I Know You Promoted Emerald Chat, But Rolechat.org Is Also A Really Good Alternative Which Is Active

I know you promoted Emerald Chat, but Rolechat.org is also a really good alternative which is active and specifically for roleplay - it's a bit better than emeraldchat because there are less weirdos.

I do have an upcoming post about them both. Part of the reason I promoted EmeraldChat is that site offers a bit more transparency and filtration of the people you're chatting with. Although Rolechat does also offer some pretty decent safety features, including blocking, which would've been a godsend on Omegle.

(Still praying one of the old moderators manages to take legacy of Omegle and reinstate the site. Hopefully with better functions and less bots.)

There are also weirdos on any chat site. That's unavoidable. I don't judge websites based on weirdos. I judge them based on what functions they give me to get rid of the weirdos.

That said, I haven't actually come across any on either site in ship tags, yet. I've probably jinxed myself with that, but hey ho. Its also important to remember that it was violently easy to code bots for Omegle, so a lot of the weirdos you ran into weren't actually people.

To be clear, unless staff trips over the trail of extension cords keeping the servers running, Tumblr likely isn't going anywhere any time soon.

What the info we've seen suggests is that updates are going to slow down, maintenance is maybe going to get a little shaky, and we're going to see more glitches as time goes on and the remaining staff gets further behind their workload.

Is this a good thing? No, absolutely not.

Should you be panicking, jumping overboard, running for the hills, etc? Also no.

So what does it mean?

Well, for myself and several other creatives you all saw tagged in that post, it means we're looking around trying to figure out what to do in the long run. We're not running for the lifeboats. We're just eyeing the iceberg in the distance and getting our shit together in the event that the worst comes to pass.

Speaking for myself, I intend to crawl through the walls of Tumblr until they pry me out of the air vents armed with a broom and oven mitts. I'm not going anywhere until the lights go out, and even then, I'll be chewing on the wires.

But that doesn't mean I'm not looking around for somewhere to land when the time comes.

Myself and several others are not panicking about this, but we are trying to be organized about it.

I'm just old enough to remember when fandom websites being nuked overnight was a very real thing. You'd go to bed one night and wake up the next day to find friends you'd known for years were just gone with no means of contacting them because the site you'd been using got wiped. Entire collections of fandom history were just destroyed in the blink of an eye.

We don't want that again. And the good news is, we have time. We have time to back up our shit, time to swap contact info with our friends, and time to find a new place to exist within our communities while also staying here because Tumblr ain't dead yet.

She's just slowly going to wind down over time.

Unless, of course, they trip over the cables. Then we're fucked.

The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.

Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"

Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.

This was prompted by an ask I just received, but:

Being a proshipper does not mean you are not allowed to have personal limits, things you do not wish to engage with, or things that you do not morally support or have concerns about.

What being a proshipper is about is recognising that fictional content has a right to exist, does not necessarily reflect its creator, and that you are not the dictatorship on what is or is not allowed to exist and do not have a right to cause someone harm based on their fictional activity.

can you please get real problems instead of bitching about “antis.” please explain to someone you know irl that you jack off to weird pedo fanfiction and see how they react lol.

This is so unironically funny.

Anyway. Once again a daily reminder that fictional content does not fall under CSEM by definition of the U.S law and reporting it to enforcement and protection agencies only wastes the resources intended for actual real victims.

Also remember to stay hydrated, take your medicine, wash your bedding regularly and take out the lint in your tumble dryer.

The way that some of you address accountability is genuinely insane.

If I write fanfiction about dry-riding Henry Cavill into oblivion, and I host it on AO3 where I can reasonably assume he will not be floating around searching the Henry Cavill's Thighs tag, and I never attempt to present it to him or fail to take measures to prevent him seeing it if I share the link on other platforms, but some neanderthal decides to print it out and hand it to him while he's shopping for dog food, I can promise you:

The blame is not on me for writing that fic.

The problem is not that the fic existed in the first place.

The solution is not to remove the fic and make sure no more is written ever.

The blame is on the negative IQ idiot who printed it out and ensured he'd see it.

The problem is that they were inappropriate and disrespectful and violated the mutual, respectful understanding of separation between a famous person and specific areas of their fandom.

(If you do not want to die of a peanut allergy, you do not visit a peanut processing factory. If you do not want to read about complete strangers doing the Dyson 3000 Soul Begone on your dick, you do not search your name on AO3.)

The solution is to not be that person. To do not those things. To ensure the proper education of what is and is not appropriate in those areas where fandom spaces and real life mix.