Scars from breast cancer can be both hard to hide and embarrassing for some women. I wish they weren’t, because scars mean you’re a fighter and a bad ass.
Women have told me after their mastectomy they felt self conscious about someone seeing their chest. My grandmother wore her false breast (she had only one boob removed) around even the house for a long time. (Of course, now when we were taking about the procedure she asked “want to see my boob?” And had to go fetch it from the other room. It was an interesting conversation to say the least.)
Anyway, breast reconstruction can be expensive, and some women either don’t want it or can’t have it done for various reasons.
But you know what, chest tattoos are easily accessible. There are even tattoo shops that give discounts to women covering up breast cancer scars. And women who no longer have a nipple? You can get a bad ass tattoo
You can donate to the organization, or if you know a tattoo artist you can let them know they accept volunteers to be a part of their community of artists.
Here is another badass lady and her bad ass tattoo (found on pinterest)
I am sharing this again because @staff might decide this is “adult content”.
These are cancer survivors reclaiming their bodies.
Banning all “female presenting” nipples ignores a commuity of women who are total bad asses who said “fuck you” to their cancer scars and turned them into art.
Not every image of a female nipple should be sexualized. This is not porn, this is courage and strength.
Are the new regulations going to delete this post. Does a post supporting a cancer survivors violate Tumblr’s community guidelines?
If it does, maybe the guidelines are wrong, and not the post.
Hey @staff, per your guidelines this isn’t explicit content.
Yet this post was flagged. Maybe figure out an appeal process.
I asked for a review and they responded:
So women reclaiming their bodies after breast cancer is “sensitive content” and should be hidden from minors.
Tumblr has some messed up morals.
Spreading the word! Messed up morals is putting it nicely. Gonna find more nipples to post.
PLEASE REBLOG!!! So, the OP’s post was flagged for “explicit content” even though it IS allowed under their current guidelines for adult content. My first reblog was flagged as well. So I’m asking EVERYONE TO REBLOG as a protest for @staff flagging this content which should be allowed per their own guidelines.
There are literally no nipples in this post you fucking muppets.
Combing through her social media, cops found Lecron posted frequently about the Columbine shooters, and glorified other mass murderers, like Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston in 2015. She even visited Columbine in August, promising the trip would be “fun” and that she was eager to share photos.
Lecron maintained a Tumblr account called “CharlestonChurchMiracle,” which featured dozens of photos and GIFs of serial killers and mass murderers like Ted Bundy, Nikolas Cruz and Adam Lanza, all interspersed with posts referencing depression, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
Tumblr did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jeff Fortunato, assistant special agent in charge of the Cleveland division of the FBI, said at the press conference that Lecron and the jailed Roof have been in contact since at least July.
She even tried to send the convicted killer Nazi literature, the release said.
And of course Tumblr hasn’t even taken it down yet! I guess staff only takes down murder junkie Nazi blogs when the kill count hits a certain minimum? Wtf???
mmmhhhhhmmmmm
There is such a huge “serial killer fangirl” community on tumblr I swear and many people run these blogs justifying it because they ‘just have an interest in true crime’. And like I’ve reported many of these blogs for glorifying serial killers/rapists and for hate speech but I don’t think they’ve ever taken a fucking blog down.
Tumblr @staff “logic”: titty is bad, mass murder is good.
With the recent change in Tumblr’s policy on nudity many creators (and visitors) are looking for an alternative platform to keep on going.
I have listed alternative platforms which came to my mind and did some basic research to help you to make an educated choice.
What made tumblr attractive in the past was a unique combination of
a large user base, which both provides plenty of new content and people eager to look/like/reblog it (in other words: A large audience to the creators work)
Liberal rules on nudity
Wed and mobile application
No costs
This combination is hard to find again.
My verdicts are for now:
Ello or deviantArt for creators who wnt to share their work among other creators
Vero for people who are essentially looking for a “nsfw-Instagram”
VK.com: For the adventurous
500px: I want to post or view really good photographed breasts
Flickr: I just ant du dump all my hotos somewhere to share it by link
Artfolio, Website: I need a “business card” to share by link
I personally will focus on Ello, Vero and my own website. Let me know if you are in
Ello
Description/Claim: “The Creators Network”. Ello
is a global community of artists dedicated to creative excellence. Built by
artists, for artists
Policy on Nudity: If you regularly post
adult-oriented content, otherwise deemed NSFW, please respect those in our community
that do not wish to see it by flagging your profile Not Safe for Work (NSFW).
Other: Ello claims several notable distinguishing
intentions as a social network: never sell user data to advertisers or third
parties, never show advertisements, and not enforce a real-name policy.
Vero
Description/Claim: Vero is a social network for
anyone who loves anything enough to share it – and wants control over who they
share it with. Just like we do in real life.
Description/Claim: Bleed and Breed Art – We are
where art starts, but that’s only the beginning. We are the movement for the
liberation of creative expression. We believe that art is for everyone, and
we’re creating the cultural context for how it is created, discovered, and
shared.
Other: User Interface created in early ’90 as it
seems
Vk.com
Description/Claim: VK (short for its original
name VKontakte; Russian: ВКонта́кте, meaning InContact) is a Russian online
social media and social networking service.
Type Of Service: Facebook-Like
Address: VK.com
Costs: Free / Advertisement based
Number of Users: > 100 million (>95% Russian)
Mobile Client: Available
Web Client: Not Available (?)
Main Language: Russian
Policy On Nudity: Liberal, details unknown
Main Language: Russian
Other: Owned by Mail.ru which has strong ties to
Russian government
500px
Description/Claim: The community for passionate
photographers. Join over 15 million photographers from 195 countries to
discover and share incredible photos, gain global exposure, and get paid for
your work and skills.
Policy On Nudity: [It is forbidden] To post […]
any Visual Content or Communications that are libelous, defamatory, obscene,
pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or that infringes any copyright or
other right of any person
Other: Initially Russian-owned, now Chinese.
Knowing for banning users without warning or explanation
Flickr
Description/Claim: We want to help people make
their photos available to the people who matter to them.
Policy On Nudity: Liberal, But restricted in Germany
(?): After further researching our available options, we decided to adjust our
policy in Germany to enable pictures rated as “moderate” to be visible for our
users starting today. We’ve received plenty of feedback from our members on
this and hopefully this change helps address some of the desires expressed
while still complying with legal requirements regarding age verification.
Used to be owned by Yahoo (former owner of
Tumblr), now sold to SmugMug
Artfolio, Patreon, Own Website…
Description/Claim: Showcase your work
Type Of Service: Portfolio/Homepage
Address: …what you make of it
Costs: Subscription
Number of Users: Next to zero – unless you run
some serious marketing or are very well known
Mobile Client: Not Available
Web Client: Available
Main Language: Your Choice
Policy On Nudity: Your Policy – but has to obey
the law
Other: Beyond tightening provisions around hate
speech and illegal content, Patreon essentially banned sex workers and adult
content of a sexual nature as of October 2018.
FetLife, JoyClub
Description/Claim: Follow your Kinks
Type Of Service: Social networks, focused on
Sex/fetish
Address: fetlife.com/joyclub.de
Costs: Subscription
Number of Users: > 2 Million each
Mobile Client: Not Available
Web Client: Available
Main Language: English, German
Policy On Nudity: Very relaxed
Other: Focus is not on photography but on
Sex/fetish/porn
ModelMahem, PurplePort, ModelKartei
Description/Claim: Social Networks focused on
Modelling/Photography
Type Of Service: Social networks, focused on
Modelling/Photography
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.
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