#i don't have a psa tag and this isn't a psa anyway but like

[quickdeaths]

(I saw a lot of people talking about ships and such recently, and while this isn't, like, a PSA or anything, I wanted to clarify some things about my own position on shippy stuff. I do really like writing romantic ships, but I also have some personal tastes on how I like to do stuff just in case anyone is curious or interested or whatever. Maybe I'll add this as a link on my pinned? who knows)

Firstly, I've said this before, but my primary shipping interest is f/f. I don't have any preference on like, CanonxCanon, CanonxOC, OCxOC, I love them all, but I do specifically prefer wlw ships. This absolutely does not mean I will not do other things, I am happy to do any gender pairing (if it works for the characters). F/F stuff is just more likely to catch my eye immediately. As a general rule, even outside of romantic shipping, I am here to give female and nb muses attention.

Secondly, I am slow-burn biased to the extreme. I like taking my time with ships and building a lot of scaffolding for a relationship. There are characters who require more "work" before they can get into a relationship at all (Shinobu, Izumi, Percy), and characters who could feasibly jump into a relationship very easily (Anzu, Tsubasa), but in all cases, I'm very long-term in how I prefer things to go, and even with those characters who are quicker to romance, there's still a lot of emotional things that will take time. CanonxCanon where there is in-canon basis for the ship is the only real exception, but even then, I still like to establish a lot of individual dynamic/portrayal things before jumping headfirst in. I like to see the chemistry play out in threads and really feel "who are these characters together?"

Thirdly, I am ship-exclusive. Most of my characters are OCs, so typically it's sort of a one-way street with other people's canons, where I am ship-exclusive with someone else's character without asking for anything in return. This is not the case with my canons, which is sometimes why I'm slightly more apprehensive about shipping them, because whether with an OC or a different canon, I will be practicing ship-exclusivity on my end, and I want it in return as well. I don't want to force someone into that if they don't want to do that, but it is a rule I won't budge on. Even for ships I really like, like Kaede/Maki, I would not be comfortable shipping my Maki with a Kaede who had like, three other Makis that they also shipped with.

Fourthly, if you ship with me I will terrorize you with OOC conversation, headcanons, random images or posts that remind me of Them, and probably commissioned ship art at some point because i've lost control of my life. You will never again know peace. I promise you excitement and engagement on my part for sure, I acquire ship brainrot very strongly and I'm very enthusiastic! Especially stuff that feels very personally-built and unique, whether that's stuff with OCs, or canons that just have a lot of personal flair, I will basically become this image about the ship.

Anyway, I love shipping and I love plotting and ooc communication, and my IMs are always open to chat.

[chipped-chimera]

" my doctor says it's normal and not to worry because it doesn't hurt the baby " - really says everything about this.

the thing is like. i get that it's scary and makes people who do desire to get pregnant uncomfortable when we talk about the brutality and violence of pregnancy and the damage that pregnancy can do to your body

but you deserve to give informed consent to that process.

the lies around pregnancy - that it's inherently safe, that it doesn't do you permanent damage, that it's only extremely rare for people to die of pregnancy complications, etc like

all of these are lies constructed so that more people will get pregnant w/o knowing all that

there needs to be more talk about the impact of miscarriages and how common they are, how different abortion processes are and how accessible they are

but also like. talking about how pregnancy fucks your body up should not be taboo

this is a process that permanently changes most people's bodies, and that's even if the pregnancy doesn't do them like. severe illness or injury

and i just think everybody should have a right to KNOW that

bc to live in a society that intentionally obscures and hides facts about a completely optional and dangerous process does so for a reason, and that reason is based in a very sinister ideology that does not value bodily autonomy or informed consent

[kurominiiiz]

The amount of incest, noncon, and pedophilic jjk smut content is getting out of hand.

"Just scroll if you don't like it!" - this doesn't negate the fact they're posting disgusting scenarios. They're targeting an audience of people who should seek therapy. That kind of shit is not okay.

It's like saying "scroll part a zoophile account on Twitter if u don't like it." See how stupid it sounds?

This Fandom is slowly becoming one i regret being in because of just how disgusting people are becoming. Come on guys, do better.

It's okay to have kinks and fetishes, but that doesn't mean they're okay. It's not okay to sexualize minors, it's not okay to sexualizw little space, it's not okay to sexualize r//pe! I get dubcon, but noncon? That's literally just nonconsensual sex.

Anyways. Rant over. Do better, people.

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Edit: I have MUCH more to say on this now that I've read some other inputs:

The problem isn't "block and move on" or "ur arguing for fiction..." it's the fact people are exposing minors and already mentally ill people to VERY REAL and DISGUSTING scenarios. It doesn't matter that they're fictional, what they're writing about is a real issue. Blocking tags doesn't work most of the time, so stop saying to shut up and just use that feature.

Another thing is that people are making these writings so normal that they are making others think it's okay. When I was younger, I had unsupervised internet access and was exposed to smut like this. It messed me up and got me institutionalized because I didn't know it wasn't okay to talk about. Minors nowadays are also very unsupervised and will come across your stuff. I'm worried for the next generation.

Last thing, the excuse "they're just fiction" is flawed because you're ignoring the PSA! You wouldn't say this if it was about something else, right? If someone was saying: "I love lolicon!" You wouldn't block and move on. You would call their asses out and comment bomb them. It's the same concept, except on a broader spectrum. You're enabling the behavior of these vile creatures that need serious help. You're not doing anyone any good by saying "this is so unnecessary" or "they're fictional..."

(Update: read this post about my asks if you plan on sending a hate message or threat lol)

[dylawa]

*Steps up to my soapbox*

I had this whole spiel about “these are the reasons I block people and these are the kinds of people I block” to open this post initially, but instead I’m just gonna skip to the main story and make a plea. No “read more” because this is important.

Over the past week, I’ve had the misfortune of being exposed to a certain group of users without critical thinking skills and reading comprehension, that caused my blocklist number to go up astronomically. It’s no one’s fault but mine, and Tumblr’s recommendations; the users whose posts I came across want as little to do with people like me as I do with people like them and I’m not here to be a mentor or babysitter. So while it’s unfortunate we crossed paths (even though they have no idea I was “there,” because I know how to not interact with shit that pisses me off now), at least I could do us both a favor and block them, as well as anyone in their notes sharing their sentiments.

That number went up due to a combination of things, starting with my “For You” page recommending those blogs it especially shouldn’t have, and then the content in those posts (and me using the notes as a blocklist) lead to me searching for a specific term to add more accounts to my list myself. The latter action, I could have gone on doing for days, probably, since it was a search on my own terms and not a post where I could just stop when the notes ended. And the number of users I blocked could have been bigger, but for the sake and worth of my own time-- and sanity-- I had to stop at some point. As much as I would love to block everyone I may ever need to block in one sitting, that’s not possible by any metric.

But it’s that latter action that’s why I’m making this post.

I am not going to go into details about what my search was after the initial post inspired me, neither the exact word, nor what I found in those prior posts that inspired me to do this. None of it is against TOS, for the record, I just don’t want to be bothered explaining that whole story on top of this one, and/or having the exact kinds of people I’m talking about easily find this post and, again, display a lack of critical thinking and reading comprehension. All you need to know is a (non recent) message about a terrible situation was spread without irrefutable proof, and there were too many people who were told this false information in a single anon sentence. Some of these messages had a link, but not many, and the link was to an extremely questionable source, if not downright malicious.

And without any additional research, or asking for proof aside from this single sentence statement, many people decided to believe it.

Some people did the right thing and actually looked into the details, including the very few times there were links to “proof,” then additionally did more and sufficient research outside of that link. They then told those spreading or believing that false message to piss off, but the number of users who put in the extra work definitely was not high enough.

We joke about the “reading comprehension” on this site, but I know that the users making those jokes are, in reality, just as peeved and, frankly, scared, as I am, about how this lack of crucial logical and reasoning skills are on the rise. But the thing is, the term I searched for that grew my block list, is about an event from years ago. So while this is not a new phenomenon, it is most certainly on the rise.

*Side glances at the Twitter refugees*

And I bet I can guess why.

I know at the time of writing this I am not even the last person on these kinds of people’s minds, and even in the future that may remain true. But I do not, and will not, have the time or patience for people who never learned how to research for facts, not be reactionary, and use those skills to pause for a moment and form their own conclusions. I know the urge to placate, trust, and appear as the “good guy” to avoid conflict is a strong urge (dare I say survival instinct in some cases) in many of us-- we’re users on the mentally ill website, after all (said affectionately)-- but it should not be at the cost of our common sense and ability to reasonably see most, if not all, sides of the circumstances presented to us.

There is a reason critical thought and reading comprehension is taught in school (at least, it was in mine). There’s a reason they make logic workbooks for kids, and have us participate in science fairs and learn the scientific method, and write book reports and study history and where we went wrong, even if using or talking about those specific topics are things some of us will never do again outside of academia. The skills transfer-- it feels so obvious to say it, but for some of that stuff, it isn’t about the details of the specific applications of things like sine, cosine, and tangents, for example. The specific applications of those formulas and calculations will only matter to some. The knowledge of a thing is about the long term applications of just knowing they exist and what they can do, even if only vaguely. It’s about knowing there’s more to life and thought than our own personal focuses and morals.

And there is a reason there are people in positions of power-- government or otherwise-- who want to take these crucial thinking skills away from us-- and, apparently, are succeeding.

This is my plea to you: if you’re told something that has some kind of significant or personal impact as succinctly as possible by anyone-- a stranger, an anonymous tip, an authority figure, an online personality, a parent, a friend, your closest friend, a goddamn doctor or scientist (they get slightly more credibility, but they’re absolutely not infallible)-- look into it yourself. Find as many reputable resources discussing the matter as you can. Do this especially if the person who imparts this statement of fact-- true or otherwise-- on you provides none of those resources themselves, but also do it no matter what. Do it even if they provided many reputable sources-- if you find all of the same things on your own, great! You can be more sure that you know the details of the situation. But if it’s important, if it shifts perspective on an individual or matter at large, take nothing at face value from someone else before doing your own due diligence. Even the people who have your best interests in mind can leave out information, either unintentionally, or even for their own gain-- beneficial or nefarious.

When they say “Knowledge is power,” they’re not just talking about the immediate applications of academia or politics-- it’s the broader picture of the combination of everything you know, and everything you don’t. Power is control. When people control knowledge, they control power-- and knowledge isn’t always just knowing dates of historical events and the textbook definition of “propaganda.”

Oh, and also, feel free to block anyone and everyone that makes you even slightly annoyed if you want to, without guilt. You owe no one debate if that’s not what you’re here for. But be smart for yourself, no matter what you do.

[ecoterrorist-katara]

you act like your fandom isn't responsible for shitty racist behavior towards irls liiiike dont be a hypocrite pointing fingers at everyone except your own ilk lmfao

I was initially going to write a snarky response, but upon reflection you sound pretty young and I don't want to get into a pissing contest with someone who is likely a minor. Instead, I'm going to share my philosophy on how I engage with fandom and explain why it doesn't make sense for you to come to my ask box and demand that I answer for people who I don't even know.

My approach to fandom is entirely hedonistic. 1) Fandom is not, and never will be, my personal milieu for activism, and 2) I'm not responsible for the behaviour of people who happen to share my preference in a ship; I can only control what I do.

On 1), I come to fandom for escapism and indulgence, and these two qualities of fandom are completely incompatible with my approach to activism. Activism must be rooted in the real world and often demands doing things you don't want to do. That's like...the polar opposite of what I want to do on Tumblr.com.

Sometimes I incorporate analysis of oppression and justice in my fandom discussions because I find them interesting, but that's still about me and my enjoyment, not about oppression and injustice in general. A lot of my life has been dedicated to structural injustices, whether as topics of study or as systemic forces to organize against (more accurately, I spent most of my adult years striving to combine the academic and the practical facets), so obviously they crop up in my discussions, but my engagement in fandom has never been about activism and I've been quite clear about that. For example, I may talk about decolonization in the context of ATLA, but I harbour no delusions that my salty complaints about Bryke are, in any way, relevant to furthering the decolonial project.

On 2), notice that in my response to your last ask, I never claimed the entire Zutara fandom only consists of people who never did anything wrong. I only claimed that I, personally, strive to behave like a reasonably decent person in my fandom interactions. Fandoms consist of literally thousands of people, if not tens of thousands, so of course people in my (and yours, and everyone's) fandom are capable of shitty behaviour -- but like I said before, I'm not the fandom police. It's not a role I'm interested in taking on, nor one I'm arrogant enough to think I should. I don't try to be a role model at the club or at the grocery store; in a similar vein, I'm not facilitating or curating or shepherding the Zutara fandom. I just hang out here, same as everyone else, and I'm not going to insult my followers & my peers' intelligence by saying "PSA: did you know it's not okay to say shitty and racist things to people?"

My responsibilities in fandom extend to following basic fandom etiquette and interacting with posts and people that don't contradict my values. I sometimes repost salty things about specific ships, or occasionally I'll interact with Zutara antis who come to me, because salt can be fun in moderate doses plus I have post-COVID POTS so I need a lot of salt anyway. Every time I have interacted with a hostile Ka/taang shipper, it has been because they came to my post, my blog, or my tags to stir up shit. Even so, I'd never go to a Ka/taang blogger and expect them to do something. I have, btw, received messages asking me to highlight/expose certain Ka/taang shippers for their politics or things they've said, and I don't publish those either, so there's not a whole lot of fingerpointing going on here in general.

I'm going to stop responding to your asks, but I hope you can reflect on what exactly you are trying to get out of fandom, and what kind of behaviour you think is productive and generative for you. I'm not saying everyone should follow my personal fandom engagement philosophy, but I am saying you can't impose your philosophy onto me.

[pseudophan]

can we start spreading a psa that the tour spoilers tag is “tit spoilers” cause i’ve already seen people being like “i’m going to be tagging #[dnp] T I T ~**spoilers**~” and i need us to use our brains for 2 seconds

LOL yeah i'm gonna need people to be normal about their spoiler tags you don't need your own unique flair just say tit spoilers it's fine. i do think maybe we need two different tags though? because people have very different definitions of what's a spoiler and what isn't (during ii there was an argument about whether the songs on the pre-show playlist counted as a spoiler) and especially if there's a segment that changes between shows like all the other tours had then i assume a lot of people will want to see that but not all the rest of it

idk, i'm not quite sure what to do yet. definitely 'tit spoilers' as the main tag though cause it seems to be what most people have agreed upon already, but i might also do a softer spoiler tag for those who don't want to avoid show content entirely but still want to keep most of it a surprise. not that i see myself posting a lot of details about it anyway, but i assume as the shows pass more and more people will be talking about it. i know with ii at first it was very hush hush but the more people got to see it the more the contents became an actual discussion on the dash and the spoiler tags became more important

[ladyniniane]

The worst Greek mythology retelling?

Unless you live in a cave (lucky you), you can't have escaped the wave of Greek mythology retellings. Some are bad, some are good and most of them are mediocre. Among those I've read, one was particularly bad and cringe and we are going to dissect it today.

PSA: As you can see, I didn't include the book's title in the post, nor use specific tags. This post is primarily aimed at me and my mutuals. If you disagree, feel free to block me and mask my username. You're the master of your ship and the only one who can curate your internet experience. Rude comments will be sent to the Tartarus blocked. And I mean, you aren't going to change my mind anyway so don't bother trying😎.

Now that we are done, let me introduce you to this book.

I already see some of you in the back rows being like "But Niniane, why did you bother with this? It's obviously going to be bad!". Well, sometimes I need things that are light and easy to read. Everyone needs to turn their brain off from time to time.

And besides, it looked inoffensive. The idea of modern women being isekaied during the Trojan War is fun. As a writer and enjoyer of OC fanfics, I absolutely love new takes and dynamics with existing characters.

Except that...it wasn't fun at all! Let's dive! And I hope you're prepared because it's gonna be a ride.

-So it starts with the goddesses being fed up with the Trojan War and male egos (Lego des Zhommes if you're French). They decide to find a way to stop the war. So far, so good.

-And their solution is to...send modern women back in time. Yeah, because they think that ancient-era women are too weak and meek. Only independent modern women will be able to handle those strong warriors:

"modern mortal women are different from ancient women [...] they're independent and smart and not used to bowing down and taking orders [...] maidens from the ancient world are not equipped to handle such a man, but I know that modern mortal women are different ---stronger, smarter, more independent."

Yes, you've read correctly.

First of all, it reeks of victim-blaming. If the Trojan women had been more assertive, they could have stopped this. It could have prevented them from being raped and enslaved! They just had to lean in and...Stop, stop. And I'm sorry but those ancient women are more equipped with dealing with that sort of men because they live with them every day. Idk the goddesses could have just...empowered the Trojan women so they could resist? Send the Amazons to help (with more success than in the original myths)? Give them a safe place where they could be protected?

-So, anyway, the heroine is transported in the body of a Trojan princess. But there is another problem. The heroine's friend who transmigrates with her is black. And she gets turned into a white woman. The reason? "Jacqueline’s lovely dark skin would be too hard to explain among the golden Greeks"(sic.). Here, we can see that the author didn't bother doing her research. Many stories regarding the Trojan War have an African king come to the Trojans' aid. The ancient world was furthermore interconnected. So yes, it would have been f*cking easy to explain. And to add insult to injury, our black woman turned white becomes the servant of the main character and is treated as her property.

-So anyway, MC becomes Achilles' war prize. And being a war prize is such a cool and fun life! You can wander around the camp, with no fear of being sexually assaulted!

-MC is a therapist and wants to try to help Achilles. She thus practices hypnosis on him and decides to have sex with him while he's still in that state. So, she basically rapes him. The worst thing: she knows it's wrong, but she does it anyway and she isn't sorry.

-Then, Achilles tells the MC that he has frequent bouts of berserk rage and that he even raped a woman. But he didn't mean to do it. Poor meow meow.

Needless to say, I stopped here. This wasn't fun, this was downright insensitive. The ending is predictable: MC ends up with Achilles and MC's best friend with Patroclus because no one can stay single!

Anyway, that was, imo, the worst Greek mythology retelling.

[radfemsiren]

I identified as a trans man for close to 5 years when I was a teenager as an attempt to escape from all the hardships a woman has to face. I had the largest amount of support from my friends, online communities, and felt like I finally knew who I was. That was until I snapped back into reality and reclaimed my female identity, this caused those people to drop me and I honestly couldn't be happier. They mocked me for going back and said I only socially transitioned for "oppression points".. hello? As if women aren't oppressed? Anyway, I feel like the online space isn't a safe space for young women because instead of giving us support, we are given "solutions". This is also another reason why I support not allowing teens to have access to puberty blockers, testosterone, etc. because, no, we don't always know ourselves especially as vulnerable teenagers. I could've very easily gotten them and messed up my hormones for good.

Thanks for sharing your story! ❤️ I really wish there was better support for detrans women. So many people, esp the trans community, treats them like a joke or a threat. Esp that girl that made a PSA about how hormones made her start balding, the trans community mocked and degraded her for weeks, even though she wasn’t angry or didn’t say anything against them. They also made conspiracy theories about how she was a conservative plant, it was disgusting! And now the detrans tag is just full of porn, not actual support…

What you said about getting support really made me think, and it reminds me of when so many girls admit they loved having a teen pregnancy because it was the first time in their life they got unconditional love, praise, and affection...

If only we as a society gave this love to young girls as the standard, then they wouldn’t resort to altering their bodies… they can feel comfortable in their natural state. That won’t happen until society stops hating/sexualizing/dismissing the teenage girl and her experiences.

[serpentinegraphite]

So, first off, this is not an attempt to kink shame (dubcon and noncon are great!) but I do keep seeing a thing in fics (I do NOT see this irl in kink spaces nearly as often) where like. A character will interrupt the flow of the scene to check consent

And I don't mean in an "are we still green?" Or "what's your color?" kind of way, but I mean. The author has tagged the fic and indicated via prose and/or author notes that they are doing their Due Diligence to make sure this fic is Righteously Consensual from top to bottom, No Question About It

And a character will ask for full sexual consent either directly or indirectly or renegotiate the boundaries of the kinks being practiced AFTER the sex acts have already begun.

Here's the thing: horny brain isn't great at making decisions! irl in kink spaces, there's often a lot of emphasis on negotiating BEFORE the scene begins, perhaps even with a space between negotiation and the scene if it's with a new/unfamiliar partner (maybe it's a few minutes while things are set up, maybe the partners negotiate a day or more in advance! It depends!), and not changing the parameters of the scene after someone is already horny or god forbid already in subspace.

Again, these are perfectly fine rules to break in fiction, when the author is aware of it (most characters are not going to be fully familiar with safe, sane, consensual practices and the traffic light system, nor would we want them to be!) but I'm increasingly finding fics where the author DOESN'T seem aware, which takes a normal fic (in-character, with reasonable but perhaps even somewhat dubious practices, which the author isn't emphasizing or preaching about) into Red Flag Territory (a character, OOC, yanking me out of the scene to behave like a PSA about consent instead of conforming to the horny tone of the scene, and perpetuating unsafe practices anyway)

If you are writing a master manipulator or someone who wants to have a gotcha, you totally said it was okay on a character they are trying to bone (which is well in the realm of non/dubcon) that's fine! This PSA is not aimed at you. But if you are trying to write someone who Cares Strongly About Consent, then perhaps be more aware of when is an appropriate time to escalate the situation (sexually speaking) or ask for consent!

[juanabaloo]

I fully support a Faith/Lilah agenda in the way that I fully support all and any of Lilah's gay moments from her and that woman she was trying to hire as a telekinetic assassin and living with, Cordelia ("Are you trying to turn me on?" and Fred (I like to think it'd start as just wanting to see what all the fuss was about with her). So I guess this ask is basically just an opportunity to talk about any Lilah femslash if you want?

LILAH FEMSLASH! [addition to the ask sent separately: * and then "Oh no I see what all the fuss was about" and Lilah is forced to be part of down bad for Fred nation]

I fully support Lilah's gay moments because all the women in the Buffyverse should be more gay / queer. Also Lilah is hot. I am honored by the ask, but I'm not a Lilah expert at all. And I have not seen all of her episodes.

(I am not a big fan of ATS and have a slow plan to watch all of the various women's episodes. Lilah is on my list but I haven't seen all of her episodes yet.]

So I'm an abstract fan of Lilah femslash but haven't written any or read very much. (LINK to the AO3 page for Lilah relationships, including the slashes.)

re Faith: I think the Faith x Lilah canon vibes are such a good jumping off point for fic, both the "outside the club" alley scene and the "you won't be disappointed" office scene.

(guessing you are asking bc I posted some tags about Thanksgiving and Faith here or maybe the PSA series here ?)

re Cordelia: I've seen a clip of the scene you mention and I can see how Cordelia x Lilah end up together.

re Fred: I don't really see Fred x Lilah but also it doesn't help that I haven't seen all the Fred eps.

Is there a space for the Lilah femslash fans to chat? Other Lilah fans chime in!

Ignoring the Lilah x Wesley (Weslah?) ship - which isn't femslash anyways - any Lilah pairings are a rarepair and fair game for the Dreamwidth and Discord Otherworldly Chemistry group. (For the Discord link, DM the tumblr account otherworldlychemistry.)

[thankyouforthememoriesworld]

Hey friend!

If it means anything, while each of these games she scored 8 points, a few things are getting better: her Game Score is increasing across these games. I never really look at +/- because it is highly dependent on who you play with on the court. There's a good article explaining it with this quote:

"If you send Damian Lillard onto the floor of an NBA game with four preschoolers, he’s going to have a horrible plus/minus even though he’s a fantastic player. His individual play-making and/or skills won’t be able to overcome the gravity of the team’s demise. Nor would the loss (and the terrible plus/minus stat on his boxscore line) be his fault."

Anyway, her on the court often distracts the defense so much leaving Sarah wide open with her own off the ball movement. They can only track 2/3 for PSA at a time honestly. There isn't a good box score stat to show this unless we can get breakdowns for productivity per each starting 5 on the floor. (I think there is a website for this but I'm blanking on the name).

The thing that really was a regression was her usage rate aka the percentage of a team's possessions a player uses while on the floor. Remember, we need her getting 14-20 shots off and she only had 5 today. That's nearly the same number as the USC game where she only played 8 minutes and had a higher usage rate in that game than this one. I would rather see her take more shots than not take them at all (that feels like a Geno-ism at this point). Her shots were falling today, just didn't take enough. For reference, Paige averages at least 15 shots per game, Sarah is at around 12, and Azzi is at 10. We need Azzi to start making those easier two point shots ASAP. I don't want 80% of her shot attempts being from the three point line. That isn't a sign of a confident Azzi.

I hope P is okay. KK posted her and Paige responded so hopefully everything is fine. Next games are Xavier and Georgetown and they are rated incredibly low on the SRS scale so we really don't need her and I hope she gets rested fully. They have 8 games before Tennessee and none of them require her so Geno better not let her come back prematurely I'm bummed she won't break 2000 pts immediately but she will eventually. Healthy P means more to me than records. The only record that matters to her is that national championship.

If anything, maybe I'll look at this glass half full (a fan's survival guide to UConn should come with the tag line "always look at the glass half full") -- now the players are forced to look for Azzi and actually develop that chemistry because right now the only players that look for Azzi are Paige, Sarah and KK and maybe Kaitlyn but not always at the best time because she is a tad too late. With Azzi, you got to be able to read what she is doing before she does it to get her the pass in time. Here's to hoping we see more of that.

Hey love (I always think of Liam Neeson in Derry Girls as I write this 😅),

We should have fans in the stands for every game with signs reading “Azzi shoot the ball”. 10 shots per game is so few 😭. She drives me crazy because she forgets how incredible she is.

I think Paige is alright and was really angry/frustrated/scared, which is why she was emotional rather than responding to pain. We don't need her back for a while, so she should use as much time as she wants and needs to be 110% healthy. I don't care about records, she's already broken so many and will continue to do so no matter what, I just want her to be well.

Azzi (and Sarah) are going to have to take charge of the team, and that's usually something that spurs Azzi into action.

[ca-suffit]

This nonstop victim parade is v funny on a level because they all really started to shut up once I got here. They go in cycles with this and I've watched them a long time. They never say what they did. This is just like the Neil "apology." It's a gesture. It's not real. "I should have handled myself better at times." What did you do then. Share with the class. Explain your shit so you take accountability. Say it in a way that isn't making you out to be some meek victim. It's not working on most of us. Show us the fucking receipts for this Lestat fan bullying you all keep talking about too. I want to see that. If it's so prominent then where the fuck is it? Cuz all I see is some sensitive ass babies who have made themselves the gatekeepers of the fandom and hate on black fans constantly like they're slick with how they do it too. You're crazy for ep 5, you obsess over that shit and you will lose it fr if they don't cancel it. You talk about black fans like everyone's too stupid for "the truth" of it "really" being a manipulated memory, but let's talk about how you can't handle if it's true and Lestat really did all that? Why can't you do that? That's where your bullshit "bullying" comes from. People don't coddle Lestat, people *gasp* hate the man! and there's your receipts. Someone says "Lestat kys" and you're making a fandom PSA about "bullies." You're SO self-centered! You saw a black man get beaten like that and you made it all about feeling bad for the white guy? You're saying the white guy's fans are the real victims here? Girl if you don't shut the fuck up. Wake up already to your antiblackness. "We should've been able to have mature discussions." Exactly, and how have you contributed to this? People follow and comment on the context of the show (of which you are not a writer on) and you're out here calling everyone dummies because of the BOOKS. Always the BOOKS. Anne Rice is dead, baby, she ain't writing this show. Neither are you. How do the natural consequences of your egomaniacal bullshit taste now? Am I riding your dick enough for all the attention you've been ordering with this superiority complex you project all over? Don't you like having someone here doing all of this in public like you're always crying is happening anyway? Isn't this what you wanted?<3 You're literally right on that train with him and that dog, saying to everyone else "I love our family." Shut the whole fuck up. You love control and you love feeling superior, especially over black fans. You can't go long without mentioning "that group" like anyone's ever done anything to you but stay out of the tags even! You're so bothered anyway tho! You can't even let black people have tumblr accounts way the fuck away from you. Pretend all day you don't care about this shit, I see you. I know you're reading all of this. Choke on it. You shouldn't have been pulling this shit so long, then I wouldn't be here. You created this, remember that.

[toyhousedramas]

Your recent tags reminded me: this is ancient Toyhouse stuff, and I know that you never post these things without proof, but when I went looking for links to the PSAs I found that they've all been scrubbed off of TH; either posted by accounts that have since been closed or deleted (like casin0s original TH account), or posted by accounts I have blocked. To that end, I won't blame you if you decide not to post this, but I wanted to say anyway: Part of what precipitated Casin0s/nicooo stepping away from their Mignyan CS was a scandal involving their (publicly visible in the CS Discord Server, as well as at least one friend group chat on Discord) inappropriately sexual jokes with minors in general, and sexually charged character plotting/RP with a 'friend' who was 13/14 at the time (whose username I know, but will withold for that child's privacy). Casin0s (19/20 at that time) had always been one of those very loud 'PROSHIPPERS DNI, YOU'RE SICK FREAKS AND PEDOS!' types, and having become familiar with the pattern of outspoken antis being exposed for inappropriate behaviour themselves, I wasn't shocked when Casin0s got exposed for 'joking' about inappropriately sexual topics with children, or that there was explicit artwork on the profiles of characters that they RPed with a child. However, what DID shock me was that after the callout and the public 'apology' that they posted before deleting their account (as good an admission of guilt as you can get), they 1: stayed on so many peoples' 'favorite designer' lists, 2: pretty obviously remained personally in-touch with their child 'friend,' and 3: a handful of pretty big name artists in the Dainty, Mignyan, and other communities quietly remained friends with them. After a few months, they made a new account, and have carried on a quiet and unbothered life with tons of fans ever since. Their designs continue to sell within days, for just about any asking price, to users with 'proshippers DNI' in their profile to this day. All this to say: I fully get you, Mod, when you say that you don't want to socialize with antis. I've seen proshippers clearly denounce a member of their community who is exposed for inappropriate behavior, but I never see antis bat an eye when it's one of their own.

This is going to be a serious reply, if you don't care about actual conversation, continue to scroll. Not you anon, anyone looking. I also usually do not partake in full on discussion about this topic, but given some recent events outside this blog, I would like to.

I'm going to post this partially because it isn't a callout on a specific person, merely an example, and partially because I was actually around for that, so for my own sake I can say I know it happened with enough grace to at least be able to respond to it.

I am currently in the midst of watching a group of people on twitter get in more trouble for tracing than for harboring a predator who exchanged kink based writing and voice messages with a child, these same people consistently attack people in the community they're in for partaking in problematic fantasies, one of the people harboring this predator works professionally with very young children. They are now sending inappropriate pictures to the people calling them out, including private pictures involving self harm of the people they are harassing, no one knows how they obtained these images, but it has resulted in two attempted suicides, and still, they continue.

This is not unusual, it feels like it happens every few weeks. I will not explain my personal history on an anonymous drama blog, but I avoid that subset of people because I have regularly had them either defend predators, or tell me that me being anti-censorship in art means I deserve what happened to me. I have had antis send CSEM of my friend -- a fellow victim, clearly -- to them directly in order to taunt them.

Until Antis take initiative in denouncing this behavior in their own community, I will continue to assume they all support this behavior, or partake in it themselves. But thus far I've never seen that happen.

[lingeringscars]

General reminder that this is a v pro be/cho space ❤️

[hacuore]

my spoilers tag is     / skam italia spoilers    , just for reference    , because I’m posting a lot of headcanons about episodes that have already passed since I’m caught up already and I noticed people have just started, so if you care about that sort of thing black list that  ---- and i also leave a window for spoilers about maybe a few  hours after the clip shows  because of time differences but other than that,  past episodes  and what not, are not spoiler free on my blog

[latetothepartyandconfused]

[ID:screenshot of tags and multiple screenshots of posts about scamming in animal jam The tags say "I stil think that 'anti-scammers dni' is really fucking funny especially sicnce the context was that they were scamming kids on animal jam and peple went 'kind of fucked up to do that to kids' and they got soo mad. 'stfu I am working' yeah working so hard. scamming 8 years old out of their items in animal jam" The scamming post says "Animal jam scamming <3 I feel like there’s nothing wrong with it. Its’s teaching kids a valuace lesson, even if it’s a harsh way of doing it. In the end, it’s just virtual items. I think hacking is worse personaly, but also not that bad ether. It’s how the food chain works." Someone responds with: "Yeah, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with making kids cry! /s get a hobby" another person says "idk why scammers cant just admit They do it to have items?? Like you dont really need to explain why you scam like we all know you do it so you can have more items, like there’s no ulterior motive, you just want items" different person says  "'valuable lesson' you are stealing from children, stop trying to justify that to yourself publicly?? You’re just a dick lol." They than take screenshot of op's comment that says "y’all can cope just saying" and respond with "mad nobly likes you huh? <3".

Op than makes another comment that says "plenty people like me. sorry that you have to get all pissy instead of minding your own bussiness. people scam to pay bills. we are suffering just as much us you honey." They respond in all caps with "another day of scamming children on animal jam to pay the bills </3". Op than makes comment that reads as "anyway, free blocklist. You don't like my page, get off it. Your little moral psa isn't going to cange my ways. Stop trying to be all woke and grow the fuck up." They repond again with "fellas is it 'woke' to say 'stealing from kids bad'?"

We then see op's pinned post which says "Since it has to be said anti-scam dni Y'all are fucking annoying, I'm working ffs, you're not achieving anything by blowing up my notifs with "hjahaha my morals are better x3 x3" kindly go fuck yourselves" \end ID]

dnis are evitonmental storytelling because you can instantly imagine the incomprehensible hellscape someone is trapped in if they have a dni that's like dni if you:

think irish people can't be pan

are an apologist for season 2 scrunklepus or the knights of glop

hunt and kill people for sport

play frunko's quest

think movies always have to be slimy

think it's okay for welsh people to cosplay flugson

don't tag bibbles or togs

think that dutch and samoan are the same nationality

use the z-slur

participated in the srebenica massacre

are mutuals with steve