I didn’t want to make one of these posts but I’ve been thinking about it all day. Might as well say my piece. I’m mostly talking to the Tumblr Skyrim community here, as they are who the vast majority of my followers are I imagine. Most of my opinions aren’t going to be relevant for other communities.
Flickr and Tumblr in one year. I hadn’t even found a replacement for Flickr and now we’re hit with this. I still don’t know how to react to it all. I’m kinda numb. It’s just despicable people doing despicable business. Flickr more so than Tumblr, but we’ll have to see how this pans out. Allegedly, they aren’t going to be deleting anything here, just locking it out. While over on Flickr they have a metaphorical gun to your head saying pay up or kiss your things goodbye. And you just know this won’t be the end of it. It’s going to keep happening. One site after another. Whatever has started is going to be a trend. Abandoning ship doesn’t always work when the sea is filled with icebergs. The next boat could sink just as easily.
The end? Probably not, but massive swathes will be leaving, for some, permanently. Entire communities are going to become ghost towns. But I think I can stay. Unless this kills the rest of my motivation. What I have here is too important to me. I have to hold onto what they let me keep for as long as I can. I knew a fair portion of you before I found Tumblr, I talk to you elsewhere at times. You know how to contact me. For the others, for new friends I’ve made here, I’ll still be here should you want to talk. It seems most are moving on to other sites, and I may end up following just to have someplace to post the things that I can’t post here. But people are spreading so far and wide. It’s a little hasty I think. There should have been a little more coordination in the exodus instead of spreading yourselves amongst five or six other websites. There are people I don’t want to lose touch with and I fear that’s what will happen here. I also have no idea how the Skyrim side of Tumblr in particular is going to function after this. The vast majority dabble in nsfw stuff. Even skimpy outfits could fit into this category. That’s just how it is. It’s an old game and to stay interested for this long you have to be a hardcore modder or spread your influence into every other avenue of the game just to have new things to do. A huge portion of them don’t really have anything to fall back on. At the end of the day, I suppose I’m just lucky to have the family things to work with. They were the important part all along anyway. Whether this kills the will I have left or pushes me to put out more content, time will have to tell.
I’m going to preemptively go through my entire catalog and set the nsfw things to private, so once it’s all over and done with, the entire blog should be safe for work. I will be losing a few story sets that featured minor nudity in the process, but it is what it is.
I made a pastebin and moved some of my stories to that. I’ll hopefully eventually get them all on there before the big change. These are my other pages, for now. If I start using another site, I’ll make a post about it.
In closing, the end will come if it will. I’ll be here as long as I can, trying. Cherish the things that are important to you, the memories you’ve made, and make the most of all you still have coming to you.
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