#racial slurs mention

[lattetimes]

I need to know if youve heard about the iiluminaughtii situation, if you havent i suggest watching the inabber video about it to get a summary abt it

i have, and personally i am really upset by the things Blair had done especially to Wonderstruck. i haven't seen iNabber's video just yet, but i've seen Blair's "apology" / response, then The Click's video and Wonderstruck's

Blair ( illuminaughti ) was not only dismissive, she was lying about very serious things and alleging actual borderline criminal offenses towards The Click, and i'm sorry but she had NO RIGHT to detail Wonderstruck's mental state to the public. absolutely abhorrent, and all this came out because she had to get all uppity with a lawyer

tl;dr fuck iiluminaughti

iiluminaghtii's video ( about 40 minutes )

The Click's video ( less than an hour )

Wonderstruck's video ( over an hour )

iNabber's video ( over 2 hours, is a summary of the entire situation if you prefer watching just a summary instead )

warnings if you're new to the situation ( that i will also tag on this post as well, i want everyone to be safe looking into this ) :

- there are discussions of child predation and children being put into harmful situations with adults ( in all videos, there's a discussion of Wonderstruck's past trauma that is detailed and personally was very difficult to listen to because he's VERY visibly upset ) - usage of slurs are mentioned briefly ( in Blair & The Click's video, the slurs are not directly said but that is something brought up ) - there's discussions of someone having mental health issues and a serious case of a depressive moment, with suicidal ideation discussed ( in Wonderstruck's video specifically )

[inkher0]

Absolutely love Jacks characterization, also when I realized what he said on the tape my jaw dropped too with the characters. I absolutely adore him. *Pats him furiously*

Tim when Jack calls him and everything that breathes the N word, including a chair:

[dreamystarcroc]

A conversation with a groomer

@/faggentio recently reached out to me and shared some choice words with me. He did not deny the necrophile allegations outright and admitted to dating a minor. Even if his grooming wasn't "intentional" as he likes to see it, he still had a relationship with a 16 year old at 21. Even if he was 20 when this happened, it's still disgusting.

Context under cut

Let's begin with the main point. Faggentio did indeed date Loïs

He confessed feelings for an unstable grooming victim who literally told him he was groomed previously

Even if Faggentio didn't intentionally groom him, he still entered a relationship with a 16 year old when he was 20-21 years of age. You were both unstable, but you were the adult and literally asked if he doesn't want to be friends anymore because of this.

Yes he did go along with it at the time, but he was already a grooming victim when you met him.

Also, before you send anyone saying that my friend is racist. You allegedly started the whole usage of the n word and Loïs has gotten more mature about this

As for his fan fiction under the name "Love Love Nightmare" on Wattpad. He claims it is a "vent piece". Vent art is not writing necrophile smut, translating it into English, then posting it to Wattpad where children are known to be.

If need be, I will post the full conversation for context. Please for the love of God stay away from him.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

I love Kirk's, Spock's and McCoy's dynamic bc McCoy could say "Spock, you're a cold blooded, pointy eared, emotionally stunted bastard. you have no heart, no passion, just a computer where your brain should be and a calculator for a soul" and Spock would respond "Doctor, you're disparaging comments are not only inaccurate and xenophobic, but reveals you're jealousy towards my superior Vulcan control. this is how an emotional and impulsive creature such as yourself processes it's own inferiority" and their besties. that was best friend bonding. their conversation turns to which crewmember is wearing the worst makeup next

meanwhile Kirk tells Spock that he looks happy today and Spock has never been so insulted

[maxmilian-koudelka]

As someone who at one point was a big fan of the podcast Díra, as of late I've felt uncomfortable with how the writers handle/portray certain topics. @holoubek made a post talking about their criticisms, and that's motivated me to make my own post as well (though probably not as well-written and detailed as theirs). And I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to start drama or send hate to the creators or anything, I just want to share my criticisms.

The first example of a topic that's not handled well (to the point where it's actively harmful) is the episode containing blackface. It's played for laughs, but personally I don't find it funny. It came across as super insensitive. There was literally no reason for that scene to be in there.

On a similar note, the episode where Lafka says the n-word because apparently "it's okay, because he became black in that episode" (it is not, in fact, ok). Again, there was no reason for that to be in there other than for the "comedy". That was a choice the creators made. And again, it felt really insensitive and ignorant at best.

As the post by holoubek mentions, there is also the fact the creators don't want to add trigger warnings. This genuinely confuses me. Why would you not add the warnings, when the listeners have shown that they would greatly appreciate that? The only valid reason I can think of is that they're worried about spoilers, but that's not really an issue. TW warnings are usually so vague they don't spoil anything, and even if they did, the mental health of the audience is way more important.

The creators did say that nothing is stopping the listeners from sharing the tw warnings amongst themselves. The issue with this, is that this requires someone to actually listen to the episode first to then warn others. Besides, not all of the podcast audience is part of the discord group, or others fandom spaces where the listeners may or may not share warnings amongst themselves.

However, an easy solution to this, is that the creators could just put them in the description so people who don't want to read them don't have to. Pretty sure someone in the discord group brought this up. Loads of podcasts do this, and it works!

There are other points to be made, for example the irresponsibly handled topics of sexual assault. The user holoubek talks about this as well, and I encourage you to read their post if you haven't already. I want to add to this that there's a scene somewhere where the main characters encourage a guy to kiss his crush, because at the time, they believe this is the only way to break out of a time loop they're stuck in. The problem here is that when the guy says that he needs to get the girl's consent to kiss her, the protagonists brush him off and get annoyed with him for prioritising consent over the time loop. This felt... iffy, to say the least.

I don't have the energy to delve any further into other topics, but I hope that this adds to the discussion in a meaningful way regardless. And once again I want to reiterate that I don't mean this as hate or as an attack to the creators or the fandom, these are just my personal reasons for why I no longer am a fan.

[blubefishy]

I think what hbomberguy missed out on his video was the way James Somerton also dismissed ace people's oppression by claiming that they didn't 'go through conversion therapy' or apparently 'suffered as much as gay men'.

So here's a video I want to share by the Ace Couple going into depth about the whole thing and how James reacted when called out... spoilers, he didn't react well. I just hope by James' mistakes he and other people can learn something and grow.

[timothylawrence]

Oh ppl are just openly racist like this for fun?

[the-halfling-prince]

"I swear on my mother, wherever the hell she is-" This show istg

[zebedeezing]

Shoutout to mentally ill fam out there going through the worst time ever but still stop themselves from saying ‘kys’ even if it’s on the tip of your tongue very often, because they know it’s a wrong thing to say and they have the strength and restraint to hold back just as one would not say a slur

I mean mostly in real life but online too

[selenophobic-werewolf]

Another weirdo to block and report. DO NOT ENGAGE

[theelf-online]

This is ventier than what I usually post but I'm just sooo irritated.

I was trying to explain how because I'm Jewish, I'm not white, and how that is directly because nazis (and other antisemites) view Jews as a separate race. They don't view me as such and want me dead because of it. And this one person had the full on audacity to go "yeah but treating being Jewish like it's a separate race is antisemitic". YEAH NO SHIT, I WONDER WHY THAT DIDNT STOP THE NAZIS FROM COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST MY PEOPLE FOR BEING A DIFFERENT RACE!

This person was poc too, and could totally understand why someone who is mixed or is white passing has situational privileges but still experiences racism because they're not actually white, but suddenly not why that applies to me because I'm Ashkenazim and pale? My skin color doesn't make me immune to racialized antisemitism, especially since I'm *actively and visibly Jewish*. An antisemite isn't going to look at me and go, "Oh pale skin, must be white! Time to move to the next person." They're going to see my kippah and Magen David and go "Oh another kike to kill."

[randomthefox]

so Xdamz found my alt blog lol

[smonk-wonk]

how are you a holocaust survivor if you're POC?

I'm not a Holocaust survivor I'm 25?

I'm gonna guess you mean descended from Holocaust survivors & victims. In which case it's really sad that you think this way firstly? POC and non Jewish people did in fact die during the holocaust and many were targeted for not fitting the Nazis' idea of the "superior Aryan race".

From The Holocaust Encyclopedia: "When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, there were several thousand Black people living in Germany. The Nazi regime discriminated against them because the Nazis viewed Black people as racially inferior. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the Nazis used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people in Germany. They also harassed, imprisoned, sterilized, and murdered an unknown number of Black people."

Also contrary to what some believe, and this may sound farfetched and I hope you're sitting down but bear with me- some people are actually more than one race. Some people are POC and white. We call this being biracial. Or in grade school, being an "Oreo". A mutt if they really want to dehumanize you

But while my relatives weren't targeted for their skin color as they were white, many people were. Black Germans and other POC did exist, were murdered and traumatized, and have passed down that generational trauma. Just as other persecuted populations even if it was much less it was no less a part of the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[painwolffz]

hey guys report this person for racism and zoophilia

[vegitoswife-archive]

i saw a weird take a while ago, and it's been hanging in my mind ever since. i don't favor making "psa" posts like this at all really, but this topic has nuance and probably won't be touched upon by anyone else anytime soon.

★ there are things that MIGHT need to be unpacked depending on the circumstance, but generally: if you're bipoc you shouldn't feel bad if some or most of your f/os are white, white-passing, or light-skinned. i say this as someone whose primary f/os have fair skin, and especially because their source material has...literally no relevant dark-skinned characters. the only one i can think of is a side character who's also a minor.

if you grow fond of a character, you grow fond of them. if they happen to be white, white-passing, light-skinned, dark-skinned, etc etc then they just happen to be. you shouldn't inherently feel as if you're betraying your race and/or culture or being a pick-me for feeling attraction of whatever sort towards them.

and anyone who gives you grief over this is...questionable, bare minimum. i've personally dealt with toxic behavior from someone who was also bipoc - specifically black like me. they cared about racial issues regarding black people to the point they basically made it their entire personality (and they *often* virtue-signaled to boot), so.

always be wary of people who seem to be critical in bad faith, no matter if they're bipoc or white. performative activism is very much a thing that exists, particularly online.

[milf-harrington]

being australian on tumblr means having mini alarm bells going off multiple times a week bc someone used "a/b/o" as shorthand for omegaverse