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the fluffiest most 'wholesome' fic about a real living human teenager with a high likelihood of seeing it is 100 times more harmful and ethically fucked than the nastiest most taboo thing you can imagine being written about fictional teens and i wish people would talk about that more tbh
like 99% of "rpf" is literally just sexual harassment!
i get so sick and tired of seeing people defend rpf as “just fiction” because op is right it literally isn’t. i don’t wanna go into excess detail about it bc i worry it could be too identifiable and even now almost 10 years later i am still terrified of those fuckers finding me, but when i was a teenager i was sort of a microcelebrity on an online game and had to deal w rpf being written about me and it was very traumatizing. around 7 different people, including both other teens and full grown adults, were writing “fanfic” and drawing “fanart” about me and 2 other people, one of them an adult who had been abusing me and the other an even younger family member. even more people were cheering these pieces of shit on. they claimed it wasn’t harassment and that they were doing it because they liked me and the other 2 people they were writing their garbage about, but it was harassment whether they meant it that way or not and made it harder to break away from the aforementioned abuser. i pretty much scrubbed and remade my online presence from the ground up afterwards.
and i don’t care if your victim is an actual celebrity, they still have internet access and could come across your rpf. in fact, actual celebrity victims have come out and spoke about it being traumatizing for them too and damaging their relationships - their fame doesn’t protect them from the damage and if anything i wouldn’t be surprised if it makes them more vulnerable. it is not ok.
rpf people - please think about the impact of your actions for one minute. its not too late to stop doing that and find a fictional character to write about instead. or even just continue your bullshit but not post it online and enjoy it in private where there’s 0 chance of the person it’s about ever seeing it and being hurt by it.
Wild things I have learnt in therapy:
- When a child cries, parents are supposed to comfort them, not punish them
- Parents are, in fact, supposed to want to spend time with their children
- Children too have a right to privacy, meaning parents are not allowed to read their diaries etc and then punish them for the thoughts they found about
- Children are allowed to be upset and cry
- Children don't have to earn the love and attention from their parents by performing various things
- Children are not supposed to be scared of going home and/or their parents
- Children are not supposed to be physically abused and even a little bit of hitting is actually physical abuse
- Parents are not supposed to expect that children are mentally as mature as other adults
- Children are not supposed to be told that they're an accident, a burden, or something the parents regret
- Children are not supposed to be scared and ashamed of themselves or feel like failures because of their parents
So I'd like you to meet my partners. This is the broken, this is the beaten, and this is the damned.
Here is the lover, theres the dreamer, and that one there on the right is me.
Just entered a new relationship. There's Paul, a real estate novelist who never had time for a wife, and Davy, who's still in the navy and probably will be for life.
Yeah, this is my new boyfriend and girlfriend. Yeah, he was a punk and she did ballet. What more can I say?
Yeah, just got a picture of our polycule back. On the left is the clown, on the right is the joker, and of course, stuck in the middle, there's you.
[“Even though mutual aid projects often emerge because of an awareness of how relief programs exclude people marked “undeserving” or “ineligible,” mutual aid groups still sometimes set up their own problematic deservingness hierarchies. For example, mutual aid projects replicate moralizing eligibility frameworks when they require sobriety, exclude people with certain types of convictions, only include families with children, or stigmatize and exclude people with psychiatric disabilities for not fitting behavioral norms.
In his book Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics, Myrl Beam tells the story of a Minneapolis group founded by queer and trans youth to support their community. As the group formalized and got funding, it diverged from its initial mission and commitment to youth governance and became dominated by adults. The group began to work with the local police to check warrants for youth who came to the drop-in space. This functionally excluded criminalized youth—disproportionately youth of color—from the space and endangered people who came seeking help, turning what had been a mutual aid group into an extension of the local police department.
When mutual aid projects make more stigmatized people ineligible for what they are offering, they replicate the charity model. The charity model often ties aid and criminalization together, determining who gets help and who gets put away, as we can see in this account from a Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR) participant: After Hurricane Irma, a local sheriff announced that, “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail.”]
Dean Spade, Mutual Aid
I feel like people tend to forget that the reason children are on websites they really shouldn't be on, like Twitter for example, is because there are no spaces on the internet anymore specifically designed for children, unless it's for babies or toddlers.
The death of Flash also meant the death of thousands of games and websites specifically designed for the 9-13 demographic. Now granted, several games died long before Flash did (like the Holy Disney MMO trio - Pixie Hollow, ToonTown and Club Penguin) but there were other websites designed around what kids would enjoy. Sites like Kongregate, Sploder, GirlsGoGames and others were designed with kids in mind.
These sites were special in the sense that it gave fun games for children to play without even really needing to interact with other people directly. They could play the games and have fun. If they wanted to make friends they could, and oftentimes these sites had moderation to prevent kids from having full control over what they could say so as to prevent bullying and potential cyberstalking.
But now Flash is dead, and there's barely any hangout spots for that demographic anymore. I think the last remaining game you can play that doesn't require Flash that was a major part of the 2010s game nostalgia was Wizard101, but that game comes with the flaw of membership programs, similar to all the other MMOs that existed at the time.
Needless to say, the next time we ask in annoyance why there's so many 12 year olds on Twitter and Tik Tok, remember that it's because there's literally no online spaces anymore solely for them and only them, that majority of adults wouldn't step foot into anymore.
really funny that every website is in an arms race to make itself as bad as possible and immediately someone makes a firefox extension to fix it
Yes BUT. This specific desk is in a library so a parent that needs to use a library computer can do their work and have a little ease in managing their kiddo. In a library environment this is less productivity culture bullshit and more 'oh this is a fantastic solution to a difficult situation library staff see 8 times a day'. Is it still productivity culture bullshit because this parent may not have affordable childcare or internet available to them? Yes. Am I glad it exists in a library environment to fill a demonstrated need? Hell yeah.
and keeps library staff from having to act as babysitters...
dear GOD we could use a couple of these. we keep crayons and coloring books on hand for the ones old enough for that, but the wee ones squirming and fussing in laps while the parents are fighting with job applications or convincing gmail’s current 2-step verification to let them in so they can print off a return label (both of which i have seen)? this would be SO NICE.
library groups have been loving this & are spreading the word & actively trying to purchase/create similar things in different systems
not to talk about doctor who but remember being a lonely depressed teenager and hearing him say ‘900 years of time and space and i’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important’
he was like ‘just this once-everybody lives’ and i chased that shit with homosexual determination for every day since, like maybe through pure force of will i could save everyone i loved from a system that wanted us dead
somebody's probably already done this but
hehe, I did this in school.. ignoring work...
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