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G-G-GHOSTS?!?!?!!

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couple takes tax evasion to other level!! house won’t stop MOVING!!

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Nona the Ninth

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One of my absolute favourite things I made this year! God, Babel was so GOOD!

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what’s the difference between an angled aroace and an oriented aroace?

oriented aroace was asked by the creator to be kept to strictly aroaces, as in no other type of aspec. angled aroace is allowed to be used by all aspecs from my understanding.

if any angled or oriented aroaces have input please share

-Mod Sea🌙

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hiii, the first 12 episodes of my disneycember series are available to watch!!! just click the link and it will take you to it! so far i have discussed disney's issues with colorism, anti-semitism, fatphobia, and so on. the second half is gonna be even MORE chaotic ok!?

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Anyway what I was trying to say earlier was that

When I and other whites from the south speak partial AAVE we aren't emulating anything, we aren't doing a caricature, that's just how we are. We're not doing it for the bit or because it's funny but because that's just how we speak english

The article that was attached to that reblog is talking about a very different demographic of people, rich/upper middle class white kids who emulate AAVE because it sounds funny.

I apologize for the poorly worded "jokes hit harder" bit that one definitely needed some more time to incubate. AAVE is simply more well-suited to comedy than standard American english. I'm not going to try and describe why because I honestly am not sure. Maybe because it's less formal? Or maybe the omission of certain words makes a joke less complex and allows the punchline to come through better. I honestly don't know why it works but it does

The difference between people like me and the people the article is talking about is that those people do not speak it in regular situations, they're not native speakers. They've learned to speak it because they realize how it can enhance comedy, but because they come from a different world they think it's just black people = funny

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Cultural Dark Academia

here’s pt. 2

After my last post about the lack of representation in academia, I felt it neccessary to provide some examples of what I’m talking about. Obviously there are more countries in the world than I can list and provide books for, so for a quick list this is what I got. !! Keep researching !! If you have any more books by POC please reply them !! If a country isn’t listed, that doesn’t mean it’s not important, this is just what I could get together real quick. If I made any mistakes, please let me know, we’re all learning. We need to help each other end eurocentrism in academia, so value representation and educate yourselves 💓💓💓

Chinese:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Dream of the Red Chamber

The Water Margin

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Journey to the West

The Scholars

The Peony Pavilion

Border Town by Congwen Shen

Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang

To Live by Yu Hua

Ten Years of Madness by agent Jicai

The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong

Japanese:

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë

Haruki Murakami

Pakistani:

Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Ghulam Bagh by Mirza Athar Baig

Masterpieces of Urdu Nazm by K. C. Kanda

Irani/Persian:

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Savushun by Simin Daneshvar

Anything by Rumi

The Book of Kings by Ferdowsi

The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam

Shahnameh (translation by Dick Davis)

Afghan:

Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Indian:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Aithihyamala, Garland of Legends by Kottarathil Sankunni

The Gameworld Trilogy by Samir Basu

Filipino:

Twice Blessed by Ninotchka Rosca

The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai

Brazilian:

The Patriot and The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto

Broquéis by Cruz e Sousa

Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis

Colombian:

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Delirio by Laura Restrepo

¡Que viva la música! by Andrés Caicedo

The Sound of Things Falling by Jim Gabriel Vásquez

Mexican:

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya

Adonis Garcia/El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata

El Complot Mongol by Rafael Bernal

Egyptian:

The Cairo Trilogy by Nahuib Mahfouz

The Book of the Dead

Nigerian:

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Malian:

The Epic of Sundiata

Senegalese:

Poetry of Senghor

Native American:

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

Starlight by Richard Wagamese

Almanac of the Dead by L. Silko

Fools Crow by James Welch

Indigenous Australian:

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

First Footprints by Scott Cane

My Place by Sally Morgan

American//Modern:

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Internment by Samir’s Ahmed

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson

Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch

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evil kitty kitty

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happiness is stored in the abbott elementary

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tumblr is not instagram. likes on tumblr, while appreciated, are effectively useless in helping a creator reach a wider audience.

when you like something, it goes into your own personal folder. and chances are good that, even if it’s public, no one will see it.

likes do not get shared to the dashboard, where others can actually see and have the opportunity to engage.

liking a creation only really benefits you, and not the creator or the rest of the tumblr community!

likes are great for bookmarking, saving posts with the intent of a later reblog, engaging with certain posts that don’t need to be shared (ie. personal posts), posts that you are not comfortable sharing, and prepping a queue.

REBLOGGING is the best way to support a content creator!

reblogs boost attention and engagement. it actually allows for that content to be shared with others. which, really, is what tumblr is all about!

tldr; reblogs > likes. please don’t take content creators for granted. this site would be nothing without them!

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The Starless Sea deck, with art by Erica Williams | Get your copy of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern NOW! 

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phoebe hong and alisa montagova 🤝 kate bishop and yelena belova

chaotic bisexuals who are underestimated by people around them and aroace, blonde, russians with dead older siblings

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More than anything in the world, Rosalind Lang wanted redemption, and if this was how she got it, then so be it.

— FOUL LADY FORTUNE, CHLOE GONG

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Rosalind x Orion — Foul Lady Fortune

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Somewhere in Moscow, 1928

Our violent ends by @chloegong