the sentiment "if youre dissatisfied with ~representation~ in media, make youre own content" (both in the negative and "postive" way) is so fucking annoying like! i dont want to be in a position where i HAVE to make everything myself! whats worse is that there Are people out there who have these ideas and stories fleshed out and if its a book they may be able to get published or self publish, but visual media? a movie? a show? a play? like fuck man i dont doubt that someone out there has already written the black scifi epic of my dreams but maybe theyve been rejected over a dozen times and gave up. maybe they couldnt afford to self publish. maybe they couldnt find or pay for an editor. maybe no producers would back them. maybe they dont have enough connections to even know where to begin. or maybe they dont have any fucking time or energy because of work and the everpresent racism of society. who knows! but the bottom line is goddamn! i dont want to do everything "myself" because 1.) i shouldnt be guilted into thinking that its somehow my fault or my community's fault for "not caring enough" to write about ourselves and 2.) there are no doubt hundreds upon hundreds of people who did make the content they wanted to see and it didnt ever go beyond their circle bc no one in Any indutry would consider supporting it. like fuck man.
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Let me be absolutely clear -- the problems with Tumblr will keep getting worse if the disabled minority and the trans people and the people frothing at the mouth at the opportunity to yell at a transphobe, keep @’ing staff and the developers on this site, tell them to kys, because in the meanwhile the transphobes and racists and white supremacists will keep using the actual tools Tumblr provides for blocking and reporting, further poisoning the datasets used for moderation, and encouraging the idea that using the official tools does nothing to basically ensure the only statistically meaningful data available to Automattic is poisoned, poisoned all the way down, poisoned beyond usability.
Hatespeech and bias needs to be reported for it to be considered statstically significant to act on from a developer point of view. Suicide baiting and spamming any of the official means of communication will get you eliminated as a spammer, even if you’re peppering legitimate criticism within your ventpost about how you hate the new thing. You are playing the TE/RFs game.
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Hey! No need to post this or anything, but you can block people on anonymous (not technically them, but their IP address). I kinda think you should for that recent 12 year old ask... Cause that shits actually fucking sick. Sorry, but they way they were so nonchalant about it too. And talking about how they have people requesting. It actually makes me sick thinking about who that might be in this fandom - maybe even someone I really like or whatever. And then everyone finds out their 12, which is like... What. I can't imagine reading smut and then finding out it was written by someone a decade younger than me - and underage ?!!? It's very very strange that they'd be so open to sharing that. But anyways, I just wanted to let you know cause it's ultimately your decision (and I think you really handled the answers with a grace and patience of the gods lmao)
Happy new years!! 😭😭
yes!!! bahaha i'll post this anyways for ppl who don't know about this function. i have blocked ppl on anon before and have been quite familiar with it! the thing is that i already answered the asks🙈
just a tip tho for ppl who don't know abt the blocking anon function, you aren't able to undo it after you do! and you won't be able to see who it is. i think technically they can still "send in an ask" but you'll never actually receive it since tumblr does the deleting for you. so once they're blocked then they'll stay blocked forever 🤷♀️
i've actually seen a bunch of minors writing smut on this site, usually 15-16, and have seen them receive a looot of notes for their pieces (from like 4k-10k). i think there's just a lot of ppl who read on this site and don't really care who it comes from. there's a huge influx of ppl who come from tiktok too so that's also an issue bc there ppl REALLY don't care where their content comes from tbh. i personally don't do a lot of reading besides what comes from the ppl i already follow.
those underaged writers can think it's rather hypocritical when most of us have also engaged in this type of content at their ages. we can't stop them from exploring sexuality and there admittedly are safe ways to do it, even by writing. it's not going to stop them no matter how much we disapprove. i've said it before but access to the internet and esp these types of topics being discussed more on the internet means it gets pushed onto younger and younger age groups. i'm not surprised by it, but we have our own separate spaces. theirs is just not here as mine is not there, so long as boundaries are respected. i'd be pleased if they can do it safely, healthily, and among their peers if they're going to be doing it at all. even if i may not agree with it. there's no need to harass anyone over it. but respecting our boundaries is one of the biggest things overall.
again, i don't agree with it at all. mainly because this fandom can be and evidently is very toxic at times. but they can take my and many other's opinions with a grain of salt if they so wanted to. it's just that i've come to find that a majority don't and our opinions actually affect them a lot. plus it doesn't help that there is a huge issue about adults harassing these minors. if they have a space to do it then that's fine. let them have that space. if they can't come into ours then we shouldn't have the privilege of being in theirs either.
edit: i did a little more thinking about this. while yes, exploring sexuality safely is something i would rather have and do encourage for those willing and receptive to criticism especially, my discomfort also stems from the fact that minors are visualizing themselves having sex with adults, usually. i personally hate the idea of "aging up" characters and also the "reader" because it's like trying to cheat about the idea of having sex with a minor as an adult. it's disgusting. tbh adult men who are also aged well enough to be their fathers should not be the object of their thirsts. we already had an incident where someone requested and another wrote for the instance of sexualizing a minor with a grown adult. i don't exactly want to be encouraging that with minors and their experiences with smut. minors who are visualizing/writing themselves as 18 or older in the works to make it more "acceptable" in the smut piece also pretty much reiterates why we are so hard on our labels of mdni and wanting an 18+ audience. either that or it's honestly disgusting to think that in the smut piece a grown man is having sex with a 15yo.
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In From The Cold traumatized Meowdred, but also... surprisingly not really.
Because Zenos dumped himself into a small, asmathic, bones-achey body (Meowdred had a moderate sensitivity to high aetherial saturation that he needed to actively resist with a low-resource spell, which Zenos didn't know about) and used it to trek through snowfields that came up this waist. While not being able to see SHIT due to Meowdred's nearsightedness.
And Meowdred, for a glorious 2 hours, got to LARP as a perfectly able-bodied and physically fit guy with 20/20 vision to play stealth simulator, which he was good at.
It was extremely spooky and panic-inducing for the first 15 minutes when Meowdred realized he was trapped AND Zenos was going after his friends. But then he put his head between his knees for a sec and was like,,, that guy will not be able to make it there faster than me.
And then he used his perfect vision borrowed eyes to navigate by the stars because he had astrologian training that he never used because he couldn't see the constellations without glasses and he refused to wear glasses akfhdkf
Crawling away from the wreckage was real dire, but knowing what we know now that Garlemald could be a voidsent hotspot, Meowdred probably made it back in time by summoning one of his more trustworthy allies and had them drag him back to camp.
The same one that later partnered with him for reaperhood.
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today marks 7 months since I made my first ever gifset and honestly if you would have told me then that it would take up this much of my time I would have laughed in your face.
I needed a proper creative outlet again apparently lmao
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I am opening my mouth like a baby bird for the barebones offline version of the rpgsolo stuff .. excited to see :3
i hope you enjoy it when it goes up, anon!! my main issue so far is trying to figure out how tf to format the percentage tables over text on a tumblr post. i could just post screenshots of it, because as it is it formats terribly onto here, but it's critical for it to be screen-reader accessible. i might go ahead and put it in a pastebin to link along with the screenshots; i'd like to get it down in multiple formats and mirrors in case something happens to one version, i Do Not Trust hosting sites these days, but i think that's probably a good start.
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i need to vent out my frustrations here ok? just watched an excellent video abt the relatively recent influx of children being severely traumatized online and/or the internet working as a massively unhealthy coping mechanism for traumatized children. it went into great detail w/ personal accounts from kids about how children growing platforms and gaining followings massively hurts their development, especially for children who became the face of controversy after controversy. enjoyed it enough to check their channel and the next video i saw from this same month is them complaining about ''kids on tiktok faking mental illness''
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I hope the daily dracula thing leads to people writing and/or linking some analysis on the feminist points made or not made, the lucy/mina homoerotic angle that so many later adaptations end up highlighting, and interpretations specifically on mina and Lucy's povs and roles in the story (which again many adaptations seem to dive into)
Because like. When I read dracula first at age 15 sooooo much went over my head. I remember picking up on how sexist and repressed a society it sounded compared to my 2000s life, at the time without much context to even determine if for it's time it was pushing boundaries or trying to enforce them, and I picked up on the anticlimactic ending which reminded me of HG Wells war of the world's ending (but hg wells novel being a sci fi with a science twist ending I tolerated that ending much better lol). And so like SO much literary analysis and themes exploration of dracula went Right over my head at the time. It wasn't until I watched Coppulas dracula with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder that I got how critical Mina was, got some of the points I never picked up from the book, got how Helsing represents Victorian religion and expectations etc and dracula represents a difference to that and mina and Jon are certainly in the middle of that. And then it wasn't until the Japanese Dracula Musical that I really found hammered home how Much Minas pov and power in the story Affects the interpretation so greatly (and likewise Lucy's pov and power in given adaptations shapes those adaptations impressions). And so like? In retrospect now years later, i realize this novel may have been doing more than "shallow horror about obeying Victorian norms or ur evil stab stab like draculas body" that I assumed was all it was when I first read it lol.
I am very much interested in seeing more involved discussion on the things the book touches on ans delves into and what they might mean in the book and in context of its writing. And if anyone knows of any literary discussions/books that delved into it, I'd be very interested in reading them
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