Beautifully Bound

Tidbits from a practice session with AliceTheWolfe before the Boston intensive 9/17/18

“Generally, Tumblr allows users to create blogs, share content they like (typically images or text posts), and build communities around subjects that matter most to them — from fandoms to health and fitness to sexual preferences. The ease at which users can anonymously collect, curate, and experience the things that turn them on has led Tumblr to become a safe place for queer women to explore their sexuality, often for the very first time. Searching tags like “softcore” or “fingering” would yield  pages of porn GIFs, sensual black and white images, videos, erotic fiction, fanart, and more. And while there’s plenty of porn on the internet, the adult content on Tumblr was often sensual and intimate, focused more on desire — a radical shift from what’s typically available on explicit porn sites like PornHub. Though made-for-women porn sites exist and are growing in number, many are membership-based or have inhibiting pay walls. Tumblr quickly became the place where women could easily explore what turns them on and discover sexual content that didn’t feel alienating or degrading.”

It’s about finding an audience for that content.  It’s about having that content be where the people already are.  It’s about that content living aside the rest of the human experience, rather than shoved into some pornographic corner of the web.

I think Vex said it best on Twitter – https://twitter.com/vextape/status/1069644816202547200

That’s the reason I put up with Instagram, even though they’ve disabled one of my accounts and have obnoxious rules.  The audience is there.  With an audience, I can find people to collaborate with.

Tumblr has its problems, for sure, but there’s a decently strong audience here.  I have almost 50k followers myself. I’ve lamented recently that the majority of that audience feels like bots and faceless consumers rather than “real” people, but it’s still an audience.

Tell me which platform you’d like to start following me on when Tumblr shuts me down. Twitter, Instagram (no nipples), private blog, somewhere else????? Comment below

Tell me which platform you’d like to start following me on when Tumblr shuts me down. Twitter, Instagram (no nipples), private blog, somewhere else????? Comment below