What's the point of coining terms that people can use if they can't be archived? Disallowing them to be reposted means you don't respect archival efforts and don't care if your terms vanish when something happens to your blog.
Separate ask: I'm reposting your stuff anyway. Archiving queer history is more important than your feelings.
Okay, anon. I'm going to splice your messages in pieces to sound more coherent.
It's so unbelievably clear to me that you don't respect coiners or their boundaries. This is ignorance to boundaries and you're not slick for it.
You're kind of people and beings are the bane of our existence in this community. A lot of you say you respect others and then regardless do shit like this. (The last bit is not specifically towards anon, as anon never specified anything about respect and going behind someone's back. But there are folks who do this, I know.)
I do somewhat understand where you're coming from, I do, believe it or not, but I am not going to change or apologize for our boundaries on not wanting our stuff reposted. I am not going to reword our boundaries just because you're pissy about them or allow you to get off with a deletion of your anon asks.
I feel the need to say that k do not coin for others. I could for us, our whole collective m, the members who do coin also coin for themselves primarily. For all I care, I could put our stuff to be non rebloggable if I wanted it to be this way.
"what's the point of coining terms that people can use if they can't be archived?"
I've never said not to archive our stuff, just said not to archive them on websites like Pinterest or wikies. You can archive them, again, we have never said not to archive our stuff. But just do it off site that is not Pinterest or alike for fucks sake, for the following reasoning;
Pinterest is a cess pool of uncredited shit that is also used to train AI and often reposted without the consent of those who have made something for others to enjoy (the works are often reposted without their knowledge as well.).
Some wikis (not all) do stuff without consent as well and often I've found that they don't properly credit and they also change the wording and definitions of terms which renders them either completely different and as new terms under the same name.
Within our boundaries we have stated that you can add our stuff off site archives and collections, but not on public sites. Most for the reasons stated above.
"disallowing them to be reposted means you don't respect archival efforts and don't care if your terms vanish when something happens to your blog."
We do understand and respect archivists and archival efforts of queer history. We are an archivist within the Tumblr liomoqai community; we don't speak about it much, it doesn't matter in our eyes (speaking about who is and who is not at the helm or the admin of a certain archive, etc.). Our most prominent archives that we have and (that are publicly stated to be ours) we still draft posts to are @archive-of-music & @whumpous , we have a lot more archive we draft to that haven't been publically stated to be ours but if you're in the mogai archivecord, you very well know what else our collective is the sole owners of.
Besides, we have been in the process of archiving our own terms to the wayback machine & archive.today to prevent anything (other than drafts and queue) to be lost. But that is a big project because we've been coining for two years almost non stop and there're over 1.2k term posts on our blog. We do our own archival, we have our own notion archive for our own blogs.
Again, I do respect archival and I have nothing against it, most prominently because I am an archiver as well. /However/, I do not respect people and beings who break boundaries for the hell of it and make it fucking known and are rude in the process about it all. And while we cannot do anything about folks and beings archiving our stuff outside of Tumblr on public sites when it's done behind our back. However, giving us two anons about this helps us to just block your IP btw. These anons you sent were stupid enough, but you were also stupid enough to give us a way to directly blog your Tumblr so you cannot send us anons anymore. I'd be surprised to get a non anon ask about this next, means you've got more nerve than those who only sent stuff on anon.
We have in the past contemplated deleting Tumblr and our coining blogs during episodes of stress and anxiety, I'll admit. Especially when that stress has induced paranoia symptoms for us over Tumblr and this blog. We know the risks of blogs vanishing and history being lost, we know that. And you're not helping anyone, anon.
But we're still here regardless of what's been going through our offline life and unless this blog gets physically deleted by the goddamn Staff of Tumblr themselves it's going to stay up for all we care.
"I'm reposting your stuff anyway. Archiving queer history is more important than your feelings."
it sets us off in a more visceral way than emotionally, anon. Our boundaries are not there because it hurts our feelings and I loathe that you put them down to be as such. they're there because we're mentally ill and this kind of shit could end with us stopping from coining completely and then nobody gets to enjoy anything then.
It makes us anxious and stressed to come across our terms on sites like Pinterest because we don't know if there's more happening, if we're being judged for our coined things, if people and beings harbor something against us for reposting our things in spite of our boundaries or for our terms as the creator of them. Then there's the whole thing about not having credit back to us anywhere that bothers us with Pinterest archival. Especially when we do not know about it beforehand; It's entirely done without our consent or even knowledge.
I was having such a nice night. Anyways, if you, the being reading this post on specific in return, feel aggravated or upset by how we're answering this kind of ask or what we're saying in response to it then I don't think we have the same views and respect for each other. :) just saying. Please get out of our blog.
