#That’s like… the only word I censor

[alchemicalwerewolf]

*as I report a s*xual bot* the only lust I feel is bloodlust.

#That’s like… the only word I censor #And only sometimes #These stupid bots! #Agh! #getting annoying #They’ve slowed down #At least for me #but for how long? #Asexual #acespec mafia

[mashmouths]

post limit was created to silence women

#'mad that you hit post limit again aren't you?' yes i am in fact #felix in despair voice I CAN'T SPEAK #only tenuously a woman and i have never once shut up but i am being silenced and i tire #i don't say words out loud in my real life please can i babble into the void in peace....... #tch whatever it's not like i care. looks wetly over my shoulder at you as i slowly walk away. #a post #this post plays in my head verbatim every time i hit post limit btw it's finally time to let her fly free #like i have almost 1000 drafts i self-censor quite a bit i just have more to say.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i hope this doesn't sound like a silly or weird thing to send you, but i'm autistic and have long thought of nico and a handful of other riordanverse characters as autistic and i love your posts about why nico in particular seems intentionally autistic-coded. but i've been thinking, if rick did intend for any of his characters to be autistic, why wouldn't he say so outside of the text at least? i can't think of a good reason why not, when he goes out of his way to be explicit about so many other characters' various marginalized identities and has confirmed things like reyna being asexual outside of the original text. so it gives me this nagging sort of doubt that maybe rick just made nico come off as so extremely autistic coded by accident, somehow. if it wasn't an accident i do kind of wish he'd say so because there's next to zero explicitly stated autistic representation in, like, any media so it'd be nice to have here even if not strictly necessary. either way though, like i said, i love your posts and i agree with you 100% about autistic nico! some others i like to think are autistic are annabeth and leo.

(Most of this is gonna be kind of a tangential ramble to your point and i apologize in advance just bear with me)

This actually touches upon something I've been meaning to do a write-up on recently, which is: depending on the coding, that is our explicit statement. In most coding, actually, that's kind of the point. (Also something something Death of the Author.)

You may have noticed a recent trend across media of characters saying things directly rather than expressing them in a natural way, and often this includes incredibly stilted dialogue of characters explaining things in very politically correct, wikipedia-esque descriptions and terminology that make absolutely no sense for the characters' personalities or mannerisms. This is born out of the idea that if something is not stated in explicit terms, no amount of evidence below an outright direct exact statement will ever count - if two characters of the same gender have an explicit kiss and wedding on-screen, it doesn't matter because they never said the word "gay," etc etc.

In PJO, prior to more recent books, we get plenty of examples of characters explaining parts of their identities without direct statements. Percy never needs to say in outright terms that he has PTSD from Gabe - and it doesn't make sense that he would! He's 12! He's never been diagnosed for that. He probably doesn't even know what PTSD is really. But we, the audience, know without a doubt he has PTSD, because it is clearly expressed to us. That is coding. Tyson is coded as having down syndrome. Nico is coded as being autistic. It doesn't make sense for Nico to turn to the camera and explain that he's autistic and what that means, because he definitely never got diagnosed for it and probably doesn't know what that means cause the diagnosis literally did not exist when he was growing up - and heck, autism terminology was still kind of getting sorted out back in 2007 when TTC was published, so it's unlikely we could have feasibly gotten any exact terminology wink-wink-nudge-nudges short of something like how Percy outright mentions other students called Tyson the r-slur in Sea of Monsters. And in fact we see that same exact style of coding with Nico later on in the series. Nico never turns to the camera and says word-for-word "I am gay, I am mlm, here's me wearing my exact pride flags" (until TOA/TSATS, which... did the exact thing i mentioned about characters speaking like theyre trying to get a good grade in therapy, or giving a powerpoint presentation). But it is never unclear that HoO is telling us outright that Nico is gay. It's not just hinted at. It's there, in your face. But entirely because no one ever outright says "gay" specifically it's technically still only coding. We know he's gay, we know the characters have trauma/ptsd, etc etc. We don't need it spelled out - that's just kind of condescending. It's like if you said describing a character with "eyes like moss" means they were "green-eye coded."

Nico being autistic-coded isn't hidden. It's not a secret. It's very overt. If you know what autism looks like, well, yeah, there he is. Even if you only know very vague 2007 media presentation of autism, Nico in TTC is easily recognizable enough as autistic because that's the point. Tyson is easily recognizable as being coded as having down syndrome and it's very clearly very intentional! It's just never spoon-fed in exact terms to the reader because it's not necessary! You've already been told the information necessary to tell you what is up with this character, so just plainly going "oh they're [x] in exact terms" is very much telling-not-showing and feels redundant. And while there are places for that kind of thing, most of the time it's very unnecessary. Sometimes coding is subtle, sometimes it's obvious, and yeah there are times where writers code characters unintentionally, but the textual evidence is there, and that's the whole point.

And that's what Death of the Author is about - it doesn't matter what the author intended at the end of the day, because if it's in the text it's in the text. You can look at author intent to try and figure out what that text means, but the text is the text. A Separate Peace is a very classic example - author John Knowles denies there being homosexual subtext, and meanwhile one of the protagonists living in 1942 puts on a pink shirt while saying he doesn't mind of people think of him as gay. What the author says after the fact doesn't matter - if it's there, it's there. So Rick saying anything outside of the books is completely irrelevant. And Rick talks about this a lot - he actively tells people that his statements outside of the books are just his own thoughts, but what's in the books is what's in the books, and if the text supports it then that's all the evidence you need.

Nico specifically is a case where yeah, he's clearly autistic-coded. It's very obvious and very obviously intentional when he's younger, and as the books progress it remains a background trait of his but is still notable (except for when it gets forgotten in TOA/TSATS like everything else, including the adhd/dyslexia, but i digress). It's a clear pattern within the first few books that Rick is intentionally including. It doesn't make sense, especially for the year the book was published, for the reader to be directly told in explicit terminology that Nico is autistic, because the reader is already being told that Nico is autistic.

And yeah, Rick doesn't mention Nico being autistic-coded outside of the text, but he also doesn't mention Tyson being coded as having down syndrome. He also said one time that Percy doesn't have PTSD at all, which is very incorrect starting from book 1. Again, Death of the Author. Whatever Rick says outside of the books does not matter, because he already said it in the books. And there's plenty of other stuff in the books that Rick doesn't touch upon, particularly relating to character identity - did you know Leo is Native? Sammy mentions that the Valdez family is Native in Son of Neptune but we don't get any specifics and then it's like never brought up again anywhere. That happens all the time in the series - and outside of the series - Rick can't possibly address every single point to confirm/deny everything from the books. That's what analysis is for! And that's why my blog exists 👍

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #autistic nico #analysis #ask #Anonymous #long post // #tone indicator just to be sure cause i know i used a lot of italics: this is all non-agressive/not mad i prommy #im just very passionate about this topic (coding & fandom concepts surrounding ''canon'' + death of the author) #also controversial opinion cause i know some people have talked about wanting the use of the r-slur in SoM censored #but i think it should stay because. well. yeah no that was still very commonly used in 2006 #trust me i heard it a lot. i was there. in fact it was commonly used after that point. for awhile. #it wasnt until like a bit into the 2010s iirc that campaigns started to go ''hey maybe. dont use that word.'' #like that was RECENT #and yeah! these books are not old! TLT is only just coming up on 20 years. thats not super old for a book! #and yeah! that term was considered a-okay terminology to be used in a middle grade book in 2006! which is startling to think now! #but that's also why it's important to not erase that #because otherwise you forget that up until very recently that word was considered Perfectly Acceptable #and in SoM it's even specifically acknowledged to be used in a hurtful way! Percy is actively condemning it! #like. dont put it in the show or whatever. obviously. replace it with a different indication/coding to explain Tyson's struggles #not that i think Disney would put the r-slur in their show. but like. dont erase it from the book??? from 2006?????? #i am frightened to see how the show will handle tyson though. its not gonna go well i can feel it in my bones #anyways man i should post that excerpt from A Separate Peace though #just cause that scene has lived in my brain rent-free for years

[homestuckconfession]

the concept of the slur replacement project feels a bit like historical revisionism? especially considering how much i see people recommend it as the recommended way of reading homestuck. it's sanitizing down the more unpalatable bits of homestuck to make it seem more friendly and wholesome (which seems incredibly common among homestuck fans in general, especially among those who like to pretend the epilogues never happened, which is a whole other discussion i won't get into rn), and that just feels weird. not to mention the execution of it is very poor in general. the "future arachnids grip" joke is funny actually, and the change they made to make it "later arachnids grip" not only makes it a weaker joke (as it was initially a play on how the concept of gayness isn't really a thing to trolls), but also introduces an inconsistency in the writing, as it only does this change for vriska, drawing more attention to it. there's also a fucking... random bit where iirc for one line they replace a mention of bill cosby with... gnomeo and juliet? i think? which is not only a baffling decision that they don't, but is technically introducing an anachronism because that movie didn't come out until 2011. the writing they used to replace things in general just doesn't feel very homestuck-y, and it always feels clunky and awkward.

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#homestuck #homestuck confession #you're right and you should say it #I like the fish puns they use to replace the slurs meenah says bc they're good puns but like #the characters gradually saying slurs less is part of their character development and removing the slurs therefore changes the characters #and late in the comic only a few characters still say them and it's part of their characterization #it's meant to tell you something about them specifically #censoring that meenah and cronus and caliborn still say slurs therefore deletes a major part of the story #was the use of slurs in the first place a good choice? maybe not #but they are ultimately just words that offend some people #I personally am not offended by fag because I am one #and hussie MADE IT PART OF THE STORY one he realized it wasn't really okay #which was a great choice honestly #he did that kind of thing a lot #removing it is like changing the beforans to all be 13 to remove the meenvris ickyness #which similarly originated as a mistake that was later worked into the story #mod commentary

[mythtiide]

waiter! waiter! more falkler please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#signalis #signalis falke #signalis adler #the censored thing was supposed to be a mini comic that i wanted to make . though i completely ran outta steam so i only got like 2 panels- #-done #it was based off of a funny ss i saw once but its more risquè so i dunno if ill ever say what it was spesifically #<- by the way #ive been loving using the word risqué latey . such a fun word i think #myth.sketches

[gurorori]

haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

#'ohh i saw white people still go out to rally for ukraine' yeah have you considered they are ukrainian or have ukrainian loved ones or uh #simply have humanity in their heart to care about several humanitarian tragedies in the world? #this is both aimed at a post i saw on here and at SEVERAL. MANY. twitterians with a thousand palestine flags all over their accounts spewing #misinformation hate and sometimes straight up russian propaganda tactics because they're this fucking insane #i don't care about sounding nice anymore by the way. i know my heart lies in the right place and i have the capacity to care about more than #one ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples #removed incidents of bad actors having a ukrainian flag on their backpack doing hateful shit does not somehow okay dismissing a genocide you #so vehemently claim to oppose. they are not ukrainians who are getting bombed on the daily for years #i saw a very lovely 🍉🕊️ lady denying holodomor and using literal russian talking points while patting herself on the back for being such #a good person. i saw one of the most popular leftie accs on twitter be actively anti-ukraine and using slurs. luckily we mass reported them #and they're gone #i'm no longer being careful with my words because i don't want to be misconstrued. i know my values go beyond twitter and tumblr #if i catch you in any way undermining the genocide of ukrainians or only bringing it up to point fingers and bitch i am blocking you forever #don't care how far this post might go cuz of ppls questionable use of the search function. and i didn't care to censor anything #like. masks off. just block me if this is your rhetoric

[revenant-dumpster-fire]

One of my friends got a warning from EA for their name being "Shit Grass, Eat Ass". (I had the duo name "Skate Fast, Smoke Grass" which was apparently fine.)

Either they managed to kill a developer or someone reported them specifically, because I have seen astronomically worse names in the kill feed on a regular basis, and personally I love the things people come up with.

Legitimately I don't even know why they care when the ESRB reliquinshes the company of all liability the moment the player goes online. It's not like there's a slur in there or anything. Why can't people be silly?

All this to say,

God forbid Apex Legends players do anything and have fun with it.

Anyways don't think to hard about this post, I just found humor in it.

#apex legends #ea #smoke grass #eat ass #skate fast #godspeed you magnificent bastards #the continued sanitization of the internet bothers me as an old fuck #like it's coming for people's silly senses of humor #this game is clearly for teens and adults it's not like they haven't heard these words before #legitimately it's probably only a matter of time before my actual moniker gets nerfed #my actual moniker is a reference to my multiple near death experiences and it means a lot to me #but someone could misinterpret it to mean something far worse but also far more rediculous #like damn #when I was a baby I could put my cousin's headset on when he opened up COD and heard words I couldn't even look up at my school #it's weird that in a game about killing for sport we are expected not to curse or partake in a little bit of mud slinging #like sure don't open a can of slur juice but my goodness can't we make a Your Mom joke without being censored? #oh yeah Apex censors Your Mom #but not Your Dad #kinda rude to moms that only dads get to have all the fun ngl

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I hate how now every time a discourse is being had about classic Disney movies, the godawful remakes (or retellings) have to be included in the conversation. It's no longer just the animated movie that is adressed. You can't discuss Aladdin without its 2019 remake, Sleeping Beauty without its 2014 remake, The Little Mermaid without its 2023 remake, Beauty and the Beast without its 2017 remake, The Lion King without its 2019 remake, Mulan without its 2020 remake, etc, etc, etc. I hate how they will be forever attached to these classic movies. It actually pisses me off to no avail.

#anti disney #disney remakes #txt #“akshually this version did a lot of things better such as emphasizing the agency of these heroines” bro that was already in the original #movie and there was more to them anydamnways #the only remakes that are truly worth it are the cinderella one and the jungle book one #the rest are hot garbage that missed the point of the story and added unnecessary changes to the animated classics because they thought they #needed to be “improved”. fuck you fuck you fuck you FUCK YOU #i'm so mad that i didn't even censor that damn word #live-action adaptations of animated works are destroying what made the original work so special #they rarely get it right #call me a pissbaby and that i'm too attached to nostalgia. idc #hollywood doesn't give a damn about the medium of animation to this day and it shows with how they treat animated works #they give these adaptations and remakes/retellings that miss the entire point of the original work and unfortunately some people do defend #these obviously attempts at getting money out of people's nostalgia #they accuse us of being too attached to the original work because of nostalgia but they were the ones who bought into because of that lmao #and they actually liked it. you weren't THAT big of a fan then ma'am

[splodey-goat]

TBH if you're gonna censor your youtube video just use the standard bleep. You think it's less jarring or more whimsical or whatever but a slide whistle or a clip of a different word or whatever just makes me think i misheard something or there was background noise, the universality of the bleep is for a reason. Cutting the sound for the word or part of the word sounds like an audio stutter and using soundalike words is the aural equivalent of dyslexia and having to bounce between the censor methods video-to-video means they never stop sounding less obtrusive.

Also like I know you're doing it for the algorithm but like, it feels a little too cheeky either stand by your shit or just sound censored.

#obviously there's exceptions but I can only think of examples that fall in one of two categories #Caelan Conrad does a thing where they say the words real quiet and breathy with pause for emphasis which makes it clear it's like #deliberately saying how silly the youtube censorship is that they gotta try to trick auto-transcribers to be seen #Or comedies like #weird pull but Perfect Hair Forever sticks out in my mind censoring the word fuck with a soundclip of a character shouting 'EFF!!' #Which creates a new standard for the duration of the show and leaves no ambiguity that it IS a censor.

[penumbralwoods]

so has enough time passed that we can admit proship discourse is fucking stupid and inherently lacks any nuance whatsoever

#or am i gonna lose followers #sure. technically proship #in the sense that i don’t think it’s a great idea #to censor people based on the same mindset that killed and is currently killing queer people in my country and state #the mindset of forcibly removing and dogpiling on ‘degenerates’ and ‘freaks’ #maybe. just maybe. that’s a Bad Idea to perpetuate and treat like it’s only relevant to fandom spaces #ink says some words

[localrobosexual]

I know my silly little shitpost doodle complaining about spambots all over insta and tumblr has breached containment somewhat bc i’ve got a delightfully diverse amount of ppl in the tags of that post either a.) also complaining abt the spambots, b.) furries and other artists tagging it as such, c.) ppl making DOOM and pyro tf2 references, d.) fellow robotfuckers reblogging the addition I made giggling and throwing in their takes on robot fucking and what that entails, e.) ppl mortified by robotfucking at all, and last but not least, this one user who had this absolutely hilarious take that had me actually bust out laughing irl:

#words of meg #I LOST MY SHIT HELLPPPPP #I just. bruh. #i have the assume the op's only seen bayverse and not any actually good tf media bc i mean come on. have u SEEN his tits???????? #i mean sure on like a top ten list of tf characters i'd wanna fuck #he'd rank lower than someone like. soundwave. or cyclonus #BUT I WOULD STILL GLEEFULLY FUCK SHOCKWAVE ARE U KIDDING #AND ANOTHER THING I only mentioned shockwave in reference to that other popular post someone made #calling out the ppl who wanted to fuck the androids from detroit become human as fake robotfuckers #bc 'you'd either fuck shockwave or you wouldn't' #because tf ppl will know #there are WAY worse bots i could've picked #i could've said like tarn or overlord or sunder or someone fucked up like that #buddy they're all war criminals we simply do not care. now open those panels for me #naw and the fact that they censored shockwave's name is SENDING MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[minglana]

since the power went out i had to resort to listening to music on youtube (tubular in my case but whatever) and im listening to casual by chappell roan. and. "eating me out" is censored????????????????

#like hello whaaaatttt?????😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #'cuss' words i understand (kinda) but. if ur gonna censor eating (they only bleep out eat*** like that) #then censor the entire phrase i guess??????? #z xarre

[iwillthrowbricksatyou]

there are 2 roommates

"is that incest? yuck. well actually theyre only half brothers so its less yuck and more hot. btw did you watch that dog-fucking anime? its so weird who let this exist. i watched the entire thing. its not bad if you ignore the dog. you should watch it"

"you watch anime too? beware of pixiv. i heard theres anime csem on it. "

#and then theres me who is the third roommate #im not allowed to judge anything ive seen everything #the three of us are in like 3 different stages of otaku #im at the top. seen it all and im not even gonna pretend to be disgusted. yeah its there. yeah im a freak. chilling #then is roommate 1. she reads the same stuff in danmei but pretends to find it weird in anime #and then is roommate 2. shes not even talking about l*lis. shes straight up misidentifying all anime women #im definitely more vanilla that roommate 1. shes still in her denial phase tho #speaking of l*lis have you ever seen twitter people get into fights about what is a l*li? its really funny. i mean the l*licons #actually wait im also confused. is l*li a relative aesthetic or a concrete aesthetic? #like if i draw in a more cute style and i draw one girl even cuter are they all l*lis or is only that one a l*li? #wait. i shouldnt make fun of that discourse. im also ??????????? #every time i try to judge i always get put back in my place #thats how i gained 90% of my interests so just gotta stop so i can stop taking Ls #“who would ever be into this kink” me. me 2 days after saying that. SHUT UP. STOP SAYING THINGS #some words #i only censored l*li because last time i remember it was a banned tag here? #i forgor #i dont live here

[feralnumberfive]

Of course I don't swear around my kitten, I'm not some kind of monster

#I only do it because I find it really funny because he's a kitten and can't understand but I would like to note that I do also swear at him #but not like yelling or anything I want to clarify that too #in other words I mostly censor myself but I also swear at him. hope this helps and makes sense xoxo 🫶 #cats

[roamingswtor]

Been working on a ref/outfit sheet for my twi'lek smuggler, Reena! Finished the nude and Zakuulan dress versions. Now to work on her actual in-game outfit

#censored for female presenting nipnops #the dress is based on the celeb dress in cyberpunk 2077! #swtor #anyway i wanted to draw her in a cute dress first before doing her boring game accurate outfit lmao #also i hate trying to render gold i did not think it would be so difficult but it was #i do plan on c-wording an artist to draw her in the dress with arcann :3c #(not that c-word. the other one.) #my art #sw reema roamer #sw reena roamer #her name changed cuz when i originally made her in like 2015 i didnt use the name reema and now i do! #i only just decided to just change the m to a n when i remade the character to romance arcann. the og one romanced theron lol #OKAY IM DONE TAGTALKING

[h0neyfreak]

Jail should be abolished except for people who claim to be “hormone coaches” what the fuck is that. get out of my google searches. I am going to start biting people.

#mine #text post #h0ney draft dodging #pcos #and other metabolic disorders #finding any sort of reliable information about nutrition to help with this stuff is a minefield #like I know from experience that limiting sugar and upping protein helps #but my only option is scouring highly technical pubmed articles #(or at least reputable and meaningful ones) #everything else is just vague fear mongering about preservatives #or bitching about phytoestrogens and soy (I am not a plant) #I found one article that seemed decent but the writer censored the word obesity #and implied visceral fat does not actually produce hormones so like #couldn’t trust the rest of it at that point