the nefarious reblog pit

any prns, sideblog to shamelessly reblog fandom stuff (mostly comics, mostly FF) // adult // (former) robotics nerd // i don’t usually tag stuff

[toddsolondz]

what if there was a comic book and it was good

[bogmummel]

genuinely i remember being 14 in mcyt fandom spaces during the height of dsmp and the amount of boundaries discourse was so bone deep exhausting and caused me to full on step back from engaging with a media that i still love to this day for years and seeing the same kind of mindset come back around in current mcyt spaces is so disheartening. ccs need to step back and realise that damn panopticon is doing nothing for them beyond alienating their fans. yes, even, and especially if, said fandom starts self policing eachother. you are a tar pit

[crimeboys]

had a customer get annoyed with me yesterday bc i forgot the fourth of july is called independence day well in my house that's ctommy's birthday so who's the asshole now

[crimeboys]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CTOMMY. ANOTHER YEAR WORTH IT FOR YOU

[sandmandaddy69]

Takeshi Obata

[plasticbeau]

mello.o

[salemoleander]

Btw, even if 'cc boundaries' were a good idea and in theory ought to be enforced, in practice that is an incredibly dangerous environment to create.

Let's think this through. If you tell your fandom to police what other fans make and inform you if someone is breaking your boundaries... and the main topics you ban are gore/sex/'mature' content... and a fairly large subset of your fans are teenagers/children....

what do you think is going to happen?

The answer is an army of children harrassing people on your behalf, while constantly exposing themselves to smut & gore. They will then either write callout posts to try to punish the creators (often reading/examining the content in-depth to do so) or sending the porn/gore/mature content directly to you (or older fans with more social clout who loudly proclaim their dedication to this fight¹) to deal with, in the name of protecting their fave.

To be clear, I have seen this happen before in other fandom contexts, it is not a theoretical outcome. And it is FAR far more dangerous than any story someone could write and post on AO3, or any art posted to Twitter.

This is an environment that will get kids/teenagers hurt, regardless of intention. It's the underpinning of why I'm so vehement about freedom of speech and creativity within fandom, because no matter what intentions are, the reality is that 'cc boundaries' create an environment that is extremely hospitable to abusers.

¹ Even if your intentions are pure as the driven snow, some of the adults who campaign vehemently for enforcing boundaries will inevitably be doing so because they are creeps who like exposing kids to nsfw content. The cleverer predators privately convince kids to RP/write/draw 'boundary breaking' content, which is then used as blackmail to ensure secrecy or else risk ostracization if they went public with the abuse. This is not a hypothetical.

[salemoleander]

Since as of this morning this is Pyro's stated goal:

I am going to reiterate: this is a recipe for children actively looking for porn and gore, and sending it to you. That is not hyperbole, or catastrophizing, it is a literal description of what will happen. This is not intended to be concern trolling or exaggeration; those outcomes are something I have seen happen in other communities with similar 'boundary' rules.

Can you please consider the danger to members of your community? Setting up a system like this is a recipe for a high-control, high-shame environment where things like coercion, blackmail, and grooming are extremely likely.

[trainforanother1000years]

“I don’t want to see shipping content anymore so instead of blocking people and pulling back from fanspaces I want everyone to send it DIRECTLY TO ME” are we so real

[frllerto]

[sconesalot]

a mask of my own face.

[finnitesimal]

They put watcher grian in cookie run

[notlayingroses]

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!

[femtho]

i feel like, for some people, their ideal version of a fan community is one where every fan is on a scoreboard which tracks how many things they've done in favour of the creator/streamer/etc, and the person with the most points gets a singlular kiss on the forehead from them which they can use for bragging rights in a social media bio of their choosing. instead of like. well idk man normally when i watch a show or a movie i usually just talk about it with people. like for fun. i dont tend to @ the director and go [seductively] Hey.......I Saw A Twitter User Misinterpret This Scene In Your Movie.....Here Is Their Full Name And Address ❤️

[azuremist]

Did Toby Fox understand the incredibly specific yet prominent niche he was hitting when he made the plural transfem catgirl or do you think that was just a coincidence

[discotechnician]

Going into the main tag for a character I like when I hate the guy everybody ships him with

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[micarps]

There’s nobody better than you

[neiramuha]

There's no such thing as too much Pixal ✨️