#They are talking about book bans

[patheticblorbloscholar]

Prepare for mass censorship. Prepare for LGBTQ characters to become non existent as long as Trump has the reigns. Prepare to be secretive about your interests. He wants to enact Hayes Code 2.0 in project 2025.

Will we even get to see part two of Wicked the musical? Will James Cameron get to finish the Sully family saga?

I fear what the Heritage foundation has planned for media at large but "liberal" and discussions of queer themes and the planet dont align with the agenda at all.

I hate this timeline. Get me off.

[messrsrarchives]

You’re starting to act just like your fascist Reggie—censoring others and trying to dictate what can and cannot be discussed in fandom. Telling people they can’t talk about politics because you, living in a first-world country, can’t handle it? You’re the one using real-world politics to justify a fictional ship with a fascist. Have you thought about how people who are genuinely anti-fascist might also dislike it in fiction? You can’t control fandom. If you want to like fascist characters, then just own it. While fiction might not feel like reality to you, for many, it is reality. Have you considered that the characters and headcanons you enjoy might reflect deeply personal experiences for others? Not everyone has the privilege to separate fiction from reality like you do.

hi feed, this message was brought to you by someone who has clearly never interacted with me ever !

WDYMMM "telling people they can't talk about politics" 😭😭 i fear that's my ENTIRE niche across two social media platforms. i fear my entire thing is politics in a fandom space + the real world. i fear that's literally what i'm known for. what 😖

i was gonna ignore this but i have so many receipts that i thought okay ! finna answer ! why not, let's entertain this <3 (below the cut because it's long)

assuming that this is a response to this post where, after watching elon perform two nazi salutes on stage, i said "hey! maybe you should stop calling people in fandom nazis for reading about a fictional character!"

what i alsooo said on that post is that it's important to discuss politics in literature (see here: doing a masters degree in english literature + politics <3). because absolutely! the DEs are crafted in a way that reflects historic events and absolutely, that's something we can discuss!

what we should also discuss is that whilst art imitiates life and life imitates art, the two do not directly reflect one another - if i read about wizards, i am not a wizard. if i read a crime book, i am not a detective. and if i read fanfic about regulus black? i am not a facist.

in regards to the censorship comment: this here is an entireeee video i made about censorship and puritanical views in fandom spaces and why this is a Bad Thing To Do (though i fear you will disagree with it because i am saying that people can read and write whatever but alas, no censorship here x)

using real world politics to justify a ship? no, not at all. i do not think ships in fandom need to be "justified" because, again, they are fiction. can they be discussed? absolutely! my tiktok is @/messrsrobyn and you will find countless videos where i dissect fandom, characters and ships. again, this is kind of my whole thing <33 nice to meet you <33 but rather for me? that post was made as a building up of (1) the mass of people in fandom during the tiktok ban saying that words have meaning when american writers say british words "wrong", but throw buzzwords around like it's nothing and (2) this is a place for escapism and safety, which is needed now more than ever and whilst discussions about politics are important, this? this ask? this is not a discussion. this is hostility, much like people just commenting "nazi" with nothing else on a jegulus post.

discussions can be had! absolutely! my entire thing is discussions in fandom. but right now i'm trying to discuss this when you have given me nothing to work with but false claims and hostility - see how this doesn't work? but alas, i'll try :)

do people read jegulus and think "wow i love voldemort and the death eaters!!! i agree with what the did here :D" or do they read jegulus and enjoy the complexity that comes with a character like him? do they enjoy how, with a character with such little canon lore, people explore things? or yk what, do they sometimes read him as a muggle where none of this matter because there's do DEs? yeah, because it's fiction. and liking a fictional character does not have repercussions on the real world.

calling someone a facist/nazi only for teading about fictional characters does - it is so incredibly important that we read immoral literature. i'm rambling now but i'm not even talking just about fandom. we NEED books that discuss these topics and we need to explore the characters within them. we NEED politics and immorality and everything like that in books because that is how we learn, understand, and prevent. reading them does make you immoral - see here: queer books being banned in the us for containing "immoral themes" and main characters doing things they deem had and awful alongside INCREDIBLYYYY important books like the handmaids tale, to kill a mockingbird, 1984, fahrenheit 451 etc etc.

we need to read these. we need to engage with them.

but in a fandom space, we also need to acknowledge that these are not real people. these are fictional characters and there's a big difference between engaging with a character because you are justifying their actions, and engaging with a character because you enjoy Exploring their character and Understanding them in as many ways as possible 🙂↕️

but we agree!! whilst fiction may not feel like reality to some people, to many it is! so have we considered that when people come to escape from the real world for a bit, or people have family members lost to past regimes; are about to enter 4 years of another regime or are holding their breath waiting for european elections to see if another far-right populist party gets in, it might sucklk to have this thrown around?

imagine dealing with alllll of that in reality, not knowing what on earth is going to happen tomorrow or what the future holds for you and the people you love, and then being called a facist online because you read about Fictional Character Regulus Black. whilst your life literally crumbles apart because of it. you are now being called the same thing that the man oppressing you and everyone you love is, because you read FanFiction.

and then finally ahem:

"not everyone has the privilege to separate fiction from reality like you do"

if you click here, you will find a tumblr post i made about this exact thing :D about how we can't separate fiction from reality

see here also: a post about the books jkr publishes under the robert galbraith pseudonym and about how we, again, cannot separate fiction from reality.

if you click here you will find my jkr playlist on tiktok which has videos in about how, again, we cannot separate fiction from reality.

what we also can't do, mind you is call someone a facist for reading a fictional character.

there is big difference between "hey! this character has facist undertones if applied irl, we could discuss this!" and "You Are A Facist For Reading It"

instead of coming and ranting to someone who has spoken extensivelyyyy about politics in this fandom space - both with fandom material and with elections, gaza, the uk riots etc etc - and is a huge advocate of dicussions and debates, put this energy into something productive.

like actual facists. real world politics and what you could be doing at a local level to help reduce the harm of Actual Facists that are in power right now. not people taking a break from Actual Facism to read fanfiction.

ta x

(p.s i'm a homeless, chronically-ill, gay, trans man. what privilege do i have in THISSS fandom space of JK ROWLINGSSSSS worlds, to separate reality from fiction? 😭)

[philsmeatylegss]

I will never fear undocumented immigrants anywhere near as much as I fear Republican law makers. And that is something that will never change.

[existennialmemes]

One side wants to give children information so they're more capable of navigating the world and making informed decisions about their lives.

While the other side wants to deprive children of information so they have no choice but to immediately accept whatever is told to them.

It's pretty clear which side is the cult.

[paulandjohn]

Release Dates for Ian Leslie’s upcoming book ‘John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs’:

UK Release: Mar. 27 2025

US Release: Apr. 8 2025

[rosesradio]

for the record librarians would be so fucking against the anti agenda

[vukovich]

I don't think the American Library Association is on Tumblr, so I'm sharing this. If you've had your work censored, you know the toll it takes.

Are you going to see names you really don't like on the list of banned authors? Yes. But you're also going to see Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Judy Blume. And that should upset you more.

Be an adult about it.

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From ala.org:

Banned Books Week, Sept 22-28, 2024

Dear Banned Author: Letter-Writing Campaign to Support Authors, Library Workers, and Educators

Dear Banned Author is a letter-writing campaign that encourages readers to write, tweet, or email banned or challenged authors during Banned Books Week and beyond to share what their stories mean to them. Hosted by the American Library Association, Dear Banned Author raises awareness of censorship while supporting the power of words and those who write them. Authors have also shared fan letters as support when there's a public challenge to their books.

The print and digital postcards provided for Dear Banned Author can also be used to let library staff and educators know that you value their work and support them.

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[bookishlyives]

I am actually so fucking sad about the TikTok ban today, I started out cosplayed on that silly little app for fun. It led to me meeting some of my very best friends and changing my life.

Yes there were both good and bad but overall I wouldn’t be the person I am today.

I learned to be more confident in myself, I became more brave in being silly, I made friends across the world. I finally found a community. I had a cosplay TikTok then recently I had started a private smaller booktok. Both were my home.

I left a bad situation, gained the confidence to come out of the closet, found love in places I never knew.

It gave me heartbreak and friendship breakups, but I learned to be stronger. It gave me new experiences and changed my life.

Hell I moved across the country in with someone I met on TikTok (that didn’t go well but the experience forged me as a person) now I moved across the country even further alone knowing that I had the ability and strength to do so.

Without TikTok I don’t know if I would be where I am today or who I am today.

Yes tumblr is my roots and I’ll always come back here as a home base but TikTok has made me a better person and given me the best people I have in my life.

I’ll miss it.

[funforahermit]

i am once again terrified that one day a celebrity i really care about will turn out to have done horrible things

[aahsoka]

absolutely fucking insane reply . they already bought the books you fucking dumbass ……….

‘those who want to expose their children to sex rape and incest’ thats not whats going on here .

[slingbees]

i had a vision of a contemporary fahrenheit 451 adaptation where the exaggerated wall sized television screens are replaced with an in universe version of tiktok to prove how stupid videos are and how virtuous and intellectual books are and in this universe i can finally fulfill my dream of becoming the fucking joker

[cosmicredcadet]

Y'all listen just because you learned something in school doesn't mean everyone else did. idk how y'all got this idea in ur heads that we all learned the same shit when literal book bans are happening in schools across the united states and certain subjects are being banned from ever being talked about. (do not even get me started on the fact different countries have different curriculum too) Like you cannot say "You guys obviously just didn't pay attention in school and are stupid because we all learned this" like you are ignoring like 50 other options as to why people may not have learned this ranging from poorly funded school to disabled kid getting shoved into special ed classes which are often notorious for mistreating their disabled students. I'm begging you all to understand the nuance of why certain skills and abilities aren't as widely spread as you assume they should be.

[doueverwonder]

anyway in line with the constitution being taken off the white house website I think now would be a great time to read Fahrenheit 451 if u didn't when you were supposed to in high school.

[nukenai]

idk I guess I'm tired of this attitude that if you're not constantly reading 9,000 page books or publicly critically analyzing the shows you're watching with huge essays, it means you don't actually engage deeply with material or you're somehow vapid and something something "consume product"

like man, stuff exists besides Media To Consume. Art is great and it's awesome. It's very cool to read books and like TV shows and movies. And not all of those need to be fuckin Citizen Kane. But it's awesome to like intense stuff too. But like yeah. You gotta have other stuff you do. I have lots of other stuff I do! Sometimes I don't even post on the internet about it!

So when I come online and post a bunch of Transformers or Gundam screencaps of some beautiful boy with the caption GOD I HATE HIS FUCKING FACE I'M GONNA CHEW HIS SKIN OFF GRRRR I AM SO IN LOVE it doesn't actually mean I don't have deeper thoughts than that. I'm just posting because I'm in my 30s and work 40 hours a week and just wanna watch a fun cartoon sometimes man.

geez

[writeraid]

wait a damn minute

DOES MOON KNIGHT COUNT AS A FLIPPING VAN HELSING VARIANT???