Briest (Bug priest)

Hanahaki, but it's someone whose friends have started ghosting them.

Hanahaki, someone's wife is cheating on them.

The universe of Sky Ballet as a whole is incomprehensibly old. So old that in a lot of ways it resembles Swiss cheese more than anything, riddled with holes that lead to other universes or to the void between universes or nowhere at all. So old that it borders on mindbreak horror even for the Transformers themselves and they already have the capability to live to insane lifespans.

We briefly see Optimus’ personal ID and forging date in Sparks and based on that, Cybertronian civilization should have started around 180 million cycles ago, but that’s a bit misleading. 180 million cycles ago was not the start of their civilization; it’s when their last calendar reset happened.

Culture and history ebb and flow and repeat, but there comes a point where keeping all of that old knowledge becomes redundant and irrelevant. In general they tend to do a calendar reset every 250-300 million cycles, because that’s how long Rung usually lives. When the mortal incarnation of Primus dies, the church does a big funerary ceremony, enter a few centuries of mourning period (this would be considered “cycle 0” and doesn’t have a predetermined length as such) until Rung is reborn and they start the calendar anew from cycle 1.

Because of the ungodly timespans involved in their civilization’s history, the mortal Cybertronians don’t tend to keep track of things from past calendar eras all that well. They hold onto records from their current era and maybe the one before, but anything before that? Only Primus knows what went down back then, quite literally.

At the end of an era, as part of the funeral, Primus renders anything and everything capable of storing data inoperable for a few days while he uploads the entire historical database to his own archives. This is what makes the Matrix’s internal archive so special: it’s the only thing in the entire universe that holds all the collected historical data from the entirety of Transformers history. Which is, consequently, why you can’t simply browse the damn thing; you need to know exactly what you are looking for to find literally anything in it.

(As a side note, while Ballet’s Primus is much too “big” and multidimensional to really meaningfully interact with his children and the material universe, having all that comprehensive knowledge + the personal experiences of every Rung who ever lived means that on the rare occasion when he does actively enact his will on the universe through a proxy or another, he has a fairly decent idea how to express his benevolence in ways that won’t misfire horribly for the targets of his love, at least by divine standards. Not to say that he never fucked up before, but who hasn’t turned an entire colony of thousands into sparkeaters by trying to fix a much less harmful coding error in the population before, right?)

The age of the universe has some other consequences as well; some parts of it are looping, other parts are looping sometimes… any kind of metaphysical bullshit you can imagine can happen in Ballet’s universe. Universes like to coil up and loop in on themselves, metaphorically speaking, so if something is significant enough to leave an imprint on the fabric of the universe itself, then it will likely repeat in a different era. It’s entirely possible that almost the same civil war plays out with almost the same people every couple of eras, their history just literally doesn't go back far enough to document it.

(This is also why, while Primus is devastated over Unicron’s death and is expected to be in mourning for the foreseeable uuuuh forever probably, there was no divine repercussion for them killing a capital G God. This has happened before and it’s only a matter of time before Unicron pops back into existence eventually—although being “killed” definitely put him out of commission for a couple of eras at least.)

This also opens up the possibility of other shenanigans, like some degree of foresight/future sight: if someone happens to get glimpses of a past era where things were similar enough, they might be able to make guesses about how things would progress in their own era, but these visions are never fully reliable because the past era could diverge at literally any point and lead to a different outcome.

My uncle is one of these paraphiles and he did hurt kids. A lot of them. Even his own sister when she was still young. Then his step daughter and her friends. He wasn't caught for nearly 2 decades. And he was only caught when the FBI got involved and set him up by pretending to be a minor. The texts he sent 'her' were fucking disgusting, entitled, and when he thought 'she' stood him up they switched to being straight up scary.

'not every pedophile even hurts kids! Most people who hurt kids aren't even attracted to them!'

So you're arguing for the 'good ones?' be so fucking for real with yourself right now.

Besides that parents and most other people know that not very pedo actually touches kids and we know that not every child abuse is attrCted to kids.

That's exactly why some parents refuse to let anyone babysit, let them go to sleepovers at their friends house, and are terrified to leave them at daycares.

Most don't even have a choice since they need to go to work. Imagine needing to leave your kid with someone only to get a call at work that your spouse, uncle, daycare worker, or babysitter beat your kid to death or molested them?

My uncle only in prison for only 8 years and is right back to going to family gatherings. As you can guess, me and my kid are never anywhere where he's present even if he is now a "non practicing pedophile" 🙄🙄🙄

We know that not everyone who hurts kids is attracted to them. Half the time kids end up dead the adult was just pissed off and not actually intending to kill the kid but guess what?

The intention doesn't matter nearly as much as the material consequences of their actions.

The adult feels an entitlement and a right to treat the child as they please and so they do and believe me when I tell you that simply saying "okay but pedos shouldn't be demonized like they are" is an empty, performative politic to have.

Get back to me when y'all are campaigning for children having bodily autonomy and kids aren't accused of being liars when they try and tell their families that uncle has been touching them cuz adults/families genuinely care more about their reputations in the community than about the safety of the kids they're around.

"destigmatizing pedophilia is youth liberation"

Kys. This whole argument is just an extension of adults caring more about their reputations than minors. Like not once have I seen any of the blogs trying to make this argument center actual minors in their bs arguments. It's always 'innocent adults are harmed by this rhetoric and it's ruins lives!'

And I'm fully sorry that happens! It's deeply fucked up that people hide their transphobic and racist motives for hurting people behind faking concern for minors safety.

I just don't think that means that we should stop taking red flags seriously. No. It's not 'youth liberation' to take accusations of child abuse less seriously just because sometimes the accusations are false, how the fuck did y'all even reach that kind of logic??

Especially with how often kids aren't believed or taken seriously when they speak up about it in the first place? No. No it's not youthlib to be normal about pedos.

Youth liberation is youth liberation.

Weird as fuck how this site is fighting for their lives trying to get everyone to think that letting fully grown adults being into loli/cp/kids without judgment is somehow gonna end up with kids having the human rights, gonna help end child marriages, or win kids their autonomy.

'its youth liberation!"

If you don't get the fuck outta my face. The day this site actually fight for youthlib and does something that actually helps kids will be the day pigs fly.

This whole fucking site hates kids and talks about it all the fucking time. Kids are lying, screaming, whining, smelly leeches as far as this site is concerned and it's INSANELY suspicious that these same people have now started acting like being attracted to kids is a human right that should be accepted and tolerated.

The craziest part is that most of the blogs making these arguments have fully made posts about how dangerous men are and how even the most loving man in the world could switch on you and hurt you more than anyone ever has so it's dangerous to trust ANY of them let alone he in community with them.

Like dont you hear what massive hypocrites you sound like? Can you not see the giant inconsistency in the logic you're applying?

Men? Unacceptable. They cause too much harm even by accident. But y'all wanna normalize paraphilias and especially the ones... about kids? The people who perhaps have the fewest and least respected rights on earth besides literal animals? But women keeping company with men is too dangerous to be worth the risk to your community?

Hmmmmmmm

Like this side by side is CRAZY!!¡¡! Same exact blog saying thess things btw.

Non-paraphilic trans men just existing are a threat you exclude from community because they use systems of harm against you and your sisters but actual pedos are "vulnerable community members" that you refuse to abandon over a "'personal ick"?

Someone lookup the rates of CSA for trans girls. Look up the rates of how often those trans girls are believed over their abusers. Then ask yourself if adults have systemic power over trans children that they use to exploit, SA, and control trans kids. Then come back and look at this post with the some dumbfounded disgust that I am.

Like do you not think trans girls are your sisters that deserve the same protection?

Y'all are really throwing trans kids under the entire bus to normalize paraphilias, pedophilia specifically. Doing that while acting like it's youth liberation knowing full well that CSA is under cared about especially when it comes to trans youth is so insidious and malicious.

But it's fine cuz you're only advocating for the good ones who haven't hurt anyone (to your knowledge...yet), right?

And besides it's just a thought crime as long as they don't act on it right?

It's not like exposing these ideas to thousands upon thousands of minors is anything more than a thought crime. It's not like this conversation happening a site for 13+ year olds will influence kids or make them think that pedophiles are safe to be around especially when theyre too young to fully grasp what grooming is, how it happens, or how manipulative determined adults are. Especially during the current discourse where they're being positioned as regressive if they don't side with literal pedophiles.

It's just a thought crime.

Right?

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Anyway.

Block me if you genuinely believe this argument is one worth fighting for.

This is a boundary. I don't feel safe around you. I don't want you around me. I don't want you in my community, my circles, or keeping tabs on me.

And to any minors following me or who see this post:

I am so sorry you've been put in such an uncomfortable position by bloggers that you trusted and even looked up to. Please, please don't keep company with anyone that makes you uncomfortable.

And until you are old enough to recognize signs of grooming, abuse, manipulation and know how to respond appropriately and maturely to those things PLEASE don't keep adults in your circle who are having these discussions.

If you feel like you have been a victim of any of these things Please tell a trusted adult.

In general, I also strongly suggest talking to a trusted adult about the experience you've had as a minor watching this discussion take place. That trusted adult could be a teacher, therapist, parent, or sibling. Why should you talk to them?

This is the sort of online experience is something that's very very likely to follow you around for a long time, for some minors it will even end up being a traumatic experience, and so it's best to stop any rooting anxieties, hurtful thought patterns, or unsafe behaviors asap.

I want you to lead a happy, fulfilling life.

That means the last thing I want is for you to hold this trauma in your heart and mind for so long that it manifests into something that causes you great pain or self injurous behavior. So please tell someone if the current discourse has upset you, made you feel unsafe, or has caused you to question yourself in a way that's affecting your mental or physical health.

Because you will have lingering thoughts about this discourse so for your own mental and physical well being it's best to process these thoughts and feelings with a trusted adult that you feel safe around to help you sort things out.

Yes you might lose access to Tumblr for awhile. It's really important to me that you understand losing Tumblr for a bit is absolutely worth your safety and later on you'll see that losing access to Tumblr and maybe even other social media was worth the risk to your safety, especially if you're as mature as you think you are.

Because I know you think you're mature enough to stay in these circles and watching/participating in this discourse but I promise you some things you can only learn from experience and age and that this is one of them. For your safety and mental health please block anyone and everyone having these discussions around you.

It's entirely inappropriate for them to be doing so. Be especially weary of anyone who is using your opinion as a minor to normalize and uplift their behavior as a pedophile. They are not your friend, they are using you to validate their own behavior.

The feelings that adults with paraphilias have about being seen as pedophiles aren't a concern for you to worry about and never will be.

They are adults who can and should be handling their own feelings. You are not responsible for them or their safety. You do not need to protect adults. It should ALWAYS be the other way around. Anyone who says otherwise is telling you dangerous lies.

“The state came to massacre, it wasn’t a [police] operation. They came directly to kill, to take lives,” one woman in Penha Complex told the AFP news agency.

“There are people who have been executed, many of them shot in the back of the head, shot in the back. This cannot be considered public safety,” said 36-year-old resident and activist Raul Santiago.

Brazil’s Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is “horrified” by the scale of fatalities and surprised that such an operation went ahead without prior knowledge of the federal government.

I’d sincerely appreciate it if non-Brazilians reblogged this. Media outlets all over the world (and especially in my homeland) will try to sweep this under the rug but the horror has spread nationwide. We call it chacina for a reason.

You'll have a hard time finding this in the news because it's being covered up, but from February 4-present the RCMP have been conducting raids on multiple Mi'kmaw reserves part of Acadia First Nation. Their excuse is that they are searching for illegal cannabis.

During the raids, so far they:

Stole a number of truck houses

Stole money from an 8-yo boy's piggy-bank that he had been saving for two years

Invaded homes and destroyed personal property, including basketwork and carvings

Broke the door down of a bathroom occupied by a 14-yo boy as he was using it - the boy has been traumatized by this

Assaulted a man for questioning why they were searching his property without providing a warrant, pinning him into the snow

Cut power of security cameras to hide these actions

I cannot stress enough that the RCMP coming down this hard on our people over motherfucking cannabis is nothing but a racist excuse. There are countless, countless, countless white-owned massive grow-ops making big money without cops lifting a single finger.

There is an informal petition you can sign here. EDIT: I've informed the petition owner that there is a field error - hopefully it'll be fixed soon