theplaid-wearingmoose:

actuallyalivingsaint:

stanislawstilinski:

the-irish-mayhem:

swevani:

im not a christian but at this point i want jesus christ himself to descend from the afterlife to take the microphone out of trump’s hands and say “are yall fuckin serious”

Imagine how much Trump would hate that, having a Middle Eastern man interrupt him.

a middle eastern jewish man

A middle eastern jewish man born in Palestine who gave away free healthcare and chased capitalists with a whip.

WHO WAS ALSO AN IMMIGRANT

beefchoy:

normal things with creepy connotations:

  1. stopped clocks
  2. people accidentally speaking in unison
  3. cold wind at night (when it’s not snowing)
  4. seeing a light go off in a window
  5. static in the air – everyone’s hair is standing up
  6. slow piano music in a place that’s otherwise silent
  7. finding something you lost a long time ago sitting in plain sight

Federal officers have established unconstitutional checkpoints on the road to Burning Man

mostlysignssomeportents:

Burning Man message boards have been on fire all week as people report
being stopped on flimsy pretenses by federal Bureau of Indian Affairs
officers in the tiny town of Nixon, one of the last stops on the narrow,
quiet rural roads that 60-80,000 people use to access the Black Rock
Desert, home to the Burning Man festival, which opens to the public this
coming Sunday.

The officers pull cars over on flimsy and even manufactured pretenses,
such as “dim license plate lights,” and then ask to conduct a search. If
drivers refuse, K9 dogs are brought to the site and made to “alert” on
the cars, giving officers a pretense to conduct a search.

Attendees report delays of hours, along with unprofessional and
intimidating conduct by the federal officers. Locals, including
indigenous people, report being caught up in the BIA’s dragnet and
subjected to long delays and dehumanizing and illegal searches. The BIA
has apparently entered into a Memo of Understanding with local tribal
leadership to set up the checkpoints.

The Burning Man Organization has advised attendees to make a video
record of their cars’ working lights and signals and unobstructed
license plates, and to record their drive on route 447, and to use the
ACLU’s Mobile Justice
app to record interactions with law enforcement (Nevada is a one-party
consent state and drivers do not need to notify officers that they are
recording).

If you ordered to stop recording police interactions, the Burning Man
Organization advises politely refusing while citing Fordyce v. Seattle,
which affirms your First Amendment right to film and record public
officials engaged in official business.

If you are stopped by law enforcement, please fill in a Burning Man Law Enforcement Feedback Form> If you are arrested, Lawyers for Burners may be able to help you locate and retain an attorney.

Observe posted speed limits at all times. Do not be in possession of any
illegal substances (marijuana is legal in Nevada, but not on federal
lands; do not carry marijuana or its derivatives). Be polite and
respectful with law enforcement. Support local businesses and indigenous
communities. Keep cool.

See you there.

https://boingboing.net/2018/08/22/mobile-justice.html

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

cerulean-warbler:

johnskylar:

lisa-maxwell:

kyrafic:

“Never did like that much,” is a baller and superb way to express your irritation with the way the patriarchy refuses to acknowledge how badass you are.

Word.

Before World War I, she shot a cigarette out of the mouth of the Kaiser of Germany at his request.

After the war started she sent him a letter asking for another chance, as she was afraid her aim might’ve been a little off.

Annie Fucking Oakley everyone

A LEGEND

itsjamiepup:

itsjamiepup:

Hey uh someone needs to tell Toys For Bob to chill tf out because they boutta usher in a whole new era of furries with the Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Like honestly you wanna talk about a glow up? Nestor went from this fucking nerd:

To this Daddy af dragon:

I feel cheated having grown up without this

Its so wild to me that this fandom stuff has gotten to the point of actually accusing people of pedophilia. Like…I remember being in middle school/high school and reading/looking at nsfw stuff involving my favorite pairings from animes (characters who were technically teenagers but I didn’t see it that way because I was also a Teen) and it was never treated like this?? Now that I’m a certified Real Adult I’ve been out of the loop and this is just so crazy to me…It’s so clearly a nonissue.

Oh, tell me about it. Imagine if the anti-culture had been around when Naruto or Black Butler were big, the madness that would’ve ensued.

axbraun:

❗️ATTENTION ❗️ hello. Just wanted to say thank you! These guys have gotten so much love and support. I’ve seen some amazing fan art and 3D renderings of these guys. I’d love to make a highlight on my account to show all of your beautiful work. If you have some fan art you’ve made of these RPG reptiles, please DM it to me. That is all. Thank you! 😄
#art #illustration #drawing #painting #digital #rpg #reptiles #lizards #crocodile #alligator #chameleon #leapordgecko #ipad #procreate #fantasy

tackedtothewall:

unicornsandbutane:

popprincesses:

this tweet is everything

I used to work at the National Gallery in London. Old men came up to me fairly regularly to complain about the young girls (and sometimes the tourists of a particular ethnicity or nationality) taking selfies with the art. I’d smile and say, it’s an interesting diptych because so many of the most celebrated works in the Gallery are portraits– the ‘selfies’ of yesteryear– and indeed, Van Eyck’s /Portrait of a Man/ (1433) may be the earliest known panel self portrait, ant the very least in western art history, so framing oneself in that context, comparing the methods of portraiture over a span of a little under 600 years, is at its heart a commentary on the human desire to remember and be remembered, to catalog one’s existence and give it authenticity.

They did not like that let me tell you.

Thank you for fighting the good fight, unicornsandbutane.

chennington:

cybereihino:

doesthendnlive:

Elisa Maza (Salli Richardson) from Disney’s Gargoyles (1994-1997)

DOES THE NDN LIVE? : YES

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

Elisa Maza is blackNDN: Hopi and African American. She is one of the main characters of Gargoyles, the audience’s viewpoint character, and passes The Aila Test. 

Omg she’s afro native?! I never knew she was

She is! And both parts of her heritage get their own episodes with both her parents playing crucial rules in them 🙂

aleatoryw:

new rule, no one’s allowed to make fun of women for fitting “manic pixie dream girl” stereotypes, if a gal is ~quirky~ and dyes her hair and takes pictures of the moon fuckin let her, it’s not her fault men think she’s gonna cure their existential issues just bc she likes milkshakes and floral tattoos lmao

You’re super kind. At least you tag your NSFW. Some people don’t. And you act so mature and it’s great. Great job handling these anons with stride. 💜

Thank You, I honestly do not like arguing or drama. I just sometimes need to speak my mind. Especially after seeing people attack one another. I do try to tag everything I can to the best of my ability (and I am always happy to make or add tags if I miss something or if someone needs it tagged for blacklisting purposes) because I am a full supporter of the idea of making your own safe space. So I am happy to help people blacklist and keep themselves from seeing anything that make them uncomfortable. I just sometimes get heated, which I admit is a poorer quality of mine (along with my occasional pettiness, which I am working on)

I wish people would just mind their own business sometimes. If it’s not putting people in immediate danger, it’s not horrible. I’m definitely incredibly uncomfortable with CP but like I know the different between CP and not-actual-CP. People need to c h i l l.

Agreed. The person who went into the chat harassing them was in the wrong and I hope they were able to get the chat back to normal, I am more so reblogging those posts for the facts. Its fictional I am sorry if it upsets you please block it on here. As for people harassing others, thats not okay. Harrassment is harrassment.

Regardless of your stance on nsfw of fictional teens, after being asked to leave for it, they came back with a new account and spammed us with porn of the character. I’m 17, and we even have 15 year olds in there. -Mod Fox

Which I do apologize for because that was very inappropriate of that person and definitely uncalled for. I am more so defending the general public of fanfiction on this site. Not the person who was harassing you and I hope everyone involved are okay after that event and I hope you were able to block them once again.

My question is, why are you going so hard to defend simulated CP? Because the law said they don’t give a fuck?? Yikes… this is nothing but enabling sickos. This is so disappointing.

I’m not defending it, because its not cp. Its fiction. Its not even considered simulated cp because that is illegal. 

I am not defending real cp, it is disgusting and immoral. I’m defending the people who are getting told to kill themselves for liking fiction. Go ahead and unfollow and block me. I do not mind. 

It’s literally illegal to draw cp holy hell what’s wrong with you

In response to Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, Congress passed the PROTECT Act of 2003 (also dubbed the Amber Alert Law) and it was signed into law on April 30, 2003, by President George W. Bush.[61] The PROTECT Act amended the previous law on child pornography by adding an affirmative defense which states that “the alleged child pornography was not produced using any actual minor or minors”.

 The PROTECT Act also modified the law by changing the previous “appears to be a minor” section with “indistinguishable from that of a minor” phrasing, and it is specified that “the term ‘indistinguishable’, used with respect to a depiction, means virtually indistinguishable, in that the depiction is such that an ordinary person viewing the depiction would conclude that the depiction is of an actual minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. This definition does not apply to depictions that are drawings, cartoons, sculptures, or paintings depicting minors or adults.”] The PROTECT Act also enacted 18 U.S.C. § 1466A, which criminalizes material that has “a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture or painting”, that “depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is ”obscene“ or “depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in … sexual intercourse … and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”. By its own terms, the law does not make all simulated child pornography illegalIn 2008, the court again applied the holding of Ashcroft, supra. to virtual child pornography, giving the effect that the PROTECT Act is not held to ban virtual child pornography- See United States v. Williams, 553 U.S. 285 (2008), Where the court opined “The Court stated that "an offer to provide or request to receive virtual child pornography is not prohibited by the statute. A crime is committed only when the speaker believes or intends the listener to believe that the subject of the proposed transaction depicts real children. 

Do your research. I am not comfortable with it either, drawings of it or lolicon or whatever, but its legal in the states as far as the law is currently concerned. That is why you can buy it in bookstores without being arrested outside the door.

I’m not screaming nor am I talking about attacking children for shipping?? It’s legit romanticized drawings of children being sexually abused?

*sigh* yes in those cases its one thing. But even then per law it is not pedophilia so it can’t be called that. CP is by law only when its a real child, depicts a real child or if it is indecipherable from a real child. Drawings are not covered by the law and if you read clearly are exempted from it. It can be uncomfortable I agree, but you know what I do when I see that stuff? Block. That’s it. Because its not illegal. Just like how guro isn’t my cup of tea, but its legal. Its fictional, its not real. That is what I’m trying to say.

Why are you reblogging posts defending simulated CP?

1. You did not read the posts clearly

2. It is only considered CP by United States law if it is depicting either a real existing minor or it is Indistinguishable from real life (aka cgi). Not 2d illustrations or people writing fanfiction about characters.

3. Its because I have seen people telling 14 year olds on this site to kill themselves for shipping teenagers together. I have seen people on this site accuse me of it because I reblogged a cannonical image of Ceil Phantomhive from Black Butler. I have seen fanfiction writers attacked for Highschool aus. Because people on this hell-site think taking the law (loosely by the way and not even accurate) into their hands and pointing fingers is a good idea. It isn’t. Slander isn’t a joke, and misusing serious terms like pedophilia and cp is not okay, it is more damaging than some 18 year old saying they like a 17 year old character from a cartoon. 

4. Unfollow me if you want to argue or scream nonesense. I’m not interested in toxic people.

(and I am not defending CP. Real CP is disgusting and a serious crime, real pedophilia is something that needs to be stopped. Some people on the internet saying they have crushes on an anime character in high school is neither of those. Stop it)

Please spread this around

benevolent-incubus:

benevolent-incubus:

dangankinsona:

 Lemonrazorblades (their tumblr they also go by

whats-up-persona which is the one with the content i was referring to)  joined my server today they posted their blog and my friend liked the url and decided to look into their blog. They found NSFW work of Futaba who is a minor and is only 15. We spoke to the user on discord and kindly told them why we were kicking them and they got angry. 

akiratakeyourheartkurusu ( their discord being ♔~Akira Kurusu~♔#1174 )had joined the server beforehand and was the significant other of lemonrazorblades. They were very angry that we kicked their girlfriend and told us off first stating that they personally didn’t know futaba was 14 and then moments later defending their girlfriend. 

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they left and moments later a discord by the name of 

Boysenberry Erai#1181 comes in and spams loads of futaba child porn into the server. It was extremely upsetting and childish of them to do. Sadly I didn’t catch the numbers of Lemonrazorblades discord but I do have this screenshot of a mod in my server confronting them. 

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Please if you could all spread this in order to keep others safe from these predators that would be greatly appreciated. They really upset me and the others in the server.   Forgive me for any typos or errors, I’m still very very shaken. They’re also now claiming us of harassing when the only message that was sent aside from my mods message to them was a message from me explaining why I banned the person. They are saying we’re accusing them of doing this shit, when they literally are doing this shit.  They probably didn’t think we’d come that them with all this stuff, so yeah…we did. 

note: also you can say our server said no nsfw and you didn’t post nsfw, but you posted a blog linking directly to nsfw of a child, refuse to tag nsfw on your blog, and pedophilia is not a allowed on the server and seeing to the fact that she’s 15 years old, that’s nsfw of a minor. Which is not allowed in or out of server and is illegal. 

-mod goro

Persona characters are not real people. They are not pedos. What makes
you able to judge an adult over their life choices? There is a HUGE
difference between anime/game characters and real people. We don’t go
out and fuck real kids you sick fuck. And for the record, yes. I’m 27.
My gf is 24. We cosplay as the characters and we are a couple. We RP
them at a college state. Anyone want to start shit, come at me cause I’m
not a pedophile but I don’t enjoy being called out as one. -Malkira
Alloces.

I’m 27. I am an adult. I have sex. I read hentai and
write it for amusement. But a pedo I am not. It’s called adult
entertainment. You go to conventions and see thousands of doujins for
sale. You don’t see the shop owners in trouble. It’s official merch. You
can buy pillows of Futaba, risque. SHE IS AN ANIME/GAME character. Not a
real life fucking being.

You’re fucking kids and have to get
off your high horse and stop thinking you can judge others based on
their preferences. But over all, you’re ignorant as fuck for attacking
someone and calling them a pedo for liking a GAME character. You’re not some white knight warrior, changing the world for the better.

“why is saying ‘i hate pedophilia’ a controversial opinion on this site?”

i’ll tell you, it’s because you fuckers literally call relationships between two adults with an age gap pedophilia

#stop abusing serious terms until they lose all meaning ffs

things I have seen called pedophilia on this hellsite with my own two eyes

– a relationship between two adults with the youngest being 25

– a high school senior dating a high school junior

– a college senior being sexually interested in a college freshman

– size difference fetish art featuring two adult characters

– consenting adults engaging in kink with other consenting adults

– writing about 2 teenagers of similar ages having sex

– shipping characters with vaguely defined ages who are treated as adults in canon

telling kids that asexuality exists

– sex education

like, I shouldn’t have to ask myself if the
person being accused of pedophilia is an actual child molester or if
they reblog shippy vo|tron fanart

Antis: Why do people hate us for not liking pedophilia :////

Also Antis: *call
out everything under the sun that isn’t pedophilia as pedophilia and
then wonder why the fuck nobody takes pedophilia claims seriously
anymore*

I wrote this post on September 4th, 2017. It only took a month. (From that point on.)

False
callout posts get hundreds if not thousands of notes (albeit at least
half of them confused or rejecting the accusations), while posts trying
to draw attention to individuals that might pose actual danger go ignored.

There’s
something demonstrably harmful to minors and adults alike, especially
to victims/survivors – it’s how much of a rhetorical nightmare shipping
discourse is, and how much it actually desensitizes people to the
subjects in question. You do not want people to become callous and
dismissive, but the individuals continuously fabricating accusations,
watering down definitions, making completely outrageous claims, and
concentrating their opportunistic activism on ‘problematic content’ do everything possible to erode the patience, understanding, sympathy and empathy of the people around them.

Please, please stop trying to sell your ship wars as literally anything else. You’re doing more damage than any piece of fiction possibly could. This is how you are affecting reality, and the effect your actions have is unquestionably bad.

You have to start taking these subjects seriously again. You absolutely
have to. When you’re not using certain terms correctly, you’re not
respecting their meaning, and you don’t take what they stand for
seriously enough, because in your mind the definition can be changed or
applied to different things.

Shipping that deals with entirely fictional characters is inconsequential and amoral in every possible instance. This applies to drawn and written works, as well. Fictional characters aren’t real people. Real people law doesn’t apply to them. You need to understand this.

Here’s an example:
Shipping entirely fictional characters -> creates no discomfort for the characters involved, because they are not real; the effect it has on you as a person is your responsibility

Creating/consuming explicit/mature content of entirely fictional characters -> creates no discomfort for the characters involved, because they are not real; the effect it has on you as a person is your responsibility

I’m talking about entirely fictional characters. This excludes the shipping
of real people – actual living and breathing human people. Not
historical figures. People that are alive today. A person. (We still
know what a person is, right?) The shipping of real people is a different subject entirely, and it should be approached differently. Still not a crime. Just different.

The bottom line is:
Stop treating fictional characters like real people.
Stop implying that shipping ‘matters’.
Stop involving serious subjects to give your anti-ship arguments more weight and meaning. It’s just a ship. Calm down.
Stop claiming that fiction has a direct, constant, measurable effect on reality. (It has an effect, but not like you think it does.)
Stop saying “This is abuse/incest/pedophilia/etc” when you really want to say “I don’t like it”.

hey
so I have to hear about actual cases of child sexual abuse pretty often
in my work and it tears at my heart and accusations of paedophilia over
depictions of fictional characters infuriate me, especially if people
take them so far that they waste law enforcement time and resources that
could have been spent investigating actual crimes in which a real live
human child was harmed.

False callout posts get hundreds if not thousands of notes (albeit at
least half of them confused or rejecting the accusations), while posts
trying to draw attention to individuals that might pose actual danger go ignored.

I’ve seen survivors writing and being told
they “write like pedophiles” and be retraumatized by antis a hell of a
lot more often than I’ve seen fictional ships actually hurt people.

Blacklist
exists. Block your triggers. Block your squicks. Save your pitchforks
for actual abusers and people who actually hurt children. There are
plenty of valid targets out there. Save your high horse for the places
you can actually do some good.

There are a ton of genres I don’t
read, lots of tags I just skip. It’s okay to curate your own media
consumption. You don’t have to finish everything you start.

I have literally walked away from fics that hit my squick spot two chapters in within the last 24 hours.

Please spread this around

benevolent-incubus:

benevolent-incubus:

dangankinsona:

 Lemonrazorblades (their tumblr they also go by

whats-up-persona which is the one with the content i was referring to)  joined my server today they posted their blog and my friend liked the url and decided to look into their blog. They found NSFW work of Futaba who is a minor and is only 15. We spoke to the user on discord and kindly told them why we were kicking them and they got angry. 

akiratakeyourheartkurusu ( their discord being ♔~Akira Kurusu~♔#1174 )had joined the server beforehand and was the significant other of lemonrazorblades. They were very angry that we kicked their girlfriend and told us off first stating that they personally didn’t know futaba was 14 and then moments later defending their girlfriend. 

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they left and moments later a discord by the name of 

Boysenberry Erai#1181 comes in and spams loads of futaba child porn into the server. It was extremely upsetting and childish of them to do. Sadly I didn’t catch the numbers of Lemonrazorblades discord but I do have this screenshot of a mod in my server confronting them. 

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Please if you could all spread this in order to keep others safe from these predators that would be greatly appreciated. They really upset me and the others in the server.   Forgive me for any typos or errors, I’m still very very shaken. They’re also now claiming us of harassing when the only message that was sent aside from my mods message to them was a message from me explaining why I banned the person. They are saying we’re accusing them of doing this shit, when they literally are doing this shit.  They probably didn’t think we’d come that them with all this stuff, so yeah…we did. 

note: also you can say our server said no nsfw and you didn’t post nsfw, but you posted a blog linking directly to nsfw of a child, refuse to tag nsfw on your blog, and pedophilia is not a allowed on the server and seeing to the fact that she’s 15 years old, that’s nsfw of a minor. Which is not allowed in or out of server and is illegal. 

-mod goro

Persona characters are not real people. They are not pedos. What makes
you able to judge an adult over their life choices? There is a HUGE
difference between anime/game characters and real people. We don’t go
out and fuck real kids you sick fuck. And for the record, yes. I’m 27.
My gf is 24. We cosplay as the characters and we are a couple. We RP
them at a college state. Anyone want to start shit, come at me cause I’m
not a pedophile but I don’t enjoy being called out as one. -Malkira
Alloces.

I’m 27. I am an adult. I have sex. I read hentai and
write it for amusement. But a pedo I am not. It’s called adult
entertainment. You go to conventions and see thousands of doujins for
sale. You don’t see the shop owners in trouble. It’s official merch. You
can buy pillows of Futaba, risque. SHE IS AN ANIME/GAME character. Not a
real life fucking being.

You’re fucking kids and have to get
off your high horse and stop thinking you can judge others based on
their preferences. But over all, you’re ignorant as fuck for attacking
someone and calling them a pedo for liking a GAME character. You’re not some white knight warrior, changing the world for the better.

You can stop saying that cartoon fan art and fanfiction is “illegal” now.

tenaflyviper:

And
before you cry about anyone “supporting pedophilia!!!”, the point here
is that what you’re complaining about (aka, shipping teenage cartoon
characters, which has been a thing for decades) IS NOT PEDOPHILIA.  Literally no one else has ever even considered it to be that before, and you’re abusing what that word means.

According to the 18 U.S. Code § 2256 (yes, the same code that antis have been using a screencap of, but omitting the last part of in order to conceal the truth):

“The
term “indistinguishable” used with respect to a depiction, means
virtually indistinguishable, in that the depiction is such that an
ordinary person viewing the depiction would conclude that the depiction
is of an actual minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. This definition does not apply to depictions that are drawings, cartoons, sculptures, or paintings depicting minors or adults.”

Also note the phrase “recognizable as an actual person” in 9ii.

(For
real though–I have to laugh if you’re gonna tell me cartoons and anime
characters look like real human beings.  Like, who the fuck has eyes the
size of fists and heads the size of pumpkins???  You guys are idiots…)

This is also further upheld by the Supreme Court ruling of Ashcroft vs Free Speech Coalition, and again in Ashcroft vs American Civil Liberties Union (the PROTECT Act has also had related portions–specifically 1466A, which antis love to parade around–judged as unconstitutional on a federal level, as was a result of United States v. Handley, in which the defendant was convicted due to a guilty plea bargain, and not
actually convicted on the initial charges of obscenity.  The plea
bargain was made under the belief that the jury chosen to judge him
would not acquit
him of the obscenity charges if they were shown the images in
question).  Handley’s case is the only one so far that dealt solely with drawings of characters that did not exist in real life (as
in, without further discovery of more serious content in the
defendant’s possession–or ties to illegal sites–which is what occurred
with other cases that antis tend to cite).

Also:

  • 13-17-year-olds (aka minors) only make up 15% of this site’s user base.  Meanwhile, the site has always allowed adult content.
    This means that staff is trusting you to browse appropriately, and to
    take responsibility for your browsing using the tools they have given to
    you (like blocking, and filtering search results).  They are allowing
    you to be here under the assumption that you are mature enough to handle
    it.  Your behavior is only showing staff that they might want to raise
    the minimum age limit (which is 17+ for mobile users, by the way).  
    When faced with the choice of either trying to monitor/control millions
    of people, or simply adding a new age limitation, a company will always choose the easier option.  Don’t ruin the site for all the teens that aren’t huge, easily-offended pissbabies.
  • No, fiction does not affect reality the way you want to believe.  The
    statistics for rape, child abuse, assault, murder, etc. have all
    experienced a dramatic decline over the past few decades, in spite of
    our media becoming more graphically violent, and pornography being more
    easily accessible.  Your logic just doesn’t hold up to the facts (by the
    way, this also applies to stories with mature themes like rape or
    murder, or stories with abusive or taboo relationships.  IT’S JUST
    FICTION, PEOPLE.   It’s a reflection of various aspects of our
    humanity, which includes the things we most fear.  Writing and reading
    about them is one way we can strip them of that fear and power they hold
    over us.  It doesn’t mean we stop recognizing those things as morally
    wrong–it’s just a way of reconciling their existence, and coping with
    it).
  • No, children wouldn’t find truckloads of porn in Google’s Safe Search.  In fact, for most fandoms, you’ll have a hard time finding adult content even with Safe Search OFF.  Google tailors its results to your browsing.  If you’re finding “problematic” content, all that proves is that you were searching for it in the first place.
  • The internet is not a babysitter.  Small
    children shouldn’t be on it unsupervised to begin with.  If you
    wouldn’t let them go to Columbia by themselves–the drug and murder
    capitol of the world–then they shouldn’t be online by themselves.  Public spaces are not “safe”.  It’s not the job of millions of strangers to constantly look out for other people’s children (nor are they obligated to look out for you, for that matter).  That’s the responsibility of their PARENTS.  PERIOD.
  • An abuser can groom a victim without ever using anything sexual whatsoever.  It’s about trust.  It can be something as simple as an interest in model airplanes–does that make those
    “problematic”?  As for those abusers, chances are that they’re not some
    random stranger on the internet, but someone known to the victim.  You
    may not want to hear this, but the greatest threat to children
    statistically?  It’s their own mothers.
  • Antis
    only came about within the past two years.  Before that, there was no
    real drama in fandoms beyond the occasional shipping war, which no one
    treated like anything but a shipping war.  You are the ones that made fandoms toxic. Fan art and fanfiction didn’t affect any of us the way you’re claiming before.  Hell–people have been sexualizing cartoons for literally as long as they’ve existed.  That’s almost 100 fucking years,
    and it hasn’t caused a goddamn thing.  You’re abusing and trivializing
    extremely serious issues in order to use as leverage to threaten and
    silence others, and you bloody well know it.  You choose the things that you’re aware that everyone hates:
    Pedophilia, abuse, etc.  You know that just mentioning these things
    causes an instant knee-jerk reaction–one that few people will bother to
    look into beyond the initial claim.
     You’re deliberately emotionally manipulating others.  Those are the tactics of abusers (and don’t even say “UM you’re calling survivors abusers!!”, because those who have been abused are the biggest demographic at risk for becoming abusers.  No, it doesn’t mean every abused child grows up to be an abuser, but the number of serial killers that were abused as children is hard to ignore).
  • Adult content of fictional characters could actually help prevent cases of child sexual abuse.  But then, we all know this was never about children for any
    anti, or you wouldn’t limit your concern to just the cartoons that
    you’re personally interested in.  Honestly, I would think you’d be more
    concerned about the fact that sites like Pornhub and Redtube require no
    age verification, account, password, or credit card to access.
  • Point blank: What you are doing is called “crying wolf”, and it has real consequences.
    For example: Anti-vaxxers.  All it took was one man claiming a link
    between vaccines and autism, and now diseases like polio are turning up
    again because of people who refuse to vaccinate their children.  If you make claims of pedophilia where it doesn’t actually exist, you are hurting legitimate claims of pedophilia.

So, anyway, if you could stop accusing teenage girls (yes, the majority of the people you’re harassing are young women–usually minors themselves) of being “pedophiles” over something that’s 100% legal (which
is shaming them during a period of their life where they’re using fan
art and fanfiction as a safe means of exploring their own sexuality, and
is honestly misogynistic as hell of you
), and that was going on long before you came along without any issue, that’d be super.

Oh,
and by the way–if you choose to falsely accuse another user of
pedophilia, that IS enough of a violation of the Terms of Service for
staff to delete your account.
I’d tell you to just ask
“bipolaramyrose”, but well…she no longer has an account for that very reason.

Umm. Detroit become a human I’d literally just nazism racism and slavery turned into a joke for a dumb video game.. I can’t follow you if you seriously like that game

I honestly don’t feel like they are trying to make a joke out of those themes. It seems more like other games made by them (like Hard Rain) where they are trying to take a serious subject and put into a modern or in this case futuristic scenario. From what I have seen from the game so far, it is indeed about repression and devaluing others, but you are meant to empathize with the androids and side with them. 

I do agree that its not the deepest game ever and that I’m sure they very well could have added better commentary on the idea of racism and dehumanization but I also think it should be remembered that with so many narratives and branching paths, they may have just lost time.

Is this game perfect? No. Is this game like the ultimate depiction of purity? No. But do I think this game is purposefully being racist or trying to support nazism. No, I really doubt it. Ive read up on it before I played and yes some people think it didn’t dive into the commentary of racism in our history (and our possible future) deep enough, while others think it is a subject that shouldn’t be touched. I personally think its something that is a theme that needs to be addressed now and in our future. 

As for my personal views, I think if we did have androids that a good portion of people would segregate them and treat them terribly. I fully believe that people would use them and abuse them. So I feel that a game depicting this isn’t so far fetched. 

In short: do I support racism and nazis? Fuck no, like assuming that is stupid. Do I think this game is some divine representation? No, I don’t. I find it to be a fun game that does try to bring up controversial things and yes it has some flaws and it didn’t do it the best it could, but I still find it entertaining to play with interesting characters. This game isn’t trying to make jokes about those things, honestly if you want jokes about those things to complain about there are several, several other games that are far more insulting. But, honestly this game I don’t think is some demon of a game, is it the deepest game? No it really its and it can be a bit corny at times, but honestly I like it. Simple.

Edit: and if you wish to unfollow me, I’m not stopping you. I don’t agree with you but I’m also not going to force anyone to follow me or agree with me. it’s a video game I bought after a long day that I enjoy and it has a controversial story, but i’m not going to apologize for it.

Anyone here play Detroit: Become Human?

themanicnami:

I’m poor but i had a bit of spare money after bills and enough for groceries still so I got a game after my 11 hour shift yesterday (ugh). I’m waiting for it to download and install. Anyone play it? No spoilers please, but have you liked it so far?

Update: I really like this game lol. I won’t spoil anything but Markus’s story took a weird turn imo but thats the only thing I have had any issues with so far. Bonus: I suck at keeping Connor alive, I guess I just play him too nice

theprincessofwitchcraft:

themanicnami:

Is tumblr completely freaking out for anyone else? Icons won’t load, images only sometimes load, if i expand the notes its nothing but chaos and text overlapping etc.

nahh, but the app always fucks up on me and won’t publish my posts unless i exit out the app after i make a port, or the next one wont even go through. 

I’m on desktop and its all screwed up