Backup

jennypen:

It’s been a week since I finished Castlevania S2 and my heart still hurts and I feel I need to explain why

The plot was so good in so many ways but… Alucard went into the fight with his own father, resolved with the justification that his real father died long beforehand and that he had to kill him.

And then came… “I’m killing our boy.” Easily one of the biggest surprises a series has ever pulled, heartbreaking beyond measure, where Dracula was not defeated after all, but woke briefly enough to realise the magnitude of what he’d done, and accept his own punishment because he realise he had betrayed everything he’d ever learned from the humanity his wife taught him. He’d betrayed his own wife, who would have undoubtedly refused to allow him to take any of the actions he’d taken after her death, and the shocking, terrifying realisation that he’d gone so far as to attempt to kill their son, the worst betrayal of them all. That her proudest achievement and their biggest shared joy and expression of love – he’d almost killed him. “I’m killing our boy.” I was so shocked watching it that it’s taken me a week to even express the magnitude of emotion behind those four awful, awful words. 

And then, of course, there is the final scene, where again, the series takes a shocking turn – Alucard, a refined, elegant character, powerful and poised (other than when he’s carousing with Trevor, of course), perfectly capable of restraint in many ways and then, he just… loses it. Not just the classic ‘droplets on a surface’, but breaks down completely, sobbing with streams of tears for the sheer grief that overcomes him – the loss of his mother, the loss of his father, the loss of their love and what their family had stood for, the weight of having had to kill his father to save humankind and preserve what his mother had achieved in teaching Dracula humanity in the first place, the loss of everything in his entire life and anything he could have done because now, after that, he has the lonely burden of living in the house that reminds him just exactly what he’s lost, forever, its sole keeper. He’s trapped there forever, surrounded by the ghosts and memories of his parents, any life plans he’d had curtailed forever. He lost everything it was possible to lose, and they let him actually express that in a total breakdown.

Castlevania’s writers deserve awards. Not only because the animation was stunning and the script was brilliant but because it has so much heart and did not skip any of the potential emotion in the situation, something you would have expected them to do in an 8-episode season (and which gets skipped over in almost any similar situation no matter how much time the show has to do it in). To me, it’s groundbreaking and wonderful.

eori-namo:

crop the work

gavporn:

@staff

thevoiceofwrath:

Looking through my posts, I really can’t make sense of a lot of the reblogs that are being flagged. Totally safe art of two men who happen to be in a bed together, those cool ombre dyed wedding veils, etc. But this one seems legit

tealesbian:

so I’m sitting there, barbecue sauce on my female presenting nipples…

kedreeva:

fiction-is-not-reality:

dadmondmiles:

fiction-is-not-reality:

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +4k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted. 
Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month)
2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog)
3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it)
4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not)
5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything. 

There is also TumbleThree, a standalone program, if you prefer a GUI over command-line. Also seems to have more options, such as downloading your liked posts.

Haven’t tried it myself so I can only vouch for my OP, but I’ll reblog for the alternative. 

According to Tumblr themselves, starting December 17th, NSFW material will no longer be allowed on their site at all (saw that coming since Yahoo bought them out, I’m positive they’ve just been waiting for an excuse). This includes any NSFW photos, videos, graphics, gifs, etc. They say it won’t include erotica text but honestly the former is just a step toward the latter, check our receipts for the ff.net purge and livejournal strikethrough. And since it’s an algorithm not a human coming after NSFW content, they’re using a “take down first, reconsider on appeal” method- just like LJ did, and content that IS SFW can be flagged and taken down without a human checking it first. I’ve had photos of my birds taken down because of this, so don’t assume you’re safe from this absolute nonsense because you don’t post NSFW content.

I’ve used the above method personally and can affirm it worked fine for me. I would absolutely recommend you do it, too, and sooner rather than later.

Storm’s coming folks. Time to get to safety. Grab the contact info of whoever you want to stay in contact with now. If you’re a content creator of NSFW material, get setup someplace else even if it’s only temporary, and tell your followers where to find you.

Stay safe, friends. I hope to see you on the other side.

dysah:

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weirdmageddon:

bad-guardian-ideas:

A guardian but it was built by thr tumblr devs