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"This feels kinda raunchy. How'd we end up like this?" "The heck, dude? This was your idea!" "I mean, you wanted to know what's inside me. Right?" THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED / 光が死んだ夏

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Hey Ralph, now that he people in Gaza is starving are you gonna say something or you just gonna keep avoiding this topic for the last 2 years?

What am I supposed to do go solve the famine and war going on in another country halfway across the world when I already can't make my ends meet in a rapidly failing country? Sure, let me just go do that because the world is magic

Go shit yourself

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A Brief Expose on 'Collective Shout'

I shared all of this on my BSky but realized I should post it here too because it's extremely important.

Articles about Collective Shout's actions:

(2025) "Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims"

(2025) "Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there"

(2025) "This Group Takes Responsibility For Steam’s Payment Processor Censorship Policies — They Just Implied ‘Pervert Nerds’ Cause Society’s Problems"

I dug through Collective Shout and found an Anti-trans Gender Critical Radfem core, along with LITERALLY every single censorship argument being used in anti-fan spaces VERBATIM🍵

I'm tired of people ignoring this or acting like it's not important. Many of us have been pointing this out since 2015. That's been TEN YEARS.

This is how the leader of the organization Collective Shout talks. We've been saying anti-fan dialogues have roots in anti-porn gender critical/radfem groups and here's another one to prove it. They use the same wording, framing and arguments as hate groups

THIS is how one of their grown ass team members, an adult Christian Nationalist woman talks about these serious issues. She types like a 16 year old anti on tiktok

This all took me less than two hours to find and put together. Always dig! One of the fastest ways is by documenting who the leaders of these groups follow on social media! 'Collective Shout's twitter account was locked, but the founder's and staff's weren't.

Also as is always common with these groups, they also targeted anime & manga with focused claims that it enables "paedophilic culture" and is a "gateway" to child abuse One of the examples they used? Sword Art Online.

"spokeswoman Caitlin Roper said. “It’s not a matter of content that should be merely restricted to adults [...] it should not be tolerated anywhere” AKA "This media should not exist"

No matter who I've ever seen from these organizations driving claims that Anime & Manga are pedophilic and Japan is morally bankrupt unironically believe any trans child is a victim of child abuse

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The below are examples of who the leader of Collective Shout follows and portions from just a handful of the articles they put out.

(Color border indicates from the same article)

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This is who publishes all of Melinda's (the founder of Collective Shout) books by the way:

And after making it abundantly clear these groups are anti-trans and bigoted at their core, Here's what the leader of Collective Shout had to say about 'Cuties':

"The girls are shown twerking and grinding, fingers in mouths, the camera zooming into the crotch region, hands in fake stimulation are troubling. They should be. We have a visceral response. These scenes are designed to make us very uncomfortable. […] Contrary to the massive stockpile of depersonalised representations of women, perhaps these scenes are all the more shocking for the opposite reason — because the girls have become personal to us before these jarring scenes. Still, there is an ethical principle at stake: do we treat human beings as means or ends? And the complexity here is that in trying to make a serious ethical point about girls and sexuality, the girls may have been used unwittingly — but still inappropriately — to a noble end. The scene could have been filmed differently, from a greater distance, certainly not panning to their small arching backsides and crotches. While we appreciate the intention of the director in confronting us with the reality of life for an 11-year-old, these are real children. Yes, the young actors matter. Poor filming choices and the ensuing backlash has, in a whirlwind of accusations, collapsed what was intended as a work of protest into classification as a “porn” production. But do these questionable filming choices make Cuties a film that “promotes paedophilia”? I am not persuaded."

I point out the above not just based on how other people feel about Cuties BUT WHAT SHE HERSELF SAYS "The girls are shown twerking and grinding, fingers in mouths, the camera zooming into the crotch , hands in fake stimulation" she believes these young girls have been used but 'TO A NOBLE END'?

You do not get to call Japan a culture of pedophilia for drawn fiction but when faced with a film that uses real child actors while ALSO agreeing those kids were sexualized in a deeply problematic way, but say its a 'gray area' BECAUSE IT'S FOR "THE GREATER GOOD"? CALL COMING FROM INSIDE!

This was another staff member who changed their tune to conform to the organization

Here's a link to the specific section I put together for it:

General link to the page on 'Censorship & Conservatism' that elaborates on not just the parallels but provides citations and links to research debunking the ideology pushed by these Christian Nationalist & anti-trans groups

https://www.fujoshi.info/censorshipandconservatism

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*normie voice* surely impulse is authentic and contemplation is distortion

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what we lose when we reject porn

let me paraphrase an exchange that you’ve almost certainly seen play out many times by now:

“We can’t let the platforms we use bow to the pressure to ban porn, because conservatives consider queer existence itself to be inherently pornographic. They’ll use it as an excuse to ban all queer content.”

“That’s true, but don’t forget: porn is art, and art has a right to exist even if it is unwholesome smut.”

i agree completely with both of these points, for the record. they’re not mutually exclusive, and they are both relevant, persuasive reasons to support porn. they’re the only reasons you need, honestly. these points alone suffice for a robust defense of pornography!

i want to talk about something else, though.

i want to tell you what gets me about all this.

every time we create and enforce restrictions on pornography, we reify the idea of “pornography” as a meaningful and obligatory category. we are forced to say, for any given work of art, whether it is or isn’t pornography. if it is, we restrict it: we hide it away, we place odious limitations on where it can be seen and sold, and we never, ever talk about it in polite company.

but what about art that doesn’t fit neatly into one of these two boxes?

well, the answer is that, for the most part... it doesn’t get made! it’s just too risky. the benefits of making art in the public sphere are too huge to risk incorporating content or themes that might get your art labeled pornographic. and if you’ve decided from the get-go that you are making adult content, then there’s less than no incentive to waste your time and energy creating art that doesn’t fit cleanly into the box of “pornography”, because your opportunities to reach people outside of that box are so limited.

this sucks ass!!!

eroticism by and for itself is great. but art can be anything. art can be erotic among other things. imagine if you were only allowed to eat frosting straight out of the packet. imagine if you never got to taste a cake, because there’s massive financial disincentives to combine bread and frosting into one foodstuff!

anyone who’s into romance can tell you exactly how cathartic a real, explicit sex scene can be in a story, even when that story is not necessarily about sex. indeed, romance is just about the only genre that gets away with this forbidden combination at scale. but only to a limited extent, in limited contexts, and not without its own share of heavy policing from sales platforms.

sex and sexuality are unavoidable parts of the human experience. horniness is one of the primary colors in the spectrum of human emotions. to restrict the use of sex as a storytelling tool is to make artists forever paint with a limited palette. sure, there is lots of great, sexless art out there. for that matter, there’s tons of full-on porn that is likewise great art. but there is SUCH a huge space of possibility in between these two extremes.

and we can’t have it!

because pornography exists as a category in all of our minds, and because we are compelled to reify that category at monetary gunpoint by the jesus freaks upstairs, art must only ever at most orbit the pornographic: if it touches the event horizon, there is no going back.

we don’t just need to fight back against the censorship of pornography. we need to fight aggressively to normalize the existence of pornography. we need to make pornography mundane.

finally: it goes without saying, but there are, in fact, people who are making the kind of art i’m talking about. including me! that’s one of the great things about the internet: it democratized art for a lot of people in a lot of ways. for all its faults, the internet has enabled a golden age of horny queer art that’s allowed to be anything it wants. that’s why many of us are so distraught by the recent waves of censorship at steam and itch.io. if you’ve read this far, please take a moment to consider giving the payment processors responsible a phone call to let them know how you feel about it.

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god i wish i could hit an elf with my car it would be so awesome

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Magical superiority and the designation of practices as boring contingent upon the breadth of scale they encompass is the basis of a paradigm that wrests for control amidst a flailing sense of self. Wholly Western, it's been odd from both what Earthen traditions I do follow and non-Earthern, that within any structure there was a "hierarchy"- it seemed as though people's self-imposed separation from the natural world was in some ill-conceived attempt at feeding an ego amidst an unpacked existence.

Hierarchies ignore the context in which practices evolved within. To avoid a critical failing of magic, it is crucial that practitioners remain mindful of the 'connective' directions in which they cast within. Internal vs external, sympathetic or not, to use Spirits or to have a medium one is linked to. 'Magic' does not exist in a vacuum, and what form it takes is not a competition. A given form is not lesser if it produces meaningful results to the pursuant. Saying for example that witchcraft is a lesser form of magic ignores those who's spiritual needs are intrinsically adaptational and are reliant on their surrounding environment to be able to produce any notable effect. When for much of human history, the Spiritual was and still is physical and present, defining magic by its impossibilities is demeaning to those with lived experiences and to those of who's faiths coincide heavily with the Earth.

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flowers at the grave dark earth underfoot

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got so high I got scared and had to get out of the car to calm down and a coyote immediately sprinted out of the underbrush and stalked towards me