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Callout Post for Nautilusopus/The Number I

For those of you that don’t know, I am bringing to light the actions of Tumblr/AO3 user Nautilusopus, who wrote the extremely harmful fanfiction The Number I, which openly condones racism, misogyny, animal cruelty, and abuse. 

Problematic elements of the story:

There is a scene towards the latter portion of the story where Cloud kills and eats four guards. Not only is this behaviour extremely abusive on his part for reasons that should be obvious to anyone that isn’t a freak, but is a gross appropriation of cannibalism culture. 

Abuse apologists will be tempted here to point out the behaviour of the guards that “provoked” this response. This is typical victim-blaming at its worst, especially when the guards were creating a sex-positive environment, which Cloud rejected without even engaging the subject.

This also very clearly violates the guards’ bodily autonomy, as they did not consent to this.

Cloud is white, and exploits his white privilege to force a POC minority character (Zack) to perform tasks for him (carrying him while unconscious).

In this fic, the character Aeris frequently and repeatedly engages in animal abuse, in the form of calling her pet cat Cassiopeia “Shithead”. 

This is never condemned by the story at any point. 

Cloud is treated as an ethnic and cultural minority within the world of the fic (a la the Irish, the Romani), but is violent and has a criminal record, conforming to negative stereotypes about minorities.

The character Hojo is awful most notably for having a more prominent role than Lucrecia, the female character whose work his career was supplemented by. Once again, the narrative does absolutely nothing to condemn him for this in any way.

Tifa at one point ingests another character’s blood. This is media that is deliberately creating an unwelcoming space for Jews and Muslims, who are by law forbidden from consuming blood. 

This is especially unforgivable considering the presence of a Jewish character within the story. 

Cloud illegally crosses a highway when he is hit by a truck. This is directly the result of him speeding, endangering everyone around him. 

This is never condemned by the narrative in any meaningful way. 

Apparently this whole thing was supposed to be poly but the author was too lazy to follow through on a fully developed 4-way romance and scaled it back to all the main characters being bi, thus denying everyone more overt queer representation. 

Problematic behaviour on the part of the author/affiliates:

Associates with known art criminal @waifujuju who did not draw her last few pieces with backlit characters, thus openly gaslighting her followers. 

WaifuJuju has further sullied her reputation by creating fanart for the fic.

Other tumblr users to willingly associate themselves with the author and their content via art include @tofuthebold, @kaiju-dragon, @masquerabe, and @fury-brand, (receipts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]) They have failed to openly condemn Nautilusopus in any way, and instead have offered their enthusiastic support.

fury-brand also further openly glorifies the unethical consumption of peanut butter in her art submission, a point of view also flaunted by Nautilusopus in the fic in question.

Especially egregious is Tumblr user @themateriodictable, who plagiarised famously problematic cartoon show Rick and Morty for the sake of creating fanart. 

Please, do not support Nautilusopus or their fic, which can be found here!

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