#cracker discourse????

[lehhoh7822]

its so odd to hear discourse about how cracker is/isnot a slur

im australian and like. no one. NO ONE. here thinks cracker is a slur. it reminds me when i was like 11 oir 10and my white. (veyr white.) friend saw me write youtube as yt and was like thats acutally so offensive its a slur against white people. this was before i was into any like. fucking mcyt shit or really into a lot of fandom. so i didnt know why anything would be a slur and had no exposuyre to like. that. but they were like 14 and they were into mcyt at the time

and my rsd was really shit back then so i was like oh my god im so sorry oh shit and they wre like dont do it again :angry angry angry:

i guess for me, it seems odd to feel like something is a slur when its said against you even in a derogatory sense by a group which you are above them systemically. i guess it kind of works as a slur in terms of class maybe??? ive heard people say that so mauybe thats what matters????

im mixed race. im indigenous australian. im white. im norweigan. im new zealander. for me, its very important to remember my awabakal heritage because of the suffering, the rape, the poverty, the abuse and the loss that we have completely lost to hisotry. i am aboriginal. i a, white. i am chinese.

people have said and done things on all of those bases except for the white one. i have lost and lost on a racial level on all of those bases except for the white one. and here no one calls white people crackers.

it really does remind me of when people call "straight" a slur, because they dont like it that sometimes, queer people get to mock them using it.

whateverf. doesnt reallyh impact me. consider if it does for you., i dont think it matters that much.

[weewoo911]

I legitimately think some people would be happier if they just admitted they view Tommy through Bitch-Eating-Crackers goggles. It’s fine! You can just say that you hate him so you’ll hate anything he does!

[a-moth-called-mof]

Okay so I don't usually like posting discourse but something I haven't seen anyone bring up about the current dumb thing Dream did is that he set his fucking fanbase, notorious for harassing people, on a 17-year-old DID SYSTEM WITH CPTSD. Like, all of that harassment and stress will fuck them up. It'd fuck anyone up anyone but like, holy shit living with DID is already stressful. The suicide rate for people with DID is already over 70% with multiple attempts being common AND THEYRE LITERALLY JUST 17. The amount of stressful shit and hate Dream fans are sending them is actually fucking dangerous and will affect them heavily. I hope to fuck they're okay and safe and that their systems doing fine because oh my fucking god

I don't give a shit if "Dream didn't know uwu" or if "he was just replying to hate :(((". If you're a big content creator and you know that your fanbase has a big harassment problem, MAYBE DONT DIRECTLY REPLY TO SMALL COMMENTS FROM SMALL TWITTER ACCOUNTS. You cant control your fanbase but it's your fucking responsibility to use your platform wisely and not reply to a 17-year-old on Twitter because they made a bad comment about your shit merch

[goldenalbum]

every day i log onto this webbed site and see a god awful take about bts' jungkook

[hauntedtotem]

when I was 13 the local zoo brought a fennek fox to our school and I posted a picture on tumblr.com and people sent me death threats because it's fur looked too oily in my gen 1 iPad camera, which was a sign of animal abuse i guess

So the only time I post animal pics now is when I steal bones from skeletons I find in the woods

[lgbtlunaverse]

One of the most humbling experiences you can have on the internet in the age where we feel the need to have and share our stance on everything is witnessing infighting of a community you're not a part of. Because you can see some truly wild shit and it's never business to speak on it. You have no choice but to move on.

[lemonhemlock]

girl dinner girl math girl rotting not everything has to be discourse and herald the decline of feminism and the stupidification of women sometimes it's just a joke 🤦‍♀️ step away from the computer

[msfcatlover]

If your “holy grail” of characterization uses said character as nothing more than a prop to move the plot along, while objectifying them to hell & back, gives them minimal motivation, no agency to speak of, calls back to some of the most messed up shit they’ve done to people in a tee-hee isn’t that cute! light, and the only possibly character revealing choice they make is given less than a page of buildup and just so happens to be exactly what needed to happen to reinstate the status quo and never mention this little side adventure again (making it feel way more like writer convenience, rather than character-motivated choices)…

…If this is seriously the best version of this character you can point to, you can’t honestly expect me to see them as any deeper or more complex than the shallow prop this specific story used them for.

[prezrev]

stop talking abt finn5ter i dont care i dont care i dont care yall dont need to discuss other ppls gender expression as absolute political statements, cant the man just look cute n we enjoy it. must we call him "revolutionary" & "progressive" as if crossdressers havent existed for thousands of years before him

[noobygooby]

why does everyone think Cracker is weak i am losing my mind

[doughbrainer]

I'm Australian > NSW!

Top Left, Hot Chips

Top Middle, Chips

Top Right, Scone

Middle Left, Biscuits

Middle, Soft Drink/Fizzy Drink

Middle Right, Lollies

Bottom Left, Smokes

Bottom Middle, Beanie

Bottom Right, Fairy Floss

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

[cosmicjoke]

You and all you’re little cronies that reblog and comment on your bullshit takes need to come to terms with the fact that you are all homophobic. Clearly the thought of a beautiful relationship between two men has you pressed. It’s not our fault we can see Levi loved Erwin…it’s your homophobia and blindness that is stopping you from seeing what’s there.

I have a serious question for you. Are you mentally handicapped? No, I really want to know. Because if you're not, that just means you're actually, legitimately stupid. Like, I'm talking an IQ of less than 70. You should go get tested.

You complete fucking jackass. Over half the stuff on post on my blog is about CANONICALLY gay relationships. Yuri on Ice, Banana Fish, Twittering Birds Never Fly, The Vampire Chronicles, etc, etc... And yet, in the recesses of your admittedly hollow brain, you somehow come to the conclusion, over and over, that me and anyone else who points out the simple fact that Levi isn't in love with Erwin must be homophobic, because that's the only reason you can think of for why someone would say that. Never mind that there's NOTHING in the source material to support your deluded notion of gay love between them. So, yeah, you're a fucking moron. Anyway, I'm done. Write to me again and it's into the trash bin for you, right where you belong.

Also, you continue to display to all and sundry what a pathetic coward you are by remaining on anon. You'd piss your little baby pants before having the sack to talk to anyone the way you do on anon with your actual identity exposed.

[gb-patch]

GB Patch Games: Sensitivity Reader Update

Okay, well I am able to make another statement before Rose does. I can now explain much more easily why I didn’t fire Rose. There’s been new developments with the leakers. The people behind this have doxed Rose’s discord account (please don’t go looking for it) and also shared a screenshot of an email that was sent to my support address months ago. They believe that incriminates us somehow, but really all it’s done is shown in broad daylight what they were doing and why I was defending Rose so much. If I had brought up that email as a connection to this myself people understandably would’ve thought I was making a conspiracy.

However, it is out now. Here is the story- a few months ago someone who wanted to remain anonymous sent me an email with a screenshot where Rose called me a cracker. And I told them I appreciated the concern but it’s alright, was there evidence of Rose being unkind to players? They had nothing. No response.

As an aside, yes, I have been aware for a long time that Rose uses crude language when talking about me. That doesn’t mean I’ve hidden how evil they were from players. It means I’m allowed to choose what I’m comfortable with. That original “reveal” didn’t shock or upset me in any way. Our Life is a sensitive, wholesome game, but I’m a full-grown adult. I’m not innocent or pure. The game I released before OL is XOXO Blood Droplets. Something I wrote and released to the public is full of crude jokes, curse words, and violence. It’s cartoonish and comical, but edgy. Rose themselves likes to BS with bad words and I’m not accepting abuse because I think getting called a pussy is funny. I know Rose doesn’t hate me or wish me any harm. Rose also isn’t causing “discourse” for me and my games on purpose, they were joking that bringing up serious topics is “discourse” to some people. Ironically, the leakers who did this are trying to make some “discourse” on purpose.

Regardless, I initially thought that email was from someone earnestly worried for me and that they moved on when it was clear I was fine. But that’s not what happened. Them and at least one other person have been waiting for months to bring this up again. They went through almost a year’s worth of Rose’s private posts to collect as many unflattering screenshots as they could, and then they didn’t send them to me. They posted them publicly. I had a suspicion from the get go that it was the same person/people from before who couldn’t prove anything to me in private. And if true, how horrible is it that a bunch of the comments they shared were crude language towards me, something they already knew I’d brush off as nothing. They decided for me that it was wrong and they wanted the rest of the players to do the same. Or even less charitably, those extra posts were simply there to make Rose look as bad and untrustworthy as possible and they didn’t care that I was comfortable with it. I could not explain everything we were thinking/feeling at first, but behind the scenes we were discussing how this was personally motivated and not a knee-jerk act without forethought. And we do know for certain at least the main people involved now, and they do have personal issues with Rose.

Also, if you still believe that they just wanted to help the game at any length because Rose is that huge of a risk, showing that email and framing something innocuous about me (not fainting at the word “cracker” and politely being open to more proof) as serious “evidence of wrongdoing” at GB Patch Games makes me believe they want to smear Rose so bad they’ll try to turn players against me as well. Plus, the post is framed as “this email was anonymously sent to me”, but we know from account details that the people who could’ve gotten those screenshots of the discord and email are the same people who sent that email and started this situation, which is embarrassing. I’ve confirmed the screenshots shared in the email to me and the original public post came from the same private, “venting-safe” discord server. There’s very few people in there. We know it’s still you and not a separate source. I can’t prove they think I’m stupid or in their way, but I can’t see how anything they’re doing is trying to be beneficial to the creation of OL: NF. They told me in the email they’d give me more evidence if I requested it and I was ready to know, but instead they went silent for months and then did this.

I want it to be clear that this doesn’t mean players can’t wonder if Rose has enough experience to be a sensitivity reader right now, or to worry they’re so invested in the game that it’s going to effect how objective they are with their feedback, or to say that Rose is flawless and has never done anything hurtful. However, I hope you can understand why I was on Rose’s side and couldn’t just fire them over this. It felt so incredibly unfair. If another person tries to get their way by doing this in the future, I will not hail them as a hero and immediately fire at the target. And I don't tolerate any racial harassment of any kind to anyone on my team.

If those people want to continue to share Rose’s private posts in retaliation, you can fuck off. If you somehow reveal now that Rose is secretly a murderer, I’m not gonna apologize and say I was so wrong about you. If you had tons of evidence of Rose being horrible to players, you should’ve sent it all to me and with full context to begin with in the email like you offered to do. I just don’t understand.

Any players who like to see someone’s least flattering points portrayed in the worst possible way and continue flocking to the leaks as fandom drama, I don’t want you in this fandom. I don’t want you to enjoy my games.

Anyone who has been truly hurt by this and are left confused and angry, I do completely understand that. I didn’t know how to handle this, and it made a lot of people not know how to keep trusting me. I am still looking into getting a community manager to help me better communicate with players, especially when something serious happens. And I’ll always be around for you to reach out to if you have doubts about anything.

[kamenriderhamo]

Literally if you think any form of social site or app should be banned and heavily restricted by the US Government because you were slightly annoyed by one user I think you should destroy every electronic you own and disappear into the woods for a solid year

hey since it's coming up again: no it's not a good thing that the government wants to ban tiktok. no you should not be glad that the government might ban tiktok. no you should not respond to this with "good riddance" or "hurry up I hate that app". I should not have to explain this to you but the government banning a social media app is still a bad thing even if you don't like the UI or booktok or having to say "unalive" or how you think it's killing the very notion of attention spans. It's still bad. It's bad.

[drdemonprince]

I have to admit I was a little fucked up by egg memes and trans discourse that implied that unaddressed dysphoria was the primary source of misery in a person's life and that transitioning would suddenly make a person feel at ease, confident, happy in their body, and untraumatized.

I wouldn't say it's the most common narrative at all but there are certainly some trans people who explicitly propagate such myths especially if they conceive of themselves as a benevolent yet highly involved "egg cracker," too. There's a whiff of projection about the whole thing that's quite gross. People regret the time they spent in the closet and try to spare others the pain by pressuring them to come out before they are ready or making the experience of transitioning seem more straightforwardly positive than it ever could be. like, transitioning comes with a great degree of exposure to stigma and prejudice and if you already feel uncomfortable with yourself that's not exactly going to make your social anxiety any better.

it's really nobody's fault that i wanted such a tidy solution to these things, i've always been the type to love a false epiphany and to want to tear my skin off and burst forth, feeling free of myself and that is impossible. i made my decisions and it was good to learn from them -- i had to overcome a significant amount of my repression and escapist fantasizing *by* pursuing the kind of life that I dreamed about and realizing it was also gonna be flawed. i've done that with things that aren't transness, like my fantasy of living a 24/7 D/s hypno dynamic. i had to actually try to live that fantasy in reality a couple of times before i could be disillusioned enough with it and get over it and stop running away from reality anymore. getting disillusioned with what you think will make you happy and accepting ordinary unhappiness is a common project of life.

but still, you know, i wish fewer trans people felt the need to cover their revelations with treacly simplistic messages about how everything is better now and if you question your gender at all that means youre trans for sure and not transitioning is the one thing preventing you from leading a fulfilling life and all that. it makes sense as a reaction to mounting systemic transphobia but i always find myself wishing, in all things, that people could be more detailed and openly ambivalent about things instead of feeling they had to make straightforward simplistic love-is-love type emotional appeals. gay people are allowed to have bad marriages and divorces. trans people are allowed to still be unhappy complicated people after we transition. thats like the human condition

[mcytblrconfessions]

My favorite person on the entire web site is ms cdreamscumrag. Shes so funny. I hope She never stops posting. Current discourse on her blog: she thinks cracker is a slur???? Apparently??? When another white person told her that its literally not she called them brainwashed 😭😭

Also one time she said fnaf was for "delulu freaks" and if you like it you should be in a mental hospital?? FUNNIEST thing I've heard in my life,,, her blog is fucki ng insane i love her

it's a bait blog but it's really good at it bc people keep trying to argue with her its so funny