#i encourage you to install shinigami eyes

[n8nt]

just went on a terf blocking spree

[the-proship-hellhole]

i wanna know exactly why you think "[shinigami eyes] is complete garbage and is only used to encourage bullying and harassment". like, if the user is tagged improperly and they ARE pro-trans then that's important to note, but if you are reblogging from someone who others have noted with the extension as anti-trans, i do not trust you as much

i will go and double check if the person i brought up is a terf / spreading anti trans talking points myself (and may report it as false if i find nothing of the sort or even the opposite), but i am not a long term follower of yours and MANY of the people who have shinigami eyes marked on them are blatantly anti-trans, and therefore i prefer to trust it compared to accidentally interacting with anti trans users because i'm not aware of every statement they say on their blog.

it is not a "low mental capacity" issue, it is an "i hate terfs and transphobes and do not want to interact with them in the first place and am taking precautions in ways like installing an extension that can warn me or blocking terf tags or similar" issue

Dude, terfs and transphobes make themselves pretty obvious. You don't need a faulty extension to tell who's who.

As for Shinigami Eyes - plenty of people who are not terfs or transphobes get flagged on it. It's a user-submitted extension with no vetting process. Anyone can submit anyone. And once you're flagged, there's no appeals process. That's it. You're done. You're now officially transphobic/a terf.

And again, if you're relying on an outside source to tell you who to follow and who not to follow - you should not be using Tumblr because you are clearly unable to handle being on the internet without parental supervision. Which means I can only conclude that you're a child (under 13), or you're too mentally deficient to make your own decisions.

You have a problem with this, then get off this blog. We're not changing blogging habits to satisfy people using a bullshit extension for bullying people for wrongthink.

~ Mod Niecest

[wutheringheightsfilm]

hi so this post has been going around my dash and the person who made it is transphobic (at least) and reblogs from pretty obvious TERF blogs so they’re probably a terf too.

(ID: A post by @/ rakastiikeri that says: “Every time, and I mean every time, there’s a positive post for girls that says “your sexual boundaries are valid; you don’t have to have painful, risky, degrading sex, etc.” some simpering fools always have to ruin it with bullshit like ‘it’s totally okay to have painful, risky, and degrading sex; fuck as many boys as you want :)’ like shut the fuck up. No need to worry, teenage girls are already getting that message from pornsick boys, pornsick media, pornsick “sex postive” assholes, and porn itself. All of hetero supremacist, male supremacist society wants girls to have sex with boys, specifically sex that boys want regardless of girls’ wants and feelings so...shut the fuck up. Literally the last thing young girls need encouragement to do is fuck boys. Shut up. Just shut the fuck up.” End ID)

you guys have GOT to start looking at these peoples blogs when they talk about young girls like this because half the time on this site it’s always a TERF that makes them. it took one search of “women” and “transgender” on this person’s blog to find names marked in red all over the place, and while shinigami eyes isn’t perfect, there were names like these:

(ID: a post that has been reblogged by a user called ‘tehm-ally’ End ID)

“tehm ally” which means “trans-exclusionary homosexual man” I think I’ve seen? and this:

(ID: a reblogged post from user ‘sighing-is-a-song’ originally posted by a user called ‘chronic-yonic’ / End ID)

chronic yonic? come on

posts like this ^ (ID: a text post that says “Happy International Women’s Day to all gold star lesbians! Power to the pussy” End ID)

and this

(ID: an anonymous ask that says “Sometimes I wish the transgender community became its own group. It kinda gives lesbians and gays a bad look. People might be a lot more accepting of homosexuals if these two groups weren’t part of the same community. Not being transphobic, just my opinion” with an answer, from OP rakastiikeri, replying: “Yeah, a lot of lesbians and gay men, more than would openly admit it, want to drop the T. Trans activists themselves always complain about how evil and oppressive homosexuals are, so you’d think they’d support going off on their own and getting away from the mean “cisgays”, but they don’t want that because they know their farce of a movement rides on the coattails of gay and lesbian activism” End ID)

so yeah. delete that post, install shinigami eyes at LEAST, and check peoples blogs because nowadays any random post like the one above can just be thinly veiled TERF rhetoric where the op means “trans women” instead of “men” in their posts.

[taibhsearachd]

Man, like I said, I don’t have the energy to have a fight about any of this, but the idea of “if you don’t like this person or the thing they do, shun them from YOUR SPECIFIC CORNER OF FANDOM” is ~Dangerous Anti Rhetoric~ is just wild to me.

Like... shunning is what we do with terfs, just to give one example. We don’t harass them - I don’t encourage harassment of anyone, no matter how repugnant their views. We don’t engage them, because they can’t be trusted to engage in good faith and just by engaging you give them an opportunity to push their views to bystanders. You just... ignore them. You install Shinigami Eyes so you can ID them on sight and avoid. You inform your friends when they reblog or promote something made by a person with morally repugnant views. None of that is abusive or anything like the methods antis use with someone who does or creates something they find offensive.

Shunning is the most humane and justifiable method we have of social control within fandom, when we can’t control what other people post, create, or endorse. It’s not an attempt to drive people out of fandom entirely - which, again, would typically require outright harassment, a thing I do not and will never encourage - it’s just drawing a line at what is and is not acceptable, and refusing to interact with people who cross that line. That’s a normal, healthy way of approaching fandom especially, when people you disagree with will inevitably continue to exist and occasionally come in contact with you. It’s also fundamentally not what antis do at all, because their entire goal is the eradication of things they find morally repugnant.

[akaluan]

22 and 62, Erich/Alexis? (Urahara optional :P)

(22: Space AU, 62: Love Confessor (Char A confessing their love of Char B to Char C)

“I want to wring his neck,” Erich declares as he collapses into the pilot seat and presses a hand to his face. “Charging across half the galaxy in that cobbled together tin can of his..!”

“He did it for you, you know,” Alexis tells him with amusement, draping herself over the back of his seat and digging her fingers into the base of his neck. “You know how he gets, love.”

He groans, letting his head dip forward as Alexis’ clever fingers ease the tension in his neck and shoulders. “Yeah, overprotective. There’s no damn debt between us anymore, he doesn’t need to risk his fool neck just because we get into a bad situation.”

Urahara’s help had been very useful, Erich will admit. An extra ship and an extra pair of eyes certainly shortened the whole sordid adventure by days, but… he knows Urahara’s usual routes through the aether, and they were nowhere near them.

Which means Urahara went out of his way to find them, after somehow discovering they were having problems. Which–

“How does he even know, anyway?” Erich can’t resist asking aloud. He stares at the console in front of him, trying to come up an answer and falling short: Alexis wouldn’t have told the man, Erich certainly didn’t, so that left… “Did he hack our systems and install something? I swear, if that damn man is spying on us…”

Alexis chuckles, her thumb stroking across his spine. Her power flickers through his senses and their connection thrums as she plucks it like the string of some unknown instrument, a note too deep to hear that nevertheless resonates through his bones, safety-surety-love filling every nook and cranny of his being and–

Under it, a softer note, more tentative, more cautious, like a string left too loose for fear of snapping and instead suffering the opposite problem.

Erich stiffens. “He didn’t,” he protests softly, even as Alexis strokes her thumb across the dual connections once more. ‘He wouldn’t have,’ he swallows back in the face of that soft, aching note. Because Urahara clearly had at some point.

(And he’d done nothing against it, encouraged it, even.)

(It explains more than it doesn’t: the mysterious appearances, how they both always knew where the other was, how sometimes he became worried until he could hunt Urahara down once again–)

(He’d never recognized it for what it was because Alexis’ connection had never been subtle, had never curled through his Self like mist, ephemeral and ever-shifting.)

(He hadn’t thought a connection with Urahara would be subtle!)

Alexis laughs at him and leans over his chair just enough to press a kiss right behind his ear. The action is familiar, pointed–

“You knew!” he hisses in offense, twisting around to scowl up at his lover.

“You moon!”

“I do not!”

“‘I wonder what trouble Urahara’s gotten into lately.’ ‘I haven’t heard from him in months, we should take a detour.’ ‘Do you think he’d like to see this?’“ Alexis mocks, her voice high and breathy and filled with laughter.

“I don’t sound like that!” he exclaims as his face burns and he buries it in his hands. But… she’s not as wrong as he’d like to insist. He just doesn’t sound like a lovesick boy in the process. He doesn’t!

Erich breathes out and leans into the hand that presses into the back of his neck, solid and reassuring. For all Alexis’ teasing, she always gives him plenty of time to process when he needs it, and right now he needs it. Because she’s right. He has been mooning, has been unconsciously leaning into a connection he’d forged without realizing, has been continuously turning them back and back again towards a man he outwardly protests at knowing.

No wonder their last few jumps into the aether have been turning… sketchy. Denial never goes over well in a place that reacts to the smallest twist of emotion.

“Do you mind?” he can’t help but ask, lifting a hand and reaching back to curl it around the back of her neck in turn. The pulse of their connection thrums deep and steady beneath his hand, unwavering – unshaken – by his own personal crisis.

(That’s one of the myriad things he loves about her.)

“Of course not.”

“Even if I want… more?” The ties forged between aether-pilots aren’t inherently sexual, but Urahara… the man shines to his senses and always has. He is powerful, intelligent, adaptable and Erich wants that.

(Part of it is his heritage, he knows this.)

(Quincy have ever been able to See better than any other branch of humanity, even Shinigami. It’s his nature to be fascinated by a man who shines so strongly and yet carries so few active ties.)

(Strong powers mean strong ties, which means safer journeys through the aether. Every Quincy desires such assurance.)

(But heritage doesn’t account for everything, and Erich is old enough, wise enough, to admit that.)

(Sometimes he just wants.)

“Then you want more,” Alexis answers with a shrug, stroking the two connections again, filling his Self with the resonance and making him arch into the touch.

He loves when she does that, loves the reassurance of Connection and the way it makes his body hum–

Pounding feet approach the bridge. The door hisses open but not fast enough, jarring as the approaching person slams a shoulder into it and still barrels on.

“What the hell is–!” the words cut off with a sharp intake of breath and Erich freezes, eyes going wide.

(He knows what this looks like: Alexis hand on his neck, his on hers, his body arched and head tipped back, red still painting his cheeks.)

(He knows what this feels like through Urahara’s connection: the strange reflected hum of a plucked connection, unexpected vibrations where none should be, the rush of emotion and the longing for more.)

(Quincy can touch what others cannot even see. Quincy can influence what others can only sense.)

(He’s been told the effect is startling.)

“I think I’ll leave you boys be,” Alexis purrs as she draws away from Erich, mischievous and smug. “Have fun, my love.”

“Lexi–!”

But it’s too late. She whisks past Urahara, giving the stunned man a shove that sends him stumbling closer to Erich’s seat.

Erich stares up at Urahara. Licks his suddenly dry lips. Watches the way Urahara’s attention latches onto the motion. Feels himself settle.

(He isn’t the only one who wants more.)

(Good.)

[akonabides]

Shinigami Research and Development Orientation Meeting

Come in; you are the newest graduate from the Academy, yes? Please be seated. My name is Akon; welcome to the SRDI, your new home.

Please stop screaming; many of us have sensitive hearing.

Yes, I’m well aware that you had put in for the 4th Division. In fact I spoke directly with Vice-Captain Kotetsu about it. She was disappointed, but ultimately agreed with my decision to co-opt your application and bring you here instead. You see, you would have done well in the 4th. Admirably well, honestly. And I’m sure you would have been quite the asset to them over the course of your career. possibly even making it to a lower seated position.

But you’re going to be doing so much more for, and with, us.

You’re welcome.

I won’t beat around the bush: I know this isn’t what you wanted. It’s very rarely what anyone wants, initially. But fortunately, or unfortunately if you choose to see it that way, your skills in science, mechanics and energy make you a unique fit for this department. And in time, I think you’ll grow to enjoy your time here, and the work you are able to devote your life to.

Now, before you say anything: yes, I am aware of how this department is viewed. I have heard the nickname “Freaks and Geeks”; I actually kind of like that one and am thinking of putting it on a T-shirt. I know we’re referred to as a group of psychopathic mad scientists with no moral or ethical boundaries to speak of, simply experimenting and creating monstrosities without a care in the world.

And you know what? They are right.

We are the ones who come up with every new piece of technology for the last 100 years. Any scientific advancements, any new weapons, anything that might be a discovery or considered an improvement have developed in this very division. Experiments to further our understanding of the shinigami body medically and physically have opened incredible doors into how we design even the most mundane things. And we do this with a team of highly-dedicated scientists who give everything to their research.

Your job here is not philosophy. In here, you are purely a scientist, and we encourage you to explore that with unfiltered and unbridled curiosity. Anything you can think of, anything you can dream of, we encourage you to research it and plan it until you are ready to make it a reality. I don’t want you to stop before each step of your inevitable experiments and wonder what implications it has, or how morally just or sound it is.

That’s my job.

Each of your experiments are going to be run by me for approval. If I feel as though the benefits for Soul Society as a whole outweigh the potential moral limitations, it will be approved. If not, you’ll receive feedback on where you have gone too far, and will be encouraged to try again from a different angle. And yes, I do veto experiments. Just because you are uncomfortable with something you’ve heard of or seen doesn’t mean it wasn’t carefully considered and eventually approved. And trust me, you don’t want to know what I’ve cut. 

I’ll take the responsibility of any and all experiments the SRDI has officially signed off on. If there is any backlash, your Captain and I will back up the decisions; you will never be brought before the Central 46 for an experiment I have approved. Of course, if you decide to conduct your own experiments outside of my approval, then you will be on your own.

It’s okay, it’s normal to be shaking right now. Most people are still trying to wrap their head around everything. How about we go over some of our benefits instead, alright? We’ll focus on some of the positive stuff.

As a member of the SRDI, you are given full range of the most advanced and efficient computers, robotics and machinery that Soul Society has to offer. While access is limited during your probationary time, more freedom will come with new information you are able to bring to our squad from a number of topics. Hours are not limited, and we encourage you to spend as many as possible working on whatever next project is plaguing your mind.

In addition, we offer a wide variety of body modifications to aid  you in your experiments, or whatever might catch your eye. You get massively discounted rates on installing said modifications, and the appropriate medical-physical performed afterwards to make sure all is in order. From here on out, all of your medical needs will be handled by the 12th division, at no additional cost to you.

No, the SRDI doesn���t hold any seated positions. We operate outside of the strict structural hierarchy of the rest of the squads. Many of us find that liberating; the gifted and talented get their due respect, and we work together cohesively without people constantly trying to get a step higher on the ladder, so to speak.

Remember, our job here at the SRDI is to further our understanding of the universe we all currently live in. We know how far to push our research and experimentation, and where to draw the line. The work you do here will live on, outliving you, myself, and any of us who will at one point, undoubtedly, need it. 

So once again, welcome to the Shinigami Research and Development division. We are so happy you could join us. This is your new family, and this is your home.

No, you may not leave.

Have a good day.

(Inspired by “Ethics Committee Orientation” from the SCP Foundation page)