Important updates & Thank You to our May Patrons
Hi everybody!
It's June so it's time to give a site update and to thank all our May Patreon subscribers!
So, first, the biggest update is that I've discovered a lot of the Escher Girls Tumblr has been flagged by Tumblr as adult content. I've appealed dozens and there's still more to do (the weird Tumblr interface means that I can't know how many I have left until I clear out the stack they give me). It's frustrating because the flagging is clearly done by an algorithm that's just scanning the images for vaguely nudity matching things because this cover got flagged and I'm pretty sure that it's not because of Sue but because of Johnny. There's a bunch of other images with fire people that are flagged for nudity too because the algorithm can't tell that monocoloured characters are not naked. Sometimes it's even more baffling how the post could be flagged (such as the She-Hulk one I put with this post.) And the appeals are processed within seconds and seemingly rejected or accepted arbitrarily. Given the speed that they're processed, I'm 1000% sure no human is actually looking at them. It's annoying and I don't know how it affects the visibility of the posts, or if some posts are removed entirely without me knowing.
Stuff like this is why I decided to self-host and made a dedicated site for Escher Girls. I know it's not Tumblr, but it's an archive that I control and can't be deleted or hidden by Tumblr. It's also why I mention that Escher Girls has an RSS feed so people know there's a way to keep up to date with posts outside of Tumblr (and previously Twitter, which no longer functions because they turned off API access). For newbies, simply copy and paste https://eschergirls.com/rss.xml into an RSS reader and it will keep you up to date on EG.
And all of the above is why I'm so appreciative of the support we get from Patreon & Ko-Fi because it helps pay for hosting and the domain name and helps us upgrade the site as needed. Also, just personally, I appreciate that people think what I do is worthwhile enough to support. <3
As usual, I'm working on restoring broken posts when I find them. Some of them I've found aren't just broken on this site due to the move but also don't exist on Tumblr anymore due the posts being removed due to flagging. My major restoration project which took a long time this month was fixing up the WarTune tag, which was a lot of work but well worth it I think. If you haven't seen the WarTune ads before, I encourage you too, they're... something else.
I also fixed up an old post about the original Elder Scrolls that I like because I wrote a short story as the caption (and I've now added a title for it). Check it out if you haven't seen it before.
Anyway, with the updates out of the way, I want to give a very sincere thank you to our May Patreon subscribers. As I said before, your support means a lot to me personally and keeps this site up as an archive that Tumblr can't alter.
Thank you so much to:
Anne Adler
Cat Mara
CheerfulOptimistic
Chris McKenzie
Em Bardon
First Time Trek
Greg Sepelak
Joseph Millman
Ken Trosaurus
Kevin Carson
Kim Wincen
Kristoffer Illern Holmén
Leak
Manuel Dalton
Mary Kuhner
Max Schwarz
Michael Mazur
Michael Norton
Miriam Pody
Morgan McEvoy
randomisedmongoose
Ringoko
Ryan Gerber
Sam Mikes
Sean Sea
SnigePippi
SpecialRandomCast
Thomas
Thomas Key
And also a thank you to all of you who follow, read, and interact with Escher Girls and contribute through commentary, submissions, and participating in the caption contests.
You all rock <3
Ami
(If you wish to support Escher Girls, you can subscribe to our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/ami_angelwings or donate through Ko-Fi at: https://ko-fi.com/amiangelwings.)