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it’s disheartening to see an overwhelming majority of white queer people fail to recognize that the communities they build so closely imitate the structures of oppression they have claimed to leave behind, while loudly proclaiming allyship for people of color.

i’ve been on a ton of different platforms now and even though i interact with a lot of trans people, i’ve noticed that i often find myself othered by trans fem communities. the exclusion is subtle because i am east asian, pretty, and passing. and because i am pretty and passing, i often receive recognition and admiration from other trans fems. and because i am east asian as opposed to someone with black or brown skin, i am often accepted into white circles.

but i am not white. and the subtle exclusion comes from my distaste of jokes that fail to account for privilege, from speaking up when white creators speak over other people of color, from simply having a different perspective

because i am not white. and i have never been.

i’ve lived my entire life being nearly accepted by the white people around me. and the subtle exclusion that has been a staple of my life hasn’t gone away because racism still exists within queer communities.

it’s not enough to be loud about fighting oppression.

you also have to fucking do it.

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Elder Scrolls: Chapter 2 -- Daggerfall

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[THIS USER UNDERSTANDS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DOM/SUB AND TOP/BOTTOM]

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I honestly dont think White users on tumblr especially are actually reading any educational texts outside of MAYBE sometimes Queer theory featuring White people bc so many White users can barely be bothered to read text posts on tumblr gently explaining racism while holding their hand.

Thats why you have proshitters unironically calling teens who voice discomfort with the sexualization of child characters their age (or younger) "fascists", and why you have White users flinch and cry and sob about potential alleged deportation or genocide when Indigenous people so much breathe the word "landback" & "decolonization", why even White American & Canadian users somehow don't know about incredibly influencial, popular movements or political terms like MMIW or Idle No More (& they don't even know what those initials stand for despite living in the country it originated).

None of you know what anything means or is or bother to read or Google it to educate yourself & instead you just shit your pants in nonwhite users' inboxes & reblogs

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dawg... what they did with sarevok in bg3 was absolutely unnecessary given that he was kind of given a chance at a potential redemption arc in bg2. at the end of the day, it seems like whyte people really cannot be trusted to write Black villains

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👀‍🍳...

theron dark urge wip....

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omg since you're playing bg3 now you gotta see this

https://www.tumblr.com/sloshi/732228946982289408/we-were-forsaken?source=share

it'll make sense later as you progress through the plot but it's basically modern Dagoth Ur Fanfiction

(also your durge is gorgeous 😭😭😭)

withers-who-is-definitely-not-jergal my beloved...

and don't worry, i have several incomplete tav playthroughts but everybody said that i'd enjoy the dark urge, and so here we are.

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characters in their 30's and older exploring their sexuality and discovering themselves beyond their teens and twenties is so important and beautiful and worth telling

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theron dark urge wip....

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bg3 theron my beloved. he's my canon dark urge... and he's shadar-kai

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Siwa Oasis, Egypt. The 95% salt concentration increases the density of water and buoyancy, making it so you can't sink. (source)

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Mephala. (TES: Daggerfall, 1996)

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will be open about this but being queer and black and an artist is so exhausting sometimes...it sucks that so many others who are like me(I just got lucky) kinda fly under the radar either because people don't notice them for being like me or black creatives do so on purpose to avoid racism/anti blackness.

it feels lonely that I don't see many characters like me let alone ones that aren't pushed to the side so I gotta create my own. it hurts that being myself opens me up to queerphobia *AND* racism.

please love queer black people, artists and creatives alike, and real heavy talk, we kinda don't live that long...

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A detail of painting of one of three musicians from tomb of Nakht (TT52). New Kingdom, 18th dynasty ca. 1421-1372 BC. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. Thebes.

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“Forever Turbo Heat Dance” by Widdly 2 Diddly

Factory Club theme from Dingaling Productions’ LISA: The Painful