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It also doesn't matter if the DO fetishize dinosaurs or paleontologists or the tourism industry. What matters isn't people likes, dislikes, thoughts, feelings, attractions, or media consumption. What matters is whether actions do, or do not, cause direct harm to real actual people. No actual people are harmed*, even with content involving the mentioned minor/adult abuse ships (with few exceptions, like if it is actual real csam material where a real child was really abused to make it, which is almost never what these discussions refer to and is an entirely different story), unless people are forcing themselves to read it - in which case, again, it is the reader's responsibility to choose what they will or will not read, not the author or hoster's duty to make it safe for absolutely everyone. In other words, a person reading a fic consented***** by clicking through and reading the fic, and can revoke consent by stopping reading and leaving the webpage.

And if no one is harmed, there is no problem. Ship and let ship, m'dude; unless said shipping is literally directly contributing physically or financially to real actual sex trafficking of real actual non-consenting people Eg: filming a real actual rape (not a sex worker pretending to be raped), you're good.

*harm is infringing on people's freedom**, rights***, and safety****.

**freedom is the right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't infringe on peoples' rights

***it might be easier to think of rights as "right to the option of", as you can decide to waive your rights. Some rights are:

right to dignity and safety

right to legal equality, freedom from discrimination

right to bodily autonomy

right to freedom & choice

right to their own opinions & beliefs & religion & thoughts

right to express opinions & beliefs & religion & thoughts

right to movement & freedom from arbitrary detention

right to access & take part in science, arts & culture

right to marriage & starting a family

right to information & education

right to privacy

presumption of innocence, fair trial, and defense

****safety does not mean freedom from fear in general or from exposure to things that you do not like.

*****consent requires understanding of the situation and knowledge of potential consequences and can be revoked at any time, remember. That's the difference between sex work and kink as opposed to trafficking.

man "ship and let ship" kinda stops working when ppl are actively shipping minor and adult characters together like hello?? same with the "dont like dont read" mentality, some shit shouldn't be fetishised maybe??

You've got a lot going on in this ask, anon, and it's obviously not asked in good faith. If I were a smarter human being, I'd delete it and move on with my life, but it's 9am on a Saturday morning and I'm still on my first cup of coffee so I'm just dumb enough to take the bait and respond.

Ship and let ship doesn't mean you need to approve of what other people are shipping. It doesn't mean you need to like what other people are shipping. It means that what other people ship is their business and what I ship is my business.

If I don't like a ship, I don't read it. I don't search out the tag. I don't try to find creators for it. I don't watch youtube compilations or stare at gifs or read meta analysis about how the ship is supported by canon.

If I don't like a ship, I just... don't think about it. It really is that easy. And when I do think about it, I might be annoyed for a moment, but then I move on with my life because guess what? Shipping is a meaningless hobby that I engage in during my free time and I don't want to waste my free time feeling pissed off.

I've seen a lot of bizarre definitions of "minor/adult" shipping, but even if we use the definition of an adult sexually abusing a child, it's still very easy for me not to read that story on AO3. I'm assuming this is all about AO3? It always seems to be in this kind of ask.

AO3 requires people to use one of two warnings in those cases. Either Underage or Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings - or both. I use the filter system to remove works with those warnings from my search results and guess what? Those works might as well not exist for me because I've never seen one. And I've been on AO3 since about 2013.

The thing about these kinds of opinions is that they only ever come up in relation to shipping. I never see these opinions related to violence or drugs or swearing or whatever else you might find morally repugnant. But the handy thing about "don't like, don't read" is that it applies across the board.

I don't think I'm going to like the new Jurassic Park movie, so I'm not going to go to a movie theatre, spend $15, and sit in a dark room with strangers for two hours to watch it. I'm not going to read reviews of it. I'm not going to watch the trailer. If a friend of mine invites me to go see it, I'll pass. I won't stop my friend from going to see it, though. If they're going to enjoy it then they should - and they're not going to fetishize dinosaurs or paleontologists or the tourism industry when they do.

If you're not able to control your own reading habits, then you should probably be more careful on the internet. Use Net Nanny or other content filtering tools to make sure that you can avoid the content that you're unable to resist through willpower alone. But don't make your inability to stay away from things you don't like my problem. That's all on you.

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There's a cop just walking around the store, are they allowed to do that? I think they shouldn't be allowed indoors with people who could get hurt. It's fine if they want to be cops in private, but children shouldn't be exposed to their lifestyle choices.

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EA (the company behind The Sims, among other fun games) has made 23 accessibility-related patents open source, so that other games and gaming companies can use the technologies to improve access to their own games.

The patents include tech related to voice-activated character control, ping systems in action games, color blindness adjustments and a plugin for Unreal Engine 5 related to photo sensitivity.

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Fake claimers are a much bigger threat to disabled people than fakers ever will be.

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This really makes the Studios costing themselves even more money (and getting more unions involved) by prolonging the strike for the promise of free ai labor even more fucking funny. you dumb fucking bastards lol

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I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".

Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"

I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"

Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"

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Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

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You get to watch tv while dentist?? I am jelly, we only have a super painful bright light to stare into, and I always have to ask for sunglasses and a half dozen gauze pads to try in vain to block out the light from my poor photosensitive lights.

And then I overload-freeze-shutdown and can't take in whatever the heck they are telling me (usually rants on the importance of flossing/brushing, no matter how many times I tell them that I understand but brushing is like repeatedly punching myself in the face and I have a hard time remembering to do things and forming good habits in the first place, so getting into a brushing routine is just not happening at this point, I celebrate [and loathe] each time I manage to do it individually, but I imagine they were trying to tell me something important at least once.)

MY DENTAL WORK IS ALL DONE!! the dentist said i was one of her best patients i'm assuming because i just lie there chillin but in reality i was staring up at the ceiling tv judging every single second of low-budget animation and timing cues of Kung Fu Panda Dragon Knight

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Masterpost: Reasons I firmly believe we will beat climate change

Posts are in reverse chronological order (by post date, not article date), mostly taken from my "climate change tag," which I went through all the way back to the literal beginning of my blog. Will update periodically.

Especially big deal articles/posts are in bold.

Big picture:

Mature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions (x)

Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant (x)

Good news: Tiny urban green spaces can cool cities and save lives (x)

Conservation and economic development go hand in hand, more often than expected (x)

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world (x)

Sun Machines: Solar, an energy that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge (x)

Wealthy nations finally deliver promised climate aid, as calls for more equitable funding for poor countries grow (x)

For Earth Day 2024, experts are spreading optimism – not doom. Here's why. (x)

Opinion: I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore. (x)

The World’s Forests Are Doing Much Better Than We Think (x)

‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief (x)

Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View (x)

Young Forests Capture Carbon Quicker than Previously Thought (x)

Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here's how. (x)

Soil improvements could keep planet within 1.5C heating target, research shows (x)

The global treaty to save the ozone layer has also slowed Arctic ice melt (x)

The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past (x)

Scientists Find Methane is Actually Offsetting 30% of its Own Heating Effect on Planet (x)

Are debt-for-climate swaps finally taking off? (x)

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN (x)

How Could Positive ‘Tipping Points’ Accelerate Climate Action? (x)

Specific examples:

Environmental Campaigners Celebrate As Labour Ends Tory Ban On New Onshore Wind Projects (x)

Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa (x)

How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution (x)

Rewilding sites have seen 400% increase in jobs since 2008, research finds [Scotland] (x)

The American Climate Corps take flight, with most jobs based in the West (x)

Waste Heat Generated from Electronics to Warm Finnish City in Winter Thanks to Groundbreaking Thermal Energy Project (x)

Climate protection is now a human right — and lawsuits will follow [European Union] (x)

A new EU ecocide law ‘marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals’ (x)

Solar hits a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII [United States] (x)

These are the climate grannies. They’ll do whatever it takes to protect their grandchildren. [United States and Native American Nations] (x)

Century of Tree Planting Stalls the Warming Effects in the Eastern United States, Says Study (x)

Chart: Wind and solar are closing in on fossil fuels in the EU (x)

UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show (x)

Countries That Generate 100% Renewable Energy Electricity (x)

Indigenous advocacy leads to largest dam removal project in US history [United States and Native American Nations] (x)

India’s clean energy transition is rapidly underway, benefiting the entire world (x)

China is set to shatter its wind and solar target five years early, new report finds (x)

‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis (x)

Largest-ever data set collection shows how coral reefs can survive climate change (x)

The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What Does It DO? [United States] (x)

Good Climate News: Headline Roundup April 1st through April 15th, 2023 (x)

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon (x) [Brazil]

Loss of Climate-Crucial Mangrove Forests Has Slowed to Near-Negligable Amount Worldwide, Report Hails (x)

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala (x)

Climate adaptation:

Solar-powered generators pull clean drinking water 'from thin air,' aiding communities in need: 'It transforms lives' (x)

‘Sponge’ Cities Combat Urban Flooding by Letting Nature Do the Work [China] (x)

Indian Engineers Tackle Water Shortages with Star Wars Tech in Kerala (x)

A green roof or rooftop solar? You can combine them in a biosolar roof — boosting both biodiversity and power output (x)

Global death tolls from natural disasters have actually plummeted over the last century (x)

Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be (x)

This city turns sewage into drinking water in 24 hours. The concept is catching on [Namibia] (x)

Plants teach their offspring how to adapt to climate change, scientists find (x)

Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India (x)

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its been p common knowledge for decades that light pollution can be massively reduced by just putting shades on streetlamps, and that doing that would save energy, help wildlife, and let us see the stars better, but are society says if u wanna change any minor little tiny thing u gotta dedicate ur whole life to campaigning for it and this is a good ways down the list of priorities for most ppl, so instead i gotta walk past newly-installed streetlamps that are just dumb glass globes that use half their electricity to blast half their light directly into the sky where it does only bad things for no reason and think "we should overthrow the government"

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The Next Generation Delivery Vehicle that the USPS ordered is legit the most fucked up thing you'll ever see in your life.

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"you're good at art you should go to college you should start animation you should get a job in the industry you have so much potential" I SHOULD BE IN THE WOODS. EATING POISONOUS BERRIES

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My beef with the premise behind "The Purge" is that it's not laws stopping people from killing each other in the streets - it's kinda just the default human experience to not want to hurt anyone. We succeeded as a species because we're generally decent at getting along with each other. The average, well-adjusted human has no desire to inflict undeserved harm.

We do, however, hate rules, so we'd probably still get a little wild in less harmful ways.

No "none," you're a hardened criminal now. Please feel free to share more details of your heinous (victimless) acts in comments or tags 😎

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just for any aspiring whump writers (or normal writers, I guess): having just had a seizure for the first time (and hopefully the only time, since apparently random unexplained seizures can Just Happen without any underlying epilepsy or anything), no one warned me about how you look like you got in a fight at the end of it

like, I broke my glasses across my nose, hit my head on something (possibly the floor? unclear) and scraped it, scraped my finger on something so hard it bled, bit both sides of my tongue, and possibly either hit my orbital bones or I just got black eyes from leaking blood from my nose

ALSO it turns out petechiae look a lot like freckles even though they are actually teeny tiny bruises caused by lack of oxygen

from my perspective, the series of events was:

Totally normal, sitting in a chair, waiting to get called for my turn to talk by the judge (YES IT HAPPENED IN COURT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE).

Literally one blink.

In the space between me closing my eyes to blink and opening them, suddenly there were EMTs there, which means that I was actually unconscious for a couple of minutes, by my count, unless they were there already.

I assume there was other stuff in between but my own thought process was "wait, how did they just appear in front of me? that was really fast!"

anyway now I look like I got in a fist fight and I can't drive until I get checked out by a neurologist :/

(putting the pics behind a cut for people freaked out by injuries)