when t-rfs talk about “peaking” people what they’re talking about is grooming btw
they will for real dedicate/circulate entire threads detailing extremely specifically how to recruit people into their ideology, often through explicitly manipulative and sometimes even outright abusive means. they gloat and joke openly about doing it to friends and partners and coworkers and younger siblings and anonymously to young trans people on the internet. you see this happening pretty much everywhere regardless of whatever blog you’ve clicked on and are hate-reading, it’s integral to their entire ideology of which would probably honestly collapse without it yet they accuse trans people of being in a cult
look at any blog in the “des-sted dysphoric” community to see innumerable further examples of this. they wear that title like a badge, very conversion therapy-esque. i’ve seen these people openly discuss how to convince their trans male and transmasculine friends into detransitioning. threads upon threads of advice on how to do this. a lot of times they even journal about it on their blogs, like “omg my TIF friend wants top surgery how do i peak them asap”. this is innately unnatural and predatory behavior
wanted to offer an example of the type of shit they’re spoonfeeding to (usually young) dysphoric people in this community that they’re attempting to indoctrinate, notice that they name-dropped explicitly anti-trans books like abigail shrier’s “irreversible damage” (best-selling in conservative circles for a period of time upon its release) and recommend following “desisters” on social media to establish an echo-chamber
If you have ζ (greek alphabet symbol for Zeta) in your bio, I’m hard blocking and reporting you. Zoophiles aren’t welcome here. thank you for identifying yourself with ζ
as you might have seen, we’ve had a few asks from someone about one of our skeletons, the stowaway, being under 18. we’ve since changed the age of the skeleton, and implimented a new rule regarding the ages of characters without a specified age, since the comfort of writers both current and prospective is always one of our main priorities. we are never bothered by making small changes in order to make our spaces more inclusive.
we just want to make it clear that we do not condone or endorse grooming, predatory behaviour, or unhealthy relationships/power imbalances between adults and minors, and have never claimed anything of the sort. however, we do believe that writers can healthily and respectfully portray friendship between generations. children and teenagers both in real life and in fiction can and often do have mentor figures, parental figures, and safe adults in their lives, which are all, at the end of the day, friendships. this Tumblr post I saw recently, and it’s notes, sums up our opinion perfectly. if our initial use of the word friendship in previous answers was unclear, we hope this clears things up.
healthy and productive conversation about concerns and misunderstandings are always warranted and appreciated, and we’re more than willing to have them, but rudeness and harassment won’t be tolerated. this is the last post we will be making on the topic, since the problem is now resolved.
ok, a few people asked me for proof on @/the-appreciation-club, aka Tak, having groomed me, so im making this post with screenshots and stuff about it. sorry in advance if this is messily put together–this is my own personal experience, so i dont have very much distance from the situation. just to be clear ahead of time too, im cool with this being reblogged. i think its important that its known. ill put it all under the cut.
