boredstarboy

[boredstarboy]

genuine question, do you think callout posts are inherently evil? like if someone's doing some weird shit and hiding it i think people would want to be warned about that at least. just try to discourage harassment as much as possible

The existence of a callout posts means that the targeted person will be harassed if enough people see it. There is no amount of "don't harass anyone mentioned in this doc/video" disclaimers that will prevent that. The post is now potentially a permanent record that anyone can cite for years into the future. You are now at the whims of unknown strangers to be banned from communities, kicked out of creative projects, or be blocked by friends, at any time with no warning. I would consider this to be harassment, but to people who don't know about how these things usually go down they would be seen as righteous whistle blowers.

No matter what you actually did, if your awkward interaction with someone was too sexual, or if you stated a shitty opinion about a complex topic, or if you misjudged someone's boundaries, or if you engaged with kink in a way that made someone outside the scene uncomfortable, you are now a predator. I have seen firsthand the game of telephone starting from "this person did/said something sexualized on an online platform where teenagers could have been present," to "acted creepy around teenagers," to "regularly sexually assaulted children," to "pedophile".

Callout posts do not actually stop the person from "doing weird shit". It depends on what you mean by "weird shit", but if you mean "secretly draws/engages with Bad Porn", which is what a lot of callout posts are about, I implore you to recognize that it is truly not your business to know every private action someone takes just because you follow them on social media. This applies to awkward interactions people have in private too. Sometimes it's patterns of abuse, but a lot of the time it's interpersonal drama that is not anyone else's business.

If by "weird shit" you mean that someone has demonstrated ongoing patterns of real emotional/financial/sexual/etc abuse, and it's something that cannot be handled by any other means (either privately or with legal action if relevant), then in those cases a callout post can potentially do more good than harm if it reaches the people that need to know about it.

The level of long-term mental anguish that a target can go through is absolutely no fucking joke. A callout post has the potential to be a gun to someone's head, especially if they're socially/mentally/physically disadvantaged to begin with, which conveniently describes the most likely people to be targeted with high profile callout posts. [This is because: 1.) Our communities are wayy more likely to self-police than the rest of the internet and 2.) there are groups such as kiwifarms that love when a trans girl does something they can suicide bait her with and they also love it when we infight, isolate, and attack each other.]

I don't think callout posts are inherently evil, but they do nothing to make the target not continue their unwanted behavior. The only good function a callout post can serve is to warn potential future victims. If there are no victims, no behavior that will DIRECTLY lead to someone being victimized, no scam being uncovered, no patterns of abuse being shared, then the only victim is the target of the callout post. Everyone else involved is just gawking at gossip and/or contributing to suicidal levels of anxiety to a stranger.

[boredstarboy]

1X07 "Sorbet"

"I take his heart in my hand."

#hannibal #will graham

[boredstarboy]

[boredstarboy]

Hannibal is essentially a contemporary vampire; but without the overt physical manifestation of a separation from humanity

#i always tell people that the reason vampirism is ever considered horror is because its pseudo-cannibalism #and im right #same thing applies here #hannibal

[boredstarboy]

Imagine having Murder Family in this day and age where Abigail starts using internet slang and casually telling Will that Hannibal is serving cunt today and he’s just like “gross, let’s order pizza”

#hannibal

[boredstarboy]

200 days into the genocide of Gaza. Here are some numbers:

[boredstarboy]

happy homestuck day, you filthy animals

#Homestuck

[boredstarboy]

we haven't had a true tumblr sexyman in years. Sans was like the last one. I can still see his weird glowing goo ghost dick when I close my eyes. that kind of absolute derangement just doesn't happen anymore. some people just liking Astarion and Senshi a lot is not the same. a true tumblr sexyman makes this website absolutely unusable

[boredstarboy]

my annoyance began when ppl started thinking of the scp foundation as something that mainly held Creatures instead of things like 'drinking fountain that makes anyone who touches its water unable to comprehend death'

[boredstarboy]

I am not spiralling, I am just following a suspiciously curved path

[boredstarboy]

Look at this goofy fucker pretending to be a writer. GET OUTTA HERE

[boredstarboy]

I noticed you haven’t been online in 10 hours, is therapy finally working?

this websites hate mail game is ruthless

#i also assumed it was a joke

[boredstarboy]

forum > help

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[boredstarboy]

#hannibal #will graham

[boredstarboy]

I have to confess I'm always a bit fascinated when I see an artist posting huge quantities of Homestuck fanart, then I creep their archive and it turns out they only got into it, like, last month. It's interesting to see how people interpret the various characters' designs without the context of fifteen years worth of fandom discourse bullshit constraining them. A decade ago that blonde Vriska would have gotten them hounded off the Internet, and now it's just a thing you can do!

#homestuck

[boredstarboy]

This is part of my ongoing Discworld jacket embroidery project. Of course Great A'Tuin has to be on there. And of course it has to be the biggest one of them all.

I’m going to put the finished product in my masterpost, but I’m so proud of the thing that I have to put it in an extra post beforehand. Enjoy!

#OH MY GOD

[boredstarboy]

i'm a little late for 4/13 but i still HAD to pay my yearly respect to my roots

#terezi pyrope #homestuck