We at Piczel.tv are sad to see Tumblr’s stance against NSFW artists, and would like to offer up our services as an alternative to Tumblr’s arbitrary shadowbans, deletions, and general stupidity.
We’re happy to host adult artists who are looking for a new place to call home, and are planning a few key upgrades and features.
Effectively immediately though, our gallery upload size restriction has been removed, to be likely raised to 10MB in the near future for non-premium users.
As always, we support image sets, and don’t compress anything.
Firstly, for those that have been using tumblr as a portfolio, you’ll need a way to download all of your art, if you don’t have backups somewhere else. We are planning a tool for Piczel.tv that will import zip files full of images, including titles and descriptions if we are able.
Second, we’re planning the following upgrades to piczel in the coming weeks:
1. Bulk upload/import to your piczel.tv gallery 2. Gallery UI cleanup and improvements 3. Gallery performance improvements 4. Gallery comments with in line image and custom emote support 5. Site-wide PMs (in the vein of tumblr asks, but better) 6. Archive button for your piczel account
Don’t forget to follow us on twitter, we may be deleted on the 17th with everyone else. Until then, we’ll make posts here to keep everyone in the loop
Please consider reblogging this to help artists in need.
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
A strict all girls boarding school is across a river from a strict all boys boarding school.
Boys and girls are forbidden from fraternizing, but they find sneaky ways to form friendships and even date. I assume there is heavily monitored internet and phones are for emergencies only so they have to resort to more unconventional methods of communication. (Messages in bottles, a system of mirrors, writing on chalkboards and putting them in the windows ect.ect.)
Until one day a shy boy at the boys boarding school tells his best friend (and the leader of a resident well meaning boys gang) that he actually feels more like a girl.
The gang leader contacts the leader of a girl gang across the river and they begin to plan an overly elobrate heist to smuggle the shy trans girl across the river in exchange for a chill tomboy and the two will assume each other’s lives until they graduate.
Hijinks ensue as they pull a ‘Great-Esacpe’ style mission to avoid detection from the overly strict headmasters and an overly passionate team of campus security guards.
Friendships are tested, there is lots of home-alone style logic to outsmart the adults, and there is romantic tension between the leaders of the gangs as they put aside their differences to help their two friends find a place to be themselves. It is light-hearted in tone but is also over the top and everyone plays it way too serious to the point of comedy. The two kids swapping places have classic “parent trap” style hijinks pretending to be the other person and avoid detection.
Think “kids next door” + “recess” but shot like a heist movie.
Add a funny character actor as a dopey but well meaning janitor and you got a stew going.
As a parent of two young impressionable children I 100% would take them to see this movie.
I would take my kids to this in a heartbeat!
Add in the idea that you never see the headmistress of the girls school or the headmaster of the boys school until the very end. Sure you see teachers and administrators and even the vice principal or whatever but you never see the person actually in charge of each school.
Then in a during the credits / post credits scene as the kids are celebrating cut back to the headmistress and headmaster watching the entire thing over security cameras.
One of them hands the other a $20 bill, clearly paying off a bet.
“How long do you think this sort of thing has been going on?” asks the headmistress, who is played by a trans actress.
“How many years ago were we in school?” asks the headmaster, who is played by a trans actor.
The “I love you” just comes out one day, with zero preamble
or premeditation.
And it’s entirely Cas’ fault.
See, Dean is just sitting there, staring out the streaky
diner window, waiting for Cas to bring their food over. He’s minding his own
goddamn business.
The two plates drop down onto the table with a slight
clatter. Dean lets out a perfunctory “thanks,” Cas responds with a perfunctory nod,
and everything is completely fucking normal.
Until Dean takes a bite out of his burger, and is suddenly
overwhelmed with crunchy, salty goodness.
He chews and swallows, mouth watering. “Did you get extra
bacon on mine?”
“Mhm,” Cas says idly, distracted by his triple-decker club
something. Unlike Dean, he doesn’t bother with decorum, and answers with his
mouth still full. “You like bac’n.”
“I love you.”
Cas freezes, his sandwich half-crammed into his mouth, bulgy
cheeks and even bulgier eyes sliding slowly across the table to meet Dean’s.
There’s barbeque sauce on his chin.
Panicked like he’s never been in his entire goddamn
monster-filled life, Dean instantly redirects his gaze to the burger in his
shaking hands. “I love you – bacon. You’re… you’re just so good.”
And he shoves the burger at his face with enough force to
make his teeth hurt.
Cas’ wide eyes narrow to two highly suspicious slits.
There’s twenty-one seconds of agonizing silence as Dean
forces the gigantic bite down his gullet. “Yep, bacon. God’s gift to man, Cas,
mark it down. He said so himself once, actually, come to think of it.” He’s
rambling like a Gilmore girl and his face is on fire.
Cas nods, slowly. “I see.”
Dean’s heart is in his throat but mercifully, Cas seems to
let it go. He returns his focus to his sandwich, and the two of them spend the
rest of their meal in overwhelmingly awkward silence.
They’re finishing up, draining the last dregs of their coffees,
and Dean starts to think that maybe, just maybe, he’s gotten away with it. His
stupid heartbeat finally starts to calm the fuck down.
“I love you.”
Heart suddenly back to hummingbird levels, Dean whips his
head around, only to find Cas focused and intent and serious and definitely, one hundred percent talking
to his fucking coffee mug.
“Yep, coffee. Very good. One of my favourite things.
Definitely.” The little shit is just sitting there, gravely nodding at the mug.
Dean can feel his face turning puce. His hands start shaking again.
Still not looking at him, Cas takes a sip of the coffee, and
Dean suddenly feels weirdly jealous – Cas just sitting there, tonguing the
ceramic.
So he does the only logical thing. He reaches across the
table with both hands, yanks at the lapels of Cas’ coat, and smashes their
mouths together.
About two seconds later he remembers that they’re in fucking public, so he rips his mouth away and
sits back down on his side of the booth, clearing his throat about six times
louder than necessary.
When he finally gets the courage to look up at Cas’ face, he’s
grinning in a dazed kind of way, eyes drifting a little bit.
“I just, uh,” Dean mumbles, face still hot. “I just love
coffee too.”
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