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Pillowfortis an alternative to tumblr. You can post art, gifsets, photos, metas, etc. Butit’s MUCH more organized and better developed than tumblr.

Here aresome more reasons why Pillowfort is better than tumblr:

Security. Thewebsite is currently offline because of a security threat. Unlike tumblr, assoon as they noticed a flaw in their security they decided to take the wholething down rather than jeopardize its user’s I safety. They also werecompletely honest about what was happening and why. That’s the kind ofintegrity I respect.

Threaded conversations.You can have long discussion without clogging everyone’s dashboard.

Fan Communities.we can organize ourselves in groups to talk about our interests. Instead ofhaving multiple accounts, we can simply join different groups. Example: @flaminganakin​ created one for fans of the Skywalker family (SkywalkerFamily Feels).

You can controlwho can see your posts. When you post something you can decide to make it public,private or just for a select group of users (only mutuals or only followers).

No wank. Theyhave a strict guideline that forbids any sort of tumblr’s most toxic behavior (nocallouts posts, no shamming, no hate speech, etc.)

Blacklist.A blacklist/blocking system that actually works.

Editingposts. When you delete/edit it will affect ALL the reblog. On Tumblr if youdelete a post it will only disappear from your own blog. On pillowfort it will disappearfrom the website.

No adds.Pillowfort is funded by its users.  

No pornbots.

Apparently Shiwo nd Keef holding hands is 2 spicy 4 tungle.hell

Anyway even if this has been a sfw blog, I’m jumping ship because I hate mass-censorship online and really don’t have any desire to hang on a site that is “family-oriented” or for children.

Y’all can catch me over on Pillowfort as Eyofin, and I highly encourage anyone who wants a fun fandom experience to check it out. You have to pay $5, but I think that’s a good thing for three reasons:

1. It makes the users the consumers. We are the ones that pillowfort is aiming to please, rather than bending over backwards to ride the dicks of advertising companies to make money. No reason for non-chronological timelines and bullshit algorithms that screws over everyone but corporations. User feedback and improving user satisfaction becomes a much higher priority.

2. $5 paywall is going to filter out a lot of the kiddos. I’ve whined for a while on my other tumblr account about how I hate the whole “think of the children” crusade when it comes to policing online fandom content. I’d be more than happy to find a space for like-minded adults to enjoy our fandoms in peace, and having to pay a little bit of cash will help ensure that no 10 y/o can just wander in and face ”””””corruption””””” from fandom content.

3. Paywall inherently prevents pornbot and spam account problems. No worries about your tag being flooded with garbage. Nobody can make throwaway accounts. You’re inherently invested in the one account you pay for, which will help hold users just a little more accountable. It’ll hurt a lot more if people do shitty stuff that gets them banned because they can’t just make another without spending more cash. 

 My twitter, also Eyofin.

(warning: my twitter is mostly a personal rantfest on a regular day, but I’m going to try and post more art on it)

No, but I think you’ve been manipulated by Tumblr’s “EVERYTHING MUST BE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND ON MY OWN TIMELINE OR THE DEVS/SHOW RUNNERS ARE TERRIBLE AND FAKE ALLIES”. 

Blizzard made their face of Overwatch - an AAA game - gay. Openly gay. The writer shot down people on Twitter who tried to contest it. That is the very opposite of queer baiting. 

I’m disappointed they haven’t confirmed the second character yet, too - but one of my best friends works for an AAA studio so I know there can be a lot of friction between the ‘play’ devs and the ‘lore’ devs (or similar teams). Overwatch is by far and large designed to be a play game. eSports, the actual game, etc. It’s not really a story game and so we need to realise that the story parts of the game will get FARRRRRR less resources than any other part. When they release heroes, what they design, etc, will depend on what balance the play part of the game needs. Lore will always play distant second fiddle to this. 

People saying things like “THIS OTHER GAME DID GAY BETTER!! THIS OTHER GAME DID THIS!” are probably pointing to a story game, with more capacity to develop characters and release content as the story requires. 

I say this as someone who’s been playing video games for 25 years and WISHING for the sort of representation Overwatch has: Overwatch is a fucking gift. You guys don’t know how lucky you are, being in an era where you feel free to demand and expect diverse content from studios. It’s new, and it’s heartening that it exists, but honestly, I wish people had some perspective and some appreciation for how great it is that you can be like, “Excuse me, Blizzard, this huge amount of representation you’ve already given us is not enough, we want more and better!” Because, even though it’s completely true and they could do better (and have even said they’ll do more and better), it’s fantastic what they’ve already done.

Let’s not forget to reflect on the fact they responded to our request for different body types for the women, they gave us a gay character, they let the fandom pressure the lore team to reveal more about Pharah’s backstory, there’s a nonbinary character with they/them pronouns, they acknowledged there was an issue with Talon being mostly PoC, etc, etc. Yes, they can do better - for example, we’re still waiting on that long-promised black woman - and you can respectfully deliver them that feedback. But even with those things considered, they’ve already done fucking great. 

Overwatch is trying to be diverse far more than other games of its platform have up until this point, and yes, sometimes it misses the mark, but the idea of just tossing it and everything it’s achieved for representation already aside just because I haven’t received my promised second queer character is…. mmm. Well, people are welcome to discard games for any reason they see fit, but I think unilaterally declaring the game made by FAKE ALLIES BLIZZARD is shown a huge lack of perspective and appreciation. 

Blizzard aren’t fake allies. Can they do better? Sure. Is the game perfect? No, but absolutely nothing is. There will never be a perfect game made. You will live and die waiting for the ‘perfect’ game to exist: and even if you find your perfect game, someone else will be hurt by it, disappointed in it and hate it.