Author: Brin

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strawberrypatty:

lotstradamus:

finnhudsoninoz:

c-is-for-circinate:

…hey Harry Potter fans, we’re all in agreement that Dumbledore brought the Philosopher’s Stone to Hogwarts in Harry’s first year as a test to see whether Voldemort was paying attention and what sort of state he was in, now that Dumbledore’s chosen champion was old enough to hold a wand, right?

Like, Harry learns what magic is and it’s time to start moving towards the full and final destruction of Tom Riddle Junior, so Dumbledore has a chat with his long-time alchemy friend who’s been keeping this thing safe for literally six centuries straight, and ‘borrows’ the easiest source of immortality he can find as bait for a trap to lure Voldemort out into the open so Dumbledore can get the lay of the land to prep for the next seven years.  This is canon, right?

Yes, this is canon. In none of the other books is the climactic array of trials set up as a video-game dungeon perfectly tailored to the skillsets of three specific children. Hermione and Ron are drafted into this war quickly.

Draco gets so much shit for trying to kill Dumbledore but honestly who wouldn’t

Also: Dumbledore gave the DADA position (one he knew was LEGITIMATELY CURSED so someone could only last for a year) to a guy who had been travelling in the last known place Voldemort had been seen. 

Dumbledore set up Quirell to die full stop.

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#Harry Potter #meta #death mention

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ms-demeanor:

argumate:

argumate:

a long, long, time ago

the day

the horny… died.

the good old blogs, who were thirsty on main, posting this’ll be the day that I deactivate and shift to Twitter / Mastodon / Discord / Dreamwidth /

A long, long time ago
I can still remember how
That blue site used to make me wet
And I knew if I had my shot
I could make it with the thots
And see just how horny we could get

But then December was a drag
When every post I made was flagged
Your blog is in review
And the site’s more red than blue

I can’t remember what came first
The enby titties or the thirst
But something touched me deep inside
The day the horny died 

So 

Bye, bye, to this site full of creeps
Shook my ass with some class and posted some feet
And I was scrolling when I just couldn’t sleep
Singing  this’ll be the day I delete,
This’ll be the day I delete

Do you know how to eat good ass
Or jack it to some nuns at mass
If the urge takes you so?
Do you believe in sluts and hoes
Can buttholes sooth your mortal soul
Can you teach me how to eat pussy real slow? 

Well I know that you’re in love with me
So here’s the link to my KoFi
You sent me your dick picks
All day and night for kicks 

I was a lonely fetish cammer here
With a fresh-shaved head and a well-worn sneer
And I knew nobody else would leer
The day the horny died
I started singing

Bye, bye, to this site full of creeps
Shook my ass with some class and posted some feet
And I was scrolling when I just couldn’t sleep
Singing  this’ll be the day I delete,
This’ll be the day I delete 

Now for 11 years we’ve been on this site
Blogging through the day and night
But that’s not how it used to be 

Facebook’s full of Mom & Dad
Myspace took a hit real bad
Twitter discourse is just real sad

SESTA/FOSTA took Craigslist down
Backpage got run outta town
So it seemed like we were stuck
On Tumblr we could fuck

Verizon tried to hit the mark
And then it one day jumped the shark
And we sing dirges in the dark
The day the horny died
We’re all singing

Bye, bye, to this site full of creeps
Shook my ass with some class and posted some feet
And I was scrolling when I just couldn’t sleep
Singing  this’ll be the day I delete,
This’ll be the day I delete

I met a girl who used to hoe
And asked if she knew where we could go
But she just smiled and turned away.

I logged in to my mainstream blog
And tried to write a silly song
But the music wouldn’t stay

And on my dash the children screamed
The thots went dark and the Nazis preened
A thousand words were spoken
The reblogs all were broken

And the place that I’d enjoyed the most
Full of all my best shitposts,
Raised a final glass to toast
The day the horny died.

And we were singing

Bye, bye, to this site full of creeps
Shook my ass with some class and posted some feet
And I was scrolling when I just couldn’t sleep
Singing  this’ll be the day I delete,
This’ll be the day I delete

I was singing

Bye, bye, to this site full of creeps
Shook my ass with some class and posted some feet
And I was scrolling when I just couldn’t sleep
Singing  this’ll be the day I delete.

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#music #nsfw text #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse

Could you tell me where you’re going?

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eightyonekilograms:

eightyonekilograms:

eightyonekilograms:

Hi folks-

A lot of people are making posts announcing where they’ll be setting up shop after The End, and it’s already getting hard to keep track of who is going where under what name. So I created a public spreadsheet to try and keep track of this: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AtiG1bZTgp9RxpJ3smyiFe703LcJhA

Would you mind sticking your information in there? I prefilled a couple columns with some of the most common alternate services, but of course you can and should add a column if a service you’re moving to isn’t listed.

Don’t be a jerk and mess with anyone else’s row but yours. I can see the edit history and revert bad changes anyway, so it won’t do you any good.

I normally hate begging for reblogs, but please reblog this.

@metagorgon: “I can’t edit”

When you try to edit a cell, you should see a ribbon across the top saying that “this is in read-only mode”, but also a button to enable editing. Click on that and then you should be fine (if not, something is very wrong, because that is how it has worked for me and several other people so far.

One other thing: if you are signed in to an Outlook/O365 account, I can see your real name when you edit the doc. If that is a problem, open the link from a private browsing window.

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #reblog coercion cw #reblogging the version with that rather important addendum #I did not see this version before adding my info and I feel fortunate that my Outlook account is on my *other* browser #(I’m not sure I’m even *currently* logged in there but I’m *never* logged in here)

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(I know I’ve been trying to stick to links in the “[link]” form lately, because–at least IME–these days it’s not always easy to tell in the dashboard view whether something is a link or not, but this post really does flow a lot better with embedded links.)

This notepad draft has been through a couple iterations today as I learn more stuff and think of more possibilities, but I guess I’ll post it now. Everything is still pretty up in the air, though.

—

I have made an account @brinbellway@pleroma.site. I do not know yet whether I will be posting anything there, or just reading. I will probably not stay on that instance long-term, unless maybe I only use it as a dashboard.

I made a Scuttlebutt account, but upon poking around in it I don’t think it’s really suitable for my current needs. I might try it someday, but not now.

I am fairly confident that my future OPs will be on Dreamwidth: https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org. There may also be link roundups and/or roundups of comments I’ve posted. 

Definitely for at least a little while, I will post links to new DW entries on Tumblr. The thought occurred to me this evening that I *could* do that indefinitely, and simply see whether the censors ever notice what some of those external posts are about.

Yes, I see the place is falling apart. Yes, I don’t trust the devs further than I could throw their server racks. Yes, I know they won’t want deviants like me here.

But what are they going to do? Delete me?

—

(You know what, I’m going to move the tag ramble into the main post body. I think I don’t want it to get left out of any reblogs, and if nothing else it’s less work for the future self cleaning up this WordPress-mirror entry.)

#I’m gonna go ahead and preserve the tag   #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse   #regardless of what happens next   #even if I end up not being in the first wave of evacuation I still believe   #that people looking back will see this as the beginning of the end   #but honestly the past couple days have been a fucking emotional whirlwind   #and I have not had enough sleep today   #and I don’t really know what I think anymore   #(and because this *is* still a Tumblr-hosted post I am trying very hard not to make any innuendos about any of that)   #just… bear with me‚ okay? bear with all of us‚ as we figure this out together

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#oh look an original post #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #Dreamwidth #Fediverse

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

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discoursedrome:

A lot of good info and comments here; I’m glad they got a chance to talk to @pervocracy in particular.

For the tl;dr, the big news here is that banning NSFW has been in the works for some time and was simply rushed out the door due to the app thing, and the real motivation is that few ad buyers are willing to buy ads that might show up next to porn. 

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, [former head of media brands Simon] Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize. 

This explains a number of things that were hard to contextualize at the time: the insistence on repeatedly turning on safe mode for everybody, and the push for non-chronological feeds, were likely intended to help increase the amount of “safe” pagespace they could sell higher-value ads on.

I’d noticed for a while that Tumblr was pushing the fandom angle very hard – the Radar and other highlight features are extremely fanart-oriented, and that was clearly also part of the motivation behind algorithmic feeds. However, I’d been presuming that this was just to facilitate marketing of the actual brands in question, like “pay Tumblr to highlight fandom content for your show so more people will get into it.” It sounds like they actually wanted to use fandoms as a general marketing demographic, which is a bit more ambitious but also makes more sense – you might want to reach MCU fans not just for MCU stuff but also for unrelated products that had conceptual crossover. 

If that’s the case, though, it means that the ban was even more foolhardy than I thought, since fandoms are going to be the first thing to vacate – sites like Dreamwidth are natural fits for that, and not only are they among the least tolerant of strict anti-NSFW guidelines, but they’re also the most likely to post the kind of SFW visual art that Tumblr is flagging for deletion because their algorithms suck.

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#hmm #interesting #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse

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So, uh, the webpage view [link] is showing me scrambled posts now. The post at the top of page 1 is 4 hours old (I’ve made several posts since then), and at the beginning of page *3* it starts showing posts in what looks like it might be the order of last *edit*: those few posts I’ve made since the page-1 posts, followed by some posts whose tags I updated [link].

Incognito mode does not seem to help.

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#oh look an original post #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #I wonder what page this post will display on

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serinemolecule:

unpretty:

i’m just gonna post all the ways i’ve found so far to get RSS Links They Don’t Want You To Know About from social media sites, because people keep Leaving Tumblr Forever in favor of sites that i’m not going to use

(if you don’t have an rss reader yet just make a feedly account, it takes about one whole minute, if you decide to use a different reader later you can export your whole list, it’s fine)

i’m gonna use strikethrough to indicate the text you need to replace and also include examples of feeds that seem to work

A General Rule

on almost any website look for the icon that looks like this

that’s the button that means ‘the rss feed is here’

Tumblr

just add /rss to the end of literally any blog’s url, including tags

i.e. unpretty.tumblr.com/rss or unpretty.tumblr.com/tagged/original/rss

now you can Leave Tumblr Forever and still follow blogs until such a time as tumblr implodes in earnest

Dreamwidth

use username.dreamwidth.org/data/rss 

i.e. gallusrostromegalus.dreamwidth.org/data/rss

WordPress

if it’s hosted on WordPress.com, just add /feed to the end of the url

if it’s self-hosted (i think around 20% of people who have their own website use wordpress to host it, i know i do bc it’s easy as sin) also just add /feed to the end the url

i.e. en.blog.wordpress.com/feed or kittyunpretty.com/feed

ArtStation

use username.artstation.com/rss

i.e. beccahallstedt.artstation.com/rss

Mastodon

just add .rss to the end of someone’s profile url

i.e. cybre.space/@kittyunpretty.rss

deviantART

use backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Ausername 

i.e. backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Aarvalis

YouTube

this one’s a goddamn pain in the dick because you need to find the channel id first

in general youtube channels have a nonsense url like youtube.com/channel/abunchofbullshit

you have to take that last bit and plug it into youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=abunchofbullshit

i.e. youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCbpMy0Fg74eXXkvxJrtEn3w

Tapas

this is mostly handy for webcomics that were hosting on tumblr and crossposting, i think? i don’t know how tapas works for creators tbqh. anyway they’ve actually got a button at the top when you go to the comic page.

the one between ‘add to library’ and the paper airplane will give you the rss feed

LINE Webtoons

ditto wrt tumblr-hosted webcomics, and also having a button

the button to the left of the one that says +subscribe will get you the rss feed

Twitter & Instagram

these are the only two sites i’m including that don’t have native rss support, just because so goddamn many people have literally no other web presence at all for some reason

twitter used to have rss feeds but killed them, and i don’t think instagram ever had them. you have to use workarounds for these, and a lot of them end up getting killed, like TwitRSS.me. fetchrss seems to work okay but it costs money. if you pay for inoreader they’ve got built-in support for following twitter accounts but that’s not a practical solution for most people.

right now i use rsshub.app/platform/user/username

i.e. rsshub.app/twitter/user/dasharez0ne

… but the instagram one doesn’t actually seem to work, like, most of the time. i don’t know if i’ve found one that works ever. if you’re jumping ship there please consider doing the world the enormous goddamn favor of just making a free wordpress.com account and cross-posting all your instas with ifttt or something, rather than being totally at the mercy of mark zuckerberg

This is extremely overkill. Every RSS reader I know of is capable of finding an RSS link from a regular URL.

So, like, if you wanted to follow someone on YouTube, you could put in the feed URL:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCq6aw03lNILzV96UvEAASfQ

Or you could just put in their regular profile/channel URL:

https://www.youtube.com/user/billwurtz

And your RSS reader will give you a list of what feeds it has:

(pictured: Feedly, the RSS reader recommended by the OP, subscribing to a YouTube feed)

This also works for any other RSS reader and any other service (Tumblr, Dreamwidth, Twitter, anything):

(pictured: Inoreader, subscribing to a Tumblr feed)

Here’s Feedly, the RSS reader recommended by the OP, working on YouTube:

So yeah, there’s never any reason to dig up a channel ID and manually construct an RSS feed URL.

I’ve definitely had issues with the automatic finders in the past, mostly things like giving you the feed for an entire site when you asked for a particular subdomain. Though it’s been a while since I had such troubles: I’d figured it was just because I haven’t followed a lot of new RSS feeds lately, but possibly they’ve improved over the past 3 – 5 years.

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#reply via reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #discourse cw? #long post