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and out of the darkness - you you you you you
i call this "grace and rocky versus archive of our own"
bonus featuring adrian:
I need an outsider pov fic of Grace and Rocky somehow having access to the internet and starting a blog, but no one is sure if it’s real or a troll because How. Like they do fic review or Grace posts his academic stuff online and everyone is just really confused lmao
Thems the holidays I guess (*coughs in gay*)
Under a starry sky
We go forward.
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Oh look it’s that short comic that’s haunted me for a decade.
Nearly 2 million reblogs, 10 years, and it’s never crossed my path once. Should have. Never did.
Only now that I’ve made the jump into my incredibly terrifying future is it here.
We go forward.
Ok. I get it. I’m doing it. I’m going.
kicking a hornets nest.
"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.
"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.
"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).
This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"
and
"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"
are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.
If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.
DUDE IT’S PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEY’RE NASTY
Let me explain this to you in simple terms.
Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.
If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.
This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.
I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."
And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.
The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.
Either you’re for it or you aren’t.
The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.
Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?
When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.
Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?
When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.
Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.
Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.
Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??
The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.
The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.
This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.
Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.
And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.
It’s not that there isn’t widespread societal agreement on this. It’s that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.
Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.
In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."
Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".
Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
LJ also deleted a lot of chibi-style art, because they couldn't understand that the characters were not children.
I once read an interview with a county sheriff who thought Animal Crossing should be banned because he could only see it as pedo bait. I really don't think the problem there was with the game.
I do not remember the sheriff doing that but I remember this video (link to reddit since I cannot find the original) going around about Animal Crossing being "dangerous for kids"
The "pedo" argument is what we call a Straw Man Fallacy, and it's one of the most common logical fallacies in bad-faith arguments. It's when someone misrepresents an argument to make it harder to argue against.
Example:
Me: I think clergy who sexually abuse children should be held accountable for their actions.
Straw man: OMG why are you persecuting Christians????
What we're seeing here is the same thing.
Me: Censorship is bad. Freedom of expression is crucial to a free society.
Straw man: OMG why do you love pedophilia????
Literally nobody is saying that. But framing the anti-censorship position as somehow being pro-pedophile is a) bullshit and b) a tactic to force anti-censorship advocates to back away from their position.
It's exactly the same as when people advocate for defunding the police or holding them accountable and the GOP comes back with WHY ARE YOU SOFT ON CRIME, WHY DO YOU LOVE CRIMINALS?
So congrats, you're using the same arguments as fascists.
If you want freedom, that means some of the things people choose to express are going to make you uncomfortable. That's the price of doing business, y'all.
But some of y'all don't actually want freedom. You want to feel comfy and safe at all times. Those two things are incompatible.
Y'all really need to let go of the idea that reading or watching something "impure" makes you evil. We're talking about fictional works here. As in somebody's thoughts. You're saying "this person shouldn't be allowed to share their thoughts."
Fascist bullshit.
Scar visits his secret life counterpart, he had gem teach him how to travel realties properly, he's trying to help keep secret life scar sane. Secret life scar is very clingy bc he's lonely. The secret keeper doesn't know what to do about this, especially because last time it tried to give hermitcraft scar a task, part the the season 8 moon, ablaze with fire from the sacrificial pit, crashed right next to the statue, both scars think this is hilarious.
Eventually, after begging pearl to use Santa Pearla magic and Joel to use godly magic to help make a cat immortal (a cat that looks like Jellie) and gem's help to bring a cat to secret life, Secret!Scar greets Hermit!Scar, and gem, and they have a gift
He gets really really excited about His Jellie, he loves her so much, but then he realizes, secret life is dangerous, and a death game and now he's worried about Jellie, then gem and hermit!scar explained that she is blessed by two gods to keep her safe.
None of the people involved know that Grian threatened the secret keeper and the moon fragment(that is still on fire, Hermit!scar is trying to convince Secret!scar to join the mooners) was his doing. He's protecting His Scar, since he couldn't protect secret life scar.
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hey, light of my life
We had a discussion of Ringmaster vs. Hotguy…. I said they should just kiss it out.
this w them
A common thing I see on here is "adrenaline is unique to humans and terrifying to everything else".
Now I know realistically it's unlikely other alien species don't have some sort of survival hormone as well, but in the chance that they don't I feel like there's a lot of untouched potential for this.
Because adrenaline has been discussed for fight-or flight situations before; mothers protecting their children, people lifting cars or buildings off other people, surviving in bullshit situations out of sheer willpower; but the way we play with it has to be a cause of conversation amongst other intergalactic species too.
Like we have rollercoasters, theme park rides, horror movies. We jumpscare each other and teach our kids little hunting games like tag, hide-and-seek, and red light green light. We play video games where we hide from a pursuer in a threatening environment and our bodies react like we're actually being stalked in real life, and we do it on purpose.
Because most other earth animal species have adrenaline (or epinephrine), but none of them really seek it out for thrill purposes like humans do. It makes you wonder what aliens would think of us, since we're apparently little freaks that like to be scared on purpose.
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wait, the bible has a FANDOM???
What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?
My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually
Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.
What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.
I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.
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okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.
Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).
We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.
The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).
This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.
OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*
And once again, the internet makes learning history and science a thousand times more interesting than school ever did.
I love shit like this.
I was totally having thoughts along these lines and along comes tumblr to pretty much sum it all up. Bravo~
This
This is the science shit that entertains me
Has it uploaded yet? Just wondering ^^
Not quite yet.
I know it’s 11pm EST now, but I’m so close to done. The ao3 curse has intercepted me at literally every turn. I’ve literally never had it this bad before, even my beta readers can attest.
Even if this doesn’t actually get posted until it’s technically Wednesday, I promise you’ll all enjoy what I have in store for you. Hold on just a bit longer for me, please🙏
Good thing I don’t have work tmr :)