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I am once again thinking about baby medic Jason and everything we could of had if DC writers actually read comics besides the ones they themselves write
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its of utmost importance you have sound on while watching this
It really is, the snoofs, you can practically hear the fluff
A Japanese company has figured out to use SLAAP suits in their native country (which has very limited fair use) to deplatform creators. See, because these videos that contain Japanese content and can be viewed in Japan (because Youtube has no geoblocking) it is subject to their copyright laws. Meaning they can circumvent other countries robust fair use, by choosing a venue they have a legal right to because the videos were viewable in Japan. Meaning its they can level copyright strikes though Youtubes draconian system. meaning they can get monetary damages of hundreds if not thousands of dollars from creators struggling to make ends meet. They could easily wipe anime youtubers off the map before most people even notice, basically harass them into non-existence by entirely legal means.
Team Four Star, AMVs, you name it, could all be taken down in months or less because of this.And our only defense is Geoblocking, using a program to make content unviewable in some countries, in this case Japan.
What Suede doesnāt say is: without this, there is risk it will spread. LAAP suits could in theory be leveled though other nations copyright laws to restrict international speech that the copyright holder disagrees with.
You and gingerhaole and khiroptera are fucking disgusting. Please do something with your time other than exploiting gay men. Fetishistic yaoi fujoshi shit is no longer welcome here.
Aw, thank you for comparing me to such great artists, itās an honor! :D
But ok, letās think about your message. Actually, letās make an example out of you, for the sake of this fandom and others.
A bit of History and background, first.Ā
Slash fanfic and art, as we know them, became a thing in the 1970s, with the Star Trek Original Series. The fandom, mostly women, sold printed copies of zines in a very secret way, because women having interests of a sexual nature was pretty taboo. Still is.Ā
The terms yaoi and fujoshi are japanese and do not apply to this occidental approach, or this specific British show. (I mean, you singled out three Good Omens fan artists). Japanese creators and fans of m/m pairings have their own History that are parallel to slash, but are not to be confused.Ā
Anyway, all this to say that m/m pairings have been a part of art and literatureĀ for 50 years now.
Why slash?
People have thought a lot about the question, and the most probable cause of the phenomenon is mathematics, and the fact that male characters outnumber female characters several times, and that is all over media.Ā
If the cast of your show, book or game has 10 characters, 7 are male and 3 females,Ā the m/m pairings are going to greatly outnumber straight pairings and f/f pairings.
Now, male characters are given more time, dialogue and backstories. They tend to talk more between themselves, which creates interesting relationships. Female characters barely pass the Bechdel test, and donāt have the possibility to create interesting bonds between themselves - or with men - if theyāre always relegated to the romantic or sexual interest. From a storytelling point of view, male characters end up more interesting just because the media we consume treats them better.
There is another thing that comes to mind about m/m pairings: the absence of misogyny. In a world where women (and people misgendered as women, including Non-Binary people) are constantly seen as lesser, reading romance of the straight variety can always bring back a gender imbalance that is not present when both partners in a romance are male. A romance on equal footing can be better escapism.Ā
Is slash āexploitingā gay men?
I mean, disregarding the fact that anon up there chose to call two genderless charactersĀ āgay menā (which is backed by one of the Good Omens authors). And also disregarding the fact that the three artists you blame, myself included, do not hesitate in drawing the characters as female presenting, non-binary, or any other gender presentation--
Which gay men are you talking about? Because fictional characters do not exist. You canāt exploit things that donāt exist. Theyāre ideas. Are you talking about their actors? Or the authors? Because they all said it was okay if we imagine the characters in love.Ā
Real men, gay or bi or any of them over the lgbt+ spectrum, are not harmed by the stories and art we tell. What harms them is real homophobia. If someone likes slash and treats gay men badly, thatās a problem, yes, and we need to address it. What Iāve seen from fandoms so far is that people are pretty good at regulating these attitudes. But liking slash and being homophobic are not related.Ā
Drag queens
Letās also not forget that gay culture has included a lot of what is traditionally feminine. No one complains about drag queens using the elements of what is, to us, the pressure of appearing feminine. Because we know that some of them can be misogynistic, but others can elevate it to an art form. We know how to make the difference.Ā
Arenāt you better than straight men that watch lesbian porn?
Iām going to be honest, I donāt care if men watch lesbian porn. Let them. What I care about is if men treat women and non-binary people in a fair and decent way. I know many excellent straight men that watch lesbian porn, and they treat people with respect.
People are not the media they consume.Ā
Thereās also something pretty specific about fandom: They donāt objectify characters, they elevate them. Pornography reduces actors to bodies, empty vessels that are there for our enjoyment. Fanfiction and fanart build on stories, develop personalities, they make the characters more real than they were in the source media. Thatās the opposite of objectification.Ā
The female and queer gaze
Now, letās talk about sex (baby). The message above, like anyone who wants to shame m/m fandoms, reduces it to sex, and pornography. Note that the three artists mentioned, myself included, have tons of non-sexual art and fanfics to our names. But thatās not what they focus on. They focus on sex, because sex is bad. But okay, letās talk about artists and writers who make sexy content.
As mentioned above, in the Star Trek printed magazine part, the female and queer, gaze is considered taboo, and still is today. Women canāt want. They canāt produce pornography for themselves. They canāt masturbate. Itās baaaad. Same for lgbt+ people. The only acceptable approach to sexuality is the mainstream straight male gaze.
People will protect men that donāt exist if it means shaming real women for what they want, and creating the things they want.
Shaming creators
Letās say that anon really thinks defending hypothetical men is a worthy cause. Letās see what they did with it: they wrote an anonymous, hateful message, to a single person on tumblr.
It wonāt surprise anyone that Iām a woman. That Iām queer. That Iām brown.
And what if it changed my mind, huh? What if I decided to never more draw or write m/m characters ever again? It wouldnāt change the fact that itās still a massive literary and art current. Is anon going to contact each creator individually, or did they just want to use any reason to send anonymous hate in the inbox of a defenceless person on the web?
There is a movement of puritanical thought disguised as leftist rhetoric which can be summarisedĀ asĀ āsex is bad, woman making sex things is badā, and people aim it generally towards women both cis and trans, non-binary people, people of color, people in the lgbt+ spectrum, neurodivergent people, etc.Ā
People will find something they disapprove of and attack small creators instead of bigger organisations, because being hateful is more important than making real change.Ā
Fandom is made of real people
Also... what do they do about the gay men who write slash? The bi men? The trans straight women? The non-binary people? Are these people exploiting gay men, too?Ā
Fandom, and m/m fandom because you pretty much canāt have one without the other, is mostly filled with women, non-binary people, BIPOC, neurodivergeant people, and everyone on the lgbt+ spectrum. Theyāre independent creators that are all easy to reach through their inboxes. Theyāre all people that suffer hate an discrimination. Theyāre people that are easy to harass.
This is why Iām making an example out of this anonymous message. I could have deleted it. Forgotten it, went on with my day.Ā
But there are too many creators out there who get the same kind of vitriol and donāt have the words or the experience to answer back. But I do. Iāve been reading slash fic since 1998, on my parentās computer, in the common room.
Slash fic taught me about romance. About men. About respectful relationships. About queerness. About accepting my own queerness. About trans and non-binary people. About accepting my body. About sexuality, my own, and others. About kinks, finding what I like and what I donāt. It helped me be confident in bed, and my partners have been pretty happy with what I learned from fic. It taught me how to write my own stories. It taught me English.Ā
They will say weāre exploiting when weāre actually building temples.Ā
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Iām off to draw men kissing men.Ā
A. imagine your otp
B. dear gods this country has massive issues
Iāve been looking for this post for ages
listen, Iāve read enough fanfic to know that theyāre not getting divorced, but itāll take about 35k of pining to figure that out.
-Qui-gon Jinn, Master and ApprenticeĀ (Claudia Gray)
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if I may add
do NOT give this murder bot mind powers
Lets be real here. Chopper has better things to do than be a sith and take over things.
tired: mermaids are all women
wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty
inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they're an entirely different species with their own unique culture
marine scientist: what's your gender?
merperson: what's a gender
marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?
merperson: i'm merfolk
marine scientist: no, like, what's in your pants?
merperson: i don't... wear any? i don't have legs?
Itās a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.
Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that
If you like this thread then you sure will love a book called The Deep by Rivers Solomon, a black trans author, and inspired by the same song by clipping., the hip-hop group Daveed Diggs is in.
damn, get these boys some group therapy
After Wizards, I rewatched the start of Trollhunters. And Jim is trying to give the amulet back cause he doesnāt want to *die*!
And suddenly all I can think is āIām Sorry, Jim. Someone should have protected you.ā
Person who doesn't watch Tales of Arcadia: Why do you love this Douxie so much?
Me: *shows them this*
Yes I spent the whole day editing this and I regret nothing!
Coach is so tired
and done
Also Mary is so used to this bullshit sheās just walking home as the dude runs
I can explain. When I first started playing Stardew Valley I misunderstood a few things. I thought that if a villager wasnāt in the dating pool it was because they were seeing someone else. Neither the Wizard nor Linus were available, so when I noticed them hanging out together during Not Halloween and the Winter Festival I just assumed it was because they were dating.
Iām sorry this is just too cute! <3
weāre going to have to call smutĀ ālemonsā again, arenāt we?Ā
LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!
oh you sweet summer childĀ
Itās what 12 more hours? See you in a couple months or never. Iām probably going to be everywhere but here if I can possibly help it.
If you run across this after the 16th Iāve managed to snag a lot of the artists in exsodus including quite a few of the nsfw folks. So if you want to support or just find out what tumblr so callously tossed out, try my follows here & here: https://twitter.com/HanaCatVictoria
https://www.instagram.com/hannacatherinevictoria/
If your dead set on other websites you can try tweeting at me or whatev, but I donāt have anyone's pillowfort yet like at all. (subject to change of course)
REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.
@staff you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Please donāt fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All thatās going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
Please donāt fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All thatās going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
This is blatantly untrue
Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.
Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. Thatās why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you donāt believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)
Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,
DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.
Please reblog this version of the post to stop the spread of misinformation.
Iām staying gone as long as possible. For keeps if I can help it. I love how this platform works, but I canāt support this blatantly un-American bullshit.
@staff You have taken the commons from those who did you no wrong for the sake of greed. You are banishing those who need safe harbor to make safe spaces for your ad revenue, you are discriminating and calling itĀ ādiversity.ā
We are not going to stand for this. You have tossed out our friends and neighbors & none of us feel safe nor welcome anymore. The ones whoād have all-but-literally died for this place, you have betrayed them.
So you have twenty four hours to see sense, but Iām not holding my breath. So with regret we watch this place burn- by your hand not ours, for fruitless and avoidable reasons.
One and five people came to celebrate the human body in an at least partially sexual fashion. Even more of us to celebrate art and the human form in all the ways we could think of. Even more of us stood by them & will continue to, no matter how many places we have to follow them.
So goodbye, I hope you find what was lost some day.