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Certified dungeon meshi moment

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give that girl a grilled cheese

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SUMMER

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okey im going to back up my blog because it seems that Tumblr is strarting to show signs that it's going to get killed :P

I made a nicer Tumblr export/backup tool

In the aftermath of Automattic's latest round of layoffs, I learned that Tumblr's built-in exports are somewhat lacking for those of us wanting a truly portable backup solution. So, armed with vague notions of what a better option might look like, I decided to try and build it myself!

First off, I want to acknowledge all of the many lovely folks who helped this little project along--thanks so much to everyone who liked and/or reblogged my posts, shared feature suggestions, offered encouraging words, etc. etc. It's more fun working on a project like this when you think that it'll get used! I hope that what I made will be useful to at least a few of you. 💕

With that, I'm happy to announce that TumblMark is available for download!

The tool is built to run on any computer that runs modern Python, so you should have no issues using it on whatever you have handy. I tried my best to make the README clear and easy to understand, even for folks who've never used command-line software before, but you know how it goes. If there's anything that trips you up as you're working through the steps, let me know here or in a GitHub issue, and I'll make sure it gets fixed. (And, of course, please don't hesitate to report any issues that you might encounter with the tool itself!)

A couple of notes that I thought were worth mentioning:

It's also mentioned in the README, but there's a bug with the lightbox plugin that prevents images from zooming when clicked on the main blog listing and archive pages. I've reported the issue to the plugin's developer, and I'm evaluating other options, but for now, you'll have to click through to the single post view to zoom in on images. 😔

As it goes with these things, I had to make some tough choices regarding what features would make it to the first release. Markdown is easier to work with than HTML, and many people already have some familiarity with it from Discord, Slack, etc. So I tried to favor Markdown-based solutions as much as possible. This meant tabling some features that I'd really hoped to include, like responsive images with srcset. If I have the time and I think there's some interest, I might consider a future version that's built on Eleventy (or another static site generator) with a custom theme. This could add a lot of functionality, but it would also be a much bigger undertaking on my part, so let me know if this is something that you might like to see!

Lastly, if you find this tool useful, you can support me and my creative works with a tip! (Thank you!!)

❤️ https://ko-fi.com/cariri ❤️

Thanks so much for reading! I hope you'll consider sharing with your followers, and please let me know what you think if you decide to try it out!! 💕

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someone broke her twintails...

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Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)

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im fucking losing it

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the yuri of all time

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one of my favourite callbacks 💀

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kabru dunmeshi is basically a chernobyl survivor who was adopted by an eternally young hot white woman who was going to pamper him for his entire life but instead of wanting to be pampered he was like "mom, i need to become a stalker. i need to return to the Zone" and his elf mom was like "nooo the Zone sucks you'll be shot by a bandit" and he was like "no mom i need to go to the Zone and find out what happened" and she was like "fine" and pulled out a machinegun from her days in the Suicide Squad and trained him to kill while firing on him with live ammunition. Then he went to the Zone and immediately got killed by a pack of wild dogs because elf mom only taught him how to shoot other humans

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Dungeon Meshi + text posts

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This is their dynamic to me. Middle aged dad with what is both his cat and his stubborn teenage daughter

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Please, please constantly challenge and reject the narrative that any region is naturally more prone to war than any other, like that's a characteristic inherent to its make-up, like that's geographically assigned risk the same way an area can be earthquake-prone or hurricane-prone.

There has never been a utopia on Earth and nowhere is entirely free of conflict, but this disastrous scale of violence inflicted upon the SWANA region is a deliberate and calculated effort of destabilization by Western powers who want to bleed the region dry. It's not an immutable part of the contour of the land that its people must adapt to and live with. It can be stopped and should be stopped. These people were once free and can be freed again.

Every time you see someone hand-waving a crisis at this scale as "conflict in the Middle East" it is an abominable tool to dehumanize Arabs to the point where nobody bats an eye at the death of their children.

Examine what that phrase means. What is a "conflict in the Middle East"? What happens in Yemen isn't what happens in Morocco isn't what happens in Palestine isn't what happens in Iraq, but this catch-all term is meant to translate in your mind into "problems are happening where problems are always happening", because of course they are! Conflict in the Middle East? What else is new, clouds in the sky? Fish in the sea? It lulls you into apathy; Arabs are dying - but that's what they do, don't they?

And so three goals of the perpetrators of this violence are achieved. First, they wash their hands from it; they didn't set the place on fire, it was already like this when they got there! Second, does it even matter whose fault it is? Who cares about a dead brown child anyway? Who's counting the death toll? Third, since this is an unchangeable quality of their region, and has nothing to do with the West, why protest it? Why fight for them? Why demand anything out of Western leaders?

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If I were to set up a blog on neocities or something how many of you would want to read about my radical leftist analysis of mcyt and things

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Please reblog for larger sample size :)

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hhhnnngg monster women

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what they dont tell you about being loudly transgender is sooner or later someone will say you helped/were the reason they transitioned and you just have to. sit with that for a while and how wonderful it is that a person can inspire others to take better care of themselves like that. the louder you are the better, you help strangers more than you know