This was probably already covered, but just in case people are still struggling with this, here’s some tips on how to go in and clean up the mess made by the incompetent staff – and Appeal to review your incorrectly flagged posts.
Note: This involves both a web browser and a tumblr app. Both are necessary for this process – there might be other ways of doing it! But this one works like this.
So, to begin with, we need to be on a web browser – and we need to find your flagged posts. I began with my most common image-heavy tags – art tags, fanart tags, etc. I loaded them up and then used ctrl+f to search for the terms “adult content”. This makes it easy to flip through the whole page.
The thing is, when you’re just on browser and looking at your blog, the flagged posts are basically hidden from view, and it’s nearly impossible to interact with them.
They look like this:
But see that date on the bottom? If you click on that, it brings you to what LOOKS like a dummy page…
But if you look at the url, it actually still IDs the original post.
So what we’re going to do is – we’re going to copy only the relevant part of the original post. Everything up until the ‘hey-this-post-may-contain…’ bullcrap.
Now? Now we’re going to – wait for it – email this link to ourselves!
No, I’m serious. Trying to open the original URL on browser will just redirect, so just copy+paste the url into your email. Make yourself a nice list and email it to yourself.
Here’s what mine looked like after a comb through my SU fanart tag.
Now we’re going to go into your mobile mail app and open that up. And when you click on each link – make sure that it’s the APP opening it, not your mobile browser.
When you do this, it should bring you back to the post – this time visible! And this time, you should have the ability to appeal for it with one click – provided you have the latest version of the Tumblr app on android….
For those of you on iOS – I’m sorry, I’m not sure if this method will work. 😦 Best of luck regardless.
And a big thanks to @shotgunheart for telling me about this!!
Friend @theflyingromana recently requested “menacing Christmas songs.” Since that is one of my favorite adjectives, here are mine.
We start with Jingle Bells by the Crash Test Dummies, which is Jingle Bells, but sung in a terrifying key by, apparently, a tribe of festive orcs, occasionally accenting their chant with a funeral bell. Incredibly menacing. Not Christian. https://youtu.be/__ZR8BeVS88?t=7m32s
There may still be some people on the planet who haven’t heard the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Carol of the Bells, and today is their lucky day. I saw this performed live when I was a young person and there were pyrotechnics and I wandered around for days afterward like a bird that had flown into a window. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCabI3MdV9g Quite menacing. Not explicitly Christian.
There’s something about choral music in Latin that sounds particularly portentous and foreboding. Here, have Gaudete by the Choir of Clare College Cambridge: https://youtu.be/l1NgHonWNE0 Tense, like in a video game or fantasy movie, when something dreadful is about to jump out at you and go “blargh.” Technically Christian, but Latin doesn’t count.
Wintersmith album by Steeleye Span, a collaboration with Terry Pratchett. I don’t like any of these songs nearly as much as you’d think as I would, but: definitely menacing, definitely wintery, kind of folk-metal sound, some people might like it. The Dark Morris is fairly menacing. Not Christian, Discworld-inspired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXE47z3_71E
The Canadian Christian hymn Jesous Ahathonhia is not menacing as in the sense of “spooky,” but it has a wild and slightly eerie quality, when covered by the Sultans of String and Crystal Shawanda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOs6ZH7Yoyk Tense. Extremely Christian. Related to that, the key and beat used in The Huron Carol (’Twas in the Moon of Wintertime) could be perceived as “menacing” if you’re used to European-influenced compositions. Here’s a Heather Dale cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6IG6F6E5Ac and one by the Prairie Rose Rangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTlU2jO9VZI Again, tense and serious. Extremely Christian.
Coventry Carol is, again, more eerie and spooky than explicitly threatening. Christian lore includes a passage called the “Massacre of the Innocents,” in which King Herod orders the mass execution of male toddlers and babies, in an attempt to ensure that Baby Jesus is killed. The Coventry Carol takes the form of a lament sung by the parents as they say goodbye to their doomed children, so uhhhh that’s a bit dark! Here’s a nice arrangement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-x-zS9ex58 Eerie. Highly Christian.
Diese kalte Nacht by Faun is not about Christmas, but it’s in my winter playlist so there you go: https://youtu.be/zr8d9sXioj4 Before you ask, it’s NOT menacing because it’s in German, it’s menacing because of the FUCKING pipes. Not Christian.
A lot of people find Walking in the Air to be sentimental. I find it creepy. Throw it in there just in case you do too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-pX7sIjFY Not Christian.
Dickens’ Dublin by Loreena McKennitt may mostly be menacing because you know that a dark fate is probably surrounding the child-narrator: https://youtu.be/cQNQRpxOHqo The child narrates a Christian story while Loreena sings a lament for its … possible… death?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a nice menacing tune by Heather Dale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Fa1B7cAGE Heather positions Gawain as a pagan being tested by his deities, and the Green Knight as the Green Man. And yes, it’s Christmassy but not Christian! A good note to end on.
Hopefully you, too, now feel like a bird that flew into a window.
I reviewed a few of these. Always love for “Carol of the Bells”, any version but particularly Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and always love for Coventry Carol.
This is the British series Timewasters, available on ITV if you are in the UK or are able to get a UK IP. I’m afraid I don’t know when it’ll be available to watch in the US.
There’s actually a really interesting historical explanation for why musicians in previous centuries thought different keys sounded dramatically different, and why many people today still maintain there are are subtle differences between keys. Adam Neely talks about it here:
My favorite professor ever introduced me as an undergrad to the concept of “impossible history” – histories that can not exist, even though they happened. His example was the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian Revolution cannot exist within the logics of capitalism, imperialism, and white European dominance. Enslaved black people liberating themselves without the help of “friendly whites?” A tiny island in the Caribbean, with an army of the aforementioned former slaves, defeating multiple global superpowers? Impossible! So this cannot be allowed to have happened. Haiti must be economically victimized forever, moreso even than other former slave colonies in the Caribbean, just so that we can point to it and say “look, how sad,” so that no one gets to see Haiti’s very existence as the triumph it is. We teach extensively about the American and French revolutions, but only mention in passing the Haitian Revolution which occurred at the same time. Most college courses on Latin American history exclude Haiti even if they cover the rest of the Caribbean. The Haitian Revolution was impossible, a dangerous fantasy that just so happens to have actually happened. So it must be forgotten, the name of Haiti must be made synonymous with poverty, ignorance, and suffering, while never mentioning that those are all the products of 200 years of political and economic warfare and subterfuge against the island, beginning with the presidency of Thomas Jefferson!! Because we cannot have anyone thinking that even the most poor and downtrodden people. when united and organized around a common cause, can make history and change the world for the better
This is the thesis of Michel Trouillot’s book, ‘Silencing the Past’. I am sure that’s where this professor got this from.
Yep! Sorry, I just wrote this post as a ramble and didn’t expect it to spread much. The professor who relayed this to me is Alexander Aviña, a fantastic historian of Mexican radicalism who teaches at Arizona State now
One (of many) examples of how they were screwed over, from wikipedia
“Haiti’s legacy of debt began shortly after gaining independence from France in 1804. In 1825, France, with warships at the ready, demanded Haiti compensate France for its loss of slaves and its slave colony. In exchange for French recognition of Haiti as a sovereign republic, France demanded payment of 150 million francs. In addition to the payment, France required that Haiti discount its exported goods to them by 50%.[3] In 1838, France agreed to reduce the debt to 90 million francs to be paid over a period of 30 years to compensate former plantation owners who had lost their property.[4] The modern equivalent of $21 billion was paid from Haiti to France.[5]
one of my friends found radiooooo which is a site that streams music from any country from any decade (well, most countries/decade combos work) and we’ve been digging going on a quest to find what is rad
so far the following is good
50s/60s/70s/80s russia
70s cambodia
20s japan
80s ethiopia
80s india
let’s add 70s armenia and 70s japan to this list
actually im willing to bet 70s *any country will be amazing, it’s all been really good so far
and if you go for 90s india fast music you might get hit in the face with tunak tunak tun right away so get your meme groove on
one of my moms recommended 70s east germany and this proves true, this is weird and amazing in a good way
also set the mood to “weird” for maximum fun, it enhances literally every station
70s ethiopia is honestly going to be better than 80s we had some FIRE funk and soul acts back then
ive been reading a book that basically explains how so-called “brain differences” between the genders is the result of gendered socialization and not the cause of it. i honestly expected the book to be very cis-centric but its actually the opposite, the author stresses that testimony from trans ppl is actually indispensable because we’ve, in a sense, “lived both experiences”
more cis feminists should have this mindset
one of the first examples that she uses to introduce her point about how perception by others can shape a person’s performance actually uses a trans woman. it explains that as a certain trans woman became to be seen as a woman more and more frequently, the ppl arond her eventually started viewing her as being ill equipped for tasks that they did not bother her about pre-transition. eventually she even found herself underperforming in these tasks herself.
I knew it was this book before I’d finished reading the first two lines. Honestly this book is indispensible if you want to debunk any gender determinism people claim is science. I can’t recommend it enough.
(Bonus bonus: I am myself a neuroscientist, and the old white men mentioned above – who are not – could not have missed the point harder if they’d actively tried. Which. Maybe?)
it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!
like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:
doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed
what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever
people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what
they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly
they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves
they all sang songs
they all drew pictures
they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests
they fell in love
they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them
they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole
Oh I like him he looks like he would appreciate my jokes
This dude would have great stories at a get-together and would bring some really great homemade dip.
I feel like he really digs Lo-Fi Music
This guy was sculpted by Alfons and Adrie Kennis, and their Neanderthal reconstructions are all delightful.
I love the kid in the last picture a lot- they look like a kid, just a little kid who’s done some mischief and is trying not to laugh about it.
I also adore their Lucy- they’ve struck a wonderful balance between the falling angel and the rising ape.
And their Turkana boy- there’s something precious and wistful in those eyes.
But my favorite has got to be their reconstruction of H. floresiensis.
Just look at her. That’s a face of someone who’s lived and seen a lot, but also a face that’s known love and joy and laughter. That’s a face with a soul.
They are all beautiful
What an amazing work, Kennis & Kennis!
And just last week, a two part special started on PBS, all about how Neanderthals were more like Homo Sapiens than scientists had given them credit for generations. Here’s the official trailer (with Closed captions):
In 1969, Capitol Records released this incredible double LP set (and double 8-track tape) from Vincent Price titled “Witchcraft-Magic: An Adventure in Demonology.”
Hear the whole thing above. The nearly two hours of spoken word about
the history and culture of “witchcraft” and helpful guides such as “How
To Invoke Spirits, Demons, Unseen Forces” and “How To Make A Pact With
The Devil.” Of course I certainly wouldn’t vouch for the factual
accuracy of the material, but hearing horror icon Price’s silky
narration about such topics as necromancy and the “Witches Sabbat” is a
joy.
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