RP blog for a Dark Souls original character.
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Mun is of legal age.
M!A: None.
Current status: Temporary hiatus (still lurking though)
pass the happy! 🌻🌈 when you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications!
(OuO Good morning!)
1. Listening to good music never fails to brighten my mood!
2. Making actual progress in drafts makes me pretty happy!
3. Being with friends, even though I’m the quiet guy of the crew. I just… like people, what can I say?
4. Watching good character development happen, be it in others’ work or my own.
5. Seeing what people reply to my threads! That… hasn’t happened in far too long, seeing as now THEY’re waiting for me… I should do something about that.
Here’s the thing: even if you aren’t someone who enjoys nsfw material, I think we can all agree that this blanket ban is ridiculous and a completely ass-backwards way of going about fixing a problem that SHOULD have been taken care of over a year ago…
Not only is the wording of their announcement incredibly vague and, frankly, highly offensive / misogynistic (“ female-presenting nipples “ more than implying that women’s bodies are inherently sexual and offensive and need to be censored. ) , but the algorithm they’re using for it is so badly constructed that it’s been flagging everything left and right, regardless of content. ( Pictures of kittens / landscapes / and even rp text posts… ) They’re axeing blogs. There’s minimal, if any, human oversight of any of it… and the only way to really ‘ appeal ‘ , that I currently know of, is to go through and actively request a review for each individual post. On one of my rp blogs, alone, I have over 11000 posts. That’s not even feasible… and I think staff knows this.
For me, tumblr has been a safe haven… one of the first places that ever made me feel good about my sexuality in an extremely conservative IRL community. It’s the place I’ve spent years improving my writing, building worlds and characters that I am so proud of… and not only that, I’ve connected to some of my closest friends through this site. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s come to view this place — even with all of it’s undeniable issues — as something of a safe haven. An escape from the world… where we could just be, create stories together, support eac other, and form bonds over our love of creativity. But, in the blink of an eye, that could all be wiped away by the staff’s utter incompetence and disregard for their users.
By all means, I whole-heartedly agree that the pornbots and cp NEEDS TO GO. But, this is not the way to do it. Not by a long shot.
And, @staff, I doubt you’re listening, but on the off chance, allow me to offer some alternatives to nuking your entire site and running your profits into the Earth’s inner core: Honestly, just stop the bleeding, first, then work your way in… Make it harder for pornbots to be created / post content. Make a better filtering system for your already existing SAFE MODE for those who want it. Make a better algorithm for detecting these bots and have actual human moderation of said algorithms and the content they’re flagging… don’t just flag and delete without a second glance. Just do something that will actually work / WON’T lose you your entire stock. Because what you’re doing right now, as maybe you’ve gathered, yourself, isn’t going to do ANYTHING but drive people away and run you out of business.
According to the new Guidelines,written content is allowed. This means NSFW stories or roleplay won’t be banned.
The Safe Mode won’t exist anymore. You will have to manually block content you do not wish to see.
While the update mentions “artistic nudity” is allowed, it goes out of its way to specify illustrations that depict sex acts may be affected.
You will be notified when and if your content is flagged: the E-mail will include a form to appeal if your post has been targeted by error. Be sure to check your E-Mail if you suspect something might happen to your blog.
Blogs market as explicit won’t be taken down. However, their content may be removed. Moreover, their icons and banner will be reverted to default settings.
The post will be updated when more details are available.
So, to clarify what’s going to happen, here’s a handy checklist:
What will happen
Images of real-life nudity will be flagged
Flagged posts will be only viewable by the poster and nobody else
Flagged posts can be appealed and fixed if done so by mistake
That’s it
What will not happen
Blogs will not be indiscriminately deleted
Posts will not be indiscriminately deleted
Written smut will not intentionally be flagged
Illustrated or otherwise artistic nudity will not intentionally be flagged
Tumblr’s RP community, SFW or otherwise, will not implode upon itself
(There’s a thing I’ve read in the guidelines about “Depictions of sex”, which I’m not sure about how far they’re going to take it. Other than that, OP summed it up pretty well.)
You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.
We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Todaywe take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.
The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment.
Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.
If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.
Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality.
If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content.
You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.
You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.
You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.
Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!
We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.
And if we’re getting all our content blocked?
You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.
You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.
So do whatever you can to help us stop this.
Reblog this.
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE
Today, from 16h30 to 18h00, then from 20h00 to the wee hours of the morn (or until I get tired), Eastern Standard Time (GMT-4) I will be live over at twitch.tv/duskclaw224 playing the latest Call of Cthulhu game. Will you join me as we delve into the depths of depravity and madness?
It will be a… “relaxed” first stream of mine (as relaxed as can be while playing a horror game). Nothing fancy, but I hope those of you that do drop by will enjoy their stay!
(I will resume playing in 15 minutes, at 20:00 EST (GMT-4). We should be getting into more interesting stuff now! Feel free to settle in and grab a drink in the mean time.)
Today, from 16h30 to 18h00, then from 20h00 to the wee hours of the morn (or until I get tired), Eastern Standard Time (GMT-4) I will be live over at twitch.tv/duskclaw224 playing the latest Call of Cthulhu game. Will you join me as we delve into the depths of depravity and madness?
It will be a… “relaxed” first stream of mine (as relaxed as can be while playing a horror game). Nothing fancy, but I hope those of you that do drop by will enjoy their stay!
(I will resume playing in 15 minutes, at 20:00 EST (GMT-4). We should be getting into more interesting stuff now! Feel free to settle in and grab a drink in the mean time.)
Today, from 16h30 to 18h00, then from 20h00 to the wee hours of the morn (or until I get tired), Eastern Standard Time (GMT-4) I will be live over at twitch.tv/duskclaw224 playing the latest Call of Cthulhu game. Will you join me as we delve into the depths of depravity and madness?
It will be a… “relaxed” first stream of mine (as relaxed as can be while playing a horror game). Nothing fancy, but I hope those of you that do drop by will enjoy their stay!
(As planned, I am taking a break until 8pm to eat and let my neurones rest a little. Not much has happened thus far outside just investigating, but we will enter the warehouse soon.)
