I have set up a mirror site at Dreamwidth for both security and posterity. If you have a Dreamwidth account, you are very free to join! If you don’t have one, signups are totally free. ❤️That said, you don’t need to do those things if you don’t want to! The mirror site is a precaution in case Tumblr digs itself even deeper and alienates fandoms as a whole.
We hope that our account at DW will stay as a mirror site because despite Tumblr’s infuriating stance on adult content, we have grown quite attached to our home here. We will stay here until that time comes when fandoms find a new (and better) place to seek shelter in. That was the case with LiveJournal in the past. Dreamwidth was actually formed because of LJ’s increasing hostility against fandom. I thought back then that DW would replace LJ, but then there was this talk about a cool new site called Tumblr, how fandoms were slowly settling in there, and…..
Here we are. If there’s one thing I learned from the multiple attempts to quash adult content and harming fandoms in the process, it’s how fandoms are very resilient. Only time will tell which would be the next social media platform that fandoms will choose, but it’s inevitable. And hopefully, this bordello will keep living on and we will all see you there. 💖😘
Love, ~ Signora Paola
A sort of bad news, our dear patrons: We cannot backdate entries in DW communities, so using the community as an archive cannot be done. However, we do have another account that serves as the ‘crossposter’ of confessions in our DW community, and since it is a personal account, backdating entries there is totally possible.
So, now I’ve taken up the task of very slooooowly adding all of your confessions. Every. Single. One. Given that we have probably 3,000 confessions (our Tumblr backup has given us over 9,000 entries but a huge chunk of that is likely reblogs and other non-confession posts), this archiving will take a while. 😓
On the bright side, though: I need not worry about any future confessions since they will all be crossposted!
Now, you may be thinking: I’m doing too much for something that may never happen (deletion of this blog). That may be true, but I’d rather be safe than sorry. Through the 5 years this bordello has been operating, it has amassed quite a lot of delightful and imaginative confessions, and I want to save them. There’s also quite a number of non-confession posts that I want to preserve, such as this audio post of Paul Amos reading a Jacob confession (GOOD TIMES WERE HAD AHHH). So, if nothing else, saving these wonderful memories elsewhere would give us a peace of mind. ❤️
