i’ve seen multiple people talking about how mastodon has the same issue withs maps/cp as tumblr (some say worse). and it seems incredibly confusing to figure out in the first place.

To be honest, anon, I literally just opened the site on my browser so I honesty don’t know how easy or not easy it is to use. I can’t grasp twitter, so it might be tricky for me, but I can make a later post about whether or not it’s difficult for me to get the hang of. (Probably sometime tomorrow b/c it’s late and I’m about to head to bed.)

And I really hope this doesn’t come off as rude or distrustful or anything like that, but is there anyway you could point me towards people talking about the issue you mentioned? It’s not that I don’t believe you when you say you’ve seen people talking about it, it’s that this past year has really exposed me to a lot of people calling things that aren’t actually pedophilia and CP (like ship art of adult characters) pedophilia and CP. I just want to know what they’re saying specifically. If you want you can DM me, or send another anon or submission. I won’t publish an anonymous submission, if you don’t want me to. I’m really not trying to be pedantic or a pain in the ass or anything, I just have a bit of alarm fatigue. If the site really is a hot bed for exploitation and maps then I won’t use it, but I want as much information as I can get.

And just so you know, I genuinely appreciate you coming to me to talk to me about these concerns. I despise people who are real dangers to children and I don’t want anything to do with content that harms and exploits children, either. So I do honestly thank you for saying something.

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I have a shitload of fanfic that I should be working on right now but I’m answering anon asks and thinking about fic I could eventually write instead. I’m told this is a common fic writer problem lol.

But speaking of fic, I’m actually trying to put things in perspective for himself. I’ve been feeling bad because I haven’t produced as much as I had in years past (I’ve only published eight fics this year) but I’ve written nearly 200k words so that really comes out to less short fic and more long fic.

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I love yarn crafts. I learned how to loom knit last year and how to crochet a few months ago and it’s honestly one of my favorite things. It’s great for keeping my hands busy and getting rid of a lot of the nervous energy I carry around. I’m trying to get the hang of needle knitting but that one’s a little tricky for me.

Also, it’s super hard to feel like you’re not going to accomplishing anything and/or can’t do anything well when you can just create hats out of yarn. It’s a great way to tell depression to bite you.

Send me a flower, I’ll tell you whatever I want.

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My second favorite Star Wars movie is Revenge of the Sith and I won’t apologize for that. It’s not a bad movie either technically or story wise and it’s a damn shame no one took Hayden Christensen seriously because the visual difference alone between Anakin and pre-suit Vader is amazing.

Send me a flower, I’ll tell you whatever I want.

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Despite being an open book for the most part, I usually need to be asked for information. I keep my thoughts, feelings, ideas, and desires close to the chest and have been known to shut people out and isolate when things get too much for me.

I enjoy sharing things about myself, but I rarely do it unprompted. I have friends I’ve known for a decade who don’t know what I’ve been up to or what’s happened in my life for the past three years.

Send me flowers, I’ll tell you whatever I want.

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When I was four I was given a baby doll for my birthday. He was my favorite toy for as long as I can remember and I played with him constantly. I made clothes for him and everything. The strange thing about this doll was that I named him Philo Klem. I’m not kidding. I have no idea where I got that name or why I gave him that name, but that was his name. And no one ever tried to get me to name that doll something sensible, either. He was just my baby, Philo.

Send me flowers, I’ll tell you whatever I want.

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During my senior year of high school, my AP English teacher was out for the entire year with health issues. As a result, we had a steady sub who wasn’t qualified to actually teach but was a super nice guy. He was the girl’s tennis coach and we called him Coach Pirate because he had an eye patch and a really long beard he actually braided. Three years later I met him again in college in a class on early Christianity. He was getting his degree so he could teach history.

Send me flowers, I’ll tell you whatever I want.

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When I was in first grade I broke my right arm (doing one of the aforementioned dumb things that I didn’t understand could hurt me). As a result, I learned spelling and handwriting with my left hand first. I’m more or less functionally ambidextrous and I do still switch hands occasionally when texting, eating, or writing.

Send me flowers, I’ll tell you whatever I want.

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I was a strange child who had trouble understanding that if I did things that could hurt me, I would get hurt. I once cut my upper lip in half with a pair of scissors because I wanted to see what would happen.

Send me a flower, I’ll tell you anything I want.

sending good vibes for your sitch!!! i really wish my mom was as supportive and subtle as yours is

Thanks, anon! I also wish your mom was supportive and I’m sorry she isn’t/wasn’t.

One of these days I’ll tell her. I don’t know exactly when or where, but I will. It’s nice to know that she’ll be okay with it but it’s also a little frightening at the same time. I don’t think I’m *that* obvious, but maybe I am. At least she’s okay with it, though. It could be a hell of a lot worse.