Tag: psa

uchihacollector:

goddamnitlady:

SMALL TEXT.    FORMATTING.     It messes with my dyslexia, my reading-aid software, and my eyes. Do you like small text? Please make the text on your own blog’s theme smaller, but leave my dashboard alone. 

This debate is more than a “lol unfollow then” creator/consumer give-and-take. It’s also about excluding me based on a disability. It sucks that our social interactions are valued as less important than your stupid font size. It just hurts, you know? I never chose my disabilities, but you can choose. Please choose to include me. Choose kindness. PLEASE KEEP TUMBLR’S NORMAL FONT. 

nikkkxb replied to your photo: “SMALL TEXT…”

Lady, you should reblog this on your roleplay blog. It’s disgusting that a community that’s all about “inclusiveness” ignores such a blatant thing. I mean, is that not ableism?

antis-delete-your-blogs-pls:

freedom-of-fanfic:

how anti-shipping fosters, encourages, perpetuates, and glorifies abuse in fandom (masterpost)

these subjects come up again and again, so I wanted a masterpost of links to what I’ve written about how fandom anti-shipper culture is tightly related to abuse in fandom.

note: predators, abusers, and bullies are present everywhere in fandom, not just in anti-shipping or pro-shipping (or neutral) circles. this is because abusers will use whatever they have available to them as a tool for abuse. learn warning signs of abusive and/or controlling behavior; these will be far more reliable red flags than what a person ships in fandom.

I believe that many antis are coming from a genuine place. I just strongly disagree with where your focus lies and your chosen methods of dissemination. In fact, I feel that anti-shipping actively aids predators, for reasons which I’ll try to summarize in brief here.

the anti-shipping community is a great place for abusers because it encourages people to develop unquestioning loyalty to and trust of internal authorities, become deeply vulnerable to shame cycles, isolate themselves from outsiders, and avoid critical thought or skepticism of rhetoric.

The icing on the cake is that the things that antis say are ‘bad bad bad’ – incest, ‘pedophilia’ (they mean csa), and abuse – barely even resemble actual incest, csa, and abuse. As a result, when confronted with the real thing I suspect most anti-shippers are completely defenseless.

By demanding/requiring that others change their behavior on sites where antis have no moderating authority, they create loopholes for and/or implicitly approve of action taken to force people to comply with anti-shipper demands. this silent approval gives antis unspoken permission to exaggerate, lie, and create scaremonger material about anything or anyone they disapprove of or want to silence. It also gives abusers in the anti ranks an overlooked ‘blind spot’ from which they are allowed to harass, defame, dogpile, threaten, blackmail, doxx, suicide bait, and assault people who don’t change in response to anti demands.

the funny thing about bullies – especially self-righteous bullies that travel in packs, such as antis – is that 99.8% of the time they come out on top of any conflict they get into. this is because as long as a bully’s opponent gives even the slightest fuck about playing fair, being kind, and giving the benefit of the doubt, they will never out-bully a bully.

Miscellaneous:

Cultlike & authoritarian aspects of anti-shipping (how it traps people in anti-shipping friendsgroups & makes it difficult to leave):


and finally a few links to my favorite external resource that very beautifully describes why anti-shipping works the way it does:

This is an incredibly important post, especially on the topics of recognising abuse and gaslighting – incidentally two of antis’ most used tactics.

friendly reminder that falsely reporting people for crimes because you dont like their ship can lead to a fine/probation time because it counts as slander, even if you’re a minor. Hope no one decides to press charges.

sayaka-against-onision:

tenaflyviper:

for-submissions:

except im not falsely accusing them, drawn child porn is still child porn

Not once have I seen anything an anti claimed to be “child porn” that actually fit that description.  I have also never seen an anti on this site whose concerns about alleged “pedophilia” don’t strictly begin and end with cartoon shipping (showing that you don’t truly care about the issue of pedophilia, and are only concerned with others having different fictional ships, which is something that anyone can completely avoid with the default tools given to you on this site).

When Samurai Jack ended up with Aku’s daughter, people called it “pedophilia”, in spite of both characters being fully-grown adults.  Why?  Because Jack was mentally decades older due to the time portal messing with the aging process, even though he looked exactly the same.

People who ship Shiro and Keith from Voltron continue to be accused of being “pedophiles”, even though both characters are–again–canonically adults.

When people drew pin-up art of the Wendy’s mascot, people called it “pedophilia”, even though artists were clearly drawing a fully-grown adult woman, which the REAL Wendy Thomas IS.

I have even seen antis on this site refer to an 18-year-old dating a 16-year-old as “pedophilia”, even though both could be students at the same school, and even though such a couple is 100% fully legal (16 is the legal age for consent in America, but if you went beyond your own ethnocentric views on this issue, you’d find that other countries have it as low as 14, with younger teens given many more responsibilities.  In Germany, 16-year-olds are even able to vote).

What you are referring to as “drawn child porn” is people making fan art of fictional characters that are usually at least in their teens.  The overwhelming majority of the people creating this fan art are young women and teenage girls that are using fan works as a means to explore their sexuality in a way that they don’t feel physically pressured, threatened, or intimidated.

Allow me to give you the real definition–from
18 U.S. Code § 2256–when we’re talking about artwork:

“The
term “indistinguishable” used with respect to a depiction, means
virtually indistinguishable, in that the depiction is such that an
ordinary person viewing the depiction would conclude that the depiction
is of an actual minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. This definition does not apply to depictions that are drawings, cartoons, sculptures, or paintings depicting minors or adults.”

And don’t bother citing the PROTECT Act, because that was deemed unconstitutional on a federal level as of United States vs Handley, which is the
ONLY CASE THAT WE KNOW OF that was based completely on drawn material of fictional characters, without any discovery of other types of material in the possession of the accused:

“Last year, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a
federal law that criminalized the possession of “virtual” child pornography,
i.e., materials whose production may not have involved the use of real
children.”

You are a 15-year-old that hasn’t been on the internet for very long.  People have been sexualizing cartoons in general for nearly a century, and few people have had any issue with this, due to cartoons typically having proportions that don’t resemble those of actual human beings.  Especially when we’re talking about anime or anime-influenced artwork, even art books on drawing manga talk about the interchangeability of faces between age, and even gender.

I found your blog because someone screencapped you falsely accusing them of pedophilia, and it came across my dash.  For the record, staff WILL delete entire accounts over false accusations of pedophilia, as is what happened to “bipolaramyrose" (the url has since been claimed by some kind of foreign bot).

TL;DR: You are abusing the term “pedophilia” where it does not apply.  When you misuse serious terms in this way, it actually HARMS REAL VICTIMS (which include myself, by the way) by making it harder for their legitimate claims to be taken seriously.

The people you’re falsely accusing have a right to know where and what this “list” is that you’ve allegedly added them to (I’m going to guess that this is the site you used).  Especially if it goes beyond tumblr, you could very well face serious legal repercussions for your actions.  I can assure you that being a minor will NOT excuse you from facing those consequences.

Just in: making false accusations against someone and possibly ruining their life is fine because of reasons 🙂

patrexes:

patrexes:

you’re not owed disclosure of csa or incest survivor status because someone reads thorki or wincest or whatever and you don’t like it

i’m not trying to defend myself here btw. i blacklist canonically abusive ships like rhack & samifer, and incestuous ships like the above before i ever touch a fic archive, actually. this is just something i feel strongly about as a victim of incestuous rape; i’m really sick of my existence being weaponized by the ~last line of defense against evil, evil fiction~.

some people who read (or write) Bad Ships are using it to relate to their own life experiences; some people who read (or write) Bad Ships are interested in the narrative—with either the plot seeming interesting in spite of the ship, or maybe they’re interested in how the relationship is approached and plays out; some people who read (or write) Bad Ships are doing it because they think it’s hot.

surviviors exist in every category listed, and no one is ever obligated to tell you their tragic backstory to be ~allowed~ to read something that’s perfectly legal. and if someone isn’t a survivor, but they still read fic like this for whatever reason? cool! i’m glad they don’t have that trauma, personally.

it’s not your job or my job or anyone’s job to police the themes in the books or fic that people read, and reading something doesn’t mean endorsing it; even if it did, there’s a huge difference between what is overwhelmingly consensual late-teenage or adult sibling incest with no traditional victim to speak of, and, say, my own experiences being raped as a preschooler by the person who was supposed to protect me. somebody reading the first doesn’t mean they think the second was okay or that i deserved it.

incest fic is not incest apologism.

yoonbum-in-drag:

Listen, if you’re someone who believes fictional ships can normalize rape, abuse, murder, child molestation, etc. – then you’re also categorized alongside people who: 

  • believe videogames normalize and make human beings go out and murder people and commit violence acts, 
  • those who believe fantasy games and stories create devil worshippers
  • that heavy metal music and rock music create satanic lesbians, violent criminals 
  • who believe stories involving homosexual/nonstraight characters “make/turn” their children into “fags, queers, sinful homosexuals”

If you believe fictional ships and stories have that heavy of an impact on society, then you automatically believe all that other shit I listed above.

So, congrats.

roleplay-salt:

“A word for those talking about “grooming” and this goddamned writing shit: You have no idea what grooming is, do you? Pedophiles don’t fucking use that sort of writing for grooming. They use the kid’s favorite item, food, or cartoon characters to groom. Sometimes they even take the whole “meaning of friendship” and use that. Y’all are fucking disgusting by trying to police this shit while not knowing shit. Fucking do your homework, people. Writing about something doesn’t mean you condone it, either.“

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