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ms pauling is a lesbian. proof? she is my wife. cant dispute the facts, folks

you heard it here!

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So.. because you ship something.. it makes you homophobic..?

yes

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the fourths mods nname is mod 3 and it bothers me so much, youre being aphobic by numbering things wrong

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pls add blubutch to the blocklist they called me an old fart and thats ageism

omg!! thats so shitty!!! doing it right away!! >:[ 

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Idea-time: Bi-Representive Pauling. Boom, now everyone is on even playing field, the bi community has the kickass representation the deserve, and the honestly pointless and eye-rolling discourse ceases to exist... of course, this will probably be too complicated for you to handle, so you do you, boo-boo.

this isnt really related to your ask because i’m not really sure what you want me to say to you at this point but something i find weird about the whole bi miss pauling argument is that in the context that she was confirmed gay, pinkerton utimately said that scoutpauling was something that would never happen. he said “nah, i’ve got a better idea. shes gay” when someone asked if scoutpauling was going to happen within the comics. the idea that she is attracted to men in any way is absolutely ridiculous because the whole context for her getting confirmed gay (gay. not bi) involved the debunking of her attraction to men. shes a lesbian. die mad about it 

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“never followed up on” Except for the fact that in the next comic* after the tweet by Jay Pinkerton, the literal writer, there’s a whole scene with heavy implication that Miss Pauling is attracted to Zhanna.  You have word of God and heavy implication in the comic, written by the same person who confirmed it on Twitter.  The implication of Miss Pauling being a lesbian also carries into the game itself, in a voiceline where she states that she misunderstood the “ladies night” at the cap point, the next thing heard being a man hitting on her. The direct implication being she thought there’d be other women there.  The only reason that Miss Pauling hasn’t outright come out is because it wouldn’t be good writing, which is Jay’s job. Writing. It’s literally right there. *(”the next comic” being #6, not #5, due to the fact that #5 was a couple months from release at the time making additions like the scene in #6 almost impossible)

You do know Miss Pauling isn't a canon lesbian? It was never confirmed. It was said once by a semi-credible source and never followed up on, confirmed, or acknowledged further. Do you have any other sources you can link?

>semi-credible source

>jay pinkerton 

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“never followed up on” Except for the fact that in the next comic* after the tweet by Jay Pinkerton, the literal writer, there’s a whole scene with heavy implication that Miss Pauling is attracted to Zhanna. You have word of God and heavy implication in the comic, written by the same person who confirmed it on Twitter.  Miss Pauling being implied to be a lesbian also carries on into the game itself, with her talking about misunderstanding what the “ladies night” at the cap point meant, the next thing you hear being a man hitting on her. The direct implication being that she thought there’d be other women there. It’s like, right there. *(”the next comic” meaning #6, not #5, due to the fact that #5 was a couple months away from release making any additions like the scene in #6 pretty impossible)

You do know Miss Pauling isn't a canon lesbian? It was never confirmed. It was said once by a semi-credible source and never followed up on, confirmed, or acknowledged further. Do you have any other sources you can link?

>semi-credible source

>jay pinkerton 

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You do know Miss Pauling isn't a canon lesbian? It was never confirmed. It was said once by a semi-credible source and never followed up on, confirmed, or acknowledged further. Do you have any other sources you can link?

>semi-credible source

>jay pinkerton 

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one more thought before i log out for the week: an explanation on the point of the list, and the history of the list, because some of you really dont know how to read or know the origins of this resource

the blocklist was originally made by one of my friends because they wanted to help people who were negatively affected by certain kinds of media (lesbophobia, rape content, literal nazi art in 2018) be able to not see that kind of stuff by making a list of people who pump it out. as a personal example, i don’t really like seeing content of nazi medic at all, so i would not support the content of people who have done this in the past (nothing like years and years ago, though. there’s a two-year expiration date on any content thats list-worthy). they posted it onto their blog because all of their followers are like-minded people who appreciated the list and utilized it, myself and all of the mods being among those people. 

however, when a really popular rape-art producer found the list, he reposted it onto his blog, essentially mocking it for all of his followers to see. this triggered a mass influx of people sending hate to my friend, and sending them upsetting messages telling them to kill themself. it got so bad that they were really anxious about logging into tumblr for a few weeks. in order to relieve them of their anxiousness, me and my co-mod dell offered to take the list and maintain it so that it could remain a helpful resource for anyone who needs it.

they agreed to give up the list, and this is when i became in possession of it. me and mod dell created this blog (democourse) as a way for us to post the list, receive criticisms, requests, and post explanations about things. we began renovating the list, and adding more people. naturally, the focus was shifted onto us. the biggest spike in attention towards this blog was when we made the post explaining how medic could potentially be brown, and everyone literally lost it. despite the fact that no one was put on the blocklist for whitewashing medic, or any other character other than demoman. 

it became increasingly clear that the people who were sending hate to my friend and democourse really didn’t understand how much they were overreacting. if i was put on a blocklist for sjws or whatever, i literally wouldn’t give a shit. it doesn’t matter. the deplorables get mad when we put them on a list that doesn’t harm them at all. they SAY that the anti-deplorables “bully” them, but the most it gets is us telling them to pee their pants or something stupid like that. it says on the list not to uneducationally bully people or harass them. after all, we aren’t them, and we never will be. that being said, we do have a tendency to be immature in some of our responses, and that is because we have repeated ourselves on very obvious opinions dozens of times.

we will continue to receive criticisms, accept requests, and explain, but i realized that some people potentially found the blocklist through us and not my friend, hiding a good portion of the story from them. 

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ok im assuming you’re talking about this, correct me if i’m wrong

first off, i believe that the entire existence of the blu team was so that you have someone to fight against in the game, but theres canon evidence in the comics that does prove the presence of the two teams. it makes me think of certain 1v1 fighting games where you get the same person in a different colored outfit to fight against when you both chose the same character. i’m pretty sure what he’s saying here is that there really isn’t a concrete reason for opposing blu members to exist in a comic setting, because they don’t have anything to do with the lore, and is just making a separation between non-game fiction and the game. 

he’s talking about canon media. sfms aren’t canon, unless theyre expiration date. theres obviously models for the blus because they’re characters within the game, and nothing more than that. stuff like end of the line are fan created, so they don’t count. the only canon media where we see blus other than the blu engineer in the comics (who looks really different from the red engie) is the meet the shorts. these were made as ads for the game, which is why the blus Exist there. 

you’re trying to undermine the canon information that miss pauling is a lesbian with a piece of information that literally isn’t true

You do know Miss Pauling isn't a canon lesbian? It was never confirmed. It was said once by a semi-credible source and never followed up on, confirmed, or acknowledged further. Do you have any other sources you can link?

>semi-credible source

>jay pinkerton 

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Tbh some of your responses may not be the most mature, but honestly it was theewrites and their friend that made me realize that if 90% of my inbox was people who didn't know how to leave damn well alone when someone's just warning others about their content I wouldn't want to bother with an ACTUAL response, either. Maybe if they were actually RESPECTFUL, maybe, but.... yeah.

yeah, i completely agree with you! we answer in immature ways to certain types of ask because we get them a lot from the same few people, so there really is no point to repeat myself (especially when theyre being rude, like u said) thank you for understanding :-) !!

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Idea-time: Bi-Representive Pauling. Boom, now everyone is on even playing field, the bi community has the kickass representation the deserve, and the honestly pointless and eye-rolling discourse ceases to exist... of course, this will probably be too complicated for you to handle, so you do you, boo-boo.

this isnt really related to your ask because i’m not really sure what you want me to say to you at this point but something i find weird about the whole bi miss pauling argument is that in the context that she was confirmed gay, pinkerton utimately said that scoutpauling was something that would never happen. he said “nah, i’ve got a better idea. shes gay” when someone asked if scoutpauling was going to happen within the comics. the idea that she is attracted to men in any way is absolutely ridiculous because the whole context for her getting confirmed gay (gay. not bi) involved the debunking of her attraction to men. shes a lesbian. die mad about it 

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You... you do realize that Theewrites herself is on LGBT+ spectrum...?

you... can be lgbt and be lgbtphobic. like if i called some gay dude a faggot without his consent, that would be an act of homophobia even if i am a gay man myself. lesbians face a shocking amount of lesbophobia within the lgbt community, so this isn’t some new thing that we’re inventing either. 

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- Please prove that Theewrites is lesbophobic.

men/pauling, pauling is a lesbian

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More people would take you seriously of you stopped using gifs and ridiculously short responses to all your asks. I actually think you make a lot of good points here, but you arent diaplaying them or responding to anyone in a way I and others can take too seriously. Please take this as constructive criticism, just try to be more mature and through in replies and posts, please

i agree that sometimes we do get good asks, and i feel like my responses could be richer and better articulated in some cases, but i do have a very low attention span and have issues with making things elongated. however, sometimes it feels like i’m repeating myself, which is why i tag certain things as #explanations. we DO actually try to plan out more concise posts, but we’re all students with fairly busy lives and it’s hard to get us all focused in one place at the same time. if one of my responses didn’t give you what you wanted, you can send another ask or just dm us, we’ll respond whenever we see it. thanks for the constructive criticism and thankz for being respectful! 

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I don't judge people on the grounds that they're LGBT, so why should they be able to judge me on the grounds that I'm straight? And don't give me that "straight privilege" BS. Even if that were a thing, I can't control my sexuality, therefore I wouldn't be able to control the fact that I was "privileged." Why should I be hated for something that I can't control? That's just as stupid as hating LGBT people for their sexuality: something they can't control too.

>centuries of oppressing lgbt people

>dont give me that straight privilage bs