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Protecting Yourself from Fetish Mining.

The rise in fetish mining anons has become horrifically rampant over the past year in RPC. Unfortunately, many folks have fallen victim to them due to the nature of fetish miners. The purpose of this PSA is to aid in spotting fetish mining anons within the Tumblr RPC.

Before I continue, please proceed with caution as this topic is adult themed but is a PSA for everyone. I will not go into detail about any fetishes. To learn more about general fetish mining, and what to look out for, check out this detailed PSA by BeckiiCruel, and this PSA about fetish mining within the art community by BluSilurus.

What is Fetish Mining?

Fetish mining, within the Tumblr RPC, is the soliciting of fetish content through Tumblr's inbox via anonymous asks. These asks are sent without the receiver knowing their true purpose and without their informed consent.

People are allowed to have fetishes, but fetish miners thrive off their victims being unassuming and unable to give informed consent. Fetish mining is a nonconsensual fetish and exploits their victims into giving them fetish content.

What to Look For.

Fetish miners within the Tumblr RPC use the anonymous inbox feature to conceal their identity, evade accountability for their actions, and come off as nonthreatening. They'll most likely come off as playful and exploit the fun in receiving anonymous asks within the RPC.

Fetish miners prefer targeting SFW blogs over NSFW ones. Why? Fetish miners want to claim their asks are not of fetishistic nature and to deny the receiver consent. They rely on plausible deniability in order to continue sending asks to their victims.

Please note that anything can be a fetish. Fetish mining asks will appear as innocent as possible to trick unassuming victims into giving them fetish content. They can also be super subtle or extremely obvious. Here are a few behaviors and examples of what to look for:

All instances above have been reported in the RPC throughout the years. Here is a Google document with current records given by victims. Please take a look to see real examples of fetish mining. You are free to submit your own instances if you have the victims consent. Instructions on how to do so are in the document.

How to Protect Yourself.

If an ask feels off to you, trust your gut. You do not need to answer every ask that comes into your inbox. If you're still uncertain check with trusted friends, or cross check the Google document listed above. Block any anon that makes you feel off, uneasy, or unsafe. Set your own boundaries, but be warned, fetish miners will not respect them if you leave them unblocked.

If you feel you must answer the ask, take a screenshot, block the anon, and then put the screenshot and your answer in a seperate post. Remember anons must be a member of the tumblr community. Unless they have another account, blocking them will keep you safe from further fetish mining attempts.

If you think someone is being fetish mined please reach out to them and inform them. Victims rarely realize they're nonconsensually playing into someone's fetish. Victims should not be shamed or told they should know better. Stay vigilant and stay safe. Look out for your fellow rper if you see anything that could be fetish mining.

do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

You just gotta unclog the pipe. Are you dumb now? No. The water was sitting stagnant because you were busy doing other things (100% fine btw). If any 'dumb' got in the water then it will quickly leave once you let the water start flowing again. Go get all the stupid out into a doc that doesn't matter. Even several of them. It might take a good while, especially if you're returning to writing after years or after a period of intense burnout, or both (waves). But you're just rusty, and letting that stop you will only ensure you stay stuck! Go forth and write some nonsense!

this applies to art as well btw

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

"I'm not questioning her right to stab you, I'm wondering what you may have done to deserve it."

❅— " honestly? it could have been any number of things. like the time I dropped DJ in the rainbow river, or the time I froze Ster's workbench solid, or the time I created a blizzard in the tooth palace, or there's also the-- " he pauses, shaking his head. " nope, not bringing up that one. I don't need you trying to stab me too. "

"... I can at least give you credit for keeping the list for her. Now I wanna know that last one." Fae raised an eyebrow. "And please, I'm not gonna try and stab a friend over something silly."

@immortalbrats

❅— "My wife can stab me a little bit I don't care."

"I'm not questioning her right to stab you, I'm wondering what you may have done to deserve it."

NIGHTLIGHT, the SPECTRAL KNIGHT

Beloved by SAMSA

• originally found at @nxghtlight, recreated DECEMBER 2023 •

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Sketchbook Log: Lady Pitchiner was caught by the dream pirates before she could jump out the window. She somehow managed to convince them that an old doll was Emily to avoid them hunting for her. She further convinced them that Kozmotis was dead so they wouldn’t use her kidnapping against him. To save from being turned into a fearling she showcased her brains. She is a map maker after all and is able to help the dream pirates navigate the cosmos to find more planets to take over. Her only hope is that someone will see the pattern in the path she is having them take and find her.

Event by @rotg-halloween prompt of the day is “Apart”.

Song while drawing ✍🏼

It's 2023. We can all admit fandom revolves heavily around shipping and therefore communities that revolve around fandom, in turn, will be into shipping. And that's great! It's always good to write different dynamics with your muses and getting excited when your writing partner creates ship content.

However, please understand that romantic shipping isn't what everyone in the RPC is looking for. Please consider people who;

Shipping shouldn't be your primary end goal when writing with people in the RPC. It's just as if somebody wrote nothing but fluff and angst. Like any genre of writing, for people who don't enjoy or are even uncomfortable with writing that, it kinda sucks when people frame them as 'ghosting' or 'uncaring' about their partners on the basis that they don't engage with shipping the same way others do.

Be better. Stop acting like the RPC and the people within it with jobs, school, or whatever IRL responsibilities they have revolves around you to such an extent that you can't handle people not wanting to write romance/smut nonstop for whatever reason.

PSA - - - !!!!

Sooo. tumblr is slowly taking away the drafts/queue/followers etc tabs. Seems the blogs that got hit with that twitter looking update are getting it first. Even with that extension to fix the dash formatting.

As we all know. Those tabs are vastly important to writers on Tumblr. ESPECIALLY rpcs. Not only that, it's fucking up dash viewing. People are not seeing current posts from their mutuals anymore. But rather posts from DAYS ago. They are even taking away the follower tab, so you can no longer see who is following you or how many are.

Please, spread this around. Send in complaints into Tumblr. Cause this ain't it. It's slowly taking away the ability to rp and EVEN CONNECT with others on Tumblr. Spread it to other rpcs. Or hell. Even just communities in general.

We gotta nip this in the butt. Otherwise, tumblr will not be usable anymore. For anyone.

-Marx.

So, I feel like this post is a little misleading by saying that they're taking away the tabs for drafts/queue/followers when this isn't the case. They just moved it as far as I know.

If you have the twitter inspired update, all you need to do is click on the Account tab, which should bring up your likes, following, etc. If you click on where it says "blogs" (for example, my url is https://www.tumblr.com/blog/aceparagon for this, so just replace it with your own url), you should have your draft count, queue count as well as your follower count on the right hand side instead of it being on both the left-hand and right-hand side.

If, for whatever reason, you cannot access those from where I specified, you can always use these URLs by just typing them in your browser's search bar. They look like this:

(I had to put these into a Notepad file because otherwise, they kept rendering as links whenever I hit shift + enter, hence the image attachment. The urls are basically the same one that I provided, only with /followers, /drafts, and /queue attached at the end.)

As far as the current posts from mutuals is concerned, I don't have much, if any, insight into that. I'm still seeing a majority (some posts are, indeed, hidden on PC whereas I see everything on the mobile app) of the posts my mutuals put on the dash. I don't have any fix for that, sadly.

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Queen of the Dead 171

I have used pieces from several different ancient binding-curses for Hekate’s curse.

“Voodoo dolls”, or kolossoi, were already thriving in the early archaic period, prior to the development of binding-curse tablets, to which they were closely related in use and deposition, at the end of it. Indeed they had no doubt been in use before literacy returned to Greece. […] Dolls were made of a wide range of materials: lead, bronze and clay ones survive, in addition to these, wax, wool, and dough ones are mentioned in the literary sources.“

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden

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