I have had 3 mineral posts flagged as adult content today. They contained a tourmaline, a muscovite, and a galena. On Friday I had 3 fossil posts flagged as adult content, including a fossil fish, a fossil tooth from a mastodon, and a Tyrannosaur vertebrae. I’ve submitted appeals for each. This has been getting worse over the past month, apparently most of geology content is now only for adults.
Apparently you can’t get your rocks off on Tumblr anymore.
i am contractually obligated to congratulate you on this reply
From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
– archive everything on your blog you want to keep
– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
as some of you may have noticed, i haven’t really been around much the past few months. that’s because i’ve been working as much as i can try and get this guy healthy again.
a little over two years ago, charlie started presenting with intermittent lameness (a limp, in layman’s term) in his front left leg, which has since progressed into a persistent lameness. over the past two years, we’ve done test after test in hopes of diagnosing whatever mystery injury he’s got he can receive the appropriate treatment but so far we haven’t been successful in pin pointing it.
at this point, charlie’s veterinarians have told me that we’ve exhausted all diagnostic avenues except for one: a very costly MRI. with no other diagnostic choices left, i called around to all the large animal hospitals in the state to get quotes, and eventually settled on getting it done at the University of Florida–they quoted the MRI at $2500-2800, way cheaper than anywhere else.
over the past few months i’ve been working as much as i can and saving as much as i can to be able to do this MRI. but it’s been hard. i lost my job over the summer and had to live off of my savings until i found another one, which was a major set back and it’s been hard to get back on my feet where it comes to saving for the MRI. and with my student loans going into primary payment soon, it’s looking like i won’t be able to save enough money any time soon.
so i’m here to ask for help in reaching my $2800 savings goal. so far i’ve saved about $1800, so i have $1000 to go.
it kills me to even ask because charlie is my responsibility, and i should be able to do this for him all on my own. but i can’t and he deserves better than that. charlie is my family in every sense of the word–i’ve had him for almost 8 years and he’s traveled with me from puerto rico, to indiana, to florida. he’s been there for me more than anyone else in this world. and for that i owe him more than i can give.
i know it’s the holiday season so a lot of you are strapped for cash and you guys don’t owe me a single thing. but if you can donate anything at all, even a dollar, here’s a link to my ko-fi and paypal accounts.
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