Reading, Writing, attempting to draw, and playing video games. Just trying to get through this neverending hell.
Adult, married, queer, black. She/They
People really don't know how good they have it with Ao3. The tagging system, one that's actually enforced, is a godsend.
Back in the day you had no way to know if your sweet coffee shop AU was going to careen wildly into tortureporn in chapter 3
I just have to mute everything about this because it's so incredibly enraging.
When I was 15 I was writing cringey Kingdom Hearts fanfic, not starting harassment campaigns against disabled cancer survivors.
The state of the internet is fucking disastrous.
Remember: If you love a fic on Ao3, download it as a PDF.
Unfortunately, some authors are pulling their fics down in the wake of thieves selling stolen fics on Etsy, and Etsy isn't doing anything about it.
Download your faves and get loud in Etsy's direction.
I understand this mindset, but it's important to remember that this is kind of backwards.
Racism in fiction is a reflection of the racism of real life. Minstrel shows did not make people racist, racist people made minstrel shows.
"fiction doesn't affect reality" tell that to the world's HUMAN population, especially people of color who have been stereotyped through media for centuries.
Ima say it straight up, a lot of it is misogyny, dare i say internalized for some ppl..? Patriarchy is really the bane of all our existences and i wonder how long it will take until fujoshis learn to decenter their life from men
ao3 is an objectively bad site with no censorship and i do agree there are lots of bad fics on there. but that’s why i don’t go onto fic sites expecting every author to be writing bestsellers. it is not goodreads authors are not posting for reviews and praise. they are archives.
A truly disappointing amount of people are making this about "proshippers", proving that they couldn't back a cause without trivializing real traumas if their lives depended on it.
Anyway. Send emails. Withhold your donations. Do something real instead of bitching about fiction.
Friendly reminder that the truth of this is that one of the Chairs of the company is responsible for this, not the entire team running Ao3, and if you're a member you can apply pressure to get that guy out of his seat.
The funniest thing about the internet.
A child says some absolutely wild, verifiably false nonsense. Adults who are sick of this misinformation being spread every Tuesday respond to correct it. Child uses age as a shield and insult at the same time.
@Miryaelle
@pissunni
Here’s a good question, why are YOU as a 38 year old arguing with a 17 year old. And I’m an anti, so go ahead and block me since you’re so sure you’re right
@confusedophan
The amount of people taking that article so seriously, though. It's driving me nuts. The article doesn't cite any sources, doesn't showcase any real research, and doesn't actually prove anything and yet so many people are quick to say "facts can't be sexist!"
Demisexuality is not "not wanting to sleep with someone immediately". It is not feeling sexual attraction AT ALL until an emotional bond is formed. Some demi folks only experience sexual attraction to one or two people in their entire lives, which is NOT the norm.
Can we stop making everything into an “orientation”?
This is normal, healthy, female sexuality
Wanting to immediately sleep with someone because they’re hot is not the default for women
@cursedhive
"y'all just be on there writing anything"
YES.
THAT IS THE POINT.
It's "Archive of OUR own". It's for the writers to post WHATEVER THEY WANT.
YOU don't have to read it.
Remember: When you hope for someone to be outed as a groomer, a predator, a pedophile, whatever -- you are hoping for someone to be victimized.
If you wish for someone to be cancelled for a crime, you're wishing for a victim to be made.
Fix your heart.
Minors do not get opinions on pornography. Bc minors shouldn't be watching porn. The ones that do are not somehow welcome to the Adults Table to have conversations about adult material. Not only is it inappropriate, it's fucking creepy.
I think "show everyone this porn I find disgusting" is my favorite kind of callout post.
Like yeah dude you sure are showing us all this graphic porn you hate, that you hate so much you went searching for dozens of examples, you sure did save and censor all those pics, wow
@gidarineun
Also it being in beta just means that it's in a state of constant change. It will probably be in beta forever because they'll constantly be updating and tweaking it.
People don't know what "beta" means outside of gaming and it shows.
@JoeyCoyfox
The fiction is not the issue. The predators are.
People are groomed with music, candy, plushies, trips to cool places. It is always the predator who is at fault, not the musician, the candy-maker, the toy seller, or the owner of the amusement part.
@artb0i
He wasn't a bad father, he was a flawed father.
It's not surprising that he favored Tenzin when they were the only two Airbenders left, that he struggled to parent when he was raised in a society that no longer exists and that parenting stopped /when he was 12/.
"You men just want to invade women's spaces" hm this sounds familiar what kind of person says that all the time I wonder hm I just can't remember, can't put my finger on it
the op didn't even mention you ya'll (ALL men) just want to insert yourself into EVERYTHING. ESPECIALLY women's spaces. which even if you were born being identified as one, you're not anymore. that comes with its own struggles and hardships, no one said it didn't.
Tumblr is a shell of its former self. After the NSFW ban, my dashboard basically stopped moving and it hasn't really recovered despite my following approx 20 something more artists.
And artists like ReaperSun can't post a majority of their work there, so it's not worth using.
One of the most frustrating things that anti-porn people will do is use a theoretical victim of circumstance, a person who has to do survival sex work, as a weapon while not doing a single thing to actually help people who are the real version of their theoretical.
Imagine telling a poor third world woman that had to get into prostitution against her will because she was starving that she is a "sex worker" I bet she would klll you with your own hands
@cursedhive
We've talked about it SO MUCH. Like we have done this every year for the past 10 years it feels like.
For the love of transformative work, if you don't like certain tags, exclude them from your search and you will not see them. Voila.
The scary truth to this is that most people who sexually abuse children /aren't/ pedophiles.
They're just opportunists who see a vulnerable demographic and prey on them for power and control.
Which, in my opinion, is kind of worse.
I think what this whole Chugga thing really showcases is that y'all need to stop idolizing content creators. Y'all need to realize that you do NOT know these people just because you've watched every video they've put out for the past 10 years.
@FarrahRochon
"Frozen did sisterhood over romance first!"
Nope. Lilo and Stitch did.
"Well they were the first that a Disney princess became a Queen!"
Nope. Atlantis did.
@heartsalty
Apparently each one is 5k words or less which, not to be a pedant, is not a novel. It's not even a novella. That /may/ count as a short-story. If it was actually written by a human.
"Smelly, obese, greasy, hairy men in ill fitting dresses" yeah oh boy I wonder why I might read that and worry the person who typed it is a massive transphobe
Yeah, I'll quote this.
Lately I have seen A LOT of "trans men are men!" being used as a shorthand for "trans men are automatically guilty of all manner of oppression and violence against woman and should be treated with hostility".
And that shit ain't right.
@Sam66460511
@crimini_or_smth
@RightWingCope
The parent can't be trusted as a reliable narrator, imo. And if that did happen, isolating your child away from their friends and favorite things is only going to compound the trauma of being assaulted. The child would need therapy, not lock-down.
This is the "black people enjoyed slavery" woman, are we surprised.
This woman is proof that being trans does not cancel out being bigoted af, including being transphobic.
@artb0i
He was parented until he was 12, then he had to literally save the world in the span of a few months. After which he became a political figure trying to help fix a post 100-yr-war world, still coping with 100 years of changes he slept through.
@foscojo
@ewarren
The fact that the Alabama bill makes exceptions for discarded fertilized eggs in Petri dishes made during IVF, because "they aren't inside a womb so there's no pregnancy" just proves the bill isn't about "saving the unborn". It's about control.
On top of that:
Not reading on Ao3 doesn't help Palestine.
Not donating to Ao3 doesn't help Palestine.
Ao3 is unable to offer any financial support to any parties due to being a non-profit.
Do things that actually help, don't get tangled up in the nitty-gritty.
@confusedophan
"This was written by a woman and the data was about women!" Okay, firstly, saying "we surveyed" doesn't tell me how or who or how much data we're talking about. There's literally no evidence anywhere in the article supporting that women would prefer to play Sudoku.
@joshcry2
@its_daqueen
2) This standard is set by men, not by women.
3) Those scholarships are to encourage women to get into fields that are male dominated, where they have been historically excluded and pushed out.
People will literally accuse artists of drawing csem and then unironically use the NSFW art they're claiming is illegal as their pfp on the callout post sockpuppet account.
Update: My wife literally randomly told me to go check the mail yesterday and I found that they'd stealth ordered a dildo that glows in the dark, like come on find me a male appendage that does THAT
@kyoryuv
If someone is drawing nsfw content and posting it only to their priv account where they are rigorously vet who follows them and who sees said art, and then YOU take that art against their will and post it publicly, then YOU are the one exposing minors to nsfw content.
This silly little joke really has proved how many people /fucking hate/ autistics and the idea that they might be mature, sexual beings with agency and desire.
Nah.
For every proshipper who has said some racist shit to me, there's been half a dozen antis who do the same and use some of the most vulgar, dehumanizing vocabulary I've ever encountered.
@ItsSolidState
@Twitch
@TwitchSupport
@Twitch
@TwitchSupport
A Google search will tell you how this man is a danger to anyone he thinks he can dig his claws into. The accounts of his abuse are numerous and abhorrent.
And you're giving him a platform to find more victims.
Fix it.
Regardless, the argument shouldn't be "fiction doesn't impact reality". It should be "fiction does not have a 1:1 impact".
Ofc fiction impacts people. But it doesn't change people's beliefs. It can't convince you of anything you don't already believe.
To proudly say "I'm a junior in high school, top of my class!" When adults with psychology degrees tell you that you're wrong is the height of childish ignorance.
You've read opinions on your Twitter. That does not make you an expert on anything.
cw: transphobia, kiwifarms
This is a painful example of how easy it is to be radicalized if you enter spaces built for it. This person went to kf to try to "talk some sense" into people and came out spewing puritanical TERF rhetoric and they don't even seem to know it.
I went on KiwiFarms hoping to show them that LGBT people aren't all the depraved kinds of people they see us as. After months of reading their documentation based on actual digital footprints, I realize they are right about a huge number of us. It's very depressing.
@heartsalty
Read a fic a while back and realized VERY quickly that it was written by someone who was elbow deep in discourse who was using the characters as mouthpieces for their opinions.
"The character but no filter!" Yeah, uh. This character would definitely. Say all of that.
The thing about James Somerton saying that he "didn't realize he was hurting people" is that phrase doesn't fly when you've already been recorded dismissing claims of what you're being accused of to the point of getting people harassed off the internet lmao
@snacklesbian
They get so pissed bc they're not mildly inconvenienced enough in life. People should do this more. And also constantly cut in front of them in lines.
You know what I really dislike about this whole thing about Somerton? The amount of people who are chomping at the bit waiting for the next person to be "exposed" and "destroyed".
What the hell is wrong with you people that you /want/ people to be scammers and abusers?
Jaws was so scary because at the time there was little to no real information about sharks available to the public. Jaws filled in the gaps where there was no education.
The same is true for racist fiction. Education and compassion combats it.
Also we've found out that it's completely fake. The brain continues to develop well into someone's 30s, and continues to develop so long as its owner continues to give it proper enrichment.
“your brain isn’t developed until 25” was always a painfully oversimplified pop sci factoid and I am begging people, regardless of intent, to stop parroting it. especially now that it’s being used as justification to take away adult bodily autonomy.
@OhHeyMonsterBoy
- Adult women wearing pink
- Saying that kids need age appropriate sex ed
- Acknowledging that people under 18 engage in sex
- Being attracted to young looking people
- Being a minor attracted to fictional minors
@fruitpunchfuck
Always weird to see myself in the wild lmao
"exposed to problematic ships" -- I come from the era of the internet where it was a meme to trick your friends into seeing full frontal gay sex and they think Ao3 is a problem
It's important to know that the Ace discourse came after "bi discourse", and a ton of bisexual ppl online came to our defense bc the arguments were the same ones used against THEM only a few years earlier. Our biggest allies against exclus were bi folks and trans folks.
i wanna talk about the ace discourse and the long term effects of it as someone who came out as acespec while it was happening
for those who never heard much about it or were younger and not paying attention, it was vicious and people were downright nasty towards aces
This is NOT how intersectionality works.
Trans men do not have the societal power to oppress trans women. There are no systems in which trans men benefit at the expense of trans women, esp none that they have set up themselves.
You are just punching laterally.
@julesucks1
@ViolentFemz
@aRollingSloane
@themcels
trans men are men, they have power over trans women like cis men have over both cis/trans women. they also being oppressed by virtue of being trans doesnt make them immune to misogyny or being oppressors
@RosettaBoned_
@KitfoxGames
You can't. Unfortunately, you literally cannot cater to everyone's needs. You can do your best but there's always going to be someone left out.
Your mental health is your own responsibility. They're doing what they need to, to improve the cw. That's all we're entitled to.
Lack of education is the main problem but that's not necessarily the responsibility of authors. Authors aren't obligated to hand-hold their audience.
You know racism is bad and sharks aren't a threat to humans 99% of the time. No fiction can change that.
KPop teens are losing their mind bc their fav idols said they watched a dark fantasy/horror anime and, surprise, the dark fantasy/horror anime has dark and horrific themes.
If you're this weak of spirit, you should stay off the internet.
@PersonthePerso2
TotK runs at 30fps but you can go from skybox to ground to the depths in one smooth motion with absolutely no loading screen and minimal lag.
In Starfield you can...run slowly across an empty planet face.
@Sam66460511
I'm not saying it's fake. I'm saying I don't trust the narrator. Bc by the way she expresses she's treated her child, I believe that this woman would make shit up to garner sympathy for herself. Not even for her child, who is theoretically the one who has been abused.
This is the most uncharitable and purposefully mean spirited reading of this comic that you could possibly have.
Reposting someone's art to shit on it is already in poor taste but to tear it down for literally no reason is extra nasty.
I feel bad for anyone who's standards are so low they find this cute or affirming
you deserve better than "happy", you deserve to be told you're pretty
"The brain can tell the difference between fiction and reality" and "Constant exposure to traumatizing material, fictional or otherwise, can be harmful" are two statements that can coexist but there's a few too many people saying the latter and implying the former is untrue.
@StefanNotSteven
@LilySimpson1312
1) Rowling didn't cast him. He owes his career to the casting director.
2) Far more people watched the movies than read the books, initially at least. So the actors who worked their asses off gave HER more than she gave them.
3) He doesn't owe her ANYTHING.
@SucculentBud
Where was that energy to support struggling marginalized creators when you decided to dox a black disabled artist for having a nsfw account
@Animated_Antic
Both scenes with the parents being silent are very interesting, because Mother Gothel literally talks over Rapunzel at every available turn.
@wtflanksteak
And the "unattractive" women can't talk about it bc other ppl tell them they should be grateful for the attention, or that they're lying bc who would sexually harass an unattractive woman
There is no point at which an adult should entertain conversation about adult topics with minors.
Kids don't get a say on porn. When they turn 18 they can have all the conversations they want.
@Sam66460511
"Disagree with the methods used" -- Yes. Because completely isolating a child, throwing out their personal belongings, and treating them like a criminal (FOR BEING ABUSED, BTW) is fucking /unhinged/ behavior and it's no wonder that child can't communicate with her.
As a black person, I'm giving everyone blanket permission to use "Say Her Name" in regards to Brianna Ghey.
This is an absolutely /stupid/ line in the sand to draw. Our trans siblings deserve better than this.
@artb0i
AND thanks to his time in the iceberg, he died extremely young. He only lived to like, 45. That's not a lot of time with your kids if you're in your 20s when they're born.
Aang wasn't a perfect parent, that doesn't mean he didn't love his kids.
A lot of child abusers /aren't/ attracted to the children they harm. It's just because they're abusers and children are easy to abuse. Our society makes children easy to abuse.
Children have little to no rights, have little to no agency, and are expected to defer to adults.
For everyone using Shinigami Eyes: "trans friendly" doesn't not mean "trans women friendly".
I'm seeing a ton of green names who are actively bigoted and nasty to trans men, even weaponizing transphobia. If they are unsafe for trans men, they are not "trans friendly".
@panz3rk0nst
@nlovewzuko
Except it was perfect?
Azula has been molded and abused by her father to be perfect and cruel, but the truth is that she's still a child. She's built part of her identity around being /better/ than Zuko and her breakdown is the culmination of her father's abuse.
Ppl ran this guy off the fucking internet and you STILL can't stop lying about him for clout. You aren't even old enough to have been on his account but you're out here spreading THE COMPLETE LIE about him bc you need ppl to pay attention to you on twitter.
DeviantArt has been on a decline for a long time but this might just fully transform the place into a ghost-town.
I understand the ones that involve real people but what is the point of DEVIANTArt anymore?
deviantart here heard someone said no one would ever be as stupid as tumblr was when they sanitized the platform 5 years ago and was like:
"hold my beer."
@ryanshow1111
@cnviolations
-Parents to children
-Bosses to employees
-College faculty to students
-Nearly every time you call customer services
-Any time a young person needs a professional (maintenance, installations, etc)
Your world cannot consist of people only your age. That's not how society works.
@working_simply
@Desi_Astray
Grow up. 80% of the shit you touch online was made by furries or trans women. If you don't like it, you're free to go live in the woods somewhere.
For the folks reading the QRTs: Here's your friendly neighborhood black folk to tell you that using the phrase "freed from my shackles" isn't anti-black and if you're using that to attack people, you can get bent.
may we all be freed from the shackles of the ever-present possibility that some american 14 year old will see our tweets and decide to make up a reason to cancel us
@Sam66460511
This woman wants me to sympathize with her for her plight. I don't. I sympathize with the child, who upon being humiliated once the abuse was discovered, was then treated like a rabid animal and placed in complete lockdown, furthering the trauma they were already experiencing.