Barely Functioning Human

[thegrayangel]

Please Help Save the Gender Wiki

Hello, Tumblr. I've never posted here, only lurked. But this is one of the most important things in the world to me, and I honestly need to ask you for help. Please reblog if you can.

This will be a long post. It will be summarized with a TLDR at the end, including ways that you can help.

With over 9,200 pages, we are the biggest collection of gender identities on the Internet, especially the biggest source that is readily available. We are a community that has existed since 2009, and has taken off in terms of growth in the last few years.

Today, Fandom decided to close the Gender Wiki. We were given absolutely no warning, and they've only given us a two-week deadline to move the entire wiki to a new host, which we are utterly unprepared to do. The download would also not include any of the 17,000+ images on the Gender Wiki, many of which do not exist anywhere else on the Internet.

Here is a link to the post Fandom staff gave us today, and a paraphrased summary of it below:

https://gender.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000132176

Fandom staff says that they won't continue to host our wiki because it "spreads harmful misinformation". They believe we have gone too far in "positioning everything as a gender identity", referring to xenogenders. They mention pages with xenogenders referring to suicide/self-harm and violence --- which we, the staff members, were /already/ in the process of deleting before this notice was given to us. They decided that the best solution was not to ask us to delete those pages, or even delete the pages themselves, but instead to remove our entire database.

There are many other wikis on Fandom with much worse references to violence than the Gender Wiki, which Fandom appears to have no problem with whatsoever.

I cannot express enough that this is erasure, and it will absolutely negatively affect the LGBTQ+ community to not have this treasure trove of information readily available.

I am an admin on the Gender Wiki, and I can assure you that our entire staff team is already trying to appeal to Fandom staff. I'll add any updates if they decide to respond to us, but they have no yet given staff any more information than the above

PLEASE help in any way you can. Reblog, spread awareness, or sign this petition if you have a Fandom account. Archive any Gender Wiki pages, especially ones that don't have pages elsewhere, with the Wayback Machine or alternatively archive.is, or even write posts about them here or on other sites. Please help us save this information. It can't possibly be done this quickly without help.

TLDR: Fandom staff decided that, in two weeks, they will close the Gender Wiki, the biggest gender resource on the Internet. They gave us no warning. It will be impossible to save all of the information on the wiki. Please reblog or sign this petition if you have a Fandom account. Help save the data by archiving pages here or here. Post about this. Help spread awareness.

[gender-offical]

Idk if anyone will see me reblogging this from my stupid gimmick blog but i can try

[problematic-twink]

the tiny little homunculus i keep in my basement is gonna have the feast of a lifetime when i finish baking this sourdough

[problematic-twink]

Gen alpha kid, at a deli, thinking "corn" is a bad word because people use it to censor the word "porn":

"You got any of the..." *looks around* *whispers* "C-O-R-N-ed beef?" *their face gets red from embarrassment*

Deli cashier:

"...the fuck?"

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

Trying to report the fraud emails i keep getting but the fuckable government keeps edging me. I wonder if there are any reader x gov fics (if not I should write one)

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

I went from “haha this show is funny” to “these two characters are soulmates who have endured lifetimes of pain and cosmic separation, and the writers are cowards for not acknowledging it” in exactly three episodes.

Every fandom experience is a speedrun through denial, obsession, and emotional dissertation. By the time I’m done, I’ve got a master’s degree in Suffering Studies with a minor in Projection.

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

Brain: let’s make art! Me: okay! Brain: but first, let’s think about every minor embarrassment you’ve ever had. Me: that feels unnecessary— Brain: oh, and here’s a random idea for the 400k word novel you’ll never finish. Me: okay that’s cool but— Brain: also you have to do taxes. Me: I’m gonna go lie face down. Brain: productive! I’ll give you six new ideas while you’re there.

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

You ever get so self-aware you start narrating your own breakdown like it’s a documentary?

"Here we observe the human, attempting to fix their life by reorganizing a Google Doc instead of confronting their emotions.

The subject believes buying a new notebook will fix everything. It will not.

Tune in next week when they cry over a yuri fic they forgot they wrote."

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

Somewhere out there is a version of me that sleeps eight hours, drinks water, and doesn’t write 12k words about transformers falling in love instead of doing taxes. I hope they’re happy. I hope they’re boring. Meanwhile, I’m here writing dialogue that emotionally ruins me and calling it “productive.”

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

There’s something feral about writing fanfiction. One minute you’re like, “haha, what if they kissed,” and the next you’re elbows-deep in emotional symbolism about intergenerational trauma and the color blue. You come out of your fugue state 9,000 words later, dehydrated, emotionally compromised, and convinced you’ve just rewritten The Iliad — except it’s about two men glaring at each other over a coffee table.

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

Act 1: “I’ll just write a short drabble.” Act 2: “Maybe I’ll add a few feelings.” Act 3: “Oh god, it’s a slow burn political intrigue AU with a 300k word outline and a Spotify playlist.” Act 4: “My therapist says it’s ‘interesting’ that I use metaphors of war for love.” Act 5: I post it at 3AM, whispering, “be free, you feral little thing,”

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

You ever think about how the atoms in your body are billions of years old and have literally been part of exploding stars, oceans, dinosaurs, maybe even Shakespeare’s left sock, and yet here you are — lying in bed at 2AM, arguing with strangers on Tumblr about whether vampires have digestive systems? We are the universe experiencing itself, but worse.

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

You ever stare at your own fic and think, “Wow, I am a god, I am a genius, I have reshaped the emotional landscape of literature itself,” and then two minutes later reread the same paragraph and think, “What delusion with a dictionary wrote this?”

[emotionalsupportplatypus]

"We are all made of Stardust." - Carl Sagan

"That means that twink's prostate is also made of stardust. Go touch a star." -Carl Sagan (unprompted)