#I’m kinda terrified to post this

[tired-inyxe]

I have OPINIONS on this, so…

tw: talks of rape against minors, rape in general, murder, child porn, policing and the human psychology behind these acts. This is a post justifying how the above example in this poll is not an example of rape against a minor, but it still discusses these very heavy subjects. Skip it if you feel uncomfortable. The rest is under the cut

Before anyone comes for me: no I do not condone rape nor cp, Jesus fucking Christ. I really hope that saying that was an unnecessary addition to this, because I’d be legitimately horrified if someone thinks that I would condone rape against an actual person, let alone a minor. I am being deadly serious here; I will NEVER apologize for, accept, or say ANYTHING positive about a real life rapist. Anyone who would dare to commit a horrific crime such as rape is the scum of the earth and I hope they rot in their own misery behind bars.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the point of this small essay

Let me say this loud and clear

Fictional characters are OBJECTS, they aren’t real people. If someone chooses to write fictional sex using fictional minors, there is no ACTUAL PERSON being harmed here. And no, someone writing this doesn’t mean they’re actually going to rape a real life minor. If somebody writes about murder, they aren’t gonna suddenly have the urge to kill someone. A rapist doesn’t get the idea to rape from a fucking book.

Normalize looking at something, finding it weird, and looking away if it’s not harming anyone. If you don’t like it, IGNORE IT. If someone who has read underage before commits rape against a minor, they were already going to do that. It has nothing to do with the media they consume, it has everything to do with their culture outside of it.

The reason why representation matters is because people who don’t have a fully fleshed out view of a minority can learn about them through that. When it comes to legitimate crimes, you are told from a young age that that’s wrong, and no amount of media will change your opinion on that. Murders don’t commit murder because they saw a horror movie once. However, people with no black friends in their lives can learn that black people are human through good representation because they don’t have a solidly formed opinion on black people, but that’s not the same as LITERAL CRIMES. You have a solidly formed opinion on crimes pretty quickly into development. Again, no piece of media will be enough to change that, and if it is that’s a problem with the persons upbringing, not the media itself. If someone rapes because they saw someone do it in a book, that means that they had a vague enough moral judgment on rape that something incredibly small could change it, and again, that’s a judgement on the culture they grew up in, not the media itself.

Trust me, I personally don’t like underage sex about fictional characters being written, it’s absolutely not for me. HOWEVER, making moral judgments on someone writing it is frankly authoritarian. You have no idea who that person is, they could be writing that for any number of reasons.

I’m gonna say it; yall sound like those parents who were afraid their kids were gonna beat someone up because they played COD. That’s not how human psychology works. Writing about taboo subjects is not the same as endorsing them against actual people irl, it just isn’t. Stop conflating the two and just block the tag. It will save you a whole lot of energy

TLDR: The example in the poll is not rape of a minor because a fictional character is not an actual person. There is no one being harmed in said example. Don’t like? Don’t read. Move on with your life and stop being a cop

An extra note: if someone is actually writing underage sex using a real person that is a WHOLE DIFFERENT story, however they aren’t necessarily a rapist. For example: writing about a rape that happened to someone for any number of reasons (biography, history keeping, a story spreading awareness etc). If the person is still alive, you would need their full consent to write about that, for obvious reasons. If you don’t have their consent… at that point you’re making child porn, which is a whole other crime that is equally disgusting. I don’t need to explain that cp is wrong. If you somehow think that actual child porn is ok then get the fuck off my blog. Same thing with actual rape.

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[fence-time]

I enjoy the pale gardens :3

[kiwisandpearls]

you know shits starting to get bad here when you start to stop interacting with posts because your paranoid your going to incur op’s wrath because your on their dni you didn’t know existed

[woundedheartwithin]

Back on my meds, making a damn decent paycheck despite how many days I had to take off this month, my mom’s feeling better now that she’s home and we’ve figured everything out, our neighbor’s gonna build us a wheelchair ramp for cheap, and my dad miiiiiiiiight be buying a new car as we speak 🤞 (my mom just can’t get into the truck anymore, and she hasn’t wanted to drive her two seater for a while now, so we’re trading it for something practical). Things are finally going fairly well, all things considered ❤️

[sorrygotthesesacks]

*deep breath*

[redjukebox]

Me @ my brain: cmon man we gootta focus on this school shit and we gotta do all these things to ensure we’re good for the next quarter and we literally cannot be late or we’re so screwed and we reeeaally have to make an appointment like we’ve had to for the past 3 months pleeeaasee

My brain: ok but like what if Tick Tock constantly feels the need to move around, whether it’s moving his ears, tail, tapping his hoof, or even just talking to make sure that he still can?? Like bro was paralyzed and literally could not move AT ALL for at LEAST a year (at the very VERY least) like that must’ve done SOOOO MUCH DAMAGE OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY COULD NOOOT MOOVE BRO HE WAS 12

[thatone-churro]

okay. i know it’s a very bad idea to seek mental health advice from the internet, especially tumblr of all places, but i have a genuine question about this.

actually, before i get too far, i guess i should add some context about myself:

i’m fairly talkative in a certain sense. i like talking. if i start talking about something i like, or if i get excited while talking, i can talk a lot. when i’m alone, i tend to talk to myself a lot. just verbalizing thoughts, mostly; talking myself through a strategy, just voicing my thoughts as i play through a video game, or sometimes just babbling as though i’m talking to someone else. this is a frequent thing and not the root of my concern.

course, sometimes i talk a little less in public or in certain social situations if i’m not “invited” to speak too (more than just being spoken to first, but that’s another explanation i don’t want to go into right now), but i’ve always been like that; something, something, i know it’s more about social anxiety or something that i know i inherited and is a different discussion for a different day.

so, every now and then i have these days where, for lack of a better description, talking feels like it takes too much energy. even that doesn’t feel like it explains it properly but. like the same struggle to get out of bed on a rough day. like somehow speaking, the act of opening my mouth and forcing words out of my throat, takes too many spoons. the same way it feels like taking a shower or brushing your teeth has too many steps despite it being a simple process when your depression’s acting up (we’ll get back to this comparison in a minute).

i can tell when these days come on before i even have to speak to someone; it feels like my words are stuck in my throat. i mean that physically; there’s not actually something in my throat, but there’s a weight of some sort.

i’ve taken to calling these days “quiet days,” since this feeling affects just about everything associated with talking; making myself talk is a struggle; i can’t even talk to myself and all those monologues and discussions happen inside my head instead, but i can’t verbalize them; i don’t want people to talk to me on these days, as in there’s a deliberate, subconscious feeling already there on those days, not that i’m not wanting to talk because of the other feelings; actively listening to and comprehending things people say is also an effort to do, and i tend to tune out my music or whatever background noise i set for myself more than usual; i’ve recently discovered that this same feeling is applied to singing, much to my dismay, because i found this out on a day i kinda wanted to sing.

it’s not that i can’t speak on these days, i can physically make myself if i have to, it just takes more conscious effort sometimes than something like speaking should.

now, i used to chalk this up to being standard nonverbal bouts. i’d heard those were common among neurodivergents, and while i’m not officially diagnosed with anything (classic “everyone does that”/“that’s just something you got from me” type childhood), a lot of symptoms for both ADHD and autism (that i’ve heard of/looked into) match up pretty sharply with me.

however, no accounts from actually autistic people that i’ve read who go nonverbal at times really match up with my experiences. for me, it’s never a response to stress, anxiety, or overstimulation; it’s just something that happens on any given day and sometimes ebbs and flows throughout the day (as in sometimes it’s easier in some parts of the day, but not others, without any particular cue), and it’s never me going absolutely nonverbal, just a preference not to speak from it feeling like it’s too much to do sometimes.

remember that comparison i made to having to speak on “quiet days” feeling like trying to do basic things on bad depression days? yeah, i noticed on a day it hit that it felt very much like that, because i did feel it earlier that day; i found trying to make myself sing or even talk to myself out loud somehow felt like a process with too many steps and i didn’t have enough energy, just like trying to get out of bed that morning (to the point that i didn’t “get up” until that afternoon).

so, all that text and explanation leads to my one question: are these bouts and “quiet days” more from “going nonverbal” as a “symptom” of autism, or simply a symptom of my depression? or can it be chalked up to anything else at all? i’ve never seen or read anything about this on either side, and if it’s something from my depression, then that’s gonna make me take it much more seriously than i have been in the past. or like, is it just me and not anything at all?

any advice appreciated 🙏

[ravenbarley-barn]

it’s that time of night lads (filled with despair and hopelessness)

[chryzuree]

unfortunately, crew, i’m getting into iwtv. the novels. everyone knows im mentally ill abt the tv show.

[exopelagic]

thinking abt the horror inherent to cornfields again. maybe I’m just british and have never seen cornfields (I know we DO grow it over here but I haven’t like. seen it) but the thought of an annual crop plant growing THAT TALL (average 2.5m/8ft) for us to just eat the grain feels viscerally wrong. wheat is like 1.2m/4ft you can exist in a wheat field but corn will swallow you whole

[mumblesplash]

Alright, I'm gonna ask it. O Great Skulk Lord, what wisdom hath been released unto this world by way of the latest update of Mined Craft?

hehehe WELL first of all, since a not-insignificant part of my thesis here is "ha called it" i'm gonna go ahead and link to the two sculkposts i can find from back in december, here and here, bc even though they don't go into detail about echo shards i HAD already formed this theory at the time and you can sorta tell

so in the new update, which i just found out about today via an upload by mr. mumbo killsalot jumbo himself, players now have the ability to combine amethyst and sculk sensors to create *calibrated* sculk sensors capable of singling out and relaying redstone signals only in response to *specific* vibrations, as well as wirelessly relay those specific vibrations over long distances using amethyst blocks, which has probably a lot of cool implications for redstone that i cannot begin to understand.

in the context of the in-game lore, this strongly supports my already stated theory that sculk uses the impressions of souls it's consumed to calibrate itself, likely because sentient creatures (players) are the only things either dangerous enough or nutritious enough to actually be worth the energy to hunt.

but an extension of this theory which i didn't go into on here is that since naturally generated sculk as an organism is capable of tracking the sound a specific soul makes, and more importantly storing impressions of dead ones for comparison, it makes complete sense that it would be a key componenent in crafting the recovery compass, hence the echo shards.

the only problem is, you can't pick up sculk to use as a crafting ingredient without 'killing' it. even silk-touch harvested sculk is damaged; harvested shriekers or even shriekers generated by feeding a harvested catalyst can't summon the warden (they look different too, the souls inside are dimmer and spin the other way). my theory is and was that echo shards are a fusion of sculk and something to amplify/preserve its ability to 'remember' what souls sound like. amethyst shards seemed like the obvious choice, both because of the name and because minecraft amethyst is sorta the designated Sound Mineral, plus all the amethyst shards in ancient city loot chests.

on a morbid but relevant note, i think the shriekers sound like that for an in-universe reason, and it's the reason the recovery compass points not just to other players but specifically to your most recent death: sculk probably 'records' only the information it finds important about the things it eats and it doesn't eat the living, so the impressions it has stored of previous souls were recorded at the moment they died. the shriekers are just playing back audio. or possibly forcing the souls trapped inside to relive their deaths over and over. depends on how much of a soul it keeps around after it's done eating it

basically what i think, and i think the update strongly supports this, is that disconnecting sculk from its Sculk Colony messes with its ability to record and relay specific signals. amethyst, due to way it interacts with sound, can partially compensate for this, and this is likely a key mechanism behind how echo shards work. sculk sensors, which are simpler and more durable than the other sculk blocks, are also the easiest to work with, which is why calibrated sensors are possible to craft but echo shards (which have properties of both shriekers and catalysts) are not

[concreteburialplot]

i’m currently working on a wip so nasty & vile i’m considering not even posting it 😭😭

[ophernelia]

My RAM sticks came today so I’m ready to give srwe another try soon. My computer started lagging when I opened it the first time and I was like immediately no. I’m so scared of fucking up this PC again. Especially not right before the season starts. So, I quadrupled my ram and now I feel like it’s a little safer lol.

[astral-catastrophe]

Damn it

[archersartcorner]

He’s literally all I’ve been drawing. I think he’s in MY brain now. Norman said it’s my turn on the brain slug. Have him in MS Paint.

[bitterpngs]

writing fics for myself is nice and fun but when i think about potentially publishing something i start to stress over characterization. like. but would they REALLY act like this