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5 Things

1. Porn bans often affect things like Wikipedia that obviously aren't the intended targets

2. Porn bans usually affect things like breast cancer support groups, sex ed resources, and so on that obviously aren't porn, but that the uptight perverts who are pushing the bans might be intending to target

3. Porn bans typically affect things like even casual mentions of, e.g., queer or "illicit" sex that normal people wouldn't consider porn but that uptight perverts functionally (or actually) do

4. Porn qua porn is neutral, more or less, and in any case should be protected in it's own right, not because something else deemed worthier is collateral damage

5. Someone who doesn't agree with 4, maybe even explicitly disagrees with it, but is mad enough about 1 and 2 to oppose a ban is at least temporarily on our side

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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!

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the semantic drift of the term "liminal" genuinely pisses me off and i know its petty. LIMINAL IS A TRANSITIONAL STAGE BETWEEN TWO STATES- OR. IF WE WANT TO WIDEN THE BOUNDARY HERE. IT COULD BE ON THE VERY EDGE OF BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. just because something is abandoned doesn't mean its liminal. in fact, that shopping mall was MORE liminal when it was dying off and shutting down outlets every month than it is 5 years later when the space is fully abandoned.

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Original 1978 Muson Synthesizer Sequencer

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people are so entrenched in the fucked up idea of victim/perpetrator as a discrete dichotomy that they let it bleed into their discussions on societal oppression in a way that makes them both factually incorrect as hell and infantilizing and dehumanizing as fuck

a common example i see is white people saying stuff like “ohh the indigenous peoples were all so harmonious and peaceful until the evil white people arrived” and like… that’s just blatantly wrong?? much like groups of people around the world there was plenty of fighting and things like that and infantilizing indigenous people by taking about them like harmless toddlers is actually really shitty and racist behaviour

you’ll also see it in the way white people with guilt about being culturally christian talk about every other religion as if they’ve never done anything bad ever and christianity is the only religion that has ever harmed anyone (again this is factually incorrect and infantilizing)

but the core issue is that these people can’t seem to reconcile this because they have this idea that being a “victim” means someone is 100% morally pure and innocent always and forever and being a “perpetrator” means someone who is 100% cartoonishly evil 24/7

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death of the author yeah whatever but death of the fandom is so integral to enjoying legitimately anything like that is just a necessary step to take in ur head always. do not let them affect the text in any way exterminate them all with ur death ray. they r not real and cannot hurt u

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NOOOOO MY ART GOT NUKED

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

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Johanka/Adela for Day 2: Covenant @kcdfemslashweek

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If there's one thing I am absolutely certain about it is that people across all of human history love novelty shaped ceramics.

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companion to my other mini poll

once they are brought into the future they are allowed to keep making movies if they wish but will be constrained by the problems (and joys) of the modern film industry. yes they can also go off topic and visit relevant modern joys like the Applebees but mostly they are here to comment on film