I'm thinking of doing physical stickers of a line of art pieces I'm calling Tiny Animals. They would typically range between one and two inches, and each run would have unique markings and colors. They would be $5 per sticker.

The Tiny Animals look like this. Would people be interested in them?

yeah so

one thing led to another

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Antis and the Jaws Effect

So apparently, the anti movement is now citing the Jaws effect as a reason why Morally Bad Fanworks Make People Do Bad Things In The Real World, and I’m just… honestly staring into the camera like I’m on The Office, because yes, the Jaws effect is a salient example of how fiction - or rather, reactions to fiction - can have an impact on the real world, but it demonstrates exactly the opposite point to the one antis think it does.

Because when Jaws came out, sharks weren’t the ones reading it. No humans reacted to Jaws by saying, “oh, fucking SWEET, seeing this enormous shark murder people in a book/film means it’s totally okay for ME to murder people.” No: what happened was, people looked at Jaws and said, “wow, this completely fictional story about a shark doing murder must be STONE COLD FACTS, and therefore justifies KILLING EVERY SHARK,” to the point where actual science about sharks was ignored and their populations were decimated and it’s taken us literal decades to walk back even a fraction of the harm done by shark-fearful zealots.

The Jaws effect doesn’t support the claim that dark, squicky or otherwise problematic fanworks can turn people into predators. It’s evidence that, when reactionary people confuse fiction with reality and use their fear of the former to justify acts of persecution in the latter, there are terrible, widespread consequences that do nothing to mitigate the thing they were actually scared of in the first place, but which have a toxic cultural half-life regardless. 

It’s evidence, in other words, that the anti approach to things is a goddamn bad idea. 

Proship is not a dirty word

I just want to SCREAM! Proship is not a dirty word or label! It doesn’t mean anything BAD! It doesn’t mean you’re pro-real life abuse, kinks, whatever nonsense people come up with. It’s just a silly internet term to show support for people to make fanart and fanfics! Whatever fiction people make, cute sfw stuff, sexy fun stuff, or the dark and painful stuff! It’s ALL GOOD STUFF! It all deserves to exist! “But what about…” YES ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT DESERVES TO BE MADE AND EXIST IF THE CREATORS WANT TO MAKE IT. We do not know why people create the things they do. But I know some people need a voice and fiction is the only way they can be heard. It is up to ourselves to curate our online experience using website features like block and mute. Use websites that don’t host art you don’t want to see. To this day I am still getting abusive messages. People send me anonymous compliments or delete their public messages of support to me to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. I have no idea what I have done to earn this ire. I have no way to face it. No one left to help. I just have to scream into the void. Please protect fiction. We all need it. We all desperately need it now more than ever. No matter how much hate mail you send me or public call outs you post about me, I will scream this from the top of my lungs that you are WRONG. AJD . ART