In the Name of Queer Science

Teen With Epilepsy Has A Seizure When Her Service Dog Is Distracted

1. Being an asshole to people for no real reason is actually really shitty, despite what the wannabe high school bullies on this hellsite tell you

MOGAI genders/orientations

Otherkin/fictkin

A-spec inclusion

Non-dysphoric trans people

Non-binary genders

Neopronouns

Differentiating between pronoun and gender

Neurodivergence

“Cringy” hyperfixations/interests

Fujoshi/fudanshi/fujin

Ex-antis

For real, it’s so ridiculous. When I started watching Pokemon, I was younger than the main characters. I shipped Ash and Misty really hard, they were my first otp before I even knew what shipping was. So now I’m older than them, I’m not allowed to ship them anymore? I’m not allowed to imagine them grown up at my current age? Wtf ant1s?

The artist doesn’t need negativity. You could have been a better person and pm them (kindly ) and explain to them.

I’ve seen young artist, leave the fandom and dare not touch any character that have darker skin color, because they have gotten picked on, harassed an attacked.

Your “should I fight them” isn’t helpful at all but shows that yes, the Voltron fandom is a toxic place.

And then you

“THIS ART UGLY LAMO”

Mark that as another toxic thing to make Voltron community.

Then your friend and you talk about the artist, then you tag me? To prove what? That the toxic fan base is alive and well.

If you don’t like it, cool, move on, live on.

Anon, I am a real life abuse survivor and what people ship does not affect me because I can easily avoid content for ships that I don’t like or find triggering if I exercise the barest amount of responsibility for my own online experience just as every other abuse survivor can.

What affects me as an abuse survivor is seeing people constantly put my abuse on the same level as fictional stories about fictional cartoon characters who 99% of the time are not even children, seeing people constantly mis-use the word pedophilia to describe anything and everything other than actual CSA, seeing people constantly falsely accused of being pedophiles and pedophile apologists—including multiple other CSA survivors—over the fictional content they read or over not wanting to see their abuse trivialized by having it compared to that fictional content or even just for not wanting to get involved with this ridiculous fandom mess to the point where everyone on this entire website has alarm fatigue over it and doesn’t take actual allegations of actual predators seriously anymore.

What affects me as an abuse survivor is seeing people constantly use me and other CSA survivors as prop in a cyberbullying campaign over ship wars, using us and their so-called “defense” of us to justify telling people to kill themselves, that they deserve to die and be assaulted, and making an absolute mockery of the abuse that I went through and that other CSA survivors have went through by having the audacity to act like shipping an 18 year old cartoon character with another cartoon character in their 20s is just as bad as being sexually abused as a child.

That isn’t me “supporting pedophilic ships”, that is me being absolutely against a fandom culture that normalizes abuse of other fans and puts the well-being of fictional characters who do not exist over the well-being of actual, real life human beings and actual, real-life abuse survivors while advocating for people to take responsibility for their own online and fandom experience by using the resources available to them to avoid content that they don’t want to see.

The guy who traumatised me? My cool older friend who liked cooking and hiking. It would be impossible to tell he was into underage boys just by looking at his blog.

This practice of trying to out people as paedophiles for shipping something you don’t like or being on the side of the ace or kink discourse that you don’t like is doing more harm than good. Innocent people are being bullied and having their mental health ruined while actual child abusers are going under the radar.

When I see a callout post for an apparent paedophile on here, my immediate first though is ‘I wonder what their unpopular ship is’, and not ‘I should block this dangerous person’, because so few of the posts have solid evidence behind them.

the vast majority of people who’ve written more than 5 slash fics have at least one without sex; I’m used to people writing more fics without sex than with, but I tend to go for writers of longer works

lots of people don’t follow lgbt+ news, including lots of lgbt+ people, and reading the news is not a requirement for writing

all romance is really terrible about consent, regardless of whether it’s fanfic, mainstream published, specialty published, or self-published original fiction, and regardless of who wrote it

you’re accusing people of doing things for sexual gratification and then getting angry at them for saying they’re not sexually attracted; also, aces aren’t straight

I’ve read lots of things written by straight girls with very good pacing; conversely, I’ve read almost nothing written by gay men with good pacing

I personally dislike omegaverse so I don’t know that much about it, but I’ve for sure seen lots of lgbt+ people writing it

fujoshis are not by definition straight and it’s wierd to imply they are

um, yes, people do write things exploring romance and sex to explore and express their own feelings and interactions with romance and sex

what’s wrong with kink?

everyone I’ve seen engaging in top/bottom discourse seriously has been mlm; even as a joke, it’s mostly mlm and occasionally wlw

lots of straight girls absolutely do read and/or write f/f, and even if they don’t, who cares?

most popular ships have fanonized dynamic that new writers in the fandom will adhere to, but it’s frequently the younger one who’s the top (power exchange), and not infrequently the younger one who’s the top (penis putter inner)

gay men are way more likely to ignore lesbians that straight women when writing m/m fic

we all know it’s lesbians who tag the most ships

literally any kind of artist putting literally any kind of art on the internet makes posts about how awkward and embarassed they are

lots of characters are very sexual in canon - this includes one of the most common character archetypes, the womanizer, as well as many canon mlm, like Jack Harkness

there’s nothing wrong with self-insert fic

there’s nothing wrong with being anti-anti, and in fact there’s probably something wrong if you aren’t

oh no being against hate however will we live

most slash writers I read are women in their mid twenties to late thirties, although I don’t keep track of their orientations; also, weren’t you guys trying to ban anyone older than 8th grade from fandom?

I see way more lgbt+ people using ‘sin’ than straight girls

it’s a bad thing to be an ally now? that sounds like…homophobia

personally I prefer angsty fics, and I find it tends to be 85% angst or 3% and not a lot in between - sex is almost never more than 5% except in smut fics, which are, well, smut

Oh, wait, for being a 13-year-old girl who identifies as straight (because we all know everyone’s sorted out their sexual orientation by that age! /s) and writes fanfic.

And in context it’s even worse: OP is calling 13-year-olds on the carpet for their personal sexual thoughts, in really skeevy and inappropriate ways.

For reasons I don’t comprehend, @karawaltersuniverse has taken to lying about me, calling be a TERF and accusing me of misgendering a trans, male person on Instagram—while she misgenders him (as seen here), accusing him of being a transtrander because he’s…traditionally feminine? Not ashamed of his body as he “should be if he had dysphoria”? Has pastel hair?