Tumblr Blackout

[kiraly]

It's a few hours early, but I went ahead and logged out of my Tumblr account until December 17th is over. I don't know how much good it'll do - I don't really know how widespread it'll be, or if the douchebags in charge of that site will pay it any mind. It seems like they're already set on their shitty nipple ban and their shitty algorithm to enforce it, so we'll see what happens.

Anyway, the plan is to hang out on here, twitter, and the Synchronised Screaming writers chat for the duration of the 17th. If nothing else, it'll be a good dry run for the worst-case scenario of "Tumblr goes away forever". I won't deny that I'm attached to that site in a way that probably borders on addiction; I'll definitely miss it if it goes away. But I'm hoping to be able to stay connected to the friends I've made there no matter what happens.

For something more cheerful - if you're reading this, maybe hit me up with random life questions or fandom questions or writing prompts? Or tell me a random fact about yourself that I don't know? I know I'm not connected to a lot of people on Dreamwidth, but it'd be cool to get to know the people I am connected to a bit better. :)

Comments

Re: /floating in from Explore->Latest

[kiraly]

Yeah, it was a shame. I'll admit I haven't actually gone looking to see if someone archived it, knowing fandom I wouldn't be terribly surprised. (And I can understand the reasons for it being taken down - lots of traditional publishers don't seem to know what to do with webcomics, so it was probably a contractual thing. But still sad.)

Ha! Small world indeed. I follow the artist on Tumblr and I remember seeing lots of stuff about TF2 back in the day.

Re: /floating in from Explore->Latest

[hebethen]

Oh, man, that made me anxiety-check to see if Digger still had everything. Bless indie publishers, it does.

The "big five" really do seem draconian. You know they took down most of Ursula K. Le Guin's blog posts when her posthumous essay collection came out? Not just on her self-hosted blog, but lots if not all of her posts at the Book View Cafe group blog.

Re: /floating in from Explore->Latest

[kiraly]

Oh no, that's awful! I'm glad to see that a lot of smaller publishers are starting to get better about that (I think I've seen a couple of webcomics published in physical form by First Second that are still online, for instance). But yeah, the bigger traditional publishers seem to still be...very traditional about that kind of thing. Hopefully they'll start to come around - living in a world with the internet at our fingertips should mean we have more access to information, not less.

Also heck yes Digger! I should really go reread that one of these days. It's always strangely thrilling to me to see how Ursula Vernon's career has progressed - I followed her on deviantart way back in the day because she was drawing bizarre and interesting things, and now her books are on the shelf at my library. It's kind of magical!