#apologetically black

[thewisestdino]

The film I made posters for is finally up - and it’s worth checking out!

[deathnguts]

Imagining a fix-it AU where the Evans-Potters lived and raised Harry themselves with Sirius as a secret third parent that Harry learns to favor more than James as he grows older (his first word was Pa and said to Sirius, not James, for example) and it’s literally laughable how far this little baby will go to pick his Padfoot over his actual dad that it leaves James like ‘is Sirius the actual father, be honest :,(‘ when he’s holding a literal carbon copy of himself

[creepyscritches]

My grandma is 80 and almost never wants to go do things, but every year she gets excited to go shuffle around her little shops on Black Friday with me and my mom and eeeeevery year she heehaws at me buying my annual supply of handsoap from bath and body works during their buy 3 get 3 sale. I have so much soap, by god, if I run out again before next November I'm going to kill myself

[i-will-cry-you-a-river]

NHS would be the type of barista who knows it very well how each and every one of his customer is called, and yet he still messes up their names on the cups just for funsies. Also, he draws cutsie drawings with glittering pink pen on the cups of the rude customers. It stains.

[padfootastic]

Tell us more about sugar daddy James pls 😏

sadie <3

so—this one comes wholesale from a random post i made a while back about sugar daddy james with a huge age gap b/w him and sirius. i’m talking, businessman james who comes into contact with sirius who’s just run away from home and is on the verge of homelessness. it’s about james being nice and kindhearted, offering sirius a meal which somehow turns into a place to stay which somehow turns into the spending a lot of time bonding with each other.

it’s about a little shit sirius who’s deliberately trying to seduce this saint of a man who refuses to look at him twice (spoiler: it’s not because james doesn’t want, it’s because he thinks it’s unethical. sirius is here to put all those worries to rest). just. a lot of back and forth, pushing and pulling, and getting together moments.

at least, that’s how i’d want it done lol

[gameboyhamazing]

genuinely why is darkrai's category the "Pitch-Black Pokemon" that bitch has 4 colors to its name and 3 of them are decidedly Not Black

there weren't any pokemon whose category was "the nightmare pokemon" or "the darkness pokemon" (either of which would fit Darkrai better imo, & "darkness pkmn" is actually bulbapedia's translation of its japanese category name) and there still aren't any with those categories. why the hell is darkrai the Pitch-Black Pokemon

[barnbridges]

sorry again but if you make black history month playlists or even worse black southern heritage music playlists that are jazzy, 2pac is raising from rhe dead for you specifically

[stillresolved]

team checkmate is a competent ragtag team of vigilantes that know how to navigate around both law enforcement and criminal gangs

but team checkmate is also those three kids sitting in the same row of seats in detention for the nth time. they are also three kids sitting on the curb of the parking lot waiting for mom to pick them up :'DDD

[blueiight]

bc wwi was such a grand war & the first war rly fought w what we consider ‘modern machinery’, the max age of registration into the us army was temporarily raised to 45.. not moralizing js [jordan shrug.gif] what if all these temporal inconsistencies is just cuz they old as FUCK !!! & fr forgot

[nameless-brand]

soaking in the bathtub, clothes and all, after being beaten up yet again. everything hurts. and somehow paradoxically i do feel better. i hope i'm not developing some weird masochism thing.

anyway i've been thrown in every cardinal direction and some directions that i never existed. my arms and legs are all bruised up from the blocking. i am just one big bruise like a bunch of oil droplets all coming together.

crow said that if i absolutely refuse to develop a danger sense, she'll at least teach me how to take a hit.

you really don't think i want to develop whatever that is??? i mean the name of it makes it obvious what it's meant for, but i still don't get what she's talking about. is it like something predictive? or is it something like clairvoyance??? and no, she can't describe it either, just says that if something is around that puts her in immediate danger, she can just tell. so if you can't explain it and i can't understand it, what are we doing???

and that's why i received a worse-than-usual beating because crow decided to change the teaching plan to mitigating damage instead of instinctively avoiding it. says i'll get it whether i want to or not; self-preservation always wins out. fml

[wanderingandfound]

I fuckin' love OCs. Everyone is always like "Oh I'm so sorry my OC is in here, there just wasn't enough canon characters to fill the role." and I'm over here gobbling them up like cookies and asking for more. A best friend, a parent, a gaggle of children.

[llycaons]

agree that yj got boring this season. all the acting is still good but shauna giving birth made me feel nothing and I think her conversation to her baby afterwards was really heavy-handed and awkward. I liked walt, it was nice to see van, and I think shauna and callie’s dynamic is really fun, but besides that this season is really not grabbing me. best part was them eating jackie but nothing that compelling has happened since 😔

[asthevermincrawls]

black sails really changed the game of gay representation for me. i dont want safe clean sanitized gay rep i want my gay rep to bash people's heads in with cannon balls

[jamaalw]

"Muhammad: the Demon Possessed False Prophet of Islam"

Purchase the e-book about Muhammad, who was likely demon-possessed or at least demonically influenced.

[dykequixote]

This is not intended as anything other than a vent post for some shit I've continually seen within the community for about as long as I've been in it. Other people have said similar things much better and from much more knowledgeable perspectives on this phenomenon.

It is possible for myself and other non-Black butches to not attempt to construct our butchness using appropriated (and misused/misinterpreted) AAE/AAVE.

"oh but what if I don't know where the term comes from" you can take stock of your own linguistic choices and ask yourself "why am I adopting this phrase into my speech? For what purpose do I particularly want to use this word or phrase for? What are its origins? What sociocultural values are being ascribed to it?"

It really and truly is possible to take someone telling you "hey it seems you are using this phrase to gain social capital in a manner which not only neglects the actual meaning and origin of it but also expressly affirms and reifies discriminatory ideals towards the originators of that phrase" and just. Stop using it. Defensiveness is unnecessary, justifying your usage of it is unnecessary, and your previous ignorance does not somehow make continued usage of these words, phrases and features okay especially now that you obviously do know.

[homunculus-argument]

I would not say that I'm a scary-looking guy. I don't dress particularly alt, just pretty basic dad rock band tees, black skinny jeans with a chain, plenty of assorted jewellery and accessories, dyed black hair and seven piercings around my head, but this is apparently enough to make old people give me A Very Long Stare. But this post isn't about them.

Today I was walking homeward, and there were these two kids (about 8-10 years old?) standing in the middle of the road. They stood there talking, one was on foot but the other one had a pastel pink bicycle, which she had apparently unintentionally stationed horizontally across the walkpath, so the two effectively blocked the whole way. So I kept my eyes on the girl with the bike the whole time I approached their happenstance roadblock.

Now, the finnish culture is both a high context culture and an introvert culture, which means that finns regularly behave like weird animals. A prolonged, maintained eye contact directed at a stranger is a mild, but certainly clear, aggressive gesture. Not as outright hostile as verbally telling them that they're in peoples' way and should move, but intended as a stern gesture to correct them anyhow. The way that dogs sometimes do that very specific low growl at misbehaving puppies, just to say "I have no intention to hurt you, but you better cut that shit out."

And the girl with the bike kept eye contact with me the whole time I approached, while pulling her bike out of the way in a pointedly slow, deliberate way. Looking down or away and moving the bike hastily would have been an apologetic gesture, and this kid clearly wanted to let me know she wasn't yielding just because she did, in fact, move out of the way. And once I was just about to pass, she said "hi?" to me, in a mildly confused and disgusted tone. Not confused by my intentions themselves, but by my evident audacity.

While this may not seem like anything odd, as I mentioned earlier, finns are an introvert culture. Talking to strangers unprompted is rude, a downright hostile act, more aggressive than prolonged eye contact but not as hostile as physically touching a stranger without warning. And I was caught off-guard so badly that I just said "hi" back to her while not slowing down as I passed them.

So just this week, I've had two random old people stare at me like they've correctly identified me as a Manmade Horror Beyond Their Comprehension, and this little girl dressed head to toe in pastels with a pink bike and sparkling unicorn backpack just glared right back at me and stared me down like Can I Fucking Help You.