How to Backup your Tumblr

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +4k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything. 

There is also TumbleThree, a standalone program, if you prefer a GUI over command-line. Also seems to have more options, such as downloading your liked posts.

it is a parents responsibility to play good music during their child’s formative years. make sure the nostalgia playlist is a banger

do you ever sabotage your own free time? like wtf is that about? i want to play this game or read or do something specific but instead i will just stare out the window or scroll mindlessly???

it's the attention span...

This was funnier in my head

!!!!!!!!!important!!!!!!!!!!!

1. actually, women attempt suicide more, but typically they choose less violent methods (it is theorized this is as they don’t want their family or friends to find them with their brains blown out, but more studies are needed to prove this) and therefore their suicide isn’t as successful (source). so, this is incorrect

2. studies show that this is because women outperform men academically, therefore they are more likely to seek higher education. (source). again, this is incorrect.

3. again, incorrect. gosh, this isn’t looking too good for you! studies show that statistically mothers are far more involved with children before custody battles, a reason for the ‘bias’. and, only 4% of custody cases go to court. (source and source)

4. wow, this is incorrect too! i almost feel bad for you. anyways, women are actually very underrepresented in homelessness statistics, women are more likely to have children that are homeless, women are less likely to be involved in crime, etc. (source)

5. majority of studies that had this data are old and from the 20th century, new studies prove this is not the case (source). it’s getting kind of embarrassing, you know, all these things that prove you wrong ;)

6. this is the only one where you are partially correct. indeed, prostate cancer is underfunded but this is mainly because of a metric that doctors use called ‘years of life lost.’ breast cancer that is deadly mainly affects younger women, resulting in more years of life lost. (source) however deadly prostate cancer is more likely to affect older men, resulting in less years of life lost. (source) however i agree that prostate cancer is underfunded, but there is a valid reason.

7. 86% of rape victims are women (source)

gosh, i feel so bad for you :) that basically all of this :) was proved wrong :)

It’s not ’feminist bias against them’ which mean that male victims of rape and sexual assault aren’t taken seriously but that other men don’t take it seriously. Most, if not all, feminists recognise it as an issue and will respect men who come forward about their history of sexual abuse. It’s other men who harass them for it.

And let’s not forget that women are also not taken seriously too. It’s a massive societal issue which doesn’t just affect men.

Don’t be afraid to destroy men’s lives over crimes they chose to commit.

LOUDER

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?

Westworld did this as well. Storytelling is dead!

IF FAN THEORIES ARE RIGHT IT IS A SIGN YOU HAVE TOLD A WELL-PUT TOGETHER AND FOLLOWABLE PLOT, NOT A SIGN YOU NEED TO MAKE UP SOME BULLSHIT FOR A TWIST ENDING. FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT.

No wait, I’m not done here:

If the fans get where you are going and ARE STILL HAPPY, you KEEP GOING THERE. It shows they’re invested and your story craft is setting up and paying off properly. 

It is not a sign you need to M Night Shamaylan things until narrative is fuckin dead and “surprise endings!” reign supreme. If no one can guess what will happen, you don’t have a plot, you have deus ex machinas strung together like a child’s macaroni necklace. It might be endearing and beloved but its hardly a fuckin masterpiece. 

To be utterly frank, this is where “NO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS EVER! NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO BREATHE ABOUT THE PLOT UNTIL IT’S BEEN OUT ON DVD FOR FIVE YEARS” attitude has left us – And the studios ACTIVELY encourage that shit because first week viewing numbers are their whole lifeblood.

Sure, an “oh shit” moment is great, but if you’re doing it well, I should have that moment watching the show the second, fifth, or hundredth time, knowing how it will go. If being surprised were truly so important to a narrative, why even make a Shakespeare play? Is anyone out there still hoping Romeo and Juliet still get together at the end? Why make mystery novels into movies? Spoiler warning: Hercules Poirot gets the bad guy. Movies that directly follow historical events? Clearly worthless.

Come on, now. Sure, try not to spoil shit for people intentionally, don’t be a dick, but can we calm the fuck down and can Hollywood stop pushing this shit both in social media and with business choices like this?

We celebrate David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Prince for their gender-nonconforming amazingness as we should, but let us not forget

Annie Lennox

Grace Jones

Sinead O‘Connor

Dolores O‘Riordan

Patti Smith

Tracy Chapman

Please add if you like, i do not own the photos

We should not celebrate Pedo Bowie

^^^^

k.d. Lang (always seems to get left out, which is such a shame)

But Annie Lenox….one of my favorite stories from my childhood was seeing the “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” music video when I was ~12 years old and, for the first time ever, realizing what other girls were talking about when they talked about “cute” boys. Excited that I finally understood why they were so obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio and Justin Timberlake, I was very quick to blurt out “wow he’s CUTE!” like my friends always did to the newest boyband music video. My mother had a good laugh and said “oh that’s a GIRL though”, and told my dad they had a good chuckle at my confusion. BUT WHOS LAUGHING NOW??

idealized feminine traits are just that - idealized. we call it nurturing so we don’t have to call it subordinate. we call it compassionate so we don’t have to call it passive. nice so we don’t have to say people pleasing. being a kind, considerate person is a good thing - but only when you have a choice. and only when you don’t sacrifice your own self respect and your own ability to prioritize yourself

The Birth of Venus (1483-1485), Sandro Botticelli (Italy)

Venus after Botticelli (2008), Yin Xin (China)

still so charmed by the way rose tyler is so unapologetically lower class without the narrative like. consistently telling you that. it’s all stuff you see between her flat and her bottle blonde hair with roots poking through and and her clumpy mascara and her clothes that don’t fit quite right and her passion for looking out for the underdog. it’s just so refreshing to have the protagonist of a show not be so squeaky clean and polished or a complete antihero but just some completely normal girl shaped by the way she grew up

Rose Tyler met aliens and immediately went “Hello, do you know what unions are? Do you want to learn?” and that’s so powerful of her.

— Mustafa Mahmoud

real quick: men are not biologically attracted to teenagers because of their superior reproductive capabilities, if that were the case they'd be most attracted to women around 25.

they're attracted to infantalization. they're attracted to their "innocence" and "purity." they're attracted to young girls who worship them because they don't know any better. they're attracted to girls with no sexual experience because they won't know where to set boundaries. they're attracted to their vulnerability, because the average man's sexuality is exploitative.

men don't like women over 30 because they're onto your shit and they're done with it.

Hey, sorry if I am overstepping by adding to this post-- but i really wanted to add my own experience here. A while back, i decided to work in a fast food restaurant as a side job to earn extra money. At the time i was 20 years old, but fast food is a common entry job for most people (including girls). Most people have their first jobs when they're in high school. During my time working there, i noticed that almost every dude i worked with would be interested in the new female employees immediately (usually when she was still in high school). I didn't think much of it at first and i tried my best to tune it out. Every time a new girl came in, the same thing would happen. Hell, the same thing happened with ME until they learned i was 20 years old (for some reason?? hmm... wonder what that reason could be...) One event opened my eyes, and it made me so incredibly fucking angry. One of my managers (who was in his late thirties, early forties) was having conversations with one of my female coworkers (who was 17-18 years old). First it was friendly chatting, then he began flirting with her. She always responded nicely, because 1: we are socialized to be people-pleasers, and 2: he was a manager. You kind of have the URGE to be polite if being "rude" might put your job at risk. One day, he gives her flowers as a gift. At the same time, one of our 30 year old coworkers was hitting on her as well. When she doesn't reciprocate either of their feelings, they had the god-damned AUDACITY to tell everyone that she was leading them on. SHE'S JUST A KID. THEY WERE GROWN MEN. The 40 year old manager has a daughter the same age as her! This was a big factor in why i quit after only a couple months, and i think she left as well. I hope she left.

It's easy to get in contact with young women/girls when it's their first job. I have a feeling that some men purposely get jobs in fast food restaurants so they have a greater chance at being in a relationship with high school girls. Sometimes girls consider being in a relationship with these men because they know at least someone wants them and they're suffering from low self-esteem. These desperate men make girls feel needed and wanted. These men are vultures.