probably should be writing

WARNING: if you're under 18 and follow me, you'll get blocked || icon by excellent @morganida || header image by meme master @orewing

[big-stupid-jellyfish]

it pains me to log into this god forsaken hellsite again, but i noticed i’ve been getting followers that seem to be regular people and not advanced porn bots (i’m not reporting those, fuck staff for thinking i’ll be doing this job for them), so before this blog gets some of cat pics flagged and deleted, i wanted to make it clear i’m not here anymore

if for some incomprehensible reason you still want to see me wiggling on social media, you can find me on twitter:

mimimivirus is my main twitter account where i extensively complain about videogames

stupidjellies is side twitter account for being horny off main and complaining about my writing

bigstupidjellyfish is my only ao3 account

under no circumstances follow me or interact with my fics if you’re under 18

that’s all

[crashqueerz]

So.

[colonelfind-it]

a dnd party of made up entirely of orc bards

[colonelfind-it]

an orchestra

[hyades-coronis]

Users: “There is only one thing worse than a bot”

pulls off paper to reveal “porn bot”

“Boom.”

Staff: “Porn”

Users: “No.”

[maswartz]

WELCOME BACK! For those who logged off, this is what you missed.

1. @staff made a post pretty much saying “Your stuff isn’t getting deleted, just hidden from everyone but you” and “Yeah we know you hate the term “female presenting nipples” but we ain’t gonna stop saying it” 2. If a blog has a pixelated icon that means they got hit by the ban, you cannot view that blog outside the sidebar. You cannot even view their archive. Allegedly if you follow the advice in this post it’ll be fixed but only if it was an accidental flag (aka a real sfw blog) 3. The post Staff made including examples of what was ok to post. It got flagged. 4. Yes, the bots are still here. Yes they are still stealing posts and putting porn links on them. Yes there are still ads with stuff more sexual than they allow in posts. Yes innocent things are still getting flagged. 5. So yes, the site is still here and staff are still morons.

[dimagoryainov]

Black Armory branding and weapon designs created for Season of the Forge in Destiny 2. 

[telesilla]

This Vagabond Fandom Life

The first thing you have to understand is that no one wants us. No one has ever wanted us. And by us I don’t mean fans in general, but creative Fandom, if you will. Transformative fandom–writers and artists and gif makers and vidders and podcasters and podficcers and the community that supports them.

Don’t be fooled by the occasional mainstream media article that uses mostly respectful language or the academic study that talks about transgressive fannish behavior like it’s admirable.  People reading those news articles laugh at us and you don’t exactly see universities creating Fandom Studies departments. 

Nor do we have the buying power we like to think we do. Think about it. We wouldn’t have to transform media to suit ourselves if that media already existed. If Marvel gave a damn about Fandom money vs fandom money, they’d be the ones posting the explicit Cap/Iron Man pics. They’ll take our money, but it’s not as important as small-f fandom money because there’s nowhere near as much of it. 

So that leaves ue as exactly what we are: extreme niche hobbyists. And you know what? We’re not even nice, easy, safe, niche hobbyists like knitters or…idk, curling fans. We like trangressive sex a whole lot, we tread a very fine legal line in a time when intellectual property laws are a big fucking deal, we’re hard to advertise to, and, to make things worse, we have a nasty habit of dragging our platform admins into our petty, internecine Fandom Drama.

(seriously it’s like if the dude who runs the Giants SB Nation site went running to the SB Nation admins saying that the dude who runs the Dodgers site is a pedophile just because he implied Madison Bumgarner might be a little racist.)

But Telesilla, you say. Are we really bound to your fate? Destined to spend our fannish lives like you have, migrating from one site after another, always losing people and history along the way? This is so depressing! There has to be an answer!

Well, once upon a time I thought the answer was “by fans for fans” and wow, have I been burned by that one. Our greatest triumph is routinely attacked by its own users and our best functioning social media platform doesn’t have the bells and whistles corporate sites can offer. And AO3 and Dreamwidth are the success stories. Ask me about JournalFen. (on second thought, don’t. I don’t have the energy to explain without overusing the word “robust” and talking about ice weasels.)

I’m enough of a Old Time Internet Person to still think doing it ourselves is the best answer we have, but it takes a special kind of person to dedicate themselves to  serving a notoriously fractious internet community that has no money and wants you to cater to their every whim. It takes an even more special kind of person to do it long term. Fandom history shows us that those people don’t come along often. (personal history shows me that I am, alas, not one of them.)

Until they do, we’ll just lurch from corporate platform that doesn’t really want us to corporate platform that doesn’t really want us. Because that’s the bottom line–we’re an extreme niche hobby and there’s no real money to be made off us. Under late capitalism…well, I don’t want to be that Fandom Old, but really, what did we expect?

[vimeddiart]

Some Venom things for practice!

[ardwynna]

I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality,  that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.

[weconqueratdawn]

I can’t stress enough how important this post is

[unamedwatcher]

Right when we all decided that we all knew this, and stopped posting things like “don’t like, don’t read” and “not my characters please don’t sue” and “the views in here are not my views but ____ is a terrible person, so this is what it’s like in his mind” WE got complacent. We can hardly condemn the young ones for their ignorance because of that.

So maybe tags are supposed to communicate that? But I’ve never read the tags and understood that “this is just a kink, and not necessarily the author’s thing”. They only communicate that if you already understand them to be shorthand for it.

Have you ever read an academic paper that was CLEARLY written for people who already knew all the technical jargon? Imagine having to wade through that just to read a short story about two fictional people boning. The labels, tags, ratings, warnings, and venues only work as intended when the audience already speaks that lingo. So again, I say we can’t blame the youth for being ignorant when NO ONE IS TEACHING THIS STUFF ANYMORE.

[ardwynna]

I have literally never seen that last one and in any case, the kids know damn well about dl;dr, they’re just purity-policing fandom and being ageist and misogynistic in general. It’s not inexperience and ignorance as I first believed, but deliberate cyberbullying.

[golbatgender]

That said, not constantly reiterating those principles did make it easier for purity culture to spread, and for people to believe that we might not have a strong reality/fiction distinction–after all, we’re the scary homosexual pornographers on the internet, basically everything everyone’s parents warned us about, except for the part where we’re not predators and want basically nothing to do with teenagers!

[cbtcbtcbtcbtcbt-deactivated2021]

OH MY GOD

Credit.

Lines said:

“Oh no. I don’t have a medal for this. Hang on…”

“I’m so proud of you Guardian, and I want you to have this.”

[kmclaude]

Canaries in the Coal Mine: If you cheered on censorship of weird art, you’re part of this problem

Unpopular fact that needs to be said now: if you ignored or worse cheered on the constant encroaching censorship of artists and didn’t speak up because it wasn’t the ‘right’ kind of art (your ~pure eroti ca~ art) that was under fire, you’re 100% part of the problem.

The weird ero artists, the hardcore ero artists, the distasteful ero artists, those gross artists have been your canary in the coal mine and y'all decided it was canary season and now… well we may all be in the grave YOU dug but guess what, you’re here too!

Maybe y'all will learn a lesson. Maybe y'all will stop flinging around false accusations for peak woke points and stop censoring art you find icky and artists that don’t peddle only the purest and unproblematicest of smut. Probably not. But a boy can dream can’t he?

The solution always is to speak out against censorship. “But I’m afraid to speak out–” The rest of us who put our necks out and got burned, how do you think we feel? But we speak out against censorship. We defend ‘icky’ art. Because we know the price otherwise.

And if you won’t listen to me because I’m just some queermo who makes weird comics, then maybe you’ll listen to a professional. 

 "[I]f you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.“ - Neil Gaiman, WHY DEFEND FREEDOM OF ICKY SPEECH?, Dec. 1, 2008

[kmclaude]

Dawn of the final day and all. Hope next site we all land on you pay attention to your canaries when we speak.

[uldrensredpants]

Not to be that person but I am surprised this little snippet here isn’t plastered all over the Uldren tag.

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

Dragon age is coming back so you know what that means. Logging into your dash each day and seeing callouts because someone sided with the magical wizard rumpus club over the warlock circlejerk in their playthrough. Getting messages calling you problematic for following someone who has mixed feelings about the gnome independence movement. Seeing paragraphs upon paragraphs about how slorpity porpity the esteemed magical elf was actually justified in signing the pixie exclusion act. Get ready.

[cat-harman92]

TIME for a little lady love!!! I think this is my favorite f/f ship in the series so far! (Again tho, I’m a huge multi shipper so most of the ships are adorable in my opinion.) ADDITIONALLY I ADORE Momo, I think she’s the character, personality wise (tied with Tamaki), I feel like I can relate to the most. 

[neurodivergent-karen]

People who make callout posts about people whos only crimes are liking hentai/anime that doesn’t even involve underage characters are actually shitting on children currently undergoing CSA and survivors of it.

There is a serious problem with people’s mentality on this site when it’s uncovered that massive amounts of actual CP (actual photographs of real children being abused) were being hosted on tumblr and that’s why it got removed from the App Store. Not only that, some of these blogs were apparently run by parents who talked about sexually abusing their own children.

And you know what the anti-kink/anti-shippers response immediately was, and why it makes me so sick to my fucking stomach as a survivor of CSA?

They completely ignore that there was actual CSA and trafficking happening and immediately start whining about voltron shippers and “the hentai freaks” getting tumblr almost deleted. Like, did they even read the fucking news? Are they even capable of reading? Or do they actually not give a shit about actual real life victims? Honestly I’m leaning towards both at this point. They don’t care about victims unless they can be used as pawns by the “leaders” of this movement on tumblr.

You have callout posts on this site that are like “this person is a pedophile here’s proof” and the “proof” is anime drawings they’ve reblogged of characters who aren’t even canonically underaged. Or people calling a drawing of Mina Ashido in a cheerleading outfit child pornography.

You know what this is doing? It’s literally watering down the meaning of important and useful terms such as “pedophilia” and “child pornography” which are supposed to have clear definitions so that people know that someone is a danger to children/children are being harmed.

This isn’t actually something that’s too far off from what I’ve seen actual pedophiles do. I’ve read MAP tumblrs out of morbid curiosity and something I often noticed is whenever MAPs talked about legalizing child pornography they wouldn’t specify that “actually we only mean fictional stuff such as lolicon :)” until other people rightfully jumped down their fucking throats. (Note: I don’t trust that they only mean fictional content.)

Antis are also like this however in the vagueness of how they use terms such as “pedophilia” and “child pornography” but in the opposite direction. To them, almost anything can be defined as “actual child pornography” at this point and that is dangerous.

I got shat on by people saying that I was defending child pornography for this post despite the picture in question that was called out being a non-sexualized completely sfw drawing of Mina from BNHA.

When someone uses a sentence such as “jack off to child porn” most people will assume they are literally jacking off to images of real life children being abused, not a fucking sfw anime drawing.

This is dangerous because it creates a “boy who cried wolf” scenario and literally gives ammunition to actual fucking pedophiles to abuse children.

Whenever people hear about someone who “jacks off to cp” or is a “pedophile” their immediate first response shouldn’t be conditioned to be “okay is this person actually a pedo or do they just fap to fictional anime characters?” Eventually, people will become fatigued and will just stop even checking.

Pedophiles love this. They clearly love the fact that these terms are getting watered down because it creates “reasonable doubt” that when they talk about “legalizing child pornography”. They’re clearly capitalizing on it by using the same vague broad definition that antis use that encompasses even sfw anime drawings. It also draws the attention away from them so they can continue abusing children.

This is so fucking horrifying.

[valentinedagger]

nobody understands how to spot terf dogwhistles anymore bc everyone on this fucking site agrees with radical feminist theory as long as it doesn’t explicitly say trans people are fake lmao

[valentinedagger]

a post: liberal feminism is bullshit. women can’t make their own decisions bc they’ve been brainwashed by the patriarchy. kink is disgusting and abusive. heterosexual sex is inherently oppressive. all men are garbage and women should not date them. bisexual women who choose to date men are complicit in their own oppression and abuse. age gaps are inherently predatory as the man is always the older party and even if the woman is in her 30s, 40s, or even 50s, she cannot be consenting to an older man. all consent is invalid as it exists in a patriarchal and violent society. except consent to vanilla sex between lesbians, as that is the only non-oppressive sex.

tumblr.com users: well it doesn’t say trans women aren’t women so this is all fine and i agree with it!!!

[daxtri]

HOW CAN THE RULE THAT SEPARATES LIFE FROM DEATH BE KILLED?