i dont understand this at all and america scares the fuck out of me
This is the america they don’t want you to see
i love america
This is what you call Waffle House at 2 am when the bars close and everyone is drunk and hungry
*group of people having fun* this site: wtf this is so scary
People having safe fun at a waffle house is scary for most Tumblr bloggers, reports say.
Some context for those not familiar with Waffle House Culture:
Waffle House is one of the few chains in America that’s open 24/7/365, and where you can get both breakfast and lunch/dinner options at any time (I have had so many Breakfast Cheeseburgers at Waffle Houses). The food is really good, and people eat there at all times of the day or night, but it’s particularly popular as a late-night post-drinking spot because it’s all that’s open and it’s the kind of food that tastes especially good when you’re hammered.
Part of Waffle House Protocol is that all the servers and cooks greet every single customer as they come through the door. It sounds lame, but I’ve never been to a Waffle House where that greeting didn’t feel completely heartfelt. My mom is a health nut who could barely find anything on the menu she was willing to eat and yet she describes the Christmas Day lunch we had there one year as one of the nicest meals she’s ever had because everyone was so warm and welcoming. That sense of camaraderie gets turned up to 11, of course, at 2 a.m. when everyone’s shitfaced.
The jukeboxes have Waffle-House-themed songs on them (once you have heard “Raisins in my Toast” you will be earwormed forever) and there is an arcane system of hash brown ordering: scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, peppered, and/or capped. The hot sauce bottles say “Casa de Waffle.”
Once, in Oxford (UK), my husband and I walked past a kebab van very late one night and he said “why do I smell Waffle House”
The location of most Waffle Houses means there’s some… classism that tends to get tied up with Anti-Waffle House Discourse, which is probably lending itself, in part, to this being such a fraught topic. (I’m looking at a map and apparently I was born and raised right in the middle of the Peak Waffle House Density Zone)
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.
you know if tumblr was a competent website, I wouldn’t mind their new “no nsfw allowed” policy. it’s a little irritating that they couch it in “we want to make sure everyone feels comfortable and welcome” when filtering existed for awhile, but ok. it’s their website.
except there’s a huge precedent of censoring queer content every time a social media website wants to censor nsfw content. youtube got in trouble for that years ago. it was a huge problem with tumblr’s safe mode.
speaking of tumblr safe mode, remember that a whole bunch of sfw posts were marked as nsfw or “sensitive” by tumblr algorithms? how about during the latest purge when a bunch of innocent blogs were deleted because of whatever algorithm they use? how about when tags like “chronic pain” were censored? how about the fact that people abuse the hell out of the report system to delete blogs that they don’t like off of tumblr, because tumblr doesn’t really verify reports and will delete any blog that gets enough of them?
I could keep going but my point is: tumblr is extremely incompetent when it comes to how it handles nsfw content. everyone who has been on here for more than a week would know this.
the announcement is so vaguely worded too. what are the “some exceptions” to their policy banning adult content and nudity? how can you talk about banning that but also talk about the importance of sex positivity, art, and self expression? is sex education allowed? can people talk about their sexuality? can survivors of sexual assault and rape talk about their experience? what if someone thinks that their discussion is too graphic and must be pornography? what if someone’s tasteful artistic nudes is someone else’s pornography?
maybe to y’all it should be “common sense”, but when I see that, all I can think about is how unless tumblr clearly defines their rules and spells them out for everyone, it’s open to abuse. hell, people already abuse the policies they have in place.
and when you combine that with a history of tumblr deleting blogs that don’t violate the tos, censoring tags that aren’t nsfw, marking innocent posts nsfw, and just… everything about tumblr’s shitty history of dealing with actual problems like porn bots, nsfw content popping up in recommended posts and the gif search, recently having nsfw ads….
if you don’t think you have to worry about this, you really should. even if you don’t post adult content at all, or you think that what you do post is one of the exceptions to tumblr’s new policy. sure this is gonna hit some blogs harder than others, but it’s gonna have an impact on everyone. well, except maybe the blogs that are actually causing harm. for some reason those blogs always seem to thrive no matter what tumblr does.
Ennard: Well, if that doesn’t work, we’ll just improvise and talk about something funny. Like Michael’s hair.
Michael: I heard that!
Ennard: You were supposed to!
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