#cw dash discourse

[wishing-stones]

Hihihi i saw your reblog about calcium cat recently and... thank you for that! It was eye opening and confirmed some suspicions i had... and im sorry you dont have to post this ask if you dont want to, i just didnt know where else to go. I don't use tumblr often, very sorry if i am bothering you!

So, i used to be a big fan of calcium cat's, and when i learned from your reblog that she's not someone i want to associate myself with, i remembered that she and topazshadowwolf (someone who wrote some Dadmare and Soriel fics that I liked, i think they're well known in the community but im not sure?) were affiliated with one another, and topazshadowwolf has these two posts on their blog that arent outright queerphobic like calcium cat's posts. i wanted to see what your thoughts were on it as a second opinion because i dont want to judge them too hard, but i also got an icky feeling from these posts that i can't really explain. I dont want to cause trouble for them if they don't deserve it which is why i wanted to ask your opinion on it. And im on anon in case if it really is that bad...

https://www.tumblr.com/topazshadowwolf/738317097192603648/anon-i-am-not-going-to-reply-to-that-ask-i-dont?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/topazshadowwolf/738292724279672832/i-didnt-want-to-say-this-but-its-been-bugging?source=share

Uhmm yeah thats about it. Sorry, you probably dont get asks like this that much, i really just didnt know what to do and didnt see anyone talking about it and thought i was going crazy, i wanted to ask someone. I am a queer person myself and i just felt like these posts were really off but idk why :(((

Sorry this took a bit to get to Anon, I legitimately had no idea who this person was. Also had to grapple with the fact that I'm apparently a big enough figurehead here to ask about discourse? Willlddd to me. I'm not used to this LOL.

Discourse under the cut

The first thing that strikes me as off is the fact that Cal commented on the ask linked in the first post you provided. Don't like that. Openly associating with someone who has been outed as an immensely bigoted trans/homophobe is.... not a good look.

However, in regards to that ask, I agree with some of what they were saying. School is a time to play at discovery, because you rarely remain who you were as a child. It's not a definitive thing. You can be adamant that you're one way in school, and once you leave it an broaden your horizons, you discover that you're another way. This ranges anything from sexualities, gender expression, to religion and belief systems. People grow and change.

As an aside, I don't agree that NM wouldn't support them if they claimed to be different from how they are as adults and wouldn't support them. No context given, but I assume the boys don't remember being adults. This means their growing experiences will be fundamentally different than they were as former adults because they are going through their childhood/adolescence in a wildly different way than they did underground. So constricting them to such a narrow scope seems... disingenuous at best.

Seems a might bit narrow-minded, but I wouldn't go screaming "transphobia" yet. Don't like the "if you feel like I disrespected you, leave" though. The correct response is to ask what you did that made someone feel that way.

Worthy of a side-eye, but unless someone presents solid proof (as with Cal's very damning twitter likes, yuck), bad vibes shouldn't be enough to try to cancel someone. I try to give the benefit of the doubt. I sincerely hope my general faith here is not misplaced.

[sttoru]

Seeing writers have a discourse is either very funny to me or very weird (maybe both) because I'm just here like what is going on yall- 🤸‍♀️

LMAOOHHAHAH NO ACTUALLY 😭😭 it is kinda both bcs.. such behaviour rlly needs to be left behind @ high school hshsbb bcs sometimes the discourse is about such minor stuff / things that could be easily talked out. (on my previous acc from three yrs ago i had this ‘discourse’ w somebody bcs they wanted to change their writer name & use my name -anya- as theirs and well, apparently two fic writers with the same name cant exist simultaneously on this app? luckily i didnt entertain it any further bcs i block and move on quite easily LOL)

which also brings me to the next point: if someone’s behaviour makes you uncomfortable (like maybe a post they made or whatev they said) either ADDRESS IT PRIVATELY or BLOCK THEM . dont make a whole post abt it / or subpost. thas the most childish thing one can do. ofc, if they repeat the behaviour and did WORSE expose the mf so we know not who to react with.

then you also have other stuff thats quite serious/ disgusting behaviour. that deserves to be exposed asap so ppl know not to interact w a certain somebody …. for example the drama w/ @/saetoru i read. LMAOOOO i giggled so hard reading those posts like she claims to be mature but the things i read r SOOOO immature . im so glad she blocked me GOD BLESS!!! such blogs need to be driven off this app . not the ones who did nothing like my bby karma 😞😞

[earthtooz]

no offense but are u guys like 7th grade, what kind of math is that 💀 i thought u were in college

no offence, but have u ever heard of different ages/school years 😭 art and i are college students, we were helping six who is younger than both of us… we’re not letting however long we spent suffering in high school and advanced classes to just let simultaneous equations leave us behind like that and not help out a friend (there was more to the question btw, the simultaneous equation set that i posted was just part of the answer. but more importantly, it was just a fun piece of evidence to prove that art, six, and i all did indeed sit in vc and begrudgingly, yet willingly, help solve some maths question. no harm no foul).

[drjohndisco]

I don't understand how people on the 'I'm not normal about characters' website can think they're above people who read/create reader inserts. Just because you don't like them, doesn't mean you have to put down those who do? Let people have fun! It's not that hard!

[lehhoh7822]

its so odd to hear discourse about how cracker is/isnot a slur

im australian and like. no one. NO ONE. here thinks cracker is a slur. it reminds me when i was like 11 oir 10and my white. (veyr white.) friend saw me write youtube as yt and was like thats acutally so offensive its a slur against white people. this was before i was into any like. fucking mcyt shit or really into a lot of fandom. so i didnt know why anything would be a slur and had no exposuyre to like. that. but they were like 14 and they were into mcyt at the time

and my rsd was really shit back then so i was like oh my god im so sorry oh shit and they wre like dont do it again :angry angry angry:

i guess for me, it seems odd to feel like something is a slur when its said against you even in a derogatory sense by a group which you are above them systemically. i guess it kind of works as a slur in terms of class maybe??? ive heard people say that so mauybe thats what matters????

im mixed race. im indigenous australian. im white. im norweigan. im new zealander. for me, its very important to remember my awabakal heritage because of the suffering, the rape, the poverty, the abuse and the loss that we have completely lost to hisotry. i am aboriginal. i a, white. i am chinese.

people have said and done things on all of those bases except for the white one. i have lost and lost on a racial level on all of those bases except for the white one. and here no one calls white people crackers.

it really does remind me of when people call "straight" a slur, because they dont like it that sometimes, queer people get to mock them using it.

whateverf. doesnt reallyh impact me. consider if it does for you., i dont think it matters that much.

[michals]

I feel like people on both sides of the kink debate forget that it's not all bdsm, kink is also people who want to fuck balloons or watch college boys get CPR. If one type is worth defending they all are, no one gets to pick and choose which are okay, and lord knows the people who want to malign one want to malign it all because it gives them 'the ick'.

[uhohgottashreep]

truly in the drenches (dm trenches) with the scott mains rn, it's cathartic. like i still can't believe we're experiencing the "canon het Female Love Interest who everyone mischaracterizes as evil to further their gay ship" treatment and it's directed at *scott* -- but the treatment of actual queer men in fandom spaces never fails to disappoint, ig.

here's hoping for everyone to be normal about him someday soon ( • _ •)ノΞ°○*

[cookieshower]

psa i ship spaportspa in ALL dynamics (⁠/⁠^⁠-⁠^⁠(⁠^⁠ ⁠^⁠*⁠)⁠/

i mostly use spaport tag for convenience but they're switch.

they're That ship that's most versatile and equal...<3 if i post an untagged spaport then assume it's tagged. if i post solo toni or port then they're partners. if i draw stickman it's them!! if i post a Not spaport they're the top because 90% of the time they would only be bottom to e/o in spaport

also reminder

spain and port are only neighbours in canon. please read the source material :3

if they're brothers: they're not humans

if they're brothers and human au: they're not even real

in heta it's normal that neighbouring countries are related. hima shoves maIaysia and singapores ship in your face (/pos) when they're literally brothers sjjdsksj, 'rome's grandchildren', austria and prussia revealed to be related etc. go cancel hima i guess?  ⁠•́⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯

after a meme oomf made... realised most hetalia ships are either 'colonizer apologist' or 'incest apologist' for the lack of better words (theres limits to depicting the former ofc but oot). if you don't see it look harder skssjdjs Thankfully they're fiction!!

idk what i'm writing lol thanks for reading

[garoujo]

also in regards to the discourse, i will no longer be answering asks about it as it can throw off the vibes in other peoples safe spaces — my dms are open for everyone who has anymore questions or would like to know more that hasn’t already been mentioned in my posts.

[fanby-fckry]

So, tumblr discourse is already like, infamously ridiculous, right? How much worse do you think it’d get on voxblr?

Source: voxblr.vox #unreality cw #meta post #hellaverse #hazbin hotel #helluva boss

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🕸️ angie-fluffy-bootz Follow

24 min. ago

time sensitive question how flirt boy

🕸️ angie-fluffy-bootz Follow

2 min. ago

thanks guys

Source: voxblr.vox #the fucking radio demon parody account replied to my post #with extremely UNHELPFUL advice #and charlie #is your advice unisex? #bcuz if thats how you got vaggie #im judging you both

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⚪️ Anonymous said r u dead?

📻 real-radio-demon Follow

4 hr. ago

Ha! Bold of you to assume I can be killed :)

📻 real-radio-demon Follow

4 hr. ago

Show your face and per’’haps,’,’. I’ll come~.to you

🎀 charlies-angel Follow

32 min. ago

This account is fake. Nobody knows where Alastor is, anon. Stop wasting your time.

#this parody account is in really poor taste

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🕸️ angie-fluffy-bootz Follow

Jul 1

if I make it outta this alive, I’m gonna tell my crush I’m in love with him.

🕸️ angie-fluffy-bootz Follow

Jul 1

fuck

🕸️ angie-fluffy-bootz Follow

1 hr. ago

ya know, I don’t think I’ve confessed to someone and meant it in over a decade?

🕸️ angie-fluffy-bootz Follow

53 min. ago

haha would it be crazy if I said I forgot how?

#its literally part of my job to flirt with people #then i catch feelings and suddenly #i get all tongue-tied #i cant fall back on my old scripts either #he hates bullshit #he wants me #the real me #but the real me doesnt know how to do this!!!

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💀 be-gay-do-crym Follow

2 hr. ago

apparently people are canceling @.niffty-lady ? wtf?

🌕 m00nlight-h0wling 🌔 Follow

1 hr. ago

they are and it’s actually the stupidest thing i’ve ever seen

#and the bar was really fucking low #considering the amount of dumb chaotic bullshit my dad gets into ↯ #niffty lady

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👓 creepz0 Follow

3 hr. ago

It’s time to CANCEL @.niffty-lady

Here’s why:

Niffty LITERALLY KILLED a man in cold blood and now PROFITS off of his death

This so-called “lady” is INCREDIBLY rude to fans, ignoring requests leaving fans on read and answering asks with a NASTY attitude. NOT very lady-like if you ask me

Is associated with the VERY PROBLEMATIC @.real-radio-demon (self explanatory)

Writes TOXIC and PROBLEMATIC ships (spidermoth, radiohusk, reylo 🤢)

Writes NSFW when she herself is CHILD-CODED

PROOF is under the cut ⬇️

. Keep reading

#callout post ↯ #niffty lady #anti niffty lady #niffty critical

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📻 real-radio-demon Follow

3 hr. ago

Despite popular belief, I am not dead!

Well, not any deader than I’ve been since 1933! Hahaha!

↯ #is alastor dead? #ha! no ↯ #alastor the radio demon #real radio demon broadcasts

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⚪️ Anonymous said isn’t it disrespectful to write fics about someone you killed irl?

🪡 niffty-lady 📠 Follow

4 hr. ago

I have no respect for Adam. Hope this helps! <3

#answered ask #anon ask

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📺 voxblr4k ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ Follow

5 hr. ago

Is the radio demon dead?

. 96,460 votes • remaining time 6 days, 19 hours

#polls ↯ #alastor the radio demon ↯ #is alastor dead?

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🪡 niffty-lady 📠 Follow

6 hr. ago

🍑 Forbidden Fruit 🍑

Adam x Reader | 10k words | Rated E

⚠️ Major Character Death

Tags: Smut, Whump, Sinner Reader, Forbidden Love, Bad Ending

After a night of reckless passion, you quickly became Archangel Adam’s favorite sin. Your love, as forbidden as the fruit of Eden, was destined to end in tragedy.

https://archiveofoursouls.hell/works/63595697

#niffty lady fic #adam x reader #angel x sinner #sinner reader #smut #whump #forbidden love #bad ending #rpf #aoos link #aoos fanfic

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📻 real-radio-demon Follow

6 hr. ago

Well, it looks like I’ve got some time on my hands!

I’m sure many of you have burning questions you’d like answered

So, ask. me. any’,thing. :)

#ask me anything #ama ↯ #alastor the radio demon #real radio demon broadcasts

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🐍 x-hiss-lord-x ☑️ ☑️ 🦀 👟 Follow

Dec 12, 2019

i can't have beef with the power of friendship trope because if someone wanted to hang out with me i'd probably reconsider my stance on turning the city into the 10th circle of hell

🐍 x-hiss-lord-x ☑️ ☑️ 🦀 👟 Follow

Dec 12, 2019

besides i can always just redirect my dark urges towards being violently protective of my new friends. there's no rule that says you can't do that.

🌈 hells-disney-princess Follow

7 hr. ago

I found Sir Pentious’s old voxblr blog, and I think I’m gonna cry

🌈 hells-disney-princess Follow

7 hr. ago

He made the ultimate sacrifice to protect his friends and the hotel during the extermination. He did exactly what he said he would in this post.

I wish I could thank him for everything he did for us. And I wish I could’ve done a better job of protecting him.

I don’t know where Souls go when they get erased; I don’t know if they go anywhere at all. But I hope that wherever Sir Pentious is now, he’s with people that he considers his friends.

Source: voxblr.vox #rip Sir Pentious #we miss you 😢

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📻 real-radio-demon Follow

8 hr. ago

↯ #alastor the radio demon #real radio demon broadcasts #the ink spots #we’ll meet again #Voxify

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⬜️ voxblrverse-meta Follow

9 hr. ago

Fanby’s Fake Dash Masterpost

[tacticalhimbo]

anyway something something fandom loves to sideline women in favor of male characters while acting progressive in the process

[izvmimi]

to lovely anon, yes i saw and i also went to report and block!

[metfell]

the best way in my experience to trigger warning tag things is to just write out the word. just write out "assault". just write out "domestic abuse" or "abuse" or "sexual assault". when you add on 15 different "tw" "cw" "//" placements it becomes hard for people to keep up with filtering everything. and then its not just "tw sexual assault" or "cw sexual assault" its also "// sa" "cw sa" "tw sa" "cw s assault" etc. and how is that supposed to be helpful to people?

and sometimes people add on their specific discourse tag like "my discourse" as a catch-all, but when 400 people on someone's dashboard all have a "catch-all tag" it suddenly becomes a lot harder to avoid the content. because you have to add every single tag.

if you are posting about extremely sensitive topic like what i have seen so much on the dash lately, you have got to be deliberate with your tagging, especially if you are making large awareness posts.

for people who need these topics tagged, i would recommend the following: for my mobile viewers, im probably just repeating what you've already done, but: add the blog url of the person making the posts to your Filtered Content section (as opposed to the Filtered Tags section) along with the broader words listed above. for desktop, do that as well, but consider in your xkit settings to remove filtered posts entirely from your dashboard. that way every post is not showing "this post was filtered for: assault" while you are trying to scroll.

[faller-of-kharbranth]

//These are just some musings and stuff about Self Insert Fallers, generally focusing on SIFkah in particular:

//It’s under the cut in case the discourse contained in this is not something you want to be seeing on your dash, especially now.

//I am legit just… thinking that SIF!Kah should just be me but a step to the left.

//She already kinda is…

//If we’re talking in timelines here, it diverged from me on the 17th of April, so we have about… 7 weeks, or more accurately 1 month, 3 weeks, and 1 day of difference between us…

//(And also a few details I changed for anonymity reasons!)

//Ultimately, fae’s still more-or-less just me. Kinda.

//But… hm.

//Just… thinking back on the whole thing with Self Insert Fallers…

//There’s sort of a conflict between the creativity and will of the mun/writer and the fact that some people just… don’t take unreality stuff like this very well.

//(And the blame isn’t on those aforementioned folks for being that way, not at all. Telling people to “suck it up” if you’re writing about something that distresses them in some way is never good writing etiquette.)

//There’s a balance to strike there, as with all things.

//A balance between your own vision and other folk’s mental health, to put it in summary.

//Ultimately, this balance is why I still use the Self Insert Faller tag, and have another tag specifically for meta stuff.

//If just seeing a blog like this one makes you distressed in some way, then you can simply block the SIF tag.

//And if you’re fine with Mun Fallers, but just… cannot do well with outright fourth-wall breaks or similar meta shenaniganery, the other tag, “malkah meta moments”, is there specifically to be blocked in that case, at least for this blog.

//And, to be very clear, SIFkah in particular isn’t on any higher level of metafictionality or anything—I have seen a few SIFs that work like that, but SIFkah isn’t one of them.

//She is just a Faller who is a Zork with inexplicable Magic Anon abilities and some outside knowledge.

//However, meta moments from her may look almost identical to ones from SIFs with the higher levels of metafictionality.

//Looks like isn’t necessarily is, but in some cases the difference is irrelevant. Just because a cucumber happens to vaguely resemble a snake doesn’t mean it is one, but it triggers the cat’s startle response regardless.

//Regardless of the explanation I give here, if it distresses you, the tag is there for a reason.

//And ultimately, all this makes me think that there should be a tw/cw tag specifically for meta stuff that isn’t localised to one blog like mine is, if there isn’t one already. (#unreality comes to mind, but I don’t know if it’s the right one to use here. There was discussion about it at some point, and I can’t remember the ruling.)

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

https://www.tumblr.com/zygodactylus/722494110777393152/letsmakeitwrite-iwhumpyou-coffee-queen448?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/zygodactylus/730506608630743041?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/zygodactylus/730177776959864832?source=share

Found some more 💀

Days since our last “if you think pornography with characters simulating child is dangerous then you think horror movies make people wanna ax murder” nonsense: 0

At this point I have a feeling this person is going to get exposed for having a lolicon side blog. Or a warrior cat snuff twitter.

[formicarum-rex]

ive been on cohost on-and-off since november, and i think im going to stick with it (famous last words, i know, but i am genuinely enjoying my time there, meeting some nice people and enjoying the posts that come across my dash)

home page

my blog

general observations, differences between here and tumblr (both good and bad), and caveats under the cut

the ability to use html and css in posts is fantastic, and while i do sometimes miss being able to change the formatting with a simple highlight like on tumblr, the added abilities to customize more than makes up for that. i've only used it a bit myself, but plan to use it more going forward, and you can get some fantastic shitposts on your dash because of this. note that only posts are hyper-customizable. blogs themselves aren't as customizable as on tumblr (think the default/mobile theme here)

i think their pro-privacy, anti-algorithm, anti-numbers philosophy is admirable. it's not perfect-- funding is a continual trouble, although they have plans for making it sustainable.

as with all smaller websites, it is a bit of an echo-chamber and has its share of drama and controversy.

the fewer number of people also lead to there being fewer good posts than on here, especially if you have niche interests, but my dash is still quite active, and i have to check it at least once a day to keep up-to-date.

if you edit your original post, all reblogged versions of the post are updated as well.

it has a comprehensive cw system built into posts, more reminiscent of mastodon than tumblr. there is discourse about its use or over-use, but on the whole i think this is a big improvement.

i (thankfully) haven't run into anybody or any post that required blocking or silencing or muting yet, but the options are there and thorough.

related, there is a no-nonsense attitude towards bigotry. i havent run into any bad eggs myself, but from what i've been given to understand they are sniped more or less as soon as they're discovered. there may be moderation issues as the website expands (this is one issue where places split up into smaller groups like mastodon have benefits) but as of right now, it seems to be working just fine, and better than tumblr.

there's no general within-post search for the sake of privacy and to limit harassment opportunities, but unlike tumblr, the tag search is functional. in addition, all posts with tags you've bookmarked show up in a separate, single tab on your dash, in proper chronological, non-algo'd order, which is a good way to discover new people to follow and posts to reblog. this is similar to "your tags" on tumblr, but unlike tumblr, i trust it to work

i haven't used this yet, but sideblogs are able to comment, ask, like, follow, etc, separately. no more "follows from [main url]"

in general, i like the vibes better than pillowfort, the other tumblr replacement site, and its a much more satisfying tumblr replacement than mastodon, because, well, its not like twitter (although i do like mastodon for other reasons).

there are some odd things that differentiate it from tumblr that you have to get used to at best, and can be extremely frustrating at worst:

notes cant be viewed per-post. they're all under your notification tab, chronologically listed. this hasnt been a problem for me, but i understand that this can get messy if you have a lot of followers/notes

if you are not OP, you cannot view others' reblogs. i've found that this is mostly fine, but it does mean you cant dive into the notes to see if anyone has added anything you'd like to reblog instead of the version on your dash. changing this is one of the most requested features. it doesn't seem to conflict with the site's anti-numbers ideals as long as it only lists contentful reblogs (those with additions), so i'm hopeful it will be added.

OP is not notified of tags on reblogs. all comments that are towards OP and not towards your followers belong in the comments. unlike other things in this list, this isn't a downside so much as a neutral difference that has taken me a long time to get used to.

the comments are generally important. reblog chains are still used, but comments (replies) are more functional than they are on tumblr, with proper ability to reply in comment threads and a better UI. they are used more often on cohost than on here, especially if you want to start a convo with OP and others viewing the post. as far as i can tell, everyone can see every comment, unlike the reblogs.

photoset layouts are not as flexible as on tumblr

no DMs

discovery hasn't been a big issue for me as someone who is primarily a reader/viewer (if anything, the functional tagging system and unified bookmarked tags tab makes it easier), but ive heard that for creators it can be frustrating

i am under the impression that pillowfort is the place to go for specifically fandom posting. more fandom people have been joining cohost though, especially since a bunch of tumblr people joined a couple weeks ago.

i realize this isn't exactly a hard sell, but want people to be aware of potential downsides before creating an account. despite these things, i really do urge you to check it out if youre interested! it's a good place :)