ribbed.lights.blipped

I’m planning to leave by the time Tumblr pulls the trigger on itself with the porn and nudity ban on the 17th. The next week will see a flood of stuff that’s been in my queue, and then that’s unexpectedly it, I think, for my time with Tumblr.

I’ve been blogging here continually since August 2007 in a few different channels and appreciated, for so long, the unfiltered nature of the platform… there’s art, sex, humor, politics, appreciation, sadness… beautiful thoughts and beautiful imagery from beautiful souls. Unless you were an absolute bastard, you didn’t worry about being “Zucc’d” for sharing something human, artistic, relevant, or real. It was all here.

This, my very own core blog that I started Tumblr with, never spread widely (I never pushed it like my other channels, which carry 15k followers between them)… it’s peculiar and eclectic and how I like it. My interests over the decade were along the avenues of the macabre, fabulous, and artistic and, holy shit!!1!, occasionally non-classical-art nudity and sex and female-presenting-nipples (and more than a few butts) were a part of the appreciation. It’s no big deal when you’re an actual person living in the world, you know?

Anyway. I won’t bother curating with the looming hassle of censorship under that vague recurring idea of a “community” who, by nature of having pearls to clutch and cynical “standards” to enforce, wasn’t ever mine. I invite them to live happily in their gardens while I tend to my own. Alas, this place is being suited just for them now, not us anymore. This is a different space now, one that WILL tell me “Oh… you can’t share THAT. We won’t let anyone see it.”

I may still check in here for the art and beauty (but not directly/ mostly though RSS) for a while but will be haunted with wondering at what’s missing, what share crossed too far into an arbitrary moderation DMZ and is forever hidden from anyone’s view, what images were second-guessed and never put forward at all due to a censorship-induced prudence.

RIP Ribbed.Lights.Blipped @ Tumblr