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Still not sure what to do with this, but the longer I stick around, the more I want to do something with this.

I'm still alive. Just focused on Bluesky at the moment. I still got plans for this place but I can only pay attention to one place at a time. UwU

Artist, Gamer, Professional Procrastinator. I'm here because of the Twitter purge, but I'll try and make it worth it. NSFW, BTW. Check me o

#bluesky #im still alive #im still here

were--ralph

you guys get one "Okay but hear me out" character you find hot. who is it

mine is obviously Wario

dorokora

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ninetails2000

#big norm #my beloved

So. How's everyone doing? Thinking of reviving this place for it's original purpose as a dumping ground for wip content and stuff if only to get some use out of it beyond lurking and silently watching people.

I want to work on improving my interaction, interpersonal skills and networking this year so this would be a step in the right direction.

#I've been here all along #Just haven't been using this #it's been a long couple of years

Well now that Twitter is dying, I suppose I should probably start using this as more than a spectating account again.

Joy.

#I never left #I've just been watching from the sidelines #You some fake hoes

toot-tr

this is random but this makes me so angry

ITS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE READ SO MUCH BULLSHIT IN MY LIFE BEFORE

ALSO EIDOS HUH

yeah they dont even know the developers, not even what made core lara so great

“it needs fleshing out” my ass

positivelyamazonian

I seriously hope this is just regular trolling

ninetails2000

That’s a blatant rehash of the “Lara Croft gets breast cancer” joke from Gaming in the Clinton Years. That’s most likely why they mentioned Eidos as well. >_>

redwhitebreeze

Nintendo: makes something bad like cancelling a game

YouTube thumbnails:

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Game Journalists:

Nintendo: [Breathes]

Game Journalists:

chokit-pyrus

I saw this one post ages ago where someone said that video games can’t have plus-size characters, because “how could they do cool action?” I can’t find the post, but it inspired me to show you guys some gifs of real people.

wolfoflightandearth

All this and also like videogames dont have to have realistic actions.

Videogame characters regularly do things that real life people cannot do.

If youre someone who can accept link turning into a wolf but cant accept someone fat doing flips and parkour and shit maybe youre just fatphobic and you dont actually care whether or not plus sized people can do those things.

ninetails2000

Might I add to this?

Hey Tumblr, guess what?

I’m back, baby!

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.

im-da-bronx

Could pedophilia be defined as “using the authority of one’s age and greater life experience to manipulate those of younger ages and less life experience, most always children or teenagers, sometimes to the point of demanding complete dependence of the younger, and almost always demanding sexual favors of the younger.”?

Because, yeah, a 20 year old is an adult, but they have the Adult Free Trial, which gives you some, but not all, of the perks and responsibilities of adulthood. They’ve barely had any time to be an adult. And if a 50 year old is dating them, it’s probably for an underhanded reason.

But then you could get into the “What if they don’t realize it? What if they genuinely want to be a good person, they were just raised to expect this?” And then the fault would be on society and not the 50 y/o, UNTIL you tell the 50 y/o. Then whether they change or not is on them.

And you could also get into the “if they’re ‘attracted’ to children, but they know it’s wrong, and are seeking help/make sure they only interact in a safe, respectful way, are they pedos?” Etc.

And I forgot where I’m going with this but someone less emotionally/mentally tired please respond with your intellectual findings b/c this topic has been bugging me for months

firelxdykatara

To answer your first question–no. No, it absolutely could not. A fifty-year-old dating a twenty-year-old may very well be a creep, and the relationship could be unbalanced and unhealthy and even unethical, depending on the power dynamics involved, but being attracted to another adult, no matter how young an adult, is not pedophilia. Period. You cannot dilute the meaning of a condition like pedophilia (which is a paraphilia–healthy human adults are not sexually attracted to prepubescent children, that’s the point) without doing real harm to actual children who may be targeted, because suddenly resources and attention are being diverted from the actual problem (which is adults being attracted to prepubescent children who may then act in it–or, more broadly, adults coaxing minors into relationships with them even if they’ve gone partially or mostly through puberty) (that second bit is, incidentally, why romeo&juliet laws are important–an 18-year-old should not face the same penalty for sleeping with a 16-year-old that a 25-year-old would).

Are there valuable conversations to be had about why an older adult may choose or even prey on younger adults when they could conceivably be dating people closer to their own age? Sure. But you do those conversations no favors by pulling the ‘pedophilia’ card on people who’ve never expressed an attraction to children. And, especially when it comes to shipping, all you accomplish when you do something like that is start a shouting match where one side is defensive because an extremely charged buzzword has been pulled out over a fictional ship that didn’t even involve children, and the other side just starts calling everyone involved pedos or pedo-apologists and absolutely nothing of any worth to anyone comes out of it.

Your post is actually a perfect example of what the OP and the following commenters are talking about, in fact–the way tumblr has taken upon itself the duty of changing the definition of pedophilia (and, as pointed out in other comment chains on this thread, incest) so that it can encompass all the ships any given anti shipper has decided are Not Morally Pure Enough to Pass. And it’s a legitimate problem which provides a fascinating (if horrifying) look at the way fandom spaces have developed over the decades, and where the Purity Police really got their start.

smidnite

A fascinating post.

ninetails2000

This is a more eloquent summarization of my thoughts on these matters than I could ever write out. A good read for anyone on either side of the argument.

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this post has been a wild ride for me

ninetails2000

I spent an entire weekend fruitlessly looking for this not too long ago, I WILL NEVER LET YOU GO!

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ninetails2000

Hmph, I’m only doing this because I need a surplus of good vibes....and money...>_>

sj0

you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

hersheyhipster

Couldn’t risk it.

justjengie

didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.

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THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT

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