There's room for hope. @theblondebat - Tumblr Blog

OMG OKAYOKAYOKAY JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I LOVE YOU AND YOUR STEPH BLOG YOU MAKE MY DAY OKAY BYE. <333333

Happyhoganon: Is your tumblr blog still active? If not, had you thought about returning to it anytime soon?

((Hi! Yes and no. I started this blog while in college, but then senior year happened and now I’m a teacher full-time. Plus, it was very easy to get burnt out because of my ambitious posting schedule, frustration with what editorial did with Steph every other month, and interactions with other blogs were mostly great, but could get toxic very quickly.

I WANT to return to it someday in the near future, but I also don’t like putting a deadline on it and potentially not being able to keep that promise because of a lack of time or drive.

Short answer: Someday soon, but not now. Life is too busy, but my love for Steph will never die. Thank you for your continued interest, by the way. <3))

#anonymous #Steph answers #((OOC))

arkadykoshka

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

theblondebat

First of all, I sincerely apologize for the radio silence for so long. I graduated college and now I’m a teacher! I still very much love Stephanie Brown and am up to date on the comics, it’s just that time has been minimal for me. I do promise to come back someday, but in the meantime, please continue to enjoy my archive of Stephanie Brown content for what it currently is.

Secondly, this is all very good information above. I’m making no secret of it that I find these changes on tumblr ridiculous and ultimately more harmful than helpful. I 100% advocate for properly tagging adult content and for combating child pornagraphy. However, this feels more like a massive overreaction. Not only will this be detrimental to sex positivity, but there’s also no way that this won’t hugely censor the LGBT+ community. This update makes me livid, but at the same time, I’m not deleting. Instead, I’m going to reblog the above post, urge everyone to wait and see if this update sticks in the wake of the backlash, make sure I’m following specific blogs’ other social media accounts, and continue to donate to ao3.

#tumblr #((OOC))