Seann Lives

writer, reader, all around doofus. he/him. 34 linktr.ee/seannwritesstuff

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

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[foxboytail]

As a young adult, I used to think what messed me up as a kid was having completely unfiltered access to things I wasn’t ready for, like NSFW content, gore, heavy discourse, and the existence of predatory adults online. But now that I’m older, I see it differently.

The problem wasn’t what I had access to. It was that I didn’t have access to a safe adult I could actually talk to; someone I could trust to help me without immediately cutting me off from everything and everyone. I remember getting messages from strangers on Skype. I didn’t even respond. But when my parents found out, they banned me from using it entirely. That meant losing most of my contact with friends outside of school. So what did I do? I went behind their backs. And once I was hiding, I couldn’t tell them when something actually dangerous was happening, like when I started being groomed. By the time things escalated, I was already alone with it.

I think about an episode of Scared Straight where a girl was dragged through a prison because she’d been talking to adult men online. She wasn’t doing that because she was reckless or malicious; she was lonely. Her parents weren’t present, she was being bullied at school, and these men gave her attention, told her she was pretty, told her she mattered. She was already being harmed. And the adults in her life responded by terrorizing her. Humiliating her. Calling her a slut. Telling her she deserved it. Breaking her to pieces.

What lesson does that actually teach? Not “this is dangerous, come to us.” It teaches: If you get hurt, we will hurt you more. Do you really think that makes her stop, or does it just make the predators look safer by comparison? They might as well have driven her straight into the jaws of those predators with torches and pitchforks. Because when every path back to safety is lined with punishment, kids don’t run away from danger. They run deeper into it.

If you want kids to be safe, stop treating them like problems to control and start treating them like people worth protecting. Stop ripping away their autonomy the second they make a mistake or encounter something risky. Stop teaching them that honesty will cost them everything.

Be the person they can come to without fear of losing their entire world. Because safety isn’t built through control, it’s built through trust. And if you aren’t safe for them to tell the truth to, then you aren’t keeping them safe at all.

[mortalityplays]

there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone

[trekbec82]

I'll be honest, some of us aren't up in arms because we're middle-aged and tired. We're so used to the writing being on the wall that we have it memorised like the graffiti in a public toilet we use regularly. It's not news to us that the misogyny is baked in.

[mortalityplays]

too ~tired~ to make a fuss when your sisters are litigated out of existence but just enough energy to turn to climb up on a post like this and make excuses. genuinely pathetic. grow up.

[trekbec82]

Sometimes "tired" is code for "disabled but don't want to talk about that right now" so I'm just gonna continue supporting the trans people I know personally, and voting carefully on election day, because that's all I have the energy for. If you have the energy for more then you're fortunate, and I hope you don't end up tired some day too.

[mortalityplays]

YOU commented on MY post

[trekbec82]

Yeah, I did, because there are reasons - not just excuses - why every woman in the world isn't up in arms. If you got off your high horse for five minutes maybe you'd see that.

[mortalityplays]

I forgot about the omelas girl... I'm sorry women...

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

Check out my newest book

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

We are just two sales away from 20 copies sold in the first week! Can I get two more sales today?

[blumemes]

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

Check out my newest book

[chumbie]

NOOOOO NOT DOUGLAS

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Inappropriate Douglas

[certainly-april]

Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!

[grimoiremanifest]

❗️Great Hog is displeased by this.

The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"

- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.

[certainly-april]

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

Check out my newest book

[sacred-portal]

[orcboxer]

autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally

[peopleingishard]

^not my post but same sentiment

[vvvarinn]

huge update

[vvvarinn]

[vvvarinn]

[furryprovocateur]

hey. hey what the fuck.

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

Be honest, do you think ad would be effective?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[samshine-and-lollipops-deactiva]

Wait, it got better.

[libertineangel]

He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:

For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.

[horizon-penblade]

It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[free-post-store]

$0

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Automated Love

[circle of love] Nora Roberts: ok ladies we've got a new storyteller here tonight Roberts: everyone say hi to Coral hart Coral Hart: oh that's not my real name Hart: i have to keep my real name secret because readers hate anything its associated with Roberts:

Roberts: uh ok Roberts: so anyway, let's hear your story Coral Hart: oh i'm not here to tell a story Hart: i'm here to tell you about an amazing business opportunity

Hart: see, i use AI to churn out books Hart: now granted, the AI is bad at it and readers hate it Hart: as i said in my new york times profile Hart: but it's my hope that eventually Hart: we'll wear them down

Hart: just imagine a glorious future where all books are AI garbage so readers have no choice but to read them Hart: also maybe we could make it illegal to say that AI is bad Hart: just a thought Hart: i think that would be a great idea

Hart: with AI, i sell one million books a day and i make over a hundred trillion dollars in pure profit every day Nora Roberts: that's a bold claim Roberts: could we see those numbers? Hart: c'mon Hart: trust me bro Hart: would i lie?

Nora Roberts: could we see some of these numbers Coral Hart: WHOA i didn't expect the spanish inquisition!! Hart: can't you just unquestioningly accept my clealry absurd claims like the new york times did? Hart: it is the paper of record, you know

[previously in the NYT] Hart: i've sold AI to to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and by gum it put them on the map NYT: wow! sounds legit! Hart: and look! i've got your nose! NYT: OH MY GAWD NYT: are you a wizard??

Sandra Hill: i'm skeptical Hill: there's no way that an ai could love a viking as much as i do Hart: the ai can do anything you prompt it to Hill: no Hill: it is not possible for it to love a viking as much as i do

Hart: as you all know, writing is a long, labor-intensive process Hart: haven't you ever asked Hart: can't someone else do it? Colleen Hoover: can i kill her Nora Roberts: no! no colleen! Hoover: but it would be so hottt

Roberts: no colleen! no killing! Hoover: but i wanna Roberts: we've had this discussion before Hoover: you let mary shelley stab all sorts of people Roberts: that's different Roberts: that's just horseplay Roberts: i don't think she actually wants to kill anyone Mary Shelley: whoa i wouldn't go that far

Hoover: the time of the blood reckoning is at hand Hoover: i will see the light go out in your eyes, until you are an inert meat bag Hoover: god this is so hot Hoover: i am just sopping right now Roberts: yeah its stuff like that Roberts: see, mary kind of keeps her murders a little more light and fun Mary Shelley: that's right, i do