Welome to my lair! >:D

that is to say, the stereotyping of trans women as predators makes it harder for survivors to come forward. a number of them discuss wanting their abuser to be understood as an individual who harmed them, not as a representative of their entire demographic

but please, if you can spare some time or energy to, keep the pressure on. do not let this "project" get anywhere off the ground

even more importantly, please listen to the transfem survivors in your life. please do what you can to support transfem survivors. transfem voices project will return, but please remember that it was never about me. anyone can support transfem survivors of sexual abuse

Tuning Into You (5157 words) by WXWood_Official Chapters: 1/? Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wormwood/WX-78 (Don't Starve), Maxwell/Wilson (Don't Starve) Characters: Wormwood (Don't Starve), WX-78 (Don't Starve), Robert Wagstaff (Don't Starve), Wilson (Don't Starve), Maxwell (Don't Starve), Wurt (Don't Starve), Walter (Don't Starve), Webber (Don't Starve) Summary: Wormwood had been the first to see it, first to feel it. The way the wind picked up and brought a blue mist along with it. The way it felt like there was a static in his mind, and his body wouldn't respond to his gem telling it to move. There was a restless energy in the ground and in the air, lightning crackling above, but no clouds. Only this blue swirling mass around him. A strange storm and a spark… That's all it takes sometimes to send a little plantling crashing into a strange figure, who would suddenly become the most important person in her life. The question now was… Would they change her life for better or worse? Was this a climb to the top, or a spiral to the bottom? Neither knew really, but at some point, they'd both conclude they had to see it to the end.

both sides of the same coin, it's very racist and I'm gathering from my experiences that these racist white people fetishize not just the black body but the idea of black domination and triumph over antiblackness and bigotry. it's their ultimate anti racist fantasy.

and don't get me started on it hyper-masculinizing black bodies too because my sona was drawn in a bikini expressing his gender non conformity. it's really racist and dehumanizing.

Remember the sixpencee child slave thing? What happened there, exactly? Was the kid freed? No? They were just run off the website? OK so what good exactly did that do?

Remember the bone stealing witch? What exactly did that witchhunt accomplish? The person got arrested, oh that's great, the american justice system surely rectified the situation

And again, those are instances where the accusations were true and involved real substantive harm to another person. We used to joke on here how callout posts were shit like "receipts below: [several paragraphs of petty fandom drama] [three paragraphs of petty interpersonal drama involving cheating on partners or stealing food out of the fridge or something] [fabricated evidence that the person is responsible for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey]"

And that was back in the 2010s. The meta has changed. Callouts used to be a tool people used to point out actual harm a person had done, rarely, and more commonly were used as a means of bullying somebody over petty drama. Nowadays they're used to manufacture outrage and harassment against marginalized populations. They are a weapon bigots use to turn us against each other. A few manufactured accusations here, some out of context or clipped screenshots there, and people who should be standing in solidarity with each other against white supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, are instead devouring each other.

It's sinister as shit, dude, and people will still share these accusations without a second thought. So, why? What is the point? What's the best case scenario here? Raising "awareness?" what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Will we get the oh-so-trustworthy authorities involved? Are we hoping for an arrest? A conviction? Throwing a queer or poc person in prison so they can be abused and assaulted and humiliated behind bars? Is that who we are?

Callouts and the like don't serve any real good in the world. At a macro scale they divide us when we should be standing together, and at a micro scale they result in deeply traumatic never-ending harassment and threats and doxxing and worse to a person who almost definitely does not deserve it. And again, for what? A sense of "justice?" this is not justice. This is retribution. It is punishment.