ive had reblogs deleted and not deleted from terminated accounts, so maybe it depends on *how* the account was deleted in the first place? as in, whether it was mass-reported, taken down by mods, or self-deactivated? i dont know, just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What’s wrong with the word proship? nobody outside the community knows what it means, and fancops are weaponizing that ignorance to poison people against the concept by telling them it means “problematic shipping” or outright saying it means “pedo ships.”.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow. Tumblr really did just say “fuck every anime/cartoon fandom in particular”. Are we gonna start having to literally post links to Wikipedia showing how old a character is?? I don’t even think I could post about the anime Mouse,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry for sending so many asks in a row ashbkav bkav m Question: Is sfw shipping of two m*nor characters illegal now on Tumblr as well? How are staff members going to be able to keep up with this if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From that post you made recently: “What if you’re an underage person self shipping with an adult character?” That isn’t proship, that is comship. (lighthearted) You;re support for people who are comshippers makes you proship, however. –Satou 😹😹😹😹 context link[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
i honestly hope this pro-censorship wave is just a really shitty era of tumblr and one day we can go back to before – advertisers and antis are fucking this place up 😭 *looks at the social and political climate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Can tumblr go back to “go nuts show nuts” please? It will never happen again. At that time, tumblr was created and run by a single identifiable person, who had personal ideals and goals for the site. now the site[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This whole issue is insane!!! Watching people get purged left and right. Disgusting. I’m actually scared to lose my friends on here and :c I’m on aethy and a lot of my friends are there too luckily but it’s just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is a rumor spreading that a well known user called “Tox” is the one in charge of running Aethy, which may be uncomfortable to some people. I have investigated this, and while it appears that Tox does use Aethy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t want to be that guy but I checked aethy out and immediately found one of the (former?) founders of Fanexus, a social media website that was supposed to be anti censorship with similar rules like AO3 but then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thinking of making a backup or two. It’s not like I post proship related things on my main (art acc) but I do like/ Follow profic blogs so just to be safe ig, idk. Also tumblrs banning system sucks so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What if you’re an underage person self shipping with an adult character? Hmm? That sounds both proship AND against the current tumblr TOS…. blackheartxbiohazards
💫 Create and share whatever fiction and art that you want to. 💫 Even if you think no one else is interested. 💫 Even if you think it’s unmarketable. 💫 Even if you think people will call it self-indulgent. 💫[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Potentially unpopular interpretation of the ban: Antis are going to assume Tumblr is doing this specifically for them when really it’s most likely just doing this for advertisers. Oh probably. They’ll change their tune when their own blogs start getting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reminder for those just joining us: the new development on tumblr is that it turns out they are strictly enforcing a ban on any depictions or discussions of underage people in sexual situations: including all fanart, fanfiction, and discussion of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another thing that worries me about this ban: We all know that for antis, 30 year old disabled people are the exact same as children, because “they have the mind of a child”. So if it goes as bad as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet well, this article is nothing if not timely. Although it seems to be unaware of the most recent development. Note: this article is by Aja,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
⭐ There’s nothing wrong with writing fiction with dark and awful themes and elements. ⭐ There’s nothing wrong with enjoying fiction with dark and awful themes and elements. ⭐ There’s nothing wrong with enjoying writing fiction with dark and awful[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
URGENT: Congress about to pass a mass censorship and surveillance bill under the guise of “protecting children” May 13 2023 The Senate has been in a “do something!” mode regarding children’s online safety. They’re using this as an excuse to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We went ahead and updated the Fanlore page on tumblr and the fanlore page on the Timeline of Major Fandom Purges to reflect tumblr’s ban on underage fiction. If anyone wants to add more detail please feel free, otherwise we’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How to prepare for, and recover from, getting your account terminated Here are some ways you can be prepared to recover from a termination with a new account. NUMBER ONE TIP: Create a task to auto-backup every post you make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What if we all just had fun and were nice to each other, and kindly and politely avoided people we didn’t want to interact with? No? That’s too much to ask, huh? :/ Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Good! 💖 Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
So what I’m hearing is they’ve decided to finally burn furaffinity to the ground and it’s time to save our art off there before the servers shut down… Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
People need to understand that you can not tell someone’s age just by looking at them. There are no “adult traits” and no “child traits” that are hard and fast rules. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
wow… Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Absolutely. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I’m so glad the tattoos helped a little, at least! it is so rude of people to assume these things… Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
⭐ censorship is not when someone says “hey this piece of media sucks.” ⭐ censorship is not when someone says “hey this piece of media sucks so I suggest you avoid it.” ⭐ censorship is when someone says “hey this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Something is only “censorship” when someone (a government, a library, a media platform, etc) refuses to allow people access to the piece of media in question. 👉 A person, or a collection of people choosing to avoid a piece of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vague-humanoid: ALT View on Twitter Sex Ed Books Don’t “Groom” Kids and Teens. They Protect Them. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
So many people have these experiences, it is hard to believe that people still claim that you can tell how old someone is by looking at them. 😭 Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
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vaspider: sugarkat: pillowfort-social: Pillowfort allows users to have control over how others interact with their content. For each post you make you get to decide who can view and engage with it, if and how the post can be shared,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
allthingswhumpyandangsty: how people from outside of the whump community see whump community: eww why are they so weird? what to you mean they like PAIN AND TORTURE?! WHY AREN’T THOSE FREAKS IN JAIL YET? LOCK THESE WALKING RED FLAGS UP[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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We got pulled into the guidance councilor and asked if we were suicidal because we made a comic about a character dying and becoming a vampire. V_V Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
The people who are like this and dismiss cyberbullying and harassing people over fic and art as “just fandom ship” drive me nuts. How can you look at our society right now and say that with a straight face? Source:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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letsmakeitwrite: iwhumpyou: coffee-queen448: necklace-of-sin: the-final-sif: I try to stay away from a lot of fandom discourse, but since I’ve been seeing this on my dash again and in tags, I feel the need to make a statement on this, particularly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Citation needed. You are just making shit up. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
1000% correct. And nobody who doesn’t like it has to post there. Move to Inkbunny or pixiv. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
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Thanks for sharing your feelings and thoughts, anon. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who feel the same as us right now about furaffinity’s policy change on this. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
speaking as someone who had a body that was perceived as “adult” while we were very much still children, and experienced sexual assault because of it– Yeah. All of this. context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I’m sure there are already lots of people telling the furaffinity staff how body shaming this is to petite people irl, and how ableist it is against people with nonstandard body development. if you care about how furaffinity runs their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They don’t care about consistency they just want you, personally, to not be allowed to do things they don’t like. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
proficmushroom: You don’t need a reason to make art. This doesn’t even solely apply to dark art. Go write that found family Alvin and the Chipmunks self insert fanfiction if that’s what really makes you happy. If you create as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right? if you place the blame for assault on someone for being desirable, rather than placing the blame on the person who committed assault, what the hell are you doing?? context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
catgirl-catboy: Illegal ship? By which set of laws? Yours? If its in a foreign media, you risk being xenophobic! The laws where the ship was made? Some places have horrible laws that would make any queer ship illegal! The laws[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yep! It’s the “she wouldn’t have been sexually assaulted if she didn’t look so desirable” argument in disguise. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
That’s so sad to see. :C Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Let’s talk about fancops ‘protecting fictional children’, with the regard to the belief that they should never be aged up and never be shipped with anyone. Let’s talk about Kotoko Utsugi. In the canon media where she appears, Kotoko Utsugi[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
even-more-pro-fiction-jellicle: “We need to make R-rated movies more palatable and moral because kids might sneakily watch them” Do people even hear themselves??? Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Imagine if we made the same assumptions about people that fancops make about people who enjoy underage and shipcest stories about people who enjoyed other types of fiction. 👉 “you like slasher films? you’re either a killer just waiting for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That is really sad. :c It’s awful that people are made to feel like they have to to prostrate themselves before the crowd for the crime of writing weird fic. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
“What kind of world do you imagine?” “One where you can like whatever you want to like, as much as you want to like it.” Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
It seems a lot of us didn’t get that memo! 🤣🤣🤣 context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
This is what fancops don’t understand. For some reason they assume writing about crashing the car will make you want to crash the car, instead of the other way around. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
obianakin: if you are anti-ao3, you are pro-censorship if you believe archive of our own needs to be shut down, you support active censorship ao3 was created during a time when corporations were trying to actively capitalize on fan content.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proship-kiibo: …that it’s always OK to write, draw whatever you want. You’re not a bad person for liking any sort of problematic things in fiction. After all, it is just that: fiction. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
ghostly-pup-pro-at-shipping: Some pins/buttons found on a queer canadian archive website. I thought these ones in particular were especially topical. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
It’s always okay to say hi! Thanks for sharing your story your mom sounds like a cool person. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
These are shameful. Thank you for sharing. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Oh yeah this post made the rounds when it was initially posted. (please don’t go harass this person, or interact with them about this. just don’t. It’s pointless.) Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
🗨️ What justifies the existence of creative works of art or fiction? 🗨️ Can creative works be separated categorically into “legitimate artwork” vs “obscenity/pornography”? 🗨️ Do obscene and pornographic creative works have a right to exist? 🗨️ How does one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Writing prompt: What do you think was the commenter’s original perception of this post? How did that perception change with the added context of ‘proship’? Consider this user’s thought process and what preconceptions you think might have caused them to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Antis: “nobody’s fetishizing violence!” Antis: “nobody thinks that murder is good!” excuse me, I am literally restraining myself from committing murder and being horny about it every every minute of every day. And I’m not alone. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
sometimes I wonder if the real reason that antis are so serious about “fiction will make you think its okay”– –is because their morals are wet cardboard and one sexy shipcest fanfic WILL make them want to have an incestuous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I assume you believe people who write horror novels are promoting violence, torture and murder? Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Yeah actually I do think these relationships are fine in fiction. It’s strange when people try to police fiction. It’s like you think only bad people write or read about bad things happening. Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
When in doubt, make it spicier! <3 Sounds like a very interesting fic, anon! Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
olderthannetfic: I mean, anyone is welcome to their own opinion and all, but AO3 was built to house porn. Sure, that’s not literally in the early posts about it, but if you look at the community that built it, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
firebuggg: “parents have a right to try to control what their children read” [kill bill sirens blare and blood starts seeping from the walls] wrong answer try again!! Source: xxharryosbornxx
I’m so glad! yeah all of our sideblogs have two or three admin accounts that we control <3 context link Source: xxharryosbornxx
🖤 You can put all your dark impulses in your fiction, it’s a safe place for them. 🖤 You can put all your hurt feelings in your fiction, it’s a safe place for them. 🖤 You can put all your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👏 Yes, “fiction affects reality.” 👏 But you are responsible for your own actions. 👏 Shifting blame for your actions from yourself onto a third party (fiction) is an abuser tactic to deny responsibility for causing harm. 👉 Thoughts and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mass-reporting to trigger auto-termination is a sadly common tactic among abusers and cyberbullies online in order to harm people who are posting things they disagree with. Here are some ways you can be prepared to recover from a wrongful termination[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If your problem with people banning books is that they are banning the wrong books, you are just a different flavor of authoritarian. Source: xxharryosbornxx
visceralcoma: carrion-cur: blackheart-biohazards: ⚠️ When you blame fiction for murder, you are excusing murderers of their actions ⚠️ When you blame fiction for rape, you are excusing rapists of their actions. ⚠️ When you blame fiction for grooming, you are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
@things-antis-say Rest in peace 📯📯📯 (I’m playing taps for your account) We’re so sorry to hear that your account got nuked, partly because that means we’ve all lost access to the excellent library of antishipper harassment and hypocrisy that you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The two most important fandom skills are: 📌 Ignoring things you don’t like 😔 📌 having fun!!! 🥰
Because their belief that their moral view is completely objectively correct means that they make absurd leaps of logic. Here’s how an anti thinks. 1. “Nasty icky art is bad.” 2. Therapists would not tell someone to do something that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I may write weird and gross fictional ships but at least I don’t bully and threaten strangers! 🥰 Sending love to everyone who has been bullied or threatened over the content of their writing or ships.
Oh gosh anon!! That’s not how you spell kiss!! Kissie kissie kissie I love you too tho!!! 💖💞💕🥰
Yup! Hentai was everywhere for a while with no warnings. And this is why the ability to tag stuff for content is so important!
thebibliosphere: I had therapy this week. I’m convinced I don’t pay my therapist enough because of all the weird online shit she has to learn about to help me unpack, but anyway. In therapy this week, we talked about the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unfortunately, parents who mistakenly believe that thoughts and fiction equate to real world harm do exist, and they can hurt us. I’m sorry you have such unsupportive parents, anon. We can relate.
It really can be the case. Because if you tag, then when fancops decide they want to harass somebody for the contents of that tag, they know right where to find you. But if you don’t tag, no one can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t think that makes you a hypocrite, anon. People, all people, are allowed to have ships they don’t like. You’re allowed to complain about it an insult it in private. As long as you’re not being outwardly hostile to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem again and again comes back to fancops not understanding, and not wanting to understand, that people have experiences that are different from their own. They want everyone to be “normal”, as in “like them.”
context link Yep. That is exactly why people hide that they’re proship. To protect themselves from unjust harassment and threats. Too bad this fancop doesn’t get that.
It’s absolutely the difference, anon. If proshippers were harassing antis on the scale that antis harass proshippers, they would never shut up about it. There would be daily callout posts. Bad actors exist in every group. There are proshippers who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think that people should read things that challenge them. I think they should read things that are contrary to their views. I think that they should read things that make them uncomfortable. I think they should read things that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because they mistakenly equate possessing a harmless aesthetic with being someone who does not cause harm.
People like to boil things down to their ‘simplest’ definition. The simplest definition also is the one that lacks nuance. Paraphilias are thoughts and feelings. If we believe that thoughts and feelings do not equate to harm, then we must[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fancops like to have it both ways. On the one hand they consider their bullying and abuse to have no affect on people because its “just online” and its “words on a screen”. But at the same time they insist[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤝 thoughts do not equate to harm. 🤝 fiction does not equate to harm. 🤝 art does not equate to harm. 🤝 only harmful actions equate to harm. Thinking about something, enjoying thoughts about something, enjoying or creating fiction ot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…