pro-opossum

[pro-opossum]

when someone has "taken" in their bio it's bc they've been consumed by the fog

[pro-opossum]

You know I'm getting really tired of the overwhelmingly popular notion that sex offenders "have it too easy".

The Sex Offender Registry is public, anyone on it has every aspect of their personal information online, allowing vigilantes to track you down and kill you and when they do, the cops aren't going to investigate your murder. Furthermore, being put on the SOR commonly disqualifies you from any form of rent, home ownership, or employment and thus most sex offenders become homeless.

If a Sex Offender does go to prison, chances are they will be killed purely for being a sex offender as every inmate will assume they are a child molester. I remember reading a story of a 20 year old man who was mutilated beyond recognition in prison after being put on the SOR for having sex with his 17 yo girlfriend.

Contrary to popular belief, you can be put onto the Sex Offender Registry for a vast variety of reasons, not just raping a child so assuming that all Sex Offenders are child rapists is illogical. Any form of indecent exposure can land you on the SOR. Back in the 2010s, there was a Texas teen who streaked at a football game and was put on the SOR as a result. He committed suicide because the courts would not take his name off the registry and yes, btw, getting taken off the Registry is virtually impossible to do even if you have mountains of evidence proving your innocence.

Furthermore, the SOR never actually reveals what crime each person on it committed but the major news networks have firmly convinced the U.S Population that every sex offender is a child rapist.

In Colorado, registered sex offenders are not allowed to own photographs of family members who are minors, nor are they allowed to even speak to minors. In Wisconsin, a registered sex offender was barred from entering a hospital where his 9-year-old son was undergoing surgery on the basis that he might rape his son.

People seem to think that the legal system is too leniant on sex offenders simply because sex offenders aren't suffering the punishments people want them to suffer. Just because a sex offender isn't being executed by firing squadron, burned at the stake, pulled apart by horses, sent to the gallows or thrown in a pit with 1000 hungry rats doesn't mean they aren't being punished.

It really bothers me that so many leftists, especially Anarchists buy into this bullshit and vigilante justice.

[pro-opossum]

speaking of Ao3 not being a social medium:

it will always need money. It’s an archive. Even if they meet their yearly donation aim now without any problem doesn’t mean it will be like this in 5 years, in 10 years, in 80 years. Yeah you read that right. Ao3 is an Archive. It intends to be available forever. Like a library. Because Ao3 *is* a library. If you want to keep your library, you wouldn’t cut its budget just because it did well last year. Maintaining a library creates running expenses. The purpose of an archive is to preserve data indefinitely, and this costs money.

[pro-opossum]

⭐🌈 BE YOURSELF! 🌈⭐

[pro-opossum]

Being pro-ship but not pro-para is hypocritical because if you can support a group coping with fiction, you can support another group coping with fiction. It's just prejudice from your part.

[pro-opossum]

I am not policing anyone. I am saying that you have a moral responsibility (or at least you SHOULD) once you post something like that on the Internet. Warnings don't do shit. We all know that people are curious. Children are curious. No kid actually cares about the under 18 warning. They are impressionable and easily copy behaviour. I was like that, my friends were like that. I'm not saying don't post things like that. I'm just asking, are you ready to take responsibility for the aftermath?

You seem to be laboring under the misconception that I am responsible for internet teenagers’ poor choices. I’m not. Neither is any content creator. Do you spend your free time going after the adult film industry and asking whether they’re ready to “take responsibility” for teenagers that deliberately ignore the 18+ notification and click through to their weird diaper fetish porn?

I was a teenager on the internet once (I’m not going to say back in the day because I have followers that were on Usenet and that’s REALLY back in the day). We didn’t used to have any kind of content warnings at all. I say this jokingly a lot but seriously, back in my day, you could trip over xeno tentacle non-con in the middle of a fic that didn’t look like it was going in that direction, and it wasn’t labeled at all. Ever! You know what was labeled and warned for, left right and center? “This story has slash in it! That’s GAY KISSING!!!” 

Seriously though, there used to be a time when the fandom and fic-writing atmosphere was so toxic to same-sex relationships that the content was usually hidden behind a splash screen with an obnoxious warning in cyan comic sans. Sometimes there were “secret instructions” on the disclaimer page - people would hide how to get into their website (“if you read the disclaimer you’ll know to click on the ^_^ face in the bottom left corner of the page to get to the site!” and such nonsense). I grew up in a time on the internet when it was easier to find graphic torture porn and rape-as-woobifying-backstory than it was to find fluffy hand-holding fic with my gay OTP.

And all I can hear when y’all roll up all “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!” is all the people who forced slash and femslash fans out of their archives, away from their internet space, and into the loosely-organized circle of Geocities webrings that defined fandom in the early 90s. Eventually we all started to congregate on LJ, where content could be locked behind a friends-only filter and people could gather in closed communities where we could be free from harassment by homophobic morons. When the Great Purge of FF.net happened and NC-17 was officially added to their rules as banned content, guess who was most reported to the moderators and most impacted by the policy change? Slash fans. And when Strikethrough happened, it disproportionately effected slash fans. Again.

Teenagers may not be old enough to have fully developed consequence/reward centers in the frontal lobe, but the average age for being able to discern reality from fiction is five years old. It’s horrifically condescending and disingenuous to pretend that teens are so delicate and fragile that reading some smut that disturbs them or isn’t to their tastes is going to drastically upset their psyche. The most that’s going to happen is they’re going to come away from whatever smut they deliberately clicked through the warning to read knowing that people have some weird kinks when it comes to sex. And you know what? YKINMKATO. The end.

[pro-opossum]

Some of y'all are so unnecessarily aggressive in your DNI lists, and for what reason?

Seriously, how can you look at someone's DNI that's like "PROSHIPPERS DO NOT FUCKING INTERACT! I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU IF YOU TOUCH MY POSTS! THIS BLOG ISN'T FOR YOU, FUCK OFF!" and be like, "Yep, this guy seems worthy of a follow from me".

Like honestly, wherever I'm in your DNI or not, just seeing the amount of violence you threaten towards certain types of people won't make me want to touch your blog whatsoever, and I know many people can say the same.

[pro-opossum]

I literally do not care what the Bible says about any political issue. I am not Christian. Christian scripture should have zero effect on my life or my personal freedoms. 

[pro-opossum]

[pro-opossum]

remember you don't need a "reason" to ship something! so what if they have bad chemistry? so what if they never talk? so what if they don't even meet? so what if they're not even from the same universe?

ship it anyway!

[pro-opossum]

Happy Juneteenth to every and all Black proshippers! You all are amazing and deserve to celebrate yourselves.

[pro-opossum]

"Your parents would be ashamed to know you're a proshipper!!"

Meanwhile, antis:

(For context, "defending myself from pedophiles" was just suicide baiting proshippers)

[pro-opossum]

It's important to acknowledge the difference between propaganda and fun fiction.

Some stories have a message of "this thing that would be bad in real life is actually good in real life" - that's harmful. Some stories have a message of "this thing that would be bad in real life is hot or interesting to explore in fiction" - that's fine.

It's also very important to learn to recognize the difference between those two things. No, that piece of dead dove fanfiction is not arguing that the actions taken in the piece would be good in real life. If it were arguing that, it would be tagged something like "healthy relationships that should be emulated", not "abuse".

[pro-opossum]

i woke up today and i chose spite.

i feel like putting this in the tags just won't be enough, so:

antishippers, please do not interact.

[pro-opossum]

man "ship and let ship" kinda stops working when ppl are actively shipping minor and adult characters together like hello?? same with the "dont like dont read" mentality, some shit shouldn't be fetishised maybe??

You’ve got a lot going on in this ask, anon, and it’s obviously not asked in good faith. If I were a smarter human being, I’d delete it and move on with my life, but it’s 9am on a Saturday morning and I’m still on my first cup of coffee so I’m just dumb enough to take the bait and respond.

Ship and let ship doesn’t mean you need to approve of what other people are shipping. It doesn’t mean you need to like what other people are shipping. It means that what other people ship is their business and what I ship is my business.

If I don’t like a ship, I don’t read it. I don’t search out the tag. I don’t try to find creators for it. I don’t watch youtube compilations or stare at gifs or read meta analysis about how the ship is supported by canon.

If I don’t like a ship, I just… don’t think about it. It really is that easy. And when I do think about it, I might be annoyed for a moment, but then I move on with my life because guess what? Shipping is a meaningless hobby that I engage in during my free time and I don’t want to waste my free time feeling pissed off.

I’ve seen a lot of bizarre definitions of “minor/adult” shipping, but even if we use the definition of an adult sexually abusing a child, it’s still very easy for me not to read that story on AO3. I’m assuming this is all about AO3? It always seems to be in this kind of ask.

AO3 requires people to use one of two warnings in those cases. Either Underage or Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings - or both. I use the filter system to remove works with those warnings from my search results and guess what? Those works might as well not exist for me because I’ve never seen one. And I’ve been on AO3 since about 2013.

The thing about these kinds of opinions is that they only ever come up in relation to shipping. I never see these opinions related to violence or drugs or swearing or whatever else you might find morally repugnant. But the handy thing about “don’t like, don’t read” is that it applies across the board.

I don’t think I’m going to like the new Jurassic Park movie, so I’m not going to go to a movie theatre, spend $15, and sit in a dark room with strangers for two hours to watch it. I’m not going to read reviews of it. I’m not going to watch the trailer. If a friend of mine invites me to go see it, I’ll pass. I won’t stop my friend from going to see it, though. If they’re going to enjoy it then they should - and they’re not going to fetishize dinosaurs or paleontologists or the tourism industry when they do.

If you’re not able to control your own reading habits, then you should probably be more careful on the internet. Use Net Nanny or other content filtering tools to make sure that you can avoid the content that you’re unable to resist through willpower alone. But don’t make your inability to stay away from things you don’t like my problem. That’s all on you.

[pro-opossum]

It’s ok if you have a different opinion, but you should never send hate to others because of it!

[pro-opossum]

13. Rising Moon

a relative of stone song and dark whiskers, probably

next: fish leap