S the last couple weeks have been rough. I traveled to visit family and then ended up writing exclusively on a laptop that hated uploading anything, and then died on the way back. I lost a lot of shit and had a bad attitude about it.
And now I’m back to find out Tumblr’s going to nuke everything!
Do you like my work? Do you want more of it? Do you like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Erotica, voted on by lovely people like yourself? Do you perhaps even want custom captions about images and subject matter YOU provide?
As it stands, I update every Sunday with either a new caption or a choose-your-own-adventure story. I also update sporadically with captions from people at my $10 tier who buy their own custom caps.
In case you haven’t heard yet, the tag “NSFW” isn’t showing anything in tumblr results.
Likewise, if you search for a NSFW content producer, absolutely nothing comes up.
So.
I suppose tonight I am seriously going to look into expanding Splathouse into other platforms.
In the mean time it is extremely important now that if you’re following a NSFW artist or content producer you REBLOG and SHARE THEIR WORK AS FAR AS YOU CAN.
Because without the ability for the tag to be searched, they’ve essentially de-platformed an entire group of people.
There’s a lot I want to say about this. I am incredibly angry. I feel stupid that I didn’t take the time to look into alternative platforms until now. I feel like an absolute fucking moron for ever believing Tumblr during the Yahoo buyout, when they said they wouldn’t hurt NSFW artists.
I never should have assumed that any one platform truly gives a single fat flying fuck about keeping NSFW content producers and sex workers safe.
They’ve never cared about us. It was always about money.
So. Tonight I’m going to look into alternative platforms to load my content. Assume Newgrounds will be the place for fiction for right now. Here’s my soundcloud in case you don’t have a direct link:
I am likely not going to be working on content until I have other platforms up and ready.
I am literally open to any and all suggestions as to where to go or what to do at this point. I’ve used tumblr because it was incredibly easy to keep all my stuff in one place.
And now my work can’t even be searched for.
Splathouse is the largest creative endeavor I have ever been a part of. It is what I have poured literally every ounce of my being into for the last three years in a row. It is the one thing that has seriously pulled me out of my depression and convinced me that what I do and create has merit.
I am incredibly hurt by all of this. I’m not going to quit. I couldn’t, I love what I do and I love all of you too much.
But this hurts.
This hurts a lot.
-j
My man Jack at it again with the quality commentary.
When I have free time I’m gonna do a shout-out roundup for everybody I’ve been following lately to give a little boost to indie porn blogs. Until/unless there’s a good one-size-fits-all solution for a place to migrate to, everybody’s gotta stick together and drive traffic to each other since the platform is now inherently hostile to our work.
Hopefully we find a new platform to latch onto, but it always sucks going into this sort of shift. No matter what, this represents a net loss of traffic for NSFW artists, writers and sex workers. Even if there’s a good place to jump ship to, some of our followers and fans aren’t going to like it, others aren’t on Tumblr chiefly for porn and won’t jump ship until their main focus is similarly cut down. I’m fortunate enough that I’m not actually dependent on this work for my living, just some extra cash on the side that I’m tremendously thankful for and lucky to have. For others, this is earth-shaking, batten-down-the-hatches, dawn-of-the-final-day type shit.
Please support your NSFW artists, creators and models during these troubled times and I’ll do what I can to support others in these circles. Be on the lookout and spread the word for good alternatives. This isn’t just for you as a creator, but as a consumer. Most of us want, I think, want to jump to a platform people actually want to use.
((One more quick check-in. I’m still with family atm for the holidays. In light of the whole purge scare and the thus-far permanent safe mode, I would encourage everybody to back up anything they like from my blog. Once I get home and have a full computer, I’m going to back up everything too.
This whole thing is a bit frightening to me. I don’t have a huge following compared to a lot of folks, but I still put in some elbow grease to get the following I do have. It would be a shame for Tumblr to decide it should all just be over with. Likewise, it sucks that until the safe mode thing gets lifted (if it even does) that pretty much the only way people can find me is word of mouth or if they’re porn bots. Funny how those are pretty much untouched even after the fap snap.
I’m looking into alternatives, although what I do is already platform-dependent and morally sketchy at best. That’s what I get for building my own little porn fiefdom on other people’s work, I suppose. Pillowfort is looking like an ideal alternative, depending on whether it makes it out of beta. For now, this is my Twitter to keep in touch in case this blog explodes, I don’t really plan to use it much otherwise.
((Just checking in and apparently NSFW Tumblr is on fire. It looks like the cause is blogs that aren’t flagged as NSFW and I have been for quite some time. That said, I threw up a Twitter in case we gotta mass porn Exodus.))
((Cheers everybody. Thanos joke. May the odds be ever in your favor. Improvise, adapt, overcome, etc.))
It honestly baffles me how people can get this so fucking wrong. It’s really very simple. What you have to respect is everyone’s right to HAVE an opinion, not the opinion itself.
I will defend to the death your ability to think whatever the fuck you want, but if your opinion is dangerous, stupid, or wrong I will not for one second respect it. Or probably you.
This is the blogger formerly known as dyke4dick. I woke up to discover that my blog had been terminated for hate speech. The email quoted the TOS at me: “Don’t post content for the purpose of promoting or inciting the hatred of, or dehumanizing, individuals or groups based on […] gender, gender identity, […] sexual orientation […]” [my redaction for the relevant categories]
I’m not terribly surprised, of course; kink tumblrs get deleted all the time. I’m definitely annoyed, and kind of embarrassed, so unfortunately we all get to listen to me write a five-paragraph essay aboutkink instead of actually having fun engaging inkink.
I’m not gonna try to fight the termination; I had the blog for less than 2 months and am not emotionally attached to it. I did naively fail to save my original content. I was able to rescue 3 long posts through the magic of google, but I think that my original content has actually been hard banned from the site because it’s not there on blogs that I know reblogged it. Which is fun, feeling like my kinks are so horrible that no one should ever even look upon them lest they also be cursed with being a broken human.
For context, if it’s not obvious, my blog was full of hard kinks, most relevantly misogyny, misgendering, forced detransition, rape, corrective rape, and dehumanization. For me these are definitely kinks and not reflective of actual beliefs I have, but I blog in character (as a slightly more broken version of myself) because personally I find constant disclaimers unsexy.
I’ve been worrying since I started the blog about consistent characterization of the character I play - I said above that it’s a “slightly more broken of myself” and that’s the basic idea, but what does it actually believe about women, men, queers, itself? Will people get mad if my kink blog is not 100% ideologically consistent?
I was able to find and just reposted gender identity for fucktoys, which is part of the answer for myself. My actual gender identity and presentation are related in complicated ways to my interaction with this set of kinks. It also means I want to be careful, because I end up relating to content that is denigrating/dehumanizing of groups to which I don’t actually belong. I’m not a woman, I’m not a trans man, and I’m not a sissy, but a lot of ideas in misogyny porn (being useful only as a sex toy by virtue of my anatomy) and ftm misgendering kink (never able to be a real man by virtue of my anatomy) and sissy porn (being inadequate at manhood, unable to please women, and forced to be sexual with men) resonate with me a lot.
This theme comes up a lot in content I see on tumblr - not all women are rapebait, but i sure am. Trans men are men - buti am a fakeboy. Because decent people don’t want to nonconsensually degrade other people, and there’s also an appeal in “I’m not a fucktoy because I am a woman/have a vagina/don’t have a penis; I’m a fucktoy becuase i personally am broken.”
But there’s also a necessary element of essentialism for me in the kink. I think that’s partially because, while I do actually believe I’m broken in a lot of ways, 1) y’all don’t know me and 2) I don’t know that I am capable of eroticizing all of my actual brokenness, and 3) the pieces that I can eroticize I don’t necessarily want to share with everyone. Or anyone. So in a way “i’m inferior because i’m a cunt” is shorthand, gesturing for me at all the ways that I feel inferior and…. creating a safe headspace for that.
Part of the appeal of the essentialism part of this kink for me is that there’s nothing I can do to change it. Issues of worthiness are important to me, and I have a lot of my self-worth wrapped up in various skills and talents I have, and it is really nice to feel that I am useful because – and only because – of something unchanging about my body. I don’t have to be intelligent or eloquent or thoughtful. The idea of being just three holes is a relief.
For me it’s definitely essentialism along gendered/sexed lines, in a complicated way because of being a trans person. I’m not a woman, even in fantasy - that’s kind of a soft limit. But I am “girl” and “cunt” which feel different enough from woman not to trigger the same feelings.
I guess the coherent worldview at base is that there are real men (normal and cis), real women (normal and cis), normal nonbinary people, and then there’s the trashpile for people like me. That’s not exactly what I believe ooc, but it’s close enough to what the fantasy version of me believes.
Look, I don’t know how you could possibly know this about me, but I kind of have issues about authority figures, and tumblr dot com told me I was naughty and was encouraging people to dehumanize women and trans men, which was definitely not my intention; going forward I’ll try to be more clear that I’m only encouraging you to dehumanize me and others who have opted into the gendertrash pile of cunts, whores, sluts, rapemeat, etc.
I guess that sounds a little glib, and it’s really hard not to be a little bit in character at all times, since y’all are not my therapist. But for real. There are hundreds of folks on here begging to be treated like trash, self included. Take us up on that and leave normal people alone.
And maybe having written out that gigantic pile of words, I’ll be able to get back to the fun part of having an nsfw tumblr?
The real nylon enthusiasts among you will have surely already spotted I am wearing seamless tights under my glossy white hold ups. Since I love stockings and tights I just can’t see why I wouldn’t wear both sometimes.
