This blog was born in September of 2013 as a roleplay blog for Rude, from Final Fantasy VII. I rped as him until December of 2016 when I was finally willing to admit that the drive and the spark for him was gone for me. But while I had a personal blog, Rude's rp blog was where I had met most of my friends on Tumblr, the url bourbonandmint was recognizable and the style I had established there felt more real and more connected then on my personal. So I limped along with the url for a few month before giving it up and parking it at that dead-end link above.
I then switched the blog over to what it is today: my fandom yelling, fanfic writing, video gaming, and general life crap personal blog known as TwoCatsTailoring. And it's worked out a lot better than I could have hoped.
I'm not really sure what people put in about pages, to be honest. I feel like following the links above will tell you more than enough about the blog, it's layout, and how to find things. If you have questions you can always ask.
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This blog was muted in Tumblr's purge of 'adult themed content.' Follow the links below to find me.
The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW.
This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.
So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST.
Times are listed above depending on timezone!
This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over!
Ok. So this is it. Theres four more items in my queue. I haven’t decided if I’m coming back after I log out in a few minutes. We will see what the 18th brings.
Whatever it is, know that I’ve appreciated every last one of you, even the ones who hated me with a blinding rage.
Because life isn’t always tidy or clean or exactly how we want it, but we can always learn from it. And that is a real gift.
I wish you all earthly delights that border on obscene - whatever your definition of that is. Be well, live well, and be good to each other. See you all on the other side.
I left the python downloader to run overnight on Copperbadge, though it definitely wasn’t going to take all night to run. It looks like third time’s the charm; all 33,000 posts have been archived in a file of about 8GB.
BTW guys, the designer of this python thingy is a coder from Switzerland and I went looking for his contact information or a way to give him money and he does not appear to need or want it, though he definitely is enjoying watching the downloads of his doodad spike. I did go look at @loreweaver-universe ‘s original post and guess what, they have a patreon and a paypal, so if you used the tutorial I reblogged earlier, maybe throw some cash moneys their way given how helpful that was.
Anyway, the downloader. It stores four folders for each username: archive, media, posts, and style (which is just anything you used to customize your blog with – mine just had my icon).
Archive has the entire tumblr stashed by month and page, so for example you can open the sixth page of posts you made in June 2014.
Media is all the images both from original posts and reblogs, which is nice; it doesn’t appear to have downloaded video or audio which is to be expected (and would make the download pretty unwieldy).
Posts has separate files for every public post (you never log in using Python, so it can only archive what someone else using your tumblr could see), which is nice because if you set your folder search function to scan in-file text, your tumblr archive is now fully searchable.
Both Archive and Posts include the notes count on each post, but not any other notes data – comments, reblogs, and likes don’t show up, which as I’ve said before is just as well given the number of notes some posts will have. They also include the tags on each post, but sadly the tag links aren’t internal – if you open one post and click on a tag in it, the link takes you to the live tumblr site. Which makes sense, coding the tags to be internally linked to each other would be nightmarish.
One nice thing about the Posts file is that the html file for each post is datestamped – if you look at “date modified” for the post you will see the date it was originally posted, which is super cool for finding things by era.
Anyway, it’s an efficient, effective doodad for getting all your original content down in a reasonably organized and readable format, so do recommend!
I’m begging you, if you’ve ever written or made anything original on here please back it up in some form or the other now. The fact tumblr is blocking the wayback machine is the clearest sign they’re nuking this website and everything else is just a smokescreen for their intentions.
ETA 17th December 7:27 AM IST: it was likely DDOS software gone awry and the wayback machine is now live for Tumblr!
Thank you to @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly for the information. I have now archived my meta tag and you can see I’ve done it today (17th December at 7:33 AM IST):
Please spread this version around instead! (Though I would still recommend archiving your blogs and otherwise backing it up if you have any original meta and stuff you might lose)
Boosting, in big letters:
It appears the Wayback Machine is once again archiving tumblr blogs.
“ …. where is he?” Rufus mumbled to himself in irritation.
Once he’d left the sector, getting out of the city was much easier. Anyone was happy to drive a rich stranger out into the wilderness, even if said stranger looked like he’d just gotten out of a rather fancy party.
Taking out a cigarette, the Vice-President mulled over his thoughts. By some miracle of Odin, he had slipped the Turk’s gaze, and got out of that blasted Gala, and made it by the skin of his teeth to where Fuhito had instructed to meet him.
And he’d better meet him quick, because the cigarette was not going to stave off the cold for very long.
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.
