Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff D’Onofrio CEO
This… seems extreme. I don’t have much in the way of NSFW stuff on my own blog, but I don’t have a problem with artists who do. And a lot of them are extremely talented, and deserve a valid platform for showing their work! Tumblr has become an essential tool for many of us trying to make a living, and the fact of the matter is that many artists make their living with explicit art.
And more than that, many of us simply feel the need to express ourselves through erotic content! This will be cutting them off at the knees, forcing them into the dark, towards less efficient or reputable platforms. Many of the artists I follow on DeviantArt rely on Tumblr as a place to showcase their more risque imagery, and now they’ll have to find something else entirely, potentially having to relocate years of work, or else just leave it behind!
And like I said, I don’t have much in the way of NSFW stuff myself, but… what if I want to experiment? The thought crosses my mind now and then. What if I want to demonstrate to the people who follow my blog that I’m widening my range? It’s supposed to be the central hub of my online endeavors! I guess all I can do now is post a link to some other corner of the Internet.
No, this is wrong. It’s a sweeping, blunt-force solution to a problem which requires thoughtful solutions, and it will devastate countless artists. I protest.
Happy Friday the 13th. Here are some unlucky spooks from patreon.
The things in the shadows are not immune from tripping on the curb of the universe.
The ancient tome fell into the wrong hands almost immediately after the death of its keeper. The young men tasked with boxing up the belongings in the darkened apartment pocketed many small things that the family didn’t specifically put on the list, but the ivory box was the greatest find. It whispered to them in their dreams and they woke every morning electrified, shivering with the half remembered visions of the dark god whose door they had found. They only had to conduct the ceremony to the tome’s precise instructions to summon their master. And then. Power.
Power eternal.
As soon as they figured out what that plant was.
They’d been stumped by it for months. Tony said that maybe since the tome was hand written in like, fuck-knows B.C. the plant was straight up extinct. Everybody yelled at him for it, but he knew in his heart he was right. And if it wasn’t extinct, they certainly didn’t have the right name for it. There’s only so much heavy lifting an old biology book and a bargain bin Latin dictionary could do. God, Latin was hard. Some of it didn’t even seem to be Latin? There were some ‘ye oldes’ in there? And they were positive most of it had to be ancient slang because Google was turning up some weird results (when it actually turned up results).
Also, they definitely weren’t grinding up the right kind of bones to make the chalk. These bones sucked. These bones were screwing up the whole operation.
They tried to ask the god about maybe accepting substitutions for what they sussed out was dodo blood and proper conversions for modern measurements but it just gave them more spiritual visions that were grand as ever but somehow felt a little embarrassed. Tony said that it might not even understand English and got yelled at again.
Anonymous asked: I don't know if this a bit of an inappropriate question, but how do you deal with procrastination in terms of art. I'm an artist myself but I often draw things months apart and I wanna make myself draw more. Any advice?
It’s not inappropriate. It’s a good question. Different things work for different people, and I’m not sure my thoughts about it will be helpful, but here they are. (Pardon the excessive verbiage. I didn’t edit…because I should be working >_>)
-Break the work into pieces. Staring down a sizable comic chapter or complex illustration like you have to charge at it wholesale can be daunting. Even if you’re excited about it initially, reality eventually sets in and whatever reservations and anxieties you have stored at the back of your mind quickly become tactics for negotiating yourself out of doing the work. Sometimes even a smaller project can have that effect if you’re thinking of it in terms of how many total hours you’re bound to spend poking at it. So, parcel it into whatever bits make it manageable, whether it’s looking at the writing, layout, penciling, color flats and final polish as separate tasks or deconstructing it into time segments like ‘however much painting I can get done during the 2 hour duration of this podcast I’m listening to’, then break and strategize your next move.
-Take breaks and reward yourself. Sometimes I’m really in the zone and I’ll happily work a 10-14 hour shift on something without distraction. More commonly, though distractions do arise, the cat keeps trying to sit on me, my neck hurts, I’m not firing on all cylinders on a given day or I’m not feeling too enthused about the work. That’s when it helps to use breaks like mini-rewards for each completed task. Stop and watch a half hour of Netflix, play a game, take a walk, stretch, have a snack. Reward progress.
-Do stuff you love and are interested in. Mix as much of the “want to” into the “have to” and “ought to” work as you can. Granted, if you’re doing art for a living, it’s not always an option to focus on your personal interests, but if you’re trying to do your own creative projects, working on a school assignment in which you have some license to choose your subject matter, or if you’re able to be a bit selective with your freelance gigs, pick things that genuinely interest you, or add some of your pet topics to the mix - whatever will heighten your emotional/intellectual investment. I find I’m far more eager to do the work when there’s something about it that I can really glom onto, be it a favorite character, an animal I like to draw, a certain mood I want to translate, a historical setting or costume, a color palette or motif I want to toy around with, etc.
-Step away if it’s not coming together. Struggling with a frustrating piece of art can be a lot like having a heated argument with someone. Eventually it devolves into irrational appeals, antagonism and hurt feelings and any chance of productive discourse leaves the scene. Instead of sticking around and making it worse, turning the project into miserable drudgery, set it aside and come back to it later with your composure and sense of perspective intact. That’s not to say all projects must be or should be followed through on, and not all projects will be a continuous bowl of cherries to bring to completion, but it might not be as hopeless or unappealing as it seemed upon returning to it.
-Mindspace and workspace matter. Find things that help you get into the rhythm of your work. Listening to podcasts, audiobooks and music helps keep me focused when I’m in the midst of the long-haul on comic pages - doing all of the value and toning work that takes hours. Being in the right place with a comfortable seat, in a comfortable (but not so comfortable you fall asleep) position, with minimal distractions, tools within reach and good lighting is important too.
-Collect inspirations. Keep things on hand that you can look at for ideas or simply for that motivation to keep on trucking. Personally, I have a lot of art books around, a lot of historical material like 20th century fashion books, books about old cars, books about flappers, comics with great art, funny collections of syndicated strips, character sketches hanging on my walls, and many gigabytes of inspirational and reference images collected off the internet. Sometimes just browsing through one of those folders sparks ideas and makes me want to pick up my stylus.
-Sleep right and eat right. I have had a deep seated, lifelong terrible relationship with sleep. I’m still working on that part. If you’ve got a pretty consistent sleep schedule, though, you’re probably off to a good start.
As for food - it seems perfunctory to say that it matters what you eat. On some level, we all know that, but, yeah, it really truly absolutely does matter..a lot. When I was 20, I could live on ramen noodles, goldfish crackers, microwave ravioli and energy drinks. I could pull all-nighters on top of that and still keep chugging merrily along. Boy, the years run like rabbits, though, and eating like a deranged dumpster goat catches up to you sooner than you might think. I eventually found myself struggling with perpetual malaise, brain fog and a sour mood that made it hard to do anything or to enjoy doing anything. I’m ashamed to admit to how long it took me to realize - after blaming it alternatingly on allergies, anemia, depression - that my apathetic diet was not conducive to basic life functions, let alone fueling creative fires. I started putting some effort into food selections and it has made the difference between fumbling through life in a semi-conscious state and feeling bright and motivated and - in spite of myself - even happy.
(And, contrary to the way society romanticizes connections between depression and artistic impulse, most people work better when they feel better.)
-Practice self-discipline. Here’s the thing no one likes to hear. Sometimes, no matter how many devices you have in place to make work fun and comfy and something you look forward to, you just won’t feel like it. You will have to be an adult about it. You will have to simply muster the willpower. You can be that “creative” person who has lots of ideas but never anything to show for them because a million vectors for instant gratification circle around you constantly like distracting little red-devil imps. Or you can be a self-starter building toward something, playing the long game with goals in mind; you can dig your heels in, grit your teeth, take a swig of coffee and get down to work, dammit.
i actually started drawing bunnies and then i came up with an idea for a very cute horror game.
basically, you play as a adorable adventuring bunny person who’s job it is to go out and find a new place for your colony to live. little do you know there’s been a mysterious plague that’s wiping out warrens left and right in the area you’re supposed to investigate. rabbits become ill, start digging in unison as deep as they can, and die in great heaps. the bodies always disappear after a few hours and anyone who tries to stop them just gets pulled into the digging. it sucks. shortly after the plague starts, huge burrowing creatures are spotted tunneling through the ground and killing or infecting everything in their path. when one of the creatures is caught and dragged to the surface, it’s revealed to be mass of distorted rabbit corpses fused together into a worm-like beast with a screaming hivemind. with 5 warrens of rabbits confirmed dead or missing and deaths everywhere, a quarantine is put in place and you are stuck on the wrong side of the fence. you’re soon drafted as a scout to search the tunnels because of your speed and excellent sense of direction. now you have to navigate the dark underground, passing through destroyed homes, collapsing tunnels, and the evidence of mystifying deaths to find survivors and figure out what is going on. all while avoiding the hundred-voiced crawling dead that want to pull you down into the earth with them.
it would be like some kind of adorable underground Bloodborne.
here are some of the bunnies i think would be characters in it. descriptions after the cut.
So I uploaded some footage of Dark Cloud 2. Mainly for a few of my co-workers on the fence about it(and still sitting). Footage is about eight minutes of playing through the available cast as of my place in Chapter 2. I’m currently in the back half of the third dungeon so there are a few changes. Mostly progression in leveling/upgrading weapons and the ridepod(Steve!).
Gonna link a few more videos for posterity later. More than likely the golf/spheda intro and a little tease of fishing. There is a ton of stuff and while there are a few bugs in the PS4 port, it’s still as charming as the day it was released.
Basic guide of how to react to the arrival of Patricia.
I am surprised how many people do not know anything about it or heard five minutes ago, you might not live there, but many people do, not only in the marked and state of emergency areas, all nearby should be prepared for anything. We have had many natural disasters here in México before, we do not know how bad it can be .
Share, this information may not serve to you, but many live in the affected area or have family evacuated in areas of risk …. SHARE,SO ANY MEXICAN TUMBLR USER OR WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY DOWN THERE CAN KNOW WHAT TO DO.
Or they live here,just like me.
Over 50.000 people were already evacuated.
This just started, let’s hope it stops soon. Contact all you family and friends,ask them to be prepared.
This basic guide its on spanish, and includes all the emergency numbers from diferent areas around the soon-to-be-affected zone and instruccions of what to do during a huricane. Gonna try to translate it so it can be shared with tourists stuck here… wait for updates….
Guía básica sobre cómo reaccionar a la llegada de Patricia
Me sorprende mucho cuanta gente no sabe nada al respecto o se enteraron hace 5 minutos,puede que no vivas ahí, Pero mucha gente sí, no solo en las areas marcadas y estado de emergencia, todas las cercanías deberían estar preparadas para cualquier cosa. Ya hemos tenido muchos desastres naturales aquí en nuestro país,no sabemos que tan grave se pueda poner. Compartan,puede que a ti no te sirva,pero muchos vivimos en la zona afectada o tenemos familiares evacuados en las zonas de más riesgo… Esto acaba de empezar,esperemos que se detenga pronto.
En el estado de Guadalajara son @PCJalisco, @GobiernoJalisco, @PCSegob En Colima, es @PC_ColimaVarias cuentas de Twitter también ofrecen esa información:Los siguientes puntos son un resumen tanto de la Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil de México, como la Administración Nacional Océanica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés) de Estados Unidos, la Cruz Roja Internacional, la Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias de Costa Rica, el Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil de El Salvador y entidades similares.
Elabora un plan que refleje todas las posibilidadesAnota los números de emergencia y tenlos a mano
En Colima el teléfono de emergencia es: (312)313 03 11
En Nayarit: 01-133-30-81
En Jalisco: 01 315 355 6375 y 013 22 225 0764, así como 33 36 75 30 60, o33 36 75 30 60 para la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara, la capital del estado.
Almacena suministros para emergencias en casa y en el auto
Esto incluye comida que no necesite refrigeración, agua y un botiquín de primeros auxilios.Si estás en carretera, extrema las precauciones al conducir, dicen los manuales. Ten a mano dinero en efectivo y las tarjetas de crédito Limpia azoteas, canales y coladeras Averigua dónde está el refugio más cercano y cuáles son las distinas rutas para llegar a él en caso de que tengas que evacuar tu casa
¿Cómo hay que actuar cuando el huracán toque tierra?
Permanece dentro de casa
Cierra puertas y ventanas, suministros de gas y electricidad
Desenchufa los aparatos eléctricos
Aléjate de ventanas
para evitar lesiones si éstas se rompen
Si el viento abre una puerta o ventana, no avances hacia ella de manera frontal
Para alumbrar no uses velas, sino linternas o lámparas que funcionen con baterías
Si vives cerca de un río, vigila el nivel del agua
La primera recomendación es conservar la calma.Y también dan las siguientes pautasSi estás en carretera, extrema las precauciones al conducir
No cruces vados y ríos de respuesta rápida, y evita zonas en las que pudiera ocurrir deslaves y desprendimiento de rocas
Aléjatede las vallas publicitarias, postes eléctricos y árboles ante su posible caída.
¿Y cuando haya pasado?
Es importante mantenerse
informado y seguir las instrucciones transmitidas
por las autoridades a través de los medios de comunicación.
Si hay heridos,repórtaloen el teléfono de emergencia
Si tienes que evacuar la casa, llévate solo lo imprescindible
No busques refugio en un edificio con techo de lámina, ya que se la podría llevar el viento
Usa el teléfono sólo para reportar emergencias
Consume el agua potable que almacenaste y si no lo hiciste, hierve la del grifo. Revisa cuidadosamente la casa y verifica que no haya peligro.Si la casa no sufrió daños, permanece en ella. Asegúrate que los aparatos eléctricos están secos antes de usarlos. Elimina el agua estancada para evitar plagas de mosquitos.
A little edited,I will be editing and posting more stuff. If you have questions or need an specific emergency number from here and don’t know how to get it; just message me! Reblog this one.
