#ignorant person of the internet

[helloyellow17]

Idk man I might get torn to shreds for saying this, but I simply cannot understand the new trend, particularly among younger internet users, where people write a laundry list of their triggers in their bio and then expect everyone to read and cater to said list on a PUBLIC PLATFORM.

This is the same mentality that drives people to attack appropriately tagged fics on AO3 for having x y or z content because “How dare you post this when I have trauma about this???” Obviously if someone is going to write a super heavy and highly sensitive fic and NOT tag it properly, they ought to be called out on it. But this isn’t about that, it’s about the people who don’t curate their own content, it’s about the people who enter public spaces and demand that the general public cater to THEM specifically.

Additionally: Listing out your triggers for everyone to see is just ASKING for trolls to come into your inbox and flood you with triggering content. (Unfortunately, as much as we would like to believe otherwise, the internet is full of selfish jerks who don’t give a crap about anybody’s trauma.) Not only this, but the algorithm does not read your bio. The algorithm does not care about your triggers unless YOU make sure to block specific tags and content.

YOU are responsible for curating your own content, and nobody else.

Obviously this is not to say people shouldn’t try to tag their posts for common triggers, because that’s the common courtesy thing to do. But if Becky has a phobia of bees, it is on her to block that tag and curate her feed around it, and she does not get the exclusive right to suddenly demand that nobody talk about bees within a ten mile radius of her. If Alec has a phobia of dogs, then it is well within his right to avoid contact with them, but he doesn’t get to go to a public park and yell at anybody who brings their dog there. It is his responsibility to know his own limits and seek out parks that are dog-free. (If someone brings a dog to a dog-free area, that’s a whole different issue that I won’t be getting into rn but yes, the person who does that is in the wrong there.)

The internet is widely a public space. If you want to create a safe space completely and utterly free of your specific triggers, you have to put the work in to make that space for yourself. You don’t get to ask other internet strangers to do it for you.

I’m saying this out of genuine concern (and admittedly, frustration) because there are so many young teens in fandom nowadays who don’t understand this, and they end up putting themselves in extremely vulnerable and even downright dangerous situations because they don’t understand that putting your well-being in the hands of a stranger is a terrible idea.

Please be safe, and for the love of all that is holy, be reasonable. Curating your content yourself is just as much a protection for you as it is a vital key that allows public communities to function.

#hyramblings #fandom culture #internet discourse #trauma triggers #anxiety triggers #safe space #if I get one person saying “BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE IGNORES X AND DOES IT ANYWAY #we literally went over this #they’re a jerk and have responsibility too #but this ain’t about them rn #ya feel? #internet communities #fandom community

[bixels]

I've been making the transition these past few months, but I think I'm gonna just move back to Tumblr. My Twitter's follower-base has reached a point where I can't tweet anything casually opinion-related without it overflowing like a toilet. I post a short thread on my gripes with color design in anime and I'm getting QRT'd with "kill this guy with hammers" reaction gifs. Like, damn, this isn't fun anymore. It's not fun to talk about stuff on Twitter in general anymore. I wanted to post some ship dynamic doodles sometime there, but I know I'm gonna get weirdly aggressive takes and reactions. Monkey's paw curls, but I don't particularly like having that many followers.

#personal #delete later #like i'm generally good at not letting internet stuff get to me #it's dumb and inconsequential and i'm confident in who i am as a colorist #i faced some racist racist racist ass shit last month when some alt right weebs found an old post critting whitewashing #like i've gotten dms from people harrassing me about being taiwanese #but tumblr is so lowkey while twitter will blast qrts in your face going “this guy hates you for your basic ass anime opinion” #and i'm like hm. :/ #idk thanks for being chill in general guys. except with the miyazaki post that was a toilet overflow #best thing about tumblr is how easy it is to ignore weirdos or weirdly aggressive people #i'm still gonna post art there but really just art. it's more destructive than constructive to use twitter as a discussion space now

[oneluckydragon]

Pmd2 remake devs, if you really do exist like the legends say, pls hire me I have so many funny ideas.

#knowing the internet this joke has probably already been made for them but... i didn't check #remember how i said this blog would have memes? well the time is now #i will always be salty that dusknoir's theme got stolen by darkrai #yes yes i know something something it's actually the darkness theme and not actually dusknoir's but i choose to ignore that lil fact #this is even funnier if you consider the hero/human/darkrai reincarnation fan theory #cause then dusknoir got schooled by the same person in 3 different lifetimes and that's hilarious #dusknoir #darkrai #pmd2 #pmd eos

[hoofpeet]

popping in to say a few kind words about your art because i never viewed your art as cutesy pretty much ever? i never saw your style is just. cute. and p much anyone who says that has a very shallow way of defining art styles

i admire your style of art so much because of the unapologetic saturation and vibrancy in color, the way you utilize them has so clearly been practiced and curated careful even when you might just have been fuckin around. your sense of color has come to a point where im pretty sure its just instinctual, but even then the attention to detail of how light bounces and how they interact with other colors is nothing less of a very talented skill.

this isnt even mentioning your understanding of form makes me want to Gnaw On My Furniture, you make it look so Easy with your linework. its so gestural but also so compact at the same time-- theres this narrow line you tend to do there there is so much clarity in a silhouette but at the same time it doesnt feel like a posed model, its just a photograph taken. the naturalism is so fantastic, i FEEL like im seeing a snapshot into a world that does not involve me and thats good.

honestly its very upsetting that people chalk up your work valuing nothing more than fanart because there is so much MORE youre clearly doing with style study, color and photo study, research into animal behaviors/biology/interpreting realism into stylized shape and form. frankly, it is a Disservice to you that people think you arent... i dont know deserving to express your goddamn feelings????

anyway this is a long way to say i hope people will stop being shitheads to you n you can find those shitheads to block fully and entirely bc they clearly arent the attentive appreciating target audience they think theyre being

HEEHEE... thank you ...... I love 2 hear detailed thoughts on my silly ocs and such .. glad you're enjoying them 👍

#mailbox #really do appreciate it heehoo.. i'm printing this out to put on my wall #+also- no worries i'm not super upset about shitheads.. it's at least a predictable type of annoying #part of being an niche micro-community internet celebrity (?) is people feeling ownership over your work i guess #ig you gotta accept. people will cherrypick the parts of your life/personality they want to see #and feel that it's your responsibility to be quiet about the parts they want to ignore

[cemeterything]

okay fine i'll read homestuck. whatever. i've cracked i can't take it anymore i need to fuck around and find out.

#🐉 #james reads homestuck #btw i know some people have legitimate objections to it so im fully prepared for that #and im not going to be an idiot and just try to ignore that and bury my head in the sand #but im curious as hell and even if some of it sucks i want to understand why #its such a compelling and beloved story to so many people #and hell i want to actually understand why some of it is Bad (for lack of a better word) #and not just take the word of random internet strangers as objective truth without further investigation #because thats the opposite of using my critical thinking skills #if you think reading media with some shitty stuff in it makes you a Bad Person just by exposure well idk why youre still following me anywa #but yea heres your warning that i will become aware of homestuck if thats something you cant stand #even though the likelihood of me blogging about it is slim #and if i do ill probably like. make a sideblog so people who really dont like it can avoid it. #MAN. okay. sorry for the disclaimer im just worried people are gonna think im an idiot or something and send me condescending asks #or assume the worst about me as a person #because. internet.

[transsongtaewon]

I do wonder if a certain subset of s-class readers realise they can just stop reading it if they hate Yoohyun that much. Like he's not going away, his and Yoojin's relationship is kind of the driving force of the story. If you cannot stand that, maybe this isn't the novel for you.

#grumping #made a mistake and went into the tag #and I know a lot of people are stupid about Yoohyun (or for some reason think the audience is supposed to be wholeheartedly onboard with #everything he's done???) #but then why keep reading #there are other books out there that don't have Yoohyun in them #I don't think you can just ignore him when reading either because he's The Point of it all #why would you as a person who hates Yoohyun do that to yourself #and more importantly why would you do that to me (complain about it on the internet where I can see it)

[skinnypaleangryperson]

Tumblr has made me so jaded and bitter. I desperately need an app to share a unique personalities and creativity, not a place where people just consume and don't care about anything but consumption and politics and arguments about various other superficial vapid things that don't matter like every other app.

Or even just a personality, I would take that too. The world could be so bright and interesting and my mental issues with clear up like anything if I could just meet people that I spiritually connected with, which happens maybe every once every blue moon but it's only those blue moons that keep me going.

#I don't mind Tumblr #it's really the only app left after people sometimes try to be decent and casual #it's also the only place where you can ignore the fact that America is essentially ending as we know it #it is so intense out there on the other apps #Tumblr it's like coming into a warm stagnant building compared to most internet apps #with that being said as a creative person that wants to share an indulge in creativity and not just consumption and more arguments #there is a mass of black hole that I wish a culture on the internet would fill #All these inventions of apps and internets over the years and that there still hasn't been a single website made in years mainstreamed shar #in creativity

[lazaruspiss]

so many people just hear "dick was a cop" and go "eww im gonna pretend i didnt see that" and like. if its just bc you cant handle the subject matter thats one thing, but often times its just. performative. especially because the actually storyline is so much about dick trying (and as far as ive gotten to reading so far, failing) to make a change in the system and be a "good cop". it's an extremely heavy but genuinely very interesting storyline. dick does find other "good cops", but they're very much the minority and usually keep their heads down, because cops are bastards and will ruin the lives of "fellow officers" who try and do things right. they try to frame dick for murder at one point and everything.

#its such a long and significant thing that happened and im like. youre explicitly mentioning it just to say you're ignoring it? alright. #sure. so proud of you. im sure that makes a huge difference in the world. very cool. #not trying to shade at any one person but ive just seen that attitude from people have definitely never read nw96 lol #at most they read 93 so they can bitch about how 'terrible' they think it is and use it as an excuse to wish terrible things #onto like. one of Very Few women who were in the comic book industry at the time #but im sure theres nothing internalized going on there. sure its just coincidence that they never bitch about male authors #using the excuse of social justice #love me some social justice but fuckin hate people who try to do it in fictional space instead of like. reality #literally helping no one by harassing Problematic Woman Author #dont even wanna name her bc her haters are some of the worst people ive ever seen on the internet lol #ANYWAYS. im done ranting #woke up at 03:30 and chose violence i guess

[quantumshade]

honestly my biggest take about the upcoming xmas special is that regardless of how good or bad the episode is, it's going to make being a jew in the fandom fucking untenable for a few weeks.

#well. even more so than it already is. #ESPECIALLY from well meaning gentiles. #even in the absolute best case scenario of how the episode handles the goblin thing (and my hopes aren't high) #the fan reaction is going to make everything a thousand times worse. #if i see one person with a spyfall pfp post a hot take about this i'm deleting the internet. #anyway at least the fifteen and ruby stuff will be good. hopefully good enough that i can ignore the rest of it #doctor who #delia.txt

[winxwiki]

goooddd I need to make a whole debunking of some idiot saying Winx didn't reach Japan because it was "too perverted" when Japan has done so much worse with their own shows.

Winx didn't come to Japan due to broadcasting fees and no licensing to justify the costs. Too much competition back in 2004. That's it. Straight from Iginio's mouth. Other shows by bigger companies have flopped there. My Little Pony was non-existant before FIM in Japan.

A japanese person who claims to be a big fan of the genre should fucking know this and not say it was because the belly buttons were too much. If you saw the magical girl anime I grew up with in the early 2000s when I was 4-10 then you'd fucking explode

#text #of course op has a USA flag in their DN. don't be fucking proud of it weirdo #they have no excuse for being so ignorant since they're fluent in english. the internet is free. you can look up things #also stop bringing up the opinions of conservative japanese parents who hate violence and queer characters I DONT CARE!! #also how can you as a japanese person mg fan not know about like. mermaid melody. cutie honey flash. MAJOKKO MEGU CHAN? FRESH PRECURE

[transinniter]

for fucks sake

#god this is not about me i know i feel so so horrible for alice #having to watch him be successful for years knowing what he was like #i. god #this is like #i can’t even process how horrible like #i just feel so disgusted like on a new level . i have so much fucking stuff of him #it just feels so so gross i looked up to . a rapist. for that long #and that part of my brain still hasn’t processed this is reality like thats actually the same person #also . well i wasnt planning on saying this on the internet but my birth name is alice which makes this just another layer of. god #<- sorry i dont want to make it about myself just ignore this rant

[pencap]

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#sylvie speaks #(in the tags because this isn't a complete enough though to make a proper post out of) #(and i will probably delete it anyway) #i am having Thoughts about creating and sharing and credit #and what it means to be a creator on the internet #(as much as that term has become loaded now) #i have mostly accepted that i do not get to control what people do with my words once i post them in a public forum #i will ask and i will request and i will trust in the goodness of strangers #but there will always be some people acting in ignorance or malice #and really when it comes to things like gifsets and fics and such i am so so happy for people to use them #even if it's for a fandom/media/ship that i might personally dislike or find uncomfy or some such thing #because it inspired and someone found meaning in my words and that is. all i can ever really ask #and they tend to be well credited anyway #and even if they aren't i think most people recognize that the quotes probably came from someone else #i'm not even as upset about poems floating around wholesale uncredited #(i'd have a personal vendetta the size of the pacific ocean against pinterest if i did) #but when it becomes credited to someone else #or when someone else claims credit for it #that... that does upset me in ways i find hard to articulate #and takes me by surprise in its stark contrast to how little i care about the other kinds of usage #i think it's about ownership perhaps #it is one thing to let something go #it is another thing entire for someone else to take it for themselves #it is mine; or it was; and i don't mind sharing i really don't #you don't even have to say thank you or tell me you're using it or even say it's mine #(though i much much much prefer that you do) #but it feels deeply violating for someone else to slap their name on it #i am perhaps slightly more bitter about this than usual #bc i recently discovered another piece of blatant plagiarism #that isn't worth pursuing but it does make me sad

[theliterarywolf]

Oh boy, it's once again time for my favorite phenomenon!

The ol' 'Spindlehorse has been promoting a new episode of Helluva Boss/A24 finally remembered that Hazbin exists, better make up outlandish, obviously fake 'callouts' to prove that VivziePop is worst than John K.'s left testicle!'

#I know I usually ignore that shit #but the fact that this latest person was on Reddit talking about 'A24 didn't even want to work with Viv #she forced them!! It's true!!' #just makes me sigh and remember that Indie animation is never going to get to #the prestige it can #because internet babies keep cosplaying as crabs in buckets

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

#gotta say: it doesn't make me feel any better getting ignored/disparaged on account of my gender irl and then seeing every fictional woman #also get ignored/disparaged when there is no material difference between her and popular male characters other than her gender #how do I escape from irl misogyny if y'all keep willfully ignoring and flinging gendered insults at 99% (<-lowball estimate) of #female characters? how do I put aside the ableism I face in real life when y'all discuss disabled/mentally ill characters in the most #absolutely out-of-pocket way? how do I forget about biphobia when the 'arguments' you make 'for fun' about bisexual characters #in fiction sound EXACTLY the same as the things people say about my bisexuality outside of the internet/fan culture? #and then obviously this gets compounded if you are trying to even simply EXIST in fandom as a poc or a trans person or an intersection of #any or all these varying identities/life experiences #like yes caring about fictional characters is not the same as caring about real people OBVIOUSLY I can't BELIEVE I have to keep clarifying #that. and at the same time!! because multiple things can be true at the same time!!!! engaging in behavior that enforces pre-ingrained #societal biases and prejudices!!!!!!!! does not help dismantle those biases and prejudices!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in a real-world way that DOES #involve caring about actual people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #it's also. interesting. when people go on & on about how some newest show about thin cis white (male) gays is So Important & Revolutionary #So We Must Do Everything To Keep It Relevant And Visible and then act this way about women/poc/trans people/disabled people/fat people #in media. so like. you DO agree that seeing a variety of life experiences represented in fiction is beneficial. you DO believe in the #value of depicting marginalized people. interesting that that only seems to apply to a VERY narrow and specific category of marginalization #(ugh remember when I talked about this and someone called me a straight person good times)

[clearbun]

took a break from writing today to make an important (slightly lopsided) fella

#no one is awake at home who cares about seeing it so to the internet we go <3 #my art #crochet #cinnamoroll #sanrio #🖍️ #(last tag is a personal sorting thing ignore it)

[chiropteracupola]

ANOTHER BIRD HAS ENTERED THE TERRITORY OF MY PERSONAL NEST! QUICK, WE MUST HAVE AN ACADEMIC DEBATE ON THE NATURE OF ART!

#news from the cupola #I don't like that this is my fight-response now because no one seems to have Time to have that debate with me #and now I'm all on edge and full of thoughts and have no one to sayyyyy them to #it's v funny because this is a 3d-space reaction only and not a thing that happens to me on the internet very much #my default responses online are 'defer to others assuming they have more thorough knowledge' #and/or 'ignore opinion; block user' #whereas oftentimes in person it is 'well I have precisely as much right to be in this classroom as you if not more' #which the foolish reptile in the brain interprets as 'okay we are in the gladiatorial arena'