Anonymous

Greetings anon!

First of all, we want to remind you (and everyone else) that we do have a FAQ page for many of your questions. It feels unloved every time we get a question that’s already addressed there 😉

That said, you may use the ask box to submit your confession and we will edit the image for you. If you prefer to do it yourself, you may use our submit box to send the image.

Grazie,
~ Signora Paola

My dearest anon,

The short answer is: We haven’t received plenty of confessions. There’s actually two now in the ask box, of which I plan to edit tomorrow. Now, there was a time that I would make a post reminding people to send in their confessions, but fact of the matter is – there is a huge slowdown. I believe Tumblr’s NSFW ban is one culprit. We’re not really getting new followers because our posts are invisible in the search results and anyone with safe browsing on (which is the default, I believe) simply cannot see our blog.

Another factor could be the fact that interest in the AC franchise (at least here on Tumblr) has waned as well. Maybe it is. I’m not particularly well-updated when it comes to the general fandom ;^^

Frankly, I myself do not feel the same, shall we say, risqué passion as I once have for the franchise. ;^^ Heck, I’m not even that inspired to write my own dirty confessions. Maybe our other patrons feel the same way.  There will always be lulls in fandoms, and I think this is just one of them.

I’m still in the middle of playing AC Odyssey (it’s a huuuuuuuge game and it’s proving to be a little too much for a completionist like me) and while I do like Alexios and Kassandra, they haven’t quite… inspired me, you know? I’m hoping that the release of Devil May Cry 5 will kickstart my passion once again. Even though it’s a different game, sometimes inspiration can come from the most unexpected of sources.

Grazie,
~ Signora Paola

Yes, we already know and this is why we have setup a mirror account at Dreamwidth. Honestly, I’d prefer to move there all together, but I realise that a lot of you are unwilling to leave Tumblr and I don’t want to force people into leaving. Many fandoms are in a precarious place right now. A lot have jumped ship, but the alternatives are all over the place. I imagine it would take years before we settle in another social media platform, so I can’t blame people for not wanting to take that leap of faith yet.

~ Signora Paola

We don’t really access Twitter that often. Our Twitter account there is mainly a crosspost, and I personally don’t have access to it so I will not be able to check direct messages.

Our mod account at Dreamwidth can receive private messages, though. Of course, one needs to have an account and anonymous messaging is not possible. However, if there’s a growing demand of sending confessions elsewhere, I will make a post in that account allowing screened anonymous comments. They won’t be published, but we will be able to see them.

Speaking of Tumblr sucking, I’ve just found out that we have lost our avatar and header image. They did say that “the avatars and headers for these blogs will also be reverted to the default settings.” Also, I can’t access the dirtyasscreedsecrets.tumblr.com on my web browser. I’m trying to look for the option to turn off safe browsing, but wow, did Tumblr remove that option as well?

To be honest, I’m actually very seriously considering moving to Dreamwidth all together. This Tumblr will still be operational, but I think moving main operations to https://dirtyasscreedsecrets.dreamwidth.org will be better for us in the long run. What do our patrons think?

I will need to confer this with other mods as well, but in light of these new developments, transferring seems really like the better option.

Grazie,
~ Signora Paola