#jesterbell

[weatherman667]

MY LOCAL THEATER CLOSED!! - An IMPASSIONED RANT Against the Against the Hollywood that DESTROYED IT!!!!

Runtime:  38:35

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Jester Hat: What are you in the mood for?

Service Bell: World domination.

Jester Hat: That's a bit ambitious.

Service Bell: You are my world.

Jester Hat: Aww...

Service Bell:

Jester Hat:

Service Bell:

Jester Hat: OH.

[vilevexedvixen]

Demonisation of NSFW Fandom

I do understand that some people do find anything gory or sexual (in the case of sex repulsion, no shade just remember your sex repulsion is human rather than related in any way to morality) to be upsetting to them personally, and perhaps sticking with them viscerally for a while. Gore and sex can definitely be traumatic! Absolutely! However, the fact that SOME people feel that way about gore and sex does not mean that either of those things have any actual moral weight to them (when I say gore I mean depictions of it that do not involve an actual crime such as murder or cannibalism). Granted, I am speaking as someone who grew up seeing chicken carcasses dried on laundry wires and skinned cow skulls out on display at my local wet market, so I am absolutely more desensitised than the average sheltered city-dwelling westerner.

There's been a concerning wave of fans that demonise very standard fandom practices such as writing fanfiction, engaging in shipping, enjoying smut, drawing fanart of all kinds and exploring their sexuality through their fandoms. YOU may have not done that, but I know plenty of people who actually were helped by the NSFW aspects of fandom to explore their sexuality, kinks, and gender - parts of themselves that general society tend to try and censor, hide or shame unless they conform to conservative standards of purity. Heck! Even for those who end up discovering exactly what they DON'T like about the NSFW aspects of fandom they were exploring, it may help them realise those things in a way that means they feel less alienated in a society that (while shaming most of fandom and kink) also demonises people who are averse to or disinterested in sex!

I think what constitutes gore is more easily agreed upon (e.g. a nosebleed probably doesn't need to be censored but a disembowelment definitely should especially when not seen within the context of a horror community where it's more expected) than sex. For deluded bigots like Jester, she seemingly considers any allusion to fondness between women to be hypersexual and therefore needing to be stopped or censored. Or any allusion to the potential of intimacy being unacceptably "perverted". And anything going further, to be explicitly kinky, is seemingly automatically harmful according to people like her. It's such an extreme, warped view of the world that I'm utterly appalled by how common her views have become among younger and newer fans and tumblr users.

It dehumanises kink and sex into something inherently monstrous instead of the human experience that it is (and no, me saying that isn't somehow implying that asexuality or sex repulsion is inhuman as I've seen an embarrassingly large amount of people claim about topics like this - the humanity of one does not contradict or dismiss the humanity of the other ffs). The fact so many feel the need to crusade against these aspects of humanity and fandom goes to show how easy it is to dehumanise and thereby target anyone "deviant". And no, being sexual, or kinky and making fandom stuff related to those things does NOT make someone a predator or pedo, being a predator or pedo makes you a predator or pedo. They are not as proximate as so many assume, especially given how most predators and pedos are in fact avid promoters of conservatism, purity culture, religion, straight and "normal" communities. Yes, some kinksters are predators - frankly WE are far better at policing and ousting those people from our own communities than anyone else.

I would like to also clarify that this "wave of puritan fans" does not actually include that many ace people and the tumblr ace community as a whole get's way more shit thrown at it than they deserve. Y'all deserve better. My criticism of bigotry against kink and NSFW fandom practices / NSFW communities more broadly is not a criticism of people who simply wish to see less of it for personal reasons and don't personally enjoy that sort of thing. Fair enough, honestly. The language used in both can sometimes overlap which is why I think people jump to being defensive against what feels like a further attack, if an unintentional one. Still, I wish tumblr's filtering system worked better so NSFW communities can post what they want without any of it ending up being shown to people who really don't want to see it.

Sidenote: This is a pretty decent, nuanced look at one of the biggest fandoms to ever exist (the furry fandom) - that shares a lot of the same demonisation that the kink community faces. I think "This community contains predators" isn't sound on its own, because it can be said of literally EVERY community. A more relevant criticism is on how those people are handled. Is it like the Catholic Church and Hollywood, why systematically protects and covers up their crimes? Or is it like the gay and kink community, which is more quick to oust them from the community due to the very real threat of police and societal punishment for "harbouring" them that may occur if they don't? And morally puritan groups definitely still contain predators, they're just more closeted and once they're revealed then the remaining members tend to claim they were never truly part of their community anyway - lumping them into the "perverted" communities they are criticising instead even if that predator has never interacted with those communities personally. Anywho, this wasn't particularly structured, just needed to vent as I so often do!

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Wait... MJ was meant to just be "the other woman?"

It's so wild to think one of the most popular superhero love interests started out as just a rival character that ended up becoming the main love interest because their chemistry was just that good despite that never being the plan.

[ethiack]

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is DISNEY-FIED BRAINROT!

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Why do I feel like Jesterbell is going to be newest Internet’s punching bag?

Like, at least she didn’t do anything horrible like WhiteBowser and NovaOnline. I just hope nothing gets revealed that she turns out to be an awful person instead of a huge fan of Rogue from X-Men.

[qutibahalfarouqitheclonetrooper]

I still dislike JesterBell!

Vor.

[shadowwingtronix]

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