#this is not a callout post for anyone

[yellow-yarrow]

"haha the ex-za/um people are doing leftist infighting, how disco" um. Summer Eternal is literally a worker owned co-op and Argo Tuulik said: "To all other former respected comrades (Kurvitz, Rostov, everyone) – long time no hear, but we would love for you to join the struggle as well: time to roll up our sleeves and start building communism!”

meanwhile Dark Math has Kaur Kender (one of the moneymen) and a motion graphic designer who follows Joe Rogan and a bunch of conservatives on twitter. is the leftist infighting in the room with us right now

[vigilskeep]

if you don’t know your oc’s greetings when hostile/neutral/friendly/romanced, do u even know ur oc

[txttletale]

nhow, callouts may often be spurious hate campaigns aiming to destroy vulnerable people's lives over internet beef, but dont forget about how effective and useful they can be to keep our communities safe when someone is actually dangerous. for instance, remember how after the toonimals callout his blog was deleted and his website was taken down? [secret service agent comes up to me and whispers in my ear] Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

[calware]

thoughts incoming. something i think a lot of people online don't realize (and something i wish i could've told myself when i was younger) is that trying to enact punishment on someone you dislike who did or said something wrong for the sake of punishment rarely has a positive effect. especially when it involves attempting to publicly shame/humiliate them, such as writing a callout post with the attempt to get everyone "on your side" and to dislike that person as well. this is because, in many cases, these pursuits result in just making the target angry or upset, which at best just makes them upset and at worse reinforces their ideas. if there's someone online you disagree with and you want to try making a real change, you have to ask yourself if what you're doing is actually going to realistically lead to that outcome or if you're just lashing out in anger

i'm not perfect at this either, in fact i've been on both sides in this situation. i know how it feels to be hurt by someone when you didn't deserve it, so you want that person to hurt too, you want other people to dislike them as much as you do. i really, really get it. i also know what it's like to be cyberbullied online, back when i was a very vocal hater who had a lot of annoyingly bad takes about homestuck and said a lot of things that were at best stupid and at worse parasocial. this, understandably, annoyed a bunch of people, but then some of them decided i should get sent anon hate about it daily. all this did was a) make me feel bad and b) reinforced the idea that i wasn't doing anything wrong, because the people who disagreed with me were also sending me anon hate, so clearly they were in the wrong

i think there are moments where "calling someone out" is helpful, like if someone is running a scam, or if someone is using their platform to groom minors. this is because calling that person out actually helps to prevent them from hurting more people. however, most of the callout posts i've seen on here don't result in any positive effect and usually boil down to "PSA I NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW TUMBLRGUY634 WAS MEAN TO ME!!!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!", causing a bunch of outrage within that person's circle before fizzling out a while later with no real impact

[ghostdnfie]

dream stans here who are multifandom, how do u deal with there being outspoken antis (whether its anything between a loud group to literal thousands of them) in ur other fandom(s) bc i feel like im walking on eggshells and unwelcome solely because of who i like and its beyond shit. i can barely interact with anyone like god i applaud your strength bc im literally about to lose my patience with the p.handom and its been just 5 months 💀

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive come to realise that i dont actually hate kubokai, i just hate the way people write them

[gay--dog]

posts like "if you reblog from x tumblr user after what they did im blocking you" are so crazy 2 me. do you rlly expect anyone normal to be able keep up w some bullshit discourse all the time so they can curate their following list like jesus & his twelve fuckin faggots or whatevr

[torchickentacos]

I noticed that a blog had me blocked (I've never seen them before, idc, that's fine lol, curate your space ✌️) and out of curiosity I hovered my mouse over their username to see their bio and make sure I didn't piss off someone I knew. They had a bio that said 'I block for (list of things)' which. cool! convenient! tells me what I wanted to know!

...except it was the most out of pocket list of things and I cannot imagine what I could have said or done to make this random person think I applied to their blocklist? I've never touched system or furry or 'that-specific-kink' discourse in my life. what happened here 😭 like I'm not mad, I don't really care, but lmfao?

[sainteclectic]

this isn't intended to be a judgment on anyone in particular, but I'm surprised on how few people in the cccc fandom write image descriptions for their art considering the existence of a character who would realistically need to use them {whether you interpret heart as low vision or light sensitive or fully blind} it's just kind of ironic how the characters in the media couldn't even access the content made for it

anyways, if you have the ability to write image descriptions for your work, I highly recommend doing it! it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it :-)

[adventures-in-teyvat]

arlecchino: put a bunch of wrapped, empty presents under a christmas tree so that every time a child misbehaves you can throw one into the fire

dottore: what do i do when i run out of children

[sun-critrole]

Now is as good a time as any to remind Critical Role folks that literally any observed interpersonal conflict, arguments, or general discomfort between cast members is, first and foremost, none of our business. There are (at least!) three degrees of separation between us and the players.

We are not the players. They are all adults capable of speaking up for themselves if something was off. (They would likely do so off-camera and privately, because that is the mature and wise thing to do.) Also, we can trust them to raise concerns about stuff that happens at the table which negatively impacts gameplay, because they have before.

We are not friends with the players. We don't know them personally. We aren't a part of their support system. They might recognize your username or like your fan art, but they are still public performers interacting with their audience in a professional manner. We don't have authority to bring up personal concerns with strangers - just like you wouldn't give your bus driver or your lawyer personal advice.

We don't actually have any context for what is happening interpersonally. Every single thing we see is public, knowingly recorded, and therefore a performance. Even if these players are being very genuine, they are still performing. Sometimes that performance is clear: Liam is not Orym, but often will mime being small. Other times it's less clear: Laura will gasp at a big reveal, and it seems like it's her reacting, but she knows she's being recorded. Even subconsciously, she may not be reacting as she would privately.

Ultimately it's important that the personal lives and interactions of these actors stay personal. That kind of separation is healthy and downright necessary when you're as popular and public as the CR cast. We are lucky to get our little window into their imaginations for a few hours every week, but we are not entitled to - or given leave to speak on - more than that.

Furthermore, if you personally disagree with a character decision that one of these players has made, and it is making you emotionally disregulated, please take a step back. Removing yourself from a thing when it makes you unhappy is healthy for you. The show and the fandom will still be here when you get back.

[waywardsunlight]

Sometimes you can just say you like a villain and that's okay and you don't need to spend all of your energy coming up with reasons why that villain is actually OK. Like you can just say. i think his vibe is rancid and he's cool. and not destroy his character by constantly trying to stretch the truth/lean on his whiteness and abuse/murder apologism. The reverse of this where you don't like a character and you don't need to have a moral reason not to like them is true too. You can just dislike them.

I am a villain enjoyer stop trying to juSTIFY THEM especially in the case where the villain is a white colonizer like ya'll . you can just think he's cool and not be down with colonialism and respect the tolerance paradox. Fun fact.

[gay--dog]

i hate when i want to reblog someones post but i know my mutual doesnt like them & they would probably hate me if i reblogged from them. like who gives a fuck genuinely i have moral ocd i dont need any more of this shit

[adoctornotatumbl-r]

can y’all please stop reblogging my bones posts talking about how much you don’t like bones