supercorp rise

hey friends, so i’ve been on tumblr in one form or another since 2009. i’ve seen them go through just about every change and god awful phase of the website imaginable. i remember when i started using tumblr and there were rolling blackouts on the servers that would make your dashboard inaccessible for hours at a time, and how that was just the norm. i remember when there was a purge of lgbt tags. i remember every failed feature they’ve added and taken away. but what’s happening right now is by in large the most fucked up thing they’ve done, and as yesterday passed and we found out more info on the changes, it pretty much just got worse. purging of lgbt tags and other tags like chronic illness, no more custom themes, posts that are sfw being flagged in mass (many of which will simply never be reviewed as i’m sure a lot of those blogs aren’t even active anymore, and they’ll just be gone permanently). this is so much more far reaching than removing nsfw content from the site - which is a big enough of a deal on its own.

#just not fucking.#I can live with that.#honestly this is slightly irritating but not ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’

ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers. 

I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.

The entirety of the chronic pain tag is gone.

And now a warning about drafts

Like. I’m a firm believer that porn online shouldn’t be within kids reach (those “are you 18” checkboxes for life) but. Like. Ok first of all, just ban cp? It’s not hard? Cp is what got you into this mess just ban it. Second of all, you could increase the age of sign-up from 13 to 18. Third of all, you could do what deviantart does and just. Require birthdays at sign-up. If your blog is flagged as nsfw, you can’t interact with minors. You want to follow an nsfw blog? Prove you’re an adult. You’re an adult but don’t want to see nsfw content? Safe search (that actually works).

“Jessica has a forehead scar from the deep end of a pool. I ask Jessica what drowning feels like and she says not everything feels like something else.”

In honor of Supergirl flying an entire building up in the air while encased in Nth metal on tonight’s episode, I would like to remind everyone that Kara was once unable to fly out of a big box of quicksand. I don’t know what to tell you. It was really good quicksand.