Venusberg

I hope this helps!

1100s

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (S.A. Chakraborty)

1300s

The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)

She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan)

1480s

Servant of the Underworld (Aliette de Bodard)

1490s

The Bird King (G. Willow Wilson)

1600s

The Familiar (Leigh Bardugo)

1800s

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Susanna Clark)

His Majesty’s Dragon (Naomi Novik)

1830s

Babel (R.F. Kuang)

1840s

Under the Pendulum Sun (Jeannette Ng)

1870s

The Conductors (Nicole Glover)

1880s

The Gilded Wolves (Roshani Chokshi)

1900s

Ghost Talkers (Mary Robinette Kowal)

1910s

A Master of Djinn (P. Djèlí Clark)

When the Tides Held the Moon (Vanessa Vida Kelley)

1920s

Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

The Monsters We Defy (Lesley Penelope)

1930s

Siren Queen (Nghi Vo)

1940s

Trouble the Saints (Alaya Dawn Johnson)

1950s

When Women Were Dragons (Kelly Barnhill)

1960s

Dionysus in Wisconsin (E.H. Lupton)

1970s

Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

—Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

Averil Mary‏ Burleigh, 1883-1949

Nymphs in a birch wood, n/d, watercolour and gouache over pencil on paper, 22.5x18.3 cm

 Hi.

When tumblr deleted my blog originally it was quite strange, with them suddenly censoring every picture in a  flurry of administrative activity. The last day i would get a notice of adult content literally every 30 seconds before my blog disappeared, It didn’t matter what the picture was, Edward Hopper, some birds, a picture of a butterfly, it was all adult according to them. This happened to others on a level that seemed far more mild. I would google my blog and find tumblrs where the only content that had been censored was mine, Some people said it was the open letter I wrote to tumblr about their polices that afforded me this special treatment, but I have no idea.

I had backed up a lot of stuff but i was unable to repost it here because it was all marked adult. That’s 40K pictures I had but i was unable to reblog.

Since there was still a lot of my content around, I eventually started posting infrequently again. Lots of my gifs and some other stuff was still making the rounds.

This week it’s all gone, purged from tumblr in a move that tumblr will never admit to because they don’t mention it. Here’s a link  to my popular and PG gif from La belle Noiseuse. Invisible.

I see pictures 10 years old from other deleted bogs but you wont find things from mine anymore. My very PG gif from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, gone. My letter to tumblr, gone. The censored stuff in my queue that I mostly can’t post is there but nothing on the tumblr anymore. When tumblr starts deleting your text posts, it’s time to go.

For whatever reason tumblr wants me gone, and that’s fine. People have been writing asking why I deleted stuff that was on their tumblrs, and sorry everyone, it’s not me.

Tumblr should admit to purging blogs selectively, but I suspect they never will. Never have they admitted previous mistakes or fixed them.

Trump fired the Iraq war vet and lifelong Republican by tweet on Nov 9, 2020.

Here’s the real reason:

Why I am not coming back to tumblr

(First of all: follow me on https://twitter.com/Marsfotografo if you like daily uncesored photo posts)

Recently, tumblr realized that its step back into medieval “Facebook times” with strict censorship of all beautiful nudity was, if not a sad suicide attempt, then at least a dramatic case of idiotic self-harm. It therefore recently announced  that nudity was allowed again and “invited” artists to rescue tumblr from its agony with their work.

I actually considered returning to tumblr even though they had intentionally destroyed my years of work especially on my other two blogs (and the work of many other artists). Before doing so, however, I wanted my posts restored that tumblr had censored in the dark ages of its anti-nipple delirium.

I therefore appealed the perfectly innocuous photos first, about 10 posts. After just a few hours, I received notification for all of them that after “careful review” it was determined violating the community rules. They added “Don’t worry, this post hasn’t been deleted, it is just hidden from public view”. I don’t know if I should take that as ironic or as sarcastic.

Not a single one of these pictures is sexual in any way. I have deliberately appealed only those photos that have no sexual message whatsoever and that do not show any ambiguous or “inviting” poses, and certainly no intimate parts. Nevertheless…

Running a beautiful, meaningful blog that followers enjoy is a lot of work. Work that I was happy to take on when tumblr was still a free platform that also allowed non-orthodox artists to connect with people who enjoy their work. But I’m not willing to give my time and work to save a drifting platform that bullies its creatives with absurd rules and tries to re-educate them. I don’t want to post good humor with the risk that some diehard will censor that post.

For inane junk, there’s already Facebook and Instagram, where you can check out the latest hamburger menus before and after digesting by nipple-free plastic creatures. Tumblr isn’t necessary for this and in this respect at the moment no longer has a raison d'être for me.

Right now for artists who don’t want to abide by nudity-phobic rules, only Twitter remains.

There I post several uncensored pictures every day. My account is still relatively small, even though more than 2000 new followers have joined since August 2022.