#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.

[onemillionwordsofcrap]

That is. Um. That is important to know.

I may or may not have reported a post at one time because it was tagged "CP", the image was blurred as per my standard NSFW settings (public scrolling etc. etc.) and I assumed I did not want to unblur it. So I just reported the post for that tag and moved on. But in retrospect the platform I was on was overwhelmingly Chinese users.

And like in my case this was probably recognized as a mistake and not acted upon but I still wish I'd known because... whoopsie, and that could have been a lot worse for an innocent artist whose picture was almost certainly normal anime smut rotflmao.

East Asian fanartists are starting to migrate back to Tumblr because Twitter is insane, toxic, and dying, and what we're NOT going to do is let the fucking exclusionists get them, do you hear me? We are not going to let a bunch of feral idiots try to apply the most myopic version of puritanism to foreign artists we're not we're not we're not. Form an armed brigade if you have to, do you hear me. We're not going to bully the artists who may or may not even speak English because we have our precious standards of moral purity. If we see art that makes us uncomfy we're going to block the artist and tumblr savior their name so we don't have to see them again AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE FUCK ON.

[candypopchaos]

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

[degensys]

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.

[huntinglove]

saw that stupid post about you hope you're holding up OK. your taste in fiction doesn't invalidate your trauma. stay safe

Thank you so much! I'm doing alright!!

My trauma is real and even if I wanted to pretend it's not, footage of it somewhere online says otherwise. So it's pretty fucking gross that that person is comparing actual CSEM to drawings of anime characters smh

I'm really thankful to everyone who's been sticking up for me and sending me kind asks, it makes me feel seen and cared for, it means the world to me 💙💙💙

[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.

[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

[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.

[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 🙏

[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.

[lolotheparagon]

https :// twitter. com /red_ devil330 /status /1574 503508619018281

weirdness is not what creates morality. It's whether it's harmful. Saying "It's weird you sexualize children irl or fictional" obviously shows why you don't understand why abuse of real children is illegal.

Children are human being with their own rights. And someone abusing them, whether physically, emotionally or sexually, is taking away those rights. It's harming them physically or mentally long-term, which creates problems in the future that can damage a generation.

Abuse of children is not "weird." Calling it weird is downplaying it, because weirdness is inherently something that isn't harmful. Children can die from abuse. Adults can die from abuse. Fictional characters feel nothing from it. They don't have the ability to understand abuse.

Same thing with CSEM. "All forms of CP is gross" is downplaying the harm of real CSEM. CSEM laws are not created because of it being gross, it's created because it's the documentation and/or production of child abuse, which I have already explained above.

Fictional characters cannot be abuse. They have no rights, freedom or any documentations that explain why drawing or writing them in a certain way would be illegal. Any place that makes fictional content illegal, has already created laws against violent medias as well.

You can call it weird. You can call it gross. But saying both is weird and/or gross, is fucking horrific to say. Fictional porn of an underage child can NEVER be compared to CSEM of a child. That child has to live with it forever. A fictional character, can be aged up.

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It's condescending to assume that a reader is too stupid to recognize when a character is doing something harmful or crossing a taboo in a piece of fiction.

It's patronizing to believe that a reader will have their morals compromised by reading fiction and be reprogrammed by it to believe that the harmful action and crossing taboos is good in real life.

It's ridiculous to act like people can't read about characters harming others or crossing taboos in fiction without starting to believe it's okay to harm people or cross taboos in real life.

It's unrealistic to assume that you know what reason someone has for reading a piece of fiction in which harm occurs or taboos are crossed.

It's disgusting and boundary crossing for you to speculate about and fixate on someone else's' sexual habits based on the fiction they consume.

~ yknow in order for something to be considered csem/csam

it must depict an actual identifiable child. a fictional character isnt considered a real living being with thoughts and emotions. or rights for that matter. it cant be exploited in the way a real child can. separate fiction from reality and leave us alone

Fictional children are still children, mate.

[kaz3313]

Serious shit, talk of csem (not specifics), Rape threats, and things of similar nature. Please mind the tags:

I think it’s disgusting that both antis and pro shippers harass people with rape threats/threats of harm on children/etc. I’ve seen it mostly within antis But I’m definitely not saying it doesn’t happen on the other side (I will be talking about antis doing it Because that’s the experience I’ve had). This is especially true when antis have told ship and let ship people (so I’m including those neutral) that their “desensitized” to “child porn”.

I just watched a video on a woman explaining the types of videos that are found. I could not finish the whole thing- it’s been several minutes and my stomach still aches.

I’ve had antis tell me that because of written underage I’m the same- that I’m the same as the people who’ve made those disgusting videos hurting children and babies.

What I consider one of my darkest fics is about rape and it is a character in the fic who’s a child. The fic was written to show how the character grew up in constant danger and in particular this fic was to show when he lost his innocence. It’s based off canon with an even darker element added to it- and I wrote it as a horror. I think I’m well within my right such a thing as is anyone else. There are several reasons one might write or read such a thing- but I’m not getting too in depth over that.

The thing I’m going in depth over is how normalized threats are. I’ve seen people wish harm on people’s (not born yet) children’s genitalia (I’m not exaggerating), I’ve seen people say that someone deserved the abuse in the past or any abuse that might come to them in the future. That they hope people lose their job, livelihood, friends, and family. Threats of violence.

I just want to say that we as a collective need to stop making these threats. Even if their a “joke” or toward the “bad people”

[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

[survivingcocsa]

COCSA / CSA TW ahead

this is a side vent blog for my COCSA and CSA trauma I endured since I was a child. I was S. abused by both adults and other minors.

u can send vent asks anon or not up to u. vent about ur trauma relating to one of the following: cocsa, csa, csem, online nccsa, nccsa, nccocsa. if u dont know what the terms mean u can ask me or look them up in the tags usually only work with a "tw" or "cw" before or after the word.