Welcome to Sasszle

Multi-fandom & multi-ship. Currently into FFXIV and the HW elf baes

[nipuni]

Days before the first summoning

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on may 1st!

[ifuckbeesontv]

after i drew this picture a lot of people who reblogged it suggested that phantump, when it was alive, could have been the child who owned banette when it was still only a doll. So i tried to imagine what their reunion would be like :’)

[mooxxx]

Y’all i think I have a serious problem because I made these instead of working

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

a writer who writes the most fucked up “dead dove: do not eat” problematic pairing and fully tags and warns for the content they create will always be worthy of more respect in my eyes than people who call others weirdos because of who they ship. This is because a writer who writes disturbing things but gives me plenty of warning about them has demonstrated, regardless of what happens in the fic, that they value the consent of real people, and that they value my consent to see such content and will always offer me the option to avoid or withdraw. On the other hand, a purity cultist who demands I explain my trauma and exactly why I might be drawn to dark content, regardless of whether they’re the purest fluff writer to ever write, has demonstrated a lack of respect for my boundaries and the attitude that they are entitled to whatever they want to take from me. 

There are a lot of things that bother me about purity culture, but I think the most disturbing is that it clouds the very definition of consent, and then teaches this confusing version (you must consent to deep dives into your trauma and how it affects you for the benefit of strangers who have already decided you’re a bad person, and not consenting to that automatically makes you an abuser, also no one can consent to reading or thinking about disturbing content ever because thinking about it means you want it irl) to young, vulnerable, and often traumatized individuals, thus making it harder to understand their trauma and easier for them to ignore the real warning signs of abuse (like demanding that you agree with the abuser otherwise you’re literally the worst and most harmful person ever) because it teaches that abusers only come in one type, and that all abusers are “nasty shippers”.

This is especially dangerous because real life abusers teach their victims that the abuse is happening because the victim is a bad, evil person. One of the diagnostic criteria for PTSD is literally “Places undue blame on themself or others for what happened”. Teaching traumatized people that consent is a luxury only “good” people are allowed to have is incompatible with support for abuse survivors. tl;dr a writer who tags “dead dove: do not eat” has demonstrated respect for the necessity of consent. A purity cultist who sends anon hate has demonstrated a lack of respect for consent. 

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

Yes, this absolutely does include people who write, read, or ship abusive pairings, explore abuse in their work, include rape or incest in their work, with or without “calling out” that content. This also includes writers who include that type of content in erotic work. Content like that that is tagged properly indicates that, regardless of what happens in the fic, the person writing it understands that their work could impact real people and that those real people deserve the chance to choose wether or not they’d like to see the fic. An author who tags their fic has demonstrated that they understand consent and the fact that everyone gets to consent or not consent to the content they’d like to consume, unlike a purity cultist who sends harassing and threatening messages with the intent to cause emotional or physical harm to the person they’ve decided is “bad”.  Furthermore, ANY ideology that allows its followers to harass and attack members of the “out-group” for the crime of “not following the rules”, where the rules are about how you speak or act rather than how you actually do or do not harm others, is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.

[jpluvbug]

There is a line between people that express their trauma and ptsd through writing, making it acknowledged in the work that what’s being portrayed is wrong, and tag it respectively and responsibly; and people without trauma/ptsd that glorify, romanticize, and sexualize things like pedophilia, rape, abuse, etc., and portray it as something all parties enjoy.

I feel like there aren’t a lot of people in the replies here that really understand where that line is, from both sides of the argument.

If:

☑️the creator has experienced this and is using the writing to cope

☑️they know that the “dark” subject of the work is ultimately wrong and portray it as such

☑️the work is tagged correctly and has necessary warnings

This is completely fine.

If:

☑️the creator has no experience being on the receiving end of this trauma

☑️the “dark” subject of the work is glorified in any way and enjoyed by everyone involved

☑️the work isn’t correctly tagged and the creator shows no respect or interest in making it consensual

This is absolutely wrong.

[dinosaurrainbowstarfish]

You know what’s not normalizing abuse? Writing a fic and tagging “DARK CONTENT TURN BACK NOW IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IT”. You know what IS normalizing abuse? This addition to my post, where you give yourself permission to demand strangers tell you IF THEY WERE FUCKING RAPED AS CHILDREN. You are not entitled to knowing ANYONE’S history of abuse. Full stop, end of discussion. You are normalizing a culture where consent is a luxury and one wrong word makes you exempt from being able to consent. You are PERSONALLY making fandom unsafe for survivors of sexual trauma by demanding everyone be an open book about the trauma that they went through, no matter how triggering that is for them, because to you strangers’ comfort is more important than survivors’ mental health. As a bonus point, you’re echoing rhetoric that tells survivors that if their bodies responded during their rape, or if there were any genuine happy memories they made with their abuser, that none of the abuse happened and they must have liked it and wanted it. After all, they enjoyed it so it must have been a good thing, right? After all, no one can enjoy something in the moment and realize later on that it was fucked up and bad? And as another bonus point, even if the writer was never ever abused or traumatized in any way, there is nothing wrong with writing a story where all parties enjoy fictional abuse if it’s tagged “abuse”. Tagging something “abuse” or similar tags indicates that the person writing it understands that it’s abusive. No one needs to beat you over the head with moralistic storylines. If you don’t realize that abuse is wrong, you aren’t old enough to be on the internet unsupervised. But then, given that you feel entitled to demand details of other peoples’ sexual traumas, and you apparently have never heard of people lying about trauma to justify their behavior, you really AREN’T old enough to be on the internet unsupervised. Get off the internet, stop interacting with survivors, and get help with the issues that make you feel like you’re entitled to other peoples’ trauma before you go around normalizing coercing REAL people into talking about their REAL rapes to people they don’t want to talk to. I genuinely don’t know how you’ve gotten this far in life thinking you have a right to know if other people were raped, you entitled fucking monster. I made this post about people like you, who ignore and violate the consent of real people over FICTION THAT YOU WERE WARNED CONTAINED ABUSE AS A THEME. I’ll take the writer of the grossest properly tagged fic on the planet over someone who only cares about consent in fictional settings. Survivors deserve better than having their trauma used as pawns in a crusade against content that no one is forcing you to see.

[frickinang3l-deactivated2021090]

some fanfics shouldn’t even be called fanfics that shit is classic ass literature

[ultrafacts]

In 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to go to medical school. Never mind that at the time women simply did not get medical degrees. The 26-year-old hadn’t planned to grow up to become a physician—rather, her interest in medicine was sparked by a personal encounter. A dying female friend remarked to Blackwell that her trials would have been made easier had there been a female doctor to care for her. The comment struck a chord.

Drawn by a challenge, she decided to pursue a medical degree and, after studying for a year under several physician friends, made her attempt.

She applied to 12 schools along the Northeast, in addition to every medical program available in New York and Philadelphia. In the end, only Dean Charles Lee of Geneva Medical College in western New York gave her application any real consideration—sort of. PBS’s Howard Markel explains:

Dean Lee and his all male faculty were more than hesitant to make such a bold move as accepting a woman student. Consequently, Dr. Lee decided to put the matter up to a vote among the 150 men who made up the medical school’s student body. If one student voted “No,” Lee explained, Miss Blackwell would be barred from admission.

Apparently, the students thought the request was little more than a silly joke and voted unanimously to let her in; they were surprised, to say the least, when she arrived at the school ready to learn how to heal.

And learn she did. Undeterred by her classmates’ and professors’ sometimes open animosity, Blackwell received her medical degree on January 23, 1849. She went on to study obstetrics and pediatrics in Europe before returning to the United States to start her own practice in New York City.

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[snips-writes-deactivated2023041]

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[just-antithings]

[utatoners]

❅ yet ever do our aching souls point heavensward

[zarb]

[leecheedoodles]

I asked some dum dums (idk I think they’re my friends or something) to give me fanart suggestions and after rejecting about 83% of their unholy requests, I boiled it down to these 6 🙌🏻

[omghotmemes]

If April ends up worse I swear to God

[corporation-cats]

[jasonthemutt-deactivated2018121]

What a beautiful color.

[thehotgirlproject]

Evenly Roasted

[caerilorem]

THE Love Pond -^^-

[durianne]

Lady Urbosa, Gerudo Champion of Hyrule

More art for my raffle on twitter! This time it’s Urbosa from BOTW :)

[gaynfl-moved]

sometimes i get a little stressed out because i’m living in a part of history that’ll one day be talked about and discussed and papers written and what am i doing? what have i done? laundry, barely

[catgirlcaliphate]

Sometimes I used to wonder what regular folks were doing during eventful periods in history.

Now I’m living in one and yeah, it turns out the answer is laundry, barely.

[everythingfox]

I love him