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Probably correlates to the rise of conservatism + downfall of media literacy (idk if this is a hot take but if you can’t understand that reading/depicting something doesn’t equal endorsement and that fiction is a space to explore taboo subjects then you don’t have good media literacy) + BL getting more popular and people outside of the commu......   reply

- Tbh censorship is a slippery slope when the government is the entity deciding what should and shouldn’t be censored. You can’t trust that their ideas of censorship line up with yours. - Indulging in fiction definitely doesn’t equal committing the acts depicted in fiction, but also if you’re reading shota and loli stuff then you should ......   reply

My parents are immigrants and I’m constantly worried that they’re going to get taken away by ICE, so I definitely get how you feel. Something that puts it all into perspective is that history is cyclical. This has happened before (though AI and our current technology and like the fucking war drones are new, not excited about those implications)......   1 reply

“See you tomorrow!”   reply

Quick question: is liking a certain trope and/or personality in a character better in BL than in straight romance fetishizing?   1 reply

Something like: “Hey, stop thinking so negatively!” “Why do you read those weird Japanese comics?” (Well screw you) “Do you like Asian stuff ‘cause you’re Chinese?” “Why do you listen to Kpop? It sucks!” People can be so inconsiderate.   2 reply

Worldbuilding a more historically accurate version of snezhnaya for a fanfic when I only have crumbs to go off of is so hard. I’ve never actually done any major worldbuilding before for other projects, so thinking of certain aspects of culture, geography, military organization, the political and economic systems, etc. is something that I’m comp......   1 reply

The Percy Jackson books and also everything else Rick Riordan has written but oh my god you don’t understand how obsessed I was with Percy Jackson   2 reply

Florida Man Confesses to Cops, Says 'Jesus Told Me To' Drive Ferrari 360 Off Pier.   reply

When I was younger my parents used to get frustrated with me and slap me whenever I didn’t eat what they told me to or whenever I got a math problem wrong(I grew up in a typical Asian household). I used to hate them and want to kill them(I do realize that that’s going way overboard) and that and a whole bunch of other crap happened and I went t......   reply

Went to therapy for something stupid, got the police to come to my house to see if I was ok for something stupid, hurt my parents really badly because of something stupid, and my brain just has to remind me of all of it every single second of the day.   reply

My first exposure to a gay relationship was the series Percy Jackson, and it had two of my favorite characters (one's a depressed emo kid and the other's a decently optimistic healer dude) so I mean, I guess maybe that played a part in me liking yaoi? Idk man, I just like it. Maybe it's because all of the straight romance stories I tried reading fr......   reply

I’d love to join, but the only thing I could try doing is being a translator and I kinda suck at reading Chinese, so...   1 reply

Surprisingly, that does make sense.   reply