hello everyone. long time no see, but this is a pretty important matter i wanted to talk about.

my friend jeon @dattebroyo was scammed out of $5000 and has been left stranded in south korea, and needs help paying off the bills he’s been stuck with.

i’m posting this on his behalf because tumblr doesn’t work well for him in korea and i want to make sure as many people can see this as possible.

you can read more about jeon’s account of what happened here: https://twitter.com/mincypher/status/1152843030061146112 (it’s a full thread on twitter)

these are direct links to support him financially in getting out of this situation, which he desperately needs:

gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wfc3u-help-me-get-home?rcid=r01-156369226377-d21a1cca0e894233&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w

ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/mincypher

paypal: aulincastro@yahoo.com

venmo: acastr01 

please help him if you have the means to.

on top of that, the person he was scammed by– someone who i once thought was a very good friend of mine– is the blogger who used to be known as @sungminnie/kkulbeokjji/svngmn.

min, who went by milo at the time, was exposed in march for yellowfacing (faking being half-korean), faking their gender identity, changing their legal name to a korean name, faking being a trainee, etc.

you can read more about that matter here: https://twitter.com/karmacallout/status/1106746216736608256 / https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQWMhSLiYRsaFYZS4GNbIN5gZR7CNvAYCNKzeo7DR2zymeCjXR3QcfqqHOD_HU_NyarXym3IkhFwOWl/pub.

this includes a very in-depth timeline of them faking their gender identity (they claimed to be a cis man back while they were on tumblr, among other things) as well as legally changing their name to a korean name, several prior accounts of them scamming other “friends” and such who had known them since tumblr there.

this person is manipulative, dangerous, and goes out of their way to exploit others. please do not bother contacting them. if you can, please support jeon in getting out of this situation and spreading the word that min cannot be trusted. thank you.

Save The Blogs!

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.

@gallusrostromegalus @kaciart @lena221bee @deadcatwithaflamethrower

@norcumi @deandraws @morn-art, @thebisexualmandalorian @kristsune @marloviandevil @punsbulletsandpointythings @protagonistically @cris-art @elfda @fish-ghost @godtierwonder @heartslogos @haekass @iesika @incogneat-oh @itispossibleihaveissues @jaegervega @jhaernyl @the-last-hair-bender @kleine-aster @latenightcornerstore @lectorel @medievalpoc @mgnemesi @me-ya-ri @myurbandream @peskylilcritter @cywscross ,@cheshiresense @varevare @victoriousscarf @whatsmeantobe @swpromptsandasks @gabriel4sam @stonefreeak @brighteyedbadwolf @pumpkin-lith @puzzleshipper @suzukiblu @myurbandream @lacefedora @jademerien

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

hey so it’s hana aka @jjeoreo and in an attempt to delete my saved urls, i’ve deleted my main blog so this is me starting fresh and regretting my decisions

hey so i have a bone to pick with yall

i know fanfiction is fiction, i know that but writing fan fiction about real ppl as pedophiles, abusers, in incestuous relationships etc IS harmful. not only to the subject of the fic but also to the readers who are minors, victims and survivors.

i know that there are survivors who write fics like that to cope, and by all means do it if it helps you but please dont post it in public sites like tumblr or ao3 etc where it can potentially harm others. 

i know that trigger tags are written, but if a minor stumbles upon it and doesnt understand the tags and the situation the characters are put in, it IS harmful to them. are we going to blame the child if they happen to read something that was harmful and was put in a public place where everyone could read? children especially are impressionable and reading abt their idols and ppl they look up to as abusers and pedophiles IS harmful.

tl;dr writing fics with problematic content to cope is fine but posting them in public places where others can potentially be harmed isnt

yelling yoonseok

happy tae!

not sure what’s going on, but nice

you tell ‘em, joonie