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[thebibliosphere]

I’m sorry if I am harping on too much but I’m 30+ hours into this migraine attack and thoroughly miserable and the previous post on my blog (about epilepsy warnings) resurfaced a core memory of my first major neurological event that landed me in the ER.

We were at the movie theater watching Incredibles 2 and slight spoilers: the villain uses mind control/hypnosis on people. Anyway, this lead to a fight scene where all of a sudden, in this pitch black room, circular strobing patterns appeared on the screen.

It was so sudden and intense that even with my eyes closed I could see it, and within seconds I knew something wasn’t right because my body felt like it was rocking back and forth like I was on a boat.

I remember looking down at my hands, which were gripping the faded red velour of the seat in a white knuckled grip as the world tipped violently around me. My mouth started watering. I was shaking. I remember telling the people I was with I was going to go to the bathroom. Walking was a nightmare, I had barely any coordination. I made it to the bathroom and collapsed on the floor of the nearest stall and proceeded to vomit so profusely I burst a blood vessel under my eye. I couldn’t stop shaking.

Epilepsy runs in my family, so I took my ass to the ER, fearful that this could be a prelude to something worse. After many, many, many hours, and the debilitating pain had finally embedded itself into my skull, the neurology team on call pronounced it to have been an unfortunate migraine/vertigo attack triggered by the strobing effect.

And I remember the nurse saying, “be thankful you’re not an epileptic,” thinking, yeah, there was a warning at the start of the movie about flashing effects, most movies have them. But I remember thinking it was a profoundly vile and evil thing to put that particular pattern of flashing lights in a movie that countless people would see blown up on a giant screen in a darkened room.

I “only” have migraines. If I had a different kind of neurological disorder, it could have killed me.

And now TikTok and Instagram is a thing and people just make strobing effect videos for fun and get mad when you ask them to tag for it, because using that tag won’t get them to the top of FYPage. Or maybe it’s not even motivated by gain. Perhaps it’s just annoyance at being asked to care for other people. Which is so much worse.

[thebibliosphere]

I’m sorry if I am harping on too much but I’m 30+ hours into this migraine attack and thoroughly miserable and the previous post on my blog (about epilepsy warnings) resurfaced a core memory of my first major neurological event that landed me in the ER.

We were at the movie theater watching Incredibles 2 and slight spoilers: the villain uses mind control/hypnosis on people. Anyway, this lead to a fight scene where all of a sudden, in this pitch black room, circular strobing patterns appeared on the screen.

It was so sudden and intense that even with my eyes closed I could see it, and within seconds I knew something wasn’t right because my body felt like it was rocking back and forth like I was on a boat.

I remember looking down at my hands, which were gripping the faded red velour of the seat in a white knuckled grip as the world tipped violently around me. My mouth started watering. I was shaking. I remember telling the people I was with I was going to go to the bathroom. Walking was a nightmare, I had barely any coordination. I made it to the bathroom and collapsed on the floor of the nearest stall and proceeded to vomit so profusely I burst a blood vessel under my eye. I couldn’t stop shaking.

Epilepsy runs in my family, so I took my ass to the ER, fearful that this could be a prelude to something worse. After many, many, many hours, and the debilitating pain had finally embedded itself into my skull, the neurology team on call pronounced it to have been an unfortunate migraine/vertigo attack triggered by the strobing effect.

And I remember the nurse saying, “be thankful you’re not an epileptic,” thinking, yeah, there was a warning at the start of the movie about flashing effects, most movies have them. But I remember thinking it was a profoundly vile and evil thing to put that particular pattern of flashing lights in a movie that countless people would see blown up on a giant screen in a darkened room.

I “only” have migraines. If I had a different kind of neurological disorder, it could have killed me.

And now TikTok and Instagram is a thing and people just make strobing effect videos for fun and get mad when you ask them to tag for it, because using that tag won’t get them to the top of FYPage. Or maybe it’s not even motivated by gain. Perhaps it’s just annoyance at being asked to care for other people. Which is so much worse.

[justsonicthings]

wink

[kyuubicore]

You people will just say anything without any thought or remorse huh

[muneaj]

I want people saying remorseless stuff like this glued to a tree for a few days so people can throw rocks at them

[anxietyproblem]

[spacecolonie]

commission for mayli_draws on twt ♥

[theemeraldwings]

Call it queer infighting, but I feel like a safe space for GNC people should not have people who insist that being GNC is a pipeline to being trans.

[dysthymia-wet-specimen-deactiva]

not the tags being like "you're literally a trans activist self awareness: -10000" jfc... just goes to show how on this website really think radfems and trans people are monoliths, shutting down any room for nuanced convos on sexism in LGBT spaces by insisting it is inherently "TERFY" to speak out against it.

like you can actually recognize it's fucked up to tell a GNC person that being GNC makes them trans and also respect trans people. it is not hypocritical to use/identify with the terms "trans woman/man" or preferred pronouns because guess what, some people are gonna be trans and that's their choice. trans activism isn't agreeing with everything trans people say/do/think. back when i was coming out, nobody was "cracking anyone's egg" or forcing gnc people to be trans. this sexist anti-gnc rhetoric is a problem in trans spaces, but you don't have to go around insisting dysphoria isn't a real thing to believe that. you don't get to tell anyone how they should identify. i can be trans and also realize that gnc people aren't trans. tons of people are happy being gnc and that's that but acting like trans people are out to convert every gnc person is crazy work. there's a lot of sexist bs in trans communities about how "ohh all femboys are trans".

i don't let what other feminists or trans people tell me "the right way to think" to control my beliefs and neither should anyone else.

[theemeraldwings]

It's been wild seeing all the people immediately jump to calling this transphobia. I am literally asking for people to respect other peoples' gender identities.

I even very specifically did not say "trans people" in my original post, because the problem is not and never was trans people. (In fact, I'd say a GNC safe space needs to let trans people in for the same reason any queer safe space, including GNC ones needs to be able to let cishet people in--if it's not a safe space to people who are questioning, it's not a safe space)

I wouldn't even go as far as attributing this behavior to trans people. When it comes down to it, the people themselves are not the problem, it's their behavior.

The problem isn't trans people, it's people--of any identity--who think that, for some reason, the phrase "you should respect other people's identities" does not apply to them.

[theemeraldwings]

Actually, even more wild is the number of TERFs looking at this post and thinking "This post agrees with me". I am literally asking for a space where people respect other peoples' gender identities. A person who defines their political stance on how they don't respect certain people's genders is not welcome in such a place.

[lgbtlunaverse]

One part of how amatonormativity affects stories is that while platonic relationships between characters have to be specifically justified and explored (why are these characters friends, how do they get along, what do each of them get out of the relationship and value in the other?) "Love" of the romantic sort gets treated as a motivation that needs no explanation and can be applied to a character universally in the same way always. Why are these characters in love? They just are, man!! It's Love! You don't need to think about why a character would fall in love or unique ways in which their romantic feelings would be expressed because it's Love and Love needs no justification and always leads to the same results: crush-> confession -> kiss -> have sex (if age-appropiate) -> marriage -> 2.5 kids and a house.

This can lead to some really badly written romance where it feels like the characters stop being themselves to be pushed through the standard beats of the Romance Plot with no thought about how well those beats fit them. This might be part of why fandom's so obsessed with noncanon ships, as non-romantic relationships do need to have a specific dynamic and reason to care about one another, which it turns out also makes for a more interesting basis for a romantic relationship.

However, sometimes fandom runs with this phenomenon and does it to itself. And I don't just mean rolling an interesting dynamic through the Romance Plot Flattener themselves (though that too.) I mean that fandom sometimes takes a look at a canon romantic relationship and assumes the same rules of "no explanation or expression needed" must apply even when there is a unique and specific dynamic with narrative underpinnings and justifications to dig into. The fact that the characters are "In Love" supplants all their other motivations, and the fact that they are in love cannot possibly be something that tells you something specific about a character, because Love is Universal and Hegemonic and always manifests in the same way everytime, duh. And then some of those people decide they dislike this canon romance and it's shallow and boring and there's nothing to it except cookie cutter romance even when there literally is you have just decided via mass hypnosis not to see it– This is a post about Suselle Deltarune.

[pegibruno]

belated connection in my brain

[octo-l95]

he is so tall

[kyoukorpse]

i wasn't able to give ralsei a bow in game so he gets TWO.

[fight-nights-at-freddys]

i’m sorry but this is so shitty. i get not wanting to see nsfw of your characters, and i totally respect any creator setting boundaries and asking people not to send them that stuff. HOWEVER, you have to accept that once you make your characters public, people are going to treat them in ways you don’t personally like.

making a COPYRIGHT FORM so people go on a witch hunt, just so you can copyright strike them (falsely, mind you. fanfic and fanart fall under transformative works) is such a gross thing to do.

it doesn’t matter if the characters were based off your childhood, or personal experiences. it doesn’t matter how tightly you want to guard them and keep them safe and pure. the only solutions are setting boundaries between you and your fanbase, removing the characters from public eye and stop making content for them publicly, or learn to ignore it.

going all anne rice over people sexualizing a character is not the way to go though.

[majikthegremlin]

if im correct, Keith never expected to have Yaelokre or Harpy Hare get this much attention so likely never thought about any of this happening.

we need to stop saying "This is the internet. This is what happens to characters. get over it", i understand it to some degree but NORMALIZING this behavior ESPECIALLY WHEN RELATING TO MINORS is NOT OKAY. yes this is going to happen but artists should have a somewhat say in what happens over THEIR characters. you didnt think of these, you didnt come up with their stories, you didn't develop them through your experiences no matter how many headcanons or how much you relate to them, even if you're fictionkin, you are the character, not the creator.

people are made uncomfortable by content like this, and that is valid. it is okay not want to see it or be disgusted by it by personal experience or feelings. it is also okay to be into things like this BEHIND your own doors. can you speak out about your feelings? yes, away from those who may be triggered or uncomfortable.

i believe saying someone is in the wrong for speaking out about potentially problematic behavior and asking it to stop can be considered toxic in a way. the bottom line is:

WE SHOULD NOT NORMALIZE LETTING PEOPLE DO THIS BECAUSE THIS IS THE INTERNET.

Keith didn't ask people to go on a witchhunt. they just asked anyone who came or stumbled across this content to report it.

[fight-nights-at-freddys]

i’m sorry but this is so shitty. i get not wanting to see nsfw of your characters, and i totally respect any creator setting boundaries and asking people not to send them that stuff. HOWEVER, you have to accept that once you make your characters public, people are going to treat them in ways you don’t personally like.

making a COPYRIGHT FORM so people go on a witch hunt, just so you can copyright strike them (falsely, mind you. fanfic and fanart fall under transformative works) is such a gross thing to do.

it doesn’t matter if the characters were based off your childhood, or personal experiences. it doesn’t matter how tightly you want to guard them and keep them safe and pure. the only solutions are setting boundaries between you and your fanbase, removing the characters from public eye and stop making content for them publicly, or learn to ignore it.

going all anne rice over people sexualizing a character is not the way to go though.

[majikthegremlin]

if im correct, Keith never expected to have Yaelokre or Harpy Hare get this much attention so likely never thought about any of this happening.

we need to stop saying "This is the internet. This is what happens to characters. get over it", i understand it to some degree but NORMALIZING this behavior ESPECIALLY WHEN RELATING TO MINORS is NOT OKAY. yes this is going to happen but artists should have a somewhat say in what happens over THEIR characters. you didnt think of these, you didnt come up with their stories, you didn't develop them through your experiences no matter how many headcanons or how much you relate to them, even if you're fictionkin, you are the character, not the creator.

people are made uncomfortable by content like this, and that is valid. it is okay not want to see it or be disgusted by it by personal experience or feelings. it is also okay to be into things like this BEHIND your own doors. can you speak out about your feelings? yes, away from those who may be triggered or uncomfortable.

i believe saying someone is in the wrong for speaking out about potentially problematic behavior and asking it to stop can be considered toxic in a way. the bottom line is:

WE SHOULD NOT NORMALIZE LETTING PEOPLE DO THIS BECAUSE THIS IS THE INTERNET.

Keith didn't ask people to go on a witchhunt. they just asked anyone who came or stumbled across this content to report it.

[kaijuno]

[ceo-of-lesbians]

[doubleca5t]

I think a big reason why tech people keep Inventing the Torment Nexus so to speak is that the people who are most influential on the overall attitudes and goals of the tech business are not actually programmers or engineers, they're philosophers who have read a lot of science fiction and think that makes them qualified to speak on programming and engineering from a birds-eye long-term perspective. The entire transhumanist/rationalist world revolves around assuming that a bunch of shit from scifi will inevitably come true and that our goal as a species should be to make sure all this dystopian sci-fi bullshit is as beneficial (in the capitalistic sense of that word) as possible. No one cares about solving actual problems facing real people in the present day because they're only concerned with future problems caused by fictional technologies that will probably never actually exist.

[doubleca5t]

Everyone in the notes saying that these people don't deserve to be called philosophers 1) most of the people I'm thinking of work in the Philosophy department at Oxford University, so "philosopher" in this instance is less an honorific and more a job title 2) there have been a LOT of bad philosophers

[kaijuno]

[ceo-of-lesbians]

[spookienook]

my bebe...thank u spouse for maken her perfect @muneaj