#cydippida

Deep Sea Comb Jelly (Duobrachium sparksae), Order Cydippida, encountered 3,910 m deep, about 40 km off the coast of Puerto Rico

Described/discovered in 2015.

photograph via: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research

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I MUST DEFEND MY FAVORITE ARTIST ONLINE

oh hey, someone with their name attached to an ask, haven't got one of those in a while

Anyway

(1) "you act as if people drawing and posting porn involving minors is normal behavior."

I mean, if we're going to be honest, a lot of things about erotic fantasies aren't "normal", so I don't really care about that word usage? That means nothing.

What I care about is actual harm, and there is no actual hard proof that these stories/art/fantasies/whatever *on their own* lead to a greater increase in CSA or grooming.

We know people may use it, but that's because groomers use everything. But we learned that we aren't going to hold candy stores on lock down, but rather teach kids about "stranger danger".

(2) "not every CSA or COCSA victim is going to be comforted by people fetishizing the thing that traumatized them"

Cool, I never said that. But it is undeniable that many other victims have found sanctuary in engaging with this fiction in one way or another, or even RECOGNIZED they'd been abused because they saw a fic tagged 'abuse' and connected it to their own life experiences.

What they need to do, if it has an adverse affect on their emotions, is learn to manage tags and their internet bubble.

This may surprise you, but I also don't like lolisho stuff. However, I manage to keep myself safe with proper internet use, not interacting with lolisho accounts, etc.

This can be made difficult depending on the exact site (twitter has always been a trashfire and it's only gotten worse), but the answer is to work together to find a way so that both parties can exist.

(3) "acting like people being uncomfortable with DRAWN CHILD PORN is somehow taking resources away from victims"

.....Yeah, I never said that either. Did you go to the wrong blog?

(4) "Not to mention I doubt a good chunk of the larger artists known for drawing ~risque~ shit involving kids are all somehow CSA survivors"

The problem here is that no one has a magical radar for detecting who's "actually" a CSA survivor or not. You can only ask, and, frankly, a lot of you can't be trusted with that information.

I know this from experience, where I said "this anime lady having mid-boobs isn't a sign she's minor-coded" and someone decided that meant I was lying about being a CSA survivor, or else I'd have agreed with them.

(5) "what excuse do they have for making our trauma wank material?"

I mean, one, they're not making "your" trauma wank material. They're not thinking about you, or me, or anyone at all. They're thinking about an anime character or whatever.

If we restrict writing/etc on "did they experience this exact trauma themselves", then we'd have to cut out a LOT of media.

secondly, I know for a fact that one of the theories to why people have rape fantasies is because of the stress of being marginalized in some way, where their sexualities constantly judged and there's no "right" answer which doesn't immediately contradict itself.

(for example, women having to fight between the cultural expectations of "whore" or "prude", so their brain provides a fantasy where they get the great sex but none of the responsibility because the choice was taken from them)

I'm sure some equally fascinating answers could be given for stuff like lolisho... but that would require you approaching people in good faith, recognizing that they're human, and not deciding from the get that they're evil boogeyman who want to hurt YOU specifically.

(7) "Pitching a fit about how people having an opinion about"

That you frame it like this indicates, at least to me, that you don't know how this conversation started out. It wasn't just bogleech "having an opinion". It was bogleech making unsubstantiated judgment calls, and doing things like taking a trans person's words out of context so he could make them look like a pedophile and send his rabid fanbase their way.

Add in him not listening to actual scientific studies and pedojacketing any CSA survivor who doesn't listen to him...

And that is the problem.

(8) "you've filled the recent posts with his tag with you whining about them"

yeah, I got asks about him. Other people were also criticizing him. I tagged with his name so that people who were sick of him and had his name muted and on a blacklist etc could avoid seeing him.

I don't know why that's a struggle to understand. It's basic consideration.