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thisbluespirit) wrote2019-01-19 10:19 am
thisbluespirit) wrote2019-01-19 10:19 am
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* It's a ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fic_rush weekend! If you want company, accountability or whatever to cheer you on in your attempts to write fic/letters/essays/do laundry/wrangle penguins, you can drop in at any point until midnight Sunday (GMT), even if only for an hour.
* I have been trying to reconstruct my tumblr here: https://thisbluespirit.tumblr.com/
I've been trying to find reblogs of my stuff and it's so hard to search, because reblogs don't appear in searches, so you have to find someone who may have reblogged it and search their tumblr, and they may or may not have an accessible archive/tags or whatever. And, of course, some stuff was never reblogged and is gone. The worst thing about this is that I have lost half of my Favourite Episodes of Old Telly posts, which would have been the first thing I'd have saved if I'd been deliberately deleting it.
(Also Mariocki found my Favourite Episodes post for "My Life's My Own" for Public Eye and tumblr immediately marked it as blocked adult material, so I had to remake it and repost and then appeal to get it unblocked. Stuff them and their idiot bots! There are some hands in it; they really don't like hands at all, do they? Evil hands!
And, yes, it damn well is adult material! It's a wonderful, grown-up episode of 1960s TV that's progressive, complex and messy and human, well played, well written, and one of the best episodes of any television series I've ever seen. So now they made me angry, even if a bit irrationally.)
fic_rush weekend! If you want company, accountability or whatever to cheer you on in your attempts to write fic/letters/essays/do laundry/wrangle penguins, you can drop in at any point until midnight Sunday (GMT), even if only for an hour.* I have been trying to reconstruct my tumblr here: https://thisbluespirit.tumblr.com/
I've been trying to find reblogs of my stuff and it's so hard to search, because reblogs don't appear in searches, so you have to find someone who may have reblogged it and search their tumblr, and they may or may not have an accessible archive/tags or whatever. And, of course, some stuff was never reblogged and is gone. The worst thing about this is that I have lost half of my Favourite Episodes of Old Telly posts, which would have been the first thing I'd have saved if I'd been deliberately deleting it.
(Also Mariocki found my Favourite Episodes post for "My Life's My Own" for Public Eye and tumblr immediately marked it as blocked adult material, so I had to remake it and repost and then appeal to get it unblocked. Stuff them and their idiot bots! There are some hands in it; they really don't like hands at all, do they? Evil hands!
And, yes, it damn well is adult material! It's a wonderful, grown-up episode of 1960s TV that's progressive, complex and messy and human, well played, well written, and one of the best episodes of any television series I've ever seen. So now they made me angry, even if a bit irrationally.)
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But I'm there again, trying to collect the rags of my former self, as it were.
(Btw, as I am nearly at the end of it, let me say thanks again for the subscription! I've had quite a bit of luck one one side of the family in particular, including one article that managed to tie up an awful lot of loose ends in one go. <3)
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Good luck!
(Oh, you're very welcome! I'm so glad it's been useful to you!)
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The 18th Century fashion blog I was following on tumblr got flagged for posts of fully-clothed 18th Century ladies in big hats, and also for a post of drawings of Marie Antoinette and her siblings as children. They were showing their hands, though, so I suppose it was only to be expected.
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*gives it an extra whack in case that makes it work better*
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They never wanted to become a fandom thing though, so maybe, in a way, this is all intentional. Can't help thinking it's going to cost them in the long run though. And how dare they block Alfred Burke! If they're so anti-hands, how do they do on James Maxwell and his hand-holding?
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They blocked a lot of them too back when it first started! And it would be fair enough to change the rules, even if hard on all the people they actively encouraged to post NSFW stuff on there, but to use a completely rubbish automated system to censor everyone? Crap.
And, yeah, I've wondered if they just want to clear fandom out of there, but they're even more driving away original artists, who were more of their target so who knows? Perhaps they want an excuse to bury the whole site!
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I just note that if you take them literally there should be nothing but children using the site to show off their refrigerator drawings of stick people. Because you're right- ADULT doesn't mean what they're using it to mean.
They aren't censoring illegal images (children in sexual images, e.g.) or 'pornography' (printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.) or 'erotica' (artistic work that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotically stimulating or sexually arousing but is not pornographic), but any image that fits a really bad profiling system based on ... I suspect the boss's private stash of boobs and bobs pics...
Bad idea, thumblr. Bad. (not a typo. they should get their thumb out and fix this mess.)
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Mostly it seems to be bots who think hands are very risque as yet.
Bad idea, thumblr. Bad. (not a typo. they should get their thumb out and fix this mess.)
I get the impression that they think driving us all away would be a feature at this point, so... Fandom found a site worse than LJ turned into and went there! Fandom loves its drama, and tumblr provides in all the ways!
But, yeah. It's crappy censorship and that's not even funny, really.
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If you want a laugh, you can find posts where people show images that were censored- including pics Curiosity took of landscape on Mars, mainstream cartoon characters, abstract shapes, etc.
If it's beige and round and has a darker brown circle inside it- well, that's obviously a 'female presenting nipple' (OMG what a ridiculous thing to say).
Medical braces for people's hands. Picture of leafless trees on a misty morning. Screenshots of a fully dressed person (wearing red jumpsuit) from a TV show.
Historic photos of people- this post just shows a sample. These are GREAT pics.
https://onceuponatown.tumblr.com/post/180776062160/welcome-to-the-bizarre-new-world-of-tumblrs
The actor and Tumblr user Wil Wheaton posted one example: an image search for “beautiful men kissing”, which was flagged as explicit “within 30 seconds of me posting it”.
“These images are not explicit,” Wheaton wrote. “These pictures show two adults, engaging in consensual kissing. That’s it. It isn’t violent, it isn’t pornographic. It’s literally just two adult humans sharing a kiss.”
Other users chronicled flagged posts, including historical images of (clothed) women of colour, a photoset of the actor Sebastian Stan wearing a selection of suits with no socks on, an oil painting of Christ wearing a loincloth, a still of ballet dancers and a drawing of Wonder Woman carrying fellow superhero Harley Quinn. None of the images violate Tumblr’s stated policy.
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https://onceuponatown.tumblr.com/post/180792594070/the-post-about-flagging-has-been-flagged-the
Heads will roll, I say, heads will roll. Or Tumbl as it were. ;^)
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