#codzombies

tw: Mentions of: Rape, pedophilia, racism, sexism, nazism.

So, I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea how to start this. Morally, I feel I need to call attention to this, and I also want to use this as a teaching moment because this is important, especially with minors in this space who might not grasp the severity of this. This post is a call-in post for the person involved and anyone else who might share the same views or the same confusion. This isn’t to generate drama, and please don’t send hate to this person, I don’t condone that.

Before we begin, @bethess-tmblr-edition, this is going to feel like an attack, and I swear to you, it isn't. I'm showing screenshots with both sides of our conversation because I feel it's important for context, and the only ones I won't include are those that don't apply. I can only post ten screenshots in a post, and I don't feel this needs to be a google doc. I'm not in the business of sharing all my personal conversations, but I can't just sit here and keep quiet. However, I'm also going to address the things you yourself said should be addressed in this little fandom space. I'm doing my best to make this as productive as possible. I want the best for you, but in order for that to happen, I think this post needs to be made.

SO! This unfortunate situation started when I saw the tags of this post. Rather than call it out publicly immediately, I sent a DM to ask about it and just hoped to have a conversation about it.

Now, I don't want to rehash the disagreement you had, because that isn't the point here. I was actually going to make a call-out post about that when it first happened, but I saw the person you were in disagreements with didn't want to make a big deal out of it (this was quite a while ago, and I vaguely remember seeing that said, but I could be wrong.) So, I left it alone, but your words here concern me a bit since it looks like you didn't take anything away from that argument.

Before I move on to you personally, why don't we call out certain things we've seen in this space together? You gave me examples of things you feel should be called out. I went over them with you, but let's air it all out.

The only thing more I can say is please don't ever hold back on something like rape to use it to further yourself? That was...A bit weird, I can't lie to you. Especially considering this is about a video game...I also find it strange that I've never seen you call these things out? Perhaps you did, and they're just really old posts, but you only threw these out because, in your opinion, it was unfair to focus on "nazi agenda" posts when there are other issues in the fandom. Translation: You didn't like the fact that you got called out and tried to pivot the conversation to take the blame and shame off of yourself.

Now, let's focus on our own issue. We got into Nazi territory...You have said publicly that you used to be a nazi, but your views have changed. However, I'm concerned that perhaps you haven't unpacked your biases as much as you think you have. You can't seem to discern racism, sexism, and full on nazism, and that's gravely worrying to me. In the political climate that we're in, not being able to tell the difference in severity of those three things is very alarming. My issue is the following exchange. It was from exactly here that you got me fucked up:

The simple fact is, someone who has unpacked their problematic beliefs shouldn't feel the need to lash out like this and be so defensive. Someone who doesn't hold those beliefs anymore should have no problem agreeing that yes, nazism is in fact worse. I don’t believe that you are a full blown Nazi, but I do believe that you still have a lot of work to do.

In today's political climate, keeping silent on matters like this is detrimental, and this is why I'm making this post- I won't be complicit. If showing this conversation can help others who are trying to deconstruct their beliefs understand themselves better, or if this gives someone the push to challenge their beliefs further and come out the other side a better person for it, then I don't regret doing this one bit.

If anyone reading this is still confused, allow me to put it this way:

The love of my life isn't being targeted because of sexism. The love of my life isn't being targeted because of racism. The love of my life is being targeted because of nazism, fascism, and the rise of the far right.

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Some old Rich drawings

🌻Antoine n’ Juliz 💊 hhhhhh (male ver OF ult Julizi !!)

The character Antoine belongs to @noglatorr !!

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