Watching the world burn at 200 Megahertz

a 1999 artificial life pet watching the crumbles

[sufferu]

Seriously is it just me or have other people been seeing a sudden uptick in posts being nasty to transmasc folks over the past couple months??? Not even just on Tumblr, I’ve been getting smacked in the face with “theyfab” type rhetoric on Reddit, too.

[therapatical]

it's not just months. it's been escalating, yes, but this has been going on since around the start of the pandemic. I've been studying this hate group since 2022, and while they've been around since far before then, there was a more coordinated hate campaign group that formed around 2020 and they've only been snowballing and recruiting more members ever since.

[transmasc-theory]

I think the situation where trans men are now banned from all public bathrooms in the UK is a perfect summation of transandrophobia.

It happened in broad daylight. It was telegraphed ahead of time; TERFs were very clear they wanted trans men removed from public life entirely. Yet during the entire lead-up, and even since then, people have erased transmascs completely from the conversation, saying they weren't in danger like transfemmes are, and in fact alleging that transmascs enjoyed a measure of protection from TERFs, who allegedly just see them as confused little girls they want to protect.

And while people were busy being useful idiots and spreading TERF propaganda for them, while people were busy actively denying the threat to transmascs, TERFs made it so transmascs can be excluded from any public bathroom in the UK.

That's transandrophobia in a nutshell. Trans men don't die in the spotlight, they die in the shadows, and are told they're privileged for their quiet, out-of-sight deaths.

[herwildbeloved]

This Pride Month, I am begging queer orgs to branch out from hosting events at bars and breweries. Some of us are sober, neurodivergent, and COVID conscious and it makes it so goddamn hard to find community when everything revolves around consuming alcohol in crowded indoor spaces.

[evtrained]

"Chilchuck would hate Frodo" bullshit, Chilchuck would be super fucking intensely protective of Frodo Baggins.

The ring you got for your inheritance turned out to be CURSED? And you VOLUNTEERED to WALK HUNDREDS of MILES to destroy it!? And when you got stabbed by a monster blade, the ELVES TOOK YOU AWAY FOR MONTHS and you THANKED THEM!?

No. No, I'm your father now, kid. You're joining a union, I'm negotiating your back pay for that trip. And your ongoing medical treatment, and I'm getting you EXTRA for mental anguish. Oh, the elves are offering to take you to some mysterious continent off in the West as recompense? Let's find out how many of these obscure cuss words they can decipher.

[commodore-jeep-eep-blog]

Would Chilchuck smell trouble in that Deep with the Balrog earlier then anyone else? I bet he would, in his line of work.

[prokopetz]

I've rattled on about this before, but the notion that operational security is irrelevant for media piracy resources because if one gets taken down an identical replacement will be up and running by next week is really only true if the thing you're interested in pirating is, like, MCU movies. If you're into really niche shit, every takedown is a potential disaster, because at least half the time it turns out that of eight billion people on the planet there was precisely one who possessed exactly the right intersection of interests and technical know-how to provide that resource.

[edgebug]

contrary to popular belief i think calvin's adhd is, funnily enough, medicated. he takes extended release ritalin every morning alongside his chocolate frosted sugar bombs. this is because he appreciates being more easily able to focus on his various Schemes, Projects, and Machinations while more effectively ignoring schoolwork

[edgebug]

calvin's dad pulling up to the house and seeing the whole driveway covered in a (completed) snowman recreation of the entire terracotta army and he takes a deep breath and greets calvin's mom with "i see calvin remembered his methylphenidate today"

[abigailspinach]

[edgebug]

[therapatical]

calling people any variation of "___fab" is calling them "female" as an insult

what the fuck do you think the "f" stands for? you're not slick. you sound like a fucking ferengi

[commodore-jeep-eep-blog]

The fact we have to say this, in TYOOL 2026, TO OTHER TRANS PEOPLE, makes me scream internally.

[therapatical]

calling people any variation of "___fab" is calling them "female" as an insult

what the fuck do you think the "f" stands for? you're not slick. you sound like a fucking ferengi

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

witnessing a surge of trans infighting at a time when our rights are under violent, organized government attack that threatens to set back 40 years of progress:

[blakelywintersfield]

Idk man maybe it's just me being old and bitter and on this shitshow of a site for too many years but like. Baeddelism was formed in the 2010s here on tumblr and the philosophy literally relies on the hatred of trans men and AFAB nonbinary people to uphold the belief. "Tucute" was coined here as a derogatory term. Transmedicalism has always been rampant.

This doesn't really surprise me 'cause it never went away. It never stopped being rampant. At least, not to my knowledge.

No community is immune to self-cannibalization if we focus on the petty issues, and on the "piss on the poor" site, it's easy as fuck to incite infighting.

[commodore-jeep-eep-blog]

While this is true and Baeddelist bullshit sweeps through our community every few years, the timing of this wave is... suspicious

[mug-of-beans]

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

[commodore-jeep-eep-blog]

This style of amulet necklace still works under the really intense frost spells needed to keep this summoning circle from catching fire.

[lesbianismst]

you all aren't gonna like hearing this but I'll say it anyway: one of the most impactful acts of feminism you could possibly do in your everyday life is to wear a mask in public spaces.

why? women are 31% more likely to develop long covid. and with one in five covid infections leading to long covid, that means a whole lot of women are being affected. besides, even when it's a man who's disabled by the virus, who is typically left to do the caregiving work? a woman in his life.

you can directly save women in your community from this fate by stopping the chain of transmission. why wouldn't you do it?

and before you come at me with "I wear a mask when I'm sick," about 44% of covid infections are asymptomatic. you could feel totally fine and still be spreading disease like typhoid mary. also, wearing a well-fitted respirator will protect you from getting sick too, and you can't spread what you don't have.

put your money where your mouth is. mask-wearing = feminist praxis.

[william-s-churros]

"if you were assigned female at birth and still consider yourself to be female and are a terf about it you are cis" "oh so you think you need to legally change your gender to be trans? you think trans people who cant legally change their gender are cis you think trans people should be forced to change their legal gender and die?????" what the hell are you even talking about man that is a fucking nonsequitor

[crippled-peeper]

tumblr trans feminists hate it when you tell them trans men and trans mascs are still just as trans as them and are not cis even if they need abortions or give birth or need services or resources “for females” or are unable to transition or are unable to change their documents that say “female” on it (because being misgendered in a transphobic society is a choice now!!! we’re choosing this!!!)

you clearly think that violent misogynistic transphobic subjugation is a privilege. monstrous shit. shut up you vile dumbass

[cemetery-wolfdog]

This is what OP is referring to btw so they can't keep this out of context 🫶

Trans men and trans mascs aren't identifying as female just for acknowledging they still need gynecology related care, can get pregnant, and may require an abortion. You also aren't required to identify as a cis woman in order to be a TERF in the first place. Anyone can be a TERF.

[prokopetz]

So what do we think about the Geekify email announcing the death of the Neopets ttrpg

I'm genuinely surprised that Neopia gave sufficient fucks to pull the plug. There are a lot of officially licensed tabletop RPGs that make an absolute shitshow of the properties they're ostensibly based on and make it to print without a peep of protest from the licensor, some of them involving franchises with much bigger bottom lines than this one, and fucking Neopets is the one that does their due diligence? Really? Really?

[commodore-jeep-eep-blog]

I am legit afraid to ask what happened.

[prokopetz]

TL/DR; version: an outfit called Geekify had been contracted to produce a licensed tabletop RPG based on Neopets. Some weeks ago, they released a public preview of the forthcoming game which featured:

a strange preoccupation with sword-and-sorcery violence that looked a lot like someone had simply slapped the Neopets license on top of their homebrew Dungeons & Dragons clone rather than building something to suit the subject matter;

a discussion of player safety tools which seemed to have been copied and pasted from a totally unrelated game, and which (among other things) advised GMs to discuss with their group exactly how much explicit sexual violence was acceptable at their table; and

several sections which appeared to have been deleted entirely and replaced with written allegations that the contracted author(s) had not been paid for their work, and the project's alleged editor didn't notice before putting the preview up, I guess?

And to top it all off, it's now sounding like Neopia might not have authorised a public preview in the first place, so not a great showing all around.

[prokopetz]

So what do we think about the Geekify email announcing the death of the Neopets ttrpg

I'm genuinely surprised that Neopia gave sufficient fucks to pull the plug. There are a lot of officially licensed tabletop RPGs that make an absolute shitshow of the properties they're ostensibly based on and make it to print without a peep of protest from the licensor, some of them involving franchises with much bigger bottom lines than this one, and fucking Neopets is the one that does their due diligence? Really? Really?

[commodore-jeep-eep-blog]

I am legit afraid to ask what happened.

[greelin]

“no job is worth your physical & mental health” i hauve. Bills.

[redstonedust]

crazy that there are still covid deniers around. buddy yall literally won we stopped social distancing and most people dont care about your vaccine status anymore. do you think the governments of the world did all that for fun or something. limp fart of a conspiracy theory.........

[mechaffeine]

Not letting these stay in the tags, @clowncalling is right.

[pawberri]

We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

[pawberri]

Literally need someone with an serial killer level obsession with content moderation to sit at a wall of monitors sniping dropshippers. I need etsy HQ to look and sound like the nerv command center in Evangelion