controversial but in my many years as a minor on tumblr i’ve never seen a single sex worker. they always block minors, mark their blogs as nsfw, and don’t spam the popular sfw tags. even if you, as a minor, actually look for them, as long as you listed your age truthfully in the registration, you won’t be able to find them.
what i, instead, saw as a minor was:
porn bots (which could be stopped by: captcha, double confirmation for accounts, not allowing url shorteners, not allowing rebloggers to delete captions, i would even be ok with hyperlinks not being allowed in reblogs)
fetishes and kinksters (which could be stopped by: adding more tags to the nsfw filter, including fetishes/kinks that appear as sfw)
people who forget tag their shit (which could be stopped by: an auto-tagging system for sensitive tags that would work similarly to the current block for apparently nsfw posts, but can give the op the option to delete incorrect tags)
pro-ana, pro-mia, romanticization of self-harm (which could be stopped by: banning the whole tag, as it just happened)
nazi, terfs (just kick them out for hate speech like twitter does)
pro-map thankfully only appeared once i was already past 18 but of course you could just ban the whole community + tag as it just happened.
prevent usernames with words that hate and pedophilic groups use to flag from being chosen at blog creation.
while i know that tumblr is a 13+ website, nsfw content was hidden from minors last year. most cp was deleted + outlawed (both irl and drawn) for good not even last month. and while those are recent changes they did make tumblr, overall, 13+ appropriate.
i do not care much for porn, i just feel like they are solving the problem the wrong way and punishing a group of people who did nothing to harm minors. there were smarter solutions to this problem that were ignored in the favor of a very sloppy solution that doesn’t even cover stuff like sfw kink blogs, porn bots who don’t post pictures (most of them), people who just won’t tag their nsfw, hate groups and other non-sex related communities who are extremely dangerous for minors.
instead try; I love you *generic keysmash* h OW DA RE *lavish praise* *inside fandom joke* *quote fave part* *more generic keysmashing*
you. i like you
Also, the favorites: 1) DID I SAY YOU COULD HURT ME LIKE THIS?!?;?!; 2) DONT HURT MY BABY WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS 3) why must you hurt me this way 4) WHY IS THIS A CLIFFHANGER?! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I NEED TO KNOW 5) This made me cry/squeal/giggle/wake the dead with my laughter 6) I almost woke my family laughing at ___ part 7) I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED THIS AU UNTIL YOU POSTED THIS 8) this is so cute I’m dying 9) and (writer’s name) strikes again! 10) I had to reread this bc it’s so good and I love it 11) I wish I could like/heart/kudos this more than once Like, seriously guys, freak out with us and you’ll have us wrapped around your little fingers.
This is so true! A lot of the time, I get stuck in a writer’s hole. But whenever I get a comment like the above ones, it makes me want to write more!
PLEASE COMMEEEENT
AND REBLOG
All good suggestions! Another to add to the list: don’t insult as a joke.
Even if you’re only ironically saying something like “i hate you” when you in fact loved the fic… we still just read it as “i hate you”. Getting a notif of a comment always gives writers a little thrill, and then seeing something like that in the actual comment… doesn’t feel very good. Remember, the digital medium is not good for getting sarcasm across!
Apart from that, any sincere comment, no matter how brief or jumbled or nonsensical, is always going to make a writer’s day.
Thx for comments suggestions I always get stuck when I want to comment but idk what to write and i just give kudos
Honest to God, I love when people quote my fic to me or leave detailed reviews or scream wildly, but “I really enjoyed this” = A+ comment, will make my day and leave me doing a face somewhere between these three emoticons: ☺️😁😍
Of course writers enjoy detailed, thoughtful, enthusiastic feedback, but what we mostly love is knowing someone read something we wrote and was moved to leave a short comment (that wasn’t “please update” – please update is fine as part of a comment, but on its own it’s kind of dispiriting). I seriously cannot overstate how much even a short little “OMG LOVE” or “I enjoyed this!” or “This made me laugh/smile/cry!” or “This was really good/funny/hot/sad!” means. You don’t have to write Pulitzer prize winning prose to make a writer’s day. Trust me on this!
(And even a like or a kudos is so much better than nothing.)
Writing can be lonely, and fanwriters don’t have Amazon for reviews or get paid. Reviews mean the world to us.
Yes, I am going to continually reblog this. No, I’m not sorry.
You’re missing the point, friend, it’s not about youths having access to pornography. It’s that the whole “family friendly” thing is code for “anything heteronormative or ‘normal’.” They start off by pretending that it’s a matter of hiding sensitive content from younger users (which, in and of itself, is a good thing), but what constitutes “NSFW” will gradually shift as the site tries to “clean its image up” and before you know it, things like simple pictures of two gay adults kissing is considered “inappropriate” and gets flagged as such, because what constitutes “not safe for kids” in modern society generally includes us: LGBTQ+ people, no matter how innocuous or innocent we are being. I perfectly explained on the post EXACTLY how YouTube has done this by flagging non-sexual LGBTQ+ content as “sensitive.”
You guys are not seeing the forest for the trees. Give it time, and you’ll come to see that I was right (sadly).
If you don’t believe me, just notice Tumblr’s ACTUAL reasoning behind this: child pornography has BEEN a problem on this site for ages, but Tumblr didn’t give a shit about kids seeing that or being involved in that until Apple took down their app from the app store. It’s about money for them, not about caring about building an actually safe and functioning community. It’s also why the Nazis remain untouched.
Okay okay I have another hundred words or so left to write of my essay but first,,, imagine,,,
Izaya is finally confessing to Shizuo about his fear and aversion to dogs for whatever reason, prattling on and on (as he does) about how mindless they are, how they make no sense and then glancing over at Shizuo who’s kind of zoning out and he glares.
“Personally I’m more of a cat person.” He says not thinking Shizuo’s really listening all that much but Shizuo looks over at that.
“Oh yeah? Me too.”
Izaya’s kinda surprised by this. Shizuo likes cats over dogs?? He’s so loyal and straightforward by nature he can’t imagine Shizuo liking cats, mischievous and conniving, and he looks shocked.
“In fact I already have a cat” Shizuo says. Izaya looks at him questionably before Shizuo pets him on the head.
“He hardly ever purrs but at least he’s funny to watch”
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