#stop spreading misinformation

[zebulontheplanet]

I’m tired of the bullshit so excuse my anger.

Please PLEASE stop spreading misinformation. Especially about things autism related and things that have been explained hundreds of times and you could just simply search it up and learn.

Autism is a disability to most. Even those with low support needs! Those with low support needs CAN say that their autism is a disability because it DISABLES them. It disables them because low support needs doesn’t mean NO support needs. Many low support needs people might need help with IADLs. They might need help with things like balancing finances, might not be able to drive. Might not be able to cook large meals. These are all things low support needs people MIGHT need help with.

Saying that they don’t is completely disregarding the struggle that low support needs people still go through. The struggle of communication issues, sensory issues, etc etc. Autism is disabling to most and that should be addressed.

Yes, low support needs people are less disabled the high support needs people (with autism). Yes low support needs people have had society generally more accepting of them. (Pointed out by a friend) I know that’s hard. I know it’s hard for someone’s autism to be less disabling. It’s not a competition. Support needs are meant to not say how you are against allistic people, they were made to compare against other autistic people. However, that does not mean you can say that low support needs people aren’t disabled by their autism. That doesn’t mean you can say that low support needs should be turned to NO support needs. That isn’t right. Stop spreading misinformation in the tags and simply LEARN. Learn from us. Learn from high support needs people. Learn from low support needs people. Just learn. Listen too when someone tells you something. Listen!!

@awetisticamelia123 this is about your recent post. Please listen.

[stop-spreading-this-poll]

Have you ever seen something be spread around as the truth in your fandom that was never true to begin with?

'Canon' facts about the characters, misquoted interviews with creators or misinterpretation of a character?

Made up hoaxes still believed to have happened by parts of the community or the use of old fan theories that have long since been disproven by new canon entries?

Or in cases like Danganronpa, calling the first and second game V1 and V2 even though that's just wrong?

Then this is the poll for you!

[wxrmeaterz]

// info + small rant abt gatekeeping systerms (specifically polyfrag)

TW brief mention of ramcoa (no descriptions or explanations)

what the actual fuck is up with some systems gatekeeping what polyfrag means ?

like it is not defined by experiencing ramcoa

criteria for it are often described as:

complex or layered inner world , possibly lots of subsystems

many fragments or alters with (hyper)specific roles

splitting easier / frequently / into multiple parts

epochs ( divisions based on time of splitting )

NOTE: these are not necessities for being defined as polyfrag and there are other criteria I haven't listed for sake of brevity

polyfragmentation is more frequent in:

ramcoa survivors

those who are autistic

those with prolonged / repeated / severe childhood trauma

it can also just be dependent on you "threshold" for trauma

I've& heard one too many systems say it is purely caused by ramcoa.

-Sorine gatekeeper + protector , (fear/death/hate/flesh)

[floralcavern]

What if I were to tell you that a race of people were forced to leave their nation and after they were driven away, their country was renamed as a way to humiliate and take away their identification with that land?

Would you say it’s horrible? Would you say they have every right to return to their land? Good!

Because that’s exactly what happened to Israel. Israel was taken by the Romans who renamed it to “Syria Palaestina” in ~130 AD. Jews are not colonizing anything. Israel is their homeland. Palestine is a colonial country.

[scene-royaltylolz]

I luv how peeps in mah skool be hating furries and mistaking them 4 z00ph1l3s while still luving furry characters from shows. I've seen Bluey, gir, TAWOG, and just random furry stickers! They'll be saying they hate furries then go on 2 luv them l8r XDD sad how misinformation gets spread liek dat but pretty funny 2 watch them crumble 2 see them be da thing they supposedly hate lolz

[vengeancevixen]

Dallon talking about Vices & Virtues. He did not write on this album.

[toaster-draws]

For Anyone Who Somehow Still Believes Streamline's Flowerfell Video..

A short video kinda debunking Streamline's "Flowerfell" video. Might re-make it sometime? Please don't harass anyone involved. To my knowledge Streamline doesn't stand by that video.

Also- starting the hashtag #flowerfellisfrans on social media due to the misinformation spread and still kinda being tossed around.

[girlbyherself]

“the queen died” um actually chris pontius is alive, healthy, and doing just fine!!

[elliss-stuff]

Do you really think Taylor would do all that jokes about him and Nicholas if Nicholas was uncomfortable with that? Really? Or if he knew that Nick doesn't like him or the movie? Stop spreading all this hate between them. They are friends, they are co stars and they are very confident when they are together. You can see that. And that's enough

[furbearingbrick]

"you can't draw Mickey with gloves"

"you can't draw Mickey with shoes"

"the name Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted so you can't use it"

@rjalker

[axquiva]

I'm sick of people saying "you were born gay". No. Its not true. What really happens is you watch stranger things, start shipping byler and then the rainbow demon (otherwise known as finn wolfhard and noah schnapp in a bedazzled trench coat) breaks into your room at night and curses you with homosexuality.

[wander-wren]

almost escaped the anti-ao3 posts this donation round but of course today i get smacked with a few, so i go hunting for this year’s arguments, which, as expected, touch a lot on palestine.

what i’m seeing here is a shitton of inflammatory language and very few sources, and even fewer sources that aren’t screenshots of That One Tweet. most of the arguments from both sides are made on things that aren’t entirely true. i dislike this. so let’s clear the air a bit, hm?

1) ao3 is a racist/zionist organization

ao3 has had its scandals, including the 2023 management scandal in its full glory, which you can read about at the linked fanlore article. that covers several different areas where ao3 messed up. i will not defend these instances. i will, however, point out that very few of the current anti-ao3 posts mention them.

additionally, there is this fanlore article specifically about the issue wherein a volunteer was told to remove “from the river to the sea, palestine will be free” from their status, which is the singular piece of evidence referenced for ao3’s zionism. it has been spread that the otw banned or kicked out this volunteer, which is untrue; they left voluntarily. the otw also offered to allow the volunteer in question to change the status to “i stand with palestine,” communicating the same message in a less polarizing way.

you are allowed to dislike this decision. i do. but the otw slack is first and foremost a professional space, and they are within their rights to ask for political discussion to be kept out—or, in this case, to a politics channel so it can be opted out of. i am not currently aware of anyone having asked the otw board to ban or otherwise address pro-israel sentiments in the slack server, so i cannot actually make any statements about unequal decisions, because those decisions were not made.

ultimately i do not disagree that otw/ao3 have made poor choices rooted in racism in the past, but i also believe many of these posts discussing it now are performative, inflammatory, and misleading, which is not helpful

2) donating to ao3 during a genocide is bad/selfish/racist/etc

there are always problems in the world. this is literally the same argument as every previous year with new paint on it. people can care about more than one thing.

3) ao3 is a scam/mismanages money/gets more than they need/is horrible for not paying volunteers

here is a post i made last year breaking down ao3’s budget. what’s funny is, i saw a post going on for paragraphs about how they “calculated” that ao3 has 2.8 million in reserves (assuming their 2023 numbers shook out, it is like $1.5 million at best. these numbers are public and easy to find) and that they have “no idea” what to do with it and are deliberately not being transparent about it (they have publicly stated in news posts exactly what that money is for).

one very confusingly-worded post seemed to argue that it is morally wrong to have volunteer library workers, which is the same as ao3? something about master’s degrees? i just thought that was funny because. like. what. do you think the volunteers are the ones with a master’s in library science, friend?

also, people have said it’s a scam because they don’t update the site, and i’m like….what do you want them to update, exactly? i just want more tags wrangled. i suppose that translates to me wanting an update on the servers or whatever bit of hardware is limiting the tag system. otherwise i don’t see why you have to fix a good thing.

4) ao3 hosts evil bad fanfiction

ah, the age-old “child porn” argument. or racism is a big one this year. do i have to get into this one? it’s so goddamn annoying. just read the about page or a wiki article with your eyes. anti-censorship. yada yada yada. also, if you use the phrase “child porn” i do not respect you or take you seriously.

okay, first of all, fanfiction does not meet the definition of csam. it’s fanfiction. it’s fiction. there are tags for a reason. none of it is illegal. most of it has been published in real books for money before. you can hate it, but it deserves to exist, and with the way explicit material is getting deleted off the internet (see: wattpad’s new policies, google drive’s new policies), ao3 is a last bastion in the storm.

5) you should check out end-otw-racism for more helpful info

honestly i thought this movement was dead by now, but i’ve seen a lot of it mentioned today so i went to check. some things i found, scrolling alllll the way back to august:

a pinned post from SEVEN months ago that is several paragraphs of back-patting from the mods about how much “work” and “goals” have been accomplished and how grateful they are to the community. no mention whatsoever of what those goals were or what specifically was accomplished. also says the mods are going on break for a while, which presumably is still in effect

a few posts about the otw’s board meetings for various months, each rehashing how a board meeting runs and when the next one is being held. no information about what questions or comments the organization wants to focus on for each meeting or specific actions supporters should take

post about substack being a nazi site now (this is the only post i fully respect)

more board meeting reminders of no substance

a post reviewing the board elections, going over each candidate. the post acknowledges that no candidates mentioned the campaign or its specific goals, and instead grasps at vaguely related topics as if to show the volunteers are listening to them and they have done something

more board meeting reminders

a post about an update to the board’s strategic plan for 2023, which also acknowledges that the update does not really do anything end-otw-racism wanted it to do. many instances of “could have been a great opportunity to” do what they wanted. this one DOES finally state eotwr’s “recommendations” for the next strategic plan update, which literally all boil down to “more transparency,” which i suppose is fair enough

absolutely NO mention of palestine whatsoever

post on the weibo scandal, which is fine but generic, and again, not something brought up ever again despite being made in AUGUST

here i will give you a reminder that some of eotwr’s goals, particularly the ones around moderation and censorship, were unrealistic given the otw’s mission. while i believe eotwr started with good intentions, it seems to have rapidly dissolved into something performative and did not have solid enough organization to actually make any difference. their silence on palestine (and they are still posting despite the “break”) also makes bringing them up in convos about otw’s potential zionist leanings very weird.

at the end of the day, support ao3 or don’t. your morals and reasonings are your own. just don’t lie about them in ways that can be easily disproved, mkay?

this discourse also made me realize it’s been a minute since i reblogged a proper donations masterpost for palestine, so i am on the hunt for a good, up-to-date one now. feel free to link me any you know of.

[scootersscooter]

I hate people who interpret/portray Gold and Black as stupid characters

Like we must not have read the same manga because WHERE

Those two are literally some of the most clever dexholders in the series

[wxrmeaterz]

uh just cus u experience verbal shutdown does NOT mean u r semiverbal

semiverbality is not:

being unable to speak when anxious , stressed , tired or overwhelmed (this is verbal shutdown)

or

being unable to use most words or phrases when anxious , stressed , tired or overwhelmed (this is also verbal shutdown)

semiverbality is:

stop misusing verbality labels

we will not engage with discourse on this topic as we do not have to spoons to do so

-Arson (a semiverbal alter) (it/xe) + Sorine gatekeeper (death/hate/flesh)

[floralcavern]

“Jesus was a Palestinian!”

Also, it’s funny that the people who say Jesus was Palestinian are the same fucking people who don’t believe in Jesus.

But the name Palestine was given to that area AFTER Jesus’s time. 130 years after!!!

You’re erasing history, you’re changing historical context, you’re minimizing Jewish history!

[mythicalea]

Seriously..some people need professional help!

For f’s sake stop pushing a narrative that isn’t true!

Why that tik tok account isn’t blocked and reported by all of us yet??

To all of those who apparently keep spreading those lies.. go on… keep pushing Joe further away with your delusional fantasies and soon he won’t be doing any cons again,because he will be too scared of us!! 😣😣😣