#moderation whomst??

[khaotunq]

My OFTS Anniversary gif folder. I have completed gifs for 7 episodes so far. 12 per episode, then 10 additional Ray gifs. This folder should have 154 gifs in it at present.

There are 343 files in this folder. (36 "selected" are .psd's - everything else is a gif.)

[clueless1995]

so my mum had me download signal so we can talk more easily while she’s travelling. but now my sister has made a family group chat for the First Time Ever and well. it’s a lot already

[pearwaldorf]

we need to talk about Rahaeli

This is slightly tangential to the dumpster fire that is OTW, but it is something I think is important to also take into consideration.

If you're following the comments on the OTW announcement posts, you may have seen reference to Rahaeli (Twitter) aka synedochic (DW) aka Denise. She is a co-founder of Dreamwidth, where FFA is hosted.

Denise is a Fandom Elder, in both the descriptive and derogatory senses of the term. She's been around forever, since the pre-Livejournal days. She has no hesitations about throwing around that Fandom Elder status, in the same way somebody like Franzeska or astolat or anybody else in the clique that founded OTW would.

Perspective from older fans is absolutely valuable, I want to emphasize. You want people who were there to explain why we are concerned about restrictions on explicit/queer/legal but "morally objectionable" fanwork, or how younger fans embrace purity rhetoric. But it's different the way Fandom Elders wield it, the implicit assumption that because they are older and have Seen Some Shit, they automatically have some sort of wisdom to transmit to the young'uns.

Denise knows a great deal about social media moderation, anti-harassment measures, and the legal obligations surrounding the discovery of CSEM/CSAM* on sites you're responsible for administrating. That expertise is extremely valuable when explaining to people why/how everything with OTW is very very concerning.

She also knows fandom very well, and exactly how to calibrate her words to push buttons. I remember her meltdown about Cohost, another social media site that looked like a viable competitor to Dreamwidth at the time. Here is a summary of it I wrote at the time.

I'd like to get into criticism of the part of that Twitter thread where she throws a random non-sequitur into an already extremely long thread. (I know this is already a long post, please bear with me.)

At this point, she's gone on about OTW, their gross neglect of volunteers, Rebecca Tushnet, and a bunch of other stuff for like three or four screens. They are all things we should rightly be appalled by, so we're on her side for saying things that need to be said. We are probably also getting a little tired and not reading things as closely as we should. I think this is absolutely deliberate.

She then pivots the thread to EndOTWRacism (hereafter EOR) with what seems like an offhand comment about how she doesn't agree with their goals. She wrongly characterizes the end goal of EOR's campaign as a desire to moderate fic on AO3. This is patently false and is explicitly stated on their call for action under What Do We Want. They want AO3 to come up with anti-harassment policies and content policies for abusive and racist fics (what some people would characterize as troll fics), which are clearly written to degrade and harm fans of color**. We are not talking about fics with bigoted stereotypes or racist characterization.

EOR links heavily to work by Stitchmediamix, a well-known and outspoken Black anti-racist advocate in fandom. They write a column about race and fandom for Teen Vogue, and have been the target of incredible amounts of harassment. Denise thinks it's biased and kinda weird EOR does this.

The reason EOR relies so heavily on Stitch's work (and that of Dr. Rukmini Pande) is because very few people actually write about this stuff. It's horrible, thankless work that doesn't get you good attention but needs to be discussed anyways. (Acafandom, such as that which gets published in OTW's journal Transformative Works and Cultures, is racist as fuck, but that's a whole other topic.)

Here we see yet another impossible standard white fans are never held to, the one where non-white (but especially Black) fans must be ideologically pure with no lapses in temper or frustration. Whomst among us would be able to respond with perfect grace every single time they were set upon by racist mobs?

We depart from the Twitter thread here because Denise has made a statement on Dreamwidth about why she included all the stuff about Stitch when she was making a critique of EOR. The summary of the post is basically "A bunch of people told me stuff, I saw screenshots, but I won't even share redacted ones, so just trust me OK?"

I don't know Stitch (we have corresponded exactly once) or follow their work***, but I feel like if there were actual evidence they send harassment towards other fans surely it would have come up on FFA by now. The nonnies don't like them over there, and I suspect anything that proves they have actually done anything of the sort would be like throwing chum to piranhas.

Probably the most galling bit of Denise's post is this:

Under no circumstances should anyone use my writing, my own arguments, or my repetition of the concerns of the fans of color who have reached out to me, as an excuse to engage in racist harassment of Stitch or of anyone involved in the EndOTWRacism protest.

She knows exactly what she's doing. It's like dangling a steak in front of a hungry dog and telling it "Please don't lunge towards it because I'm telling you not to."

The second most galling bit is the way she, a white woman with a great deal of institutional power, justfies pointing even more racist harassment towards a Black fan known for continued anti-racist activism even though it makes their life hell and calls it solidarity.

Fuck that noise. As Dr. Pande says, there are many ways to discuss incidents like this without identifying individuals. Denise could have posted a person's account, in their own words, of their harassment experience. Even in an attempt to demonstrate faux solidarity she denies POC fans a voice.

I am glad Denise can contribute her technical and legal expertise to explaining precisely how the OTW has been negligent in their responsibilities to their volunteers and how they are noncompliant with important laws regarding extremely harmful material. I regret she has undermined this important work with unnecessary detours into racism and incitement of harassment.

I am extremely angry about having to make this post. It's another pile of shit on top of an already giant dumpster fire. But apparently upholding racism and white supremacy is still something people in fandom are going to do, even as an important organization within it burns down around our ears.

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*There is a difference (cw: duh) between the terms! I did not know this until yesterday.

**I'm not getting into definitions or hair-splitting about this because it's not the point of this post.

***If you are interested in actually reading Stitch's work, here is a great place to start.

[just-antithings]

Just Anti Things: I am sick and tired of Lacey’s positivity blog getting nuked by antis all the time! I don’t know why the Moderators of Tumblr’s do not just say no to the antis? Lacey is not doing anything wrong. There are no terms of service violations as I can tell. It is mostly just pictures of characters handholding , and emojis with positivity . Also there are much bigger problems in the world , so going after Lacey’s blog reveals a very sheltered and privileged life. There are also far more graphic and sexual blogs on this website. Why do the mods go after Lacey ? I don’t get it. Sometimes I think the antis work for Tumblr.

Whomst is lacey? We have no context for this. We don't know everything. We need more than just this to make an actual statement about it.

[persephinae]

More games need their male protagonists to sexily growl out their dialogue

Not generic batman growls, but full on "I'm going to beat you to death with your own arm that I just ripped off, and I'm really enjoying this. Moderation whomst? Violence doesn't solve anything whomst?"

[quirrelli]

So, I finished Killing Eve S4 and I'm...

...just gonna pretend I do not see it. S3 wasn't amazing but its ending still works way better as the ending of the show than the actual ending, so I think I'll just be having that, thank you.

No, but seriously, how did they manage to have this much lesbian activity for four seasons and still end up with bury your gays lite?? Did literally no one in that writer's room have even a cursory look at tvtropes.com or talk to like one gay person??? Make no mistake, I was fully expecting one or both of them to die, especially since I was aware – without knowing any details – of the finale's negative reception. There are always going to be people who hate an ending and by extension the whole show simply because it killed off their favorite character, irrespective of context or execution. I am not one of those people, so I want to be crystal clear here when I say there were ways to make a tragic ending work for Killing Eve, a few fairly obvious ones even, and so I thought surely there was no way they would fall into that specific trap again.

The most generous interpretation of this (non-)ending I can come up with is to apply Hanlon's razor, in which case it might be be seen as a symptom of the general loss of focus the series suffered beginning with S3 and exponentially more so in S4. By which I mean they let the emotional core (the V/E dynamic) diverge wildly from the plot (finding the 12).

Never lose sight of the emotional core. I find you can get away with almost anything; technical faults, dodgy performances, plot holes (especially plot holes), even a meh ending, as long as the emotional core stays exactly where its name says it should stay.

Helene is an easy means of illustration for this point. Helene in S4 is basically less chaotic Villanelle, both in her function to the plot (murderous fancy bitch whomst is important as the key to a bigger bad) and in her relationship with Eve (gay, aggressive, lethally hot), which makes me wonder why they didn't just let Villanelle play that part??? It's driving me mad bc it's the most obvious thing and would have fixed so many problems in an instant.

By which I don't mean get rid of Helene btw, just make better use of her, as an actual member and face of the 12 or a double agent or sth. Give V the quest to hunt down the 12, it's already perfectly aligned with her motivations and capabilities at the end of S3! I mean she wants to impress Eve by showing her she's trying to be better and to start a new life, right? Cool, ok, therefore, in Villanelle's moderately disturbed mind it makes perfect sense to do this by violently hunting down a bunch of bad ppl ~ for Eve ~ . (The fact that she's also high key horny for murder is just a bonus, don't worry about it, baby.) If not that, then do sth else entirely with her, do the church thing (properly this time, not squeezed into two episodes and then entirely forgotten) but don't give hunting down the 12 to Helene, a character that already feels vaguely like a replacement for Villanelle while she's off doing character growth or whatever.

If they had done the thing that makes sense, it would have also meant that for once V and E's goals would have aligned, (though they might not have realized it immediately, you know, for spice,) which would have given us an opportunity to delve into a new dynamic: Partners in crime. Not S2 V tenuously working for E bc horny but actual challenging "we want the same thing except oh no, all this history and unresolved tension" cooperation. Obviously it would have gone horribly wrong in some fashion (I'm thinking Carolyn shenanigans), but at least it would have gone wrong for a reason that actually involved them bc the plot would have actually been their plot again. Incidentally, if you're going to have them hook up, this would be a great time for that, so it doesn't feel quite so backhanded if/when one/both die at the end.

The only reason I can imagine for not going down this route is that it would be too obvious, to which I can only say: [Insert tired comparison to Game of Thrones here.]

Seriously, hunting down the 12 is a natural conclusion to the story. It makes sense, was built to from the beginning and should have been a slam dunk in terms of plotting. Thus I am flummoxed as to how the writers managed to drop the ball so spectacularly that it hit every single one of their teammates square in the tits.

Well, I say that, the show does maintain a few of its strengths, first and foremost the cast of course, consequently some of the dialogue (Carolyn and V's interactions are delightful) and I do like the idea of both Gunn and Pam and also V getting shot by an arrow. Just wish the cupid/angel motif hadn't been so muddled and included Gunn more (who shouldn't have been called Gunn. It's a bad joke.)

Speaking of, many have rightly decried the lackluster supporting cast but as I see it, that is largely a holdover from S3, which killed off/wrote out basically everyone but the core four and failed to introduce any new characters that stayed past the season finale (besides Helene) bc it was too busy not moving the plot forward. You gotta have side characters in your show, so they made some new ones for S4 and gathered together whatever scraps they could (Hugo prettyboy and Martin the therapist). Idk if there was a good way to solve this problem exactly, but they could have certainly woven the new lot into the story better. Especially Pam. Pam could have been so much more. Oh and fuck the way they wrapped up Irina's story too. Complete waste.

With bad plotting comes shitty pacing. Again, that already started in S3. However, I will say in defense of S3 that it being a bit slower and introspective is very much the sort of thing that could have felt kinda ok, even needed in retrospect, if S4 had Risky Businessed into the room champagne in one hand, gun in the other, ready to party. Instead it made S3 look worse by turning it into a prelude to an even more plodding experience, now with bad editing!

For real, there's some really poorly constructed scenes; shots that feel disjointed, unfocused, repetitive. No idea what that's about, could it be the lingering effects of Covid-restrictions? Or maybe they just needed a better editor. Regardless, while not super dire it is absolutely noticeable and contributes to the general lack of cohesion, not to mention the tonal dissonance.

What am I saying, that's an excellent thing to mention. An ideal candidate to put the show and this too long note on my phone out of its misery in fact.

Killing Eve is supposed to be fun, you guys, remember that? S1 was at all times like two smash cuts away from becoming a full on comedy and it was amazing for that. It was the show's most unique feature, what took it from very good to transcendent as far as I'm concerned. Walking that line is hard, no doubt about it, and I get that different show runners have different visions and of course you can take on a more serious tone between seasons but then you actually need to make everything else match that shift. Integrate the absurdity into your writing or discard it, the way I've discarded the idea of ever writing a proper conclusion for anything. If you really want a dramatic, played entirely straight spy thriller conclusion with conspiracies upon conspiracies and doomed passions, that's fine. I mean, it’s not really bc you're losing what made Killing Eve great et cetera and so forth but my point is that you can't have your imaginary drag king Jesus and eat him too.

tl;dr: S4 is bad. There are several reasons for this.

[eolewyn1010]

Dragging Frankenstein - Chapter 17

Finally, the De Lacey exposition is done with, and we're down to brass tacks. Let's greet our next plot point, the Distressing Damsel! Or at least the hypothesis of her.

“with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being” – what a convoluted way to describe The Horny™. And yes, that is exactly what he’s after. For all he talks about human company and whatnots, there’s no way to read this without a sexual connotation.

“one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me” – worse yet, it is about sexual entitlement. The Creature is a fucking incel, his argument being “if she’s ugly as well, she has to put up with me.” I can’t begin to count the ways in which I hate him. Oh, wait, I already have.

“but you shall never make me base in my own eyes” – pfffft. Victor? You’re still not base in your own eyes? Alright then. DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR: 13

“instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you” -.- just like his dad, the Creature wants a price for basic decency. “Hey, I’m not threatening to kill you rn! Cookie pls!”

“the human senses are insurmountable barriers for our union” – huh, this reads like DAS GAY: 24

And seeing as it’s still Victor he’s talking to, it also gets INCEST VIBES: 11

(And if you think this point is invalid, consider that he asks the man he calls his father to make him a bride, in the same way he was made – that would be his sister.)

“What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all I can receive, and it shall content me.” So, not only would he curse another to the same wretched life he lives, he also has the nerve to preemptively look down on her for not being as beautiful as human women. Can he get any worse of an incel?

LOL, of course there are no people in South America. None.

How would the two of them even cross the ocean?

“How inconstant are your feelings!” LMAO. The Creature of all people complaining about this…

Interesting how he has gone from craving sympathy simply as normal human interaction to being owed sympathy in form of The Horny™. And by interesting, I mean fuck this.

“quit Europe forever” = “depart from the company of men” Because only Europeans are actual people. *nods* Sounds about right.

“by the fire of love that burns my heart” – what, you mean the constant assumption of purely transactional relationships, the blackmailing, the entitlement? That is love now? Or is it The Horny™ and you looking forward to the relief of it?

“And also, I’mma stalk you while you work on this.” Heh, there’s a habit formed.

Pretty pretty landscapes to give a background to Victor’s self-pity. IT’S ALL ABOUT ME: 16

If you want out of the deal, just kill yourself already. Yeesh.

And then he, once again, can’t be arsed to talk to his family about shit. IT’S ALL ABOUT ME: 17

At least reassure them that you didn’t get robbed and raped in the mountains??

“Yet even thus I loved them to adoration” but not enough to tell them wtf is going on, of course.

Wondering if anyone ever set up a psychological profile of Victor Frankenstein. Like, ADHD, narcissist personality disorder, and so on. Therapy whomst? Dunno her.

Honestly? I don't think the Creature's reasons for wanting to make the Distressing Damsel are one iota better than Victor's reasons for creating him. Yeah, the queer interpretation of Victor making him as a sexual partner is half-joking on my part since I cannot fully verify it on the text, but the point stands: The Creature values his desire for company and actually someone he holds power over more than the well-being of this hypothetical new creature, cursing her into existence when his own life of the same sort is fucking miserable.

That isn't better or more sympathetic than Victor creating him for the sake of his own glory - or to have someone he holds power over, because he was thrilled by the thought of someone being subservient to him due to owing their existence to him, just as the Creature is thrilled by the thought of a helpless, confused and incredibly miserable woman being at his beck and call. If the point of Frankenstein is that the Creature is a tragic character I'm supposed to feel for - too bad; I hate this guy. He's exactly the same kind of asshole that Victor is.

[artdecosupernova-writing]

Fictober ‘21 Prompt No. 3 — “I’ve waited for this.”

Category: Original WIP: Darkspace Portent Rating: T Timeline: M33 Arc CW: A lil flirty, a lil steamy, but there are alternate universes in which this got a lot heavier lmao Word Count: 1,481 Additional Notes: Canon whomst??? Sorry, she’s not here today.

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"Your Majesty."

Standing with his feet apart in the center of the sparring room, Thrive acknowledged Warren with a glance over his shoulder and idly spun a staff of moderate length in one hand. "Well. The prince consort as I live and breathe."

Warren winced, stretching his arms and back as he lingered some feet away. "Yeah, I thought we agreed that wasn't it. 'Consort' sounds like 'escort,' and while I have no issues with escorts as a whole—"

"Why are you here, Warren?" Thrive watched himself in the enormous mirrors wrapped around every wall of the room and spun the staff faster. "Not that I'm necessarily unhappy to see you."

Grinning, Warren leaned down to rest his hands on his knees. "You kiddin'? I've waited for this. We haven't sparred together in ages." His demeanor did an instant one-eighty. "Necessarily unhappy? What the hell did I do now?"

Before he could get the question out, a volumetric projector in the ceiling exploded with activity—various colorful projectiles fired directly at Thrive, who knocked each one out of the way with unwavering precision using the staff. He propelled it into a blur that bounced from hand to hand, knocked projectiles out of the air, and twirled into the ceiling as he swept large red and yellow polyhedrons away from Warren. He caught the staff and pounded one end into the floor hard enough to send vibrations into the mirrors.

The projector powered down.

"It's not a matter of something you've done," Thrive said, straightening his posture and turning to Warren. "Though perhaps it is, in part. I'm expressing frustration over a situation for which I have no answers."

"Okay," Warren said, planting himself in front of him. "Get it out, then."

"I'd rather not spar with someone while I'm emotionally compromised. Especially someone who couldn't handle me."

Warren grinned. "I dunno, I think I can handle you pretty good."

"I'm aware that you've trained to handle rougher situations over the years, but if I were to lose control and cause bodily harm…"

"We still talkin' about sparring?"

Despite himself, a corner of Thrive's mouth quirked upward. "It's unwise."

"We don't have to go full-tilt, then. Just hand-to-hand, start small. You said you have no answers…maybe I have one. If I'm causing part of this, I'd like to at least try to help."

Thrive eyed him for a moment, supporting himself with the staff.

Warren waggled his eyebrows. "Safe word's 'carousel'."

Rolling his eyes dramatically, Thrive tossed the staff away and moved closer. "You're teasing, but I would feel more comfortable if we did use the safe word for this."

"Right." Warren braced himself, a little hesitant. "You're…more upset than you let on."

"Possibly," Thrive muttered before swinging a fist at Warren.

He blocked it, stepping aside. "Best to come at this directly, then. What have I done to upset you?"

Thrive took a few more swings, obviously dialing back his full strength, and each one was blocked. He dodged one of Warren's and caught him in the shoulder. "After a particularly long and overdue sleep, I awoke and it was as if a weight had crushed the inside of my chest. I ruminated over it for hours until I realized the feeling doubled whenever I thought of you having taken the two-year job on Morre."

Warren had successfully blocked a few more hits. "You thought you were okay with me going back to work for an emergency after I'd suggested I take leave, and it turns out you weren't?"

"That's not it." Thrive sidestepped a kick. "I was feeling something I'd never felt so strongly before in my life, and it alarmed me."

"Angry?" Warren acted like he was going to strike with his right fist and instead jabbed with his left—a move that, for whatever reason, always threw Thrive off his game early on in a sparring session. 

Thrive caught Warren's fist in his hand inches away from his face. "Possessive."

Warren's blood iced over and he observed Thrive's expression, the sudden accuracy of his sharp stare, the darkness behind his eyes. A chill ran through his spinal cord and bolted up into the pit of his stomach. "…This is about the arrangement," he said, voice low and definitely steadier than he imagined it'd be.

"I proposed the idea to you, yes," Thrive said firmly, moving forward so Warren had to take a few steps back, "because I wasn't about to forbid you from soothing an ache I couldn't be there to soothe."

"But you're about to," Warren breathed. "Aren't you?"

Thrive knocked his arm away and got two hits in through his dodging. "It seems that I've become very territorial about certain things."

Warren ducked a swing and his fist knocked the side of Thrive's waist. "And what does the great and powerful Orthrive'poliea have to feel territorial about?"

Thrive knocked his legs out from under him and he went down with a hard smack. Warren yelped as his back connected with the forgiving floor beside the staff, inhaling sharply when Thrive dropped and straddled his hips, pinning his wrists by his head.

"Oh holy shit," Warren gasped.

Thrive glanced at the mirror. "This."

Warren turned his head to look—the sight of Thrive holding him down and still looking pissed about it sent all kinds of signals to everywhere vulnerable. He shuddered. "If you wanna call off the arrangement, just say so."

Thrive peered down at him.

Swallowing the heat crawling up his throat, Warren flexed his wrists under Thrive's hold. "I think you may have misplaced, somewhere in that meaty brain of yours, the reason why we even made it to begin with."

"It's never left my mind."

"So then you understand that I never really wanted it, and while it scratched a fraction of the appropriate itches, it was never you and therefore not as good nor the same."

"…Yes."

"And you understand that my feelings for you cannot ever be replaced or duplicated, and if you're still having trouble realizing that after all this time, then you're hopeless and there's no saving you."

"Warren…"

"Just say you want it to end." Warren nodded. "It stops right now."

Hesitating, Thrive finally released Warren's wrists. "I'd like���"

Warren grabbed the staff and knocked it across Thrive's chest, sending him sprawling backward. When he turned over to push himself up, Warren leaped at him, sitting on his backside and wrenching his arm behind his back.

Thrive let out a harsh swear in Solnai.

"Yeah, baby," Warren laughed victoriously. He knew he could be displaced with hardly any effort, but he appreciated the very generous win nonetheless. He slapped the side of Thrive's ass. "I fucking got you, didn't I? Maybe I should be king instead."

Thrive rolled his eyes again, using his other, definitely free hand to push his hair off of his forehead.

"So, uh…what were you saying?"

"I was going to say that I'd like to end the arrangement since you offered."

"Mhm." Warren nodded, taking a bit of a vain mental snapshot of their position from how it appeared in the mirror. "You know what that would mean, then, don't you?"

"If you're going to propose that I abdicate, I have to remind you that the Consortium wouldn't—"

"I'm gonna retire."

Thrive closed his mouth. Pushed himself up so he could look at Warren, who smiled at him. "As much as—Skies, Warren, get off of me already. As much as I'd like to argue the point, I…can't."

They helped each other to their feet, and Warren placed his hands on his hips, still a bit out of breath. "It's been a long time in the making. I can keep up the dance classes since I get more joy out of that, anyway. Plus, I'm not in the headspace to let down a bunch of kids."

"Having you with me without fear of extended separations or injury or worse does sound…"

"Kind of amazing?" Warren's smile widened.

Thrive crossed his arms. "I wish I'd broached the subject with you sooner."

"That brings up a point…" Warren stepped closer until he was in Thrive's space. "Next time you have a problem with me," he said loudly, "fucking talk to me about it, idiot. It's this wonderful and innovative thing called communication."

Thrive fixed him with a dark look. "Punish me about it."

For at least five seconds, Warren absorbed that look and the question. His gaze dropped to Thrive's lips, and he paced away to take a fighting stance. "Okay. That set the tone for the rest of the day."

"My harness is somewhere around the capital house. The safe word is 'carousel,' by the way."

Warren halted to narrow his eyes at him. "Like you have ever needed the safe word. For anything."

Thrive winked at him before they took up sparring again, this time charged quite differently.

[yourladyindank]

I feel like it is important to keep something in mind when giving, receiving, and concocting insults.

Insults should be curated in such a way that they accomplish 3 tasks.

1) Target the receivers most sensitive areas

2) Hit those sensitive areas in a way that is relevant to the context of the argument/bitch fight

3) Hold an undeniable grain of truth that cannot be refuted by the receiver.

Now. A lot of people have a lot of qualms with certain insults, lending to current social issues. This I understand. Pairing that with the severity of the offense given by the receiver of the insult, you should be able to access the scale at which you sling mud.

For example:

Someone you know cute you off in traffic and you see them just a couple of minutes later at a gas station. Now you know the biggest dig would be their mother whomst died yesterday. But does the crime fit that punishment? Probably not. So we move through the layers of sensitivity until we find one that suits the crime and situation. Like how driving like a dumb fuck must burn a lot of calories to be buyin all them donuts during their diet.

That same person say, hit your dog instead? Increased severity, increased reaction, go for the mom blow.

The dog died? Piss on the mom at her wake while keeping eye contact.

Where so social issues fit into this? Because along with the severity of the insult, the social impact of the insult must also be considered.

Racist stuff, transphobic stuff, fatphobia stuff, homophobic stuff, pedophilia. You need at least moderate offenses to pull these off in a justified way, especially in public. There are still areas so severe you simply cannot tread. I don’t care if that black person just killed your whole family in front of you, no N word. But there are many words that aren’t the N word that would pair wonderfully.

Happy hunting

[ribcageteeth]

I know this is so not the point but every time I see one of those posts like "hey guys jsyk there's a youtube ad going around that's bad for xyz reasons" it's like yes yes content moderation is important especially for large corporations that actively engage in heavy and often extremely biased censorship of their userbase but ALSO whomst the fuque watches youtube with ads

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Which kind of makes me wonder if Behavioural Sciences is just the division where they shove all the employees who annoy their colleagues too much.

Like, maybe Jack just microwaved fish, and clipped his toenails in his cubicle, and never put gas in the FBI SUVs; and eventually, the grumbling from his immediate coworkers became so loud that his managers had no choice but to exile promote him to a position in Behavioural Sciences.

How else to you explain a guy who looked at Will Graham, and instead of being like…

“Oh, this guy’s got badly-managed depression and mild-to-moderate levels of autism.”

…was like:

“Whomst among us can fathom how his mind works?!?!”

its objectively hilarious that mason verger, who knows very little about will and hannibal on personal levels, is able to clock their weird fucked up homosexual relationship

[supergirlx55]

Moderation, whomst?

Guys, I have just been FILLING UP my Tumblr drafts with Karateverse (mostly Lawrusso) shit that I want to reblog... and it's becoming a problem. 👀

The thing is, I don't want to spam anyone's dash? Especially people who are still following me but don't give a crap about Karateverse, lol. But I really need to post some of these before I add any more, like seriously, holy crap...

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[heavensmortuary]

🐱

u know me by now but the vibes are there yes yes

[greyvvardenfell]

just realized that I'm really planning on writing 62 separate pieces of fanfiction for the month of october

like

who do I think I am

(I do have all but five fictober prompts outlined and all kinks for kinktober decided upon so it's not impossible but I'm just crankin it from zero to 100 apparently)

[verytendou]

twitter is hm. Ppl make ship justification threads apparently now? Maybe that was always a thing but like never have i just seen a thread of someone going ‘here are all the parts that make my ship right and valid’ with a ship that has literally nothing wrong with it. With the purpose of showing it to ppl who tell u not to ship it. What is Up my dudes

[shodansbabygirl]

tumblr, wordpress, whomst ever the fuck owns you now. just.

just drop the nsfw ban.

and instead of having a slowly withering microblogging platform; have posts+ and free hole posting again; you will just take over onlyfans niche. but you do have to actually commit to dropping the nsfw ban and like, moderating your content instead of just filtering recklessly :) and probably lose mobile distribution. So you’ll never do it even though it would almost Certainly make more money than whatever’s going on trying to capture more of the mobile market.