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when we talk about killing Cringe Culture that includes harmless Weird Fetishes too. if you rag on people who are into like feet or vore or inflation or whatever and make a whole big thing of yelling about how cursed it is thats super lame of you and i wish you the courage to Grow Up

FAQ for people who will choose to misinterpret this post:

no, this is not about pedophilia or whatever awful thing you want to accuse me of supporting

no, i am not saying you have to enjoy these things. i am saying we shouldnt shame other people for enjoying them

no, i am not saying its ok for people to deliberately expose or involve others in their sexual interests without consent

yes, i am calling you a big baby if you make a show of acting like weird fetishes are soooo cursed bleach my eyes kill it with fire etc. googoogaga Grow Up

if you are annoying on this post im blocking you

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Finally getting around to updating my art backlog on here 🥳 starting with the Ultimate Charoite Doodle Post

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Charoite! Neighborhood menace and naughtiest troublemaker on the block ⚾️

My design idea for a desertduo fusion for @chrisrin ‘s au! ^^

#gemcyt #charoite!!!!! #love this lil guy

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Buttercup Calcite Doodles! The buttercup trio fusion! Between him, charo, and aba, buttercup definitely went through the most design changes ^^;

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Abalone! The favorite son! My bad boys fusion! Notice how theres a lot less doodles figuring out his design because he was perfect from the get go 🥰

I did end up tweaking his colors a smidge cause it came to me attention he looked like gillion tidestrider lmao

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Buttercup Calcite character card 🥳

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@cherrifire ‘s red diamond fusion 👉👈

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I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

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not to Discourse but I’m a cis man and my partner is an afab enby and if you call us a “straight couple” I will personally come to your house tie you to a chair and make you listen to a podcast about gender identity on endless repeat

#this problem is also because the reading comprehension on this site is piss poor #you can just say respect afab nb people and someone would take it as you disrespecting amab nb people #anyway #respect afab nb people

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There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.  

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Sometimes shipping something does mean that.  Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.”  Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B.  Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.”  And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes. 

#this tbh #i dont like black and white slash purist views on ships existing in the present day #dont even talk to me about ship wars slash which ship is the best/only right one #:/

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its not funny but i do think about it a lot

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here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)

The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"

This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."

Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.

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a different side of gemcyt!

#gemcyt #!!!!!!

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What would fusion be without the pre-fuse dances?

#gemcyt #i love this au

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I hope mobile ad designers who make the X too small to hit so people accidentally open the app store are sleeping well tonight, because you have a long eternity ahead of you in hell

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amptp’s bluffing by the way