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Memoirs of a Crow

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‘Tis I, a humble Crow going forth and enjoying the Sparklies! and Trinkets! of this Intriguingly Distracting place called Earth!

I am a simple being, if I see something interesting upon the ground whether Fab or Drab I grab. It’s now part of my treasure hoard

(only after I try and find the owner though, because robbery is very not good)

To recognize TERFs, anti’s, fash, incels and other internet shitstains, one pattern you need to recognize is this:

  1. They take some normal human behavior
  2. Explain it in the darkest, most bad faith way possible
  3. And then ignore any other, often more realistic, explanation.

A simple example:

  1. A lot of adults watch TV shows about high school relationship drama.
  2. Dark bad faith take: all these adults are obsessing over teenager sex lives because they want to fuck teenagers.
  3. More realistic explanation: a lot of adults have memories of their own high school relationship drama that they like to relive, process, etc through media.
  4. Another realistic explanation: People can empathize with the stories of hobbits, dragons, defense lawyers, plucky detectives, space rebels, talking dogs and teenagers in high school without always having a desire to fuck the characters involved. It is possible to just enjoy a story as a story without it fulfilling some emotional of sexual need.

Like, when you take a tiny step back, it becomes clear that the jump from ‘adults watch high school dramas’ to ‘they all want to fuck teenagers’ is absolute moon logic.

This logic only works if you assume the absolute worst possible things about the group you’re talking about. This logic works if the only lens you can see a group through is ‘predator’ and you do not acknowledge that they are completely humans who can just do non-predatory things like ‘enjoying stories’.

And assuming the absolute worst possible things about a specific group while denying their complexity and humanity… well, that is absolutely key to what TERFs, anti’s, fashos, incels, etc. do.

Someone asked me in private why I grouped ‘TERFs, anti’s, fash, incels’ together. Do I think anti’s are as bad as fash?

Short answer: no, anti’s are not as bad as fash. They’ve done some pretty despicable things. Spreading false accusations, doxxing, suicide baiting, trying to get people fired, stalking, etc. But they’re not trying to gain political power in order to commit genocide. So on the shitstain pyramid they’re a few tiers below fash.

I grouped these in a row here not because they’re all exactly the same amount of terrible, but because they’re groups to watch out for. If you’re a queer person trying to exist safely online, you do not want to interact with any of these groups. If you do not enjoy being brainwashed into a hate group, you do not want to interact with any of these groups.

It’s also notable that TERFs, incels and anti’s all have a tendency to fall down the fash radicalization pipeline because they already share some basic ways of thinking. Assuming the absolute worst possible things about a specific group while denying their complexity and humanity is an example of that shared way of thinking.

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Video from Morgan Foley on TikTok. Video is of Morgan playing two separate roles, indicated by perspective switches.

Title card says "Conversation I Had"

Person 1: Everyone masks a little bit. It's part of being human.

Person 2: Hold up. What you're referring to is code switching and yes everybody does code switch, including myself. But only autistic people mask.

P1: But I'm putting on a performance and suppressing my traits so it's the same thing.

P2: No, they are not the same and let me explain why. You code switch for personal gain.*

(Note added by creator on screen: POC and other minority groups might code switch for personal safety as well but that was not mentioned in the conversation.)

P2 (continued): I mask because of trauma and for safety reasons. Masking isn't just about changing one thing about me to fit in with others.

I mask body movements that come naturally to you. I am constantly thinking about manually changing my facial expressions, matching my tone of voice, changing my body movements and suppressing my stims.

These are things that non-autistic people will never have to worry about because you automatically do them and it is exhausting for us autistic people.

Video ends with TikTok outro. End ID]

Yesterday the 12th of May was Fibromyalgia awareness day. I'm a little late uploading it, but spreading awareness is being done nonetheless. Lots of love for my chronic pain people!! <3

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This has been a PSA.

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I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.

on a related note:

And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.

It’s the same reason I love disaster movies and don’t love actual disasters. I mean, if someone can’t intuit the difference  between watching a movie like 2012 and yelling “cool!” when LA slides into the ocean and being horrified at the real life effects of global warming and the idea of millions of people dying as a result, then  *I* am not the one with the problem. 

[First image: A heavily-overlapping venn diagram labelled “things I like in works of fiction” and “things I would never approve of in real life”

Second image: A venn diagram labelled “things I like in fanfiction” and “things I actually want to see happen in canon”. The circles overlap, but barely.]

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i discovered the extremely short lived 1980s hanna barbera cartoon ‘drak pack’ and im now obsessed with the idea of rebooting it to be about three queer monster friends living as humans

I haven't seen all the Drak Pack episodes (on monster mode I guess and switching between that and monster high) but I have a few random head canons.

  • Frankie is a art type. He loves abstract the most.
  • Howler I feel like he's a sports lover. Howls loudly when his favorite sports team is winning.
  • Drac Jr is a drama/movie nerd.
  • Dr. Dread one hundred percent knows Drac jr's name and has been saying it wrong on purpose.
  • I wrote this in a small fic, but Mummyman has his canopic jars on hand still.

i gotta say i agree that exposing children to algorithmic content feeds is going to make them grow up with one billion new kinds of mental illnesses and it's a serious societal problem that urgently needs addressing but it makes me v. v. v. uneasy when i see posts going around that identify this issue and come to the conclusion 'this is why it's important for parents to know what their kid is doing online' and uh girls there are a lot of kids out there who would be dead if their parents knew what they were doing online