#this is like. mostly in response to the person i rbed this from

[strawberryfemm]

just 2 clarify — this is a holiday i made a silly post about, as a person who identifies as femme as in the other side of the coin of being butch, not as much in the sense of being A Woman. I’m femme in a queer way, and if you identify with the term femme in any way, you might also be a fat femme!!! you don’t have to dress any particular way to be celebrated for fat femme friday just as you don’t have to dress any particular way to be A Femme. love y’all & I’m so thrilled this has taken off :))

inventing a new mandatory holiday it’s called fat femme friday and what happens is that if ur fat n femme u get worshipped n celebrated. thank you.

(i didn’t wanna have to say this bc i didn’t want to remind fat ppl that our existence is a fetish but feederism blogs dni please)

[fo-pinupzine-callout]

What you should know before you support the Fallout Pinup Zine [MOD TEAM ISSUES]

DISCLAIMER:

The author of this post does NOT condone any forms of harassment to either the moderators, the artists, or the users who shed light on the issues surrounding the zine’s moderators.

This post is solely for the knowledge of the potential buyer and contributor. Contributors and customers has the right to know who they are supporting, even if all of the zine profits goes to a charity.

The author of this post is NOT affiliated with any of the users who made the posts that will be used as references here. This is an independent party. This throwaway account is created by a single author, and the views are the author’s. The author had not spoken to any of the post creators that will be cited below beforehand and this post is created unprompted by anyone but the author themselves.

DO NOT SEND ANY INFLAMMATORY MESSAGES TO ANY OF THE MENTIONED USERS, OR CREATORS OF ANY OF THE POSTS BELOW. THE AUTHOR WISHES TO MAKE THIS CLEAR AS DAY.

WHAT IS THE FALLOUT PINUP ZINE?

The Fallout Pinup Zine is a fan-run magazine featuring characters from the Fallout franchise illustrated in a cheesecake style pinup. It has two parts: Gentlemen’s Club and Ladies’ Night. More information can be read on @/falloutpinupzine. Gentlemen’s Club concluded September 2020. Ladies’ Night is currently underway, and submissions are open for artists. The latter zine is a charity event.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ZINE?

There’s nothing wrong with the zine itself! Zines and fandom-run events are great way of bringing fans together to create content for the community.

However, there are issues with the moderation team behind the event.

One of the moderators who run the blog, @/yesjejunus (YJJ) had appeared in various community callout posts for racism and other unsavory content that users might want to steer clear of. YJJ had purged their blog and was deplatformed several times, but returned after four months of dormancy.

By extension, the other two moderators of the zine @/socksual-innuendos (Socks), @/sas-afras (Monty) and @/shishkamoosh (Shishk), condone their actions as well, having defended YJJ several times or reblogging posts with those sentiments. Several users who support or had contributed to the zine are affiliates of YJJ, such as @/fallout-lou-begas (Lou, close friend), @/tarberrymentats (Halk, close friend, is the one to suggest the charity for the zine), and @/coriandher/@/baidurii/@/dua-kali-lima (Fi, close friend, had made a callout post in defense of them). They also dismissed any form of criticism towards YJJ’s content, one of them even going as far as calling the criticism self-righteous.

This is despite BIPOC (black, indigenous, person of color), POC, and indigenous Fallout fans calling YJJ out for their hurtful depictions of indigenous folks and white saviorism, which is another pressing issue that they refused to address properly. It’s also worth mentioning that YJJ is not black, indigenous, nor a person of color.

However, there are also posts surfacing that attempts to explain YJJ’s side of the situation, especially the harassment they allegedly received from the community, mostly written by their mutuals and some cosigned by YJJ.

Most of these posts address issues surrounding the dark content in YJJ’s writings. In a callout post from their affiliates, they attempt to explain that those who had spoken up against the racist caricatures are the ones who are problematic, in a twist of events. (The author had personally read it, and refuses to acknowledge it due to the inflammatory and accusatory nature of the doc towards a BIPOC member of the Fallout community.) All relevant information will be linked below, to provide context.

Before you decide who to believe, please remember that BIPOC, POC and indigenous voices should bear heavier weight than white voices on issues that concern them.

Before you decide to support or denounce this fandom event, please take this information to create an educated decision on whether you want to support the event or the people behind it.

References and Relevant Information:

YJJ Callout (active, main source, originally posted in 2020. A comprehensive list of YJJ’s problematic content. Lengthy, but informative. Documents specific examples of racist content, including a MAGA hat illustration and a chancla joke. Take other listed YJJ affiliates with a grain of salt, verify for yourself.) [backup]

Blacklist 1 (deactivated, accessed through a reblog, originally posted in 2019. YJJ and a few affiliates are on the list.)

Blacklist 2 (deactivated, accessed through an archive, originally posted in 2019. YJJ and a few affiliates are on the list.)

Blacklist 3 (active, main source, originally posted in 2020. A list of YJJ’s known associates and supporters, including Lou, Halk, Socks and Monty.) [backup]

Post by a BIPOC member of the community, calling them out of their racist depictions of indigenous folks (active, main source, originally posted in 2020) [backup]

Post by a Latine member of the Fallout community, that calls out a racist comic by YJJ and the alleged insincerity of an apology they issued [backup]

Guide by an indigenous member of the community about writing indigenous characters, which references one of the native caricatures in YJJ’s fanfic, Passing Dawn. (The link provided leads to said fanfic, TW for Rape/Non-Con and abuse. Heed the warnings in the tags.) (active, main source, originally posted in 2020) [backup]

Posts and reblogs from YJJ’s closest affiliates in defense of them:

(1) (2) Lou/@/fallout-lou-begas (defense of YJJ’s writing, says that writing dark content in itself is not an endorsement of the problematic themes present, cites harassment of said user; said that YJJ is just being true to the source material of the fic in defense of the racist caricatures present in the work) [backup 1] [backup 2]

For context, Josh Sawyer himself had taken responsibility of the bad representation of native folks in HH, in this post. [backup]

(3) (4) Halk/@/tarberrymentats (reblog of Lou’s post, also citing harassment and claiming that the criticism directed towards their friend is a “false righteous crusade”; a RB of YJJ’s post with a statement in the tags that denounces the callouts made and the people who RBed them) [backup 1] [backup 2]

(5) Fi/@/coriand-her/@/baidurii/@/dua-kali-lima’s defense of YJJ and callout of several members of the community who shed light on the racism issue [backup 1]

(6) Socks/@/socksual-innuendos (reblog of Fi’s callout post with commentary) [backup]

(7) Monty/@/sas-afras (reblog of Fi’s callout post, no commentary) [backup]

I DON’T WANT TO SUPPORT THE ZINE ANYMORE. WHAT CAN I DO INSTEAD?

CONSIDER DONATING THE MONEY DIRECTLY TO THE CHARITY/BENEFICIARY’S WEBSITE. It’s as simple as that. If you wish not to support the moderators of the zine due to the information above, opt to skip the need for a middle man and give your money directly to the charity. If you still wish to make a positive change but cannot donate, consider spreading their platform instead, or volunteering in your local organizations.

If you are an artist who was considering applying for the zine and you are in disagreement with their views, DO NOT APPLY FOR A SUBMISSION. You can still participate in fandom space without engaging with them.

If you disagree with any of the mentioned users’ content and views, BLOCK AND MOVE ON. Don’t give their posts any attention. In a site like tumblr where posts are reliant on reblogs for them to circulate, the best way to deplatform them is to not give them any engagement.

OTHER QUESTIONS AND SENTIMENTS THAT MIGHT COME UP BASED ON PAST EXPERIENCES WITH THE FANDOM, BUT I WILL NOT ADDRESS AFTER ABANDONING THIS THROWAWAY:

WHO ARE YOU? WHY ARE YOU HIDING BEHIND A MASK OF ANONYMITY?

This post involves prominent members of tumblr’s Fallout community. The author is choosing to remain anonymous due to the possible harassment or hazards to their safety from creating this post.

The author is of Asian descent, queer, neurodivergent, and hails from a former US colony. The author once supported YJJ, but had long since denounced support when callouts that point to YJJ’s racism surfaced. That’s the only information they are willing to divulge.

I STILL WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN FANDOM EVENTS, BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. HOW?

Fandom isn’t owned by anyone. You are free to participate as you wish provided that you help keep the community a safe space, especially minorities. You can try creating your own events with other unaffiliated members of the community!

YOU’RE ASKING ME NOT TO SUPPORT A ZINE THAT SUPPORTS NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE OF COLOR. WHY WOULD I LISTEN TO YOU?

The author is simply informing the potential buyer of who runs the charity event and their views on sociopolitical issues. It’s as simple as that. If you still choose to support the zine after reading the information above, the author will not stop you, nor do they have the ability to. As stated above, it offers the potential customer an alternative choice of donating directly to the charity if they choose not to be affiliated with those who runs the zine. The author is not telling you to not support charities.

CALLOUT POSTS/BLACKLISTS ARE HARMFUL! YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO DEFAME PEOPLE FOR A CRUMB OF ATTENTION!

Callout posts and blacklists exist to inform members of a community of content that’s potentially triggering, harmful, or just plain squicky. If the author wanted attention for this post, they would’ve posted this on their main account.

THE ACCOUNTS YOU’VE GOTTEN YOUR CALLOUT REFERENCES FROM ARE PROBLEMATIC/HAS THEIR OWN CALLOUTS/HAS HARASSED OTHER PEOPLE, ETC.

You are free to create a post of your own about them if you have substantial evidence that aren’t limited to screenshots that can be manipulated or forged. Direct links with archived backups definitely help. This post’s focus is the moderation team behind the Fallout Pinup Zine and their affiliates.

YOU’RE A PURIST/PRUDE/ANTI/FANDOM POLICE. PEOPLE SHOULD BE FREE TO DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO WRITE OR CONSUME DARK CONTENT. FICTION DOESN’T AFFECT REALITY, ETC.

The author is adding this section in the post due to the pattern of how YJJ’s affiliates are defending them.

If you’ve read this post carefully, you would notice that the author did not even bring up YJJ’s dark content unless it was mentioned by one of their affiliates. This post focuses mainly on the issues surrounding BIPOC in their writing.

The author does not condone the themes present in dark content such as non-con. However, the author is not shaming anyone from writing dark content, especially if it’s being done as a coping mechanism for trauma, regardless on whether this is considered healthy or not. Their trauma is valid and should be acknowledged. This is another discussion altogether that would take another document to discuss with nuance.

This is, of course, assuming such content doesn’t contain blatant misogyny, racism or other forms of bigotry. Bigotry isn’t a valid or healthy coping mechanism.

The author is choosing to amplify voices of BIPOC, POC, and indigenous voices. If a said piece of fiction is affecting them personally due to their experiences as a minority and an oppressed group, people should listen to their criticism. It should be as simple as that.