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Just like how Melkor/Morgoth could only twist what Eru Illuvatar created, so did Sega of America, causing a shit show that brought division into the Sonic fanbase as their bastard ‘murican creations (SatAM/Archie) tried to impose itself over and replace the vision of the original Japanese creators.

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PINGAS-MAN: The Animated Series

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One day I remembered a manga I read a long time ago. I found out it was over and decided to finally read it to the end. It was the manga "Beastars". After reading it, my shipper consciousness got hooked on one ship, which, it seems, was even canonical to one degree or another. It was the relationship between Melon the leopard-gazelle hybrid and Haru the rabbit, which seemed quite interesting to me. There was definitely something in it, some kind of spark. Of course, like any normal person who liked something, I went looking for some content on this couple. There was little content. But I was glad to find at least something. Also, what I did was immediately create a board on my Pinterest account and label it as Melon/Haru, immediately saving and uploading a few pins of the pairing, wanting to make a convenient repository for content so that I could browse it when I was in the mood and get inspired (I had and still have an idea for a fanfiction about this ship). Also, I hoped that this way I could make this ship a little more popular. However, imagine my surprise when just a few days later my Pinterest account was deactivated without any explanation. I panicked and frantically started writing to the site's support service, according to all the instructions described on the Internet, hoping to find out what was going on. I assumed that it was some kind of annoying, stupid mistake, because I did nothing wrong and did not violate the site's rules. After days of waiting (and my messages), I finally got a response, and the shocking truth finally came out… Despite the fact that the pins on my Melon/Haru board were far from adult and erotic content, and both characters on them were adults, this wonderful site banned me on someone's report due to adult content involving minors or people who look like minors! In order to restore my account, I had to delete all the pins and the board itself too (apparently, someone really didn't like its name). I don't quite understand what the point of this is, because I saved almost all of these pictures, already on the site, and after I deleted them, they remained there. But that's not the point. Even now, when my account is completely private, and a significant part of the pins and boards have already been deleted at the request of the site, my pins and the remaining boards continue to receive reports, which I, in the end, simply did not care about. My account is already destroyed. What would I lose if it got deactivated again? Someone seems to want this very much, lol. I don't even feel any emotion about it anymore other than cringe.

But the one thing that still haunts me and angers me to the core is why the Melon/Haru ship was the subject of this slanderous stigma and the punishment I received for this? Haru is 20 and Melon is 24. I didn't even think anyone could see one of them as a minor, lol. I guess you actually have to have some kind of inclination to do that… О_О Especially since the ship was shown in the manga and I didn't make it up out of thin air. Anyway, I'm not trying to justify myself because I'm not guilty of anything. It just made me think about how weird people who espouse antiship culture views can be and how harmful their behavior is to the internet community as a whole. I'm still angry. And I still feel slandered and insulted. I still need to speak out on this, especially as antis culture becomes more and more aggressive and demands our blood in the real world. But I'm not afraid. I'm still going to put my idea into writing and publish my fanfiction, where all the characters are adults, and it will be much more mature than the pictures that got me deactivated. Thank you for reading this post of shipper's indignation to the end. Fuck censorship.

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How You Like Me Now?!

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Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴‍☠...

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So the wildest thing happened where @mactheactor decided to dub over (if that's even the correct terminology) the Chaos Sonic animation I made!!!!

I'm still in utter awe about this like, hands down the coolest thing ever I've been thinking about this non-stop. Hope y'all enjoy it as much as I do!!

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This story, which I learned about just yesterday, hit me in the heart as a writer and, in general, a lover of dark romance. And also as a person who in the past was subject to slanderous denunciations and unjustified measures taken by the site Pinterest, because of which my account was almost completely destroyed and continues to be destroyed (well, screw it, if this site allows itself such things). But my case does not compare in any way to this. The woman, the author was arrested. She was physically arrested for a crime she made up herself, with a fictitious criminal and a fictitious victim, written in damn letters on damn paper. Not banned, not condemned on the Internet, but arrested! Her life was destroyed because of a fiction that she herself created, for the sole reason that she did not even think about hiding, believing that the people and the government of her country are adequate and are able to distinguish fiction from reality. Unfortunately, this turned out to be not so at all…

But what puzzles and outrages me much more is that many people openly rejoice at the fact that this woman's life was ruined, stigmatize anyone who dares to stand up for her and take the side of common sense. Who are you, all those "people of high morality" who are so happy about the grief of a mother who is in danger of losing her young children, and the grief of those children whose mother will be taken away from them and sent to prison for a crime that did not exist in reality? Wake up, you are committing a much greater evil than the author of the most disgusting fiction can commit!

This book may be the most disgusting story in the world, in which the most disgusting people can be romanticized or presented as good. You will not believe it, but all, even the most terrible people do not consider themselves bad people at all. Even you yourself do not consider yourself bad, do you?… But the author, who describes in his book a bad person and the bad things he does, is not this bad person, even if he writes the text literally on his behalf. One of the most important things that humanity should get into their heads is that a writer who describes the world through the eyes of a serial killer in his book is not a serial killer himself, even if while reading it seems to you that a negative character is somehow justified or presented as positive - this is purely your personal vision and your personal problems, if it seems to you that such a presentation of the plot can give someone (you?) a bad example. The character of the book is not its author! And even more so, a fictional maniac does not kill anyone, a rapist does not rape, and a groomer does not groom - this is all fiction, in which there is neither a victim nor a criminal, and which cannot be considered as something criminal, no matter how much you want it to please your selfish emotions. Text on paper are text on paper, no matter what the message, and in the worst case scenario, an unacceptable book may only be banned or removed from public access - its author should not be charged with a crime and sent to prison! Understand this, finally!

The arrest of Tori Woods is not just wrong. It is a disturbing precedent that could lead to catastrophic consequences. An attack on her is an attack on the entire genre of dark romance and, in general, on literature and art that explores disturbing themes. Already, we are losing a huge number of works that touch on dark and unpleasant themes, due to the fact that authors, scared by this precedent, themselves delete their works. And we may not only lose this and similar genres, we may endanger (this time in a completely real, not virtual way) many people, writers, whose lives may be broken in the same way because of a denunciation from some idiots who are unable to distinguish fiction from reality - we risk losing literature and writers as a whole if the Tori Woods case goes by in silence, and the people responsible for this feel like winners.

A small mental exercise: A serial killer or a groomer - who is worse? If a story with a fictional groomer as one of the central characters deserves to be charged and arrested, then can't a story with a bloodthirsty, cruel killer provoke the same effect?

We must not remain silent about this. We must not allow antis and various puritans to terrorize us. I had a falling out with my best friend over the Tori Woods story. But even if the whole world condemns me for my choice, even if the whole world curses me for it, I still prefer to stand up for this woman and against writers and artists being arrested anywhere, even for the most disgusting plots of their books. Call me whatever you want and accuse me of whatever you want, it won't change my opinion, it won't change my position. It won't change the fact that arresting a person for a fictitious crime with a fictitious criminal and a fictitious victim is wrong. It won't change anything, and I will remain on the right side - against any censorship, no matter what it is, and no matter what good intentions it pursues. Because if we allow it to start with the most vile and seditious stories, sooner or later it will come for what we like and for ourselves. But there will be no one left to stand up for us…

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I dunno if any of y’all have heard about the book Daddy’s Little Toy by Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa (under the pen name Tori Woods), but if you haven’t, here’s the synopsis and the pics of the cover/back —

“Daddy's Toy is a loose retelling of Cinderella, where Lucy's family are neglectful and cruel. As Lucy grows up she finds herself attracted to her father's best friend. Little does she know that Arthur feels the same way. Together, they explore a daddy and little girl relationship, falling hard and fast for each other. Daddy loves spoiling his little toy and treating her like the princess she is. Happily ever after guaranteed, with extra sparkles and unicorns.”

Basically, this Australian woman released this book, and within days, she pulled it and deleted all her socials because of the harassment she was getting. Why was she being harassed? Because the male character had known the female character since she was three, and groomed her. Keep in mind, these are fictional characters. 

(There is also a rumor that, in her dedication, she wrote something along the lines of “I’ll never be able to see my children the same way”, but I haven’t been able to find any screenshots or really any proof of that.)

Then she was arrested. Again, she lives in Australia, and laws regarding fiction are notoriously strict there, so her book was deemed CSAM, and she was arrested for possessing, producing, and disseminating CSAM. 

She has also been let go from her place of work. Again, all this over fiction. 

I shouldn’t have to say that harassing, doxxing, and threatening to call CPS on someone for writing a book is wrong, we should all know this, but I guess we don’t. It’s wrong. You can say that the content of the book is disgusting, weird, whatever, but the sheer amount of people across all social media platforms I’ve seen not only agree with the arrest, but applaud it is both baffling and frightening.

I do not care if it’s glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing anything, because it’s fiction, and no one was hurt. I do not care that it was written as dark romance instead of splatterpunk/extreme horror, because you still have the duty, as a reader, to look at the back of the book or read a synopsis online and decide for yourself if it’s something you’d like to read, or if it’s something that will upset you. I don’t care how disgusting a book is, **arresting someone over any kind of fiction is bad**. It *legally* being CSAM in Australia doesn’t mean that’s a good or just law, and anyway, we shouldn’t be conflating legality with morality. 

I don’t know that I’d go the full nine yards and say it’s censorship, because she decided to pull it (granted, under threats of CPS and the police being called), but now that she’s been arrested, it’s pretty damn close to being censorship. 

We, as a society, NEED to come to the realization that written words or drawn pictures don’t harm anyone, because, like it or not, censorship is not a scalpel, it’s a shotgun. It’s just not pointed at you yet.

I’m also tired of seeing so many people acting like the Americans joining in on the debate are too “freedom-focused” because our laws aren’t so draconian (yet, anyway) that we don’t arrest people over fiction. Australia being too police state-y is not a good thing.

How can you, in good conscience, celebrate a woman being arrested, losing her job, losing her hobby, and potentially having to deal with CPS in the future, all over a book she wrote with original, fictional characters? Why would you ever want to target OTHER creators as well, and have them potentially face the same undeserved and unnecessary backlash, again, over fiction?

What the fuck is wrong with you so-called “normal people” that you care more about the characters and tropes these people write about, than the innocent lives you’re directly ruining, that you’d advocate for censorship, that you’d call for the death of someone?

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Okay, I just came across the Tori Woods thing, and read the New York Post article about it, so I don’t know that much about the book she wrote, or even who the hell she is, but I don’t really care those things. Because this thing is horrifying. I was truly disturbed when saw just the headline, and even more when I read the article. They arrested her for writing fiction. Do you understand how bad that is? It doesn’t matter what the content of the book was, the fact that a fictional story was enough for a grounds of an arrest, is horrifying. It’s so fucking bad, and just another bit of evidence of how we are globally getting more and more fascist. And the way people have been talking about this is even more concerning. For it to be treated as normal or acceptable that the government can arrest people based on their writings, do you understand how concerning that is?

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I feel like I’m going nuts, how can anyone look at “Australian author got arrested for completely fictional book” and then celebrate??? How can this be seen as a win????? I don’t care what was in the book, I genuinely don’t. It could have been the grossest thing in the world and I still wouldn’t care, because this is a DANGEROUS PRECEDENT PERIOD.

Really, it happens over and over that censorship always becomes the weapon of the oppressor. It’s a story repeated a million times, the gross book no one likes is the canary, because if it’s allowed to exist then it’s safe to write what you want, for instance about your own history of exploitation, or about queer people, or how to identify signs of sexual abuse. If the book no one likes, that is again completely fictional, can exist without the author getting arrested then that means queer and other writers who push against the status quo are ALSO protected.

Like I’m sorry, even if the book is gross, arresting someone the author is still a sign of facism, and a really dangerous precedent. I don’t want to have to be on here arguing for the weird ddlg book’s right to exist, I also think it’s gross, I would have preferred for it not to have been Streisand effected into the stratosphere, but the author being arrested and her life ruined isn’t a big win for saving children, it’s making it easier to do the same things to books that challenge status quo or try to educate people.

The idea someone can just call the police over a a shitty fully fictional dark romance book and have it be taken to a level of charging someone with disseminating csa and risk her losing her kids disgusts me as an activist and archivist. That is not something people should be allowed to do. Never, never never never.

The censorship of Australian creators over fully fictional art, also just censorship in general from what I’ve seen/heard, should be seen as a violation, not a celebration

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KOL459 Twitter Spaces Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk Libertarian Property Rights...

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Just a Picture from The Nanbaka Manga of Elf surrounded by his underlings,being annoyed,they are from top to bottom,Mei and Ido yomido,Fourth and Kujaku.

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Userboxes about consenting to ai use in various situations

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What the hell happened to this poor guy?…

Anyone else overwhelmed with the amount and placements of Jyugo's tattoos and scars?

Well worry not, Futamata herself has actually made a reference guide for this

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