#nebula asks

Anyways, there's Skyloftian Nutcase, who has used tags like "lovely alassee earfalas" on their posts as recently as May 7th, 2024. Which, if I'm not mistaken, was far after the conservative christian LU server--they have even recommended posts from alassee where they admit they're still in contact with her. I remember her getting an ask about the whole debacle when it happened, where she said that usual hateful rhetoric that poses itself as "faithful Christianity" (I support gay people, but not their life style) but I honestly can't find it, so don't quote me on that. It's not fact until I can find evidence, it very well could have been someone else, lol.

Bokoettochild, otherwise known as Flamingidiot on a03, is also another person who's shown hateful ideology in the past. Similar case to Skyloftian here with the "christian love" disguising hateful ideas. They've called being gay a "lifestyle" or "choices" in the past. Here's the full post, but this is what I'm specifically referring to:

[Image ID: The idea of one group oppressing the other for whatever reason, AGAIN, is honestly just a point against them at this point. Christians get hate for their beliefs, and those in the community get hate for their... I wanna say 'beliefs', 'lifestyle' or 'choices', but I've been repeatedly informed that this is the wrong vernacular, so I'll let you figure out what belongs here because I don't know? Anyway, while the two groups DO contradict each other on some levels, there is one thing that I see taught the same in both, although neither group practises it as much as they should, as proved by both sides of this: LOVE. end ID]

I really want to break this down, but the post is kind of really long? But, there's two major things I noticed. For one, the statement "I've been repeatedly informed that this is the wrong vernacular" doesn't show that she understands what's wrong with calling being gay a "belief" or "lifestyle" or whatever, she just doesn't understand what the "correct" phrase is that won't get her that much heat. Just to be clear, if Ketto's actually reading this, being gay is not a choice. THis isn't about your religion, this is science. If you can accept there's gravity, even though the bible never makes reference to it, or that the sky is blue because light reflects across water droplets in the sky, maybe you should come to terms with being gay not being a choice. Because it isn't. It's far more complex than that--but anyway!

Also, lol. Christians aren't oppressed. "Oppressing eachother" Christians make up 29 to 30% of the population, if I'm not mistaken, and I don't know if you saw the very unconstitutional law that Texas passed recently forcing schools to put the 10 commandments in their school. LGBTQ people are still oppressed today, we face the real threat of having our right to marry taken away again. (iirc, it's currently being challenged, but it might not reach the Supreme Court). Nobody STILL says dumb shit like "hate the sin love the sinner" to you about being a Christian, nobody threatens your right to marry the opposite gender, schools aren't trying to look under the hoods of children and using YOU as an excuse. Or...uh...lol, I mean I guess they are, but I mean under the guise of oppressing you.

I agree that Christians are often percieved with a level of hostility. BUT TO BE FAIR, it's hard not to associate Christianity with pain and hurt when Jesus is always used as a shield for the hateful ideologies of the few (and to be clear, I am not saying hating LGBTQ people is part of the Christian belief, because it's not).

(also adding that while Bokoetto did say this, but the main issue is that she does, in fact, conflate LGBTQ people as predators in the post BEFORE that, lol.)

(pictured below, but again, this is one paragraph out of the whole post)

[Image ID: a screenshot of a tumblr text post that reads "There are, granted, some [queer people] who are like my predatory elder sister, but those are, in my experience, less prominant (thank God) and frowned upon by the rest of the community because they give everyone a bad name. End ID]

You might be saying "uh...what's bad about that? there's gay predators just as there are straight predators" and this is true! kind of. It might be a good idea to go into the psychology of predators, but predators are not experiencing sexual attraction. Nobody says this about straight people--that there are straight predators--it's a dog whistle. Predators aren't going after boys because they're attracted to them, they're going after boys because they're attracted to power. In fact, most predators are heterosexual. (according to the zero abuse project).

I'm also aware that Boketto got an ask that corrected them, but considering the above post is after this, I get the impression she wasn't entirely too sure what they meant by that, LMAO. I hope her original phrasing can shed some light on what she meant, because frankly I can't parse it.

Don't worry guys, she's also said transphobic things. I cited this one because "what's under your clothes" is a transphobic dogwhistle, but there's more. But dw she says it again. At least she'll use your correct pronouns. Wow. Lol.

I this ended up being more about Boketto? but that's because there's kind of WAYYY more to talk about, I've found. Boketto has said multiple times on her tumblr, I'm sure you can find it, that she's "not homophobic" and that she's "not transphobic" but that's not how it works. She might not be intentionally hateful towards homosexual people, but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of her beliefs and worldviews are. This is a discussion for another day, cause y'all ain't ready for this one, but you can be a bigot and just not know it. That doesn't inherently make you a bad person, it's just how you choose to unpack and work on it that can dictate that (or, I suppose in this case, the lackthereof).

That being said, Boketto and Nutcase have been solid on their ideas. They've both definitely heard how harmful this is, but they just flatly ignore it. A safe space for everyone is a safe space for nobody. I'm sure I'll hear "but we can interact with people who have different beliefs than us!" and that's true. About things like opinions on food, diet or favourite animal. the LGBTQ community are not animals. They're people. End of discussion. If you're friends with someone who'd turn a blind eye to the oppression of gay people, or directly support and uplift the voices of people who absolutely would leave you to die, then the smartest idea is remove them from your life. Or, have a discussion first (communication IS important) and then remove them if they show no improvement.

Finally, I would like to ONCE AGAIN clarify that I'm not supporting harassment of these creators. Do not send them asks, do not send them hate dms, just block them and move on. Going out of your way to spend time out of your day to send hate solves absolutely nothing, and it wastes energy that could be used for some real actual change. Go donate to an LGBTQ fund or idk draw AOL Link kissing Botw Link idk do whatever, fly free.