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You are never gonna convince me that a short woman “looks like a child.”

You are never gonna convince me that a woman who shaves her body “looks like a child.”

You are never gonna convince me that a woman who dresses cutesy “looks like a child.”

Well, maybe some of it is naivety or overconfidence on my part 😅

Or maybe I've just grown to believe that no amount of "good behavior" can protect you from being targeted. In other words: even if you avoid acting suspicious, the government may still fuck with you.

So yeah, I mean, I know that lawful curiosity can be misread as dangerous intent by an opaque and petty bureaucracy. Some asshole authority figure might mistake your inquiry for endorsement.

But I guess I just think it's sad to live your life worried that you might be accumulating invisible points that count against you in some unseen system.

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters, rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

Edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

One way to be good allies is to listen to us. Either it be through our voice, body language, or a help of a caregiver communicating for us. A big thing that people do that isn't very ally of them is not listening to us.

Another way is to acknowledge that not all of us are the same and have different needs and wants. Though this probably also stems from listening to us.

Correct people about things! Like the usage of the r slur for example! How we're affected and etc. Correcting misinformation is a great way to help us.

Another way is to alsp spread awareness about us. For example the intellectual disability/general IDD and Borderline Intellectual Disability flags are fairly new, so having more people know about those flags would be a nice way to spread awareness and a way to recognize us!

Your issues matter! Growing up in a binary-centric world is traumatic, and you don't deserve that!

We adore and respect you, young fem enbies! Young masc enbies! Young androgynous enbies!

We adore and respect you, young neutral enbies! Young null enbies! Young genderless enbies!

We adore and respect you, young xenine enbies! Young outherine enbies! Young aporine enbies!

We adore and respect you, young multigender enbies! Young multitransitional and multicis enbies! Young demigender enbies!

We adore and respect you, young unlabeled enbies!

We adore and respect you, young intersex enbies! Young dysex enbies! Young ersex enbies! [Link.]

We adore and respect you, young trans enbies! Young cis enbies [link]! Young cistrans enbies!

We adore and respect you, young enbies who use modalities other than cis or trans, or no gender modalities!

We adore and respect you, diamoric [link] enbies! Lesbian enbies! Uranian enbies! M-spec enbies! A-spec enbies!

We adore and respect you, young non-monogamous enbies! Young non-partnering enbies! Young paraphile enbies!

We adore and respect you, young alterhuman enbies! Young religious and spiritual enbies!

We adore and respect you, young culturally gendered enbies! Young black enbies! Young brown enbies! Young Latino enbies! Young Asian enbies! Young Indigenous enbies! Young Pacific Islander enbies! Young multiracial enbies!

We adore and respect you, young plural enbies! Young neurodivergent enbies! Young physically and sensorially disabled enbies!

Include young non-binary people in your youth liberation!

[PT: Include young non-binary people in your youth liberation!]

anti culture is inherently american, every country where it is prevalent nowadays got it through interacting with american fandom, it's what happened to my country

2. Your creativity matters and so does your ability to share it

3. Serial harassers in fandom spaces are beginning to express discomfort that sites like AO3 completely strip their ability to do anything about fic they don't like, sometimes going as far as leaving entire fandoms due to the influx of "problematic fiction without a chance for consequences to the author". Posting your fanworks to AO3 actively contributes to making harassers feel unsafe and powerless in fandom

4. Militant anti-fanfic content creators also cannot do anything about fic posted to AO3

5. You can post anonymously to AO3, with the ability to de-anonymize at any time

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Freedom of Expression does NOT cover things that cause tangible harm to specific people.

Think of it this way:

Everyone has innate human rights. Freedom of Expression is one of them, but it is not the only one. People also have rights to bodily autonomy, privacy, dignity, safety, and to not be sexually exploited.

Child Sexual Abuse Material ("CSAM" - this is now the preferred term for "child pornography") may technically be a form of "expression" in the most literal sense - but it is a form that is the documented product of the sexual abuse of a real child, and its circulation continues that abuse.

Likewise, Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery ("NCII" - this is now the preferred term for "revenge porn") is the non-consensual distribution of intimate material in a way that directly violates a specific person’s privacy, dignity, and safety.

So I really don't think this is a case of making some prudish exception to anti-censorship principles. It's a case of recognizing that one person’s claimed "expression" cannot include the right to violate another person’s human rights.

And, as a side note, that is also why FICTIONAL depictions of abuse, or even ugly works that seem to romanticize or encourage abuse, fall into a very different category.

Those works may be highly disturbing, exploitative, disgusting, or morally rotten, but they are NOT actually abusing a specific real person in the way CSAM and NCII are - the harm there is direct, concrete, and inseparable from the material itself.

With fiction, the argument is usually vague and indirect: some third party might consume it, be influenced by it, and then do something harmful later. That kind of causal chain is speculative, hard to prove, based on the actions of another person with their own free will, and potentially limitless once you start to expand on it. If you make that the standard for censorship, then practically any book, film, fantasy, or artwork could potentially end up suppressed on the theory that it might negatively affect someone somewhere.

Great question.

In the case of CSAM and NNIA, they are not merely "dangerous ideas" or "bad influences." In those cases the media itself is a violation of victim because the abuse or exposure of a specific real person is built into the material.

By comparison, a grooming guide, a dogfighting manual, or a Nazi tract is vile, but the harm there depends on a third party later choosing to act on it. That causal chain may be real (in some cases), but it is indirect, contingent, and impossible to police without giving the state sweeping power to punish ideas, arguments, fantasies, and texts for what someone else might someday do with them.

We all ultimately are individuals that have control over our own actions. And I can assume that if you were to read those works you mentioned, you would not become a Nazi child-grooming dogfighter. I mean fuck, I would hope not.