In all seriousness though, this fandom has not been as big as it is right now in a long long time. It doesn’t matter why you’re here and it doesn’t matter what brought you here. Your age doesn’t matter. Your identity doesn’t matter. Your interpretations are your own and if you see things differently that’s okay. We stan four local idiots who set out to make something that belongs to everybody and brings them together, and twisting that to turn people against each other is the only way you could possibly disgrace that memory. In the end our differences don’t matter. We’re all here because of one commonality. Let’s celebrate that and put everything else behind us.
A/N: this bit was inspired by a recording of Brian (x) and I immediately felt inspired to write it. this is going to have tons of typos maybe because its 5am and im thisclose to collapsing. please send some positive vibes if u can because i have 2 exams today i probably will not survive but hey!!
London, 1972
Your fiancé is a grown man. A smart, sensible, courteous, responsible grown man.
These were the things you kept repeating to yourself as you sat in the light of a candlestick waiting for him to come home.
He did tell you he was going to be home late, a big gig and all since Queen was starting to draw a crowd the more they played, but you didn’t think it would be 4AM late. You flexed your aching shoulders and sighed.
He’s a rockstar. Or rather he’s well on his way to becoming one. And you’re not very sure if you have the ability to keep up with his life. Brian has always been a busy man even before Queen, even before Smile. You couldn’t explain it, but there was always this hunger in him to improve himself, for whatever reason you’re not sure.
He tried cooking once in the early days when you first moved in together, during the days you were finishing your thesis and barely had the time nor appetite to eat. On the second week that you grabbed a slice of plain bread for dinner, he immediately called up his mum and asked how to cook.
You recall smelling the food before he even served it. You had your nose in your codal book when he approached from behind you, giving you a swift peck on your shoulder before putting down a bowl of shepherd’s pie and garlic bread with a glass of apple juice.
“You should eat love. Your brain won’t function if you’re starving,” he smiled, but you can detect the nervousness in his voice.
Your heart swelled at the kind gesture. You gave him a sweet kiss. “I must have done something good before to have you in my life.”
He nuzzled your nose and sat in front of you, avidly watching. At that time, you didn’t know what you were putting in your mouth. Immediately upon contact on the food on your tongue, you thought that Brian was definitely poisoning you. The endless sleepless nights and barely eating had taken a toll on your body and now he’s too disgusted to live with you and has decided to kill you. You felt your lips shrivel from how salty it was. The roof of your mouth burned and you felt the saliva flooding from under your tongue. You were amazed at the willpower you possessed not to gag on the spot and spit it out.
Brian was watching.
With every ounce of strength you could muster, you immediately swallowed the vile thing and grabbed the apple juice and downed it.
“Mmmm.” you mummed, smacking your lips in an effort to return a semblance of moistness and avoid it bleeding while appearing to have enjoyed his food.
You couldn’t bare to look at his face. You could already feel what he was feeling. “You don’t have to pretend, love.” he said quietly. It broke your heart.
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.
Edited almost immediately to add that WordPress allows posting reblogging, commenting, AND following, and so it seems like honestly the most logical next place for fandom in my opinion. It also allows a high degree of customization.
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.
There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.
EDIT: We’re not sure yet about wordpress’ stance on NSFW, so definitely mark those blogs private for now. I had one person tell me they got nuked for one NSFW post on a 7 year old blog. Definitely look into other solutions for backing up your blog just in case Private isn’t good enough. There seem to be lots of options for Windows, including Python. A quick google search will turn up several. I’m still looking for a good option for Mac. Anyone know any?
Update on Migrating to WordPress
Back up your block somewhere else as well.
I’ve been forwarded the content guidelines for WordPress, and while they do allow nudity, they do not allow visually explicit pornography, not even drawings.
From their site:
We do permit mature content on WordPress.com, including text, images and videos that contain nudity, offensive language, and mature subject material. However, blogs that contain such content must be marked as Mature in our system.
If you are publishing a blog that you expect will contain content that is intended for mature audiences, we ask that you provide us the courtesy of reporting your blog or website here.
A blog or website that is marked as Mature is excluded from public areas of the WordPress.com service. This means:
• It will not appear in the Reader or other tag listings
• It will not appear in Top Blogs listings, recent posts, or related posts listings on other blogs
• The blog’s users cannot use that URL as a link in their WordPress.com Forums profile
Mature blogs and their owners are permitted to utilize all other aspects of WordPress.com. We do not suspend blogs solely for the presence of mature content and there are no interstitials or other “age gates” on WordPress.com.
However, there are limitations to the mature content permitted on our service. Please don’t:
• Post visual depictions of sexually explicit acts (such as, but not limited to, images, videos, and drawings) that can be considered pornographic;
• Post links or ads to adult-oriented affiliate networks, such as pornography site signups;
• Post links, text, or images promoting or advertising escort or erotic services;
• Post images of extreme violence or gore without associated context or commentary;
• Post images of child pornography;
• Post content that promotes pedophilia, such as blogs with galleries of images of children where the images, content surrounding the images, or the intent of the blog is sexually suggestive.
Blogs found to be hosting the above material will be suspended. In cases of child pornography, we will report all incidences to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and fully cooperate with law enforcement.
What does this mean?
I would hope that completely private blogs would not be flagged, but make sure that you back up your blog elsewhere, if it has any NSFW.
This seems not to include NSFW text, so fic should still be okay, but AO3 is really probably best for this.
WordPress is still an option for fic and fanart, but is probably not the best option for porn. (Even the excellently curated blogs that can be found on Tumblr. Am I bitter? Yes.)
Other options:
I’ve been seeing a lot of support for Dreamwidth. Though I don’t use it myself, it’s definitely a good option. Pillowfort is still inder construction and doesn’t seem to have a long term finance plan, but it’s probably worth getting an account and trying it out.
I haven’t found a good one for Mac yet, but I’m on the hunt.
Tumblr has a native export option, but I haven’t gotten it to work for me yet? Which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work.
Mentioned problems:
Guys. This post has gotten over 14k notes in 4 hours. I’ve seen very few of the comments.
But some of them mentioned that they weren’t seeing the free option? I don’t know, guys, I still see it. Maybe it’s a country issue? Dreamwidth is absolutely free, if nothing else.
Not importing:
Again. 14k notes. I’m sure their servers are heavily overloaded. Be patient. Set up your computer somewhere plugged in and come back tomorrow. Mine is 4 hours into 8k posts and less than a ¼th of the way through. It’s gonna take a while.
There is also a petition up to change Tumblr’s mind on this situation.
Who knows if it would work, but it’s worth signing.
Does tumblr have a porn bot and actually illegal child porn problem? Yes.
Is the solution to that the nuke the blogs of a bunch of consenting adults? No.
Hopefully this is all a passing storm that will result in them getting their act together.
Am I hopeful? No. But it’s worth signing.
The Take away:
WordPress is a possible solution for text-based fandom, but it’s not the new tumblr.
DON’T PANIC, at the risk of plagiarizing Douglas Adams. Backup, protect your stuff, let people know where to find you, but don’t panic.
I’m personally gonna continue to use this site until it implodes, which it might not even do. It’s my main social media platform, and I do have some hope that they might pull their heads out of their asses.
Good luck everyone.
I’m tagging the hell out of this again, and I would really appreciate it if everyone could reblog this just as far as the previous one. I’ve tagged as many people as tumblr will let me XD
According to the new Guidelines,written content is allowed. This means NSFW stories or roleplay won’t be banned.
The Safe Mode won’t exist anymore. You will have to manually block content you do not wish to see.
While the update mentions “artistic nudity” is allowed, it goes out of its way to specify illustrations that depict sex acts may be affected.
You will be notified when and if your content is flagged: the E-mail will include a form to appeal if your post has been targeted by error. Be sure to check your E-Mail if you suspect something might happen to your blog.
Blogs market as explicit won’t be taken down. However, their content may be removed. Moreover, their icons and banner will be reverted to default settings.
The post will be updated when more details are available.
Also Me: I Need This Site So I Can Yell About My Current All-Consuming Interest Of The Month, Because If It Were, In Fact, Deleted, I Would Be Strangled Within Minutes For The Greater Good.
staff is too incompetent to properly moderate their site but also too incompetent to properly kill it off so I think in the end very little will change, but just in case it all goes to shit after all you will be able to find me carving my posts into the walls of a nearby cavern
AN: Deciding who to write this about was semi-difficult, but having written so much Ben/Roger stuff, I wanted to switch it up a little bit! All of this is pure fiction, as I do not know every little detail about John Deacon’s wedding or past relationships, so please just use your imagination as I just made things up. I apologize if it is so short, but I hope you enjoy! Hey! Love you writing♥️ don’t know if you’re still taking requests but if you are could you possible do one where you’re in a relationship with one of the boys, don’t mind who, and you go together to one of the other band members weddings and that’s where he realises you’re the one for him! Hope that makes sense. – There had only ever been one girl for John Deacon, so when he announced he was getting married, it had come as no surprise to anyone. He had been buzzing with excitement ever since, and the feeling had become quite contagious.
The wedding day had been gorgeous. The sun had decided to shine, and it was like the entire universe was celebrating the merging of two people who were helplessly in love. With Brian busy helping John, you spent the ceremony and the beginning part of the reception with Mary and Roger’s date. The three of you were having a wonderful time, drinking and laughing, and after the first dance, you found Brian at your side, asking if you wanted to join him on the dancefloor.
The question had surprised you because you never knew Brian as a dancer. But with his bright smile, and his hand reaching out for you, you couldn’t turn him down. He led you into the middle of the floor and with one hand cupping your own, he placed his other hand on your waist and you placed yours on his shoulder.
“Have I told you this afternoon how beautiful you look?” He whispered into your ear as the two of you swayed back and forth. You could feel a blush rising in your cheeks as you nodded.
“Only a few times.” You giggled, your eyes lifting to meet his. “And might I say, you look as handsome as ever.”
Brian’s face lit up, and you rested your head against his chest. The two of you had been together a little over a year now, but with his busy life touring and recording, you had never really discussed the topic of marriage. You were happy with Brian, and you knew that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with him, but you understood that it may take him longer to come to that conclusion. You would wait as long as you had to.
The two of you danced together, neither one of you speaking as you allowed the music to conduct your movements. You were blissfully happy, and the sound of Brian’s heart beating against your ear lulled you into a peaceful trance.
x.x.x
Brian had known practically since the moment he met you that he loved you. You were so patient, caring, and funny and he had never met someone who understood him like you did. You had never pushed the idea of getting married and you didn’t get jealous when you would bring up other couple’s engagements. With his busy schedule, Brian had never really entertained the idea of getting married until John announced that he was. He just hadn’t thought that it was fair to propose and then have to go off for months at a time, leaving you behind.
However, as he held you while you danced, he felt a pang in his heart that had started earlier that day when he thought of you. You had looked so beautiful when he picked you up that it had taken his breath away. Seeing how happy John and his new wife were, Brian had started feeling a longing that he never thought he would feel.
He wasn’t sure how you felt about it, but the more he thought about it, the more he was sure that if he were to finally settle down and commit, you were the only girl he wanted to do that with. Your unwavering loyalty, even when life wasn’t really fair to your relationship, was reassurance enough that he had made the right choice when he asked you out.
“Have you ever thought about getting married?” He asked out loud, just as the slow song ended. Your head immediately left his chest and turned up to face him.
“Of course, I have, Bri.” You replied softly, giving him a small smile.
“Have you ever thought about marrying… me?”
Your eyes searched his, a curious expression now on your face.
“Yes.”
Brian’s heart flipped and a lump formed in his throat. You looked so innocent, and so happy, that he couldn’t stop himself from leaning down and capturing your lips in his. He had hoped that you would say yes, and as he looked down at you as you led him off the dancefloor, he knew that you were the one for him. He wouldn’t mention it again now, but he looked forward to the near future, when he would formally ask you to be his forever.
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