#i yap about this wayy too often

[waytootiredforthistoo]

HEAVY on the "there is no ethical amount of censorship"

I think people think of this as a new issue in fandom but the ff.net example is spot on, this has been an issue for DECADES

And I know this sounds silly, but you cannot separate the censorship from the politics of the area/time. ff.net literally used the 1st anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an excuse shut down the site when they purged all the NC-17 fics. It doesn't take a poli-sci major to look at the world around us and think about why we might be going through another wave of conservative puritanism, and why that might be a bad thing.

And the 2002 purge was the LESS immoral removal in my opinion (not that it was good!!!). At least then, they mostly just scrubbed everything marked NC-17 or RPS and moved on for a while. They made a change to the rules and enforced it pretty consistently across the board, relying mostly on the actual tagging done by the original authors, rather than manual reviews. Were the rules bad? Yes. But it got so much worse.

the 2012 purge is the epitome of everything wrong with fandom censorship in my opinion. ff.net wanted to get rid of even more content, but didn't have the resources to do it all on their own, so random people on the internet formed a fandom militia group to take down fics they didn't like!!!! Did it start with things you might think are icky? Yes, sure, but so quickly it spiraled away from that.

Critics United was a goddamn volunteer police force who absolutely abused their made up power. They saw themselves as a force for upholding the site's rules, but in reality they would flame works they didn't like until the negative reviews & reports caught the site's attention and works got taken down or they effectively bullied the author off the site. A lot of works technically broke arbitrary rules like no song-fics or no collaborative fics, but, let's be real, a lot of them didn't! Or at the very least were inconsistently enforced.

They said they didn't have a vendetta against queer ships, but in practice they totally did. Things that straight ships could always get away with would be marked lemon (oh the days of the citrus scale) and flamed for mlm ships bc the gayness was inherently more scandalous. And this is always how it goes, people ACT like their personal morals won't contribute. Like they're just trying to follow the rules, or the laws, or whatever made up bum fuck 'code' they have, but the anti yaoi/yuri crusaders used to troll the queer tags LOOKING for any reason to take fics down (making them up sometimes when they couldn't find one, although CU denies that, we watched it happen)

I'm so sorry, but the face eating leopards will always eat your face. You are not the ultimate arbiter of morality. If you hitch your wagon to the "let's just remove the immoral fanfic" train, you will always end up losing in the end because it doesn't stop. It never stops unless you stop it

tiktok has been having a censorship debate for like two weeks now and i need people to understand that "as long as it's not illegal" is not what we mean by fandom etiquette.

there is no ethical level of censorship because when these spaces get taken down for the "immoral subjects"? you will come down with those. when ff.net got scrubbed clean it wasn't just cest fics and proship content etc etc, it was unrelated works because there is no standard of immorality. not here. we lost tens of thousands of works because of puritanical arguments and discussions about morality, and it wasn't just the ones you're debating about.

there is no ethical level of censorship and as long as these works are tagged correctly? you cannot get mad about their existence. you can disagree! you can say you personally do not engage with them, but you Cannot say "ship and let ship until it's -" because that is not how it works.

and i'm not perfect! when i first joined online fandom spaces i was very much like "if you have to change the ages then it's disgusting" "they're related" etc etc and whilst i still don't tend to engage with those themes? we cannot be censoring them either. not without losing these spaces.

it starts with you disagreeing with these things, and it ends with queer media as a whole because there is No Ethical Censorship.

this is less a discussion about fandom etiquette, and more a discussion of Having Fandom Spaces. i beggeth you, don't be part of helping what happened to ff.net happen again 😖

don't like, don't read - including "illegal" and "immoral" things. if they're tagged correctly, you can avoid them.

we also, less of a fandom note and more just a general media note, need to explore these things. yes, there are 100% times where these things get glorified. but on a general basis? we need to explore immoral things in media. we need to explore things to understand them - i'm thinking here about well-known books like the handmaid's tale getting banned because it's Important and it Explains what's going on right now. i'm thinking about morally grey characters/historical figures and how we need to be able to look at their motivations/backstory/etc not necessarily for justification, but for understanding and prevention. even in real life cases, they look at the backstory of the individual because that is how we form and improve preventative techniques and resources.

there is no ethical level of censorship and i've been there, i know it feels good to be like "this is illegal this is bad", you feel like you're doing some good in the world but you're actually causing harm unknowingly to These Spaces.

it is 2025, we do Not need proshipper discourse right now. arguably the worst time for people to be debating what's immoral to read/write about. all censorship ends up as mass censorship, and i really need yall to understand that

block the tags, exclude them from your searches, block the people posting them. do whateverrrr you have to do to curate your own fandom space but for the love of everythingggg, don't be part of the reason we lose these spaces as a whole.

[zarkishere]

Meet... Ruben Connor!

My dumb dumb stupid idiot I hate <3

(i do wanna say a lot of the things he does is based on how I play RDR, so yeah HAJKSGHKJASG)

(yapping time. this is your fault.)

HE'S SO SO DUMB I LOVE HIM I'M SO SERIOUS. GOD. HE MAKES ME SO MAD. idk if I'll ever tell the full story, buuut I'll tell a bit rn :)

He was born in Brazil to a Brazilian mother and a Mexican father, but when he was young his dad got sick and wanted to see Mexico one last time so they went all the way there...and mf died like a week after and then wtf like what are they gonna do that's crazy

ANYWAY, SCARS AND RANDOM FACTS!!

ion wanna explain where he got these, but I WILL say the arm one was kinda because of Dutch....yikers

he loves animals. Like. God. Keep him AWAY, or he WILL try to get close to the cute baby (cougar)

is into embroidery!!

he overthinks a lot and sometimes just starts eating to distract himself, so Grimshaw taught him how to do embroidery so he had somth to do with his hands other than Cut Up Random Shit or Eat

comes home soaked in blood so often he has to buy new white shirts every few days (it's a real problem, he spends so much money, god help him)

has forgotten most of his Brazilian, and it actually makes him very upset

Next, relationship charts! (THIS IS A VERY SELF-INDULGENT OC LEAVE ME ALONE)

what he thinks of others

notes!

Ruben sees Arthur, John and Tilly as siblings!

Has called Arthur and Charles dad more than once while drunk (don't mention it he gets really embarassed)

generally /pos with everyone :)

you see, Ruben is very much a yes man and is sometimes wayy too easy to trust, so for him to think negatively of you, you gotta be some fucked up bastard 😭😭

Likes referring to people by nicknames based on animals. Like, Javier is coyote, Kieran is patito (YES IM STEALING FROM MYSELF), John is Lobito (he fucking hates it), etc.

calls Dutch dad when he needs something, calls Hosea dad when he's genuinely upset

in general, Hosea is the favorite parent (to no-one's surprise)

...what? what about Javier? Oh, uhh...it's complicated. (aka, they're two men in 1899. They're never giving what they have a label they're just Something) (they are really gay tho like damn get a room)

actually really disliked Javier at first! (internalized homophobia + being forced to go with him since "they're both Mexicans") (yeah Dutch said that, and while Javier brushed it off Ruben Did Not Forget) (he got over it eventually tho)

what others think of him

notes!

most people think he's too reckless, tbh.

he is tho ngl LMOA--he'll run in with only a knife if he's all out of bullets, will accidentally throw the dynamite at his feet and panic or other bullshit like he's a bit of a bloodthirsty idiot

Micah doesn't absolutely hate him cuz he finds enjoyment in seeing the fool do fucked up shit

Charles often gives him That Look when he's doing something wrong, and he'll immediately know to stop

alright idk what else to say HJKASGHJKASGJKASG I could yap on FOREVERRRR, but you don't care so it's okay

this is YOUR FAULT for telling me I should post about my rdr2 oc okay

anyway, thank you for telling me that, it's made me happy <3

[aquamata]

some of my pokemon teams :> for @yuuichirouh bc i want you to see them lol

so i don't really have any of my og teams on their games except for alpha sapphire, sword, and violet. and thats because i replayed the ds games so often, but im sure ive transfered them to home or another game

BUT from my most recent playthroughs this is what i got C:

This is my most recent save from diamond and tbh i didnt play diamond that much ever since i got platinum bc i could get glaceon wayy sooner without help.

but this trainer card was my team my very first run when i was 13 :)

not too uncommon from what many other people used LOL

NOW THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE TEAM EVER, i know its not balanced but idc about that it's got some of my fav pokemon and a cute little guy mascot (chimecho:) it's definitely not the team i first played platinum with but i like the lil story i made for it when i did this playthrough so it's very special to me <3

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I was in the middle of replaying black and white and w2 for a story i was gonna write i think so i don't have any saves for them yet but heres some teams i know i used for black, white, and black 2

tbh i replayed the gen 5 games so so much i used a lot of their pokemon and i loved a lot of them too, but these were the ones i remember the most and my white playthrough i probably my favorite bc braviary is one of my favorite bird pokemon :)

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OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT SOULSILVER

ok this is the only team i remember playing soulsilver and i don't have the game cartidge because i sold it a long time ago for quick cash T0T MY BIGGEST REGRET!!! i've been on the hunt for another copy to play with again but gotdamn i dont wanna spend hundreds of dollars for this game no matter how much i want it T^T

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okie heres my tiny team for Y . i did try that shiny hunt fishing technique to get that shiny Dragalge tho B) tbh this isn't my first y team either because i specifically remember using that ice rock dinosaur that i forget the name of.

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OK and here's my alpha sapphire team, first time in hoenn and this is my first and only team for this save lol and i know that because it's that shiny metagross you got as a promotion, ALSO shiny bellossom i found randomly and i named him basil c:

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i dont't have my first moon save or the sun save i played like once but my last save on moon was primarina, lilligant, minior, mimikyu, snorlax, and mismagius. i hate how they don't have a hall of fame pic with all of them at once in sun and moon and beyond but oh well T-T

here is that shiny minior i got from chain shiny hunting named pinball <3

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OKAYY MOVING ONNN, heres my sword team, and yeah i used three pokemon from my platinum run because this was right after i finished platinum with that team i liked so much i used them again for sword because they were available LOL

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and finally my violet team <333 alll girls and i was laughing about this with my discord friends because this was just a girly pop run and we were all amused by it lololol

anyways sorry this was so long but id love to see your teams too!!! yknow what @hopefulstarfire i wanna hear you yap about your og teams too

[gemorycave]

There will definitely not be an introduction post any time soon because I do neot know how to intro! But I have blogs ! I will share most and I will add on cuz I am kinda lazy and if I don't post this now I won't ever !! Anyway here some stuff

List of blogs!!

@gemorycave this blog, of course!! Mostly post art and random thoughts or just whatever in general :3 it is blog where I interact from too!! This basically just has everything I guess!

@gemorycave-artz Basically where I reblog all of my art from here, so people could view art without all of my nonsense posts and reblogs since I can get a tad bit silly with those and they end up taking over entirely teehe

@mossspeltwithc me but more problematic >:3 slash jay teehe. Auhm don't really knowwww how to introduce this one? It's just. Me. Like me me like uh mawce! Me I'm mawce! Teehe I might also get a little personall?? Think that's a word for it , since I might talk about source stuff a lot and share arts of it and just other things in general

Another blog I have kind of similar issues is @mephone4ii but I think it's a little less personal, perhaps but I don't use it so often like the other one

@loosepaige headmate blerp hiiii hi paiggeee I missssss youuu paappeerrrrr come backkk pappeerr hepllp sorry, Paper! This is paper or aka Paige!!! Uuhhm maybe active maybe not, he hasn't been fronting recently so not active sIGHS

@digital-lands floorphone side blog!!! No wayy?? I post allll about floorphone cuz it's on my mind so bunches I chat about so much laalala!!! Right now there isn't like any art at all but I plan on doing floorphone art on it! So floorphone sighhss I love floorphone!!!

@paintphone-ceo upcoming sideblog where I will post so much paintphone aka mspaint or aka digital art , whatever u wanna call it!!! But I just love it so much like floorphone so I wanna do paintphone!!

Now,

Tags!!

I might also add on to these, maybe! Since im so forgetful i might be missing some and if I come up with any more I definitely will add

#gem talks - basically for any post that includes me yapping or whatever just regular talking post!

#gemorycave art - pretty self explanatory, tag for my art! Could be anything from a finished product to work in progresses or just any quick sketch or doodles I may have!

#gem answers - basically just post where i am answering my inbox!

#mawce daily struggles - self explanatory too I think! I'm most likely complaining about something when I use the tag and I just happen to have it as a thing i deal with daily or just pretty ofetn!

#gem pinned post - might not actually be a currently pinned post but it might be important to me so I wanna have something to go back to it

[deadprrks]

hey hii !! my name is SKYE! i use she/they pronouns, and i am 18 !!! ^_^ i have diagnosed autism & ADHD. i am a WOLF THERIAN! ΘΔ🐾🐺

i am apart of a system! @ghost-of-a-system is our blog where we post about sys stuff :) i am a fictive of jayjay from zoophobia (no i don't support vivziepop) i've been here wayy too long to have a say in my existence.

i am into scene stuff, especially 2010's internet culture and nostalgia!! i find lots of punctuation/emojis fun and expressive, so i may use them often! but aside from that....,, i lovelovelove writing, and drawing too! ask me to critique && give feedback on writing and i will love you FOREVER /hj /lh

like said.... i do have autism and i often use tone indicators as i am horrid at tones and genuinely need them. if we talk one-on-one, pls tell me if you do not want them used on you!!! ^_^'

i will probz mostly reblog things i like, yap about random thoughts, or just have fun! :3

i do NOT support, please DO NOT INTERACT with me: proshippers/MAPs, anyone attracted to animals/children who isn't actively seeking help. i block freely if you have views that make me uncomfortable!

please tell me if i should tag this for eyestrain! i tried to keep the colors minimal as i also have sensitive eyes, but i am willing to tag it if it is too much :3

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