I'll See You All In The Barbie Hell

Hi my name is Melissa and you can either call me Melissa or Daikon. -32 years old -cis/she/her -dropout working fulltime at a call center -fandom/inspiration blog I tag for fandoms/various things accordingly If there's anything you need me to tag please don't hesitate to ask! Since tumblr is a dumpster fire links to art can be found at: tagged/my_art tagged/wip daikonroots.tumblr.com

[ddddaikon]

Reminder that RadioStatic pin preorders are now live on my Etsy!

Ain't They Cute? -RadioStatic Vox/Alastor Hard Enamel Pins -2.5" -4 Variants -Preorder Expected to ship mid-late February 2025 -UV Printed D

[smorpher]

Blaghaargghagaa with mama

[neshamama]

Sampler, silk embroidery on linen foundation, c. 17th century, England

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[porunareff]

Diego (with Silver Bullet) nendoroid prototype revealed - final reveal is being saved for WonderFest 2026

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[doesn't understand jacking off] and I'm supposed to... touch my penis? [shaking my head and smiling, murmuring to myself] touching my own penis... [chuckles] what will they come up with next

[c3rvida3]

My controversial Death Note fanfiction.

[qucko-deactivated20151208]

reblog this for good luck

[pettycentral]

[parabiota]

STOP SCROLLING

Your life ends in the wasteland.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

there’s a japanese radish just below this post but you can’t reach it

[gon-iii]

収穫祭

2015年、長屋門公園。

立派な大根がリアカーに積まれていた。ここで育てたものだろうか。

[3liza]

cancel your mullvad subscription

tech news today is that Mullvad VPN has gone mask-off about being the major funding source for the Swedish Orebro party, who are racist nationalists. unfortunately all discussion of this is occurring on fucking Mastodon instances i can barely load

if you are a mullvad customer (as i am) and want to get out, here is guidance from this guy

If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis. If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again. archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/2026062717

[antifainternational]

[parkchanwoohoo]

This is I'm sure very obvious for most people already but I just had a belated realization about specific aspects of a specific genre of discourse regarding fiction, kink, etc. The emphasis certain people have on what is and isn't "normal," emphasizing how certain people are "freaks," and so on isn't just a weird quirk, I'm realizing, but rather a critical part of their argument.

The moment you say "Why should I not be allowed to read/write/watch/draw this when I do not have the same emotional responses to the subject matter that you do, when I would not attempt to dissuade you to do the same when you don't have the same emotional responses to certain subjects that I do?" It feels, at least to me, pretty cut and dry as an argument, but that's where framing the other person as an outlier whose opinions can not only be discarded morally but as a kind of demographic aberration comes in. The only rebuttal you can make to that, really, is "Because you are abnormal, and I am not, and therefore an argument about equal treatment does not stand." It's not a good argument, but it is a more topically-relevant rebuttal than the belabored arguments about how X is actually a form of harm, so I think you see the former much more than the latter

[parkchanwoohoo]

I also find that this argument is at the very least a lot more honest. Arguments about harm I think are difficult to apply to certain discussions (unless you do whole-heartedly believe in thought crimes, but that's a different group that I don't really find interesting enough to comment on because they're not people you can rationally argue with), because no matter the subject, unless you have VERY strong evidence to suggest it, it is very difficult to directly link broader societal trends of harm to the creative decisions of a single individual. Again, not impossible, there are plenty of easy examples where this would be the case, but again unless there is actual harm being done it is, once again, a belabored argument that typically concludes in extremely generic hand-waving statements about the Importance Of Critical Engagement that more often than not are tantamount to "In a just world, if you thought about this enough you would feel bad and stop engaging with it altogether," which is, I think most people would agree, pretty silly.

The honesty of the "You're a huge fucking freakazoid whose creative opinions and hobbies I neither respect nor (and this is key here) can stop thinking about" argument is in some ways much more directly relevant because it at the very least addresses the key issue of why such people should not have the same say over what you enjoy

[parkchanwoohoo]

(I do have certain thoughts over what I think is a wildly asymmetrical fixation in these arguments. When I say "can't stop thinking about" I do mean it almost literally, such people have an almost compulsive obsession with the notion that someone, somewhere, may Like This Thing In The Wrong Way, an overwhelming addiction to thinking about such people with dismay and disgust that, I've found, just simply does not exist the other way around. And of course people will argue "That's because those people are moral degenerates who have no ethical boundaries at all," which like, whatever, not going to address that, but I do think it's weird how nobody in that camp ever talks about how unusual it is, objectively, irrespective of whether you like x or y, to constantly think about the hypothetical camp of hideous perverts who are Getting Off To This, who are Trying To Normalize It, are Definitely Getting Mad At You For Not Being Into It)

[jayalaw]

Yeah. It is wild. Sometimes we do get obsessed with a kink we don’t like. But we have to recognize it’s a physical response, not a moral one, when it’s a kink.

The fine line I guess is if a kink requiring lots of safe, sane and consensual input in real life doesn’t show it in a story, when is the toxic dynamic fun for the reader. It feels like fanfic is written for fun so you can get as toxic as you like. For paid original fiction, though; the question of normalizing a kink without safe, sane and consensual emerges.

I guess fifty shades would be one example of kink controversy, but the author has the right to draft that sort of toxic relationship. It’s annoying she thinks English majors would complain about getting a newspaper gig, normalizing underpaid writing culture, but it’s her right.

Note: pay your writers fairly!

[parkchanwoohoo]

See I find the issue of "normalization of unsafe kink" to be itself a pretty contentious topic because I find the belabored emphasis of sane/consensual/safety in fiction, unless explicitly, thematically centered on safety, astonishingly boring and poorly done, often dragging the entire story to a screeching halt and (again, unless this was baked into the marrow of the text) often poorly characterized and does a poor job of incorporating kink into the narrative as a result of having to break the kayfabe to be like "well hold on guys, here's how to do this RIGHT." I just like, y'know, won't insist that the "correct" way to approach it is to not include it at all.

But personally I find that the concern over the hypothetical reader who is 1) too ignorant to do their own research and will wholeheartedly accept the notion that Abuse Is Good, 2) is incapable of articulating their discomforts or advocating for their sexual needs in a way that can be explicitly attributed to the work itself to be overstated. I don't love the idea that this is a population that is the standard fiction audience, or that, even if it were the case, there is any kind of creative obligation to keep such a population in mind so as to avoid any kind of causal link between one's work and someone else's exploitation. Like taking Fifty Shades for example, sure, not safe, not consensual, etc., drawing from misogynistic ideas about sexuality, yes, contributing to misogynistic ideas about sexuality, possibly/probably, but I find that broader moral angle less interesting the fact that is is simply, as a whole, just not very good. If someone reads that book and enters an abusive relationship, I nevertheless believe there are a lengthy series of dominoes between point A and point B that we're a little too quick to fold. Again, I am apathetic about when other people DO choose to do this because I'll just avoid that stuff or find it kind of patronizing without necessarily thinking it shouldn't exist, but this is kind of exactly the issue I'm talking about

[weepylucifer]

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities

[intercal]

some social media manager at doordash has been tagging T-Pain (the rapper) thinking that they're tagging some New Zealand soccer player this is funny as fuck

[shamiisu]

there is still time.

[rajieeeee]

(2022)