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It's here! Sparktober is here! A whole month of John Shepard and Elizabeth Weir's love being in the same frame!

Here's everything you might need to participate this month:

Access to the Sparktober Discord | Invite

Your favorite episodes for weekend watch parties | Freevee Pluto

A working knowledge of the classic Sparky moments and beyond | Gifsets Screencaps (HTTP site is safe to open)

Plot bunnies and prompts | Bingo cards Last year's swficathon @coraclavia's fic spotlight

Most importantly, the enthusiasm to squee with fandom friends!

So I just found out about radnormal and let's just say this is a terrible label. And as a queer disabled person of color, this label pisses me off, and here's why.

Disclaimer: DO NOT HARASS OR TARGET ANYONE WHO IS RADNORMAL. I KINDLY ASK YOU TO BLOCK AND REPORT THESE PEOPLE.

For those who don't know, radnormal is an anti-radqueer and anti-contact label. You can learn more about radnormal through this Strawpage. I am very much anti-radqueer and anti-contact for paraphilias that can cause harm, but this label is not it. While the label is anti-ai, anti-racist, anti-xenosatanist, anti-censorship, pro-furry, and pro-queer (as well as having a few ideas I do agree with, such as keeping minorities safe, educating people on marginalized groups, accepting contradictory labels), it's also got a few stances I do not agree with, and here's why.

Anti-Para

As someone who has had quite a bit of a challenge learning and accepting paraphiles, I find the anti-para stance of radnormal to be infuriating. Not only is it spreading misinformation, but it is also very paramisic to say the least, especially towards the big 3 of paraphilias. not all paraphiles are ticking time bombs for acting harm. But then again, radnormal is accepting of anti-contact paraphiles as long as they don't have a paraphilia that is considered harmful if acted upon (still not good).

Anti-Endo

Just a disclaimer: I do not have DID/OSDD, nor am I system, but I feel like a lot of anti-endogenic stuff id very exclusionist to say the least. Not tolerating endogenic systems and choosing to avoid them is one thing, but actively going against them in my opinion is not good. Also it just comes off as sysmedicalist.

Anti-Proship, Darkship, Lolisho

This one seems very hypocritical, considering that the radnormal label is anti-censorship (but then again, it's entirely possible to be anti-censorship without using any of these labels, I do not use any ship labels on myself). Also connects to the other stance below.

Neu-Harassment

While the radnormal community claims they are trying to move away from it, that doesn't stop some radnormals from saying stuff that is enabling harassment.

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As seen in this example, this just feels like an excuse to bully and harass people, and in my opinion, this feels disrespectful towards victims who do use fiction as a form of coping. Also the Strawpage mentioned that they are pro-aggressive the people they are against, which is just harassment.

Did I not mentioned that the coiner behind radnormal is racist? They made a graphic of someone lynching a representation of those they don't like. I know another user already pointed it out, but I think it should be restated that lynching is a form of public execution, which is not only considered cruel, but also historically (especially in the U.S.) was done on people of color, particularly black people.

I hope the creator changes themselves and realizes that they and the community are causing harm because this label is a disaster waiting to happen.

Draw people, and then make them nonbinary. It's as simple as having someone say they're nonbinary, or using pronouns outside of (but possibly still including) she/her and he/him.

- Mod Al

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Just draw a human.

The fun about being nonbinary is, that we're literally not binary and can be everything.

If the visuals are already hard, idk about the plot or character.

- mod bun

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I don't think there's anything wrong with making them stereotypical tbh, if it's in character. When it comes to drawing a character, think about the personality and what sorts of things that character might visually like in terms of haircut, clothes, etc. -- and don't restrict that based on gender. Some nonbinary people do feel restricted to only wearing "womenswear" or "menswear" but it's an exciting part of coming to terms with yourself to try and figure out what you like to look like without worrying about that anymore.

Hi all!

As we begin preparing for Round 6, the mods of MCU Kink Bingo are looking to update the kinks list we use to generate cards. We’re asking you to take this survey to give us more information about the kinks you’d like to see represented. The survey is totally anonymous, so don’t be shy about including any and all kinks! The amount of time it will take is dependent on how many kinks you’re nominating, but in total it shouldn’t take more than five or ten minutes.

Thanks in advance for your participation!

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[Evil Xisuma, Grian, Xisuma]

    “Hey, Blondie!” A distorted British voice called. It reminded Grian of someone else who’s familiar- but oddly different. It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for him to not know someone on this new server, after all.

Bisexual botanist moodboard for anon!

First of all, a huge thank you to all of you for sticking with us during the wild ride that has been the past four months. So much has happened that none of us could have anticipated, and we appreciate your time and patience throughout this craziness.

As originally planned, Kink Bingo will be going on hiatus as we finish Round 4. We’re going to be making quite a few changes to Kink Bingo for Round 5, though – including moving to a new tumblr account! The tumblr account you’re reading this from will become @mcukinkbingo-archive on May 15th, and a new @mcukinkbingo blog will be created in its place. This change is to allow us to have a more consistent tagging system for square fills, and also to allow people the choice of whether or not they’d like to continue following Kink Bingo under a no-stress environment. We encourage you to follow the new blog when it goes live; we’ll be posting reminders on this blog about the change periodically.

We also have some changes to the moderator team we’d like to announce. Mods BuckysP and Bunny are stepping down due to their current real-life situations. We thank them for the time and care they put into Round 4, and wish them all the best! Decisions about whether or not we’ll be adding new moderators to the team will be announced as we move closer to Round 5.

Speaking of Round 5 – we heard a lot of frustration at the beginning of Round 4 about cards not going out as fast as people would like them, and part of that was due to the posting period and signup period overlapping. To mitigate this and give everyone the same amount of time to post, we’re going to be introducing a signup period prior to when the posting period begins. For Round 5, we’re looking at a signup period of July 1st to July 21st, and a posting period of August 1st to January 30th. In short: everyone will sign up before the end of July, anyone who signs up will receive their card on August 1st, and they will be able to post fills until the end of January. You’ll notice this is also a longer round time than we’ve had in the past (six months as opposed to four); we’d like to see how having more time affects people’s enjoyment of the event.

This is just the beginning of the changes we’re looking to make for Round 5, but we’re so excited to share this journey with you, and thank you again for your support!

Here you go! I hope you like it :>