I dreamt that Mrs. Butterworth was consoling Aunt Jemima because Uncle Ben had run off with Zatarain, and the whole while Mrs. Butterworth was thanking her lucky stars because with him out of the picture she could finally make a move.
things that always make me happy: serial commenters. there are three types
1) reading a longfic chapter by chapter, leaving an increasingly emotional comment on every chapter, descends into keysmashes near the end: outstanding
2) read one fic by accident, clicked the author name, now working steadily through the backlog and commenting on everything, I wake up to an AO3 inbox full of enthusiasm: precious beyond words
3) the longterm serial commenter whose comment begins with I don’t even know this fandom but because they have followed me from somewhere else: stunning. humbling. magical.
Apparently ANTIS are sending IRL GORE to anyone that shippes or attempts to defend sheith on insta/twitter, and while im unsure about on tumblr, i wouldnt be surprised if that were the case too. Im currently on mobile so i cant address everything but like im just tryin to warn yall: PROTECT YOURSELVES.
A friend of mine’s sister woke her up just now because some fucking ANTI sent her IRL GORE of a DEAD CHILD. Just because she attempted to defend sheith on instagram.
Listen. Its perfectly fine not to like a shippe. It’s perfectly fine to have a reason or not to not shippe it.
WHAT IS NOT OKAY IS SENDING PEOPLE GORE OVER SHIPPING WARS. WHAT IS NOT OKAY IS HARASSING PEOPLE THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU.
If you send hate over a shippe, you’re an anti.
If you harass people/artists/content creators over a shippe, you’re an anti.
If you send triggering content to someone over a shippe, guess what? You’re a fucking anti.
Again, everyone, stay safe. It’s no ones place to dictate what content you create and share and appreciate, nor is it your place vice versa.
Wow, it’s the 2016-2017 anti-Sheith all over again. Please be aware, Sheith shippers!
FYI: if anyone sends you real life content of CP, go to the FBI IMMEDIATELY.
Do not stop. Do not pass go. Do not collect your $200.
Go immediately to the FBI, because they are sending something highly illegal. Tell them in great detail what happened, and then follow their steps to delete the content after you have done what they tell you to.
anyway I don’t think the story of the 2016 election is that America wanted Trump.
I think the story of the US election is that a supreme court decision allowed states with a history of totalitarianism to arbitrarily change voting law in ways that made it disproportionately difficult for people likely to vote Democrat to vote while a foreign country was running an intelligence campaign to discourage voting on the left and, real time, prod right wing voters in important districts to vote during the election in a race with massive question marks about the security of voting infrastructure, with a widely unpopular Democratic presidential candidate–
And Trump still lost. By roughly three million votes.
That’s six times the loss George W Bush had when he won the electoral college without winning the popular vote in 2000.
Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by a larger margin than Jimmy Carter or Richard Nixon or John Kennedy; she just won it in the wrong places.
Trump is now president because the electoral college assigns more weight to rural states, which are also states with more discriminatory voter laws and more disenfranchisement and therefore states in which it is harder to vote for people likely to vote Democrat.
And all of that is what I mean when I say the biggest problem with the American system is gerrymandering.
to be perfectly honest, I’ve tried to compose posts on this subject a few times and I keep getting stumped because
I know what anti-shippers usually mean when they say ‘fetishize’, and can describe it (pulled from here):
fetishize (v.) – consuming or creating fictional works that contain romantic or sexual content about a relationship between two characters whose orientation, gender, and race isn’t the same as the creator’s/consumer’s.
if exceptions are made, they depend on the content being wholesome enough (no dark content, kink, or unsafe sex).
individuals not on the binary must refer back to their birth-assigned sex to determine which content they are allowed to consume or create. you will be assumed female/dfab unless proven otherwise.
this does not apply to het ships: anyone may consume or create het content.
but I have no idea how to describe ‘fetishization’ apart from the anti-shipper definition.
‘Fetishizing a ship’ means nothing. It is a nonsense phrase that is used to attack people for liking things.
and I tend to agree.
that said: I think that when people say ‘fetishize’, most of the time they actually mean ‘objectify’.
to objectify a person or persons is to ‘think of them as an object’. For example: if a beauty pageant is purely focused on the appearance of the participants, completely ignoring their individuality, personality, and humanity, it may be considered to objectify the participants.
the objectification of real mlm is a thing that some people do, unfortunately – as is objectification of real wlw. catcalling a (perceived) same sex couple holding hands on the street because you think it’s hot is objectifying them, for example. there are people who – usually out of ignorance – may think it’s okay to talk to real mlm about how cute and great they think being mlm is because they read a lot of mlm fanfic or whatever*, just as there are people who think that it’s okay to ask wlw about their sex life and if it’s okay if they watch.
do fanworks about fictional mlm objectify mlm, though? I think that this is a stretch. fictional characters are already objects: they’re not real people who will be hurt by starring in 10,000 words of smut** or shipping them with a character they hate in canon or whatever. you can’t objectify an object: it’s an object. (arguably, we anthropomorphize fictional characters and assign them feelings they don’t really have by saying things like ‘[character] would hate being shipped with [other character]’, etc.)
Objectification problems only really develop when a person’s only exposure to mlm is through mlm fanworks, and nobody has taught them how to properly treat real people who are different from themselves. (that is: as usual, education is key to preventing potential problems caused by fiction.)
hope this helps a little.
*every account I’ve seen or heard of this happening irl has always been a young person who was ashamed and humbled when corrected. it’s also been 6 or 7 years since I last witnessed something like this. that’s only anecdotal, but I think it’s worth sharing that this is vanishing as a behavior with improved LGBT+/queer visiblity.
**semi-relatedly: porn actors are paid to star in porn: they know they’re signing up to be objectified and get compensated for it (if they’re not doing it consensually you’ve got a whole different problem going on there.) so don’t come back at me about real porn and objectification.
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