you know how people call characters their wives/husbands/etc? well, i think i’m going to start claiming relations to fictional characters just to fuck with people. so, anyways, this one time i was out with my cousin, sonic the hedgehog, and
thanks for 10k notes, i just wanted you all to know that my cousin, sonic the hedgehog, is doing well. i told him about this post and he high-fived me
hey thanks for 20k notes. my cousin’s doing well. he’s really good at running
the whole “only neurodivergent people are ALLOWED to use fidget/stim/chew toys” thing blows my fuckin mind anyway because it creates a completely imaginary divide between How Neurotypicals Work and How We Work that doesnt exist in reality. neurotypical people totally have stimming behaviors they just arent pathologized? thats kind of the whole point of neurodiversity, that we arent inherently Sick, we’re just pathologized arbitrarily?
to pretend that an action (stimming: for fun, or to concentrate, or to express yourself, or to reduce stress/anxiety) is “correct” in the hands of someone with the Right Diagnosis and “frivolous, wasteful, or disrespectful” in the hands of someone without that diagnosis is…. totally fuckin ridiculous, inherently, and not based in any factual representation of how people’s brains work
shut the fuck up you know damn well this ask is about normalizing pedophilia with pedophilic ships and content
That doesn’t mean much, considering people will call ships involving adult characters or characters over the age of consent “pedophilic”.
If teenagers shipping fictional characters on a social media platform “normalizes pedophilia”, how come horror films released to thousands of theaters and seen by millions of patrons aren’t “normalizing” murder? Aside from acts of terrorism, murder rates have only plummeted dramatically over the past few decades (which is backed by statistics from the Federal Bureau of Justice).
Oh, right. Because most sane people can tell the difference between fiction and reality, and realize that one doesn’t significantly affect the other.
Also, people like badstevenuniversescreencaps literally abuse and lower the value of the term of “pedophilia” for the purpose of glorified shipping wars, so their input is worth about as much as a pile of horse shit.
wow look at that a list of murders inspired by horror movies
Oh, you poor thing. Now you just brought hell upon yourself. For one, that’s not a “study”. That’s just a list of people who imitated something–people that were already fucked up to begin with, and would have likely imitated any act of violence from any source. I’m literally just gonna copy-paste a previous post, because I detest repeating myself:
Here’s the problem with your statement: Being inspired by something does not equate to causing something. You’re using the “Slippery Slope” logical fallacy
(which, ironically, is a favorite amongst overzealous fundamentalist
conservatives). By your logic, you’re placing the blame for an incident
of a child jumping off the roof in the 90′s on Wile E. Coyote, and not on the child being improperly educated about neighborhood dangers, and being without parental supervision.
TL;DR: Not everyone who reads fiction even has the ability
to act out in ways they know are morally wrong: A well-adjusted person
(including most with lower-functioning empathy) knows and understands
the consequences for such behavior. They are still able to connect
their actions to how they may affect others, which–in turn–keeps those
actions in check. The people that do act out inappropriately are already broken, and would act out regardless
of whatever they see or hear (especially if they are already into or
past adolescence, as the majority of brain growth takes place from
infancy to early preschool).
Essentially, the people that might act out in violence would do so regardless of media input. Telling them “This is WRONG!” wouldn’t stop them, because they’re already aware that it’s wrong and simply do not fucking care.
Even an actual horror movie had the self-awareness to point this out.
In short: You’re ignorant and uneducated in this matter, and you have nothing to substantiate your claims, while there is a shit ton of scientific and psychological study proving you wrong.
they deleted that shit so fast
I love posts like this. Writers, shippers – write and ship what you want to.
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Edward: In order to proceed, you’ll need to instantly age twenty years!
Lucretia, who’s spent the last century as the same age, her eternal youth a constant reminder of the encroaching hunger and the inevitable end of every world she’s ever known: oh thank god
Edward: what
Lucretia: i mean oh no
Sharing this here because I know this will affect a LOT of artists here.
PLEASE share this, this is super urgent and I don’t want any of you losing your funds.
Seriously, this is not a joke or scam. Check the comments of that Medium article, or the Reddit comments.
Apparently PayPal will try to re-ban you if you use the same cards or whatnot, so if you need an alternative, try Google Wallet. (Because Google won’t let a damn industry go untouched.)
If you see your work as more as a business, try Stripe.
LAST REBLOG.
BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING IMPORTANT.
Okay so this case needs a little bit more of explanation because there’s no need to panic
Are you calm now? Yes? Good.
Now listen:
The first thing that you need to realise is that you not being 18 is a serious legal issue not only for PayPal, but for ANY OTHER FIRM PROVIDING THIS KIND OF SERVICE. This includes the “alternatives” like Google Wallet and others. It is clearly stated in their TOS (which you are supposed to get familiar with before using their service). Therefore, if you made an account before being 18 then you, and let me repeat that, YOU are in the wrong here, not them.
“But nobody reads these” my dude this is LAW, REAL CORPORATIONS and REAL MONEY we’re talking about here. It’s more than obvious that they won’t fuck around when it comes to the legal measures. Should any outside entity learn about your little lie it can result in something more serious that this, drag both PayPal and you down. You gotta realise that in real life rules exist for a reason.
Now to the money part:
To tone down the stress I’m gonna say it right now that your money is safe.
This situation happened to me as I made an account when I was 17, so believe me when I tell you I know first hand what I am talking about. After a year of using it (so when I was already 18) PayPal asked me to see my ID to verify some info. After the verification it turned out I made the account when I was underage so they had to “shut it down” WHICH IS A VERY POOR WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.
The accounts are not being “shut down” and your money doesn’t “disappear” or whatever – PayPal blocks the option to send or withdraw money so your account is simply out of use. As we learned before, you broke their rules so they HAVE TO do something about it.
If you had read that oh so heart gripping story from one of OP’s links you would see this screenshot attached to it, which is PayPal informing them about their situation:
Oh? But wait!! Could it be???? That half of the email was cut off?????
In the second part of the email PayPal politely informs you that the problem can be easily solved by making a new account. Are you seeing that last sentence in the screenshot? “To continue using our service please open a new PayPal account”? Yeah, that.
Then, the email informs you that you will need to send PayPal a message from the new account that you would like your money transferred to the new account. Basically, you message them “hi this is my new account, my old one was XYZ, could you please transfer my money to this account?” and that’s it.
The money will be on your new account within 5 days MAX.
In conclusion: No money lost, PayPal solved their legal issue and you have a new, fresh, bombing legal account. No one goes to jail, everyone is happy. No fees, no nothing. As if you had never crossed any lines or broken the law.
TL;DR YOUR MONEY IS SAFE
There’s a reason why PayPal is one of the most reliable services out there that so many other companies decide to trust. When you’re buying something online and you have the PayPal option accessible, why do you think it’s there? Because that’s just how it is? No. At one point the companies had to struck a deal, that’s why you can pay safely. And let me tell you, no company will skip reading the rules nor will they decide to trust a shady firm. Companies are real deals that operate under millions of regulations and are directly exposed to law (just like you tbh) and that’s why they’re strict about their rules. And you should be too.
Ps. If currently you are under 18 with PayPal account, don’t stress it ok? They won’t try to verify you until you start dealing tons of money or after a certain time period. But by then you will be 18, hopefully. So, chillex my dude it’s okay.
