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It would mean a lot to me to see a lesbian Luna from you ma’am I’m a big fan of your art and I love the moon being a lesbian

Sure hon, the moon is a lesbian anyway so this makes sense!

bigskycastle

barn owl

emobricosss

Happy pride month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

abbytabbys

(Forever together au) You use many muscles in your face to smile, all working in harmony to do so. Doesn’t it feel amazing?

moveslikekeithrichards

huge fan of when cats reach out and touch each other with disrespectful intent

doodles

#furry #mlp fim #mlp g4 #the last one is from like 2021 lol #and a couple from that sketch page are wips from draws i did in 2017 and 2020 respectively #...#sidebar but i wanna ramble in the void for a minute #its context for the first doodle lol #ive been dreaming about someone extremely regularly for the last year and im so tired of it #can't even call it sleep paralysis because he aint a demon #just a gnat hovering around the back of my subconscious and I cant do shit about it 🫩#my sleep is lowkey worse than when i had nightmares every night as a teenager as a result and im so done man #anyway #might post the finished things idk

You know who I am

Yeah.

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

biszumletzten

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between.

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

demonsnakes-deactivated20160829

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

brightlotusmoon

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

anonymous-lightbulb

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

fiction-is-not-reality

How to Backup your Tumblr

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search.

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog*

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted. Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat.

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing:

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted.

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes.

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything.

4367345g34

this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.

livinginthequestion

reference.

hug-your-face

Tested this, it works as advertised above. Grabs all text posts, image+gif posts (both original and reblogs). Preserves tags. Does not grab videos or audios.

Backing Up a Big Tumblr Art Blog - For Mac Users

Make the below changes to the Windows instructions already posted above. DO NOT JUST DO THE BELOW STEPS ALONE!

STEP 0: For any of this to work, your blog must be visible outside Tumblr

0.1 Account –> Your Blog –> Edit appearance

0.2 Under “Visibility,” be sure “Hide blogname.tumblr.com” is OFF

0.3 If the “Password” section exists, make sure “Password protect this blog” is OFF

STEP 1:

1.4. Download the file called “Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer”

1.5. Install by double-clicking on the downloaded .pkg file and following the prompts. You’ll need to enter your password. You may need to change System Preferences –> Security & Privacy to allow the install.

STEP 2:

2.1 Download the “tumblr-utils.zip” file.

2.2 Downloading the file should automatically unzip it into a folder called “bbolli-tumblr-utils-30e140a” in your “Downloads” folder.

STEP 3: SKIP ALL PARTS OF THIS ENTIRE STEP

STEP 4:

4.2. Hit Command-Space and start typing the word terminal. Finder should find the Terminal application. Double-click it to run. The terminal window should open up.

4.4 (Windows only, skip.)

4.5 type cd ~/Downloads and hit return.

4.6 type cd bbolli and hit tab. Terminal should auto-complete to the entire name of the folder you downloaded in step 2 (“bbolli-tumblr-utils-30e140a”). Hit enter and you should be in that directory.

STEP 5:

5.2 type ./tumblr_backup.py yourtumblrname and watch the script do its thing.

(The dot slash in the beginning is important!)

bob-artist

Thanks for sharing the Mac instructions! I just did ‘em and it all worked.

also for step 2.2 if it doesn’t automatically unzip, just double-click it and it should unzip into the same location. The precise file name might also be different toward the end.

None of my blogs are adult, but I still recommend doing this because sloppy Tumblr is sloppy, and it’s always good to have backups of your stuff - especially when a platform has proven itself to be unstable!