all articles about tumblr’s “decline” boil down to 2 things: you can’t get famous on here and you can’t make money on here. And they don’t get that that’s why we like it here.
Doesn’t a ship being illegal make it more enticing?
Doesn’t a ship being ‘immoral’ make the yearning sweeter?
Isn’t a ship where the characters think they have to hide their love more romantic?
Don’t the problematic elements of a ship make it so much more satisfying when the characters finally manage to surpass the barriers between them and connect?
The heart always wants what you say it can’t have. And the heart will not be denied.
I’m sure a similar list has already been compiled but I’m procrastinating and want to waste my time listing off the various observations where I’ve seen fanpol pull a religious conservatoid move.
They both ignore scientific and psychological evidence. With conservatoids it’s the APA, medical community, science in general…With fanpol it’s the APA, the medical community, and science in general. They often come armed with biased sources and consider scientific papers as “Woke” science / whatever the fanpol equivalent is.
If you sin in your thoughts you sin in real life. If you read something taboo that means you want to or you’re going to commit a felony.
“This media will invite demons into your life!” / “This media will make you want to commit [insert crime here]!”
It’s fine to expose kids to ultraviolence but god forbid you show them anything remotely sexual (am I the only one who remembers the wide berth of dark and/or sexual jokes in kids programming…? It was a game to see what creators to get through the censors).
It’s fine to ENJOY ultraviolence but as soon as it becomes remotely sexual to you or turns you on that must mean you want to commit violent sexual assault.
‘Deviant’ sex / kinky-in-the-wrong-way sex is bad terrible wrong and people who have ‘deviant’ or kinky-in-th-wrong-way sex is also bad terrible wrong. (In some cases, all kink is wrong.)
Alternatively, it’s fine to sexualize violence / partake in kinky sex, but YOU and YOUR GROUP are the sole persons who are capable of doing it without making it ‘weird’ or ‘creepy’ …somehow.
They love to call people who are not those things pedos and/or groomers as a way to try shutting them down. They either do not realize or embrace how this is a literal 1940s-era Nazi tactic against Queerfolk / ‘degeneracy’.
General Authoritarian behavior.
Projection. They smear the outgroup as harboring groomers/pedos. Meanwhile, they protect or ignore (or put on a pedestal) the actual predators within their own groups. They ignore how their structures foster such dynamics. “I’m a safe adult, look how I attack taboo fiction, you can trust me. :)” “I’m a priest, I talk to Our Holy Father, you can trust me. :)” (Granted, “fandom moms” – specifically those who call them such to obfuscate their true nature as predators – aren’t just a fanti thing. I’m aware.)
I swear I had more but I’m getting tired of typing. Bye
