#you can log off and go experience all the spaces in the world that aren't made specifically for radical feminism

[feral-radfem]

Hey if you're a non-radfem and you want to make a complaint that radical feminist critique keeps getting applied to you because you hang around radical feminist spaces here is my advice: leave.

Honestly, I'm so tired of seeing this shit. Go find some other places to hang out. I don't care that you came here because everyone else kicked you out for being a "transphobe". That does not make it our responsibility to soften our movement and our criticisms so that you feel comfortable in a movement you have no intention of of committing to. You are welcome here on the basis of being a woman, however, if you can't handle the feminist action that goes on in these spaces, then you need to leave. That is a you problem, not ours. I'm tired of hearing y'all whine that we don't coddle you enough and then adding anecdotal evidence of feminist harm or strawmen arguments for why you're justified in doing patriarchal actions were other women are not. There is not a single identifier or life experience you can tell me that is going to make me think that you deserve to be exempt from the same criticisms I would level at any other woman. If you're an adult, you should be mature enough to hear them. If you are not mature enough to hear feminist critique, you need to leave feminist spaces.

if you want to be self-serving, it is completely your right to do so. I've heard a number of you in passing claim that you "don't want to be feminist, you want to be people". Which, while that's an insulting sentiment as a feminist, just demonstrates that the only person y'all care about is yourself. You see being a person as inherently being self-serving and self-centered. First and foremost, it's all about you. That level of selfishness is pathetic and frowned upon in collective spaces. Feminism being one of them.

Just save us all the headache and go away. Y'all are one of the only groups of people on the internet who are able to piss me off in seconds, istg.

[backtothe99]

(18Trip Translation) Tao Kinouchi SR: Welcome to Prison Island - This is how you get hyperfixated

Title: Literally means 'This is the entrance to the swamp', 沼 (swamp) is also a slang term originating in the mid 2010s which means you get addicted to some kind of media and can't get out of it. So, uh, hyperfixation? lol

Part 1

Location: HAMA House West Room

Chihiro: We have tomorrow off, so TaoTao, let's play Anigun like we promised tonight!

Tao: This is my first time playing a Full Dive FPS…

Chihiro: It's pretty much the same thing as mahorova, so you don't need to worry so much. It's okies ☆

Tao: mahorova?

Chihiro: Wuzzat? You've never logged in that?

Chihiro: It's a virtual space on the net— It's probs easier to experience firsthand than explain~

Chihiro: Alrightie, first we gotta put a patch behind your ear—

Tao: Alright.

Tao: It can measure brain waves and observe movements like this? That's pretty awesome.

Tao: (Things sure have improved since the era of polygon games where you'd put a metal rod in your shoulder if your arm broke.)

Chihiro: All done with the patch? Now you gotta pick an Animal to play as! (1)

Tao: Each animal’s got its own set of abilities and skills, and also different fighting styles, right?

Chihiro: Yeah. Chii always uses the cat. The Field Trickster ☆

Tao: (So Chihiro focuses on speed… In that case, I think a type that can switch between defense and offense depending on the situation would have the advantage over him.)

Tao: (What should I do? Since it's my first playthrough, going with a balanced type and seeing how things progress would be a safe bet…)

Tao: I'll… go with this bear.

Tao: (It's power-focused with high HP stats. Seems suitable for both DPS and tanking.)

Chihiro: You chose carefully~ Nice~! Looks like I won't need to go easy on you ♪

Chihiro: Round 1! GL~ Game Start!!

[Flashing]

Tao: (The scenery's changing…)

Tao: (I'm entering the game's world—)

Part 2

[Flashing]

Tao: Ah… Damn, I lost! You really are strong, Chihiro.

Chihiro: You're strong too, TaoTao! It was your first time playing, but you did real good ♪

Chihiro: You're a gamer through and through. If we keep going at it, Chii might lose…?

Tao: Should we try this multiplayer mode next time, instead of the training grounds? We can play against other users, right?

Chihiro: OFC! Let's co-op as a duo next ♪

-

Tao: �� We lost. Sorry, I wasn't much help.

Chihiro: No probs! Chii's just enjoying this without caring if we're winning or losing.

Chihiro: TaoTao… Are you having fun?

Tao: I'm having lots of fun. Actually, we should try again.

Chihiro: Okies. For hardcore gamers, the real challenge’s at the top ♪

Tao: Alright– Let's go!!

-

Tao: Ah~Damn it, we lost! One more time!

-

Tao: I totally messed up my aim… Damn. And we were so close, too… One more time!

-

Tao: O-One more time! I'm really feeling it now...!

Chihiro: W-We're still going!? It's gonna be morning soon, y’know?

Tao: Is it already that late… Sorry for dragging you with me, Chihiro. You can go to sleep, I'll go solo for a while.

Chihiro: You sure...? Chii's heading to sleep first, then. Good night~

Tao: Good night. Thanks for hanging out with me.

-

Chihiro: *yawn*~ Morning… Woah, you're still playing!?

Tao: Morning. I'm starting to get the hang of it. I don't wanna forget what this feeling's like.

Chihiro: Th-That so? I'm glad you're that into it, but still…

Chihiro: Chii's done with breakfast, so I'm going shopping.

Tao: Mhmm. Stay safe.

-

Chihiro: I’m home~

Chihiro: Y-You're still playing!?

Tao: Damn, this guy's good! I'll show you…!!

Chihiro: You've been playing all this time. Isn't it about time for a break?

Tao: I've finally gotten used to the controls, and I'm getting the hang of shooting… Eat that headshot!

Chihiro: Hey, have you eaten? Aren't you hungry?

Tao: Not at all.

[Stomach growling]

Chihiro: Nopes, your stomach's growling.

Chihiro: You gotta put something in your body… That's it!

Chihiro: I've got the tapioca drink Raitin gave me as a gift~

Chihiro: (I'll just hold it up to TaoTao's mouth—)

Chihiro: He drank it all before I could even say “Thirsty?”! Didn't even bat an eye!!

Chihiro: Is… His body seeking the nutrition!?

Tao: Anigun… Is so fun… I wanna keep playing till I die…

Chihiro: Hey TaoTao, let's take a break! Pretty please!

Tao: Shotgun secured— Oraoraora, eat lead!!

Chihiro: You'll starve and die, TaoTaoooo~~!!

NOTES: (1) this gets lost in translation, but chihiro makes to say animals in katakana as an english loanword and then corrects himself and says it in japanese, tao then repeats the japanese word. hence the difference in capitalization

[camaro-and-smokes]

One thing I've been thinking...

These are just my random thoughts, so feel free to disagree.

Lately I've seen a lot of posts in the fandom in increasing extent that's kinda sad imo. (I've been in this fandom for a short while, but in a lot bigger fandom for years, and in my experience, the negativity is always the same, the package just is different.)

People get really worked up by the Billy/Dacre antis on all platforms, and then they vent about it here, and make sometimes compelling and sometimes less compelling arguments in defence of both.

It's fine, ppl need to vent and hey, everyone is allowed to do what they want on their blog and if someone can't take it, unfollow, block, filter content, blah blah blah. Simple as that.

But I just always think how much those people allow the antis actually take their own headspace and then spew the negative energy from the antis directly to the positive fandom here on Tumblr.

I assume most of the negativity comes from Twatter and dickdock (I hate both and haven't used the first in years and the other one but once and logged off immediately – I know they're both very volatile spaces). I know antis are here too, but I assume it's way smaller issue here than in those two. (Quick check on the anti billy hargrove tag tells me that most of those here are teens and young adults who are yet to grow up, so not worth even a thought)

I come on Tumblr to get away from real world. To forget all the negativity of other ppl and just in general get away from everything that's happening in real world. I try to follow blogs that post positive stuff and engage only with content that's positive or compelling in any way.

So when I see those posts, sometimes even with screenshots from the anti's, it always makes me feel sad – but not for me.

It's always for the op as in hey, you're here where the Billy/Dacre fandom is absolutely bonkers in a GOOD way, cherishing and loving a character that never got any of that in the show itself, and loving the actor who plays the character unabashedly. And you're as the op here because of that too.

So I just wonder why do you take all that negativity be it from here or from somewhere else or here and bring it into our positive space and stain it with it? And in addition other ppl then engage with it – even if it's to just agree with the op. That's like preaching to the choir – why do it?

This is a place where you could happily enjoy the character without that much of a fear of getting bs of it. Or at least that's my experience. I haven't gotten any bs as long as I've been here. But of course this blog is very small.

So correct me if I'm wrong.

Now, I do run one big sideblog with 10k followers in a big fandom and my main has 1,5k followers too. So I know hate and how it feels when you're getting it in any form, in reblogs or anonymously on asks. It's SHIT.

But what I've learned from those two is, that as long as the hate and the antis are being addressed, neither will go away. There will always be antis and idiots who send anonymous hate.

It's called the internet.

And not to forget: social media platforms in general have been proven to boost negative content, because it keeps users on the platforms longer, meaning more income to the platforms. I repeat:

Never forget that negativity is partly designed into social media platforms.

What can be done to all of this is to choose not to engage with the negativity, and just let it be. Even if the negative views get you totally worked up and feel like you need to educate whoever.

Trust me, they won't learn anything, and you'll just spend hours on trying to do that.

This image sums my thoughts pretty much:

I guarantee that you will feel a lot better when you just

start scrolling past all the negative stuff on all platforms,

don't engage with the negativity,

don't go into the anti-Billy tags

just delete the shitty anonymous asks, and

don't spend time on writing a response here on Tumblr, where the people the responses are directed to (= antis) aren't.

And pls pls delete your accounts on any platforms that give you only shitty feels. You're not going to miss ANYTHING.

Not spending any time on the antis gives you more headspace and time to spend positively on our favourite rat boy. It makes your experience so much more better, and also the overall atmosphere of the fandom more positive for everyone everywhere.

Like I said, just random thoughts. Feel free to disagree with me.

[riverbanksquid]

server stuff:

aside from some minor things (sign editing not working, rendering issues in a couple of cases, worldgen learning experiences) the pack in its current form is about as nice as I can make it!! planning on one 1.17.1 update (add betterend & some requested QOL features, plus a few blocks of my own creation just because AND a datapack for practice; maybe tweak worldgen and expand the worldborder since our Only decently sized jungle is half outside of it rn and I realized we have fuckloads of storage space) before we port to 1.18 later this year.

worldgen: I have Discovered through this process that everyone has very different ideas from one another about how frequently modded biomes should appear. the default settings for traverse autumnal forests are completely batshit insane and woodsandmires biomes are fuck-off huge for absolutely no reason, whereas vanilla biomes plus spams tiny biomes one million times (and doesn't play very nicely with vanilla mob spawning for whatever reason, let alone things like the mooblooms mod...). may have to consider writing something that tweaks mob spawning at the very least for 1.18? idr how easy that is or isn't but I could probably figure it out. would also be nice if I could get SOME flowers going for 1.18! that would be very exciting! worldgen has obviously changed since 1.16.5 but I barely had it figured out anyway and that ALSO means that people have been TALKING about it a bunch on the discord as they learn which is exactly what I need to learn it myself so. it's fine

porting: I love worldedit. has worldedit ported yet? we have to wait for worldedit to port before we can port. aside from that I think it's FAIRLY safe to assume the stragglers who haven't made the jump yet will do it before I have to actually pull the trigger on packing up everyone's builds into schematics and getting us all settled in to a new world. also I need to find a good seed, which I guess I have to settle on worldgen mods for as well. it's a good thing I literally can't use seedhunt for this, bc they are currently fully useless as far as 1.18 goes for people who aren't speedrunners.

the other thing is that I will have to look into permissions management and logging again since it was impossible to find anything decent for 1.17.1 (since presumably the Good Ones were waiting for 1.18...????? idk. luckperms come back). VERY EXCITED to get back on my curseforge/modrinth diving. good pastime. I will probably also want to install a hotkey manager of some kind and ship the pack with some Nice and nicely documented custom hotkey settings since EVERY MOD wants to use V to get to the CONFIGS for whatever fucking reason, despite the fact that modmenu. exists. could you all get over yourselves for a second. autofish I am LOOKING at you.

also shift+right click is massively overused and I can't tell if it's because it's impossible to make your little guy interact with entities without An Click or because everyone has mc gameplay poisoning and forgot that the keyboard exists. if I have two mods installed that are supposed to do something when you shift+rclick a mob, one of them is going to lose and I'm going to be mad. how do modpack makers cope with this horseshit normally. personally I'm coping by becoming the joker. anyway in the former case I think the solution is to prioritize One for empty-hand / default behavior and add cheap custom tools for all the other ones.

that said I have learned a LOT about modpacks as a concept & an art!! and about general server admin stuff... learned about dynmap... learned about editing .dat files. learned about accidentally nuking all modded content in a certain radius centered on worldspawn bc your server host's documentation doesn't mention that it resets the server jar to default when you update and you had to fix it by trial and error bc you had to update bc log4j happened. hey now that I'm typing that out: is there a way to STOP the server from preparing spawn until you give it the OK or something??? for debug??? it would save me a lot of time mounting backups after I Witness fabric getting confused and letting the world load in anyway like an asshole. TO RESEARCH, I GUESS. also I'm good at datapacks now (lying) (spent an hour on NYE struggling to make a "silk touch works on budding amethyst" pack work before realizing that the problem was that the file was named budding-amethyst instead of budding_amethyst) (idiot) (earning her Missing Curly Brace stripes every day) (proud)

[thestarseersystem]

Ah. I was totally off base on what this was about. Sorry. I personally don't mind syscourse neutral people, so there's no worries about me on that. Also, I felt on this applying to multiple things as well, hence why I was unsure.

This exact thing is what actually turned me from syscourse neutral to anti-endo. I felt I had to live my life on a pedestal, and if I wasn't perfect, I was going to be pushed off into a category and everyone would see me as the bad guy. I split a persecutor because of the trauma that piled up over this discourse. And she was so angry at the world, and at the people who made this an argument in the first place. Our views shifted because of her. She holds a lot of our trauma about online discourse and feeling like you can't please everyone.

That's why I'm more so a system anarchist, now, people can't tell us what to do or how to live our life. Its our choice and our decision and our views. I implore anyone else to take that term for themselves and decide that other people can't force you to do anything. You are allowed to be free from other people's labels. Even if my own views happen to be that I hate origin labels and the term "plurality", its not my job to tell you how to exist.

I think that people just need to learn that systemhood, like everything else, is not a monolith. We should all have our space in the community, but they deserve to be separate spaces. If we try to take over and destroy someone else's space, of course there will be conflict.

And I have conflicting thoughts all the time, especially about stuff like this, its super obvious that one system will be a different person from the next system. As much as I understand where people are coming from, in terms of unifying all systems, it's just unrealistic that we can all come to an agreement. Especially since that we all have our internal conflicts, I bet most systems can't come to a complete agreement a lot of the time. Compromise? maybe. Unanimous agreement? definitely not.

We are definitely all scared and all traumatized. But just like how some traumatized people are hypersexual and some are sex repulsed, there will be some opposing experiences. Nothing is ever going to change that.

We might as well just take care of ourselves and log off. I don't think some of these are as bad as systematic ableism, as a lot of singlets don't think systems even exist, let alone how they were created. So we might as well just take a step back from it all and say fuck it. Who cares what type of system you are. Some of our goals are healing, some of our goals are acceptance. But we can continue to live life free, knowing that people can't control you, regardless of your actions.

Like if I name alters names people don't like, or I use terms for them that people aren't okay with, or I say things about myself that people find bad, or I express unpalatable symptoms like homicidal thoughts, or i discuss younger alters experiencing hypersexuality, etc. Like who cares, I still exist outside of the internet, I exist outside of people's perceptions and moral boundaries and rules. I exist regardless of how people treat things. And I implore everyone to adopt that ideology towards themselves and others.

You are right, people are stupid and frustrating. But also, I disagree with some things. It's okay to say fuck it and do whatever you want. We should all be more civil towards each other. That's why I block A LOT of people so they don't have the misfortune of seeing things that they're not okay with. Within this community, me blocking people that I disagree with is my way of saying "I don't like your opinion, and you probably don't like mine, how about we just never interact again." And that degree of separation is okay.

We do have responsibilities as a community, and we also have responsibilities about ourselves, so we don't just experience grave consequences. I think people being worried about how systems are being shown is important, but I think we gotta worry about ourselves a lil more. So I agree, lets be more wise, without dragging ourselves through the mud.

If you start to think that everyone is out there to harm you and / or community you are in - you are forcing yourself into harmful rhetoric and no one is harming you but Yourself.