• Had a character fling their trousers or skirt against the wall in the throes of passion- only to realise they never lost their shoes
• Found themselves grazing every reference work under the sun and gave up realising lips have no synonyms
• Frozen in front of their screen, feeling like a shy virgin
• Wrecked their heads trying to find that perfect balance between daring and crude
• Embarrassed the other sex asking by them questions for research
• Been hesitant to start on a piece, worried that it’ll read exactly like their other ones
• Lost overview of what positions their characters are in and where all those limbs are at
• Awkwardly googled a position or practice they have no personal experience with
• Been afraid to hit the post button for fear that nobody else will find their fantasies appealing
Erotica is just as challenging to write as any other type of story.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Don’t ever allow yourselves to be condescended upon.
Know what hard work you do. Know all erotica writers have struggled with these issues. Know the skills you’ve had to acquire. Know your works are worth just as much as plot-driven ones.
So, my dears, here is my Tumblr migration info post. I’ll use it to
collect info and updates about saving your stuff, finding new homes and
all that dealio. You can also find it on my Twitter, my Dreamwidth and my Pillowfort.
I’ve seen some people panicking, but remember all us Fandom Olds have been through this before. It
sucks to lose all that investment, but it is not the end. In fact,
we’re well-prepared these days because we learned from those times.
We’ve got tools for archiving content–both yours and the content from
others you can’t bear to lose–and for migrating and staying in touch
with your friends.
And while I have your attention: Support AO3. Support the OTW. Support EFF. Support the ALA. Fight for net neutrality. This is just the beginning of what happens if we lose it.
I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.
This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.
You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.
“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.
If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.
this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with corrections or more suggestions if you have them!!
websites in red have explicitly forbidden the posting of NSFW content.websites in orange allow certain types of NSFW content or have questionable / unclear guidelines.
instagram.com – photo and video posts, excellent tag search
newgrounds.com – an oldie but a goodie, allows a ton of media types
piczel.tv – allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery
pixiv.net – huge anime art community, allows livestreaming
vero.co – app only, similar to insta but with MUCH more privacy control
chat or forum based
aminoapps.com – community-based, has blogs + chat, custom themes
discordapp.com – great chat app, text + voice, can join infinite servers
reddit.com – literally a community for everything, SO MANY CAT PHOTOS
18+ only
bdsmlr.com – microblogging + social media for people into kink
blogr.xxx – a tumblr clone created specifically for sharing porn
fetlife.com – considered one of the biggest kink communities online
libertine.center – beautiful + modern site for posting irl nsfw and kink stuff
thefetlibrary.com – for posting of erotic stories, replaces bdsmlibrary
paid platforms
patreon.com – subscription-based access to many diff types of content
typepad.com – similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash
up-and-coming platforms
pillowfort.io – closed beta. should function almost identically to tumblr but with many many improvements
poizen.me – development alpha. gorgeous website for artists to post art AND track comms
this one’s still early in development but looks incredibly promising as a platform and super pretty to look at!! go snap up a username before all the good ones are taken! favouritism what’s that
qink.co – pre-alpha. 18+ only. plans to be a kink-oriented replacement for tumblr.
defunct platforms
(so people will stop telling me i forgot them)
jux.com – shut down in 2014 due to lack of funds
shoandtell.me – now redirects to someone’s personal blog
soup.io – more or less closed down this year due to GDPR issues
ways to save your current tumblr posts
use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.
wordpress allows you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.
tumblthree is a great tool with a ton of functions including downloading whole blogs, only posts tagged with a certain tag, all the posts you’ve liked, etc. etc. along with being able to download every type of media hosted on tumblr (pictures, videos, audio, everything). it also has a proper GUI so no computer knowledge required beyond downloading and running programs!
if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!
if that’s still a little daunting you can try soarcodes’ tumblr post that also has a decent tutorial!
here’s another python script that should allow you to archive all the images from your blog or your likes, though it requires some knowledge of python and the command line or very very good google skills.
some notes
edit: please stop commenting on this post to self-promote your porn accounts on other sites. those replies / reblogs will be deleted or hidden.
please note that every site on this list will have pros and cons, and i haven’t listed them here since this post would be a mile long otherwise. please do your research before moving completely over to another site in case they have policies you disagree with.
also, because I see a lot of misinformed people ranting about this: deviantart does not own the art you post. some years ago hot topic stole a ton of art from DA and sold it on merchandise and people assumed that DA gave them permission to do it despite there being literally zero evidence for that claim. DA explictly states in their TOS that you retain copyright and sole license of the art you post.
and related, mastodon does not allow or condone CP or pedophilia. the people spreading this info are misinformed about what mastodon is. it is not an exact twitter clone; anyone anywhere can host a mastodon instance using their personal computer as a server, which means mastodon as a company can’t do jack shit to moderate them. what they DO is permanently block all users from every other instance from viewing or interacting with that instance, and add that instance to a publicly viewable list along with the reason for the block. please give their post about anti-abuse measures a read before making snap judgements.
staff You are recommending that I follow a nazi blog I blocked last night. Your site promotes anti-semitism to Jews. Your site shoves Nazi Swastikas in the faces of Jews. It’s bad enough that the Nazi blogs seem to be sprouting up like weeds on a site that claims to have an anti-hate policy, but to actively promote them to people who have taken the steps of blocking these blogs is beyond the pale. Clean this place up. It’s turning into Stormfront.
I encourage everyone who sees this post, Jewish or otherwise, to reblog it. Tumblr has been ignoring the growth of Nazism on this site for too long. It needs to end.
My beans, my frijoles, PLEAAAASE move your tumblr prompts to AO3. Even the little ones. I know for a fact that I have read wonderful little prompts on here that never made it over to the safety of people’s AO3 pages. I know I myself probably have some that never made it there as well that I need to find and move. They are fucking impossible to find again on Tumblr, and if the place goes tits up, they’re just gone and I am a sad suede.
Followers in ALL my fandoms please do this. I know the current purge appears to be image-based, but sometimes our prompts are picspiration, and who knows what’s coming next. I’ve been doing it myself and it’s actually sort of fun to look back. Call it the purge-silver-lining…
I’m sure by now, some of you may have heard of the site Dreamwidth when some
people talk about Livejournal and old sites they wish they had. Maybe you’ve
become a bit curious about how this place works or why people are so interested
in it anyway. To answer that, I’m going to give you a little primer on
Dreamwidth and what you need to know when converting from Tumblr!
So what is Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth is a Livejournal code fork and like Livejournal it is an old
social networking blog. How is that different from Tumblr? Well to clarify,
Tumblr is a content aggregation site, not a content creation site. This means
that Tumblr’s purpose is to spread things for other people to see, and these
things do not even have to be something you made. It is not intended for
feedback and communication, it is only intended to be looked at. That’s why any
comment and communication features are so lackluster, the creators genuinely did
not want it to work like a blog, and they continue to fight that.
Dreamwidth is a blog with features centered around content and comment
management. How you use it is up to you, but it is a more or less static site
with each post self contained, no reblogs or sharing apart from manually linking
to the post themselves and the only things you see on your feed are the blogs
and communities you’ve personally added to your watch. The format is best suited
for medium to long-posts and posts to start a dialog among people, but that’s
not to say it can’t be used for microposts (and there are communities dedicated
to that kind of use). Comments are threaded which makes them easy to keep up
with, and easy to read.
Dreamwidth is, above all else, a site dedicated to freedom of expression and
is one of the few places left that genuinely cares about that.
Dreamwidth Terms You Should Know
Cutting
You’ll see this term used a lot, and it’s a really huge important feature of
the blog. Cutting is like the ‘read more’ feature you can find on tumblr. The
difference is that you can choose exactly which portion of the entry is behind a
cut and which one isn’t. You can also have more than one cut if you like! This
is especially useful for long, informative posts to help people jump to the
exact spot they want.
Cuts can also have their own titles, so you can inform people briefly of
what’s behind the cut in the link itself. Good knowledge of how cuts work is
super important and super helpful! https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=88
Access Filters A term you’ll see show up when composing
an entry is what access filter is applied to the post you’re about to make,
(sometimes this is referred to as ‘locking’ the post). When you create a post
you are given the choice to either make the entry public, make it available to
only those who have general access to your blog or choose a specific access
filter which you have a pre-determined group of people on a list that are the
only ones permitted to see those posts. You can set up as many access filters as
you want and change them at any time, and none of the members are notified of
these changes so you don’t need to worry about that when making chances. You can
even make a post entirely private so that only you can see it, and you can
modify the access settings on any entry at any time. https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=21 https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=22
Paid Accounts Unlike tumblr, Dreamwidth does have paid accounts.
The entire site is ad-free and they support themselves entirely on those people
that purchase paid accounts. The free accounts give you more than you need to
enjoy and interact with the site, but paid accounts give you extra features such
as the ability to add custom mood icons, journal customization options and more
user pics. https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=4
Tags You will find that on Dreamwidth no one ‘talks in tags’. This
is because each journal keeps a record of every single tag used on a page both
yourself and everyone else can see and has a limit to the total amount of tags
you can use. Tags in Dreamwidth are seen as a means of organization, not as a
means of subtext, you’ll have to add the subtext in text formatting seperately.
You can of course, edit and delete any of the tags in the list at any time so
you’re never stuck with the tags you’ve used if you ever change your mind.
Images While this is a holdover from the old days when bandwidth
was not as accessible as it is now, generally speaking, images posted are kept
around 800px in width if posted without a cut. This is to prevent stretching and
just general friends page tidy-ness. Similarly, when posting several images,
they are either done by way of small thumbnails, or they are posted behind a
cut.
Cutting It is seen common etiquette to cut overly-long entries or
entries that contain a large number of images, or entries that could contain
sensitive information. This was both to keep the friend reading list trim and
tidy, as well as warn people before they read potentially triggering material.
You see, back in the days of Livejournal, when people were asked to put their
triggering material behind a cut, people complied without argument! You might
have one or two bad eggs sure, but it didn’t result in such a huge amount of
people harassing one person just because they asked for someone’s post about a
pet spider be put behind a cut.
Response Speed As a note, Dreamwidth and other blogging systems are
naturally slower than Tumblr. This is not a bad thing! But don’t be surprised if
some people don’t comment on an entry till a week later. People on Dreamwidth
are far more likely to pay attention to entries and read all their backlog so
there isn’t a need to constantly remind or repost the same thing. Dreamwidth
generally slower pace can be jarring to some people, but you’ll find it has it’s
own benefits even if it doesn’t offer instant gratification.
Q&A
Can I make multiple journals on the same account? No. While this is
a feature many RPers would like, and it has been talked about, there is no
system that creates Parent/Child journal accounts. If you want a second journal,
you would have to make a whole new account, and log in and log out whenever you
want to change.
Can I reblog other people’s entries? No. Everyone’s blog and posts
are static, there is no way to share another’s post on your own blog other than
manually linking their post.
How can I meet people if I can’t reblog? Meeting people on
Dreamwidth does take more work, it’s not as easy to stumble across new blogs
casually in the day without putting effort into it. Communities are a large
social component of Dreamwidth and there are communities for just about any
fandom, hobby, craft type and even small niches, and you can start your own
communities at any time. There is also an ‘interest’ section in every user
profile, which can be used to help find people of similar interests. And then
there’s always meeting people through friends of friends in the comments of
one’s entires. This post in particular has a much more through break down on
socialization and how to find people https://bisexualbaker.tumblr.com/post/147873750806/how-the-heck-do-i-find-cool-stuff-and-people-on
Where can I host my images?
This is of course, the
biggest pitfall in Dreamwidth. As it stands right now, there is a small image
hosting option however it only can store up to 500MB in size. For anything
significant you would have to use a service like Imgur, Flickr, Sta.sh, or other
storage option. https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248
Hopefully this has provided the base amount of information you may need to start a Dreamwidth account. It’s very different from Tumblr in the way it’s used but it’s not completely different, but it’s not intended to be a
‘replacement’, it’s just another service you can use if it fits your needs.
Personally, I’m of the opinion that everyone needs at least one quite, static
place they can hash out their thoughts on without fear of making a mistake, and
Dreamwidth is very good for that kind of thing.
Everyone thinks that Bond is the one who sees Q and decides, “yes, that cute boffin there, I want that” while Q obliviously goes about his life clueless to the agent’s attempts at wooing–because Q’s a lot of things, but Bond’s usual brand of tea he is not.
In fact James Bond is literally the most oblivious dork when he’s off the clock. It’s like, if he’s not doing the seducing, he doesn’t notice? And that baffles the hell out of Q. Because Q has been trying for years to get 007′s attention and has been doing the lion’s work of the seduction.
Pretty sure it started with a look at 007′s smoldering obituary file pic and legend status: “yes, that ruggedly handsome 00 there, I want that. power couple goals.” Presumably Q has a hand in arranging his own meeting with 007, via Tanner, and chooses a museum on purpose. You know, if I want to be snarky, pretentious, and look really good doing it I’d pick a museum, too. Lots of things to be pretentious about, and truly excellent lighting.
The way Q throws Bond off his game in Skyfall and then damn near bats his eyes? Hard to miss, but Q considers that maybe the agent thinks he had something in his eyes. Or was just getting his nerd eyes adjusted to non-computer lighting? Q even talked about his pajamas. And exploding pens. Within moments after making 007 think Q was an art student looking for a bit of strange. Wtf, dude. Does he have to spell it out for him?
Probably. Bond’s been knocked out a lot. So Q:
Rebuilds Bond’s beloved car
Endangers his career at least twice, canonically
Flies out to Austria to get him, despite a canonical fear of
flying
Mentions mortgage and cats, you know, in case Bond has a
kink for stable and well-adjusted
Definitely starts dressing sharper
Flirts awkwardly with Bond
Makes him an exploding watch (not a pen but still not subtle)
Is salty as a polite potato chip about Bond turning up with Dr. Swann at his hotel room
And let’s not even get started on this:
Actually, no, let’s. It’s my favorite. I can’t think of any other character in the entire franchise, besides maybe Dench!M who would be able to casually disarm Bond. And if she did, it would be more like classic Q grumpily snatching his sandwich back. Q doesn’t snatch or get grumpy. He just slides in close, wraps around the gun, and pulls it slowly from Bond’s grasp while basically looking Bond in the eye the whole time. Look, I’m super ace and slow on the uptake, but I’d totally get that message.
In sum, Bond’s not so much the seducer. Q is.
Can I just say that not only is this brilliant headcanon, but it’s so funny I can’t stop laughing.
It also really makes me want to write fic of all of this using the following tags on Ao3: #Mentions mortgage and cats, you know, in case Bond has a kink for stable and well-adjusted #Is salty as a polite potato chip about Bond turning up with Dr. Swann at his hotel room
Also #yes, that ruggedly handsome 00 there, I want that. power couple goals.
Reading this makes me want to dust off my 00Q materials and start making new stuff.
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