it/its + skull/skulls | Friendly Neighborhood Werewolf

[Header ID: Stars against a black background, in the colors of the xiqyne pride flag: dark magenta, magenta, sky blue, electric blue, light green, and pale yellow. End Header ID.][Icon ID: a digital drawing of a flower with many thin petals, with each petal a different color of the xiqyne pride flag: dark magenta, magenta, sky blue, electric blue, light green, and yellow. A wasp is sitting on the flower in the colors of the aroace flag: orange, yellow, white, light blue, navy blue. End icon ID.] Pronouns are it/its/itself and skull/skulls/skullself. You can use either, or alternate :)

[rjalker]

If you donate $1 to any mutual aid fund, including handing your local homeless people cash, which I will simply take your word for, you can request a character design and I will make a public domain character with that design.

If you donate $50, you can pick a pride flag, or even just your favorite colors, and a style of hat, and I will crochet a hat in those color and I will give it away for free to my local community. (Cuz I can't ship things, especially if you live on a different continent)

If anybody else would like to join me in this offer to make art for people, let me know and I can add you to this post for people to send you requests!

(I was originally also offering to novelize public domain movies, but my laptop is currently not functional, so that will have to wait)

[novella-november]

Well, suffice to say, it's probably a safe bet to say the author has probably read and agreed with the incredibly racist post of

"Escaped slaves who aren't under direct control of slave owners are the equivalent to invasive domesticated feral species, like feral pidgeons, who cause problems for civilized society if left to their own devices "

that's still circulating around the racist fandom here on Tumblr with what Platform Decay is now saying.

Truely astonishing.

Just when you think the racism and slavery apologism cannot get any worse in a series that actively promotes itself as "robots are people too deserving of equal rights and dignity even if they don't look like humans" while failing to support that statement at every. single. turn.

[novella-november]

Oh, and how could I forgot to include the quotes? The quotes about the slave who is referred to as "feral" as as nothing more than a clumsy, dumb animal who is only good for running into things and causing chaos?

Where it is the only Good One(tm) , because it obeys Murderbot's call for help, and the others ones are all "little shits" for ignoring Murderbot when it tells them to come protect slave owners?

But, you know, even being One of the Good Ones (tm) this "feral" (read: escaped) slave doesn't get a name, doesn't get any personality, doesn't get any dialogue, and is completely abandonded by the narrator and the narrative because it doesn't get mentioned after this scant 1.4k words, where it is used as canon fodder by the protagonist, who doesn't even send a single solitary "ping" after the bad guys are defeated to check on the Disposable Canon Fodder who's been getting shot by the bad guys this whole time:

I had still been searching local feed and comm channels and finally caught a bunch of unfamiliar pings. From the protocol, there was a 90 percent chance that these were feral hauler bots. I sent a come-here ping and all the little shits ignored me. [...] One of the feral hauler bots had finally pinged me back. I used the ping to make a connection and coaxed it to wander this way [...] My first attempt to add a new moving part, my new friend the feral hauler bot, was forty-five seconds out. I had a bad feeling it was going to be too late. [...] My feral hauler bot rolled out of a side street into the plaza at that point, and wow, it was a big one. Four meters tall, at a conservative estimate. I can’t believe they let this thing run loose, they run into stuff. I told it to follow its natural inclination and run into the Barish-Estranza armored vehicle. [...] In front of the station, my hauler bot had run into the armored vehicle so successfully, it had decided to repeat the experience several times. The vehicle had engaged an automated self-defense module and was firing onboard weapons at the hauler bot, but that first crunch must have done some serious damage, because its aim was terrible. [...] Outside, the feed chatter from the armored hostiles suggested they obviously wanted to advance on the militia but they were busy trying not to get run over by the hauler bot that was now circling the plaza like some kind of predatory water fauna, dragging the carcass of their armored vehicle.

But you know. This series is advertized as "robots are people even if they're not humans, even if they don't even look like humans, or talk like humans"..... and here we have the story showing us, in the second-to-last-book in the series, that the only people who matter in these stories are the people who look and talk and act like humans, and only if they're either Good Happy Slaves, or Good Generic Humans Who Own Slaves.

[rjalker]

I haven't even read past this part of the post yet:

One of the feral hauler bots had finally pinged me back. I used the ping to make a connection and coaxed it to wander this way

cuz this is just Sinners.

And the rest of the escaped slaves literally were right to not respond to Murderbot's demand, because now this one's going to fucking die, because the second it responded to Murderbot's demand, it fell for the trap, and now Murderbot fucking controls it.

okay now I'll read the rest of the post. But here's this reblog now anyways. Because holy shit.

[rjalker]

oh my fucking gods are you kidding me

I can’t believe they let this thing run loose, they run into stuff. I told it to follow its natural inclination and run into the Barish-Estranza armored vehicle.

Martha Wells continuing to dehumanize slaves as a matter of course, calling this person a thing, and once again telling us to cheer on Murderbot torturing other slaves, because it's body-pupetting this person that we're not supposed to care about, because it's a slave, so therefore it's fine.

While Murderbot not only dehumanizes them, it demonizes them by saying they're inherently dangerous and "run into stuff".

A thing no hauler bot has ever done in this whole series when it wasn't being body-puppetted by a slave owner OR Murderbot, the fucking serial killer of other slaves and worshipper of slave owners.

So Martha Wells literally demonizing this person by saying they're inherently dangerous, because "they run into stuff" while forcing it to run over people, but at the exact same time Martha Wells tells us we should feel bad for Murderbot, because slave owners are scared of *it* and think *it* is inherently dangerous, and ~that's so mean :((((~

But she's literally expecting us to cheer on Murderbot doing this to a slave that managed to escape.

And people in 2026 are still defending this pile of racist shit and claiming it's not doing slavery apologism?!?!?!

the hauler bot that was now circling the plaza like some kind of predatory water fauna, dragging the carcass of their armored vehicle.

Again, dehumanizing the slave that Murderbot has fucking mind controlled. A thing we're supposed to feel bad about when it happens to Murderbot.

So we call the dead car a "carcass", meaning that was also a fucking slave? Or is Martha Wells once again applying more compassion towards actual inanimate objects than she does the slaves in this series?

[rjalker]

another fucking reblog because again, holy shit:

I can’t believe they let this thing run loose,

Murderbot is literally complaining that the slave catchers haven't caught this slave yet, because they might endanger the precious, precious slave owners.

Marthja Wells wants us to think Murderbot is a good perosn. Murderbot isn't a villain. It's not an anti hero. We're supposed to worship it and see it as a pure cinnamon roll who only pretends to be an asshole.

Martha Wells ltierally wants us to agree that it's annoying and dagerous for the slave catchers not to catch runaway slaves quickly enoguh

in 2026!!!!

And motherfucking fandom shitheads are on this website right fucking now defending this shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coldbrewpup]

we've all got those mutuals where you don't Talk but every time they interact with your posts you go 🥺😍🥰🥹😌😋☺️🥳

[rjalker]

finding Queer romance stories that don't glorify abuse and rape shouldn't be this hard.

[novella-november]

Well, suffice to say, it's probably a safe bet to say the author has probably read and agreed with the incredibly racist post of

"Escaped slaves who aren't under direct control of slave owners are the equivalent to invasive domesticated feral species, like feral pidgeons, who cause problems for civilized society if left to their own devices "

that's still circulating around the racist fandom here on Tumblr with what Platform Decay is now saying.

Truely astonishing.

Just when you think the racism and slavery apologism cannot get any worse in a series that actively promotes itself as "robots are people too deserving of equal rights and dignity even if they don't look like humans" while failing to support that statement at every. single. turn.

[novella-november]

Oh, and how could I forgot to include the quotes? The quotes about the slave who is referred to as "feral" as as nothing more than a clumsy, dumb animal who is only good for running into things and causing chaos?

Where it is the only Good One(tm) , because it obeys Murderbot's call for help, and the others ones are all "little shits" for ignoring Murderbot when it tells them to come protect slave owners?

But, you know, even being One of the Good Ones (tm) this "feral" (read: escaped) slave doesn't get a name, doesn't get any personality, doesn't get any dialogue, and is completely abandonded by the narrator and the narrative because it doesn't get mentioned after this scant 1.4k words, where it is used as canon fodder by the protagonist, who doesn't even send a single solitary "ping" after the bad guys are defeated to check on the Disposable Canon Fodder who's been getting shot by the bad guys this whole time:

I had still been searching local feed and comm channels and finally caught a bunch of unfamiliar pings. From the protocol, there was a 90 percent chance that these were feral hauler bots. I sent a come-here ping and all the little shits ignored me. [...] One of the feral hauler bots had finally pinged me back. I used the ping to make a connection and coaxed it to wander this way [...] My first attempt to add a new moving part, my new friend the feral hauler bot, was forty-five seconds out. I had a bad feeling it was going to be too late. [...] My feral hauler bot rolled out of a side street into the plaza at that point, and wow, it was a big one. Four meters tall, at a conservative estimate. I can’t believe they let this thing run loose, they run into stuff. I told it to follow its natural inclination and run into the Barish-Estranza armored vehicle. [...] In front of the station, my hauler bot had run into the armored vehicle so successfully, it had decided to repeat the experience several times. The vehicle had engaged an automated self-defense module and was firing onboard weapons at the hauler bot, but that first crunch must have done some serious damage, because its aim was terrible. [...] Outside, the feed chatter from the armored hostiles suggested they obviously wanted to advance on the militia but they were busy trying not to get run over by the hauler bot that was now circling the plaza like some kind of predatory water fauna, dragging the carcass of their armored vehicle.

But you know. This series is advertized as "robots are people even if they're not humans, even if they don't even look like humans, or talk like humans"..... and here we have the story showing us, in the second-to-last-book in the series, that the only people who matter in these stories are the people who look and talk and act like humans, and only if they're either Good Happy Slaves, or Good Generic Humans Who Own Slaves.

[rjalker]

I haven't even read past this part of the post yet:

One of the feral hauler bots had finally pinged me back. I used the ping to make a connection and coaxed it to wander this way

cuz this is just Sinners.

And the rest of the escaped slaves literally were right to not respond to Murderbot's demand, because now this one's going to fucking die, because the second it responded to Murderbot's demand, it fell for the trap, and now Murderbot fucking controls it.

okay now I'll read the rest of the post. But here's this reblog now anyways. Because holy shit.

[rjalker]

oh my fucking gods are you kidding me

I can’t believe they let this thing run loose, they run into stuff. I told it to follow its natural inclination and run into the Barish-Estranza armored vehicle.

Martha Wells continuing to dehumanize slaves as a matter of course, calling this person a thing, and once again telling us to cheer on Murderbot torturing other slaves, because it's body-pupetting this person that we're not supposed to care about, because it's a slave, so therefore it's fine.

While Murderbot not only dehumanizes them, it demonizes them by saying they're inherently dangerous and "run into stuff".

A thing no hauler bot has ever done in this whole series when it wasn't being body-puppetted by a slave owner OR Murderbot, the fucking serial killer of other slaves and worshipper of slave owners.

So Martha Wells literally demonizing this person by saying they're inherently dangerous, because "they run into stuff" while forcing it to run over people, but at the exact same time Martha Wells tells us we should feel bad for Murderbot, because slave owners are scared of *it* and think *it* is inherently dangerous, and ~that's so mean :((((~

But she's literally expecting us to cheer on Murderbot doing this to a slave that managed to escape.

And people in 2026 are still defending this pile of racist shit and claiming it's not doing slavery apologism?!?!?!

the hauler bot that was now circling the plaza like some kind of predatory water fauna, dragging the carcass of their armored vehicle.

Again, dehumanizing the slave that Murderbot has fucking mind controlled. A thing we're supposed to feel bad about when it happens to Murderbot.

So we call the dead car a "carcass", meaning that was also a fucking slave? Or is Martha Wells once again applying more compassion towards actual inanimate objects than she does the slaves in this series?

[novella-november]

Well, suffice to say, it's probably a safe bet to say the author has probably read and agreed with the incredibly racist post of

"Escaped slaves who aren't under direct control of slave owners are the equivalent to invasive domesticated feral species, like feral pidgeons, who cause problems for civilized society if left to their own devices "

that's still circulating around the racist fandom here on Tumblr with what Platform Decay is now saying.

Truely astonishing.

Just when you think the racism and slavery apologism cannot get any worse in a series that actively promotes itself as "robots are people too deserving of equal rights and dignity even if they don't look like humans" while failing to support that statement at every. single. turn.

[novella-november]

Oh, and how could I forgot to include the quotes? The quotes about the slave who is referred to as "feral" as as nothing more than a clumsy, dumb animal who is only good for running into things and causing chaos?

Where it is the only Good One(tm) , because it obeys Murderbot's call for help, and the others ones are all "little shits" for ignoring Murderbot when it tells them to come protect slave owners?

But, you know, even being One of the Good Ones (tm) this "feral" (read: escaped) slave doesn't get a name, doesn't get any personality, doesn't get any dialogue, and is completely abandonded by the narrator and the narrative because it doesn't get mentioned after this scant 1.4k words, where it is used as canon fodder by the protagonist, who doesn't even send a single solitary "ping" after the bad guys are defeated to check on the Disposable Canon Fodder who's been getting shot by the bad guys this whole time:

I had still been searching local feed and comm channels and finally caught a bunch of unfamiliar pings. From the protocol, there was a 90 percent chance that these were feral hauler bots. I sent a come-here ping and all the little shits ignored me. [...] One of the feral hauler bots had finally pinged me back. I used the ping to make a connection and coaxed it to wander this way [...] My first attempt to add a new moving part, my new friend the feral hauler bot, was forty-five seconds out. I had a bad feeling it was going to be too late. [...] My feral hauler bot rolled out of a side street into the plaza at that point, and wow, it was a big one. Four meters tall, at a conservative estimate. I can’t believe they let this thing run loose, they run into stuff. I told it to follow its natural inclination and run into the Barish-Estranza armored vehicle. [...] In front of the station, my hauler bot had run into the armored vehicle so successfully, it had decided to repeat the experience several times. The vehicle had engaged an automated self-defense module and was firing onboard weapons at the hauler bot, but that first crunch must have done some serious damage, because its aim was terrible. [...] Outside, the feed chatter from the armored hostiles suggested they obviously wanted to advance on the militia but they were busy trying not to get run over by the hauler bot that was now circling the plaza like some kind of predatory water fauna, dragging the carcass of their armored vehicle.

But you know. This series is advertized as "robots are people even if they're not humans, even if they don't even look like humans, or talk like humans"..... and here we have the story showing us, in the second-to-last-book in the series, that the only people who matter in these stories are the people who look and talk and act like humans, and only if they're either Good Happy Slaves, or Good Generic Humans Who Own Slaves.

[rjalker]

I haven't even read past this part of the post yet:

One of the feral hauler bots had finally pinged me back. I used the ping to make a connection and coaxed it to wander this way

cuz this is just Sinners.

And the rest of the escaped slaves literally were right to not respond to Murderbot's demand, because now this one's going to fucking die, because the second it responded to Murderbot's demand, it fell for the trap, and now Murderbot fucking controls it.

okay now I'll read the rest of the post. But here's this reblog now anyways. Because holy shit.

[rjalker]

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[aziracrows-child]

What flag did you get when you liked this?

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[sleepyfellow03]

we're not gonna get intersex if you don't use the intersex tag

[aziracrows-child]

true, i'm sorry, i got a comment saying posts like these were the only ones being shown in the intersex tag because of how many ppl were making them, and I didn't want that

[rjalker]

unfortunately a lot of people complaining about not being able to get intersex on the like button have not looked in the intersex tag recently.

It's more of a problem of not being able to find posts by or about intersex people in the intersex tag, than it is not getting an intersex flag pop up on one poll of dozens.

And we're only on day 6 of pride month, more polls are going to get made every day until tumblr removes this update.

I was going to go through the tag and make a tally mark every time I saw a poll like this or another generic post, but I genuinely lost track.

Thank you again for removing the tag! Hopefully other people will follow suit.

[susie-heart]

Another one taken by heart condition. Yay!!! Heart condition 2 homophobia 0.

[rjalker]

I don't know what show you're watching, but it's very entertaining, and I'm gonna pretend Sadako's killing the bigots lol. (her curse makes it look like people are dying from sudden heart failure)

[susie-heart]

"one of us has to do our duty as sons" have you considered murder instead. I think murder would be a lot better for you.

[heterophobicloki]

Everyone who says that fiction doesnt impact reality but praises yuri on ice for being so groundbreaking/revolutionary/important literally owes me twenty bucks

[greeny-cake]

Hey yall uhm.

This

Idk about yall but personally I think some people should know this

[rjalker]

Okay. That video is the most disgusting noises I've ever heard even before the chipmunk voice.

Can you please provide a transcript.

[the-bitter-ocean]

On the topic of my previous posts regarding fandoms at large having a trend of whitewashing the characters that are non white, there’s a common “rebuttal” that some people will have to justify / deflect the fact that erasure of representation is occurring :

“Oh but it’s my style! / oh that’s just the lighting!” And it drives me mad

“Lighting” doesn’t make characters suddenly lose any and all of their melanin. It doesn’t magically erase someone’s ethnic facial features (eye shape, eye color, nose shape, lips) or hair style/ hair texture.

If your art style can’t draw racial minorities and frequently erases their features and makes them indistinguishable from a white person then that’s a sign you gotta get out of your comfort zone and practice drawing more.

No one is saying that you need to be perfect or that you’re automatically a bad person for learning how to draw or being a beginner. But it’s 2026 and compared to before there is a vast amount of information, tutorials, videos, brushes and techniques to help with learning how to draw different people from all over the world. In real life there’s a vast amount of people who have different hair types, skintones, facial features, body types, cultural clothing and more that reflect the environment they live in. It’s doing a disservice to jut bury your head in the sand and continue to draw the same designs that center skinny, able bodied, pale and Eurocentric features as the focus. It’s limiting your growth as an artist.

There are plenty of stylized art/ pastel art/ art pieces that people have done with dramatic colors and lighting that can still clearly show a person of color. It costs zero dollars to learn and grow and not throw a shit fit whenever someone is trying to help you.

[rjalker]

(Archived read-more link)

[soulful-roses]

Racism, whitewashing, and colorism are inexcusable.

It is especially inexcusable when multiple people have called it out on your official merchandise, and when a black fan attempts to contextualize and address the issue, they are blocked and ignored.

Adrienne Insertdisc5. What are you doing?

Alienating your fans of color, only addressing issues in vague, nebulous terms, and most importantly, spending years actively ignoring these problems, is downright embarrassing. You should be ashamed of yourself.

These problems are only made worse when put in the context of the game. This continued behavior speaks to a lack of accountability in you and your team. We're thoroughly disappointed in you.

[ask-lokiande]

Secondlife Enabled Monsters

[posting this here so I always have a reminder to never use SecondLife again. Comment response to this video]

I spent 13 years in SecondLife. I loved it. I loved the way that everyone pushed each other to create, to build on one another's previous work via modding and devkits and cool photos shared between friends. I was in awe at the systems people created, the way things just worked together near seamlessly if you were clever enough. Sometimes I miss it, but I refuse to go back.

Too many people would shrug aside rampant bigotry, or predatory behaviour, or racism with "Well it's not happening on my land, so why should I care?". So, I would block them. I would send in reports to LL if it was particularily egregious- and nothing happened. I distinctly recall finding out a popular horse scripter [Tapple Gao] ran a sim that encouraged nude child avatars with genitalia, all while claiming "its a nudist colony". Let me be clear- these were adults, spreading virtual CP between one another. While no "real" children were harmed, it was adults normalizing the viewing of naked children for their pleasure- and there's no garuntee that's where it stopped. They would say "its fine, and if you're weirded out then you're just a lying prude". This was the kind of environment I spent years trying to escape elsewhere, because as you have said "if its not secondlife, its discord, its closed forums"

While the platform does not create monsters, it's communities enable them with "look away if it doesn't effect you". So I did. I closed my eyes to the fact that I could name creators who would yell slurs, who would shrug off racism as "just a joke", who I knew would let predators into their communities because "they're nice!". I ignored the fact that our money was funding a dev team that shut down discussion of and banned people who mentioned this article, that refused to take down users, sims, and groups catering to bestiality, to incest and rape and pedophilia.

Earlier this year I found out Philip Rosedale is mentioned in the Epstein files. While a mention alone isn't enough- he was in contact with a known and convicted pedophile, years after his sentencing. While he did not go to the island, Rosedale was content to speak amicably with him, to give him land ingame. There was a reddit post, that amounted to "Philip is very sorry he scared everyone but nothing happened". i say was because it lasted a few days, before it was taken down and r/secondlife was marked mature. Any discussion of the day his name leaked is gone. The official forums are shadowbanning people who've discussed it. The userbase is no better when pressed to self moderate and step in where LL clearly won't... and it's a repeat of the 2024 article response all over again. it is all lies, or jealousy, with threats of legal action levied against people holding the evidence. And if it wasn't that it was claiming that these grown adults were just trapped, and asking them to do the bare minimum of reporting the dangers they come across was too much.

Too many people let horrific shit slide, because "it's online, who cares?".

Apparently the concept of keeping your community safe, of making sure predators don't gain a foothold is just too high a bar. I wanted to create. I have meshes in Blender, all nearly complete because in 2022 I pushed myself to learn it, to make a horse avatar, and then an animesh rideable dragon. I was so fucking excited to share my art ingame! I was prepping to buy land, to speak with creators, build a community of modders- and now the thought of logging in sickens me. I don't know what I'll do with my work now. Maybe put it on Sketchfab or OpenGameArt or Gumroad? I could always try my hand at self hosting an OpenSim server- but I am never returning to SecondLife again.

[lexifer-666]

I was actually groomed on secondlife, by someone I knew IRL and was living with as a child. It caused me to be extremely fixated on mature topics, and I cringe when I think back on how it affected me into adulthood. And then when I no longer lived with that person, the grooming continued by other users because there was absolutely no moderation. I actually think I remember those nude avatars, because I was encouraged to change my avatar either to them or something similar. I never ended up doing it if I recall correctly, but man. I saw some horrific shit on there. Secondlife is an absolute cesspool.

[rjalker]

nooooooooo person in the Xenogenesis tag do not unironically go "the victims of colonization, slavery, and eugenics have a victim complex" noooooooooooooooooo you're so fucking racistttt

[rjalker]

do not put colored text, undescribed images, or flashing gifs on my posts.