#because this is important

[ecco2ecco]

I remember when rushing touchdowns didn't count for Cam Newton but guess who they count for now? I remember when Jalen Hurts got all that flack for QB sneaks and tush pushes but guess who's praised for that now? I remember when Lamar Jackson was (still is) called a running backs after winning a unanimous MVP but guess who's running is praised? Everyday I'm reminded the whiteness will always be the standard for so many people, it's a primarily black/non white sport and that's still the case. They want what black quarterbacks have shown they can do but they don't want a black quarterback doing it.

Even the way that quarterbacks are seen in the team hierarchy is a remnant from the time where every single quarterback in the NFL was white and the only thing that a black player could be is a skilled position player or play on defense. That's why they said that black men didn't have the intelligence or capabilities or leadership skills to be quarterbacks. So many black boys were barred from playing quarterback for this reason and just because there's more now doesn't mean they're insulated from racism. Check on any social media and see how quick white NFL fans or non fans, I don't really care, are to call these quarterbacks all kinds of racial slurs and people want us to be okay with that? There is criticism and then there's just overt racism. I welcome criticism and discourse concerning the play level of all black quarterbacks but I don't let that obscure the dog whistles that sometimes lay in this discourse. So sure, talk about Lamar's struggles in the playoffs etc, the whole fanbase does and we root for him to do better and be better in those situations but don't say that the only reason he's good at playing action in games is because when he pulls the ball 'his skin is so dark that it obscures the football'. This is something a real play by playing announcer for the 49ers said and I'll never forget that. Ever. If you can't see how that's a crazy fucking thing to say then I don't know.

This whole MVP debate has brought out such an ugly side of so many people and I'm not even surprised. How can I be? Whatever the case, I'll continue rooting for every black quarterback (except Deshaun Watson) to do well in this league because so many people live to see them fail.

[rose-tinted-nostalgia]

FOR THE RECORD. the word crooked is supposed to look like this. uncomfortably unaligned AS A CHOICE. but tumblr has decided to spite me and here we are. 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

[bl00dline]

the whole tiktok situation is EXACTLY why media literacy and education on propaganda is so important. the notifications about tiktok going down and then coming back use VERY propagandistic language, and with a literal fascist coming into power in the us tomorrow we need to be even more critical of the information we’re consuming and stay on the lookout for political stunts like this

[kottkrig]

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

[ghosted-jazz]

Soldier, Poet, Kings

Bonus wallpaper version with just Joel:

[shitpostingkats]

We need less "shy, anxious, always second guessing" Apollo in fanworks, and approximately 400% more of whatever the hell this is.

[sailermoon]

idk why ppl think megan is faking liking anime she was so right incels mad she’s a weeb and a baddie

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[liones-s]

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT Text) Happy very, very late Mother's Day!

I am not saying that zuko is sokkas substitute for kya. or they look in any way similar! The whole concept here is that something was happening at the moment, be it how they were laying in bed, how the hair pooled over the pillow, or how sokka was able to hold onto it. It just brought sokka back. It triggered a memory, and suddenly he relived a brief memory. Making him suddenly miss his mother again. hope you enjoy!

[spacerockband]

Quetzalcoatlus! poised to spear her prey!

[nymph1e]

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

[foolsocracy]

they barge into justice league meetings saying they have something very important to show them. and do stuff like this

[malenjoyer]

He’s shy

[lazylittledragon]

domesticating your vampire: a memoir

(beautiful high res version on patre0n)