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loominggaia · 3 years ago

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“Okay New York Anon here. I’m really sorry about this chapter and regret writing it, the way i did. Thinking about it post production I’m realizing I made it come off as transphobic and tasteless. Angry guy was supposed to be a parody of the stereotypical sjw you’d see in a cringe comp violently going off on people for accidentally being mis gendered. Sorry if this train wreak of a chapter offends anyone.”

Anon, I’m so honored that you would spend the time to write fanfiction about my series. Not everyone is a perfect writer (I’m sure not), and personally I don’t believe that every piece of writing has to “set a good example” when it comes to politics and morality. The Looming Gaia series is for ages 18+, not preschoolers. I think adults have the mental capacity to differentiate between right and wrong and form their own opinions when they’re reading something (at least I hope they do), so I’m going to go ahead and post your story.

But I also care about my followers’ well-beings, so I’m going to compromise and: 1) Put this chapter under a cut so they don’t have to see it if they don’t want to. 2) Put a content warning ahead of it so they can decide if it’s worth the risk.

If anyone proceeds from here and gets offended, that’s 100% their own fault. I care a lot about writing an inclusive series that doesn’t alienate anyone based on race, gender, sexuality, and so on. At the same time, I’m hugely against censorship, so I always welcome fan content even if it’s off-color or I don’t personally agree with what it’s trying to say (barring anything illegal or blatantly hateful towards any group; i.e. glorification of pedophilia or abuse, calls to real-world violence, supporting real-world hate groups, etc. I will never accept that kind of content. If anyone comes in here praising nazi ideaologies or calling for action against LGBT folks, they can fuck right off.)

Readers, you’ve been thoroughly warned.

You can read the other parts here.

CONTENT WARNINGS: This fan content contains scenes of captivity, mental hospitals, depictions of violence, off-color depiction of a transgender individual, and (censored) racial slurs. While reading this, I personally didn’t get the impression that Anon meant any harm. It comes off as goofy, edgy, over-the-top satire to me, like something you’d see in an episode of South Park. Use your best judgement and proceed at your own risk.

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The crew had squatted in an abandoned building on the outskirts of the city that night. They already knew that only humans existed in this world and the reaction that lady had to seeing Elska only compounded the need for stealth. Their only plan right now being find Evan and get back to Gaia. That morning the crew split up, Alaine and Lukus where to continue searching for Evan, Issac and Jeimos where to go shopping, Elska would search the outskirts out of sight and Zeffer would search at night.

Evan was not mad at doctors for keeping him hear. He knew they where just doing their jobs and where concerned for him, since magic, elves and werewolves where fictional to them he understood he looked like a crazy person to them. That didn’t take away from how annoying it was to be trapped here in this stupid hospital. Knowing his crew was out their somewhere he knew he needed to leave and contact them somehow, he needed a escape plan.

He had two plans so far, plan A was to butter up the therapist into letting him go. Behave himself, take his meds, admit Gaia’s not real and say he’s feeling better. Hoping that upon seeing this drastic improvement the therapist will approve his release and he can finally go out and find his friends. Plan B was in case plan A failed. He would bust himself out of here and go on the run. He really didn’t want to hurt anybody, just slip out unnoticed, but he had a feeling it wouldn’t be that easy.

Issac and Jeimos wandered around the city streets aimlessly in absolute awe of the sights and sounds all around them. Jeimos was getting more unnerved by not being capable of feeling any magic in their surroundings and was starting to wonder if it was just all the iron nearby or something more? Not being able to read any of the signs around them made trying to find a store to stock up on supplies difficult. Finding a food place with golden arch’s they go their as their first stop.

The pair enter this strange restaurant, the place smelling of grease and fry oil. Theirs quite the line so they just wait, taking a look around and absorbing the experience. They see a lot of interesting people and things from pictures of a clown holding a burger, groups of people on strange devices and messy families eating, an extremely obese man the two mistook for a troll horking down a massive pile of greasy food. Kids running in and out of a indoor jungle gym. This place had it all.

They waited their turn almost at the register, waiting behind a mother and her kids who kept changing her order every three seconds and trying to corral her kids. The cashier, a young man around issacs age but with a tired, dead look in his eyes that made him look as if he’s seen a war zone rang the lady up and ushers our pair to the register, asking in a flat, apathetic voice what they would like to order. Neither of them can read the electronic menu so using the numbers and pictures they order

The disgruntled cashier rang them up, totaling their order up to over $55! Him not being pleased by Jeimos’s constant questions and issac playfully asking for a kids toy. They try to pay, placing some gold coins on the counter. The cashier just looks at the coins then back to them, and, in an even more annoyed voice, told them they only take usd, not foreign currency. Telling them they can either pay in cash or card or just leave, the line was building up behind them and getting restless.

Jeimos trying to salvage this, nervously ask if theirs anything they can work out. Not wanting to have wasted their time. The cashier breaths deeply, saying he’ll get the manager, leaving the counter behind. The people in line are angrily starting at the two, Issac having a ball and Jeimos being highly uncomfortable with all the staring and swearing from them. The cashier returns with a fat, sleezy looking middle age man, presumably the manager. Him asking what’s going on here?

The cashier explains the situation in his most annoyed, apathetic tone with the manager glancing over the two. He repeats what the cashier told them, they only take usd and if they can’t pay then just leave, their clogging up the line. Jeimos try’s to explain this is all they have and is about to give up when Issac speaks up and tells them the coins are solid gold. That catch’s the managers attention, who in a greedy smile picks up the coins to check, seeing yes, their real gold!!!

His greedy smile grows wider and he tells them they can understand work something out! Snatching up the gold coins and apologizing for the inconvenience, talking about his no good employees and starts berating the cashier right in front of them for being “rude and unhelpful” to such fine paying customers! The cashier takes one look at his boss, takes off his hat and apron shoving them into his bosses hands and just says, completely monotone “I quit” and walks out without a second glance.

Meanwhile, Lukus and Alaine where walking down the streets through the massive crowds looking for any sign of Evan. Despite trying to keep a low profile they where gathering a lot of attention, walking through down town in medieval armor and brandishing weapons tends to do that. While walking outside a storefront Alaines eyes are caught by a beautiful blue dress, he being mesmerized by. “Nice cosplay” she hears suddenly from behind, Turing around to see a short, well dressed women behind her.

Alaine jut awkwardly thanks her for the compliment. The women also compliments Alaines scales, believing them to be a make up design for whatever cosplay she’s doing. The women introduces herself as Kimi and ask if she was looking at that dress in the window. Alaine answers yes and now both are both gawking at and gushing over the dresses beauty. Kimi complaining about the ludicrously high price tag but before their conversation can continue Lukus calls back to her, wondering where she is?

Alaine snaps back on into mission mode as Lukus returns. She apologizes to Kimi for leaving and tells her their looking for someone, asking if she’s seen a large blonde man with a metal leg. She says no but wishes them luck on trying to find their friend. The two head off once again search the city streets for Evan and once again have no luck, it didn’t help that a lot of people where stopping them, asking for photos of their “costumes” and asking what characters their dressed as?

After hours of searching and coming up empty handed both where rather hungry. Stopping at a cafe looking place to grab a quick bite. The place smelled of coffee and a sign outside had a picture of a twin tailed mermaid on a green background. As they where waiting in line observing all the weird people around them they saw a familiar face ahead of them, Kimi. She had a coffee in her hands and was thanking the barista but didn’t see them. Neither did she see the weird guy she bumped into.

The guy she bumped into looked ridiculous to Alaine and Lukus, having fluorescent pink cloths, big goofy glasses and a oversized beanie I’ve this colorful hair. The guy yelled at her to watch where she’s going, she apologized but then she said sir. The pair could already sense this guy would be trouble as the moment kimi said “sir” it looked as if the weird guys was about to explode. SIR!!! He screamed, grabbing everyone’s attention, his face beat red and eyes bulging in rage!

To say he exploded on Kimi would be an understatement, he started loudly screaming at her “ did you just misgender me”!!! The screaming got even louder as he started listing off a bunch of gibberish and loudly insulting her, calling her sexist, anti-lgbt, telling to kill herself and die in a hole. His screaming getting more incoherent and seemed to be literally frothing at the mouth. Kimi was just backing away, scared and trying to apologize but the guy just kept screaming over her plea’s.

(Feel like I need to put a trigger warning for this one so here it is. Trigger warning for Lukus and Alaine getting in a fight with ‘that kind’ of trans guy, the kind responsible for all the negative stereotypes about the trans community. And Issac being called a racial slur. You have been warned.)

Alaine and Lukus stepped in to stop this dude from hurting Kimi. He seriously looked like he was about ready to punch her. They stepped in and tried to diffuse the situation, putting themselves between kimi and the angry man. They try to explain to him that how could she have known he wasn’t cis, that’s it’s an honest mistake and to let it slide. That only seemed to pissed him off more as he threw a drink in Alaines face and shoved Lukus in anger, wrong move.

Just as Lukus was winding up a punch Alaine beat him to it, knocking the asshole clean to the floor in a single strike. He went down like a sack of potato’s and was laying out cold. The three just left, taking Kimi and leaving. Alaine was fuming but if she where calmer she would have noticed it was water he threw at her, and would have also noticed she didn’t flop to the floor in her aquatic form, she was too pissed off the notices.

Kimi thanks them for saving her from that crazy guy and try’s frantically to explains to them she’s pro-lgbt, always try’s to respect peoples pronouns and is actually a lesbian herself. They cut her off, she didn’t need to explain herself to them. On the flip side Jeimos and Issac are carrying back their huge bags of fast food back to the groups hideout waiting to hear any news. Issac see’s a downed old man and the street and rushed to help him.

Just as Issac was reaching out to help him the old man swats him away, screaming at him. “Keep your hands off me you filthy N@$$#r”! Heads turn and people stop dead in their tracks in pure shock at what they just heard. Issac and Jeimos had no idea what that weird word meant but it guessing by the crowds reaction, it was really bad. The old man gets himself up and goes off on a racist rant, accusing Issac of trying to steal from him, calling all his “kind” low-life scum and just screams at him.

First of all Anon, your depiction of working at a fast food place is a whole-ass mood and I felt it lol. I’m interested to see what role this character Kimi plays! Maybe she has ties to the hospital? Seeing the crew clash with real-world culture is very interesting. I’m enjoying their adventure so far. TO BE CONTINUED…?

#fanfic #looming gaia

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twyella · 5 years ago

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"I'm not ______ist I just believe ________ist statements!"

I am so fucking fed up with some of the teachers at my school, because they are a master at this

Among other people, the headmaster and my old RE teacher have both said exactly this (excluding the example they used): 'I'm not sexist, but (!!) boys and girls learn differently, completely differently. So I teach boys and girls, and treat them, completely differently.' And they give stupid examples in the form of sweeping generalisations that I could immediately give you more than seven counter examples, and I barely talk to people in my year, so you know they're pretty fucking far off. Additionally, sometimes the generalisations they make don't even make sense? Like they say 'boys do this, which is completely different to how girls do (exactly the same thing worded slightly differently)'

And it's just....Urgh.

So fed up with people who say "I'm not sexist but" "I'm not aphobic but" "I'm not transphobic but" "I'm not racist but" etc etc etc

As far as I'm aware, there are maybe three possible things that could come after that that are even vaguely okay

1) "....but lots of people around me are and that fucking sucks"

2)"....but I know jackshit about this, so if I fuck up please feel free to call me out on it, I will try to improve but rn I honestly haven't a clue what I'm doing wrong, sorry, I'd like to learn"

3) ".....but I'm currently trying to counter shitty ideas people gave me when I was little, I'm working on it but please like...punch me in the arm or something if I fuck up. Like, hard, don't just let me mess up"

And speaking of racism....

The other thing that really fucking frustrates me is people using the fact that they are arguably oppressed to opppress others or get away with murder

For example, a girl in my class was once causing utter havoc in the classroom during the lesson - talking over the teacher, yelling across the room to her friends, not staying seated, not even pretending to be doing her work, insulted the teacher....You get the gist. The teacher tried getting her to stop several times, but she just laughed and behaved even worse. Eventually, the teacher told her to leave the classroom and that they were calling some of the more important staff to deal with her, essentially. This (non white) student promptly kicked up a massive fuss and started yelling about how it was discrimination, how the teacher could get in so much trouble for racism, how she would report them to such and such authority, tell the headmaster on them.....And I was just sitting there, very annoyed and more than a little incredulous because what the fuck do you mean the teacher is being racist? You practically destroyed the classroom and haven't done any work for the past five lessons! You should've been called out on this shit much earlier, and for fuck's sake, you're kind of minimising how bad racism can actually be by acting like the height of it is you getting a detention for appalling behaviour, don't you think?

And there were...a lot of incidents like that. Also some boys claiming they were getting told off for reasons that were sexist or homophobic in nature (....given that said boys were both homophobic themselves and explicitly denied being gay, I have no idea where they decided them being "treated badly" (note the sarcasm) was homophobic) and these boys treated it like a joke. Which was pretty bad. But so much worse were the people who acted like they genuinely believed what they were saying, like the fact that they couldn't be rude and disrespectful and hurtful to literally everyone, refuse tow ork, impede other peoples work, and constantly break rules as well as often borderline bullying was some sort of horrifying discrimination

It just makes me so fucking tired

As well as black students specifically saying white people are shit, not fit to live, whatever, then claiming it's fine because they're black and it's about white people, gay guys claiming it's fine to be blatantly homophobic, transphobic, and so on, because they're lgbt, girls claiming it's fine to be awful and stereotype boys constantly because boys are the favoured ones or whatever weird way they phrased it....

Picking on trans and gay people specifically for that identity is STILL transphobic and homophobic no matter what your own orientation is

Being specifically insulting or death threats (yeah, hahaha it was "just a joke", but you threatened to kill them and the kid doesn't look like they think it's that funny) due to someone's race is still racist, no matter what race you are, or they are for that matter

Being discriminatory to any gender is still sexist, no matter what your or their gender is

"Yeah but I'm a girl and they're a girl so it's totally okay for me to be blatantly sexist!"

No. No it's fucking not. Shut up.

It's not acceptable

Frankly, I don't even think jokes about this are particularly good, but apparently I'm in the minority there

But if it's bordering anything close to being even vaguely semi serious, if it's more of a "joke" than anything...Please just keep your trap shut and reconsider what you were thinking.

I honestly don't understand why so many people struggle with this concept

Oh and a reminder - saying "I'm not _______ but ______ statement" means absolutely fuckall! It's still bad.

On a related note - "No offense but I hate you/you're an awful person/you're fucking scum/go jump off a cliff......" are also godawful things to say! Tacking on "no offense" does not make it magically okay to insult, hurt, belittle, or even encourage someone to commit suicide. What is fukcing wrong with people. And if you instead use a phrase like "Don't get offended, but...." then congratulations! Not only are you saying awful things that could seriously hurt someone, but you're now also gaslighting them, invalidating any upset you cause by being an utter prick, and making them feel trapped and nervous. Well done! That's an awful thing to do it, don't ever ever ever ever EVER do anything of this kind

And all of it, everything I've mentioned in this post...It's all so fucking normalised, everyone says this kind of shit every day even when it's blatantly obvious that it's angering, hurting and upsetting people. What is wrong with you people, what is wrong with this society,

#angry #racism #sexism #homophobia #transphobia #name every other -ism or -phobia you can think of really #why do people think this is ok #such fucking bullshit #don't normalise this kidn of behaviour!#It's very very very bad!

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