#going to be blocking very liberally on this one. if you don’t have anything useful to add reblog or move on
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CALIFORNIA!! if you’re planning on voting for claudia de la cruz and karina garcia this 2024, they’re going to be running under the peace and freedom party. if you want to vote for them in the primaries, you’ll have to register under the peace and freedom party before february 5. they posted a video about it on their instagram here.
in my state, you can change your party very easily online, as long as you have your address and social security number on hand. not sure if it’s the same case for california, but i would try that first
#claudia and karina#claudia and karina 2024#going to be blocking very liberally on this one. if you don’t have anything useful to add reblog or move on#2024 elections#2024 election#elections 2024#election 2024#uspol#usa#palestine#free palestine#vote socialist 2024#claudia de la cruz#karina garcia#actions
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I’ve seen a lot of lists for “hey, if you’re here from Twitter, here’s what you need to know,” so here's a bit of my own advice.
You’ll learn the culture 100x faster if you follow a few hundred blogs, reblog from them without tacking on anything, and just read what shows up on your dash. Guidelines are great and all, but having to remember a checklist is hard. So, some simple step-by-step instructions:
Personalize your blog
Get some picture besides the default as your icon. Doesn’t matter what it is, maybe a meme or something, it just can’t be a geometric shape with a few dots. Also worth noting, you technically CAN use a selfie for your icon, but people will give you weird looks. We more or less don’t do that here (99.99% of the blogs that do this are porn bots).
If you can’t decide on an icon/header, etc, then at least put “New here, haven’t figured out the site yet” or something to that effect in your bio. We block blank blogs here, because they’re usually bots.
Pick a fandom and go on a following spree
This is the easiest way to fill up your dashboard. Search whatever fandom you want, find artists in that fandom, and follow them. Rinse and repeat as many times as necessary, and your dashboard will be full of things you enjoy.
If you’re like me and are constantly refreshing looking for new content at 4am, you’ll need to follow 1000+ blogs. If you’re more interested in searching things than having your dash bring you content, keep it around 100 to 300.
Reblog things without commentary
Tumblr is a VERY different culture to Twitter, and if you’ve been on Twitter a long while, you’ll have habits around how you interact with people. The two generally do NOT mix well. I’m sure you’ve seen by now the posts like “reblogs are good, likes are worthless” or “don’t censor things in your tags” or “don’t tag like Twitter.”
Genuinely, the best way to speedrun getting used to this place is to reblog things you like without adding onto them, and learning the culture by reading the posts on your dash. Once you’re confident that you know how we do things here, go ahead and sprinkle in some tag rambles or Tumblr memes, but that adjustment time is going to be different for everybody.
Scroll through your dash
No, really. If you’re bored, take a tour through the recent posts of the people you’ve followed. You’ll find good artwork, cool stories, funny moments, and everything in between, but most importantly, you’ll start building those habits we regulars on Tumblr learned awhile ago, like which memes are a genuine response (Apollo’s dodgeball and red for color theory, currently) and how people tag things here.
Curate your dash
Everyone’s pretty much been screaming it from the top of their lungs, but there is no algorithm here. The dash you have is the one you make from the people you follow.
This means that you’re responsible for the company you keep. If you see a post you dislike, unfollow them. If someone’s going on a fandom spree that annoys you, unfollow. Point of view you don’t agree with? Unfollow. You can block for the same reasons, and block liberally.
On top of this, you can filter out terms and tags in your settings. This is a link to it on desktop; scroll down and you’ll see an entire section titled “Content you see.” On mobile, you can find it by clicking the little person icon in the bottom right, then the settings wheel in the corner of your blog. From there it’s “General settings,” then scroll down a bit to “Content you see” and click it.
And that’s the easiest way to cozy up in this place.
If you’re worried about things not to do, everyone will give you a different list, but here are a few universal faux pas:
Sending hate
Sending hate in the ask box is, unfortunately, something this site is known for, but doing so here tells everyone that can see it that you’re an obsessed child. If you do it on anon, you look even worse, even if you can technically “get away with it.” A mature Tumblr user doesn’t send hate no matter what; they block the user they dislike and move on.
If you get hate, block them. Yes, even if they’re on anon. It blocks their IP address from sending you anything on anon, forcing them to use their real username if they actually want anything to get through.
Negative commentary
Things along the lines of “I don’t even like this show, but-” are not compliments. They’re very discouraging to artists, and using them makes you look insensitive at best. If you want to convey “I don’t watch this show, but I like this art,” you can start it with “I don’t even go here, but-” instead. And if you want to criticize—don't. Genuinely, do not. It's the easiest way to get people not to like you here; if you don't have something nice to say about an art piece or fanfic, then just don't interact with it.
Censoring sensitive words
The “content you see” feature on this site does its job and it does it well! If I, a Tumblr user, dislike the mention of “cleaning supplies,” I will block it. This means any post that contains “cleaning supplies” will be filtered from my dash.
What this also means is that if you write it to get around this—for example, “clean*ng suppl*es,” “clea/ning sup/plies,” “cle@n!ng $uppl!es,” and so on, it will not be filtered, and I will have cleaning supplies on my dash despite my precautions. The only time you'll see someone doing this is if they don't want a specific user or term searched: squ/id-ink-per/sonal won't show up if I search my username, ze/lda won't show up in the "zelda" tag for that audience to see, etc.
People on this site do not get terminated/shadowbanned for specific words. The closest we have ever gotten to that was when Apple tried to block sensitive content and made it so things like #girl wouldn’t show up on Apple devices. Which was a bug that was then fixed. Believe it or not, our moderation team is actually human, so if you’re terminated, it’s not because of some search-and-destroy program built into the site.
Now, before I go, here are some quality-of-life things to help you more easily use Tumblr’s features.
Only the first five tags on a post are indexed
If I tag something
#zelda, #loz, #fave mutuals, #ask bee, #worldbuilding, #you have no idea how long i spent on this, #i’m going to bed now
then only the bolded tags are going to show up in the search results. Someone searching #i’m going to bed now won’t find my post, because it’s not in those first five tags.
You can change the color scheme of the site
You’ll have to do it once on desktop and once on mobile, because the two platforms have different color schemes. On desktop, click the little person icon in the top right, then “Change Palette.” On mobile, tap the person in the bottom right, then settings wheel, “General settings,” “Color palette.” We have a lot more than dark and light mode!
You can insert links without interrupting your text
Find whatever link you want to insert first, then highlight the word you want to turn into that link, press the “insert link” button, and paste it in. On desktop, it looks like a little infinity symbol. On mobile, it’s a little chain link icon. It lets you do cool things like this whenever you want.
Text can be colored!
On mobile, it’s really, really easy to color text—just highlight what you want and the colors will pop up automatically. On desktop, it’s trickier to do, but we have a lot more options here:
In the corner of your post, there’s a little settings wheel. Click that, then change “Rich Text” to “HTML.”
Your page is going to look like weird code. This is normal. I recommend coloring text as the LAST thing you do because of this.
Go here, type the text you want to color, and pick your colors out, then copy the HTML code at the bottom. Then go here, paste that in the box, and replace the “;” with nothing (I’m serious, nothing; not a blank space, just leave the “with this” box empty). Copy the semicolon-less code, go to the Tumblr post, and paste it in. It’s that easy!
Fun fact, you can also do this in your desktop blog description, if you want; that little box is fully HTML-configurable.
And those are my starting tips! Have fun out there!
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Is the Hamas torture video post true? I can't find anything other than an ADL post
I haven’t and I refuse to post or link to any of the videos, so I’m not really sure which “torture video post” you’re talking about, unless you mean this post or maybe this one
At any rate, I have unfortunately seen at least two such videos (mostly because of how Twitter no longer labels graphic content/violence), and it was before I was fully aware of what was actually happening in Gaza. The first video showed young women being dragged and paraded through the streets by Hamas. Some of the women were dead, and the ones who were alive had very clearly been raped and their clothes were all bloody between the legs. The other video I watched showed a family that was taken hostage, and then abruptly they murdered an 18yr old girl in front of her parents and her little sister. I “saw” other videos, but LOL, I’m ex military, but I’ve been shot at, at close range several times before (not while I was in the military), so I tend to be a bit squeamish around real/realistic depictions of death — so I let the video and audio play, but I looked away and had a friend more or less describe what was happening to me, only looking at the screen myself periodically.
Look, I wholeheartedly believe that decolonization always has and always will require violence. Things are absolutely no different with Palestine freeing themselves from Israeli oppression. I get that, okay?
SN: now feels like a particularly good time for this warning: be wary of anyone suddenly stressing “peaceful nonviolent resistance”.
I’m sorry, but rape, torture and intentionally murdering children and disabled people is kinda a bright red line for me. It’s an indelible line that I cannot cross. And I won’t defend it, I won’t excuse it, I won’t ignore it, and I won’t pretend that war crimes like rape are just the cost of doing business.
Let’s do a thought experiment: pick whatever’s most important to you, something (you think) you’re willing to die for - maybe it’s LGBTQ rights, or Black liberation, Climate Change, or whatever. You get the idea. If someone said to you, “Hey, we may be forced to kill some people to achieve our goals and gain our freedom,” maybe you’d be down with that. But if they said that rape would be required, would you still be cool with that? If they told you that killing children and the elderly was a part of the plan, could they still count on your unwavering support?
And to be super clear here: please let’s not pretend that the IDF hasn’t done some of the exact same things to Palestinian civilians that Hamas has done to Israeli civilians. Israel is currently bombing the fuck out of Palestinian hospitals, UN schools in Gaza, and turning off water on children, the sick + disabled, and the elderly. You would have to be the biggest most gullible fool on earth to believe that all of the apartment buildings that the IDF has leveled to the ground in Gaza, had zero innocent people inside them.
So I guess in the end, all I’m saying is, regardless of which side you choose to support, we must always always draw the line at war crimes.
And a friendly reminder: Hamas ≠ Palestine
Another friendly reminder: you can be pro-Palestinian without being antisemitic.
One more friendly reminder: Hamas would not be nearly as strong as it is today if Benjamin Netanyahu hadn’t repeatedly propped them up over the years, to keep the Palestinian people from becoming united.
And one final warning for anyone reading this: Elon Musk has all but eliminated the part of Twitter that used to block misinformation from being posted. Therefore you’re going to see A LOT of rightwing, anti-Palestinian + anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Please don’t fall for it. Check and double check the sources.
And as always, TERFs dni
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"Elites of both parties have a deeply vested interest in preventing mobility for working people. Homeownership and childbirth are prioritized because both serve big business. None of it is about supporting a cultural desire for family. It’s about keeping people in debt and maintaining an economic status quo. Once you’ve bought a house, once you have kids, once you have student debt, your options to leave your job, start a business, move, or become free are limited. That’s why the government will tell you — or even force you — to have a child but won’t help with childcare.
They don’t want you to be able to work from home. They don’t want you to be free from the yoke of employer-based healthcare (which is hardly a handout as policies are becoming increasingly unaffordable). No. They want you in the office, with less free time than anyone in the free world. Because when people have time to think, to innovate, to start a business of their own without fear that they’ll get sick and go bankrupt from medical bills, they are no longer under corporate control. Without the threat of student debt and medical debt, how could they get you to join the military and fight in their wars? As Sparky Abraham of the Debt Collective puts it: 'Debt is a form of social control.'
Sound conspiratorial? Look at the evidence. Liberal lion Malcolm Gladwell, who has waxed poetic about how he loves to write his bestselling books from cafes, lectured normal folks to get back to work. 'What have you reduced your life to?' he asked the commuting masses. Democrats bragged about halving child poverty with the child tax credits, but despite being overwhelmingly popular, these policies quickly went back on the chopping block. We can’t let parents have enough money so that one can stay at home, or work one fewer job. The market demands a desperate labor force, not a happy one.
Recently, Ken Klippenstein and Jon Schwarz at the Intercept broke news that on an earnings call, the president of Douglas Emmett Inc., a real estate corporation worth over $3 billion and based in Santa Monica, California, said a recession could be 'good' 'if it comes with a level of unemployment that puts employers back in the driver seat and allows them to get all their employees back into the office.'
A recession could be good? Employers back in the driver’s seat? That’s code for 'able to exploit their employees without their employees having any recourse.'
That’s the whole game. The reason so many elites hated the stimulus checks is not because they drove inflation. You see, they don’t tie the PPP checks for billionaires to inflation in the same way. Or Trump’s tax cuts for the rich, which added more to the deficit for absolutely no reason than anything that’s happened before or sense. And they aren’t talking about the supply chain crisis or the war in Ukraine, two key causes of inflation.
No, they talk about spending because they don’t want working people to have options.
When working people have options, they can demand higher salaries. When workers have options, they can bargain for a bigger piece of a pie. This is why union organizing is so important. It gives workers, who individually have very little power, the power of collective bargaining, the power to withhold their labor together and force employers to share profits more equitably. In the golden age of labor, the 1950s and ‘60s, CEOs earned about 30 times more than their employees. Wanna guess what that ratio is now? It’s over 300 to 1. And this is while workers are working more hours with less to show for it.
COVID relief unexpectedly empowered labor, and now elites are trying to put a lid on it in whatever way they can: restarting student loan payments, canceling support for families with children, and intentionally driving up unemployment.
We need to recognize this and use [the recent] student debt victory to continue to pull together as a community of working people and keep demanding more. In the richest country in the history of the world, education should be free. Yes, even for rich kids. Just like public high school is free for the rich should they choose to attend. Just like libraries. And the services of firefighters.
It’s our country, and we get to make it work for us."
- Briahna Joy Gray, from "Debt is a Form of Social Control." Current Affairs, 15 September 2022.
#eat the rich#briahna joy gray#quote#quotations#economics#democratic socialism#working class#labor#labor unions#upward mobility#millennials#gen z#student debt#abortion#bodily autonomy#reproductive rights#debt#social control#student loans#capitalism#american culture#american politics
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& i will say as someone who has always liked the gothic / earned my degree in english... there is something to be said for “never say never” if you actually want to analyze media and/or expand your horizons.
not only are pieces of media that discuss violation and taboos interesting (in many ways from a literary standpoint, incest and cannibalism are the same thing - a violent consumption and one sided ownership - but one is sexual and the other is physical, and bringing them together can be Fascinating in terms of how we can talk about the human condition, the harm we can do to one another & have done to one another, etc) but are also just useful, because how those things have been seen and treated have varied (somewhat) over history?
cannibalism and kinslaying was a massive no-no in ancient grecian society, in spite of or maybe even in response to both of those things happening one by one in their primordial myths (kronos literally has children with his sister - like all gods - then eats his children, only for his children to later ‘kill’ him by chopping him into pieces. his dick formed aphrodite)
and to a certain degree, watching people go through terrible things or inflict terrible things on one another in the realm of fiction is the crux of tragedy. there’s emotional catharsis in tragedy, of course, of just expelling emotions in a safe setting where terrible things are not happening to you, but then there’s also the reaffirmation of agency and security that you have, because they’re not happening to you - that characters do not have free will, their stories are written for them, but you do have free will (which is its own burden, but mostly not).
like you may say “i’ll never ship anything that falls into [x thing here]” and that could very well be true (although bad news if it’s incest and you’ve enjoyed literally Anything based off mythology in your life like PJO or hadestown, etc), there are definitely squicks for me i’ll never really be into but like. i also don’t totally know? there could always be the right story at the right time and place that makes me intrigued or interested in something i wasn’t before.
having that openness also means allowing for different interpretations. i can ship past viren/harrow, and even in the present day portion of the show, while acknowledging and being fully aware that narratively / thematically (and canonically, if we wanna go that far) they’re supposed to have a brother-like bond. but to stuff characters and ships and moral rules into stuffy little cubbies and ignoring all the grey areas, and where people (fiction or otherwise) have always existed in those grey spaces has just... never sat right with me?
perhaps it’s because i’m nonbinary, so i exist in a grey and outside of a binary. maybe it’s because i lean towards not needing definitive answers, thanks to the reading i’ve done on judaism and religions other than my own (cultural & religious) christian background. maybe it’s because as an aro person, my own form of attraction is incredibly blurred between romantic and platonic. maybe it’s because i am Very good at recognizing anti (anti sex work, anti kink, anti shipping, anti queer, anti trans) rhetoric because it all comes from a place of “this exists and i think it shouldn’t, even though it’s not harming me” not only from my existence as a queer person, but also from my perspective (and from others like me) of being a minor harassed by adults in the name of ‘protecting the children,’ because they thought i was shipping a minor/adult. i wasn’t, for the record (canon ages were extremely ambiguous) but even if i had been, that’s still totally okay?? and not worth harassment?? just be Normal about it??
so yeah, i block liberally about it to protect myself, and i don’t blame other people who do too, because if someone falls into one of those anti camps, it’s very hard to tell which other ones they may fall into
and idk, i just think it’s Good for people to read things that make them uncomfortable, fiction wise. it pushes you past your own cultural understandings. it can lead to growth or reaffirm your own worldviews for the better. the more you overtly moralize (and demonize), dividing things into categories of “this is always bad or irredeemable” the more you make it harder for people to discuss the full complexities of their lives, because something can be always bad, yes, but that doesn’t mean there was never any good (or reasoning behind it that, right or wrong, appealed to the best or worst of people) in it either. if you deeply moralize racism, you give ‘nice whites’ a shield to hold up. if you deeply demonize age gaps, you make people who are actually vulnerable to them less likely to listen, rather than giving young adults better tools and concepts to learn when a relationship - any kind of relationship - is healthy for them.
and i’d say it’s fiction’s responsibility to challenge, but not to unilaterally teach, ethical and moral norms, anyway (which also aren’t defined principles, but you get my drift). what’s that quote? “Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable” by la cruz. Yeah
anyway all this to say go read the perks of being a wallflower or kiss of the fur queen or the book thief or things fall apart and come back to me about prioritizing your personal comfort over letting people just live their lives in fandom without moralizing everything. modern day sanitation will not help you in the long run
#the english major strikes again#don't know what trigger warnings to tag for but#mentions of cannibalism & incest as motifs#anti purity culture#as always ship and make whatever you want just tag accordingly#long post#fandom nonsense#and just to be clear: it's also perfectly okay to want to be comfortable#again: i avoid tons of fics bc it has something that makes me Uncomfy#HOWEVER (and i say this all the time) what makes me uncomfortable#(i love exploring violence in stories but it has to be written bc brain cannot handle screen empathy)#may be exactly what or why someone else loves it#and that is normal and okay#tag ramble#no i don't know what this is
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Saw your recent “drama” with the book lotf and some fanfic you posted about reading, and all I have to say is: I’m so done with chronically online people. Some fics out there are gross, especially the ones that outwardly show cp, but jeez not EVERYTHING is sexualizing minors
I fairly dislike omegaverse, but I read that one for the sake of seeing what the fuss was about, and I will say that it is extremely tame, it was definitely much more than just alpha/omega porn fic (especially since there wasn’t porn)
I’ve never read lotf so that could mean I’m biased. My advice is to ignore them. I don’t wanna go point by point into why I don’t believe it was sexualizing kids, but I think you get my point lmao. Hopefully they won’t start stalking your blog now over this. Speaking of which, if any of the lotf fandom users see this, move along, because we obviously don’t agree with your statements.
also you mentioned you had a main blog, could I check it out? thanks!
lol I've been through so much fandom drama, two people (who, going by tone, I'm fairly sure have never attended university-level media classes, most likely due to their age) commenting on a fic rec annoys me for two hours and then I'm done with it. I hope more that this doesn't have any bad repercussions for the author? Because honestly, like I said, I enjoyed that fic a lot.
and tbh - general thing here - I don't like calling any fanfiction "gross" or "disgusting" or anything like it, even if I personally dislike the matter it deals with, simply because the fic means something to, at minimum, one person, and I don't want to disregard that. What's that cinema wins quote about how every movie is someone's favorite for a reason? That. Also if you start with that, you end up with "please public share your top 10 traumatic life experiences so I can evaluate whether you deserve to post this tagged fic that personally offends me".
And like, I've written several fics that I'm fairly sure a lot of people will call me gross for, I know for certain that a person I was having a pretty great conversation with blocked me right in the middle of said conversation when they saw some of my other stuff on AO3. And like. you know what? Good for them! If engaging with me after seeing that is something they're uncomfortable with, they ought to block me. Curate your online experience and all that.
And, to open that can of worms, I am pretty sure most people have no idea what actual sexualization of minors is or they wouldn't use those words so liberally when discussing a fictional text. Shout out to my professor who sat my class down and made us research the government statistics on CSA. Very interesting seminar, made you feel absolutely terrible and terrified of becoming a teacher and being constantly on a lookout for students, who might be abused at home.
Anyway, I'm going off topic. I don't really have anything more to say on this.
And this actually is my main blog! I was just referring to when I was into a more "problematique" ship (shout out to obikin I still love you <3) and blogged about it constantly ("on main") here. My writing side blog is @loosingmoreletters, but that's mostly general writing stuff and mdzs fanfic rn.
cheerio that's my take on it.
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!! INTRO POST !!
✧˖°.Kite /21 /any/all pronouns.°˖ ✧
✧ LGBTQ+ , Jewish, and Chinese- if have a problem with any of these, u can fuck off <3!
✧ Art , OCs, other reblogs of content I like , occasionally writing and editing - no queue so posts maybe be strangely timed cuz I have the worst sleep schedule. Often times vents/overshares in tags but those always have appropriate labels/warning tags before
✧ Generally sfw content though may reblog/make some nsfw jokes. I do not post nsfw art here but any art even vaguely suggestive will be tagged as such for ppl to filter if they like. NSFW accounts DO NOT FOLLOW or I will block you
✧ Current Main Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs, ( Kunikida(zai) especially !!)
✧ Other fandoms: FGO, Genshin Impact, YGO Zexal, CCS/covey stuff, Shotgun boy + Sweet home, Haikyuu
✧ Carrd: https://benetnvsch.crd.co
✧ Other socials are linked in my carrd but should be benetnvsch anywhere I do have one (most active on here and twitter!!)
✧ Follow, unfollow, block free always !! even if we are close mutuals, if my content ever bothers u or you just don't vibe with me anymore feel free to break mutuals and/or block me ! in the nicest way idc! curate ur own experience !!
✧ Requests, comms, and inbox are (almost) always open if you ever want to send me anything <3!! I do have social anxiety but I love talking to people and making new friends :> !!
✧ Mutuals are allowed to ask for my genshin, FGO, or BSD Mayoi accounts to add me there <3 !!
✧ Art specific tag is 'Kite Draws' and most other personal tags for original content/nonreblogs follows that format such as Kite Edits, Kite Watches/Reads/Plays [x]
✧ Please do not follow me if you are a pr0shipper or (specific to the BSD fandom) an 0dazai, M0rizai, or Fvkuran shipper. I am EXTREMELY uncomfortable with any of these due to past experiences/traumas and if I see ur any of these you will be removed as a follower and/or blocked ;;
✧ I block VERY liberally and for often silly reasons- pls don’t take it personally but pls don't try and block evade. if u wish to know why I blocked you feel free to dm ig but don't try and follow/interact else wise or I will explode u
✧ Please do NOT repost my art unless you're going to use it in some way (header, icon, edits, etc.) and even then I would appreciate credit. Do NOT repost it just as an image or complimentary image to a separate post/idea
#yippeee kite lore#the last things are censored just 2 b respectful so they don't show up in search for them but also not to show in association w/my name aaa#sorry if they mess with any screen readers- if anyone can't figure them out feel free to dm me and ill message you them properly <33
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well I guess it’s about time I made an about post!
I’ve been on this website for like six years or so and I never really made a proper intro post to my blog, so here’s a couple basics for new friends & visitors just dropping by!
-heather, she/her, 25, neurodivergent as fuuuuuck but not officially diagnosed with specifics yet (although I’m almost certain I have autism, there’s a possibility I have ADHD or both? looking into a diagnosis, but definitely ND in general)
-if you’re a minor and you like a post of mine, that’s cool- but I post whatever I feel like so be warned, I don’t censor myself and I do have a wide range in my sense of humor so there will probably be adult themes™️ on here so I don’t recommend sticking around- or do so but only at your own risk! I also don’t interact with minors and I’ve always listed my age just in case it matters to someone happening across my blog.
-I generally don’t tag often unless A) I’m talking in the tags or B) it’s a hyperfixation that I want to go back to/keep organized in tags on my blog, if you’re a mutual and there’s anything you’d like me to tag that you filter/blacklist please send me an anon in the ask box letting me know! I’m happy to tag anything that might be an issue but I don’t really know if anything specific is a sensitive topic to a mutual unless they tell me and you can absolutely stay anonymous about it- do not hesitate if there’s any way I can be a better moot ❤️
-big procrastinator and very sporadic on here (even though I generally use this app as my morning paper) so I can take awhile to get to asks & sometimes I forget altogether, sometimes I save them in drafts then forget to check my drafts & I’m very bad about that and I am SO sorry cause it’s genuinely never personal 😅same with messages but I’m not unfriendly, I just have raging executive dysfunction
-I block liberally over political reasons, TERFS are blocked on sight, any blog I happen across that’s said/reblogged something that might generally be upsetting to me and, of course, bots get blocked too- I don’t engage in discourse so if you’re a TERF, right winger, or just a general troll just keep moving along or block me cause I just go right for the block button anyway. any hate has no home here, UNLESS it’s hate for bigots, billionaires or cops ✨
-I check blogs of people I follow but I don’t necessarily check OP’s so if I’ve accidentally reblogged something from a shitty person (“OP is a terf,” etc) just slide in the ask hole and let me know cause the odds are almost 100% that I’m unaware
-I don’t post original posts terribly often, mostly just reblog anything that tickles my fancy but vintage fashion/shows/music and rocks are my big ones on here. most original posts are just top-of-my-head nonsense or stuff I’m hyperfixating on
-if you’re a fan of Paul Williams, Barenaked Ladies, Bucks Fizz, Bay City Rollers/Rabbitt, Flo & Eddie, Howard Jones, Bowling For Soup, Wings (the TV sitcom but I’m also a Paul McCartney & Wings encyclopedia if that’s more your speed), Phantom of the Paradise, or Caroline In The City, those are all recent-ish interests of mine that have almost NO fandom so like. you’re automatically my friend now if you like any of those 😂
…I think that about covers everything I wanted to say, so sit back, relax, and have fun in my hodgepodge of a social media home ✨
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~ INTRO POST ~
{I'll update this every so often! Dates of those changes are at the very end of the post.}
Heya, how’s it going?
You can call me Midnight or Mercury. I’m nonbinary with a sprinkling of xenogenders; my main pronouns are they/them, but I also like ae/aers and star/stars. I’m 20 years old, so no topic is off-limits here as long as you respect my boundaries!
My main fandoms are DSMP, Undertale, the Portal games and Pokémon. Don’t be alarmed if I suddenly reblog content from another fandom; my hyperfixations jump around frequently. I rarely create my own posts, but I reblog a lot and sometimes share my thoughts on things. My actual content is fanfiction, headcanons and analysis!
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Being upset is so valid, I know it’s just a show but WHATEVER, you should allow yourself to feel what you feel! And you should also be allowed to have opinions and share them on your blog lmao I’ll be honest, I have several friends irl who watch 911 and ship buddie and we aallll cannot stand this show anymore lmao and it’s very liberating to be able to speak your mind. Sadly fandom, especially Tumblr for some reason, seems to be hellbent on making passive aggressive comments on people who don’t like what they like? I totally agree with you, if people enjoy it good for them, I’m not gonna make posts about how you have to be stupid to like it cause I don’t think that’s the case?? We are just looking for different things in a show and that’s okay! However I am a blocking machine cause I don’t see the point in reading takes that are so different from mine 😂 but it is very frustrating that any negative comment needs to be censured or you become the devil and also you are not capable of understanding long form of media and also you should stop watching the show hskshdk I have stopped watching the show and I still like to check what happened and I still like to complain, what can you do about it 😂 anyway I hope you’re okay, and take care of yourself! I remember when Roswell made me soooo mad and I had to deal with it alone and it sucked 😔 and you don’t have to publish this if you don’t want to, I don’t mean to create drama or anything, just wanted to be supportive 😂
Hey, thanks Nonnie! I think for a lot of people (I'm for sure one of them, yay neurodivergency), when you find something that's a source of serotonin, it can be QUITE the crash when it stops, and no matter how low your expectations, if you struggle with emotional regulation, the rollercoaster can be rough. Curating your experience is a MUST, and knowing how to manage when your brain tries to get the best of you is also a must! Sometimes that means commiserating with others who are also unhappy (NOT going into the inboxes of people who clearly disagree with you. stop that), sometimes it means logging off and doing something else, sometimes it means reading or writing fic or making content that makes you happy about the thing, sometimes it means not looking at ANYTHING about the thing. At the end of the day, we're all just trying to do what works for us.
As a survivor of RNM, I thought I could handle this but I think RNM got SO bad SO fast that it was always a lot of "here are 3 good things that people will make AMAZING fics/metas/content about and 85 things you will need to ignore or you will start seething with rage". Where as 911 was so consistent for so long that watching it struggle so hard (across the board, not just with Buddie, though that seems to get the brunt of it on the "nearly unwatchable" scale whereas other stuff is more "meh. they could have done this better") has been really rough because there is already so much love for the show built up and we have SEEN what it can be when it's at it's very best. And disliking certain arcs or story choices doesn't necessarily mean throwing the whole show out! There are LOTS of things I love about this show, and I'm not at the point for me where I'm ready to let the show go and I've never really understood the "don't like, don't watch" attitude every time anyone brings up a single complaint. It seems very "you HAVE to love every single thing and choice or you can't watch the show" when most people have things they both like and dislike about pretty much everything! It's okay to not like every single choice! (though if you legit find nothing to enjoy about a thing then it's maybe not for you and that's okay!)
Thanks for checking in! I have a lot of other stuff going on right now so it's very much like "why is this the thing we are focusing on, brain? Why are we allowing ourselves to feel like this? It's a show??" but hey! Sometimes our brains do whatever TF they want and we just gotta manage as best we can. At on the bright side, tumblr has filters! You can block tags! You can block content within posts! this will let you remove certain stuff from your experience without necessarily having to unfollow people. BUT! You can also unfollow people! You can block people! Make your experience what you want! And learn what works FOR YOU to manage your disappointment. Some people are "gotta get the anger out to let it go" people, and some are "gotta find the positive spin" people and some are both or neither. Find what works. Do that. Don't be dicks in people's inboxes, and don't drag the cast/crew into the drama on public sm platforms, they don't plan out the storylines.
#my sweet nonnie friends#911#911 spoilers#i typed this between doing other things so sorry if it's a mess i just cannot be bothered to read it all again
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Good morning my beautiful doodles.
This post is going to be a little different than the usual. I’m going to be reblogging this amongst my other blogs as well.
So over the past week or so I haven’t felt very comfortable on any of my blogs ( or safe, if I’m being completely honest ) and I came very close to just leaving altogether and that’s something I really don’t want to do as writing is my escape and the way I actually cope with my depression and anxiety. However, because a couple people have made this a hellscape for me ( and have for quite awhile now ) I’m going to do some things that will make this more of a safe space for me so I can actually get back to all my blogs and write without feeling the need to disappear.
One : all replies / memes / starters will be QUEUED. The more I stack in the queue, the more I’ll have pumping out throughout the day. But this will allow me to take things as I go and at a pace I can keep up with. There may be the rare occasion I post something right away, but 99.9% of all things will be queued.
Two : i might be a little quieter on the ooc front than I usually am. I know I’m already slow, but my spoons just haven’t been able to replenish themselves lately and I’m running on fumes.
Three : I’m going to start using the block / unfollow button liberally. This isn’t against anyone here, and generally I just blacklist things I don’t like but this is to help with my own sanity. Now. if I follow you, I want to write with you and if we’re friends, I will definitely come to you first if there are problems.
Four : due to a couple people stalking every blog i make, i likely will not be promoting any new blogs i make on the dash. it will be the only time i follow first but i will generally only follow people i know want to interact with me. i just can’t handle not feeling safe in my own space.
Five : I’m likely going to clear out my inboxes on all blogs and start fresh. I haven’t fully decided on this one yet, but it may happen just for a fresh start.
All in all, I just want this to be a place I enjoy. And lately? I haven’t enjoyed being here at all. And you all deserve better than than me being flighty as all hell. I love all y’alls faces and thank you for putting up with me, it means a lot. I might add more to this if I think of anything. But, this seems like a good place to start.
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tagged by @lovethygoalie, 7 lines from wips, taking a very liberal view of what constitutes a line....all from the trans roope fic bc i am trying to re-activate myself after lorna told me to rewrite the main relationship - i am on the floor face down etc
ONE:
“Maybe it’s not allowed,” he said. “Maybe it’d break things.” He licked his lips again and she petted a hand through his hair, frowning thoughtfully at him. He tried again. “When the snow is on the roof and it’s thick and heavy and then dangerous, when it gets warm, because it slides off the roof in a crash and blocks the door, the path.” He shrugged one shoulder. “Maybe it would block the way.”
She drew a hand around down his cheek to his jaw, pressed a thumb against his lips. “Baby,” she said softly. “That just means the sun’s come out and the seasons are changing.”
TWO:
They were 14 and 15. Their stomachs were full of McDonalds and they were laughing on Sepe’s bed as they looked up American swear words and ran them through Google translate to find out what they meant.
Sepe typed carefully in Finnish on Roope’s phone, <em>Roope, I know you’re transgender.</em> He ran it through Google translate to translate to English like it was a game, and handed the phone to Roope.
THREE:
“It’s okay,” he said quietly. “I just wanted to tell you I know. I won’t tell anyone. You can count on me.”
Roope still felt like throwing up. “How? How do I know?”
FOUR:
“Oh, Roope,” said Miro while Roope swore at him and bled all over the wood floor from pulling the needle out of his thigh too quickly in surprise. At least he’d finished administering the shot first but there was blood everywhere now. “I didn’t think lung surgeries left scars like that.”
FIVE:
Miro crumpled up his wet, bloody paper towel and threw it on the floor. “I feel very strongly about you,” he said. “I want you to be okay. I want you to be safe.”
Roope’s chest was so full, like his heart was bigger than it was twenty minutes ago.
SIX:
Roope looked at the four of them, two weird-looking Finns, a gawky Russian, and Jason, whose skin got darker in the sun. “Yeah,” he said. “But you’re ruling. You can do anything.”
Jason looked thoughtful. He never seemed to have as much trouble parsing Roope as everyone else on the team who wasn’t Finnish. “I guess,” he said. “It could be worse, for sure.”
Roope wondered about him sometimes. If he was hiding something and that was what made him wary of going out on his own. But maybe he was just secretly shy. Sometimes Roope got tired of talking about himself and just wanted to hide behind Esa too.
Miro said, “You can always go out with us.” He looked hopeful and Roope laughed at him.
SEVEN:
“Is he still the only one who knows about you? Him and Sepe?” Pihla asked. She and Aino had never met Miro and Sepe; none of his queer friends had. Not that Roope was ashamed of them, but he didn’t mix the two groups, would never.
“Yes,” said Roope. “Only ones ever.”
Aino sighed loudly from the kitchen. “Why don’t you trust your team, Roope?”
“Maybe I don’t want to break things,” said Roope. “Maybe my injury is enough brokenness.”
Pihla ran a hand through his hair and squeezed the back of his neck. “You’ve given up so much for this team,” she chided.
#unfortunate birdcage fanfictions#validate me please lorna was 1000% right and i am suffering so much and so inelegantly about it#maybe i will. go respond to lorna's email abt it even. sobs
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Online I don’t care which pronouns you use for me, I will answer to all of them.
I am old enough to have kids. I have a number of them. I’m old enough to be a grand, but I’m not telling whether I am or not.
Artists of every shape and flavor, I will love you forever if you tag your posts with your blog name, so that I can more easily credit you in the tags.
I support ao3.
Fiction is NOT reality, no matter how hard you cry about it.
I do not condone censorship for any reason. Censorship is Fascism 101.
There are a million things I will never read, and yet they all have a right to be written. Even if it’s so that it can be dissected for it’s bigotry, racism and hatred. Hiding it underground will not make it go away, but it will make it harder to weed out.
Critical analysis and critical thinking are your friend, try them out, you might learn something.
No one has the right to dictate how someone else handles their own trauma.
Tag your shit properly, so that people trying to avoid triggers don’t accidentally stumble onto something that could hurt them.
The Block Button is your best friend, use it liberally and often, it will keep the toxicity of this place to a minimum.
I tag for my personal use.
I will absolutely add a tag if you need it.
I almost exclusively reblog, unless something comes across my news feed that I feel compelled to keep a copy for myself.
I reblog mainly -
- MCU and Marvel Comics fan artwork (#fanart #fanfic)
- Anything affecting transgender people, and often a lot of other LGBTQIA+ information (#lgbtqia #transgender)
- Recently a shit ton of politics and world news (#politics #fuckwads of the gop)
Checking out my archive ( https://1968bullittmustang.tumblr.com/archive ) will also give you the character and shipping tags I use most often, in case there is anything more specific you want to blacklist.
FYI I use the #unclad tag for myself personally on any questionably dressed and or sexual situation regardless of how it is tagged by anyone in the reblog chain.
If your blog is empty, I will assume you are a bot and block you. If your blog looks like a porn bot, I will assume you are a bot and block you. If you’re a racist, sexist, fascist, bigot, terf, fake feminist, or basically any variation of these I’ll figure it out eventually and block you. My block list is about ten times longer than my follow list.
I do not allow anonymous comments because I don’t have time for anyone else’s bullshit, I have plenty of my own.
Yes, I am an asshole, but the very specific kind that would gladly let my tax dollars go to support anyone in need of housing, food, health care, mental health, disability aids, education, immigration, civil rights, voting rights, etc., but fucking hate when instead my taxes are used to subsidize big business, banks, rich fucks, blocking voting rights, banning books, removing bodily autonomy from 50% of the population, and basically trying to remove any rights that don’t specifically benefit a hetero cis white man.
3/1/2023
If you see anything
I’ve tagged with the wrong artist
I’ve forgotten to tag any artist at all
improperly tagged for any reason
that Is clearly AI art, but tagged with an artist
I want to know so I can correct the problem. I am human and I will make mistakes. But I always want a chance to correct them whenever I can. I am not an artist in any way shape or form, so my understanding of it is limited to ‘Wow I like that!’. But I will never knowingly reblog AI art, as I don’t believe it supports artists.
Thanks and have a great day!
(Unless you’re a fascist fuckwad, then I hope a sinkhole opens beneath your feet and you go straight to where you belong.)
10/20/2023
Things I’ve learned the last 5 years and keep forgetting to write down -
Only the TAGS on the original post count towards monthly yearly talleys (so no matter how many times I reblog clint barton he’s not going to make the year end top 100)
Only the first 5 TAGS are searchable (so if you want someone else to be able to find your post use the most important 5 first)
Only the first 20 TAGS are searchable inside your blog (so when you’re tagging 50 avengers from the comics make sure the first 20 are the ones you’re going to be looking for the most)
Even if you follow all these rules the TAGS are so broken most of the time, it won’t always work
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I hope this is alright to ask but one thing I've been really curious about after reading your fics is how do you come up with natural sounding conlang and terms? Would you have any tips for that?
Hello! Yes, absolutely you’re welcome to ask that. It’s very nice--and kind of flattering--to get asked questions about writing and things that interest me, and although I haven’t had much time to answer or really interact on this blog lately, it’s something I find fun. If there’s ever anything I don’t want to talk about, I’ll say so, so please don’t worry.
I love conlangs (and also just... langs...) and I’ve put a decent bit of thought into them over the years so while I’m very much not an expert in the field or a linguist, I don’t mind sharing some of my principles for writing conlangs and using them in your stories and hopefully some of my thoughts will be useful to you!
I have a couple of mental guidelines that I use when starting on conlangs.
1. Why is it here? I think some people make conlangs because they’re fun (which they are) but never actually think about why/how to weave them into your story. They just kind of come up with some words, liberally sprinkle them through, and be like, [diogenes voice] “Behold, a plausible world.”
There’s an enormous conversation to be had about the question “does everything in a story need a purpose?” and we don’t have time for that today, so I’m going to sidestep all that and say instead, “If we take for granted that a good story is made through intentional creative decisions, what is the intent of including conlang in this story?” You might not end up with an especially complex answer, but any answer is better than none, in my opinion.
Personally, my reason for involving conlangs is about 60% because I want to introduce cultural details etc. that are not easily translatable into English and 40% because it’s fun and for me gives a richness and depth to the world and people in a way I find pleasant to read.
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2. Who is speaking? Everyone’s got different lengths they can stretch disbelief to, so for some people, any creature can say anything. But I do feel it’s still worth thinking about the physical capabilities of the speakers. Are their jaws able to make these sounds? What sounds do we feel would be plausible for them to make (note: feels plausible and is possible are two different things, and it’s totally okay to go with impossible ideas as long as you can make them feel like they could happen).
One way to make a conlang feel plausible (especially for xenofiction) is to invoke sounds that we already associate with that kind of being, if there’s a passable real-world equivalent. So to use Watership Down as an easy example, the lapine language was designed to sound “wuffy, fluffy” because they’re rabbits and Adams wanted to use sounds that felt airy, light, and at home in meadows and fields. He also used some onomatopoeia, which can be another great way to make a word or aspect of language feel like it would exist for a culture.
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3. Building blocks first. Some people will jump into a conlang with words fully formed and, as a general rule, I advise against that. I think if words come to you first that’s okay and you can and should write those down for reference, but if you want to make a conlang that feels cohesive, my recommendation is to start with sounds and syllables.
If that feels overwhelming, don’t worry. You can break it down into little bits. I think vowels are a strong place to start, since that shapes a lot of how a language sounds, so decide what vowel sounds would exist in this culture--and also what counts as a vowel and what sounds belong to what symbol. For example, “a” can have a range of pronounciations, and it will make things easier on you in the long run if you pick which sounds and how you want to present them.
Then you can do the same with consonants. In the end, you’ll end up with a kind of library of letters, which then you can start combining into syllables. These are the building blocks for your language. Play around with them to get familiar with the sounds and rhythm you want for this conlang. Are there letters or sounds that can’t go together? Are there letters or sounds that always go together? What combinations change the sounds of letters--e.g., how t + h = th?
Don’t be afraid to say, “this just doesn’t exist” and cut things out of the language, by the way. Gaps are as important as what’s there. Cultural rules around pronunciation are where accents come from, and what a language does--or doesn’t do--defines its identity (at least from a sonic perspective).
Personally I find this part super fun, but if you’re struggling with it, there’s a few algorithmic apps online that will do this kind of thing for you and give you a headstart. Usually googling variations of “conlang generator” will toss some up.
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4. Don’t reinvent the wheel. From years of just drifting around internet creative spaces, I’ve noticed there’s often a trend in younger or less experienced writers to feel compelled to think about every single minute detail of the world they’re creating, and then getting profoundly overwhelmed because they don’t have the skill-set or knowledge to be a linguist, and a civil engineer, and a historian, and a biologist, and a politician, and--you get the idea. You don’t need to be all or any of these things to write compelling stories about complex worlds.
Your conlang doesn’t have to be functional outside of the story it belongs to. The conlang exists to serve the story you’re telling, not the other way around. Stories aren’t just a way to showcase a conlang. What matters is that the conlang fits into the story in a way that enriches the story, and often what that means is that the conlang should be used sparingly and purposefully.
Coming back to the point about intention, you can ask that question for each use of the conlang. Any time you’re writing a conlang word or phrase in, ask yourself--”what is this for?” It might be because what is being said has to be said in the conlang, because there’s no English (or other language) way to say it. That could be a concept, or animal, or other aspect of the world that is unique to this place and people.
Alternatively, you might be using the word because it’s someone’s name, or a pet-name, or something with cultural significance that simply will not be reflected by the language of narration. You might be using it to intentionally withhold information from your reader, because the characters know what that word means but the reader does not.
If you’re using it “just because” it sounds good or feels cool, that’s probably not the right time to use it. As a creative philosophy, I feel like you should always hold back a little. In a perfectly honed, balanced story, there should still be space left for wondering and dreaming for the reader.
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5. Devise some root words for the nerds. Once the syllabic pieces are sounding good to you and capture the general tone and flavour and feel of the culture you’re making a conlang for, that’s the time to experiment with words. Some people will throw syllables together until words start forming--which isn’t a bad strategy--but then will go with those words with no further consideration as to the language as a living, evolving structure.
If you want your conlang to feel real, it’s worth putting a little thought into the relationship words have with each other--i.e., root words. These are what make certain words and ideas into cousins, etymologically speaking, and it means that you give yourself a lot of options with how to want to use the conlang you’ve made. You can also give the reader more to work with.
For example, you might come up with a word--pelthan. It doesn’t mean anything to the reader until you explain its meaning. Later, perhaps you use another word--vethelthan. This time, even before you explain the meaning, your reader might recognise the similar suffix and structure, and have an inkling--based on this, and the context of this new phrase--what this new word means.
Finally, you might use another word--palthor. And when you explain the meaning of this word, the reader can see how pelthan and palthor came from the same root word, the ancient prefix pelth-, and if you’ve made good choices as a writer, that might have some significance to the reader--or maybe just delight them, because they’ve unearthed a connection that you didn’t even tell them about in the narration, they figured it out all by themselves [wink wink nudge nudge].
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Like I said, I love talking about this kind of thing, writing is my burden passion etc. etc., so this is some of my thoughts but not all of them! I hope it’s somewhat useful to you, though, and good luck with your writing.
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Venting about “Acceptable Targets” and Bigotry.
Fair warning, this is me just speaking my mind with no real concern for formatting or making any kind of coherent point. I’m just venting.
And a TLDR if you don’t wanna read it all: There’s a problem in Leftist spaces with deciding certain bigotries are okay, I used antitheists going from attacking genuinely harmful kinds of Christian faith to attacking all Christians to attacking marginalized religions as a way to explain the issue, but this happens in many other ways.
I’ve been trying to reduce my time on twitter lately for mental health reasons. It’s the kind of site that just highlights the worst kind of people imaginable. When I made the account I currently use, I did my best to block liberally and curate things as much as I could, because I know twitter is just an awful website full of awful people.
For a while, it really seemed to work. The times politics came up on my feed, it was like it is here, curated, people having reasonable reactions to the horrible things that happen in the world. Yeah I also got into the occasional argument with right wingers, but honestly, it’s easy to disengage when you know they’re just not operating in a worldview that remotely resembles reality.
A conservative promoting racism, transphobia, homophobia, etc. is really easy to disregard because they’re so ridiculous, that any sensible person isn’t going to take them seriously. You can just post information on why they’re wrong and move on, it’s very easy to disregard what they think about you.
But, more recently, I’ve noticed bigotry creeping its way into leftist spaces (online, I’ve yet to see anything of this outside of the internet). Sometimes it’s the familiar, TERF talking points dressed up as progressive. I’m sure you all know the type, people who wanted to exclude nonbinary people when that was “new”, people who want to exclude neopronouns or xenogenders, or otherkin or whatever else. They’re usually really obvious, and having been one of these people in the past I know exactly what to say, I just tell them what made me realize the harm in gatekeeping and exclusionist thought. Usually, people ignore them, because Leftists usually know better.
Usually.
If you know me outside of tumblr (which most of you do, I’m not exactly big on this site, and I don’t want to be either), you know that antitheism is THE bigotry that pisses me off. Not because it affects me, I can write off transphobia, acephobia, etc. pretty easily even when they’re actively making my life harder, I’m just good at not letting things get to me emotionally. The real reason antitheism gets under my skin is that it’s just different enough from the big “isms” that a lot of genuinely good and well meaning people fall for it.
See, when I inevitably check the profile of someone being nasty over religion on twitter, saying that because I’m a priestess I’m the same as a Christian priest and therefore naturally evil, I often have a lot of mutuals with them, and they’re otherwise an outspoken leftist.
Antitheism is something that a well meaning atheist who sees the very real harm done by the biggest religions in the world can fall for. On the surface of it, it makes sense. A surface level reading of the Bible, the Torah, the Quran, the “big 3″ religious texts in the eyes of many activists, would have you believe they promote some really nasty stuff. If you don’t know that the Bible was written as a compilation of conflicting beliefs, and that cherry picking is a feature and not a bug, you could be forgiven for thinking Christianity is evil by default.
And on top of that, you experience hate and violence from Catholicism, American Protestantism, and so many other sects. Eventually that violence just becomes “Christianity” to you.
Then it becomes “Abrahamic” religions, because to the uneducated, Abrahamic means Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and as far as you know, these religions are identical. You haven’t done the research to know how ridiculous this idea is, and you won’t because nobody has prompted you to.
Then, because the only preachers you hear are from Christianity (which you’ve already decided represents two other completely different faiths), and you never talk religion with someone who isn’t trying to convert you (really, why would you?), that violence you experienced becomes “religion”.
Religion becomes synonymous with conservativism, fascism, and every other political ideology that we rightfully write off as harmful. So then when you meet a Gnostic, a Jew, a Pagan, a Satanist, a Native American who believes in the religion that’s intrinsically tied to their culture? You look at them and you see a Nazi.
The very important aversion to hateful ideologies is hijacked, you begin to hate marginalized groups in the name of opposing bigotry.
It gets worse though, because from there, antitheism becomes a gateway bigotry of sorts. I’m sure everyone’s heard the statement “religion is a mental illness” at this point. The antitheist becomes so attached to their bigotry, that when they realize a religion isn’t harmful directly, ableism comes in to save them from introspection.
This happened on a large scale a few years ago, in the mid 2010s we saw a lot of youtube channels and social media pages dedicated to opposing religion turn their sights on “social justice warriors”. I remember these channels promoting this hip and new thing called “the alternative right”, what they described as a secular form of fascism, a “good” fascism, because they were so deep into hating religion that they forgot why religion was bad to begin with.
This isn’t unique to antitheism by any means, like I said before it happens with exclusionary movements like transmedicalism, anti-mspec crap, and one could even argue it’s got something to do with how transphobic “feminism” rose to prominence.
I think more people should be aware of how radicalization happens, more critical of what we consider “acceptable targets”. Racism isn’t bad because of the race aspect, race is bad because prejudice itself is wrong, attacking groups of people who lack social power is wrong.
Because it isn’t the big corrupt churches you hurt when you label all religion evil. It’s the marginalized faiths. The Pagans, the Jews, the Muslims, the sects of Christianity which do genuinely preach love and compassion. Focus your criticisms on groups in power, not people who seem similar at a glance.
And this applies everywhere, transphobia and exclusionism toward transmasc people also come from a fundamental misunderstanding of what male privilege is. I’m really only using religion and antitheism as a vehicle to talk about a more general issue because it’s the one that’s on my mind.
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hi!! i’m OJ
my pronouns are she/her, i’m a 24 yo lesbian who likes video games. and other stuff. ENG/FR are good with me. cutting this off bc i’m not good at making things short
stuff i like a lot rn
project moon!!! (lc, lor, dd and limbus) i esp like angela (!!!!!), binah,faust, outis, moses, angebinah and inferno pink/dantefaust :] my fav abnos are scorched girl and today’s shy look
pathologic!!! u should def try out pathologic 2. and pathologic hd if you hate yourself (affectionate)
other stuff i like
i play cookie run kingdom (sighs) and i like moon rabbit cookie a lot :]
also currently playing darkest dungeon and deadly premonition origins splatoon 3 has taken over.
i like splatoon. and minecraft. i play toontown sometimes too. and sadly dbd but im trying to get better
rpg maker horror games :] big ones are yume nikki, .flow, ib, hello charlotte but i like a lot of others
u won’t see me talk about anime a lot but know that cat’s eye is my one comfort anime since childhood and if u know about it i love love u
musicals!! love heathers (movie too) a lot.
love houseki no kuni. these rocks are going through some shit
general stuff
i write sometimes!!! my ao3 is Echoe. mostly writing pm stuff rn:)
but mostly i just reblog stuff. i don’t post a lot myself bc i’m not used to it but i try bc i wanna interact with people :] i talk in tags a lot though nevermind im in my chatty era i guess
talking is a bit scary but i do like talking about my interests so feel free to send me asks about them :]
i don’t have a dni/byf i block people very liberally anyway. (sorry about that btw i can and WILL block people to clear out search results)
i’m also on twitty. i talk even less there though. wouldn’t recommend. twitter is terrifying to me
i tag my own posts #blabla if u dont want to hear anything from me ever
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