BlackHeart Biohazards

blackheart-biohazards:

On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, LJers – users of the then-popular blogging site Livejournal – woke up to find that their Friends lists were showing a large number of names that had been crossed out, or strikethrough ‘ed.

It turned out that LiveJournal had permanently suspended over 500 journals based on the users’ interest lists. Interests that were likely to get a journal banned included but were not limited to: child pornography, incest, pedophilia, rape, domestic violence, BDSM, prostitution. Journals that listed things like murder, crime, drugs, cocaine, theft, tax evasion or election fraud among their creators’ interests were not banned: interests related to sexual crime were the targets.

Among the deleted ljs were RPG journals, book discussion groups [1], rape survivor blogs[2], and fannish groups, including the large and popular Harry Potter fanfiction community Pornish Pixies, which was an age-restricted community for adult HP fanfiction.

Please read about strikethrough and boldthrough if you are not already familiar with them.

These mass-censorship events destroyed whole fanfiction and rp communities, and were the major motivating events behind the creation of Archive of Our Own and Dreamwidth.

veliseraptor:

this morning I am thinking about this little gem

and specifically about the feeling I’ve been turning over in my head for…a while, I think, about the way that there’s this ambient assumption on Tumblr (and quite possibly elsewhere, this is just where I am) of…sub/masochist-as-normal-state, or at least sub/masochist-as-fine-but-not-questionable state, and it feels like that, on the flip side, ends up incidentally or purposefully constructing doms/sadists as the deviants, as inherently “sus.”

and it lines up to a certain extent with the way that the conversations I see on this website about kink/BDSM often come from a sort of “presumed sub” perspective that leaves very little room for the thoughts and feelings of doms as valuable or important, and thoughts about an essay I read a while back that talked about the comparable societal acceptability of “fantasizing about being hurt” vs. “fantasizing about hurting people,” and how “sadist” is a dirty word in a particular way that “masochist” isn’t

it feels like sometimes there’s this sense that (a) it’s normal to have a little bit of sub/masochist tendencies, that’s fine but (b) the only acceptable way to be a dom/sadist is if you feel bad about it. the ideal is to feel vaguely guilty, and mostly do it for the sake of somebody else’s pleasure rather than your own.

I made a post a while ago that I can’t find right now but it was, if I recall, “nails sign to tumblr door that says "doms have feelings too”“ and I was joking but also I’m not.

Hey friend.

My advice is what it would be in any situation where something is causing you turmoil and anxiety.

Take a break. Take a break from self shipping and do something else to relax.

You don’t have to decide if you are going to quit or not what you’re all twisted up and feeling bad.

Take a break, put your attention on something else. Rest, and recharge your emotional batteries. Then you can come back and look at the situation with fresh eyes.

Sending you fond thoughts.