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There's a concept Sawyer and I have witnessed in the music scene around here but can be applied broadly and we decided to call it
Weaponized Queerness
In which shitty people hide behind being queer to remove any and all responsibility for being shitty, or for use as a bludgeoning tool to silence the people who would criticize them for doing awful things by twisting it as if the only reason anyone is saying anything is because of queerphobia.
#I also use it to apply to people who use 'queer' as an overarching label for whatever kind of art they create#(specifically music)#as a way to put themselves as superior over other acts#like okay you're a queer band but what does that mean#are you any good#or are you just virtue signaling#what kind of music do you even make
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while we’re at it one thing we NEED to leave behind in last year is the assumption/perspective that not transitioning re: wardrobe, hormones, anything else physical etc, is “more” nonbinary or more radical than transitioning, you don’t have to just try to bear it if you’d be happier otherwise, you can change. it’s genuinely insane how many people have stuck themselves in the closet for far longer than they needed just because they felt like they weren’t allowed to identify how they want while still changing their body or presentation
#sasha speaks#there’s no world in which calling an any pronouns transfem ‘she’ is somehow dismissive to her nonbinaryness and that we need to call them he#you just are in like. virtue signal lala land
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Hey! Bamboo toilet paper person here. Your response was very thoughtful-- I want to apologize for placing the onus of climate issues on individual action, haha. I work at a zoo that bills itself as being very heavy on conservation messaging, but as a non-partisan organization we're obviously not allowed to talk about the evils of capitalism. This means that in our programming, we MUST place the responsibility of stopping climate change on individual guests, encouraging them to make more environmentally conscientious decisions like buying reef safe sunscreen or reducing carbon emissions by driving less. The most "political" we're allowed to get is telling people to stay educated and vote in favor of laws that will have a positive impact on the environment. I think I've been drinking the Zoolaid a little TOO much recently, because you're totally right-- the vast, VAST majority of damage to the environment is caused by major corporations, not random people working around their own unique needs. It was also low key a little ableist of me to take issue with that ngl.
Obviously no obligation to respond to this publicly (though it's fine if you choose to do so), but I did want to thank you for your response and mention that it did get through the nonprofit mission-based-organization propaganda living rent free in my head haha. Cheers!
Hey, you work at a zoo? That is SO cool, aadsdggjjg@!!!
And hey, no worries, you totally had a good point about endless waste and trying to counter it where possible- Just from personal experience involved in the barest edge of the fashion industry, I really, really, REALLY hate the idea that, like... people can't access simple shit like plastic straws, even if they're the best, most practical, least-harmful option for them.... because a 12 year old made up some random number for a school project about plastic waste
Where, as a zoo person, I imagine you're already aware that the average sea turtle is WILDLY more likely to die from abandoned plastic fishing nets or ocean-dump grocery bags than accidentally get a straw inside it
So here we are, using paper straws!- which may be an improvement, or may not, I don't have that data, and construction emissions are their own thing- BUT WE STILL HAVE OCEANS FULL OF ABANDONED NETS
WHICH ARE OBJECTIVELY WORSE, but MUCH harder to get rid of, and as the average person doesn't USE fishing nets, it'd much harder to market as a "You, not me" sort of issue.
Cleaning up fishing nets isn't trendy. It isn't sexy. You can't troubleshoot a cute little trendy solution for it that you can market to upwardly-mobile tweens.
But a reusable water bottle? A cute canvas tote? A metal straw? That's a solution you can buy and feel good about.
Never mind that you need to use a single cotton reusable bag somewhere like a million times before the cost of its construction counterbalances the cost of a single grocery bag every time you shop- which, hey, some of us were reusing as trash liners for their wastebaskets, or bundle bags for donating clothes, or lining for our leaky winter boots!
If a better option is available, I'll take it. But as ZERO HARM is next to impossible at this time, I personally am gonna aim for MINIMAL HARM as long as I can.
...sorry, I didn't mean to ramble off again.
But hey, if your nonprofit is doing good things, feel free to shoot me a link! I can post it on my blog :D
(Link to original post for context lol)
#If a company can't sell you a solution then they won't touch the problem#Find a cute and affordable object you can sell to virtue-signalling consumers and MAYBE they'll talk#But just DOING something? The marketing optics better sell enough to justify the expense of THAT
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The Hitler and KKK jokes were never funny tbh
#Like Reed I was with you until then lmao#This is like the craziest virtue signalling fandom ever#Idk why some can’t just call it what it is — classism and elitism#Why must you bring real life problems that have nothing to do with anything into this#In such a trivial and un-constructive way#You’re bloating the conversation so many people seemed like they were desperate to have considering many hate Cait because ‘ACAB’#Which. respect. but then there’s no substance behind any of that. People are just reiterating very progressive and leftist talking points#spearheaded by Black people (specifically Black women) that many people like to talk over may I add!!!#without any thought behind it. Liking or disliking a character should not be your daily dose of activism#again bloating a conversation with the hyper focus on an individual instead of the big picture of the narrative#and actively ignore the presentation of other characters of colour#ok I might as well just add my tags to a reblog lmao#but yeah idk I feel like people are just lying to my face about their leftism as they make kukluxkiramman and caitler jokes#youre not being funny or clever or really much at all. You’re just saying things out loud#Also super hypocritical since a solid (deffffff not all) of the fandom treat Mel so poorly#Ok I’m done#slay on the run#arcane#caitlyn#caitlyn kiramman#caitlyn arcane#this isn’t even a Caitlyn defence post lmao people are just annoying me#ALSO most of these jokes have been off Tumblr. I’ve blocked so many people I don’t see many of these but they’re apparently popular on twt
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I understand being upset by the moonpaw dog post but i dont think talking about some random teen publicly (on a pretty big fandom blog) as opposed to like, dming them about it, is a very nice thing to do? Would recommend keeping that kinda gossip in dms going forward personally.
??????? "That kinda gossip???"
Saying that it's fucked up that a publicly posted incest joke about how deformed she should look went to the top of the Warrior Cats and Moonpaw tags, is gossip???
TRENDING TAGS?? GOSSIP?
I'm not talking about "some random teen," I have not even dropped a username and been VERY clear I don't want harassment of anyone. During this discussion about wider ableism against Moonpaw, I've directly answered two anons about the contents of a post that was/IS extremely popular to the tune of nearly a thousand notes.
One of those two asks was an anon who only stumbled in to say that the post was funny in a display of SHOCKING tonedeafness, while I was talking about how shitty it is to compare people who are the products of incest to unethical dog breeds, especially in the context of WC. The other was an actual XX/XY chimera who expressed that the extremely popular post hurt their feelings, and when they tried to express discomfort to someone, got told they "probably killed their twin in the womb."
It's not just one rando weenie little blog the minute half of the Tumblr space is openly laughing at a joke about deformed incest kids and hoping Moonpaw dies because she's so "gross." Not nice?? Your feelings are hurt? OTHER people's feelings were ALREADY hurt.
NOTHING about this was "nice" to begin with!
Difference is, when YOU cry me a river, you can build me a bridge, and get right the fuck over it. A person who's the product of incest cries and has to go right back to every shitty banjo-hunchback-hapsburg joke they've heard before, just feeling more unsafe about a space that PRETENDS to care about the abuse they experienced. If you feel guilty about that, maybe you should!
If you were under the impression I was ever "nice" about bigotry, you were mistaken. I don't appreciate calls for ME to be more polite when I'm at a trend of fandom ableism and calling it fucked up. I've named NO names. Sounds like what you ACTUALLY want is for people like me who have a platform to shut up.
#btw that person WAS contacted privately by someone and I did see the 'apology' they posted as a result.#Which was not an apology. They called people being upset 'virtue signalling'#I'm SO fucking sick of the parade of idiots coming into my inbox trying to tell me that none of this is a big deal#REAL fucking question actually; why are you people insisting that victims of incest be ENDLESSLY charitable towards open fucking mockery?#''What if they didn't mean it like that'' and ''oh maybe they just didn't know it was ableist to joke about inbreeding deformities''#I'm gonna be BRUTALLY honest with you because I'm this close to just gutting you all like fish instead; It feels like being gaslit#Half of these idiots come in here to say ''well maybe you interpreted it wrong maybe these other unrelated things are what you mean''#And then when I AM specific and AM targeted in a very particular thing I'm talking about#I get shit like THIS telling me it's mean to be so direct. Even if I was NOT very direct at all#I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Like I'm crazy for reacting with anger.#So forgive me for not being as sweet and as patient as molasses pie#mooncourse
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"shipping saiki is aphobic because he's aroace!"
stares at you with my demiromantic asexual in a committed relationship eyes then looks at the camera like im in the office
#good thing those folks have yet to find their way into my inbox or id be at risk of embarrassing myself lol#if you wanna see more of the content you prefer...make it yourself :3 MAKE IT YOUR FUCKING SELF lol#youre so attached to the idea youll complain about it but you refuse to do anything about it even create works that you and others will sur#ly enjoy how does this even make sense#sorry for reviving this from the dead when it blessfully hasnt been a thing in the tag for a hot moment but im still irritated hahahah#seriously you know what that screams to me? virtue signalling. you wont do anything except say a few words every now and again like#the motivation starts and ends at appealing to the popular opinion. earn your brownie points. and do nothing.#what is your care made of? thoughts and prayers?#every time ive asked one of these people why they dont make the content themselves the response has been 'i shouldnt have to lol'#you shouldnt have to bully people either with your aphobic BS but look at you! aw~#yall dont wanna commit to shit you just want to tell other people how they should exist.#if you cant create for whatever reason you better be ready and willing to drop your rec list and fave artists. and i sure as shit hope your#complimenting them thoroughly.
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Ngl. I’m still laughing at “Veilguard is the most right-wing entry”
You can literally put a man who values traditions, civility politics, and strict hierarchies that severely damage vulnerable members of society in charge of Orzammar in DAO. Not to mention Eamon’s unwavering support for birthright monarchy.
You can side with the police state in a massacre of a heavily oppressed minority in DA2.
You are literally the leader of a heavily religious extrapolitical force with rights to arrest and execute in Inquisition. You can actively ignore anyone who promotes progressive ideas and attachment to the rank and file (and often these companions are people’s least favorites? Sera and Iron Bull, you are legendary to me.)
But sure. Veilguard, the game about a group of normal people using collective action to take down an oppressive force trying to claim a monopoly on violence is “the most right-wing entry.”
Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about.
#random musings#salt posting#I say salt but I do mean it when I say I am laughing#it is LEGITIMATELY a funny take to me because it’s just#SO bad#it’s so bad!!!!#people just be out here Sayin Things#political conversations are more than just sociopolitical virtue signalling#y’all get so distracted by optics and aesthetics and don’t dig into the actual ideologies#please don’t try to write political critique if you have NO idea what you’re talking about for the love of crap
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literally nothing feels like hell quite like being a closeted trans person in 2016 fighting people about how MTT being trans isnt a ''fanon interpretation'' that you ''dont have to agree with''. waking up every day going tobattle with how many people REALLY wanted MTT to be cisgender or argued ''his ghost -> robot stuff is a metaphor for something else not being trans silly''. EVEN FROM OTHER TRANS PEOPLE!
#my favorite subcategory of this were people claiming MTT couldnt be trans AND gay#this was back when like you were alloted 1 LGBT hc per character before the millenials got onto you about 'pandering'#like oh my god does anybody remember that. abck in 2015-2016 tumblr where if you wanted a character to be gay trans And disabled#you were accused of just forcing diversity and trying to be a ''virtue signaller'''#because i guess to these like. 25 year old 'queer elders of fandom' you could only be born w/ one minority trait#or else you were just faking it
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still sad to me how many writers fell for the 'torture apologism' moral panic
like guys, it's fine, there's no ethical dilemma here
you're not a bad person for writing 'unrealistic' torture for information scenarios, or brainwashing, or trauma, or stockholm syndrome, and you don't need to tack disclaimers onto every post about it so people know you are engaging with the topic Correctly and Virtuously and don't actually Support This Interpretation Irl
#breadcrumbs#whump#i've seen a decline in virtue signalling posts about it#but they're still going around#if you're SO worried that your readers are that impressionable#and might go out and torture people for info (sinful)#rather than simply for the love of carnage (pure)#then maybe you need to take a step back#like by all means write realistic takes on these topics!#I love delving into that too#but stop shaming people for using genre tropes in their genre fiction lmao#i'm saying this as someone who is personally squicked#by one of those topics#you can just not read things you don't enjoy#your disgust is not morally superior
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"Here's my redesign for this Hazbin Hotel character, a show that I hate and find stupid and edgy and ridiculous and offensive and that I, God's favourite, could do so much better with stellar writing and designs and everything else. I was forced at gunpoint to watch the show by its creator, who is the worst woman that ever walked the Earth, but this character I drew is so special and good and close to me, they don't deserve being in this horrible show
#Hazbin Hotel #Hazbin Hotel Critical #Anti Hazbin Hotel #I am obsessed with this show even though I hate it so much"
#hazbin hotel#helluva boss#hellaverse#if you unironically say shit like this you're just a moron & a self-hating masochist. why watch smth you hate sm?#you're getting cucked by a show you consider a blight on entertainment. if you like it enjoy it in silence and dont embarrass yourself#the overt fake virtue signaling is pathetic. either keep your thinkpiece to yourself or free yourself from cringe you sad beaten dogs
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Everytime i check a blog with cool art and see [shipper] dni i leave and interact with a bunch of art for that ship. Its like cleansing.
#honestly i cannot understand why you wouldnt want shippers to interact#like. if you hate a ship you can blog the tag???? you won't see the ship just bc people who like it follow u#the only reason i see is signal virtuing#''oh I'm pure not like those dirty evil shippers' youre on tumblr grow up
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This is so very specific so feel free not to respond to it, but I’m so so glad that you called out everything with Billjay and The Pacific fandom.. everything about it just screams toxic. I was here in 2011 when they were calling it ‘deleyden’ and was so so surprised by the sudden rebrand and absolutely viscous attacks on Mota that popped up apropos to nothing.. horrible horrible behavior and part of the reason i stopped participating in those polls entirely LOL. anyways i think you’re incredibly brave and incredibly correct and I hope you have a good month. So very sorry if this was nonsensical
not nonsensical at all! 🖤🖤🖤 i'm honestly relieved to hear it's not just me that's felt put off by the hostility in the tags of the polls themselves. it sucks, because i know the VAST majority of people, including the vast majority of pacific/billjay fans, are really enjoying seeing everyone else's creative steals and enthusiasm for their ships! and i'm absolutely a proponent of "say whatever you want on your own blog, that's YOUR space, just don't put hate in fandom/character/ship tags."
but when i go in a poll's tags—which are public, and supposed to be all in good fun—and see shit like this:
and this:
and this:
and this:
and these:
from a small but vocal group of people, it makes me not want to participate at all, if this kind of hostility pointed SPECIFICALLY at one fan group within the wider fandom is just going to go uncommented-on—which it has, considering it started in round ONE and was still happening up to the last MotA ship getting knocked out of the running. again, MOST people have just been enthusiastic about their ships in their tags! but there IS vitriol getting pointed in one specific direction.
like, i'm not unrealistic about how worked up people can get about these polls. *I* certainly get worked up about polls my ships are in. but i keep it to my locked twt and my DMs with friends, instead of putting it ON THE POLLS THEMSELVES where the people it's meant to make feel bad WILL see it if they look in the notes. no one has to like all three shows or every character or ship, but the outright hostility towards one chunk of the fandom when these things are supposed to be hbowar-fandom-wide starts to get really fucking exhausting.
#anonymous#asks#i already KNOW the defense is going to be 'these are jokes stop being so sensitive'#but 'vote helentatty if you don't hate lesbians' was ALSO a joke that got taken WAY too seriously#and was responded to with accusations of performative allyship and virtue signalling. so if that wasn't a joke why is this.#i don't expect this to go anywhere except getting me blocked by more people. but i do think tags like these are bad sportsmanship.#as a note: curtbuckygale getting disqualified was fair. it was over the numerical limit. i wasn't HAPPY obvs. but it WAS fair.#what i felt wasn't fair—and i said this at the time—was not putting another mota ship that got close to a win in its place#to keep the fandom numbers the same#anyway.#thank you for reaching out anon! like i said it really is a BIG relief to know it wasn't Just Me.
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I'm always a bit surprised when I see hate for Shaak Ti based on her "Republic property" line like it's some kind of slam dunk statement of her views... have you guys seriously never had to speak someone else's language before? I'm not even trying to comment on her motives or beliefs here- but whether you read her as advocating for Fives or not, if she was 100% unambiguously advocating for Fives there that would still have been the right thing to say to the Kaminoans to get custody of him.
#this just seems like such an obvious thing to me#and i guess it bugs me because there's a lot of focus on people saying the right things and not enough on people doing things#you know in general. on planet earth.#and this is so clearly a place where virtue signalling on Shaak's part would have been 100% useless. The Kaminoans do not care.#she's lawyering. it's such a basic thing.#i don't really want to go into the thornyness of jedi-clone relations right now or what the council did and did not do for and to them.#i know i'm basically a pro jedi blog but I don't think it's perfectly rosy either but i'm tired#so i should probably leave well enough alone#but i felt like griping about this one specific thing#which is not evidence of anything except rules-lawyering#shaak ti
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i have no interest in holding mythal or solas "accountable" for anything because they're fake, not running for mayor. listen to yourselves
like what does that even mean
#bog post#datv#veilguard#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#and how is it meaningfully different from plain old virtue signalling lol#'i love this character but i hold him accountable' how#like did he pay a fine or like...#did you sign mythal up for community service maybe?#do we want her to put on a hoodie and film an apology video in a white room?#anyway this is brought to you by my going into the solas tag (mistake)#and seeing someone openly block-evading so they can keep yelling at someone about fucking mythal lol#like what#having a different interpretation of her and her relationship with solas isn't abuse apologia you absolute freaks#it's just a different take on a fictional story#c'mon#solas#mythal
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#not to virtue signal but i just needed to make sure we're all on the same page#and that America still taxes you if you move it of the country#please keep Palestine in your thoughts
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i think the severe rise of spam bots within the last few months of 2024 singlehandedly killed whatever remained of ask culture on this site. we will not survive the winter
#and i am hesitant to say this because i dont want to be labeled something or other but it is definitely the war specific ones#taking advantage of a horrible situation and people's empathy#and you know you can cry this that and the other about virtue signaling or stupid selfish americans or whatever#but the truth is a lot of people have just been strung dry by so many copy and paste asks saying that a family's death will be on Their Han#and its specifically this situation and the horrors of it thats killing it. the pornbots werre one thing#but they didnt make people feel bad for a situation entirely out of their control/grasp. and they certainly didnt put pics of injured#children in their asks like i got <- real reason why i closed my asks for so long. and why i will likely do so again#and i am sure someone will read this and think 'wow this robyn goodfellowe chick is kind of a selfish bitch'#and thats ok i think i am too grown to care about the digital ramifications of this post. but it is an observation i have made#about this site specifically and not about the attacks as a whole#delete later
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