a not-particularly-vaguepost about the ichos call out

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published pre-confluence concurrently with the fallout post's popularity

4dgirlvisibleorgans

Rotifer

honestly most of the ichos thing sounds like purity cascade bullshit but who among us #amongus hasn't felt a little skeezy about the regular crop of seventeen year olds hypertortured for a week and promptly shuffled off into glitzy galas where they audition for intense physical intimacy with older industry professionals

#i remember when this was a guro blog #but i guess its my job to problematize everything about espers and esper culture now #since apparently the only other people doing it are old school callout post writers and new wave political lesbians inventing new slurs for trans men #please try to take careful note: i said "a little skeezy" and not "spittingly morally outraged" #not porn

saturdayswarriorcat

Alicorn

your absolutely right we have to find those monsters who are hypertorturing seventeen year olds for a week and bring them to account

#actually the problem is that the teenagers are then welcomed into a serious professional environment as full members thereof #can't have that #those are children #give them crayons

4dgirlvisibleorgans

Rotifer

posters who did not take careful note

hourglass-chatter-sideblog

called-into-action

Eiko

Not that I don't get where OP is coming from but tbc nobody is making us go to esper meetups? It's just a prereq for figuring out what our powers are safely, and most of us want to do that after going through the week of hypertorture.

#I waited almost two weeks to go to my first mixer #and my understanding that lots of us wait longer? #my partner definitely did lol #but I've never been a patient girlie #but yeah they should have just given me crayons :( #I'm not 25 yet so my brain hasn't fully developed :((

O-Soto-gari

share-the-bounty

Cliff Face

Nah it's fine, as long as an esper never uses their power they never have to be exposed to the dangers of pre-age-of-consent handholding

hourglass-chatter-sideblog

called-into-action

Eiko

I have a confession to make and it's that I'd already held someone's hand before awakening. :( I'll understand if I get cancelled for this but I just can't keep living this lie anymore...

#chatter #shiptoasting

4-Slice-Poaster

Shitpoasting-intensifies

Cliff Face

You’re cancelled

fruitssymmetry

escape-myself

Sage/Nemesis

my partner awakened at 16 and he's never really mentioned any skeeviness, but I guess he might have been protected by having family in the industry already. I've never noticed anything really bad, either, but I am reliably informed I'm bad at noticing this kinda thing!

batgirlbigtwitchyears

Rotifer

how do our posts keep ending up on Real Ass Professional Esper Tumblr

anyway i don't know op that well and neither she or i are espers but i think people in this thread are treating her take as a lot more totalizing than it actually is. like its good that skeezy shit hasn't happened to you and maybe a lot of other espers share that experience, but i agree with 4d that the whole thing is like......... it could be skeezy so easily. skeezy people are gonna see this shit and want in on it. and i think the temptation to crisply categorize relationships into Healthy and Abusive, or experiences into Voluntary and Nonconsensual, or people into Mature and Immature, is destructive to certain kinds of awareness of potential unhealthy dynamics that can exist in a space like the esper industry. and i think the ability to step back and say, all of the individual principles and arguments and analogies that led us here are each individually sensible, but the vibes here are still kind of rancid, is a valuable way to push back on that

#discourse tag #twitchy talks