dumb bitch(lovingly)

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

you know what you are right. im sorry. it wasn't crickets, it was one post that got a little traction & people in the notes were actively preemptively saying anyone who suggests this could perhaps be an example of transmasc oppression should die.

erasure is an action (to quote @transfemme-turtlebug's tags on this post!) and its something everyone internalizes by virtue of being part of an anti-transmasculine society. but because of the backlash to transandrophobia theory (which tries to describe this), tumblr users now have developed an even more intense internalized erasure, where their first thought when it comes to transmascs being targeted is not, "oh shit, transmascs are vulnerable!" it is "fuck, we NEED to make sure the transandrobros can't use this!"

also since a number of people in the notes have mentioned not having heard of this at all, here's an article and a link to the complaint filed. here's a quote too:

"(Reyes) was using this program to intentionally punish people on the basis of their gender identity." Decker said. "The people who were involved in this were all either trans men or masculine-presenting LGBTQ people." 

what iron lung fans see

Do you know what the actual etiquette is? The one that's been around since Tumblr began? The one that's been followed dutifully up until the last few years?

Once an AU becomes so prevalent it starts becoming bothersome, YOU DON'T MAINTAG THE CANON FANDOM. Yes, this is a gray area when it comes to what constitutes as bothersome. Yes, bloodymary is WAY beyond that line.

Instead of bailing on the canon tag, SPREAD THIS MESSAGE. If someone refuses to follow this etiquette, BLOCK THEM.

You owe it to yourself, to your community, and to new fans who won't know the fandom exists in some obscure tag. Stand your ground and be vocal about this etiquette.

PS-- to the AU fans who insist they won't be found without the canon tag: yes you will. People subscribe to a tag when they know that's the fandom they want. People use the REGULAR SEARCH function to discover it. If your post has canon character or franchise names in it, or even non-canon tags, a regular search will display those.

me listening/watching the video: oh Red's mind has been consumed by Witch Hat Atelier

witness the stars

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