#bib speaks

[bibliophilea]

So... this isn't the first time I've seen people being incredibly mean to a whole section of the phandom. It's the first time in a while I've seen a post this bad in the main "danny phantom" tag, though. I have Thoughts™ that have been stewing for a while. Thoughts™ that shouldn't be put in the tags of someone else's post.

I'm not going to link anything. These are just my thoughts, raised to the forefront by recent posts in the main tag.

TLDR: I have two main Thoughts™:

No matter what you ship, I welcome you to this phandom. The folks who openly despise real people for shipping fictional things do not represent all of phandom. Y'all deserve better than being called shitty names. Your ships do not make you a bad person, and I personally welcome you.

To y'all who keep trying to draw a line in the sand to define who is "degenerate" or whose work is "degenerate": the moment you draw that line, you create a way for others to shove people behind that line. And the folks who usually get shoved behind that line and called "degenerate" are lgbtqia+ folks, and sa/csa survivors. It's happened before on LiveJournal and FFN, and it's happening now, irl, with book bannings across the USA (and especially in Florida). The only way to protect lgbtqia+ folks and sa/csa survivors from this abuse is to not draw a line in the sand at all. Don't call folks "degenerate" for any reason, unless you're ready to have that finger pointed back at you by a larger and more negative movement.

If you desire fuller context, it's below the cut.

First: no matter what you ship, I welcome you to this phandom.

The views of hatred and disgust that pop up in this phandom don't represent all of phandom. No fandom is perfect, and we'll always see some form of the "logic of disgust" from some folks in any fandom. But no matter what you ship, and whether or not I personally ship it, I welcome you. You will find no disgust from me as I am now.

If you dig backwards into my blog, you might find some anti sentiment. My introduction to fandom was first FFN, and then tumblr, back when I was more of a black-and-white thinker. I'm pretty sure I experienced some form of shock when I really started digging in to the Wild West that is fandom. I don't know if I ever expressed this shock online. But none of you deserve to be called "degenerates" over liking whatever fictional content you like. Y'all are a part of phandom, too, and any attempts to erase you or deride you are wrong.

We shouldn't be drawing lines in the sand and throwing people behind those lines. That's dangerous.

Second: to y'all who keep drawing lines in the sand, please consider the broader context around you.

The moment you draw a line in the sand to delineate between you and your group of people, and "them" and their group of "degenerates", people find ways to shove other folks, including you and your folks, behind that line. Historically, both in fandom and outside of fandom, the folks who get shoved ALWAYS include lgbtqia+ folks, and sa/csa survivors. We saw this with the purging of LiveJournal. We saw this with the multiple purges of FanFiction.Net. We haven't seen this with ao3, as far as I know; but their stance seems to be very anti-censorship for fandom-historical reasons.

Outside of fandom, we are seeing this now. I'm doing my senior capstone project on book bans. According to PEN America's data, over the past school year alone, 154 counties in 34 states have banned 1557 books 3362 times overall. Over 40% of those bans come from Florida counties. And much of the "reasoning" behind these bans is the same logic of disgust that fandom applies to "problematic ships": They call it pornographic and pedophilia. They call it harmful and age-inappropriate. They largely target books about lgbtqia+ people and people of color. And this year, they've also targeted "books on physical abuse, health and well-being, and themes of grief and death" - expanding their censorship to "protect the children".

Censorship doesn't protect anyone. Instead, it prevents people from holding genuine conversations with real people about the censored material.

And if you're not ready to have that conversation, that's fine! You do you! But don't create an environment where other people can't have that conversation. That only breeds the sort of black-and-white thinking that leads to 1406 book bannings in the state of Florida.

This is just speculation on my part: but I reckon every single person who supports those bans would love to ban the same content you want censored. And they'd call for you and the content you love to be lumped in with them.

We all deserve better than that. So please stop drawing lines in the sand.

[bibliophilea]

That’s the thing, though - it is an effective design, because it characterizes him as someone who does not wish to be known. And of course, we know who he is, anyways.

thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note and said “this is not an effective design bc you can’t tell who this character is from this shape” 

and everyone in the class went like “yes we can that’s L from death note”

[bibliophilea]

how many fingers does this monkey paw even have???

[normal-nightmare]

Dick and Jason should be more gay and insane about each other i think

[nobodys-reblogs]

yes hello what if I drew cross as a bunny

looking at you with big eyes

[bibliophilea]

The voting stickers this year are really cute!

[bookishjules]

I wish we had more scenes of Izzy at Simon’s gigs or her being a band gf yk it would be cool

dude tell me about it!!!! i spend way too much time mentally attending simon's shows with izzy for us to have never gotten a canon scene of it. like sure we know she did go to gigs but i think the only time we get a band gf in attendance, it's maia in cofa. we deserve some real backstage moments. some simon calling out izzy's name before they sing a song he wrote about her. some izzy chilling at the bar in the back watching all these people loving watching simon and smiling to herself knowing he's hers. we deserve it. they deserve it.

[sparklyoats]

Started introducing carrot mash for lil man😍 its a hit hehehe

[bibliophilea]

No, that gets filed under "misinformation". Specifically, misinformation that could have been corrected just by taking 10-20 minutes to look up and think about both Harris's and Trump's basic platforms.

Trump wants to cut taxes for corporations and put tariffs on imported goods. The costs of these actions will fall on the average American.

Harris's platform, meanwhile, addressed cutting taxes for the middle class, making rent and home ownership affordable, supporting the economy through supporting small businesses and cracking down on the actions large companies have taken to artificially increase costs to turn a profit, decreasing the cost of healthcare, and a variety of other issues that directly affect the average American.

Harris's platform is the first thing you get when you google "Kamala Harris platform". Her website's talking points show specific, actionable ideas towards the points above. Trump's platform (also the first thing you get when you google "Donald Trump platform") talks a big game, but it doesn't say anything actionable. It's mostly buzzwords, and it doesn't talk at all about how he plans to do any of it. And if you're worried about the cost of living and the economy, you've gotta wonder how he's going to pay for "carry[ing] out the largest deportation operation in American history" or "strengthen[ing] and moderniz[ing] our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world". A whole lot of buzzwords, and multiple contradictory points if you actually read the page and take a few seconds to think about them.

So why didn't most Americans do those 10-20 minutes of research and exercise a little bit of critical thinking? Why was there a surge in voters turning out for Trump, and a large number of voters who stayed home or voted third party? A part of it is people wanting someone anti-establishment, sure. They didn't see the things Biden managed to do to keep things from being worse now than they are, because things are still terrible. But you'd think they'd have learned from last time that "anti-establishment" doesn't mean "good", and that when it comes to Trump in particular, "anti-establishment" means "bad".

Anyways, what's done is done. People's actions speak louder than their intentions. And the actions of most people who voted, alongside the inaction of everyone who chose not to vote, resulted in another four years of POTUS Trump. People are going to far suffer worse than under a Harris administration, and it's going to take more than 4 years to fix what can be fixed.

That's what this post is saying. Regardless of your ideology or your intention, this is the result. And we all have to live with it.

To be clear, if Trump has won this election it is because of misinformation, electoral interference, corruption and mostly bigotry.

However, if you knew what was at stake and decided that you were willing to accept the possibility of a Trump victory rather than vote for Harris, you do not get to walk back an inch of that choice. You accepted responsibility at the ballot box, and now you get to own it.

[degenderates]

thinking again of that post that describes flowers in the attic as weird and campy....they get it

[robertalpascal]

i'm a bad girl (been misleading google photos)

[andromedasummer]

insightful conversations with the 18 month old at the table beside me

[bibliophilea]

Only if you got write no less than 3.141592653589 sentences @astatia-ghast!

horrible news: in order for you to finish a wip, you have to work on that wip and not the 2543524 other wips you were brainrotting over instead of that one. more investigations at 7.

[bibliophilea]

twick or tweat? owo

How about a twick and a tweat? oowoo

By the power of these birthday gifts you sent me long ago!

You are twapped! By me! With the cattens in this house! And certainly with nothing else! Definitely no other creatures here, just cats!!

Speaking of which, there’s one, now! A little rascal… but she’s comfy cozy! Can you sneak up on her? You roll a…

12! Nice job! Oh, she totally knows you’re there, and she knew it the whole time - but Nebula let’s you get close! Close enough to give her chin scritches!

Her glare softens as you scritch her chin - she has accepted your offering! You have been blessed by the littolest cat in the house! May her blessing stay with you when things are bleak, to at the very least soften that bleakness the same way she softened her glare!

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 🐈‍⬛

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

Bib being in charge while Roland and Skoose are fluffing around with TV crews and trying to be famous is a great contrast to what a real chef is. It isn't about being on TV. Having passion about your work without needing a lot of glory is respectable.

[sparklyoats]

Grandma made a (very colourful) cardigan for baby😍 im just sewing on the buttons..😇