the idea of public restrooms as “women’s spaces” continues to confound me. you know who I hope is in a public bathroom when I go in?? no one. I would prefer no one else be in the bathroom. and if someone else is in the bathroom I am going to ignore them as much as possible. I did not go into the bathroom to connect with other women. I went into the bathroom to piss and/or shit. it’s a toilet’s space, not a women’s space. shut the fuck up and let trans people piss and shit in peace. let’s all continue to avoid eye contact with each other and any and all interaction in the toilet’s space.
“I don’t want to read this because it is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don’t promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).
This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
“Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of”
and
“some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction”
are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don’t have the power to enact them.
If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.
Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.
If we accept that “something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it” then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.
This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.
I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said “well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad.”
And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.
The fact that I’ve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time there’s new idiots who do not get that you can’t have *some* censorship.
Either you’re for it or you aren’t.
The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.
Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?
When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. That’s how it works.
Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?
When you ban “pedo” topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.
Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.
Even if “everyone” agrees something is “gross” and “shouldn’t exist,” that does not fucking matter.
Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldn’t exist??
The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.
The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.
This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.
Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I don’t know what to say to you.
Where do you draw the line at what is disgusting and what isn’t?
Because let me tell you, that moral line is different for everybody
Yep.
Every person who wants to use “it’s disgusting” as an excuse for censorship uses their own personal disgust as a metric, and believes its universally correct.
you’re required to participate in this poll btw. i need data
tumblr what is wrong with you first the walrus vs fairy thing and now this? are you saying it’s less fucked up to find out you’re not a biological organism than find out you’re a human created from one parent-twin who is genetically identical to you?
Clone: horror at the lie of your body (for what purpose? how many are there? are they like you?)
vs.
Robot: horror at the lie of your mind and your humanity itself (have you ever actually had a thought of your own, or is everything you are/you think/you understand just created by another person’s brain? whose mind/brain are you?? whose thoughts are in your head?? What does it mean to “think” when you’re only a manmade echo of humanity constructed from Boolean logic loops? Do you even have a soul?)
There’s a CLEAR ANSWER HERE.
clone: you are the theft of another being, inextricably tied by the blood running through your veins they may not have even given to you. you aren’t you, you’re them, you were made to be them, you’re not different, there shpuld not be a you, you are them,
robot: ok well im a robot so show me my blueprints so i can install a sword in my arm to beat up ppl that i dont like. what the fuck ever. can i run doom
the thing about this one is it really depends on what your own personal definition of “fucked up” is. e.g. the posts above seem to be more taking it in a philosophical / ethical sense, but my thought process was:
Clone: I know cloning technology exists and theoretically it can work for humans. I have had no experiences in my life fundamentally inconsistent with being a clone. Not fucked up.
Robot: What?? I’ve had medical exams, X-rays, surgery… Either every doctor I’ve ever seen in my life has been lying to me (I doubt this could be pulled off, but even if it could, why??? who organized this??? I’ve had medical exams on completely different continents - is this a global conspiracy???) or the robot technology is indistinguishable at a biological level from real humans (I can’t believe this is possible). To the best of my knowledge the technology that would be required to make a robot act and speak in a way utterly indistinguishable from a human doesn’t exist. This is only possible if my experiences and understanding of the world are so fundamentally far from reality that I can’t trust anything or anyone and there is some sort of giant worldwide plot to hide this knowledge from me. Extremely fucked up.
Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost
Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!
It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.
I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?
How many relationships? How much writing?
You may think this won’t happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.
Back up your files! Download anything you’ve saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!
Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.
Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.
