the main thing about living with a chronic illness is that you just kinda get used to it. you’re USED to being in pain. you’re USED to being tired. it isn’t until you talk to non chronically ill people that you remember that this isn’t normal.
Danny Devito took care of Mara Wilson when her mom died while filming Matilda. He babysat her when her parents had to go to the hospital and was there for her after she passed. On all accounts, Danny Devito is the person you want in your life
Friendly reminder that he also saved a suicidal teen’s life
So far the wording of this seems to imply that it’s only depictions of real people that Tumblr cares about, and all forms of written erotica are still allowed.
Buuuut
Let’s talk Tumblr replacements.
Now, when these sorts of shifts happen, there’s usually a transition period, and in my experience, the replacement is something that is found in that time. However, as of now, there are a few possible replacements.
1) Twitter
Pros – ease of access, easy to share content, lots of people already have one, good for artists
Cons – Back and forth conversations are hard to follow, especially with multiple people, extreme lack of tagging, lack of conversation space, bad for fic writters
(I have a twitter, but if it becomes the Site of Fandom then… IDK what I’m going to do, because this screws me. I use Twitter as a means to keep my ear to the ground, not to distribute content or engage people. I hate it for both, and I HATE the lack of tagging. I don’t want to see that progress lost because of a bad platform)
2) Dreamwidth
Pros – Similar to Livejournal, provides opt-in communities for distribution of content, nested comments make it easy to talk to each other, plenty of space for art and for fic, Kinkmemes will be popular again (I can dream)
Cons – No internal image hosting (you have to throw it on imgur or something, then post it to DW), no sharing capabilities (you can’t reblog/retweet anything), something of an outdated model
(DW is modeled after pre-Social Media 2.0 functionality. It means that you can only see the original posts of your subscribed communities/journals, which makes mass-distribution difficult. Nothing goes viral on DW. There’s also no tagging/blacklist/block functionality that I know of, but this matters less than on other alternatives because you have to opt-in to all the content you see)
3) Pillowfort.io
Pros – Marries the sharing functionality of Tumblr (and the image hosting) with the nested comments and communities of Dreamwidth. Very likely built with fandom in mind. Good tagging system. Rules and policies are designed around preventing Tumblr-style witch hunts
Cons – Requires payment currently for an account while it’s still in beta. Is in beta. We know very little about the ownership. Servers currently hosted by Digital Ocean, who also don’t allow porn, though it’s not in the ToS right now and they can still move servers if needed (big thank you to the two who did this research, who I won’t name in case they don’t want that attention). Currently offline while they do security checks. Very young.
(Personally, of the options, I like this one best. The five buck payment suuuucks but hopefully that’ll end soon, especially if they realize this is a huge opportunity. They needs some real back-end engineers to actually get the site functional, but if they can, this has all the elements needed to be a good fandom platform for everyone, artist, editor, author, and all. I’m Bosstoaster on there as well rn b/c I got on it early)
This isn’t going to happen overnight. The ToS changes don’t even happen for a couple of weeks. But please, please, can we not go to Twitter? Please?
Yes, we have seen the news! We are planning to have the
site back up either tomorrow or Wednesday; we just have a couple last
security measures we want to put in place today, but we will be working on
it as quickly as possible and we will have a clearer ETA by tonight.
We will also try to come up with a way to lower the barrier to entry for new users, though we don’t want to drop the entry fee entirely because a) we feel that would be unfair to our users who have paid for their registration keys and b) we don’t think our servers could handle a massive influx of new users right now, so we’re going to try to allow as many new users as we can without capsizing the boat. We appreciate your patience and will have more details soon!
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