Dragon Art and Game Design Crap

This is where everything regarding my progress in learning to draw better, and in learning to design and program games will go, and 99% of it will be either about Spyro and Cynder, or just dragons in general. Feel free to ask for any of my thoughts on anything. I’ll answer literally any question that I know anything about, and I may research those that I don’t.

[kiss-my-piss]

Resources for Male Victims of Abuse

How to Recognize Abuse

**Emotional Abuse of Men

**Sexual Assault of Men and Boys

**Men Can Be Victims of Abuse, Too

**Domestic Violence Against Men - Know the Signs

**Information for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

**Help for Battered Men

**Battered Men, Battered Husbands

**For Male Survivors of Rape and Sexual Abuse

**Male Survivors of Incest and Sexual Child Abuse

**Help for Men Who Are Being Abused

Help Lines (Phone and Text Chat)

National Domestic Violence Hotline: [phone] (or 1-800-787-3224 for TTY)

National Dating Abuse Hotline: [phone]

National Sexual Assault Hotline: [phone]

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: [phone]

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men: 1-888-743-5754 (US and Canada)

Hopeline Suicide Prevention Hotline: [phone]

National Hotline for Victims of Crimes: 1-855-484-2846

National Human Trafficking Hotline: [phone]

Polaris Human Trafficking Text Line: Text “BEFREE” to 233733

**1in6/RAINN Chat for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Support Groups

**1in6 Support Groups

Male Survivor Support Groups

Pandora’s Aquarium - Chat (includes chats specifically for men)

Pandora’s Aquarium - Forums (includes forums specifically for men)

How to Find a Shelter

Domestic Shelters Search (shelter locator with filters to find shelters specifically for male survivors)

SAFE (located in Austin, TX, but states they can help people find resources/shelters in their area)

How to Find a Therapist

**Male Survivor Therapist Directory

Mental Health Services Locator

Resources for and About the Abuse of Kids/Teens

Love is Respect Hotline: [phone] (Hotline for teens)

Darkness to Light Helpline (Sexual Abuse): 1-866-367-5444

Darkness to Light Text Line: Text “LIGHT” to 741741

ChildHelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline: [phone]

Children of the Night Hotline (Children in Prostitution): 1-800-551-1300

National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929

Covenant House Nineline (Homeless Youth): 1-800-999-9999

Stop it Now Hotline: [phone] (for adults concerned about the welfare of a child)

Jennifer Ann’s Group (for teens experiencing dating violence)

Other Resource Lists 

(While I tried to include the most helpful resources I could here (i.e., resources that lend themselves to one-on-one communication, individual reading, etc.), there are plenty of other great resources, including regional resources, listed in these links. Some of the resources are specific to men and others aren’t, but they are all helpful for male survivors.)

**Male Survivor (regional, international, and online resources)

**Husband Battering: Men and Domestic Violence

**Help for Battered Men: Online Resources

**Help for Battered Men: National and International Resources

**Help for Guys: Help for Victims (some resources for men, many general resources)

[mogai-watch]

This is so important. 

[everywitchway-deactivated201905]

SLAMS that reblog

[ireneadlercatwoman]

This is amazing @sexuallymonsterous you are a good person for putting this list together. 

[gholateg]

all the reblogs.

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

My blog has been practically inactive for a while, and somehow it doubled its follower count.

Life is funny sometimes.

Thank you all and have a wonderful day; I shall return to my projects (and maybe start a side one that I could actively use to keep this blog active)

[silverus-kvassus]

Мне больно смотреть на Спайро/Элора Мне приятно смотреть на Спайро/Синдер —————————————————————————————————- I don’t like Spylora. I don’t. Like it. I like Spynder :DDDD

[railroadsoftware]

did anyone actually ever read those animorph books

[sonypraystation]

just stared at the covers for a concerningly long amount of time before putting it back where i found it

[railroadsoftware]

me too

[the-emileighain-mountains]

Same

[bogleech]

Here are some of the spoilers you missed out on by not reading Animorphs:

Five children are forced to engage in guerilla warfare, espionage and repeated murder to protect their loved ones from alien parasites as they wait for the other, heroic aliens to finally arrive. When they do, the “good” aliens turn out to not give a shit about humans, caused the whole intergalactic war through their own shittiness and are willing to exterminate whole planets themselves to get at their hated enemies.

A child repeatedly experiences his intestines hanging out of his body while in various animal forms

A child is mentally tortured until broken and never gets better

A child in the form of a fly experiences getting splattered and smeared against a ceiling until his friends who are also flies at the time can peel his body off and take him somewhere he can transform back into a whole human before his insect mind fades completely

A child is shrunken and experiences having her eyeballs digested out of her head inside her friend’s stomach while she’s in the form of a tiny elephant

The heroes are forced to permanently imprison another child in the body of a rat because he knows too much and they abandon him on a tiny island with only other rats and garbage for company. Rumors circulate that the island is haunted but it’s actually his psychic screams reaching distant boaters.

A race of devastatingly powerful, violent aliens turn out to be mental toddlers who don’t know what they’re doing and are just bred to think they’re playing one big game before they’re killed at age three so they don’t learn the truth

An alien spends a few centuries hanging from the parasitic tentacle of a much bigger alien, surrounded by millions of rotting corpses attached to its other moon-spanning tendrils. They engage in mental warfare until one finally absorbs the other completely.

It turns out another seemingly “evil” alien race is simply driven to kill and eat everything in sight because it was separated from its original world where food was continuous and the entire specie’s life is the torture of perpetual starvation

A peaceful robot willingly removes its inhibition against violence to help in the war, only to slaughter a huge number of alien-controlled humans so gruesomely that nobody dares think about or speak of it again and it is the only thing left undescribed in a book series that already describes entrails getting torn out and skulls getting smashed

A child stays too long in the form of a flea and instead of turning back into a human, accidentally turns momentarily into one big, giant flea that can only writhe and moan because it shouldn’t exist and can’t live at that scale.

The kids discover Atlantis, then discover that Atlanteans are inbred mutants who paralyze any humans they find, dissect them alive to figure out how their organs work, then stuff the corpses as kitschy museum displays for their children.

An ordinary ant gets transformed into a human child. It has no idea what’s happening and is so overwhelmed by its huge new brain and sensory input that it can only scream until it dies

[loveinthemindpalace]

What. The. Fuck

[pristinely-ungifted]

From someone who recently read/finished this series, NONE OF THE ABOVE IS AN EXAGGERATION.

[zizygy]

Also you can get all the PDFs here

[bogleech]

Everybody read some animorphs you know you wanna it’s right there

Go ahead and start on book one you’ll already get some juicy terror

[bengesko]

It also raised some SERIOUS questions on what is really right and wrong.

The main enemies are parasites who are helpless and blind in their natural forms, just slugs, really.

A child- barely a teenager- is faced with the question of “Do I kill THOUSANDS of helpless blind sentient creatures and reduce myself to a murderer, because they’re just doing what’s in their nature and they can’t fight back like this, or do I leave them and let them infest fellow sentient creatures where they take away ALL autonomy and all the host can do is SCREAM in a corner of their brain at their captor?”

They’re children’s books, but honestly, they’re not for children. If my parents knew how DARK those books got, they would have burned them. 

Not to mention it really goes into what being a child in war does to one’s mind, and it touches on PTSD REALLY well. Also great touches about racism where a black girl literally turns into a polar bear and says “Like me better now that I’m white?” to some racist white dudes. 

Also for once, the black girl is NOT the warrior queen, she’s the soft, emotional, bleeding heart and the blonde white girl is the stomping, warrior babe. The Hispanic dude is the smartest one, but covers his brains with humour- and covering up his pain bc his mom is the host for the most powerful Yeerk Visser and he has to DEAL WITH THAT bc he thought his mom DIED. The two white dudes are on opposite ends- one is your token white dude that isn’t a jerk but his brother is a host, too, and he lives in a mental warzone trying not to get caught, the other is an orphan, abused and bullied and ends up STUCK as a hawk and ends up being alienated and has a mental breakdown bc he has to start living like a hawk. They’re a GREAT mashup of kids that don’t follow most stereotypes. 

Seriously, read them. They go some deep places.

[tabbythekouhai-deactivated20201]

Sounds hella fucked up. Maybe when my mental health stabilises and I grow more mentally mature.

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

I remember this series, and sadly it isn’t the only series where children are forced to fight wars. Most series just tend to hide the trauma under some trapdoors somewhere.

Examples:

1. Final Fantasy II: we watch the characters undergo trauma and force their own needs aside, and then proceed to ignore their trauma (They begin as Teenagers)

2. Legend of Spyro Trilogy: we watch the two main protagonists undergo mental strife and abandonment, along with have to bear responsibilities for genocides and crimes that they had no real choice in the matter of. While being given roles and responsibilities that they never asked for.

Which is why both Spyro and Cynder begin to express both signs of depression along with an occasional suicidal tendency or two at specific times. Of course most of those facts aren’t held in the spotlight for long, and are quickly covered by either their submission to playing the roles they were assigned, or their need to retain composure and be strong in order to prevent the loss of more lives. (They are no older than Children)

Children witnessing wars and genocide are events that are extremely dark and damaging; while most stories try to ignore the reprocussions or events entirely.

Animorphs is a beautiful must-read because it heavily dwells in those moments. It is truly unique because (as I pointed out earlier) most stories that have moments like that tend to try and ignore those themes. Please read Animorphs, and feel free to not indulge in the other things I mentioned, cause those come down to personal preference and aren’t must-plays.

[egalitarianyellowfang-blog]

Just your daily reminders:

Racists are a problem

White people are not

Homophobes are a problem

Straight people are not

Transphobes are a problem

Cis people are not

Sexists are a problem

Men are not

And most importantly,

Hating an innocent person solely because of their race, sexuality, or gender makes you a fucking asshole

[scrubdaddydippedinliquidnitrogen]

“Men do not experience sexism”, Oh you are so wrong.

1 - They just get longer prison sentences for the same crimes

2 - They will more than likely lose custody of our children if a separation happens.

3 - They will never be taken seriously if our girlfriends/wives are domestically violent

4 - There are far less mens shelters to abused men.

5 - Male rape is not taken seriously at all.

6 - Male sexual assault victims (to female abusers) never get justice, they only get shame.

7 - They are always portrayed as the “villain” or “bad guy” in any confrontational situation that involves a female.

8 - In Australia we have a campaign for domestic abuse where the male is ALWAYS the abuser. Never the other way around.

9 - Misandry is acceptable in modern society. Where you are demonised as a misogynist if you dont agree with feminism.

10 - Male mental health is not taken as seriously as female mental health.

No offense but you are so ignorant it hurts.

[theexodvs]

“2 - They will more than likely lose custody of our children if a separation happens.”

Due to traditional gender roles.

“3 - They will never be taken seriously if our girlfriends/wives are domestically violent”

OneMV is taken seriously by much of Tumblr when he libels accuses his wife of abusing him.

“4 - There are far less mens shelters to abused men.”

Because they are never full enough to justify the utility bills.

“5 - Male rape is not taken seriously at all.”

Were you living under a rock when Terry Crews spoke publicly about the attacks he supposedly suffered, or when Katy Perry kissing Benjamin glaze was taken way out of proportion and her character was defamed by regular journalists working for major news outlets?

“6 - Male sexual assault victims (to female abusers) never get justice, they only get shame.”

Andrea Ramsey dropped out of the race for Kansas representative once (unsubstantiated) rumors spread that she sexually harassed a man on her campaign team, and will likely be a social pariah for the rest of her life. That’s way more justice than any woman who has worse things done to her by any man in politics has ever gotten.

“7 - They are always portrayed as the “villain” or “bad guy” in any confrontational situation that involves a female.”

In fiction or real life?

“8 - In Australia we have a campaign for domestic abuse where the male is ALWAYS the abuser. Never the other way around.”

Then Australia is definitely an anomaly in this regard.

“9 - Misandry is acceptable in modern society. Where you are demonised as a misogynist if you dont agree with feminism.”

Misandry is never society-wide. No man has ever been rejected for a job in favor of a woman for no other reason than being a man.

“10 - Male mental health is not taken as seriously as female mental health.”

Autism, ADHD, and probably schizophrenia are underdiagnosed in women, probably because women’s mental health isn’t taken all that seriously.

[scrubdaddydippedinliquidnitrogen]

2. And what is feminism doing about it?

3. Being cared about on tumblr is the same as being cared about in the real world, and the fact that most of society sees is as less serious, it is a problem, and tumblr caring about it doesn’t fix that problem.

4. Wow human beings in need aren’t worth utility bills, or a man who tried to start one was pushed into killing himself.

5. Wow, a woman kissing a boy without his permission in a situation where she is powerful and it would be uncomfortable and perhaps thin his chance on the show if he said no, blown way out of proportion. Not like he is a human being that deserves the right to his space. Also one instance of a celebrity being okay while people on this website write about how men cant be raped or abused.

Also in some countries where rape is defined as a male on female only crime.

6. You write about sexual harassment when I wrote about sexual assault…

7. Both

8. It’s a problem thay needs addressing. It’s a developed nation, they must treat everyone equally.

9. Child care field is one where people are more likely to choose females over males just for bias of sex. Likewise, in developed nation men arent going to be chose over women for no other reason than her being a women.

10. Considering the majority of suicides are men I believe we have an issue that needs addressing, not deflecting back to problems elsewhere but understanding that depression in men is deadly and needs to actually be taken more seriously.

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

Actually; funny/sad thing.

If an adult woman rapes an underage boy; she’ll get a warning instead of a conviction because “he got something out of it”

If him potentially being added to the suicide rate of 9 out of every 10 suicides in america being a male; 7 of those 9 men being white; then he probably did get something, just nothing good.

Again; everyone suffers physically, sexually, and mentally, and nobody is to blame outside of our society and culture itself for raising us to be this way. To not listen but retort, not to hear and understand but to blame and title, and not to be open in mind and heart but to close it off to anyone and everyone who doesn’t agree. That doesn’t sound like our world/country/america/africa/etc to me; it only sounds like people blinding themselves to true change towards equality; while shifting earlier beliefs of equality to now slightly corrupted efforts towards entitlement. This is not exclusive to one side, but heavily apparent in the leaders and heavy supporters of both.

Men and feminists aren’t enemies to the public, or equality, or even each other; it is our culture that teaches us that everything has to be in black or white instead of grey. There always has to be some progressive or reactionary side. F@ck that BS, so long as we have labels to throw; which we are creating more of; we will always be creating more targets, and as we create or begin to “modernize” more groups; then we’ll just enable more people to twist OUR problems into personal agendas. OUR largest issue is that we are NOT WILLING to listen to each other and take that information in; while turning it to question what the problem is; which is really HARD TO DO when we are CONSTANTLY ATTACKING EACH OTHER.

Our cultures raise us to be as we are, and they raise us to be blind to certain truths, even in the process of establishing our values. Meaning that almost any inequality or injustice is possible through a flaw in our culture itself, not in the people of that culture.

Think about it this way... A child is born innocent, free from racism, sexism, or any sort of moral crime of that matter. Same as that child’s parents, and those before them. They have to be raised and nurtured to think that way, have to be given those values and purposes by their parents and culture, along with their environment(s). Men are to be taught how to suppress their true emotions and act out in violence instead; they are taught to “Man Up” and take the harder or unjust paths in order to provide for themselves and others, even if it means their absences. They are taught that their manhoods/everything they ever knew are invalid if they cannot do that and be quiet about it; else they become hated and scrutinized by the men, and even women, around them. Look at all of the people who called Chester Bennington weak when he offed himself.

Women have a whole different set of struggles and pains that are groomed into them, but you’ve all had enough of me by now.

Just know; a racist was born innocent, and is not inherently responsible for any racist thoughts or impulses that were groomed into them, that is the fault of their environments, cultures, and families, but mostly the cultures for cultivating such families and environments. Though free from the responsibilities of thought and impulse as they may be, they are directly responsible for any actions they take; then for the culture that they feed back into and reinforce.

I am sorry if I upset any of you, but please do keep in mind that we live in a social environment where both men and women are acting out in sexist manners towards each other, and such an environment was cultivated and created by our culture.

Have a wonderful day, and for anyone who would like to look into some of the original intentions and beliefs of feminism; feel free to read authors such as bell hooks (who intentionally CHOSE to write her name exclusively in the lower case; so that is now the true way of writing her name), among other original feminist authors. Who fought the White Supremacist Patriarchy, not the men who lived in it. They were beliefs that were true for anyone, because those beliefs existed to support and cure everyone of their culture-induced suffering, but who am I outside of a Libertarian-White-Male?

[anintelligentoctopus]

The army’s latest recruitment campaign posters are. Terrible and Bad.

[dirtyriver]

Is… is this real?

[jimhensonreject]

Haha yikes

[hashtagloveloses]

“your army needs you and your compassion” is truly a batshit way to start 2019

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

I don’t know, a career known for the sexual and physical abuse of men (and now women as more of them are joining the military) is not something that sits well with me.

A career where it is made clear that everyone who even slightly outranks you owns you and your body; especially in a country that has a minor suppressed issue of running nuclear experiments on its own soldiers (RIP WW2 and following Navy veterans who were immorally experimented on with nuclear technology without their knowledge or consent). That just doesn’t sound like a career that belongs in a world that claims to be moving towards equality; at least not now.

Sadly, military power is supported by both parties in action, even if not in words. That’s why fact-checks exist, and why no president has tried to end the war on terror.

What a weird world we live in...

[thepiscesactor-deactivated20121]

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

[minotaursauce]

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

[xaldien]

“You’d be surprised”, said Xaldien, who just lost four followers and received a lovely “men can’t be raped” anon shortly after reblogging this the first time.

[minotaursauce]

Yowch, disgusting.

[samuraiko]

If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.

[glory-of-hera-blog]

Always reblog this

[nygmobblepot-der-pool-deactivat]

If you Dont reblog this if u see it then i cant call u my friend

[witchofthefuture]

IF ANYONE TELLS ME THAT MEN CAN’T BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND RAPE, I AM SICKENED BY THEIR MERE PRESENCE ON MY BLOG.

If you disagree with me, unfollow my blog, block me and never look at my blog again.

If you want to debate about this or send anon’s about this, I will reply but your actions have consequences.

[witchofthefuture]

Out of 19000+ followers I have, only one of you actually reblogged about this issue, yet a lot of you have reblogged and liked a picture by playboy about catcalling and that how men should never do it.

Additionally, I have received abuse in my ask box (which I will be answering when I can) and threats. In particular death threats and rape threats.

I can see the real problem here already. Male domestic violence and rape is just invisible in our society because we don’t want to talk about this because it just damages the status quo of this fucking website.

[tarothy-deactivated20230301]

I’m a male victim of child sexual abuse. We matter. Please, reblog this.

[happerbunny-deactivated20211002]

Please never forget male victims are real and it can happen to everyone/anyone

[smolkingofhell]

I’m a boy , and when i was younger I was sexually assaulted every damn day for three years by my younger step SISTER, So don’t go saying that ‘boys can’t be raped’ bull shit

[yviinfinite-deactivated20181014]

This is so important. That kinda shit can happen to everybody

[biyorozu]

Anybody can be raped, and anybody can be a rapist

[xaveronx]

I give a fuck about all victims of fucking everything. Reblog to signal boost.

[labelleizzy]

1,700,000 + notes and reblogs.

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

Simple; see something that gets silenced? let it be known.

[truscumftm]

Hot takes that will probably get me called a bigot on this hellhole

[im-in-way-2many-fandoms]

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

Wow, Look what I found!!!

Which reminds me... will we ever all learn to get along and realise that every social group and class suffers?

I mean; if bisexual people have a history of being misunderstood by both straight and gay people (hell I’ve even heard someone call a bi friend of mine trans which he was not; the person had mistakenly thought both meant the same thing) and at least 7 of every 10 suicides in America was a white male in the year of 2016 something just ain’t right.

Of course I could just be some crazy Idiot who believes that there is always more ground that everyone can cover on the path to reachig true equality, freedom, understanding, and acceptance.

[bakwoodzman-blog]

Gun Control...The True Story of Innocents Betrayed

Governments have historically deprived people of firearms ... and then wiped them from the face of the earth. This is the true story of Gun control from around the world. It details how governments have ALWAYS BEEN the biggest threat to the safety, security and prosperity of the people. While Americans can see how this could happen in other countries, most can't EVER imaging it being able to happen here because there are so many rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

[cat-a-tonic-deactivated20190218]

Excellent documentary on the history of gun confiscation around the world, allowing the uprisings of evil governments and dictatorships and the mass killings and genocides that followed.

Worth the 57 min. watch time.

Reblog the hell out of it.

[wolverinedoc68w-deactivated2020]

Will watch later.

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

I don’t care much for the second amendament, but this documentary does cover the real reason why it exists. To enable citizens to protect themselves from a tyrannical government

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

Everyone ready to play as Spyro in Crash Team Racing?

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

I know who I’m now going to play as in Smash Ultimate

[xenoqueer]

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.

[shabbytigers]

good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.

[fandomshatewomen]

Then they’re def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesn’t pan out. It’ll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.

[a-trans-resource-blog]

Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.

[xenoqueer]

I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they can’t see this post, only a “post was deleted"notice on my blog, and I’m the OP. So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.

[trashbandikyut-deactivated20181]

i’ve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash. 

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

So much for an open Tumblr; what happened to being inclusive and open?

[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

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

Creative; more-expressive atmosphere.

Again; I do not see how removing the accounts of NSFW artists is making this platform more creative and expressive.

And be honest with it; you really are just afraid of Apple removing you. This has nothing to do with your vision of a better Tumblr.

Anyone else want companies to stop lying to our faces about their reasons and inspirations for taking specific actions?

[shadowdragonlost-blog]

Wow... Art from over two years ago...

One drawn by dragging my thumb across a chemistry table, the other with a mechanical pencil.

I could not draw as well then, but I also wasn’t as wildly busy with other things.

(The second drawing can be found on another inactive blog; I shall keep the name secret for all of eternity; even if I decide to make it active. But yeah; for any of the ZERO people who have seen that blog or this picture before; this picture already exists in the dark recesses of Tumblr)

Also, please don’t rip my head off over the character designs, it wasn’t really drawn to have any real inspiration outside of making them a little older.

Why all of the Legend of Spyro stuff? Cause why not; I would’ve named it ShadowDramon if my primary essay writer was digimon, but is really is just because whenever I’m on Tumblr and am willing to make a post; the Legend of Spyro trilogy just happens to arise in my mind first; hell, I hardly even think about that series much anymore; it just happens to populate most of the blogs I follow so it explains my predicament.

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FUCKING THIS POST ITSELF IS FLAGGED, I’M DYING! @staff YOUR BS IS KILLING ITSELF!!!!

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As much as the existence of NSFW blogs is something I could not really care less about; I find it a little stupid how Tumblr’s staff believes that spouting how it is apparently more open and free for Tumblr to purge NSFW blogs instead of leaving it so blogs that posted NSFW content could just make themselves explicit so anyone who didn’t want to see that stuff could just filter out those blogs.

Of course; Tumblr’s staff will probably just continue to lie and pretend that this new way is somehow more open and accepting, but ya know, It’s TOTALLY like NSFW blogs that marked themselves explicit are the worst things that run around on the internet. What was that about people mentioning the presence of pedophiles and bots that spam NSFW stuff without being marked as explicit? Wait, are you saying that people who are just running an explicit-marked NSFW blog aren’t the biggest threat?!

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Did anyone else forget this persona 5 easter egg existed, or was it just me?