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my full submission for the otayuri to world’s unknown zine! had a super good time making this, big thanks to @hawberries​ and daikonhime on twitter for organising, and thanks to everyone who supported the zine!! ur all mvps

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society could be built on selecting random women to be put in a blender and pulverized monthly and tiktok would be like “how to SLAY the blender look! if you don’t want to get blended you’re just a pick me. getting blended is an act of rebellion in our society. how to dress more blendercore. trans women will never know what it feels like to be worried about getting selected for the blender every month (even though trans women get blended more often than cis women). trans men are traitors because they don’t get selected for the blender anymore (even though they do). actually women are more biologically suited to be blended because our soft frail bodies are easier on the blades and our brains are full of goopy feminine emotions and fluff so there is nothing of value lost when they’re crushed into a chunky red liquid. it is an act of divine femininity to be blended.”

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people on here r rly like 'attraction to big people is fetishistic, attraction to small people is pedophilic, having sexual thoughts about a real person is objectifying and basically harassment (and having them about fictional people is perverted), kinky sex is immoral, if youre open about your sex life in any way youre a pervert, if youre not open about them you are queerbaiting. basically you should be completely sexless while everything you do is sexualized and up for debate/speculation. this is good for the lgbt community'

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WELCOME TO THE MADNESS EX MAKES OTAYURI SO FUCKING CANON! OH MY GOD! I CAN’T BREATHE!

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Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate

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wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?

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alright listen

I know we're all having an evaluation of how eagerly we believe people who present with even the slightest air of authority and frankly good! we all need to be less credulous of people on the internet who tell lies.

but I think there are also other lessons to learn from james somerton. namely about his raging and blatant misogyny, which I've often seen similar forms of in fandom and on this specific site. to paraphrase bombs himself in the ctrl alt del video, if you see shitty behavior within your sphere, it's important to recognize it and try to fix it instead of rejecting it and asserting that no REAL members of the ingroup are like that. and nerds have a misogyny problem. including tumblr. so let's reckon with it.

do you append "white" or "straight" to your comments about women even when those things have little to do with the topic being discussed, just to make your comments seem more legit? (and no, m/m shipping discourse does not give you a ticket to say it's all straight women -- it's fictional characters, james.) do you often theorize about how (hurriedly appended "straight/white/cis") women are responsible for a problem in fandom, nay, all problems in fandom? have you made up a guy based on a single post that annoyed you and extrapolated to say that all (appended signifier to make it ok) women in fandom are like that? do you see women as uniquely fetishizing, uniquely stupid about politics or social issues, uniquely annoying to talk to? do you assume when there's an issue, even a real one and not the fake ones james made up, that a woman is probably at the root of it?

all of this still applies to you if you're a woman. it also applies if you're gay or a person of color or trans. being an oppressed group doesn't mean you are immune from sexism, and sexism is still rampant in everyday life for pretty much everyone.

your shipping and fandom discourse isn't immune from this. no, I'm not talking about how not enough people like yuri. I'm talking about how women who like "bad" ships like r*ylo or whatever are seen as open targets for harassment. how women who are into "bad/problematic" fandoms are seen as idiots and enablers who deserve what they get. how there's an attitude that women who like shitty bad porn must think it's good, must be too stupid to know better, and must need to be handheld and taught about good, acceptable fiction. I've already talked a lot about tumblr's complete refusal to admit that fujoshi wasn't a term coined by delicate japanese mlm to complain about evil women (and I wonder if james contributed to that idiotic concept), but the way I've seen people assert that women into m/m must be straight, must be stupid, must be lying about their identities, must be hurting gay men in real life in addition to wanting some anime boys to kiss ...

I've seen how some of you people talk about amb*r h*ard, is all I'm saying, and I've seen what you've tried to do to dozens of female creatives that, for some reason, you've decided deserve to be taken down or taught a lesson. I've seen the descriptions you use. shrieking, bitchy, whiny, uppity, shrewish, karen (don't get me started on how karen has been turned into an easy excuse for misogyny). you're not bystanders to what james did and is doing, you're a part of it. sure, you might not have the nazi fetish, but you've said things about women that put somerton to shame.

just a thing to keep in mind while the plagiarism discourse is ongoing. somerton is a shithead for many reasons but this is one that's important to remember because I think people often treat misogyny like a lesser crime, a smaller concern, and it's not. just think of what laws are passing and what views popular movements have of women and then, for one moment, consider that maybe your reflexive need to blame women or pick them apart might have been influenced by the Society In Which We Live.

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you need to stop equating legality with morality

i know im shouting into the void here but i'm really stressed out over how many gen-z kids seem to think that all bad things are illegal and therefore all good things are legal. this is a child's system of ethics and furthermore it's one that fascist bigots REALLY REALLY WANT YOU TO KEEP

here are some things that are legal in the united states of america:

-you can marry a child in 46 states. "The organization Unchained At Last found nearly 300,000 children under the age of 18 were legally married between 2000 and 2018."

-it's not murder to shoot someone to death in 28 states under Stand Your Ground Laws.

-officers of the law can take and keep your personal property "in the course of conducting an investigation." you have to go to court to get it back. since the year 2000, cops have taken and kept personal property totaling a profit of at least 68.8 billion... that we have records for. Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

here are things that are illegal in an increasing number of states:

-birth control hrt, and abortion

-dildos

-telling kids anything about homosexuality or transexuality

-helping a minor access birth control or an abortion without their parent's consent

-dressing in drag

-protesting against corporate malfeasance

-protesting against police brutality

-suing a company for knowingly endangering your health through exposure to infectious diseases, chemical toxins, or oil pollution

-inhibiting private logging, fracking, and mining operations, even those conducted on public lands, even those conducted without the requisite permits, even those conducted against treaty regulations

IN CONCLUSION:

a country's legal system is not a nice little collection of good rules for proper people. it is a system of top-down control that determines, in broad and violent strokes, which people get what they want, and which people don't.

the sooner you realize that it is a moral imperative to break unjust laws, the sooner you can stop saying shit like 'dni if you support illegal/immoral behavior' and sounding like a fucking chump.

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This is such a bleak intersection of patronizing ableism and reactionary art snobbery, masquerading as progressive art optimism.

"Hey due to paralysis/tremors/muscular+skeletal issues, coding, training, and prompt-writing AI image models are much more accessible to me than other forms of visual art"

"Don't be silly (read: lazy), of course you can make art other ways, you have art in your ~soul~!!!"

It's just classic fuckin "you're not really incapable of things, that would be scary and inconvenient for me, you're actually just different or maybe not trying hard enough!" line that is used any time a disabled person says that they literally can't do something, or need a specific tool to do it.

I hate that this post (with 30k notes no less) is using the "spark of creativity we all have within us" or whatever schmaltzy inspirationbait to obscure the point they're actually making, which is that they think people using AI image models for accessibility reasons —or even just by choice!—are being lazy, not doing real art, and cheating their way into artistic expression; instead they should be eking out whatever they're capable of with limited resources or ability because that's somehow purer or more real than just using a tool that makes things possible for them that weren't before.

Can you imagine if you talked about how a digital camera allowed you to take portraits that you couldn't do otherwise, or just in a way that made you happy, and somebody told you to use paint instead because it doesn't matter how it looks, what matters is that you're expressing yourself, and they simultaneously insinuated you were being lazy? Nobody would like that person, basically everyone would recognize they're a jackass. But if they leaned on already popular conceptions of people using AI tools as cheaters and liars who weren't making "real art", then all of a sudden they're being a brave truth teller and speaking to the powerful artistic strength we all have within us. It makes me sick.

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I don't want to make ““doctor’s appointments””and ““schedule a follow up.”” I want to be coaxed gently into a crate and taken to the vet.

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Moving expenses and paying off debt after losing my home

I'm crowd funding to help with moving expenses for me and my two cats after losing my home. I work full time, but I have severe bipolar disorder and the job that accommodates my mental illness better than any job I've ever had also happens to be one of the worst paid. I have decided it is better for my mental health to try to reduce expenses than to try to increase my income by switching jobs. To do this, I am converting a storage building into a tiny home so I can live without paying rent or a mortgage which should allow my wages to cover the rest of my expenses

The link is here and goes more into the specifics (warning for talking about poor mental health and suicidal ideation that helped get me into this mess:) http://spot.fund/57x3gsc

I don't want anyone to feel any pressure. If you're low on funds then please take care of yourself first. Any money beyond my goal will be used for unexpected or less immediate needs, or will go into a savings account in case I have another emergency in the future.

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Whatever Wu said Mako clearly liked it. I wonder what do You think Wu whispered into Mako's ear?

Wu is smooth with his words even though he uses a lot of them 😉

Also I forgot to change the hand scar after flipping the image of course of course 😂

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This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that it'll do fuck all, they're exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please don't give them your money

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I wanted to do some buddy daddies fanart (and something festival related cause I've been listening to Matsuri by Fujii Kaze a lot)

I doubt Rei went to a festival when he was a kid so I imagined he goes to one with Kazuki and Miri for the first time

then buys all the candy he could get coz he has never eaten them before

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What does it mean if I see two wizards doing karate?