Notices by Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party), page 13

Just read this in the Washington Post and it was one of those moments where I felt I really no longer understood my home country. How is it at all strange to ask to use your friend’s diaper changing table to change your own child’s diaper while visiting? What the hell else could one do? Please tell me the last line is a joke.

People need to know that Eugen is a divisive character among people who have been here since the beginning, and particularly among marginalized people. Don’t accept his opinions as gospel. I am more inclined to listen to the marginalized old timers.

@yamako 京都の叡山電車には１０年以上前から「百合電車」があるぐらいの人気ジャンルなのに…意味不明。知りませんでした。（そういう私が最後にコミケに行ったの２０年ほど前だけど?）

@yamako えっ⁉️ないの⁉️いまだに⁉️

@toneji 箕面！素敵ですね！情報ありがとうございます。こういう日本語のインスタンスがあると心強いです。

@gaby あ、’すみません、匿名を批判つもりはありません? 匿名でやる正当な理由はたくさんあります。特に女性やマイノリティーの場合、実名でやると危険が伴います。批判しているのは、匿名となると暴走してしまう日本人を作り出す、対面での発言をあまり許さない日本社会の風潮です。

@DunPiteog Yes, that's why I tooted about her. ?

Ack! I can’t stop looking at my timeline! This is almost as bad as when I was addicted to the birdsite. It wasn’t this way even two weeks ago. I am going to have to start consciously limiting my Mastodon screen time, which is not a thing I ever thought I would be thinking.

@yuril @YoWatShiinaEsq 見えてます！可愛いね?
ちなみに57歳のトランス女性（私）も同感です?

@undauntedgirl A part of me wants to stage an intervention (lol), but obviously they’re not ready to let go of the birdsite, so maybe I will do as you suggest. (Before I had the word muted in any form. It hadn’t occurred to me that I could do it the way you describe.)
Thank you!

A-a-and I had to turn off notifications from one of my favorite people because it turns out their account was a firehose of Twitter reposts that I hadn’t been seeing while I had the word blocked.

Elvira is the celebrity mascot the Fediverse needs and deserves. Are people aware that she’s a queer icon? https://youtu.be/Gm5jcF4i3O0

I finally unmuted the word “Twitter,” since there’s a lot important discussion about it right now, and I see that a lot of people who recently made accounts are mainly reposting stuff from Twitter. It’s time to let go, folks. The Fediverse is not Musk-free Twitter.

@ocilam @gaby そうです、面と向かってなかなか正直に発言しない日本人の中に、匿名となると爆発する人が少なくないように思います。汚い言葉遣いもするし。私が不幸の青い鳥サイトで腐女子の「ホモ」という差別用語の乱用につあて批判した時、匿名の腐女子がうじゃうじゃ出て来て、ネトウヨと変わらない暴言を私に吐いて来ました。恐るべし匿名効果。

@ocilam 私がよく言っているのは「差別を訴えた人が負け」的な文化がありますよね、日本には。「女性だけがパンプスを履かなきゃいけないのはおかしくない？」と訴えただけで、石川優実さんが毎日どんだけ激しいヘイトを浴びていることか。のえるさんはいい人だと思うけど、彼は基本的に技術面の話しかしていなくて、ユーザをハラスメントや差別から守る対策についてまったく触れない印象を受けます。（違ったらごめんなさい）

@Yukari Love it! ?

@ocilam 日本人は人権に鈍感な上、対立を極端に避けたがる傾向にあるので、誰かが問題のある言動に走っても見て見ぬ振りをするか、「言論の自由」として片付けてしまいがちですね。数ヶ月前に日本語インスタンスを探した時、ネトウヨとロリコンやりたい放題のしか見つからなくて諦めました。日本人の「言論の自由原理主義」はただの「逃げ」のように思います。

The crazy thing is, I think a US or FR adaptation of Juttan Shuttai as a look inside the world of US comics/BD publishing industries would be impossible without radical changes to the storyline and characters. Our comics creation and sales ecosystems are just too different.

Another wild idea I saw in Today's Webtoon that US comics companies wouldn't even DREAM of doing: a 2-day, all-expenses paid offsite for aspiring webtoon creators to get mentoring, create, then pitch their original stories to publishers.

Lately, I've been trying to dig deeper into how Korea's comics industry transitioned from print periodicals to mostly digital webtoon serialization. Watching K-drama Today's Webtoon on @Viki@twitter.com has been fascinating as a intro to that world. https://www.viki.com/tv/38643c-todays-webtoon