#I don’t have to make a 15 post thread for context I just reblog and add my own thoughts onto the branches of information from the trunk

[mikauhso]

The thing I like most about tumblr I’m realizing is that it basically has its own built in fact check/updating system. Because posts just get passed around and subsequently updated as stories progress so you have these nice reblogs of multiple posts that each add more context to the event up to the most recent update. Like that one post of Tumblr getting legal action’d for suppressing queer content being continually updated and me finding out there’s apparently been effort to fix that as soon as tumblr got bought out by some other company in 2019. And if I get anything wrong here pls reblog and feel free to add some info

[vacuian-demon]

mobile rules

1.) Don’t be a dick (that’s my job/JK) but seriously show me respect I'll show you the same and we won't have issues.

2) I'd like a three day grace period if you don't reply in a week or two I'll poke you- I don't do this to pester anyone, however no one else but me and my partner will move the post so I like to keep updated if possible please.

3.) No god-modding (i.e. my character can do this because, fuck you)

4.) Crossover and obviously OC friendly

5.) This is a hobby, so I reserve the right to drop threads but I'll make sure I inform you as I hope you'd do for me

6.) Any questions, ask. Inbox is always open

7.) I'm semi selective but open to new partners, however 1. I'm no mind reader, if you wanna interact you have to make the effort, and communicate with me; and 2. I'm allowed to say yes or no- it is my rp experience as well.

8.) Long lewds under readmore

9.) There are certain narratives that are 100% banned from being written within here. these narratives are as follows: incest, pedophilia, grooming, abuse, mass shootings, rape, sexual harassment, sexual assault, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and antisemitism.

10.) Straight rps only, no M/M

11.)  I don’t believe in holding grudges and I’m pretty understanding if you wish to drop a thread or a ship - there’s a multitude of reasons why and I completely get that and try my best to be understanding about it - with that being said, if you do wish to drop a thread or a ship or any sort pre-plotted thing we had going on, please let me know in private beforehand - I’m not a mind reader and this isn’t exactly the sort of thing I like to be surprised with.  I would do the same for you and as I said, there are no hard feelings or grudges on my end, I just appreciate being told privately beforehand.

12. Two week rule applies for ongoing threads, if I haven't replied then, please poke me.

13. Unless my muse knows your muse in canon, there will be no pre-established relationship between them.

14.Please don’t use me as a meme resource. I don’t mind if you want to reblog a meme from me, but if you do, at least consider sending one in.

15. I do not RP with personal blogs under ANY circumstances.

16. 18+ Only. As I am now in my late 30s, I am no longer comfortable interacting with minors in any capacity, regardless of context. There are themes unsuitable for minors on my blog and if I find out you're underaged I will block and report you.

Rules would be added, as needed;

[shadowofthelamp]

I don’t want to reblog that post that’s like fifteen paragraphs of all-caps but if I see one more callout that’s ‘this person has a bad ship’ that has no actual evidence of them hurting actual people and that bad ship content is all on an 18+ account/is five years old from when they were the same age as the characters I’m going to lose it. (Also bonus points if the characters are clearly aged up, like, they’ve got a six-pack and chest hair and a beard but they’re like 15 in canon so it’s got to be pedophilia, right???)

Bonus bonus points if there’s barely-censored porn that the original person was going out of their way to keep from minors plastered all over the callout that’s intended to be seen by minors.

Callouts should be for when people are hurting others or actively using those bad ships to groom minors, not when they’re keeping it away from minors. Something existing doesn’t mean it’s grooming, and literally anything can be used for grooming, not just fandom art. Here’s a good thread by someone who dealt with that. Spreading around porn and using children/teens to witchhunt people who make stuff you think is icky is doing more to groom them than the adults who are trying to keep their ‘bad stuff’ away from those kids. Constantly showing those kids porn makes you the bad guy.

I’ve legitimately seen the argument from some anti people that 18+ accounts are pedophiles because they don’t want kids to see their stuff because that means ‘they have something to hide.’ Adults not wanting kids to see porn, especially ‘problematic’ porn, are somehow the pedophiles, and not the people spreading that porn around to minors to ‘show them how bad it is’ and sending them to these accounts to harass them. Right.

There was recently an incident where someone posted actual CSEM (child sexual exploitation material- ie: of an actual irl child- several, iirc) to call it cringe. And some of those people had gotten so used to just passing around drawings that they immediately asked to see it, to ‘see how bad it was’. Which is a crime, btw. One you can 100% go to jail for.

I’ve said this before: Exploring things in fiction doesn’t mean that you in any way condone them in reality, but how you treat other people does matter. Over and over we talk about very gross topics in my college english classes because the entirety of the human experience sometimes includes those things. Reality isn’t clean, and neither should fiction!

You don’t have to want to see them. I don’t want to see a lot of it, personally. But going out of your way to harass people for content they make every effort to allow you to blacklist is not good. Fandom should be welcoming to kids and teens, but if you go digging in spaces that mark themselves as 18+, that’s on you. I advocate not for anarchy but adults in adult spaces, if some kid worms their way in, it’s not on the adults, because they put up multiple warning signs. If some kid walks into a strip club with a fake ID they can’t be mad they saw boobies, y’know?

This means that adult stuff SHOULD be in strictly adult spaces, btw. I think really ‘problematic’ ship stuff should have an 18+ label on it whether it’s porny or not. But it has a right to exist. Nobody that’s of age is going to be tricked into thinking pedophilia or incest is okay by seeing somebody’s weird ship art because all of society rightfully agrees that it’s bad- normalization requires a lot more than a fic on ao3 that’s tagged ‘abusive’. It’s exploring the taboo in a safe setting, not trying to normalize it, any more than enjoying a horror movie normalizes murder and violence. Someone taking that art out of its original context isn’t the fault of the person who made it any more than someone who made candy is responsible for what a creep uses it for.

[omg-amaymon]

So, a post here on Tumblr about Flight/Drama Rising and it’s SJW communities

So, a few things you need to know. First: I hate Tumblr. I originally only made this to connect to a few friends on Tumblr, but that fell short like hell. You can clearly see I don’t use Tumblr much or plan to use it much outside of responding to DramaRising posts in their posts and the occasional post such as this. I don’t even know how to sort out a proper background or how to just directly respond to a post on DramaRising without reblogging it.  If you disagree with me about something, well hit me up on FlightRising or make a post about me on DR.  If anyone reading this somehow stumbles on this, I should point out something. This is going to be both a private and public letter. I’m not going to put any tags outside of DramaRising into this because I don’t expect people to read it, but it’s worth a read anyways. Flight Rising, for those who don’t know, is basically a game about breeding and decorating dragons with a bit of Pokemon style battling thrown in there. That’s the main gist of the whole thing. You can trade and sell Dragons and breed your own. That’s it. It’s simple, and easy to understand. But there’s an underlying problem with it, or rather with the Tumblr community of FlightRising... or rather from people who browse ‘DramaRising’, a Tumblr page dedicated to the Drama on-goings on FlightRising. And recently it’s taken over as more of a political blog than anything else, talking mostly about LGBTQ+IA Pride (Which I don’t have a problem with) and how everything is “Transphobic” and “Homophobic.” This, however, I do have a problem with. This isn’t just a problem, to be fair, to the denizens of DramaRising or FlightRising or even to Tumblr, but it’s becoming Endemic to DramaRising and FlightRising. How did we get here though? It’s always happened, admittingly from what I seen from the previous DramaRising and it appears quite often in FlightRising forums also, but it’s kept mostly out of FlightRising which is why it appears on DramaRising. Here I’m going to talk about three things: The first two are recent events and the last one is the more longer and more common event that keeps popping up all the time. Recently, a person made an artshop on FlightRising. This is one way many people make ‘Gems’, ‘Treasure’ and actual Money on FlightRising. Artshops are common as muck, but it’s not the scope of this post to talk about the oversatuation of the Artist Corner there. However, this one individual made what you would think would be a complete crime against nature. They posted they would draw many things, but one of the subjects they won’t draw is ‘LGBT.’ That’s a broad enough subject in of itself admittingly. Though from what I understand, they don’t mind drawing Gay or Lesbians. So what could they have possibly mean? Well, one of the examples they gave on what they would draw was ‘Light Romance.’ The example of what they wouldn’t draw was ‘LGBT.’ I would assume, therefore, that they would not draw any Light Romantic stuff which involved LGBT stuff in, which would be Lesbians and Gay people perhaps partaking in romantic actions, such as kissing.  The person who made this, by the way, is apparently a 15 year old girl. However this didn’t matter to many people on the DramaRising page, where there were dozens of anonymous entries dedicating to how disgusting of a person she was, demanding for her name so people can boycott and block her. To decry her as Homophobic as well as Transphobic. All because she won’t draw LGBT stuff. I don’t know about you guys, but most people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about when they’re 15 years old. I was considered smart for my age, but I still barely had a real grasp on things and that was before the Internet really took a hold. The reblogs and replies though were just as bad, if not as toxic as some of these posts though. I saw one post on DR that was about someone defending this girl, maybe a little confused. The posts and responses were very different, but had one guy basically tell the anonymous user to ‘Fuck their Face.’ Brilliant. I’ve noticed that many of the most aggressive people are from those who believe this girl to be Homophobic. Now I want to say: “Not all LGBT users.” Many of them also seemed quite supportive of the girl. Maybe disagreeing with the idea, but certainly condemning the more oppressive people. I like these LGBT users, probably because they show Maturity. Maybe, also though, because pretty much almost all my friends are in the LGBT or a minority community and have learnt to accept that I, as a Straight White Cisgendered Male (But Disabled) man, can understand other peoples ideals and can also disagree with other people and hold a rational conversation with them. Now the current big drama is about this ‘Heterosexual Pride’ Hatchery. Hatcheries, for those who don’t know, are threads that basically sell their dragons and continuously update them to sell more of their dragons. They always sell certain dragons and can breed them.  And I’m going to say this: Making a “Heterosexual Pride” Hatchery, is stupid. Not that I don’t agree that Straight people are actually getting attacked, but it looks to be more of a ploy to get attention than anything. The person who made it, from what I’ve seen in the past, does stupid stuff all the time. People are taking this stupid bait for what it is and, again, demand name drops so they can block and/or harass this user. And like the previous event, it keeps getting brought up all the time, with people both attacking and defending the user. Here, I think both need to look at it and think “Well, this is stupid. For both sides.”  Finally the last thing I should talk about. Here’s some context, again, for people who don’t know much about FlightRising. There are multiple breeds of dragons. There are also multiple ‘Genes’ you can get also. Within this, you can change the Breed of the Dragon to one of the many other breeds and you can change the genetics of the dragon so it looks nicer and cooler.  One thing, however the site does not offer, is a ‘Sex Change Scroll.’ You cannot change the Gender of the Dragon, you cannot change their Eye Colour and if you want to change their colours, you have to do it randomly. Otherwise all rules apply, you can change any breed/gene of a dragon to another breed/gene of a dragon. Also, the gender of the dragon changes the pose of the dragon. So a Male Coatl Dragon looks different to a Female Coatl Dragon due to their ‘Poses.’ Some Dragons have some differences in their sexes also, such as one breed’s Male having a much longer nose than the female or depending on the gender, one might have more horns than the other.  So why doesn’t the site offer a ‘Sex Change Scroll’? Many reasons probably why they don’t offer one but the main point of the game is the Dragons themselves and that you can breed the dragons together. Part of the challenge of getting your perfect dragon is to breed them or buy them. You must realize, also, that in this regard there’s also different breeding cool downs and that certain Genes/Breeds have a more dominant trait than others. A Coatl Dragon, for example, is less likely to give birth to a Coatl Dragon unless it breeds with another Coatl or a Wildclaw. They are ‘Rare Breeds.’ (Coatls also so happen to be the most popular.) The Rarer the Breed, the longer it also takes for their breeding to go off Cooldown. If you want to breed a Coatl again, you’re going to have to wait another 35 days. Yes, it sucks that if you breed two Coatls together and you’re after a Male but only get Females, it sucks. Even more so when you’re trying for certain colours/genes. But the goal of the game is to breed dragons to make your dream dragon or make someone elses dream dragon to which you can sell. To some people though: This reasoning would be considered Homophobic or even Transphobic. Hell, a lot of people who say if you don’t want a Sex Change Scroll, you’re outright Transphobic. No, this isn’t the case. I simply want there to be some restrictions. Dragon Breed changes are a good idea, because otherwise we would never be able to get hold of Coatl/Wildclaws. And It’s not like breeding two Plentiful Breeds have a chance for a Common breed or a Rare Breed. It’s always locked to the two parents you breed with what Breed/Gene they have. You start out with two parents, one you can customize but you only get to choose a plentiful breed. The other is randomly generated and, again, is also always a plentiful breed. The eggs you can scavange are Plentiful unless they’re from the Cauldron (Bogsneak) or an Event (Nocturne) so it is literally impossible to get a Common, Uncommon, Imperial or a Rare Breed outside of these scrolls. Likewise, it would be impossible to get the Genes you want outside of those scrolls because you always only have the Basic Gene. The Gender of a Dragon is not impossible to get, however, due to fact you always have a 50/50 chance of getting the Gender you want. I got the first Triple Cherry Wildclaw on the site and I was disappointed it wasn’t female. But you know what, I don’t want to change it’s sex because he grew on me.  Which leads me to the Final idea these lunatics want. It’s not a bad idea, admitting, and I have a hard time refuting it, but I will and not because I’m ‘Transphobic’ (Though people will call me a Homophobe/Transphobe because of this post.)  The final idea is instead of a ‘Sex Change Scroll’, that they instead put a ‘Pose Change Scroll’ instead. This changes the Dragon so that they have the opposite Genders Pose. A lot of people hate the Male Wildclaw or the Female Faepose, for example and would love to change it to the Female Wildclaw/Male Fae. So... what’s wrong with this? There’s actually quite a lot wrong with it. First, remember I said there were differences in the Genders of some dragons. Male Guardians have Beards, Male Ridgebacks have longer noses, Male Pearlcatchers have another Horn and probably a few more I forgotten. (Contray to belief: There’s no Gender Difference in Coatls.) So these artists will have to make adjustments already and add more artwork into the site already just to accommodate these pose change scrolls. This will put more strain on the servers because now every breed would have to call upon, in some cases, FOUR different artworks for different dragons. If you’re like me, who’s been on the site almost ever since it got out of Beta, you know how unstable it can be already. The second problem I have with it is... I think it may actually be insulting to Trans people. Hear me out here. Even if no new artwork is drawn up, would someone who is transitioning to a woman want to show up as always having a beard? You would think someone who identifies as a woman would not want to have/limit the amount of stuff that would identify them as a Male. Likewise, a Female wouldn’t suddenly have a beard just because they identify as a Man would they? So maybe it’s just me, but having a dragon with those traits on the wrong artwork would seem insulting to me. However, I’m not Transsexual or planning on ever becoming Trans, so maybe this one is just a weird one on me.  The Third and final problem, a smaller one admittingly, is it can be used deceitfully as a way of selling dragons on the Auction House. This is probably the least concerning, since we also have a scroll that gives Dragons “Eternally Youthful”, which means they always have the Young Dragon look (Which is very unisex, though originally weren’t meant to be.) So I doubt that’s an issue.  Personally, I’m against the Sex/Pose Change Scrolls. I know that LGBT (Particularly the T part it seems) wants to have a way to identify themselves in the game and to have representation in the game. However the game was clearly not made for that in mind.  Instead of listing everyone who slightly disagrees as Homophobic/Transphobic, perhaps take a moment to look and understand their reasonings. If there’s not much of a reasoning, don’t assume either that they’re just a scumbag who believes that all Homosexuals need to be burnt on a cross. Just... hear them out.  I will only list this as DramaRising Tag. I don’t think it’s a problem for FlightRising, but those who appear on DramaRising instead. If you do want to discuss about this, you can always hit me up on FlightRising (It’s probably obvious from my name who I am on there.) If you feel you need to complain about me on DR, that’s fine too. I’ll respond.