My Fandom Reality

Hello, and welcome to my slice of the internet where I've chosen to spend my downtime arguing the intricacies of reality, fiction and humanity.

My name is Sephiroth. I can be referred to as he, she or they, and I am over the age of 18. I have been active in fandom spaces for over a decade.

The aim of this blog is not to incite arguments, witch hunts or bullying, and to the best of my capability I will mitigate these where possible, although I absolutely Do Not subscribe to the notion of 'don't name and shame.' The purpose of this blog is to hopefully facilitate a more greyscale and critical-thought view on how reality, fiction and fandom spaces are intertwined, connect, affect each other and influence each other.

The blog and its posts also hope to facilitate collected, open-minded discussions between opposing or conflicting views. As one such example, 'antis' and 'proshippers.' The ultimate goal is allow education, open-minded discussions about fandom, fiction and reality to become a standard commonplace as opposed to targeted harassment, uneducated misinformation, threats, ect.

Acts of kindness is letting people go ahead on the road. Taking 15 seconds out of your day to let that learner driver pull out unhurried. I'm almost never in a hurry to get home. Letting one or two people out ahead of me doesn't change anything. I'd have still spent those seconds either way.

(It's also letting people cross the road, because we've all been that pedestrian, and I'm in the car anyway, and we've both got places to be but I'm not hard-pressed for the 10 seconds it takes someone to walk across.)

It's telling the old lady in the checkout store that her shoes are nice. It makes her smile. It's not life changing, but for those few seconds, and maybe for a few moments now and then when she thinks about it, she's happy.

It's putting that spider outside instead of squishing it, because we all share the same world, and because humans are the first to scream and cry whenever we're killed by something bigger just for being in the "wrong place."

Kindness is saying "it's okay" when your food is taking a while at a busy restaurant instead of screaming at the waitress who has absolutely no control over the food itself. It's frustrating. It's not her fault. She's probably already been screamed at twice today.

Kindness is not letting your child run screaming at birds on the street. They don't understand it's a game. They don't know he's harmless. Every time it happens they feel fear, and they think they're in danger. They're just trying to live too. Teach your kids to watch from afar. Teach them to feed them and be kind to them. Teach them that deliberately scaring an animal is never fun.

Kindness is sharing someone's local missing pet poster.

It's picking up litter on the street.

Kindness is leaving a single heart emoji in the comments of a fanfiction you loved or a piece of artwork you loved because human connection does not have to be intense and high-effort and complex. Man see, man heart, man move on. Simple.

Kindness is not holding that fish out of water for ten minutes while you get your photos and dangle it by it's entire body weight from a hook in it's mouth because you'd hate suffocating and being in pain too, and you can just as easily bring a clear container, fill it with the site water, and get a photo that way instead.

It's saying 'please' and 'thank you.'

It's not picking pretty wildflowers because then nobody but you can enjoy them and the bees die.

Which is just another example of why AI isn't actually intended to be accessible for disabled people, we're just a marketing tool.

If companies actually cared about disabled artists and disabled people who want to get into creative crafting and writing and painting, there'd be more universal information available regarding what options we have. There'd be more widespread knowledge about what additional needs we might have when trying to create art, and what accessibility tools we actually need.

Actual solutions to disabled people's needs are buried and denied because they're not rapid profit makers. Because they might cost a little more to make so profit margins drop. Because companies want disabled people to feel like they have no other choice.

(post is still up and that cunt mod is still defending ai though)

AI being marketed as a form of "accessibility" is a very deliberate and heavily pushed campaign. It's deliberately making a shield out of a classification of oppressed, vulnerable people.

Nobody wants to be the able-bodied dickhead telling a disabled person they can't or shouldn't be using an "accessibility tool." Nobody wants the reputation of a person arguing against disabled people "being able to make art."

"But disabled people!" is one of the most disingenuine, shitty, malicious defences possible for the use of generative AI and every single disabled person who uses it should feel ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be exploited and manipulated by greedy, disgusting billionaires who only care about profit.

People with no arms or legs learn to paint with their mouths. People who are paralyzed hairline to fucking toenails have learned to draw using eye-tracking software.

Speech-to-text software exists. You do not need AI to write your novel for you.

You're just lazy and allowing billionaires to exploit your vulnerability and needs for money. Generative AI was not, ever, created with accessibility for disabled people in mind. It just wasn't. It was created with profit in mind.

Disabled people do not need generative AI and disabled people who use their disabilities to defend using generative AI bring shame to every single one of us.

This is Yongsan Cat Sanctuary.

They are facing eviction and obstruction due to large-scale on-going demolition and tear-downs which has resulted in many residential cats being abandoned while their owners move away, and many stray cats losing their shelters, feeders and safe hiding places.

Yongsan Cat Sanctuary is doing everything they can, but are facing extreme financial hardship over the eviction and over the sheer volume (300+) of cats that now urgently need their help.

All of the cats currently in the demolition zone are at immediate risk. It is incredibly hard to find, catch/trap, and relocate these cats, and Yongsan Cat Sanctuary are one of the very few attempting this monumental feat. They rely entirely on donations and volunteers. They are not receiving any official funding or assistance.

(Example donation: ₩10,000 = £5 / €5.80 / AU$9.30 / $6.60)

You can donate via PayPal, Patreon or other means, and can even choose how your donations are spent, including choosing specific cats to fund and help. Cats like:

It's harder to disagree with, or disapprove of, or convince other people that a likeable person is a bad one. It's so much easier to discredit your victims and sow doubt when everyone likes you.

I see a lot of media criticism of movies and tv shows at the moment, where people deem villains as 'too likeable' and 'too human' and 'its too hard to see him as a villain because of X and Y.'

And that is the whole fucking point.

There is no excuse for promoting or using generative AI. And disabilities are not an excuse to dismiss the harm AI does.

(Which I say as a disabled person!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/boyslove/comments/1thtgiy/full_service_he_can_go_where_i_cannot_sfw_fan/

AI bootlickers.... AI bootlickers everywhere....

Shitty moderation aside though, the original poster of the AI slop does seem to be a bot. Brand new account with no other content. The perfect, long-winded, excessively pity-farming sob-story about being the most disabled you could possibly be, how everyone around them is praising and encouraging their use of [very specifically named AI] and how they need AI to feel good about themselves. Commenting specifically about how fanart and source content is "grey area" and "free use" and "creative license." Speaking like ye olde person from the Very Important Professional Office.

I take the authenticity of it with a pinch of salt. The entire account and scenario just reeks of a bot created to try and promote a specific AI platform, and generative AI overall.

FYI, this is what trying to use the internet looks like if you allow your Government to dictate "age-based safety laws" like the UK's Online Safety Act.

None of these websites are pornography websites. None of these websites are explicitly for sexual content. None of the things marked as 'mature' are even remotely sexual.

An overwhelming amount of content dictated as 'mature' is non-sexual LGBTQ content. That hidden Tumblr post is literally a non-sexual image of two Thai BL actors kissing at a premiere.

Your data is not deleted. Your data is held permanently (Discord even admitted despite claiming they do not store their data that they actually do after doubling back on people using AI generated videos to pass the verification check) and tracked and sold.

Most websites are reporting an exponential rate of hacking and data breach attempts on a daily basis. Within 24 hours of Discord implementing the Act, they were breached. A huge amount of personal information was irrevocably stolen and sold.

This is Stage One in your online activity being used to control you on an unfathomable scale and determine your ability to access things like the internet, your digital finances, ect.

Let's make it heterosexual.

It isn't saying you'd harm little children or you'd shoot someone's dog in the face or you think all women under 40 should be raped until they've had at least one child.

It just isn't. And that's not me being sensitive.

Ragebait is inciting harmless anger for funsies. Watching someone tweak out because you keep telling them the sky is actually green. Moving everything in the house slightly to the left to listen to your dad bang his knee every morning and curse the roof off of the house.

Telling a grieving mother you're going to graverob her child and rape it's dead corpse? Not ragebait.

And, yes. The vast majority of these comments are just bots. But there are also handfuls of shitty little teens and fuckless grown men who think 'extreme dark humor' is peak comedy and edgy and fuckability.

And it simply isn't.

I mean genuinely. Go to your next family dinner and proudly tell them you spend your free time telling assault victims you hope their abusers come back and kill them too.

Genuinely go into your workplace and tell your colleagues and bosses that you spend your time commenting on videos of peoples' children online that you'd rape them.

Not even as a 'gotcha.' Just genuinely tell them. See what they think about it. If it's ssssoooo funny and edgy and cool, surely, nothing is going to come of it, right? They'll laugh and clap you on the back and life will continue as normal.

Tell your friends you commented on a cute video of a dog online with a whole paragraph about how you'd strangle it with your bare hands and cut it's body into tiny pieces and feed it to the dog's owners.

Do it.

If the literal only way I can access a natural area like a mountain, beach, ect means we have to devastate the landscape and install massive ugly monstrocities of mechanised lifts and walkways, run power lines, ect ect...

I actually don't need to go there that badly. I can go somewhere more accessible and just as beautiful. I don't need to ruin beautiful, natural areas with more man-made shit.

There is a huge difference between installing a relatively small, removable, non-impactful ramp or wooden pulley-system lift and carving out half the landscape for some ugly ass electric lift.

Nature-friendly accessibility is one thing, but if we have to erode and destroy and remove the natural landscape, impact local wildlife and it's habitats, ect...