Tracklist:

You Ain't The Problem • Rolling • I've Been Dazed • Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love) - Intro • Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love) • Another Human Being • Living In Denial • Hero - Intro • Hero • Hard To Say Goodbye • Final Days • Interlude (Loving The People) • Solid Ground • Light

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Maybe you need to listen to some 1700s fife music and calm down

good dynamic: character who’s too deeply rooted to a fault + character who’s never been able to form roots anywhere before

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guys something good normal and fun has to happen

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform 🤷

for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.

In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.

Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:

Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down

the urge to write is like a cat meowing for dear life for someone to open the goddamn door, who then shows utter disinterest in said open door

society would greatly benefit from seeing more photography of men being photographed like women, not just the clothes but everything else, heroin chic skinny boys in makeup and high heels and an impractical uncomfortable outfit that restricts too much and covers too little, posing their fully shaved unmuscular bodies to look vulnerable and available, making soft doe eyes and sultry open mouthed semi orgasmic faces, not even in erotic settings but completely casual everyday billboard advertisements for blue jeans, a new perfume or a local cleaning business. photography that makes it clear they don't depict people to be respected and admired but objects that constantly look over their shoulder to make sure they're satisfying the consumer behind the lens. this would enrich us

how victorian <- is referring to the tv show victorious

how edwardian <- is referring to the tv show ed edd n eddy

i’m in love with u

Cartoon smartphone with devil horns and an evil grin: Well, well, well, look who's tipsy. Better use one of my rideshare apps, drunkie. Those taxi driver unions aren't gonna bust themselves! Ha ha!!

Cartoon beer can with little angel wings and a halo appearing above my shoulder as I start my car: Hi! I'm Roadie, the Road Beer! Wanna play a fun game? It's called "drink me all up before you drive past the elementary school"!

Muffled voice coming from my glove box: Uh oh, looks like we're getting pulled over! You're gonna be real glad I decided to come along!

anyone wanna disintegrate into a bunch of dust with me

I will succeed because I'm crazy. 2025 mantra

anti-survival horror where you're desperately trying to die but everyone is keeping you alive

hamster simulator

popular ship will kill the patient. they need fanart of that one character no one likes or cares about to live