I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.
A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.
Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.
This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.
Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.
Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…
What is your AO3 user ID?
I’m an OG user 5 digits or less
Six figures baby!
I’m in the millions…
Voting ended on21h
I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!
timeline of events regarding Tenna's use of the sexyman curse
[this is for archival purposes]
7/7-7/14 - semi finals polls
7/11 - senator Lindsey Graham dies at 71 (Tenna celebrated early)
7/14-7/20 - finals poll
7/21 - journalist behind Tr^mp-Meloni, Daniele Compatangelo, dies suddenly (the one i found first)
7/22 - the saxophonist behind the intro of Pink Panther, Plas Johnson dies at 94
7/22 - Model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home near Paris
7/22 - Charles Gaines, whose book Pumping Iron helped to popularize bodybuilding, dies at 84
7/22 - OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test. (screw them honestly)
The tram crash in Rotterdam and the death of deaf actress Kaylee Hottle are now excluded due to how insensitive the inclusion was and will be.
For future reference - i hereby suggest that we don't count tragedies such are the two mentioned as a result of the curse or at the fault of the year's winner.
[sources]
President Donald Trump led tributes to Graham, a leading Republican voice on defense and foreign policy, describing him as a “true American
The La7 journalist died at the age of 50 after falling ill. In recent months, he had risen to prominence with his exclusive interview with U
Plas Johnson, the saxophonist behind the 'Pink Panther' theme song, died at age 94.
Daniel Siad faced allegations of rape and trafficking in France and appeared in more than 1,000 documents in Epstein files
1974 book led to making of seminal documentary and introduced Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world
Officials said at least 15 people were injured, one seriously, in the collision on Erasmus Bridge
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actor best known for her starring role in two “Godzilla” films, died in a car crash in Maryland early Tuesday morning,
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@coppernuggets for the start of it all
@ramglambitch for finding most of this info
@constantlyenchantedmimic for telling me about the early strike
@mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026 / @sexy-people-contests-2 for this year's sexyman polls
I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;
The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.
And I am not going to mince words here:
A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.
That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.
"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.
So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.
#imo the potluck analogy applies- it would be rude to critique someone's icing technique at a potluck bc it wasn't as good as at the bakery #but if they had decorated their cupcakes w hate symbols it wouldn't be rude to tell them that's gross and gtfo #in fact it would be inappropriate to NOT say anything in that situation #or to complain that another guest who did point it out was 'ruining everyone's potluck' #and pointing out racism in fan works is 100% the second thing not the first! (via destructions-daughter)
There's also a tendency to conflate anyone who critiques general trends with bad faith randos. Like, there is fandom behavior that is 100% racist and should be talked about, but there are also trends of racist/sexist/ableist preferences.
If I say "I am uncomfortable with fandom's tendency to write trans men as feminine and submissive" I do not mean "I think every person who writes feminine submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I don't even mean "any cis-person who writes feminine or submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I mean "I would like writers to seriously think about why this is so common, why they write that, and if it fairly and genuinely engages with what it means to be a trans man, or if they just think it's hot when submissive people have vaginas and didn't want to write omegaverse of m/f".
Similarly, when people say "fandom is systemically less interested in black characters, less willing to give flat black characters rich fanon than flat white characters, and less interested in black characters in ships", the response is not to explain why you, personally, just happen to like popular white guy in that fanon. Your job is to look at yourself and ask if you tend to "just happen to be more interested" in the popular white guy across fandoms, be honest, and start unpacking that. Sometimes it's easier to love the flat character who's already getting 10,000 fics with headcanons and art and meta.
If somebody says "I wish there were more gluten free options at the potluck. I hate always showing up and not finding anything I can eat*", they are not asking you to throw your cake in the trash and weep. They do not want to hear your long speech about how actually this is your grandmother's recipe, and you've tried it with rice flour actually, but it just didn't work. You think about what you can do, and you listen to how they feel.
*The metaphor here not being that you can't read fic that isn't "good rep". The metaphor here is that it can be isolating to be in spaces where nobody is trying to make sure people like you are welcome.
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