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if you have been incorrectly marked as nsfw, you can appeal before tumblr permanently filters you as such and your blog is set back to default settings prior to december 18th here.
There is a particular take on the destruction of Tumblr that I keep waiting for someone to write, but no one has yet. Which means I apparently need to do it myself.
The take is, essentially, that not only should adults have access to adult content – in itself, valid and true – but also it is important to cultivate SOME social spaces where the overtly/explicitly sexual overlap with the non-sexual. (Not all spaces; I still think it should be illegal to have sex on the sidewalk. But SOME spaces that enable the sexual and the non-sexual to exist side-by-side)
Part of what I think leads to the dehumanization of sex (and subsequently allows the stigma and shame to cling so heavily to it) is the complete bifurcation of life into SEX and EVERYTHING ELSE and never the twain shall meet. When we – at every turn – put all aspects of human life into one sphere, and sex into another, we dehumanize it. We remove the full subjectivity of people from it, which is a problem.
I think we need to actively cultivate spaces LIKE before-time!Tumblr where we can be people, and talk about what happened at work today, and the funny thing our dog did, and how our parents make us crazy during the holidays, and how dare they do X thing on Supernatural, and here’s a great version of that distracted boyfriend meme, and ALSO be able to talk about being horny on main, as the saying goes, and find the right porn clip to fap to. Or post nude selfies. Or hunt down that sweet, sweet NSFW Symbrock fanart.
Having spaces where the explicitly sexual and the non-sexual overlap is important to humanizing sex and, subsequently, de-stigmatizing it (which, it should go without saying, is particularly salient for marginalized people who often suffer way more heavily from sexual stigma)
This. As someone who is half French half British I’ve forever struggled with the frankly pretty Puritan British attitude towards sex and our bodies and the open French attitude. I know which is healthy and which isn’t from personal experience. People not discussing sex, nudity etc in a safe environment leads to so many issues around lack of education, understanding and future deep emotional and physical issues for young adults trying to figure life out. It can last our entire lives if not addressed.
My friends and I got naked in front of each other as teens to change like it’s no big deal and yeah on occasion we looked and compared bodies, it’s thanks to this that I know that my nipples which I hated for being so huge are actually not that weird. My friends all have completely different body shapes and it made me comfortable in mine knowing it was ok to not look like a model/porn star and be different because we all were.
I’ve learned so much from tumblr just from discussion and I share this with others, it’s embarrassing how little people know about their own bodies due to a lack of a forum to discuss it. This is such a good place for it and I’m so sad it is so niche already let alone if that now collapses.
Due to lack of discussion of sex and just human bodies someone close to me didn’t address the pain he had every time he had an erection until he confided in me as an open friend and it turned out he needed a medical circumcision. He went 10 YEARS with this pain (and not having sex) because he had no one to talk to about it and nowhere to look it up. Fucking ridiculous.
So yes, even for non trans / queer folk it’s so important to have an open forum somewhere regarding these things let alone how hugely important it is for these communities.
While at the same time I’m also angered that sex and nudity is villainised while nazism and it’s ilk is fiiiiiiine.
This . Is . Wrong .
“also it is important to cultivate SOME social spaces where the overtly/explicitly sexual overlap with the non-sexual.”
This.
One of my favorite things about rl kink communities? That we also went to munches (get togethers at restaurants) and just hung out, and sure we’d probably casually mention/joke about being huge perverts at some point because it was safe to do so among people we knew wouldn’t be offended, but the nice thing was just being able to be around people and talk about anything.
I do think having Rung be a part of Primus would be interesting! Sort of like what I initially thought was going to be the reveal in LL, that he was really Primus’s sword – you have the mystical connection, but also the question of what (if anything) it means when a part of God becomes its own person.
I definitely think the Scavengers are a good bet (who wouldn’t want The Wacky Misadventures Of The Worst Decepticons in their series? :)), and I really hope we get the others, as well. I feel like Ambulon would be fascinating in any continuity, as a former ‘Con turned Autobot medic. Pharma is sort of like Getaway, in that what I’d love to see is a series where he initially shows up as a helpful, admirable Autobot, and the comics fans are just on tenterhooks trying to work out whether this new version is going to pull the same dark shit as the IDW version, or whether this version really is exactly what he seems. (And with Rung, I think fans’ reaction might be similar, although the decision would be more philosophical in a way: is this Rung secretly Primus? If so, is it in the same way that IDW Rung is Primus, or with a different backstory? Does he actually know? What, if anything, does all of this say about Transformers cosmology? Or if this Rung isn’t a god, are there Primus and non-Primus Rungs in the multiverse? They could definitely pull it off, it would just require some thought. :))
Much as I’d adore seeing the DJD come to the screen in all their twisted, bloody glory (and oh, imagine actually hearing Tarn’s voice!), I also just love all the possibilities people have come up with for a tamer version of the DJD in previous discussions. I would love to see a full-on, like, Rescue Bots-level DJD, where Tarn puts you in a comfy chair and tickles the soles of your feet with a feather until you confess, or something.
I would sell an actual organ for Mirage to have a major role in a new canon, and preferably have that role extend beyond “that time we thought Mirage was a traitor but he wasn’t”.
I haven’t heard anything, to be honest, Anon; I realise I’m not always at the forefront of TF news, but I feel like I’d have heard something if there’d been an announcement, you know? So it seems like you may have some time!
I think a chronological read-through sounds great! I wouldn’t put too much pressure on yourself, though – I imagine the new continuity, however it shapes up, will be different enough that it won’t matter if you’re still catching up.
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