guess who got a fresh new anthology rejection email????
it me!
in honor of september just really…really going for it. really going there. have some fashionable (and one less fashionable but more Big Mood) Beaus. drawing my retiree wizard noodle son always calms me.
every time i draw him his hair gets longer so figure at some point this summer he chops it off. it’ll grow back pretty fast, i really just wondered how he’d look with shorter hair. also, he doesn’t usually wear skirts or dresses because he hates looking like One Big Tube but anything poofy or sheer enough probably works.
looks like twitter is gonna be my main way to share NSFW art, at least for now? i’m currently in the process of adding new updated watermarks to my art & re-uploading to twitter. (i’ll also soon make a twitter account for my SFW art, and you can also follow me on patreon to see public update posts even without pledging to me.)
You can now find me @ mnstrby on Twitter and mnstrby@artistalley.porn. Same url, but the Twitter is going to be more of a blend of all my nsfw blogs (excluding /that/ one) so expect more humans in the mix
I swear I still live. Health is still a problem at this moment, but the need to doodle smut can’t be ignored sometimes. I have some of the comic written up for Elodia and Lynth that explain their story, hoping to get a few pages done here soon for you all.
WHY DO WE TRY TO MAKE ROBOTS LOOK LIKE HUMANS. ROBOTS ARE INHERENTLY SO MUCH COOLER WHY ARE SCIENTISTS WASTING OUR TIME WITH THAT SHIT GIVE ME WALL E OR GO HOME
PERHAPS WALL E IS NOT THE BEST EXAMPLE OF A COOL ROBOT (MORE CUTE THAN COOL) BUT REGARDLESS I STILL WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH WALL E NOT SOME WEIRD RUBBER FLESH MANNEQUIN
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.
Soup.io – well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
TypePad – Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
I’m still not sure about whether I’ll use a platform more than another, but for now the safest bet is to follow my Furaffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/paranokun/ , which I’ve been updating for something like 10 years now. I post my art as well as my stories there, and most of my commission infos are also there where I open them. On the plus side, if you’re already following me there, nothing will change! I also tend to respond to comments actively, so you can still message me there if you had the habit to send me asks on tumblr.
I don’t like Twitter so it’s definitely not gonna be my main source of update, but if you don’t want to follow a shitton of different blogs waiting for me to pick one for sure, I’ll keep you in touch there as soon as I’m sure about it. https://twitter.com/FabFreakShow
I’m considering using Newgrounds as well, as it seems like a safe option, but I need to check its rules and how it works beforehand. If I ever choose to use it as my main gallery, it would be there: https://viddharta.newgrounds.com/
And finally, I also already post some of my art and photos on Fetlife, but I rarely post the stories that go with them! https://fetlife.com/users/935911
I might repost this message every 2-3 days until the 17th December so most of you can see it, sorry by advance for the self reblogs.
I’m really glad you guys took the time to follow my blogs, and enjoy whatever weird stuff I felt like drawing. I like me some crazy stuff at times, and the feedback I’ve gotten over the years on this website definitely helped me feel more relaxed about it. I’ll make a final post to respond to the asks that were still waiting before the 17th, and then I’ll stop posting here for good.
On an unrelated note, the convention was a blast and I’m super happy some of you guys went to say hi and have a nice chat with me. I definitely felt like the best boy. ;p