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Fandom is not your safe space.

Nor should fandom be your safe space. Fandom is for people to explore all sorts of possibilities in fiction and art. Not all of those possibilities are going to be fluffy, “wholesome,” “healthy,” “uplifting,” or whatever other adjective the Morality Brigade here on Tumblr wants to trot out.

Fiction is not reality. Depiction is not endorsement. No, it may never be “just a movie/fic/artwork,” but that does not make it reality. Fiction serves particular purposes, and one of them is to permit us to vicariously experience certain dangerous or otherwise unpleasant things safely.

If you believe that the purpose of fiction is to “uplift” us and fiction that does not is wrong and bad, congratulations: You’re a right-winger. (Or maybe you’re on the extreme left. When you get that far out to the ends of the spectrum, it doesn’t matter.)

If you think that anyone who writes or reads noncon is a rapist or rape apologist, you are too stupid for words. If you think that anyone who ships an incest ship or an adult/teen ship is an apologist for incest or pedophilia, you are too stupid for words.

It is none of your business what other people write, draw, and ship. Let me repeat that: It is none of your business what other people write, draw, and ship. You do not get to tell them they’re “trash,” you do not get to concern-troll them with passive-aggressive nonsense like “love yourself more uwu,” and you absolutely do not get to harass them off Tumblr or elsewhere.

Also, their past trauma or lack thereof is none of your business, either. Nobody has to present their “cred” as a rape or incest survivor before they’re allowed to enjoy fanworks that don’t meet with your approval. Total strangers don’t owe you their backstories. For that matter, not even your friends owe you every detail of their backstories. Mind your own business.

Don’t want to see all this “problematic” content on your dash or elsewhere? Unfollow people. Learn how to use Tumblr Savior, XKit, AO3 Savior, and similar tools. Control your own online experience. It is not the responsibility of others on this site to take care of you, who are a total stranger to them. Given how heavily female Tumblr skews, such demands are nothing but reinforcement of the expectation that women are supposed to take care of everyone else but themselves. (Yes, women are still oppressed as a class, even before you factor in intersectionalities.)

It’s amusing how some of you have the “courage” to dogpile, harass, and stalk others on this website whose taste doesn’t meet your oh-so-pure standards. People who create fanworks are soft, easy targets to kinkshame, aren’t they? Especially when, again, most of them are not cis straight men. Women have been policed and shamed throughout history for exploring their own sexuality — including by other feminists. The 1980s were full of feminists policing other feminists:

Often conflated with radical feminism, antiporn feminism grew out of radical feminism in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s—as did its counterpart, pro-sex feminism. The feminist porn wars of the '80s are largely forgotten to the general public by now, but at the time they were heated, divisive, and intensely personal. In 1982, Bar­nard College’s Center for Research on Women held a conference called “Towards a Politics of Sexuality,” which was picketed by antiporn feminists for including explorations of s&m and overall pro-sex viewpoints along with discussions of race and sexuality as well as sexual history (many of which were published in the 1983 anthology Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality).

Yes, sex-positive feminism was eventually co-opted by patriarchal forces, but it started out because a great many feminists were heartily tired of radfems telling them they were “traitors” and “brainwashed” for liking anything but the blandest, most euphemistic, and most painfully egalitarian erotica. (If you like that sort of thing, more power to you. Your tastes don’t make you better than the rest of us.)

Getting back to the here and now, I don’t see you going over to 4chan or Reddit with these morality campaigns. More importantly, I don’t see you organizing to go after big media corporations, especially those whose TV shows, movies, and books help form the toxic backdrop of misogyny, racism, rape culture, homophobia, transphobia, and similar bigotries behind everyday modern life. The occasional blogpost calling out this animator or that author, no matter how many notes it gets, is not the same thing as an organized campaign.

No, harassing David Gaider off Tumblr doesn’t count, not when Bioware makes more of an effort with social justice in its games than any other game company does. You can scream all you want about how “allies suck.” You need them in the real world, beyond the hothouse environment of Tumblr. If people in general could be trusted to do the right thing for the right reasons all the time, without pressure, there would be no need for any kind of activism at all.

Nor does screaming “pedophile” at John Green and insinuating that any grown man who reaches out to teenage girls is “creepy.” Yes, his “cool dad” act is annoying, and his books leave a lot to be desired. Have you considered that such outreach is part of his job as a YA writer? Have you also considered that stigmatizing men for trying to be mentors to adolescents, when you have no evidence that they’re actually perverts, reinforces traditional gender roles?

Tl;dr: Fandom is not your safe space. Tumblr is not your safe space. AO3 sure as fuck isn’t your safe space. People will post things you don’t like in all three spaces, which they have every right to do. Get over it, grow the fuck up, take responsibility for your own mental health, and stop confusing your oversized sense of entitlement with “social justice.”

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Update

I know I’ve been talking about my husband’s journey with cancer a lot, but at the moment I’ve very scared. They won’t have any more disability to him until next week, a little before Christmas. We are on our last bit of food in the house and with no means to get any more for now. 

I still have the go fund me at http://gofundme.com/kelleyfamilyfunds but we need a bit fast just to have some food, so I am going to give my paypal here of dkelley4@comcast.net and ask that please, if any of you can help. . I hate asking, and I hate being this low. 

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           "Hey, do you know who I am?                              I’m Cid—                that’s who the hell I am!”

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So... should I care what’s going on or...?

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akuserru:

chaoskeeper:

littlesoldicrboy  ||  caladbxlg  ||  lawlessenforcer

Follow these shitlords

All aboard the promo train, choo choo

Different verse Same as the First

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Okay, so a lot of people don’t actually realize who’s behind this account.  My name is Harper/Redd, and I’m trans.  Without telling you my whole life story, I can sum up what I need to say here very simply: getting put on testosterone has changed my life for the better. In just a month of treatment, I have become happier and healthier, my depression melting away like you wouldn’t believe.  I wake up with a grin, ready to take on the day, instead of wanting to go back to bed. I’m confident.  I’m happy.  I like who I see in the mirror.  I don’t have horrible mood swings, I’m not miserable, and I have a positive outlook now.

With all of that said, I have bad news: I’m not sure we can afford to keep me on it.  This is why I am reaching out and asking for help.  My roommate has set up an Indiegogo account for donations, and we’re asking for help keeping me on testosterone and on the right path to becoming who I need to be.  I look back on how I felt a month ago, and to be absolutely frank with everyone, I don’t think I can go back to that.  It’s like going back to the dark after seeing the sun for the first time.  If you can’t donate, please signal boost?  I plan to keep anyone who asks updated on my progress.

The Indiegogo

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chrannlaoichtoirneach:

It was taking every ounce of willpower the former aeon had not to electrocute this guy and run, but he knew Bahamut would have something to say about getting in trouble again, so he just clenched his fists at his sides as he continued trying to back away. “What are you, a vampire or something?” he asked. 

His shoulders shook, silently, at first.  Then he began to laugh, out loud.  Almost mad, the cackles were.  Almost?  They were insane.  And just as suddenly as he had started, he stopped.

“You don’t believe in such a thing, do you?  Those are only stories.”  But something about those white fangs, those ember eyes...  Something said that they were not all just stories after all.

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chrannlaoichtoirneach:

Oh, now Ixion was getting creeped out. Taking a step back, he shrugged. “Don’t know, most of the places are closed right now.”

He was certainly an intimidating figure.  Towering at over seven feet, with burning red eyes and a grin full of white teeth with cannibal-points, it was no small wonder the other was beginning to get uneasy.  “Most?  But not all.  Help a traveler out... wouldn’t you be so kind?”  That terrible, inhuman grin widened ever so slightly.

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chrannlaoichtoirneach:

“Depends on what you want.”

“Oh, you know.  Whatever’s on... tap.”

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A boy walks in on his mom and dad having sex. He asks, "What are you doing?" The dad replies, "Making you a brother or sister!" The boy says, "Well, do her doggy style I want a puppy."

“I’ve heard that one before.”

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chrannlaoichtoirneach:

countofnowhere started following you

“….may I help you?”

“Know where I can get a drink?”

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outofbind;  I have no idea how you people are finding me, but if you came here for a serious rp blog, you will be sadly disappointed.  This asshole has gone completely off his rocker and I don’t expect to get anything serious out of him for some time.

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A man boards a plane with six kids. After they get settled in their seats, a woman sitting across the aisle leans over to him and asks, "Are all of those kids yours?" He replies, "No. I work for a condom company. These are customer complaints."

Hah!

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torewindtime:

So I’ve seen. Dare I ask what has brought you to this present level of insanity?

I don’t know. Dare you?

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Q: Why is sex like math? A: You add a bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs, and pray there's no multiplying.

Oh God fucking dammit.