Metal and Magic

obviously a deal hasn’t been made yet, but the company is very openly wanting to buy tumblr and if that happens i’m removing all my art from this website, and depending on any changes they make i’ll likely just leave the site completely. i for one was enjoying the nsfw ban and less bots…….

after the nsfw ban awhile back pornhub was encouraging artists to post their digital art to their site because it was ~welcomed~ and everyone then found out their tos/agreement is a nightmare and they basically own everything on their sites owned by mindgeek and could do what they wanted with your art/potentially profit off of it. also, again, i do not want my art associated with a porn company. at all.

https://twitter.com/JoshConstine/status/1124067515167059968

So December 17th is the “Log Off” Protest, to protest Tumblr’s new ban on nsfw content, and the horribly incompetent way they’ve attempted to implement this new ban. But many of us have the tumblr app, and mindlessly open it without thinking. Others have queues going and cannot pause them (which would be a cool xkit feature, hint hint), so here’s some tips I’ve gathered to help make this protest as effective as we can!

don’t actually delete the app from your devices. since it isn’t on the app store, it will be extremely difficult to get back (if you so choose)

you don’t have to actually physically log off, just as long as you don’t visit the site or the app. if logging off makes it easier to avoid tumblr then, like. go for it lmao

if you mindlessly click on the tumblr app (or are worried you will), then move the app somewhere where it isn’t easily accessible, like the second page of a folder. out of sight, out of site, right?? ahahaha… ahem, sorry

if you are like me and continuously fill up your queue to it’s max amount, you have limited options and none of them are great. 

you can delete every post from your queue, which sucks. especially if you are like me and keep your queue filled, because I have 279 posts in my queue and deleting them all just to retag them and draft them would be Hell

OR, if your queue auto-posts more than once a day, you can change it to once a day. maybe even set it to post at like? 1am or something? which still sucks but it’s less of a hassle and more effective than doing nothing, right? right.

don’t just go dark on all social media! posting on other websites show tumblr and the company that owns it (Verizon, I think??) that what they are implementing is Extremely Not Good, and that the decrease of activity is ONLY on tumblr, so it’s clear what is the cause of the decrease. If you can, make sure to mention anywhere else you post that you are posting there instead of tumblr because of the protest, like using the twitter hashtag #logoffprotest, or something idk

the protest starts at 12am EST, which means 9pm PST. (If you don’t know what time that means for you, or what timezone you are in, google it to be sure). That means me in California, for instance, will actually begin the protest at 9pm on the 16th. This also means that the protest ends at 9pm on the 17th, but just because I’m weird and petty, I’m not going to log in again until 9am on the 18th

So apparently I`m the only one who ships them, I don`t understand! just look at them! they are perfect! Grillby`s made of fire and mettaton is solid iron! He can totally play with fire and won`t burn! 

For @celestial-weiner-dog

Happy Birthday Feli Darling~ 💖

Uncensored version under the cut…