side blog to reblog

I rb n$fw and sfw things. Scroll at your own risk | 20s | they/she? (idk) | this one is to reblog everything, since main & side blogs are messy (but I'm trying to tidy those up)

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Inspired by this post—and the other reblogs / comments, I made this side blog where I can reblog without being worried about it interfering with my other blogs / content not matching / tagging. Additionally, now I can find it / not have to scroll through my likes to find stuff, and show my appreciation. (I know it might not be the same as fawning over the art / fanfiction / creation to the artist and letting them know how much I like it, but right now I'm barely surviving life, much have energy to ramble and make sure it's legible + cohesive, or what if a "I liked this" is too little for how good it is. 😅…basically I overthink any interaction, so this is my way of supporting.)

It'll include various (potentially random) stuff such as

fics I've just read / read previously but haven't reblogged yet / maybe just reblogging again for support. 🤷‍♀️who's to know

(incorrect) quotes

images or edits

just anything I find interesting

(sometimes I quick reblog stuff so it's saved for later—especially with the authors deactivating. please don't block me thinking it's a bot)

[max1461]

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

[word-for-today]

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

[obscenicon-deactivated20231123]

this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all

[steelblue8]

Reblog if you are a freak who is justifying their gross actions

[rokosourobouros]

theres a lot of discussion in the tags and comments about how a lot of stuff that gets called 'gross' has actual quantifiable reasons behind being bad that you can draw on as well, and I want to expound on that a little: When you rely on something's 'gross' factor instead of its actual harm, you place the blame in the wrong place and cause more harm in the process.

Heads up that I'm going to talk about child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation material (child porn, although we don't call it that anymore).

"CSEM is gross". I mean... sure. Except. Here's the thing. When you put it like that, you put a massive fence around the entire topic. You make it clear that you don't wanna hear about it, you don't wanna talk about it, and you are making no distinction between survivors of CSEM/CSA and the actual thing itself. Moreover, there's no distinction between "fictional CSEM" (a horrific term when you break it down, actually, but loli/shota/drawn material depicting canonically underage or depicted-as-underage characters) and photographic material of minors being assaulted. It's all just Gross Nasty Freak Stuff. And in the process you're calling an awful lot of people freaks for being victimized by it. You're calling them exactly the same word as the people who victimized them in the first place! It's just another layer of victim-blaming.

The reason it's done, though, is because it's uncomfortable and "gross" to actually think about why CSA is bad. There's the mental trauma. There's the knock-on effects of grooming -hypersexuality, difficulties with developmental stages-- But then, since we're talking about gross stuff, there's physical consequences too. CSEM depicts violent assault. Children are not ready for sex. Anybody under ten having penetrative sex is likely to have some level of scar tissue. Is that uncomfortable to think about? Probably. So it's just 'gross'.

Even the way that responses to this are worried about 'freaks' justifying their behaviour shows that a lot of people are aware, somewhere, that the concept of "fictional CSEM" is massively removed from the realities of child rape. But it's uncomfortable to think about. It makes you feel nasty to even consider and maybe you're doing something bad by even thinking about the real reasons why one thing is less or more Actually Bad than the other. So disgust takes the place of actual logical thinking.

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Tags via @rokosourobouros

#sexual abuse#if you are against drawn material then that's fine but don't you dare suggest the two are the same

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I was thinking along the lines of this: would prohibiting [smth] = less people do it? (which means those who continue to do it will try their damnest to hide it and probably be successful because there's only so many ppl the gpvt/whichever person is looking can watch) Or is it better to legalise it? (which means more ppl might do the thing, but also means talking abt it isn't as stigmatised / dismissed because of its tabooness)

Like I'm not saying to encourage child porn. But if watching it helps them not do something (while hopefully acknowledging this vid / imagery is different from reality), then maybe we should talk abt it more (and for the record, my view of child porn is smth to help person step away / not do the Bad Thing - ie rape kid. Like nicotine patches / gum instead of smoking smoking. If that becomes an addiction, then that's another thing)

[rokosourobouros]

How is this even remotely connected to what I'm talking about.

Child sexual abuse material is bad because a child is *being raped*. I don't give a shit if it helps someone *else* to watch it? Someone is being abused to produce it!!!! That's like being pro snuff porn and ignoring that people have to be murdered to make it!!!

This is why calling drawn, entirely fictional, entirely fucking harmless lolisho material "child porn" is a problem. Don't call it that. If you're talking about lolisho and fictional material, DO NOT CALL IT CHILD PORN.

And if you're talking about CSEM, fuck off into the sun.

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Tags via @rokosourobouros

#sorry but this is a topic where if you know you might not be understanding you shouldn't be engaging#this is however a PERFECT example of why this conflation is so horrendous#because your post is perfectly fine and in fact something I agree with if you *meant* lolisho#but because you said child porn it's a horrendous normalization and encouragement of child abuse#like literally encouraging the cottage industry of raping kids on camera that I'm talking about in the post

OH WAIT SHIT IM SO SORRY (to anyone who had to see this bs and even more so to survivors/victims/ppl who know them) half-asleep me had jumped from csem to fictional (it's absolutely not an excuse but an explanation, when they talked abt penalising this in school, real and fictional was generalised under child porn - in the sense of should not have the want to see things like this - so in my mind both are child porn. Which I now realise I should differentiate between child porn (stem from abuse) and fictional drawings and not label both as child porn. And I will rewrite my brain so that this sticks). Anyways yes, thank you for this smack in the brain - because I didn't even realise I conflate the two. Like semi more awake me is reading this and being wtf was I thinking - I am going to banish myself to the corner and drill this into my head

[wings-of-angels]

How it feels to be a hater but u only hate in private with ur best friend so it hurts nobody

[onlytiktoks]

[aniseandspearmint]

Asdfghjkl her perfectly straight face and even tone throughout should win an AWARD

[strongermonster]

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

[strongermonster]

this is what i mean

[degenderates]

Via @bulbaderp

[itistimetodisappear]

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

[anarchistmemedistro]

ALSO! red light doesn’t fuck up human night vision much so you can go in and out of lit areas without readjusting

[anarchistmemedistro]

[thicque]

the red light not fucking up human night vision is also why a number of older cars had gauges that lit up red at night

[b0ggyb1tch]

i legit miss red lights in cars and appliances n stuff. red city lighting is goated

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[intlbipolar]

[drtanner]

This post is almost 11 years old now, so I feel like it’s time for an update:

[joycomplexx]

by the way it's fine to like sexual content just for the sake of it. "we can't ban porn because other stuff will get banned" "sometimes nude art has value" "the government will classify queer people as sexual" this is all true but it's okay to just like porn. its okay to not want porn to be banned because you like it.

[homunculus-argument]

I will not elaborate.

[weedsandwishes]

@sergle is correct

[only-tiktoks]

[britney-j-christ]

[softservecanine]

You’re completely correct. Out of my way, able-bodied losers. Fuck you.

[guerrillatech]

[evildevilpatata]

I don't want an AI overview of my google search, I want Wikipedia

I don't want an AI overview of a YouTube video, I want to actually watch the video (shocking, I know)

I DON'T WANT AN AI OVERVIEW OF THE GOOGLE DOC I AM WRITING

STOP FORCING AI ON US EVERYWHERE.

LET PEOPLE THINK. LET PEOPLE DECIDE.

[rimonoroni2]

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.

[huffylemon]

hell yeah baby

[hellsite-yano]

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[billymayslesbian]

imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

[torchichate]

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

[reasonsforhope]

You don't have ever to choose between being a boy or a girl

You don't ever have to use a specific label or term

You don't need anyone's permission to call yourself queer or nonbinary or trans or enby

In fact, you don't need anyone's permission to call yourself any of those words almost by the definitions of the words themselves

There's no judge. There's no tryouts, there's no membership card, there's no applications or fees (and thank goodness for that!!!)

In fact, because gender and queerness are both, at their core, about the ways people feel inside and want to interact (with each other, with society, with their own concept of self, etc.), there are very few hard boundaries at all

And you certainly don't have to figure out a specific label or a specific gender identity in order to figure out want you want - in life, in queerness, in gender, in general - and start to move toward it