The Tumblr Log Off

I summed up my feelings on this entire mess on Twitter fairly well, but here's a paraphrased recap:

Since the Tumblr Purge began, I have seen:

• Artists Disappear (Both SFW and NSFW)
• The worst flagging system known to man hit everything but what it was intended to target.
• People scared and hurt.
• Bots thrive.

That last one ticks me off the most because I saw a literal uptick in Spam Bot followers and fake accounts after the Purge. It's infuriating.

The worst part of all of this is Tumblr already had content filtering. I used it. All the time. The issue with the site wasn't the adult content, it was bots not flagging their posts and having them show up in Safe Mode. 

I'm sure that there was an issue with illegal content as well, but that's the thing--it was illegal. You delete just that with an actual team of people who can look at the content for themselves.

But clearly that's too expensive, or something.

I am aware that much of this is a decision really based on ad revenue (not wanting to be near adult content) or their app store status, but it's still grating. They said the adult content would be allowed to stay and now they're taking that back. People are upset and rightfully so.

The end point, is that if Tumblr wants to make money, ads aren't the way to do it. Or at least not ads the way they're using it. All of this really makes me miss Project Wonderful. It was the only Ad distribution & revenue site that I adored because everything was submitted by artists, writers and content creators. I was proud to display ads for all of those things & I bought ads myself. It was great.

And of course there's the subscription model, which Dreamwidth and Deviant Art uses. Here's the thing, Tumblr: If I like your site, I'm happy to pay a little to help keep it running and so others can use it for free.

But I'm not happy with you right now.

I hope you have some common sense and take back the NSFW ban, but I doubt it.

Common Sense

Common Sense on Archive of Our Own or Fanfiction.net
Rated K/G
Saiyuki
Genjo Sanzo & Son Goku, Slice of Life

Summary: Goku and Sanzo have a quiet chat in the rain.

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Decided to start chipping away at my project to crosspost all of my fanfics to AO3. :D

Today's addition is "Common Sense" from my Saiyuki fandom days. A short little slice of piece that was short and sweet. I don't have a lot of feelings about it either way, which is pretty normal. You're not going to look back on everything you've ever written with a sense of nostalgia or pride. Some things just are. :3

Keeping Face

Keeping Face on Archive of Our Own or Fanfiction.net
Rated T
Saiyuki
Genjo Sanzo & Cho Hakkai, Angst & Action

Summary: Cho Gonou is dead, but Cho Hakkai lives. Cho Hakkai is a demon.

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I think of all the Saiyuki fanfics I've written, this one continues to be my favorite. I spent about a year on it from July 2006 to July 2007 and I'm still happy with it. Some of the writing is still rough, but I remember being adventurous with this one. I had a full supporting cast of original characters as I fleshed out the town they visited, I had some character study with Hakkai & Sanzo, it had a distinct start, middle, and ending--it's just nice to look back on all around.

And it reminds me how much I shipped Hakkai & Sanzo back in the day. Lol. This fic is Gen, but if I'd written it today, there would have been some romance added. In fact, I did sort of head that direction. The (sadly unfinished) direct sequel to this fic I started was going to be the "Get together" portion of the story. Ha ha.

Good times.

Organization

While I'm doing all this crossposting, I'm also trying to clean up my old fics on FFnet to make them a little more uniform (using the same system for notes on each page, making sure the line breaks are there since a lot were destroyed when FFnet updated their system a long while back and it removed all the symbols I had been using as line breaks).

And it's made me realize I get bothered by little things & anxiety continues to not be my friend.

Like one-shot collections. I'm staring at the next item on the list and it's a one-shot collection--with one work in it.

Part of me wants to rename it & post it as a proper one-shot, even if it's like 10 years later (I would note that I did it of course, on both AO3 and the original). 

But the archival part of my brain is "This is what you first posted it as, this is what it should stay."

The truth is, on FFnet, one-shot collections were a lot easier. I could group everything together nice and neatly in one place.

But on AO3, it's much more advantageous to split them all out into separate works due to tagging. Sort of. Like, I still enjoyed putting "Challenges" together in a single work/story (like when I did Huxloween) since they're related despite the different subjects...up until I remember series exist and would do the same thing but still keep all the one-shots to be neatly labeled with their own appropriate tags.

The end of this ramble is that I have this stuff organized in different ways and part of me wants to fix it but the other part is "Leave. It. Alone." Ultimately it'll probably bother me forever, but what can you do? XD

I'm feeling chatty today. So you get to see the ramble.