@staff

An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more.

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again.

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue.

Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole. There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough.

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind.

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to.

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise.

Sincerely,

The users of your website.

@staff @support

Dadzawa Fic Recs Part 2, w/ Shinso, Eri & Bonus!

Dadzawa Fic Recs Part 1

* Legend

C/ N/C = Completed/ Not/Completed

G, T+, M = Ratings

N/W = No warning/ Chose not to put warnings

Gdov, R/n-c, U = Graphic depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-consensual, Underage.

Numbers.w = Word count

If not completed, date of last update is included.

W/ Shinso

Better [C, M, (W:Gdov/r/n-c/u), 30,997w]

Hitoshi’s been through a series of foster homes, each seemingly worse than the last. He thinks his life will never get much better—until he comes across Shouta Aizawa, an adult determined to make Hitoshi happy. (MIND THE TAGS)

~Personal note: As emotional and difficult as this fic is to read it had to be one of my all time favorites.~

Try, Try Again N/C, T+, N/W, 32,398w, 2/11/2018)

While picking up Aizawa Shouta from a police station after his patrol, Shinsou Hitoshi gets hit with an age regression quirk, turning him into a four year-old with no memories of being adopted by Aizawa and Hizashi and leaving the two of them as the parents of a very confused and upset toddler.

Courtyards and Comebacks (N/C, T+, N/W, 29,517w, 6/4/2018)

Shinsou always knew his sass would come back to bite him in the ass, but he didn’t expect to get a weird stalker/guardian because of it.

A Little Longer (C, T+, N/W, 5,688w)

Hitoshi can’t sleep at four in the morning after an incident with a foster sibling and his foster father. After some deliberation, he decides to call Aizawa, and can only hope that he doesn’t wake his mentor up.

I Would Understand (C, T+, N/W, 45,639w)

Shinsou Hitoshi had a bit of a problem, and that problem was that he’d gotten attached to Aizawa Shouta. And somewhere along the line had started seeing him as a parental figure, a replacement for all the foster home parents who’d passed him along and never quite done their job.

A kid who’s been in foster care his entire life spends a normal, average day after training with the teacher who seems to care a little too much.

You Found Me (on a summer breeze)(N/C, T+, N/W, 11,692w, 12/9/2017)

After being adopted by Aizawa Shouta and Yamada Hizashi, Shinsou Hitoshi struggles to get used to life in a real family. It’s a little difficult, but things are generally good, and Hitoshi finds himself starting to rediscover the parts of his childhood that he missed out on.

It helps that Aizawa’s there through it, a constant in Hitoshi’s life, and Hitoshi looks up to him more than ever. Somewhere along the line, Aizawa stops becoming his personal hero and starts becoming the parent he’s never had.

Obstacles (C, T+, N/W, 10,248w)

Yamada Hizashi is doing exactly what he’s always wanted to do with his life—running his own preschool and daycare. Even though it’s small, it’s his and he knows he’s good at what he does.

Then, Aizawa Shouta, an underground pro hero, enrolls his adoptive son, four year-old Shinsou Hitoshi, a boy who’s been kicked out of every other daycare and school he’s been put in since the development of his brainwashing quirk. Hizashi is more than happy to have him in his school, especially since Hizashi was born with a ‘dangerous’ quirk himself, and he quickly finds out that he has a soft spot for this kid and a serious liking towards his father that he has to learn to deal with.

Cat family one shots (N/C, G, N/W, 2,122w, 5/19/2018)

Some one-shots about dad!Aizawa and his family.

Muzzled (N/C, G, N/W, 1,541w, 6/4/2018)

Aizawa never planned to adopt. But when a lilac-haired boy in a muzzle comes running out of an orphanage to beg him for his autograph, he knows he has to do something.

W/ Eri:

Not Without Trying (N/C, T+, N/W, 7285w, 3/7/2018)

Aizawa and Yamada have developed a routine these past few weeks. Aizawa spends most of his days assisting the doctors with Eri’s quirk exercises and testing, becoming a bit of a security blanket for the girl. Yamada brings warm food and conversation every night, attempting to ease the exhaustion out of their bones.

Sitting in a hospital chair, Aizawa’s head leaning on his shoulder, and Eri coloring atop the bed, Yamada starts thinking that maybe he shouldn’t have written parenting off his list of things he was capable of.

New Discoveries (C, G, N/W, 826w)

Eri has never seen a cat in her life and when coming home for the first time, is terrified of Aizawa’s.

A Different Kind of Hero (C, G, N/W, 3,078w)

Aizawa takes Eri grocery shopping and they encounter some hero merchandise, spurring some questions about Aizawa’s line of work.

Bonus:

DadMight w/ Midoriya:

A Place Called Home (N/C, N/R, N/W, 19,816w, 5/28/2018)

On the night before Izuku’s seventh birthday his mom surprised him with a trip to the beach, they were going to stay the night at a hotel and spend the whole day of his birthday by the ocean, at least that was the plan. But things don’t always go as planned, do they? Inko Midoriya didn’t plan on the drunk woman who was driving in the opposite lane. Inko didn’t plan on seeing the car swerve in front of hers a moment too late. And Izuku didn’t plan on falling asleep in the car but he did, and when he woke up he was in the hospital, and it was his birthday, and he was alone.

After the death of his mother, seven years of foster homes and a lifetime of crushed dreams and pain Izuku just might find a place to call home.