A Jesters' Trash

We all know the “jokes” about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they’re not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don’t understand the gravity of it),

GamerGate was an entire right-wing reactionary movement that was - and this is not hyperbole - partially responsible for turning fascism into a “legitimate” position by the American Overton window, composed entirely of people who feared losing their fan spaces,

We’ve had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn’t going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN’T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a “fake” sexuality and “pretending to be oppressed” and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of “pedophilia” in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes “child porn”, and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don’t Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to “sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn’t even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed”,

We’ve seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance “it’s us vs. them so anything they don’t like is Good”,

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I’ve seen in recent years hasn’t come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren’t exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they’re the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn’t resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We’ve seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don’t know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

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Most important: Spend the money you have on a motel. Churches probably will not actually help and shelters can be dangerous or turn you away. At a motel you have free breakfast, access to running water, and a lockable place to sleep. Do not waste money on a gym membership like the popular version of this post says to do, YMCA memberships are like $40.

2. Contact family and friends. Now is not the time to worry about being a burden. Your survival and safety comes first and that is all that matters, anyone worth having in your life will agree.

3. Start a gofundme. Even if someone can’t offer you a place to stay, they might be willing to toss out $5 so you can eat today.

4. Libraries have free wifi. Apply to any and all jobs you can think of if you aren’t already working.

5. Any home is a good home. Even if it’s a dingy apartment in a bad neighborhood. If its cheap and you can afford it, snatch it up. 

6. Pancake mix and peanut butter are filling, cheap, and last a long time.

My nieces and nephews all watch this show and I had no idea, I just thought he was short and put absolutely zero more thought into it.

For fucking YEARS I have seen mspec ppl being told to “make your own words!” when we try to claim space within our community (the community we helped fucking build). And yet now that we are using words that describe our experience, and our experience alone, suddenly y’all have decided that those words are homophobic and we are all homophobes for using them. 

More traits a homosexual might have in common with heterosexuals!

White

Able-bodied

Neurotypical

Educated

Upper-class

Financially privileged

Being gay doesn’t make those things disappear! It’s not homophobic or lesbophobic to point out the ways someone who’s oppressed in one way has privilege in another.

If I didn’t get the same shit from Buddy Bro Straight and Ms Uber-Radfem Lesbian, I wouldn’t need a term like “monosexual” that focuses on how you both treat me like shit for the same reason (the fact that I can be attracted to more than one gender), now would I?

The day I don’t need a word to talk about “people attracted to only one gender who Treat Me Like Garbage” that actually applies equally to both sides of that particular little shit-storm, I’ll be happy to retire it and go back to talking about shitty straight people. 

But right now, when both groups are up in my face the same way, I’m gonna go ahead and use the term that covers both of you. 

ches

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

In about 2014-2015 or so, I ran in three major circles- (small)fandom, otherkin/fictionkin, and the general neurodiversity community. It ended up that a lot of my mutuals ended up being either young folks fresh to the sj scene and ready to drop anything anyone claimed was ‘bad’ at the drop of a hat, otherkin that only ever had been exposed to tumblrs hellpit of a community and thus had poor boundaries and thought they had to be ‘critical’ of past life beliefs, or had largely untreated ptsd and were making a lot of content related to living with and coping with trauma.

Each of these had a rapid downslide into anti-dom that forced you to also adopt those beliefs or be pretty much barred from the content and communities you wanted.

One fandom I was pretty active in was warrior cats, a high-drama fandom already, quickly gained a lot of cliques with the motto ‘im gay and im mean and I like revenge and people who arent Exactly as educated and opinionated as me about tumblr drama cant follow’ because radfem infestation. It was so bad that any person with over 200 notes on a drawing that wasnt just a silent art dumper was almost guaranteed to be an anti. It used to be quiet on tumblr, then bam! A bunch of 15-20 year olds rejoined the nostalgia train while half high on radfem juice and if you wanted to even reblog regular content, you had to express anti ideals, or at least be quiet on the topic in a way that indicated you were too traumatized to talk about it but were totally also an anti.

Meanwhile, the otherkin and fictionkin communities, getting ransacked by trolls and filled with people who just thought it meant ‘relates to this thing a lot and roleplays as it’ on top of the community rules for interacting with wider fandom or content creators from the lens of a past life(ie- Dont, and separate yourself and your past life/parallel life/whatever from the fictional media very similar to it, for that matter) being tossed out the window here, quickly fell victim to the ‘that gross pairing/fic is wanting ME a REAL person to be harmed this way!!1!!’. Id almost link the degradation of the meaning of otherkind and fictionkind and the careful boundaries that have been cultivated for years to anti culture through this ‘you are hurting ME!!!’ thing, considering a huge amount of those high on ID culture are also antis. But thats kind of off topic and I digress.

Meanwhile, radfems injected ‘kink is people making light of your YOUR trauma’ into traumablogger circles and things went from gallows humor, self help posts, and support chatter to quite a lot of ‘look at these people who get off on people being hit, getting off on the thing that traumatized me how dare they!’

Suddenly, with all the places I frequented going kind of batshit over shipping and kink, I was kind of forced to convert or lose all of the people I was sort of friendly with. And also, because people seemed very hurt about it, I didnt WANT to hurt them and soon ended up following anti focused blogs.

The blogs and their circles were pretty much cults. They isolated you, you could only follow if you werent following non-antis or you get blocked and publically ridiculed, they alternated shoving untagged triggering content into feeds and rewarding people for ‘braving’ the Problematic tags to get people to block, blacklist, and publically ridicule. They were cruel, fucked up, and held a creeping sense of paranoia.

They were also very rewarding. You had people who would back you up in ANY fight at the drop of the hat, they would all follow you and answer your ask games, promo you to their followers, give you that sweet sweet affection and friendly interaction, you always felt like you belonged… So long as you followed the rules and stayed Pure.

Id do anything for a friend, at that point of my life, and they touted themselves as the best of friends.

I got out because of the aro/ace discourse, actually. I noticed that a lot of blogs just. suddenly hated aro/ace people. I unfollowed the ones that didnt hunt you down if you unfollowed, and followed a bunch of those who supported ace folks.

Over time I noticed like half of the Inclusionists I followed were pro ship, and read their rebuttals. The hard evidence was sound and I slowly transitioned into anti-anti/pro ship places. As anti circles tended to have a high url-change rate, and discourse blogs have a roughly 1-2 year shelf life at the most, I steadily unfollowed them as they became 3 weeks/a month inactive and made a lot of posts about how I was ‘unfollowing a bunch of blogs so sorry if I unfollowed you’ and soon, I was left with only a few mutuals with anti leanings and nothing else. I went back to my old ships and was so much more psychologically stable for it.

It wasnt ever much of anything anyone really said in a discourse post that convinced me, in the end. It was more the ‘this is a fucking cult’ over the beleifs of the cult itself that got me out. The ‘hey we can both agree that ANY suicide bating is wrong and there is no reason for those people to be cruel’ was more effective than attacking the actual beliefs. Attacking the beliefs in any way just flings people into a blind hurt rage, especially with how we (or the circles I was in)were trained to respond to those arguments. Every other post on our dash was that, and you just, white it out after while, auto responding the same copy-pasted chanting they gave us as ‘resources’. You CANT listen. Not until you are on a topic that we werent trained to react messily to. Then you can begin to unravel it.

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Bakugo gets cocky one time and says he could take them both at once and so they decide to try it, Aizawa and Izuku are both meticulous in prepping him, so much so he’s already cum twice by the time they’re done with prep alone. when both of them are actually inside him and fucking him the stretch is just so much but it’s so good that Bakugo cant do much more than sob and moan begging for more. 

By the time they’re done with him Bakugo’s come four more times and is so dazed he can’t even speak or move. 

izuku absolutely loves the way Bakugo looks during and just after sex, all flushed and pretty, so much so that he (with bakugo’s permission) snaps a few pictures of him on his knees or getting fucked by Aizawa. 

Aizawa is actually a switch, Izuku and Bakugo find this out in the best way possible when they come home to hearing Aizawa stretching himself open with his fingers and they both take turns fucking him and spit-roasting him for the rest of the night. 

Izuku is a vocal as fuck bottom when he does bottom, and AIzawa and Bakugo love to turn him into a moaning, mewling mess, telling him how pretty he sounds, telling him to use his words when he begs to come, etc.

Izuku manages to convince Bakugo to indulge in some lingerie and they both surprise Aizawa w/it. He nearly faints and by the next week they both have several sets. 

  And now for sfw things gdsakfn

Bakugo refuses to admit it but!!! He loves!!! getting spoiled w/physical affection!! He loves in particular when Aizawa or Deku run their fingers through his hair he fucking m e l t s. 

nap piles. nap piles for days. 

Deku and Bakugo nerd out over hero stuff sometimes adn every now and again Aizawa will encourage their nerding if it’s a hero he’s worked with before/knows a lot about. 

THEY BOTH SCOUR THE INTERNET LOOKING FOR ERASERHEAD MERCH AND BY THE NEXT DAY THEY BOTH HAVE SHIRTS, MUGS AND RECREATIONS OF AIZAWA’S GOOGLES. 

Aizawa ends up getting custom merch of a onesie that looks like Izuku’s hero costume and Bakugo’s gauntlet as a plushie and they nearly die of a heart attack 

Izuku has a habit of cracking his knuckles/his joints in genreal and everytime he does Bakugo just goes “Do not repeat the sports fest, you dumbass” while Aizawa just nods in agreement

I LOVE MEWLING BOTTOM DEKU!!! JUST WHIMPERING, BEGGING FOR MORE, HE JUST CANT STAY QUIET

god deku is. super vocal during sex