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New Tag, and an idea

First a quick aside, I’ve been suffering from a cold for a few days, so if you noticed updates being a little sparse, that’d be why. I think I’m on the mend now though.

Alright, so the main thing I wanted to write about is that this submission gave me an idea. It talks about the state having just made permanent nudity legal, which I generally assume had already happened through out the US. But rather than quibble with that, I decided to just make a new tag: flashback. (As of this moment that’ll be the only post.) And that in turn gave me an idea, that time when the New Laws were first rolling out must have been  very exciting! I’ve done one or two captions like that before, but I really should do more with that (once I get over my cold anyway). And maybe you’d like to get in on this too?

Just think, in the “frontier days” of permanent nudity, it would have been much more controversial and shocking. Some people may not have heard of it at all until a naked person suddenly walks into their store or whatever and tries to convince them it’s legal. It could also be your excuse to break the rules a bit, since some of the details may not have been ironed out quite yet. If you you’d like to try your hand at this, please put *flashback* in the notes, or just mention it if you submit by email, to make sure I know  where you’re coming from.

To be clear, I still don’t want graphic sex or heavy BDSM type themes, but as far as “fine points of the law”, like exactly how registration works, when it can be imposed on someone involuntarily, and so forth, feel free to get creative. Another topic you might want to touch on is some of the reasons permanent nudity got legalized in the first place. But I would ask you not to attempt anything like a definitive origin story, I’d prefer to leave that somewhat mysterious.

Images not showing on Tag pages

Someone contacted me last night to point out that images aren’t visible when you’re looking at a Tag page anymore. And the same applied to Category pages, I see. As they suspected, this was not intentional. It was the result of a change made to the WordPress theme I’m using. I did a quick-n-dirty fix by rolling back the theme, but I guess sooner or later I’ll have to look into how to override things like that properly. I’m still out of my element messing with WordPress internals.

TL;DR It’s fixed for now.

Random Post Link

I added a “Random Post” link to the menu bar. This is based on a suggestion someone sent while my forms were broken. (The attachments are sadly lost for good, but I’ve been able to recover the text in most cases) Anyway, they also asked if I could do something like Tumblr’s “Archives” thumbnail view. That sounds like it might be a little harder, but I’ll look into it. One good thing about WordPress is there are all kinds of plug-ins you can get to add different features.

Edit: First attempt didn’t work that great. Try the Random link up there again and see if it works better now.

Contact/Submit forms working again, probably

Oh man, dealing with this has been annoying. And it’s not over yet. But I think I have the forms working again.

So if anyone submitted something in the last month or so and has neither seen it posted nor got a reply from me, I guess you can go ahead and try sending it again. Definitely still hang onto those pictures though, because I’m not totally confident in my system yet. To spare you the gory details, got the old setup working again, but I still want to try something else and see if it’s a little more confidence-inspiring.

Direct email submissions mostly work, but there does remain a risk of getting it bounced,  zip files in particular are apparently unwelcome on the mailing service. (But  you should at least get a message back if your email doesn’t go through.). I will  have an alternate (hopefully more reliable) email address also available soon.

A little update on the submission form

OK, so it looks like the problem is not with the form itself, rather the submissions are getting caught as spam before I receive them. Unfortunately this is not on my end, or even my ISP, but at a third-party service I’m using. This leaves a few possible solutions. I’m trying to get my site’s IP address taken off the spam list, but who knows how that will go. I don’t want to rely on that. I could also ditch that 3rd party and use something else. But probably the best thing is if I can set it up so submissions don’t have to go trough email at all. And it looks like that should be possible, but I’m still too busy with the holiday (visiting family and stuff) to really dig into setting it up.

Oh, and to top it off, direct email might not be working as well as I thought. Someone just reported that attempting to send me a zip file bounced. Arrgh. Obviously I have alot to sort out. But I’ve got some ideas what to do now,  I just don’t have the time to do it at the moment. Probably this weekend.

In happier news…

I’ve just been talking with Tales of Nudity , who also had their Tumblr terminated, and surprisingly they actually got it back! Now when mine got terminated they did actually give me a reason, however harshly I feel they handled it, so I doubt if I could get it restored. But if anyone else got theirs shut down with no warning or explanation, like Tales apparently did, contacting support might just be worth a shot.

Contact/submit forms broken again

My damn contact and submission forms are broken again, and really hate to say it, but they probably have been for some time. I had noticed a slump in submissions, but I naively assumed that’s all it was. I still get a few through Tumblr or by e-mail so it took me longer than it should have to notice I was getting zero through this site. I only caught on when someone told me through another channel that they sent something I didn’t receive.

So the bottom line is, if you sent me anything recently at all, like the last month, and you’ve neither seen it posted nor got a reply from me, it’s almost certainly because the gremlins ate it. You are more than welcome to send it again, but you’ll have to either send it by email (address on the submit page) or hold off until I get things straightened out. At this point, I still don’t know exactly what’s going on, so it’s not likely to be a super quick fix I’m afraid.

I’m very sorry about all this. It’s the downside of managing your own site I guess.

Interesting Situation

This submission is kind of neat to think about.

At first I was gonna say, it looks more like she just got out of the shower. But maybe that’s the point. What if she’s permanently naked and just got out of the shower? Yeah that could definitely be pretty awkward. All kinds of misunderstands in the cards there.

She’s probably a little self conscious meeting her roommates wet with a towel on her head, and they’d pick up on that but not know there reason. So they’re thinking “geez lady you’ve been out here for 10 minutes, put you’re clothes on already”. But of course they’re not gonna actually say that to their new roommate. And she in turn would notice they’re uncomfortable, but probably assumes they realize she’s permanude and just aren’t used to it…

I can easily imaging that going on for an hour or two before anyone’s brave enough to directly say what they see as obvious and clear it up.

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