#Dreadhead butch

[ares-daughter-aphrodites-son]

Thank You Aphrodite for making me a dreadhead boydyke🙏🏾❤️

[black-butch-culture-is]

black butch culture is people telling you that "your hair looks so cute long" when im growing it out until i put it in dreads and then suddenly my compliments stop.... (except from my wonderful partners and friends <3)

Black butch culture is...

[iamaboringrattat]

my hair is at the awkward length where i can’t tie it up. so ur gonna have to hold it back for me when u use my face. thank u for the assistance 🫡

[insomniac-jay]

Lina Todd-coded

So true. I love a nonchalant dreadhead butch

[ofc-vi-writes-too]

In honor of me being black and loving being black and thinking everyone should love black people, here are a list of characters I believe love black women with everny bone in their bodies:

• Starting off strong: Steve Rogers. I can’t explain it but trust me please. If you get it you get it if you dont you dont.

• Jason todd. Like c’mon. Look at him. Tell me he doesn’t want to wake up next to a brownskin queen every morning. Look me in my eyes.

• MCU Bucky Barnes. I love to say it, Wakanda changed him. Stepping foot in that country was like seeing the light for the first time. He was basically reborn. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Look at how he looked at Sarah. SAME LITERALLY EXPLICITLY TOLD HIM NIT TO FLIRT WITH HER BEFORE THEY EVEN GOT THERE.

• Gojo, Itadori, nanami, and Toji from JJK. i dont think i need to eloborate here.

• Haley from Stardew Valley. She is not only a fellow girl kisser, but she would genuinely have a real tweak if the farmer was a black woman. Haley needs a 6 ft nonchalant butch dreadhead in her life it would literally solve all her provlems. She has written in her diary about this, and Alex hasnt heard the end of it.

• Fear from Inside out. Just believe me, please.

• This might be controversial but Squidward.

• Bruce Wayne. Literally thinks about eating drywall every time Selina Kyle is even mentioned. “Alfred why hasn’t God hand delivered me what i CRAVE and what i NEED *loud dramatic sigh*” hes also accidentally a perpatrator of hard wig soft life lmao. He donates ridiculous sums of money to black charities like 100 black men, and the black youth helpline. He’s an advocate for his girl’s community and we love to see it.

• Barry Allen. also thinks about eating drywall whenever he sees Iris. She’s just so sigh. And he loves her so much and he’s so glad that he married that beautiful amazing strong and powerful woman.

• Ellanore Shellstrop. After she died she had real clarity about the truths of the universe. If soulmates didnt really exist then wtf were her and Chidi im so deadass.

• Woody from Toy Story. Please do not at me. I will not be taking questions comments or concerns on that one. And for anyone saying “but what about bo peep ?!” Shes albino. Look at those 3B curls and tell me to my face that I’m lying. I dare you.

• lightning Mcqueen. Hear me out here! In universe there have to be like… black cars. He’s def the type to go for a UK baddie ykwim.

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a/n: guys please im just being silly they are fictional characters please dont argue about how much these FAKE characters like black people ��. also if you try and argue i feel like that makes you a liiiiiiiittle bit racist but like thats a convo for another time. Anyway, sorry to all my sistas out there who’s fav character I forgot. Ur probably right and they probably do belong on this list, I just might have forgotten they exist! Dont be scared to comment them tho. I need to know what yall think too.

[la-noche-cae]

Elaborating on Nightfall's coding, antiblack racism.

Since I mentioned antiblack coding on this previous post, I feel I had to bring up specifics. Let's get into it:

Skylanders has many issues with racial coding, especially when the human characters were all white (until like a year ago presented in Ring of Heroes). We can say the elves coded as Asian is a problem, or the fact that Glumshanks- a Troll- participating in Judaism is suspicious (both of which do have the stereotyped green skin). The fact Fiesta is called Fiesta. Bad Juju and Voodood’s names are references to black & latine religions that have been demonized, or simply put as “spooky magic”- contributing to the homogenization of black religions.

/Racial coding/

Even if Nightfall's skin tone is not human, it is a deep dark. Media has long represented evil characters with a darker color palette (if they’re a nonhuman) and a darker skin color than the protagonists (if human, which is straight up racism). Why do we associate dark things in general with bad things? Reminder Nightfall's catchphrase is "Dark and dangerous!".

While probably not a human looking species, dreadwalkers are represented by Nightfall. Why are they named after dreads? Because it’s a hair pun, referencing how Nightfall’s hair looks "like dreads" and the dark element, “dreadful”, how her hair is linked to the floor, hence "walking" on them. Her attacks are based on hair puns, examples of which is Whip lash and Bad hair day. One of the paths you can develop for her powers is called Dreadhead…

Hair puns, especially Bad hair day, just.. why? Black people have had their natural and protective hairstyles demonized. Latines have the racist habit of calling tighter curly hair, "bad hair" (pelo malo), and in general black hairstyles are considered "unprofessional" and "unkempt", etc. Put together with how Nightfall's presented as aggressive, this is not good.

/Hyperaggression/

Remember when Nightfall told Stormblade she liked her better when depressive because she was “less chirping”, then invaded her personal space to take something she could easily ask for? Stormblade was scared, she is after all in a cage, with no magic, with Nightfall who looks about to pounce on her, who then corners her to take one of her steel feathers.

Perhaps this shows us Stormblade reacting to how she thinks Nightfall is, making the assumption she would hurt her. Though that’s another way the writing demonized Nightfall, through relationships.

Nightfall is described as having a “strong sense of justice”, that I personally consider a good thing, but in canon has been put as bad, for example, Stormblade saying she’s “harsh” for attacking a the villain keeping them captive, Nightfall confirming and apologizing about that she’s been harsh to Stormblade. This goes along with what I mentioned of making GNC women- namely butches and trans women- put as radical and angry. Now add the anti black sentiment of "angry black woman".

I think I’m about done explaining some of my issues with Skylanders, putting the especific words out. I had already addressed the demonization of GNC women, and lack of tact with mental health issues, but I needed to also address the anti-black coding. In fact I’d say it’s the heaviest thing about Nightfall’s negative stereotyping.

Thank you for reading.