#Forward Justice

[loudlylovingreview]

Lewis M. Steel: We Should Listen to Rev Barber on White Poverty and Multi-racial Organizing

The latest book by the Poor People’s Campaign co-chair shows how racial division keeps both Black and white communities poor—and lays out a real vision to defeat it. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II leads a march from Union Station in Washington, D.C. to protest voter suppression laws on August 2, 2021. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images). . For progressives to win, we need a…

[redbeantofu]

comes back from tumblr hiatus just to share this klapollo shitpost

original:

[vriskan8or]

let her go

[luminarai]

Because even in between the dark things… there’s something broken in me.

[stealingyourbones]

Everyday I exist and every day I get more and more exhausted seeing the “lol Batman looks at Danny and goes “who’s gonna adopt this kid” He’s so adoptable!” posts.

[gentil-minou]

Israel wants you to believe the only casulaties from their relelentless 75 year long campaign against Palestinians are all terrorists.

They are trying desperately to dehumanize them

Do not let them. Palestinians are humans, they are innocents. They have hopes and dreams and love and heartbreak and joys and sadness, just like you and me.

Palestinians are fans, just like you and me. They want to dress up as their favorite superhero.

They want to see their favorite artist live in concert one day. They listen to their music.

They like anime, manga, video games, watching their favorite shows over and over. They make fanart and fanfic and write theories and have blogs on here that will never be used again.

They want nothing more than to go back to their fandoms and joys. They want their lives and hopes and dreams back

Do not forget that Palestinians are humans just like you and me and please don't stop fighting for them

[frost-faerie]

WHY DOES HE FUCKING KNOW THAT

[starflungwaddledee]

some rather strong first impressions were made.

required reading for the magical "voice" headcanon and another for starstruck's signature in particular. asked by @trainerbob23 !

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

[worri-wort]

A wee shit post for today. I've been working on some stuff for the Rogues! zine so posts will still be a little dead for a while but I'll be back to normal soon

[shitpostingkats]

EXPLODES HIM WITH MY MIND

[birdiedoesdc]

bouncing around the thought of cassie and kon getting together and dating and they have a lot of fun because they genuinely love each other and get along really well. but every time they go out cassie will spend half the date going “sigh. cissie is so cool and so brave and i wish i had half of her dedication and determination.” and kon spends the other half of the date going “sigh. robin is so cool and so smart and i wish i had half of his genius and bravery.” and because they are very dumb teenagers it takes forever to figure out what this means.

[byemambo]

JES JESPIPAT AS TYME

4MINUTES (2024) | 1.01

Bonus: ghost ship DenTyme LMAO + making blue Tyme's signature color :) also I was kinda (extremely) kicking my feet making this set because of how charming and breathtakingly handsome Jes is like please look at those gazes

[marantis]

Hello fellow Scum Villain and Epic: The Musical enjoyers! The first chapter for my mash up is finally done and can be found here: Ruthlessness is Mercy @ineffectualdemon you're getting tagged, but no preassure to read, if you don't want, just thought I'd let you know, considering your hand in the existence of this thing. Here's a little excerpt for the first chapter titled "We'll Be Fine"

It took about a week until someone noticed Qiong Ding Peak's newest occupant.

The mousy looking man with the slightly dishevelled hair pooling from his guan, stared down dumbfounded at where Shen Yuan was doing some reading. He liked the reading exercises a lot more than the writing ones, because even if he didn't quite know what one of the characters meant— no such thing as simplified Chinese here— he could usually go by context to decipher the text.

Shen Yuan stared back at the trespasser with the best scathing look he could muster. He had a solid guess just who this man was, going by his clothes and the scrolls tucked underneath his arm, and he had not a single charitable thing to say about him.

“Greetings, Shang-shidi. How can this shixiong help you?” Yue Qingyuan asked, affording Shang Qinghua far too much kindness for the bastard rat traitor that he was. Not that poor Yue Qingyuan knew that.

Shang Qinghua, once spoken to, finally managed to pick his jaw up from the ground and look at his sect leader. He laughed dumbly. “Well, I did have a question about the changed request forms your residence sent to An Ding Peak, but I guess I found the explanation already. Might this shidi ask, just where this child came from?”

Another nervous glance in Shen Yuan's direction, who could not, upon verifying that Yue Qingyuan's attention was squarely on the other peak lord, resist sticking out his tongue at Shang Qinghua. He was a child, childish behaviour was perfectly in character. Shang Qinghua definitely noticed, and then proceeded to look constipated about it, Shen Yuan noted with glee.

“This is Shen Yuan. He will be staying here until it is time for him to begin cultivating and choose a master.” Shang Qinghua was obviously waiting for some more explanation, like the actual answer to the question he had asked. Shen Yuan could even see a drop of sweat beginning to bead on the man's forehead.

Yue Qingyuan did not give him the satisfaction and only continued to smile at him benevolently. Maybe Yue Qingyuan was a better judge of character than Shen Yuan had given him credit for.

“I see,” Shang Qinghua hedged after several uncomfortable minutes of silence. “Well, that was all. I'll be taking my leave then, Zhangmen-shixiong, A-Yuan.” Shen Yuan stuck out his tongue again at Shang Qinghua's retreating back, before quickly concentrating back on his reading, as Yue Qingyuan turned back to him to observe his progress and occasionally ask if Shen Yuan understood this or that character.

[knightkaito1412]

Omg, I can't believe my previous doodles had a lot of positive interactions with both reblogs and likes! 👀 That's insanely surreal to me! Seriously, thank you!!! 😭💚 So...

Here is the other page of Kafka doodles on my sketchbook! I included the whole spreadsheet of sketches cause it looked neater.

Anyway, I did some different expressions with his kaiju/human forms, and a few of them were definitely a pain to ink, lol. But because Kafka is soooo expressive, it's genuinely just a lot of fun, and it made me love this silly man more! 🤗

[bucket-puns]

Quick af doodles of Ishmael and queequeg because Everytime I happen to think about anything Abt the prequod MFS n Ishmael I start becoming a sickly widow.