#also be careful with @ censor it literally tagged the blogs with these names

[alligaytorswamp]

how do u keep being so based!! k@vetham is the bane of my existence like sorry ppl like k@veh with a guy who hates him…he deserves the world actually

listen im just a little hater with based opinions in a big world full of people with bad ones B)

i'm truly happy i'm not alone here 😭

legit i could barely sit thru the ending of alhthm's story quest... he was just so so SO fucking rude and mean and idk????? i felt so bad for kaveh, as you said he literally deserves the world .... ;-;

[syscord-out-of-context]

Welcome !! to syscord out of context !!

[[ TL;DR: We're SOA (it/he), lmk if you wanna be anonymous and we got you, NSFW is fine (no porn tho), no discourse, we're pro-endo, images don't need to be from Discord or free of context. ]]

The collective name and pronouns are SOA and it/its ONLY (hy/hx/he auxillary), NO they/them or it&/you&.

There is already a syscord blog -- in fact it is where we learned the word "syscord" -- but it's anti-endo so thus this blog is born because we think we're hilarious but we often second guess sending screenshots involving PluralKit (especially as an introject) to regular Discord out of context and yk. Non-sysmeds make up a large part of the plural community, come on tales-from-syscord.

That said if you are anti-endo, we. don't care. No matter where you stand, this is a syscourse/discourse free zone, we're here to be silly, not fight.

NOW. Some... guidelines?

NSFW is allowed but nothing too explicit. I'll be using the nsfw and nsft tags though, and pretty loosely.

I will also do my best to tag any triggers (with the '[thing] tw' format). If any post misses something or other that you would like tagged (no matter how specific) you can absolutely ask and we got you.

Per the blog title, context is allowed! You can submit anything you want if it's not blatant discourse or porn pretty much. Again, we're here to be silly.

If you're worried whether or not something will be allowed, feel free to send it to us and ask. And if something submitted breaks the guidelines, we'll let you know too (non-anon asks can be answered privately btw).

Also it doesn't need to be from Discord, really we're just here to have fun, do whatever you want, man. Life sucks but we persist and sometimes we persist by being silly.

ALSO. If you don't want your base account (or any account) to be linked to the submission, just let me know when you submit it (or you can DM it) and I will upload the image for you so you're not connected to it.

Also I don't care what censoring you do or don't do with anything, they're your screenshots. It's largely up to your discretion, we're just the wall upon which you can post your memes.

And I literally don't care who follows me, just don't be a dick and all is good!!

Promo nabbing under the cut (let me know if you want to be untagged).

@fictive-culture @funnier-as-a-fictive @funnier-as-a-system @misc-system-culture-is @plurality-polls @pluralasking @pluralquotebook @plural-culture-is @intuspluric-culture-is @introjectheavy-culture-is @introject-culture @plural-positivity @multi-sourced-culture-is @multiplicity-positivity @multiplicitymemes

[coridallasmultipass]

Personal vent post, how I tag things, apologies for this probably showing up in search results because I'm not censoring words (do not have the spoons rn)

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So I'm getting really frustrated (at the situation, not at individual people! Sorry to vague right after getting a request, I was gonna make this post like a week ago) that multiple people have asked me not to tag Bro/Cal reblogs as Stridercest.

Stridercest does not mean incest, it means Strider/Strider relationship. I'm tagging it for followers who don't want to see Strider/Strider at all (or for those who do, too, I guess). On MY blog, it has NO bearing on whether or not something is incest. Lil Cal has been a Strider since Day 1 to me, way before any of the events after Act 6, as a pure vanilla puppet. A Strider by marriage, in my opinion. But I'm not opposed to calculating the amount of Strider that got put in Lil Cal, as I've done before. You also have Dirk/Hal which is also Stridercest, but not incest (at least in canon, sometimes it is incest in fan depictions). Or Guardiancest, which I don't think counts as incest in canon either (but usually always is in fan depictions). Even selfcest between one Strider (beta!Dave/beta!Dave in a time travel situation, for example) is still gonna be Stridercest to me.

The ONLY Stridercest I add the specific ship tag for is Bro/Cal, because that's otp5eva for me, separate from any other Strider stuff (Stridercest probably doesn't even make top 3 HS ships for me). Everything else only gets the blanket Stridercest in reblogs, because I already tag a lot, I don't have the energy to add nuanced tags for weird Strider situations, and whether or not that constitutes incest, or which version of a character it is, especially when the artist/authors don't usually make the difference explicitly stated in their own caption/tags, and sometimes it's vague on purpose! (I'm currently writing a fic where Bro and Dirk are the same person! I'm not gonna make the distinction a big deal.)

It's mostly frustrating because then I have to decide if untagging the relationship as Stridercest is going to make someone else following me uncomfortable who will then see it untagged.

Going forth, I am going to delete whatever reblog I made if I get this request from someone else again. I'm trying to remember names, so I don't reblog any future content that would conflict with their requests, but this has already happened with three people in like the past two weeks. Had to block one person for telling me to die because I tagged "Stridercest" on the post preventatively, as usual, because I care about tagging for my followers. (I literally checked their blog like 3 times to make sure they didn't have a DNI pinned, and I still got told to die for my efforts lmao.)

Literally, please just DM me privately (thank you to the other people who did, sorry for the trouble!), and I will either delete the reblog, or block you if you request that. I'm not TRYING to make people uncomfortable, which is the whole reason why I tag it to begin with.

So, I'm not un-tagging shit anymore, it's delete only from now on. I'm not going against my own blog rules I set both to try and accommodate my followers, and to make searching my blog easier for myself. (Used to not tag anything from like 2011-2016 or later, and I'm still in the process of back-tagging everything, since it's been so frustrating to find old fandom posts.)

[cometisadragon]

intro post

name: comet

pronouns: anything you want

gender: genderfluid

sexuality: omnisexual

i draw things, sometimes i even post them!

my main fandom changes all the time, but marvel, more specifically the MCU, has me in a chokehold so that’s something you can expect to see a lot of on my blog. i also like my chemical romance, FNaF, LoZ, and several other things i can’t name off the top of my head.

i’m some flavor of neurodivergent, i relate mostly to plenty of autistic and ADHD experiences but have no official diagnosis. i end up in plural spaces online a lot, probably due to my fandom stuff

blog specific info below the cut

i don’t do a DNI list anymore, my general rule is just don’t be gross. if i’m uncomfortable with anyone following me or otherwise interacting with my blog, i can just block them. if you want to know, i’m pretty leftist in my views. i stand with palestine, and i try to be pretty vocal about my beliefs on my blog.

i am NOT comfortable with nsfw only blogs. this only applies to blogs that post strictly nsfw, i don’t care if you post it sometimes because i have those tags filtered anyway. otherwise, i will remove your follow or even block you.

my ask box is always open, as well as my DMs. if you’d like to chat about literally anything and i’m not busy, i’ll probably respond. i’m kinda awkward but whatever. you can tag me in anything you want as well.

if you want to be mutuals, just ask! i’ll probably say yes. i follow most people back anyway.

if you want anything tagged, like triggers, content warnings, or other accessibility things like posts without image descriptions, let me know! i will do my best to make this blog as welcoming as possible.

i don’t shy away from profanity or censor stuff that really shouldn’t need it. i do reblog stuff that has mentions of sex and the like, so if you want it tagged, just ask.

my main fandoms and their tags on this blog:

Moon Knight (both comics and the show), “moon knight”

anything Spider-Man (mostly the animated movies), “spiderverse”

Marvel’s Venom (mostly movies, sometimes comics), “venom”

Daredevil (show), “daredevil”

anything Deadpool related, “deadpool”

i tag my original art with “my art”

i try to tag video posts with “video” for accessibility purposes but i sometimes forget.

if you feel like seeing me on another app/website, i post pretty often on tiktok, my username is cometthedragon and i don’t have a very regular post schedule, but you can find a little more art there.

[notvv0ltz]

[ ABOUT ]

So basically I'm Mem (vv0ltz as an artist name), I draw cartoony shit, mostly OCs Some minifacts: - I use he/him - AuDHD - nby gay aroace-spec - white russian - there's account for horny-posting @ballzicle Basically, that's it

>> Major notes about this blog:

I don't put CWs on caps and swearing, also this means I do it a lot

I'm overall annoying

I usually tag fandoms I reblog

I AM A FURRY!!!!

My long-time special interests: RaC, LBP2-3, my OCs, Tarboy (IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN TARBOY MARRY ME NOW /J)

I have very strong opinions on things. There will be political posts, usually tagged

>> Navigation:

MY ART

OC TAG

RANDOM THOUGHTS

BLOGGING (posts from my neocities)

>> Bunch of opinions on things (not necessary to read, but sometimes I block over these):

Russia's invasion of Ukraine

You should go fucking drown in a swamp if:

1. You do think that Russia has "valid" reasons (you're a fucking nazi then, russians are literally committing genocide of ukrainians)

2. Believe in russophobia

3. Fucking compare russians to jewish people?????? USSR and The Third Reich were literally ✨ the besties ✨ and no I'm talking not just about pact (read this article jesus christ), OH AND ALSO Stalin was very much a fan of Hitler so YES Russia pretty much ALWAYS was a nazi and imperialist state

4. If you cry over "russians DNI"

5. Related to 4, don't ever fucking fight with ukrainians that are venting out about us not in a "censored" way, ESPECIALLY DON'T REPLY WITH "some ukrainians are so mad it scares me" THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO WISH WE WERE DEAD SHUT THE FUCK UP

6. "Not all russians" my ass, go die

Hammer and sickle users

Hammer and sickle in bio bitches don't even try to follow me. I don't support symbols promoting genocides. I literally can't stand you all. Also blocking every marxist-leninist

Flag discourse

I don't care

Rad exclus/inclus

Neither

Ace/aro discourse

Aphobia? Blocked

Fiction discourse

The whole thing is too complex, and I don't want to get fully involved in it. I'd like to say that you need to take a context of who is creating "problematic" content and what is their reason. Side eyeing "proships DNI" because I'm trying to unlearn purity culture

Fandoms

Edit: I don't care anymore lol

Self DX

100% support, but make sure you've read scientific paper aside from personal stories too

Xenogenders, neopronouns

Ur cool

[villains4hire]

🔥

//I think there are limits to everything, but for the most part? So long as it isn't literal fetishistic or normalizing of a subject for blatant kink smut/porn, meaning no matter how dark it is so long as written fine enough and isn't smut/porn/normalizing of it? Then I don't care really, as I know that conflicts with my rules, but I mostly do it for those I've met in the past who use it as a veil or go way over the line into normalizing/porn categories. Those who actually know how to write it or portray it I tend to allow to exist freely in my space- even then, I do not bother those that do go over the line other than block, maybe warn people if it's something truly grotesque smut wise. Callouts are saturated enough along with name-dropping, I avoid it usually.

Not too graphic but long so readmore.

Regardless, I follow many that pursue darker topics or say even slurs and to some extent and even my own characters use slurs, I just avoid racial or homophobic/trans ones mostly to avoid flack or ask to censor/tag them if I do see people using them in an rp with me. So long as the character in question faces some kind of negative portrayal/meets consequences that end extremely negatively for them and the muns in question are both consenting?

//Then I'll be real I don't really care, I use a lot of my own slurs in casual conversation with my closer friends privately. I just don't subject my followers to heavier stuff, of what I'd consider heavier anyway, which honestly might conflict with some views, but again, I don't really care. I know the line I can go in general, though my vb g tag is possibly my only exception to this tag but even in VB they don't drop slurs other than vague ones usually.

//I myself would really only use harder slurs if say writing a book about injustice, as you can't really skirt around how people talk. And you can't sugarcoat it, that's just writing but I'll be honest I don't have the know-how for slurs outside of my own so even then I'm not equipped to handle it imo. I'd consult members of equal rights organizations that are well knowledgeable of the topic to learn, but also even then have them go over my work. Granted, someone not bitch-made about it.

//It's a messy topic that I think should be open and honest about out the gate so blogs can avoid it altogether. It's why I have respect for muns like you for example and a few rpers I know that portray darker tone things or slurs.

[cheliceralbane]

Hi- okay- I’m sorry I keep seeing your og post about Stuilly being a proship and I’m so confused?

Because in every form of media spaces that I’ve been in, it refers to ships that are along the line of incest/🍇/and pedophilloic

And as far as I’m aware, Stuilly doesn’t fall under any of those categories??

So is MY definition incorrect?? (Genuinely asking I promise, I’m just really really confused)

you’re good. first and foremost, ‘proship’ isn’t a noun, it’s a belief. pro is not short for problematic, it’s just the opposite suffix of anti, because ‘anti shipping’ actually came first. let me give you a quick history lesson

so basically this all started because of voltron. in the olden days of fandom there were younger fans who didn’t really get media literacy and they started really disliking a particular ship because of its age gap. they’d frequently harass and attack people who shipped that ship instead of just ignoring it and blocking the person who shipped it/the ship tag. this hadnt really happened much prior. these people started putting ‘anti [ship name]’ in their bio and censuring people who came on their blog who liked the ship. then it spread to other fandoms and became more common, with the term eventually just becoming a broad ‘anti ship’ to refer to any ships that the person personally found distasteful. as a retaliation, others put ‘pro ship’ in their bio to indicate that they wouldn’t censor any ships or art on their blog, and anyone was free to ship what they wanted. if they didn’t like it, they’d ignore it or filter it out.

the thing is, the only people who are actually focusing on incest/age gaps/rape are antis. proshippers literally only care about people being able to ship/write what they want and not be censored, because censoring art is NEVER a good idea (it’ll always lead to censorship of stories about lgbt people, disabled people, women, etc. and was a common practise in ww2). most proshippers find age gap/rape/whatever to be really uncomfortable as well, but they support its right to exist in fiction. the only people who are actively equating anti censorship with sex crimes are antis. there’s also an argument to be made about subjectivity, and if only sexually gratifying content is bad, then what constitutes something being sexually gratifying, wheres the line…

so yes, being a slasher movie fan or a stuilly shipper would make you, in part, a proshipper. since it shows that you have the ability to say « murder is bad in real life, and stabbing your homies for fun is illegal, but this is just a movie and stu and billy are just Barbie dolls for me to smash together. »

it’s not any different for other ‘morally bad’ content. rape is illegal and disgusting, yeah, but so is murder and torture and stalking. the idea that regular violence is fine but sexual violence is somehow inherently different is putting sex on a pedestal and is the belief that contributes to a lot of purity culture and victim blaming. it’s just this generation’s version of satanic panic.

if people have the ability to look at cannibalism or torture portrayed as positive in a movie, and still know that it wouldn’t be okay in real life, then they also have the ability to apply that to literally anything else. its not somehow different if it’s sexual.

thanks for being actually decent, ive gotten a bunch of really fucking nasty shit in my asks overnight and reblogs from people who do NOT understand Tumblr etiquette so this ask was nice to see. if you are who i think you are though, id suggest new friends who don’t ask strangers if they’ve been raped

[akatsuki-shin]

I... I don’t often call out anyone specifically using social media before, but... I saw this among the reblogs in my first post about MXTX novels English release announcement and I feel that this is just too much...

I’m not going to tag this with the fandom tags because this is literally just my personal rant, and I don’t want unpleasant things to appear when people are happily browsing the tags.

I also censored the person’s blog name. It’s not like I want people to mass attack them.

But I do have some things I want to say about this kind of mindset.

And this is gonna be a long post, so I’ll cut it with "Read More” later below as not to disturb anyone’s browsing experience.

Why do they have to split the books into multiple volumes?

First, you do realize that the original Chinese version and other languages versions are also in multiple volumes that don’t always be published on the same date, right?

SVSSS has 3 volumes, MDZS has 4 volumes, TGCF has 5 volumes.

With the English release, both SVSSS and MDZS get +1 volume while TGCF gets +3 volumes.

Why you ask?

Have you ever considered how long a single Chinese word would be if written in alphabets?

The word “人” in Chinese only needs 1 (one) character, while in English it would translate to “P E O P L E” = 5 (five) characters.

The word “知己” in Chinese only needs 2 (two) characters, while in English it would translate to “C O N F I D A N T E” = 10 characters, or “S O U L M A T E” = 8 characters.

Now apply this to an entire novel. FYI, TGCF has more than 1 million word count in Chinese, so you can do the math by yourself.

I mean, just go watch the donghua or live action in YouTube. One single sentence in the Chinese sub is often translated to two or more lines in the English subtitle.

And have I mentioned that the English release will have:

Glossary

Footnotes

Character Guides

And I’m going to repeat this once again: In China and other countries that already get their official releases, it is also NOT always all released on the same date as a single set/box.

So yes, (not) surprise! For the Chinese release and official releases in other countries, you also often need to purchase multiple times, pay shipping fee multiple times, and wait for certain period of times until all volumes are released.

It doesn’t only happen to MXTX novels, it happens to almost all novels, be it danmei or not.

Why don’t they just wait for translations to finish and release it all at the same time/as a box set? Why the span of two years?

On my part, I already say above that in China and other countries that already get their official release, it’s also not always published all on the same date.

Other than that, I’m not an expert at book publishing, much less when the publisher is not from my own country. But maybe consider the following:

They’re releasing 3 (three) hugely popular IPs all at the same time. Maybe the preparations take more time and effort to ensure everything is flawless?

Since it is very rare (or maybe never, cmiiw) for danmei novels to be published in English, maybe the publisher is testing the market first? Because if they already release them as a huge bundle from the start and it somehow flops, the loss would be very big. If it works well, then good! Maybe for future danmei release, they will consider making a box set or releasing them within shorter timeframe. 

In terms of marketing, if they wait another 2 years to release it all at once, will the momentum still be there? You can say “so in the end it’s all about money”, but if not sales number and money, what else should the publisher expect to receive for their work? They’re already putting a lot of effort buying all three IPs from the Chinese publishers, proofread or even translate some from scratch, pay translators, editors, illustrators, printing companies, etc. If it’s not selling well simply because they release it at the wrong time, aren’t all these efforts going to be wasted? And you can bet there will be no more danmei published in English if their first try already flops merely because of losing the momentum.

Are there any other rules or regulations they need to comply that prevents them from releasing everything in one go? But once again, even in China and other countries, it is also not always all released in one go, so this argument is already invalid from the start.

But they make it so expensive like this!

I’m sorry to break it to you, but I’ve compared the prices to MDZS Japanese release + TGCF Thai release and... The price isn’t really that much different.

Btw, I’m using Google’s currency converter, in case anyone wants to know where does my calculation comes from.

Okay, so here’s MDZS Japanese version from CD Japan:

One volume of MDZS Regular ver. cost 1760 yen. This is 15,96 USD before shipping. There’s only like $4 difference.

There’s also the Exclusive ver. that cost 3660 yen (32,92 USD) but we’re not gonna talk about that because they’re basically making you pay for the bonus, which is some acrylic panels and illustration cards.

Now here’s TGCF Thai version from Sense Book:

Translation using Google Chrome page translate:

One volume of TGCF costs 360 baht. This is 10.77 USD before shipping. So there’s about $9.22 difference.

Again, notice the difference of word/sentence length in the Thai words and English alphabet.

"But there’s still difference in price and other releases usually gets merchandise!” - Correct me if I’m wrong, but the US is probably one of the most expensive countries in the world. Do you think the materials, printings, and manpower cost is the same with other countries? Especially compared to one in Southeast Asia.

“But it’s xxxx times more expensive than the original Chinese version!” - Excuse me, the original Chinese version doesn’t need to pay for translators, proofreaders and editors with multilingual skills, and purchase the IPs? If you think it’s more worth buying the Chinese version, then by all means go ahead.

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Some last words...

I’m not looking down on those in difficult financial situation, but hey, I’m not filthy rich either? I come from a third world country and even if I’m a working adult, I’m still in working middle class + I got my parents to take care of. My country’s currency is literally just a tiny 0.000069 USD per 1 Indonesian Rupiah.

Every single fandom merchandise that you see me bought, either I’ve saved up for that or I sacrificed other things to buy that. I just don’t show the struggle to you guys because why should I? I’m just here to have fun about the fandom I love, not to flex my struggling financial condition.

These official English release of MXTX novels? All 17 books are going to cost me almost HALF of my monthly salary. But hey, I think it’s a good thing that they didn’t release it all at once, so that I can save up between months to purchase them all and plan my spending better.

If you feel the price is expensive, especially if you have to ship from outside North America, consider the following:

Book Depository provide free worldwide shipping

The books’ ISBN numbers are all available in the publisher’s website, just show it to you local bookstore and ask if they can order it for you

Plus, there are already hundreds of generous fans doing free giveaways in Twitter, even the publishers are helping to signal boost this. You can go and try your luck if you’re really desperate.

Lastly, I know how much love we all have for our favorite fandoms, but remember that fandom merchandise is NOT your primary needs.

You are NOT obliged to purchase any fandom merchandise if you can’t afford it and you should ALWAYS prioritize your primary needs.

Also, if you still want to read the fan-translations that are still available, alright go ahead. But remember that the translators themselves already said fan translations in English are now illegal. You can read it. We all consume pirated contents at one point. But don’t flex about it and diss the official release just because you can’t afford it.

I don’t know if the person who made that reblog tags are going to come at me or not, but even if they do, I literally don’t care. I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with someone with that kind of mindset and will block them right on the spot.

Also Idgaf if they call me out or talk behind my back, I literally don’t know them, so I don’t care.

End of rant.

[humanesque-xanin]

some stuff before you follow (or skip it, i guess, you might just be surprised later.)

tags, details, and ""dni/byf"" under the cut--it's not actually a dni i just block liberally and you'll probably wanna read if you have one

about me/the blog

hi, i'm a changeling (specifically a xanín). i have a lot of names, and my real name will not be on here, but among others i go by crow, magpie, koraki, and jackdaw. my pronouns are fey/feyr, it/its, me/i, &/&s, 🦷/🦷s, .../...s, and unhinged screaming. i do not have aux pronouns, i do not use he/she/they, don't ask.

i'm also plural and in a system (whether or not i'm the host is none of your business). our body is light-skinned Latine with Indigenous and Spanish/Italian heritage, physically disabled, Autistic, transgender, and queer. i identify as physically a changeling. (i prefer alterhuman, nonhuman, otherkind, alterfolk/ faefolk/ changelingfolk, brood parasite, and fae > otherkin.)

i'm a hellenic pagan in a body that is working on beginning our giyur. i align with nearly all (reform) jewish teachings/beliefs beyond monotheism, and have a very low tolerance for antitheism (not atheism) and antisemitism.

this is a sideblog, so interaction will come from our system blog (safety pins). i don't plan to be active or check this often.

tags

- #human.milk | important informational things, such as term definitions, community resources, and folklore - #eggshell.tricks | personal posts, ie about my identity, experiences, etc - #my.cradle.now | asks/responses - #no.ragerts | discourse posts - #rio.cabra | changeling/fae aesthetic posts and art, stuff that feels like 'home' - #chupacabra | things about Latin culture that feel like my actual literal homeland - #citation.needed | upg and me being on my bullshit - #i.am.the.citation | me on my bullshit but when i actually know what i'm talking about (mainly disability, neurodiversity, queerness, hellenismos, and some related topics)

tws will simply be tagged "#tw subject" and/or "#cw subject", and i will always tag unreality/possible psychosis triggers as "tw unreality" & "unreality".

i will not tw or censor terms i reclaim for myself, images/discussion of trans and disabled bodies, the existence of any marginalized groups, mentions of religions, or the naming of disorders/differences and symptoms. don't ask me to, and do not nonconsensually add tw tags for these on my posts.

(i will however tw for in depth discussion of negative symptoms, trauma, or religion)

not actually a dni

- i'm a minor so do with that what you will. while i'm close to being 18 and the 17/18 difference doesn't really exist (except legally), the teen/adult difference does, so still. - seriously i am not into discourse, don't ask my opinions on it. i may respond to it on occasion, but not a lot. it's overall very toxic and petty. - i'm a cripple punk, dyke, queer, transsexual, spic, autist, hysterical, mad, lame, gimp, fag, transvestite, etc.. if you're against people taking pride in reclaimed slurs and outdated terms, first pick up a history book, but second you might want to avoid me. i will not tw for or censor words i reclaim, if you don't wanna see it put it on your "hide" list. - i'm a rad inclus for everything (mspec lesbians, lesboys, nondysphorics, endo systems, nondisordered systems, non-lesbian dykes, non-gay fags, etc.) and i don't entertain discourse on it - i hate the term d/a and "irl" isn't psychotic exclusive. i am, in fact, delusional myself. but both communities get really shitty to kins, and both spread a fuckton of misinfo on psychosis. i don't care if you have those experiences, but those labels are oof! - narcissistic abuse doesn't exist, stop calling people sociopaths/psychopaths/narcissists unless that is their self identification, its really that easy - f-mboy is a transmisogynistic slur and i will absolutely block non-transfem/amab trans folks ""reclaiming"" it. no, it's not against transmascs or gay men, it literally means tr-p. - shipcourse is ridiculous. if you're militant about literally any side of it, we're probably not going to get along. it's a toxic debate with nothing but miscommunication and pettiness in it, and framing media discourse as "100% anti vs 100% pro and not anti" is a fantastic way to erase literally all nuance - i don't care what your kinks are and find all anti-kink shit to be queerphobic and shitty. but i do 100% expect you to not interact with me from any NSFW or kink blog, and expect you to not fetishize other's non-kink experiences without consent, and will block if you do - being anti sexual abuse/bestiality/map & zoo pride? great, yes, agreed. being anti paraphilia? gross, shitty, and saneist. they're still mental illnesses if you hate them

[whizpurr]

Do not EVER message me about the content of my blog triggering you. If you think this way stop following me. I do not tag things. I am not your mom. Do not follow my blog if you do not like the content. Do not send me LOOOOOOONG stupid as fuck messages talking about how a headless women edit scared and triggered you. I literally do not care. You are a GROWN up too. This is not a child sending me this. I will make this entire blog private and password protected if you people want to continue to harass me with commentary about how to run MY blog (This is not the first idiot to think its their civic duty to tell me something on my blog isnt okay to them lmao dude its not your blog just scroll past) where I can post whatever content I would like that is not breaking the TOS and I have not done that. Grow up. Stop following blogs that trigger you and stop demanding people censor themselves because you are an idiot and don’t know how to take care of your damn self and expect everyone to coddle you like a baby forever. This is tumblr not club penguin or fucking nickjr dot com go away stupid idiot. Also this bitch had 420 in her fucking username???? and her ugly ass bald head in her icon it triggered me it was so ugly and also the weed number is dangerous so she should change her name and her ugly icon so im not afraid!!! hahaha thats how you sound twat.

[purrincess-chat]

In thinking about tags and tagging hate comments, I've realized that not a lot of people know how/what that means, so here is some advice from your local former-salt poster.

If you mention something by name, it will pop up in tumblr search. For instance, if I just say Adrien Agreste, this can pop up when anyone searches for Adrien Agreste, even if I don't tag him (because tumblr is coded by beavers). The easiest way to circumvent this is by breaking up his name with // so Ad//rien Ag//reste or something similar. Alternatively, you can come up with a nickname for whoever or whatever you're talking about so that people who see your post on your blog will know what you are referring to, but it will 100% keep it out of searches. Continuing to use Adrien as an example because people clown on him a lot, you might refer to him as sunshine boy or the cat boy in your posts instead of referring to him by name. Most of my followers know I've adopted this method for a certain other boy in the show, but that's besides the point 😏

That brings us to tagging. Now this is personal preference for me, but I've found it to be effective. Using the same logic as above, if anything in your tags contains a character or ship name, it's going to pop up in the search. All of my Ladrien Wednesday posts pop up in the Ladrien search because they contain the word Ladrien, even though I don't tag them exclusively as "#ladrien". Even if you tag something as "[character] salt" or "anti [ship]" you've still used the name. And while someone could just blacklist that tag, a lot of the time they have to see the content first before they block the tag. The advice I'm giving here is how to keep your posts out of these searches entirely. Personally, I use the same nickname method as above. So, for instance when I wanted to talk about a character I don't particularly care for, I adopted the tag "#blue one salt" for all posts on that subject matter. And ya know what, my posts never popped up in his tags. People who follow me were still welcome to blacklist that tag if they didnt want to see those posts too.

Now all you non-salty people might be saying, "But, Cat, then we will have a million tags to blacklist" and here's the thing: tumblr is at its heart, a curate your own experience platform. What you see directly correlates to who you are choosing to follow, or where you are choosing to look. No one holds a gun to your head and says follow this person or search this tag. If someone posts content you don't like, unfollow them. But if they have established a consistent tagging system, it's then your job to decide what you do and don't want to see. My blacklist is a mile long, but ya know what? I don't see shit I don't want to anymore. Imagine that. It takes maybe 10 seconds to add something to the blacklist.

If other people are being considerate enough to provide you a means, but you're too lazy to use it, that's on you, friend. If someone consistently posts content that bothers you, unfollow them. "But what if I like their fic/art" no one is telling you that you can't tune back in every now and then to check for the stuff you want to see. If it's fic, they likely post it on another platform that has the option to follow or subscribe to a story. If it's art, a lot of people have a personal art tag, or a tag for a particular AU they're doing, or hell even an instagram. Follow those tags.

At the end of the day, regardless of what people do, it's your job to tailor your experience how you want it. Grow up and make those decisions for yourself. Absolutely do not content police. Ask someone to tag something, sure, but never ever say "I don't like this, you shouldn't have posted it" because you could easily just unfollow them.

Personally, I don't care if people like or dislike certain characters/ships, and I feel like a lot of people in fandom don't. What we care about is when you insert those negative opinions into spaces that are meant to be positive. Someone going through the Adrien Agreste tag is likely looking for cute art or fanfic involving him. What they don't want to see is why you think he is a literal spawn of satan. Or whatever you're posting about. And you can argue that they can blacklist tags and curate their own experience, which is true and they should, but you can also choose to not be an asshole and make it easier for them to do so. Because at best people will just block you, but at worst you may start some discourse and get an angry mob in your inbox. We all have to work together in this regard. Salters should be considerate enough to keep their hate out of primary tags, and non-salty people should utilize the filtering/blacklist system available to them to avoid content they don't wish to see.

Be considerate. That's all anyone is asking. Personally, I have no problem with people expressing their opinions on their own blogs, but you need to do so responsibly. Give people the option to see your posts by using proper tagging and censoring. "But Cat, if I don't use main tags how will anyone ever see my posts?" I hear you, but here's the thing: using the main tags won't always attract the people you want on your posts. If your intention is to send out a mating call for other people that think like you, use the ml salt tag (because people perusing that tag are often looking for salt) or join a discord or some shit. There are plenty of them in this fandom. By posting all of your character/ship hate in main tags, all you're doing is clogging the tag, pissing people off, and making fandom less enjoyable for everyone. Just don't be a dick. That's all anyone wants.

[emeraldbabygirl]

Hanbin was accused, Hanbin was cleared

Wonho was accused, Wonho was cleared

Woojin was accused. Woojin is cleared

Illhoon was accused. I believe Illhoon too will be cleared.

I can finally speak out on of the things that has been bothering me since the news broke out. At the time it was very scary and stressful as we were dealing with the wildfires in our state at the same time so I was already having a hard time. Woojin was my bias and I never believed he would do something like that. I know everyone says to believe the victim but innocent until proven guilty is still valid and victims lie, it happens often and we all know how fans and antis get sometimes, just like Wonho and Hanbin people will do anything to throw idols under the bus.

The scariest thing for me to see was how quick everyone was in defending Hanbin and Wonho and how quick the same people threw Woojin away, immediately spreading hate and sending death threat and calling him fake and all these names and just obnoxious behaiver. I understand we were all upset but you can’t just believe someone right away with no evidence and so many holes in their story. And sometimes it’s best to wait it out and then make a decision.

It wasn’t just Woojin that was caught up in the whirlwind, Jungwoo, Chanwoo, Hongjoong, Seonghwa and a few more that I can’t remember were also names thrown out from so many people. Their biggest thing was when they claimed he was a member from the big three, had a w and two o’s in his name. This is not a good statement because for one thing Woojin left Stray Kids and JYP so not only was he out of the big 3 but he’s not the only one with those letters in his name. Jungwoo and Chanwoo are also under the big three and have a w and two o’s in their names.

Back when it was so big on Twitter the Jungwoo tags were all stating that Woojin was innocent but the Stray Kids tags were saying he was guilty. Even the supposed person themselves posted one last tweet before delete the account stating it was all fake but no one took that screenshot so people were led to believe it was all fake

And then on the bullying, I’ve seen a lot of videos saying ‘this idol bullying this group’ or ‘this group bullying this member for 8 minutes’ and multiple videos being taken out of context and people claiming that since Woojin doesn’t speak a lot in some videos it’s proof he doesn’t get along and the member don’t like him. Y’all that’s not how things work. Just because you aren’t fully engaged in an activity or if you aren’t getting along doesn’t make you a bully or a bad person, Woojin was going through his own shit and idols lives are hard enough, if they feel out of it sometimes it’s not okay for us to immediately accuse them of such things like ‘they don’t like their members, they don’t get along, they are bullies.’

Idols live together and are around each other often so what you might see as “bullying” might just be them goofing off I mean ffs there is a video titled ‘ATEEZ bullying Seonghwa’ and y’all fine with that because they are only goofing around and teasing each other but you automatically assume from any footage or out of context video of Woojin playing with and teasing the members that he’s a bully. Why are you putting double standards on this? Bullying is a very serious accusation and rumors and spreading false information or any information with no evidence can ruin an idols careers. Tara and Co-Ed School unfortunately we’re big examples of this. The Tara bullying scandal ruined those girls and all the rumors and accusations caused Co-Ed School to disband before anyone could say everything was false. You have to be careful with what you say and what you hear and see cause if it’s not true and everyone believes it is you ruined a whole idols career before it can even be fixed.

Ok so, yes I know everyone says “the victim is always right” and it’s okay if you want to believe that but remember there are two sides to every story and both parties are valid until further evidence or actual evidence and you are able to prove whether or not something actually happened. I had some other things to say but I’ll let those slide and it doesn’t matter not because Woojin is innocent and it’s great news. I’m so relieved because he was my bias and I was so heartbroken when he left and when I heard about the trouble he was going through. I was so afraid to even say Woojin because everyone was censering it, acting like it was a bad name and that’s not fair on Woojin himself and it’s also not fair on the other idols named Woojin because there are at least 5 Woojins so for people to be doing that is like, you’re invalidating the other Woojin’s just because you think one Woojin is bad. Seeing people tag Woojin like w***** or w**jin and woojail and tw woojin is really upsetting and that’s not okay, that’s like bullying, calling him woojail is not okay at all. Pretending his name is a trigger when it’s not and if his name was a trigger than all the idols named Woojin would have that and censoring his name, again you’re invalidating all the other woojins. And everyone that says “ot8 or get the fuck out” or “if you still support Woojin fuck off” like..he’s literally fucking innocent. It was a bunch of Brazilian antis that started all the lies and rumors and after all the stories that don’t make sense and people still think he’s guilty and they are still sending him hate and being absolute assholes towards him. If you don’t want to believe that he’s innocent, if you don’t want to like him fine. Don’t talk about him don’t make a bunch of woojail posts, don’t send him hate or death threats because you’re 1. Making things worse and 2. Care enough about him to make his life miserable which is exactly what antis do and what those antis did. It pisses me off and upsets me how fast everyone just turned on him and they continue to bully him and send him unnecessary hate. Also it’s ok to tag Stray kids and Woojin because he was a member of Stray Kids so don’t give people shit for tagging Stray Kids.

So I’m gonna end this posts educating y’all about the multiple Woojins and it’s okay to say and spell Woojin you guys. It’s alright, you won’t get in trouble. So Woojin, my boy who I miss so so much Kim Woojin who was in Stray Kids, there’s my Thot Woojin from Target, an amazing rapper btw, I do believe there is a Woojin in AB6IX and of course there is the hot Woojin from My.st who just has this whole vibe to him that is dead sexy. Also the Woojin from Teenteen/Ghost9 and also also your gurl found a sexy man, despite me not being into body builders, I found a man on Insta named Kim Woojin and he is definitely a fucking snaCC. So thanks and enjoy the Woojins. I can get back to making my memes again. I’m just sad that I believed and jumped to conclusions and deleted some Woojin posts. But I stopped myself before I deleted all of them

ALSO ALSO recently it’s been pointed out how did Woojin has been and someone described it as what Jonghyun looked like before he left us. Woojin is my boy and I’ve been worrying about him ever since he left Stray Kids and I swear on god Hui and my camera roll if he hurts himself in any way or we lose another wonderful person I will blame Bangchan. I will blame Felix, I will blame JYP and I will blame everyone that started the rumors, the lies, the people that sent Woojin mean messages, death threats, bullying him because you don’t need to like an idol no matter what they do but bullying them and sending unnecessary hate to them is not ok no matter what they did. Even if it’s bad just ignore it because you sending them mean comments doesn’t make you any better. I was already pissed off at fans and everyone else and Bangchan and Felix for all the mean comments and everything else they were doing and I’ll be even more pissed off if this whole situation was too much for him on top of his depression and he ended his life.

Ok you know what, I’m so fucking pissed off over these posts I’m seeing on tumblr and I’m upset and I’m still having thoughts on whether or not I should post this but you know what. I don’t care. It’s my blog, it’s my opinion and it’s my feelings that I need to get off my chest. Kim Woojin is innocent and if I get any hate of any kind my stomach will do flips but y’all should know better especially if you don’t agree with me so have fun I guess I’ll probably delete or block you so I don’t have to hear your meany-ness. It’s my opinion, my post and my blog and if you don’t like it then I have nothing to say to you.

[reddiefic-anon12]

TW for sexual assault, CSA, rape, incest and murder.

I don’t know how to start this but I am 99% sure that my fic is currently in the middle of some tumblr drama. The fic isn’t named (so I won’t name it either) but there aren’t many fics like this one so I can pretty confidently say that it’s mine.

Firstly I want to apologise to anyone who has gotten upset/trigged if they read my fic. This was never my intention which is why my fic is tagged heavily with anything I could think of. But truly, to anyone who was hurt by my fic I am sorry.

I am also not going to talk about the sever becuase I wasn’t in it. I don’t know what happened aside from the screenshots. From the looks of it, an accident happened and it was dealt with. 

I didn’t even know that my fic was apart of this drama. I only follow one person involved in anyway with this drama so it was a shock to log on this morning and see that people are getting hate for reading my fic. 

This is the part that confuses me the most. @liamannt and @creamykaspbrak didn’t write this fic and the screenshots I saw didn’t show them glorifying or hyping my fic. One message called it disgusting, which yeah, it is. I understand that people can’t send me hate on here but you could have directed the hate towards my comment section instead of to innocent people? 

I’ve also seen the post which is discussing my fic. Hate it if you want, that doesn’t bother me especially given the dark subject matter but don’t lie about me to justify it. One quote that I saw it “a fic which was based around the sexual exploitation of toddlers by their parents. This was not a fic about recovery or trauma, it was written for sexual pleasure detailing the abuse of the children.” And yes, the sexual assault of both R*chie and Ed*ie (censoring so this doesn’t come up in searches) is a central part of the story. It’s about the abuse - sexual and emotional - that they suffer at the hands of M*ggie and W*nt. 

I’d even argue that the fic isn’t about recovery becuase it’s not happy! They don’t recover after all this. R, especially in later chapters, is worse than his parents. That’s the point. It’s about a child being raised in an extremely awful environment and what happens to him, his relationships with his friends and family and with E. 

But this fic is not for sexual pleasure. It is not written to be enjoyed. It’s supposed to be a dark, scary and uncomfortable story. It’s also not glorifying the abuse of the kids. One of the ways this is achieved is by writing it in R’s (and occasionally E’s) POV. He sees nothing wrong with it becuase of how he’s been raised, E sees nothing wrong with it because M*ggie emotionally manipulates him into seeing nothing wrong with what they do. The abuse is also not detailed, in fact R glosses over it a lot becuase he’s a child and doesn’t understand

A lot of the comments I get, especially earlier on when R wasn’t as aware of his situation and thus narrated it in a such a way, discussed how they disliked S*nia more than the Toz*ers because her abuse is much more obvious to a child-minded R and therefore the audience becuase of how it’s written. Even though S*nia is no where near as bad as the Toz*ers who are literally serial killers raised R and E to be like them. Again, that’s the point. Because R doesn’t like S*nia so the audience gets a negative view of her becuase it’s from his POV. Again, this fic is a horror. 

The purpose is to make you uncomfortable BECAUSE you side with R. 

This story is a psychological story, meant to be scary and make you sick to read (and write) told through an unreliable narrator who doesn’t see things as bad - sexual assault, both being the victim and abuser, and murder - while the reader does see those things as bad. 

The tumblr user who wrote this post might have gotten that if she had read it, as she said in her post: “I did not read this work.”

Another user said “The fic in question is a heinous rape fic where parents have sexual relationships with toddlers. That fic is NOT about navigating or exploring trauma. It’s straight up csa porn. I read the first chapter or maybe two, to see if it was about something other than sexy child rape, and it’s not! And guess what! I didn’t tell anyone about it or advertise it in any way because it’s disgusting.”

We’ve already discussed the first part - it is about exploring trauma and abuse but it is not about recovery. The sexual parts aren’t detailed, more often than not they’re referenced (not every time - there are more detailed scenes-, especially when it’s just R and E even as kids). 

And no one is meant to see this as sexual, and from my comments no one does. @bimmyshrug discusses the fic and is practically perfect in her analysis of how I wanted it to come across. Whether you agree or not is a different matter.

But again, they say they only read 2 chapters in (at most) and the first two chapters features no CSA. Murder and abuse, yes. Which would justify the disgusting comment but don’t call my fic ‘sexy child rape’ just because you don’t like it. 

(the fic also has 21 chapters now and will finish with 24 so I don’t see why people are making such point-blank statements with one or two chapters worth of info) 

Reading and enjoying a story with dark material doesn’t mean you condone that material. We’re a fandom based on a book about child murder but none of us support murdering children. 

This is a long post but I’m going to sum it up now. If you don’t like my story or even hate it; that is fine, understandable and I don’t mind nor care. Send hate to me if you want on this blog. But stop sending hate/lying/making up rumours/whatever against other people just becuase they read it/shared it. 

(I don’t know how I’d prove that I’m the author but I can if needed.)

[storieswrittcnarc]

ALRIGHT SINCE SOME OF Y’ALL CAN’T READ RULES, I’M PINNING THIS TO THE TOP OF MY BLOG SO U GOT NO CHOICE.

Hello. My name is Ares (formerly known as snow - please do not call me Snow). He/him pronouns please. 21+ and prefer to interact with those 18+. This blog is mutuals only and semi selective. I’m autistic, so i will be blunt, to the point where it may seem mean. i’m sorry in advance, i don’t mean it in any bad way, it’s just who i am.

Before we get started, I don’t write on discord. I do have it for ooc purposes though

I have had a callout on me in the past, people are STILL obsessed with me. I make no apologies for the things I’ve written as it has been FICTION. I will say one thing though - I have never ever written pedophilia, no matter what the callout says are “proves”. It was an aged up verse and it was written nearly a year ago anyway. Believe me, don’t believe me, I don’t give a fuck. If you don’t like me - block me. I will not apologize for fiction nor will I blame you for keeping yourself safe. I’m sorry if this seems harsh but I’m sick and tired of the bullshit. And since I know the people who are still obsessed with me will be reading this - call me out 100 times, I don’t care. You’re literally accomplishing nothing.

Call out culture: I want no part of it. Unless someone is being actively harmful and predatory, I want no part of it. Even then, I will not reblog it, and will block and go on my way. Call-out culture does more harm than good and I do not wish to be a part of it, leave me out of it.

Anon hate will be blocked and deleted, don’t even bother.

All muses within ships or involved in smut are 18+. Aged up verses may happen. I’m not writing pedophilia by aging people up and if you think I am, kindly get off my blog.

DO NOT USE ME AS A MEME RESOURCE.

There is rather dark topics present here. I will be handling these as delicately as possible but I will not be censoring myself from anything I wish to write. Just because I write them does not mean I condone them or am forcing them upon anyone/promoting them in any way, ya’ll pls don’t be gross in rl. This includes, self harm, implications of sexual assualt and dealing with the trauma that comes with it, incest, suicidal ideations, toxic ships, among various other things.  Please understand this. Tags will be provided for you to blacklist and no one is forcing you to follow me.

Shipping - I’m a multishipper and yes I ship toxic and incest pairings. If you want to ship an pairing like that, let me know or like the shipping call for that character. I’m not opposed to it but I also will NEVER force anyone into it.

I’m mutuals only. Do not message me if we’re not mutuals, do not send me memes, you will be blocked for disrespecting both me and my rules. However, you ARE welcome to send me headcanon prompts.

No drama. I’m not here to have drama on my blog. This is a stress-free, drama-free blog. Anon hate will be deleted. Callouts will get you blocked. It’s different if it’s a callout over actual predators but call out over things like fiction aren’t okay. Drama gives me anxiety, no one wants that.

I do not believe in policing people. If I see you policing people's blogs whether it's their portrayal, the things they write, etc, or you try to police me, you will be blocked.

Please specify a muse when sending something in.

Multiple threads with one person is okay!

Triggering material will be present. They will be tagged in the format of (trigger here) tw. I will write dark subject matter if I want to. I will write whatever I want, whenever I want. If I get hate about anything I write, it will be blocked and so will you. The few things that I will NOT write is pedophilia

My triggers are visuals of sharks and the c*nt word, please tag and avoid this word with me, thank you

NSFW is allowed and tagged simple as nsfw. I’m not really comfortable writing the dominant party in smut. So that probably won’t be a thing i do unless it’s like with m/f ships and even then i’m not sure if i can. If you don’t like that, you don’t have to smut with me.

I write all my muses as bi/pan/demi unless they are canonically gay because we’re not erasing that yo. Huge multi-shipper, I can probably ship just about anything (except for adult/minor ships) so feel free to ask to ship!

I don’t mind ooc talk, feel free to talk to me, I don’t bite.

Feel free to send as many memes as you want. Just specify muse when sending in. 

Writing: i prefer longer detailed threads such as multi-para and novella.short threads - as in one-liners to one paragraph threads - will probably be dropped

I’m not a fast rper. Some replies may wait months, if you can’t handle that, do not write with me

If I block/soft block/unfollow you please do not come to me asking why. Please respect that I’m mutuals only or that will get you blocked too.

Rules are subject to change.

[violetsmoak]

Pieces of April [5/?]

AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21099044/chapters/50202530

Summary: On the anniversary of his death, Jason’s second life takes an abrupt new turn and he’s faced with a challenge that neither Batman nor the All-Caste prepared him for.

Rating: PG-13 (rating may change later)

Warning(s): Past Jason/Isabel, kidfic, minor canon character death (pretty sure you can guess who, not either of our boys!), I’ll add more warnings/tags as I think of them.

Canon-Compliance: Takes place in between the two RHATO series, so after Roy and Kori and before Artemis and Bizarro.

Author’s Note: And now, for a change in POV!

First Chapter

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Of course, right after Jason leaves, the baby wakes up.

And starts to wail.

Tim freezes, all of his reflexes seemingly dissolved by the unyielding sound that such a tiny creature should not be able to produce.

Whatever Jason said about him being calm, in actuality, he’s completely freaked out over this whole baby thing.

Over the whole Jason’s baby thing.

This whole situation is just not in his area of expertise, nor does it require any of his previous training. And he can’t really see a situation where, on the infinitesimal chance Jason decides to give up vigilantism and become a stay-at-home-dad, he’d ever ask Tim of all people to babysit.

But then, right now, Jason’s not here.

The nurse from earlier returns, offering him a sympathetic look.

“It’s about time for her next feeding,” she tells him. “Do you want us to take her, or would you like to do it?”

Take her, please, Tim wants to say but bites his tongue.

He wasn’t talking out of his ass when he acknowledged that babies needed to be held. Human contact is good (even if that wasn’t basic medical knowledge, his own semi-neglected childhood can attest to that) and he all but volunteered himself for this to help Jason. He should at least do what he can.

Holding down the fort apparently includes holding down the baby…

“If you could just show me…?” he suggests, a sheepish smile pasted on and hopefully hiding his inner unease.

As expected, the woman’s expression turns into a mixture of amused and charmed. She chatters, motioning for him to take the chair Jason was sitting in before; Tim sits and lets her arrange the baby in his arms, showing him a light, gentle rocking motion to try to calm her.

“I’ll be right back with her formula,” the nurse says, though Tim barely hears her over the furious wailing.

He squints down at the scrunched-up face, trying to figure out how he ended up in this situation. Also, what exactly possessed him to call Jason his partner?

Because it’s the first believable thing to come to mind that didn’t involve spontaneous resurrections?

And technically, it’s even true. Sometimes.

And he was worried about Jason.

They may not be brothers, but they are family, and with that comes a certain awareness of each other. He knew the minute he saw Jason outside the dive bar that he was freaked out. He decided he would help him then, and he’s not about to back out now even if things have become way more complicated than anticipated.  

The nurse returns with the bottle of formula, and as soon as she’s explained how to properly position and feed the baby—apparently there’s more to it than just sticking a synthetic nipple in her mouth and waiting for her to chug—and prevent gas, she vanishes again.

To allow them “bonding” time.

Not what I thought I’d be doing when I got up this morning…

Tim’s done the baby thing before—sort of. But Steph’s daughter was bigger when she was born. Jason’s is tiny, and Tim is half expecting her to break into pieces before his eyes. Whatever manufactured confidence he had before, had been in the moment—and mostly for Jason’s benefit.

It had been imperative to get the infant out of the other man’s arms while he was clearly on the verge of a panic attack. Especially since no one ever knows how a cornered Jason Todd might react.

Not that I think he’d ever hurt an infant, but he doesn’t exactly process shock the way normal people do. It never hurts to have contingencies.

As he watches the baby guzzle her formula with surprising gusto, Tim finds himself going over a mental list of things that have to be dealt with if they’re going to get through life’s latest curveball more or less intact.

Paperwork for the baby. Arrangements for the mother’s body.

Isabel Ardila.

He knows her name only from the files as the woman Jason was seeing prior to the Joker’s last assault on the bats. She was caught in the crossfire, forcibly dosed with heroin to play on Jason’s past traumas, and following her recovery, ended things with Jason.

Or Jason ended things with her, Tim’s not sure. He never asked and he doesn’t intend to.

However it ended, clearly there was enough estrangement that she didn’t bother to tell Jason he was a father. It’s a decision he can, unfortunately, imagine the reasons for, even if he’s not sure he agrees with them.

Not like we can do anything about that decision now, though.

The baby slowly goes limp in his arms, and Tim has a brief moment of irrational, paranoid panic—has she been drugged?—before realizing she’s just fallen back asleep.

“Right. Because that’s a normal thing that babies do,” he murmurs to himself, and carefully maneuvers himself over to her crib to put her down on her stomach, like he’s seen in countless television commercials.

Then, uncertain, he pulls his phone out of his pocket and does a quick internet search, balking at the sheer amount of SIDS related articles, and scoops her up again to reposition her on her back.

Should probably tell Jason about that when he gets back…

Assuming Jason comes back.

Or even wants his help.

Which, Tim decides, he’ll offer anyway. Though that may mean playing to his strengths more than anything, preparing for every eventuality and having a series of back-up plans.

He highly doubts Jason’s thinking of any of that right now.

Phone in hand Tim begins typing quickly, pulling up tabs in his search engines for whatever concern pops into his head as he reads.

He suspects Jason is too uneasy about the whole situation to want to keep the baby, so Tim’s going to have to research adoption agencies through official and unofficial channels.

Open or closed, not sure what option he’d go with.

And then, there’s always the small chance he will keep his child. It’s a possibility that seems as likely as Bruce’s sudden predilection for joining the Russian ballet, but stranger things have happened in the family.

He skims through several forums and advice blogs for how to care for a newborn, makes a list of important supplies they might need in the immediate future and forwards it to Tam.

It’s several minutes later that his phone chimes, notifying him of her list of replies.

- Why the hell did you send me a list with diapers?

- Is this for a baby?

- Omg, did you kidnap a baby?

- Is that a thing that happens?

-First ninjas, now baby-napping?

Tim sighs and rolls his eyes. Normally he’d find her bemused and slightly-panicked responses a little amusing, but he doesn’t have the energy to go into details, even if Jason hadn’t sworn him to secrecy.

-A friend of mine has an emergency. Drop everything off at my apartment, please.

There’s a beat, another chime, but Tim doesn’t get a chance to read the message as his screen suddenly switches. The air is filled with a generic ringtone that Tim hastily mutes, eyes flicking to the baby and back to his screen. The number flashes ‘Unknown’, but Tim recognizes the number from earlier that day.

He stands, wanders away from the crib to answer quietly. “What is it, Harper?”

“Jay called me,” the older man says without preamble. “Told me everything. About the kid, about Isabel.”

“Yeah,” Tim agrees quietly. “I’d say shock is an understatement.”

“No shit.” He sighs. “Listen, I talked him down as much as I could, but the rest is on you.”

“What? Why?”

“He says you’ve been helping him.”

“For now, until someone more qualified comes along,” Tim retorts, implication heavy in his voice.

Roy catches it because he lets out a bitter laugh. “Sorry to burst your bubble, bird boy, but that ain’t gonna be me.”

“What are you talking about? You’ve been in literally the same situation.”

“And I can’t right now. So I need you to be there for him.”

“He needs his friend,” Tim argues. “And he’s made very clear I’m not one of those.”

“Then you'd better become one fast, because I can’t.”

“Why the—” Tim’s eyes flick to the infant, and he can’t help giving in to the impulse to censor himself, lowering his voice, “—heck not?”

“Because I’m in a bad place right now,” Roy snaps. “I’m not in a good way for being around a kid, okay? I…” He pauses, like he’s weighing something, and then exhales. “I…fell off the wagon again.”

Tim's stomach sinks. 

“Roy…”

“Don’t tell Jaybird,” Roy orders. “I just…I need to sort myself out before I can be any kind of help for him. I show up there now, I’ll just add to his problems.”

“But—”

“This is you being tagged in, okay? Don’t fuck it up.”

There’s a harsh click in Tim’s ear, leaving him listening incomprehensively to the dial tone for several seconds.

“Are you…are you kidding me?!” he hisses after a moment, only just refraining from throwing his phone across the room in frustration.

He didn’t realize before Roy’s call just how much he was counting on someone else to step in and take over in the emotional support department.

I’m not cut out for this. This sort of thing…it should be Dick. Or Alfred.

He spends the next hour once again reviewing what he did to get roped into all this.

When Jason comes back—and something inside Tim unknots in relief that he did come back—he’s as ashen-faced as before. This time, though, there’s a determined set to his shoulders.

They stand and stare at each other in silence for a good five minutes before Tim realizes Jason’s waiting for him to speak first.

Right. Tagged in. Let’s do this. Ease into it.

“So, what are you going to do?”

Tim winces.

Yeah, that wasn’t exactly subtle.

Jason doesn’t seem to notice the awkward, though.

“No idea,” he replies heavily, leaning against the doorjamb and letting his head thunk lightly against it.

“Social Services is obviously an option.”

“No way in hell,” Jason snaps, straightening up and looking fierce. “I don’t trust them. And you can’t tell me with all the Wayne resources you’ve got access to, we can’t find something better.”

Tim expected that. He might not have had the exact same harrowing experiences with foster care as Jason did, but his very brief stint left him with a hint of that same disillusion with the system.

It’s not something I’d wish on any kid, least of all Jason’s.

“We can look into it. Organize the best possible adoption scenario without dealing with Social Services. There are actually a lot of couples in the community who would be willing to adopt.”

“No. This kid isn’t growing up anywhere near capes or masks or stuff like that.”

Okay, that’s understandable. It also makes it less likely he intends to keep her.

“Whatever we do, it will take some time,” Tim cautions. “Placing a child with a family isn’t going to be as easy as sticking someone in Witness Protection.”

Jason snorts and shakes his head. “Only you would think that’s easy.”

“So, now that that’s figured out—what are you going to do once the tests are finished?” Tim asks, focussing on the practical. “I don’t find a family within the next day or so, you’re going to need to bring her somewhere. Assuming you’re adamant about keeping the rest of the Family out of this?” That receives only narrowed eyes in response. “Stupid question, sorry. But she’s going to have to stay somewhere until then. I wouldn’t recommend leaving her here at the hospital, for a number of reasons.”

Jasons frowns, thoughtful. Then,

“I’ll keep her for now,” he decides with a heaviness that Tim suspects is caused more by fear than dislike of children. “Until we find a better place for her. Some family that won’t mind doing this in private.”

“Okay,” Tim nods. “On that note—where exactly will you take her?”

Jason falters, looking like he’s not entirely sure what to say to that.

“I…my safehouses aren’t exactly babyproofed.”

“I don’t think that’s an issue until they start crawling,” Tim replies, trying for humor but the very idea sparks another flash of panic in Jason’s eyes. He’s looking at Tim now with something dangerously close to expectance, and a realization hits Tim.

He doesn’t want to be alone with this.

And it’s the fact he’s never seen Jason look so vulnerable that sparks a truly terrible idea.

I’m so going to regret this.

“I have a spare bedroom,” he offers, earning a sharp glance from Jason. “Just until you wrap your head around this and figure out the next move.”

He half expects Jason to scoff, or laugh in his face or say something insulting.

It’s decidedly worrying when the only thing that happens is Jason’s shoulders slump and he nods.

Jason’s shoulders slump, and he nods.

“Yeah. Yeah, that would be…good. Thanks, Drake.” He pauses, considering something, and then adds, “Tim.”

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A letter to my followers:

     First of all - Thank you. Thank you so much for having followed my art account and leaving wonderful comments and sending sweet messages. Every single note and comment praising my art is cherished. You guys are so incredibly supportive - I love all of you!

     That said, I’m sure many of you are aware I haven’t posted anything on my art blog in a few months. When Tumblr began the mass-censoring of innocent content, I declared that this was the final straw and that I would no longer be using Tumblr to post my art.

This is still true.

     I do not plan to come back to Tumblr as a platform for my art... But I wanted to take some time to address the messages I have been receiving since I left, as well as explain why I feel the need to stay off of Tumblr. Please think of this as a Q/A post.

“If you really plan to stay off of Tumblr, why didn’t you delete your art blog?”

Because I don’t want anyone else to use my domain name. UdonArt is the brand name that I chose for myself, and I don’t want it to be used by someone else in case someone looks for me here. I want them to see the links to my active media sites. 

“There are other artists posting on here, and their stuff is showing in the tags! Won’t you consider coming back?”

This may be true for those artists. However it is important to me to include links to my other social media in my art posts, and as of right now Tumblr still auto-censors posts in the tags with links attached. Some of you may have seen my posts ranting about Tumblr’s broken tag system in the past. I have had problems getting my posts to show in the tags for years - long before the mass-censoring began. I researched all the possible reasons that my art wasn’t showing up in the tags and followed all the advice. I even wrote a letter to the support staff asking for help - they responded with the same list of things that I’d explicitly stated I’d already tried... Then they closed the ticket as if it was fixed. Tumblr is fundamentally broken and inconsistent in many ways. 

“You said you moved to Pillowfort, but you almost never post on there.”

Correct. There’s a few reasons why... Pillowfort is still a fledgling website and as such it does not have the same capacity for image file size or number of images you can put in a single post. As a result, a lot of my art literally can’t be posted on that website because 1) The files are too big, or 2) It’s a comic that has more than 3 panels (you can only post 3 images in one post). 

Going off of this, I currently don’t have a desktop website that I can comfortably call home for my art. But if I find one in the future, I’ll be sure to let you guys on here know about it. 

“You’re really active on Instagram, but I don’t have/want Instagram because it’s too easy for people to steal your art on there.”

It’s true - reposters are all over Instagram. But the fact of the matter is, my art was being stolen and reposted onto Instagram long before I even made an account on there. Now that I’ve built a presence on there, more people are recognizing my work as mine - in fact, people alert me when they see my work reposted without credit. I have also started watermarking my work, which helps. 

Tumblr’s system of reblogging is great because it keeps the op as the source, but as I said earlier... this site is broken in so many other ways. I’ll be lucky if people even see my work at all! 

For those of you who might say that’s not true, I have the numbers to back it up:

I started this art blog at the exact same time as my art Instagram. It’s been a little over a year since then, and here’s the facts: My art Instagram got 3 times the number of followers as my art Tumblr. A post on my Instagram was consistently getting 6 to 10 times the number of notes as the exact same art post on my Tumblr. 

I repeat: Tumblr is broken.

On the topic of Instagram, some of you have said you don’t like it because it’s too small for you to look at my art on your phones. You can view my Instagram on your computer as well. Just go to Instagram’s website and search for me - you’ll be able to see all my stuff!

“It sounds like all you care about is the numbers... That’s kind of selfish.” (My own brain supplied this one - no one sent me an ask like this)

Every single like, reblog, comment, and message is cherished. The ONLY thing that made it hard for me to leave Tumblr was all of you! Your devotion and support for me touches my heart and I’m eternally grateful for it! The problem is not you guys - it’s Tumblr as a platform. I’m trying to grow myself as a brand, and exposure is important. And while our community was lovely, it really wasn’t growing. All of your encouraging comments about my art are so so appreciated, and I would never take those for granted. But it’s frustrating as an artist to post your art knowing that it won’t reach nearly the number of people that it should. At the end of the day, maybe it is selfish... But I’ve honestly been sick of this website for quite a while. I barely even use my personal blog anymore. Tumblr is great in theory... But this website is managed so poorly that it’s ruined. 

To all you Anons that sent me goodbyes and well-wishes:

I nearly cried reading some of your messages. I’m sorry that I didn’t take the time to answer each one individually - I just didn’t want to sound like a broken record saying that I’m thankful over and over again. Thank you so so much for your devotion! It really touches my heart!

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     Lastly, I would like to request something of you all. Please don’t send me more messages asking me to come back. It breaks my heart every time I receive a message like this, but I’m trying to stay strong to what I’ve decided. It honestly breaks my heart to even ask this of you guys, but I’m asking it as favor to me. If you really love my art, please go check out my other platforms on Instagram and Twitter. Please remember that I love all of you, and you’re welcome to message me anytime to chat or catch up! 

Much love, Kendra | UdonArt