#i'm nuking this site

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Heard something about Beowulf earlier and thought of this post, especially the xenomorph bear. Unfortunately, since tumblr has apparently just decided to make posts from deleted OPs completely unsearchable on any platform or something now, I can't find this post to reblog it, but thankfully reddit and pinterest had image backups.

#I'm actually seriously starting to be irked by whatever they did to change how posts from deleted blogs are handled #in the past even if the OP's blog is gone I could type a word-for-word search into google and have it bring up a reblog or two at least #but ever since whatever change they made so that deleted-OP posts no longer display images/videos or the contents of reblogs in the notes #that no longer seems to work #like a major draw of this site is that old posts keep circulating as long as people reblog them even if the OP is no longer around #but that's not gonna keep working if those posts are getting nuked from orbit

[children-of-subcon]

So, it's been uh,,,,*checks watch* two months,! Sorry about that, I've been really busy -w-;; But anyways!!

As you've probably noticed, this ref is wayyy different from my usual style! To be honest, I,,,really started hating that style and it made working on refs stop being fun jsdkljsd... Plus I got really inspired by a certain youtuber so!! Ref formats are getting a revamp!!!!! It's possible that it may change more in the future since this was very experimental,, but the good news is it worked and I had a TON more fun making this :DD

As usual, story will be under the cut!

Taking the role of goofy mafia is the Lost Florist, also known simply as Chrys! She's the oldest member of Princess's runaway coup, at 19 years old, and also its only authority figure. She's been trying to reign things in and convince the Lost Kids to stop the whole thing, with...negligible success. Let's just hope SOMEONE figures out how to get things under control before she turns 20,,,and the coup kicks out the last thing keeping the island from burning to the ground.

As the only one really equipped to deal with the chaos (or at least, she's trying), Chrys is CONSTANTLY sleep deprived. She hasn't gotten a good night's sleep in months! And on one particular night, when it begins to lightly snow all over Ever Isle, leading every single child to attempt to shovel the stuff into their mouths...let's just say she's more tired than ever.

For USAU's Ch.1 Act 3: He Came From Underground, instead of raining, it snows! As seen above, Prince has a snow coat outfit exclusive to the next two acts (although it can later be earned). Falling into a snow pile will cause him to get covered in snow (loser), and anyone he encounters will ignore him unless attacked. If he passes through a bush while covered in snow, Prince will then get DOUBLE covered in leaves. Blegh. He's gonna need a shower after this...

Lost Florist, being so tired she's probably starting to see spiders, mistakes the leaf-covered alien for a "Leafy Plant Monster", screaming something about how she "knew the plants would come to take revenge on her". Prince rather confusedly chases after her, just trying to politely ask for his Time Piece back. Chrys ends up passing out, allowing her to get some much-needed sleep and Prince to retrieve his Time Piece.

She also appears in a much more well rested and less paranoid form in Act 6: Growing Over Ever Isle. Basically, Princess turned on all of the acid faucets around the island, causing the plant life to mutate and overgrow! I'll probably go into more detail later, but Chrys talks to Prince at the start of the act and also thanks him with a Time Piece at the end...along with someone else.

I imagine act 3's song is something like Scootin Through Subcon Forest or Subcon Caves but faster and more She Came From Outer Space-y JSDKLFJ And then act 6 would be a remix of Subcon Village probably? I'm not really sure what kind of music fits evil plants, though...

Some final tidbits about Chrys!

She was childhood friends with Princess, but has kind of been really mad at her ever since she started a coup and even more after she LEFT HER TO PICK UP THE PIECES. -_-

She owns the flowershop in the Town plaza fountain area! It was originally called Bloomin' Boutique, but,,,the Lost Kids spray painted over it to say "Bloomin' Idiots" instead :(

Homegirl is so sleep deprived she put normal gloves over her gardening ones 💀 GO TO BED

Alright, that's about it! These always end up longer than I think they'll be -w-;; BUT I realized whose ref is next and I'm reaaaally excited hehehe :) Anywho, thanks for reading!

#Please let her sleep TOT #If a single one of you compares her to wendy's I'm nuking this entire site btw #A Hat in Time #AHiT #ahit au #USAU #ahit Florist #ahit Prince #White Chrysanthemum

[theraphos]

me being prescribed antibiotics:

the trillions of microbes that make up my whole entire body activating in unison: it's treason then

#go to sleep ed #joke's on me though the numerous side effects include NOT SLEEPING please launch me into the SUN #i've barely slept for three days i can only tell i'm hungry when my guts keep making noises but i don't get sick #my brain and digestive functions are on strike and sometimes the room becomes the arctic for no reason #RIP my microbes but nuking the site from orbit is the only way to be sure #i promise to buy the survivors of this apocalypse a salad

[weed-cat]

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#if you find predstrogen/avery's blog annoying or her opinions stale or whatever #this is a great time to shut up and keep it to yourself. people arent talking about how she got nuked because they love her #they're talking about how she got nuked bcs she was a popular transfem blogger who took great care not to break tos for this extact reason #and she still got termed and her appeal still got denied after an organized surge of transphobic hate and mass reporting #this conversation is about how poorly tumblr staff treat transfems who use their site. #i know people have used this situation to try to create division in the trans community and an unfortunate number of people took the bait #I'm seeing it happen on my dash right now #but that's what you're doing if you engage with the infighting about which part of the trans community is responsible here. #you're taking the bait. #just stop it and focus on making tumblr safer for everyone #including safety from insular violence. #what I'm saying is stop fucking arguing guys oh my god. certain members of our community are being vicimized by hostile outside parties! #why are we yelling at each other???!?!?

[imwritesometimes]

people saying 'just use an ad-blocker on ff dot net omg 🙄' are missing the point entirely but ok.....

if you allow ads and corporate bullshit on your fandom sites you are welcoming outside corporations to profit off your fan works and eventually dictate what will and will not be allowed on the site. yes ao3 has a yearly donation campaign and will take donations year-round. they also will not take down entire swathes of explicit fic just cause advertisers/corporations want them to. which I think would be more important to ppl since the explicit fic seems to be what everyone clamors for in the first place 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

servers aren't free. websites don't run on magic and fairy dust. lawyers are not on standby just out of the good of their hearts. grow the fuck up.

#ao3 is visited thousands of times a day by people all over the world #do you think the server space and web domain for that kind of site just... happens? for free? instantly? #ao3 does not say 'if you want to use this website it's $9.99 a month #which is WILD given today's climate of subscriptions for EVERYTHING #they say 'hey. if you can. throw us the price of your fuckin starbucks for a single day this one time! if not thanks and happy reading!' #I'm making this non-rebloggable cause I just don't want the bullshit #I'm in a fucking MOOD today cause I don't feel well and it's making me mad and my patience is GONE #erin explains it all #clown and get nuked from orbit

[dailynnd]

This is true, it sounds identical. I unfortunately deleted the 2020 video compilation I made containing all the NND parallels with the bees, ren/ora and Oz/lem that me or the fandom had found up until V8. But if you could've seen it, you'd have your butt six feet under than just with this one fact I wrote xD

#I'm soooo stupid for deleting this from my computer and the site when I nuked my rwby account #it might?? still be up on vimeo i have no clue #maybe I hid it...

[theskylarkin]

In case of fallout due to Current Events

Obligatory linktree like Just In Case(tm):

#SkyLarkin Yells at 2024 #One of my sideblogs just got deleted for no apparent reason #So I'm just putting this up in case certain transphobes decide to nuke the site out of spite or something

[chaosintheavenue]

Would anybody be interested in witnessing/helping out with Trin's first nuke launch? (eyes emoji)

#chaos plays fallout 76 #it's a long way off yet. just got the quest uncle sam last night #it's going to be torturous for her in every possible way #nuke is going directly to fissure site prime. hopefully tons of guys in power armor turn up for scorched earth or I'm doomed lol #I play on pc btw #afterthought: don't I have to shoot down a vertibird in the process of preparing? that's going to be a problem for poor melee trin

[thebibliosphere]

To be clear, unless staff trips over the trail of extension cords keeping the servers running, Tumblr likely isn't going anywhere any time soon.

What the info we've seen suggests is that updates are going to slow down, maintenance is maybe going to get a little shaky, and we're going to see more glitches as time goes on and the remaining staff gets further behind their workload.

Is this a good thing? No, absolutely not.

Should you be panicking, jumping overboard, running for the hills, etc? Also no.

So what does it mean?

Well, for myself and several other creatives you all saw tagged in that post, it means we're looking around trying to figure out what to do in the long run. We're not running for the lifeboats. We're just eyeing the iceberg in the distance and getting our shit together in the event that the worst comes to pass.

Speaking for myself, I intend to crawl through the walls of Tumblr until they pry me out of the air vents armed with a broom and oven mitts. I'm not going anywhere until the lights go out, and even then, I'll be chewing on the wires.

But that doesn't mean I'm not looking around for somewhere to land when the time comes.

Myself and several others are not panicking about this, but we are trying to be organized about it.

I'm just old enough to remember when fandom websites being nuked overnight was a very real thing. You'd go to bed one night and wake up the next day to find friends you'd known for years were just gone with no means of contacting them because the site you'd been using got wiped. Entire collections of fandom history were just destroyed in the blink of an eye.

We don't want that again. And the good news is, we have time. We have time to back up our shit, time to swap contact info with our friends, and time to find a new place to exist within our communities while also staying here because Tumblr ain't dead yet.

She's just slowly going to wind down over time.

Unless, of course, they trip over the cables. Then we're fucked.

[themslash]

i mean reddit does make me feel powerful so i understand why people use it. you can leave a helpful tip to someone's question about a video game and put "i hope this helps :)" at the end and they'll give you a million billion updogs or whatever the fuck those are. its really nice.

#vesselage #if anyone argues with me on that site ever i'm nuking them from orbit though #not allowed to argue with me #i really cant relate to people who argue online for fun. it hurts my feelings and im killing you.

[txttletale]

hey, a while ago you made a post to the effect of "tumblr's perpetual marking of transfems' posts as mature isn't due to malice but incompetence. that is worse" and I'm wondering if you still think that's true. I agreed at the time but idk it's been harder and harder to believe staff could be as incompetent wrt moderation as they have been idk

as a wise naruto once said, believe it. with the most recent case study, moira predstrogen's account getting nuked, it's really clear that there was a targeted mass reporting campaign at work. again, when i blame 'incompetence', i'm not saying that this somehow absolves tumblr staff, i think this site's moderation is incredibly transmisogynistic and the fact that these mass reporting campaigns work (and work on someone who has been targeted by this and succesfully appealed multiple times, no less!) is a catastrophic failure on tumblr's part on every level. but again, it's because of the mass reporting campaign and tumblr not having any functional systems in place to prevent that kind of thing rather than because someone at tumblr HQ was personally like 'hmm, today i, the Tumbling TERF, shall pick a trans woman to ban!'

#ask

[sreegs]

I reblogged it earlier but I'm glad the Something Awful Forums 9/11 thread was archived because it's an incredibly important slice of internet history. For the record I think 9/11 was thousands of personal tragedies for the direct victims of the attacks but one big national farce that led to America's ongoing slide into fascism, and the nationalism and remembrance around it is a joke especially in the wake of the same amount of deaths every fucking day in the US during the height of coronavirus.

Nevertheless I think it's important that if you do not remember because you were too young or just didn't exist on Sept 11, 2001 to read the Something Awful 9/11 forums to get an idea of what the internet was like at the moment when America changed to 24 hour news cycles and renewed hyper-nationalism not seen since WWII.

This all happened before Twitter, Facebook, before Discord. Before smart phones. Before most people had cell phones. When a lot of people still had dial-up internet, even. Some people in the thread were relying on radio because internet and TV weren't keeping up.

It was a live event of internet denizens reacting to the biggest national event (and among the biggest international events) of the past 25 years. It was also a slice of what the internet was like at the turn of the millennium. Not only that, but people accurately calling out who was responsible, and what would result before the attacks even finished.

Keep in mind that the links that follow contain images of the event, lots of Islamophobia, people calling for the Middle East to be nuked, people blaming Palestine, casual racist and homophobic language (this was Something Awful after all), etc etc. They preserved the first 17 pages which spanned about 24 hours during the events. It's the origin of the "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR" screenshot.

Links under the fold. I've also annotated the pages with notes regarding the timeline and any posts of interest. Note the thread was preserved in Pacific Time even though the page says times are Eastern. That's incorrect. Post timestamps are 3 hours behind Eastern Time, which is the time zone where the attacks occurred:

Page 1 - Note the first post was edited to include images of the second attack. The thread started after the first plane hit. Second plane hitting the WTC happens here too.

Page 2 - Poster accurately calling out Bin Laden was responsible at 9:14 AM EST

Page 3 - "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR"

Page 4

Page 5 - First official acknowledgement it was a terrorist attack.

Page 6 - Pentagon hit

Page 7

Page 8

Page 9 - Commercial flights grounded by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

Page 10 - First mention of towers collapsing at end of page

Page 11 - More reactions to collapse of first tower. People thinking it was a bomb or yet another plane. Rumors about a fourth plane just missing the White House (these are false and predate the actual 4th plane crash by minutes)

Page 12

Page 13 - By this point there's just rampant speculation about more bombs at the WTC, the US Capitol building being hit, etc (all false). Remember this is all just people reacting to TV news and radio and the rumor mill via phone, AIM, IRC, and maybe text messages.

Page 14 - By this point internet news sites are overwhelmed

Page 15 - Second tower collapses. First acknowledgement of the fourth plane that crashed in PA.

Page 16 - There's an abrupt time jump in the threads, I think it was the result of admins pruning the activity or the SA forums going down. This page starts on 9/12 even though it is page 16. American flag signatures and ribbons start appearing.

Page 17

#9/11 #something awful

[askshivanulegacy]

"If you ever see a post on XYZ be sure to check the OP"

n o

"It's a free blocklist!!!1!"

do you take me for someone who cares

#the raw mentality of some people on this site i swear #born-again chronically online sjws 😂 #sorry but i have what's called a L I F E #i don't CARE who the OP is #it's not worth my time to police something entirely outside of the content of the post I'm reblogging #i don't CARE who has bad opinions on the topic of the day #i have one speed and it's precision nuke #i only bother with the time and interest to take out singular people who i directly encounter #i do not care about people on the periphery who has time for that #you wanna go look for shit??? have fun not having a life i guess #meanwhile I'm going on a hike and traveling and playing computer games and reading problematic books lol #some tumblrites need to touch serious grass and smell some serious sun #this is based on nothing except an idiot OP i found in my 'for you' dash who recommended #the exact opposite of common sense and having a life 😂😂😂😂 #no OP #just no #humor #commentary #ignore me as i choose not to give the OP attention #rant #tag rant

[dduane]

PSA: "Shaxpir" AI writing software: AVOID!

The tl;dr: A guy is selling subscriptions to an AI-based software tool to "help you write better novels." And to train it, he's used tens of thousands of novels from authors you know, without those authors giving him permission.

...Sometimes things seem to blow up with unusual speed. This particular shit seems to have hit the fan yesterday, primarily on Twitter, when various authors discovered the guy's website, prosecraft.io. This site featured "clippings" of writing from the authors he'd stolen from... and the revelation that he had scraped their entire books, not just excerpts, to train his AI. ("2,470,720,986 words," his website bragged, "from 27,668 books, by 15,622 authors." The only authors who were off limits, apparently, were people using [or paying for] his software.) Though the guy hastily took prosecraft.io down when the online explosions began, if you take a look at this Google search you can see the covers of just some of the books the entire contents of which he exploited for AI training.

This usage goes well beyond the "fair use" defense that he belatedly (and ineffectively) attempted to employ on Twitter. It's straightforward copyright infringement, on a massive scale: good old-fashioned theft.

Gizmodo has a goodish breakdown of the broad situation here. AV Club also has one here.

The only upside to this sorry situation is that, at the legal end of things, this guy is certainly about to get nuked from orbit… because all those authors’ full-text works will still be in the guts of the guy’s AI, which is being used by him for commercial purposes. (Among the authors he made the gross tactical error of stealing from: Stephen King, James Patterson, the Pratchett Estate, and Nora Roberts. This... is not going to go well for him.)

Leverage's John Rogers sums it up succinctly:

Meanwhile: the guy who created this whole mess is still selling subscriptions to his Shaxpir software (I'm not adding the URL here) that he trained using stolen goods. So—until someone stops him—you might like to reblog this info for the attention of others here who prefer their writing to stay human-made as well as -fueled, and not to support the seriously ethically-challenged.

#Prosecraft #shaxpir

[snowflop]

#tch. thats really annoying innit #a webnovel i was reading has been completely obliterated from the face on the internet so now i will TRULY never know what happens #apparently the translation group got a dmca because of this new venture from one of the big webnovel companies (idk the name) #so they ended up completely nuking their site and aaaalllll the contents #i originally thought like... surely some aggregator website out there has a backup lol so worries but it's literally... gone #apparently novels are not a meticulously stolen as manga #manga translations never truly vanish i've read scanlations from 2012 that are artifacted to shit those jpegs have been through the wars #but it's legible! it still exists and it was done by a human being #so many novel aggregator websits only have machine translations and i cant read that shit it makes my brain hurt #so anyway point is now i'm trying to make backups of some novels i do really like just in case but god there has to be an easier way #going chapter by chapter copying all the text into a word document cant be the way it takes so long #this shit is 120 chapters i'm not strong enough for this #I don't wanna be a dick and try and work around the translation groups anti-copying anti-downloading protections because- #CLEARLY they're just trying to protect their work from being taken and distributed without their consent i get that #but... god i really want a backup of this one you know orz... #not having it physically (digitally?) on my own hard drives means that it could vanish literally anytime without warning #aarrrgghhh for now i will relent... but i'll be back it #sorry but if it's displayed in my browser it's literally impossible for you to completely cut off my access to downloading it somehow #if it comes down to it i can save the webpages individually as files but that's such a pain! it'd be nice if i could get the plain text... #although the translation notes would be lost and i do dearly treasure those... #snow blogging

[zagreus]

I'm going to try to avoid saying anything too outright inflammatory because I don't want to give the people running this site an excuse to nuke my blog too, but this current situation with predstrogen et al is a perfect microcosm of how ostensibly "reasonable" puritanical regulations are misused to silence anyone whose existence is inconvenient or distasteful to those in power. It's appalling. Queerest place on the internet, my ass.