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i think we should reclaim the phrase “autism won today” from those weird moms and instead use it whenever we decide to buy that fidget toy we’ve been wanting or engage in our special interest(s) a little too much™️ or literally anything else positive about the autistic experience

saxifraga-x-urbium

just using it every time one of my autistic pals looks especially hot

bleedingcoffee42

mustang-lover-69

To whoever is putting cartoon characters in the Mustang tag: PLEASE STOP. This tag is for people who love their Ford Mustangs, not for kids and their cartoons. There are a lot of hot and sexy ladies who sometimes pose with Ford Mustangs and I would hate for some young eyes to see that before it’s time!

benisasoftboi

I love this scene so much, because it means 4Kids thought that young children would

Know what an insurance policy is

Be able to extrapolate that Giovanni is planning to commit insurance fraud

Understand that insurance fraud is a crime

…but they didn’t think those same kids would be able to comprehend rice balls

mlmotori

hey can you all rb this and put your fave nd least fave sdra2 characters in the tags I’m thinking about something

#faves are yuri and iroha least fave is hibiki #snjort

oldimgurpics

babyanimalgifs

#ME

normalwizard

athingofvikings

Academically speaking, I still find the whole “anti-shipper” movement to be fascinating from a sociological perspective.

You have what amounts to a extremist purity cult whose beliefs align nearly precisely with those of Conservative American Christianity in terms of sexual purity politics (admittedly with some additional flourishes that I’ve watched develop in real time), but is mostly composed of minority members whose sexual-and-gender identities are opposed and oppressed by Conservative American Christianity. Additionally, their tactics also mirror religious pro-censorship groups (such as Warriors For Innocence), but their rhetoric is entirely secularized and derived from leftist theory.

Did they arrive at this structure via convergent evolution? Via socially dominant concepts in the greater socio-cultural space that they occupy? I doubt it was by direct emulation but the possibility does exist on some levels.

kallinite

I’m literally doing my sociology research paper on them right now.

athingofvikings

Ooh? Go on.

kallinite

It’s a qualitative study looking at the ways that Tumblr antis define the word “pedophilia”. It’s pretty interesting stuff because the definitions are so unique to Tumblr anti culture. I’ll have to go through my coding more thoroughly, but I think I’ve broken them down into four categories:

1. Legality based arguments where they’re very stuck on the idea of Age of Majority. Usually these people believe that it’s pedophilia if an 18 year old dates a 17 year old because they view age 18 as a hard and fast line from childhood to adulthood.

2. Psychological-readiness based arguments are a lot more subjective. These people often use arguments about differing life stages as a reason to call something pedophilia. Some even bust out that “peoples brains don’t fully age until 25” factoid. For this group, age gaps are a real no-go, even if both partners are legally consenting adults. The acceptablity of age gaps varied.

3. Physical appearance based arguments are focused against people who like young looking or young acting characters, even if those characters are adults. These people define pedophilia as an attraction to the perception of youth. This belief is strongly correlated with anti-DD/LG posting.

4. I’m having trouble naming the fourth category. It’s based around an argument of sneaky pedophilia or maybe an uncovering of the fan creators hidden desires? These antis argue that aging up characters past canon ages and shipping them is pedophilia because they believe that the shipper REALLY wanted to ship the child but didn’t because they were worried it wasn’t socially acceptable. In this instance, the character is portrayed as an adult by fandom and there is nothing childish in their appearance or mannerism. Because the character was depicted as a child in canon, however, the anti believes that the character must always be depicted that way in fandom and that only tricky pedophiles would be interested in exploring that character’s future.

Similarly, I noticed a newer trend of calling adult ships between people who canonically knew each other as children/teens to be called pedophilia or at the very least jailbaity, predatory behaviour. This is particularly true when the characters are a couple years apart. The idea there is that, if they knew each other as children, they’d never be able to see each other as adults. So if they have sex as adults, they’re mentally thinking of the child version of their partner and are therefore a pedophile. I wonder if this is a projection of the beliefs from #4. Perhaps it is the antis who, once introduced to a child/teen, are never able to see them as anything but a child and therefore they believe that everyone else must feel the same? That’s only a guess. I only saw this one a handful of times and it was all pretty recently, so I didn’t include it in the data for my paper. It does seem to indicate a level of escalation in these definitions though. I’ll have to check in again at a later date and see if it sticks around.

athingofvikings

I’ve seen all of those as well, and I’d be fascinated to see your results when you’re published.

As for names for the fourth category, can I suggest Canonical Stasis arguments? As in, “the characters are forever frozen at the ages that they are presented”.

ruffboi-mags

This is fascinating.

Infuriating as always, but fascinating.

fishfingersandscarves

cats (2019) was horrifying, i give it 10/10

#blursed

frogandtoadpdf

you might have a “medical degree” but i roleplayed as a medicine cat on a warrior cats forum in middle school so who’s more qualified here

#PFHFJKSDHDHD

hilarioushumorfromouterspace

somewhatlargerobot

hannahhillam

I threw a dog on the ground today 😭😭😭

coffeeandstring

I am embarrassed by how hard this made me laugh.

fatsexybitch

…..does this mean cat people hurl cats at the ground?

hollowedskin

you just kind of… open ur arms and they sort themselves out. if you try and place them down they get mad and wiggle and make everything worse

everydayconman

shotfromguns

some friends of mine have the most un-cat-ish cat i have ever met

my quintessential example of this:

i was holding him in my arms petting him while we were picking out what games to play that night. when we’d decided on a few, i needed to put the cat down in order to, you know, carry boxes. so i started letting him down, expecting that he’d eventually do the cat hop thing… but he never did.

i ended up lowering him all the way to the floor. and even then he never got his feet under him. i just sort of… plopped him down on his side as he stared up at me like a betrayed sack of flour.

thecheshirecass-deactivated2018

I saw this so clearly in my mind and I’m never going to stop laughing at betrayed sack of flour.

tisfan

reblogging for betrayed sack of flour.

hiphopocliedes

a darkened auditorium with 264 silent people in the seats. on the stage, me, sitting on a stool, lit by a spotlight, the only light in the theatre. i hold up a photo of my cat, 10 people applaud, two or three hold up photocopies of the same photo, the rest do nothing, watching, waiting.

creativereadingfanfiction

I love this description of tumblr.

ichigotchipng

lazorsandparadox

I love that on mobile, instead of getting bigger, it just looks like the picture is getting progressively less blurry, as if youre experiencing this from the perspective of someone coming out of a coma