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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.

The time has finally arrived - I opened a Patreon!

More than a few people have asked me from time to time why I don’t have one, and the truth was, I didn’t want to do it until I felt like I could do something cool with it.

After the success of #Suptober and the incredible experience I had with all the amazing artists and friends here, I decided it was time to go for it. I wanted to have a separate place to try to keep the good art vibes rolling, so, depending on the tier level you sub to, you get some cool extra things I don’t usually do like: 

Get automatically entered in a twice-yearly drawing for a free commission 

get access to exclusive NSFW destiel art 

submit prompts 

see WIPs

print-quality downloads

And a ton more. This is a very Destiel-centered home, but you can bet there’ll be plenty of portraits and prompts of different kinds along the way. This is just the beginning !!!!

Check it out, and consider becoming a patron. But don’t feel like you have to!!! I’ll still post art here as always. This is just some extra exclusive cool shit! 

“Hold your breath”

Thanks to @castielsgal for giving us permission to use her beautiful art!  All fic links go to our tagged reviews.

A Beginner’s Guide to Communing with the Dead by suspiciousflashlight [M, 77,200 word count]

Maybe it’s the little girl whose disappearance turned into a murder, and whose murder turned into a cold case, and who has now apparently decided to move in with him. Maybe it’s the unacceptable hole left in his life when his dumb best friend and partner in (the prevention of) crime decided to go and get himself killed. Maybe it’s his brother, whose high-profile career and fantastic girlfriend and first-child-on-the-way are steadily leaving Dean in the dust. Pick one. Pick all of them. The why doesn’t matter so much as the what, and the what is this: Dean is pretty sure he’s going completely, certifiably insane. Sure, he hasn’t started wearing all his clothes inside out, and he still showers on a regular basis (anyways, that’s not crazy, just a little eccentric); but there’s no getting around the fact that he just threw away his life, his career, and his reputation by dragging out his mom’s old necromancy book and summoning a Class A Forbidden Entity to his attic. A cranky one, too. With horrendous bed-head.

A Soliloquy for Two by inferification [M, 30,500 word count]

In the year 2502AD, Dean Winchester escapes the clutches of the medical research company Revelation Industries and its director, Alastair, with an angel calling itself Castiel stuck in his head. As he flees Alastair, he works on a way to get Castiel a body of his own, preferably the one with huge, black wings that he came from, while battling with himself to regain some semblance of normalcy. He recruits Charlie, his long-time friend, and Benny, the customized AI of his spaceship, a Beta-Class 2Y5-IMPALA, to help him on his mission across space.

Aurora Borealis by unoshot [T, 26,500 word count]

The prompt was, “SPN/The Last Unicorn: Cas as the Unicorn (tho ‘angel’ would actually work in this instance) and Dean as Prince Lir. Sam would make a pretty good Schmendrick imo, but still be Dean’s brother, but left home instead of feeding into the insanity of their deranged father. John could be Haggard, or even the YED could be a stepdad who murdered their parents or something equally as sinister. And now he’s collecting unicorns (or angels, if the author chooses) and Castiel is the last, who Dean falls head over heels for when Cas is turned human.”

Carnival Oasis series by violue [NC-17, 43,300 word count]  

The adventures of Dean Winchester and his sin eating boyfriend.

Convenient Husbands by scaramouche [NC-17, 39,000 word count]

“It’s only temporary, right?” Dean says. “Just until you’re healed up, and then we’ll never have to see each other again. So what do you say, Castiel, do you want to marry me or not?”

Fairy Verse by cloudyjenn [M, 15,300 word count]

Castiel is a fairy. Dean is a visiting human prince looking for a political marriage.

The Marshland trilogy by shipperslist [NC-17, 28,800 word count]

This trilogy is the story of Dean the Alpha and Castiel the omega, who also happens to be a will-o’-the-wisp.

Metaphysical Gravity by zoemathemata [NC-17, 79,000 word count]

This is a retelling of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Vampire Castiel Collins is awakened from his tomb by down-on-his-luck author Chuck Shurley. With Chuck’s help [and blood] Castiel sets out to make a life for himself in Collinsport, restoring his old home and hopefully being reunited with the reincarnation of his former lover, Dean Winchester.

Pulling Out The Nails by todisturbtheuniverse [T, 58,200 word count]

Dean Winchester is the last general of a failing Resistance, and Castiel is the djinni sent to assassinate him. Given Castiel’s rebellious history, his master should have known better than to put him within a hundred miles of Dean. Together, they hatch a last desperate plan to end the tyranny of the magicians, and despite their obvious differences, find a peculiar salvation in one another. (The Bartimaeus Sequence AU.)

True as It Can Be by whelvenwings [NC-17, 72,000 word count]

Growing up in a small town in Kansas, Dean learned from a young age that there was only one rule that couldn’t be broken, one place he couldn’t go - through the forest, to the long-abandoned Angel’s Hollow. But when Sam disappears, Dean’s left with no choice but to follow his brother’s tracks through the dangers of the wood; little does he know that the most dangerous creature of all lurks not among the trees, but in the Hollow itself. Dean sets Sam free, at the cost of his own liberty - and, bound by magic, resigns himself to living out the rest of his days in the Hollow, at the mercy of the being within. The angel of Angel’s Hollow, however, has a story - is a prisoner, too, as much as Dean is. Only one thing can free them both - but it is impossible. For, after all: who could ever learn to love a beast?

What Once Was Sacred by saltandbyrne [NC-17, 55,800 word count]

Los Angeles detective Dean Winchester works tirelessly to atone for the sins of his father one case at a time. When his best friend Charlie drags him to visit Sam at his new job, Dean stumbles onto a bizarre string of deaths that brings him uncomfortably close to his past. Dean can’t stop thinking about Castiel, an enigmatic DJ who plays the sexiest music Dean’s ever heard. A chance encounter at Castiel’s house reveals that Castiel is an incubus, and Dean must face the lies and the reality of his childhood as a hunter. Dean comes to see that he and Castiel have more in common than he thought, and that guilt can be the hardest thing to cast aside.

Sam tries to fix Castiel’s wings with his own flesh.

Artist Sign-up Extended to September 25

Writer sign-up closed and we have over 50 writers signed up for the first SPN Eldritch Bang! We can’t wait to read all the eerie, creepy, awesome fics.

Now, we want to focus on all of you amazing artists. 

With several events running this fall, we’re extending the artist sign-up to September 25. Fic claims will then take place via Google forms on September 29, starting at 9 am CT.

Each fic will be a minimum of 5k and artists would create one piece of art per fic.

Sign-up form here

We would love to have you aboard!

“You can keep pushing that feeling down, but it does you no good. You already know it by name; that thing that churns your blood, warms your skin. Turns the grays in everything that you see back to the colors they were meant to be.”

Or: “All I’m getting from you is colors.”

A "sketch"

oh, you like? HAAZAHH!! 

If you create any awesome prompted by the generator please link me in it too! and thankyou for sharing the love, you beautiful unicorn, you.

find the DESTIEL PROMPT GENERATOR right here, folks!