Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.
The public needs to hear more stories like this as well.
Wow. This is horrifying.
Cops are drunk on power. Add any ism to that, you have a bunch of abusive, gun wielding, trained to kill, non empathetic, killers running around.
This woman got hauled out of a window, beaten, stripped, tortured, and humiliated, and she still is able to understand how white privilege saved her life.
some bitch in the cinema really said “ugh here we go” out loud during the first gay kiss in Bohemian Rhapsody… this is why straights should be prohitibited from attending gays only events
We don’t contact anybody. If there’s one thing that all this fandom history has shown, it’s that these sites don’t listen and the fandom community on them does not recover.
The solution is to find another website to use as your new fandom home. Hopefully, this time, fandom will choose one with a sensible business model, one that is geared towards fandom and protecting its users. Both DW and PF are businesses, but they’re by and for fans and their profit model involves paid accounts covering the free ones (no advertisers to worry about).
Dreamwidth is oldschool but has stood the test of time (and yes, people have attacked them for the content they host, and they’ve stood up for it). If you want somewhere that’s more of a sure thing and/or if you post a lot of text, DW is your best bet.
Pillowfort sounds good but is in its infancy and is semi-down today from the traffic of everyone getting off of tumblr. If it succeeds, it will have some good features that Dreamwidth doesn’t. OTOH, it might not succeed.
If you want to change formats entirely, people are exploring fan art websites, more chat-oriented things like mastodon and discord, and peer-to-peer protocols that would avoid having a mainstream commercial host at all.
What will not work: petitioning tumblr.
Sorry. It has never worked before. These are gigantic corporations we’re talking about. Yahoo killed Delicious and many other fandom homes. They did not care. They’re not going to care. Verizon is even worse. Save your breath.
Tumblr is not a government we can vote better. Tumblr is a corporate entity selling a product to customers.
I know what you’re thinking – “But doesn’t a corporate entity want to please their customers? If enough customers complain, won’t the corporate entity respond?”
Here’s the flaw in that logic:
We are not the customers. The advertisers are the customers.
We are the product.
not to mention that tumblr has reportedly been planning this purge for six months. this isn’t a reaction to apple’s pulling of the app from their store, that only sped up the timeline. I’m very convinced that tumblr as a whole isn’t meant to survive this, they know for a fact that the site will be decimated and that is the goal.
Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
This is blatantly untrue
Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.
Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. That’s why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you don’t believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)
Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,
DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.
Please reblog this version of the post to stop the spread of misinformation.
I’m not sure I trust anyone telling me that protesting against a corporation is bad lol
I’m tired but like long story short; people can be triggered by
literally anything for any reason. I’m personally triggered by a
specific certain type of pain pill. My friend has an entire bottle in
her medicine cabinet, when i even see the bottle it makes me feel like i
need to puke.
I don’t demand for her to remove them, i just look away and take a deep breath. It’s not a big deal.
‘Keep
your ~unsafe~ fics in your closet or burn them so you can’t POTENTIALLY
trigger anyone who MIGHT come across it’. Holy fuck i’m triggered by
something as common as a bottle of pain pills and i’m not demanding they
be removed the second i enter a store or someones home. I keep them out
of my house, but i dont demand others to remove them.
(above submitted by anon)
Wow these people really expect the entire world/internet to cater to their needs specifically. As you said, people can be triggered by ANYTHING. It’s impractical to expect completely online strangers to NOT post/do/say things in public spaces just because a small handful of people are triggered by something Especially fandom ships, goodness gracious people.
At some point, people have to be responsible for their own browsing experience. The only responsibility I or others have is to tag our work properly so that those who would be triggered or even just made uncomfortable by them can avoid them.
This person is complaining that people might need to put literally any effort into curating what they do and don’t see. They’re trying to make their own mental health and emotional wellbeing the responsibility of strangers who don’t know they exist and deliberately ignore ways they can help themselves.
A “shitty” ship gets popular and posted in the main tags? Block the people who post it. I’d certainly have no problem blocking them.
Tagging was at one point considered a courtesy. It wasn’t demanded and was seldom used outside of FF.net, that had their crude category system. A lot of us saw all kinds of brain breaking shit and surprise buttsex and all sorts of unholy terrors.
And yet, we Olds managed to survive long enough to create ao3 so that people can avoid the random wilderness that we lived though, only to be told we enable bad behavior for allowing the tag to exist in the first place. 😐
I have…one particularly odd trigger–nothing in fiction and it’s so odd and specific and I’ve had it my whole life from my earliest memories that I don’t know why it is. I won’t disclose exactly what it is in case some troll decides to flood my inbox, but I have no practical way to black list for that…thing, other than to remove videos with it that get recommended when it comes up on YouTube.
My followers know about my particularly bad experience with Kearny Mesa Acura (a name I will.blast to high heaven and will literally die mad about the whole chain of events that led to my firing, but…). I had to get rid of every single outfit I had initially bought to work there once I could afford to replace them. Every last one, because I could not stand to look at any of that without seeing red and wanting to cut my boss’s brakes. Could not do it.
That, kids, is a trigger.
Being squimish that other people like things you don’t? In general terms, that’s just a squick. And anyone who can spend enough time in Sheith tags to troll and flame artists posting that stuff? They’re not triggered either. My mutural that quietly blacklisted the tag after I got into the show because it reminds her of another NoTP of hers was doing it exactly right. We’re still fandom buddies.
Good evening guys, gals, and nonbinary pals here’s the solidarity
Yea usually we write the female character of the opposite ship to be sad
Im a Fandom Old, who remembers when character bashing (like legit character bashing that was tagged for) was a thing, especially in yaoi fandom where one character had a canon love interest or even a chick with a one-sided crush on him (*glares in Yu-Gi-Oh fandom’s general direction*). But it wasn’t unheard of for that shit to make its way into het ships, either.
So when I made my way into reading VLD fic, I was pleasantly surprised that this is not a thing. Like, not even among the antis who are still surprised that Allurance is a thing. I’ve yet to find one single Plance fic that pits Pidge and Allura as rivals or shows either as being destructively jealous of the other over Lance and that is just so beautiful, guys 💙💚💙💚
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