#if i unfollowed you and it upset you

[radiocmyk]

“It’s obviously valid to be bugkin but you also can’t just expect people to get over it when they have a genuine fear!”

I’m afraid of dogs.

Dogs put me extremely on edge. I avoid them while outside and if one’s in a room with me I’ll try to leave or else start to panic. Especially medium-sized and larger breeds. Mere images of dogs may not give me a panic attack, I will admit that, it's not a phobia. But if you want to talk hypocrisy, if you're opening up that discussion:

Hey dog therians, dog otherhearted folks and clinical cynanthropes, what if everywhere you went, the unspoken attitude of the alterhuman community was—

Don’t post dog photos or talk about being a dog in the main alterhuman tags. Don’t talk about your shifts, your instincts, or your kind in the main tags. If you’re a CZ, don’t talk so openly about your biological reality. It’s extremely triggering for people with cynophobia. The idea of physically being or becoming a dog grosses them out to briefly think about, so try not to discuss your literal existence. If you must, at least trigger tag yourself with #tw dogs or #tw dog mention so people can stay safe by censoring things that will hurt their mental health. It’s okay if you’re dogkin but in my DNI I'm going to write something like, don’t follow me if your blog hosts too many graphic close-up images of dogs doing dog things, even if you censor them. Don’t add dog photos to open posts in the alterhuman tags, you have no idea who might be sent into a panic attack by images of yourself so you should play it safe and only put them on your own posts. And stop being so offended by people who comment on posts about pet dogs or dog facts saying they want to bleach their eyes or kill it with fire, they can’t help having a phobia.

Not great, is it? Fortunately, and I do genuinely mean that, this is a sentiment you will only see once, on this post, completely satirically. Except it’s just a real sentiment for bug therians/hearted and other invertebrate alterhumans. Of course what I said was satire. But if it pissed you off when you thought it might not be, please, contemplate on that reaction, really spend some time on it.

Also, if you're wondering what I mean by "other invertebrate alterhumans", (and I'm sorry for how heated I got when I was writing this part last night even after editing it down)

You know I’m a bug zoanthrope too, not just a bird? And see above if you're wondering why I never said shit about it, just said I was a centipede therian and even then said I was just questioning and didn't really talk much about it. Am I allowed to talk about it without tagging it #tw body horror, even though I obviously don’t fucking find my own body to be horror? Can I talk about it without tagging it #tw bugs like just the very thing that I am needs to be censored for people's well-being? I'm sorry if I come across judgmental. Offline I constantly interact with people saying they’re a nature lover but centipedes are the only thing on Earth that they still hate. And I have to come online knowing that any of those people could be bloggers in the alterhuman tags and it’s my responsibility to tiptoe around them. “Because centipedes are scary and disgusting.” Because I’m scary and disgusting. My brain is not capable of hearing a difference and I can’t change that. It is so much my reality that it's the same emotional mix of anger and anxiety and hurt that would be (has been, lol) triggered by someone ranting about how much they hate Jews or trans people to me.

[kutakunagasblog]

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[pixlokita]

I feel like ? I gotta remind people it’s ok to unfollow a blog when it upsets you in any way >> like if I ever do that sure, you can let me know if it was anything I did personally I’d appreciate it but if you just don’t enjoy something it’s ok to unfollow ;w; can’t stress enough how important it is to put your mental health first 👌

[thedeadedhooman]

i just wanna know how my fans would react if I were a celebrity and they found out I am a wincestie (and also this blog)

[overtake]

some of you are in a monogamous relationship with eternal misery. the way you manage to find negativity in everything is exhausting. you are not being a realist. you are just going out of your way to find the bad where it does not exist.

[diviedrawn]

“You never make ___ content anymore” oh I’m sorry I didn’t realize I was suppose to create content based on your preferences, very truly sorry. Anyways there’s the unfollow button if you wanna press that and leave, I promise I won’t cry too much if you do

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

is it scummy to block people because you disagree with their takes 😭😭 it’s never anything personal obv but . like. would that just be mean………..

[tinystepsforward]

algerian trans women arent able to compete in women sports at all, but yeah its makes no sense to call khelif tme. youre so fucking smart.

(this is a response to this post) i see you don't believe that i'm quoting one of the trans women in my life about that, which is your prerogative. it's also your right to miss my point entirely both about the ways this alienates intersex people and about the rigidity of a binary that comes down to the same shrinking circles terfs draw when they try to quantify what a woman is (speak up for women, the most organised nz group, have now submitted on the human rights act suggesting that all babies be karyotyped at birth and the results be public, bc they can't establish any other definition they agree on. absolutely fucking nobody, not even their christian or conspiracist allies, agrees with them on this one.)

but you don't have to take my word for it! when i was at that consultation with the nz law commission, i was in a room with many other intersex and trans people, including trans athletes and trans women like lexie matheson who consult on trans inclusion in sports at a high national level. i don't think there's a single person in that room who did not name what was happening to khelif as we spoke as transmisogyny, who did not speak of her as part of a group with whom we all shared something.

at the end of the day, prison abolition informs all of my politics. i believe that we must look clearly and carefully at harm and distinguish it from discomfort or disagreement, and identify its structural sources and true perpetrators. i believe that to build a better future we must be capable of imagining one. i believe that we can build a world where suffering is not the metric by which we determine value or punishment or righteousness. i believe that we can build a world where we centre and uplift those who are most hurt, in every arena — black and brown trans women, here; in some of my other work, it's incarcerated intellectually disabled people, or asian migrant sex workers affected by section 19, the list goes on — without then pitting them against other people who share some of the same story and will benefit from the same deconstruction of the systems that hold them down. i believe we can build a world in which asab doesn't affect so much of your life by beginning that work now.

there's a politics of scarcity — you have it better than me, so we have nothing in common. i saw it all the time in brothels, the idea that the new girl is taking money out of your kids' mouths. the viciousness with which people who are struggling are so ready to abandon solidarity. is it so hard to demand better for everyone? to think less about the ways we're alone and more about the ways we're together?

maybe it is. i know that well enough as a prison abolitionist. people get scared. they swing at shadows, they swing at anyone who seems to be suffering less, they — we, i should say, i am certainly not immune — get blindingly jealous of people who seem to have it easier. that's grief! that's grief for the easier life that we deserve. and we get to mourn, and take that time to feel it, and then we can choose if we want to keep working hand in hand with each other toward a world where that grief is dwarfed by the promise of the future.

[125storejuice]

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[saucerfulofsins]

anyway have some of you considered that actually, maybe, some people in the fandom are upset with being told eddie cannot possibly suffer from internalized homophobia whatsoever because we're in our 30s ourselves and we were there as teens in the 2000s and shit fucking sucked and we carry the negative stereotypes we were fed with us every single day YAY!

[lacnunga]

"Tiktok is toxic" "twitter is the worst" "tumblr is a shithole" wow um. Who's gonna tell them that the key to enjoying the internet is not to find the one Unproblematic Website but to teach yourself internet literacy, set and keep your own boundaries and search for content that interests you?

[authenticcadence18]

On today’s episode of “here’s why the website formerly known as Twitter is broken” apparently users you have blocked will be able to see your posts again soon, just not interact with them???

DOES THAT NOT DEFEAT THE POINT OF BLOCKING????????

[unsiredtribrid]

Hey , just wanted to say your ability to appreciate (and write for) multiple ships , even when you prefer one to another, is so cool - please don’t let the shitty fans take it from you 🫡

You’re Hosie stuff is so creative and you point out stuff I’ve never appreciated between them which makes my own rewatch so much more fun

Fuck toxic fans who just attack people ❤️

(Also I’m not the Hizzie ask from earlier lol, but if having someone who’s previously been negative on your page liking your posts / following you is bad for mental health pls lmk and I’ll stop interacting etc x)

I appreciate that and like. I’m never going to just automatically dislike or have beef with someone just for liking h*zzie

but what frustrates me is that even though I only clapped back at them for shitting on one of the only crumbs of canon sapphic rep I got for Hope from that show, I get reduced to my worst moments when I was defending myself from people in their fandom that quite literally stalked me past a block and kept going when I made it clear at the time I had no issue with them or their ship

And it drives me insaaaane that they can do 1000x worse than any way I defended myself/returned the energy, and everyone in the fandom backs it up because hosie is just mass hated atp 😭 Like one of their biggest h*zzie accounts was outed for literally stalking Jenny Boyd by impersonating her family member and getting into their private accounts to steal pictures

And even despite shit like that, all of them continue to follow and support her even though she doubled down instead of apologizing or acknowledging even once that it was weird or a mistake. She also USED to ship hosie (her hosie manips are plastered all over the internet) and clearly is only spewing hatred/being weird about hosie’s queerbait because she’s upset about whatever ship wars went down and made her feel othered enough to join the h*zzie side. Which, I can understand being pushed to one side because yeah, same. but jesus christ? She’s just always saying shit that isn’t even true and then hating people who are new to the fandom space and have nothing to do with it and being mean to them with her friends, like

I tried to break the cycle but it doesn’t work because they keep being weirdos about queerbait and then I get hunted down and called toxic while LITERALLY ALL OF THEM 😭 sit on there and talk like that all fucking day. Mind you I clearly am not even an anti of their actual ship because I wrote fic for it and talked about it excitedly on my rewatch. I have stayed silent and positive for like..? Months now??

My issue is CLEARLY not the ship or ‘winning a war’, it’s that they’re nasty people? And they refuse to take any accountability and stop the cycle so nothing is gonna work atp

I’ve tried to bite my tongue and not vent about how they’ve treated all of this shit that went down with the show and queerbait, but if they’re gonna hate me even when I’m tame as fuck and actively trying to enjoy multiple ships, then fuck it I’m just gonna be honest

I think h*zzie could be a great fanon ship but unfortunately these people are CONVINCED it is canon when it literally is not and they will throw fits and contribute to bigger issues in the community regarding rep just because they can’t stand that other people (even casual viewers???) just did not think their ship happened in canon because it literally didn’t 😭 I legitimately saw them dogpiling a random casual viewer who was like “oh, really?” and (maybe even pleasantly) surprised about someone saying h*zzie on some discussion about legacies ships because they didn’t even realize it was a ship in the fandom because obviously it wasn’t made explicitly romantic in the show

[inkprincesse]

Hating on pop music is so basic and I am so bored of it, there’s always this undertone of being so much Better than people who like the mainstream thing, like they’re dumb lemmings for falling for it and you are the intellectually superior sage for being too wise to like something just because it’s “catchy”

“It doesnt MEAN anything” so?? Not every song has to be packed with meaning? Sometimes humans just enjoy music for fun??

If you dislike something popular, vocalizing that every time it’s brought up is not going to help. You’re just being obnoxious and making other people feel bad so that you can feel better about not being able to participate in the conversation.

(You know why? Nobody knows what to say in response. “I hate this thing you like.” Okay? Unless they’re in the mood to have a debate about the merits of their taste—which most people aren’t—that’s a conversation ender.)

The person I’m vagueing about here also immediately added “ohhh no I’m losing followers for my opinion”

No buddy, you’re losing followers because you’re a hater, and most people don’t love being insulted for their taste when they are on the Special Interests website.

Like if you want to post about that all the time I can’t stop you, but I can tell you it’s going to make you miserable.

Try talking about things you like instead. If you want to talk about pop music being meaningless, brush over that and focus on the songs you like that DO have meaning. People will take what you have to say a lot better—because you’re actually contributing something to the conversation. Not just telling them you think their taste sucks.

[bredforloyalty]

i'm not sure whether i should go back to this but mutuals, even just like, followers ((anyone i have even the slightest level of familiarity with)), your requests are respected for You i'll trigger tag anything. for Anonymous i will do nothing

[yesterdayiwrote]

Genuinely seen people suggest, entirely seriously, that Mercedes shouldn't post about George until next year when the Lewis fans "won't have to see it" and I fear grass just isn't even enough anymore...