#and unfollow genuinely

[pinkaditty]

hey why did i come back to this post to find comments n reblogs by nonblks saying shit like "oh i don't know any black people :(" or "i have so few black friends" like did u really think that was the point of this post. why do u people treat posts like this like a fucking progress report or a memory dump are y'all insane??

we aren't here to listen to you confess abt how you grew up in a mostly homogeneous area and have few, if any, interactions with black people. that's not what this post is abt bc that could apply to literally anybody.

this post is just abt how little love in the world is allotted for black people. it's thought provoking, and if anything, asking you to rethink how you engage with and consume blackness. you don't have to like a lot of things from black culture, but the least we ask for is respect and love without appropriation.

typically, the things we create are stolen from us and are called "ghetto" and "ratchet" and "dreadful", and then they are repurposed for the rest of the world and praised by those who consume the appropriated, repurposed, fake version of what we made. you love the things we make, but that same love is never extended towards us. that's the fucking point.

i mean god forbid i decide to do something for the sake of my blackness. ill be ridiculed. and god bless a nonblk who does the exact same thing, for they will be praised.

in all of this, where is the love for me?

why must there be a slur for me in every language? why must there hardly be a single place on this earth I could go and experience no racism? why must i be shunned and unloved for something that is completely out of my control?

and why, when i embrace all the negative labels, all the hatred, all the segregation, and instead make it something beautiful, do you still rob me? hate me? shun me? i have hardly done anything except find a way to exist.

god forbid i exist as a black woman.

truly not to sound defeatist or cynical but it really does blow my mind how little love people choose to extend to black people lmao

[orange-coloredsky-archive]

a development team that looks like this could not possibly have any preconceived biases against Black people. noooo way. its just a mistake that all of the Black people in fo4 are slaves or named after fascist colonizers or murdered or stereotypical conspiracy freaks. there is no way that the reality of this team is reflected in the art they create over and over and over and over and over and over and

[ID 1: A photo of the Fallout 4 development team taken from above and forward, showing a large crowd smiling at the camera, made up apparently entirely by white people, and almost entirely by white men. End ID.]

[the-spider-haven]

friendly reminder from cheerard👍👍

[whateverthought]

I think, the craziest thing to me, about how people genuinely believe you can't be a Quirkless Pro-Hero in MHA/BNHA, is that having a Quirk doesn't mean you're invulnerable?

Eraserhead's Quirk only allows him to stop other people's powers, but the fighting? Thats him. The giant jump he does over the stairs? The way he throws people around with his capture weapon?

Endeavor makes hot flames, how did that help when Hood the Nomu bit through his arm? We see that his skin cuts like everyone else's, he gets his scar right before that. Hawks stabbing him in the back to make him go faster? Embedded enough to give him speed but not enough to pierce right through him? He goes toe to toe with the Nomu in the Stain Arc, that's all normal strength!

Stain's Paralysis doesn't make him faster, how was he dodging Iida's speed? How were his reflexes so good he moved past AfO Izuku's strikes?

Mandalay's telepathy, how did that help her agility? Sir Nighteye's Foresight, did it make him strong enough to throw those weights? Did Mirio's Permeation make him stronger even when he lost it and was still beating Overhaul's face in? Rock Lock's stop-motion? Ragdoll's Search?

How did Thirteen's Quirk help when almost murdered? Shouldn't she, as someone with a very strong ability just be faster? Bakugo's Explosion did jack when his heart exploded, right? Why wasn't his body just sturdier? Or do they have normal bodies, like a Quirkless person would have?

[death-limes]

i’m tired of anti-voting rhetoric.

someone’s going to win in November. there’s no denying that. someone is going to win. no matter how many people refuse to vote, thinking that’s somehow going to make a statement or send a message, someone is going to win. and it’s going to be one of those two fuckers. a third-party candidate has never won before and there’s no indication that that could happen now. both of the assholes in question have horrendous foreign policy. in that regard, it doesn’t matter who wins, and as voters there’s nothing we can do about that except continue with activism. but with regards to domestic policy, one of those assholes is going to make life significantly harder for underprivileged people in america. that same asshole has all but stated outright that he wants to be a dictator. that asshole’s party isn’t fighting amongst themselves about him — they’re voting and they know exactly who they’re voting for. the other asshole with the better domestic policy has everyone within AND outside his party fighting about him because even though he’s better than the other guy he still sucks. lots of people in his party are pledging not to vote for him, instead voting for someone else with no chance of winning OR simply not voting at all and throwing away a right that people in other countries have fought bloody revolutions in order to earn. those people are helping the dictator asshole win. regardless of any “message” they might be trying to send, in the here and now, they’re helping the dictator asshole win.

taking domestic policy into consideration when deciding to vote is not americans “only caring about ourselves.” it’s recognizing that the foreign situation is fucked either way but we can still make a decision that’s better for the underprivileged people who live here.

[yrsonpurpose]

Head to Head Challenges with Charles Leclerc & Carlos Sainz

[phykoha]

Also at the other end of the spectrum, incest being incorporated into stories does not automatically mean the writer/artist gets off to it. Dark media having incest as a topic is genuinely important for people who have incest-related trauma. Representation for them is just as important as it is for people with any trauma.

Incest is definitely a touchy subject and can be really tough to cover. And people who put it in their media are often scared because there will always be people that point at it and scream 'proshipper' (/'tcester' for specifically the tmnt fandom) or something.

It is entirely valid for people to be put off by any kind of portrayal of incest, even if it's handled well. But that's what blocking and filtering are for. If someone's story makes you uncomfortable, it is entirely in your right to block them and filter out any tags that could keep that content away.

But to rant and rave and call them nasty things for what is possibly a projection of their own trauma is gross.

[cloudysarts]

this show would be good if literally everything about it was different

[kuuhaiyu]

i understand the need to take breaks and pace yourself so you aren't overwhelmed. it's important to take care of yourself so you can keep going in the good fight. i myself usually catch up on news about once a day when i feel equipped for it. that said:

you're just going to ignore palestine for the next three months?

account settings literally already has what youre looking for so if you're set on doing this just use this feature and don't complain to other people about the fact that theyre keeping their eyes on palestine

[noxxytocin]

A word of advice to everyone in the HL fandom. Please be careful. Look out for each other. Call out negativity, hatred, bullying, or lies. 🫂

I wasn’t initially going to address this, but since entering the HL fandom from the very beginning, I’ve experienced countless disappointments regarding the behaviour of some of its members. There’s an overwhelming sense of elitism, negativity, and, quite frankly, a prevalence of disingenuous "personas."

I’ve encountered individuals I once admired as talented writers/artists, only to be disheartened by their unpleasantness in private interactions. Some project an image of being open and welcoming while simultaneously belittling others in private servers and judging the very things they claim not to judge on Tumblr.

A lot of them actually talk down on fem!MCxSebastian shippers and it’s just like…listen, if you spout “don’t like, don’t read” to everyone who follows you, then stick to your words. Instead, they judge straight shippers. Or go against people who don’t like pro-ship, etc. It’s so toxic.

It’s so sad to witness some of them taking credit for others’ fic ideas, too. Or gatekeeping headcanons to the extent that people are genuinely frightened that they will be hated if they don’t follow them. This is a real thing by the way…just recently someone told me they’d fear being hated by the entire “Sebinis fandom” if they didn't keep to someone's HC. How awful is that? That they have to feel that way?

Perhaps I’ve just been welcomed by the wrong people at first…I feel almost naive to have believed them. Even when I first came into the HL fandom, I was told about the ongoing drama surrounding someone nicking ideas and writing them as their own. Immediately.

What’s more alarming is the apparent existence of a particular clique that seems to orchestrate and encourage this kind of behavior. I’ve talked to them personally and I’m genuinely relieved to have distanced myself from them after becoming suspicious of their words and the utterly abhorrent things they’ve said in various servers.

It’s clear that many would perceive them differently if they were privy to these conversations, even some of the so-called “big names” in the HL fandom. Some already have and are in the same boat as me now.

I’ve met a few genuine and kind individuals here, yet I can’t shake the feeling of mistrust that dominates the fandom. I hope there are others who share this sentiment because, at this point, I’m uncertain how to feel...I am more disappointed than anything.

[iinryer]

"don't you just want to have fun" is so true about 911 fans...so many people just hate so many characters and so many things about the show...why are you watching!!

yeah 😭 at a certain point it’s just like, idk man. everything in real life sucks so monumentally why can’t we just watch tv together and have fun

[aurumalatus]

thinking i might go on an even longer hiatus... this country is fucking cooked

[jorrated]

my blog is 18+ but not because i want to post tits and ass, its cause i expect people to see my silly lil posts and have basic reading comprehension

[herrling]

okay i need to get it out of my chest

recently I started to understand why some self shippers avoid the community, feel left out or uncomfortable in it. i encountered multiple stuff that made me hella uncomfortable and added further to my intrusive thoughts. and it frustrates me. just how tf in a community dedicated to loving fictional characters I ended up in some kind of hell hole of thoughts policing, forced accusations, brain dead takes, harassment I can't really comprehend a reason for and generally posts I'd say full of some kind of passive aggression? what is fucking wrong with people?

I'm usually silent about stuff like that because I know I'll 70% chance get harassed, even if I'll still cover half of my thoughts, but I think every day I'm losing it. there are some beliefs I don't share with many self shippers, some of which are my moots, and you know, it fucking sucks to feel like the weird one and being compared to a proshipper indirectly due to that. like, thanks, my OCD already fucks with me daily, finding ways to accuse me of being an awful and pathetic living being, and also this.

again, when I entered the community, I don't remember agreeing to see stuff where I'd be indirectly guilt tripped for shit I either didn't do or that is literally harmless.

sorry for it being so clumsy. I'm just really mad.

[starsofang]

opened up ao3, saw ‘reader is 10’ and ‘smut’ as the pairing tags, instantly closed it

[carpathxanridge]

with all the current radblr discourse i chose the perfect time to be finally reading bell hooks’ the will to change (men, masculinity and love). i’ve wanted to read this book for a while because of a quote from it: “Lying in my girlhood bed waiting to hear the hard anger in his voice, the invasive sound of his commands, I used to think, ‘If only he would die, we could live.’” and visiting my dad right now pushed me over the edge and made me go: i need to read this book now, urgently. but i’ve only just started it and it’s kind of hilarious how much of bell hooks’ analysis and insights into the shortcomings of the second wave and the blind spots of separatism would get her called a handmaiden if she were posting on radblr. it’s both funny and depressing that we are really all just rehashing the same debates that feminists have been having for decades, since the start of the second wave. (bell hooks writes in the preface that wanting to have feminist discussions including men has had her accused of being “male-identified” and “sleeping with the enemy.”) and i also find it funny, cause i remember when it was more popular on radblr to discuss womanism and name drop bell hooks (as well as audre lorde) as proof that radical feminism can be intersectional and it’s the tras who are racist! and i just wonder how many women on this site have actually read these women’s writings and engaged with the nuanced debates of the second wave… i do think there was a time, though, when radblr was having more complex and thoughtful debates? or perhaps i was just following smarter, less reactionary people then, most of whom are now inactive or have become like me and only occasionally post sincerely about feminism, and mostly just use their blogs personally, because radblr has just become such a shallow and negative space. and it makes me sad, i miss that time when i used this blog as an actual means for digesting feminist thought, and when i was engaging with the intelligent thoughts and diverse opinions of interesting women in my phone…