#or are you just virtue signaling

[madamtrashbat]

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.

[punishedgwyndolin]

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

[teaboot]

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)

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

The Hitler and KKK jokes were never funny tbh

[bonefall]

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.

[bannock-freak]

"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

[seaglassmelody]

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.

[abimee]

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!

[seasaltandcopper]

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

[voxtekenterprises]

"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"

[las-lus]

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.

[meyerlansky]

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.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

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.

[solavelyan]

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

[junktastic]

♥️🖤🤍💚

[robyn-goodfellowe]

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