vastderp:

boyonetta:

autisticlaserbeak:

boyonetta:

You: BUT A CHILD MIGHT SEE IT!!!

Me: Not my problem.

You: BUT A TRAUMA VICTIM MIGHT SEE IT!!!

Me: Not my problem.

You: BUT–

Me: WHAT MEDIA YOU WILLINGLY OR EVEN ACCIDENTALLY CONSUME IS NOT MY PROBLEM. YOU ARE NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU, I OWE YOU N O T H I N G.

this just in: basic levels of caring for other people no longer a thing

media doesnt exist in a vaccum, take proper measures to ensure your work doesmt harm people (tagging it, flagging nsfw blogs as such, etc). if your work is going to be harming people regardless of any cautionary steps, maybe you should take a long hard look at what youre creating and why

I tag all of my works and encourage others to do so as well, because that’s proper Internet etiquette, but, also, it’s still not my responsibility to look after someone else’s kids or to take care of someone else’s mental health issues.

I’m a mentally ill CSA survivor, and I do what I must to take care of myself. I know my limits, I know my triggers, and I’ve even taken the time to think of things that I haven’t been triggered by yet, but that might trigger me, so that I can proceed with caution.

It isn’t a content creator’s job or responsibility to worry about how their fanart or fanfiction might impact EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING ON PLANET EARTH. It’s the job of Internet browsers to browse responsibly.

This isn’t about “not caring for people,” I care quite a lot for people. It’s about content creators being harassed by people who think it’s their responsibility to see to the needs of every individual on the Internet.

I’m going to post my nasty guro porn all I want, and I’ll tag it, but if someone sees it regardless, that’s not my issue. I’m sorry if it triggers them, I’m sorry if it upsets them, but all they can do is unfollow me or blacklist my trigger tags. I’m not going to stop posting my artwork and stories just because a handful of people managed to stumble upon it (or willingly subjected themselves to it) and were upset by it.

It’s my fucking blog, Karen.

THIS. i’m too damn busy living my life to live somebody else’s. i’ll be ethical and give people fair warning where appropriate as often as i can, but i won’t even attempt to anticipate and tailor myself to a random hypothetical stranger’s media needs. go read a pet blog instead. i promise it’ll be ok.

everythingsucksbutthatsokay:

Real human lives matter more than fictional characters. Even characters and stories that mean a lot to you. People matter more than fandoms. If you bully and harass people because of their ships or headcanons, you need to stop and reevaluate things

tenaflyviper:

And before you cry about anyone “supporting pedophilia!!!”, the point here is that what you’re complaining about (aka, shipping teenage cartoon characters, which has been a thing for decades) IS NOT PEDOPHILIA.  Literally no one else has ever even considered it to be that before, and you’re abusing what that word means.

According to the 18 U.S. Code § 2256 (yes, the same code that antis have been using a screencap of, but omitting the last part of in order to conceal the truth):

“The
term “indistinguishable” used with respect to a depiction, means
virtually indistinguishable, in that the depiction is such that an
ordinary person viewing the depiction would conclude that the depiction
is of an actual minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. This definition does not apply to depictions that are drawings, cartoons, sculptures, or paintings depicting minors or adults.”

Also note the phrase “recognizable as an actual person” in 9ii.

(For real though–I have to laugh if you’re gonna tell me cartoons and anime characters look like real human beings.  Like, who the fuck has eyes the size of fists and heads the size of pumpkins???  You guys are idiots…)

This is also further upheld by the Supreme Court ruling of Ashcroft vs Free Speech Coalition, and again in Ashcroft vs American Civil Liberties Union (the PROTECT Act has also had related portions–specifically 1466A, which antis love to parade around–judged as unconstitutional on a federal level, as was a result of United States v. Handley, in which the defendant was convicted due to a guilty plea bargain, and not actually convicted on the initial charges of obscenity.  The plea bargain was made under the belief that the jury chosen to judge him would not acquit
him of the obscenity charges if they were shown the images in question).  Handley’s case is the only one so far that dealt solely with drawings of characters that did not exist in real life (as in, without further discovery of more serious content in the defendant’s possession–or ties to illegal sites–which is what occurred with other cases that antis tend to cite).

Also:

• 13-17-year-olds (aka minors) only make up 15% of this site’s user base.  Meanwhile, the site has always allowed adult content.  This means that staff is trusting you to browse appropriately, and to take responsibility for your browsing using the tools they have given to you (like blocking, and filtering search results).  They are allowing you to be here under the assumption that you are mature enough to handle it.  Your behavior is only showing staff that they might want to raise the minimum age limit (which is 17+ for mobile users, by the way).  When faced with the choice of either trying to monitor/control millions of people, or simply adding a new age limitation, a company will always choose the easier option.  Don’t ruin the site for all the teens that aren’t huge, easily-offended pissbabies.
• No, fiction does not affect reality the way you want to believe.  The statistics for rape, child abuse, assault, murder, etc. have all experienced a dramatic decline over the past few decades, in spite of our media becoming more graphically violent, and pornography being more easily accessible.  Your logic just doesn’t hold up to the facts (by the way, this also applies to stories with mature themes like rape or murder, or stories with abusive or taboo relationships.  IT’S JUST FICTION, PEOPLE.   It’s a reflection of various aspects of our humanity, which includes the things we most fear.  Writing and reading about them is one way we can strip them of that fear and power they hold over us.  It doesn’t mean we stop recognizing those things as morally wrong–it’s just a way of reconciling their existence, and coping with it).
• No, children wouldn’t find truckloads of porn in Google’s Safe Search.  In fact, for most fandoms, you’ll have a hard time finding adult content even with Safe Search OFF.  Google tailors its results to your browsing.  If you’re finding “problematic” content, all that proves is that you were searching for it in the first place.
• The internet is not a babysitter.  Small children shouldn’t be on it unsupervised to begin with.  If you wouldn’t let them go to a heavily crime-ridden neighborhood by themselves, then they shouldn’t be online by themselves.  Public spaces are not “safe”.  It’s not the job of millions of strangers to constantly look out for other people’s children (nor are they obligated to look out for you, for that matter).  That’s the responsibility of their PARENTS.  PERIOD.
• An abuser can groom a victim without ever using anything sexual whatsoever.  It’s about trust.  It can be something as simple as an interest in model airplanes–does that make those
  “problematic”?  As for those abusers, chances are that they’re not some
  random stranger on the internet, but someone known to the victim.  You
  may not want to hear this, but the greatest threat to children
  statistically?  It’s their own mothers.
• Antis only came about within the past two years.  Before that, there was no real drama in fandoms beyond the occasional shipping war, which no one treated like anything but a shipping war.  You are the ones that made fandoms toxic.  Fan art and fanfiction didn’t affect any of us the way you’re claiming before.  Hell–people have been sexualizing cartoons for literally as long as they’ve existed.  That’s almost 100 fucking years, and it hasn’t caused a goddamn thing.  You’re abusing and trivializing extremely serious issues in order to use as leverage to threaten and silence others, and you bloody well know it.  You choose the things that you’re aware that everyone hates: Pedophilia, abuse, etc.  You know that just mentioning these things causes an instant knee-jerk reaction–one that few people will bother to look into beyond the initial claim.  You’re deliberately emotionally manipulating others.  Those are the tactics of abusers (and don’t even say “UM you’re calling survivors abusers!!”, because those who have been abused are the biggest demographic at risk for becoming abusers.  No, it doesn’t mean every abused child grows up to be an abuser, but the number of serial killers that were abused as children is hard to ignore).
• Adult content of fictional characters could actually help prevent cases of child sexual abuse.  But then, we all know this was never about children for any anti, or you wouldn’t limit your concern to just the cartoons that you’re personally interested in.  Honestly, I would think you’d be more concerned about the fact that sites like Pornhub and Redtube require no age verification, account, password, or credit card to access.
• Point blank: What you are doing is called “crying wolf”, and it has real consequences.
  For example: Anti-vaxxers.  All it took was one man claiming a link
  between vaccines and autism, and now diseases like polio are turning up
  again because of people who refuse to vaccinate their children.  If you make claims of pedophilia where it doesn’t actually exist, you are hurting legitimate claims of pedophilia.

So, anyway, if you could stop accusing teenage girls (yes, the majority of the people you’re harassing are young women–usually minors themselves) of being “pedophiles” over something that’s 100% legal (which is shaming them during a period of their life where they’re using fan art and fanfiction as a safe means of exploring their own sexuality, and is honestly misogynistic as hell of you), and that was going on long before you came along without any issue, that’d be super.

Oh, and by the way–if you choose to falsely accuse another user of pedophilia, that IS enough of a violation of the Terms of Service for staff to delete your account.  I’d tell you to just ask
“bipolaramyrose”, but well…she no longer has an account for that very reason.

I’m going to tag a few blogs that may be interested in this:

@educating-antis, @shippingisnotactivism, @shipwhateveryouwant, @antisdontdoshit, @antiantis-saltmine

Feel free to tag anyone else you think might find this useful.  Lemme know what tags I should add to the bottom for better exposure as well.

reysistantis:

I don’t know where this recent idea came from that fiction has to be perfectly healthy anyway. Fiction is not inherently healthy and never has been, its not real, its for exploration and imagination. Fiction is separate from reality and that is why we like it. What you write about is not what you condone, Stephen King is not serial killer for writing about murder. People are not being “abuse apologists” for shipping two characters in a less than healthy way.

I’m sick of this new trend.

You don’t have to like a ship but you want to know what is actually hurting people? What is not promoting healthy behavior? Harassing shippers, telling them they’re disgusting over fiction, that kind of shining behavior antis exhibit.