Announcement: I will no longer be posting on Tumblr.
Not only have I gotten no response for my main blog being shadowbanned weeks ago, but Tumblr has now shadowbanned the blog of @the-zine-directive as well. All I did was invite my other editors to become members of the blog and respond to a single message. The ban came within minutes.
I am absolutely devastated, if I'm being honest. I have health issues, both mental and physical, that make it really difficult for me to make friends in real life. I never expected to make online friends either, or be welcomed into the fandom like I have. I never expected to find so much joy in exploring a side of Star Trek I never had through fanzines and its history.
Since my "ban," this is what almost all the notes on my posts look like:
My ability to interact with others has been completely taken away. I can't comment on posts, send asks, or receive messages. Artists can't even see the nice things I say under their posts. So, I keep asking myself, what's the point?
As you can see in the first image, my posts are also being auto-flagged. This is one of several posts still in my drafts that are "under review" for "mature content." If Kirk having bruises on his face is considered mature content, then there's absolutely no way for me to continue sharing fanzines even if I did want to put all the effort into restoring them for almost nobody to see.
Tumblr is broken, and those with the power to fix it don't seem to have any intention of doing so. Logging in just makes me sad now.
So, I'm moving over to bluesky, and I really hope some of you will join me there. It won't be the same, but I'm trying not to give into my instinct of just disappearing.
The one silver lining is that I will be able to share some fanzine art there that I couldn't even think about posting on tumblr.
I'm also on discord @ katruyck
One last note: We will be remaking the blog for the zine, because it is still very much happening and we want to at least try to let people follow us along on the journey. Once that blog is made, I will reblog this post to announce it, and that will be the end.