#starrspeaks — Public Fediverse posts

There seems to be two kinds of personal Carrds:

1. No personality info or interests, just links to socials and commission info, very professional.

2. Plastered with everything under the sun, especially all the things that enrage and scare them.

It's easier for me to make fun of the byf/dni thing now that I've realized what an utter waste of time it was for me to do that. I doubt anyone read my huge metric ton of disclaimers unless they were already super interested in me, and if anyone I was trying to explain myself to had read it, there's no way in hell they would have learned anything or changed their initial impression of me.

The only reason I even caved and started writing all that shit to begin with was because I noticed how much worse people would get harassed online if they were outed as a "proshipper" instead of just having that all over their profile to begin with, so I guess I thought I was putting up a safety net. Like when me n my brother were kids and he knew I was about to tell on him, so he would blurt out the truth first to lessen the blow.

I still catch myself sometimes, starting to explain and rant to any antis reading, instead of the people I can affect, and who I should be focusing on instead: the people I can help. Gonna take me a long time to dissolve that burning wish to change the minds of persecutors. ><

But yeah, fuck the dni thing. It's so stupid, and sometimes when I'm bored, one of my favorite things to scroll is screenshots of strangers' AWFUL and contradictory dni standards. They're almost always antis, but that's not surprising.

#StarrSpeaks #FandomDiscourse #DNIs

There seems to be two kinds of personal Carrds:

1. No personality info or interests, just links to socials and commission info, very professional.

2. Plastered with everything under the sun, especially all the things that enrage and scare them.

It's easier for me to make fun of the byf/dni thing now that I've realized what an utter waste of time it was for me to do that. I doubt anyone read my huge metric ton of disclaimers unless they were already super interested in me, and if anyone I was trying to explain myself to had read it, there's no way in hell they would have learned anything or changed their initial impression of me.

The only reason I even caved and started writing all that shit to begin with was because I noticed how much worse people would get harassed online if they were outed as a "proshipper" instead of just having that all over their profile to begin with, so I guess I thought I was putting up a safety net. Like when me n my brother were kids and he knew I was about to tell on him, so he would blurt out the truth first to lessen the blow.

I still catch myself sometimes, starting to explain and rant to any antis reading, instead of the people I can affect, and who I should be focusing on instead: the people I can help. Gonna take me a long time to dissolve that burning wish to change the minds of persecutors. ><

But yeah, fuck the dni thing. It's so stupid, and sometimes when I'm bored, one of my favorite things to scroll is screenshots of strangers' AWFUL and contradictory dni standards. They're almost always antis, but that's not surprising.

#StarrSpeaks #FandomDiscourse #DNIs

Alright, I'm gonna be louder about it now because the situation is dire. @/Atherist is in a terrible position, and they will die if nothing improves. They're in full survival mode, and that's not enough anymore. They NEED help. They need more money than I will ever have at once.

I don't know if they would want me giving details since they have locked their Twitter where they've posted about it, and I don't have enough of a reach to make any difference, so I'm going to look for people that do.

This is their Kofi. https://ko-fi.com/handsomehugs

They also have a subscription service (SubscribeStar seems to be preferred due to PayPal's... thing) where you can even unlock some content for your money.

https://subscribestar.adult/atherist

Same name on Fanbox.

But again, we need a *wave* of money, tens of thousands, just so they might live.

If anyone wonders why I would fixate on this one person even though lots of other people are struggling too, I'll be transparent and say, because it's not fair.

Everything that's happening to them is the long-term result of vicious abuse that ruined their career. It was intentional.

Horrible, vindictive, monstrous people DID THIS TO THEM. They did it out of spite, because they could, because they wanted a scapegoat for their own shitty friend drama, whatever. They lied and slandered them and stalked them and caused them IMMENSE trauma, and that. is not. FAIR.

If Ang dies, it will be THOSE people's faults. I don't care how long ago it was. They intended to, and succeeded in, taking away all the income and support they had, and PEOPLE NEED THOSE THINGS TO LIVE.

I will consider them murderers if Ang dies. And this outcome isn't fair.

Buhh buhh "life isn't fair", I know.

But I'm just doing what I can. It's all I can do. There's someone in front of me being killed and I can't just sit there and wait for it. Even if I fail to make a difference.

So I bring this attempt to paint a picture of WHY I care. Why I'm doing this.

I hate injustice. It tears me to shreds more than anything else on this earth. And if I can help, I WILL. I want to.

If Ang sees this: I promise I won't put myself in any financial trouble over this. I have a partner who wouldn't let that happen, and my bills are always paid. But I'm going to do everything I CAN. Because I want to. Because it's right. It's not a burden. You deserve better.

#StarrSpeaks #MutualAid is that the tag? Iunno. Will add more if I find more!