#cw csem mention

[the-bar-sinister]

If everyone who works at AO3 does that work without compensation who the fuck do they think should be combing through works.

"The people who did this weren't compensated for their time" No one is!!

"Only paid specialists should be doing this"

So you think their budget should be tens if not hundreds of thousands bigger, and in the mean time nothing should be done about it??

If the answer to that is no, then what the fuck do you wanr, they didnt do The Best, but they are doing Their Best, and it is better than Nothing At All.

Hopefully they improve in clarity and guidance for the volunteers and hopefully they give more support to those troubles by what they find, but god damn. This work is done for free. What else do you expect? Miracles??? Perfection???? We're human, what you see is what you get.

Exactly, anon, exactly.

People are treating OTW like its another tyrannical corporate oppressor with its boot on the throat of the masses, instead of what it IS, a grassroots organization of passionate volunteer fans.

People, this is not who the guillotine is for!

[miss-rum-hee]

I still can't believe this is a real case.

[roomwithavoid]

i usually leave anons on for people who are shy about requests and whatnot but if youre going to defend sexual exploitation of children you dont get to be anonymous. cmon dont be a coward, keep sending asks, bub.

[candypopchaos]

muskrat personally reinstating an acc that posted csam is the last straw for me fuck that website

[fujindegen]

I’ve had to deal with a devastating issue today; and I feel like us Proshippers need to have a conversation really quickly about something very important.

Drawings of real minors in sexual situations should not be created or posted. Ever.

I’ve made that mistake when I was 12, and it still affects me deeply to the point I call myself a CSEM victim because of my stupid and immature decisions. (Actually, if you knew me when I was Destroyalition, you might’ve seen my vent posts about how bad it affected me when I was younger.)

I understand if you’re a selfshipper and want to show your love to your f/o by drawing you guys in romantic situations, but drawings of real kids in those situations are risky. Sexual drawings of that nature are something we should be warning kids not to draw at all. I don’t want anyone else to feel the same pain and grief and anxiety I felt after learning what I drew was harmful and illegal.

Please, be careful. Don’t let adults draw you in sexual situations. Don’t let yourself make a dumb and immature decision. Please stay safe and be careful.

So Minor Proshippers. Listen up. There’s an alternative that is safe to this called creating OC self inserts. Please use those instead to your hearts content. Make sure they don’t look like you though, and please heal.

I just feel like this needs to be specified to the MAXIMUM. I am dearly sorry to everyone who was as immature as I was, and made the same mistake. Take this as a warning, don’t learn the same way I did. Stay safe.

[kaiasky]

I really truly hate to ask but in your bio when it says map enjoyer the map part is not an acronym. is it??? or u mean the paper maps

ah. a normal map!

source. i think this is very pretty. this is a normal map. The idea is like. Suppose we want to have a 3d model of an old desk like this:

If we just throw that picture on a texture and hit render, we get something like this:

Which doesn't look particularly realistic! Notice how the light is staying in one place and all the highlights on the places where the pencil has dug into the wood don't move to catch the light. Our eyes automatically pick up a lot of detail about the texture of surfaces, and this doesn't look real.

in particular, the angle of the surface determines how much light is reflected at the camera. So we need a way to store the angle of every point on our surface! But it turns out we can use a neat coincidence; we see 3 primary colors and live in 3-dimensional space! To store the orientation of a surface, you can use the normal vector--the arrow perpendicular to the surface. (I like to imagine the object being covered in little tiny spikes sticking straight out at a right angle. We need a way to store those spikes.) Since we have 3 colors and 3 dimensions, we can encode the angle of the normal vector spikes as a color, where the red channel means the left-right angle, the green channel means the up-down angle, and the blue channel means the vertical angle sticking out at the viewer. So to go back to the old image:

The cyan bits to the left (some green, some blue, no red) are spikes pointing to the left. The red/pink bits to the right are spikes pointing to the right. The neutral blue-grey color in the middle is a spike sticking straight up.

There's lots of ways to make a normal map. You can paint them yourself, you can model a really complicated geometry and then calculate a normal map to apply to a much simpler geometry, or you can create it as the "derivative" of a heightmap (a greyscale image where white is high bumps and black is dips). There's even cool neural network things that try to infer the height/normal map from a picture or video!

Here's that normal map I stole applied to a totally flat grey square, with the light moving. Look how convincing the illusion of depth is!

Here's two grey cubes smashing into one another except one has a normal map applied.

So I think this is a really cool technique! But I also think that normal maps, the images themselves, are stunningly beautiful. That's why the background of my avatar is a normal map!

Shoutout to gif.ski for making those gifs. I'm not really sure why its quality is 10x what i get from imagemagick or ffmpeg but it sure as hell is.

[the-bar-sinister]

Why are people mad about ao3 now?

Do I wanna know?

The founder of dreamwidth and a former OTW volunteer are stirring shit about the organization's alleged mishandling of the situation wherein malicious actors were terrorizing OTW with CSAM, and the ongoing situation where malicious actors attempt to upload CSAM to the archive.

The short version is that people are mad that the OTW "forces" volunteers to deal with CSAM, ignoring the fact that all of OTW is volunteers, in favor of smearing OTW as malicious oppressors.

[chloroformcurry]

A rather heavy experimental piece. Could count as oc content and as something applicable to a real life issue igs. I hope I took all the right precautions on the tags 🙏

[roomwithavoid]

so U would rather real life children get actually Harmed? ok then

very normal thing to say about erotica of real life children btw. you should bring this topic up at your next family gathering

[best-junkie-you-adore]

Just realized something. Could the reason I dissociate mostly in restrooms come from that fact that I was sa'd in one? Or am I thinking too much.

[the-bar-sinister]

Why aren't these people mad at the people who are y'know actively and intentionally breaking the law by attacking an organization with CSEM if they're so obsessed with legality, hypocrisy probably but it pisses me off tbh

That is definitely a question to examine, isn't it?

One could draw a lot of conclusions from examining that question.

[roomwithavoid]

and U have Ur mental illnesses listed in Ur bio LMAO

this is about me being against erotica of real life children btw in case anyone was missing the context

[proshippers-against-censorship]

CW for mentions of horrid CSEM, and Pedophile jokes

can i just say that, is it just me, or do i hate when people make Epst3in and Diddy? Because,(yes on Twitter) antis always, and i mean always , make Epstein jokes.

Bc i can recall an incident, this one time a fnf modder made an absolutely horrific “joke” relating to D@isy’s de£structi0n , one of the most vilest CSEM video ever in a legal case. And everyone rightfully bashed this person. But what was really absolutely “fascinating” (NOT) was that most of the people calling out this person who made the horrific joke, ALSO made Epst3in and Diddy jokes. Ok. So you making “joke” edits of Epstein and calling pro ships “espst3in disciples” is funny to you, despite knowing what he did. But someone “joking” about a csem video, which is just as absolutely horrific. Is “too far” and “disgusting”

Antis piss me off. Their moral compasses are always so flawed. And lack so much empathy. How is it ok ever to jokes like what Epstein did?vdid you guys not KNOW what he did? And you making jokes and calling others “Epst3in” waters down what the victims gone through?

Antis are truly vile hypocrites

The fact that they'll attack folks for fictional art but aren't afraid to like, actually make jokes about actual child predators is.

Vile.

[critterkiddo]

⚠️ CW: mentions of CSA, grooming, CSEM ⚠️

A moderator of Oddballs, Dave @str1derpunk, @davetastic, @illpunk or @/turntechgodhead was caught with CSEM exploited from 3 minors he was groomimg. His now ex roommate has kicked him out but of course did not pursue any legal action, Dave has been out on the streets since April 11th. Testimony from the ex roommate will be below.

[until-my-teeth-fell-out]

Brief list for warning tags I use.

Be warned that sometimes I forget to tag for a topic, or I make mistakes, or I don't tag for a topic because it doesn't feel like it needs to be tagged. You can let me know if I do that, or if there is a way to improve this tagging system. I can't guarantee that I'll tag something very specific that's not a common trigger/ is hard to tag if I don't even know you.

->General

•#artistic nudity

•#nsft

•#nsft text

•#suggestive

•#suggestive text

•#mdni (can forget this sometimes)

•#uncaptioned (I don't tag this anymore.)

->Trigger warnings

•#tw animal abuse

•#tw animal death

•#tw animal injury

•#tw asa

•#tw blood

•#tw child abuse

•#tw csa

•#tw csem

•#tw ed

•#tw grooming

•#tw incest

•#tw pedophilia

•#tw sa

•#tw suicide

You should know that I use these for *real life* topics only, not fictional ones.

You should also definitely know that for most of these I use "mention" or "implied" tags as well. For example "tw csa mention" when the topic is not the main topic in a post or if it's not the thing being actively discussed. So you should filter them if even the mention or implication of them triggers you.

Honestly, if I have to warn something for a fictional topic that's not under the darkship or dead dove label I might use a "mention" with the tag too. For example "#tw suicide mention" for fictional suicide as that's not a real suicide.

I can forget to tag some common triggers. These are the most common ones I use.

->Content warnings

•#cw ai art

•#cw disturbing (I don't use this often)

•#cw noncon

•#darkship

•#dead dove

•#shipcest

•#unreality

I used to have a seperate tag as #cw fictional [topic] but replaced that with #darkship. I don't post that a lot so not sure what kind of tagging system I'll have for it.

I'll also go back to edit previous posts.