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noelvember day 1!

Taco Bell 😼

u don’t even want to know what happens at this Taco Bell bro

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This AU isn’t really going anywhere, so I’m just going to add it to my main blog lmao

( My main blog is @time-traveling-bees btw )

Don’t worry, I’ll keep all the stuff here

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Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

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Mysteriously Draxum has an adopted child too…but they’re a mutant, not a turtle yokai. Interesting…Anyway! Meet Experiment 020, Donatello!

They were raised from mutation to be a warrior, even after Draxum stopped treating Donatello as an experiment and more as his child after Experiment 101’s conversations with him. That doesn’t mean Draxum still doesn’t hate humans, no no no, Draxum still views them as a threat and wants to take over the top side of Earth

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This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."

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btw watch out for the scammer @thoughtfulfestivallove claiming theyre from gaza and asking for donations!! i called them out and got this in my inbox (tw for foul language and sexual imagery - through text, not any images here thank god):

so yeah watch out for those scammers in these dire times and donate if you can to actual fundraisers. i sometimes reblog those i come across and know theyre legit and im looking into talking with my parents to do some donations of my own. lets do our best to help the actual deserving people of palestine, and be on the lookout for the disgusting scammer scums!!! <3

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I'm wishing a very Happy Pride Month to all the queer people who:

are disabled

are chronically ill

can't celebrate for health reasons

disability gets in the way of their gender representation

disability got in the way of a relationship

don't have anyone to celebrate with

have homophobic caretakers

Happy Pride Month to all disabled queer people

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Official designs for my Turtles in this AU

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Psst psst

I did a thing

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TW- Mentioned kidnapping, Child abuse, Torture, and Physical abuse.

First of the list is Leo!

He’s the Yokai baby that Big Mama adopted.

Since day one, Leo has been shaped and groomed to one day own the hotel, and Leo has shown no signs of hatred or malice towards her mother; What a lovely pair of son and mother!

However Leo’s life wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, when luna was 7, he was kidnapped by a group of Yokai who held her ransom for money.

For weeks, while Leo was being abused and tortured, Big Mama spent her time and money to no avail. Her saving grace was a Battle Nexus champion who called herself Raph, who was the first Yokai to find info on where Leo was; eventually, he was on the team that saved Leo.

Leo, despite being free of his captors, still had issues. Her legs were damaged beyond repair and he was forced to give up luna’s passion for sword fighting. Eventually they’d come up with an answer; expensive and high tech leg braces! From no other than the that weird guy Draxum!

Leo wasn’t the only one gifted, Raph, the Battle Nexus Champion and the Yokai who helped Big Mama finally find her son, was hired by Big Mama herself to protect her son from any harm. They seem to have been very bonded at this point..

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Helloo! This is a AU of Rottmnt, one I’ve dubbed the Bees!AU for a lack of a better name.

My main blog is https://time-traveling-bees.tumblr.com/

In this world, while Splinter managed to destroy Draxum’s lab, he only saved one of the turtle tots, leaving 3 children behind. Splinter presumes the others dead, and mourns for the children he couldn’t save.

Totally unrelated, Big Mama has announced she’s decided to raise a baby turtle Yokai, and Draxum, in midst of the rubble of his ex-lab, has found a sole survivor of the accident; and a young turtle Yokai is surviving on the streets of the Hidden City