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Aliens being incredible freaked out by the mere idea of acting, though.

“Hello, human Sarah. May I infer as to what you are reading?”

“Oh hi Tehlik, just rereading some Shakespeare plays. I was in drama club in highschool so it kinda brings back memories, y’know?”

“Drama club? Playing? Shaky Peak? What?”

“You know... acting? Well, I guess it makes sense that you wouldn’t. Acting is when someone pretends to be someone they’re not and a theatre play is a story that is told through acting. So then- are you ok?”

*Terrified noises*

Another humans are weird space orcs idea because I really like thinking about it. What if aliens have no idea how to hide their emotions? Like, they suck at poker because they can never keep a straight face or anything. or, on a darker note, their ship is hijacked and they can’t keep the fear out of their faces, but all the humans look cold and emotionless to them. Other aliens hating having to bargain with humans becase we can bluff and keep our emotions in check so well, but when they get frustrated it’s all over. Pirates threaten the space ship and they send the human to do negotiations, and the pirate talking is super confused because no matter what threat he makes, the human just doesn’t seem to be fazed one bit.

Someone please, feel free to add to this, I love to see what else people come up with!

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"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

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Jasmine Guy in Stompin’ at the Savoy (1992)

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oh my god

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Once on facebook I argued with 2 different men on 2 different subjects in 2 different groups. It had nothing to do with feminism. A few hours later, both men sent me private messages saying almost the exact same thing : one said “suck my dick” the other said “you should only open your mouth if it’s to suck dicks”. Another time I was discussing the pressure women face to shave their armpit hair and this guy replied “nobody gives a fuck about your pubes lmao”.

When women debate men, men often end up making lured comments, sexual jokes or just simply throwing sexual insults. I’ve seen it countless times. It usually happens when the woman stands her ground/doesn’t change her mind/has a strong opinion about something/is a good debater. Their goal is to shut the woman up, put her in her place as the sexual object she is, humiliate her, make her uncomfortable, scare her, reduce her to her sex, remind her that she is worthless ultimately and might as well shut up. The goal is also to disqualify her in the eyes of anybody else who might be listening to her.

But it’s also very telling how men consider sex as a weapon to humiliate and control women.

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If youre a survivor and you publicly ship pedophilic ships, even if its for coping, youre still contributing to the pedophilic culture. youre still adding more content for pedophiles to literally use to groom kids.

I was groomed online and in real life by multiple pedophiles when i was 10-14 years old. They used loli / shota porn and pedophilic ships (fanart, fics, etc) to tell me that it was normal and even good. Some of that media could have been created by survivor “just trying to cope” but that wouldnt make a damn difference. It took me until i was 17 years old to realize that it wasnt normal or good. because of shit like this.

its never ok, being a survivor doesnt negate you contributing to this awful culture.

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5 Arguments Defending Sexualized Fanarts of Cartoon Minors and Why They are Invalid

I can’t believe I have to point these out. But I’m not going to sit while this stuff gets normalized.

There’s a reason why social sites take down these fanarts. Worse, people who make them can get arrested.

1. “I’m tagging it as NSFW.”

Not Safe For Work (NSFW) material are contents that are not suitable in the work environment because of its rude or sexual nature.

This is the problem. Pedophilic fanart isn’t just porn. These are sexualized minors. It’s child pornography. It’s child abuse.

Here’s what the Child Pornography Law defines child pornography:

“Any depiction of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct may be considered child pornography.”

This description includes:

Minors depicted engaging in a sexual activity.

Minors posing suggestively to incite arousal.

Nudity of minors.

Minors shown having a relationship with adults.

And this is where the next argument comes in.

2. “It’s not child pornography, it’s fanart!”

You think it’s just dirty photos? 

This can include photographs, digital images, computer-generated images, drawings, videos, or animations, among others.”

So yes, it would include fanarts.

A drawn adult that looks like a child is also outlawed:

“This also applies if the person in the depiction is actually an adult but appears to be a minor.”

The description of child pornography continues:

“Moreover, altering an image or video so that it appears to depict a minor may also be child pornography (for example, editing the face of a minor onto the nude body of an adult in an image or video)”

The latter definition above may also include kid characters that are drawn older and engaging in a sexual activity.

This is why Tumblr, DeviantArt and Google+ takes down reported blogs that consist of sexualized minors. The Child Online Protection Act and the Children’s Internet Protection Act outlaw websites and other online forms of child pornography.

3. “I have freedom of speech!”

Yes, you have freedom of speech.

But child pornography isn’t protected under freedom of speech. You can go to jail.

You CAN get arrested for it.

It would depend on each country. However, let’s look at Child Pornography Law, as reference. Producing child pornography can

“face fines and a statutory minimum of 15 years to 30 years maximum in prison. “

That’s just for first-time offenders. First-time offenders who possessed, distributed or have a receipt on child pornography within US or internationally:

“faces fines and a statutory minimum of 5 years to 20 years maximum in prison.”

The penalty gets worse if:

“ Convicted offenders may face harsher penalties if the offender has prior convictions or if the child pornography offense occurred in aggravated situations defined as (i) the images are violent, sadistic, or masochistic in nature, (ii) the minor was sexually abused, or (iii) the offender has prior convictions for child sexual exploitation.  In these circumstances, a convicted offender may face up to life imprisonment. ”

Child pornography convictions can also result to the convicted to sign as a sex offender.

You know what happens if you make child pornography available to minors?

Whoever knowingly and with     knowledge of the character of the material, in interstate or     foreign commerce by means of the World Wide Web, makes any     communication for commercial purposes that is available to     any minor and that includes any material that is harmful to     minors shall be fined not more than $50,000, imprisoned not     more than 6 months, or both.

To those complaining of having their Tumblr blogs shut down for reports of sexualized minors, be glad your blogs only got shut down.

4. “They’re fictional characters.” “It’s fiction.” “It’s not hurting anyone.”

Sadly it is hurting people. You know who are the people getting hurt?

Child sexual abuse survivors who are trying to get back on their lives. They’re like you. They like cartoon, the anime, the movies that you like. Maybe they also use fantasy to escape.

And what happens after seeing fanarts or fanfics of sexualized minors?

They remember how they were seen. Saying “they remember what they went through” doesn’t even cover what they really went through. The shame, the depression, the anxiety, the flashbacks. The word “Triggered” has been turned into a joke but it’s as real as a war veteran with PTSD.

For them, what happened isn’t fiction that some take for granted. It was a reality that no child should have experienced.

You know who else are going to get hurt?

Future victims of pedophiles who are being “groomed” by using sexualized fanarts/fanfics of their favorite characters.

And you know what’s the most harm media of sexualized minors can do?

People who are being desensitized of sexually objectified children. Studies show human brains don’t distinguish reading/seeing/watching and experiencing in real life. The same locations in our brains lights up whether we are doing an action or reading,watching or seeing the said act.

If a violent material incites arousal or is portrayed as sexy, the human minds associate violence and abuse as sexy. These kinds of beliefs are then reinforced.

Fiction has the ability to change our values for better or worse. Fiction CAN influence thinking. It influences what we see as normal.

5. “The original show is doing it.” 

Just because an anime got away with it, doesn’t mean it’s still right.

Let’s not get affected by the media for a moment. Think independently. 

Would you want to be in their shoes?

The character that got groped as a joke?

One of the prepubescent girls that the protagonist’s dad are taking pictures of because he has a thing for lolis?

The love interest that’s having a private time taking a bath who is being peeked upon by her “friends” including the main character?

They were portrayed in a humorous light with humorous reactions and no real consequences. But these kind of attitude towards others is insidiously reinforced and do harm.  

Final word…

Sexualized minors in fanarts, whether cartoon and anime aren’t “sexy”. It’s wrong, abusive and shouldn’t be a norm. 

You can get arrested for drawing sexualized fanarts of cartoon characters.

Fiction can silence the harm that had been done and harm more in the future.

You have the power to protect and prevent. Each of us does.

Or we can respond with apathy and make it worse.

The choice is yours. 

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today my dad was like “hey honey are you mad at me?” and i was like ???? no?????? and he was like “oh okay, it’s just that you haven’t called me daddy in a long time and i was worried that i’d done something to upset you” because i used to only call him dad when i was annoyed and i was like…….oh

look what you did internet

you made the word daddy weird for me and now you’ve made my dad feel insecure

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What she says: I'm fine

What she really means: Why doesn't Crowley have a title? He invented original sin and is responsible for the corruption of God's entire creation. Why is he some lowly imp that random demons like Hastur and Ligur can bully and intimidate? Does he have enemies in Hell who have actively worked to sabotage him? Did he originally get a title and then lose it through disobedience? What unspeakable acts of evil does a demon have to accomplish to get promoted to Duke of Hell? How does the ranking system in Hell work?

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Ivy being her classic self (flirting with women, talking about plants, and hating men)

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remember being little and thinking dandelions were fun or a pretty color or something and every adult in an 80 mile radius wouldn’t let you say that without screaming ITS A WEED

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If you were to walk at night through certain forests around the world, you might notice a mushroom glowing green. There are about 80 species of bioluminescent fungi around the globe. Scientists studying two of those species native to Brazil and Vietnam write in the journal Science Advances that they now know the exact chemical reaction that allows fungi to emit light. Turns out, it’s a lot like fireflies.

The chemical reaction involves an enzyme called luciferase (which, depending on how poetic you want to get, can be interpreted as “devil-maker,” or “maker of the light-bringer” or, most accurately, “enzyme that helps a compound called ‘luciferin’ do stuff”).

The enzyme helps luciferin gain oxygen molecules, which excites it. Once it’s excited, luciferin will release light as it returns to its usual, non-excited state. The green light it releases is called “cold light” because there’s almost no heat involved.

There are a lot of different types of luciferin. The one used by these mushrooms, identified in 2015, is different from the others identified in plants and animals. In the lab, the scientists found that the enzyme used by fungi to produce light can be used to make all sorts of colors, not just green.

Fun fact: It’s thought that reactions like these originally came about to get rid of extra, unattached oxygen molecules – in the same way that blueberries are sold as “antioxidants” to help human bodies get rid of free radicals, aka free-floating oxygen atoms.

- Rae Ellen Bichell

Image source: Cassius V. Stevani/IQ-USP, Brazil, Science Advances

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Batman is in a perpetual state of ‘for fucks sake Eddie’ when they partner up.

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A short comic I did for the Vampire anthology that I was a part of! An alternative take on what a vampire is or could be. I forget how much I love comics T v T ;;;; Enjoy! -COEY! _______

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This is from Batman: Gotham adventures Vol 2 #9. 

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The Dresden Files Books

Never read them.

This says:

Meet Harry Dresden and Storm Front, the first installment of the Dresden Files. Harry’s your average everyman guy–bit of an underdog, suffering from money problems, the only entry under “wizard” in the yellow pages, smart-mouthed, hard-boiled, occasionally helps the police with supernatural cases. Doesn’t have great luck with the ladies, noble at heart even if he’s cynical and gray outside. It’s the usual template you’re supposed to find easy to like, the male equivalent of Anita Blake and a hundred thousand other paranormal romance leather-clad vampire-slaying chicks. If you take it as light reading, it’s about okay, until you start thinking. Or until you start noticing that something’s a little… off. In the case of Harry Dresden, this is very off.

It’s not the prose, which is at best fanfic-level, because you expect mediocrity from this kind of book. It’s not the setting, which is about as original as an old, battered copy of some World of Darkness first-edition rulebook, but you expect that too. Butcher will get along smashingly with Wizards of the Coast’s write-for-hire hacks churning out the latest Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms trilogy about elves fighting against ancient arising evil. So what’s my problem with it then? I’ll quote some reviews that sum it up pretty well:

Review #1: The female characters in the book are there only to cry, seduce, and occasionally mother. Some of them are presented as having power of their own, but if you take a second glance at them, that power is always represented as secondary to male power, or a sham. Karrin Murphy is a hard-bitten homicide detective and Harry’s friend, true; but she’s undermined to constant references as to how “belligerent” she is, how small and lady-like her hands are, how she cries when he won’t share information with her. Let me repeat that: cries.

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This is holding up a clichéd, smug asshole of a main character as the kind of man every guy wants to be, and the kind of man every woman wants to fuck, as a mirror for how Butcher thinks.

Review #2: When I was in college I had a boyfriend who wore a long black duster, was wire thin, had played too much dungeons and dragons in high school, wanted to be Cary Elwes from The Princess Bride, believed in magic and physics, and did not know anything about women (unfortunately). He would have loved this book. It’s written for a nineteen year old boy who doesn’t see a lot of sun and wishes he could be a chivalrous knight, acting alone, to save the day. And while being completely misunderstood, he manages to overcome temptation, great emotional suffering and physical pain, to prove to everyone that he’s a hero. If he had climbed onto a white charger at the end, I wouldn’t have been surprised.

But surely that’s too harsh. Vicious, even. Surely it can’t be that bad. Let the text, then, speak for itself.

[Susan] had tricked me into meeting her eyes at the conclusion of our first interview, an eager young reporter investigating an angle on her interviewee. She was the one who had fainted after we had soulgazed.

Oh yeah, this is how hardcore Harry Dresden is. He can “soulgaze” women into fainting. Very tough. I’ll try not to bust a gut laughing at the idea of “soulgazing,” which sounds suspiciously like something that’d show up in a Twilight fanfic penned by a fourteen-year-old girl with the pseudonym of xXxMoonPrincessxXx. She then presses her advantage:

“Just a hint,” she pressed. “A word of comment. Something shared between two people who are very attracted to one other.”

“Which two people would that be?”

She put an elbow on the counter and propped her chin in her hand, studying me through narrowed eyes and thick, long lashes. One of the things that appealed to me was that even though she used her charm and femininity relentlessly in pursuit of her stories, she had no concept of just how attractive she really was–I had seen that when I looked within her last year. “Harry Dresden,” she said, “you are a thoroughly maddening man.” Her eyes narrowed a bit further. “You didn’t look down my blouse even once, did you.”

He says no, she gets frustrated because her feminine wiles aren’t working and he just won’t peek at her boobs. They laugh and she throws her head back, at which point he does in fact take a look down her blouse and mentally adds that he has had limited experience with “the fairer sex” and when he’s had some, it hadn’t turned out too well. I wonder why.

By the way, do people even do this “narrowed eyes” thing in real life? You’re just squinting. That makes you look at best a little ridiculous or possibly constipated, not menacing.

Classic lady in distress. For one of those liberated, professional women, [Murphy] knew exactly how to jerk my old-fashioned chains around.

Hmm.

I gestured toward the room. “Because you can’t do something that bad without a whole lot of hate,” I said. “Women are better at hating than men. They can focus it better, let it go better. Hell, witches are just plain meaner than wizards. This feels like feminine vengeance of some kind to me.”

Huh?

My legs were longer; I got there first. I opened the door for [Murphy] and gallantly gestured for her to go in. It was an old contest of ours. Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I’m a bad person for thinking so, but I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

Oh, that’s all right then. Wait. No.

You see, Harry Dresden, wizard extraordinaire, is a misogynist. He’s proud of it. He has no intention of changing: his female cop friend gets irritated at this little gesture, but he continues to do it anyway because goddamn he’s got this fucking point to make and come hell or high water, he’ll make it. He tries to pass it off as “old-fashioned” in the same breath as equating women with “shorter, weaker men with breasts” (but of course they’re more than that in his eyes!). At this point, I’ll simply assume that his emotional and intellectual development was frozen somewhere between the age of thirteen to fifteen. And I’m being generous.

This would be palatable if all this weren’t reinforced by the narrative itself. In the passage quoted above, it’s the quintessential holding-doors-open situation. It’s not an openly sexist gesture, it can be painted as nothing more than the inoffensive act of a nice guy who’s just trying to treat the girl like a lady, so why shouldn’t she appreciate it? Is she a feminazi who’ll burn bras and screech if you have the temerity to be nice? I mean, really. Those liberated professional women. Oh, the cop, Murphy, makes a token attempt at calling him a chauvinist… but Murphy, you understand, is five foot tall (shorter than me, and I’m not very tall) and has delicate ladylike hands and a “cute cheerleader nose.” Perhaps Butcher felt a six-foot female cop packing muscles would threaten Harry’s masculinity. Can’t have a woman–a pretty woman even–with longer legs than his, can we? She might out-walk him, the horror.

And oh hey, let’s take a look at the ingredients his familiar advises him to throw into a love potion:

“Tequila?” I asked him, skeptically. “Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.”

“Champagne, tequila, what’s the difference, so long as it’ll lower her inhibitions?”

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“Right. Now three ounces of dark chocolate.”

“Chocolate?” I demanded.

“Chicks are into chocolate, Harry.”

I muttered, more interested in finishing than anything else, and measured out the ingredients. I did the same with a drop of perfume (some name-brand imitation that I liked), an ounce of shredded lace, and the last sigh at the bottom of the glass jar. I added some candlelight to the mix, and it took on a rosy golden glow.

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I did, and found a pair of romance novels, their covers filled with impossibly delightful flesh. “Hey! Where did you get these?”

“My last trip out,” Bob answered blithely. “Page one seventy-four, the paragraph that starts with, ‘Her milky-white breasts.’ Tear that page out and burn it and add those ashes in.”

I choked. “That will work?”

“Hey, women eat these things up. Trust me.”

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“Now, just a teaspoon of powdered diamond, and we’re done.”

I rubbed at my eyes. “Diamond. I don’t have any diamonds, Bob.”

“I figured. You’re cheap, that’s why women don’t like you. Look, just tear up a fifty into real little pieces and put that in there.”

“A fifty-dollar bill?” I demanded.

“Money,” Bob opined, “Very sexy.”

Let’s ignore the writing for a moment (“I demanded I demanded I demanded”), though that’s a little like trying to ignore the giant cockroach twitching in your lukewarm soup. The exchange, I’m sure, is meant to be the very height of hilarity. Are you laughing yet? Are you? Good, because you’ll be laughing harder when I tell you that this potion actually works. So you see, the key to a woman’s heart really is money, chocolate, romance novels and perfume. Women who aren’t gold-digging bitches looking to drain your wallet, don’t like chocolate and hate romance novels? Don’t exist, duh. Lesbian women…? I don’t know about the subsequent books, but I will hazard a guess that anyone gay (especially gay men) never shows up in this straighter-and-manlier-than-thou saga of Hairy Dickden asshatting his way through the wizarding world.

What do yall think? Is that a fair review?