We stare into each other's eyes Like jackdaws, like ravens

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do what you will but never forget he is fucked up

dont forget;

But never forget.

Local problem causing silly creature, sillyly causes problems (on purpose)(intentionally)(gone wrong)

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People are always like "why do they let Data play poker with them, his brain is a computer, he has an unfair advantage," and the answer is simply because it's for fun!! He's their friend! Like can you imagine if they told Data he can't play, he'd be like "I understand, that's a logical decision, and as an android I am unable to feel left out," but then any time the poker game came up he'd be looking at Riker across the bridge like

Phaedra it is you that I owe all my lackluster

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continuously variable transmission fans rise up (everyone in the club sits down except me)

never going to recall how to draw any of you

jazz is so good. have you guysheard of this shit theres tumpet

wait until you hear the sacks of phones

I refuse to reblog callout posts because I'm a prison abolitionist

In all my years in this website, and I've been here a long time, I can't recall a single instance of a callout post leading to actual restitution for the victims of the alleged harm the person was accused of. Even in cases where the accusations were true. Even in cases where there was legitimate harm done to another person.

Remember the sixpencee child slave thing? What happened there, exactly? Was the kid freed? No? They were just run off the website? OK so what good exactly did that do?

Remember the bone stealing witch? What exactly did that witchhunt accomplish? The person got arrested, oh that's great, the american justice system surely rectified the situation

And again, those are instances where the accusations were true and involved real substantive harm to another person. We used to joke on here how callout posts were shit like "receipts below: [several paragraphs of petty fandom drama] [three paragraphs of petty interpersonal drama involving cheating on partners or stealing food out of the fridge or something] [fabricated evidence that the person is responsible for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey]"

And that was back in the 2010s. The meta has changed. Callouts used to be a tool people used to point out actual harm a person had done, rarely, and more commonly were used as a means of bullying somebody over petty drama. Nowadays they're used to manufacture outrage and harassment against marginalized populations. They are a weapon bigots use to turn us against each other. A few manufactured accusations here, some out of context or clipped screenshots there, and people who should be standing in solidarity with each other against white supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, are instead devouring each other.

It's sinister as shit, dude, and people will still share these accusations without a second thought. So, why? What is the point? What's the best case scenario here? Raising "awareness?" what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Will we get the oh-so-trustworthy authorities involved? Are we hoping for an arrest? A conviction? Throwing a queer or poc person in prison so they can be abused and assaulted and humiliated behind bars? Is that who we are?

Callouts and the like don't serve any real good in the world. At a macro scale they divide us when we should be standing together, and at a micro scale they result in deeply traumatic never-ending harassment and threats and doxxing and worse to a person who almost definitely does not deserve it. And again, for what? A sense of "justice?" this is not justice. This is retribution. It is punishment.

It's fucking cop behavior, and I'm not gonna participate in it.

My partner was called out on this website in 2014 (yes, for things based in truth) and it still follows us. They struggle to find employment because someone will come into the shop/bar/whatever and freak out, because they recognise them and don't have the tools to deal with that. Because call-outs, in combination with rampant parasocial relationships, actually cause quite a bit more hurt than they resolve. People think they're doing the right thing by contacting everyone my partner works with to 'warn them', by saving bookmarks of people sharing things at the time and sending them in a list to overwhelmed employers and organisers who are just trying to do the right thing, who are then forced to cut my partner (and often also me) off. This is actively obstructing our work to create space for queer emerging artists in our (local, offline) community. This is constantly retraumatising.

Because of the way time and visibility works at the intersection of offline and the internet, everyone thinks they're acting independently to do a good thing, to do the right thing, to protect people from harm. It can feel good to point at someone and go 'they are the bad thing' and watch them be punished for that. In reality, actions like this just obstruct a queer, traumatised person in healing and building a meaningful life. Do you know how it feels to be knocked back every time you try and build something? Do you know how it feels to have constant whisper campaigns running through your community, to be pushed back down every time what you build actually starts to make a difference?

A call out on this website has cost us an awful lot of money, time, friends, lovers, left us in debt, left us in a position of not being able to trust anyone who hasn't been through the same thing. And some of the loudest voices who push us back, spread rumour, materially disrupt our lives, are those who vocally claim to be anarchists, who sell fucking riso prints that say ACAB at craft fairs they would happily run us out of. If you believe in prison abolition you have to embody it, it can't just be a label you choose to identify with because you think it makes you look cool. You have to answer the question "so if I'm not banishing all the 'bad people' to exile, or locking them up, what do I do to exist in community with people who have hurt others? What do I do to support them in healing and accessing meaningful change? What do I do to dismantle the structures which perpetuated this harm in the first place?"

I dare you. I dare you to actually embody it.