#because they dont look like tom brady lmao

[tododeku-or-bust]

So I was originally thinking of this from a fandom/media perspective, but I feel like it needs to be said in a real world context too: y'all do know that you can find Black people almost everywhere there are people, right? Like sure, we might not be the native populace, we might not be the majority, but the idea that "oh well they can't be _____, they're Black" is irrational and quite corny lol. We need to start unlearning that response.

I'm sure it's the long term fault of White Supremacy, that people seem to forget/choose not to consider that 'ancient' Black African peoples and cultures were capable of trade, commerce, seafaring, traveling, and did so! They interacted with other cultures! They existed!! White ppl are not the only people who stepped on boats!!

And including but not limited to the major effects of more 'contemporary' things like violent Western imperialism and colonialism, and even a really cool thing called "modern transportation" and immigration, there's very few places on this planet where you can't find at least a couple of us within a community!

And then in a fictional setting? What's the excuse then lmao, other than that we've been programmed to treat fantasy as Western Eurocentric, where everyone sounds posh British if they're royalty or occasionally French (and a little Spanish if they wanna toss in an ambiguous, "exotic" brown group). You should not be better able to accept the existence of fishpeople before you can accept a Black person in your fantasy media.

Let's knock it off, y'all. You're gonna have to deal with our presence 🤷🏾‍♀️ We're here, we're not going anywhere, and we don't have to prove that we can exist 🤷🏾‍♀️

[mitchmarner]

hockey players as texts i’ve received from @evgeny-kuznetsov 

Mitch Marner: why is sweatshirt by jacob sartorious on my top songs of 2018

Alex Ovechkin:  youtube just recommended me a sidney crosby video lmao

Jamie Benn: I have one brain cell forgive me

Nolan Patrick: WOW HE LOOKS SO DIRTY THATS SO HOT

Carter Hart: i feel like i could explode and i would just be a puff of glitter and smiley faces

Travis Konecny: did you see claude giroux’s wife is pregnant do you think gritty will eat the baby

Connor McDavid: it’s so unfair why was i cursed with this life smh

Elias Pettersson: how many times have you been through the stages of grief

Evgeni Malkin: people hate crosby so much that it’s honestly amusing

Tom Wilson: ANDRE GETTING THE RESPECT HE DESERVES IS MY KINK

Jack Eichel: hockey has really taught me i truly have no idea where cities in canada are

Tyson Barrie: that cornbread today was sweet cornbread and it was so moist WOW I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT

Brad Marchand: I’ve never gone to the eye doctor I wanna go for a confidence boost so they can tell me my eyesight is perfect

Sebastian Aho: I have to include two quotations from the book. i don’t even own the book

Mike Babcock: imagine if the leafs could actually play in the first period

Tyler Seguin: imagine thinking sidney crosby has personality and pretending jamie benn doesn’t

Brady Skjei and Jimmy Vesey: I JUST SAW KEVIN HAYES AND LOST IT

Jeff Skinner: she does look so kind like she definitely keeps candy in her purse

Kevin Hayes: weeks are much longer than days.

Mat Barzal: there’s a girl sitting right behind the bench on the stars game with the worst eyebrows i feel so bad for her there’s so many people seeing that

Andre Burakovsky: i’m literally jealous of a baby

Sebastian Aho: I wish i understood anything right now

Brendan Gallagher: like if you called the cops to have me admitted to a mental institution right now i would for sure understand

Ryan Reaves: i want hours of footage of tom wilson CRYING

Anthony Beauvillier: when we were together did i ever hit myself in the head like repeatedly on purpose because i got frustrated or had too many emotions or something? if not just know i do that sometimes and whenever i look at mat that’s what i want to do

Paul Bissonnette: I would send feet pics for money definitely but my feet are so ugly after the first pic they’d block me and never send me my money

Tkachuk brothers @ everyone: LIKE I DONT HATE HIM BUT SOME THINGS HE DOES PISSES ME OFF

Braden Holtby: i cant rely on the caps to play well two games in a row

Johnny Gaudreau: i hate being realistic. fantasy world is so much better

Peter Chiarelli, looking at what he left behind: it’s like a car wreck. i cant stop watching it

Everyone on Tampa Bay: UGH THIS GAME IS SO NUT

Everyone on the Colorado Avalanche: THE WORDS CAPTAIN GABE LANDESKOG IS LITERALLY EAR SEX

Dylan Strome: i cant even imagine how draining being in the oilers would be like. connor looks like he’s 35.