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This here is the sideblog I made for mcyt shipping content and also how unbelievably normal I am about Scar’s minecraft character.

Original posts are all tagged, reblogs on the other hand are a disorganized mess because otherwise I wouldn't reblog anything at all.

Please ask me questions about my fantasy AU

My AO3:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

#yelling at the void #run to a world #<- the tag for the fantasy AU #universal chat (mcyt socmed au)

lorefulgood

dare I say that the concept of “boundaries” as it’s used in mcyt spaces is indicative of the poor understanding of consent many of these ccs have or are we going to keep pretending it’s acceptable to outright threaten your audience with targeted harassment if they don’t conform to your rules

beansfrombeans

transcript:

chatter: I'm choosing to read this as "don't @ me or send me content that makes me uncomfortable, and I won't go looking for it in spaces (like tumblr or w/e)."

pyro: um… if i hear about - i mean, i have - i have my little birds in all forests, and if i hear about, um, if i hear about repeated offenses, then, like, i will send my people after them. but, um… and i will, like, you know… deal with that, in the ways that i deem appropriate. but, um, there's obviously no way that i can fully stop it, but i really think that we as a community have a really good enough rapport to not have that happen.

oshawottarchive

Time to pull out the Cleo post

These newer(?) CCs need to learn what “don’t like don’t read” means I’m begging

the-haiku-bot

These newer(?) CCs

need to learn what “don’t like don’t

read” means I’m begging

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

desertduo-hasmyheart

I still adore my boys, I prommy 🧡🩵❤️💜

mybrainbuzzy

Thinking about the difference in hubris levels between Scar and Grian. Grian is truly an Icarus in many ways. The definition of 'I know what I'm doing' even when he's completely lost. Meanwhile, Scar can legitimately know Exactly what he's doing but he's still always prepared for things to blow up in his face.

I think that's another reason they work so well together as a dynamic. Grian's confidence boosts Scar's. If Grian says they can do something, Scar believes it because Grian believes it. And when things fail, Grian, who has a tendancy to beat himself up if he fails by himself, bounces back very quickly because Scar does. Any time they fail Scar just goes "LMAO that didn't work :J moving on" and Grian follows after, already thinking of a new plot.

Scar is never unsure of an outcome with Grian by his side, and Grian is always prepared to pick himself back up again if Scar is there to lend him a hand. And I think that's beautiful.

salemoleander

Btw, even if 'cc boundaries' were a good idea and in theory ought to be enforced, in practice that is an incredibly dangerous environment to create.

Let's think this through. If you tell your fandom to police what other fans make and inform you if someone is breaking your boundaries... and the main topics you ban are gore/sex/'mature' content... and a fairly large subset of your fans are teenagers/children....

what do you think is going to happen?

The answer is an army of children harrassing people on your behalf, while constantly exposing themselves to smut & gore. They will then either write callout posts to try to punish the creators (often reading/examining the content in-depth to do so) or sending the porn/gore/mature content directly to you (or older fans with more social clout who loudly proclaim their dedication to this fight¹) to deal with, in the name of protecting their fave.

To be clear, I have seen this happen before in other fandom contexts, it is not a theoretical outcome. And it is FAR far more dangerous than any story someone could write and post on AO3, or any art posted to Twitter.

This is an environment that will get kids/teenagers hurt, regardless of intention. It's the underpinning of why I'm so vehement about freedom of speech and creativity within fandom, because no matter what intentions are, the reality is that 'cc boundaries' create an environment that is extremely hospitable to abusers.

¹ Even if your intentions are pure as the driven snow, some of the adults who campaign vehemently for enforcing boundaries will inevitably be doing so because they are creeps who like exposing kids to nsfw content. The cleverer predators privately convince kids to RP/write/draw 'boundary breaking' content, which is then used as blackmail to ensure secrecy or else risk ostracization if they went public with the abuse. This is not a hypothetical.

salemoleander

Since as of this morning this is Pyro's stated goal:

I am going to reiterate: this is a recipe for children actively looking for porn and gore, and sending it to you. That is not hyperbole, or catastrophizing, it is a literal description of what will happen. This is not intended to be concern trolling or exaggeration; those outcomes are something I have seen happen in other communities with similar 'boundary' rules.

Can you please consider the danger to members of your community? Setting up a system like this is a recipe for a high-control, high-shame environment where things like coercion, blackmail, and grooming are extremely likely.

#oh this is a wonderful development oh boy this won't hurt anyone #(sarcasm)

"Don't harass these people but here's an ultimately harmless thing they're doing that I don't like" does ultimately lead to harassment and bullying and witch hunts if you have an audience bigger than like,,, 5 people.

Because not everyone in your audience is entirely good and kind all the time and some people love having an acceptable target for death threats.

Blocking the tags for the thing you don't like (that were specifically made so people who didn't like the thing can filter it out) does a lot less harm, and you don't have to see the thing that makes you uncomfortable.

#yes this is being written about shipping discourse #but like... It doesn't just apply to shipping