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don't hide firefox propaganda in the tags!! brb installing this rn
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I need this in my life can’t wait to install
mobile firefox does this automatically for inactive tabs.
i rarely ever use mobile chrome anymore.
Mozilla urges users to update Firefox after critical CVE-2024-9680 vulnerability is actively exploited.
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I've checked it and the info is true. Luckily it was immediately addressed by Mozilla and the update with fix is available. The issue was described in following versions:
Firefox 131.0.2
Firefox ESR 128.3.1
Firefox ESR 115.16.1.
If you are not sure how to check if your version is updated on PC then go to Help -> About Firefox and check if your browser says "Firefox is up to date". If it's not there should be a button to update your browser to fixed version! This is how it should look like after update:
Stay safe!
Me: Hey you should care about real people and their issues than the issues of fictional characters
Them: So you support pedophilia and abuse apologism?
Me: ????? ?? ??? ?????
Also them:*is saying that to the minors and abuse victims they’re trying oh so hard to protect*
On the whole did or didn’t Rose kill pink diamond murder mystery arc. I keep remembering way back to Avatar the last air bender. There was en episode where Aang went on trial or a murder committed in his past life. They collected a bunch of evident to prove the avatar innocent then at the last moment avatar Kyoshi manifested and confessed then left Aang to hang.
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This is a freakn’ wonderful idea and needs to be spread around to let people know.
At first I thought this was just some other knife.
But then I realized - it’s a switch blade
Enhance (via arbili)
Soon we will have gathered enough power and the ritual may begin.
i didnt realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to p//edophi|ia and they explicitly support the posting of such works yikes
it wasn’t, like, ~~~we luv pedophilia, it was way more complicated than that!
although it’s true AO3 does allow all fannish content provided it’s properly warned for, there’s a long history there - of spaces being used by fans until the host decided whatever we were doing was too weird and distasteful and either kicking us off, banning certain content, or changing the nature of the site until it was no longer viable as a host.
you’re referring to the LJ Strikethrough of 2007, which, being an ancient crone, I lived through, and since I was hanging out in the last vestiges of SGA and in bandom, I saw some of the fallout. this was before LJ was sold to the Russians (which is a whole ‘nother story), when it was still owned by Six Apart; in an effort to clean up LJ’s act, Six Apart decided to delete all accounts using tags like underage, incest, rape, etc.
this was supposed to get rid of actual child porn on the site, and I hope it did, but it also targeted fan communities. this was a problem for a couple reasons; for one thing, not every story tagged with these words is in favor of them; for another, these things happen to real people and these personal posts were also potentially in danger of being attacked; for the last one, look, I ain’t into this kind of fic but people write about what people write about, and if it’s fictional and not explicitly banned in the TOS (correct me if I’m wrong; I don’t think written content about this stuff was banned?) then it’s not cool for a content host to just start deleting communities without warning.
but that’s what happened! these deletions were also primarily targeting slash communities, which smacked of some serious homophobia since things were deleted that had nothing to do with any of this kind of content.
eventually someone found out it was this super conservative religious group who’d sent a list of journal names to Six Apart, and who if I remember correctly targeted slash fic on purpose, even after it became clear that the fic was, well, totally fictional. after a while, Six Apart admitted they’d made a mistake and started to reinstate journals, but all of fandom was pretty shaken up.
THEN Boldthrough happened, which was essentially the same debacle several months later, at which point fandom began its long slow migration from LJ to GJ, IJ, and eventually AO3, Twitter, and tumblr.
AO3 was opened in 2008 in response to several incidents, of which Strikethrough was a really intense one. remember, also, that back in 2008 the stigma surrounding fandom was significantly greater and more shameful than it is today, so finding hosts willing to archive fic was difficult unless someone had the dough to pay for server space - often not an option. this was also back when fanfic.net’s HTML restrictions were so great that users couldn’t use any special characters or bold or italicize anything, and it didn’t allow R-rated content, so it was clearly not ideal. in addition, although cease & desist letters were much less common than they were in the early 2000s and before, DMCA takedowns were still a phantom on the horizon.
LONG STORY SHORT, even though pedophilia is reprehensible and I personally cannot stomach fanfic that involves that kind of content, AO3 was founded specially as a safe space for fandom communities that could not find homes elsewhere. it requires warnings precisely for that reason, and if you find a story that is not properly warned, you can alert the admins and get the story labeled appropriately.
IDK, maybe it’s just because I am, again, ancient, but I was in and around fandom before homosexuality was legal in all 50 states. so were most of the people who started AO3. for most of my formative life, being gay was associated with pedophilia, and so was writing about gay characters. just - it’s a lot more complicated than you might expect, and there’s a reason many older fans who have been involved in several generations of fandom were so grateful to have AO3 as an option.
I don’t read, for example, Hydra Trash Party fics. They squick me, and I generally feel they are pretty gross. But writing noncon body-horror is not the same as saying “yeah, I totally want to go out and rape and torture people for years while brainwashing them!” or even “yeah, I wouldn’t do it myself, but it would be totally okay if someone did!” Nobody is hurt by it, and nobody is going to be hurt by it. So should I have the right to go, that is gross, you don’t get to write or read that? No.
In the same way, writing about underage teens getting it on–sometimes with each other, sometimes with adults, sometimes consensually, sometimes not–is not the same as child pornography, nor does reading a fic about Hermione and Snape getting it on while she was his student mean someone thinks that would be a good and/or healthy thing in real life.
Fiction affects reality, but fiction is not reality. And writing about something does not mean you want to do it in real life, or believe that anyone should.
Let’s take a closer look at that “Ao3 supports pedophilia!” shall we?
1) The only fics I have ever come across that had actual pedophilia (i.e. someone having sex with a child), it was clearly and explicitly abuse. It was not meant to titillate or arouse. It was meant to horrify. It was seldom explicit.
2) There’s a lot more incest, but it is usually portrayed either as explicitly mutually consensual (i.e. Sam/Dean) or as abusive.
3) I’ve been in fandom for a decade and a half. When people start getting upset at “omg pedophilia, think of the children!” the fics they are usually objecting to aren’t actually pedophilia. Usually, it is teenagers having sex, especially queer sex. And people don’t like that, and use pedophilia as an excuse to shame people for writing/reading sex they don’t like.
Let’s look closer at Strikethrough, shall we? I hope that, if there were any communities of actual pedophiles on LJ, they got taken down, too. But here are some of the communities that got taken down that were not in any way supporting pedophilia and/or rape and/or incest that got taken down:
1) at least one support community for survivors of sexual abuse.
2) a literary book discussion group that was reading Lolita.
3) lots of slash fanfic communities, for things like Draco/Harry fic set in their fourth year (when both boys would have been 15).
Basically, this very conservative “family values” group hated porn, and they hated queer stuff even more, and used “but think of the children, it’s pedophilia!” to pressure LJ to get rid of huge swathes of things they didn’t like. And one time taking down the worst of it wasn’t good enough for them. No, this was step one on a moral crusade. If you acceded to their demands, all that did was whet their appetite, and soon they would be back with a new list of demands. This is why the 2007 strikethrough was not an isolated event, but rather one of a series of events, nor was LJ the only website thus targeted. It starts with anything that can get labelled “pedophilia” or “incest” because that’s low-hanging fruit. But they use that to go after anything relating to queer teen sexuality. Then anything with teen sexuality. Then once the community is already divided and diminished, they go after anything with non-con. Then whatever is next on their list. It doesn’t stop until they’ve won the point and nothing but suitably “family-friendly” fics that match their purity test are allowed.
Which is why AO3 has no morality content in their terms of service. You can’t break copyright beyond fair use (and AO3 has an expansive view of “fair use” and a team of lawyers on call). You can’t use AO3 for commercial advertising. And you can’t post ACTUAL child pornography, i.e. the things that are legally prohibited, i.e. actual photographs or videos of actual children (not teens) in sexually explicit positions–you know, the stuff that actually hurts kids. Other than that? It’s fair game. You can post anything you want, and the archive will not judge. There is no handle for the Moral Majority Family-Friendly Thought Police to latch onto, no cracks they can exploit to divide and conquer.
We’ve been down that road. It doesn’t lead anywhere good.
Reblogging this for the excellent explanation of what exactly the moral crusaders did last time. They had an explicit agenda of anti-queerness, and they specifically targeted slash and femslash communities in particular, such that many ship communities became (or started as) deliberately members-only. You had to apply, and your personal blog had to look like a real person and a fan. You were vetted, a la 1990s private servers.
During this period, Dreamwidth was also targeted by attacking its payment processor. They had to get a new one. These “Warriors” (literally called themselves that!) were totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom they didn’t like.
If you’re carrying out harassment of people right now because they’re posting works with sexual elements you don’t agree with? (And it’s always sex, never non-sexual violence, how strange….) If you’re doing that, you’re also totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom you don’t like. Because your tactics are fandom-destroying, and so is your agenda.
reblogging because this is important: strikethru and boldthru and all the various “purges” that fandom went thru about 10 years ago: this had to do with OUTSIDERS deciding that fandom in general and fanfiction in specific were evil and needed to be destroyed; unless we were writing and shipping good vanilla M/F married people. These were outsiders, going after fictional writing about fictional characters.
AO3 and OTW are HUGE, because now we have an organization, with very smart women and a lot of lawyers, that have our back. Fannish history is important, people! It has not always been this way.
This is so, so important: there’s that other post about AO3 and fanfiction floating around, about our history. People decry violent video games but no one is trying to force companies out of business. But people can and do attack fanfiction: an activity primarily written by women for women, about fictional characters. And often about sex. We have to constantly defend ourselves, protect ourselves, support each other against charges like “paeodophilia”.
^^^rebageling again for excellent commentary
Throwing this in because I was also present: This was during the American Government’s attempts to pass censorship laws on the internet. As MOST of those domains had their serves in America, they were beholden to those censorship laws. A great deal of fanfiction.net was removed because they happened to lose a goddamn courtcase. I’ve been on the site since 2002. They may not have ‘officially’ allowed NC-17 rated content (what it used to be listed as in the filters), it never did a damn thing to remove it. Ever. They had it listed as a rating option during ‘New Story’ uploading after all. It was i nthe search filters. After they lost the courtcase however, they legally had to start doing things about the mature content reports they got. The admins and mods were not actively looking for fic to remove, they were just responding to reports they had already received.
tl;dr - I know tumblr is all about black and white “you’re either all right or all wrong” thinking, but it’s important to understand what actually happened before going “ew ao3 was made to give pedophiles a safe place to post” because that is 110% not what happened.
This is why so, so many of the comparatively older fannish folks on tumblr like me are so vehemently against stuff like the anti movement and “all ships are valid UNLESS”. It smacks of censorship and content policing - and we’ve been there. We got our shit deleted and our accounts banned because someone else thought what we were reading or writing or talking about needed to just… not exist. No warning. Literally overnight. We just woke up and stuff was gone.
And yeah, the group was legit called Warriors for Innocence (or maybe of). I knew several people that were members of survivor/support groups that lost their groups - and their main support network - when Strikethrough happened (ten years ago holy shit).
You antis need to listen when us older fans tell you that the censorship you’re advocating for, when put into practice, is NOT a positive thing; it’s an extremely scary thing!
I can guarantee that you would be very, very upset if another event like LJ Strikethrough were to happen today because *you* are just as vulnerable as the rest of us! If you support the rights of marginalized groups of people, if you’re a slash or fem slash shipper, if you support gender identities that aren’t defined by biological sex, if you care about representation, if you support women, if you have any kind of kink, if you care about fandom in any capacity beyond its eradication, YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY WANT THE SORT OF CENSORSHIP YOU’RE ADVOCATING!!
Life would be so much easier if boobs were detachable.
The more I see of people on this website disagreeing with each other the more it looks like an obnoxious game of telephone where everyone is deliberately misunderstanding and gaslighting each other and arguing points that No One Ever Made
A while back there was a short video clip of the voice actors of Steven, Amethyst, & Peridot recording at the studio. In the background the director is telling Shelby not to break up and be completely monotone. People have speculated that it's an event after Lapis's departure, & Steven & Amy are trying to help her while she relapses into her older emotionless state to deal with her emotions. What do you think?
that would be really cool! but how long ago was it posted? there were times that she was pretty monotone in too short to ride.
…come to think of it, she does get pretty monotone when she’s trying to hide how upset she is about something, huh.
I believe this is the video.
The sound cuts in right with "don’t choke up, it’s just completely emotionless… like sometimes how that’s even more…“
This was recorded after to short to ride and back in december i believe so it hasn't aired yet. With Lapis leaving and multipul shorty squad eppisodes coming it looks like it may be Peridot not handling living alone so well.
I do like Lapis but i look foward to her being away for a bit. She's just to conveintly OP to have around. She could put a stop to just about anything herself.
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the notes are broken 😂
Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes.
Any thoughts about the idea that Garnet gets no character development outside of being a fusion? I'm trying to see both sides of the argument and was curious about your thoughts on the matter.
(Thanks for the ask! Sorry for the late reply.)
I strongly disagree with that idea. Garnet is very much her own character outside of Sapphire and Ruby and while her development may not be as obvious and forefront as, say, Pearl’s or Peridot’s, it’s still happening. Personally, I see it more as a slow burn development similar to Lapis’.
I think the episode Three Gems and a Baby showed a great deal of Garnet’s vulnerability. Once the reality sunk in that Rose was gone for good, she took it upon herself to harden up and rise as the new leader of the Crystal Gems. I feel this ep shed a lot of light on her stoic and reserved demeanor for most of Season 1. She’s not the same person now as she was in earlier episodes, and her big reveal as a fusion wasn’t the only reason for that change.
To say that Garnet doesn’t have any character development outside of fusion, would be saying that she possesses no character flaws. But we know that’s not true. Her biggest character flaw (imo) is her occasional dishonesty towards Steven. She withholds information from him, gets heated when he argues with her (when he’s 100% right to do so), and has even lied to him on at least two occasions. This isn’t a trait only unique to Ruby or Sapphire. This is Garnet’s.
Assuming Garnet did lie to Steven about Rose shattering PD, Garnet will eventually have to a) come clean about the lie, or b) answer to Steven if/when he finds out that she violated his unwavering trust by painting his mother as a murderer. So yeah, there’ll be lots of character development there! (And most likely tears!)
Yes, thank you so much for this post! I keep seeing people complain about how character’s development/identity has stagnated, but it hasn’t! And I’m going to add some more points to back this up.
Let’s consider the option that Garnet didn’t lie to Steven regarding Pink Diamond’s shattering. Or, at least, didn’t knowingly lie. She told the truth as she knew it. That means someone else kept information from her– definitely Rose, very likely Pearl. If so, that’s some element of their relationship she’s going to have to come to terms with. We’ve already explored the issues of honesty and trust between Pearl and Garnet in the Sardonyx arc, so the chance to re-visit that could be really fascinating.
On the topic of Garnet dealing with trust issues in regards to her closest friends… let’s recall the Bismuth situation. She and Pearl are in a really similar situation there. Both of them were so overjoyed to have their old friend returned to them. Then they had to cope with their friend betraying some personal ideals they held close and nearly killing Steven. On top of all of this, the realization that Rose kept an incredible terrible and personal secret from them. For now, it looks like they’re both ‘coping’ by just repressing. Bubble Bismuth away. Don’t think about the implications of it. But that’s not healthy, and it’ll be fascinating to see their reactions when Bis finally gets to come back out.
Let’s look specifically at Garnet and Amethyst’s relationship, because that has grown a lot. In season 1 and 2, the relationship was fraught with this… hidden tension, one that pushed Amethyst into a lot of reckless behaviour. But not just Amethyst either. This is really shown in Sugilite– her flying off the handle in ‘Coach Steven’ wasn’t because Pearl left them there. That was just an excuse. Suggy was acting out all of her components shared rage and betrayal at Rose leaving them, the two having to step up in her absence, and the frustrating ways Pearl handled their grief. Things that Garnet was always feeling but refused to acknowledge, and Amethyst gave her the chance to act on. Thankfully their relationship has gotten a lot better since then. I’d love to see a Sugilite episode which could really highlight that, or even just a chance for Garnet and Amethyst’s dynamic to re-share the spotlight
Garnet still has a lot of internalized Homeworld baggage, and she still doesn’t even realize it. Step one: her opinion in regards to Rubies. In her flashback, we see that Ruby regarded all her fellows as being basically less than clones, pretty much just one anonymous whole. Five thousand years later, and she still thinks that. The way she treated all of the Ruby-squad as interchangeable, and blamed Navy for trying to stab Steven, even though as Steven pointed out, that was Eyeball. This is… pretty unhealthy, both to herself, and potential allies. We don’t know what Garnet’s perspective on other Sapphires is, but it’ll be kind of fascinating… but we might finally have the chance. After all, Pad’s a part of the Off Colors, who also include another Ruby fusion. Meeting them might a chance for Garnet to dig into these identity issues, and sort out some important feelings in regards to where her own self worth comes from.
And for the queen of fusion, it’s also possible she still has a complicated relationship with that– or at least, same-Gem fusion. Ruby called that, “just me, but bigger”… and as Topaz showed us, that isn’t necessarily true. Garnet is just the type of person who can get it into her head that ‘my way is the right way’, and dismiss alternatives, so it would be interesting for her to confront people who’ve decided to express their love in a way that doesn’t quite fit her own experiences.
So in summary… Garnet’s made a lot of strides, but she’s still repressing a lot of stuff. The show has a lot of room for her to continue to develop her relationships with characters new and old, as she comes to understand them and herself better.
@elexuscal made a lot of awesome points that we actually didn’t talk about in our Garnet meta because the episodes hadn’t aired yet, but if OP or anyone is interested, we wrote a really in depth character piece on her: Let’s Talk About Garnet
how to know you are a norse mythology geek:
upon seeing THIS in the thor: ragnarok trailer
you scream, “FENRIR! HI PUPPER!!!!”
IT GOT BETTER OMFG IM CRYING
Yeah… me too. I wanna pat the very big pupper.
And this is how The End is stopped. Not by the gods or goddesses, the other races than man, no. It is Tumblr. As a mass running after a now confused and tail tucking Fenrir, whining softly as the crowd chants “PUPPER! PUPPER! PUPPER!”
Better yet: Fenrir escapes his chains and lopes forward to destroy the earth, and is met by a crowd of people. An army, Fenrir thinks, and bares his teeth in a ferocious snarl and charges toward them.
They cheer.
Wait … cheer?
Fenrir slows, confused. He smells no fear, senses no rage. This is … a very strange army.
The first hand—weaponless!—reaches for him; he tenses, ready to tear the offending limb to shreds, and lets out a high little yippy whine when it pats him about the ears.
Immediately the noise is reproduced by some four or five of the nearest humans; he smells excitement; more hands are patting him.
It’s nice.
The humans crowd around him, patting him and scritching him and shuffling around to give others a chance. Voices coo, and make puppy noises, and someone catches just the right spot and he cocks his leg and scratches himself, drawing a multitude of oohs and ahhs and cheers and squees.
At some point, his hunger awakens at the scent of burnt flesh; a human has brought him what he later learns is a hot dog; he swallows it in one bite, to more cheering, and looks around hopefully for more.
It is not long before more is bought: steaks and Big Macs and bacon; it seems like much of the group has brought him a snack of some kind and was hoping for a chance to give it to him.
The End of the World is supposed to be at hand, but Fenrir does not care. His hunger sated, his battle-lust swept away by a tide of gently petting hands, he rolls over, careful not to crush his many companions, and takes a nap.
Thermohalia
