#pride flags for us

[jhendurs]

a clever, complex and mysterious gender relating to Cetacea , mostly focusing on  Delphinidae

[ask-pride-color-schemes]

Update on the whole pride-flags-for-us fiasco

Still pretty sick and tired but looks like the anons I got about 4chan were just trolls trying to scare me into deleting, which is rude, but hey, at least it motivated me to up my security and change my passwords. I try to avoid talking about discoursey stuff here but I think this is important so fair warning ahead if you don’t want to see that.

So it looks like what happened is that there was an internal coup of some sorts. Mod Ita and Celes succesfully managed to kick Mod Dave off. He was the main mod responsible for the downhill turn PFFU took with its “pro LGBT anti MOGAI” stuff as well as a lot of aphobia and other misinformation. 

From Celes’s blog: “Mod Ita joined in a plan to take it down due to the offensive MOGAI content. They brought me on board. Originally I was all for this plan, so I accept some responsibility. Then they brought a few new people on in order to aid in deleting everything and trying to kick Mod Dave off.” [Link]

I don’t really know the full intentions of Ita and Celes (or if Ita is even on the new mod team), but the blog is back up, and I’m not sure which way theyre trying to steer the blog but judging by the above and the posts on the (very eye-straining) redone blog, I worry that they might continue with the “LGBT not MOGAI” theme. I don’t want to write too much more on the subject since it’s mostly just speculation right now and I want to wait for them to post their explanation page before jumping to any conclusions.

From a recent post on PFFU: “Hey guys! This blog is back now! And primarily for positivity! We’re working on an explanation page to tell y'all what just happened” [Link]

I had been communicating with Ita regarding pride stuff for a few months before this but haven’t talked to them for a few weeks before this all happened. They’ve been very helpful with finding flags/terms I’ve missed and seemed very pro-MOGAI and they’ve wanted to be a mod on my blog for a long time as well but I didn’t want to let them due to some ....problematic opinions they have on some subjects. They’ve since disappeared since this all happened.

(This is also why I’m hesitant on adding new mods even though I need help because I don’t want something like this to happen to this blog)

I think this is about all I can say right now (and all I have the mental spoons for since its 1am and im exhausted) I’ll see if I can get to some other asks regarding flags but no promises for tonight or tomorrow. 

[ask-pride-color-schemes]

Gonna copypaste this post instead of reblogging it so I can put it under a readmore

But I feel like it’s an important post regarding PFFU, the changes they’re making, the future of this blog, and I also want to clarify a few things:

Original post by @intersex-ionality [Link] It’s an older post but is still relevant to what’s happening now with the mod changes.

Anonymous shouted: did you see that pride-flags-for-us closed because "mogai is corrupt" and shit? gosh, i'm really sad that a resource is being closed down because "teen lesbians might id as homoflexible for a while" or whatever

Is that why @pride-color-schemes opened up? I was wondering what happened there, but honestly I just try to avoid getting too far into the hellscape that is “mogai is toxic” discourse. Like, I have to pick my battles, and I pick “the ones that actually come to me because there’s already so many, why would I ever look for more.”

Anyway, I’m not going to say I’m surprised about this. Things like mogai-archive and pride-flags-for-us get an enormous, disproportionate amount of hatred, and very little in the way of vocal support because, well, the communities they are fighting for are very small.

After a few years of being told at a rate of 97% that you’re filthy, toxic, rotting waste, you start to wonder if people are right.

They aren’t right, of course, but there’s no way to know that when it’s all you ever hear.

These things happen.

I am very sorry to see another positive resource blog get nuked, but I am very much not surprised.

[Hermy here]: Just clarifying, I originally made my DA pride-flags back when PFFU was still a great blog because I wanted to help out and keep all the flags in one place. (I actually asked several times if they’d like to add me as a mod but always got an “I’ll ask the other mods about it”). I made mogai-flags later (honestly I don’t remember if PFFU was still good or going downhill at the time I made it), but then dumped it for this since I made an entirely different account for it instead of a sideblog and then realized I couldn’t add mods to it. 

But yeah, this is another reason why I’m going to be super careful in adding new mods, so I’ll add people who already know a lot and have strong opinions already on discoursey stuff so we don’t fall for their shit and end up going down the same path if this blog gets super popular. The problem with tumblr (well, one of the maaaaany problems) is that there’s no way to kick admins so if even one mod “goes rogue” or something, they can really mess things up. 

As blah as they are now I do have some sympathy for them for all the shit they have to deal with on a daily basis and hope that one day they’ll turn back around or at least add some mods that can deal with all the negativity that’s thrown at them.

-Hermy

[its-mers]

Pride flags for us stopped making pride flags??? They've now become somewhat decent-er?? Oh boy this is an age of light we're entering folks, the futures lookin bright

[alienabductionfund]

I regret ever making pffu It turned into a shitshow. The only thing I wish I'd done was stay so that I could correct all the bad shit I started.

[heemxng]

so today I found out that pride-flags-for-us has a forum thread dedicated to them