This is what it looks like when you stand your ground. I’m still here
and you know what, I lost about 3,000 followers who left but my numbers
are growing again. By the new year, it will be as if nothing had happened in that regard.
That huge gap was when they decided to just delete me. Took a few days of kicking their doors to come back, but I did indeed and here I am until such time as they decide to remove this blog.
The last seven days were heartbreaking to watch. Even after we came back, people were leaving in droves. Every time I’d check, my follower count would be lower. That has never, repeat, never happened in all the years I’ve been here.
And yesterday morning I got into a ‘mood’, the rebellious and feisty kind and decided to pit myself against the porn AI because while there IS a need to segregate adult (porn) from Disney BUT the fucking Mouse has NO right to tell me I can’t exist where people can hear my voice. I didn’t take that shit when they told me I should just die and stop being a nuisance and some Yahoo sure as fuck isn’t going to win where the government failed.
The purge hurts so much more than numbers and stocks. It harmed lives. There were folks (and still are) here who have no other avenue to network safely, never mind to explore and solidify their identities because there’s no fucking manual for being human that isn’t missing pages ripped out by some asshole who ‘knew best’ but learned who HE was from a book someone ELSE had edited for his ‘benefit’.
People don’t get the real power of the ‘shady corner’ of the internet:
Haven.
Out here, no one gives a fuck if you’re weird. This isn’t the McDonald’s of social media (InstaCram) or the buffet of bullshit that is facebook nor the micro-narcissism-cosmos of twitter. This is tumblr bitch…
We’re all fucking freaks out here.
This is where freak comes to thrive, to blossom into magnificence and shine like the crazy diamond it is. A world without us can’t, and won’t, ever come to be. We’ve always been here and if it weren’t for freaks, kinksters, and weirdos, we wouldn’t have any form of civilization. Track it back and examine the lives of revolutionaries and leaders. They had a sense of style in the old days. Just ask the spartans who squared off against the Sacred band. You do not mess with angry queens who know how to dance.
On such famous, now legendary, figure had enough of the horseshit of politicians so he rode his horse INTO parliament as a statement, but wait.. there’s more. He didn’t just ride in, no that wouldn’t be grand enough, he fucking wore an outlandish scarlet outfit and mask. Don’t know the stories? Dig. They are there, where they want you to be: in the corner, out of the way and where they don’t have to see you. Tough. I’m good right where I am thanks. I don’t have to move to your designated seating for undesirables. That’s why I say to look to history for inspiration and courage, but not just any history. The ones that matter.
Find the ones in your family line and take pride in them. That kind of stuff is in every family tree if you did a little, lives in every community and is everywhere you go if you but look for it. You never know who you are related to that’s the origin of legends like the Scarlet Pimpernel, Robin Hood, or has a statue erected to them as a warning to history. I have mad respect for the freaks of history. Shit would be boring without them and mostly revised to suit the narrative of the ‘victors’. Look for the ones they couldn’t just erase.
That’s us, by the way, the ones you can look to for examples of your ‘family’ line. We were the ones they couldn’t just make “go away “so they could live in their land of make believe. Which brings me to you.
Each. and. Every. One. of. YOU. are indelible on the fabric of the world. Gods, just consider what you’ve endured to FIND this place, what brought you to me. Don’t be ashamed of that, take pride in it. You’re here you badass. You fucking made it even this far and that’s a hell of an accomplishment in a world like ours that seems bent on our destruction.
Oorah motherfucker. Ooo fucking rah.
I am proud to call you all family. That’s why I get so cranky when someone forgets how incredible and important they are. Without each and every little star, the sky is empty and black against the horizon. Without each of you, dozens nay hundreds of lights would be diminished. You’ve no clue how powerful or valuable you really are so let me spell it out once and for all.
To someone like me who has spent their entire life hunkered down in trenches, the first to come out, the first to teach teachers how to treat gay kids, the guy who marched on the capitol to have a dialogue with the rulers and got them to create avenues for pride:
You mean absolutely everything.
You’re why people like me fought, the strength we found to endure came from knowing YOU would come after us, and you were absolutely worth it. Pay no heed to the voices of those who have given nothing to have you: thousands of us (millions) gave our lives to put the ground under your feet in a world where you too could fight on toward a brighter day without having to ever fall back to the war we endured.
Do not, for a moment, dishonor us by forgetting this simple truth: In our sky, where in we charted the future by looking toward the stars, YOU were the guiding point we chose to aim toward.
Life isn’t easy for anyone. We couldn’t build a garden for you to play in without thorns but we managed to clear enough so the sun could reach your face. The world’s suffering enough as it is but you have a special gift that can help you through these times.
Remember Us. That’s all we ask. Remember, and honor, who we were and what we did.
We’re the freaks in crimson masks waving flags, cerulean crusaders, lavender warriors and emerald visionaries, who lit a fire and burned a path as we went so that people like you (you in fact) could walk a little easier until you reached where we would inevitably fall. THAT is when it is your duty, your obligation, to pick up our torch and carry the hell on forward toward the day someone picks it up from you.
That is community.
That is history.
THAT is unity.
We are an unbroken line that has survived genocides, plagues and wars. We’re indestructible as a whole which is why we must not abandon our family to the fears of people who want an oatmeal world because they can’t stomach ‘flavors’. You’re not meant to be bland. You’re meant to be YOU and anything less is beneath you.
You’re the star we aimed for and we made it here. The rest is up to you.
its basically a tumblr clone and the staff is very open about the updates they are making, so if you’re happy with the tumblr interface this is the place for you.
Wow! I never meant to post anything on tumbrl myself, but recent events changed that. (See my reblogs about tumbrl dying and the mass exodus.)
So… a few months ago I was using tumblr on my phone and there were several posts I wanted to save or reblog, but that was tiresome on mobile, so I just liked them. I haven’t come around to process those likes, but have stopped liking since then, so whoever is curious can find those likes here: https://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/skaterbengel
I also have a few drafts / queued up reblogs that I will release very soon and also will post something on how to download blogs or migrate to other services, so if anyone is interested in that, don’t unfollow me yet.
Oh, also, there are several services people are moving to, a few friends and I are still observing, there seems to be no consens where to go to yet, but once we listed all the options on our Discord, I will share them here as well.
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has been posting, reblogging, faving and following (mine and other blogs/posts/reblogs). All of that has widened my horizon a lot over the last few years.
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow Wordpress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
Edited almost immediately to add that Wordpress allows posting reblogging, commenting, AND following, and so it seems like honestly the most logical next place for fandom in my opinion. It also allows a high degree of customization.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.
EDIT: We’re not sure yet about wordpress’ stance on NSFW, so definitely mark those blogs private for now. I had one person tell me they got nuked for one NSFW post on a 7 year old blog. Definitely look into other solutions for backing up your blog just in case Private isn’t good enough. There seem to be lots of options for Windows, including Python. A quick google search will turn up several. I’m still looking for a good option for Mac. Anyone know any?
If you hadn’t heard the news, this site will remove and subsequently ban all adult context starting December 17th, 2018.
I’ve used this site for coming up on 8 years. It’s been a refuge, a playground, sometimes a crutch (and not always in the good way). Throughout it all, though, it was a part of my life in a way that gave me a lot of joy. It let me explore my own fantasies and feel closer to others who shared some aspect of them. It made me feel a lot less ashamed, a lot less alone.
Now it’s going away and I am crestfallen. Part of this is for selfish reasons. It’ll be a little more difficult to find a succession of hot cock pics *and* delicious rimming gifs *and* femboys in panties *and* taboo raceplay Doms *and* slamming bugchasers *and* fisting queens … at least all in one convenient location.
But part of this is bigger than just me. There are whole lives that are going to be erased by this move. Some people spent a lot more time than I ever did cultivating their online persona. By doing that they showed the world who they were - curated, but authentic - and so brought a great deal of joy to a very large number of people. (It feels right to call out @pupnobley in particular for this. God, I miss him).
This is also not an isolated event. It’s not a coincidence that this is happening at the same time that immigrants are getting tossed out of the UK, migrants are being gassed at the US border, racists are on the march, and journalists are getting murdered. This is a time when being different is becoming increasingly dangerous, and it’s always the people who love differently that are the first to fall. We can hope that this will be a one off, but don’t be surprised when Twitter makes a cull, then Insta, and even the porn and messaging sites start tightening the reins on what you can say or do.
For the time being, however, we have to salvage what we can. To the 14 or so people who have followed this blog who aren’t Russian trolls or stalkers, feel free to find me on twitter: @turiyeh
Farewell. Take care of each other. And I’ll see you all when you get to wherever it is I am now.
I share your sadness about Tumblr and especially @pupnobley. Losing My followers here is also totally gutting. 😕😢 A sad day for FreeSpeech
Jack used to have a carefully guarded secret. He’d been on the soccer team for 2 seasons - but he didn’t actually like soccer. The others were obsessed with it, addicted to victory and genuinely broken by defeat. Jack couldn’t care less - every game was a victory for him. His obsession wasn’t on the field, it came after in the locker room.
As his teammates slipped out of their kits and peel off their underwear, Jack took his time. Once they were occupied in the showers soaping up their naked bodies and laughed at each other, he’d grab a couple jock straps from a few choice gym bags and hide in the little laundry room next to the towel closet. He’d stay there as long as he dared with his face buried in the nutty stench of used jock. If he didn’t make it back in time to return them though, they’d never know until they got home. And when they came back the next day, they’d find it sitting in their locker - having clearly fallen out. Sure, they’d have to wear a dirty jock that day, but it was better than practicing without one. Of course they had no clue that it was soiled with dried cum too.
Unfortunately that day, the laundry was in use, so Jack slipped into the towel closet instead. Normally he might’ve just skipped it - but he’d nabbed Sam’s jock that day. The thought of returning his jock without so much as a sniff, would’ve killed him. Sam was the God of the soccer studs - and his dick stink had been Jack’s first. It was the reason for his perversion.
So he tucked himself in the back of the closet and shoved Sam’s dirty strap in his face, breathing it in - piss and sweat, the recipe for boy smell. With another strap, he started jerking himself off. He let the musky scent intoxicate him while his cock surged to full girth instantly. Flashes of Sam’s tight ass and lanky torso buffeted his brain as he brought himself closer and closer to exploding in some other teammate’s jock. But his muffled moans stopped instantly once the door swung open. His rock hard erection throbbed for completion - but his hand was frozen.
“Told you it was him…”
Jack was speechless as Sam’s phone suddenly emitted a bright light followed immediately by the swooping noise of a text message being sent. The team quickly gathered around to see the pathetic faggot being pulled out of the closet naked.
“You like the smell of dick-sweat, Jackie?”, Sam shouted aloud. “Well yer gonna, love ass then! Rookie get over here!”
The rookie, was Paul some freshman frat boy who was just trying to fit in - he went along with it (frat boys are good for that) He stripped naked as commanded.
“Sit on his face”
Jack was laid naked on the grimy tile floor while Paul pinned his arms with both legs and slowly lowered his ass down onto his face. The freshman sphincter pulsed as it landed on Jack’s lips. It was humiliating for both of them, but neither had a choice.
“Lick it, bitch”, somebody shouted as a well aimed towel snap struck Jack’s exposed balls. A muted yelp was all they heard as his legs flailed in protest. He felt them grabbing his ankles as another snap stung him square on the sensitive underside of his dick. Then another shot hit his inner thigh and a fourth got his balls again.
Jack finally gave in and shoved his tongue up against Paul’s virgin hole. He heard the rookie verify that it was happening just before a roar of laughter filled the room.
“Yup, he likes it - get the cage”
Jack felt them fumbling with his dick and balls as he remained pinned and unable to see. They stuffed him through a ring then into a plastic cage and finally he felt the lock click shut. He wouldn’t be cumming in anyone’s jockstrap with this thing in place.
“Yer gonna wear this for the rest of the season bitch-boy”, Sam explained.
No more jerking it in their jocks. No more jerking at all.
“Now lets go take a few more pictures outside - lighting is better out there.”
Jack was tied naked to a tree by his teammates - vulnerable and exposed as his locked dick rattled between his legs. Every one of them had evidence of his debauchery on their phones now. He’d do anything they told him to for the rest of the season. In a couple of days he mastered pissing, In a couple weeks he got used to the pain of a broken erection. But the insatiable horniness however only lingered getting worse with time.
Thankfully he had more than enough dick to suck. It never occurred to him that each load he swallowed actually took him further and further from freedom.