The "this is the nonsexual version of the kink therefore it's SFW and okay for minors (((((:" crowd confuses me because like.
I have a nonsexual kink. I don't really enjoy it in horny contexts. However. This is still very much so NSFW. It's a kink. Like. The best way I can describe it is that I find it erotic without finding it titillating, if that makes sense? That probably doesn't make much sense but I hope you can still get an idea of what I mean from it, feelings are just hard to describe for me and they only get harder to describe when I'm trying to talk about stuff like this.
Anyway. I do genuinely and sincerely have a kink that I only really enjoy outside of sexual contexts and yet, I still do not want minors interacting with the fetish fic I make of it! I know, what a novel concept!
Tbh, the only reason I use the G/T tags for it when I post that stuff to Ao3 is because I know when I go looking for fic of it I tend to avoid anything that's rated any higher because of the high possibility of sex being involved, and even then, I don't really like tagging it that way. I've thought about leaving it unrated, but I really really don't like doing that with my fics, unless I'm trying to hide a major plot twist I like to have as much information available via tags as possible, y'know? And also, M just doesn't feel right for them, as there's no sex involved, and the violence involved doesn't even have blood that leaves the body, let alone anything more than that. Not only that but my target audience generally isn't disturbed by the content of these fics the way normal people are, so it doesn't feel right for that reason either.
Anyway. Long winded ramble about my problems with tagging this shit aside. Yeah, ah, just cause a kink doesn't have any sex involved in it does not make it SFW or reasonable to knowingly allow minors to engage with it, sorry not sorry. (Not at you or anyone here, obviously. Y'all could probably pick that up from context clues but I like to try to be as clear as possible.)
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Across the city, students, accountants, hairdressers, and every other conceivable profession have joined what can only be described as an unprecedented social movement. They call themselves volonteri, and their organizations, their crowdfunding campaigns, and their activism help explain why the Ukrainian army has fought so hard and so well, why a decade-long Russian attempt to co-opt the Ukrainian state mostly failed, even (or maybe especially) in Russian-speaking Odesa.
Bondarenko and her team were inspired by American practices of community service—well-designed websites, clever social-media posts—but other cultural influences are at work in Odesa too. One of them is toloka, an old word used in Ukrainian, Russian, and certain Baltic languages to describe spontaneous community projects. When someone’s house burns down, the village gets together to rebuild it. That’s toloka. When a man dies, the village helps the widow harvest her crops. That’s toloka too. Kurkov, the Ukrainian novelist, has defined toloka as “community work for the common good,” and it helps explain why so many people have given up so much to pitch in.
Also, this:
Link: https://www.patreon.com/ukrainianvolunteerservice/posts
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the more i chew over the mercs trilogy from rvb14 the more i think my initial reaction to it was kind of a complete misread actually lol
i had to dig through some old posts to find where i talked about it but initially i approached/read it as showing a pivotal, critical moment in felix and locus's history where they tipped over the line from being This to being That, and in that regard, the episodes are definitely still super fun and charming and Good but they also fall very flat. what exactly was pivotal about that? honestly, not much unless you want to do an insanely close read with some reaching. i guess maybe the whole "surprise, guess we're down to do a ransom and also kill a guy" part but... not really? they definitely murdered n+1 people at the club and are not new to murderizing (eg. the "mason wu, trained killer of men" comment). that was not a moral high ground situation in any way and nothing about it really points to it being The Moment that something changed fundamentally.
but what it was, actually - and i feel silly that i didn't read it like this at first - was honestly just a show that felix and locus did actually come from a place of doing net positives at some point in their lives. and that's not something to be dismissed! the fact that they weren't terrible horrible no-good dirty rotten mercenaries from the day the left active service is really interesting! and the trilogy showcased all of that in a super fun and charming and Good way and sometimes the point is just to show that things used to be different.
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