ladyshinga:

thebibliosphere:

questionabledemon:

thebibliosphere:

thantos1991:

elfwreck:

whreflections:

wellcometothedarkside:

meeedeee:

meeedeee:

meeedeee:

meeedeee:

List of banned searches/tags on Tumblr

Tumblr purge

Chronic pain

Sex

Breast

Yaoi

Lolita

Safe sex

Dick

Why ban yaoi??? 😳

I literally did not believe this was a real thing until I just tried it.

Holy cow. 

I have spent the last two weeks increasingly irritated with (what has seemed to me) the dramatically alarmist attitude about the shit that’s going down with tumblr but….damn.  

Like, I still don’t think it’s over.  I still don’t think this is the end.  But that’s a far larger speed bump that I anticipated.  Tumblr, what the fuck.  

“Dick pic” is also gone. “Pictures of dicks” gets you Dick Grayson. 

“Fuck” and “fuck off” will get blogs with those word in the description, but no posts.

Several slurs are gone – fag, slut, whore; probably others. “Dyke” is still in, though, as well as “fag hag.” (I’m aware that whether or not those are slurs depends on the community.) 

This is a sign of a platform that Does Not Care about its users. Not because they’re blocking terms they’ve decided are offensive or connected with illegal activity – because they won’t tell you that some terms can’t be searched, won’t tell you why the posts have been removed from search, won’t let you know whether or how your blog will be affected.

Chronic pain, as mentioned, is gone. “Pain” gets this result:

Followed by normal search results. (Note: 7 Cups of Tea, at least, is a commercial site; the “trained active listeners” are random users who’ve completed a few questionnaires.)

@thebibliosphere Joy joy joy joy joy…. If your wondering about a sudden slow down on your traffic

My traffic hasn’t slowed down because I use my own tag for my chronic health stuff, though a couple of my posts about chronic pain are gone.

Other than that my nsfw stuff is still intact. This purge has been random as all hell.

The fact that it’s been over a week and they haven’t even addressed the many many unfairly deactivated blogs is pissing me right off.

I highly doubt at this point that I’m getting my blog back at all. Despite the fact that my only crime was to write a lot about having chronic pain and what it was like to live like that

Also of fucking course one of the blocked tags is the one discussing their screw up

I’m feeling very bitter at the moment

If it’s anything like the mass censorship LJ started employing, then I very much doubt this is even the tip of the iceberg, or that they’ll make it a priority to restore unfairly banned blogs.

Meanwhile I continue to block upwards of 50 pornbot blogs a week from my follower list, and I can’t turn my inbox back on because it winds up with a bunch of neo-nazis sending me suicide bait.

But sure. Deleting my posts about being disabled is helping. Thanks Tumblr.

hold the FUCK UP, how the fuck is CHRONIC PAIN a problem?!!! FUCKING HELL

applecherry108:

A character can still be a great character without being a good person.

In fact, some of the best characters are terrible people.

Because a character’s worth should be based on how complex and interesting they are, not their morality if they were real.

beyoncescock:

thehighpriestofreverseracism:

saintbanglesthegazelle:

thehighpriestofreverseracism:

melancholic-pie:

thehighpriestofreverseracism:

Friendly reminder that the intro to Lion King….the non english bits leading up to the “circle of life” is not random yelling in *Africa voice* it is an actual language, Zulu, spoken by 10 million people, it is the most widely spoken language (out of 11) in the country of South Africa (1 out of the 54 countries in the continent of Africa, the continent home  to somewhere between 1500-2000 languages and around 3000 distinct ethnic groups)

this isn’t to say that you have to friggin learn the language to sing along with a disney film, it just means that you should be mindful, respectful, appreciative and respectful. don’t be yelling out whatever noise comes in to your head when you hear it

Ok but someone knows what does this say?

The lyrics before the english comes in…in “circle of life”

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion]

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion]
Ingonyama [It’s a lion]

Siyo Nqoba [We’re going to conquer]

Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place] (repeats)

[queue English lyrics]

I would like to further add that language has there own cultural nuances so something that can sound extremely meaningful in one languages may not sound as majestic when translated to another (I know this as someone who has an understanding of 5 languages and speaks 3 of them fluently) so if you are thinking “oh it ain’t that deep they are just yelling: the lion is coming!” dial it back

Worth noting that “lion” and especially the word Ingonyama is a very respectful word to talk about a Zulu king, especially in praise. It’s so heavily associated with royalty in isiZulu that a different word is used for an animal lion – Ibhubesi. This isn’t just announcing the arrival of an animal, it’s celebrating the arrival (or coronation?) of the king

/ Whoop, I didn’t know this

This is so informative thank you so much