A collection of randomly chosen erotic art of all kinds, from academic painting to commercial illustrations and under the counter porn, pulp fiction sleaze and adult comics, medical illustrations and magazine covers.
As we’ve previously noted here, none of the already pre-existing platforms such as Pinterest, Twitter, DeviantArt, HentaiFdoundary, etc. were ones that we felt could enable us to maintain the sort of community we have built on our current Tumblr blogs. Instead, we have been holding out hope for the several “new players” who’s posts we’ve all been seeing here, about forthcoming new platforms which will be designed from the floor up, to mimic the look, feel and functions of Tumblr.
BDSMLR is one of the first to hit the streets. It does indeed closely mimic many aspects of Tumblr. On the downside, because it is brand new, it is riddled with bugs and is lacking in many of the features we took for granted here. For instance, it tends to seize up and crash when using the Safari browser on the Mac (our primary way of accessing sites). There are reports of many problems on mobile devices & phones as well. The tech staff claims to be working hard on correcting these flaws so we’ll wait and see…
In the meantime, there is one other issue that is rather vexing for us. While we have always happily welcomed BDSM themed imagery on both of our blogs, neither of them should be considered BDSM blogs. We’re not entirely comfortable with term being part of our name online.
So all in all, we honestly do not know yet if these new blogs will be our new homes for the long haul. As such, we’ve only so far done the minimal amount of making ourselves comfortable there. For now, they are both just sort of “bare bones”.
We do however, wholeheartedly encourage our current viewers and followers to visit us and follow us there for the time being.
One can hope, right? Pleeeeeease let it be what I think it is….
I’ve been in contact with ‘The Guy’ who is over seeing the production of Cumblr.com and has informed me he has a team put together and they’re aiming for a December 17th launch! Please help share this information more for a great success!
if this is true…ill be there
Ran across this just now. I’ve subscribed to their email. We’ll see where it goes.
“The end result, though, is that companies and governments are changing how users get to express themselves on the Internet. The multi-billion dollar corporate porn industry won’t go away; rather, what will are places for people to talk frankly, openly, and safely about sex and sexuality. Groups that are pushed out of mainstream discussions or find themselves attacked in mainstream spaces are once again losing their voices.“
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed in July, 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.
Tumblr has updated their terms of service and will be banning all adult blogs starting December 17. That means this blog and all associated blogs will be disabled and removed from public access soon.
Obviously, I’m quite disappointed by this and the resulting loss of over 6 years of work building and maintaining this blog and its community. I will try to set up a mirror of the Anal Only Lifestyle blog in the coming weeks, but I expect that the porn blogs may be gone for good just due to the costs of hosting large amounts of image/video content.
How Can I Stay Connected to the Anal Only Lifestyle Community?
Fortunately, we’re far more than just these blogs! Our community is centralized at the Anal Only Lifestyle Forum and Discord server. Please join and bookmark these links in order to stay connected with this community and follow our next steps as we continue to build and grow the anal only community. In addition to discussion and realtime chat, the Discord server also has porn sharing sections.
Tumblr lets you back up and download your blog. Go to your Blog Settings page for the blog in question, scroll to the bottom, click the Export button at the bottom, and wait for an email that notifies you it’s ready to be downloaded. If it’s a big blog, it might be a very large file—this blog was 25 GB!
Alternatives to Tumblr
This list will be updated as I find more alternatives. Please feel free to share any others with me.
Twitter This is an obvious alternative, and while it’s not the same as Tumblr, it has some similarities and can reach a wide audience. It does not have a built-in posting queue, though some third party tools may support that.
Reddit If you have a community, setting up a subreddit is an easy way to establish a public forum for it. Individual users can post content to their profile pages as well, though it lacks advanced features like a queue.
Fetlife A community for various adult/fetish topics and subcommunities. More of a Facebook-of-kink than a porn sharing platform.
Discord This is a realtime chat platform that allows you to set up your own server with different channels, with web, desktop, and mobile app support. Another great option for establishing a central community location. Allows the sharing of media as well as all sorts of other options.
bdsmlr This is a Tumblr clone explicitly created for adult content. It seems to still be in the early stages and is a bit clunky still, but has potential. It also lacks in users, currently, but I’m sure that will change before long!
pillowfort.io This is another Tumblr-like service in early development. At the time of this post it is offline and undergoing security updates, but keep checking in to see how it progresses.
Sharesome An adult platform for posting and sharing content. This has some Tumblr-like features, allowing the reposting of content, addition of your own comments and captions, and curation of custom topics. Doesn’t appear to support queueing.
Swarmr A Tumblr clone that allows NSFW content and supports multiple blogs per account. There aren’t a great deal of options yet, and it doesn’t seem to have much content, but that could change quickly if people join.
Minds A blockchain/crypto-based platform that allows posting and tagging adult content. Seems to have issues with searching adult tags, however, and doesn’t have a queue.
Your own self-hosted website This is one of the safest options, though lacks the surrounding community to help with growth that a service like Tumblr has, so you’ll need to have somewhat of an established community already to migrate to your own platform, but it can be a great option to create a central hub for your followers and community members to base out of.
