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Constant State Of Pedro Pascal

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Anonymous asked:

hi honey i hope you’re doing well

- in your post you mentioned reblogging, writing or drawing content that does not allow for racists or makes it impossible for them to engage with your blog.

i really want to do this, but i’m a little confused as to how to go about it. of course i am not expecting you to hold my hand and take me through baby steps - because that’s ridiculous for all the reasons others have mentioned etc. but i am worried that creating this kind of content would feel like performative activism coming from a white creator. i want to make genuine efforts and not performative ones. are there any websites or examples you feel are good? i don’t want to listen to a non-bipoc person’s opinion or suggestion on the matter.

again, sorry for asking this - it feels inappropriate- and if you do not want to explain, which i COMPLETELY understand, i will try find information elsewhere!

this has been in my inbox for a week, but when i went to give it an answer... it just kept growing and growing and so I created doc to share, bc it's like 25k words now and that's after i cut it down. Here's a link to the google doc that is navigable with the table of contents the same text is below the cut.

Thanks for sending this to me anon. I’m not a BIPOC creator, but this is not a question they need to answer for white people—so stick with me!

I know you were looking for links and suggestions on how to be an ally without being performative. I made a post last weekend with a list of links, many that lead to collections of resource lists for books, videos, podcasts, films, journal articles, and more. I haven’t reviewed every single item on every list, but I’d bet none of them specifically address racialized tropes, reader inserts, and responsibility in the ppcu fandom. So I created this. I'd suggest reading in the google doc for the sake of being able to use the table of contents, but below the cut is everything that is within the doc. These are the major headings:

-> to white folks in the pedro pascal tumblr fanfic community -> understanding whiteness in fanfic (default whiteness) -> racial ambiguity and representation -> fetishization, tropes, and racialized desire (what they are and writing without centering white supremacy) -> anti-blackness: the foundation -> systems of power, supremacy, and silence -> personal accountability and community responsibility -> tools for doing better (questions and challenges for writers and readers) -> sustainability & hope (ethical consumption & joy; it's not that hard!) -> practical tools (a simplified checklist) -> glossary of terms and concepts used throughout -> links to learn more
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From one Wisconsin resident, if you live in the state of Wisconsin and dont think you can or are unsure about voting today, PLEASE GO AND VOTE, even if you think it doesn’t matter! Because I promise it does.

If you’re not registered, YOU CAN REGISTER DAY OF WITH YOUR PHOTO ID!

#vote#wisconsin#us politics
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“I don’t know what he means by liberation. Who feels liberated?” - Cory Booker in regard to Trump’s tariffs, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech.

He had much more eloquent words that I was not fast enough to type. Please go watch the live stream. MSNBC has a free live stream.

#cory booker#us politics
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He's been speaking and reading letters and messages for hours now.

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The live feed started 7 hours ago.

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14+ hours. I should see more coverage of this on my feeds, are we actually going to amplify black voices or is that just a sticker on your laptop.

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I have it running in the background on my computer! (I’ve muted the tab, not the video itself, because I’m answering phones.)

But 18+ hours!!! They’re swapping people out, but it’s still going. 🎉

#literally watching in awe#Corey Booker#us politics
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Joel Miller, former contractor, leaves the crowd in awe at Jackson Karaoke night with special guest "that blonde girl" from drivers license

the duo sang Take On The World from hit television spinoff Girl Meets World, with added rap appearance by Ellie Williams.

Town council member, and Joel's Brother, Tommy Miller had this to say:

"By the time I found my boots, the music had stopped playing. I danced anyway."

here's collected footage of that brought to us by a local town member in Jackson:

VIDEO SOURCE: @chronicallyonlinewriter

More to come as this story develops, stay tuned with all things Jackson by subscribing to our newsletter.

#my new favorite thing#god I love the internet#tlou
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I know being visible is hard right now, and you’re no less valid for having to hide. Deep down, know that this is your day too. I love you x

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now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

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"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code

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holacia3 asked:

I know every relationship is different...but which babe would take forever to put a ring on your finger and which babe is bouncing from excitement to bring you home to meet the family and get things going?

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grogusmum answered:

Hello m'dear! Thank you so much for this fun ask! 💚

Okay, so I made a sliding scale, and here they are:

Let me know what you think? Is this accurate? Is there anyone I missed that you want to place on the scale?

UPDATED!

I asked if there was anyone I missed, and I got a couple of responses!

One for Dave (thank you @clawdee ) and one for Max Lord (thanks to @missredherring )

I wasn't confident in my Dave knowledge, but he's not far from where my instincts would plot him. Max was the same. I wasn't really sure, but when I read the suggestion, I was like, YES! OF COURSE, EXACTLY RIGHT!!

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UPDATED!

New Pedro Boy on the board!

WELCOME TIM ROCKFORD!!

@noisynightmarepoetry asked me to add Tim Rockford to the chart. Since I'm not a Rockford-phile, so I defer to her to place him.

She says: I’m going to go with “going through all of steps fastidiously” because he’s soooo methodical and leaves nothing undone.😉

Well, well.

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Hazel, explain to me the science of how this made me want Javi even more. 😆

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The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

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Anonymous asked:

Where was this “censorship is bad” attitude when it came to the confederate flag. Or does this only apply to pedophilia.

whataperfectwasteoftime answered:

Anon, I know you aren't actually interested in the answer to this question, because if you were you wouldn't throw it into my inbox like an accusation while hiding behind the mask of anonymity, but I'm going to treat this question like it was sent in good faith, because I think the issue with this argument is that people aren't willing to apply nuance to situations and to paint everything with the same brush.

I'll be honest, this question DID trip me up. I feel that these situations are different... but WHY? I'm going to make an attempt to answer, but do keep in mind that I'm a white woman and that readers of color would be better able to articulate the arguments here, but I don't want to burden them with responding to this as they have already spoken up and have had to defend their presence in this fandom more than they have had to already.

1. Tagging/Consent:

The fic featuring Joel and his daughter was tagged with all appropriate warnings. Readers could read the warnings and determine whether they wanted to read the fic or not. The themes (that most, including me, would find disturbing) were communicated at the top, and if someone ignored the warnings and continued to read and be upset by the content, that's on them.

The use of a confederate flag (as a tired and harmful stereotype of "southern" aesthetic) was NOT tagged. Readers did not know about the existence of disturbing/upsetting content because they were not warned. Readers were unaware and could not consent, and as a result some of those readers very politely (AND PRIVATELY, AHEM) asked that the author remove the reference, explaining their reasons. Things escalated when the author refused.

Alternatively, the author could have kept the reference in and tagged it as "the main love interest is a piece of shit racist" and then people could have decided if they wanted to interact with it.

2. Audience response

These two situations were met with a very different response. It might not FEEL different to those blogs that feel they are fighting for taking disturbing and/or harmful content off of the internet right now, but it is, I promise.

In the case of the confederate flag: first, the author was messaged privately and asked to remove the content. They refused. Then, several posts were made explaining the harmful history of the confederate flag and why it's inappropriate in a fic that isn't tagged appropriately warning the reader of racism. At no point did anyone "call out" people who interacted positively with the fic. No one made lists of people who liked it and called them racists. People only attempted to point out WHY it is harmful, AND educate others on the history of the flag, because as many people pointed out, non-Americans don't necessarily have the same context.

Now, in the current situation, that's not what happened. To my knowledge, no one reached out privately to the author about it. (BUT once again I must refer you to point 1, where this was tagged appropriately with warnings and any reader should have been aware of what they were consuming). The reaction was to publicly call out not just the author, but everyone who had interacted with the post, and then started picking fights with others who were adding commentary. The "I'm just raising awareness" argument falls on deaf ears because that's NOT what is happening. If that were the case, no one would have posted screenshots of my blog and insinuated that I, as a mom, abused my own child. I let that one go in the interest of keeping things civil, but that is a personal, inflammatory attack on me and does not fall under the guise of "raising awareness." This WAS meant to incite a negative response towards specific people in the fandom and we all know it.

3. Miscellaneous thoughts

I read the post detailing Tumblr's terms of service and it wasn't entirely clear to me whether fictional content involving minors is included on the list of violations to the ToS, and frankly, it doesn't really matter to me. The fic was taken down, and from screenshots of the original fic, it looks to me like the author was internationally trying to be inflammatory, which is their perogative, and I'm not particularly bothered that the fic was taken down. I'm not crying "boohoo, censorship!" because I want to read it or because I think incest is good, actually.

So it was removed. But is writing it a crime? No, it's not. Just because something may violate a website's ToS doesn't make it a crime, and people are throwing around that accusation regarding this fic, and it simply isn't true. That's where I got involved, because I'm a precise and literal person and I like it when things mean what they are supposed to mean. That fic wasn't illegal. Gross? Sure. In bad taste? That's up to opinion, and mine is yes, but my opinion on whether it's yucky or harmful does not make it a crime, nor does the fact that it violates the terms of service of Tumblr dot com. I chimed in because words like "illegal" have specific definitions, and this does not meet it.

Thanks for the question, I do hope you read and think about my response, and if anyone else has anything to add regarding the difference between these two scenarios, I'd welcome the discussion because I'm sure there are nuances I've missed.

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I have some things to say about the situation in fandom the last few days // an open letter to the morally outraged.

I didn't read the fic that started this, purely because I didn't see it in my feed. But I have trusted friends who were able to give me enough of an idea on what it contained that I feel comfortable commenting.

I am both a parent, and was a victim of abuse when I was a child. I would kill or die to prevent my children or any children from becoming a victim of csa. I support a non profit organisation dedicated to keeping children safe from csa and csam.

This fic, from all accounts, did not contain or glorify csa. Also, when it comes to literature, csam laws do not apply. Fictional written works containing csa are actually researched and studied by experts in the psychology field. Well researched. They are not illegal, and the subject matter is in a lot of professionally published works.

Dark themes in fiction and erotica can also be a coping mechanism for victims, to help them reframe their experience. It can be used as a safe means of exposure therapy where they retain control and power in the situation as they read.

Pedro himself has said one of his favourite books is Lolita. Does that say anything about his character or morals? Are you going to go around telling everybody vile things about him now?

Just because something is not to your tastes doesn't mean it should be banned, or that you should be naming and shaming people who interact with it. We are on a slippery political slope with the right wing pushing censorship and banning and othering. Do not make it easier for them to do this.

If you draw the line at uncomfortable subject matter for *you* and then try and draw that line for everyone else, too, where does it end? Do we stop at what makes you feel uncomfortable, or do we stop at what makes the next person, or the next person uncomfortable until we're well and truly censored and it's illegal to do or write anything other than under the covers missionary with your spouse?

If you're not actually out there doing the work to help victims, then what you're doing by naming and shaming is purely performative. If you were out there doing the work to help real victims, you'd be putting your energy there instead of into this stunt.

You might think you're a real hero, out there fighting the "good fight" against "those disgusting people who read that stuff", but what you need to realise is that fandom spaces are not built for you specifically. They are a community, one you need to know the rules and etiquette for.

I've been in fandom spaces for a good twenty something years at this point, so take it from a fandom old.

1. Don't like, don't read. Curate your own experience. We didn't have tags and summaries and descriptions like we have now twenty years ago. We have tags now. Use them liberally, both to seek out what you want to see, and to block what you don't.

2. We're all a community here. If you're new, you're a guest. Don't come into our community and tell us how to do things. You didn't build this fandom, and you most certainly do not get to dictate it.

3. Fanfiction is full of adult content. If you can't be an adult about said content, fandom is not the place for you. If you can't scroll on or block tags, you aren't mature enough to be here.

You don't have to like everything you see. You don't have to see everything the fandom posts. But you sure as hell can't come in here and tell everybody what goes and what doesn't, and use fear and naming and shaming to try and control the fandom. It's awfully dictator of you.

Take a look at this post if you've gotten this far in. Fandom has had these rules long before you joined and they will be the rules long after you leave. It's the only way fandom works.

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The Three Laws of Fandom If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws. If you aren’t able to do
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