#block people movement

[dickwingary]

I’m all for the “read comics to call yourself a comic fan” discourse, YES PLEASE read comics to post about comics. However I feel like yall are ignoring that you can just… block people? If someone is mischaracterizing your blorbo (shoutout comic Tim Drake enjoyers) because they don’t read the source material, or doesn’t know comic characters because they just read fanfic…. Just block them??? It’s really not this deep I believe, we’re acting like this isn’t universal to all fandoms. This whole “needing to prove your level of validity in calling yourself a fan” is excessive and really gives “erm well name five songs by nirvana” vibes. I completely agree that to be a comic fan you should gaf about the comics, but WHO CARES what others are doing! Let people have fun!! Curate your own feed and community how you like!!! Fandoms are not a monolith, not everyone will be your Ideal Fan. Ooc batfam textposts will always exist because that is the nature of fandoms!!!! We’re literally on tumblr like guys be for real for a second

[runespoor7]

nothing ever did as much wrong to fight scenes than the writing advice that writers should only write short sentences focusing on the action because (supposedly) that drives home that it's a fast-paced exchange of actions.

and that's how you end with a list of actions that are drier and blander than a script and absolutely no sense of urgency, danger or physicality. Why do I care if the main character is kicked into the chest if the writer doesn't tell me that it cuts off their breath, that pain lances through their arm, that blood splashes across their face when they spear an enemy through, that the warm copper smell fills their nostrils?

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

everyone clap for me

I saw an incredibly brain dead take on activism and I didn't engage with the post

I'm just going to vague about it in the tags like a mature adult

[fdelopera]

And harassing Jewish people attending shabbat services at a random synagogue in Austin, TX is helping Palestinians how, exactly?

"Peaceful protest" my ass!

How fucking DARE you goys harass Jews at our places of worship.

The reason these goyishe idiots are choosing this synagogue as a place to harass Jews is the same reason the Neo-Nazis in Pittsburgh chose Tree of Life to carry out their mass murder in 2018.

Both synagogues are visibly, unmistakably Jewish.

This has nothing to do with fighting for the Palestinian people.

You goys don't care about the Palestinians at all, do you?

All you want to do is harass and murder Jews.

How many dead Jews are enough for you? How many dead Jews do you goys need?

The Free Palestine movement is being co-opted by Jew-hatred. And if you goys don't push back against this Jew-hatred now, you will delegitimize this movement. You will hurt the Palestinian people. And you will get a lot of Jews murdered in the process.

Great job, goys. Great. Fucking. Job.

[mlarayoukai]

Maybe some toho fans remember but like 5 years ago there was a user and a few of her friends who go harassing artists and if you said anything out of line she'd harass you for months via anon and one day I got an ask saying hey did you know it's transmisogynistic to draw crossdressers (2017 was a different time lmao) and I was like hey can we talk about this over dm. And she while she was dming me I got more asks along those lines so I asked are you still sending me anons while talking to me? And she was like how can you tell it was me? I dunno man i have a hunch. Because you are using the exact same talking points while talking to me in that same passive aggressive tone. After a while people got sick of her and she would deny ever sending asks even though she apparently never realized that all the asks sounded exactly like her and while possible deniability is a thing. Most people don't talk identically to each other. She'd always go "hey did you know that blah blah blah" she'd sent 100s of asks and they always looked like the same person send them. It took her years to get bored of harassing people (I think she stopped at 2020) idk I think about her sometimes like I don't understand her goal for doing all that

[evelili]

imagine a narrative-centric game more similar to ace attorney / danganronpa than visual novels (eg, one storyline, character sprites, dialogue boxes).

[saviourkingslut]

SICK of academics saying shit like "non-binary is a step backwards people are just creating a third gender category while we should be working towards eradicating the differences and inequalities between men and women entirely" that is LITERALLY what we're doing here. the eradication of gender as a social construct isn't going to happen in a day and it's not going to happen without people taking action and saying "gender is fluid and my expression is whatever i want it to be, im purposefully disregarding the binary and challenging traditional beliefs to change people's ways of thinking abt gender". we are in the trenches and y'all refuse to see it. "most people don't feel fully man or woman that'd make us all non-binary" yes that's the point the binary doesn't exist and we're actively trying to deconstruct it. and we're going to keep being non-binary until the work is done

[ember-knights]

As much as it feels good to block out selfish complicit celebs who cared about money more than their humanity, I am watching this #blockout2024 with foreboding.

It is not organized. I am not on tiktok so I do not see the full scope of it, but every while on ig someone starts saying here block this too and inserts a list of at least dozens accounts if not hundreds.

And @/sim_bookstagrams_badly on IG is right. There are no demands and no clear reward to people who do help. And it is good to have them help. It is the whole point of a pressure campaign.

I can see clearly this getting out of hand and then the celebs and their followers go and be like "look at that online mob" because they are not going to be rewarded if they actually do a good thing.

Lizzo was on multiple lists and she has just started advocating for a Gfundme campaign to a Gazzan family... and then people punish her for it? Adding her to the list blindly?

Like.. I personally did not even give one ounce of attention to these motherfuckers in the first place. BUT when it comes to doing what is most effective, what is needed right now is:

clear DEMANDS for this blocking mobilizing initiative.

REWARDS for when a celeb uses their money and voice for Palestine.

KEEPING OUR FOCUS ON PALESTINE. The north of Gaza has just been warned to evacuate as well as people in Rafah. There is no where for people to go and more and more die each day!

Donate to families need! Connect with the community that wants to help. Protest where you can.

I personally like the idea of choosing one fundraiser a time so that people's attention is giving the most help.

And of course: keep boycotting. and reminding others.

Again, I never cared for any of these celebs anyway so i would happily block them just cause, but when it comes to millions of people doing something in Palestine's name.. then it better be clear so that it helps those in need, and does not just satisfy us for a second and that is it.

Keep sharp. Eyes on Palestine.

[aforeffortenjolras]

feeling like such a hot girl doing my workout i’m so strong

[bandzboy]

Sorry but bts are literally serving in the South Korean military they likely cannot speak about Palestine due to their commitment to the military rn. The virtue signaling has gone too far here how would blocking bts help the cause for Palestine in the slightest.

do you think that bisan knows that?? like people outside of the kpop sphere have no idea in the slightest and palestinian people are supporting this blockout movement so who i am to say is not helping the palestinian cause?? “gone too far”?? it’s been 7 months and 75 years but i am sorry their feelings are valid and palestinian fans also feel sorta bad that nobody has said anything and i understand that to an extent because if my fav group did not say absolutely nothing abt the genocide that my people are going through i would be disappointed

[moodr1ng]

just learned about the people posting '19th century paintings' by a supposed "emile corsi", which is actually just ai art misleadingly and purposefully being represented as actual historical pieces, and i do think this is an issue for art history and culture that people are doing this (and that more people are being tricked into reposting these pieces under the belief theyre legitimate historical ones, furthering the lie).

however after looking it up a bit im finding that the only issue people have with this is that misrepresentation of art history. and id like us to also consider that many of these pieces are in the 19th-century orientalist style, in which white european artists fictionalized, fetishized and otherized swana people. and the use of ai art to create new pieces of a historical racist style (which still today colors the way swana people and our history are perceived in the west) should be as big a concern as the issue of fooling people into thinking an artist who didnt exist actually did. probably more!

(preemptive disclaimer that im not "anti-ai" and dont care about having that argument. post is about a racist thing. does not need derailing.)

[angelkittycore]

maybe forming an entire pride movement behind self diagnosing and highly controversial disorders that can land people in prison or on the sex offender registry is where society started to go wrong.

[awesomecooperlove]

🤔🤔🤔

[eisthenameofme]

kind of hard to take a lot of the people claiming to be antifascist anarchists seriously when a solid chunk of them seem to think not wanting the state to exist means they are no longer in the reality where it currently exists.

[secret--history]

the whole 'there are not very many Great Causes worth fighting for these days' from Julian scanned as WAY more out of touch than the moon landing thing for me the first time i read tsh

[the-catboy-minyan]

my dash became so peaceful since I blocked the #free Palestine tag I wonder why that is