#& so many other Black women.

[sukibenders]

Seeing one of the Arcane writers admit that she purposely invested little in MelJay, but is constantly on Twitter uplifting others ships (who have yte love interest but whatever) and when asked what she thought about Mel as a character she gave the synonymous "She's girlboss" and nothing else....hmmm. Not only is it incredibly unprofessional but also childish too. But some in the fandom were telling black fans that they were reaching when they said Mel was falling into the disposable black girlfriend trope. Don't even get me started on how, with the Noxus trailer dropping and there being more potential for Mel's story, you still have those specific fans trying to shoe in other characters into her story.

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

The Hitler and KKK jokes were never funny tbh

[stars-n-spice]

Ugh.

Sometimes I remember that Bad Batch gave us this badass Black woman who was a liberator of ancient wonders and was like Indiana Jones but fucking cooler and witty, charming, and FUN and so so so nice and caring and understanding and she befriended the Bad Batch and gave them a safe place in the galaxy to call home and then made her the love interest of the heavily autistic coded white-washed Maori man and thus made them an interracial couple

AND THEN-

they killed off Tech and then used Phee as an uber driver for s3 and didn't give her any closure or anything for his death.

[invisible-pink-toast]

“The woman dies.

She dies to provide a plot twist. She dies to develop the narrative. She dies for cathartic effect. She dies because no one could think of what else to do with her. Dies because there weren’t any better story ideas around. Dies because her death was the very best idea that anyone could come up with.

‘I’ve got it! Let’s kill her off!’

‘Yes! Her death will solve everything!’

‘Okay! Let’s hit the pub!’

And so, the woman dies. The woman dies so the man can be sad about it. The woman dies so the man can suffer. She dies to give him a destiny. Dies so he can fall to the dark side. Dies so he can lament her death. As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence. The woman dies for him. We watch it happen. We read about it happening. We come to know it well.”

- The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda (translated by Polly Barton)

[strawberrycamel]

hey psst c'mere... no a little closer... a little closer- there we go

Loop lips are part of a racist caricature of Black people. Stop drawing Black characters with loop lips. I don't care how they look in canon, it's racist.

okay that's all you can go

[loveipromiseimnotinsane]

It's so funny people acting like they have unique taste or they're special for simping over The Ghoul as if he isn't the most popular brand of white man out there.

[starrysharks]

i wonder if white people specifically white progressives realise that black people are only ever seen as their skin color first and foremost

[a-queer-seminarian]

Beatitudes for the prophets who move our churches towards truer welcome

Blessed are you who make a way out of no way: who pioneer a path for those of God’s children who’ve been told they don’t belong in the pews, in the pulpit, or in holy bonds of marriage.

Blessed are you when you come in bold and disruptive, flipping the tables that make no room for you; And blessed when you work behind the scenes, change rippling out from constant conversation —

For we we need both: the Spirit of roaring flame, and gentle rain.

Blessed are you when your voice shakes and you speak out anyway.

Blessed are you in patience, persistence, and grace; Blessed also are you in frustration and righteous rage

For the psalmist joins you in crying, “God, how long?”

Blessed are you who endure judgment and scrutiny from people who are meant to be neighbors in the Body of Christ

For the peacemaker’s crown, the friendship of God is yours.

Blessed are you when you tire, and burn out, and wrestle with despair

For rest is your right, and others will take up your fight as long as you need.

And when ignorant tongues defame you, when they twist your words and accuse you of being the divisive one, when they try to shut you up and drive you out

Blessed, blessed are you!

For you belong to an unbroken line of prophets stretching back to the cross and forward to a feast laid out for all.

Yes! Blessed are you when “blessed” is the last thing you feel — you who fight the good fight even when it seems hopeless, even when you lose, again and again, even if you will not be around when the drought on justice ends and the fruits of your labor bloom into life at last

For future generations will remember you with pride.

For no matter how it looks right now, your efforts are never in vain.

For you are part of what makes Church worth fighting for, and what you sowed in sweat and tears, tomorrow’s children reap rejoicing.

Blessed are you, for yours is the kin-dom you are helping to build, one brave truth at a time.

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[halfapersob]

DR PEPPER PEARL

<the Dr pepper master post here>

- blood version under the cut and the sketch-

I love pearl. Its not Weird to make art of your own fanfiction right?

[sukibenders]

"I'm team feminist/feminism!" But will quickly drag a female character through the mud without sympathy for their circumstances just because they don't fit your ideals, will get mad when poc criticize a female character's actions that are very thinly coded in racism and say "support her crimes!" while ignoring how that often leads to the harm of poc characters, will shade woc characters or put them on higher pedestals than their yte counterparts while ignoring the harm they face while trying to meet your standards, will victim blame those who suffer (and are still suffering) from abuse when they act out in ways you deem "wrong" because of it, following up with the last point will mock and laugh at said abuse to uplift another female character (pitting women against women, even when the narrative does not ask for that), will dismiss any valuable argument displayed if the said female character is a little mean but then go and say "why can't female characters be mean? 🙄"

I could go on.

[queen-boudicca]

Someone: ugh marvel sucks now

Me: you're so right, 100%, agree completely

Someone: they peaked in endgame

Me: ...

[mylonelydreaming]

You know a ship is good when people have to resort to absurd and performative political hand-wringing over their hair colour, sex/gender and race

[neonstatic]

Straight men are not it!!!! They make me Sick!!!!!

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

i don't need to remind myself white trans women are still white women cause some of y'all love to scream it from rooftops

Edit: i did change it from transwomen to trans women. I didn't realise the implications. It's fixed

[the-everqueen]

my major problem with fanon Hob is that he's treated as universal. which a) is impossible, nothing is actually universal, there is no singular Human Experience, and b) the text (show and comix) doesn't consider him a universal. he's an anomaly in his irrepressible desire to live. he's a foil for Dream. he's one of an unspecified number of immortals who occasionally cross paths with the Endless. he's not an Everyman, he's very much the product of the world around him (which changes with time but also doesn't - a white man in an established British empire holds a certain degree of power/liberty across centuries). why does whiteness = universality? why does whiteness = Human?

[nero-neptune]

Love, I fully understand you and your disinterest in watching rwrb as a queer woman when I, myself was like "nah I won't be watching I could give 2 fucks about this" upon first look. but they're not both white boys. I've seen multiple people say this dismissively without realizing one of them is half mexican and a lot of the story makes point to recognize this. and not that you shouldn't demand more diversity but sometimes getting to see queer love in media no matter the shade or the sex of the two people involved is powerful and beautiful. your followers must think highly of your opinion and are offended that you've turned your nose up to this one. I'm not trying to convince you to watch something you're not interested in but came in here just to say I felt the same way as you initially and found that it was actually worth the watch. bummer that you've been turned off by the hype amongst other things.

um, if my followers are offended bc I've "turned up my nose" (lmao?) at rwrb, they're free to unfollow. I'm not holding them hostage. it's not the first piece of media I've dismissed and it certainly won't be the last

secondly, I'm a gay woman and I'm at the point where I really can't be bothered to watch shows/movies focused solely on men (gay or otherwise), even if they have that token woman in the cast to add some spice. my tolerance is going down (unless it's a special case, and a monarchist movie is Not one of those special cases). you can't see me rn but I'm shrugging my shoulders in an "oh well" fashion