#cassie.asks

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I've been off tumblr for like...a month. What is happening rn?

A lot.

Mainly, I'm deciding to move away from posting RP content, and move towards posting longform content like Sam & I's podcast we're currently planning, or other random stuff on this blog.

I love all my friends within the RP community, but unfortunately I haven't felt the love for writing that I usually have. Besides, there are MUCH better Phil Graves blogs running, like @cmdr-graves which has a PHENOMENAL characterization of Graves and really brings the evil vibes to the party that mine was lacking.

I think most people in the RP community knew I was going to move away from it at some point as my patience with a lot of the young adults within the community has waned very visibly.

I understand not everyone has as much as lived experience as I do, or is as politically aware, nor has the actual want to learn about it like I do, but jesus fucking christ.

I will still gladly interact with my friends like @ask-gaz , @lilbardrhi , @vedma-s-vostoka , @shadowcompanys-medic-beaks and more on Tumblr and stay in the COD discord server as a content creator (as Call of Rambles will also have it's Call of Duty episodes, and we might bring a few blog members on from time to time) and chat with everyone. But As of now, I'm officially stepping back from the CODRP community.

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[askcassanything]

Announcement

If you follow or interact with Soren, at all, please unfollow me. I've told her multiple times how to phrase it so people don't get pissy, and her and her friends keep using transphobic rhetoric to, in my eyes, intentionally piss people off. She's been in my DMs this morning, basically begging for empathy because she's getting death threats.

So here's my statement and my empathy.

I empathize with my friends who have had this rhetoric used against them, past and present, and been essentially mocked by her and her friends online. I have been a victim of this rhetoric too, as I am nonbinary Feminine-Presenting.

I won't lie, I educated Soren on the proper way to convey what they're saying, but they have told me in DMs they don't care if people get upset, that they are happily proud of what she had said.

I told them to stop interacting, and they kept doing so. I told them to block and delete death threats specifically and to stop interacting with the discourse. Instead, they decided to further mock the community I and so many others are a part of. She continued to use TERF rhetoric. She continued to fan the flames of the discourse, reblog the TERF rhetoric her friends use, and then come into my DMs and complain she has Death Threats and borderline demanding me to make a statement that I don't support her getting death threats when that was literally the first thing I posted on the Discord Server and on my own blog.

I don't have sympathy for those that in my DMs, beg for attention and pity points, then turn around and call me rude and disrespectful as I'm telling them what to do and they're deliberately going against it. I don't have sympathy for those who want to make a big deal out of something, rather than literally shutting the fuck up, calming down, and rephrasing what they say into something that should properly represent their beliefs as they're telling a third party.

I don't have sympathy for people who make a goddamn mountain over a mole hill, and choose to die on a stupid hill and then beg in my DMs for fucking pity. I don't. If that upsets any of you, then please get off my blog.

I'm tired of literal manchildren being in this community and throwing bitchfits when adults with much more lived experience and from different walks of life correct them. I'm literally so fucking done with it. At this point forwards, anyone who tries to do a bitchfit, and has been talked about how their words can hurt others, which is an elementary/primary school teaching, and still refuses to change, gets blocked. I don't give a shit, I'm literally so fucking done.

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im being so honest when i say recent things have made me kinda uneasy and afraid to interact with the fandom as a trans person. the rampant transphobia as of recent makes fandom spaces really draining

Not even going to lie to you, the right-wing has had a grip on the COD fandom since it started. This isn't anything new unfortunately, and even in places like our community where there is transgender and jewish people who are outwardly so, there is still the right-wing hateful rhetoric being spewed. At the end of the day, as much as we want to think of our community being left-wing, we do have to understand we are the minority in a right-wing space and things like yesterday can and will happen. This always happens in fandoms where there is a large political overlap (see; Star Wars) between the left and right. Gamergate and other stupid shit like it, has exacerbated that issue. Now that sounds very: "suck it up" but I assure you, that's not what I'm saying. This is what I am saying: Being Queer, a Leftist, Jewish, or any religion besides a mainstream religion, a woman, or really anything not a cishet white man, makes fandom spaces incredibly hostile out the bat. It makes life hostile right out the bat. Sometimes, your interests get weaponized against you, sometimes, your community gets weaponized against you. Your beliefs, your skin color, your everything is scrutinized. Your entire life is going to be a fight, but there should always ALWAYS be a safe place that you can exist without politics making the forefront of everything. Especially since the fight can get draining quickly, and the fear can set in. Mine, is minecraft. If you're in the COD Chokehold Discord Server, you can see some posts I make about the advancements we make in my chill Aternos Minecraft Server with me and a couple of friends. I post it frequently enough, and some builds I do and even stream it occasionally. I also have my boyfriend, and we'll play BG3 together, or his friends or some of mine, and we'll talk and exist as queer non-white and white individuals who have similar ideas and values. Having a community that you will constantly feel safe in, is something that we as humans forget we need until shit like this happens, and I implore you all to find, make and/or join a community that does that for you. If you need any help, please don't hesitate to reach out. <3 And if you want to join the Minecraft Server, (please note it's Java Edition and heavily modded), reach out! I can send you the server address to join. :)

[askcassanything]

just wanted to say that you are very sweet and pretty cool :]

Thank you! :) I try my best to keep my cool and treat people with kindness and grace, but ngl some people on here are making that really difficult.

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Uhhh. I believe a certain person from yesterday is engaging in transphobic rhetoric again. Could be wrong. Going off what a friend is telling me

Yeah. Soren is 18, and they (as far as I'm aware) are Cisgender. I have in public and in private, corrected them and told them how to better word it, and they have said I was being incredibly rude or disrespectful. I've asked them personally about their beliefs, and the things they've sent me are from someone who is definitely engaging in bad-faith arguments and possibly transphobic. They hide behind the fact they have friends and a family member who is trans, but MY BROTHER a year ago was literally a neo-nazi. (He is now incredibly left-leaning.) Also, racists constantly engage in bad-faith arguments and use their "I'm not racist, I have x Black Friend(s)!" all the time. You interacting closely with a minority doesn't mean you aren't using microaggressions or engaging in very dangerous rhetoric, but like I said, Soren has disclosed they are happy and proud of what they said, so, do with that information as you will. The best course of action is literally to not interact and/or block. Personally, I'll leave my DMs open to them if they ever want to actually learn about why people are saying it's dangerous and why they're correct.

BTW, this is the last time I'll be addressing anything Soren has said/done unless they do something more serious than being an annoying teenager exposing dangerous rhetoric.

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ppl being sad a nazi died and then being shocked when they face backlash will always be funny to me. like why are you surprised pikachu facing when you face backlash for being a dipshit

tbh i think that people try to have moral superiority over others and basically virtue signal and say "im better than you for having empathy for a disgusting person because they're a human." but what they dont understand is that's literally helping the fascist cause, especially pertaining to neo nazis.

i think, again, most people are not politically aware enough to actually have critical opinions, nor actually have enough knowledge about political systems and ideologies and MODERN internet political spaces and their culture to weigh in on current events or share ideas about them.

Misinformation is incredibly dangerous, and the blatant misuse of terms is also incredibly harmful and dangerous. You have to have a near 100% understanding of shit to actually speak on it. edited for clarity

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"charlie kirk had children!" yea and so did the millions of dead palestinian men he mocked the deaths of. these ppl feeling bad for him simply because had kids hurt my brain with their level of stupidity

No seriously.

You can say: Awh shit I feel bad for his kids seeing that and People traumatized in the audience.

You can say: I don't really condone political assassinations in general.

OR even: My morality is that every human life is precious, but fuck that guy.

All of that is simple, people know where you stand and what youre coming from, but saying he died for his political opinions, which was literal nazi rhetoric. He was also the guy that helped overturn roe v wade. He's the guy that said if his 10 year old daughter got pregnant via rape he'd force her to have a baby. He denied school shootings and then DIED in one. His death was deliberately the product of the system he helped create and enforce.

Like.... don't mourn the man, please.

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Crazy how the graves ask is more woke and anti fascist

LMAO its because its literally ran by a marxist-lenin-maoist. 👍 rest assured yall, i am not fucking insane, i just have incredibly nuanced takes bc of lived experience and my worldview