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ok girlies we are at a sleepover. we know how many crush confessions you’ve given and received. now tell us how many people you’ve kissed

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manifestación contra la ley de peligrosidad social. madrid, 1978.

madrid had its first pride in 1978, organized by the “frente de liberación homosexual de castilla” (homosexual liberation front of castille, FLHOC). as usual, brave trans women are leading the march. this rally called for the abolishment of the “law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation”, which imprisioned gay men and trans women. the articles criminalizing “homosexual acts” were repealed in 1979, while the ones that criminalized “public scandal” (such as kissing in public) were revoked in 1989. the law, which included other acts considered morally dangerous by the post-fascist regime (begging, vandalism, prostitution, proxenitism, illegal immigrants…) was finally abolished in 1995.

frente de liberación homosexual de castilla // amnistía homosexuales // abajo con la ley de peligrosidad social // libertades sexuales // libertad de amar a quien quieras

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i cannot do another round of "is shaving feminist?" discourse again, i simply cannot do it. is shaving feminist? no! do feminists shave their bodies? yes! is this a deep betrayal of principles? not really! do some women actually shave for the mythical "sensory reasons"? well, considering that my number one reason for shaving my legs in the summer is because my ceiling fan blows on the hair and i'm constantly having mini freakouts that i've got a bug crawling on me, i'd imagine some do! is it okay for a woman to say to herself "i realize i'm mostly doing this because i don't want to be treated worse by people in the world who find my unshaven legs disgusting, but i'm still going to do it because i don't think suffering for no reason is virtuous" and shave? yes! will yelling at her to "think critically about her choices" until she agrees with you actually work? no! does any of this make it any easier to get an abortion in this country? nope! have we replaced the "is this pop star a feminist?" discourse of the 2010s with "are your personal choices antithetical to the tenets of feminism?" discourse in the 2020s, none of which is conveniently focused on the actual loci of power?? hahahahahahaaaaa

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We talk a lot about Daniil Dankovsky's insane outfit choices but I think we also need to acknowledge that, like, Artemy got off the train like that. That's not his plague outfit those are just his travel clothes. He was picking out his outfit for his first trip home in years and he went "yes, butcher outfit with one thousand buckles." I mean where'd he even get that.

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i'll defend fanfic for my whole life. like the joy it brings is genuinely transformative and indulgent in a way unique to the genre. it isn't meant for a market, it isn't meant to be sold or marketed. it is born out of such care and passion for a media that one must write and must share it, so other folks can enjoy it to. for no other reason than love and joy. do you know how special that is? especially in our current social and political climate.

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Isabella Owens art 

@issabelaowensart (Instagram)

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went to a pottery painting place and put the lamp design from the nutshell in pathologic 2 on it! happy with how it turned out.

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your DNI: proshippers

my DNI (superior): 8 numbers and a letter

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them turn-of-century garments got me and my baby like aaah fuck hold on... hold on... give me a minute hold on... aaaah hold on

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ok #pathologic but girl is back in session with Artemy!! butcher? i hardly know her!!! *laugh track*

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"You know what? I actually like myself. I've walked my path well these past eleven days. I can respect myself."

-Artemy Burakh in Pathologic Classic HD.

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Les chats feront des chiens

Les ronces feront des grenades

Et moi, je ferai la guerre.

first line of the caption is a play on the french phrase “les chiens ne font pas des chats”, “dogs do not make ( = give birth to) cats”, which is the french version of the idiom “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”. here negated and the animals switched around because. well. smiles.

second line means “brambles will/shall make pomegranates/grenades” (homonyms in french)

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was originally going to make it spin but it didn’t work out

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What's "the blocklist thing"? I wasn't in the fandom back then and i've never heard of it

Okay, so. Full disclosure - I was rather late to this sordid episode in the fandom's history, as I only started actively participating late in 2020 and publishing smut in 2021. So while I did end up on the blocklist and suffered consequences for that, I didn't have it nearly as bad as some people. I'm friends with some of them, and asked whether they might want to share the impact that the blocklist had on them. As a result, this answer ended up on the long side and touches on some heavy topics (mostly harassment). I wanted to answer it this way not just for you, but so other people could see the cost of such toxic social pressure in fandom.

It was an extremely bad-faith bulletin a user complied of authors and artists who created work that they deemed morally impure or worthy of shame/shunning.

- excalibutt

The block list incident involved a person in Pathologic fandom who made a list of writers and artists they found distasteful and pressured others to block them. Anyone who remained friends with people on the list also ended up on the list for maintaining their friendship. This led to an atmosphere of fear and harassment, with many creators withdrawing from social media altogether due to said harassment, or concern that their friends would face harassment for associating with them.

I straight up saw an incest survivor pushed out of the fandom by having people endlessly talk about how disgusting incest is, I saw a queer Russian couple targeted and harassed for remaining friends when they were literally dating, I saw a person who drew aged-up characters get accused of making “literal cp”, and I had friends added to the block list just because they were my friends and I happen to write fictional incest sometimes.

- anonymous

It didn't really affect me that much since I use a sock for all my kink meme stuff, so what bothered me most were the lies? Like it's one thing to list my name and say I write problematic content, cause well… that's true and I even advertise it right there in the tags on my ao3. But to say that I sent death threats to people was just an outright lie and even if I had been able to set the record straight without opening myself up to other risks, the damage would already have been done. Once rumours like that are spread, they're difficult to extinguish, and so the utter lack of fact checking and allowing misinformation to spread was the thing that really upset me about it.

I know that [involved person] had a similar issue with it where they claimed that she 'started a raid' or something when she had done nothing of the sort, and there was an instance early on where he added somebody to the list who had done literally nothing. He either confused a username or listened to somebody who was trying to hurt this person without verifying that they'd actually done anything he'd find objectionable. It took me pointing this out to him (back when the list was publicly editable) for him to actually go look and remove their name.

- anonymous

Yeah, luckily I didn't receive anything at the level of straight death threats, but I did get a lot of nasty comments and people who had been friends in the fandom who just ghosted me. It was extremely alienating, and I probably would have just bounced on Pathologic if it weren't for the freaks ♥️ Whatever little business as an artist doing commissions basically screeched to a halt at that point, and even though it was also my own actions to move on to other work after that, in a lot of ways I feel like it closed the door on working as an artist online for me. By the way, keep in mind this was all because someone saw I had left a comment on [involved person]'s fic and basically their word and interpretation on what that meant was enough.

Also like [previous anon] said, it was extremely maddening seeing the level of straight lies that were being tossed around about people I cared about, the ones about [involved person] were truly wild because she literally just posts fic and replies to comments in an extremely kind and thoughtful manner exclusively on AO3 and somehow that got spun into her being the leader of the free companies or some shit sldkjflsj

- anonymous

And, as I said above, I was put on the blocklist as well. Anyone who so much as scrolls through my work knows I write a lot of non-con. The fact I also try my best to help cultivate a kind, supportive fandom environment didn't matter. Interaction with my fics dropped like a rock overnight, especially non-anonymous interaction. I was lucky enough not to suffer the harassment that some people did, but it was a very isolating experience and another demonstration of how much influence that list, its creator, and its enforcers had at the time.

That last part is important. One person alone can't enforce that sort of moral paranoia and aggression in a fandom - it takes a lot of people willingly going along with it and more falling in line out of fear. I've seen people talk about how chill the fandom is now, and I sincerely hope it can stay that way. I hope that, if someone proposes this sort of list again, the answer is an unequivocal 'No, that isn't what we want our fandom to be'. There's bound to be a lot more activity soon with Pathologic 3 on the horizon, and with that, more people who are willing to use cruel tactics to make the larger fandom space conform to their comfort. If we want the fandom to remain a peaceful place, that means refusing to be goaded or bullied into attacking each other.