I'm a cis female fangirl who's been in fandom for over 20 years. I'm liberal, pro-LGBTQ, an intersectional feminist, Christian, a Virgo, and an ENTJ. I most probably have fictiophilia, but I'm figuring the other options out as I go.
In The Flesh has changed my life forever. I ship Simon/Kieren, Dean/Sam, Gambit/Rogue, Batman/Joker, Harley/Ivy, Steve/Tony, Wade/Peter, Hannibal/Will, Derek/Stiles, and tons more!
I go back and forth from reblogging loads to being AWOL for ages, so consider yourself warned! XD
And JSYK, @kowaiyoukai is my twin sis and also the best ever!
UPDATED: Antis, let’s talk about child predators, pedophiles, CP, grooming, and everything in between; Because either you really don’t understand the significance of these terms or you’re conflating them with other terms and misappropriating the definitions
I am here to discredit the myth that Problematic Ships are commonly used for grooming, or Lolicon and Shotacon. I am making this to help shippers feel secure in the fact they are not creating pedophiles or child molesters, or that the shipping makes them pedophiles or child molesters or abusers.
This is also for educational purposes, for giving the factual and scientific definitions and understandings of what Antis typically love to misuse and falsely accuse others of.
***In no way is this to discredit those who were victims of grooming that did use ships or anime genres that were not meant for children to begin with; your trauma is valid, what you went through is valid, and you deserve to feel how you feel towards something after it’s been misuse and abused by a monster.***
What is Pedophilia?
Profile of Child Predators [Pedophile vs. Child Molesters]
What is Grooming?
Grooming tactics
What is Online Grooming? [IRL grooming vs. Online grooming]
What is CP? [What makes it legally Child Porn]
What are Obscenity Laws? [Laws which Antis typically support and cite]
SIM CP Laws of America
SIM CP Laws of other countries
Critique of banning and heavily censoring genres like anime, manga, sexual violence, lolicon/shotacon, and the issue with supporting governmental and large corporation censorship
What is Lolicon/Shotacon? And why it is not child porn
Normalization and Desensitization regarding Fiction
Fiction used to cope and heal
The dangers and harm misusing serious terms like pedophilia/pedophile cause
Antis use of Slippery Slope and radical zealot/far-right conservative rhetoric
Why there is no real Moral Responsibility in fiction / Why Antis show an unhealthy amount of Moral Purity and Disgust Sensitivity, or Imaginative Resistance to fiction.
If you’d like, you can read the entire research paper in full here.
Not only is this to debunk and absolutely crush every Antis argumentative claim and accusation, but this post is also for educational purposes and for pro-shipper, Anti-antis, survivors and victims to use in their own debates/arguments, especially since I know a majority of Antis will not take the time to read my research, and so I give this out to the public for use.
Wait, what is that sound? Oh! it’s the fanfare announcing our upcoming event:
The Matt/Fog Week!!!
April 26 to May 2 2021, this blog is hosting an entire week about Matt Murdock and / or Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, as friends, partners, lovers… you pick!
You can also do a Matt-only or a Foggy-only work, just don’t ship them with someone else (details in the FAQ). All versions of Foggy Nelson & Matt Murdock are welcome: comics, TV shows, movies, Murderdock… All lengths and sizes, all languages, all types of fanworks welcome!
Each day comes with a theme:
Monday 26: Firm
Tuesday 27: Hot
Wednesday 28: Window
Thursday 29: Smart
Friday 30: Scales
Saturday 1: Family
Sunday 2: Free topic / Amnesty day if you couldn’t post before!
You can participate as much or little as you want, it’s all up to you! It can also be a new chapter of a fic, an outtake from a series, a podfic or translation… If you create art / graphic works, a description for accessibility purposes would be much appreciated.
Don’t forget you can already post in the dedicated AO3 collection even now - all newly posted works will be revealed on The Matt/Fog Week, so you can start as early as you’d like ^_^ Just @themattfogblog us and #themattfogblog and/or #themattfogweek in the first five tags :-)
More info in the FAQ (open the link in a browser!) and if you can’t find your answer, send an ask!
Adorable banner by @artbymintcookies !
[ID: on the left, two thirds of the banner are a black background with information about the event: dates, tags, etc. To the right are Matt and Foggy, seen from behind. They are turning to each other and smiling. Foggy has fluffy hair and an upturned nose. They’re framed down to their shoulders over a green background. End ID]
Some examples of prompt tips and ideas under the cut ^_^
rethinking about Doc Oc’s villainy reveal in Spiderverse again
it wasn’t just the fact that she was gender-swapped that made her reveal so surprising, but her whole vibe made her villainy reveal so much more shocking because the combination of her wrinkles, her crows feet, her soft smile, her wacky hair, her huge nerdy glasses, and her general appearance as a punk Ms Frizzle remix, it was all the more extraordinary that this well established spiderveser villain didn’t immediately look like a villain, and yet when she revealed her identity it was so obvious, completely subverting our standards for what ‘villainy’ is, so when the tentacles came out of this kind-looking lesbotic sex symbol, we all just went
they got us. the art and design team played us like a violin in a Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor and we ain’t even mad
i made this spotify playlist a few years back as kind of a soundtrack while rereading @ask-spiderpool (god i spent too long finding most songs mentioned), and thought all could enjoy! especially by the fact that it has 69 songs and the duration is 4 hours and 20 min
Random but needed to let this out. I just want so much a hellboy/DD au. Like OMG just give me this symbolic au with so many parallels and potential. Like Matt being a literal creation of Hell, taken in by Jack Murdock who refuses to see him as anything but his son. Who teaches him how to be good but is ultimately killed by their enemies. Foggy a child of one of the workers who meets Matt when the latter was sneaking out of his room and they become friends who grow up together, who eventually works at the Bureau as Matt’s sort of caretaker. Who gets pissed about how reckless Matt is when they’re on the field because of Matt’s guilt over a prophecy that says he’s destined to bring about the apocalypse. Foggy being kidnapped by the villain and have his life force slowly sucked out of him in an attempt to force Matt to kickstart the apocalypse. A choice Matt ultimately defies despite the cost of losing Foggy because of the faith he and Jack have always had in him that his destiny doesn’t matter because he is ultimately good. A direct contrast to how years later, when Matt gets fatally injured, Foggy drags him to a deity like being to beg for his help. To be told that Matt’s survival will most likely doom the world as his destiny has not been entirely avoided and Foggy will suffer the most from it but Foggy not giving a fuck and “Just save him. Please!”. Because if the comics have taught us anything, it’s that Foggy would let the world burn for Matt
i have no background knowledge for this but am sharing for anyone who might :) :) :)
As someone who does not pay attention to lyrics in songs, I am always afraid someone who does pay attention is going to come along and see my music and be like “why are you listening to songs about kicking orphans and diverting funds from public libraries?” Like, I dunno! That’s news to me! The beat was fresh and the vibes were funky! I lose all knowledge of human language when the drum goes bop bop. I am as surprised and alarmed as you are.