother-deactivated20]

Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.

[someofmybestfriendsarewhite]

The idea that film piracy “costs” anyone anything is fallacious, because it assumes that for every film you download, you would definitely have paid for it otherwise. Which just isn’t true. In most cases, you just wouldn’t have seen it.

Like if I download some film from 1974 that sounds cool, they’re assuming that I would have bought the DVD. But I wouldn’t have bought the DVD, I just wouldn’t have seen it.

And what about when you download foreign films that haven’t even been officially released in your country, how much does that “cost” the economy?

[taiyoutohoshi]

As a film student (and soon-to-be film graduate), I can confirm this.

[haiku-robot]

as a film student (and soon-to-be film graduate) i can confirm this

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[urbanlegendarium]

The thing is that the lengths media companies go through to combat piracy likely costs them more than if they just let piracy happen. Look at Nintendo, they’ve been trying to combat emulators for years because it allows people to play their old games for free. But they don’t fill the demand for retro games to its fullest potential. Their efforts as yet to fill that demand have been to add virtual console games on their systems at exorbitant prices and releasing glorified plug and play systems with engineered scarcity. They don’t realize that if they made these games affordable and accessible they could make much more money and save themselves the time they’d be spending shutting down emulator sites.

The solution to piracy that most companies don’t want recognize is to play by the pirate’s rules. Spotify and to a lesser extent Crunchyroll have already figured this out. Instead of fighting piracy, companies need to change the way media is distributed. Spotify has literally changed the music industry in such a fundamental way that people don’t even think about music piracy anymore. Why pirate songs when you can download Spotify and listen to all the songs for free with a few ads?

The film industry needs to understand this. Old films become scarce and people can’t afford to go to the movies all the time so the best solution is streaming. But sites like Netflix and Hulu don’t have as many movies as they should and the ones they do have are subject to removal, that needs to change. How am I supposed to watch all of the Mad Max series if it’s not on any streaming sites? Well I’ll just pirate it of course. Can’t find that Studio Ghibli film you like, pirate it. The film industry can’t fight it, piracy sites will always come back, but what they can do is engineer a entertainment industry that’s more accessible so that people don’t resort to piracy.

People don’t do piracy for piracy’s sake. I don’t watch shitty copies of movies at the risk of my computer getting a virus for kicks. Piracy exists because there are people who want to watch movies and the only people willing to help are bootleggers.

[flipzmclego]

#on at least 2 occasions I pirated a CD that I already owned because I forgot which storage box I left it in and was too lazy to find it

This is the most relatable feeling.

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

This is honestly completely true. People don’t pirate things for no reason. The fact that companies like Nintendo still haven’t realized this is a testament to corporate ignorance of the desires of their customers.

[ukulelekatie]

Me trying to figure out what my mutuals are vaguing about when they write entire sentences made of asterisks

[wern]

yall: i cant wait for him to **** * ***** *** ******* **** ** ** *****

me: can i buy a vowel

[nordrike]

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

This is legitimately beginning to impress me.

[god-quit-deactivated20200422]

I am one voice out of the millions but

as you may know by now, i live in Europe, many of my online friends, do not. what brought us together was, the internet.

a mere love for say Yuri on Ice, memes, youtubers.

in the recent months, the internet has been under attack, free speech and fair use are being silenced.

think about this: you’re just watching a music video from your favorite idol, whether it be Taylor Swift or Queen, you really enjoy that content

as you go to the next video it says “error, this video is not available in your country” you think ‘okay, whatever’ and move on to the next one, same message, you skip to the next one again, same message again.

then you realize, all content by Taylor Swift has been blocked by Youtube. all content by Cardi B has been blocked by Youtube.

Article 13 threatens to block songs like despacito, DESPACITO, a song that gained over 90b views, over a directive.

this is not a joke anymore. this is not a “meme ban law”, this will affect the UK, this will affect your favorite non European creators, this will affect you.

European content creators will not be able to make content anymore. not without licenses for every single thing they show, do and put as background music.

this threatens to kill creativity and the internet as we know it.

our future, is in jeopardy if this gets passed. without Europe, net neutrality would’ve already been non existent.

the internet needs to be saved.

not just for us, but for our future. the future of the world. the internet brought us together as a world and we’ve shown it many times before how strong it can be.

we have to show that strength again.

we have lost a crucial battle back in September, but we have not lost the war. we have to keep fighting and to push our belief. to push the internet further. to grow as a community, as a society.

what Europe wants to do is protect copyright, which is needed yes, but not in this extreme, it’s like when you were in elementary school and this one kid ruined a field trip for everyone.

we cannot let them take away our internet. fight for your right to free speech, fight for your right to have fair use.

fight for your internet

if a company like YouTube, a google owned company that literally owns all your data and probably sold it making millions off of it, is NOT able to afford a directive like Article 13.

please, i beg you, to share this with your friends, your family, to tweet your MEP’s, to email them, to call them, to remind your European friends to do that.

we are strong.

we are a unity.

we are a community.

we are the internet.

we have put our strengths together to save the Internet.

thank you for listening. don’t give up. stay strong.

@ace-pervert @someoneintheshadow456 @nunyabizni @hijerking

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

Yeah. Try to fight corporations with trillions under their belts and the EU wound around their ring fingers. That’ll work.

[eridansheeran-moved-deactivated]

the whole “fiction doesn’t affect reality” argument is actually kinda racist…

[eridansheeran-moved-deactivated]

people talk about like how finding nemo and jaws are great examples but nobody ever talks about how fiction has shaped our perceptions of different racial and ethnic groups like do you think the media has no hand in why alot of ignorant white people think africa is a desertland and not a continent of different countries, full of rich and diverse cultures, beautiful buildings and riches? or why they think asia is only japan, korea and china? when asia is also india, bhutan, the Philippines, nepal, etc? do you think that media and fiction hasnt allowed whites to view black people as ignorant and lazy thru cartoons and minstrel shows? like if you really think what youre seeing on tv doesnt affect reality and how people think then like. you must be fuckin stupid.

[mrsgojosatoru]

there are several studies which prove this by the way. like how black children (and white girls) self esteem is negatively impacted by media.  

studies show our perception about asian americans, and their perceptions of themselves are impacted by media.

there are harmful psychological effects on native americans thanks to sports mascots. 

stereotypes of latino/latina/latines in media have - you guessed it - harmful effects - including political ones 

how about how inaccurate race and poverty images in the news effect our views on welfare?

positive images of disability effect disabled people positively, where as negative images effect them negatively 

the availability of GLB roles on TV positively impacts the gay community

and i honestly i could go on and on and on and on 

i know i know water is wet, all these studies to tell you what common sense could. but like … there is very real research out there that shows fiction has a very real harmful impact on minority communities. and that positive representation has a positive effect on these communities. 

so no. fiction is never just fiction. and frankly people who think fiction is just fiction can fuck off.  

[realstreakofemerald-blog]

That’s it. Tumblr’s arguing that the media is evil. Exactly what conservatives do. We really have come full circle.

And don’t give me that “But it’s for a good cause that we’re policing the media!” crap. Every time you call something problematic and demand that no one like it because of that, a year is shaved off my life. Because after scapegoating and vilification comes censorship. And after censorship comes a loss of our democracy, which is... guess what... exactly what we’ve been trying to avoid all along.

Yes, I understand your point on how negative representation of minorities in the media can be harmful to them. But for fuck’s sake, people can critically think. Children don’t absorb EVERYTHING they’re told and incorporate it into their ideologies. And just one insensitive remark from Stan Lee, lack of skin tone variety in a video game or half-naked loli is going to change that.

And as soon as you claim that people really are so stupid as to believe everything they’re told and advocate for censorship, you’re supporting the same totalitarian ideologies that led to the rise of the Nazis and the Soviet Union. Honestly, maybe YOU’RE the ones that need to do some critical thinking, no?