In the Name of Queer Science

Call me Colress. 19, autistic and mentally ill trans endoboy, he/they pronouns. Schrödiromantic(?) pansexual. Gender and sexuality is complicated. Otherkin, fictionkin, and host of a system, though you're unlikely to hear from any of my alters. Proud fudanshi. Abuse and CSA/CoCSA survivor. -124 tolerance for ableism. Pro-shipping, pro-kink, pro-MOGAI, anti-REG of any kind.

[beloved-rose-deactivated2016092]

Teen With Epilepsy Has A Seizure When Her Service Dog Is Distracted

This article is too important for me to just post a link that you probably won’t click through to read.  THIS is why you DO NOT EVER pet service dogs.  They are working and it can mean serious injury or even death if you are distracting them from doing their job.

[queercolress]

This, with the exception of some service dogs like autism assistance dogs. They’re generally allowed to be pet if you ask for permission, though you must respect a no if you get that as your answer.

They’re usually allowed to be pet because, from my experiences with relatives who have autism assistance dogs (younger brother and cousin), part of the dog’s job is to help bridge the social gap. But again, these are rare cases, and it’s best to err on the side of caution and not pet a service dog (even if they are allowed to be pet because you might not know if they are or aren’t allowed).

[youareagoodperson]

Anyway, unpopular opinion, but I still immensely dislike the jokes about “The Straights” because:

1. Being an asshole to people for no real reason is actually really shitty, despite what the wannabe high school bullies on this hellsite tell you

2. The jokes always end up having splash damage on people that aren’t actually straight but are seen as “straight enough” by the hellish LGBT+ “community” on this hellsite

[cafeleningrad]

3) Actually mocking people for their sexual orientation - a double standart for a community trying to fight predjudices and discrimination against sexual orientation. No, people with heterosexual orientation are no targeted like LGBTQA-members in real life but being mean to someone online because of their sexuality is a shitty move, and only makes you behaving like an asshole.

[queercolress]

4. Straight trans people exist and are lgbtq+

[who-gives-a-ship]

Reblog if you are an anti anti/pro shipper and support:

MOGAI genders/orientations

Otherkin/fictkin

A-spec inclusion

Non-dysphoric trans people

Non-binary genders

Neopronouns

Differentiating between pronoun and gender

Neurodivergence

“Cringy” hyperfixations/interests

Fujoshi/fudanshi/fujin

Ex-antis

Kindness in general

[discoursecatharsis]

lmao there are antis in the pokemon fandom now? i remember shipping ash with gary oak when i was like 5 and first playing pokemon yellow! are people who grew up with these games not allowed to talk about our ships? are we not allowed to age these characters up to reflect that they grew up as we did? how ridiculous

For real, it’s so ridiculous. When I started watching Pokemon, I was younger than the main characters. I shipped Ash and Misty really hard, they were my first otp before I even knew what shipping was. So now I’m older than them, I’m not allowed to ship them anymore? I’m not allowed to imagine them grown up at my current age? Wtf ant1s?

Also Pokemon fandom has some wild ships, any ant1-shippers would be fighting a losing battle. Apparently ant1s in the Pokemon fandom is a new/recent thing too. Which I believe because I remember when the XY games came out, lots of people were shipping the Player character (aged up) with Professor Sycamore and a few people raised some eyebrows at that ship, but there were no “PEDO APOLOGIST” allegations (because they’re not real) like there would be now. 

[discoursecatharsis]

@hoetabekaltin Right?! There’s literally an entire rule 34 site of actual questionable and downright problematic art. But nah, let’s shame fanartists who write about their childhood otp growing up and getting married and being intimate on their honeymoon. Their priorities are messed up

[queercolress]

There’s also a recent issue regarding shipping N with the BW protagonists because apparently in BW, N is 18-20 while the protags are 14

Even though I’m pretty sure most of the shipping between them is post-BW2, which takes place two years later

[tavrus]

[tavrus]

@latinextra should I fight them?

[gringoslur]

BGKWJFKEKTKE WHAT IS THIS ABOUT???

[tavrus]

THIS UGLY ART LMAO

[gringoslur]

BFKSFNSKFN YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A GRINGX TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU SHOULDN’T WHITEWASH A CHARACTER OF COLOR !!! You have NO reason to do it in the first place, but if you do it, maybe you should ask yourself why 👀 And if you make this mistake, don’t blame where are you from to keep doing it, LEARN from it and EDUCATE yourself because this is something that affects people of color EVERYWHERE? so yeah. if you can’t do that, get your artsty feelings somewhere else because they are trash. And who gives a shit if “we lose artists in this fandom because of negativity uwu” that negativity it’s NOT SUPPORTING RACISM, jeremy. And i’m glad that “artist” that don’t give a shit about respecting people/chatacters of color are leaving. Jesus christ.

[tavrus]

@sixelamarr

[daysuntilsnow]

Yes…fight me (sarcasm), because sadly it’s from the younger generation (and a few “fandom mothers/fathers” people need to avoid ) of the fan base that send majority of the death threats, take things to the extreme and eventually, in the end, end up killing whatever made fun in the fan base to begin with.

The artist doesn’t need negativity. You could have been a better person and pm them (kindly ) and explain to them.

I’ve seen young artist, leave the fandom and dare not touch any character that have darker skin color, because they have gotten picked on, harassed an attacked.

Your “should I fight them” isn’t helpful at all but shows that yes, the Voltron fandom is a toxic place.

And then you

“THIS ART UGLY LAMO”

Mark that as another toxic thing to make Voltron community.

Then your friend and you talk about the artist, then you tag me? To prove what? That the toxic fan base is alive and well.

If you don’t like it, cool, move on, live on.

Don’t PM people if you think you are in the right, because no, not after the “threat, the mocking and the ignorance” your posts shows the two of you need to grow.

[the-firefox666]

I’ll be honest I honestly felt like shipping stuff in the voltron community then I saw all the hate affiliated with most ships and it kind of ruined it for me and now I’m sitting over here with my hunk based ships because people don’t fight those( that I’m aware of )

[daysuntilsnow]

Hunk is love and you are wise to stay out of something so toxic. I hope you never find toxic people in the Hunk fandom.

[shalliekeith]

i’m sorry but i’m still losing my shit over “gringx” excuse me for a second

[queercolress]

Meanwhile I’m confused as to what the hell happened to constructive criticism

I don’t think people should be attacked over this sort of thing, especially if they’re a new artist and just getting into it. Instead, they should be told that this isn’t a good thing to do and offer ways to improve

[nonbinarypastels]

Wait you support pedophilic ships? That's gross and it does affect real life abuse victims

Anon, I am a real life abuse survivor and what people ship does not affect me because I can easily avoid content for ships that I don’t like or find triggering if I exercise the barest amount of responsibility for my own online experience just as every other abuse survivor can.

What affects me as an abuse survivor is seeing people constantly put my abuse on the same level as fictional stories about fictional cartoon characters who 99% of the time are not even children, seeing people constantly mis-use the word pedophilia to describe anything and everything other than actual CSA, seeing people constantly falsely accused of being pedophiles and pedophile apologists—including multiple other CSA survivors—over the fictional content they read or over not wanting to see their abuse trivialized by having it compared to that fictional content or even just for not wanting to get involved with this ridiculous fandom mess to the point where everyone on this entire website has alarm fatigue over it and doesn’t take actual allegations of actual predators seriously anymore.

What affects me as an abuse survivor is seeing people constantly use me and other CSA survivors as prop in a cyberbullying campaign over ship wars, using us and their so-called “defense” of us to justify telling people to kill themselves, that they deserve to die and be assaulted, and making an absolute mockery of the abuse that I went through and that other CSA survivors have went through by having the audacity to act like shipping an 18 year old cartoon character with another cartoon character in their 20s is just as bad as being sexually abused as a child.

That isn’t me “supporting pedophilic ships”, that is me being absolutely against a fandom culture that normalizes abuse of other fans and puts the well-being of fictional characters who do not exist over the well-being of actual, real life human beings and actual, real-life abuse survivors while advocating for people to take responsibility for their own online and fandom experience by using the resources available to them to avoid content that they don’t want to see.

I don’t like a damn good lot of ships that people ship or things that people write but at the end of the day I don’t care about the kind of fiction people consume. I care about how people treat other people because that defines who they are as a person much, much more than the fiction they read ever will.

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

I’m a real life survivor…and usually I don’t give a flying fuck about what people ship unless it’s one of my ships too and I want to know their headcanons. That doesn’t mean I don’t privately think some ships are nasty, but I know from personal experience that having a so-called ‘problematic’ pairing doesn’t have a causal relationship with being an actual paedophile.

The guy who traumatised me? My cool older friend who liked cooking and hiking. It would be impossible to tell he was into underage boys just by looking at his blog.

This practice of trying to out people as paedophiles for shipping something you don’t like or being on the side of the ace or kink discourse that you don’t like is doing more harm than good. Innocent people are being bullied and having their mental health ruined while actual child abusers are going under the radar.

When I see a callout post for an apparent paedophile on here, my immediate first though is ‘I wonder what their unpopular ship is’, and not ‘I should block this dangerous person’, because so few of the posts have solid evidence behind them.

I’m not going to speak for all victims here, but I’ll say that in my experience, antis make it a huge pain in the arse to find the actual child abusers in a sea of false accusations.

[piss-bong]

[piss-bong]

The lack of notes on this post is transphobic

[growlingrat-archive]

i made it better

[piss-bong]

You’re absolutely fucking right you did!!

[mrbrightchive]

[lesbitchka]

i propose for an “over 30yo fandom mom” field to be added

[yourshipisfine]

Tag yourself I’m ‘doesn’t write romance without sex’.

(Alternately, check if you can get a bingo!)

[himedanshi-archive]

IM 50% SEX 50% ANGST MAO

[zorilleerrant]

Just going through these one by one is a trip:

the vast majority of people who’ve written more than 5 slash fics have at least one without sex; I’m used to people writing more fics without sex than with, but I tend to go for writers of longer works

lots of people don’t follow lgbt+ news, including lots of lgbt+ people, and reading the news is not a requirement for writing

all romance is really terrible about consent, regardless of whether it’s fanfic, mainstream published, specialty published, or self-published original fiction, and regardless of who wrote it

you’re accusing people of doing things for sexual gratification and then getting angry at them for saying they’re not sexually attracted; also, aces aren’t straight

I’ve read lots of things written by straight girls with very good pacing; conversely, I’ve read almost nothing written by gay men with good pacing

I personally dislike omegaverse so I don’t know that much about it, but I’ve for sure seen lots of lgbt+ people writing it

fujoshis are not by definition straight and it’s wierd to imply they are

um, yes, people do write things exploring romance and sex to explore and express their own feelings and interactions with romance and sex

what’s wrong with kink?

everyone I’ve seen engaging in top/bottom discourse seriously has been mlm; even as a joke, it’s mostly mlm and occasionally wlw

lots of straight girls absolutely do read and/or write f/f, and even if they don’t, who cares?

most popular ships have fanonized dynamic that new writers in the fandom will adhere to, but it’s frequently the younger one who’s the top (power exchange), and not infrequently the younger one who’s the top (penis putter inner)

gay men are way more likely to ignore lesbians that straight women when writing m/m fic

we all know it’s lesbians who tag the most ships

literally any kind of artist putting literally any kind of art on the internet makes posts about how awkward and embarassed they are

lots of characters are very sexual in canon - this includes one of the most common character archetypes, the womanizer, as well as many canon mlm, like Jack Harkness

there’s nothing wrong with self-insert fic

there’s nothing wrong with being anti-anti, and in fact there’s probably something wrong if you aren’t

oh no being against hate however will we live

most slash writers I read are women in their mid twenties to late thirties, although I don’t keep track of their orientations; also, weren’t you guys trying to ban anyone older than 8th grade from fandom?

I see way more lgbt+ people using ‘sin’ than straight girls

it’s a bad thing to be an ally now? that sounds like…homophobia

personally I prefer angsty fics, and I find it tends to be 85% angst or 3% and not a lot in between - sex is almost never more than 5% except in smut fics, which are, well, smut

yes, m/m slash communities were created by and for women, and have conventionally been a place for women to explore their sexualities and their identities; you can easily find this information in any academic study of fandom

[lines-and-edges]

I’m just going to note for the record that the author of this chart literally thinks it’s OK to make fun of 13-year-olds for being 13 (bottom left).

Oh, wait, for being a 13-year-old girl who identifies as straight (because we all know everyone’s sorted out their sexual orientation by that age! /s) and writes fanfic.

And in context it’s even worse: OP is calling 13-year-olds on the carpet for their personal sexual thoughts, in really skeevy and inappropriate ways.

This sounds like some 4chan bullshit; and minors should be seriously wary of OP and anyone who reblogged this uncritically. Stay safe out there.

[queercolress]

I literally thought I was a straight girl at 13 because of lack of education. I didn’t realize I was bi until I was 14, but even then I didn’t know I was genderqueer and transmasc until I was 17

But no I guess I need to be condemned because when I was younger I thought I was a girl and was really into this sort of thing

[queercolress]

I’m just waiting for an anti to insist I’m a straight girl and not a bi transmasc genderqueer person

Just because *gasp* a lot of my ships are m/m

And I look very feminine

I’m also waiting for them to attack me because I refuse to say anything about pedophilia and instead say I hate child molesters

I don’t want to touch that discourse ever

[queercolress]

Also I hate child molesters

Just making that clear

[queercolress]

Honestly I fully believe minors shouldn’t get involved in MAP discourse, regardless of which side their on

[youareagoodperson]

honestly I die a little inside every time fandom decides that a certain female character that has shown attraction to men/multiple genders in the past is automatically a lesbian without even considering that they could be bi because “comp het” 🙄

[strawberryoverlord]

@Redkatherinee is now @redpeachh just a heads up to y'all who don’t know/haven’t seen so you can block her there

[projectqueer]

'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Is Biased Junk Science

A frighteningly biased piece on trans youth was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, says Brynn Tannehill, who breaks down why it's so wrong.

[golbatgender]

This is how truscum feed into cis narratives, by the way. Transtrending is a cis concept and the idea that it happens at all is used to harm us. Stop pushing truscum ideas; they harm all trans people.

[queercolress]

Other people can’t decide what your gender is.

[regpositivity]

In case it wasn’t clear…

[anumquajbf-deactivated20190225]

Yall get off my account if ur one of these

[queercolress]

I can't make userboxes but I'm adding "this user hates nbphobes/exorsexists on here too

[terflies]

For reasons I don’t comprehend, @karawaltersuniverse has taken to lying about me, calling be a TERF and accusing me of misgendering a trans, male person on Instagram—while she misgenders him (as seen here), accusing him of being a transtrander because he’s…traditionally feminine? Not ashamed of his body as he “should be if he had dysphoria”? Has pastel hair?

I don’t understand, but more than lying about me I’m disgusted with the malice involved in slandering him. That just be acknowledging his pronouns I’m a TERF and misgendering him. It’s not an attack on me but an attack on him.

[queercolress]

Glad to know truscum are still ableist as fuck