strangeshounenhumanoid

[strangeshounenhumanoid]

Tumblr staff hates epileptics pass it on

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hey, if you’re bi/pan/ply and call yourself gay or a lesbian, that’s ok.

if you’re a bi man who reclaims slurs like “fag”, a bi woman who reclaims “dyke”, or a nonbinary person who reclaims either or both, that’s ok.

you’re not hurting anyone by using gay/lesbian as an umbrella term or reclaiming slurs that were historically used against all of us.

we so often have our sexualities erased by bigots in this community that we forget we used to be part of it, under the “gay” and “lesbian” labels. it’s ok to claim your history, you have that right 🏳️‍🌈

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not to throw myself into discourse or anything but fandom went downhill the moment fans began holding up fandom content to mainstream content standards 

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Friendly reminder if you are biphobic, panphobic, transphobic, or are against any form of LGBTQ+ people in any way:

Get the fuck off my blog.

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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury (born: 22 August 1920)

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Valid: I do not like this thing because Reasons

Also Valid: I do not like this thing because Bad Feelings

Not Valid: I do not like this thing so no-one can like this thing

Extremely Not Valid: I do not like this thing so I’m going to post about how all the people who like this thing are awful terrible people

The Most Not Valid: I do not like this thing therefore all people who do like this thing are irredeemably evil monsters and must be told so repeatedly in a place they cannot avoid it

(and yes, this is applicable to problematic ships/media/characters, before anyone starts “except-”ing my post.)

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Please. And then they can't say "we're not anti [whatever the argument was about] we're anti abuse/whatever code word"

It calls them exactly what they do without their bickering.

I read this tweet-

- and now I want to petition to start calling the fandom police “paper police”, it’s just so nicely alliterative. It describes the way they try to police what people put to paper. And it’s about as dignified as they deserve, tbqh.

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@antis-delete-your-blogs-pls-thx Your cue

I keep trying to branch out my friend groups and join discord servers that match my interests, and then promptly see that everyone is a fucking anti and that someone is literally talking about suicide baiting someone and then I realize that making new friends isn't actually even necessary. Definitely totally unrelated question, is there a proshipper discord I need to be around people who make sense

there are a couple of pro shipper discord’s out there that I keep meaning to join, I don’t remember any off the top of my head

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[Image Description: A black color block and pink color block in a vertical row with text that reads “protect queer jewish people / don’t allow antisemitism to exist in queer spaces”]

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Western LGBT fans and entitlement

wangxianist posted this tweet. To quote, “this is going to sound harsh but I would trust straight asian women writing about gay asian people over gay white people writing about gay asian people”.

Western LGBT writers in fannish spaces have a sense of entitlement over Asian characters’ identities. In MDZS fandom, this entitlement manifests in the growing ‘anti-fujoshi’ sentiment; the obsession with the “right” way of creating/consuming content with LGBT characters.

This increasingly vitriolic type of virtue signalling isn’t unique to MDZS fandom, but it highlights the way people impose western values and cultural norms onto Asian spaces.

A recent example of this occurred on twitter, when a Chinese fan compared East/West reactions towards (fictional) incest. Specifically, Eastern fandom’s acceptance and enthusiasm versus western fandom’s avoidance and disgust. A prolific fanartist replied to the post, referring to POC fans who ‘support’ incest as “freaks of colour”. Incest is taboo in both cultures, so initially it may not seem like there is any relationship between the imposition of western values onto Asian spaces and someone on twitter dot com calling POC fans they disagree with “freaks of colour” (aside from the blatant racism). In fact, there are several layers of it in this interaction. First, there is the judgement towards Chinese and Asian spaces; a decision was made that the western reaction of avoidance and disgust towards the topic of incest was the “correct” way. There is the attempt to speak over Asian and Chinese voices, to fight against their experience of their own culture in order to insist that the reality falls into line with those western values and cultural norms. In separating Asians into “normal” POCs and “freaks of colour”, the message being sent was this: our way is the correct way; in fact, our way is the way “good” Asians have been living already. Second, there is a lack of understanding about Chinese culture and the way it informs fan spaces. Incest fiction has been argued to ’showcase a feminine attempt to re-order the power structure in the family by means of eros’. Chinese BL culture often serves as a space where social, cultural and political conversations can take place in a traditionally conservative and oppressive regime. This is another reason why western LGBT fans’ entitlement towards Asian characters is particularly problematic. A new trend occurring in the MDZS AO3 tag are authors claiming their stories are ‘for the gays only’. Clicking and reading these stories, I started to wonder how many of these authors were Chinese, or even Asian. What made them so confident in their right to claim these characters, which was never their intellectual property in the first place, and attempting to stop others from accessing them? The Chinese BL genre is a ‘transnational Chinese public sphere where women from diasporas around the world could discuss and debate all kinds of fannish, feminine and political topics’; it is a movement that has created a space for itself in a repressive regime, spearheaded by women. It is not for western LGBT individuals to claim; not a media where they should expect their values and culture to be upheld. The expectation that it should is an insidious remnant of colonisation.   Western LGBT writers in fannish spaces have a sense of entitlement over Asian characters’ identities. Frequently, they speak over Asian voices in the community and impose their own values and cultural norms on Asian spaces, often misunderstanding Asian values and norms in the process. They claim Asian characters as their own and attempt to restrict access to it, falsely believing that these characters and universes are their own. That tweet is a culmination of these experiences causing frustration for Chinese and Asian fans within the community.

(crossposted from Dreamwidth.)

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Send me an emoji!

💌: I’d love to send you more messages and asks but you make me nervous!

😊: You’re sweet. You’ve made me smile before.

🙏: I’m a little afraid that you’ll unfollow me.

🔪: I’d hate to get on your bad side.

😶: I’m honored that you’re even following me tbH.

👾: Your theme is awesome!

🌄: GO TO BED.

💉: Talking to you or seeing you on my dash makes me feel better.

😐: I don’t understand half the things you reblog but I support you anyway.

🌑: You come off as cold, impersonal.

👒: You come off as very friendly!

🌃: I’d like to spend more time talking to you.

🎭: You sure do get into a lot of drama…

😄: I can always count on you to like/reply to my personal posts.

🍥: Your aesthetic is very streamlined. It’s clear you’re picky about the stuff you reblog.

🍬: You’re sweet, but I feel like I know very little about you as a person.

🐟: Your blog isn’t quite my “type.”

😅: I often worry about upsetting you or scaring you off.

😇: Every single interaction we’ve had so far has been positive.

🐱: You’re cute‼︎

🌱: I’d love to get to know you better.

☔️: You seem unhappy.

😃: I love seeing you in my notifications!

🐸: You act goofy.

💻: Are you ever not online?

❄️: Your BYF struck me as kind of harsh, but I followed you anyway.

😆: You’ve made me laugh out loud before.

💔: You’ve disappointed me before.

📺: We have similar interests!

🔈: We have similar tastes in music.

🌊: You have a lot of personality.

😀: I would consider us friends.

🎀: We have similar aesthetics!

🍳: This is an egg in a frying pan!

🎉: I get really happy when I see positive personal posts from you, even when I don’t fully understand the context!

😈: I know your secret~

🌴: I’m jealous of you.

✨: Could you, like, chill a little bit maybe? Like in general? Please?

🎶: I associate you with a specific song or musician.

👟: I feel as though you’re out of my league.

🐚: I find your blog very calming.

👀: I’ve vagued about you before.

🍰: I might recognize you if I ran into you on the street.

😂: I’m comfortable around you.

🌈: Sometimes I see your selfies and think to myself: “I’m gay.”

🌹: I wouldn’t mind going on a date with you.

😓: I’ve talked to you before and it made me a nervous!

👑: You’re vain.

📝: I know a lot about you just from following you on Tumblr.

🌙: You’re beautiful.

🍓: You remind me of someone…

😒: I honestly don’t know why I’m even still following you at this point.

😳: I’ve learned things about you that have surprised me a lot!

🐭: Please be kinder to yourself.

😑: -__-

👔: I think you’re someone who takes themself very seriously.

🍉: I wish we lived closer to each other.

🍭: You confuse me.

😮: I wish I could give you some advice.

💐: I have a crush on you.

😁: You’re a little awkward, but I find it endearing.

💕: I love you‼︎

👍: I like you. Just, in general. I think you’re a genuinely good person.

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Discourage art theft in fandom in 2020. Don't fucking post other people's art to your social media without permission, or at the absolute least credit. Don't let other people do the same. 'I found it on Google', 'all art belongs to its respective owners', or 'I found it on pinterest' is not sufficient. It's 2020. Please do better.

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The person running this blog is supportive of addicts. I do not think they “brought it on themselves.” I do not think they “actively chose to start an addiction.” I do not believe that addicts are stupid, bad or weak people. I do not think they are to blame for their addiction. I know it’s not that simple and I am here for every addict, regardless of whether they are in recovery yet and how far they’ve come in their recovery process. Addiction is not a choice, it’s a complex illness which can be caused by a lot of different factors. Nobody deserves to be blamed or shamed for being sick - and addicts are no exception to that rule! 

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please don’t let tumblr decide what you like/dislike for you. do your own research. form your own opinions. don’t let anyone make you feel bad for liking/disliking something.

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androgyny, gender nonconformity, and general gender fuckery are good things.

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Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.