sparkblade.bsky.social
Jack of all trades, master of none. Queer weirdo. Not safe for sanity. Also not safe for work! I post cute plushes, fantasy genitalia, and sometimes cute plushes *of* fantasy genitalia. Also books, zines, art dolls... You get the picture. :D
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Damn, that's awesome! I don't do tiktok *at all* but I'm really happy for you.
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I'm fine with having an "echo chamber!" They're only bad if you never poke your nose outside of 'em, that's all. Left wing ignorance of what the right is saying or why the right is Like That is a big problem, but I also need spaces with ZERO nazis in them, plzkthnks!
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Oh! Yeah, if you already have made stuff, throwing it out rather than getting profit would be silly. I don't blame you there AT ALL. I just think that as somebody who sometimes shills a book set at "Dogbumps" which is, yanno, Hogwarts but with trans people, the "make it SO GAY" option is more fun!
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Like "FnF character in pride flag colors" is an option that removes bigot support from the equation, why not that?
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I wasn't calling yours knockoffs, sorry about that. Damn short post lengths. I meant that historically knockoffs haven't damaged fandom enthusiasm, so your products won't either. If people are buying from you BECAUSE you're queer, okay, but are you gonna vet your customers to be sure?
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Well, but if you're queer, why would you *want* to promote the popularity of a queer-hater? Knock off merch doesn't exactly *reduce* fandom engagement. Bit the opposite, really. So I stand by "only if it's very queer/very parody."
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No, I really don't think so. I am fundamentally disagreeing with your original point. Optimism has its place, but so does realism. Progress isn't inevitable, and parents having queer children failed to, say, fix the aids crisis when those children were literally dying, why would it fix anything now?
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Yes, but your statement seems to be implying they're not significant. I don't know if they're the majority or just a really big minority, but here in the USA at least there are A FUCKTON of them. "Sometimes love just ain't enough," as the song says.
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Honestly as a queer person, I'd avoid somebody doing that like the plague UNLESS the merch was explicitly queer/explicitly parodying and mocking the original. Because otherwise it looks like you're a "fan" of the guy who doesn't care about his stance and is fine adding to his popularity.
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Sigh. I think there are also *plenty* of mothers who love-the-sinner-but-hate-the-sin their out and proud children. Ask me how I know.
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Gods, yeah.
I mean. I'm from the midwest. I like me some slop! But the thing about slop is that it's abundant. Go like...read bad fanfiction, not JKR, go play any of five billion okayish indie games made by non-bigots, go get a gas station chicken sammich, come on!
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Honestly it's depressing how many people will keep consuming mediocre media (and food) when they know it supports hate. At least sell me out for something good?
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Studies show: water is wet. But in our post-truth society being able to cite studies about the wetness of water is necessary, alas. (Also, tbh, MANY things people assumed would totally rot our brains didn't. See Plato complaining about kids these days with BOOKS instead of memorizing, lol.)
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It's also staged for the cameras. It's a (pathetic) show-off flex for fellow bigots, a threat to cow opposition, and I suspect it's also an attempt at reactive abuse, i.e. they're trying to get the liberals to lash out dramatically to give them their Reichstag fire so they can go even further.
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Honestly I do too! But it can be a thin line, and there's a certain "some people deserve to be bullied" thing going around that bothers me. Especially when it turns into the left eating their own for not being the right "kind" of progressive.
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Although by "bullied" I don't mean insulted, I mean pointedly dissected everything he was saying, pointing out how wrong he was, until he metaphorically flipped the table and left rather than continue getting owned.
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Yup. I've had to "do a mod thing" like...once in the past year, between three discord servers I run, all small-to-tiny, but still! (Would have been two, but I was asleep, and my users bullied a bigot into running off crying before I could wake up and ban him, lol. So proud of 'em!)
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There's a fun factoid that a number of big discords had their mods-needed incidents go WAY down after posting pro-LGBT+ content and banning anybody who responded with slurs. Turns out awful people are awful about lots of topics! Anybody who wrangles followers should do it just to make life easier.😁
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Oh my GOODNESS this is looking amazing! (And I hear you on the sequined fabric, I've played with it a little and it's so annoying.)
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The new NSFW customers more than made up for the loss, though!
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Honestly, in my experience, you'll lose a few. There are always prudes in any given group. Even nsfw groups, they're just prudes about more specific things! But when I started being more public about my NSFW, it seemed to be a quite small number?
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....wow, somehow that got ta big chunk of it deleted. "I can say that if you're worried about that part, I've..."
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Totally get it. My first ventures into this kind of thing were *years* before I finally got fully comfortable with it.
btw, I can say that part I've had no more trouble than with any customer base. :D Possibly less!
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That's so cute! <3 Love it.
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Well, I'm sadly not a prospective customer, but as somebody who makes that kind of plush myself, there is a *severe* lack of quality makers. I don't know how many of your current audience is going to overlap with those people, but there's absolutely a demand out there. Feel free to HMU about it.
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Aww, thank you!
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1. I usually share the other side where you can see her face, but this photo seemed more appropriate to the theme, and
2. I'm right this moment sewing another one almost exactly like it, though without the solarettes or peytral (shoes and collar.) She'll be at EverfreeNW!
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You are SO COOL. I wish I was anywhere near there.
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Oh man. That came up recently in a big playlist while we were driving somewhere with the goober-child, and I ended up explaining anti-war protests to her, if in a short and simplified way.