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A brilliant answer you gave to that other anon. In relation, when a lot of people who believe that it is morally wrong to even depict anything problematic even when not glorifying anything they also tend to argue for censorship. This censorship doesn't just stop at explicit or violent content, either. Itchio still has LGBTQ+ games de indexed that are PG. This topic is tricky.
thank you! ^^
yep, that's part of why I'm generally wary of censorship as a solution. because we know people rarely agree on what should or shouldn't be allowed.
one person wants explicit sexual content removed. another wants violent content removed. someone else thinks certain political, religious, or LGBTQ+ themes shouldn't be depicted. once the standard becomes "this makes me uncomfortable, therefore it shouldn't exist," the line tends to keep moving.
personally, I'd much rather have clear warnings, tagging systems, filters, and the ability to curate my own online experience than have a small group of people decide what everyone else is allowed to create or consume.
you can still criticize fiction or discuss its impact. those conversations are important. I just don't think criticism and censorship are the same thing. as for the Itch.io situation, that's a good example of why these discussions can get complicated very quickly :/
I hope I don’t get flamed for this, but I feel like there’s many conversations to be had about taboo topics in fiction. I’m not going to jump the gun and say, you read non-con therefore you’re a rapist, as that’s kind of moronic and a really closed off mindset. However, I feel like taboo things in works of fiction does damage the psyche and has a tendency to desensitize people to those topics. So, while I’m not going to try to crucify you for your thoughts as you are an adult who’s capable of forming your own opinions, I do feel that we should be more wary about what people write in fiction as I feel like at times the line between fiction and real life can blur.
honestly? I don't think that's an unreasonable concern, anon ^^
I agree that fiction can influence people. stories can affect how we think, what we empathize with, what scares us, and how we view the world. media isn't created in a vacuum.
where I personally differ is that I don't think the presence of a taboo topic in fiction is enough to tell us much about the people consuming or creating it. again, human beings engage with fiction for all sorts of reasons, and those reasons can vary wildly from person to person.
I also think it's important to be careful about assuming a direct line between fictional interests and real-world behavior. throughout history, people have blamed books, comics, video games, horror films, music, and countless other forms of media for harmful acts (another example is rapists and serial killers blaming porn for their crimes). in many cases, the people committing those acts already had deeper issues that couldn't be explained by a piece of fiction alone.
so while I agree that media can have an impact, I personally don't think that discussing or depicting a taboo subject in fiction automatically reflects someone's real-life morals, desires, or intentions.
at the end of the day, I'd rather judge people by how they treat real people than by what fictional topics they are willing to read, write, or discuss ^^
"Why not make female heroes more feminine so girls know you don't have to be masculine to save the world" is misguided. The target audience of heroic adventure genre is not children who actually save the world in a literal sense, it's children who want a cathartic outlet for the struggles and injustice they face. And one of the most common types of injustice that many girls and children assumed to be girls are subjected to is forced feminization.
People who are under pressure to be feminine need to be shown that they don't have to be feminine. Full stop. Not that they can combine femininity and non conformity or incorporate femininity into something else, just that they don't have to be feminine.
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"Blackbird" - personal work, inspired by my hometown. Blackbirds are my favourite - they sing so beautifully.
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when we "lose" a cis butch woman because he becomes a trans man or masc you should actually say such things as yay, yippee, or hooray.
i identified as a butch for a bit! I changed my mind because in my case it was me trying to avoid wanting to be something I wasn't sure I COULD be! did you "lose" something when I, a trans woman, decided to present more femme?
if every cis butch woman in the world became a trans man right now, that would be an unambiguously, inarguably good and positive thing, because that would be people choosing to live the lives they wanted as the kinds of people they wanted to be, end of statement. personal autonomy isn't something to bitch over!
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some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.
also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.
“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.
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"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Official Strategy Guide" (1995)
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i went to the dentist today and my dentist honest to god said “can i ask you a question…….what the hell is in your mouth”
it was in awe lmao
then the hygienist and assistant all came over to look too and they were like “wooooow” and my ass was sitting there like
oh my god i posted this and then went to work, and
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okay so to preface this, my hometown where i’m originally from is a really fucking weird place. like from the outside it seems like a normal suburban town, but once you’re there for awhile you get the feeling that’s something’s not…quite all together. a lot of people are really fucking weird there — so much so that that was a running joke in school growing up, that people in the town were just like that. everyone knew not to go out to the farm lands surrounding the town especially at night, we called it “the cuts” and people used to disappear out there all the time or get shot at by the especially weird people that would live out there. the news was and still is truly a thing of horror. every time i come back i’m regaled with even more stories of crazy shit that has happened there.
to put it in perspective we generally never had “normal crime” like robbery or anything like that when i lived there, though that did happen sometimes. the news stories were always like, “a kid was kidnapped by local residents and tortured in a house around the corner,” “a random person was chased down and shot for sport in a really nice neighborhood,” “someone was gored to death by a bull while out car shopping,” etc. (these are all real, btw). everyone does drugs and the whole town is located really close to a government site where they test nuclear weapons and chemicals and shit. this is how i grew up, in this bizarre environment.
i need to preface it this way so that you get that it’s weird. it’s a fucking weird place. i used to listen to the welcome to night vale podcast and make comparisons from it to my hometown, that’s how weird it is.
i only say this so you know that this town is where i got my orthodontics from.
all the kids in my town went to this one particular orthodontist. i also used to go to a dentist in town that a lot of people went to as well. i had a permanent retainer put on my bottom teeth after braces and no one had ever said anything to me about the model of retainer itself or it being weird type of retainer at all. i saw a ton of other people (mostly other kids that were my age at the time) that had the same type of retainer as me too so i never thought about it.
so i kept my retainer in — it’s never caused me problems and it keeps my teeth straight, why not?
however i went to a dentist for the first time in a metropolitan area now, and when he saw it in my mouth his literal first reaction was to say “uh can i ask you a question….what the hell is that”
LITERALLY the words that he said
which in hindsight makes almost too much sense. of course my town of all towns would put these weird unnecessary contraptions in kids’ mouths, and of course it happened so much that everyone just thought it was normal. that sounds exactly, to a T, like my hometown.
my permanent bottom retainer is apparently this prototype that is so rare that he’s literally never seen it before in his life, not in dental school, nowhere. it’s not that it’s an outdated type, it’s just rare as fuck. they were still staring at pictures of it on my chart in wonder when i left the office.
so just know somewhere out there, in a weird ass suburban town where they test nuclear weapons and a good portion of the residents go fucking nuts, there’s probably hundreds of people still walking around with this same contraption in their mouth that exists nowhere else in the world thinking, “yeah, that’s cool. that makes sense. let me go drink the definitely not-contaminated water now and never move away from here.”
This sounds like an X-files episode
Okay, so I looked into it and I think that the town is Tracy, California.
I looked up the bull-murder thing OP mentioned and Tracy seemed to be only town that came up with a matching case. Though the man didn’t actually die from his injuries everything else matches up one for one. So just to make sure that it was the right town I looked to see if there was any murder-torture of young people in Tracy, and unfortunately there was. It was a 17 year old boy who escaped and survived the torture. And just to solidify that it was in fact Tracy I looked up shootings in residential areas and there was one of a 20 year old man who was shot and killed in a nice neighborhood.
Okay, but I decided to look into Tracy more to find out more information about it and the town is super suspicious. There’s been a lot of murders and shooting in the town. Back in 2009 an 8 year old girl, Sandra Cantu, was kidnapped and murdered by a Sunday school teacher who said she had no idea why she killed Sandra. Another case happened in 2018 when four underage boys were shot and one was killed by four teenage boys. There’s a lot of news stories on shootings, homicides, and drug busts in that town. It’s a really cute town from the outside, if you just look up Tracy, California there’s a lot of really cute businesses and nice articles on sweet things that happen in the town, but if you actually look into it the town is really sketchy.
So yeah, this sketchy town with a military base, multiple homicides and shootings is maybe Tracy, California.
………………..yeah, you guys caught me
i grew up in tracy
also i have to add another person’s tags to this since it’s honesty hour because they’re hilarious and true
Honestly I wasn’t even surprised when I found out it was in California. Even less surprised when googled it and found out it was near the Bay Area. That sounds about right.
Apparently the motto is “Think Inside the Triangle” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Im rebolgging just to add that it’s illegal to see the news from the city in UE. Like, LITERALLY:
it’s….what now
OP didn’t even mention it used to be the base of a large branch of the American Nazi Party throughout the entire seventies and that the most likely source of the groundwater contamination was a pile of discarded tires that started burning in 1998 and was allowed to burn for TWO FUCKING YEARS because they were afraid the runoff from putting the fire out would cause more pollution.
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