it's your party but i'll die if i want to

venefica, 27, she/he. trompe-la-mort extraordinaire, butch lesbian, classics student. art+politics+nature+literature+fandoms (currently arcane, jjk, disco elysium, witch hat atelier and Saint Seiya). paris, france. saint seiya only : @scorpionmilon. terfs dni. فلسطين حرة

[veneficasum]

Bad news from Sami. His son is sick : the audio of his child's breathing he sent me is very worrying, he sounds like a raspy motor.

The help they need is so very expensive, Sami is very worried. You can help by donating :

here on chuffed

here on kofi

or by sharing this post.

Your help is very appreciated.

GazaVetters 628

[heartsl0b]

road trip

[redstonedust]

i feel like whenever people discuss hatsune mikus age its always either "hatsune miku is literally 16 you cant treat her like an adult" or "hatsune miku is a piece of software with no thoughts or feelings you can do whatever" but never the imo more interesting "hatsune miku is a marketing mascot designed to be a virtual idol, what does it say about the idol industry that the people involved considered 16 to be the perfect age to assign her. why do so many vtubers played by adult women have 16 on their profile. why are so many idol anime about highschoolers. can we talk about the contexts and implications please please please please-"

[redstonedust]

and this isnt a "japan bad lol" thing theres so many characters out there who are functionally treated as adults but designated to be in their late teens. i think the oldest (official) disney princess is like. 21. its a feature of how society at large treats 16-25 as the only viable window of attractiveness yknow. the dicaprio problem. its everywhere once you look for it unfortunately and even characters i love are not exempt from reflecting the bias.

[hunnismokah]

stsg thats not angst i love!!!!

[the-tamamoland-of-ill-omen]

while i'm on that subject did you know that anywhere from TWO IN THREE to NINE IN TEN reports of CSAM are inactionable because people will report shit like a picture of miku or some ao3 fic and they have to treat every case as if it's an actual child being abused and so this moral panic bullshit you are leveraging against random trans women you know jack shit about online for kiwifarms brownie points is making is so that the child that's actually being abused has to wait THREE TO TEN TIMES as long for any possible help. Do you want me to grab sources for this again or are you just going to ignore that to pedojacket me like last time

[claimhte]

the article being linked by op in the comments is a letter, not a study, with a badly cited bibliography, NONE of which says anything remotely close to what op is claiming

the first two cited articles in the letter talk about action taken against specifically drawings, including the 3 year sentencing of a russian trans woman for posting underage hentai to social media. her lawyer told her to take a plea deal. the article has little to do with whether this should or shouldn't be actionable and is largely about the fact that this 3 year sentence is possibly fatal on account of her having cancer and being possibly put in a men's prison--a topic which interestingly is not being championed as an issue in a post about transmisogyny. the other article explicitly states that sexual depiction of minors "using images, cartoons, drawings or representations, of any kind" falls under their criminal code. which is the exact opposite of "inactionable"

the third link is a long read which also doesn't actually say anything about this, it's mostly about detecting child abusers who view images online, the fact that there is just so much CSAM online, combined with issues re: algorithms and AI on detecting those images, and the lack of a budget for improving detection. it DOES talk about an individual who went from viewing images online to contact abuse in 2 years after going "through a series of forums who had told him his behavior was normal"

4th link which op is apparently using for the stats in this post is from a german swiss newspaper about, specifically, the swiss police's CSAM algorithms mistakenly detecting family photos and sending it to the cops. the cover image for this article is a family beach photo

the last link is entirely about digital privacy from an organization saying that CSAM is a major problem but that monitoring everyones' devices would be a major govt overreach

so basically exactly none of these sources indicate any of the following: 1) that people are mass reporting ao3/artists on such a scale that anybody is even reporting on it in a research study, 2) that creating or engaging with fictionalized depictions is inactionable, or 3) that such reports are preventing real children from being helped by the authorities because of the prior 2 points. we do in fact get multiple sources explicitly contradicting point 2 and the 3rd link kind of ironically draws a direct line between online activity and real harm on an anecdotal scale. the fact that the letter itself doesn't say "9 in 10" and op had to look at the 4th link to do that leads me to believe intellectual dishonesty and not just parroting headline stats is at play

[veneficasum]

teacher post-jjk0 Geto au sketch dump

[kilgoretrout-stan]

therem harth rem ir estraven you are so dear to me

[9e978e]

via

[veneficasum]

they got married :)

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[mephistopheles]

i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like

[barelysusan]

happy pride month

[comikbook]

happy pride month dykes i love you dykes

[ehbahpu]

Aider H à fuir une situation dangereuse

Cagnotte en ligne

Aider H à fuir une situation dangereuse

Français 

Cette cagnotte est pour notre amie H. qui a été séquestrée par sa famille en raison de transphobie. Elle a besoin de refaire un passport, acheter un billet d'avion et avoir un peu d'argent à son retour en France en attendant de stabiliser sa situation. 

On est obligé d'agir assez rapidement, notamment pour acheter le billet. Donc si tu as même 1 euro à mettre, ça nous aidera énormément ! 

Merci mille fois pour ta solidarité 🙌🏾

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English

This fundraiser is for our friend H., who has been held captive by her family due to transphobia. She needs to get a new passport, buy a plane ticket, and have some money when she returns to France until her situation stabilizes. 

We need to act quickly, especially to buy the ticket. So if you can donate even just one euro, it will help us enormously!

Thank you so much for your solidarity 🙌🏾

[asexual-amanita]

As summer is approaching, I’d like to remind everyone that you are not entitled to ask someone to cover up their scars, self inflicted or not. I don’t care if they’re big, I don’t care if they’re noticeable, or purple, or all over their body, or what. You can’t police people’s bodies.

[asexual-amanita]

This also goes for my friends with feeding tubes, ostomy bags, central lines and urinary catheters. People are allowed exist in bodies that stray from the expected norm.

[sp1ritb0x]

who are these guys even are they lost

[phleb0tomist]

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.