#This isn't a callout for anyone I just thought I should mention

[pkmnsciencej]

Hey just a quick PSA for everyone as we go into spring and summer. Been seeing a few posts mentioning "rabid pokemon" in an area, when really the term should be "feral pokemon." I don't want to nitpick, but there is a big distinction between the two.

Feral pokemon refers to pokemon who either were previously domesticated or come from domesticated pokemon. Examples of feral pokemon include "tabby" Skitty and Delcatty, which are popular housepets in Hoenn but are now an invasive species in Unova.

Rabid pokemon are pokemon that have been infected with rhabdovirus and are suffering from rabies. Rabies is highly contagious and almost universally fatal in humans.

I feel that it's an important distinction. For instance, if you hear that an area has an outbreak of rabid pokemon, you want to make sure to avoid it.

Some common signs of rabies includes frothy saliva, unusual aggression towards you and other pokemon, attempts to bite, an unusual aversion to water, seizures, and paralysis.

If you or your pokemon are bitten, go to your nearest hospital or pokemon center immediately. No, do not wait until symptoms appear. The faster you can get treatment, the more likely you are to survive.

Good news, it is highly unlikely that you'll come into contact with any rabid pokemon this spring. Rabid pokemon tend to avoid areas of high human activity. As long as you're aware of you and your pokemon's surroundings, you should be okay.

If there's any significant area of risk, have no doubt that the UDC will put out a statement.

[yourhighness6]

I can't remember where I saw this but there was this post I saw a while ago about how if zutarians "really wanted to engage in media analysis they would ship zvkaang" and I just... Ugh.

For one, the age difference is gross to me, especially considering a lot of anti-kat@ang zutara arguments center around the fact that Aang was not mature enough to be in a relationship based on the way he treated Katara, and pointing out that Katara is considerably more emotionally mature than Aang throughout the series. Shipping Aang and Zuko, who remember are canonically twelve and sixteen throughout the series, may be okay for a lot of chronic anime fans (from my understanding anime has huge age gaps like that all the time) but a large age gap is basically the first thing that puts me off of a ship. It's the same thing with ships like tokk@ and zvtoph and sokk@ang. A two year age difference is fine for high schoolers, but four years is really, really pushing it, especially when you consider that Aang would be fourteen when Zuko is eighteen.

And if that weren't disqualifying enough, whereas zutara has a truly incredible amount of romantic coding from the music used in certain scenes to small gestures such as them reaching for each other in the final agni kai and Katara's thumb on Zuko's lips in the crystal caves scene to the "she's not my girlfriend!", a common romantic trope being used several times between them, zvkaang has no romantic coding. They honestly remind me of that "platonic tension" textpost that was making the rounds a while ago. That being said, I do understand that "chemistry" and "romantic coding" are fairly relative concepts, but it definitely isn't heteronormativity that makes people see zutara instead of zvkaang as romantic (and although I also ship zvkka to a lesser extent the same can kind of be said there).

Anyway, with a weird age difference and zero romantic coding, that, in my opinion, kind of derails the ship, but its also worth mentioning that the original post's only argument seemed to be that just because Zuko and Aang are narrative foils, it makes sense that they should be romantically involved, which frankly, isn't a very good argument, especially when you consider that Zuko and Azula are also narrative foils and siblings. Narrative foils come in many forms, and come to think of it, I don't think I ship narrative foils from any show I've ever watched. The parallels between zutara often specifically highlight how they might suit each other romantically, and fit with the show's themes of balance.

This is just my opinion, and certainly not meant as a callout for any zvkaang shippers, especially those who are zutara and zvkaang shippers, I just felt it necessary to debunk the idea that if zutarians actually cared about literary analysis, they would ship zvkaang. It's just another half-assed, poorly thought out way to delegitimize zutara shippers and pretend that the ship has no canon basis, while in reality, anyone with an objective eye for media analysis can see that zutara is by no means a ship to be ignored.

[casualartisanninja]

This was a long time coming.

So, first of all I’m sorry that this took me so long to make, but there was a lot of information to sift through. I’m not planning on coming back to Tumblr in any capacity beyond this but the truth needs to be out there. (And if you're curious about the profile picture/description/etc, I had to dress this blog up a bit so it didn't look like a bot and trigger any algorithms.)

Content warnings for this post: 

Heavily discusses kinks and has screenshots of fetish art

References grooming/pedophilia accusations

References transphobia/harassment accusations

This is going to be an EXTREMELY long post with lots of screenshots, so the rest is under a cut.

Edit: Here is the end of the post so you can read it all at once. https://www.tumblr.com/casualartisanninja/747977941832613888/loose-ends

The incident in Hobqueer’s server

I think a good place to start would be the spark that set off this whole chain reaction. 

I’m not sure how long I’d been in that server for when the NSFW in general incident happened. But one thing’s for sure - I didn’t start the conversation about NSFW topics. Like I mentioned on the Reddit post where someone had found me and started accusing me under my comment on the Janitor.AI post, I saw the people there discussing mpreg and oviposition. I looked at it and thought “wow the rules are a lot more lax than I initially thought!”. Yes, I know, looking back, that should’ve been a huge red flag. I also know that, looking back, I should never talk about NSFW in the general chat- even if everyone else is doing it. “If so-and-so jumped off a cliff” and all. I’m really sorry that I did that, and it was definitely a lesson for me.  But I really wasn’t thinking about that at the time. It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, and I especially wouldn’t have done it if I knew minors would be there. I know it wasn’t an 18+ server, and it was just a frankly idiotic move on my part. I just saw “Sniper pregnant” and pictures of the mercs with big bellies, and let my better judgment and reasoning get clouded.  However, the way that they’re portraying this incident is extremely intellectually dishonest. Gabriel failed to mention in his callout post that those minors were looking at and sharing fetish art of the mercs, leaving out most of the context for those. Thankfully one of my friends from Chipspeech (who I’ll leave anonymous) joined the server to check and see if the fetish art was still there. It was. Hobqueer and the moderators never deleted any of the discussion, and worst of all they left the fetish pictures up in full view of everybody. One person, who later admitted to being a minor in a dm, even gave a pretty graphic description of a tentacle hentai/mpreg comic. Be warned, this contains NSFW content. I blurred the names of anybody who isn't mentioned in this post.

I've run out of room for images, so I have to add the rest in another reblog. This will be a very long thread with a lot of images, so please bear with me.

[xxk3vonicaxx]

... Here we go againn

So Blurry made a doc about me and posted it through a friend of his aandd... Oh boy is it somethingg, it's basically full of already resolved issues (only showing what I did to him and not what he did to mee), out of context screenshotss (as usuall), aand just blatant liess. He tried to claim I was his "abuser" as well 'cause I had held him accountable for his behaviorr (Whichh... Is absolutely crazyy, buut okk)

The only good thing about this was that Blurry referenced my special interest in the titlee, like yess, thank youu✨

Anywayy, onto discussing the docc:

First of alll, I never drew the art to "get back at him" or whateverr, like he so claimss, those aren't my words like he's claiming they aree, I never said I wanted to get back at himm, that's not what it waas:

It was for two reasonss, though the main one is the firstt:

It was meant as a warning for Blurry to try and stop stealing designs from my bestiee

Also I thought it would be a funny warningg (a jokee)

I've literally stated this several timess, how hard is it for someone to understandd? Not to mention I apologized for itt

Just 'cause something is a warning doesn't make it be out of revengee, Doing something as an act to warn someone not to do what they're doing isn't revengefull, don't know why he keeps trying to think it's out of revenge when it's nott

Likee, it's literally stated heree, by my bestiee, that it's a warningg. Neither of us would do this kind of thing to anyone elsee (unless you steal our designss/pass them off as your ownn, this is also a warning for those kind of peoplee), this was solely directed at Blurryy:

Alsoo, why are you calling nudity pornn? You show the dakimakura my bestie drew as one of your exampless, buut that's... Not pornn?

It's literally nudityy, why are you calling it porn when it's nott? What is your logicc?

Anywayy, continuing onn:

The "several userss" Blurry mentioned is his friend Cultc0ree (who has stolen 5 of my OCs aand has tried to slander my name beforee), aand his fans that contacted mee, who were either proshipperss, nsfw accounts that posted clopping (MLP Nsfww)/irl nsfww/yiff (furry nsfww), or bothh. One of which had reposted/supported bad dragonn, a zoophilic companyy... That kind of stuff makes me uncomfyy, of course I'd block those kind of people who post that stufff:

Due to the bad experiences I had with his fanss, I'm not in the furry fandom anymoree. I don't like drawing furries much unless it's my comfort characterr (more on that laterr). I still draw furries/anthro from time to timee, just not as much as I used tooo

Alsoo, Blurry fails to mention what happened after the callout post was madee, that being his father had threatened to dox me and a minor just 'cause I called him outt (shown heree and heree), aand he did nothing about itt, nor does he ever mention his own behavior towards mee

It's also ironic that Blurry says I stalk himm, when he's stalked both me and Mobcrit beforee. Blurry wouldn't know about this blog if he hadn't stalked my following on my alt accountt (which was privatee, my followingg, not my altt), as the blog isn't searchablee:

This is a blog made by the two authors of the Blurry docc, the blog isn't complete yett (as you can seee), buut it's a critique blog for Blurry's loree, like Mobcrit iss

Basicallyy, tumblr had a glitch that had marked your followers private for you in your settingss, buut had made them public on your profilee, aand that's how Blurry had found itt. It's not searchablee, he wouldn't have found it any other wayy

Anywayy, Blurry claims that me holding him accountable for his behavior (referring to my response post from the Blurry docc) is gaslighting according to himm, whichh... Holding someone accountable for their behavior isn't gaslightingg? Huhh??:

As welll, recentlyy, after Cags on Mobcrit posted an ask with someone saying people should rewrite Mob's FON loree, Blurry came into my DMs threatening su*cide and saying Cagney was attacking him 'cause the people on Mobcrit don't like his workk (He thinks I run Mobcrit when I'm just their archivistt, this has been stated multiple times on the blog itselff) ... He conveniently left this out of his docc:

What prompted that convoo, was that Blurry got mad that Cagney on Mobcrit proposed an idea to rewrite Mob's FON loree... Notice how I said MOB'S and not Blurry'ss, completely missing the meaning of the postt:

Cagney's talking about Mob's lore heree, not Blurry'ss. Blurry just can't understand that some people don't like his workk. You have to expect that kind of thing when you post your work so that people can see itt (Oh yeahh, he also calls that "bullyingg" sooo-)

Blurry had also accused me of gaslighting 'cause I had responded to a joke Cagney made (that Blurry gets no maidenss) by joking about it furtherr, whichh... The fact that you're getting upset over a stupid meme kind of confirms that at this pointt-

Anywayy, here was the response to the joke Cags made in questionn:

Aaand here was Blurry calling it gaslightingg:

Alsoo, he had lied to me about him not following NSFW accountss, aand I had called him out on it in that same convoo, as he was following Mob's NSFW account on twitter with his rebranded accountt, which he conveniently left out of his docc. He tried to lie and say that he had followed aand unfollowedd, buut that's a total liee, 'cause the screenshot shown was taken just before Mob deleted the account due to minors following itt:

Heree, he was acting like he was the main victimm, which he also left out of his docc:

Throughout this conversation there were multiple times in which Blurry was saying I was gaslighting himm... When I was holding him accountable for his behaviorr (aand noo, he hadn't apologized for making fun of my typing quirkk, he had lied in his "apologyy", as you guys already knoww:

Another thing to add onn, Blurry claimed I had "stolen an OC", when I actually hadn'tt:

(Notee, I was mad that Mob sold the original Deramu and other Sassy's Palace characters behind people's backss, lying to me that she said she wouldn't sell them at the timee. The new owner is a supporter/friend of Mob's and compared Mobcrit's critiques to school shooterss. This is also literally public infoo)

Also nooo, I never talked to him about this characterr, don't know where he got that fromm:

Mob had actually given me the OC during the recent chat she had with me when I got the rights to use the plants for Plantae backk (this is also public infoo, it's literally in the Mobcrit archivee), aand Mob had approved of the changes I had made to him after she gave him to mee:

Original design on the leftt, my redesign on the rightt, I liked it 'cause I thought it looked like my comfort characterr, hence the namee:

Anywayy, yeahh, that's not theftt, I literally got this OC for free along with my rights for the plantss. This is literally public infoo, I don't know why it was even mentioned in the doc in the first place since it has nothing to do with Blurry at alll

Mobcrit's probably gonna reblog this anywayy, buut there was some blatant lies that Blurry had said about them that just aren't truee (claiming the admins of Mobcrit were transphobic when in reality they were calling out people for their transphobia/using xenogenderss), also Blurry defends Mob in this specific part of the document as welll, mmm

[pinkydude]

👋 Coming back

I talked about personal stuff a bit on my Twitter last year, but since I came back to Tumblr I feel like I should share it here too 🤏 especially since this is where it all happened and all

I'm not the type of guy to make long post (not anymore at least) but I've been thinking about it for the past days and I think that I won't be able to truly move on and enjoy my time back on Tumblr until I adress it here as well

There's A LOT of new faces around, assuming the majority of the active peeps don't know me 😳👋 (not complaining ghfhgf) so this will be a weird read, maybe? This isn't at all a "callout post", I won't name anyone or any situations in details, just -vague gesture- awknowledge things here and there, this is mainly about my experience (small TW for mention of su*cide)

I came back to Tumblr earlier this year after being away from public fandom spaces for ~a year (more or less) and I noticed that there was still "drama" (both light dramas and more serious harassment, using "drama" as a general term here) happening- and at first I didn't want to interact with any of it because it was hitting too close to home

I've been publicly harassed since mid 2021- and I know it's still happening, old dramas being digged up publicly sometimes- but the harassment back then wasn't anonym tho

Lowest point for me is when this fandom almost costed me my life, didn't know what to do, and ending up acting stupid in the middle of a panic attack- wouldn't be there if not for my close friends. That's when I realized that I needed to take a step back, to reconnect with what truly matter and to stop getting involved in things that were dragging my mental health down. Since then, I've been fully enjoying my and other's content again 😌

So when I came back and saw that the same people were still harassing (actively or passively) others? I wanted to say something, but I didn't really (left some comments, tags, sent some supportive DMs...)

Using this post to finally say- ayo, I've been there and the best advice I can say is, take a break 🤏 Take a break from the fandom when it becomes too overwhelming for X or Y reason. Small break, big break- whatever will work for you, but disconnect! Even if you think you're ok, it all pills up subconsciously (feeling burnout over Art, VP, Mods, starting to compare yourself to others, getting parano... those are all signs that you might want to back off a bit and spent time doing something else, ressource yourself!)

Also want to use this post to thanks all the people that were checking on me during that time away and to those who were still supporting my creations, it really gave me the strength to continue 🧡

Thanks also to everyone who came to "clear the air" since I came back! I know a big wave of new comers joined right as some drama was happening- and I get wanting to protect yourselves and blocking the persons mentionned in callouts! There is nothing wrong with protecting your space (don't let anyone tell you otherwise)

I met and connected with new people (something I thought would never happen again after everything) some of them I can now call good friends, and I'll forever be grateful for people who think for themselves and have their own opinions

Nothing happened, this post isn't a reply to anything/anyone or an attack or an attempt at "stirring shit up", I just needed to get it out, I guess? Needed to really close that door, and finally move on to enjoy Tumblr again. This is where I started and I still really like that place and how the fandom feels here 🤙 soyeh that's all HGFH thanks for reading

[thewarnerbrothers]

drop the hot takes

so. i have to get my head together bc a lot of this is very contentious, and i know the majority of this userbase hates reading comprehension and media literacy more than twitter at times, but here we go!

i think people in this fandom (and fandom in general) are too focused on trying to control the actions or thoughts of others, rather than having fun talking about the things we all share in common

it's effectively encouraging hate and harassment. i feel slightly hypocritical saying this because at times i think i've contributed to unnecessary behavior proliferating in this fandom. i've never sent anyone after anyone else because that's crazy, but still. i was very quick to judge people over stuff that is not really a big deal. that in and of itself is... not good lol.

there isn't really an excuse for it, and i can't take it back, but i am sorry for being so judgemental and suspicious.

some people, in an attempt to make fandom 'better,' end up making it worse.

like... if you find yourself doing the following then something is wrong:

following fans you dislike just to keep tabs on them

waiting for the moment a fan does something mildly questionable so you can jump on them

going out of your way to advertize Lists Of (Allegedly) Bad People

sharing said lists

telling people to delete posts made by people you think are 'bad'

trying to control who shares what and from whom

pressuring others to see canon/character/behind the scenes moments a certain way (god forbid someone have a different headcanon than you)

making moral judgements based on someone's shipping preferences

trying to find hidden clues that another fan is actually a horrible person (and thus should be punished for it)

keep in mind i'm talking about this in the context of fandom here.

i cannot tell you how many times i've seen people engage in this behavior in the worst faith possible, end up hurting someone who literally did nothing wrong, and then do it all over again to a bunch of other people. no one learns anyhting, nothing's changed, and now someone has been unjustly labeled a racist/pedophile/bigot/some other horrible thing.

it's sick. it's stupid. it's completely avoidable.

and yet people just… mindlessly share callout posts and public blocklists? believe them without any sort of fact checking or evidence? it's all just gut feelings and assumptions and possibly faked screenshots? that's supposed to be good? that helps no one. all that does is create a toxic fandom environment.

it stifles fan content. it stresses people out. not to mention the majority of the things that fill up callout posts are things that could be settled in dms.

i'm so sick of this creepy behavior being considered normal and morally imperative

you know what should be the default response to people in fandom that bother you?

blocking, blacklisting, and/or scrolling right along.

seriously. it's that easy. try it.

unless another actual human being is being harmed it literally doesn't matter. and no, someone thirsting over dark pinky or writing fic doesn't count.

i suspect someone will get pretty upset with something i've said here and try to paint me as [fill in the blank with insulting claim here] but tbh i am beyond caring at this point. the current acceptable 'default' for doing fandom 'the right way' is gross and messed up and i want nothing to do with it anymore

*hits post*

[mossy-rot]

Long post time! been reading and I'm sure someone has talked about this before but. Does Dazai's characterization unnerve anyone else when put in context of the real Osamu Dazai.

I would like to preface this saying this isn't like, a callout post or saying that "you should stop watching/reading BSD because it's problematic and the author should be cancelled!!!!" so don't get yourself all in a bunch if you don't like the post (I've seen y'all with ships, it gets hella ugly). I myself am going to continue watching BSD despite my feelings in this post just because I enjoy the show- if something was going to get me to stop watching it would've been Naomi or Mori lol but I digress.

I'll need to do some research to see if Sango Harukawa has any specific reasoning, if they do this with the other characters and their reference authors, etc but upon reading No Longer Human and reading in depth about Osamu Dazai's life it's all so.. unsettling, choice-wise. I'm most likely predicting the choice was made due to No Longer Human being the second best selling novel of all time in Japan, which I'm hoping is the case and they just made an uneducated choice in poor taste. Again, I'll need to do more research.

I'll be brief but if you want a very in depth explanation about the book and author you can find that here (although I recommend the video if you can handle the topics anyway, it's a great essay). However I cannot stress enough that this needs a massive TW for many things- and that includes this post. If you know anything about No Longer Human, you know that it is extremely haunting and dark. I do not use that lightly. so if you can't deal with mentions of things like: suicide and/or suicidal thoughts, violence against women, child abuse, sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse, please skip this post and the video.

But in brief, the story, which is a partial autobiography about Osamu, it follows someone with a disturbed point of view- he doesn't feel desires or normal emotions as others do, he has a very different way of viewing the world that most don't get. Because of this, he grows terrified of people as a whole- more specifically, their desires, and what they're willing to do to achieve those desires. This is brought to light particularly early when he is abused- physically, emotionally, and sexually- by his father's servants as a child. Many events occur, including multiple unsuccessful suicide attempts- both alone and double suicides with lovers, all of whom do not survive. He slowly picks up a drinking problem along the way, as well as a drug addiction to morphine. This isn't a very coherent explanation, of course, but it's a gist.

Bringing it back to the real person- many of these things reflected into his own life. And although No Longer Human ended with the main character disappearing into an indifferent life, this was not the case with Osamu Dazai, who, one month later, was found having committed suicide with his mistress, Tomai.

So the choice for Dazai to be very suicidal, attempting often, trying to convince women to do a double suicide with him, and for this to be all played as a joke and inconvenience to the main cast- minus Atsushi- especially with Dazai's implied issue with alcohol (although this can be overlooked)- is... unsettling. Something about choosing such a broken and haunting book, and an equally broken author- it just doesn't sit right with me. I would forgive it if his behavior was more crucial to the main plot, or if it was far less prominent, but it's almost always the end of a joke. This is less of an issue in later seasons which is nice, but for me it always leaves this undeniable sour taste in my mouth whenever I think about it.

I love Dazai, I do, but it's a weird choice when you read the book. I had only watched a few episodes whenever I had picked up Junji Ito's adaptation not knowing that it was so, and was taken back by just how dark it was. I delved further, and it just got worse from there. It was a pretty violent shock when I realized that the anime I just started watching had a character by the same name of the author of this horrifying story. This is more a ramble than anything, and if anyone has anything to add or any more info to clear this up or add context please do! I've only watched BSD and haven't listened to much outside of it. I'd love to see some discussions about this.

[angeloncewas]

I was fully on Dream’s side until the talk of responsibility came up, because yeah actually he does have a level of responsibility for his fanbase’s actions. And before anyone tries to misrepresent my words, no I do not think Dream has to be held responsible for every single bad thing one of his fans does. I DO, however, think he needs to realize that at over 25 million subscribers and knowing (as he did admit in his tweets) that anyone he replies to will get hate that spouting off whatever he wants is irresponsible. “Oh so he just has to take it silently?” No, he could respond without directly putting someone in the line of fire. Because frankly I don’t care how stupid a tweet some hater makes, the vicious dog piling and harassment is far worse than whatever their reply was. Bitzel was right, sorry Dream.

I think (I'm going somewhere with this, bear with me) people on the internet are too used to being coddled. I know that sounds a bit "back in my day" of me so I'm gonna try to word this the best I can - digital safety isn't really something a lot of people take seriously anymore. Anonymity isn't very common and is in many cases (as we've seen in this very fandom) actively discouraged. With that comes the notion that your social media is yours to say whatever you want. But the fact of the matter is that consequences are always possible. Your employer can see your hateful tweets and fire you. Your friend can see you bitching about her on snapchat and confront you. And a content creator can respond to you when you're in his mentions. I don't like when creators prowl their indirects to respond simply because they're drawing attention to something that didn't need to have attention drawn to it -- though I stand by my original argument in some ways, that's where I 100% agree with you and your point about personal responsibility. But everyone looks through quote retweets and they're very publicly visible to his fans and people who despise him alike; oftentimes they're full of literally the most vile shit ever.

Dream should absolutely consider the nature of his fanbase when interacting with people. I have no love lost for smiletwt. And I think Dream is many of the things people criticize him for: impulsive, hot-headed, etc. That's not a callout, he's referred to himself as such. But I also think that it's an odd angle to take these situations and spin it in that way when so many fans of his recieve hate constantly for no reason other than existing in that space. There are shitty people everywhere. And it's so weird (not legitimately, but like, on a big-picture level) that people are so lazer focused on "Twitter hate" as an example of something that makes Dream a terrible person when there's much bigger consequences being spurred on by big names and faces. That's a bit tu quoque of me, I'll admit -- I'm not trying to defend Dream here, really. I don't care. I just think that people have weird attitudes toward social media, creators, and fans (Dream not exempt from this) and it shows more than ever right now.

I don't think I explained my thoughts very well but oh well.

[laidbare-a]

7, 22

Mun questions || Accepting!

7. What is one overrated roleplay trend?

Excessive text formatting, imo! When every single w o r d (has) a different effect on it it is genuinely physically exhausting for me to read and I honestly don't think it even looks that great in the first place. I think legibility isn't valued enough in tumblr's overall roleplaying scene. I definitely understand and relate to wanting to have a cool aesthetic, but there reaches a point where people should really think about whether or not their aesthetic will end up making their blog inaccessible to folks like me who already struggle with reading comprehension to begin with gjbkfhd please im cuil 27 and i never learned how to read, let me live

22. Are there any red roleplay flags for you that make you back off immediately?

Oh this one is going to get heavy real fast, so BIG HEADS UP for mentions of abuse, harassment, and suicide/suicide baiting.

If someone has ‘pr//o-shippers dni’ or anything to that effect in their rules, they’ll get a hard block from me. I do not identify as a pro-sh//pper, but I CAN say I have never had them write callout posts for me and tell me to kill myself in all sorts of ways because I thought 2 fictional space teen soldiers should hold hands. Something important to keep in mind is these two fictional space teen soldiers were, according to all official canon sources at the time, within the same age group as well!

I have also never had people who ship distasteful or triggering things tell me to hang myself and then laugh when I try to explain that’s super messed up, I lost a friend that way and I’m still so goddamn messed up over it after almost two decades. I have never had pro shipp//rs rifle through my trauma and decide it ‘wasn’t bad enough’ to allow me to cope through fiction. They even said as much in their callout. Imagine how hilariously ironic it was when the godawful writers went and pulled the rug out from under the callout poster’s ‘morally pure’ ship, too. Doesn’t feel great, does it?

Like... honestly im gonna say it, if someone has something like that in their rules I wholeheartedly believe that they’re not a good person. I just know they don’t actually care about the feelings of real humans, and that’s horrifying to me to the highest degree.

but yeah as a bonus for anyone who’s curious about why in my rules I say v///ltron blogs will be blocked on sight, you can probably put the pieces together now lol

[rpbetter]

I had to unfollow a longtime partner because they started to follow and like posts by people who are very pro purity-culture, people who make lots of side remarks on their blogs and are just really cruel, mean people. My partner started liking those posts. I had followed them for years, but it was too much and I couldn't even approach them about it. Do you think it's worth it to go back & mention this to them? Even it only to say it hurt me, even if I don't (won't) decide to refollow?

Well, Anon, firstly, let me just say that I'm sorry you had to make that choice. Even if it was the best choice you could have made, it still feels kind of terrible. It's annoying when casual acquaintances do that sort of thing, but hurtful when it is a longtime writing partner who had to know of your viewpoints after years of interaction. People have a right to change, even in negative ways, but this isn't changing fandoms or how they approach writing, it's something that has a really vile imperative of bullying. Ignoring someone's boundaries and comfort, especially after knowing them for years, is bad enough, but it's so much worse when the objective of what they're disregarding boundaries for is incredibly likely to invite harassment to that person.

After all, the cult of purity operates on discovering, "calling out," and harassing away "problems." That includes anyone who is opposed to purity culture, it isn't a requirement that you are actually participating in anything "problematic." Simply not following along with it, saying that you are not friendly toward it, or that you will block people for these kinds of posts and things like callouts is enough. You might not be engaging in whatever "freak shit," but you are just as bad for supporting it. When you are writing partners with someone who is engaging in or supportive of purity culture as a mun who is against it, they are, regardless of their intentions, putting you out there for harassment. It's hard when we get to know someone over the course of years that is either that oblivious or uncaring about what they might be leading to our blogs.

As a general rule, I encourage people to speak to each other about problems, even if the resolution is still parting ways. I tend to think that this is the most reasonable thing to do when we've established interaction with someone. It stops muns from wondering what happened without ever getting an answer, allowing them to work on things if that's both applicable and the mun feels like they need or want to.

However, there are some circumstances in which no discussion or warning is the better option, and additionally, sometimes, the situation is too emotionally charged for anything good to come out of it. Yes, you should have said something before unfollowing if you were going to, but I understand why you couldn't. The source of upset on the dash reaches a point where it just has to go away immediately, and I think that point is reached in even harder terms when it involves someone that we thought was better than this, that we thought we could trust. It is also very difficult, far more so than someone who has been around for a week only, to tell longtime partners that we've got to part. Few things said in that conversation are not going to feel hurtful, accusatory, or get you statements about how it came out of nowhere.

All of that without factoring in what this is over. If they have aligned themselves with this viewpoint, you telling them that you have to terminate the partnership for this reason is likely to make things hateful quickly. If you hurt their feelings or offend them, are they going to turn those emotions into projecting "proof" that their new circle is correct? And if that is the case, will it stop at gross accusations privately or will it turn into alerting the callout brigade? A lot of callouts have hurt feelings and ended friendships at their core.

I understand why you needed to just unfollow without speaking to them, and I think this is one of those rare situations in which that might have been the best decision. And for those same reasons, I would be concerned about advising you to contact them now. I truly do not feel that is for the best, the safest thing to do, or that you will get out of it what you're looking for - to express your hurt.

Ask yourself what your ideal outcome here is, and how likely that actually is to happen. Most people do not react well to being unfollowed after such a long time, and if it has been any time at all since you've unfollowed them, they have noticed it and the logical deduction is that you were upset by something they did. If you've ever expressed your feelings about purity culture, they really should be able to make that very short leap to the answer. And they have not contacted you, either, about this - no message to ask if you accidentally unfollowed/do you realize you unfollowed. There could be a lot of reasons for that, ranging from awkwardness to anger to relief, but no matter what it is, you messaging them after the fact to detail your hurt with no interest in refollowing is very likely to be viewed negatively and reacted to as such.

Being hurt by this is valid, the need to tell them about it is valid, but I'm concerned that this is only going to result in an argument and more hurt for you. They either know what they did already or they have all the paint-by-numbers supplies to paint that picture, is it actually worth doing more damage to yourself to be sure they're painting it? Will it actually make you feel any better at all, even if the conversation is an awful one?

There isn't a particularly good resolution here, excluding any found in and of yourself, but with the topic being what it is, I have to say that it is my additional concern that it might get uglier than usual. That ugliness might not stay private, and it is a hallmark of purity culture behavior to create "problematic" statements and sentiments in a screenshot conversation where they don't exist. If you argue with them, is it worth that risk to you? If you don't even argue, but they want to put you on blast for being "a demanding RPer" or "harassing" them, is it worth that risk?

I'm not trying to be negative here or to devalue what you want to do, I'm asking these things genuinely. Only you can assess the risk and reward in this situation properly, I just want to be sure you are making that assessment because you seem like a very nice, genuine person, Anon. It is incredibly unfair, but that is exactly who tends to look at situations in the context of what they'd never do to someone else, and as such, to be royally screwed by the other party who has no such qualms. Especially when that other party is someone they once thought they knew. We'd all like to think that even former friends wouldn't do something malicious to us, but the unfortunate reality is that, once any perceived action of hostility is on the table, that is no longer the case.

For me, it wouldn't be worth it. I'd have to feel like this person couldn't care very much about hurting me if they were alright with what they've been doing, therefore, anything I said to that end might as well be spoken to the wall. I would not expect genuine remorse or kindness from them, while feeling it was too high a risk of them deciding to test out those new purity culture legs. If they contacted me, I would be truthful about my reason for unfollowing, but otherwise, I'd let it alone while finding ways to make myself less hurt. Maybe doubling down on the positive interactions with mutuals I have, taking a short break to work on something else I feel good about, that kind of thing. Things that remind you that other people do value you enough to not do hurtful things obliviously or intentionally, and that you are one of those people. It really helps with a commitment to not unintentionally be hurtful to yourself by going through with actions like confronting someone who is likely to hurt you again.

But I am not you! And I understand the need to validate your feelings, and in a way, vindicate them, by making this person aware. I really, really do! If the possible pitfalls of doing so are worth it to you? Then that is what you should do. Just remember, if you do, that this person's opinion of you is neither inherently accurate nor does it matter. Nothing they say is the end of the world. And you should stick to your intention to not re-follow - you made that decision for a good reason, and if they feel pressured or guilty enough, they might say that they won't do that anymore, they just didn't realize, etc. but not visibly supporting it anymore around you doesn't mean not supporting it.

By the way, I'm not saying that you would come off as pressuring or anything, it's simply that it is a pretty normal reaction of remotely decent people to hear "you hurt my feelings" and to feel upset about it and wish to correct it.

[climbdraws]

there's a callout post going around saying you've scammed people out of their commissions, and that you've caused a wc designer to leave tumblr bc you made a post saying something about if a design is removed so far from canon and the character isn't recognizable it's a bad design or w/e, which caused "your" fans to attack said designer even tho you didn't name anyone and they were (unfortunately) already getting angry anons about their designs long before that post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

welp glad to know people are so bored during quarantine to bring up old drama from 2018 so imma just address this again 

1. Commissioners who felt “scammed” because of long wait times (which I have 100% taken accountability for as my fault for biting off more than I can chew and getting overwhelmed) have all received refunds. 

Any commissioners who may have been missed and not received a refund, PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECTLY so I can issue one. More than once I have had people delete their accounts or change their usernames/profile pics without giving me contact info and that makes it incredibly hard to follow up unless they reach out to me first - so please do! If the wait time is too long, people can ask for a refund at any time and I will be happy to do so. 

2. I made a post TWO YEARS AGO absentmindedly while on break at work stating an opinion - that character designs that are so far completely removed from canon that they are unrecognizable  = bad character design. And guess what? I still stand by that! Who cares? People acting as though I'm trying to force people to draw a certain way or abide by certain rules are crazy and literally twisting my words for the sake of drama. Literally was just an opinion that people blew up over because people are thirsty for attention and drama.  

3. I never mentioned a single person by name or directly @ them. It was a growing trend that a lot of artists were (are?) participating in and I simply posted my personal thoughts on it. 

Anyone who has followed me knows how much I personally enjoy realistic designs and more realism-based interpretations of Warriors (I literally used to make non-stop genetically accurate AU posts). I never once have said “Stop having fun!!” or “No one is allowed to make weird/funky/sparklecat designs!!”. They’re just not my cup of tea. Wanna draw Firestar as blue or Nightstar as white? Cool - just make an AU! Or better yet - make your own OCs! 

“But Climb people are just having fun with their art why do you care what they do??”

I LITERALLY DON’T!! I genuinely could not give two-fucks if you wanna make a bunch of sparkle-cat/neon colored/weird/funky ass designs on your own blog. Tumblr literally made a mountain out of a molehill over an opinion on fictional cat designs. My opinion has literally no value and shouldn’t affect how or whether someone continues to create content (or whether they choose to use a certain platform). If I had been criticizing fan art for any other fandom or even professional art put out by studios - my opinion would still be the same regarding recognizable character design. (Also people blowing this up as if I'm some verified™ artist that has like 1million subs or something?) 

Any ““fans”” who felt the need to bully and send hate-mail over a Tumblr post are pathetic and most are too cowardly to even come off anonymous to face up to their own words. If I was petty enough to want people to send hate over it, I would have just @ them directly originally 🤷‍♀️

tldr; people trying to start drama again over this after two years are just attention-seekers trying to get #clout for fake internet points. if you’re bored enough to want to start drama up again from 2 years ago of me posting criticism about fictional cat designs and apparently “bullying a minor off a website” (which cough cough they’re 1 (one) year younger than me) - you should probably find something better to do with your time!

The cool thing about the internet is that if you see an opinion or post you don’t vibe with you can just unfollow/block and not have to see it anymore! Ain’t that neat? 🤔

[happifish]

I thought I'd make the awareness post and call it a day but here we fucking go I guess-

Love how you prefaced the whole thing by saying you don't want to be the biggest asshole. Anyway

First of all I think since their blog isn't private or anything they kinda made it everyone's business a little bit at least.

Second of all, as you can see on the screenshots I provided before, in the "callout" post, that they didn't tag it. Well, they did except with "#a little horny". None of the other posts I saw were appropriately tagged either, some of them were even tagged with "#alex lifeson". I'm guessing the majority of their followers are blogs related to prog rock and I don't think they blacklist the alex lifeson tag. They shouldn't have a reason to.

But it isn't okay whatsoever though is it? They have no warnings on their page about anything of that nature and they cannot be bothered to tag it either. Things like that are a very very common trigger and even if one is not triggered it is repulsive at best to have something like that sprung on you.

Not to mention where they reblog it from, this seems irrelevant but I think this is wrong to such a degree that it deserves a mention. I have no other word for it, it's a literal n*crophile. Their entire blog is centered around g*re, n*crophilia, c*rpses and the encouragement of sh and s*icide.

Were they really hurting anyone? How is this a question? Yes, yes they were? They ARE actually hurting and ruining people with this fucking behaviour. I don't know if you understand just how much of an impact a graphic video of sh can have on someone and especially someone struggling already. And again, they do regularly reblog from a person actively encouraging sh and s*icide and posting literally nothing but n*crophile garbage. Those people in those pictures and videos seem pretty hurt as well.

If you have anything resembling morals then yes, I think it is something you should be "intruding on". This isn't some pretty schoolyard dispute where you automatically have to take your friend's side.

do u think it was OK what opossuwu did?

homie im gonna be real honest, i kinda cant care. im not trying to be the biggest asshole about it, but i dont wanna intrude into other peoples business, yknow? i love oposs, i do, but its not much my business to barge in. now what was the issue, they reblogged gore and reblogged some explicit text posts? i didnt see those posts themselves cause i was probably sleeping, but did they tag those gore pics? and im thinking, if you dont like gore or anything of that nature you could blacklist the tags? idk, i dont really know all the details. do i think its OK? hm… all they did was reblog things, right? they reblogged them to their account because they liked it? i dont see a problem, though maybe those things should be tagged or at least have some sort of warning. im not one to tag everything i post, though if i reblog something nsfw ill tag it as that because, its nsfw! id do the same for gore if i did post graphic things like that, but i dont. and was oposs really hurting anyone? im pretty sure they werent. but again, its not something i should be intruding in. of course im gonna defend one of my friends here, but i think people should be allowed to post whatever they want UNLESS theyre actually hurting or ruining people. ✌️

also, personally, i dont think you should list every trigger of yours - people may use it against you! homies, any homie out there, do stay safe.

[izukult]

I don't want you to take this as hate, seriously. I think you came at this from a good place but right now you're getting caught up in shit and panicking.

The screenshot you shared for receipts about skinnyphobia mentions the racism joke. If you didn't want Juni to respond to that, you should have cropped it out. But mistakes happen, that's fine.

But then you continued to push the issue. You came back repeatedly trying to push the issue of her claim to mexican identity. If you didn't mean that to be a part of argument, you could have said "hey, not what this is about, focus on what's been actually brought up."

But you didn't. We can see that you didn't. We can see that you continued to engage in that side of that conversation, and the ball rolled from there.

What a lot of people are saying is right, it you're not Mexican you don't have any claim to try to police the language of a Mexican person. Even if you never intended to do that in the beginning, you did that. That's what happened. You need to accept responsibility for that, because you're attempting to hold other people accountable while side stepping things that you've said. And I don't mean being rude or whatever, I mean policing a PoC. I don't know if you got caught up in finding another gotchya or what, but it was inappropriate and it was racist.

I'm the same anon who came in earlier saying that I unfollowed juni and mika and supported you, I'm not coming at this from "their" side or whatever. I do think that your heart may of been in the right place at the beginning of this but right now you're too caught up in people calling you racist rather than what you did to earn that. I understand that it's stressful, but it's disappointing to see someone I thought was making sense turn around and try to cover their own tracks instead of owning up.

Again, this isn't coming out of a place of hate and I hope you understand that. But the way you're acting rn is not it. Juni isn't responsible for clarifying a mistake that YOU made. You obviously thought that the issue was important enough to do a callout post about, so treat it with dignity and purpose. Because you did at first, but you haven't been for a while now. I know it's tumblr and it's easy to get caught up in the culture of the site especially when it's an issue that's important to you. But I think you need to take a step back now and reevaluate why you're doing and saying what you are.

i wish that you would dm me bc i’m seriously sick of putting this on my blog and my tl, but i didn’t want u to think i was ignoring this. i posted those screenshots and that was me engaging from a place of thinking someone was white and saying a slur. i don’t think that was out of line, but i do apologize if it hurt or diminished peoples feelings. after that, however, i said repeatedly i am white it is not my place to speak on it. after i started getting death threats and comments ab racism, i did defend myself because i don’t want that attached to my name. i am really done with this discourse and i don’t want to post it on my tl anymore, so if you want to dm me i would have a calm convo w u between us, but otherwise thank you for being calm about the situation and clarifying you weren’t being hateful.

also, i agree it is not my place to say what is right and wrong. but in any case i also believe it is white peoples place to use their privilege to bsck people of color up. that was my intention in the screenshot. after i was proven wrong, i stopped speaking on it. i think it should be simple as that, but people decided to latch this term of racist on me after multiple people, including juni herself, denounced that. when someone told me i should just apologize and tell juni she could use the word, i also said no because again i know that is not my place.

i do wholeheartedly apologize if my actions offended anyone and i know it is not my place to say what is right and wrong which is why i refrained after juni told me she was mexican (which i had the premise to believe she was white). i also know that poc should not have to defend themselves for their place so i want to reiterate that is not what i’m trying to say. i know it’s not my place and i’m sorry if i in any way made it that way. but yea dm if you want but i’m done w the anons now