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playing pesterquest for the first time and nobody told me that Kanaya has an incel terf route where she brags about participating in unpersoning her canonically transgender girlfriend ? what the fuck ?

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Why is the fandom consensus that (Vriska) is what Vriska should be! Do you think Hussie didn't know she was writing grooming? Do you think it's coincidental that (Vriska) became passive and unconfident after being isolated from everyone but Meenah and groomed? Maybe this is Homestuck^2's fault a little bit for validating it and also for forgetting that Meenah is a pedophile but still come on

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112: Terezi remember is my favorite flash :')

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this is extremely ungenerous of me but it is like insanely annoying when venting on here about parental relationships re: being trans and a bunch of people in the tags are like yeah it’s so sad parents are awful to their trans kids even though I have a great supporting loving relationship with my parents! they love and accept me sooooo much I’m honestly so lucky and blessed to have them in my life. like idk maybe there should be some extra sensitivity to talking about how much your parents love and support you in a community of people who famously have extremely high rates of parental rejection and abuse

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happy birthday june egbert here’s literally a whole other character 😹

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Crow Strider AU is kind of shit

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browsing a blog meant for "afab perisex trans women" and when you realize these people consider themselves transfem because they get euphoria out of being masculine...but feel like their masculinity is discouraged and they're seen as predatory...well....you learn a lot about the way these people think of trans women. i never want to see the term "good faith identities" again

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Orwell was not 'anti-totalitarian' whatever that even means. He reported communists to the British state at the height of the cold war. He was a petty bourgeois opportunist

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Really funny to me how much criticism of Homestuck is just people making up fanfic in their head and then getting mad the real comic doesn't conform to that or people getting mad that Hussie didn't torture an abused teenage girl for 10,000 years as a sort of moral parable

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"you think people should be allowed to PIRATE my BOOKS" Yes. "how would you feel if YOU made art and someone pirated it" 1. i do 2. i would say 'badass'. and give htem a high five

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dnis are evitonmental storytelling because you can instantly imagine the incomprehensible hellscape someone is trapped in if they have a dni that's like dni if you:

think irish people can't be pan

are an apologist for season 2 scrunklepus or the knights of glop

hunt and kill people for sport

play frunko's quest

think movies always have to be slimy

think it's okay for welsh people to cosplay flugson

don't tag bibbles or togs

think that dutch and samoan are the same nationality

use the z-slur

participated in the srebenica massacre

are mutuals with steve

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Vriska is not just aura farming, she's the minister for aura agriculture.

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serenely remembering the moment when isabel fall published "helicopter story" aka "i sexually identify as an attack helicopter", which instantiated harassment from her clouty new-wave scifi friends that radiated outwards into transmisogynist scifi normies and became so severe she wound up in inpatient. people took up the cause of the story in the name of "free artistic expression" and "speaking difficult truths", which was not incorrect but which was kind of missing the forest for the trees in that specific situation: the age-old game of "kill the baby trans girl out of professional jealousy, farm clout off of doing it". the roles could have been completely reversed - the transmisogynist acquaintances could have been writing edgy outsider lit and could have been encouraging mass harassment against her for being a tenderqueer sellout (i swear to god i have seen this shit too). effect would have been the same.

when trans women in FSF talk about this shit, they usually talk about it from the angles of "censorious tenderqueers tried to kill someone over a story" or, in the most sympathetic voice i've seen out of someone in journalism, "public pressure functionally forced this exciting trans writer back into the closet". but they generally miss the degree to which it was intimate, personal transmisogynist violence, which bled into and intersected with the logics of mob justice, of "community safety" (remember, part of the substance of the accusations was that she was a stealth nazi, which frankly knowing a little about both the accusers and IF herself I can say confidently was not just vacuous but knowingly vacuous, them lying through their teeth), and again, professional jealousy.

i have seen people who crowed the loudest about what got done to IF do it to other people. it's the easiest thing in the world, and it happens all the time, and you can do it whenever you want - try and have some weird tranny rival or inconvenient tranny ex-friend killed - and it engenders no moral stain, no whispers, no reputation. i think they don't even have a conception that they're hypocrites. why would they? nothing that happens to anyone like that is real. human life is cheap if it's in the wrong body. everything they hold is stolen, everything they are is negotiable, for everything they do someone else surely deserves the credit. why not you? don't you deserve it more?

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What’s something that ISN’T bound up in colonial tropes you joyless sack?

intellectually i do think that you can live a meaningful and fulfilling life regardless of your relationship to art but the idea of living this way, as someone who cannot conceive of engaging with art on anything above a cocomelon shapes and colors level as an enjoyable activity, is truly tragic to me

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we live in a world where marriage as an institution exists and is unavoidably ingrained into almost every aspect of life politically, socially, and economically however when you talk about 'romanticizing problematic power dynamics in a way that harms people' the poster child for that is erotica that involves sensitive subject matters. it's crazy because over the past year and change i've been privy to the romantic expectations of hundreds if not thousands of people and let me tell you, middle to upper class men just still straight up think of women as either household servants, brood mares, or both. whatever sort of sexual degeneracy you think is being normalized in society because of triggering erotica is an absolute drop in the bucket compared to the fact that the current standards and norms of romance and sex are barely one degree of separation from what they were when women were explicitly considered property. sorry guys the bottom up approach of attacking horny fiction for being too morally degenerate never has and never will do anything to reduce sexual violence or spousal/partner abuse