Writing… I Guess

//She/They // 19 // 🧠Issues Hello, welcome! You can call me Lumi (or Lolli 😉🍭). I mostly do hero/villain stuff, and sometimes hero/villain related whump. (My profile pic is from a picrew, it is not my own art)

[the-luminol-writer]

✨Snippet Masterlist✨

I am horrible at creating titles, so I’ll be providing descriptions instead.

I do continuations and requests for them are open

⭐️ = will not be continued

Snippet #1  (A prodigy working on a PhD meets the hero, they end up liking each other, but then the prodigy is kidnapped by the villain) pt 2. pt 3. pt 4. pt 5

Snippet #2  (Villain uses a memory eraser on Hero, and sets their memories back to right before they met Villain, but Villain is disturbed to find that the hero was not as good of a person back then as they were in present time)

Not exactly a snippet because it’s not very long (I guess this could be considered a hero x villain, but it’s kinda dark) ⭐️

Snippet #4  (The hero is kidnapped by Supervillain, who informs them that their sidekick is dead (or are they?))

Snippet #5 pt 1  (Villain x scientist: Scientist enjoys working for Villain, and Villain seems to have an interest in them) pt 2  pt 3   pt 4 ⭐️

 Snippet #6  (Hero is overworking themselves, and Superhero is trying to make them take their vacation)

Snippet #7 pt 1  (Villain is snatched up by Supervillain while in their civilian persona, and discovers that Supervillain now has a DNA analyzer, and is trying to find the identities of Villain, and their friend Hero). pt 2. pt 3.  pt 4   pt 5. ⭐️

Snippet #8 pt 1  (A very talented young attorney represents defendants, which are usually either heroes getting sued for damage, or villains getting accused of crimes) pt 2.  pt 3 ⭐️

Snippet #9 (Villain hasn’t been seen in a while and Hero goes to check on them)

Snippet #10 (A civilian photographer REALLY wants a good picture of Villain)

Snippet #11 (Hero and villain have a falling out, and Villain goes to work with Supervillain, who doesn’t have the best intentions for them)

Snippet #12 (Villain kidnaps a Civilian for info on Hero) pt.2

Snippet #13 (Villain shows up injured at Hero’s door)

Snippet #14 (Villain kidnaps Civilian for their safety) pt 2.  pt 3. pt 4. pt 5

Snippet #15 (Villain finds out about hero’s phobia and uses it against them)

Snippet #16. (Supervillain comes to villain’s aid)

Snippet #17. (Villain and supervillain kidnap sidekick, but supervillain strays from the plan) pt.2. pt.3. pt.4. pt.5. pt.6

Snippet #18 (Villain isn’t answering their phone after many attempts by Hero. When Villains phone is finally answered, it’s not them on the other end.)

Snippet #19  (Civilian was kidnapped by Villain, and is… “rescued” by Hero) pt.2.  pt.3. pt.4 pt.5

Snippet #20  (Villain’s treatment of Hero is not to Supervillain’s liking) pt.2 pt.3 pt.4. pt.5  pt.6 pt.7

Snippet #21 (Villain’s S.O Civilian is missing) pt.2

Snippet #22 (after Villain breaks into Civilian’s house, they grow attached to them) pt.2. Pt3 pt4

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Continuations of my prompts and writing from other peoples prompts

Writing from my prompt (two villains kidnap a civilian) pt. 3. pt. 4. pt.5  pt.6 ⭐️

Writing from a prompt (a civilian pretends to be hurt by hero, and hero is very confused) ⭐️

Writing from a prompt (villain receives gift box with hero inside)

Prompt 47 (hero discovers their friend is the villain) pt.2   pt 3. ⭐️

Prompt 82 (villain kidnaps a civilian for ransom) pt.2 

Writing from a prompt. (It’s villains birthday and they didn’t want to be alone)

Prompt 96  (Yandere-esc villain doesn’t want civilian to leave) pt.2

Prompt 101  (Villain takes hero back to their lair after catching up to them) pt.2 pt. 3. ⭐️

Writing from a prompt (Villain unknowingly meets the author of their favorite book)

Prompt 115 (Hero and Civilian are kidnapped) pt.2

Writing from a prompt (Villain and Hero have a kidnapping-related favor to ask Civilian)

Secret Santa for Sunflower 1000  (Villain ends up half-frozen at Civilian’s doorstep seeking refuge from the cold)

[whumpwillow]

A is new to the hero team by necessity, and a former villain. They avoid "group activities" as much as they can, so they're usually excluded. They got so used to getting beaten and humiliated by the old crew that they don't realize that this group is genuine; "activities" means baking and movie nights and cuddle piles. By the time they come to terms with craving to join in, it's too late. They're cemented as a burden rather than a friend. They pretend they don't care, and cry behind closed doors

yessssssssssssss one of these asks!! i love "villain joins the hero team and is the lonely outcast" its just such a good trope. especially here since it's been self-inflicted out of fear ahahaha. good shit

villain gets so afraid when the team leader mentions "group activities" the first time, because they think this is going to be just like their old team. they were always the runt, the bullied mule, of their old team and the other villains loved taking turns beating them and forcing them to do humiliating acts like kissing their boots

villain protects themselves the only way they know how: anger. they lash out at team leader and scream at them, tearing into them with any words they can think of. team leader is so confused why villain would so vehemently disagree to baking and cuddle piles (cuddle piles!!!) because they don't know what villain's old team was like. the hero team just thinks of villain's outburst as selfish and unnecessary

any time the team tries to include villain in anything, villain gives them the cold shoulder and brushes them off, because a tough attitude was the norm in their old team. the heroes see the villain as rude and ungrateful, and decide to only interact with them when needed

the team goes back to their old dynamic of being closer than family with each other, basically ignoring all traces of villain's existence except when their presence actually proves useful (for information and such). they generally try to ignore villain, and villain leaves them alone

villain discovers the team's "group activities" are all such soft things and is so surprised to see that they look out for one another, they protect each other, they would be willing to sacrifice themselves for one another, and they comfort each other. none of them are out to get the other and their "group activities" just involve cuddling and sharing soft moments

villain feels horrible for how they've treated the team now with their cold behavior, but it was the only way they knew how to protect themselves. they didn't realize there was nothing to protect themselves from.

villain is too awkward and self conscious to bring it up to the team the reasons for their behavior and they don't want to explain their past to the team (and maybe they don't even realize this was the root of their behavior) so they just resign themselves to being the outcast

they tell themselves they don't care. they've always been the outcast. the runt. the weakling. the unwanted one. it doesn't matter to them

they want to be held so bad

they cry when they're alone, knowing that they destroyed any chance at something better. they cry, remembering all those times they hid from their previous team to escape a beating or after a beating and how they weren't ever allowed to be vulnerable, but this team is. the team is so vulnerable with each other and villain can't grasp how they could ever have that

[the-luminol-writer]

I had a vague memory of this post and I rediscovered it and now I’m so sad 😭. I NEED a positive ending to this amazing idea. I’ve finally taken it upon myself to write down a potential resolution:

Ok so…

A team member, maybe the team leader, comes to ask the reformed villain something at an odd hour when they’d normally be alone, but before they get to their door, they hear crying.

Their instinct is to see what’s wrong, so matter who it is, so they open the door.

They find villain quietly sobbing in a tight ball on the ground, but villain quickly sits up in response to the door being opened. It’s too much for them to see someone from the team while in this state, so they can’t stop themselves from continuing to cry

“What’s wrong? Are you hurt?” Their tone isn’t that concerned, but they have to check in. Certainly there must be something seriously wrong for such a cold and indifferent person to be sobbing on the ground in their room.

Villain can’t bring themselves to say anything at first, and then finally gets out a broken “I’m sorry”

The hero takes a few steps closer and puts a hand on villains shoulder. “What do you mean?”

Villain starts babbling about how they’re “sorry” and they “didn’t know”

The hero eventually pulls them into a hug and villain doesn’t reciprocate at first because maybe they don’t feel like they deserve it, or doesn’t really know how, but eventually they melt into the first scrap of comfort they’ve been offered in months

————————OR————————

Maybe the hero team captures one of villains old team members, and they can see by the way the teammate talks to villain that there’s some weird history there, but they’re not sure what

Eventually they go through the ex-teammates phone and find a ton of videos of their “team bonding”

Dozens of pictures and videos of villain being used as a punching bag, being made to do humiliating things for the rest of the team, pictures of their bruised and bloodied face, etc.

Maybe they ask the ex-teammate why the hell they’d do that to one of their own team members, and they just shrug and say “team bonding”

The hero team is horrified, and finally connects villain’s behavior to their past

Maybe one teammate leaves the room to go find villain, and as soon as they do, they don’t say anything, just grab them into a tight hug

The villain doesn’t know why the hero is doing this, but finally getting the touch they so desperately craved causes them to break down crying, clinging onto the hero

[the-luminol-writer]

Snippet #23

Cw: Stalking, noncon romantic/sexual advances, noncon touching, implied kidnapping

Civilian couldn’t take it anymore. Every single day another picture would arrive in their mailbox. Those pictures that gave them chills: pictures of them on the bus, going for a walk, cooking dinner, getting ready for bed, sleeping. They could swear a few of them even looked like they were taken inside their apartment. Some of them had little notes written on them with permanent marker, like “you’re so cute”, “I wish I could be there next to you”, and “I love watching you sleep so peacefully”. Another one was of them in their room, talking to a friend on the phone. Across it was written: I’d love to hear that sweet voice of yours talking to me instead of them. Civilian thought they might lose their mind. Whenever they called the police, an officer or two would look around the apartment, find nothing, and leave, taking the polaroids for analysis. Sometimes they would agree to watch the mailboxes to see if they could catch anyone put pictures in their box, but no one ever did.

Civilian had decided they would go stay with a friend for a while the police did some more investigations. They had packed a couple bags, and just needed to grab them from their apartment before heading to their friend’s. Unfortunately for them, they were interrupted on their way walking home.

“Hi there, sweetie,” came a smooth voice from behind them. Civilian spun around, clutching their hands together as their heart started to pound. They were looking at a face they had only seen on the news: Villain. “You look like you’d make a great hostage for me today. I like them cute and innocent looking, and you definitely fit the bill: fluffy sweater and big doe eyes,” they said, stepping closer. Civilian didn’t know whether they should try and run, or just accept their fate and hope they didn’t get hurt. The decision was made for them as Villain lunged forward and snatched them into their arms, rocketing up into the air. Civilian screamed louder than they ever had before, their throat stinging. The cold wind was not making the experience any better. They couldn’t bring themself to look up from where their face was pressed into Villain’s shoulder, fearing how high up they’d be.

“Please…” They whimpered, unable to even finish their sentence.

“Aw,” the villain cooed, “Are you trying to beg for me to let you go? Come on, do it. I’d love to hear that sweet voice of yours.”

Civilian’s heart dropped. The same line from that picture. God, but there was no way Villain was the one to take all those pictures. Surely they had better things to do than terrorize a single unimportant civilian. Surely…

But what would happen to them if it was? Would Villain whisk them away, lock them in their lair, never to be seen again?

Civilian’s head spun and they squeezed their eyes shut. They had no choice but to grip onto Villain’s shoulders as tight as they could.

“Hero still hasn’t shown up. I’m surprised. It’s been almost three minutes. There’s quite a crowd down there watching us.” Villain laughed softly.

Tears started to run down Civilian’s face, the wind quickly drying them, leaving lines of salt in their place.

“No use in crying, my pet, although . You’re the perfect specimen to lure Hero. Oh, and would you look at that. Speak of the devil.”

Civilian forced themself to look up.

“Let them go, Villain,” came hero’s booming voice.

“Now, really, is that all you have to say? You think that’s all it’ll take for me to release them?”

“I like to give my enemies a chance to surrender before any real harm is done, even if it’s with someone as depraved as you,” Hero said, floating a bit closer.

“I’m flattered, but you’re right: I’m not taking that offer. My team is currently about to make off with quite a few pieces from the museum. You won’t have time to save this poor thing and stop me, so,” Villain held Civilan away from their body, only a couple fingers hooked onto the collar of the shirt they wore under the sweater. Civilian could hear stitches breaking as Villain said “make your choice,” and dropped them.

Civilian screamed, limbs flailing in the air. Their stomach felt like it had shot into their throat. If they could think clearly, they might have been angry at themselves for not fighting back, for walking home at all. They started to cry again, this time from relief, as they felt arms scoop under their legs and back, slowing their fall until they were stopped in mid air.

“T-Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,” Civilian sobbed.

“Of course.” Hero pulled them tighter to their chest. “Where do you live? I’ll take you home.”

“Oh, you don’t need to. I wouldn’t want to hold you up.” Civilian glanced down. They were still as high as most of the skyscrapers.

“The museum can wait. I’ll recover the art sooner or later. My concern right now is you. Where do you live? I’ll take you back.”

“Thank you, that’s really nice. I live in the old textile mill they converted into apartments.”

“Yeah, I know where that is.” Hero smiled. Civilian smiled back, feeling their face grow warm. Admittedly, they’d always had a little bit of a crush on Hero. They were strong, good-looking, and, well, heroic. Civilian never thought they would meet them in person, let alone be rescued by them. They were so enamored it took them a few minutes to realize they weren’t going the right way.

“Um, sorry, I don’t think this is the right way—”

Hero’s head nuzzled into their neck, making Civilian freeze. Suddenly, they felt something wet start to glide up their neck toward their ear.

“W-What are you doing,” they squeaked out

“You liked my photos, didn’t you?” the hero breathed into their ear before kissing their neck. Civilian only managed a shake of their head as a dry sob caught in their throat. They pulled their arms to their chest from where they were looped around Hero’s neck, pulling their head away.

“Don’t do that, please.” They could barely get it out without their voice cracking into another sob. A barely noticeable frown pulled the hero’s lips as they stared at them for a moment.

“Let’s go home,” Hero whispered, smile returning.

[the-luminol-writer]

Hey! I'm really sorry for spam liking a bunch of your posts 😭

But could you please do a pt 4 to: https://www.tumblr.com/the-luminol-writer/703826042902740992/please-tell-me-youre-going-to-continue-snippet?source=share ? I'm literally obsessed with it! Thanks! :D

[ also ur part 3 link doesn't work, js wanted to let you know! ] ^^

Don’t be sorry 😭

I haven’t had an ask in so long lol

I actually already made a part 4 to that one, which can be found here. Apparently I forgot to link it in my masterlist

(I also just fixed the link to part 3! Thanks!)

[amethystpath-writes]

PSA CAN’T BELIEVE I’M POSTING THIS. STOP AI.

The first image is a prompt I posted on my prompt blog LAST YEAR.

The second image is from an application called c.ai. On MY post, a viewer commented, telling people that there’s a character with this very dialogue.

Mind you, NO ONE ASKED ME FOR PERMISSION. Though it wasn’t stolen word for word, this is very obviously taken from my prompt which I took the time to write and publish. This is MY writing, and though I share it publicly, that does not give anyone the right to make money off of it. I did NOT CONSENT TO MY PROMPT BEING USED IN AI.

I honestly am not even sure what action to take but please please please bring attention to this and reblog. We need to end AI and the act of stealing artists’ work. I can’t believe this.

[the-luminol-writer]

Prompt 130

The hero’s chest squeezed as they were dropped into the large tank. The cold, murky water felt like it was spilling into their bones. Villain stood on a ladder, peering over the high walls, smiling. The hero knew they shouldn’t say anything, but their nervousness got the better of them.

“What the h-hell is this for?”

And the villain giggled.

“This tank has over 500 gallons of water in it.” They were silent for a few seconds as they pulled something from their pocket. “This,” they said, holding up a tiny glass vial, “is a Irukandji jellyfish. It’s barely a centimeter big, yet it’s incredibly lethal. And it’s also translucent, making it even harder to see. The pain from its sting is unbearable, so much so that many beg for death after being stung. One requires rapid first aid in order to survive the poison. I’ll leave you in the water for an hour. If you haven’t been stung, I’ll let you go, and if you do, welll, I don’t have a lot of the first aid supplies and I’m not wasting it on you.” They ripped the top off the vial and tossed it into the tank.

[whump-captain]

i fully respect ppl who want to avoid discourse on their whump blogs bc they're meant to be a specific, separate space from the rest of their online presence. i mean that geniunely.

i myself tho, personally, have a different philosophy and so hey everyone tumblr user you(dash)had(dash)me(dash)at(dash)whump is openly a transphobe and a pr0-lifer and it's a good idea to block them

i don't have "recepits" or anything just go look at their blog it's literally right there

[whumpsday]

that blog's top post literally calls for the ERADICATION of trans people, so reblogging to keep our community safe. here is the url actually written out to make it easier to block:

you-had-me-at-whump

[the-luminol-writer]

Prompt 129

Hero couldn’t hold back a laugh as they skimmed the news titles that day. Apparently a villain had tried to shut down the city’s power grid and had miserably failed.

“Who the would be stupid enough to do that?” They mumbled to themself, apparently not quiet enough for Villain not to hear as they walked into the room. Hero turned around. Their roommate’s hair stuck out in odd directions and was singed in places, looking as if it was sprayed with that cheap hair dye that comes in cans.

“Maybe they weren’t stupid and just didn’t know that water was actually a good conductor for electricity.”

[painsandconfusion]

Sigh.

I'm putting this here because my therapist said I should. Am stressed. I failed the bar in February and as a result, I lost my job. I've been trying to study and I have a job lined up to start in August (I was supposed to start a while ago but I was so incredibly ill, we had to push it back).

As of right now, I'm officially out of money. Bills are still coming in and I had to spend a bit on meds when I was So Fucking Ill the last few weeks. I wasn't able to do as much work on art and furniture flipping as I'd have liked. When I try, I tend to overwork myself and relapse into The Sickness.

So uh.

Therapist said I should give you guys my kofi link. I feel dumb asking, but if you like me or my writing and want me to continue having things like internet and running water..bbbbuy me a coffee? Is that the line?

Not at all required, I love you all.

I'm just struggling right now and just need to make it by until the job starts in August.

Buy Sand a Coffee. ko-fi.com/painsandconfusion

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[the-luminol-writer]

Prompt 128

Hero had first been assigned to fight Villain a while ago, and the two had apparently grown close. They were always sneaking off from their fights to go and frolic somewhere. Hero seemed absolutely enamored by them… and Superhero loathed it. Hero used to spend their free time talking to them, sometimes playing cards or other games when some other heroes joined in. But now all they could ever focus on was Villain. Superhero’s blood boiled every time they saw them together, every time Hero left the agency to go “fight”, every time they went to check on them after they hadn’t come back only to find them canoodling in an alley with Villain. God, it was infuriating. If Superhero had any say in it, Hero would never see them again. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the authority to re-assign Hero without their permission. So what could they do? They pondered nearly every day. That was, until a bottle of sleeping pills caught their eye as they were shopping. They smirked as they took them off the shelf. They would definitely be inviting Hero over for a drink later.

[painsandconfusion]

POV Whumper loved whumpee in their role as whumpee in a horror movie. They introduce themself as whumpee's #1 fan.

And they want to hear those pretty screams again.

[writing-with-olive]

hey all

so in a more practical application of the "larp a republican if you're gonna call them" post that got huge, North Carolina is about to have abortion access slashed if nothing's done about it.

SB20 got passed and went up to Gov. Cooper who vetoed it, but there's very very slight veto-proof supermajority in the legislature. Unless at least one Republican breaks ranks the veto will be overridden.

I made a google doc to organize, and you don't have to be a North Carolinian to participate:

Operation NC Abortion Freedom

Operation NC Abortion Freedom Park your cursors here when not actively typing: ======================================================= ||

Even if you can't participate, please share. A lot of people might lose yet more of their rights very soon.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

We are not going to let that fuckwad DeSantis gain a foothold in the 2024 election.

You are going to fucking vote for Joe Biden, and you are going to give us a fucking chance to save our country from fascism, and you aren't going to fucking complain about it, because there is literally no other choice.

We will not let another election be a close call. Are you listening?

Vote for Biden. Vote for whatever Democrat is most popular in your local elections. Our system sucks, but this is what we're working with. Just fucking vote.

[writing-with-olive]

"But he's --"

It doesn't matter. It does. not. matter.

Not every battle is about progress. Sometimes it's just holding the line until we get reinforcements. And they are coming. The Gen Z vote was monumental in stopping the red wave, and there are increasing numbers as more and more come of age.

Hold the line.

[the-luminol-writer]

Prompt 127

“Remind me again why we’re going into this building again?” the hero asked as they stared at the rickety structure. 

“I just need to get something,” the villain said quietly. Although they walked quickly, they always managed to keep the hero in front of them. The two were almost to the doors now, and Villain felt like they were about to pass out from how fast they were breathing. Hero held the door open for them.

“Are you okay?” they asked as the villain walked in after them. Villain didn’t have time to answer before a flash lit up the dark entryway, and crackling noise echoed in the dark room. Hero convulsed for a few seconds before falling to the ground, still spasming. 

“Good job, Villain. I knew you had it in you,” Supervillain said mockingly from a dark corner of the room. The henchman that had tased Hero zip-tied their hands behind their back and started dragging them to the back door. 

“Why would you do this? I thought we were friends!” Hero forced through their twitching lips.

Villain was nearly crying as they replied. “I’m sorry. I needed to get something back from them. I’m so sorry.”

Hero had no idea what they meant by that until they were almost out of the room, when Supervillain snapped their fingers and a henchman hurried back with the barely conscious form of villain’s sidekick.

[the-luminol-writer]

Prompt 126

cw: suggestive themes

“I’m proud to announce our newest addition to the team, Hero! They recently received graduated from our training school with outstanding scores—”

“I graduated with cum.”

Superhero leaned in to hiss into their ear “I told you not to say that!”

[fullhalalalchemist]

URGENT: 🚨🚨EARN IT ACT IS BACK IN THE SENATE 🚨🚨 TUMBLR’S NSFW BAN HITTING THE ENTIRE INTERNET THIS SUMMER 2023

April 28, 2023

I’m so sorry for the long post but please please please pay attention and spread this

What is the EARN IT Act?

The EARN IT Act (s. 1207) has been roundly condemned by nearly every major LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights organization in the country.

This is the third time the Senate has been trying to force this through, and I talked about it last year. It is a bill that claims "protects children and victims against CSAM" by creating an unelected and politically appointed national commission of law enforcement specialists to dictate "best practices" that websites all across the nation will be forced to follow. (Keep in mind, most websites in the world are created in the US, so this has global ramifications). These "best practices" would include killing encryption so that any law enforcement can scan and see every single message, dm, photo, cloud storage, data, and any website you have every so much as glanced at. Contrary to popular belief, no they actually can't already do that. These "best practices" also create new laws for "removing CSAM" online, leading to mass censorship of non-CSAM content like what happened to tumblr. Keep in mind that groups like NCOSE, an anti-LGBT hate group, will be allowed on this commission. If websites don't follow these best practices, they lose their Section 230 protections, leading to mass censorship either way.

Section 230 is foundational to modern online communications. It's the entire reason social media exists. It grants legal protection to users and websites, and says that websites aren't responsible for what users upload online unless it's criminal. Without Section 230, websites are at the mercy of whatever bullshit regulatory laws any and every US state passes. Imagine if Texas and Florida were allowed to say what you can and can't publish and access online. That is what will happen if EARN IT passes. (For context, Trump wanted to get rid of Section 230 because he knew it would lead to mass govt surveillance and censorship of minorities online.)

This is really not a drill. Anyone who makes or consume anything “adult” and LGBT online has to be prepared to fight Sen. Blumenthal’s EARN IT Act, brought back from the grave by a bipartisan consensus to destroy Section 230. If this bill passes, we’re going to see most, if not all, adult content and accounts removed from mainstream platforms. This will include anything related to LGBT content, including SFW fanfiction, for example. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, Tiktok, Tumblr, all of them will be completely gutted of anything related to LGBT content, abortion healthcare, resources for victims of any type of abuse, etc. It is a right-wing fascists wet dream, which is why NCOSE is behind this bill and why another name for this bill is named in reference to NCOSE.

NCOSE used to be named Morality in Media, and has rebranded into an "anti-trafficking" organization. They are a hate group that has made millions off of being "against trafficking" while helping almost no victims and pushing for homophobic laws globally. They have successfully pushing the idea that any form of sexual expression, including talking about HEALTH, leads to sex trafficking. That's how SESTA passed. Their goal is to eliminate all sex, anything gay, and everything that goes against their idea of ‘God’ from the internet and hyper disney-fy and sanitize it. This is a highly coordinated attack on multiple fronts.

The EARN IT Act will lead to mass online censorship and surveillance. Platforms will be forced to scan their users’ communications and censor all sex-related content, including sex education, literally anything lgbt, transgender or non-binary education and support systems, aything related to abortion, and sex worker communication according to the ACLU. All this in the name of “protecting kids” and “fighting CSAM”, both of which the bill does nothing of the sort. In fact it makes fighting CSEM even harder.

EARN IT will open the way for politicians to define the category of “pornography" as they — or the lobbies that fund them — please. The same way that right-wing groups have successfully banned books about race and LGBT, are banning trans people from existing, all under the guise of protecting children from "grooming and exploitation", is how they will successfully censor the internet.

As long as state legislatures can tie in "fighting CSAM" to their bullshit laws, they can use EARN IT to censor and surveill whatever they want.

This is already a nightmare enough. But the bill also DESTROYS ENCRYPTION, you know, the thing protecting literally anyone or any govt entity from going into your private messages and emails and anything on your devices and spying on you.

This bill is going to finish what FOSTA/SESTA started. And that should terrify you.

Senator Blumenthal (Same guy who said ‘Facebook should ban finsta’) pushed this bill all of 2020, literally every activist (There were more than half a million signatures on this site opposing this act!) pushed hard to stop this bill. Now he brings it back, doesn’t show the text of the bill until hours later, and it’s WORSE. Instead of fixing literally anything in the bill that might actually protect kids online, Bluemnthal is hoping to fast track this and shove it through, hoping to get little media attention other than propaganda of “protecting kids” to support this shitty legislation that will harm kids. Blumental doesn't care about protecting anyone, and only wants his name in headlines.

It will make CSAM much much worse.

One of the many reasons this bill is so dangerous: It totally misunderstands how Section 230 works, and in doing so (as with FOSTA) it is likely to make the very real problem of CSAM worse, not better. Section 230 gives companies the flexibility to try different approaches to dealing with various content moderation challenges. It allows for greater and greater experimentation and adjustments as they learn what works – without fear of liability for any “failure.” Removing Section 230 protections does the opposite. It says if you do anything, you may face crippling legal liability. This actually makes companies less willing to do anything that involves trying to seek out, take down, and report CSAM because of the greatly increased liability that comes with admitting that there is CSAM on your platform to search for and deal with. This liability would allow anyone for any reason to sue any platform they want, suing smaller ones out of existence. Look at what is happening right now with book bans across the nation with far right groups. This is going to happen to the internet if this bill passes.

(Remember, the state department released a report in December 2021 recommending that the government crack down on “obscenity” as hard the Reagan Administration did. If this bill passes, it could easily go way beyond shit red states are currently trying. It is a goldmine for the fascist right that is currently in the middle of banning every book that talks about race and sexuality across the US.)

The reason these bills keep showing up is because there is this false lie spread by organizations like NCOSE that platforms do nothing about CSEM online. However, platforms are already liable for child sexual exploitation under federal law. Tech companies sent more than 45 million+ instances of CSAM to the DOJ in 2019 alone, most of which they declined to investigate. This shows that platforms are actually doing everything in their power already to stop CSEM by following already existing laws. The Earn It Act includes zero resources for proven investigation or prevention programs. If Senator Bluementhal actually cared about protecting youth, why wouldn’t he include anything to actually protect them in his shitty horrible bill? EARN IT is actually likely to make prosecuting child molesters more difficult since evidence collected this way likely violates the Fourth Amendment and would be inadmissible in court.

I don’t know why so many Senators are eager to cosponsor the “make child pornography worse” bill, but here we are.

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

EARN IT Act was introduced just two weeks ago and is already being fast-tracked. It will be marked up the week of May 1st and head to the Senate floor immediately after. If there is no loud and consistent opposition, it will be law by JUNE! Most bills never go to markup, so this means they are putting pressure to move this through. There are already 20 co-sponsors, a fifth of the entire Senate. This is an uphill battle and it is very much all hands on deck.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

This website takes you to your Senator / House members contact info. EMAIL, MESSAGE, SEND LETTERS, CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL. Calling is the BEST way to get a message through. Get your family and friends to send calls too. This is literally the end of free speech online.

[phone] connects you to the congressional hotline. Here is a call script if you don't know what to say. Call them every day. Even on the weekends, leaving voicemails are fine.

2. Sign these petitions!

Link to Petition 1

Link to Petition 2

3. SPREAD THE WORD ONLINE

If you have any social media, spread this online. One of the best ways we fought back against this last year was MASSIVE spread online. Tiktok, reddit, twitter, discord, whatever means you have at least mention it. We could see most social media die out by this fall if we don't fight back.

Here is a linktree with more information on this bill including a masterpost of articles, the links to petitions, and the call script.

DISCORD LINK IF YOU WANT TO HELP FIGHT IT

TLDR: The EARN IT Act will lead to online censorship of any and all adult & lgbt content across the entire internet, open the floodgates to mass surveillance the likes which we haven’t seen before, lead to much more CSEM being distributed online, and destroy encryption. Call 202-224-3121 to connect to your house and senate representative and tell them to VOTE NO on this bill that does not protect anyone and harms everyone.

[netscapenavigator-official]

This is a great time to regurgitate that other post that's floating around on Tumblr at the moment:

If your senators or representatives are from a deep red state, remember: You are not concerned about the repercussions this will have for the LGBT community. They do not care. Mentioning that this bill will hurt the LGBT community will make them go "good" and brush it off. If you live in a red state/county and have Republican senators and/or representatives, your email and/or call should be phrased from a “concerned American” who thinks this bill is "big government overreach being pushed by liberal extremists." Claim that the bill is anti-freedom and shit like that. And mention that if they don't vote against the bill you "may have to consider giving your vote to a different Republican candidate, come the next election." Threatening a senator from Alabama or Idaho with "I'll vote Democrat" does not scare them because they know Democrats stand zero chance in their state. Claiming to plan to replace them with a Republican who's "more American" might actually get through to them, though.

If this bill can gain bipartisan support, it can gain bipartisan opposition, and you need to show your senators and representatives that, but in ways that actually mean something to them. Telling Marsha Blackburn that this bill is "anti-traditional American values" will be 10x more productive than bringing up LGBT people.

[the-luminol-writer]

Prompt 125

“Alright gang, good work today!” Superhero announced cheerily. “What d’ya say we get some celebratory milkshakes on the way back to the base?”

The rest of the hero’s in the van responded with agreements and cheers. Well, save for Hero who raised their hand.

“Yeah, but can we make a quick pit stop at the hospital first?”

“…Why?” Superhero questioned. Hero let out a shaky laugh as they lifted their shirt, revealing a stab wound.