Shidge Is Adorable

Understands that fiction isn’t reality or morality. They/them. Fandom old. Goes by Blue. Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you (inclusionist). Reblogs, random shit (fannish and not), fandom wank, queer discourse, social justice. Fuck JKR, read some Tamora Pierce instead. Original content will be meta/commentary, not art or fic. Icon credit to @iruvanime!

[princessgemma12]

If you like the word “queer” reblog.

[incandescent-creativity]

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

[yesornopolls]

Were you ever spanked as a child AND do you think that spanking is ok?

Were you ever spanked as a child AND do you think that spanking is ok?

Yes, Yes

Yes, No

No, Yes

No. No

Voting ended onDec 30, 2024

[wheelie-sick]

spanking produces brain changes that indicate a heightened threat response similar to those found in children who experienced sexual abuse

spanking: does not reduce defiant behavior; negatively affects social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development; and has similar outcomes to other forms of physical abuse

physical punishment is linked to antisocial behavior in adults

spanking has been linked by many studies to depression, personality disorders, suicidal ideation & attempts, self injurious behavior, and substance abuse

there is no evidence that spanking is effective

Stop. Hitting. Your. Fucking. Kids.

[arctic-hands]

"I spank my kids because they're too young to understand the consequences of their actions!" Then they're too damn young to understand why you're hitting them. "I was spanked and I turned out fine!" You think hitting kids is okay. If you did the same to an adult they could file charges against you, but seeing as kids (in America, at least) are considered property you can do whatever you want to them with little recourse.

On that last note, the United States is one of the tiny handful of countries in the whole world that refuses to ratify the United Nation's Rights Of The Child. The direct line of reason for this refusal is that the government said treating children as humans with rights to dignity and safety takes away the authority of the parent.

It's never about teaching kids or showing them the consequences of their mistakes, it's purely about power and control over what society considers lesser beings who don't deserve inalienable human rights

[wishingformemoria]

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

[wishingformemoria]

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

[andre-30008]

[notoriousmasc]

[dodykeahedron]

It's always "fuck the police" until a stranger online writes a fanfiction you don't like.

[dodykeahedron]

It's always "mental health matters" until a stranger online writes a fanfiction you don't like.

[dodykeahedron]

It's always "be gay do crime" until a stranger online writes a fanfiction you don't like.

[guerrillatech]

[hekatontarch]

[queertail]

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

12ft – Hop any paywall

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

[sola-whumping]

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

[theconcealedweapon]

[soberscientistlife]

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

some of you have GOT to get comfortable with lying and situational morality and i'm not kidding

[rosslynpaladin]

"Are there Any Illegal Aliens Around here?"

actually means, Can I deport any of your friends or neighbors?

and the answer is "Not any I've ever seen." "No one I know is illegal." Because we're all on stolen land my bruh but I'm not saying that part out loud, now off you fuck, officer.

[m--ood-deactivated20181217]

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

[chronotriggerwarning-deactivate]

Reblog to actually save a life

[khaldurahm-kal-el]

To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it

as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion

[norealdestination]

Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.

[postcards-from-absurdland]

“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”

[hellsite-quotes]

- norealdestination

March 10 2018

[odinsblog]

“First season of LEVERAGE - so he's 21 years old - he shows me his watch designs. I'm expecting, y' know, celebrity strap branding or faces. No, it's engineering schematics of GEARS and shit. Pages of them. Even then, there were none so cool.” - John Rogers

[orpheuslament]

now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

[orpheuslament]

"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code

[scleroticstatue]

I fundamentally disagree with Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain. "Never use two words when one will do," "don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do," I'm going to turn a single sentence into an essay and it's going to cost five hundred dollars per word because those are the right words to get across what I mean without ambiguity and misunderstanding, thankyouverymuch

[scleroticstatue]

Rude

[myfandomrealitea]

i need to know... why do you proship? this isn't a hate ask, or anything meant to belittle you. i genuinely need to know. im curious and it's eating away at me. for context, i don't proship. not at all. i need to know. i'm so scared that i might be one of you

"I'm scared I might be one of you."

My god. Anon, I'm so sorry for whatever hate and misinformation you've been exposed to that has left you thinking this way.

Firstly, to summarize—pro-shipping is merely the belief in the freedom of fictional creation. That's it. While it does broadly encompass subjects like rape, incest, ect, it is both more complex and more simple than that.

You do not have to engage with, enjoy or be involved with any content you do not enjoy or agree with as a proshipper. You simply need to recognise it has a right to exist regardless of your personal feelings, and that the author has a right to create it.

E.g; you may not agree with incest, but you're also not going to go around harassing the people who write it and campaigning to get them to remove it. You just block it and pretend it doesn't exist. If content makes you uncomfortable, you just don't get involved with it or the people who create it.

I always say that 'proship' should actually just fully adopt the label 'profiction' because it now encompasses far more than just shipping.

It doesn't specifically have to relate to sexualised things, either. There are people who disagree with depictions of domestic abuse in media, power imbalance relationships, drug use, alcohol use, ect. Proshippers, even if they're not interested in that content, recognise it has values and existential rights.

You can be a proshipper and never even write or engage with smut. I know plenty of proshippers who exclusively create non-sexual content. I know plenty of proshippers who do but also don't create content with topics like rape, pedophilia, monsterfucking, ect.

As a personal example; genderbending gay ships into heterosexual ships always grinds my gears. I hate it. If I could, I'd wipe it from the face of the earth.

But.

People have the creative freedom and right to do it. Its not my business. I just block every tag imaginable, block creators who focus on it, and scroll the fuck on whenever it does happen to slip through the cracks like an unplugged load. Its not my place, my right or ethical to harass anyone over it. I don't have any authority to tell them to stop. I make what I like in my little corner, they make what they like in their's.

And that's the gist of it. It can go into a lot of depth when you bring things like censorship, art history and copyright into it, but we can skip that for now.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[guerrillatech]

[tlirsgender]

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

[tlirsgender]

Nobody:

Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:

[tlirsgender]

[bagh0st-deactivated20240223]

I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

[audliminal]

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

[deathcomes4u]

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.

[bokettochild]

okay, I actually really needed to hear this

[guerrillatech]