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berryevilpoptart · 2 days

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Elanor got some new eyes and I took some boring portraits this evening.☀️

#doll #bjd #fairlyland #feeple65 #Nuia #elanor

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berryevilpoptart · 5 days

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“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

#censorship is the tool of the bad guys

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berryevilpoptart · 8 days

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Tiny, tiny glimmer of hope update …

First up, unions are so important folks! I cannot stress this enough!

Secondly, the union presented a petition with over 400 signatures as well as personal letters from affected staff and families to the assistant superintendent (one of the architects of the proposal) yesterday afternoon and she was visibly uncomfortable and publicly called (two local newspapers were there) on her bullshit about enrollment. The main reason they proposed closures is enrollment, however, my center is fully enrolled (has been all year) with a waiting list and despite being down both our bus drivers has consistant 95% attendance.

The mood is definitely better, we’re not out of the woods yet, buuut public opinion is very much and very loudly on our side and there is a board meeting tomorrow that is likely going to be heated. I’m sad I can’t go as it’s during work hours. Anyways, hopefully the board is concerned enough about the ESDs public image to squash this and not send it to the feds … hopefully!

Personal post …

Today has turned to absolute shit! I just found out my job won’t exist next fall (I work for a school and they’re shutting us down).

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#also we have the feds all up in our business for inspections this week #so I’m sure admin is really not having a good time #which is fine by me #rl babble

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berryevilpoptart · 12 days

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Personal post …

Today has turned to absolute shit! I just found out my job won’t exist next fall (I work for a school and they’re shutting us down).

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#rl babble

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berryevilpoptart · 12 days

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#doll #bjd #volks #angela #iphigenia

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berryevilpoptart · 13 days

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#doll #bjd #fairyland #Nuia #feeple65 #sometimes I miss the spicy doll photo sharing spaces #tumblr and instagram have too many hang ups

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berryevilpoptart · 13 days

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Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.

Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.

And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"

But like.

If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.

So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.

There is no nuance to this.

A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.

That's it.

That's all.

"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.

"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.

"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.

"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.

"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.

But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.

"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.

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berryevilpoptart · 20 days

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#doll #bjd #fairlyland #feeple65 #Nuia #Nuia elf #elanor

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berryevilpoptart · 20 days

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Elanor Elentári

#doll #bjd #fairlyland #feeple65 #Nuia #Nuia elf #elanor

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berryevilpoptart · 21 days

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“By the usual measures, Biden should be cruising to reëlection. Violent crime has dropped to nearly a fifty-year low, unemployment is below four per cent, and in January the S. & P. 500 and the Dow hit record highs. More Americans than ever have health insurance, and the country is producing more energy than at any previous moment in its history. His opponent, who is facing ninety-one criminal counts, has suggested that if he is elected he will fire as many as fifty thousand civil servants and replace them with loyalists, deputize the National Guard as a mass-deportation force, and root out what he calls “the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.””

— Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

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berryevilpoptart · 21 days

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