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redgoldsparks · 4 months ago

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Has your name every appeared in the credits of a book, or is it likely to in the near future? Then you should join AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS! Transcript below the cut. A version of this zine formatted for print is available to download on my patreon.

Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe

WHAT IS AABB?

A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators, librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU?

- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state

- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community

-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more

-Support if your book is challenged!

-A very active discord community

Author: What if my book hasn’t been challenged?

Maia: JOIN!

Author: Ok, but what if I’m really busy and can’t do much organizing right now?

Maia: JOIN ANYWAY!

Even if all you do is sign up, your membership will help lend weight to the letters AABB sends to publishers & legislators. As of January 2025, AABB has 3500+ members. Check out the recent open letter to publishers on AABB’s socials & feel free to share it with your contacts.

An Open Letter to Our Publishers- instagram.com/p/DCzYmKcR8uq

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up!

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing!

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!

AABB on instagram / AABB on bluesky

#authors against book bans #book bans #book challenges #censorship #anti censorship #maia kobabe

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writingwithcolor · 1 year ago

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Black woman’s skin turns blue from powers; is this whitewashing/erasure?

Anonymous asked:

I have a character in a comic I'm hoping to write one day. She's a light skinned black woman(she's half white if that helps!) living in New York City during an 80s themed post nuclear apocalypse. The comic's main characters are all rock stars, so a lot of the character design elements revolve around the different rock genres. The character in question is in a glam rock band, so there's lots of bright, saturated, crazy colors involved in her design. The problem I'm having involves this one story beat where she gets mutant superpowers that give her electricity and sound based abilities. Her skin turns cotton candy blue as a result of the mutation. I'm hung up on whether or not this might fall under some kind of skin lightening or white-washing trope since it's a fairly light shade of blue. I designed her mutant look before her human look, so this was well before I'd even figured out what race she was, and I simply thought the shade of blue would compliment both the electricity powers and the fact that her hair is dyed pink. Is there a way I could still make this work? Or am I worrying about nothing?

Ideally, it would be nice to keep her brown skin tone. There’s a common comic and supernatural trend where Black people’s skin is covered up by a suit or Black-coded characters are an unnatural color (blue, green, purple, etc).

This is more of an issue when:

There are no other Black characters of those identities besides the covered up/ ones with unnatural skin colors.

The creator adds this change to make them "special" because they do not believe Black characters, with features commonly associated with Black people like dark hair, skin and eyes, are acceptable enough for the character to stand on their own.

The supernatural special Black people are treated well by the story. The "non-special" Black people have unhappy stories and misfortune.

Other races of characters do not get their skin covered up or changed. Only the Black ones and/or BIPOC in general.

I think a quick fix for this would be for her skin to turn blue when she’s actively using her powers, at random, or other specific times, besides constantly. If she needs to be more consistently “mutant looking” Are there other ways she could change without her skin color changing or changing completely?

People with glitter on skin, light surrounding their face, and blue braids. Images from pexels.

More ideas that keep her skin brown

Hair

Her hair color changes blue or your color of choice (which could include body hair too, which would give her a more “otherworldly” appearance).

Note: If her hair is curly or natural, please keep it so! At least, the powers shouldn't change it straight.

Eyes

Her eyes glowing brighter or colorfully during power-use.

Note: If they're usually brown, they could stay brown when powers not in use, like Marvel's Storm in some versions.

Storm by Marvel Entertainment//20th Century Studios.

Skin and body

Blue patterns appear on her skin.

Blue glow or sheen to her skin without fully changing the color.

Her skin projects color and light.

New growths or changes to body, such as ear shape, wings, etc.

No matter what you decide, please make clear in your tale that she’s a Black mixed race woman. And have fun!

More reading:

How Special is Too Special? The Politics and Characterization of Stacking Special/Abnormal Traits on Mixed Race Characters

~Colette

#Black women #skin color #supernatural #superheroes #description #asks

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eternalbuckley · 4 months ago

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Stage Lights. — mattheo riddle

SUMMARY: Mattheo and you find yourselves on the stage where he would perform a concert with his band later that night and he ends up fucking you on there.

word count: 1,871

genre: smut | fem!/afab!reader, queer!reader, bipoc!reader and plus-size!reader friendly

warnings/tropes: a part of my rockstar!au (but can be read on its own), it‘s just filthy smut, 18+ mdni, p in v sex, unprotected sex, breeding, fingering, choking, slight degradation, slight praise, kind of public sex i guess?, probably poor written dirty talk, english is not my first language, slightly proofread — if I forgot something, please let me know!

a/n: it‘s the filthiest thing i’ve ever written and first time writing smut for mattheo. please let me know what you think of it! i hope you enjoy reading <33 i got the idea after i back about my rockstar!mattheo moodboard and my lovely zoya gave me a little idea with it and here it is! 🙂‍↕️ thank you for giving me the idea my lovely @mattnott 💓

reblogs, feedback and comments are highly appreciated and welcomed! ♡

disclaimer: please do not repost or try and take ownership of my work or post this anywhere without my consent. i don’t give you my permission to use my writing for any ai related things, don’t do it. do not translate my work and post it anywhere — i give you no permission to do that. i only post my stories here, so if you find my work anywhere else please let me know!

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“Have you ever imagined,” Mattheo whispered hoarsely into your ear as he stood behind you, “To get fucked on a stage like this, hm?” You felt his breath tickling your skin while he started to kiss your neck. His hands travelled to your hips, and he left a firm squeeze on them. A slight chuckle left your lips as you listened to his words and leaned back against his chest, feeling the warmth of his body.

“Maybe I already did it on a stage?” You whispered back, “Who says you would be the first one?” You bit down on your lower lip as he started kissing your jaw and chuckled lowly into your ear.

“Even if you already did, I’d be better.” Mattheo’s fingers dug deeper into your hips and slowly started to grind his hips against yours, which caused him to groan quietly into your ear. You loved when he didn’t shy away to let out any sounds – it turned you on even more.

A smirk made its way to your lips while you arched your eyebrows teasingly. “Always using your mouth for such big words but can you put it to use in such a setting?” You hummed and felt his grip on your hips tighten. You knew he could and that he would, and that’s exactly what you wanted.

The thrill of possibly getting caught by someone increased your eagerness, whether it would be one of his friends or anyone else that worked for the staff. You couldn’t care less; your judgement was clouded by his closeness and the way he was kissing and sucking on your neck. A quiet whimper left your lips as Mattheo started kissing you on your sensitive spot.

With a sudden movement he turned you around and captured your lips in a hungry and heated kiss. One of his hands grabbed you by the back of your head while his other hand remained on your hip. You quickly moved your hands to his belt and opened it; you didn’t have much time because the admission to the venue would start soon. Neither of you wanted to get caught by his fans, even if the possibility of it turned both of you on even more.

His hands moved to your thighs, and he lifted you up to gently place you down on the stage floor, making sure you could lay on it as comfortable as possible. Even if it was a hard floor and probably would give you slight bruises and leave you with backpain but this was a problem for later. Right now, you just needed him inside of you. He parted your legs with his arms and knelt between them after he pushed your skirt over hips. He pressed his hips against yours and let you feel his hardened dick, causing you to whimper. Mattheo slightly pulled away from you to admire how you lay on the floor and the stage lights captured your beauty. Your skin heated up and pupils dilated as your hands slid under his shirt and wandered over his torso. He felt your fingernails ranking over the skin of his stomach and moaned as you slightly left a few scratches on his skin.

“Someone’s eager,” he chuckled and slowly traced the skin of your thighs, drawing his fingers closer to your clothed heat. Not quite touching you yet as he watched you getting more eager each second. He loved being a tease and even more so to tease you until you were dripping for him.

“Fuck,” you exhaled, “Mattheo please stop with the fucking teasing now.” You groaned annoyed by his teasing. You usually enjoyed that he’d take his time with you but right now wasn’t the time for it. You moved your hips against his clothed cock and rolled your eyes as a cheeky smirk formed on his lips. He was enjoying your eagerness way too much, and you hated the effect he had on you, but you needed him desperately in that moment. And so did he.

He clicked his tongue and pushed your panties aside, sliding his finger through your already glistening folds. “Hmm, you’re already dripping wet for me, pretty girl. You could have told me earlier that this turns you on. I’d have fucked you on stage way earlier,” he chuckled with his stupid smirk and pushed a finger inside you. A moan left your lips as he started moving his finger in and out of you.

He added a second finger and increased his movements while he shoved your shirt up to reveal your breasts. “So beautiful,” he mumbled underneath his breath and leaned down to capture one of your nipples in his mouth. You moaned louder and your cunt squeezed around his fingers as he found the spot that made you come quickly. “Can’t wait to fuck this perfect pussy of you,” he mumbled as he moved his attention to your other nipple.

You tried to find something to hold down onto and grabbed his hair, pushing him closer against your breasts. Your breath hitched as he suddenly withdrew his mouth and fingers from you – your cunt clenching around nothing now. A whimper left your lips as you watched him licking his fingers clean and saw his cock straining against his jeans.

You quickly opened his jeans and shoved them down as far as you needed until you could free his cock. “We don’t have much time anym–,“ your breath got caught in your throat as he flipped you around and positioned himself behind your now lifted ass.

The floor creaked with your movements as you were on your knees and slightly wiggled your hips to make him hurry up. He curled his finger around the fabric of your panties and pulled it aside again. He lined up his throbbing cock at your entrance and slid through your folds a few times to coat himself in your juices. An eager groan left both of your lips while he did that. You pushed your hips against his, which made him to grab your hips firmly to keep you in place.

“Fuuuck,” Mattheo exhaled loudly as he eventually entered your much welcoming cunt with a quick thrust. His grip on your hips tightened even more and his fingers dug into your skin as he set a quick pace of his thrusts. “Such a good slut for me, huh? Letting me fuck you on the stage I’ll perform with the boys in an hour,” he chuckled hoarsely – his own climax approaching.

His words caused your moans to grow louder as you tried to hold yourself up, which became harder the more he thrusted into you. Your legs slightly started to shake as you felt the familiar knot in your stomach forming again.

“Fuck don’t stop,” you panted – a soft and eagery cry leaving your lips as he slapped your ass. You arched your back and heard him chuckle, he was clearly enjoying every moment of it. Slap. He slapped your ass again. “Fuck you look so pretty like this, baby. Could use this as a motivation for all my other performances, huh? Could fuck you so good and then have a great night performing.” You clenched around him. “I can feel you getting close, angel. D’you want to come?”

You nodded quickly and whimpered as he put his hand around your arm to gently pull you up – your back firmly against his chest as he continued to fuck into you, harder than before. The changed position added more pleasure to both of you, especially as he moved his hand around you to find your clit and rub it in slow but tight circles.

“You gotta have to use that pretty mouth of yours,” his lips brushed against your ear, “You’re always so big to talk, where is that attitude now?” You rolled your eyes and furrowed your eyebrows as you tried to focus on your approaching climax.

But Mattheo slowed down his pace after you didn’t reply to him. “Fuck you,” you whined annoyed. He chuckled lowly, “Already doing it, pretty girl,” he gently bit into your neck and listened to the needy moan that escaped your lips. “What do you want, baby? You have to decide quickly because I’m pretty sure they’re opening the doors soon.” Your cunt clenched around him once again with the thought of getting caught.

“Fuck– Let me come, Mattheo. I won’t beg for it, you know it but fuck– Just let me come already,” you whined and tried to move your hips against his to cause some friction but his grip on your hip prevented you from moving much.

He quickly started to thrust into you again and groaned in the crook of your neck, “This’ all I wanted to hear.” He moved his hand from your clit to your neck and wrapped his fingers around it to add slight pressure on the sides of it. He felt you squeezing him, letting him know that it brought you pleasure and closer to the edge. “Squeezing me like the good girl you are, huh? Fuck, feels so good.”

You started to slightly feel lightheaded as he increased his pace and whispered into your ear that you could come. Your walls clenched around him before you came around his dick, a row of loud and breathless moans leaving your lips as he fucked you through your climax. He came shortly after you and spilled his cum deep inside you, filling you up nicely.

The pace from his movements slowly slowed down while he kissed your jaw and the side of your head – telling you how well you did for him and how excited he was to get a proper taste of you after his concert. A quiet whimper left your lips as your mind was already filled with him and you ending up in your hotel room.

With a groan he slid out of you and watched a few drops of the mixed cum dripping out of your cunt. He licked his lips and enjoyed the view before he moved your panties and skirt back in place. You slowly got up from your position and fixed your shirt, your legs slightly trembled from the aftermath of your climax. As soon as you saw the slight mess on the stage floor, your cheeks heated up.

“You’re gonna get that cleaned,” you warned him and watched him as he tucked his cock back in his underwear and closed his pants and belt again. Mattheo quickly nodded, “Of course, of course, baby.” He assured you and wrapped his arm around your shoulders as you walked off the stage.

In fact, he did not get it cleaned and performed on the stage as if nothing happened. You later realised it as you watched him performing and saw the aftermath of your sexual activities still on the floor. Your eyes widened and cheeks heated up again at the thought of you and him and that he was performing with his band on that stage. Mattheo found your gaze for a moment and smirked as he saw you biting down on your lip and continued to perform, not caring about the mess you two made.

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halo-eater · 28 days ago

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i've been trying for a long time to articulate what exactly is so obnoxiously White about trans tumblr's insistence that we shouldn't even bother trying to improve the current system because we can overthrow the government and establish a leftist utopia if we just organize well enough and fight with our teeth. but i think a lot of it just boils down to the fact that it's inextricably reliant on a very naive and very white narrative about victory and power, as well as a refusal to look toward BIPOC communities and leaders, who have been honing their perspectives and strategies about resistance and liberation for decades or centuries.

most of the insistence that a queer anarchist revolution really can work if we all just get on the same page, seems informed by very little other than the narrative that Righteous and Virtuous Underdogs with the Power of The People will always prevail in the end, if they just band together and use their wits. which isn't true, not even a little bit. it would make you dizzy to comprehend just how many communities of people did everything they could to resist western imperialism and fascism, and were squashed like insects without so much as a note in the history books to remember them by. The Good Guys Can Beat the Bad Guys If They Try Hard Enough is a true enough sentiment for white folks that they get it spoon-fed to them from the moment they're born. but it's time to grow up and live in the real world, with those of us who had to understand that The Bad Guys Usually Win before we could understand almost anything else about our cultures and communities.

and very relatedly, there is no atrocity happening to trans people in america (or elsewhere in the west) right now that has not already happened to BIPOC communities. this isn't to degrade or downplay the suffering of white trans people, just to remind you that you are not the first, and this sort of victim status isn't special and exclusive to people like you. there is no special oppression or pain or grief or rage or protectiveness that you're feeling right now that ethnically marginalized groups haven't felt before. there's no new and unique and superior revolutionary tactics that no one ever thought of before a bunch of twenty-first century white 24 year olds started posting about them online. this is relevant. this gives us exponentially more data about what sorts of techniques do and don't make a material improvement or successfully send a message. it's extremely fucking frustrating watching white queer people ignore that data and just go off on their own theories and emotional instincts because they think that their position is special, and that they have better ideas and can do a better job than BIPOC revolutionaries.

there are communities all around you who have been fighting the same battle against the same enemy that you now have to fight for generations now. it makes you look like children when you act like this is a struggle unique to the queer community, or like it's one that we can punch our way out of if we all Embrace our #Rage and reblog aesthetic posts about ancient war gods. i implore you guys to look towards BIPOC activists and observe their successful and unsuccessful work, before you decide to make claims about what manner of resistance we need or what realistic goals should look like.

before anybody jumps down my throat about it, i know that there are and have always been many BIPOC activists who support a more 'tear it all down' approach. a lot of them had really compelling ideas and were great at radicalizing more people to the cause. it is also objectively true that none of them have ever successfully brought their visions to fruition, and no material benefit has been brought to their communities by their failed attempts (although many also engaged in real-time material community aid and harm reduction)

#this one might lose me a few crackers but im so mad at white people today i dont care #istggggg white ppl on this site have been acting like Nothing This Bad Has Ever Happened To Any Demographic Of People In The West Before #no. sorry. you're not a matryr you're joining a fucking club. full of ppl whose communities have gotten no respite from this in centuries.

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allthinky · 4 months ago

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OFMD fans on Bsky and to a lesser extent here are suggesting that we need to come together as a fandom, get over the divisions, etc. and in principle I am well in favor of that. The last thing we need is to show up as unhinged as we try to get the show picked up somewhere and Season 3 ordered.

But. A lot of folks were really harmed by the bullying, the name-calling, even doxxing? (I missed that, luckily, but certainly have been accused both of bad faith arguments and hatred for Izzy. [Ha. He's not real, for one thing -- also, he was drawn to be hated, right up until the middle of Season 2.] It's whatever. I've been trained in both argument and advocacy and can show up pretty...blunt? But still don't think people should encourage others to actually kill themselves over a tv show.)

I do think healing the rift is important. But.

It's not more important than respecting BIPOC and queer folks. I won't stop calling out racism and misogyny/homophobia where I see it, or at least suggesting that we can and should do better, especially for this show. For this show, omg!

That's the thing: for me, OFMD showed up not only during Covid but also during a huge life upheaval. One that made me incredibly cynical about the odds of justice anywhere in the world. And it said, in every episode: cruelty is wrong. Misogyny is wrong. Homophobia is wrong. Trying to protect your family, trying to become yourself, trying to make amends for your wrongs: these are still good. You can still choose a family, a life, a way in which you fight racism, colonialism, patriarchy. You may find only a grubby little band of weirdos, but they will make your life good. And also, late bloomers can still find true, queer, love.

I love how so many fans have recognized this and are willing to fight for it. But when there are fans who decide that Ed or Stede are clearly the bad guys, or need to suffer! Or that S1 Izzy is the good guy, or Izzy "deserved" a better ending ... These takes pull me out of the little home that the show built for me. I know, rationally, that such interpretations don't actually threaten what the show is, but they still pain me in a way I'm not sure I can fully explain.

(Worse yet, the attachment some folks have to Izzy seems to mirror my own attachment to the crew and the themes. We're all just unhinged. I can't help but feel it's messed up to love Izzy so much he should be front and center, when we finally had a show where the white masc dude wasnt front and center. Even while I think people have the right to enjoy what they want to enjoy. And who doesn't enjoy that little rat, losing when he thinks he should win. It's perfection!)

By 2.4 or whatever, Izzy is fine, he's learning how to be family, he is still a mess in all kinds of ways but whatever. He can be their dick. Their nightmare. Fine. But make him the "hero"? That's an insult. He can do heroic things -- as we all can -- but it's not his story. It's just not, and man, it feels good that someone else gets to be the hero for a change.

I'm really putting this here for my own edification. This isn't meta, this is just: why is allthinky so touchy about OFMD? I'm not done, but I'm done for now.

#ofmd #our flag means death

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desmon1995 · 6 months ago

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Female Warriors, Broadway, and the American Dream.

The Warriors have been out for about 2 weeks now and it's slowly but steadily building up a pretty passionate following.

I think one of the biggest changes that have been rough for some long time over years 79 fans is that the Warriors are now female, which some argue ruins the point of the original and or softens the story too much.

While I do respect everybody's opinion when it comes to artistic criticism, I do think that dismissing the concept album just because it features women is a little short-sighted IMHO.

Regurgitating the original male cast just in musical album form would not only be repetitive but would make it no different than other Broadway show that focus on gang violence like West Side story or now The Outsiders.

We have so many shows that focus on brotherhood, kinship, and just masculinity not even within film but also on Broadway, but we hardly ever see the same for female characters.

The Female Warriors are very rough around the edges, foul-mouthed, violent at times, and in the case of cowgirl, lustful.

They're also different body types, present themselves differently, and are all played by BIPOC.

I've seen a lot of Broadway shows in my 30 years of living, and we just don't get diverse female characters like this a lot if at all.

If any female character had the above traits they would likely be presented as being the less than ideal woman or flat out villainous.

The girls have flaws, but these are just things they picked up because of how rough the world has been to them, and at the end of the day they're not only friends but a family.

That's a big difference between the female warriors and their male counterparts from the movie and novel.

The Male Warriors are supposed to be seen as what ends up happening when youths get tangled up in gang culture and how it turns them into monsters.

When the police arrest Ajax in the film it's because of how unruly and savage he was acting and likewise Fox getting killed along with Cleon is supposed to be seen as a consequence of them even being a part of this culture to begin with.

I've said it before, but I think while the intentions may be good it's viewing these marginalized groups through a very White and conservative lens.

Nobody wants to be a part of a gang or run away from home but sometimes living in poverty, an abusive household, or just being crushed by the system forces people to do desperate things and more often than not that's banding together with like-minded people.

Another thing is that most of the Warriors in the original film are White and that's largely just due to the fact that an audience back in the 1970s would be less willing to watch something that didn't at least feature several white main leads otherwise they'd be uncomfortable and uninterested.

From a modern-day perspective, a person like male Ajax would likely get away with his sexually aggressive behavior because of the color of the skin ( you can look at a certain orange politician to see that in present day) and we now know thanks to things like BLM that the police do not always operate in good faith nor to protect the people.

I think that's why the concept album is so good and culturally relevant despite having being created nearly a few years ago.

The Warriors consisting of a group of marginalized women that banded together to support one another to conduct a world that really doesn't care for them is a story you really get to hear not just on Broadway but in Hollywood in general.

Luther being a white gang leader and killing a black cultural figure like Cyrus in cold blood to stop any semblance of progress is the tale as all this time and how he mocks the AAVE the non-white groups he surrounds himself with after making life hell for them is especially painful.

Luther and Crosby literally don't have to worry about ever being hounded by the police because of how they look which allows them to get away with literal murder, but it is very telling that he ends up crumbling the moment he's confronted and called out for his misdeeds.

The cops themselves are also completely reworked for the concept album as opposed to them just being the boys in blue doing their job to get rid of the trash that is the Warriors like the original film, they're essentially the biggest antagonist even more so than the Rogues.

Both police officers that appear in the album have a cat calling motif which doubles as sounding like police sirens just to illustrate how dangerous and cancerous they are not just to the Warriors but to the community as a whole.

Captain Victor and Barnes abuse their power and end up nearly subduing the Warriors by killing Fox and sexually a harassing and later arresting Ajax.

In Derailed Victor even tries to kill the warriors with his squadron before they run away to the cemetery and all of this is done because they can.

The fact that these two are portrayed by people from the 1979 Warriors film sort of acts as a double entender because in the original, the Warriors themselves are supposed to be seen as monsters and what happens when kids fall too deep into the sins of the world, so the cops view the women as nothing more than street rats who need to be exterminated .

The Warriors are guilty because they're marginalized women and that's enough for them to be blown away as far as society and the system is concerned.

I think in some ways, the Warriors is basically the reverse of LMM's other work Hamilton because it shows that the American dream isn't really for everybody and that sometimes you have to find another means to live by.

The system very much failed the Warriors so they had to rely on themselves to make it through the world because nobody else would bother with them.

It's for this reason why I'm sort of against the idea that this album needs to be radically changed in order for it to move the Broadway.

Doing things like giving Luther more complex feelings, adding in things to help the predominantly white audience and critics understand how Urban culture works, and rewriting the characters themselves just to be more stage appropriate seems like it undoes what the musical was trying to say.

I think this story as it is is one worth telling and beyond maybe a bit of polish I don't really think it should be tempered with too much.

If Lin and Eisa were to doll the Warriors up too much it would basically be a completely different story altogether and what we would have is just another Broadway musical that allows the audience to digest certain things that they may not understand nor possibly want to hear.

I think we as a society have moved beyond watering down things so that people who aren't even from the community that these stories come from can sleep better at night.

I think that's why this album and the original movie have dedicated fan bases to them because it does speak to a generation of people.

#warriors musical #lin manuel miranda #eisa davis #broadway #musical theatre

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partyofonepod · 3 months ago

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NEW EPISODE: CLEVER GIRL WITH CHRISTIAN (AFLUFFYGOOMBA)

Christian is an Award-Winning TTRPG performer, educator, and the organizer of The Force Within, a 50-person BIPOC Star Wars TTRPG streaming event. We sat down to play Clever Girl, a two-player game about the lone survivor a malfunctioning dinosaur theme park, and the roving band of raptors in hot pursuit.

You'll dig this episode if you like: JURASSIC PARK, people absolutely traumatized by dwindling dice pools

#indie ttrpg #actual play podcast #party of one podcast #jurassic park

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fishfooddude · 1 year ago

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liminalweirdo · 6 months ago

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One of the best things you can do right now to protect your queer and trans communities is to wear a proper mask or respirator.

Disabled trans and queer people have been shouting for years that we have been forced out of our own spaces and communities because other queer people refused to mask up for us. Disabled people deserve the same access to public spaces and community spaces as abled people do, but we’ve been forgotten and pushed aside in favour of getting “back to normal.” The pandemic is not over in 2024, and as queer and trans people, we need to all band together now, not later.

The ongoing covid pandemic is still disproportionately affecting trans people, especially BIPOC trans people. It has disabled 400 million people and will continue to disable more.

We are begging you to make queer spaces safe for disabled queer people again.

#covid is a trans issue #covid is a queer issue #trans #transgender #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtq+#queer community #disability community #disabled community #disability justice #human rights #bipoc #black lives matter #indigenous rights #indigenous peoples

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andredmybeloved · 2 months ago

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You will have noticed a band around your wrist (or closest equivalent) before seeing this message. Its presence is no mistake. It cannot be removed. It cannot be destroyed. Others who do not have similar bands cannot see, feel, or otherwise sense it. That is because you, and anyone else with the bands, are special.

You have been brought here because of association to a phenomenon only known as the 'Deja Vu,' and have received this gift in accordance with your connection to it. The band will monitor and allow you and anyone else with a band to communicate trans-temporally, (that is anywhere from time and space, to the less advanced species.) Take advantage of this ability, however, please be aware that your public messages on this server are being catalogued by [REDACTED] to collect data and experiment around the phenomenon, not just data regarding your current state of being within reality.

It has been noted by the powers that be, that certain individuals will experience anomalies related to the current date, receiving messages from and interacting with things that happened on the same day of a different year, past or future, and it always changes to adjust based on the calendar of the species or culture involved. The Deja Vu has been seen to impact reality enough to kill some of those it affected. Therefore, this experimentation is pertinent to maintaining your own safety.

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DEJA VU is a casual to hardcore Doctor Who (and related fandoms) roleplay server for writers 18+! With a unique plot for players to unravel and understand, NPCs to be interacted with and plenty of temporal shennanigans, there's bound to be something for everybody.

We welcome members with any familiarity with the setting - from having seen one episode of New Who, to having read obscure books that few people have heard of - and encourage interesting OCs and interconnected stories.

We have a boosted server with 50+ custom emojis, Tupperbox, Carl and Dice Roller bots, plotting and discussion forums, channels for texting and prose roleplay and more. Want to see what the place is like before you join? We have a lurkers role for you to sit back and watch the chaos unfold. We are LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC friendly and always looking to meet new people. Will you fight the Deja Vu, or embrace it? We hope to see you here!

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Feel free to contact myself or @c0rrupt3dsp1r1t with any questions!

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