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genuine question, do you think callout posts are inherently evil? like if someone's doing some weird shit and hiding it i think people would want to be warned about that at least. just try to discourage harassment as much as possible

The existence of a callout posts means that the targeted person will be harassed if enough people see it. There is no amount of "don't harass anyone mentioned in this doc/video" disclaimers that will prevent that. The post is now potentially a permanent record that anyone can cite for years into the future. You are now at the whims of unknown strangers to be banned from communities, kicked out of creative projects, or be blocked by friends, at any time with no warning. I would consider this to be harassment, but to people who don't know about how these things usually go down they would be seen as righteous whistle blowers.

No matter what you actually did, if your awkward interaction with someone was too sexual, or if you stated a shitty opinion about a complex topic, or if you misjudged someone's boundaries, or if you engaged with kink in a way that made someone outside the scene uncomfortable, you are now a predator. I have seen firsthand the game of telephone starting from "this person did/said something sexualized on an online platform where teenagers could have been present," to "acted creepy around teenagers," to "regularly sexually assaulted children," to "pedophile".

Callout posts do not actually stop the person from "doing weird shit". It depends on what you mean by "weird shit", but if you mean "secretly draws/engages with Bad Porn", which is what a lot of callout posts are about, I implore you to recognize that it is truly not your business to know every private action someone takes just because you follow them on social media. This applies to awkward interactions people have in private too. Sometimes it's patterns of abuse, but a lot of the time it's interpersonal drama that is not anyone else's business.

If by "weird shit" you mean that someone has demonstrated ongoing patterns of real emotional/financial/sexual/etc abuse, and it's something that cannot be handled by any other means (either privately or with legal action if relevant), then in those cases a callout post can potentially do more good than harm if it reaches the people that need to know about it.

The level of long-term mental anguish that a target can go through is absolutely no fucking joke. A callout post has the potential to be a gun to someone's head, especially if they're socially/mentally/physically disadvantaged to begin with, which conveniently describes the most likely people to be targeted with high profile callout posts. [This is because: 1.) Our communities are wayy more likely to self-police than the rest of the internet and 2.) there are groups such as kiwifarms that love when a trans girl does something they can suicide bait her with and they also love it when we infight, isolate, and attack each other.]

I don't think callout posts are inherently evil, but they do nothing to make the target not continue their unwanted behavior. The only good function a callout post can serve is to warn potential future victims. If there are no victims, no behavior that will DIRECTLY lead to someone being victimized, no scam being uncovered, no patterns of abuse being shared, then the only victim is the target of the callout post. Everyone else involved is just gawking at gossip and/or contributing to suicidal levels of anxiety to a stranger.

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I can't believe 75% of all people on tumblr dot com agree precisely with your mindset, which is a conclusion we can definitely make from a sample size of under 1000 people answering an incredibly vaguely-worded poll and giving no further input!

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This stuff is so horrifically tragic and I'm begging y'all to use the anger to fight the system instead of pointlessly policing other minorities.

Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

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wasn't 'meter long king kong dong' an attack in one piece

writing smut like

how many synonyms for “penis” do I actually know?

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Eh sure why not.

Kintsugi - My most recent fic. An Undertale Yellow post-canon story, Ceroba finally gets her visit to Hotland and meeting with Alphys out of the way. It's a rough reunion - it's not like there's any secret what must have happened to Kanako - but we remember what's important.

Another Stranger Me - A retelling of Chapter 1 of Deltarune but with just one little change that shifts events a great deal. The enigmatic Prince of the Kingdom of Darkness welcomes the two heroes, The Human and Monster of the Light, into the foretold legend. Kris and Sebastián are-... Wait, who's Sebastián?

(18+!) The Bad Kind of Scary - HEAVY CW for noncon, abduction, drink spiking, ambiguous-aged teens, and more. By far my darkest story; in my opinion, also, by far my best. Noelle has a huge thing for The Newest Girl, but she ignores the well-being of not only her friend but also herself as she skips through red flags. Just what role does the victim really play in an event like this, and will she even choose to be one?

(18+!) These Old Bones - Toriel x Sans first time dealie. In all of my writing I endeavour to be aggressively queer and find interesting ways to explore queerness and what it means to me, but this one is probably the best job I've done of summarizing it while still being really sexy. Toriel really knows her way around an unconventional body, it turns out.

(18+!) Zetarune - I put this one last because it deeply needs a rewrite, and will get one once I'm done with some of the more pressing stuff on my plate, so I don't recommend reading it quite yet. But I still love it. Deltarune post-canon, post-college story. If I want to sell it, it's an enormous (>350k words and counting!) exploration of queerness, society, humanity, and the entire notion of what art means to me. If I'm being honest it's also an ultra indulgent author-insert harem isekai anime. It's been on a long hiatus but I promise it's far from forgotten.

Don't have many people to tag here, tumblr ain't my most-used social media on account of the vague rules lol. @overexciteddragon @frillyfrills

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let's spread the self-love 💞

Luckily, I have written at least five things! <sigh of relief>

In no particular order:

Once Was Lost - The start of it all. I still “enjoy” the feeling that the inevitable approach to the gallows gives.

To Tame A Tiger - We are all miss Blaseball, RIV, and all that. I wasn’t as active as I would’ve liked, but I’m still proud of this piece, and how it gives a bit of character to an underrepresented player.

Future Past - While Once Was Lost is the start of things, this is where a little of the meat of the story starts coming into play.

Pulling Loose The Threads - Escalation is the name of the game here, and shows a solid link to the established canon, which I’m always wary about doing.

Holiday In Eorzea - Not just a Dead Kennedys reference! This is easily the most ambitious thing I’ve written to date, and it’s far from over. The sad thing in my mind is that it comes after a lot of other parts that are yet to be written. But sometimes, stories have their time and demand it.

Thanks for the ask, @brasideios! I’ll leave the floor open for anyone else who would like, but I’d like to hear from @kosmosxipo , @mossy-kit, and @cyndakip - Talk some Spit!

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BEST QUEER MEDIA TOURNAMENT FINAL ROUND!!!!!

[ propaganda masterpost]

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profic is a niche belief it's just some weirdo freaks most people are pure and morally righteous like me and agree with harassing people over their fiction we're still a clear majority it's fine everything's fine 😭 [copium hissing noises]

#proship #profic #profiction

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i just want y'all to know that i respect all freaks and this is what I look like when you talk about it. doesn't matter how much i'm not into it, even if i find the content itself actively unpleasant, when someone is being a freak i look like this and giggle and kick my little feets

#proship #fly your freak flag

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endlessly funny to see tumblr users acting like they're better than twitter users despite the frequent transphobia from higher ups and the porn ban which, on top of being puritanical on its own, also constantly clips queer content thus implying 'degeneracy' rhetoric

like don't get me wrong i think they're almost precisely as bad and tumblr has some definite upsides, if not for the porn ban I'd mainly hang here instead in a heartbeat, but like... your shit does indeed stink

#twitter #tumblr #ramble

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can't believe this thread put a matt boyd/ian mcconville comic in front of my eyes in 2024

trans bears are literally stronger than any US marine

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Why making any concessions to puritan rhetoric is a bad idea

(note for the uninitiated: 'anti' is short for 'anti-shipper', 'anti-ship', or 'anti-fan'; in this context it refers to people who get very vocally militant about opposing dark kinks/problematic ships in media, especially creative fandom spaces. Proship is simply the opposite, people who vocally believe people should be free to make/indulge in whatever as long as a line is drawn between fiction and reality.)

(note 2: this was written for cohost, i cbf rewording it lol)

I very often see people - both websites and individuals - making a concession to the people who come up to them yelling about problematic kinks and guilt by association and 'why didn't you block this person' blah blah blah. It's happened with a few BNFs (big-name fans) in the UTDR scene lately, I've seen it from artists I respect, from friends, hell I used to be in this camp myself. And, of course, it happened to this website about a year back, and the conversation has come up again recently due yet another tumblr exodus.

It makes sense. The most common stuff that antis go after is stuff very few people are into: lolisho/cub, ferals, heavy gore, heavy noncon. It's niche, the real-world applications are unquestionably vile, it's very easy to just say 'I also find this icky regardless of whether I really believe that all people into it are secret criminals, so, I'll just block the people who they say are bad and move on.' I can't tell you the amount of times I've seen someone respond to proship/antiship discourse with "I'm an adult with a job." Going to bat for this content is high risk, low reward. You're not going to make friends, you're going to lose them. YOU WILL LOSE SUBSCRIBER, etc. As a result of all this it's very easy to assume that anyone defending it must be into it.

But I'm not. I'm a writer who often deals with darker subjects, but most of the first-on-the-list anti stuff, I'm not into at all. I'm not into ferals or gore period, noncon I like purely as character exploration, lolisho I can enjoy from the perspective of what I call 'trauma repair.' There's probably a proper term for it. But the tl;dr is I've never been actively aroused by any of these things, not in fantasy and especially not otherwise. Whenever I write them, it's just fascination or character analysis. Whenever I have a 'this character can be any age you want' fic, in my head, they're 18+. Writing noncon is a weird challenge for me because I'm constantly battling with the alternate ending in my head where the victim breaks free, beats the shit out of their captor, etc. This isn't me trying to claim virtue through this, just stating my position.

So… Why do I go to bat for these things? Why do I get annoyed when websites block lolisho, when artists have 'proship DNI' in their bio, etc? It's lost me a couple friends, it's certainly cost me followers and general reach, it's gotten me blocked by countless people I respected the work of. It's earned me a few callout posts, multiple with 1k+ followers, and one particular obsessed stalker who tells anyone who will listen that I actually groomed a child (despite all evidence otherwise). It's caused me a really significant amount of trouble. Why die on this hill?

The answer's kind of simple, when you boil it down: fictional fantasies either affect reality, or they don't. This is why I go to bat for things I'm not into, but it's also why whenever you see someone making concessions to antis, it's never enough. Cohost banned lolisho last year (I believe it's still banned?? Unclear), but the antis still make constant callout posts about this site and its owners. Some of the team have even gone out of their way to state very firmly that they're against these things, they've gone above and beyond just 'ban the bad thing' and broadcast their views about the morality of it. You'll frequently see artists write some huge apology or clarification when a callout post hits, usually involving some variation of 'I do not condone x y z and think it's disgusting.'

It's never enough.

But it makes sense, when you think about it. By drawing a line, you have essentially agreed with the core angle of the people screaming at you: that a fictional fantasy affects reality. That it's dangerous. You will, by necessity, now have people start to work down the list. Incest, ferals, gore, noncon, sure. Any relationship with any kind of skewed power dynamic. Sibling-coded, minor-coded, postminor nonsense. All of these things are less easily agreed to than lolisho, I've seen countless porn artists concede with the core idea that lolisho is immoral, then they act like it's unreasonable that people just keep going until they're being told that a knot on a furry is bestiality, or a 23 year old dating an autistic 21 year old is pedophilia. These are genuine examples of things I've seen people dogpiled for. Seriously look up "postminor" if you want to see how bad this can get, on top of being absurd it's one-for-one the kind of gross ableist shit that Autism Speaks gets into.

But YOU AGREED TO THEM. You agreed with the core concept, that the fantasy must reflect reality. Of course they're going to keep demanding more; by the logic you used to agree with them, you are doing immoral things. If fictional lolisho is immoral, so are the rest of them. It's way easier to look at your average pic on baraag or inkbunny and go 'oh, eugh, vile,' but at the end of the day the cutesy played-for-laughs sleeping kiss, the dubcon bondage that you don't call dubcon, or the meet-cute where they're a bit too drunk, they're all immoral fantasies.

That's not even to get into non-sexual stuff. If the lolisho fantasy is wrong, so is running down civilians in GTA. Suddenly your notifs are full of 16 year-old Jack Thompsons with rainbow flags in their bios.

This really is an all-or-nothing debate. If fictional fantasies affect reality, then even the immoral fantasies that you're personally comfortable with, the cutesy coy playful ones, must be immoral. If fictional fantasies don't affect reality, then even the ones that make you uncomfortable, the ones that have you scrambling to close your browser in case the feds are looking, must be fine.

It should have become very obvious over the last decade that you cannot fence-sit on this. There's a huge internal disagreement going on among progressive/queer/compassion-minded people, on whether these kind of things affect reality, or whether they don't. You can learn to apathetically dismiss stuff that squicks you, or you can learn to sanitize everything you ever make so there's not a trace of contentious theming left. Immoral fantasies are immoral, or only immoral actions are immoral.

You're going to have to pick one.

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i actually just fucking snorted laughing because i entirely forgot that one thread that blew up when some cops accused antifa of painting a tunnel onto a wall to make them crash into it, so now i'm imagining them doing this too

Which cartoon gag does Kris prefer?

Falling pianos or falling anvils?

Falling pianos, obviously. With the falling piano gag, you can then get the shot of the person popping out of the piano and all of their teeth have been replaced with piano keys, which they can use to play a silly little jingle. You still get the violence, but with an extra topping of whimsy!

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it's just absurd how many "you have to think CRITICALLY about kink" addicted-to-talking-about-reading-comprehension types on here have fully and uncritically bought the standard societal narrative that sexual violence is something that happens because some people are Born Perverts and that those Perverts wake up every day saying "I love sexual violence. Sexual violence is my kink. Today I am going to do sexual violence." it's a very safe and very satisfying lie to swallow which lets you absolve the systems of power which produce sexual violence, as well as any complicity you could potentially hold by propping them up; and it goes further to absolve the self of any potential individual responsibility, because of Course you're not capable of reproducing sexual violence or violating another person's consent -- because that's what Perverts do, and you're not a Pervert, and maybe the Pervert even absolves you of a little bit of that unspeakable unmentionable bigotry in the back of your mind (think about how many marginalized people's "callouts" are met with an "I always knew something was wrong, she always made me uncomfortable to look at, I always thought they were probably a creep," justified ex post facto by the presence of Perversion). it's the same thing that dyed-in-the-wool conservatives do with Kill All Pedophiles, it's been the same since the early 20th century conceptualization of The Pervert to explain why communism and discontent were gaining a foothold, it's one of the most politically unifying impulses of normative society: justify the status quo, explain violence as an outlier, attribute the outlier to a monster, redirect anger and remorse and action towards the monster. the reason why new conceptualizations of Perversion feel right to you may be less due to an inherent political brilliance which your perfect soul can see in them -- and in fact it might do you well to consider if these conceptualizations follow through to fact, if they protect the vulnerable, if they offer keen insight which would disrupt an order which presently produces an overwhelming amount of violence; or if they simply feel right because their adoption is politically, rhetorically, psychologically, and physically very, very easy

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#deltarune #revolutionary girl utena #utn

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you vs the rhetoric they told you was unpopular and immoral

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Every time Netflix says 'piracy is on the rise' I laugh so hard, because when netflix first popped up it heralded the biggest decrease in piracy I've ever seen in my life, before or since. COUNTLESS torrent sites shut down as both operators lost interest and the demand plummeted, even the ones that did still want to operate, it became so much harder for because with so many fewer fish in the pond, lawyers could actually keep up with them. So many regular pirates put up their hats and just kinda stopped.

Each year it got worse. On top of what laurellament said, shows started being removed from the platform, you couldn't see the stuff you'd originally paid for. Archiving and preservation started becoming problems too. And did ANY of these clowns really think we'd still pay if they expected us to pay a monthly subscription for like 10 different services at once??

It's so rare for a single company to not only be almost solely responsible for putting such an astronomical dent in piracy, but still be around and at the forefront as those newly legitimate purchasers - plus more - jump ship. To pretend they don't know it's their own damn actions causing it is audacious even if it's not surprising. But most of all it's so damn funny that they thought people would just sit around and take it on the cheek.

People will pay for things if the price is fair and the product/service is good. If it's not, they won't. It's very simple.

yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you greedy fucks

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it was on by default for me lol

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.