So some of you already know I have been checking out other social media/blogging sites since the announcement came down. I tried. I really did. But there are two things that will keep me away from any social media site.
Character Limits – I am a writer. There’s nothing I can do with 500 characters or less. It’s just too fucking Orwellian. I wanted to like Mastodon. I love how it is user controlled and decentralized. But they need to get rid of the character limit. Want to talk about stifling expression? Don’t tell me to spread it on multiple posts. That’s just too awkward.
Mobile Only – Sorry, I’m old and I have a desktop with a 42″ inch screen so I can read shit. Also makes for pretty pictures. I gotta be able to do it sitting at my desk.
So anyone else have trouble with pillowfort sending registration keys? I sent them money and it has been over 24-hours. Not complaining too much, I assume they are mighty busy right now.
Too damn cute not to post. My malamute loves the Christmas tree. She can just sit there and adore it for hours. She does it every year.
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.
I’ve had this blog for 8.5 years. It was the first place I was brave enough to share my nude self portraits. It has helped me grow in more ways than I can say. Sure, it has been an enormously frustrating place at times, but without the community I found here of wonderful, talented, weird and brilliant artists I’ve met here (both online and in person) there’s no way I’d have the confidence to make the kind of images I do these days.
This was the last place on the internet where I could share my work uncensored and for free. I hate having to hide my work behind censorship or a paywall, but I’m pretty much out of options now. I’ll be letting my queue run down for a few more days then I’ll be closing this page.
You can find my uncensored work on my patreon page – I’m not allowed to post anything NSFW publicly but I do post daily for all patrons (no matter how low the pledge)
Otherwise you can find my censored images on my instagram
Thanks for keeping me company all these years. Rest assured that I’m never going to stop making art with naked folks.
Today 10 December 2018 – IV day of Khiak, the fourth month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXIX Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar).
(quotes from “Egyptian Religious Calendar: CDXVIII-CDXIX Great Year of Ra (2018CE)”. The new edition of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the next year 2019 is available on amazon: http://a.co/d/clZRHoW On “Amente Nofre-membership community” you can find the daily posts with the full calendar: https://www.patreon.com/amentenofre/overview )
Religious Prescriptions: Adverse day (the morning is favorable)
Religious Festivities: The IV day of the lunar month is sacred to Tefnut. It is the “Feast of the Going Forth of the Sem-priest” and Imseti is the God of the Feast.
– “It is the day when Sekhmet transmits His (Ra’s) words.” [S. pap.]
image: granite statues of the Goddess Sekhmet (lioness-headed) enthroned; XVI-XIV century BCE. Now in the National Museum of Tokyo…
A pattern of small holes cut into the floor of an ancient rock shelter in Azerbaijan shows that one of the world’s most ancient board games was played there by nomadic herders around 4,000 years ago, according to an archaeologist who has investigated the find.
Walter Crist, a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, visited the rock shelter in a national park in Azerbaijan last year, searching for traces of the ancient game now known as “58 Holes.”
The game is also sometimes called “Hounds and Jackals.” British archaeologist Howard Carter found a game set with playing pieces fashioned like those animals in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemhat IV, who lived in the 18th century B.C.
The distinctive pattern of round pits scored in the rock of the shelter in Azerbaijan came from that same game, Crist told Live Science. But the Azerbaijan version may be even older than the game set found in the pharaoh’s tomb. Read more.
I’m almost embarrassed to ask this, but I am looking for good sources (books, web, video, etc), on how to learn astrology from a magical perspective. I just never learned it. Too much math. But I think it’s time I buckle down and at least know the basics.
Dziady, zaduszki, feasts for the dead – Żmija’s guide to Slavic Faith
alas, summer is gone and cold gloomy months are coming – and with them the memory of our dear dead, and feasts, offerings, graveyard visits and evenings spent on celebrating and remembering them.
Ancestral veneration was crucial for ancient Slavs and survived to this day, where mixed with Christianity (whether Catholicism or Eastern Orthodox) remained an important part of our lives. Feasts in the name of the ancestors were usually celebrated during autumn, but also during spring and directly in relation to a given person’s passing.
The cult of the dead and celebrations connected to it were important for Slavs for two main reasons:
one, ancestors were believed to still hold much power over our world and, if approached correctly, prayed to, or given offerings, would bless their family with good health, luck, and even fertility – as the dead operated within the realm of souls, they could affect new life brought into the mortal world.
two, the world for Slavs was always twofold, always comprised of dead and alive (or undead as well, perhaps) and many precautions were ingrained into everyday life: you do not want evil mistreated spirits in your household as much as you don’t want your grandfather to raise from the dead and show up at your doorstep wailing and hungry for blood.
the first important steps when it came to honouring the dead happened right after – or shortly after – their departure from our mortal world. The body had to be adequately prepared, washed and dressed; family had to gather and mourn the deceased (but in very specific ways – for example, in many places it was forbidden to cry in the presence of the body or into their clothes/hair as it could stop the spirit from moving on – more funerary superstitions can be found here). The deceased would often be given various material gifts – whether favourite items, weapons, or jewelery and food – and sometimes would have a coin thrown into the coffin or grave to ensure a safe passing, as there was a belief in many regions that the journey into afterlife began with crossing a river, often by boat which had to be paid for.
However, other regions – especially in the South as Gieysztor mentions – believed the river had to be crossed by foot, and after the death of a family member there would be a footbridge built over the nearest stream, to symbolise the crossing and aid them on their journey.
next, there would be a wake and a funeral feast – which could take place days after the death of a person, or weeks, or even during the first anniversary of their passing. In Polish it would be called strawa, in Croatian karmine/daća, and in Old Russian trizna/tryzna. It would often involve a special invocation – calling the dead to dine with you – and leaving one place at the table empty for the dead to join the feast (this survived into the Christian tradition during Christmas and Christmas Eve). This feast could take place in the family household or, as in older traditions, over the grave.
Dziady – the holiday of the dead popularised in poetic form by Polish-Lithuanian writer and poet Adam Mickiewicz – were a variation of such a feast in the name of the ancestors. It is also the most popular name of such celebrations among modern Rodnovers, especially in Poland. These are also often called Zaduszki – also a traditional name for the celebration – but this name is heavily ingrained into the Catholic celebration of All Souls Day.
Ancestral veneration often included not only the feast itself, prayers, songs, and invocations, but also offerings – these would be similar to those Slavs would give their Gods (we often have no way of knowing whether the offerings left in places of worship were meant for Gods only, or Ancestors only, or both). They would include food (bread, grain, meat, fruit and vegetables) and drink (water, alcohol) as well as figurines, ribbons, coins and trinkets.
The offerings would be left for the dead often alongside light candles – so that the souls could find their way. People would also try to communicate with their ancestors, through prayers, songs, and even trance-like states – as it was believed that the dead are not fully gone, but can still answer us and wander our world to drink, eat, talk, and visit their beloved family.
[Do remember that this is just a short introduction and the subject offers way more details and wonderful traditions. The main source was, as always in my case, Aleksander Gieysztor’s Slavic Mythology (or Mythology of the Slavic People)]
