#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

[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.

[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 !

[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.

[arsonkuma]

have been Busy TM... here's a lil hayden sketch for your troubles

[jrpgmadness]

Phoenix Wright: *enters a room where Athena is laying on the floor with meat goop by her head*

Phoenix Wright: What’s going on in here?

Athena: I’m the dead body and these are my brain chunks.

Apollo: Hey, shut up, you’re dead

[twisting-in-wonderland]

Get Ribbon-ed , Heart boy

(slight) alt ver and a ver for funsies under here:

(if the ace gacha comes back, i may spend One more x10 pull to try and get his card... maybe...)

[fxnker]

fanart of this beautiful paolo by @ssspringroll and this beautiful knox by @0298butcher ... thank you both of you for your amazing rendition of the best boys ever !!! 🫶