Tabbi's Proship Blog

I haven’t cross tagged this to antis because I don’t cross tag, and because I know you guys read our tags anyway so you can complain about us. It’s become clear to me that you don’t know how to block users and tags because if you did you would just do that so you didn’t have to be bothered by seeing our posts anymore. So here is a quick tutorial about how to use Tumblr’s block functions so we no longer disturb you.

These instructions are for the website. I don’t use the app even on mobile devices, hopefully someone else can help you there.

To block a poster that’s on your dash you can click the three dots in the upper right of their post and then scroll down to where it says block in orange. Click that and you won’t see their posts anymore. All done, no need to harass them because you don’t like their content. 

You can also block someone directly from their Tumblr. Again, look for the three dots click them and scroll down to block and click it. All done.

To block tags you need to co to your settings. Click the little button that looks like a stylized person in the upper right corner of your screen. Scroll down and click the one that looks like a gear. Scroll down that page until you see “Filtering” and then click the button that looks like a pencil. Put tag you don’t want to see content from in the little box and the posts with those tags will only show up on your dash as blank grey boxes that tell you that the post has tags you have blocked. You can choose to see the post if you want, but the whole point of this is making sure you don’t see the posts that bother you so exercise some willpower and don’t.

I recommend starting with everything I’ve tagged this post with. For specific media also add Jilco, Pilco, Pinecest, Wincest, and Madrigalcest.

Kellogg thought that humans were born with a finite amount of cum in their bodies, and that every orgasm fundamentally unbalanced the divine and perfect mixture of platonic humors in our bodies as they were designed by God. He believed that masturbation was a physiological sin against the order of creation, like throwing sand into the divine clockwork of the world, and a sin that God punished with chronic illness. He believed that all criminals committed crime because they masturbated, fatally unbalanced their humors, thereby became fundamentally, physically more capital E Evil.

hunt? lowed.

brain? rotted.

Good. These people often knowingly work with Nazis and that makes them as bad as them. If they don’t like that, they need to reanalyse their beliefs.

It’s also yeah ahistorical as fuck to claim trans people were not targeted by the Nazis. They literally burned every bit of progress Germany made with trans people back then, and I’m 100% certain considered trans people “homosexuals” so targeted them under that bracket.

Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

The anon ask reads: Would it be okay if I followed you? I found your blog through (blacked out). Sadly they don't seem to like disabled people very much so if you share the same views I can leave.

With the answer: ?? Yeah, you can follow me. Anyone can. You don't have to ah fuck this is a trap

The first comment reads: What's the trap? I don't get it

The second comment reads: You're the 2nd person today I've seen get this same ask

Yep. "If I engage with problematic media, I am endorsing those aspects" only applies when the author is a transphobe.

I don't know how to spell this out, but if someone depicts X content in fiction, they are quite likely to support depicting X content in fiction.

1: the automatic "Opt In" feature has nothing to do with "DreamUp". basically, AI generators have been using DeviantArt as a mine for its images without dA's permission. They have put an "opt in" option on all pictures on their site for these external AI sites. The setting is automatically set to "opt in" because that is literally the default as its always been. Automatic Opt-out is coming, they just need to tinker with it a little.

2: DreamUp is deviantArts Ai art generating program that only sources from deviantArt images that have the "opt in" feature turned on. However, the opt in feature is not directly tied to DreamUp in any way. DreamUp is just a new AI program that actually credits artists as its sources. It's a model dA has implemented to try and set a precedent as to how other AI art programs should work.

3: the people running the dA twitter are shit at communication and there are several mods crying in the discord because they TOLD THEM NOT TO WORD IT THIS WAY. and they ignored them and now there's a shit show.

You have ALWAYS been "opt in" to AI art generators... Without you or dA's permission.

dA is now giving you an option to turn it OFF.

But to put it as automatic off will take time to implement.

"a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on"

So let me elaborate:

If you see art of a ship that would be illegal/wrong irl, and you immediately know that it would be wrong irl, then it has not been normalized.

If something is normalized, it means that a large majority of people are doing it without a second thought, and the rest of society is okay with it. But you don’t see people publicly announcing on social media that they’re dating/marrying their sibling, or someone way too young (granted, I can’t speak for other non American societies but I do acknowledge that where it is normalized it’s a problem). You know damn well there would be (justified) backlash and therefore it is not normalized.

The disgust toward the very wrong ideas antis claim pro shippers are normalizing has not changed in any significant degree. And it will not change because of pro shippers, because people in fandom are a very small minority of the national population (US) and even more so globally (where there are more people to account for). On top of that, the large majority of pro shippers are aware that those kinds of relationships would not be okay in real life and would attempt to stop/report it if they encountered it.

What an actual normalization attempt would look like would be fundraising and petitioning to make those kinds of relationships legal. But again, this isn’t happening. People are just drawing fictional characters kissing, while again, knowing in the back of their heads that this would not be okay in reality (which is, by the way, a part of consuming media critically, but that’s a whole other beast I don’t want to get into tonight).

Every view on youtube is about a tenth of a cent for a creator. That means that you'd have to watch ten videos in order to give them a single penny. If they were a redbubble creator and you ordered a sticker from and they got 20 cents from the markup on your sticker that would be like watching 200 videos with ads on.

Making a single kofi payment or a one-time patreon donation is significantly more impactful than watching videos with the ads on. If you want to do something to help creators but you can't afford to directly donate, then the best thing that you can do is engage with a video by liking or commenting so that other people (who don't have ublock origin) are more likely to see the video.

But you should never, ever, ever feel guilty for blocking ads on youtube, or anywhere else.

Youtube puts harmful, shitty ads on their platform. They put homophobic ads on videos meant for queer kids. They put oil company ads on videos about climate change.

Ad networks sometimes allow for actual malware injection, aside from bullshit like harmful diets or unproven supplements or addictive mobile games.

You know what ads *don't* get blocked by my adblocker? Static ads on websites that were manually added by the person administering that site. Is it a fuck of a lot harder to go out and sell ad space on your website than it is to sign up with AdSense? Yep. But it means your ads don't get blocked. It means you know what's going on your page. It means you know you aren't actively harming your site visitors.

So it's possible to argue that there is a level of harm that comes from users blocking ads on youtube. It is also possible to argue that harm comes to viewers from ads placed on youtube videos by youtube, and that youtube is certainly taking the lion's share of the profit from those ads even if they do toss a pittance to creators.

Ads fucking suck. Ads should not exist. You shouldn't be subjected to them and the people whose work you love shouldn't have to beg for pennies from advertisers in order to keep creating content. If at all possible, you should try to give directly to creators whose work you enjoy. If you can't do that, then engaging with their content so that other people will see it will likely do more for them on a case-by-case basis than turning off adblocking for youtube.

If the guilt is going to consume you *anyway* then you should create a youtube container in Firefox and leave adblocking disabled in that container and then *never do anything else* in that container so that google doesn't get useful advertising data from you, or you should watch what videos you can while logged-out in a private window.

But also in the grand scheme of things turning ads on for youtube is not a catastrophe? You're not a bad person if you watch videos with ads on, or if you use youtube logged-in, or if you let the algorithm learn your preferences.

Also this is a good reminder: Ublock origin won't work at all on chrome in 2023, so now is an ideal time to switch to firefox.

Unless it is specifically stated somewhere in the post, all of my computer advice is predicated on the idea that users are already using firefox on all of their devices.

This is also a great reminder to install Firefox on your Android or iOS device!

Because csam - or child sexual abuse material - hurts real children. In order to create CSAM - one must first, clearly, sexually abuse a child and document it, usually with the intent of sharing it with other people. It’s a deeply traumatizing experience to be subjected to, to not only be abused often by people you trust, but to have that abuse documented and spread for others to see. It’s disgusting, it’s damaging, and it often haunts victims for life.

You cannot hurt fictional children. Fictional children are pixels, you can do whatever you want to them and it does not matter because they’re not real. And yes, you could theoretically argue that art like that could be used to groom children - but quite frankly so can anything. So can candy, or bicycles, or puppies - but we arent calling for a ban on those across the nation. Puppies, candy and bicycles also don’t have a history of being used to censor marginalized voices the same way that referring to things that aren’t CSAM as CSAM have, or calling people pedophiles who aren’t pedophiles has.