Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.
For people asking how to backup thier blog
Since the algorithms are flagging tons of stuff that don’t break the new guidelines anyway (twitter is on fire right now with screenshots of wrongly flagged art), here’s an option to back up your blog.
Anyway the last point I have to make here is that even if tumblr breaks under the algorithm (almost certain if they don’t back out of using it) and/or everybody leaves… I don’t have anywhere else to go or post things
people like to joke about it being bad, but I legitimately really like Tumblr. it actually feels like a blogging platform in a world where facebook and twitter are active political weapons that manipulate us elections. i don’t feel like i’m baring myself to content i don’t want to see here, or having to engage with a popularity-focused culture. the content isn’t sorted to influence you or trick you. it’s a bunch of people being themselves on their own terms. it’s oldnet.
yes, i do use other websites, but i’m not interested in posting personal things to any of them. this was a place i had control over and i’ll stay with it until i can’t. and when that happens there’ll be nothing left.
Yeah, I joked that this was the last platform my mom didn’t follow me on, but it was definitely a place where I felt more open about certain things. I don’t know what else will offer that, which sucks.
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get to your ask! I haven’t really been in a daiya frame of mind for a while and I wanted to give this your question a proper think before I responded.
Well. I feel like I don’t have enough on Okumura to make a final assessment of his character. At first I was suspicious, and I admit, I felt the threat of Misawa’s eventual separation in his introduction and I might have been very on the fence about him.
After that I got rather worried about him because that middle school coach seemed creepy AF (and I’m a Worst Case Scenario gal with a colorful imagination), but again, I’ve had to discard my worst fears because they are… in the end, rather irrational. And Tera-sensei isn’t That Kind of writer (thank God).
I actually quite like Okumura to be honest.
I’m not sure what you mean with “the worst sides of Miyuki and Furuya”. I think that depends on your position, and I think my opinions of Miyuki and Furuya’s worst traits are probably very different from what most people think about them (or maybe I flatter myself in that regard).
Either way, I think Okumura deserves to be read on his own and not in comparison with others and I think that’s probably going to give you the most fleshed out version of my impression of him. So here goes:
(And please remember this is my personal opinion)
I think that Okumura is a Catcher at heart.
What I mean with this is that he’s most comfortable in a situation where he gets to call the shots from out of sight. He’s kind of shy and not all that good with people, but he’s also very prideful and very principled.
I think he thinks he knows what he wants.
In other words, I think he has specific goals in mind, that he’s ambitious and that he plays his baseball the way he’s been conditioned to through bad experiences. I think the betrayal of his old coach has left him somewhat jaded at an early age and because he sees things in black and white he’s forgetting to trust.
But I think he chose Seidou because he ultimately wants to trust other people, because he looked at the way Miyuki and Eijun play baseball, at how much fun they’re having in the diamond, and I think he wants to regain that childlike love of his sport.
Most of all, I think he’s a very kind, honest child, and I think that’s really beginning to show. Especially in the way he acts with Miyuki and Ono. He was happy that they trusted him to breeze through his tests, and he’s devastated that he didn’t meet their expectations.
And when it comes to Eijun, he’s going to be the perfect successor to Miyuki. Eijun plays best with a catcher that’s aggressive, that meets him halfway with everything he’s got, with somebody who likes to pick a fight. And Okumura has shown himself to be all that. He’s also not afraid to speak up against his Senpai, which is going to be important, because Eijun is the one with the last word in that duo, and while I do believe he’s growing into a leader, he’s also impulsive AF, and he needs somebody who encourages that he thinks things through.
That being said, Okumura isn’t Miyuki. Okumura has faults of his own, and those are not entirely understanding yet that the pitcher is a person with limits, that Eijun isn’t so amazing that he can accomplish anything Okumura asks of him. Okumura isn’t as good at reading people as Miyuki and he’s going to learn that to become as good as Miyuki.
And I think in the absence of that experience, Eijun is going to flower as a leader and an Ace once the third years retire.
So yeah! Definitely give the boy a chance. I think he deserves that.
So my brother and I have been trying a kind of meh game called “Lost Alice”. The premise is that your character falls into Wonderland. She’s lost all her memories and everyone recognizes her and refers to her as Alice. Except there’s a very strong implication that there’s a *pattern* of this happening, and something more ominous is going on, and everyone’s just required to act this out repeatedly for some reason. All the love interests (Knave of Hearts, Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat) have assigned roles in relation to you that they have to break for the romance to advance.
Anyway, one of the running plot points in all the storylines is getting people to call you your character name instead of “Alice.”
So my brother named his character “Mecha-Alice”.
What results is absolutely the most entertaining form this game could ever possibly take, as your character repeatedly says things like:
“I don’t really feel like an Alice. I feel more like… Mecha-Alice.”
“For some reason I felt really happy hearing him call me Mecha-Alice.”
“You won’t defeat me! And my name is NOT Alice. I am… MECHA-ALICE.”
So I’ve been meaning to write about this since chapter 88 came out, but, eh, laziness and RL got in the way (and I honestly thought others would be talking about it in more depth so I didn’t have to)
But here I am.
See, the reason I really love this chapter is because it gives us a completely new angle into Miyuki and Eijun’s relationship. Or rather, it gives us the key to reading their entire dynamic differently in Act II compared to what we’ve been able to do until then.
I love Miyusawa/Misawa to death, don’t get me wrong and I think as a ship and as a battery, nothing’s better. BUT hear me out please.
Kousawa/MuraMura isn’t bad, it’s not not bad because it’s actually good! This pair has something that Miyusawa don’t give me enough and i dont have a word for it so listen, i’ll explain it.
We can’t deny that the chemistry between Miyuki and Sawamura is such a stroooong force, and tbh mostly it comes from Sawamura as he’s the one who desperately wants to prove himself to Miyuki, he’s the one who wants acknowledgement from him and all. And as readers we know that Miyuki acknowledges him, recognizes his strength and his ability to rapidly but steadily improve. But does Sawamura feel this enough? Definitely not enough. Not as much as he gets it from Okumura.
Because see, Sawamura Eijun entered Seido with a Miyuki Kazuya that had the duty to find and raise an ace. And that time, Furuya was the initial prospect, so naturally, they’d focus on him more. This put Eijun in a spare position in most of dna characters’ eyes, and tbh i feel like in Miyuki’s eyes too. Especially, when he said Furuya was so lucky that someone like Eijun is in his year, strongly implying that Eijun’s simply someone to push him forward to better himself and be more fitting to be Seido’s ace. Not only that, even at the infamous Ichidaisan vs Seido in Act 2, Miyuki and the coach prioritized Furuya over the team, leading them to a loss, that’s how you raise an ace, and that’s what they’re unconsciously doing. Of course it’s all changing now and i know, i understand.
What I’m trying to say is, Miyuki had never felt like a partner to Eijun, and tbh? He feels like a prize, at the end, along with the ace number. Miyuki Kazuya feels like an end goal of the first book or arc.
Unlike in Okumura’s case, where it’s almost reversed, but not really, Okumura went to Seido specifically to catch for Sawamura, which makes him already an ace for Okumura. It’s Okumura who wants to prove himself to Sawamura, but the thing is Sawamura is already very vocal about the fact that he trusts Okumura and really, while it may not seem Okumura is a vocal person, he is, and he knows what to say and do at crucial moments. He’s honest and this can be seen at the way he easily and explicitly compliments Eijun’s pitching and skills.
While, yes Miyusawa is still the best (IM FOREVER A MIYUSAWA)! Kousawa has this… unique charisma too that i just can’t turn away from.
IT’S JUST, I got so tired of people always putting Sawamura aside. I got so tired of watching him fight for everyone’s attention. I got soooo tired of watching him work his ass off just for everyone to give him the fucking time of the day. I got sooooo fucking tired of watching everyone putting him under a pitcher he’s already caught up with that it gave him this inferiority complex that just breaaaaks my heart so much. So when the first years who put him into some kind of a pedestal, especially Okumura, came into the picture i lost it! Because Sawamura deserves this, he worked for this. He worked so hard for this and I’m getting so emotional right now.
i dont know anything about party comps but the IPRE crew was 1 cleric, 1 fighter, and 5 whole wizards, can someone make fun of it for me
thank you all
fighters 1 clerics 1 wizards 5
someone who is good at party composition help. we keep dying
less wizards
no
They obvsl spec’d for endgame content u_u
tags from zenosanalytic:
The Adventure Zone The McElroys D&D frivolous reblogs the joke is that for most of D&D’s history wizards were absurdly weak at low levels like 2 hp die if a rat scratches them weak but unstoppable worldending god killers past lvl 19 who had access to spells that could make them into to better warriors/clerics than actual chars of those classes or high lvl monsters or could just summon armies of monsters in a single round if they didn’t feel like just mazing or vaporizing or incinerating or calling down a flipping meteor to crush someone instead but anyway
OK SO YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE RATHOLE YOU JUST STEPPED INTO PAL…. me and my bff Fred have been discussing this matter non-stop for the 10 years we’ve known each other. literally only last week we sat down for a 3 hour debate about this, and i actually brought your question to them so we could give u a fair answer… this is so sad though if you wanted a clear and concise yes or no answer you’ve come to the wrong place.
IF you wanted an obsessive 8-page google document about the pros and cons and which specific versions of yu-gi-oh are worth watching……………………. you’ve come to absolutely the right place. and i made this for you(there’s a TL;DR AT THE END THOUGH IF YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE READING MY RAMBLINGS…)
“SHOULD I WATCH YU GI OH?” THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN..
This is fascinating. I did a backup using tumblr-utils, it came out to about 3.6GB, it completed ever. This is not compressed, it’s just a bunch of HTML and images.
Tumblr’s exporter produced a zip file which is >5GB, and still running.
Comparing a blog exported by tumblr’s exporter to one exported by tumblr-utils, they are producing very similar results, with some images slightly different between them. Like, of three images on one blog, two were apparently identical, one changed size and I don’t know why.
What’s weird is that it’s not at all obvious why the export of this blog is over 5GB using tumblr’s exporter. Is it including more stuff? We can’t tell, because there’s no way to look at any part of the file unless the whole file makes it down, because zip files don’t have their primary table of contents until the end of the archive. But people are reporting corrupt zips. But intuitively, it shouldn’t be larger than the uncompressed data, right? Well, who knows. This is tumblr.
What is Tumblr-utlis and where can I find it, considering the fresh hell this blue nonsense is putting people through?
Python script to grab things. Grabbed my blog in ~24 minutes, contrast with it taking something like an hour for tumblr to decide it had created a file, and another hour to actually download it. Seems significantly cleaner, although honestly I suspect tumblr used the code from this one because of similarities in the generated output. So I think they used it and then modified it and broke it a bit.
just moving along like everyone else 