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marlsbys-dragons · 1 year

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I’m so scared right now.

I’m writing this not for any grand statement or call to action or anything, but because it’s safer for me to express my thoughts here than elsewhere right now.

If this goes like my other original posts, chances are no one will see this. That is ok. I might prefer it, actually. Though if you do happen to see this, please don’t take that to mean I don’t want interaction. This is a time to pull together, and that can most easily be done, in my opinion, by talking.

Like most of the people I figure are likely to see this, I am a queer American. If you are part of this group, chances are pretty good you know what I’m talking about. Earlier today, March 27th 2023 as of writing, there was a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville Tennessee. Six were killed, three children, all age nine, and three adults, all aged between 60-61. The perpetrator was one Aiden Hale, 28, killed by police during a gunfight after their arrival on-scene approximately 14 minutes after 911 was called.

If you are surprised by that name, so was I. Hale is being reported on mainly by the name Audrey Hale, his legal name, as according to a family member who asked to remain anonymous, he had only recently started identifying as transgender and using he/him pronouns. Despite this, almost all of the quotes featured in stories that I could find use she/her pronouns, and many stories refer to him as either a transgender woman or a female. The latter is inaccurate, the former strikes me as dangerously wrong.

Now, all of that is tragic backstory for the main point of this post. Some ungracious among you may attribute me lingering on the gender identity of the murder as opposed to his crimes as some sort of deflection, or worse, sign of respect. To any hypothetical people doing so, this is not for you. This person was clearly deeply mentally unwell, and if he had survived I would’ve been advocating life in prison.

However, while my heart goes out to the families of this senseless act, my mind turns to my own family. Not just my literal family who I live with, but my queer family, specifically my trans siblings across the US. We are already facing violence, oppression, and open criminalization to a degree not seen in my admittedly brief lifetime. Republicans and other right-wing actors are doing everything they can to instill baseless fear and hatred into our fellow Americans, forcing through bills that restrict our liberties and violate our human rights.

The easiest targets for this hatred are trans women, aided by the overwhelmingly male statistics of sexual violence, and long-running and unfounded rumors seeded by transphobes and TERFs regarding alleged assaults and sexual motives for transition. After trans women come trans children, targeted for the same reasons children always are: dismissal by adults at large and a subsequent inability to speak to their own defense. And the bills are getting worse. To share a personal detail I don’t like to publicize, I am a parent of two, and there are bills in state legislatures across the country, Florida comes to mind, that could take my children away from me and throw me in jail for supporting them. A seemingly logical progression, which may have already been taken without my knowledge, is criminalizing trans people who live with children, something I have had nightmares about.

Why I am afraid is relatively simple, but to fully explain my reasons I want to share some further information: according to the Daily Mail, this shooting is is the 129th in the States this year. According to some very rough math I did on gunviolencearchive.org, a site whose list for 2023 has already reached 6 pages, this is in fact the 130th. Personally I would trust the Daily Mail’s number more. Also according to some quick finger counting on gunviolencearchive.org, we surpassed 100 mass shootings sometime on March 5th, a day with 4 separate incidents and a combined total of 3 dead, 13 injured. This is nearly two weeks earlier in the year than 2022 or 2021, and more than two months earlier than 2018-2020. I could not stomach looking farther.

Some of you may have realized the awful truth about these numbers: in each of the last three years, we in the United States have had more than one mass shooting a day. Again per gunviolencearchive.org, that is a feat replicated by both 2020 and 2019, as well as 2016, the only other year to do so after their archival began in 2014.

As a trans person in America, who loves a trans person in America, who has trans friends across America, who has already had to start laying plans to flee the state I was raised in if it continues its present course, who sees nothing but fear in the future of so much of my family, I can only think that this will lead to bad things.

The twisting and slanting has already begun. An article on Fox News refers to Hall as a transgender woman, despite his actual identity being a transgender man, and the usual bias of that company to call him a woman. Meanwhile, the New York post has an article focusing heavily on Covenant’s status as a Christian school.

Our enemies despise us with a visceral and blinding rage. They have proven time and time again that facts, logic, reason, human lives, mean nothing in their pursuit of a radicalized right-wing populist agenda and the power they think it promises. And now this? The all-too-real intersection of two of the biggest issues in US politics today: gun violence and transness. One which the right led to through inaction, and the other they manufactured out of hate.

I am no pundit, no scholar or insider. I cannot claim to forecast the future happenings of American politics with anything more than a layman’s weary eye. But I am a trans American, and despite everything I still want to be proud of this country, and I could see no resolution in sight to either gun violence or anti-trans legislating, only escalation, and now the two have merged. What will happen to us now? Sources:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-suspect-identified-as-audrey-hale

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-appears-former-student-police-chief-rcna76876

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-covenant-school-shooter-in-nashville

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nashville-shooter-audrey-hale-transgender-woman-opened-fire-covenant-school

https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/nashville-school-shooter-audrey-hale-identified-as-transgender-and-had-detailed-manifesto-to-attack-christian-academy/

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-shooting-covenant-school-03-27-23/index.html

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/politics/america-mass-shootings-2023-gun-violence/index.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11907933/Nashville-school-shooting-Americas-129th-mass-shooting-2023.html

https://www.them.us/story/florida-bill-trans-kids-supportive-parents

Note: I wrote this in a hurry, with no real plan, and no proof-reading. If there is anything erroneous, please let me know. I apologize if it’s a bit disjointed.

#politics #us politics #gun violence #mass shooting #school shooting #transphobia mention #implied homophobia #queer politics #mass shooter #mass shooters #death #violence #lgbtqia+ politics #gun control

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terfslying · 5 years

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What is the deal with the NLPB situation? A compilation of all the evidence I’ve ever found

A lot of us in the antiterf community are rightly skeptical of accepting outright claims that individual trans women are predators based on minimal evidence. So lets examine the @nerdylilpeebee situation in a bit of depth!

tl;dr - the evidence of NLPB’s supposed pedophilia is well and truly blown out of proportion and I think we can safely say that NLPB does not create, reblog or distribute drawn child pornography.

Here is every accusation I have found through my own blogs and the tags (I have edited to remove misgendering because this is my post, I am Queen here):

our-common-condition (in reblog): Nerdylilpeebee is the new blog of Lolivampirequeen, who was responsible for posting lolicon, shota, and other drawn pedophilia.

anticoincidencecircuit (in PM to me): I don’t have sources for Nerdylilpeebee being a pedo except for some old tumblr callouts for [her] old screenname on against-map blogs.

anonymous ask to me: isn’t Nerdylilpeebee that Lolivampirequeen pedo?

anonymous ask on witches-against-maps (tagged “lolivampirequeen”): big head’s up to all anti-terf bloggers, there is a user named lolivampirequeen who will join in your fight against exclusionary feminism who will pretend to be your friend, then send you lolicon images (cartoon pedophilia). block and report everyone!

uteri-my-duderi post (tagged “nerdylilpeebee”): Nerdylilpeebee is [...] a pedophile. Those screenshots were just the tip of the fucking iceburg (sic). Don’t bother deleting.

Discyours also had a high-profile about-face on the situation recently, after mostly disregarding the rumours. I suspect everyone has already seen the post. Here’s an excerpt:

NLPB: These blogs? I followed thinking there was no NSFW. I don’t look at them much, but stuff pops up on my dash. I reblog the cute stuff I find. If that makes me a pedo, then whatever.

Discyours: but you said you’ve seen “questionable” stuff [once or twice]. That doesn’t disturb you? Doesn’t even make you unfollow?

NLPB: It disturbs me, yeah. But I’ve kinda learned to ignore it. In the anime community, it’s rare to find cute stuff without pervy stuff following closely nearby. If I want [to follow] the cute stuff, I have to put up with the mild NSFW. […] I never said it was nothing or that it doesn’t matter. I said that it’s currently a reality you have to deal with in the anime community. Densensitization comes with the territory.

Discyours: Desensitisation to the sexualisation of children

NLPB: Yeah. It bothers me too, but yeah.

The images shown in the callout post after that fact were not images that NLPB posted or interacted with; they were images produced by users who had produced SFW images that were rebogged by NLPB.

So what do these accusations say?

Nerdylilpeebee allegedly has been responsible for drawn lolicon images

Nerdylilpeebee allegedly creates and sends lolicon images to antiterfs who trust her

Nerdylilpeebee allegedly follows and tolerates creators shotacon/lolicon images, although she may avoid reblogging NSFW images

So knowing that all of this has been accused, where is the evidence? NLPB’s blog is still the original lolivampirequeen blog just renamed, so you can go through and look at all her old posts. Having done that, it seems like there are 2 images that NLPB has had major criticism for.

The first one shows an anime image of a well-endowed woman in a bikini, flashing by pulling her skirt down and her top up. NLPB’s comment was: I don’t know about anyone else, but if a girl just straight up did this with me right in front of her, I’d be like, “Um….. What are you doing?” And I’d be blushing as red as a tomato. XD

Is it sexualised? Yes.

Is the sexualised body a child? No, that’s pretty clearly a mature woman’s body.

Is the outfit possibly a school uniform? I’d say so, yes.

Are sexy school uniforms on adult women a well-established phenomenon? Also yes, they’re commonly sold in all costume shops.

The second one shows two anime people (one seems to be a teen girl and the other an older woman). The teen girl is hugging the older woman, with her face well and truly in the woman’s ample bosom. NLPB’s comment was: My fantasy dream world. XD definitely. This is exactly what I’d want to do if I was an anime character.

Is it sexualised? Kind of - the breasts of the adult woman are clearly sexualised even though the pose is not a sexual invitation like in the first image

Is the sexualised body a child? No, the sexualisation focuses on the mature woman’s breasts.

Is the outfit of the younger character somewhat risque? Yes

Is the use of absurdly-short-skirts in “magical girl” anime a well established trope that is based on the fact that japan culturally tends to finds short skirts more acceptable than western nations? Also yes.

(Edit: I have since been told that the “younger looking” character is an adult woman goddess character with a “waif” appearance)

What do we actually have evidence for, here?

NLPB reblogs anime which may sexualize adult women

NLPB follows some anime blogs for fanart which occasionally post fanart featuring young characters that is too sexual for some people’s comfort - however these anime blogs still do not feature shotacon, lolicon, or drawn pedophilia.

Some people might still have a problem with #2. That’s your own personal business, if you want to not interact with someone for their anime tastes, you do you. But that is several worlds away from NLPB actively creating and distributing lolicon and pedophile images, as she has been accused of. Additionally, here’s a conversation I had with NLPB earlier today after seeing some rude comments towards her from radfems:

Me: I don’t personally like that anime style [that you reblog] and I do find the fandom a bit overly sexualised in some ways. It’s also absolutely not pedophilia. They’re treating all that anime as if it’s all secretly Boku no Piko or something which is bizarre.

NLPB: What is Boku no Piko???

Me: It’s an actually pedophilic hentai. Was a meme for a while ages back.

NLPB: [...] I think I saw the name on here once. But I still never knew what it was. It’s pretty gross that anime like that is allowed to exist, tbh.

So here is what we should take away from this situation:

There is no evidence that NLPB is responsible for drawing or distributing pedophilia images, either publically on her blog or directly in PMs

There is no evidence that the risque anime images NLPB has posted in the past are sexualising children in any specific way

There is no evidence that NLPB is tolerant of actual child pornography or explicit shotacon; she has stated she is desensitized to the potential sexuality of the girly anime genre images. She did not state that she is desensitized to actual pedophilic images.

NLPB is not knowledgeable about very infamous pedophilic hentai videos and images, and also disapproves of them strongly.

Obviously if anyone actually has any evidence, feel free to PM me and I’ll keep your identity quiet - I’m not interested in supporting actual pedophiles. But it seems like so far there are no victims, and no crimes either.

And given the TERF predilection to call trans women predators, rapists and pedophiles, we need to practice some skepticism when it comes to these accusations.

#nerdylilpeebee #lolivampirequeen #anti terf

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0rionz-belt · 2 years

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I posted 8,932 times in 2021

1055 posts created (12%)

7877 posts reblogged (88%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 7.5 posts.

I added 115 tags in 2021

#dont reblog - 23 posts

#chucky - 20 posts

#dont interact - 19 posts

#dont ask - 16 posts

#vent - 15 posts

#chucky spoilers - 6 posts

#ok to reblog - 4 posts

#rant - 4 posts

#rtvs - 4 posts

#what the fuck - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#yes i know i’m fat but y’all saw the shit i was posting earlier i’m allowed to have coping mechanisms like this bc i don’t have a therapist

My Top Posts in 2021

just finished watching a playthrough of The Devil's Playhouse

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Temporary DNI list until I finish my official carrd

•Usual DNI stuff (Homphobes, Transphobes/TERFs (yes, including towards non-binary people and the identities that fall under that label), transmed/truscum, biphobes, panphobes, aphobes, “pro-ship”/“anti-anti”/pedophiles, 18+ accounts, DD/LG, islamaphobes, anti-semites, racists, anti BLM, Anti ACAB, pro-life, ableist (in any way, shape, or form) support autism speaks, anti self diagnosis)

•if you are republican and/or support trump.

•if you do not directly consider yourself republican or a trump supporter but still stand by, attempt to justify, or excuse their actions. This includes “centrists”.

•if you support billionaires like elon musk or the kardashians, defend them in any way, or do not speak out against them.

•if you support and/or defend capitalism

•if you like any of the following things (the ones in red apply to existing followers. These don't apply if I followed you first.):

H*zbin H*tel or any of V*vzie’s work, Kp*p, D*ng*nronpa, MSI, P!ATD, TØP, L*na D*l R*y, literally any fucking popular musician right now because i cant keep track of them anymore but the fans are almost always shitty, m*lanie m*rtinez, h*milton, p*wd*ep*e, Stephen King, Att*ck on T*tan, M*rvel

Ask to follow if you like these things (Does not apply if you already follow me or if I followed you first):

H*destown, The Pr*m, SU, most animes, H*nnibal, D*sney, Inv*der Z*m, B**tlejuice, Dr**mSMP, MCYT, H*mestuck

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So does no one on tumblr want to talk about the fact that the Welcome To Hell 2 trailer dropped today

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83 notes • Posted 2021-04-30 00:32:31 GMT

People in the chucky tag are whining about horror in a horror series. Astonishing.

Did you all forget Tiffany isn’t innocent in any capacity or did y’all just skip over all the movies except for seed of chucky.

100 notes • Posted 2021-12-01 08:08:19 GMT

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#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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