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[bunnieswithknives]

If I cannot be wanted I will be needed and if I cannot be needed let me be used until there’s nothing left of me

Featuring my character Bithy, Based on @clementine-trees's Nome lore :3

[invlsiblestring]

closed ft. @earlyblues . location set @ maeve's apartment .

" i'm just tellin' you in advance, i'd probably expect to see a lot more of me. " she'll be thrilled, he's sure. what sister doesn't want their brother around, emptying the contents of their refrigerator like it's their own ? " lucas got a plant. " that should be enough of a reason. she'll get it, he's sure. but he keeps going. " named it and everything — psychotic behaviour if you ask me. but that's not the worst of it. " a pause. he cracks open a drink and takes a sip. " he asked me to co-parent it. a plant. a literal fucking plant. "

[hawkfurze]

wait what happened with penumbra podcast? i dont listen to it currently but i used to

It's gonna be a bit long and I might get some details wrong as this happened around last September. Also please note: I haven't been keeping up with anything involving Penumbra Podcast and the people who worked on it since these events happened, nor listened to the podcast past S3, before these events, and everything I saw I saw through Twitter, where these events happened, and through videos on tik tok from the TPP community there. I'm white and a lot of other creators, ones more affected by this than me, have made more detailed videos about this on tik tok (I never check the TPP tag here but there most likely are more better posts about it on here too). Also I don't condemn this post being used as an excuse to harass the people involved cause I'm not about that. The best thing to do is just to stop listening and posting about Penumbra Podcast.

CW for racism, ablieism, and transphobia

TDLR if you don't want to read the whole thing: The TPP creators hired an artist with a lineup of the Junoverse story characters portrayed with racist and abliest caricatures. After people expressed their concerns, Harley makes a vague thread about bullies that was targeted towards people that expressed their concerns about the racist art, pulling more of the fandoms attention towards the situation. The thread is deleted and the TPP creators are silent. The artist makes their own apology, holding themself accountable for the art they have made and promises not to make the same mistakes in the future. After a week, TPP posts a public statement made by the other creator of TPP, Kevin, shifting the blame for the events and "apologizing" for what had happened but giving no clear plan going forward to make sure this doesn't repeat for a third time. Harley theirself still hasn't apologized for the thread they made. I don't listen to The Penumbra Podcast anymore and you shouldn't''t either.

So last year, a couple weeks before the first episode of Season 4 was supposed to come out, TPP announced the artist they hired for the art for the new episodes of S4. You can go on their Twitter and find the artist there if you really want to, but a lot of people were not happy with the choice, specifically because of the artists lineup they made around 2 years ago (at the time of the announcement) of the main cast of Junoverse, mainly because of their designs for Buddy, Peter, Vespa, and Alessandra. Buddy and Alessandra's designs were both racist caricatures of black women, Peter's of east Asian men, and Vespa, a canonical paranoid schizophrenic woman, was portrayed as violent and bloodthirsty (I also saw some comments saying her design was also transphobic, but I believe this lineup was made before it was confirmed that Vespa is trans).

A lot of people were vocal about their choice for the artist saying it wasn't a good idea and that they should consider hiring another artist to do the promotional art for TPP because of this line up. They could have listened or made a public post about peoples concerns, but instead threw more fuel into the fire. I don't know how long after the announcement this post was made, but one of the creators, Harley Takagi Kaner, conveniently and undoubtedly was targeted towards the people pointing out the artists racism in their work, made a thread about "bullies." I admit, I don't remember everything that was in it and don't have screenshots as the thread has been deleted, but the timing of the post as well as the content of it, made things boil over and the fandom was collectively pissed. Kevin Vibert, the other creator of TPP, says Harley gets a lot of transphobic messages sent to them, but that's not an excuse when it's pointed out that the artist you hired has made racist and abliest fan art of your show.

The thread got deleted a day or so after it was made, but the damage was already done and there was only silence from the TPP creators as people directed their messages to the artist in question. The artist did apologize and promised to not lean into those caricatures again, though they used the word "goofy" instead of calling it what it is, but was left to deal with the fallout by theirself with silence from the TPP creators.

About a week later they announced they will issue a public statement, and one was made by Kevin. In the statement, Kevin apologizes and talks about the harassment Harley receives (even before this event) vs the harassment he receives, mainly these messages being transphobic attacks towards Harley, focusing more on this than on the fact that most people were respectful when raising their concerns about the racist art before Harley made that thread calling members of their own fandom bullies and that everyone only wanted to hear some kind of accountability from the creators. Kevin also admits that of the two POC people they had hired to review the artists they were considering hiring, neither of them were black, despite most of the cast for Junoverse being headcannoned as such, and that what pushed him to make the statement in the first place was because the Patreon was losing patrons as people pulled their pledges away from the show because of these events. He talks about the show being a part of his and Harley's livelihood but no real clear indication about how and if they will try to stop something like this from happening again, especially since this was not the first time this has happened (tho I didn't find that out until after this whole thing). Harley hasn't made a public apology yet, at least on twitter, and I think is taking a much needed break from Twitter. The apology, as a whole, was a messy thing that shifted blame and highlighted the mistakes behind the scenes, without giving some kind of clear statement of if the creators even intend on making sure that nothing like this will happen again.

Personally I think the way this situation was handled was sloppy and unprofessional, and as Harley Takagi Kaner still hasn't made an apology on Twitter, I am not holding out much hope that they will say anything about it at all, though I am glad they're taking a break from Twitter as they very much need it. I can't support a show that claims to be inclusive and diverse when you are alienating a whole part of your fandom, especially if you are actively encouraging people to design the main cast of characters as POC, and behaving like this when people point out your racism instead of apologizing and trying to do something better. Also by taking so long to even announce that there will be a public statement made, leaving your artist to handle the backlash alone, but, in Kevin's case, still being able to do a livestream while the shows fans are practically begging for some accountability, and only making a statement once it started affecting your patreon, doesn't make me feel like there will be any changes in the future when it comes to how things like this will be prevented before they even have the chance to happen, and how they will be handled when they do.

If you were unaware of this having had happened, I highly encourage you reconsider continuing listening to the show, and if you must must must listen to it, figure out how to without directly supporting the creators, as well as not post about the show anymore. I haven't listened to TPP since this all happened, even though it was one of my favorite shows at the time, and there are other creators out there who can and have had handled situations like this more sensitively than how the TPP crew has. Racism from the creators shouldn't be ignored in favor of the queer rep The Penumbra Podcast brings, and no show should call itself inclusive if it's creators are going to treat it's non-white audience like this.

[wooteena]

wilbur said after that he was 80% sure but he couldnt get tested because covid + functional adult man so

and thats on ablism

[elixip]

Can we PLEASE ffs, STOP CALLING ALL PPL WITH NPD ABUSERS?? I personally dont have it, but I've met others who do, and they're all so fucking sweet, some of the kindest ppl I've met. Dont lump them in with abusers either, "abusers and narcissists" no, you're talking about abusers, it has NOTHING to do with a mental illness

It's just fucking annoying because SO MANY ppl with npd have literally told yall to stop and no one ever fucking listens to them??

I was abused by someone with bpd, and in tonsss of toxic relationships with ppl with depression, but I dont call it depression/bpd abuse or connect the toxicity/abuse to the disorder, because that's not what causes it at all.

If you want to learn more and see positivity and stuff go follow @npdsafe or at least look through the content on the acc, listen to them above me.

[b0ychik]

Quick reminder that saying you’re a “little adhd” is ableist! And actually really upsetting! That’s not how adhd works! And I’m tired of seeing people say that!

[circumpolarvampire]

All this shit is pretty bold coming from somebody who straight up ships Zuko with Azula and uses the fucking "reee" shit that's super ableist?!?!? You don't have the place mf.

[ameluminoussys]

I know there’s already a lot of discussion on why plastic bans are incredibly ablist but I do want to take a moment and talk about the effect on diabetic- and more specifically insulin dependant- people.

It takes a ridiculous amount of single use plastic to treat this disability. For those of use with pumps, as far as I’m aware every pump takes some of plastic reservoir needed to hold the insulin, most pumps I know of require plastic tubing to transfer the insulin from pump to the body. It’s quite simply the best material for that purpose, but we also can’t just reuse those things. Insulin degrades the quality of plastic meaning the insulin itself slowly becomes diluted and less effective in tubing and reservoirs that’re overused, not to mention the plastic insertion parts that the body begins to reject and push out after a few days, those parts are also slowly degrading and you can’t reinsert them into the body. Not even to mention the fact that most of these things are placed in plastic containers for safety.

So then what about going off a pump? Well not to say anything bad about people without pumps- you’re incredibly powerful and I have a ton of respect for you and how much extra effort you put in- but pumps tend to be healthier and more natural, it can be paired with a cgm to monitor sugar levels constantly, they more closely mimic how an actual pancreas functions, and allow a lot more freedom in how we go about a lot of our lives, a failure is more casthorpic sure but a pump makes a huge difference to a ton of people including myself. But also, non pump users still have to consume a ton of plastic in order to manage their l diabetes, syringes are ussually plastic, those who use pens have needles with plastic casing, and both pump and non pump user will probably need plastic containers for test strips, plastic lancets for finger pricks, and plastic sharps containers so no one is hurt from the used material.

While there are ways to reduce the amount of plastic used in diabetic treatment, both for the health of diabetics, and for their safety and the safety of those disposing of the materials treatment leaves behind, using plastic in treating diabetes is incredibly important.

It doesn’t just stop at banning plastic straws and bags, all plastic bans hurts disabled people in so many ways that abled people can probably never fully understand.