#mod signal

[sysmedsaresexist]

As someone with OSDD (if I’m right) what’s the worst misinfo about DID that us endos discuss in our spaces? /genq

JCYDJFCYS I love this question, I want my mods to jump in, too, but I'm going to spice it up with the worst misinformation from both sides.

For me, Dude, the worst I've seen in endo circles... is that DID is the same thing as mediumship. This is going to seem like I'm vagueing one of two people, but it's not you two (you'll know who you are). There's actually someone from before them that gave me the worst taste for that discourse, and probably made me a lot more angry about it.

In anti circles, it's got to be that dissociation is solely trauma-based. It's the most fundamental misunderstanding that leaks into everything else

I think those are my two biggest peeves.

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Mod Quill here to say FFFFFF I HATE MISINFO. Gosh it really is in all the communities, too.

In endogenic spaces, it’s hard for me to decide, but I think it’s the idea that the ToSD is ableist because “it supports final fusion” (which is its own can of worms, which I think Mod Robo might touch on, if my guess is correct). The ToSD doesn’t even fucking mention final fusion get off it. I hear about the ToSD being ableist constantly, and genuinely, it seems like just being medical at all in any way is considered ableist…

Meanwhile, anti-endos? Good lord. The worst misinfo I see is the gatekeeping of trauma. “You can’t develop DID from XYZ” — congrats! You’re a fakeclaimer who doesn’t understand how trauma works. I pray no newly discovered systems find you.

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Mod Robo here! Oh gosh, what misinfo haven't I seen? I swear I've seen the wildest shit!

Some of the worst stuff from pro-endos was them claiming or implying that CDDs are just the "broken" versions of endogenic plurality. I've seen people claim that DID doesn't require trauma, that the DID diagnosis only exists to stigmatize endogenic plurals, and that CDD systems who use terms like "parts" or "alters" just want to dehumanize ourselves and others.

Around 2019, a pro-endo started spreading a rumor that MPD was renamed to DID in order to stigmatize plurals which is just so horribly incorrect. Multiple dissociative disorders were renamed at the same time to have the word 'dissociation' in them, and it was done by a team of researchers. The pro-endo used the previous DSM chairman's ableism to spread lies and drag innocent DID systems into discourse.

Like mod Quill said, there's been a ton of misinfo from pro-endos over ToSD (theory of structural dissociation). I've seen people claim that it's completely bunk because one of the researchers who worked on it (there were multiple) lost his medical license for abusing a patient. I've also seen pro-endos try to apply ToSD to endogenic plurality and conclude that ToSD must be bunk because it doesn't fit? It just makes no sense to me because the theory was created to explain trauma-related dissociation caused by disorders like PTSD and DID, etc... It has nothing to do with plurality.

I've also seen tooons of horrible shit from pro-endos AND anti-endos about final fusion and fused alters/systems. I've seen people say it's comparable to grooming or suicide, or that these systems are just secretly "pluralphobic" and trying to become singlets. Honestly, the hatred and misinfo I've seen people say about fused systems is some of the worst.

As for anti-endos, I've seen lots of bad misinfo too... One of the worst things is gatekeeping common CDD things based on trauma type. For example, saying that nonhuman alters are only possible in systems who experienced ritual abuse. Other common CDD things I've seen anti-endos say can only happen due to ritual abuse: gatekeeper alters, subsystems, polyfragmentation, alters with number names or color names, switching due to triggers, alters who feel loyal to their abusers, alters that other alters can front through, certain headspace stuff like checkered floor tiles, having a headspace in general, etc.

I could say more but my reply is already longer than both Dude's and Quill's combined. I'll just leave it off here!

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Mod Signal: I like this ask a lot lol. It shows genuine curiosity and a desire to improve spaces. Misinfo collects like dirt around syscourse. We all have to sweep regularly to make sure that shit gets thrown out.

On the pro-endo side, the worst I've seen is endo systems attempting to lean into the fantasy model of CDDs to support their own plurality. That model has been debunked for quite a while, and it has hurt so many goddamn people. CDDs are trauma-based, we don't have to reverse scientific progress or fakeclaim some of the first cases of recorded CDDs to support endo systems.

On the anti-endo side, my least favorite bit of misinformation is the idea that the TOSD shows how different people's trauma ranks in the trauma Olympics. The idea that someone with polyfragmented DID must have had things worse than an OSDD 1B system who must have had things worse than someone with BPD, etc. The level of dissociation required for each label in the DSM relies on so many more factors than just "who had it worse". There are biological dispositions to dissociation to take into account, there's the reminder that what's traumatic to a child isn't always considered traumatic to an adult, there's attachment styles to take into play. There is so much more to the science than "I had it worse than you and I have the diagnosis to prove it".

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Everyone is welcome to reblog and add their own. This could be a good learning opportunity for people to go, "wait, that's not true??"

#syscourse #mod dude #mod quill #mod robo #mod signal #team effort #answered asks #pro syscourse conversation #anti endo #pro endo #system safe

[justanothersyscourse]

sigh.... i told mod dude not to interact with QueerAnon 

#side note #this blog is run by two mods #one has OSDD #the other has fucking pf-DID #hi i'm the polyfragmented one #do you actually think they'd make a post about polyfragmentation with zero knowledge on the topic?? #they wouldn't do that because their name isn't QA lmao #mod signal

[sttermsofservice]

Hello dear people of the Star Trek fandom.

As you might know, several months ago this zine began work on it's second edition. To that end, we posted an interest check as a link to a Google form so we could get an accurate idea of how many people might actually purchase the zine. This is a critical step for us, because we endeavor to run this zine at a net-zero. No one makes any money off of this; not contributors, mods, editors, no one. To be frank, one of our editors spent several thousand dollars of their own money on the first edition because math is Really Hard. This was not an issue, but it's something we want to try and avoid in the future.

That interest check has been open for over a month and has had 29 responses. Honestly, we can't base our numbers off of that and we can't really continue to put in effort if it looks like the zine won't sell.

Below, we're going to put a poll in this post that will run for a week. Please reblog this post if you're in the Trek fandom and please respond. If we don't get a good number of responses on this poll, we are going to have to scrap the project and remain as a one-and-done zine.

Just so you're aware, our last zine was 151 pages and $25 for a physical copy, $15 for the merch, $7 for the PDF, and $35 for both the zine and merch (USD, not including shipping costs). We're working hard to bring those numbers down, especially the shipping costs, but we can't do our calculations without knowing who might be interested. We realize this post is long, but we wanted to be frank with you all. This project will be dead in the water if we don't know you're actually interested.

#star trek #tos #aos #star trek zine #star trek tos #star trek aos #star trek terms of service #terms of service zine #mcspirk #spones #mckirk #spirk #signal boost #mod talon

[tastesoftamriel]

Hey all, I don't normally do this but my alma mater is actively planning on axeing our beloved Anthropology and Ethnobotany department due to (surprise) gross financial mismanagement!

I did my BA and MA at the University of Kent and learned so much under some amazing anthropologists. Over the course of four years, my education became a lens through which I can critically analyse the world and for this I am so grateful.

So please, please, sign this petition and/or pass it around. We need to demonstrate to the the University of Kent and other institutions with similar ideas that the Arts are equally as important as Business or Law. Universities should not be about profit, but education!

#Not tes #Mod post #Anthropology #Arts #university #Boost #Signal boost #Petition

[tiktoks-we-like]

Hey peeps!!!

can you guys boost this for my sisters dog, donations appreciated but if unable spreading the word helps a lot!

Her weird franken dog means the world to her so every little bit helps.

#mod pastel #gofundme #boost #signal boost #dogs #pets #animals #dog #gfm #pug #pugs

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Fully Set-Up Johnlock Discord Server up for Adoption

@theshopislocal said:

Hiya :). I had a question for you, [...] Around this time last year, I got back into Sherlock fandom (series four kinda killed my interest for a long time, but I got recced a Sherlock fic that got me back into it). Since I left Sherlock fandom, I’d gotten into others (Spn, Harry Potter, etc), and joined a couple of discord servers that were super fun and very helpful.

So I started looking round for a Johnlock discord server, and found basically nothing. The ones that existed weren’t very well organized, or weren’t maintained well, etc.

So I put together a server myself. Set everything up, even coded a Mrs Hudson bot to help out around the place. A couple people I knew from other servers joined, and we had a nice time for about a week or so, before I realized that I’d expended all of my gumption on the making of the server.

Turns out that, while I’m good at the technical side of things, I’m not really mod material.

So I’ve got a kitted out server, with custom bots and emojis and a broad range of channels, and, not to pat myself on the back, but it’s a pretty nice server—and I have no idea what to do with it.

I was hoping you might know of someone who is still active enough/interested in the fandom to adopt the server from me? Someone who would actually advertise and get people to join? Someone interested in doing the mod stuff that it turns out I’m terrible at? I’d be happy to stay on as tech support, and the Mrs Hudson bot runs on a dedicated server that only costs me $2 a month, so I’m happy to maintain her as well.

You seem like someone in the know in the current fandom, so I thought I’d ask. If you can think of anyone or you want an invite link to the server, let me know. Although, fair warning, the server has very few members and is currently very quiet :/.

[...] The Snape/Harry server I’m in has all these events and fun stuff and I’m just.. not really able to do all that, but I feel like the Johnlock fandom deserves a nice community server like that, if that makes any sense?

Thanks for your time.

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Hi Lovely!!

First off, sorry again for putting this aside for so long... I haven't been having the best couple weeks, LOL.

Secondly, as we discussed, I would LOVE to have my own discord server, but here's the thing: I am Lazy™, and I just don't have the energy to run one full time and ensure Mods and stuff are sorted out, especially since I do have a full-time job on top of very little free time and running this blog, LOL. I'm not gonna lie, I am a lazy bitch, hahaha.

AND as I mentioned, I'm happy to put the callout for anyone interested in taking over a Discord server :) From what I see so far, you put SO MUCH work into the server, and it's very very nice!! I truly hope that it gets picked up by someone, I'd be sad to see your hard work put aside.

If anyone is interested, please contact @theshopislocal and they can provide you with more details! 💜🖤

Please reblog if you can to put more eyes on this :) As I said, it's a BEAUTIFUL server, and I would love for someone to be able to take over moderation duties from Lovely!

#steph replies #discord #signal boost #johnlock discord #help steph find mods

[wangxianficrecs]

WangxianFicRecs - Summer Recs

Summer Recs

~*~

Hello, everyone! I hope you're doing alright!

I will be on vacation soon and I have prepared enough recs that daily posting will continue as always. Since I will be away, I decided to skip June's WIP Rec Week, because I won't be able to add any Follower Recs or Proud Author Spotlights to the queue while I'm away. However, I can still add your recs before I leave, so take your chance now and spam me with recs!! I mean it, send me all your MDZS recs - the WangxianFicRecs inbox is empty and ready for them!

I will be away from May 24, 2024 - June 14, 2024.

You have until May, 19 to send me all your recs - don't hold back!

Love, Kay.

╱|、 (˚ˎ 。7 |、˜〵 じしˍ,)ノ

#wangxian fic rec #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #chenqingling #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #gmodc #wangxian #signal boost #housekeeping #mod kay

[aro-culture-is]

Aro-culture is trying to understand why society created the most ridiculous rituals and signs for romance and not finding a single answer/or that makes sense.

(No seriously, all the explanations I find are dumb. Send help)

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#aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod axel #honestly all i got for u is that romance is a socially described category of emotion #and social categories are notoriously full of all sorts of cultural biases and assumptions and history that got lost to common knowledge #not to mention the human tendencies to create lil rituals that sometimes become big (ie knock on wood / slug bug) #so u end up with like. 'yeah u gotta not directly tell ppl that ur in romo with them immediately because...' #culturally it signals like. moving too fast or it's seen as embarrassing or you gotta do xyz things first #my sister advised me as a teen that in her experience and opinion - delivered like the words of a sage - if someone is bad at kissing #then they are bad at sex #(me [a kissing repulsed aro person who enjoys sex]: uhhh) #and honestly like. especially when viewed from the outside those things are fuckin wild #like... my mom came from a tiny backwoods type of place in [redacted] #and when i moved to [redacted] and one of the biggest cities in my state (though tbh not that big actually lol) #it caused all sorts of fun. she thinks it's exceptionally rude that not every single person on the street smiles and says hi #if there's not a crowd #she also gets really upset that service workers are less likely to make small talk #and both of those come from City Etiquette being more about like... not taking up ppl's time and attention and that being respectful #like smiling and saying hi to every stranger on the street is... honestly gonna be seen as a Huge Danger thing #and service workers do not have the *time* at most locations to chat with you - especially if it's busy - and it's seen as disrespectful to #both the workers and the people in line behind you to insist on it #but from her POV with Country Etiquette #this is equivalent to like. getting slapped in the face and told that you are specifically mad at her #and she gets legit anxious about it in a very 'this means i fucked up' way

[elyan-fest]

ELYAN FEST 2024 PROMPTS

Just to reiterate: There are NO content bans or minimum/maximum requirements. All dynamics/ratings/whatever are welcome but your creation MUST be Elyan-centric.

When you are ready to post your work, feel free to add it to the collection on Ao3! If you don't have an Ao3 account that's totally fine! Please post your work here on Tumblr and tag the blog directly or with the tag #ELYANFEST2024 within the first 5 tags.

You can submit more than text/audio works to the collection! Ao3 is an archive meaning it is capable of holding all types of media including art and gifs if you would still like to submit your work there.

Additionally, I would appreciate it if you could include which prompts you're filling in your post/on ao3 so I can make sure to put your work in the correct group on the masterpost.

Please remember that these prompts are merely a suggestion and not a requirement. Please use these as you see fit and if you have an idea that doesn't apply to any of them, go for it!

Prompts follow this pattern: Single Word ✯ Dialogue ✯ Setting or Trope

Day 1: Collide ✯ "Stop coming back" ✯ Historical Day 2: Embody ✯ "We were always a good team. And we could still be one." ✯ Illness/Injury Day 3: Bar ✯ "Hungry dogs are never loyal" ✯ Arranged Marriage Day 4: Peach ✯ "Alright, here's the plan" ✯ Educational Institution Day 5: Photograph ✯ "What was I supposed to do" ✯ Restaurant/Cafe Day 6: Eclipse ✯ "You here to finish me off, sweetheart?" ✯ Trapped Together Day 7: Free Day

If you have any questions please reach out! I want this event to be as fun and welcoming as possible and would hate for anyone to miss out due to a misunderstanding.

#bbc merlin #merlin fests #signal boost #bbc elyan #adetomiwa edun #knight elyan #sir elyan #elyan #merlinfic #merlinedit #merlinart #mod post #knights of the round table

[nolofinweanweek]

6 weeks to Nolofinwëan Week 2023!

It's time to start planning your fics, drabbles, arts, doodles, mood boards, playlists, fic rec lists, thoughts, musings, or whatever else you'd like to create to participate in the event.

The details for participating are here, and some prompts to get you inspired are here.

Signal boosts are most appreciated!

art in banner by @busymagpie

#mod post #nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #nolofinweans #fingolfin #fingon #elrond #turgon #aredhel #maeglin #idril #elwing #earendil #fandom event #signal boost #silm #silmarillion #lotr #tolkien

[sysmedsaresexist]

Imagine if all science worked the way some of these people seem to want psychology to

"I'm sorry sir, but after a careful check, we've discovered that the blue footed booby isn't a booby at all. We've thrown it out of the zoo."

#look at those sweet birds #theyre judging this take #mod signal #syscourse

[justanothersyscourse]

bababooey

#bababooeybandit #mod signal

[gallavichthings]

It's the last day to submit your stories to the Masquerade!!

(Well, technically you have about 36 hours, since I'm only revealing the collection tomorrow night.)

We currently have 16 sign-ups, but only 14 fics in the collection, meaning two are missing. (I'll try to track down the authors, but I'm not sure I'll be able to, so please spread the word.)

I think we won't have many more in the last hours, but there should be at least a few. I think it's not necessary to divide the fics in groups, since reading about 20 short fics in well over a month seems pretty doable. What do you people think?

I hope you're all as excited as I am!

#Gallavich #Gallavich Masquerade 2023 #Events #Mod post #Signal boost please

[tastesoftamriel]

It's Spring break over here, so I'm taking a (sort of, not really) break from PhD research to reopen my editing commissions!

I edit everything from academic writing (non-graded, we don't condone cheating here) to fanfic (NSFW included.) I am an editor for The Three Little Sisters LLC and have a couple of years of editing freelance.

Prices begin at £20/hr for students and £28/hr for everyone else. This is a BIG discount rate from my usual £60 but I really need the money right now. Payment via PayPal in British Pounds £.

Please get in touch via DMs with what you would like edited, with page/word count. Editing will take place on Google Docs with time stamps attached so you know I'm not fibbing with time.

Can't wait to read all your wonderful writing! ~Tal

#Not tes #Mod post #Boost #Signal boost #Editing #Editor #freelance #Writing

[just-antithings]

This is just a forewarning for anyone who uses the proship tags. An anti has recently purchased/created a script that floods proship blogs with up to 500 bot followers per day. I run a proship discussion blog and I am currently receiving roughly 250 a day, and have been for the last four days consecutive. I get a handful every minute or so.

Around the second day I started receiving asks such as:

Do you give up yet?

How do you like all your new followers?

Congrats on all the new follows!

Ready to die yet bitch?

They're going to close your account for this

And so forth. I've already been in contact with Tumblr and unfortunately their sole advice was 'we're aware of the bot problem, please report them, thanks :)' as if that wasn't what I was already doing.

Three other people I know who frequent the proship tag have also reported over the last four days they've been averaging around 100 new bot followers a day.

Its currently looking like my only option is to delete my blog and remake it. I genuinely can't go three minutes without at least five new bot followers.

Please be careful and please keep an eye on anyone interacting with your account.

thanks for the heads up!

#mod erin #ask #just anti things #signal boost

[smashwolfen]

So bestie informed me of this project for archiving streetpass data before the servers die! A group of folks are collecting the dumps of various streetpasses for 2DS/3DS and the WiiU in hopes of using the information given for potential revival of servers and features!

The Spotpass Archival Project!

A direct quote from their site sums it up better than I can:

"By dumping this database from your system(s), you can help various network revival services in preserving SpotPass content, ensuring that SpotPass features in these titles can be used long after Nintendo has pulled the plug on the service. Database dumps are anonymized when collected. Dumps are sent to network revival services to allow SpotPass features to be replicated later."

They have tutorials and step by step instructions to help guide those with or without custom firmware on their consoles

Any data before tomorrow, April 8th at 4:00pm, is better than none to help these guys efforts in not losing many features and services our beloved consoles have given us in the past! If your able to help by all means its fairly quick! And if you don't have any way to upload info to their cause, then the next best thing is to spread the word!

#signal boost #nintendo online #nintendo #3ds shut down #streepass #wont let me link the post normally so gotta hyper link it #it took me less than 5 mins with me having my 3ds modded so its super simple!