#there ARE people out there who blacklist that tag… this one’s for you

[densitywell]

and if i said that part of the reason a lot of ppl aren't as into C3 is because of the dearth of truly mass appeal M/M options.

#even in the best case scenario you have to deal with one of them being a non-standard body type. nonbinary. or perhaps scariest of all: old #the closest by far is dor/ym and the amount of people who have spent years singleminded on dorian coming back/ #people coming out of the woodwork now or who get this ship but not what the rest of c3 is going for #or who think it works so well but that imodna is boring and underdeveloped is. #well its interesting. #crposting #cr discourse #<- will regret that tag but im half asleep and trying to respect blacklists

[zymstarz]

how many variations of "x reader" does a man have to blacklist and users to block before tumblr stops giving him almost exclusively those posts

#zymtalk #NO DISS TO PEOPLE WHO READ THOSE BUT #okay first of all. why am i getting posts for shows i dont even know in my feed. im trying to remember the main one i get but IDK #SO I FORGOT WHAT IT IS actually emphasizing my point #second of all THEYRE SO LONG AND THEY NEVER HAVE THE 'open full post' THING MEANING YOU SCROLL PAST THE ENTIRE THING BC THEY #ARENT CUT SHORT AND :ooohhhh: #THIRD of all I DONT INTERACT WITH THESE outside of blocking users who write them sorry :( not ur fault #unless u post weirdo pr0/sh!p ones. then it IS your fault get help or die #AND I ADD A NEW VARATION EVERY LIKE. 3 POSTS I GET meaning its 95% of my blacklisted phrases and tags #AND STILL NOTHING...... #sucession. the show is called sucession #THATS LIKE THE MAIN ONE I GET WHY AUUGJUHUGHGGH #also SPECIFICALLY the BAYVERSE TMNT MOVIES? WHATS THAT ABOUT? #that one i understand the tmnt connection i guess???? but even then...... what are you doing here. get out of my house. #ITS THE ONLY TIME BLACKLISTING A TAG OR PHRASE HASNT WORKED EITHER [spongebob bwomp sound]

[shieldsurf]

out of the big 4 het/canon fairy tail pairings jerza is by Far the worst imo like. he needs to leave her alone i'm so serious and the fact that mashima wrote in a 7 year age gap for no reason is Not helping... erzas ass is NINETEEN the first time jellal makes an open pass at her i don't care that they used to be the same age it is fucking weird. gruvia is a close second though because while yes we objectify men here sir and i live to serve women juvia's creepiness is really just too much like at a certain point it starts to feel really gross and the fact that gray seems to fall for her by the end of the anime/manga just reeks of coercion. not even bringing up how genuinely awful juvia's character writing is she gets like 5 minutes of being interesting before getting instantly reduced to a creepy stan who completely revolves around gray and has less depth than the average bossfight of the week. i guess its equality that erza and mirajane are some of the best characters in this story (which is admittedly a low bar considering half of their personality is being subjected to the most voyeuristic shots possible) so mashima had to balance it out by making juvia one of the worst

#the other two pairings nalu and gajevy are honestly fine. i'm more pilled on gratsu and lucana or luli but gajevy is actually a decently #sweet redemption relationship if you forget that gajeel was genuinely the worst person alive in his villain arc before mashima decided to #fast track him to the most likable character in the show. #on top of that while gajeel and levy become a Unit pretty fast after tenrou island they do still have like #unique personalities and things about them that help them stand apart from the other. unlike juvia with gray. #nalu might not be my pairing of choice for either natsu or lucy or even my favorite big 4 pairing but it is pretty good. i really don't hav #any notes they have their own personalities and have chemistry. i think they're sweet together. they work fine. #the moral of the story is don't read or watch fairy tail it's just shittier one piece #tender age of 11 and it gave me incurable brain fungus and now i live in my wonderful little made up world where everyone in fairy tail is #gay and trans and the women aren't treated like meat half the time. this is my trash of choice and my defining character sin dont be like m #but if you're that curious read the manga the anime is insanely drawn out #and the animation is aaaawful #the only reason im watching it is as background noise for when i work #im gonna tag this as #fairy tail #for people who want to blacklist #in the future

[hauntedfalcon]

("make the au more fucked up, I dare you" you say? well, who am I but to oblige)

marion hid the scar from his father for an entire year. a physical mark can be covered up, but how do you hide the absence of a daemon? a little kid wandering around, a dead canary clutched in his hands, and suddenly there's no more birdsong following him about. he has to hide her, because even if she's not moving she's gotta be alive, because he's alive, and he knows with a seven-year-old's certainty that if the adults notice then they might get rid of her. he finds an empty matchbox for when she's a butterfly and tries to keep her in his biggest most comfortable shirt pocket when she's a bird and he tells the finnerty boys - all three of them, with their shepherd dog souls nipping at their heels - that they've made a game of seeing how long she can stay hidden for, or that she's asleep in his pocket, or that she's right over there but she's pretty small so maybe you just can't see her, and ignores the sensation, the creeping dread, that something vital inside him is rotted. (sean finds out, and so do his brothers, and he swears them all to secrecy. in the end, it's his own slip-up that gets him caught.)

jinnah watches her father cut the boy away from the dead bird, and tries to remember the feeling of insect's legs walking along the back of her hand. he kicks and screams in all the ways she didn't, watching it turn from avian to insect to avian to nothing but dust, and she wonders - only for a moment - if the empty hole in her would have finally settled into a beetle, or a spider, or a maybe even a snake, like the great python winding about her father's neck.

okay all right okay you know what

I was just thinking about how maybe in this universe, maybe the first time Sean understands that a soul isn't the same thing as a conscience

isn't necessarily all the times that his Saoirse doesn't keep him from getting into trouble, what kind of daemon would she have been if she stopped him from doing stupid stuff

but maybe it's the time that he looks up after finishing that mission for Dr. Nero, and sees Saoirse returning to him with the remnants of blue and gold Dust on her jaws, already fading away to nothing

#Candela Obscura SPOILERS for ts #is basically the same thing as tagging for childhood trauma at this point so if you don't have that blacklisted already... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #I think a prime reason I've never written a daemon AU is that naming all those extra characters would stress me out #but I couldn't resist for this one #anyway Sean looking at his own reflection in his daemon's eyes and knowing #he can't do the right thing on his own. he can't look to Saoirse for that. and Marion's not here. so... fuck. #but later? Sean and Marion reuniting after the war but Saoirse is the first one who throws herself at Marion #later still? three people in a bed with one daemon sprawled across all of them #and well before they all go to bed together Jean cuddles Sean's daemon while she reads #her fur is thick enough for all of them to bury their hands and faces if they need to #she is warm enough and her heartbeat is strong enough to make up for many kinds of absence #I had to make it a *little* happy c'mon

[starbuck]

I honestly love that you talk about Tuco and Salamancas so much. it's partly the show's fault but they are such a fucked up chain of harm family, and nobody really talks about it much aside from memes

I really appreciate you saying this!

I remember specifically after my initial whirlwind six-day Breaking Bad bingewatch, i was doing a puzzle and listening to some music and I suddenly realized that, out of everything in the show, their collective tragedy had really affected me and stuck with me and thinking “hmm, well surely watching Better Call Saul will cure me of this…” and then I felt this absolute JOLT of delight upon unexpectedly seeing Tuco at the end of the BCS pilot and I was like “ah, okay, so I’m stuck like this!”

But seriously though, it’s been rewarding! I like puzzles! I like characters who the canon does dirty or who were clearly not the writers’ primary concern! I like to think critically about the media I consume and the way I interact with it! And I also ADORE inescapable cycles of tragedy! … So this whole thing was actually fairly predictable, in hindsight, haha…

And yeah, I’d LOVE to talk more about it… I’ve got another fic that’s fully done besides a final polish edit (which is gonna take awhile and I’ve been super busy with my new job, hence no progress in the past month or so!) - so I’m excited to get that out eventually as I prefer to share my more inference-heavy meta in fic form.

#and yeah the memes are… frustrating. often. #not all of them - obviously - but a good amount of them are just uncritically rehashing the racism of the show #and that sucks #not like i’m expecting deep analysis from memes or even deep analysis for minor characters at all #but think about what you’re posting at least - y’know? #preaching to the choir here though… #i really appreciate you saying this - like i said #most of the reason i haven’t been posting about them much lately is real life busyness #but I was also definitely a BIT afraid of annoying people #so hearing you say this means a lot to me! #and definitely gives me motivation to work more on my fic and get it out for people to see! #it’s longer than the other one and i’ve worked really hard on it so it’s a long time coming! #brba #bcs #not really trying to get this into the tags but for organizational and friend blacklist reasons 😂😂 #additionally: anyone who can guess the exact song that caused me to have this realization gets uhhhhhhh… idk. a gold star. #i think it’s doable #i’m not a subtle man

[musical-chick-13]

Genuinely I absolutely, thoroughly hate the way people have gotten in regard to "You can write fic about dark subjects, but don't ever go into detail about those subjects" (if they even concede that people are "allowed" to write about anything unpleasant at all).

Because I just read an excellent one that was...very fucked-up! Actually!!! But it was also a nuanced and gripping examination of abuse--switching between the POV of the abuser (who lies to themselves about the reality of their actions, making their POV sections all the more uncomfortable for it), their victim (who lies to themselves in a different way, by refusing both to acknowledge their own victimhood or to consider the ways they later come to continue that cycle) and, eventually, an outside party (who is the only one aware of the true reality, and tries (and fails) to help, through the comparatively powerless ways that are available to them).

And this thing was not reserved in any way regarding its depiction of all of this. It didn't cut away cleanly after a vague uncomfortable comment for the reader to fill in every single blank for themselves. There were even times where the victim themselves was under the impression that they were genuinely enjoying what happened, because they convinced themselves that they had control over a situation they never had control over!!! And I know that...certain people. Would absolutely accuse this fic of "romanticizing abuse" because of these things. Which I think is an INCREDIBLY unfair assessment of it, especially since most of the time the discussion of "romanticizing [x]" is less a discussion and more, "I don't care what the author intended, this story simply shouldn't exist because this is incontrovertible proof they are a horrible person in reality, also they should die."

#do NOT ask me what the fic was if this post finds the type of people I'm complaining about they would 100% go and harass this person #I'm also thinking about that One Scene in shiki (b/c I'm thinking about shiki a lot in general during many days) in the hospital with the #experimentation. and THAT one is horrifying and grisly too but I wouldn't take it out? the most brutal act we see is by a human. #the most realistic horror is perpetrated by the guy who thinks he's In The Right that MEANS something. it's INTEGRAL to the story's themes! #and like. yeah sometimes these things CAN come across as fetishistic (or at the very least...WILDLY ineffective) or gratuitous #but that's not automatically the case? #like I really do think there's a middle ground here between 'ALL depictions of EVERYTHING are EQUALLY effective and we do not EVER need to #consider how various topics are typically presented in art (especially when it's meant for a mainstream public audience)' and #'SOME things should NEVER be talked about or if you HAVE to they can ONLY be done THIS specific way or else you should KILL YOURSELF' #like I think we can gauge a story's effectiveness and cultural context and optics on a given issue with. you know. actual nuance. #tw: abuse #tw: suicide baiting #tw: death threats #tw: abuse mention #I'm trying to cover all the tags that people might have blacklisted

[iniziare]

Question: Sae, how do you feel about fanon takes for Tifa Lockhart? Me: I hate this place, I hate it here. I want to burn it all.

... Half of my tags were eaten alive. I oppose this.

#[ out of character. ] whatever. i don't really care. i'm just gonna sit this one out. #[ that's a lie-- i'm not gonna sit this one out. i don't wanna sit stuff out anymore. ] #[ i'm angy and the world must know-- am i going back to 2016/2017 sae; who am i. ] #[ i'm shaking at fanon takes. fucking save me. ] #[ i perpetually have salt shakers lodged in the palms of my hands. ] #[ listen-- i have respect for people's portrayals. i do. ] #[ except i don't when you misread a character so badly that you forego the very basis of their entire character arc. ] #[ this throws me back to the days when i made ezio because i read that someone thought he /enjoyed/ revenge. ] #[ like no i don't respect that. i don't respect that shit because you have such an abysmal take on the very foundation-- ] #[ of a character. ] #[ i don't care what you /want/ a character to be or do. that stands /entirely separate/ from what a character actually is or will do. ] #[ i need people to hear me on this one. ] #[ /your opinion is not fact/. ] #[ and yes i know people will go 'but sae this is your opinion--' ] #[ i'm going to throw these salt shakers-- what even is my salt tag. please blacklist this. ] #[ salt. ] If there were such a thing as terminal literalism; you'd have died in childhood. #[ god who was it on my dash the other day who said this-- but i take such immense offense to... ] #[ this concept of 'everyone's take is their own opinion'-- i'm sorry. what is critically analyzing material. ] #[ am i just pulling shit out of my ass here? ] #[ am i-- who claims to be canon strict and do /nothing/ if there's no strict basis for it within canon-- ] #[ am i held in the same regard as someone who just goes 'eh-- well i don't like what canon does SO I'M GONNA BE HEADCANON-BASED'. ] #[ no?? ] #[ no. please don't. then why am i here-- why am i here? ] #[ if not to analyze the shit out of these characters-- keeping what creators might actually intend for them; based on intricacies shown... #[ within canon material? ] #[ i'm sorry-- no. i'll stand here and die on the hill where i say that not all portrayals are even. ] #[ i'll bring that damn post back out that people were supporting for a while. ] #[ about this very topic (except remove the little extremes). ] #[ i also literally was salting about this in call a while ago; i don't respect your bad takes. ] #[ i don't respect your bad takes when they actively disrespect a character? why should i respect that? ]

[dyketubbo]

But since you stated that you don't care if you bother Dream fans, why should they care not to bother you if you're posting anti-Dream stuff in the main tag? And it seems contradictory to say you're not seeking fans when you also said "so i can try to get fans to open up their goddamn eyes" I mean which is it. Just admit you main tag on purpose to be a little antagonistic. It's not a crime. And just the same as being able to block you, you can turn your anon inbox off.

whats your problem 😭 chill out shit isnt that deep. like i said i mean what i say. i still mean what i say. thats all there is to it, it seems like you just have a problem learning how to leave people alone. again, not surprising since it seems clear that youre likely a dream fan at this point

also on the anon point: it is My Blog. its Your responsibility to curate your experience and block blogs you dont like, just as ill try to block you through the other ask you sent and hope tumblr works. its really easy to not send an ask just so you can be a dick behind a gray circle with sunglasses. ive personally never done it, surely you can figure it out. tata

#i saw your other ask too like #why are you so pressed by this #im gonna just block you through the other ask you sent but like i know you dont get notifs for anons answered #so. why are you still here. thats Your problem at this point #if a dream fan goes through my tag for him and opens their eyes that is an extra benefit #but it is not the main reason i tag his name #sure for some posts its because i want a certain issue to not be brushed aside i.e. the allegations #but the main purposes are organization and blacklisting like ive stated multiple times #i have anon on because theres still people out there who dont use anon to be a dick #and i dont want to stop them from having a way to talk to me just because some people on this website dont know how to be normal #i dont have to do anything bud. youre the one whose choosing to come back to My blog #ive made my stance clear no? you dont have to try and look deeper into it to try and make me admit something that isnt true #i understand the urge to want to Win a conversation or whatever it is youre trying to do? #but im not gonna budge and if blocking you doesnt work its your job to stop engaging with me #shoos you off my porch with a broom #angel answers

[freakwiththeknifecollection]

I wanna say, I know sometimes my Chestervelle posts/memes are kinda pointed and bitter (and that is just coming from a place of frustration from being on this site and blogging about them for so long) but my goal with those posts isn't directed at anyone in particular or to hate against other ships involving Dean and Jo. I just want to create content that's validating to other Chestervelle shippers, because even though we keep in our circle and don't start things, sometimes people go out of their way to come into our spaces to belittle and invalidate our ship.

I'm not making memes and posts as a huge middle finger to people who don't ship it. I make memes and posts for other Chestervelle shippers to say that you are valid. You're not wrong and you have just as much right to take up space in this fandom as anyone else.

#em rambles #chestervelle #anyway! I've been here when it was dead and I've just been trying to revitalize it a bit and keep it active because there's NOT a lot of #content out there! I'm producing the content i wish i had scene when i was younger and it was like me and one mutual who #got into star wars and stopped talking to me making it just me and a bunch of blogs that haven't posted in years sjfdgj #it's taken me a long time to feel like I'm allowed to take up space because this fandom is so centered on one ship and i want other people #to HAVE a space to be in. to have little headcanons and cute domestic ficlets and angsty ficlets and meta posts! because that didn't used #to exist. anyway all this to say don't take it personally and i tag liberally you can blacklist if you don't like it #we can coexist and i want to coexist because there's not enough Jo content to go around but if i respect you you gotta respect me. that's #all i ask

[leowifefang]

my themed arena def team is in shambles

#ms altina why are you soo. Powercrept #like zel is barely hanging on here #zel near save and wbk far save is all well and good. sephiran is fine hes a staff unit they dont get powercrept #but ALTINA. BELOVEDDDDDDDD WHY #sorry people for fehposting on main #any fe players who have the tag feh blacklisted . this one goes out to you (even though they wont see it) #feh #bam.

[catoscloves]

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#i don't see how calling out the stupidity of racist cl stans from a show that began seven years ago #is somehow any weirder than people still arguing over the toxic relationships on shows like gossip girl or tvd #and i mean the perspective is different for me because when t100 started airing i was eight and when tvd began airing i was 2 #i get why y'all are confused about why i'm bringing up fandon drama from years ago everyone moved on from and that's because fandoms are #timeless? that's what fandoms and the internet are for #people still argue over team jess or team logan from gilmore girls #or team peeta and gale #it's not any different at all and i'm a new generation which is why i'm getting involved with arguments from seven years ago #like what does it matter? who cares? there are literally no people left to antagonize #or bother so to some extent i don't even have to use the anti d*ctor mechanic tag because no one's cared about that ship since 2016 #but i still do because that's how tagging posts works so that it can be blacklisted #and honestly if people can still make b*llarke or cl*xa gifsets even nowadays and still get so much popularity #i don't understand why it matters if i do an anti/wank shitpost #and you can still choose to block the tag so i don't understand what the problem is #or why you're even aware of my activity/posts at all and choosing to send anons about it #if the 'fandom drama' i'm bringing up from years ago doesn't matter then why are you sending anon hate? it says more about your pathetic #ass than whatever dumb vitriol you have says about me #anyways abby griffin is the worst character in the universe and d*ctor mechanic shippers who hated bellamy were obviously #either hella racist or obtuse goodbye #anti doctor mechanic #tag rant #literally none of this makes sense unless you have the context but i didn't answer the anon troll lmao

[hashtagloveloses]

reminder for the twitter, reddit and tiktok migrants: please do not censor words here. if you censor them, people’s blacklists and mute functions wont work, especially for important content warnings (this goes for twitter as well altho that function is breaking over there). spell out the whole word in the post and the tags. do not use euphemism words like unalive. the algorithm here does not work that way (there is an algorithm. not everyone uses it, everyone uses the following tab).

the only time you should censor words is when you do NOT want them to show up in the tag, like if you’re saying something unkind about a ship you should not tag it or mention directly the ship name so it does not clog the tag, or if you’re mentioning a person or community who should not get attention or clout, or whose attention you do not want to attract, then censor it (the way one might on twitter to avoid term searching)

#tumblr tips #original post

[buddyapologist]

sry for all the txt posts but i just remembered that line from stranger things s2 where hopper is leaving a note for eleven that says "i'm not mad, i'm just sorry" and im just. fucking essay in the tags

#avery.txt #also you can just blacklist that tag if i'm insufferable i will not be offended #but anyway. #lisaposting #buddy does some irrational dumb angry shit bc she's like. a teenager. and that's what teenagers do #brad cannot handle the possibility of her getting hurt by the outside world so he panics and gets mad at her and makes things worse #but then later he realizes he was lashing out bc of his fear. of course buddy is gonna act rebellious; she's a kid. #he's not mad he's just sorry. #gghghghghhhgghh just fucking punch me so hard i explode into dust #listen as a former teen (who is/was very ND but even aside that) i know how i acted/thought & i can't imagine how difficult that is on #*parents. your kid who you love rejects your affection bc it's not cool & there's all this posturing abt being grown up & rebellious agains #*ur parents. for a while ur kid will just act hostile towards u & u really can't do much abt it. at least for me it was a phase i came out #*of when i was around 20-22 when i started to really see my parents as People and start to understand their actions when i was a teenager #so when i think abt brad i think abt how not only did he have to deal w normal teen stuff he also had to deal w how much his trauma affecte #*his relationship with his daughter & how she's responded to it. he can see her patterns & behavior & how she's used to it but now she's #asking questions that he can't answer bc he's terrified of what might happen if she knows everything. so she gets mad as a result #and things just deteriorate from there until all they do is fight and she yells at him for always being drunk and he yells at her that #*without him she'd be dead and that she's too young to know everything and she yells that she wishes he wasn't her father #and he doesn't have a comeback for that one because some part of him knows he's echoing some stuff from his own father #the addiction and neglect and anger followed him no matter how much he tried to run from them and what if it follows her too. #what if he ruined her the same way his father ruined him. what if he failed to protect this girl who he thought he was safe to love. #ok im gonna stop now bc i need to SLEEP but i have a lot of really fucking complicated feelings about brad #bc i sympathize with his trauma so deeply but how he treated his kids breaks my fucking heart

[cock-holliday]

I’m trying not to be a huge dick about it but I got a “but what about us q-slurs who are traumatized by the bad words?” on my slur reclaimation post and so I’ve made a handy guide

1. You are being called the slur.

A. If it is with malice, I am sorry for this experience, however, this situation is not at all what I was talking about.

B. If it is with affection or as a joke from other LGBTs, and it makes you uncomfortable, ask them to stop. If they don’t, they’re a dick for not respecting your boundaries.

2. You are being “forced” to see other people use the word for a larger community

A. If it bothers you then you are probably not the “fag community” to which they are referring, then. In a post? Block. Blacklist words. Block tags. Walk away. Avert your eyes. You don’t vibe with “queer community” then refer to it as LGBT. You make it sound like a “someone saying Happy Holidays means I can’t say Merry Christmas anymore” situation. You don’t have to use any words you don’t vibe with. Hate to say Dyke March or Dykes on Bikes? Don’t go to the march. Avoid the bikes.

3. You are being “forced” to hear other people use the word for themselves

A. I mean this with love and respect…suck it up. If it is so deeply triggering, remove yourself. Leave the situation. Block. Blacklist words. Block tags.

In a conversation about reclaimation, I am sorry, but you only get to decide how people refer to you, no one else. If someone else’s use upsets you, YOU have to do something about it, not them. You do not, under ANY circumstances, get to ask someone not to use dyke or fag or queer or tranny for themselves. You don’t get to ask someone not to use it/its. You don’t get to tell someone to tuck or bind because it gives you second-hand dysphoria. You do not get to decide how someone else is queer.

If being around them is that debilitating, you need to take steps to insulate yourself.

On the curate your own experience website, you should know how to do just that. There are so many guides out there. And to the complaint that “now” Pride uses all these slurs which has made Pride hostile to you, I’d invite you to crack open a book, but perhaps what you find will be too upsetting

#LJsm

[caparrucia]

Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.

Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.

And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"

But like.

If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.

So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.

There is no nuance to this.

A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.

That's it.

That's all.

"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.

"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.

"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.

"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.

"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.

But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.

"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.

#shut up rie

[vaginadentatacas]

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#ok not to be one of Those People but god being the eldest in a toxic family w/ two parents who are both the youngest sibling is sooo… #like in their quest to not let the eldest be the default favorite i have been turned into a tool for the benefit of my sister #who i would legitimately die for in a fucking heartbeat bo questions asked but STILL. i resent her a little bc #shes getting everything i needed at that age and didn’t get. and my entire life has been looking out for her and now I don’t know what to do #bc theyre actually looking out for her now #i feel like eleanor the good place in that one scene with her mom . like you were capable of change i just wasn’t good enough #also. im tired of cleaning. that is all. they need to learn to clean for themselves #sorry for ranting #<- blacklist that it’s my rant tag