#flatland fandom bigotry

[rjalker]

I'm being incredibly serious right now, never trust anyone who calls themselves a fandom elder and positions themselves as an authority because of it.

There's a reason that term isn't common any more and it's because the people who were calling themselves that almost all turned out to be abusive bigots who just wanted to manipulate children in fandom into doing whatever they said without question. Someone being older than you does not mean you have to listen to them and does not mean you should trust them.

Especially not if they're using their self-proclaimed status as a "fandom elder" to shut down criticism of bigotry in media.

[acrossdimension]

Rjalker enjoying thier drama be like:

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This blog is run by @rjalker so it's easier to keep track of which Flatland art has an ID already, and so people have an easy place to find it all.

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Blog created on September 18th, 2023 Numbers last updated: September 7 2024

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Here is a link to a post with many places to read, watch, and listen to Flatland, all for free, because the book is public domain.

Very important note:

Very important edit: Ladd Ehlinger, the creator of the 2007 film that’s free on youtube, is an extremely racist and misogynistic conservative. He made a political ad so blatantly racist and sexist that youtube has literally resstricted it, so that you can’t share the link outside the site. Simply google his name and you will see dozens upon dozens of articles about how bigoted he is.

Please be aware of what kind of person made that movie when you watch it. His bigotry is baked into the movie, and is why he refused to actually do anything with the original political commentary from the book.

You are not a bad person if you already watched the movie and enjoyed it, but you do need to be aware of what kind of person made it and how that affected the movie, and make sure others are warned. He is also here on tumblr with the username filmladd. I highly recommend blocking him.

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transcribed audio, transcribed lyrics, lyrics, music,

Photoedits,

Physical books,

Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions, Flatland Illustrations,

Book collections, Flatland collections,

The Color Revolt, Configurationism, Circularchy,

Stylized form, Literal form,

Gijinka,

anthropomorphized, humanoid, anthropoid,

objecthead,

Flatland animals, Flatland rabbit, Flatland bees, Flatland horse, Flatland chicken, Flatland dog, Flatland cat, Flatland mouse,

Flatland technology,

Flatland anatomy, Flatland worldbuilding, Flatland cosmology, Flatland structure,

Spaceland worldbuilding,

maps,

A Square, The Sphere,

The Sphere 1965, A Square 1965,

A Square, A Square 2007, A Sphere 2007,

Spherius 2007, the Sphere,

Adam the Square, Spherus the Sphere,

Kormance the Sphere,

The Grandson of a Square, A Square's Wife, The Wife of A Square, The Sons of A Square, The Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather of A Square, The King of Lineland, The Monarch of Pointland, Chromatistes, Chromatistes the Pentagon,

memes, Flatland memes,

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Family Trees, Comic, Animation,

Flatland OCs, Original characters, Flatland original characters,

Character reference,

Disabled characters, Characters with disability aids, Characters with glasses, Characters with visual impairment,

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Queer characters, LGBTQIA+ characters, Gay characters, Bi characters, mspec characters, Lesbian characters, Trans characters, Nonbinary characters, Characters who use neopronouns, Characters who use multiple pronoun sets, Aroace characters, Aspec characters, Omni characters,

Black Characters, Characters of color,

Irregular characters, Deirregular Characters,

Werestars, Stellanthropes, Shapeshifters, dragons, serpents, weredragons,

Characters with wings, Characters with tails,

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Neopronouns in Action 062, Neopronouns in Action,

Neopronouns in Action 090, Neopronouns in Action,

A 2024 Flatland Summary,

Tarzan of the Apes, Mickey Mouse,

Dayo,

Esther Flat Dreams, Nora Vigenere, Nora Flat Dreams,

Pollux Codex, Madelyn Schwarz-Carver, Hunter Schwarz, Marianne Smith, Michael the Misogynist Pentagon, Providence, Nature, Providence and Nature, Germs, Mr Square, A Shape,

Oblisi,

Liam,

A Son of A Square,

Cy,

Frau Line,

Lily Cipher,

Ruth Galton, Ruth, Liz, Elizabeth Huntsworth, Stella, Orbis, Irene Huntsworth, Mama Huntsworth, Chief Jr, Atlas Huntsworth, Atlas, Vance,Vance Huntsworth, Elijah, Elijah Huntsworth, Jasper,Jasper Huntsworth, 01 Isosceles,

Vincent, Trey,

Rutabega,

Hauntlight the Irregular Line, Cenotaph the rabbit aether, Sirenade the Irregular Multiangulus, Raptigan the _, Avispa Oro, Beatris Baker, Mo Guy, Unnamed characters, Billie Bob and Joe, Billie the Straight Line, Bob the Circle, Joe the Hexagon,

Jerult the Irregular Kite, Cairis Garret the Equilateral Triangle, Letel the Isosceles Triangle, Aralinda the Straight Line, Leteralinda the Straight Line, Ambrosine the Straight Line, Lucille the Straight Line, Carolayn the Kite, Tristram the Isosceles Triangle,

Arsenn Lupin, Arsene Lupin, AScrossover, Arsene Lupin crossover, Ortence Daniel, Hortense Daniel,

Flyssa of Ib-Wa, Dearg of Ib-Wa, Lieutenant Kellite the Configurationist, Grandna Tuokeli,

Angelica Tessan, A Tesseract, Abel Spherious, A Sphere, Anthony Squaur, A Square,

Vikki Line, Victoria Line, Lee Line, Jubilee Line,

Huffy,

Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls, GFcrossover, The Book of Bill, , Flatfalls, The Mother of Bill Cipher, The Father of Bill Cipher,

Dipper Pines, Mabel Pines, Ford Pines, The Axolotl, Andrew Kryptos, The Mosaic,

Carlton,

Randie,Gravity Falls, GFcrossover, Flatfalls,

Flatsune Miku, Hatsune Miku,

Astrum, Astrum the five pointed star, Funis, Pi,

Ted the vwindir,

A Squared shipping, Quadsphere shipping, ASquarexTheSphere, Squaresphere, Squeer,

Spacelanders, Flatlanders, Linelanders, Pointlanders, Hyperspacelanders, Exter Dimensional beings, Higher Dimensional Beings, Beings From Unknnown Dimensions, Planiversers, Numberlandians,

Walking Flatlanders, Swimflying Flatlanders,

Alternate Universe Forms,

Video, autoplay, GIF, Autoplay, WIP animation, Unnamed Animation 001, Animation,

games, downloads,

Flatland Merch, Art you can buy, Art you can print,

public domain art, public domain designs, public domain characters,

Square characters, Sphere characters,

Straight Line characters, Irregular Line characters,

Triangle characters, Isosceles characters, Equilateral characters, Scalene characters,

Rectangle characters, Irregular square characters, Kite characters,

Circle characters, Irregular circle characters,

Pentagon characters, Hexagon characters, Septagon characters, Octagon characters,

unspecific characters,

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[rjalker]

many people in fandom don't want to hear it or admit it, but erasing every single political aspect of a story to instead solely focus on shipping two white guys (or, worse, two people you've whitewashed and misgendered into being white guys) is in fact perpetuating the exact kinds of bigotry the story is about fighting against.

[rjalker]

Fandom bigots never change.

[ID: A black and white comic showing an irregular line and a square talking. The line says, "People should be aware that the creator of the 2007 Flatland film is an infamously racist, misogynistic, and transmisic conservative who's so bigoted that Republicans had to dissavow him. He thinks Black people are all violent killers and that if you respect a trans kid's pronouns it makes you a pedophile and that you should be charged as a sex criminal and thrown in jail for it. He makes his money from Youtube so giving him positive attention and telling people to watch his film is actively helping him harm real people.". The Square replies: "Well I think you saying that is worse than the actual bigotry." "If you point out how bigoted saying this is, I'll pretend the real problem is how simply drawn this comic is to deflect from my own bigotry." "Oh also I'll say you're causing drama for clout. Because I think warning people about real actual conservatives is drama." End ID.]

not being the sort of person the book was written to criticize is in fact free. If you're more offended by people criticizing bigotry than you are bigotry itself, you are a bigot. That's how this works. You're upholding bigotry. All you have to do is stop doing that.

Ladd Ehlinger, the creator of the 2007 Flatland film, is so blatantly racist and misogynistic that Republicans had to dissavow him over an ad he made *to help them win an election*.

He thinks that tax money feeding poor school kids with free lunches is the same thing as slavery.

He thinks that if you respect a trans kid's pronouns it means you're a pedophile and should be jailed as a sex criminal

The film itself is ableist, and completely fails to do anything with the progressive politics of the original novel, because Ladd Ehlinger, as one of the exact kinds of people the book was written to condemn, literally cannot condemn the narrator's bigotry without condeming himself.

This is why he wrote the Sphere to be a creepy asshole CEO instead of the Sphere's actual personality, which is kind, patient, respectful of women, and who does their best to course correct the narrator's misogyny in the short ammount of time they have to interact, telling him that as much as he wants to worship 3D beings, they're much more like the Straight Lines he despises than the Circles he worships.

If you are more annoyed by people criticizing and warning people about Ladd Ehlinger's bigotry, and the direct harm you are doing by giving him free advertising, than you are upset by his bigotry in the first place, you're just a bigot. There's no ifs, ands, or buts, you're being racist, misogynistic, transmisic, and ableist.

If you're more offended by people criticizing bigotry than you are the bigotry itself, it's because you're a bigot. Either learn to care about real minorities, or shut up.

[rjalker]

Every fandom has at least one of them.

[ID: An MS Paint drawing showing rows of different shapes speaking, like a message board. First is an irregular line, then a five pointed star, then an Isosceles triangle, then a straight line, another irregular line, a shape like the dipper constellations, an irregular hexagon, and a four pointed star. All have their own speech bubbles, saying, "[Detailed well thought out criticism of the bigotry in the 2007 Flatland film with examples]". At the bottom is a Square, saying, "It's progressive because I said so. No I will not provide evidence to back up my claim. But I willclaim that none of your are Real Fans and also children so that I can dismiss your criticisms out of hand. Trust me. I'm a Fandom Elder.". End ID.]

Imagine stanning Ladd Ehlinger in 2024 even after you find out that he's so bigoted that even Republicans are embarrassed to be associated with him.

Imagine calling yourself a fandom elder to try and make yourself out to be an authority while you stan a bigoted movie made by a bigot, and say that all of the people who've made detailed criticisms of it are just being "shallow and reductive", without giving any examples of this actually happening, and also claiming that anyone who criticizes the movie is just a child who only watches cartoons (as though this would in any way invalidate their criticism of bigotry by a known conservative) and therefore you don't actually need to defend your stance because we're all just children, we wouldn't understand it anyways.

If you literally cannot do a single thing to actually defend your claim that a movie is progressive, and the only thing you can do is insult the people who criticize it and pretend we have no idea what we're talking about and should just bow down to your authority because you've declared yourself a "Fandom Elder" you're just a bad person who is fine with bigotry and you should just admit that. It'd save us all time.

[rjalker]

i feel like people should be able to care about literature without woobified yaoi. like nothing against shipping but idk its a bit odd that seems to be some folks only motivation to engage with flatland

Yeah it's just flat out refusing to actually engage with the story at all, because they literally just want to do the Roving M/M Ship of Fandoms Past.

I would rather these people just make up completely original characters to play with if they're not going to think about any of the morals and lessons of Flatland at all. Most of the story is taken up by political commentary criticizing systems of oppression. These people don't want to engage with any of those ideas at all. Not even in regards to their "shape yaoi". They just want to do the exact same Roving M/M Ship as any other fandom and it's infuriating.

@walks-the-ages has made many posts about this, specifically about the absolute absurdity of the way many people reacted to the movie Nope.

This is why I dread the day a series that I literally will not even mention by name here to help forestall the disaster, ever gets a movie adaptation, because I just know that shipping-obsessed people with no critical thinking skills will bulldoze past all of the horror to just pretend it's all super happy and cutesy and shippy.

Shipping is fine as long as you don't let it get in the way of actually engaging with the story that is being told. And that seems to be what is happening with most of the new people in the Flatland tag. They do not care about any of the politics or what the book has to say, they just want their shitpost shape yaoi and don't care about anything else.

It is insulting. Because this is a book literally advocating for equal rights and decrying systems of oppression, but people are just erasing all of that and just want to make shitposts instead.

When they could be doing that about any other fandom out there whose original book is not so strongly political. There's no reason for them to do it about Flatland if they don't care about the politics.

It's public domain, so you *can* ignore all of the politics and make it only about shipping if you really want to. But why in the absolute hell would you want to do that?

Why would you want to take a story that so strongly advocates for equal rights for women, intersex people, disabled people, people of color, and more, and get rid of all of that, to make it into nothing but shitposts about rich cis white guys?

It's very clear that most of the new people are still basing all of their thoughts of this book on the 2007 film, which erased all of the politics to make it purely about absurdist humor.

[ID: The “missing the point” meme, now with a picture of the original cover for the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions saying, “Racism, ableism, misogyny, and classism are bad.”, with the yellow A Sphere from the 2007 Flatland film staring at it in open-mouthed shock, exclaiming, “Wow!!! Shitpost shape yaoi!!!” while the point flies over his head. End ID.]

Ignoring the politics to make shitposts about shape yaoi is not actually a better reaction to this book than what Ladd Ehlinger, infamously racist and misogynistic conservative, did with the 2007 film when he erased all of the politics to make it purely about absurdist humor. Which is what shitposts are.

It would be great if people could actually think about that for a second and realize what the problem is with their behavior but I guess that's asking too much. It always is with the kind of people who don't care about a story at all, only how much shipping material they can get out of it.

This is one of the reasons I hate most fandoms. Most Fandom people do not actually care about the story they're supposedly in the fandom for, they just want to ship two white guys and ignore everything else, even when it means ignoring the actual female protagonist, even when it means whitewashing the protagonist and misgendering it and the guy they're shipping it with, even when it means they're woobifying, as you said earlier, a rich white guy who literally advocates for starving slaves to death while they are tortured in elementary schools.

It seems like these people do not actually give a shit about Flatland at all. They are only here to make shitposts about shape yaoi, even when it means they're woobifying the guy who's 100% pro slavery and pretending he's just a wet noodle silly guy who's never done anything wrong in his life.

Really, how do you read Flatland and come to the conclusion, "I love this misogynistic man?"

If you are glossing over all of the political themes of the book, and even the most basic characterization of the narrator as a raging bigot because it gets in the way of your shipping, that is in fact you being a bigot. If you take a story that is about fighting for equal rights for everyone and throw all of that away to focus solely on two white guys, that's just bigotry, plain and simple.

Especially when they're woobifying the guy who not only owns slaves, but thinks they should be starved to death to help reduce their numbers.

[rjalker]

being a bigot in the flatland fandom is weird, like bro read the book

literally. like come on lofl.

fun fact: the cartoon is meant to mimic the format of the "we should improve society" "and yet you live in society, curious" meme but I was too lazy to actually draw a well.

if people want me to stop making PSAs to warn new people about how absurdly bigoted Ladd Ehlinger, the creator of the 2007 Flatland film is, then they can simply make their own PSAs and tell people themselves.

I wouldn't have to keep making posts about it every other week if other people would do their part to warn people.

[rjalker]

anyways

free racist, misogynistic, transmisic, ableist, ect blocklist:

umbralundertaker apostleofthreedimensions,

both blogs are run by the same person.

stanning Ladd Ehlinger, the guy so blatantly racist and misogynistic that Republicans had to condemn him.

Claiming that anyone who criticizes the Flatland film Ladd Ehlinger made in 2007 for its bigotry and absolute failure to handle the progressive politics of the book is just being "shallow and reductive", despite people writing detailed, well though out criticisms that explain exactly what the problems are.

And despite this stan never once ever giving any examples or explanations for the progressive politics they just keep claiming are in the film.

Is also claiming everyone who has a problem with the film is just a child who doesn't understand media because we're only in the Flatland fandom because of Gravity Falls. Despite the fact that multiple of the people criticizing the movie, in detail, have never watched a second of Gravity Falls, nor are we children. And even if that were the case, that literally would not delegitimize any of our criticism.

AKA: your typical fandom bigot who wants to silence any and all criticism of their favorite bigoted media, and knows they have no real defense, so just has to stick to lying about people and their arguments.

And if you're also in the Flatland fandom and you're gonna stan Ladd Ehlinger and his film and insult and lie about everyone who criticizes it, you just have to accept the fact that you're a bad person and just as bigoted as Ladd Ehlinger is if you're going to defend him.

Google "Ladd Ehlinger racism". Watch his political ads and see just what kind of person you're defending. Read the actual gods damned original book.

If you literally cannot provide any evidence for your claims that the 2007 Flatland film is secretly very progressive, and your only option is to insult and lie about the people criticizing it, just fucking admit you have no fucking defense to make and you know it.

Just admit you're a racist misogynist and you care more about defending a shitty movie than you do actually caring about real world minorities harmed by its creator.

[rjalker]

[ID: A chart labeled, “Fragility scale”, with three colums down the side. The first is labeled “Fragile” in yellow, and reads, “Glass”. Next is “Very Fragile” in orange, for “The tail of a Batavian tear”. Last is “The most fragile thing in the world” in red, for “Fandom when you criticize racism, misogyny, ableism, and other bigotry in media.”. End ID.]

According to a self-proclaimed ~fandom elder~, if you criticize the bigotry in the 2007 Flatland film by infamously racist and misogynistic conservative Ladd Ehlinger, it means you're actually just a child who knows nothing about Flatland at all and are only here for Gravity Falls. Even if you write out a well thought out and detailed argument. Even if you've never watched a single second of Gravity Falls. It doesn't matter. It's easier for stans to just lie about all of your criticism of bigotry than it is to actually make a real argument against it.

[rjalker]

I shouldn't have to design dozens of public domain designs for the narrator and the sphere just to get people to stop worshipping the creations of a bigot but I guess I have to

[rjalker]

wow didn't think anyone in the Flatland fandom would stoop so low as to stan Ladd Ehlinger even after finding out how much of a raging bigot he is and yet here we are. self-proclaimed ~fandom elder~ insisting the 2007 film does in fact have progressive politics and the people who criticize it are just being "shallow" and "reductive" while we list out detailed complaints. But meanwhile the stan offers absolutely zero evidence whatsoever. Sarcasm: Uh huh. yeah that's totally how this works.

[acrossdimension]

Calling someone a racist just because they told you your art sucks must be the biggest stretch in this community so far. If you were aware‚ you would of realised‚ your the only person to keep saying his name every single week. But now I'm the racist for not giving a s*** give me a break

Side Note: unbealivable you did it again :) but this time I got it on camera ;)

(Also thanks for the Ban)

[rjalker]

Ladd Ehlinger, infamously racist and misogynistic conservative, creator of the 2007 Flatland film thinks that adults who respect trans kids' chosen pronouns are pedophiles. He also thinks that using tax money to feed poor school children is the same thing as slavery, and that Black people are all inherently racist and if we don't jail them at disproportionate rates then they'll run around murdering white people all the time.

Can everyone stop creating fanart for his film? You are doing free advertising for him and his creation. Even if you're making the characters gay, you are still promoting his film, allowing him to get more attention.

This man is infamously racist, misogynistic, and now saying he thinks using a trans kid's pronouns makes you a pedophile.

There is no good reason to be promoting his film with hundreds of posts of fanart gushing about his versions of the characters when other adapatations exist, and you can literally just read the original book and then make your own original designs for the characters to make your shitposts for.

You cannot separate the art from the artist when the artist is benefiting from all the attention you are giving him and his creation for free. Which is what you're all doing by constantly making fanart for his versions of the characters and telling everyone how much you loved his film.

The man literally thinks that taxes being used to feed poor school children is the exact same thing as slavery. He thinks using a kids' pronouns makes you a pedophile.

Stop. Making fanart. For the racist misogynistic transmisic conservative's film that ignores all of the politics of the original novel because he is the exact sort of person Edwin Abbot Abbot was criticizing when he wrote the book.

Literally just make your own versions of the characters to fanout over. They're literally a square and a sphere. You can do literally anything you want. But stop making free promotional material for a racist conservative bigot.

Flatland fandom I am begging you to care about real world minorities more than you do the designs for public domain characters created by a bigot so blatantly racist and misogynistic that Republicans had to condemn him.

Literally make your own designs for the characters. It's free. It takes five seconds.

Stop promoting the creation of Ladd Ehlinger. Stop doing free advertising for him and his creation.

If you care about minorities at all you will take 5 seconds out of your day to make an original design for a literal square and sphere to make shitposts about.

My patience with this crap has been thinning by the day with the nonstop deluge of fanart for his versions of the characters that does not in any way reflect the progressive politics of the original novel.

By deliberately continuing to fawn over the designs for these characters created by a bigot, and pretending they're just two completely disconnected things who have noting to do with politics, you are directly contributing to the bigotry the original novel was created to fight against.

It is not harmless to do free advertising for a conservative bigot. It is not harmless to insist that you just have to worship the creation of a racist misogynist transmisic over taking 5 seconds to just make a new design for the characters.

I was trying to be nice and accommodating about this crap but that was before everyone started posting worse and worse things and I'm just not going to tolerate it anymore.

Make new designs for the characters. They are literally. A square and a Sphere. Open up MS Paint or literally any drawing app on your phone or get out a piece of paper and make a design.

Stop doing free advertising for a racist misogynistic bigot who thinks respecting trans kids makes you a pedophile.

I am no longer asking nicely.

Edit: Gravity Falls fandom, this also applies to you, since most people are hearing of the film from your end. Please do your part to inform people about this man's bigotry and ask them to stop doing free advertising for him.

Flatland is public domain. There are dozens more ways to learn about it that don't require watching the 2007 film and doing free advertising for it's infamously bigoted creator. This post is a masterlist of links for where to read, watch, and listen to it.

You're not at fault if you already made fanart before finding out about the creator. But now that you do know, you have to choose whether you care more about real minorities, or the designs made by this racist bigot.

[rjalker]

X

[ID: a digital scribbled based on Edwin A. Abbot's Flatland, showing an Irregular Line and a Square. The Irregular line says "We should not do free advertisement for a conservative bigot."

The Square replies, "I think you saying that is more annoying than the bigot getting free advertising, actually." End ID]

[rjalker]

When you see bigoted behavior occurring in fandom, you should make a general post about it explaining what the problem is and how to not do that.

Because it's literally guaranteed that any bigotry you see in fandom will not be an isolated incident. Other people will be thinking that doing the same thing is a good idea, especially if the first instance occurs without any noticeable backlash.

It is in fact extremely helpful for everyone in fandom for you to make posts talking about general issues and specific problems, instead of just privately messaging the bigot in question. Because if all you do is privately message people, and never say anything "out loud" then there will never be anything to stop anybody else who has the exact same idea, because as far as they're aware, the first person did it, and everybody seem to enjoy it!

You literally cannot educate people by not saying anything. You can reach out to the individual people doing the bigoted things if you think they'll be receptive, but it is literally much more helpful in a broader sense to make posts directed at everyone explaining what the problem behavior is and how to avoid it.

Because otherwise, even if the first person quietly corrects their behavior, other people down the line will still repeat that behavior because they don't know any better, and the fandom seems to be encouraging it by not saying anything about it the first time it happened.

This applies to every single fandom in existence.