If this hellsite website gets shut down I will be very disappointed because this is the closest I’ve ever been to popular even though it’s like sitting at the cool table at a mental hospital
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.
Good advice! And let me take this opportunity to let everyone know that I’m 100% ok with you re-uploding my content to other sites. I’ll be extra happy if you let me know where it went and whether anyone’s interacted with it, but it’s not required ^_^
Woke up and I can’t fall back asleep because I’m so honestly scared to jump ship.
I’m like… Afraid of being a twat. I kinda really hate myself and what I do at this point. I find myself cringey. I’m not sure if others would understand why I act the way I do.
I feel like everything I do at this point is an inside joke between me and my followers that I’m a dumb shit. If I just act like that on Twitter it kinda loses meaning and just looks like some undertale cringe weirdo.
Ugh I guess this is how people end up in cringe comps.
Maybe I should just stick to drawing fan art instead of my characters. They’re all just kind of jokes about how stupid I am.
You should be allowed to be yourself because making fun of people for “cringe” is honestly the most immature, cruel thing you can do to a person. I’m autistic, I love Undertale and Undertail, and I play MineCraft. I’m the internet’s favourite KIND of “cringe”. Do ya think I give a fuck even after it’s been said to my face?
Nah fam. You keep doin you cause you’re not hurting anybody and you’re having fun. Fuck ‘em.
I know, I know. I’ve been told this plenty of times by my friends, my husband, even my freakin therapist. Fear of this damn cringe culture has stunted my ability to draw and actually landed me back in therapy, and it’s yet to even fuckin FIND me. I *SHOULD* have no reason to be freaking out over dumb shit like this. But I *AM* because despite my love for the internet, I know it’ll do just about anything for a cheap laugh.
And I won’t lie, it’s mostly because of the UT fandom. I won’t go too much into detail with my experiences, but I see myself as a freakin number now. A typical face in a hoard. “Oh another porn blog with disgusting skeletons on it.” I’ve NEVER been told this by ANYONE but myself, but my head won’t stop screaming at me. The internet has made it very clear: “YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY ABOUT THIS, OR YOU ARE ‘A BAD FAN’”.
And that mentality has just kinda seeped onto everything I used to enjoy. Everything I draw, the way I draw, my hobbies, my interests, my sex life, my relationships… “YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY, OR YOU ARE BAD.”
I haven’t felt inspired or happy while drawing in 2 years. Every single request you guys have sent me has been so hard. And it’s suffocating when you keep demanding more, but I can’t blame you or hold you responsible for the way I feel. I don’t want to disappoint you. And no matter what I do, I’m disappointing SOMEBODY.
How the fuck do I move on like this? How the fuck am I supposed to improve as a human being? As an artist? How the fuck do I face Twitter being what I am right now? I either suck it up and bite the bullet, or I change everything and hope to god I can find happiness by abandoning what most of you follow me for.
I’m sorry for ranting and leaving a bigass wall of text. I just can’t hide all this shit under memes and garbage comics anymore.
TL;DR: My dick stood up when it saw Papyrus and it destroyed my entire life 😂
Dude, you’re allowed to change to better yourself. That’s something Tumblr loves to kill, the idea of actually getting better mentally and changing for yourself.
People who truly appreciate you and your art will stick around. And with Tumblr being the cesspool it is, it’s probably best that you DO change from what Tumblr has you pinned as and how it’s made you see yourself.
You shouldn’t be sacrificing your mental health and happiness for strangers that are going to critisize every little thing you do.
I know it’s hard, but you’ll be a lot happier when you start doing things for yourself. Yeah some people won’t like it but they don’t know shit about you and have no control over you and your life.
Change for yourself, hun. Because if anyone tries to tell you to stay how you are because it’s what THEY like better even though they know it’s killing you, then they aren’t worth your time, followers or not. Any decent human being should respect when an artist or anyone they look up to is unhappy with how things are for them and that they wanna change.
Your purpose in life is not to be the crowd pleaser for every single person that you cross paths with.
Thank you so much!!! That’s such a tremendous compliment!
I wish I had a long list of fanfic recommendations. It’s really hard to find something that’s both compelling and written well, while also satisfying my own cravings. I haven’t been reading that much lately (focusing on writing), but here are a few that grabbed me!
[Bonus: They’re all complete!]
All These Broken Pieces by PaddieFrog Toriel finally gets Sans to open up to her about his past, and to help him through it, she tells him her own story as well. In time, they find their personal histories are far more connected than they ever could have imagined.
PaddieFrog obviously loves and cares about writing. Not only does the author put a lot of effort into the prose (sometimes to the point it’s a little too much; I found myself skimming through a few chapters just to get to the meat of it), but the story itself is very deep. It’s offers a rare perspective through Toriel’s eyes, exploring her past while also addressing Sans’ emotional ramifications of remembering resets. While it follows a Soriel relationship,that’s not the main focus, and I love that. There’s also no kinky business. It’s all about the characters, with a side of romance.
Riley’s Rantingsby Bathanyyerinn A college senior starts a blog about Monsters and finds that Monster life is a lot more interesting (and complicated) than she had supposed. Mostly thanks to a certain skeletal comedian.
Okay. I LOVED this story. I’m a million times glad I gave it a chance, because I usually don’t have a lot of faith in canon character x OC stories and it almost lost me in the first chapter. But holy hell. This story made me feel so much. The arc is very well written. The relationship feels so real, and so do all the characters. This may be my honest favorite.
As a disclaimer, though, it’s a very mature story. There’s casual drug usage, the main character is a rape survivor and practices bdsm, and the social issues surrounding the arrival of monsters in the modern human world are represented without restraint and therefore get sometimes gritty. There’s no actual sex, but you definitely need a certain level of comfort with mature themes to read this.
As a disclaimer to the disclaimer, it’s just all done so well, though.
Surface life proves to be about as great as it can be, but for two brothers, something threatens to pull everything apart. Sans isn’t happy and won’t let anybody in, leaving Papyrus to feel slightly less great than usual. Why? Wasn’t this their “happy ending?” Smells like something is wrong.
This is probably one of the first fics I read after playing the game earlier this year. As such, I don’t remember all that much about it except that it was the best one I’d found involving Gaster and the skelebros, but I’d have to read it again to give you an honest review.
It’s a short list, but I hope it’s a good one! Also, if you or anyone else reading this also have fic recommendations, please send them my way! Part of the reason I don’t look for fanfics anymore is it’s kind of exhausting muscling through coal in search of diamonds.
Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the fic!
u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach
I’m just gonna come out and say that as an ace adult with a couple basic tags blocked, the number of times I accidentally saw untagged inappropriate content from real humans on this site was virtually zero. I consented to all the inappropriate content I was consuming on this site – usually artist renditions of characters.
The number of times I saw inappropriate content from bots? Enormous – on my posts, on my mutuals posts, on virtually any post that was popular, and almost all of it was via text links with excessive misspellings – not photos and tags that a handy automated system can snap up.
Don’t even get me started on the number of times I saw racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic content on this site – many of them violence-inciting.
So yeah tumblr real humans who post titties aren’t your problem.
okay im going through the rules and stuff on matsodon rn and
sexworkers are good here as long as what they post is tagged. the gore thing is :// but like the person said sexworkers are supported here.
all of this. all of this is hot as hell.
they actually have specific rules disallowing pedophiles and nazis+the terfs from the last screenshot.
dogpiling and harrassment and stalking is listed as a no go thank fucking god??
there is not one specific staff account as each member of staff has their own thing so it’d be most likely easier to get in touch with them
and the best part
a peek at the list of blocked domains?
ive legit been on this site for ten minutes and i feel safer on this site than ive ever been on tumblr. again im not like, leaving tumblr but this place is nice as hell.
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