this is the comedy police, the joke's too funny!

FUCK BLUE LIVES. ship rights. minor. he/she interchangeably (aux. he/him) i'm not actually that mean, i just mirror tone. main blog @h*******nd

[comedypolice]

welcome to my twisted blog

new pinned post, new losers to weed out. yeah it’s long, important bits are bolded.

the usual. no TERFs, no racists, if you follow ALM or support the police, no nazis, etc.

no nsfw/18+ blogs (i support you but no thanks)

exclusionists and gatekeepers of any sort, fuck off

radfems and sympathizers, get off my blog.

if you think the full acronym is LGBT or say LGBTPN, i’m not even going to bother. get out of here.

if you support the creator of the pink/orange lesbian flag (the 7 stripe one) you are horrible as well.

just using it is fine, but supporting the creator is not

if you gatekeep butch/femme or are against mspec gays, you clearly shouldn’t be involved in discourse. get out, also read a history book.

if you say “trumed”, “radmed/radcute” or something else instead of transmed, you are a child and need to grow up. get off my blog.

also, transmedicalists, get out.

if you’re anti-cgl, you’re also a child and have no idea what healthy BDSM is. get out.

if you think DID/OSDD are the only ways to be plural, i will personally laugh at you. get out.

people who defend l0li/sh0ta or consume it… seek therapy, or prison. get off my blog and as far away from me as possible.

i’m pro-ship, not pro-ped0, ew.

if you’re against self-DX for any reason, why do you hate people without access to healthcare? get out.

and lastly. if you think queer is inherently a slur, just block me. you’re not worth my time.

“get out” just means, DNI, DNF, get off my blog, don’t look at me, etc. i will block you if you try me. thank u.

there is no such thing as cringe culture, but to me, you are all cringe. remember: if you reply to my posts, that’s free rein for me to reply and/or dunk you.

[olderthannetfic]

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

[olderthannetfic]

For anyone who is new to my tumblr, here is the root of most of my views on fandom.

(No, this is not a complete list. Please stop suggesting that. It’s merely an illustrative sample of the exponentially larger problem.)

[olderthannetfic]

#sweet mother of god some of these are *fresh*

Oh, don’t worry, just the other week in 2022 a fic archive was deleted with 4 days notice.

There are always more where these came from.

[its-me-ej]

WHAT? 4 DAYS AGO????

[olderthannetfic]

Well, no, in late March. But the point is that they put up a banner on the site saying “Hey, I’m deleting this in 4 days. Save what you want.” It was only 4 days notice.

It wasn’t one of the porn purges or anything. It was just an old archive that wasn’t so active anymore, and the owner was tired of running it.

We lose things every day.

[comedypolice]

to the boy who needs to hear it right now: you are not inherently evil or bad or abusive or wrong for being a boy.

[comedypolice]

just so we’re clear this post was intended with transandrophobia in mind

[acetoneperoxyde]

We have been plural for nearly a decade, and we are very strongly pro-endo. We are admins of a large inclusionist plural server, and we have been participants in several research projects aiming to study non-traumagenic plurality. Our goal has always been a united, peaceful, inclusive plural community where systems of all origins can feel safe and comfortable. 

While we vehemently disagree with anti-endo systems, we want to make it clear that the ongoing doxxing campaigns are morally reprehensible, and should cease immediately. Terrorizing traumatized kids on the internet is the antithesis of our mission.

If you’re an endogenic system or an endo-friendly system, I encourage you to speak out against this campaign as well.

[baeddel-txt]

[yharnamsnewslug]

I just said "I'M SORRY????" out loud as I read this lmfao

[mad-dyspunktional]

The thing that kind of amazes me is the way the baeddels repeatedly took the TERF arguments against them and proceeded to pin them on transmasc individuals.

I mean, the idea of men sneaking into women's spaces and trying to have sex with lesbians is literally right fucking there, just directed at trans men.

[a-polite-melody]

It really isn’t hidden at all how much baeddelism is just radical feminism, just with the bioessentialism switched out to genderessentialism.

There’s also no mention of nonbinary people at all. Doesn’t matter your birth sex, it’s impossible to be stealth as nonbinary. Regardless of how hormones may affect my body, I’m not going to be gendered correctly without outing myself. Throws a huge wrench into this stuff to bring up nonbinary people because it’s all very binarist as well.

[pissvortex]

it’s so funny that like 90% of terfs on this website end up falling deeply, madly in love with a racist trad catholic guy like twice their age. 0 self preservation instincts. like wile e coyote running into a brick wall painted to look like a tunnel

[pissvortex]

getting a reply from some 20 year old white woman with a url like “terf-ritsuko” and letting it age in an oaken barrel for 3 years until it comes out as “catholic—princxss”

[pissvortex]

i am in love with the people in the notes arguing that this doesn’t exist while their followers reblog it like “what’s wrong with my catholic bf 🥺” this shit rules just keep posting through it guys

[firefox-official]

playing spot the newcomer is easy because they’re the mfs who censor everything

[firefox-official]

“unalive” “k!ll” you can be free here. loosen up

[firefox-official]

i dont know how to break this to you but saying the word kill will not influence that

[thefloatingstone]

If you're on tumblr.hell and you care about follower count you're automatically failing at tumblr.

[ironwoman359]

If you’re on tumblr.hell and you censor words like “kill” your follower count will actually be negatively impacted

[prof-grace-aspen]

No one on tumblr is an "influencer". Follower counts are not public, no one else can see them. There are no blue checkmarks. You cannot become "verified". There is no visible clout attached to your account. You are just as anonymous as everyone else here.

[saint-speaks]

Ukraine is turning back trans women attempting to flee, conscripting them instead. “They are men, they must turn back and fight.” Even those with legal changes to their birth certificate.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-develop

[saint-speaks]

“Ukrainian border guards undress you and touch you everywhere,” Judis says. “You can see on their faces they’re wondering ‘what are you?’ like you’re some kind of animal or something.”

Judis is a transgender woman whose birth certificate defines her as female.

Legally, there is no reason why she should not be allowed to pass with the thousands of women who are crossing Ukrainian borders to safety every day.

Yet, on 12 March at about 4am, after a long and humiliating search, border guards determined she was a man and prevented her passage into Poland.

[saint-speaks]

When Ukraine imposed martial law on 24 February, all men aged between 18 and 60 were banned from leaving the country.

“Martial law says all males are obliged to serve in the military, so they can’t leave the country,” says Olena Shevchenko, 39, a human rights defender and the chair of Insight, a Ukrainian LGBTQ+ organization and one of the few public organizations in the country that works with trans people. “Technically, the law applies to trans people as well, including both certified trans men and trans women who had not changed their documents. But it sounds like Ukrainian border guards are preventing even trans people with a valid certificate reflecting their new gender from leaving Ukraine, and nobody knows why.”

[transgentleman-luke-deactivated]

I'll grab a source later but also Ukrainian trans men have reported being gaslit by border officials, saying if they want to prove they're men they should stay behind and fight.

[saint-speaks]

Yeah, transgender men with M markers are legally not allowed to leave the country and have to be drafted, but I doubt passing trans men with F markers that have facial hair or are post-op, are being allowed to leave either, considering the F marker just doesn't do it (as seen with the case of trans women who have F markers)

I would like a source on the specifics that you're talking about, though, if you can find it again!

[saint-speaks]

/transcription/ A screenshot of a collection of tags from the notes. They Read: # This is what people mean when they say transphobia overrides sexism for trans people # a trans person is whatever gender makes it easier/more rewarding to oppress and malign us. /end transcription/

[transgentleman-luke-deactivated]

Source:

[skeleton-monarch]

actually i’m tired of reading good social comics and then the bad guys of the comic (police, nazis, misogynists, politicians) are all fat, with double chins or neckbeards or bald spots or stretch marks or they’re hairy or they have acne etc. and usually they’re the only ones with those features. like??? can we stop equating beauty with morality holy shit?

[libraford]

I wonder if work just.. got harder in the 2000s, comparatively.

[libraford]

So like... ok. I haven't researched this and I'm mostly thinking out loud, so forgive me.

I entered the working world in 2005. I had a few odd jobs for a few years and then finally just bit the bullet in 2009, got a job at a grocery storeas an inventory clerk. My job was to count surplus items in the backroom and update the counts. Additional responsibilities included helping stock the front end. I left that job in less than a year.

A friend of mine now works at the same chain, different location, same job title, in 2022. But where I shared that title with two other people, he's the only one with that job title. Additionally, there are less stockpersons, and he is often called out to the floor to help them, which impedes his primary job function. He is also expected to clean bathrooms and some other maintenance things that I cant imagine doing as an inventory clerk.

And I thought maybe it was just that his location is understaffed, but looking back on the past few years where I was expected to do everything (be the front end, the dispatcher, the manufacturer, the teacher, trainer, janitor, delivery driver, account handler... christ, how did I do all this?) I'm looking at the issue with fresh eyes.

I hear sometimes about the 'slim down,' where a lot of companies took on a trend of hiring less people than they need to cut down on the cost of labor, and I look at how fast a person can burn out at a job. And how many jobs are considered 'high pressure sales' when they dont need to be.

Like I'm looking at the possibility of starting a business and I'm looking at the jobs I've had that burned me out and why. And it's almost always been 'I was always juggling responsibilities because we needed more staff'.

Like it seemed like I was doing everything, but getting paid the same.

And I think about that backroom job, where occasionally i would have to help out the stockers on big days, but mostly my job was one function.

It's not like that anymore, is it?

[libraford]

So when I hear someone bemoan that 'no one wants to work anymore' I just think... y'know, work ain't what it used to be. When you're working the work of 3.5 people because someone at corporate decided it was right and good to hire less people than they need because it saves them 20$ per hour per store, but you still dint get your bonus because shrinks too high or they didnt make the amount of money they thought they would or you gave too many coupons ONCE. And it's like they're actively trying to chase people away, and then threaten you with automation but they do t make work attractive enough for people to show...

Work dont want no one anymore.

[libraford]

Oh damn, the notes on this. Apparently it's not my imagination and y'all have lived some horror stories.

I feel like we should be able to do something about this. Like we should be able to say 'no' to lean staffing and we should have a say in what our responsibilities are.

I'm thinking about all the times i should have just straight up said something. Like I think I had it in my head that if I took on all the responsibilities in the shop, eventually I would be rewarded with higher pay. But it doesnt work like that anymore. The reward for digging the best hole is a bigger shovel.

That's no way to live, though. And I just put up with it like it was normal to be so tired at the end of the day that I couldnt move. Maybe I should have just said 'no, you do it' when they started making me work outside my title.

Because that took a serious toll on my mental health.

[comedypolice]

might change my url, it was nice when vine and vine references were common and popular but now the idea of police (even in a joking sense) is just... uh, not a good one to have attached to a blog

[number1elfenthusiast]

Hi. Just wanted to make a quick post bc i am going insane seeing nonblack people drop the ball with the Transandrophobia denial lately.

Supposed black allies, BLM, all that, and they completely drop the ball when it comes to facing the fact that manhood does, in fact, have some downsides. Some men might just be oppressed in a way that's specific to their manhood even! Imagine that.

Men, specifically POC and ESPECIALLY BlPOC, face oppression in society connected to their manhood. Trans or otherwise.

Listen to their voices. Stop claiming that their voices harm women, or anyone else. Oppression isnt a contest, its a reality for so many vulnerable people who don't deserve to be shamed into silence about their struggles.

[humanlyimprobable]

[doberbutts]

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

[lkeke35]

Why am I not surprised there’s a bunch of white women in the comments arguing, “not me”, “not all white women”, and “my feelings, tho’!” It’s an understatement to say white women made lives harder, bish, please, Y’all got black men lynched on a regular basis!

You hate white men for trying to control you but are perfectly willing to lean on their violence to protect you from the “big black brute” stereotype that lives in your heads!

[guerrillatech]

[cantdewwrite]

Yes we should be worried! What happened to Japanese Americans in World War II. What happened to Afghan Americans or anyone even remotely middle eastern looking after 9-11. The Russians have nothing to do with what Putin is doing. In fact they are being jailed and shot for protesting the invasion.

You cannot blame the people for what their government does. I mean you saw Trump right?

[isquirtkerosine]

That elderly couple who volunteers at the soup kitchen after church on Sundays and attends every town hall meeting has done more community direct action than 99% of internet leftists 🤷🏽‍♀️

[isquirtkerosine]

#lol this post is stupid spup kitchens were created by the gov after they literally destroyed black radical organizers lives#and since when does going to a town hall meeting and working within the system help anybody in any significant way

100% agree homeless people should just starve and dumpster dive till le epic revolution happens!

and for sure local politics is so stupid it only handles dumb things like your schoolboard, judges, infrastructure, and rent laws! now tweets? Thats where the real work happens! 

[lynati]

“Tell me you’re the exact kind of person OP said was politically useless without saying you’re the exact kind of person OP said was politically useless.”

Town Halls are where a TON of important shit happens. Either the responder is completely politically unaware, or they *know* OP is right and is desperate to keep young left-leaning people away from where their involvement would do the most direct good.

[rottingcompost]

I am honestly getting exhausted by these takes, especially when they are THIS dumb. How can they make out JKR's terf manifesto talking about transmascs and nonbinary people as blaming trans women specifically for it? Usually the people that are being blamed, at least what I can see, is transmascs and nonbinary people. I might be wrong on that though since I am personally an outsider, but if I was asked by someone who I see being blamed the most for "making it trendy" to be trans then like. I would honestly say transmascs and nonbinary people. They are the ones I have seen being blamed for it for years, especially by people like Kalvin Garrah or Blaire White. But I guess w-oc, t-e, voc and the people they interact with really dont care, as long as they can make transmascs out to be opressors for being masc and to make transfemmes out to always be the most affected victim. This is just the same rhetoric as the old lesbian separatist movements had and im tired.

[pojkflata]

The ROGD fandom absolutely blames transmascs and especially Abigail Shrier makes this apparent when she blamed transmasc influencers, many of whom were harassed after the fact. ROGD fans tend to view trans women in a sense of relative validity - they knew that trans women existed, so that must mean that only trans women could exist. The only time Shrier is actively transmisogynistic is when she discusses AGP - which deserves to be called out for sure - but that expression of bigotry is completely independent from her thesis on the titular seducing of daughters. Even when transmasc influencers aren't being blamed, the blame falls on transmascs nonetheless - we're accused of infecting our friends, and people are very quick to bring up EDs as an analogy

It seems like people hear a description of trans people being predatory, turn their brains off and assume it must be about trans women

[nothorses]

I have personally received death threats, suicide baiting, harassment, and accusations of heinous crimes (rape apologism, pedophilia, grooming, abuse apologism, etc.) for nothing other than being a loud trans man on the internet.

I'm not even talking about the recent 9+ month harassment campaign targeted at transmascs in general (by the person in that screenshot, ironically)- I'm talking about explicit TERFs and transphobes. People who actively call themselves that, and who, by OP's logic, should view me as a Helpless Woman In Need Of Saving.

And yet:

TERFs view me as the enemy. Openly, explicity, and with a great amount of hatred and violence. They feel this way about me because I speak up about transmasc issues, because I spread information about transition and transition-related medical care, because I advocate for trans women and against transmisogyny, because I spread information about how to recognize TERF ideology when not explicitly labeled, and because I am a trans man that they know they cannot groom and abuse into detransition.

To deny that TERFs blame transmascs alongside (if not often moreso than) transfemmes for the existence of other transmascs is to deny the lived experiences of transmascs who have been targeted by this violence and abuse.

It's transphobia, plain and simple.

[cipheramnesia]

I wish people would stop acting like radfems are playing three dimensional hate chess to hit targets with laser like precision. It's not that complicated, they hate trans people. JKR wrote a trans hate manifesto focused on trans masc people. There was not some sort of super secret trans femme seeking hate missile because there doesn't need to be when attacking any trans person or group of trans people hurts us all, always.